Document Narratio v3.1.0 release

.gitignore

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # ---> Codex
 .codex
-AGENTS.md
 
 .DS_Store
 
@@ -52,4 +51,3 @@ pipeline.yml
 
 # Built Visual Studio Code Extensions
 *.vsix
-

.woodpecker/release.yml

@@ -2,64 +2,26 @@ when:
   - event: tag
 
 steps:
-  validate:
-    image: golang:1.25
+  validate-release:
+    image: golang:1.26.7
     commands:
-      - go test ./...
-      - go test -race ./...
-      - go vet ./...
-      - go build ./...
-      - go test ./internal/doccheck
-      - go test ./internal/config -run '^TestExamplesLoadAndValidate$'
-
-  cross-build:
-    image: golang:1.25
-    depends_on: validate
-    commands:
-      - |
-        set -eu
-        output_dir="$(mktemp -d)"
-        trap 'rm -rf "$output_dir"' EXIT
-        for target in linux/amd64 linux/arm64 darwin/amd64 darwin/arm64 windows/amd64 windows/arm64; do
-          goos="${target%/*}"
-          goarch="${target#*/}"
-          CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS="$goos" GOARCH="$goarch" go build -o "$output_dir/narratio-$goos-$goarch" ./cmd/narratio
-        done
+      - ./scripts/check-release-candidate.sh "$CI_COMMIT_TAG"
 
   build-release-assets:
-    image: golang:1.25
-    depends_on: [validate, cross-build]
+    image: golang:1.26.7
+    depends_on:
+      - validate-release
     commands:
       - |
         set -eu
-
-        version="$CI_COMMIT_TAG"
-        dist="dist"
-        pkg="gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/cmd/narratio"
-
-        rm -rf "$dist"
-        mkdir -p "$dist"
-
-        build_binary() {
-          goos="$1"
-          goarch="$2"
-          suffix="$3"
-          output="$dist/narratio-$version-$goos-$goarch$suffix"
-
-          CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS="$goos" GOARCH="$goarch" \
-            go build -trimpath -ldflags "-s -w -X gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/internal/buildinfo.Version=$version" \
-            -o "$output" "$pkg"
-        }
-
-        build_binary linux amd64 ""
-        build_binary linux arm64 ""
-        build_binary darwin amd64 ""
-        build_binary darwin arm64 ""
-        build_binary windows amd64 ".exe"
-        build_binary windows arm64 ".exe"
+        case "$PWD" in
+          /*) ;;
+          *) echo "release workspace must have an absolute path" >&2; exit 1 ;;
+        esac
+        ./scripts/build-release-assets.sh "$CI_COMMIT_TAG" "$PWD/dist"
 
   publish-release:
-    image: woodpeckerci/plugin-release
+    image: woodpeckerci/plugin-release:0.3.1
     depends_on:
       - build-release-assets
     settings:
@@ -67,6 +29,8 @@ steps:
         from_secret: GITEA_RELEASE_TOKEN
       files:
         - dist/narratio-*
+      title: Narratio ${CI_COMMIT_TAG}
+      note: docs/releases/${CI_COMMIT_TAG}.md
       checksum: sha256
       checksum-file: SHA256SUMS
       checksum-flatten: true

.woodpecker/shuffle.yml

@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ when:
 
 steps:
   shuffled-race-tests:
-    image: golang:1.25
+    image: golang:1.26
     commands:
       - go test -race -shuffle=on -count=3 ./...

.woodpecker/verify.yml

@@ -3,44 +3,37 @@ when:
 
 steps:
   tests:
-    image: golang:1.25
+    image: golang:1.26
     commands:
       - go test ./...
 
   race-tests:
-    image: golang:1.25
+    image: golang:1.26
     depends_on: tests
     commands:
       - go test -race ./...
 
   static-analysis:
-    image: golang:1.25
+    image: golang:1.26
     depends_on: tests
     commands:
       - go vet ./...
 
   build:
-    image: golang:1.25
+    image: golang:1.26
     depends_on: tests
     commands:
       - go build ./...
 
-  documentation-and-examples:
-    image: golang:1.25
-    depends_on: tests
-    commands:
-      - go test ./internal/doccheck
-      - go test ./internal/config -run '^TestExamplesLoadAndValidate$'
-
   cross-build:
-    image: golang:1.25
-    depends_on: [race-tests, static-analysis, build, documentation-and-examples]
+    image: golang:1.26
+    depends_on: [race-tests, static-analysis, build]
     commands:
       - |
         set -eu
         output_dir="$(mktemp -d)"
         trap 'rm -rf "$output_dir"' EXIT
-        for target in linux/amd64 linux/arm64 darwin/amd64 darwin/arm64 windows/amd64 windows/arm64; do
+        for target in linux/amd64 linux/arm64 darwin/arm64; do
           goos="${target%/*}"
           goarch="${target#*/}"
           CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS="$goos" GOARCH="$goarch" go build -o "$output_dir/narratio-$goos-$goarch" ./cmd/narratio

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.
+
+<!-- codebase-memory-mcp:start -->
+# Codebase Knowledge Graph (codebase-memory-mcp)
+
+This project uses codebase-memory-mcp to maintain a knowledge graph of the codebase.
+ALWAYS prefer MCP graph tools over grep/glob/file-search for code discovery.
+
+## Priority Order
+1. `search_graph` — find functions, classes, routes, variables by pattern
+2. `trace_path` — trace who calls a function or what it calls
+3. `get_code_snippet` — read specific function/class source code
+4. `query_graph` — run Cypher queries for complex patterns
+5. `get_architecture` — high-level project summary
+
+## When to fall back to grep/glob
+- Searching for string literals, error messages, config values
+- Searching non-code files (Dockerfiles, shell scripts, configs)
+- When MCP tools return insufficient results
+
+## Examples
+- Find a handler: `search_graph(name_pattern=".*OrderHandler.*")`
+- Who calls it: `trace_path(function_name="OrderHandler", direction="inbound")`
+- Read source: `get_code_snippet(qualified_name="pkg/orders.OrderHandler")`
+<!-- codebase-memory-mcp:end -->

COPYRIGHT

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Narratio
+
+Copyright (C) 2026 Eric Rakestraw
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+Narratio is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+The GNU General Public License version 3 is provided in LICENSE.
+
+Narratio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+Third-party code and assets are subject to their respective license terms.
+
+Policy documents adapted from Standard Repository Policies remain licensed
+under CC-BY-SA-4.0. See docs/oss/attribution.md for the affected material,
+upstream credit, and license links.

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+to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
+state the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
+the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
+
+    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
+    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
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 Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
 
-If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:
+  If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short
+notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:
 
-     narratio  Copyright (C) 2026  eric
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+    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
 
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+might be different; for a GUI interface, you would use an "about box".
 
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+  You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school,
+if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary.
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+<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
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README.md

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ This requires resolvable `pipeline.yml`, `campaign.yml`, and concrete
 - [Integration contracts](docs/integrations/) — external tools, formats, and
   compatibility expectations.
 - [Maintained examples](examples/README.md) — complete copyable configuration
-  and input files.
+  and input files, including the production/testing split bundle.
 
 ## Maintainer Documentation
 
@@ -40,3 +40,7 @@ This requires resolvable `pipeline.yml`, `campaign.yml`, and concrete
   and maintenance rules.
 - [Testing policy](docs/policy/testing.md) — test value, boundaries, and
   sufficiency.
+
+Narratio is licensed under the [GPL v3.0 or later](COPYRIGHT).
+
+[Open Source attribution notices](docs/oss/attribution.md) are available.

docs/cli.md

@@ -12,12 +12,15 @@ This runs the canonical full pipeline for session `2026-04-04`.
 
 Top-level commands:
 
-- `run <session_id>`: run full stage order.
+- `version`: print the Narratio build version.
+- `run <session_id>`: run all or one contiguous range of the canonical stage order.
+- `regenerate-artifacts <session_id>`: force-run extraction through analysis.
 - `run-stage <stage> <session_id>`: run one stage.
 - `analyze <session_id>`: force-run analyze.
 - `publish <session_id>`: force-run publish.
 - `clean <session_id>` or `clean --all`: remove local work/spool state.
 - `session <subcommand>`: session helper commands.
+- `config <subcommand>`: validate, display, source-trace, catalog, or compare resolved pipeline configuration.
 
 Session subcommands:
 
@@ -41,6 +44,8 @@ Most session-aware commands accept:
 - `--session <session.yml>`
 - `--session-id <session_id>`
 - `--previous-session-id <session_id>`
+- `--overlay <name>`
+- `--secrets-dir <directory>`
 
 Rules:
 
@@ -49,6 +54,13 @@ Rules:
 - if both positional `<session_id>` and `--session-id` are provided, values must match.
 - `--previous-session-id` is a strict expectation: the selected session file
   must contain the same `previous_session_id`.
+- `--overlay` selects `overlays/<name>.yml` relative to the pipeline root. It
+  may be supplied once; omitted, empty, and the exact name `default` select the
+  base configuration, while an unknown named overlay fails. The same selection
+  applies to all common-flag commands, including `regenerate-artifacts`.
+- `--secrets-dir` selects ConfigKit credential-file bootstrap explicitly. A
+  relative value uses caller CWD. Without the flag, a present `secrets/`
+  directory beside the resolved root pipeline is used; an absent one is skipped.
 - `clean --all` cannot be combined with campaign/session selectors.
 - notification delivery is currently limited to the configured `noop` mode; see
   the [configuration reference](./config.md#notifications).
@@ -70,21 +82,144 @@ Commands with additional positionals keep their command-specific order:
 
 ## Command Reference
 
+### `config validate`, `config show`, `config sources`, `config artifacts`, and `config diff`
+
+```bash
+narratio config validate [--config <pipeline.yml>] [--campaign <id> | --campaign-file <campaign.yml>] [--overlay <name>] [--secrets-dir <directory>]
+narratio config show [--config <pipeline.yml>] [--campaign <id> | --campaign-file <campaign.yml>] [--overlay <name>] [--secrets-dir <directory>]
+narratio config sources [--config <pipeline.yml>] [--campaign <id> | --campaign-file <campaign.yml>] [--overlay <name>] [--secrets-dir <directory>]
+narratio config artifacts [--config <pipeline.yml>] [--campaign <id> | --campaign-file <campaign.yml>] [--overlay <name>] [--secrets-dir <directory>]
+narratio config diff <left-overlay> <right-overlay> [--config <pipeline.yml>] [--campaign <id> | --campaign-file <campaign.yml>] [--secrets-dir <directory>]
+```
+
+These commands resolve the selected overlay, defaults, ordinary paths, and—if
+a campaign is selected—the campaign-owned party. They neither discover or load
+a session nor create a workspace, manifest, run, lock, adapter, or remote
+connection. Like every pipeline-loading command, they bootstrap the selected or
+conventional secrets directory before resolving configuration; `config show`
+never includes bootstrap reports or secret values in its YAML output.
+Typed credential references, including `notarius.credentials[]`, must therefore
+resolve even though these inspection commands never construct an adapter.
+
+Campaign selection is optional for a pipeline without party-driven artifact
+families. A pipeline with `scriptorium.artifact_families` needs a selected or
+configured default campaign so Narratio can expand its concrete artifacts and
+publish rules. `--campaign` and `--campaign-file` remain mutually exclusive.
+Session, range, force, and artifact-execution flags are not accepted.
+
+`config validate` writes a concise root-path, selected-overlay (or `none`), and
+effective-digest summary after successful complete validation. `config show`
+writes one deterministic, secret-free YAML document containing defaulted and
+expanded concrete configuration. It omits ConfigKit directives, artifact
+family declarations, and runtime provenance.
+
+`config sources` reports the same fully validated resolution without printing
+effective values. Its header identifies the root, ordered imports, selected
+overlay and its file, selected campaign, party source, and digest. The
+remaining tab-separated records are sorted as `path`, `role`, and `source`.
+Roles distinguish root, import, overlay, centralized default, campaign, party,
+and generated family ownership. A generated party member has
+one family record and one party record at the same logical path. The output
+never reads or prints secret values.
+
+`config artifacts` prints the concrete catalog used by analysis, ordered by
+artifact key. Its tab-separated header is `key`, `source`, `definitions`,
+`enabled`, `output`, `dependencies`, `family`, `character`, `family_source`, and
+`party_source`. Definitions and effective dependencies are sorted comma-separated
+lists, and control characters in fields are escaped. Family-member rows identify
+their family, character, defining family file, and party file. An empty catalog
+prints only the header. Ordinary artifacts can be inspected without a campaign;
+party-driven families retain the campaign requirement. See
+[Scriptorium Artifact Entries](./config.md#scriptorium-artifact-entries) for the
+configuration layout.
+
+`config diff` resolves both supplied overlay names independently and compares
+their fully resolved, secret-free effective mappings. It does
+not accept `--overlay`; the two positional names must be distinct, valid
+overlays. When party-driven families are present, both overlays must resolve to
+the same selected campaign and party. Use `--campaign-file` if overlay-specific
+campaign configuration would otherwise select different files.
+
+Equal overlays print `no differences`. Otherwise, sorted tab-separated records
+use one of these forms, with compact JSON values:
+
+```text
+added    <path>    <right-value>
+removed  <path>    <left-value>
+changed  <path>    <left-value>    <right-value>
+```
+
+Mappings are flattened to their logical field paths; lists remain one atomic
+value. The command compares defaulted concrete artifacts and publish rules, not
+overlay names, source-file layout, or formatting. It succeeds when differences
+are found, making it suitable for review and migration checks.
+
+### `version`
+
+```bash
+narratio version
+```
+
+Official release binaries report their exact Git tag. Binaries built directly
+from source without release linker metadata report `dev`.
+
 ### `run`
 
 ```bash
-narratio run <session_id> [--force] [--artifacts <name[,name...]>] [...common config flags]
+narratio run <session_id> [--from <stage>] [--through <stage>] [--force] [--artifacts <name[,name...]>] [...common config flags]
 ```
 
 Behavior:
 
-- evaluates full stage order;
-- runs `extract` between `trim` and `render`; an omitted or disabled Notarius
+- evaluates one inclusive contiguous range of the canonical stage order;
+- defaults an omitted `--from` to `prepare` and an omitted `--through` to
+  `cleanup`, so omitting both retains full-pipeline behavior;
+- rejects unknown endpoints and a `--from` endpoint after `--through`;
+- runs `render` before `extract`; an omitted or disabled Notarius
   configuration records an explicit `notarius_disabled` self-skip;
+- resolves every selected typed credential during the initial configuration
+  load, including Notarius credentials when extract is disabled, outside the
+  selected range, or later skipped as resumable;
 - skips already-succeeded stages unless `--force` is set or a stage-specific
   resume check finds its durable result obsolete;
+- applies `--force` only to stages in the selected range;
+- rejects repeated `--from`, `--through`, or `--force` options, including
+  `--name=value` spellings;
 - continues interrupted or partially completed sessions by running non-succeeded stages;
-- writes session and run manifests.
+- writes the session manifest as the sole durable progress ledger. Each
+  invocation also creates its run-local directory and returns an immediate
+  command summary; neither creates another durable progress record.
+- reports the resolved overlay (or `none`) and effective configuration digest.
+
+When `--artifacts` is present, the selected range must contain `analyze` or
+`publish`. Either consumer is sufficient, including a one-stage range.
+
+### `regenerate-artifacts`
+
+```bash
+narratio regenerate-artifacts <session_id> [--artifacts <name[,name...]>] [...common config flags]
+```
+
+Exactly equivalent to:
+
+```bash
+narratio run <session_id> --force --from extract --through analyze [caller options]
+```
+
+The command always reruns extraction. Analysis rebuilds the selected configured
+artifacts and any prerequisites required by those targets; without
+`--artifacts`, it uses the normal default analysis selection. Publish and notify
+never run. Common session/configuration options and repeatable artifact values
+pass through unchanged.
+
+The forced extraction rebuilds the complete configured Notarius bundle,
+disables Notarius checkpoint loading, and requests chunk-plan refresh.
+`--artifacts` narrows only the analysis work; it never selects Notarius lanes.
+
+Because the expansion owns `--force`, `--from`, and `--through`, callers cannot
+supply those options. The shared `run` parser reports them as duplicate
+singleton flags. The alias has no private execution options or behavior, and
+runtime diagnostics may identify the operation as `run`.
 
 ### `run-stage`
 
@@ -100,11 +235,12 @@ Valid stage names:
 - `polish`
 - `normalize`
 - `trim`
-- `extract`
 - `render`
+- `extract`
 - `analyze`
 - `publish`
 - `notify`
+- `cleanup`
 
 Rules:
 
@@ -122,6 +258,10 @@ Equivalent to:
 narratio run-stage analyze <session_id> --force [...common config flags]
 ```
 
+This selects only `analyze`: it does not invoke Notarius, replace extraction,
+or remove existing extract outputs. `--artifacts` narrows the forced analysis
+targets and their required analysis prerequisites.
+
 ### `publish`
 
 ```bash
@@ -134,6 +274,10 @@ Equivalent to:
 narratio run-stage publish <session_id> --force [...common config flags]
 ```
 
+This command selects only `publish`; it does not invoke cleanup. Use a normal
+full run to include configured cleanup, or `run-stage cleanup` to retry cleanup
+from valid publication evidence.
+
 ### `clean`
 
 ```bash
@@ -147,16 +291,25 @@ Behavior:
 - `--all` removes all local session work and spool state;
 - cache remains unless `--clear-cache` is provided.
 
-See [Operations: Cleanup](./operations.md#cleanup) for deletion scope and
-post-publish cleanup behavior.
+See [Operations: Cleanup](./operations.md#cleanup) for manual and pipeline-stage
+deletion scope.
 
 ### `session plan`
 
 ```bash
-narratio session plan <session_id> [--force] [...common config flags]
+narratio session plan <session_id> [--from <stage>] [--through <stage>] [--force] [--artifacts <name[,name...]>] [...common config flags]
 ```
 
-Validates config, prepares local workdir layout, and prints run/skip decisions for each stage.
+Uses the same inclusive bounds, endpoint validation, force scope, and artifact
+selection contract as `run`. It validates config and prints run/skip decisions
+for selected stages only without creating the local workdir or changing the
+manifest. Resume-capable selected stages are checked against durable evidence.
+The output includes the resolved overlay (or `none`) and effective configuration
+digest without writing provenance or any manifest state.
+For `analyze`, the preview also lists explicit targets, prerequisite-only work,
+execution order, and reusable current artifacts with concise reasons. These
+artifact decisions come from the same reconciliation and work planner used by
+execution; the preview does not predict output identities.
 
 ### `session validate`
 
@@ -164,7 +317,8 @@ Validates config, prepares local workdir layout, and prints run/skip decisions f
 narratio session validate <session_id> [...common config flags]
 ```
 
-Read-only preflight checks for config validity, required inputs, audio mode, previous-session requirements, publish outputs, and effective locks.
+Read-only preflight checks for config validity, required inputs, audio mode,
+previous-session requirements, publish outputs, and independent remote locks.
 
 ### `session status`
 
@@ -173,7 +327,12 @@ narratio session status <session_id> [...common config flags]
 ```
 
 Prints local manifest state and, when storage is available, status for the
-pointer-selected remote commit and its declared published outputs.
+pointer-selected remote commit and its declared published outputs. Current
+publish metadata reports `published`, `carried_locked`, `locked_unpublished`,
+`optional_missing`, and `unselected`; carried output lines include the run
+derived from their exact declared key, the key itself, and its declared
+destination. A separately displayed `dest` is the destination requested by the
+current configuration and may differ while an older declaration is locked.
 
 ### `session init`
 
@@ -192,6 +351,7 @@ Options:
 
 - `--config <pipeline.yml>`
 - `--campaign <id>` or `--campaign-file <campaign.yml>`
+- `--secrets-dir <directory>`
 - `--previous-session-id <id>`
 - `--date <YYYY-MM-DD>`
 - `--title <text>`
@@ -231,7 +391,8 @@ narratio session artifacts <session_id> [--remote] [...common config flags]
 Lists effective built-in, configured Scriptorium, and configured extraction
 sources; reports planned, available, unavailable, and published state without
 reading payload bodies; and includes publish rules, lock state, and optional
-remote published-state availability.
+remote published-state availability. Remote inspection uses exact commit
+declarations and displays the five current publish outcomes when recorded.
 
 ### `session locks`
 
@@ -243,23 +404,34 @@ narratio session locks remove <session_id> <source> [...common config flags]
 
 Behavior:
 
-- list mode reports the effective merge of static and remote locks;
-- add/remove mutate only remote locks;
-- static locks from pipeline config cannot be removed by CLI commands.
+- list mode validates and reports independent remote locks sorted by source;
+- add creates one lock and reports an existing lock unless `--force` is used;
+- `--force` performs one generation-matched replacement and reports a
+  concurrent change for operator retry; and
+- remove is idempotent and reports when the source was not locked.
 
 See [Operations: Publish Locks](./operations.md#publish-locks) for lock storage
-and precedence.
+and publication behavior.
 
 ## `--artifacts` Selection Rules
 
-- accepted on `run`, `run-stage`, `analyze`, and `publish`;
+An artifact-family key selects all of its concrete character members. A
+concrete generated key selects only that member; mixed family and concrete
+selection is deduplicated and executed as concrete keys. The resulting plan
+and command output identify both the concrete key and, where applicable, its
+family and character ID.
+
+- accepted on `run`, `session plan`, `run-stage`, `analyze`, and `publish`;
+- repeatable and comma-separated values are combined, surrounding whitespace
+  is removed, and duplicate names are collapsed;
 - names must exist in `pipeline.scriptorium.artifacts`;
 - empty entries are invalid;
-- repeated names are deduplicated.
+- on `run-stage`, only `analyze` and `publish` accept the option.
 
 Effects:
 
-- filters analyze execution to selected configured artifacts;
+- selects explicit analyze targets; required configured prerequisites may be
+  reused or rebuilt before them;
 - filters publish rules that source `narratio.artifact.<name>`;
 - does not filter built-in transcript/bounds or explicitly configured
   `narratio.extraction.<name>` publish sources; and
@@ -291,6 +463,12 @@ Force publish only:
 narratio publish 2026-04-04
 ```
 
+Regenerate post-transcript artifacts without publishing:
+
+```bash
+narratio regenerate-artifacts 2026-04-04 --artifacts session_recap,player_handout
+```
+
 ## Output And Exit Behavior
 
 - Successful commands write their result or summary to standard output and

docs/config.md

@@ -42,6 +42,55 @@ The downloaded remote session file is command-scoped: Narratio removes it after
 the command finishes and records only the remote object provenance alongside
 the durable copied session input.
 
+### Read-only effective pipeline inspection
+
+`narratio config validate`, `narratio config show`, `narratio config sources`,
+and `narratio config artifacts` use the same `--config`, `--campaign`,
+`--campaign-file`, and
+`--overlay` selection rules as pipeline commands, but do not select, discover,
+or load a session. They resolve configured typed credential references as part
+of the ordinary ConfigKit load but expose only their environment-variable names;
+they do not create runtime state.
+`narratio config diff <left-overlay> <right-overlay>` uses the same pipeline and
+campaign selectors, resolves each named overlay with an independent ConfigKit
+load, and does not accept a separate `--overlay` flag.
+
+Campaign selection is optional only when the resolved pipeline has no
+`scriptorium.artifact_families`. When families are declared, Narratio selects a
+campaign through an explicit flag or `pipeline.campaigns.default_campaign_id`,
+then parses the campaign-owned party and expands concrete artifacts and any
+family publish rules before validation. `config validate` prints the resulting
+root, overlay, and effective digest. `config show` emits the normalized
+effective pipeline YAML, with defaults and concrete expansion included but
+ConfigKit directives and family declarations omitted. This review projection is
+not promised to be a reloadable authoring document. `config sources` prints a stable
+source projection instead of effective values: root/import/overlay/default
+ownership plus campaign/party and generated-family records. Canonical derived
+players trace to the party. `config artifacts` lists the concrete artifact map,
+effective dependencies, and defining sources. The [CLI reference](cli.md#config-validate-config-show-config-sources-config-artifacts-and-config-diff)
+owns command syntax and output conventions.
+
+`config diff` compares normalized field values rather than YAML text or source
+ownership. It emits sorted `added`, `removed`, and `changed` records, uses
+compact deterministic JSON values, treats lists atomically, and reports `no
+differences` when the complete effective configurations are equal. Concrete
+family members and generated publish rules participate after expansion; moving
+an equal value between eligible root/import sources does not create a
+difference.
+
+### Migrating to the maintained bundle
+
+Use the [production/testing bundle](../examples/production-testing/pipeline.yml)
+as the complete copyable migration reference. Keep production settings in the
+base, split them into explicit additive imports, and place testing differences
+in the fixed `overlays/testing.yml` overlay. Put ordinary artifacts and families
+in the recommended one-definition files shown by that bundle. Convert campaign
+rosters to [canonical party input](integrations/party.md), then express character
+work as families. Inspect the result with `config validate`, `config show`,
+`config sources`, and `config artifacts`; use `config diff default testing` to
+review the overlay before running a session. Unversioned party documents are
+rejected.
+
 ### Identity segments
 
 Campaign IDs (`campaign_id` and `default_campaign_id`), session IDs, previous
@@ -53,18 +102,98 @@ remote state with an unsafe legacy identity must be migrated before use.
 
 ## Validation and Merge Rules
 
-- YAML decode is strict (`KnownFields(true)`) and accepts exactly one document:
-  unknown fields or trailing documents fail load.
+- ConfigKit performs strict typed YAML decoding and accepts exactly one document;
+  unknown fields, duplicate keys, and trailing documents fail load.
+- A pipeline file may explicitly import additive YAML fragments through the
+  root-only `configkit.imports` list. Imported files contribute fields to one
+  logical pipeline document; they do not override fields supplied by the root
+  or another import.
+- An omitted overlay, an empty overlay option, and the exact name `default`
+  select the base configuration. Any other name selects
+  `overlays/<name>.yml` relative to the pipeline root. Move previously selected
+  `profiles/<name>.yml` files there; the old directory is not searched, and
+  `--profile` is no longer accepted for Narratio pipeline selection. Explicit
+  imports from a directory named `profiles` remain valid.
+- Campaign, session, and canonical-party documents are strict single-source
+  ConfigKit schemas. They do not enable imports, overlays, or `configkit`
+  directives.
 - Configured timeout and retry-delay durations must be positive. An omitted
   artifact timeout continues to inherit its configured Scriptorium timeout.
 - Session files must be concrete; unresolved `{{ ... }}` placeholders fail load.
+- Session and party inputs inspected before typed loading are limited to 8 MiB.
 - Pipeline defaults are applied before validation.
+- Defaults apply only to absent fields. Explicit empty strings, zero values,
+  `false`, and `null` retain ConfigKit's typed meaning and are then checked by
+  Narratio domain validation; they are not silently replaced by defaults.
+  Explicit null optional stage sections stay absent, while required sections
+  fail validation.
 - Campaign and session identities must agree.
-- Stable files (`speakers_file`, `autocorrect_file`, `glossary_file`, `players_file`, `party_file`) resolve from session overrides when provided, otherwise from campaign defaults.
+- Required stable files (`speakers_file`, `autocorrect_file`, `glossary_file`,
+  `party_file`) are campaign-owned; the first three may be overridden by the
+  session. The optional `spell_catalog_file` also inherits a campaign value
+  when omitted by the session.
+- `party_file` is parsed when pipeline and campaign configuration are combined.
+  It must be a versioned [canonical party](integrations/party.md), is
+  campaign-owned and derives the players input internally. `players_file` and
+  session `party_file` are unsupported configuration keys.
 - Exactly one audio mode must be configured in session input:
   - local (`audio_dir` or `audio_files`), or
   - S3 (`audio_s3.prefix`).
 
+### Pipeline imports and overlays
+
+Large pipeline configurations may be split into explicitly named fragments and
+may use fixed-path selected overlays:
+
+```yaml
+configkit:
+  imports:
+    - path: config/storage.yml
+    - path: config/integrations.yaml
+
+campaigns:
+  root: /usr/local/share/narratio/campaigns
+```
+
+The maintained [production/testing bundle](../examples/production-testing/pipeline.yml)
+is a complete copyable example of this structure, including canonical-party
+artifact families.
+
+Imports are resolved relative to the directory containing the root pipeline
+file and are loaded in declaration order. Narratio does not scan directories or
+infer fragments. Each import must be a confined regular `.yml` or `.yaml` file:
+absolute paths, traversal, symlinks, directories, duplicate files, and an
+import of the root pipeline itself are rejected. Imported files cannot declare
+another `configkit` control section.
+
+Base merging is additive. A map may be extended by multiple files when every
+leaf is distinct, but a scalar, list, or map/list/scalar kind cannot be claimed
+more than once, even when the repeated values are identical. Conflict errors
+name the full field path and every source that claimed it. Narratio additionally
+rejects an artifact or artifact-family key declared by more than one base file,
+even when those files contribute disjoint children.
+
+Overlay names are case-sensitive and use ConfigKit's safe fixed-path naming
+rules. Only the selected overlay is opened; a malformed unselected overlay does
+not affect a base or different-overlay load. Maps merge recursively, overlay
+scalars replace base scalars, and overlay lists replace base lists completely.
+Explicit `false`, zero, empty strings, empty containers, and null values remain
+explicit inputs and are not refilled by defaults. Overlays cannot inherit,
+stack, import files, or declare another ConfigKit control section.
+
+During ConfigKit loading, Narratio applies fresh typed defaults, recorded
+entry-level defaults and normalization, read-only file-local validation, and
+ordinary path resolution before computing a deterministic effective
+configuration digest. The digest represents the normalized, secret-free
+runtime pipeline mapping; it excludes ConfigKit directives, source
+provenance, overlay identity, and raw environment secret values. Equivalent
+effective mappings therefore have the same digest regardless of how fields are
+split among the root and imports.
+
+An imported field has the same meaning it would have in a monolithic root
+pipeline. In particular, ordinary relative pipeline paths continue to resolve
+from the root pipeline directory, not from the importing fragment's directory.
+
 ## Minimal Working Configuration
 
 `pipeline.yml`
@@ -85,7 +214,6 @@ inputs:
   speakers_file: ./speakers.yml
   autocorrect_file: ./autocorrect.yml
   glossary_file: ./glossary.yml
-  players_file: ./players.yml
   party_file: ./party.yml
 ```
 
@@ -100,15 +228,31 @@ inputs:
 ## Secrets Handling
 
 - Do not place raw secrets in YAML.
-- Use env var names in config (for example `pipeline.audita.llm_api_key_env`).
-- Optionally load credential files from `pipeline.secrets.env_dir`. Each valid
-  environment-variable filename supplies one value; trailing CR/LF is removed.
+- Credential fields contain environment-variable names, represented internally
+  as ConfigKit typed secret references (for example
+  `pipeline.notarius.credentials: [NOTARIUS_LLM_API_KEY]`). A configured reference
+  must resolve to a nonempty environment value during load.
+- Every surviving reference is resolved during ordinary pipeline loading,
+  regardless of whether its integration is disabled, outside the selected
+  stage range, or eligible for resume. Omit the field or set it to `null` when
+  that deployment should not require the credential.
+- Every command that loads a pipeline accepts `--secrets-dir <path>`. When the
+  flag is omitted, Narratio uses a present `secrets/` directory beside the
+  resolved root `pipeline.yml`; an absent conventional directory is ignored.
+  Explicit relative paths are resolved from the caller's working directory,
+  and a missing or empty explicit selection is an error.
+- Each immediate regular file whose name is a valid environment-variable name
+  supplies one value. ConfigKit removes trailing CR/LF, permits a symlink as the
+  selected directory, rejects non-hidden symlink entries, and limits input to
+  1 MiB per file, 8 MiB total, and 1024 entries. Dot-prefixed entries (including
+  files, directories, and symlinks) are ignored and omitted from bootstrap
+  reports, but still count toward the directory entry limit.
 - An existing process environment value takes precedence over a credential file.
-- Credential directories and files must not be symlinks and must be regular,
-  bounded files (at most 8 KiB per value). On POSIX, provision the directory
-  with no group/other access (normally `0700`) and files with no group/other
-  access (normally `0600`).
-- Commands that need storage/auth load filesystem secrets before constructing adapters.
+- On POSIX, operators must provision the directory with no group/other access
+  (normally `0700`) and files with no group/other access (normally `0600`);
+  ConfigKit validates type and bounds but does not enforce permission modes.
+- Bootstrap happens once per command, before any configuration load or adapter
+  construction. Safe reports contain filenames, paths, and statuses, never values.
 
 ## Publish Configuration Summary
 
@@ -131,9 +275,6 @@ publish:
     - source: narratio.artifact.session_recap
       dest: artifacts/session_recap.md
       required: true
-  locks:
-    - source: narratio.artifact.session_recap
-      reason: manual post-publish edits
 ```
 
 Rules:
@@ -144,7 +285,8 @@ Rules:
   a rule names that source; the Notarius index and complete bundle are not
   publish sources.
 - `outputs[].required` defaults to `true`.
-- static locks (`pipeline.publish.locks`) merge with remote locks (`{session_prefix}/locks.yml`), with static locks taking precedence on duplicates.
+- publish locks are independent remote session objects managed with
+  `narratio session locks`; they are not pipeline configuration fields.
 
 ## Full Schema
 
@@ -152,21 +294,21 @@ Rules:
 
 | Field | Type | Required | Default / Rule |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| `configkit.imports[].path` | string | No | explicit additive pipeline fragment relative to the root pipeline directory; `.yml` or `.yaml` regular files only |
 | `pipeline.workspace.root` | string | No | `/var/lib/narratio` |
-| `pipeline.workspace.cleanup_after_publish` | bool | No | `false` |
+| `pipeline.workspace.cleanup_after_publish` | bool | No | `false`; selects the published run's workspace target for final cleanup and requires effective `pipeline.publish.enabled=true` and `pipeline.publish.upload_run=true` |
 | `pipeline.campaigns.root` | string | No | `/usr/local/share/narratio/campaigns` |
 | `pipeline.campaigns.default_campaign_id` | string | No | empty |
-| `pipeline.secrets.env_dir` | string | No | empty |
 | `pipeline.storage.backend` | string | No | `local`; supported values are `local` and `s3` (case-insensitive) |
 | `pipeline.storage.s3.bucket` | string | Conditional | required when backend is `s3` and S3 session-audio or publish upload is enabled |
 | `pipeline.storage.s3.root_prefix` | string | No | `dnd` |
 | `pipeline.storage.s3.region` | string | No | empty |
 | `pipeline.storage.s3.endpoint` | string | No | empty |
 | `pipeline.storage.s3.force_path_style` | bool | No | `false` |
-| `pipeline.storage.s3.access_key_id_env` | string | No | `OBJECT_STORAGE_KEY_ID` |
-| `pipeline.storage.s3.secret_access_key_env` | string | No | `OBJECT_STORAGE_KEY` |
+| `pipeline.storage.s3.access_key_id` | secret reference | Conditional | unset; must be paired with `secret_access_key` |
+| `pipeline.storage.s3.secret_access_key` | secret reference | Conditional | unset; must be paired with `access_key_id` |
 | `pipeline.spool.root` | string | No | `/var/spool/narratio` |
-| `pipeline.spool.delete_audio_after_publish` | bool | No | `false` |
+| `pipeline.spool.delete_audio_after_publish` | bool | No | `false`; selects the published run's spool-audio target for final cleanup and requires effective `pipeline.publish.enabled=true` and `pipeline.publish.upload_run=true` |
 | `pipeline.cache.root` | string | No | `/var/cache/narratio` |
 | `pipeline.cache.s3_audio` | bool | No | `true` |
 | `pipeline.publish.enabled` | bool | No | `true` |
@@ -175,9 +317,6 @@ Rules:
 | `pipeline.publish.outputs[].source` | string | Yes (per rule) | must reference built-in or configured artifact source |
 | `pipeline.publish.outputs[].dest` | string | Conditional | derived if omitted and source supports derivation |
 | `pipeline.publish.outputs[].required` | bool | No | `true` |
-| `pipeline.publish.locks[]` | list | No | empty |
-| `pipeline.publish.locks[].source` | string | Yes (per lock) | must reference supported publish source |
-| `pipeline.publish.locks[].reason` | string | No | empty |
 | `pipeline.whisperx.transcribe_url` | string | Yes | absolute `http` or `https` URL |
 | `pipeline.whisperx.language` | string | No | `en` |
 | `pipeline.whisperx.timeout` | duration | No | `30m` |
@@ -195,19 +334,14 @@ Rules:
 | `pipeline.seriatim.env.filler_max_duration` | float | No | unset |
 | `pipeline.audita.binary` | string | No | `audita` |
 | `pipeline.audita.timeout` | duration | No | `3h` |
-| `pipeline.audita.llm_api_key_env` | string | No | empty |
-| `pipeline.audita.modules[]` | list[string] | No | empty |
-| `pipeline.audita.base_url` | string | No | empty |
-| `pipeline.audita.model` | string | No | empty |
-| `pipeline.audita.total_llm_concurrency` | int | No | unset |
-| `pipeline.audita.proposal_llm_concurrency` | int | No | unset |
-| `pipeline.audita.validation_model` | string | No | empty |
-| `pipeline.audita.validation_llm_concurrency` | int | No | unset |
+| `pipeline.audita.credentials[]` | list[secret reference] | No | empty; exact environment-variable names forwarded to Audita |
+| `pipeline.audita.modules[]` | list[string] | No | unset; omit to use Audita defaults, set `[]` for no modules |
+| `pipeline.audita.overlay` | string | No | empty; no downstream overlay override |
+| `pipeline.audita.proposal_profile` | string | No | empty; no downstream proposal-profile override |
+| `pipeline.audita.validation_profile` | string | No | empty; no downstream validation-profile override |
 | `pipeline.audita.transcript_description` | string | No | empty |
 | `pipeline.audita.config_path` | string | No | empty |
 | `pipeline.audita.output_schema` | string | No | empty |
-| `pipeline.audita.work_dir_retention` | string | No | empty |
-| `pipeline.audita.report` | bool | No | `true` |
 | `pipeline.normalize.output_path` | string | No | `transcripts/final.json` |
 | `pipeline.normalize.output_schema` | string | No | `seriatim-intermediate` |
 | `pipeline.normalize.report` | bool | No | `true` |
@@ -223,10 +357,15 @@ Rules:
 | `pipeline.trim.seriatim.report` | bool | No | `false` |
 | `pipeline.notarius.enabled` | bool | No | `false` |
 | `pipeline.notarius.binary` | string | No | `notarius` |
+| `pipeline.notarius.credentials[]` | list[secret reference] | No | empty; exact environment-variable names forwarded to Notarius |
+| `pipeline.notarius.config_overlay` | string | No | unset; exact Notarius ConfigKit overlay selector |
 | `pipeline.notarius.config_path` | string | Conditional | required when enabled; relative paths resolve from the pipeline file directory |
 | `pipeline.notarius.pipeline_id` | string | Conditional | required when enabled |
 | `pipeline.notarius.timeout` | duration | No | `3h`; must be positive |
 | `pipeline.notarius.working_directory` | string | No | directory containing resolved `config_path`; relative paths resolve from the pipeline file directory |
+| `pipeline.notarius.resume` | bool | No | `false`; request compatible Notarius checkpoint reuse during ordinary executed extraction |
+| `pipeline.notarius.chunk_cache` | string | No | empty; when set, exactly `auto`, `bypass`, or `refresh` |
+| `pipeline.notarius.references` | map[string]string | No | empty; maps normalized Notarius selectors to supported prepared Narratio source IDs; maximum 256 entries |
 | `pipeline.notarius.outputs` | map | Conditional | at least one entry when enabled |
 | `pipeline.render.enabled` | bool | No | `true` |
 | `pipeline.render.format` | string | No | `markdown` (only supported value) |
@@ -235,12 +374,157 @@ Rules:
 | `pipeline.render.include_segment_ids` | bool | No | `true` |
 | `pipeline.render.include_metadata` | bool | No | `false` |
 | `pipeline.scriptorium.binary` | string | No | `scriptorium` |
+| `pipeline.scriptorium.credentials[]` | list[secret reference] | No | empty; exact environment-variable names forwarded to Scriptorium |
 | `pipeline.scriptorium.config_path` | string | No | empty |
 | `pipeline.scriptorium.timeout` | duration | No | `10m` |
 | `pipeline.scriptorium.render_debug` | bool | No | `false` |
 | `pipeline.scriptorium.artifacts` | map | No | empty |
+| `pipeline.scriptorium.artifact_families` | map | No | empty; expands one ordinary artifact per canonical party character |
 | `pipeline.notification.mode` | string | No | `noop`; the only supported notification mode until a provider is implemented |
 
+### Audita Selection and Credentials
+
+`pipeline.audita.config_path` optionally passes an Audita v2 configuration file;
+when empty, Audita uses its own native config discovery. `overlay`,
+`proposal_profile`, and `validation_profile` are independent, optional Audita
+selectors. Empty or omitted strings add no command-line override. Narratio's
+selected pipeline overlay is never inferred as an Audita overlay, and Narratio
+does not create or validate Audita's backend or PromptKit profile files. Prepare
+them with [Audita's v2 migration guide](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v2.0.0/docs/migrations/v2.md).
+
+Omit `modules` or set it to `null` to use Audita's configured default sequence.
+Set `modules: []` to run no correction modules. A nonempty list is passed in
+order, including repetitions. Narratio does not add a reporting or debug flag;
+Audita's external configuration controls those settings.
+
+`pipeline.audita.credentials` lists secret-reference names, not values. Narratio
+resolves every listed name during pipeline loading and forwards the captured
+nonempty value under that exact name to Audita. It does not inspect Audita's
+configuration to discover names or map them to aliases. Audita v2 resolves
+credentials for **all configured backends**, even ones not selected by the
+current profiles: list every named backend credential in the selected Audita
+configuration. An unauthenticated backend needs no reference. Omission, `null`,
+or `[]` forwards nothing. A Narratio overlay replaces the entire list, and
+`[]` clears it. See the [Audita integration contract](./integrations/audita.md)
+for the subprocess and redaction boundary.
+
+<a id="notarius-configuration-profile"></a>
+
+### Notarius Configuration Overlay
+
+Migration: rename `pipeline.notarius.config_profile` to `config_overlay`.
+The old field is rejected; there is no compatibility alias. For Notarius v0.8+
+move selected downstream files from `profiles/` to `overlays/` beside its root
+configuration. This does not rename PromptKit LLM profiles.
+The renamed selector also changes extraction resume evidence for named
+selections: their existing extraction is regenerated on the next applicable
+run, with normal dependent invalidation. Omitted/base selections do not acquire
+a new invalidation solely from this rename.
+
+`pipeline.notarius.config_overlay` optionally selects a Notarius ConfigKit
+configuration overlay when extraction executes:
+
+```yaml
+notarius:
+  config_overlay: downstream-economy
+```
+
+When the field is omitted or `null`, Narratio supplies no downstream overlay
+selector and preserves Notarius's existing configuration-selection behavior.
+When present, Narratio forwards the exact string to Notarius, including an
+empty string or `default`, which explicitly select Notarius's composed base
+configuration. Notarius owns selector interpretation and validation; Narratio
+does not restrict overlay names, resolve overlay files, or rewrite the value.
+
+This selection is independent of Narratio's own `--overlay` selection. A
+Narratio overlay may explicitly select a differently named Notarius overlay,
+but Narratio never forwards its own overlay name automatically. It is also
+independent of `pipeline.notarius.credentials`: an overlay may change either or
+both fields according to the deployed Notarius configuration. See the
+[Notarius integration contract](./integrations/notarius.md) for invocation and
+failure behavior.
+
+### Notarius Credentials
+
+`pipeline.notarius.credentials` optionally lists environment-variable names
+to forward to the Notarius child process:
+
+```yaml
+notarius:
+  credentials: [OPENROUTER_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY]
+```
+
+The list contains variable names, not credential values. Those names must
+match the references used by the Notarius/PromptKit profiles that Notarius
+loads. Notarius owns profile lookup; Narratio neither infers those names nor
+remaps them. Omission, `null`, or `[]` forwards nothing. Each selected reference
+must resolve at pipeline load time through the process environment or existing
+secrets-directory bootstrap, even when Notarius is disabled, extract is outside
+the requested range, or a completed extraction can be reused.
+
+The Notarius child receives only Narratio's minimal execution environment plus
+these exact selected names and loaded values. Other credentials are not forwarded.
+Changing a value, name, presence, or absence does not invalidate extract's
+semantic resume evidence. The public names remain part of safe effective
+inspection, so renaming them may appear in `config diff` and change the effective
+configuration digest; rotating only their values does neither. An overlay
+replaces the whole list, including with `[]` to clear it.
+
+See the [Notarius integration contract](./integrations/notarius.md) for the
+delivery and redaction boundary.
+
+### Notarius Cache Controls
+
+`pipeline.notarius.resume` defaults to `false`. When true, an executed ordinary
+extraction passes `--resume`; the deployed Notarius configuration must already
+enable checkpoint recording and should select an explicit persistent checkpoint
+root. Narratio does not inspect or generate that configuration.
+
+`pipeline.notarius.chunk_cache` is empty by default, leaving Notarius's
+configured mode in control. A nonempty value must be `auto`, `bypass`, or
+`refresh` and is passed as `--chunk_cache`. Forced extraction takes precedence
+over both fields: it omits `--resume` and passes `--chunk_cache refresh`.
+Neither field changes Narratio's semantic extraction fingerprint, so changing
+them alone does not rerun an otherwise complete durable extraction.
+
+### Notarius Reference Bindings
+
+`pipeline.notarius.references` maps a Notarius CLI selector to a prepared
+Narratio source, not to a filesystem path:
+
+```yaml
+notarius:
+  references:
+    glossary: narratio.input.glossary
+    party: narratio.input.party
+    players: narratio.input.players
+    spell_catalog: narratio.input.spell_catalog
+```
+
+Supported sources are `narratio.input.party`, `narratio.input.players`,
+`narratio.input.glossary`, and `narratio.input.spell_catalog`. Each map entry is
+required by its presence: omit a binding when the selected Notarius pipeline
+does not need it. A spell-catalog binding additionally requires an effective
+campaign or session `spell_catalog_file`.
+
+Selectors accept Notarius's `slot`, `chunk.slot`, `lane.slot`,
+`lane.extract.slot`, `lane.merge.slot`, and `lane.normalize.slot` forms.
+Narratio trims whitespace around
+selectors and their dot-separated components, rejects empty components and
+`=`, rejects duplicate normalized selectors, and limits the map to 256 entries.
+It validates only selector structure and the prepared source vocabulary;
+Notarius owns target-slot declarations and media compatibility.
+
+Before extraction, Narratio resolves every binding from the current prepared
+session manifest and streams it into a verified, content-addressed session
+snapshot whose absolute path is passed to Notarius. Missing, unsafe, empty,
+changed-during-copy, or checksum-inconsistent prepared evidence fails with
+guidance to force `prepare`. Bindings are sorted by normalized selector and are
+part of extraction fingerprint and resume identity. See the
+[Notarius integration contract](./integrations/notarius.md) for the subprocess
+boundary and the [complete example](../examples/pipeline.full.annotated.yml)
+for a copyable configuration.
+
 ### Notarius Output Entries
 
 For each `pipeline.notarius.outputs.<name>`:
@@ -261,6 +545,25 @@ contract-incompatible lane fails extraction. See the
 current ten-lane D&D mapping and the [Notarius contract](./integrations/notarius.md)
 for compatibility ownership.
 
+### Scriptorium Credentials
+
+Set `scriptorium.credentials: [OPENROUTER_API_KEY]` in the pipeline file to
+forward that provider key to Scriptorium. List additional provider names only
+when the selected downstream configuration needs them. The same list applies
+to trim bounds generation, analysis (including character families), and their
+render-debug calls. Scriptorium retains provider/profile selection; Narratio
+does not pass a model-request `--api-key-env` override.
+
+As with Audita and Notarius, names are ConfigKit secret references resolved at
+pipeline load time using the existing environment/secrets bootstrap precedence,
+even when no Scriptorium stage executes. Omitted, null, or empty lists forward
+nothing. An overlay replaces the entire list; `[]` clears it. Captured values
+are forwarded under their exact names and registered for diagnostic redaction.
+Inspection and generated metadata contain names only. Credential changes do
+not invalidate completed trim or analysis work; rotating values also leaves
+the effective configuration digest unchanged. Other environment variables
+retain the shared minimal subprocess inheritance rules.
+
 ### Scriptorium Artifact Entries
 
 For each `pipeline.scriptorium.artifacts.<name>`:
@@ -268,7 +571,7 @@ For each `pipeline.scriptorium.artifacts.<name>`:
 | Field | Type | Required | Rule |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
 | `enabled` | bool | No | `false` if omitted |
-| `depends_on[]` | list[string] | No | must reference configured artifact keys; no self-reference; enabled graph must be acyclic |
+| `depends_on[]` | list[string] | No | explicit ordering-only edges; must reference configured artifact keys, may not self-reference, and join inferred input edges in one acyclic graph |
 | `render_debug` | bool | No | per-artifact override |
 | `prompt_id` | string | Conditional | required when artifact is enabled |
 | `profile_id` | string | No | empty |
@@ -281,12 +584,13 @@ Narratio adds `session_id=narratio-session-<session_id>` to every Scriptorium re
 
 Without `--artifacts`, analyze executes enabled configured artifacts. With an
 explicit `--artifacts` list, the exact named configured artifacts are the
-one-invocation execution set even if their `enabled` values are false; the list
-does not automatically include dependencies. Named artifacts must therefore be
-configured with valid executable fields, and their configured dependencies must
-already be available to analyze. This override affects analyze planning only;
-publish uses the list only to filter configured
-`narratio.artifact.<name>` output rules.
+one-invocation targets even if their `enabled` values are false. Analyze closes
+those targets over the effective dependency graph: a current prerequisite is reused, while a
+stale, missing, or failed prerequisite is rebuilt before its dependent.
+Unrelated artifacts are not executed. Named targets and any prerequisite that
+may require rebuilding must therefore have valid executable fields. This
+override affects analyze planning only; publish uses the list only to filter
+configured `narratio.artifact.<name>` output rules.
 
 For each artifact input `pipeline.scriptorium.artifacts.<name>.inputs.<input_name>`:
 
@@ -299,6 +603,53 @@ For each artifact input `pipeline.scriptorium.artifacts.<name>.inputs.<input_nam
 loading. Use the canonical `source` identifier to select the input; Narratio
 does not provide adapter-specific input passthrough fields.
 
+Each `narratio.artifact.<name>` input source automatically contributes an
+effective dependency on that configured artifact. Narratio unions these inferred
+edges with explicit `depends_on` entries, then trims, deduplicates, and sorts the
+result during final configuration resolution. Authors use `depends_on` only for
+ordering constraints that are not already expressed by an artifact input.
+Use [`narratio config artifacts`](./cli.md#config-validate-config-show-config-sources-config-artifacts-and-config-diff)
+to inspect keys, definition sources, outputs, and effective dependencies without
+loading a session or creating runtime state.
+
+### Scriptorium Artifact Families
+
+`pipeline.scriptorium.artifact_families` declares a shared artifact template
+for every canonical campaign character. Configuration resolution expands each
+family into ordinary `pipeline.scriptorium.artifacts` entries before analyze
+planning or Scriptorium invocation. Party parsing rejects unsupported document
+schemas before family expansion.
+
+For each `pipeline.scriptorium.artifact_families.<name>`:
+
+| Field | Type | Required | Rule |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| `enabled`, `prompt_id`, `profile_id`, `timeout`, `render_debug`, `depends_on`, `inputs`, `vars` | ordinary artifact fields | No | copied to each generated artifact under the corresponding ordinary rules |
+| `for_each` | string | Yes | exactly `party.characters` |
+| `output_path_pattern` | string | Yes | safe path beneath `artifacts/` with exactly one `{character_id}` token and no other brace syntax |
+| `member_vars` | map | No | maps an ordinary Scriptorium variable name to a supported canonical character selector |
+| `member_dependencies` | list | No | unique family keys; each generated member depends on the corresponding generated member of each listed family |
+| `publish` | map | No | typed family publish policy (`enabled`, `required`, `dest_pattern`) expanded into concrete publish outputs when enabled |
+
+Generated keys are `<family>_<character_id>` and generated output paths must
+not collide with explicit artifacts or another generated artifact. Families
+expand even when disabled; normal analyze selection still omits disabled
+artifacts unless they are explicitly selected by their concrete key.
+
+Supported `member_vars` selectors are `character_id`, `player.name`,
+`character.name`, `character.class_summary`, and `character.alias_summary`.
+Their resolved values are strings. A member variable may not reuse a static
+`vars` name; `session_id` remains owned and overwritten by Narratio as for any
+other Scriptorium artifact.
+
+Within a family only, an input source may use
+`narratio.member_artifact.<family>`. Resolution rewrites the source to the
+corresponding ordinary `narratio.artifact.<family>_<character_id>` source and
+infers the concrete member dependency. Use `member_dependencies` only for
+additional same-character ordering constraints that are not already inputs.
+This syntax is rejected in explicit artifacts and never reaches runtime stages
+or Scriptorium.
+
 ### Notifications
 
 Narratio currently supports only `notification.mode: noop`, which is also the
@@ -316,8 +667,8 @@ integration.
 | `inputs.speakers_file` | string | Yes | stable input default |
 | `inputs.autocorrect_file` | string | Yes | stable input default |
 | `inputs.glossary_file` | string | Yes | stable input default |
-| `inputs.players_file` | string | Yes | stable input default |
-| `inputs.party_file` | string | Yes | stable input default |
+| `inputs.party_file` | string | Yes | stable campaign party source; relative paths resolve from `campaign.yml` |
+| `inputs.spell_catalog_file` | string | No | optional spell-catalog overlay default; required when a Notarius reference selects `narratio.input.spell_catalog` |
 
 ### Session
 
@@ -331,8 +682,7 @@ integration.
 | `inputs.speakers_file` | string | No | overrides campaign stable input |
 | `inputs.autocorrect_file` | string | No | overrides campaign stable input |
 | `inputs.glossary_file` | string | No | overrides campaign stable input |
-| `inputs.players_file` | string | No | overrides campaign stable input |
-| `inputs.party_file` | string | No | overrides campaign stable input |
+| `inputs.spell_catalog_file` | string | No | overrides the optional campaign spell catalog; empty or omitted inherits the campaign value |
 | `inputs.audio_dir` | string | Conditional | local audio mode |
 | `inputs.audio_files[]` | list[string] | Conditional | local audio mode |
 | `inputs.audio_s3.prefix` | string | Conditional | S3 audio mode |

docs/development.md

@@ -10,6 +10,37 @@ polished transcripts and generated artifacts. Start with the
 [Architecture](policy/architecture.md) for normative system boundaries, and the
 [Internal Overview](internal/overview.md) for implemented component ownership.
 
+Agents must read [Agent Policy](policy/agents.md) before recommending, planning,
+or implementing changes. It owns implementation discipline and the default
+commit-after-completed-work rule; it does not authorize pushing or releasing.
+
+## Go Prerequisite
+
+Maintained development and verification require Go 1.26. Use the official Go
+1.26 toolchain before running repository commands.
+
+## 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.
+
 ## What To Read
 
 | When working on | Read | Why |
@@ -25,6 +56,7 @@ polished transcripts and generated artifacts. Start with the
 | Adapters or external tool contracts | [Adapter Internals](internal/adapters.md) and [Integration Contracts](integrations/README.md) | The internal guide owns adapter composition and mechanics; integration documents own external formats and protocols. |
 | Manifests, artifacts, workspace paths, or publish behavior | [Manifest Internals](internal/manifest.md), [Artifact Internals](internal/artifacts.md), [Workspace Internals](internal/workspace.md), [Publish Internals](internal/stage-publish.md), and [Operations](operations.md) | These separate implementation state and resolution from operator-visible layout and lifecycle. |
 | Maintained configuration or input examples | [Configuration](config.md) and [Examples](../examples/README.md) | The reference owns field meanings; the examples directory owns complete copyable files. |
+| Preparing, validating, or publishing a release | [Release Policy](policy/release.md) and [Release Procedure](release.md) | Policy owns requirements; the procedure owns concrete validation, guarded publication, and optional later inspection. |
 | Proposed or unimplemented behavior | `docs/roadmap/` | Future work belongs only in roadmap documentation until implemented. |
 
 For an existing subsystem, also inspect its focused tests and package-level
@@ -32,27 +64,29 @@ contracts before changing behavior.
 
 ## Validation
 
-Use focused package tests while iterating. Every pull request and push runs the
-following repository-wide checks before it can be accepted:
+Use focused package tests while iterating. Push and pull-request CI runs these
+repository-wide checks and cross-builds the declared targets:
 
 ```sh
 go test ./...
 go test -race ./...
 go vet ./...
 go build ./...
-go test ./internal/doccheck
-go test ./internal/config -run '^TestExamplesLoadAndValidate$'
 ```
 
-The documentation check verifies local Markdown links and the dependency graph
-of the Woodpecker workflows. The configuration check loads every maintained
-pipeline and session example. Release automation repeats these checks and
-cross-compiles the CLI before it builds release assets; publishing depends on
-that validation path, so a failure cannot publish a release.
+The full suite includes documentation-link and Woodpecker dependency checks
+and loads maintained pipeline and session examples. For focused diagnosis,
+run `go test ./internal/doccheck` or
+`go test ./internal/config -run '^TestExamplesLoadAndValidate$'` directly;
+these are available developer tools, not additional CI steps. Tag CI
+independently revalidates the tagged source before asynchronous asset delivery;
+it is not a second synchronous release prerequisite. The normal maintainer
+entry point is the single publication command in the
+[Release Procedure](release.md).
 
 Woodpecker also runs `go test -race -shuffle=on -count=3 ./...` on its scheduled
 job to expose ordering and repeatability defects. Current runners cross-compile
-for macOS and Windows, but do not provide native macOS or Windows execution.
-Those cross-builds establish compilation only, not platform-equivalent runtime
-evidence. Add native checks only when official runner labels and successful
+the supported Linux amd64 and arm64 targets and the best-effort macOS arm64
+target. The macOS cross-build establishes compilation only, not native runtime
+evidence. Add a native check only when an official runner label and successful
 native-run evidence are available.

docs/integrations/README.md

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ focused stage documents.
 - [Audita](./audita.md): transcript polishing (`audita process`).
 - [Notarius](./notarius.md): complete pipeline execution and safe JSON bundle
   discovery (`notarius run`).
+- [Party](./party.md): canonical campaign roster input.
 - [Seriatim](./seriatim.md): merge, normalize, trim, and render operations.
 - [Scriptorium](./scriptorium.md): artifact generation and debug rendering
   (`scriptorium run|render`).

docs/integrations/audita.md

@@ -1,67 +1,54 @@
 # Integration: Audita
 
-## Purpose
-Define the Audita adapter contract used by the `polish` stage.
+Narratio invokes Audita v2's `process INPUT --glossary PATH --output PATH`
+subprocess for `polish`. The configured timeout and parent cancellation bound
+execution. Narratio passes explicit `--config`, `--overlay`,
+`--proposal-profile`, `--validation-profile`, `--transcript-description`,
+`--output-schema`, and `--modules` only when selected. An omitted module list
+leaves Audita's default sequence in place; `modules: []` passes an explicit
+empty argument and runs no correction modules. Order and repetitions are kept.
+Narratio passes no debug, work-directory, or reporting flags, leaving those
+choices to Audita's own configuration.
 
-## External Boundary
+Audita owns its ConfigKit file, backend and profile definitions, native config
+discovery, and their validation. Narratio does not create an Audita
+configuration or infer downstream overlay/profile names from its own selected
+pipeline overlay. An empty Narratio Audita selector adds no CLI override.
+The [configuration reference](../config.md#audita-selection-and-credentials)
+owns Narratio's fields and defaults. Audita's
+[v2 migration guide](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v2.0.0/docs/migrations/v2.md)
+owns its downstream file format.
 
-Narratio invokes `audita process` as a subprocess for each polish operation.
-The configured timeout and parent cancellation bound the invocation. Internal
-runner composition is documented in
-[the adapter implementation guide](../internal/adapters.md).
+Each name in `pipeline.audita.credentials` is a ConfigKit secret reference
+resolved when Narratio loads the pipeline. Narratio forwards only the selected
+names and their captured, nonempty values under those exact names, in the
+minimal child environment; it never maps them to a fixed alias or rereads the
+parent environment. Every name is registered for captured stdout/stderr and
+failure-diagnostic redaction. Audita resolves credentials for all configured
+backends, including unselected ones, so operators must list every backend
+credential that its selected configuration needs. The downstream files and
+provider output remain Audita's responsibility, outside Narratio's
+captured-stream redaction boundary.
 
-## Request Contract
-`PolishRequest` carries:
-- required transcript/glossary/output/work-dir paths;
-- optional report path (required when report mode is enabled);
-- generated config and stdout/stderr log paths;
-- optional per-invocation module override.
+The corrected transcript is the only canonical polish output. A successful
+invocation must produce a valid JSON transcript with a top-level `segments`
+array within Narratio's 64 MiB bound. Exit zero is accepted even if Audita's
+ordinary reports describe recoverable model errors or no corrections. Narratio
+does not parse report status, counts, or Markdown. It discovers only
+`errors.yml`, `recoveries.yml`, and `report.md` next to the requested output,
+each subject to a 16 MiB read bound. Missing reports are allowed, for example
+when Audita reporting is disabled externally. Available reports are diagnostic
+references, not canonical artifact outputs. See Audita's
+[ordinary output contract](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v2.0.0/docs/integrations/output-files.md)
+for their schemas, and [operations](../operations.md) for placement and
+publication.
 
-The constructed runner owns static Audita settings: binary, timeout,
-credentials, default modules, model and endpoint settings, validation and output
-settings, report mode, and concurrency. The `polish` stage supplies only
-invocation-specific paths and may override modules for that invocation.
+On nonzero exit, Narratio preserves the original subprocess error and
+available run-local evidence; it never promotes a transcript merely because
+the file exists. The adapter returns safe paths, exit details, and selection
+metadata on failure. Narratio's `audita.generated.v2` YAML records the
+invocation, including arguments, paths, and credential names but never values;
+it is a diagnostic record, not a generated Audita config file.
 
-## Result Contract
-`PolishResult` returns:
-- processed transcript path;
-- optional report path;
-- work dir and generated-config/log paths;
-- exit code, duration, binary provenance;
-- adapter metadata map.
-
-## Validation and Failure Semantics
-Construction fails for invalid static config values, including:
-- empty binary;
-- non-positive timeout;
-- invalid base URL;
-- invalid output schema;
-- invalid work-dir retention value;
-- invalid concurrency values.
-
-Run fails for:
-- missing required request paths;
-- missing required credential env var when configured (`llm_api_key_env`);
-- subprocess execution failure;
-- invalid processed transcript JSON (`segments` array required);
-- invalid report JSON when reporting is enabled.
-
-Processed transcript JSON is limited to 64 MiB and optional report JSON to 16
-MiB. Both must be regular files without symlinked path components.
-
-Failure results still include output/log/config/exit metadata for diagnostics.
-
-## Deterministic Behavior
-- CLI args are built from runner config + request in a fixed order.
-- Generated invocation YAML (`audita.generated.v1`) is emitted when requested.
-- Manifest writes are stage-owned; adapter itself is stateless.
-
-## Configuration
-
-Operator-selected values are defined under `pipeline.audita.*` in the
-[configuration reference](../config.md#pipeline).
-
-Maintained example with Audita config:
-
-- [Full annotated pipeline](../../examples/pipeline.full.annotated.yml)
-- [Production-shaped pipeline](../../examples/pipeline.production.yml)
+Maintained Narratio examples: [full annotated pipeline](../../examples/pipeline.full.annotated.yml)
+and [production-shaped pipeline](../../examples/pipeline.production.yml).

docs/integrations/notarius.md

@@ -7,12 +7,14 @@ lanes from the final trimmed Seriatim transcript. Narratio owns invocation,
 safe bundle discovery, lane selection, and its own artifact metadata. Notarius
 owns pipeline definitions, lane schemas, the receipt, and bundle formats.
 
-Canonical Notarius references:
+Canonical Notarius v0.8.1 references:
 
-- [Subprocess consumer contract](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/notarius/src/branch/main/docs/consumers/subprocess.md)
-- [D&D pipeline and lane contracts](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/notarius/src/branch/main/docs/consumers/dnd-pipeline.md)
-- [Run-result receipt](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/notarius/src/branch/main/docs/integrations/run-result.md)
-- [JSON output bundle](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/notarius/src/branch/main/docs/integrations/json-output.md)
+- [CLI reference](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/notarius/src/tag/v0.8.1/docs/cli.md)
+- [Subprocess consumer contract](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/notarius/src/tag/v0.8.1/docs/consumers/subprocess.md)
+- [D&D pipeline and lane contracts](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/notarius/src/tag/v0.8.1/docs/consumers/dnd-pipeline.md)
+- [Run-result receipt](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/notarius/src/tag/v0.8.1/docs/integrations/run-result.md)
+- [JSON output bundle](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/notarius/src/tag/v0.8.1/docs/integrations/json-output.md)
+- [D&D spell-catalog overlay](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/notarius/src/tag/v0.8.1/docs/integrations/dnd-spell-catalog-overlays.md)
 
 The [complete Narratio example](../../examples/pipeline.full.annotated.yml)
 records the exact current constraints for all ten D&D lanes. Treat the linked
@@ -23,12 +25,68 @@ duplicate the complete schemas.
 
 When `pipeline.notarius.enabled` is true, Narratio resolves the executable,
 configuration path, input path, output directory, and working directory to
-absolute paths and invokes:
+absolute paths. Configured references require support for the `--reference`
+contract introduced in Notarius v0.6.0. Cache controls require support for the
+selected `--resume` and `--chunk_cache` flags. Notarius v0.8.1 is the tested
+cache integration baseline, not an unconditional minimum version; Narratio
+does not impose a runtime version gate. Each reference binding is a separate
+argument before `--json`. When `pipeline.notarius.config_overlay` is present,
+its exact value is another argument pair before `--json`:
 
 ```text
-notarius run <pipeline_id> --config <config_path> --input <trimmed_json> --output-dir <staging_dir> --json
+notarius run <pipeline_id> --config <config_path> --input <trimmed_json> --output-dir <staging_dir> [--resume] [--chunk_cache <mode>] [--reference <selector>=<verified_snapshot_path>]... [--config-overlay <name>] --json
 ```
 
+Notarius v0.8.1 is a known supporting version for `--config-overlay`; using the
+option requires a compatible Notarius executable, but deployments that omit the
+field acquire no additional version requirement. Omitted or null configuration
+adds no flag. Supplied empty, `default`, and named selectors are forwarded
+without normalization so Notarius can apply its own ConfigKit semantics. This
+option selects a Notarius configuration overlay, not a PromptKit profile through
+`--llm-profile`, and Narratio never substitutes its own selected overlay name.
+A missing or invalid downstream overlay is an ordinary Notarius subprocess
+failure: Narratio does not retry without the selector or fall back to another
+overlay.
+
+Reference paths are absolute stable snapshots streamed from manifest-verified
+canonical files prepared inside the current Narratio session workspace. They
+live at `cache/notarius/references/<sha256>/<prepared-basename>` and retain the
+full lowercase content digest. Narratio verifies snapshot checksum and size
+before and after the subprocess, reconstructs missing or corrupt regular files
+from a still-valid prepared source, and passes only configured bindings,
+ordered lexically by normalized selector, as direct argument-vector entries
+without shell interpretation. Symlinks, directories, other non-regular
+conflicts, and prepared-source mismatches fail rather than being deleted. A CLI
+binding takes precedence over a matching external path in Notarius
+configuration. Narratio never emits `--without-reference`.
+
+For canonical party configuration, the `party` binding is the unchanged,
+validated authored roster and the `players` binding is its generated
+projection. Both retain their established `narratio.input.party` and
+`narratio.input.players` source IDs, and both are resolved from the prepared
+manifest rather than from campaign configuration at extraction time.
+
+The maintained D&D boundary binds only the four campaign-owned external slots:
+
+```text
+notarius run dnd-session \
+  --config <absolute config path> \
+  --input <absolute trimmed transcript path> \
+  --output-dir <absolute staging directory> \
+  --reference glossary=<absolute verified glossary snapshot> \
+  --reference party=<absolute verified party snapshot> \
+  --reference players=<absolute verified players snapshot> \
+  --reference spell_catalog=<absolute verified spell catalog snapshot> \
+  --json
+```
+
+The spell-catalog binding is omitted when the campaign does not maintain that
+optional overlay. Registry, scene-description, combat-turn, and occurrence
+handoffs generated during the same Notarius run remain in Notarius pipeline
+composition and must not be emitted as CLI references. The linked CLI and D&D
+consumer documents own selector targeting, declared slots, media compatibility,
+and generated-handoff collision rules.
+
 Standard output is reserved for the JSON receipt. Standard error is captured
 separately as diagnostic output. Narratio applies the configured timeout and
 does not interpret stdout as a receipt unless the subprocess exits successfully.
@@ -36,26 +94,68 @@ It does not pass a Narratio session ID or run `notarius config validate`
 automatically; the configured working directory and Narratio's minimal child
 environment apply to the subprocess.
 
+Ordinary extraction maps `pipeline.notarius.resume: true` to `--resume` and a
+nonempty `pipeline.notarius.chunk_cache` to `--chunk_cache <mode>`. Forced
+extraction always omits `--resume` and supplies `--chunk_cache refresh`.
+Notarius owns checkpoint enablement, recording, identity, and both cache roots;
+Narratio neither reads nor synthesizes its configuration. Use explicit
+persistent roots in Notarius when reuse must span subprocess invocations.
+Changing a reference path/digest or other upstream identity input correctly
+causes a cold miss. Chunk refresh bypasses lookup and publishes the accepted
+replacement for the active source; it does not delete unrelated plans or
+checkpoint state.
+
+When `pipeline.notarius.credentials` is absent, null, or empty, Narratio adds no
+credentials to that environment. When configured, each list entry names an
+environment variable whose already-loaded nonempty value is forwarded under
+that exact name. Operators must use the names referenced by the selected
+Notarius/PromptKit providers. Narratio does not inspect the Notarius configuration
+to infer providers or destination names, and it does not forward unrelated
+credentials from its parent environment or secrets directory. A Narratio
+overlay replaces the whole credential list; `[]` clears it.
+
+Every selected name is registered with Narratio's shared streaming redactor.
+Credential bytes written by the child to captured stdout, captured stderr, or
+stderr-derived failure diagnostics are replaced with `<redacted>`, including
+custom names not known to the built-in sensitive-name list. Narratio does not
+serialize the credential into arguments, stage metadata, manifests, or
+generated configuration.
+
+This captured-stream protection is not a filesystem sandbox. Notarius remains
+responsible for keeping credentials out of files it writes directly, including
+bundle artifacts and its own diagnostics. Narratio does not scan or rewrite
+arbitrary downstream files and cannot promise redaction of transformed or
+encoded credentials.
+
 ## Accepted Result
 
-Narratio currently accepts receipt schema `notarius.run-result.v1`. The receipt
+Narratio's tested invocation baseline is Notarius v0.8.1. The accepted
+receipt remains `notarius.run-result.v2`; reference flags do not change the
+receipt or ten-lane output contract. The receipt
 must identify the configured pipeline, and its `index_file` must be exactly
 `index.json` beneath the reported bundle root. The production index must name
-the management files exactly as `manifest.json`, `rejected.json`, and
-`warnings.json`. All receipt, index, and lane paths must stay inside that
-bundle; symlinks and non-regular lane payloads are rejected.
+the management files exactly as `manifest.json`, `rejected.json`,
+`warnings.json`, and `diagnostics.json`. All receipt, index, and lane paths must
+stay inside that bundle; symlinks and non-regular lane payloads are rejected.
 
 Supported receipt and index shapes tolerate unknown fields for forward
 compatibility, while required identity, validation, count, manifest,
-rejection, warning, and lane-list fields remain mandatory. Narratio applies
-bounded reads to the receipt, index, rejection, and warning documents. Optional
-chunk-map and evidence-context descriptors must carry their complete generic
-contract metadata when present.
+rejection, warning, diagnostic, and lane-list fields remain mandatory.
+Narratio applies bounded reads to the receipt, index, rejection, warning, and
+diagnostic documents. Warning and diagnostic envelopes, group counts,
+occurrence counts, truncation state, framework-owned origins, and
+receipt-to-bundle counts must be internally consistent. Optional chunk-map and
+evidence-context descriptors must carry their complete generic contract
+metadata when present.
 
 For every entry in `pipeline.notarius.outputs`, Narratio requires exactly one
 index descriptor with the configured lane ID, media type, schema ID, schema
 version, and, when configured, module key. Missing, duplicate, rejected, or
-incompatible required lanes fail extraction even if Notarius exited zero.
+incompatible required lanes fail extraction even if Notarius exited zero. A
+configured lane whose v2 validation summary is `rejected` or `incomplete` also
+fails extraction.
+An accepted reused producer may report `producer_attempt_count: 0`; Narratio
+preserves that valid summary rather than treating it as a missing field.
 Unconfigured lanes may remain in the preserved bundle but do not become
 selectable Narratio sources.
 
@@ -72,12 +172,30 @@ only explicitly named lane sources; `--artifacts` never selects Notarius lanes.
   staged bundle is promoted to durable storage.
 - Contract and external provenance metadata are preserved on lane artifact
   records and through explicit publication.
+- Undeclared selectors, incompatible reference files, and external/generated
+  reference collisions are Notarius errors and fail extraction normally.
 
-Rejection and warning summaries retain structured stage, scope, lane, and
-reason-code fields for diagnostics without exposing free-form external messages
-or reading lane payload bodies.
+Rejection, validation, warning, and diagnostic summaries retain bounded stable
+identity, category, origin, reason-code, status, and occurrence fields without
+copying free-form external messages into Narratio manifest metadata or reading
+lane payload bodies.
 
 Configuration fields and defaults are in [Configuration](../config.md).
 Operator paths, rerun procedures, and bundle retention are in
 [Operations](../operations.md). See [Troubleshooting](../troubleshooting.md)
 for failure recovery.
+
+## Opt-in Integration Test
+
+The production-boundary cache test requires an absolute path to a locally
+built Notarius v0.8.1-compatible executable. It uses only a local
+OpenAI-compatible `httptest` provider and temporary cache/config/output roots:
+
+```sh
+NARRATIO_TEST_NOTARIUS_BINARY=/absolute/path/to/notarius \
+  GOWORK=off go test ./internal/stage \
+  -run '^TestNotariusCacheReuseIntegration$' -count=1 -v
+```
+
+When the variable is unset, the normal test suite skips this test and never
+searches `PATH`, a sibling checkout, the network, or a real provider.

docs/integrations/party.md

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+# Canonical Party Input
+
+`party.yml` is a campaign-owned roster input. It must be a single, versioned
+`narratio.party.v1` document when Narratio resolves a pipeline, campaign, and
+session together.
+
+```yaml
+schema_version: narratio.party.v1
+
+characters:
+  arannis:
+    player:
+      name: Eric
+    character:
+      name: Arannis
+      alias:
+        - Ari
+        - The Grey Owl
+      classes:
+        - name: wizard
+          level: 8
+```
+
+`characters` is a non-empty mapping. Each key is a stable character ID using
+the configured-artifact key grammar: a lowercase ASCII letter followed by zero
+or more lowercase ASCII letters, digits, or underscores. Character order is
+preserved where roster order matters.
+
+Every entry has `player.name`, `character.name`, and a non-empty
+`character.classes` list. Class entries require a non-empty `name` and may
+include a positive integer `level`. The optional, intentionally singular
+`character.alias` field is a list. Names, aliases, and class names must be
+non-empty, trimmed display strings without control characters. Character names
+and aliases must be unique across the full roster under Unicode-aware
+case-insensitive comparison; player names may repeat.
+
+The document has exactly one YAML document and accepts no unknown fields.
+`schema_version` is required: a missing, wrong, or malformed value is an error.
+
+## Migration
+
+Unversioned party inputs are rejected. Replace each legacy party document with
+the versioned structure above, move each roster entry under `characters`, and
+remove separate player and session-party settings: those keys are unsupported.
+
+The configuration rules and source-relative path behavior are defined in the
+[Configuration Reference](../config.md).
+
+## Derived players document
+
+During `prepare`, Narratio copies the canonical party source bytes unchanged
+to `inputs/party.yml` and writes this deterministic players-only projection to
+`inputs/players.yml`:
+
+```yaml
+schema_version: narratio.players.v1
+players:
+    - name: Eric
+      character:
+        id: arannis
+        name: Arannis
+        alias:
+            - Ari
+            - The Grey Owl
+```
+
+There is one entry per character, sorted by stable character ID. Repeated
+player names remain separate entries. The optional `alias` list retains its
+declared order and is omitted when empty. The projection carries no class
+data. Its prepared manifest record is marked `derived_from_party`; it is not a
+separate user-provided `players_file`.

docs/integrations/scriptorium.md

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Both request types carry:
 - output path;
 - timeout;
 - generated config + stdout/stderr log paths;
-- optional API-key env var name;
+- optional list of already-resolved credential references;
 - optional working directory.
 
 ## Result Contract
@@ -39,7 +39,16 @@ Request validation fails for:
 - non-positive timeout;
 - empty input/var names;
 - empty input path values;
-- missing required credential env var when `APIKeyEnv` is set.
+- unresolved or empty selected credential references.
+
+Both modes use the shared credential forwarding used by Audita and Notarius:
+selected names and captured values augment the minimal child environment, and
+all selected values are registered for captured-stream redaction. The adapter
+does not reread the parent environment or override Scriptorium's provider
+selection with `--api-key-env`. Generated invocation records and result metadata
+contain `credential_env_names`, never credential values. This does not scan or
+redact files written directly by Scriptorium. Selection semantics belong in
+[Scriptorium credentials](../config.md#scriptorium-credentials).
 
 Run behavior:
 - subprocess errors propagate with context;

docs/integrations/whisperx.md

@@ -17,11 +17,20 @@ Narratio sends an HTTP `POST` to the configured transcription URL using
 The server must return a `2xx` response whose body is valid JSON. Narratio does
 not currently require a more specific response schema at this boundary.
 
-The transcription URL must be an absolute `http` or `https` URL. The audio body
-is streamed through a fresh multipart writer for every attempt, so its memory
-use is bounded by the transport buffer rather than by the complete audio file.
+The transcription URL must be an absolute `http` or `https` URL. Each
+application attempt creates one bounded multipart framing and streams the audio
+from an open file between that framing; it does not buffer the complete audio
+or spool a multipart copy. The file field precedes the language field.
 WhisperX response acquisition is capped at 10 MiB.
 
+The initial request body and any transport-requested replay use the same
+multipart boundary and framing. Every body opens an independent audio handle
+and replay starts at the beginning. Narratio closes all bodies created for the
+attempt on response, failure, timeout, or cancellation, including when a
+transport abandons an earlier body. Genuine source read/close failures remain
+request failures; deliberate early closure of an abandoned original does not
+poison a valid replay.
+
 ## Request And Result Contract
 
 Each adapter request identifies a speaker, a readable audio file, and the
@@ -43,6 +52,11 @@ transcript output.
 - Narratio waits the configured retry delay between attempts and aborts that
   wait when the parent context is canceled.
 
+Transport replay occurs inside one application attempt and does not consume an
+entry from the configured retry budget or increment the reported attempt
+count. The standard HTTP redirect policy remains in effect; body replay can
+also support body-preserving redirects.
+
 ## Validation And Failure Semantics
 
 Client construction rejects a missing or non-HTTP(S) absolute transcription URL,
@@ -55,12 +69,19 @@ failure to install the output causes the transcription to fail. Errors include
 attempt context, and the result retains attempts, final status when available,
 and elapsed duration for diagnostics.
 
+Replay makes a fresh request body available to the HTTP transport; it does not
+provide an exactly-once server guarantee and does not prove recovery from every
+proxy or protocol-level failure. A server may have received work before the
+client learns that a request failed. WhisperX operations should therefore be
+safe to retry for the same input when practical.
+
 ## Determinism And Concurrency
 
 Each audio request has stable multipart field names, and successful bytes are
 installed atomically. The transcribe stage may process speaker files in
-parallel, bounded by the configured concurrency. It records results in stable
-speaker order after all work completes; any speaker failure fails the stage.
+parallel, bounded by the configured concurrency. Each validated speaker is
+checkpointed independently; any speaker failure still fails the aggregate
+stage, while committed earlier speakers remain reusable on an ordinary retry.
 
 ## Related Canonical Docs
 

docs/internal/adapters.md

@@ -35,43 +35,78 @@ Adapters do not own:
 
 ## Default Wiring
 
-`internal/app/runner.go` initializes default adapters when not injected:
+The application composes default adapters per invocation when they were not
+injected through the stage environment, and only when the selected execution
+plan needs them:
 
-- WhisperX HTTP client from pipeline config.
-- Seriatim subprocess runner.
-- Audita subprocess runner.
-- Scriptorium subprocess runner.
-- Notarius subprocess runner when extraction is enabled.
-- Noop notifier (`notify.NoopSender`).
+- WhisperX HTTP client for `transcribe`.
+- Seriatim subprocess runner for `merge`, `normalize`, `trim`, or `render`.
+- Audita subprocess runner for `polish`.
+- Scriptorium subprocess runner for `trim` or `analyze`.
+- Notarius subprocess runner for `extract` when extraction is enabled.
+- Noop notifier (`notify.NoopSender`) for `notify`.
 - Object store only when required by selected stages/config.
 
-Notarius is composed only when extraction is enabled; the extract stage owns
-receipt, bundle, and configured-lane policy rather than the adapter.
+Remote publish locks are loaded only for a selected, enabled publish that
+uploads a run. Shared session lifecycle setup still applies to every selected
+range, but an unselected integration is neither initialized nor validated by
+application-owned composition. Constructor, clock, randomness, remote-lock,
+and post-publish deletion boundaries are scoped to the invocation; stages still
+receive their collaborators through the stage environment. Each selected stage
+retains its own fail-fast configuration and input validation.
 
-Object-store construction goes through `newCommandObjectStore`, which loads
-configured filesystem secrets before adapter initialization.
+`session plan` is outside production adapter composition. It performs
+resume validation and models selected transitions against cloned manifest
+state without constructing or invoking stage-execution adapters. The shared
+command configuration loader may still use object storage to retrieve a missing
+remote session file before planning begins.
+
+Notarius is composed only when extraction is enabled; the extract stage owns
+prepared reference resolution, receipt, bundle, and configured-lane policy.
+The adapter validates the ordered selector/absolute-path pairs and is the sole
+owner of serializing them as repeated `--reference` arguments before `--json`.
+It also serializes an effective resume request as `--resume` and a nonempty
+validated chunk mode as `--chunk_cache <mode>`. The extract stage, not the
+adapter, resolves force precedence before constructing the request.
+Its request may also carry already-resolved ConfigKit secret references.
+Audita and Scriptorium requests carry the same kind of list. All three adapters use the shared
+subprocess helper to convert their selected references into exact-name child
+environment overrides and sensitive-name registration. That helper rejects
+unresolved or empty programmatic references, but no adapter rereads the
+parent environment or inspects downstream configuration to discover names.
+Empty lists add no credential overrides. See the public [Audita](../integrations/audita.md)
+[Notarius](../integrations/notarius.md), and [Scriptorium](../integrations/scriptorium.md) contracts for selection and
+downstream-file boundaries.
+
+Application-owned object-store construction loads configured filesystem
+secrets before invoking the invocation's storage factory. Production commands
+use the concrete storage adapter constructor; focused tests can supply an
+in-memory backend without changing package state.
 
 ## Failure Semantics
 
 - Constructor errors fail stage execution setup early.
 - Runtime adapter errors propagate to stage code and then manifest failure handling.
 - Subprocess adapters persist stage logs/generated configs through stage-managed paths.
-- Shared subprocess execution starts an owned process group on Linux/macOS or a
-  kill-on-close job object on Windows. Every terminal path disposes of that
-  owned tree before returning. After a natural leader exit, Unix checks for
-  remaining group members and uses bounded graceful then forceful termination;
-  Windows closes the job so kill-on-close applies. Cancellation, deadlines, and
+- Shared subprocess execution keeps private lifecycle mechanics separate from
+  Narratio's environment, diagnostics, redaction, and error policy. It starts
+  an owned process group on Linux and macOS. Every terminal path disposes of
+  that owned tree before returning. After a natural leader exit, the runner checks
+  for remaining group members and uses bounded graceful then forceful termination.
+  Cancellation, deadlines, and
   diagnostic limits use the same terminal disposal path without losing their
   original result classification. Child environments contain only the execution
-  baseline and adapter-specified values; configured credentials are explicit
-  sensitive values. Stdout and stderr are redacted while streaming into separate
+  baseline and adapter-specified values; configured credentials are resolved
+  once by ConfigKit and passed explicitly as sensitive values. Adapters do not
+  re-read their named environment references. Stdout and stderr are redacted while streaming into separate
   8 MiB diagnostic captures; a bounded wait closes a stream retained by a
   departed leader's descendant. Unsupported platforms reject owned command
   execution.
 
 ## Implementation And Tests
 
-- Composition: `internal/app/runner.go`, `internal/app/object_store.go`
+- Composition: `internal/app/runner_composition.go`,
+  `internal/app/runner_dependencies.go`, `internal/app/object_store.go`
 - Shared subprocess mechanics: `internal/adapters/subprocess`
 - Focused adapters: `internal/adapters/{whisperx,seriatim,audita,scriptorium,notarius,storage,notify}`
 - `internal/adapters/whisperx/http_test.go`

docs/internal/artifacts.md

@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ The internal registry recognizes these stable built-in source IDs:
 - `narratio.transcript.final_trimmed_markdown`
 - `narratio.bounds.session`
 
-Registry entries bind each ID to its producer, output kind, canonical fallback,
-and content validator. The focused stage documents own their input/output flow;
+Registry entries bind each ID to its producer, output kind, and content
+validator. The focused stage documents own their input/output flow;
 [Configuration](../config.md) owns where operators may select these IDs.
 
 ## Configured, Extraction, And Previous-Session Sources
@@ -36,28 +36,57 @@ unrecognized token into a valid source. Extraction sources are registered only
 from `pipeline.notarius.outputs`; the Notarius index has no selectable source
 ID.
 
+Prepared stable source IDs are `narratio.input.players`,
+`narratio.input.party`, `narratio.input.glossary`, and
+`narratio.input.spell_catalog`. Artifact policy owns their canonical manifest
+kind and prepared filename vocabulary. Canonical party mode preserves the
+party source bytes in the party record and supplies the players record from the
+deterministic `derived_from_party` projection; both remain ordinary prepared
+source IDs for consumers.
+
 ## Runtime Catalog
 
 `ArtifactCatalog` tracks:
 
 - `planned`: source registered for run context;
 - `executable`: included in the effective analyze artifact set;
-- `available`: local file exists and validates;
+- `available`: the source's canonical evidence owner validates its current
+  manifest record and durable bytes;
 - `provenance`: availability source.
 
 Configured definitions are always registered. Without an explicit selection,
 the effective analyze set contains enabled definitions. With `--artifacts`, the
 exact named configured definitions become the effective set for that invocation,
-regardless of their `enabled` value; dependencies are not added implicitly.
-Availability is separate from executability: a non-executable configured output
-may be reused from a canonical non-empty file, while an executable definition
-is generated by analyze. Extraction entries are registered from configuration
-and become available only after compatible extraction evidence is hydrated.
+regardless of their `enabled` value. The effective-set resolver itself does not
+expand dependencies. Configuration has already materialized the sorted union of
+explicit ordering edges and configured-artifact input edges, and the analyze
+work planner closes targets over that one concrete prerequisite graph.
+Availability is separate from executability. Configuration may normalize a
+family selection into its concrete generated members before this resolver runs.
+The effective set retains optional family
+and character origin metadata, but its keys, catalog sources, and runtime
+lookups remain concrete configured-artifact identities.
+Family publish policies are likewise expanded into ordinary configured-source
+publish rules during configuration resolution.
+Configured outputs, including non-executable prerequisites, become available
+only when the versioned analyze state identifies a current result whose source,
+contract, canonical configured path, size, and checksum match a confined
+no-follow regular file. An incidental canonical file is unavailable, and a
+manifest with an unsupported aggregate-only representation is rejected before
+catalog construction.
+Extraction entries are registered from configuration and become available only
+after compatible extraction evidence is hydrated.
+
+During an analyze invocation, a newly validated and atomically materialized
+configured output is marked available with its producer run ID, contract,
+checksum, and size. Later scheduled dependents therefore observe the same
+semantic identity whether their prerequisite was reused from current manifest
+evidence or produced earlier in the invocation.
 
 Current provenance values:
 
 - `generated.current_analyze_run`
-- `filesystem.disabled_artifact_output`
+- `manifest.current_analyze_artifact`
 - `manifest.inputs.previous_cache`
 - `current_session.previous_cache`
 
@@ -65,12 +94,40 @@ Current provenance values:
 
 Built-ins:
 
-1. manifest producer outputs (when present)
-2. canonical session-path fallback
+- resolve only from the current manifest's succeeded registered producer;
+- require exactly one output with the registered source ID and output kind, a
+  safe session-rooted path, producer run ID, canonical checksum, and valid
+  content; and
+- verify the registered checksum against the durable bytes. Incidental files,
+  canonical filenames, duplicate outputs, failed/stale producer records, and
+  malformed evidence are unavailable.
 
 Configured sources (`narratio.artifact.*`):
 
-- resolve only through runtime catalog availability.
+- resolve only through runtime catalog availability;
+- use the shared typed analyze-evidence inspection in
+  `analyze_evidence.go` for prior current-session results;
+- require the supported analyze-state and fingerprint versions, a `current`
+  record for the exact configured key and source ID, a complete contract, the
+  configured canonical relative path, positive stored size, and stored
+  checksum matching bytes read from a confined no-follow regular file; and
+- treat non-current statuses, malformed records, removed keys,
+  unsafe or missing files, and size/checksum mismatches as unavailable without
+  rewriting manifest state. Catalog construction iterates current
+  configuration, so removed or renamed records are not advertised.
+
+`narratio.member_artifact.*` is not a runtime source family. Configuration
+resolution accepts it only in an artifact-family declaration and rewrites it
+to the corresponding configured source before this catalog is built.
+
+Prepared stable sources (`narratio.input.*`):
+
+- resolve only from the current manifest's exact prepared-input record;
+- require the policy-owned canonical path below the session root, a confined
+  non-symlink regular file, a non-empty payload, and a matching SHA-256
+  checksum; and
+- return an immutable source/path/checksum/size identity shared by extract and
+  analyze rather than falling back to campaign/session source paths.
 
 Extraction sources (`narratio.extraction.*`):
 
@@ -86,9 +143,12 @@ Extraction sources (`narratio.extraction.*`):
 
 Previous-session sources (`narratio.previous_session.artifact.*`):
 
-- resolve only from local `previous/` cache state;
-- prefer manifest-backed previous-input paths;
-- fallback to existing previous-cache filesystem paths.
+- resolve only from one matching `previous_artifact` input record in the
+  current manifest, including its exact source ID and checksum;
+- are hydrated only from the unique `published_output` declaration for their
+  canonical source in the selected remote commit; and
+- never infer a path from a previous manifest, current configuration, basename,
+  or existing cache file.
 
 Source absence is evaluated by the consuming artifact input. An optional input
 is omitted from that invocation; a required input fails resolution. This is
@@ -116,25 +176,34 @@ Validation by content type:
 Artifacts package owns shared remote current-state loading mechanics used by
 restore, status and validation checks, and previous-cache planning.
 
+The selected session manifest is accepted only with
+`schema_version: narratio.session-manifest.v1` and complete stage identity.
+An unsupported local or downloaded manifest must be replaced by regeneration,
+verified restore, or republication; artifact resolution never fills in missing
+authority markers.
+
 For a new-protocol current state, the pointer-selected immutable commit is the
 complete restore authority. Callers receive its declared object identities and
-must not supplement them by listing mutable session prefixes. The legacy reader
-is intentionally separate and remains migration-only support.
+must not supplement them by listing mutable session prefixes.
+
+A `published_output` declaration must use a canonical publish-compatible source
+ID and an exact `runs/{run_id}/published/{destination}` key in the same session.
+Only this declaration type may refer to an earlier run; other declared objects
+remain confined to the selected commit's run.
 
 The reader opens each small control object directly and enforces owner-specific
 limits before decoding: 64 KiB for the mutable commit pointer, 4 MiB for the
-immutable commit manifest, and 8 MiB for the selected session manifest. Legacy
-compatibility applies a 4 KiB limit to `current/run_id.txt` and the same 8 MiB
-manifest limit to `current/manifest.json`. These are exposed as
-`MaxCurrentCommitPointerBytes`, `MaxRemoteCommitManifestBytes`,
-`MaxRemoteSessionManifestBytes`, `MaxLegacyCurrentRunPointerBytes`, and
-`MaxLegacyCurrentManifestBytes`.
+immutable commit manifest, and 8 MiB for the selected session manifest. These
+are exposed as `MaxCurrentCommitPointerBytes`,
+`MaxRemoteCommitManifestBytes`, and `MaxRemoteSessionManifestBytes`.
 
 Each read uses the generation and size metadata returned with its opened body.
 Actual bytes remain subject to a limit-plus-one read even if size metadata is
 absent or inaccurate. Immutable selections then retain their declared-size,
 checksum, generation, and identity checks. No current-state control object is
-downloaded through a temporary file.
+downloaded through a temporary file. Artifact and previous-session downloads
+validate their complete sibling temporary file against available committed
+identity before replacing a canonical local path.
 
 Core helpers:
 
@@ -142,10 +211,9 @@ Core helpers:
 - `ValidateCurrentStateIdentity`
 - `RemoteCommitManifest` and `CurrentCommitPointer`
 
-Typed missing-state errors:
+Typed missing-state error:
 
-- `CurrentRunPointerMissingError` (`ErrCurrentRunPointerMissing`)
-- `CurrentManifestMissingError` (`ErrCurrentManifestMissing`)
+- `CurrentCommitPointerMissingError` (`ErrCurrentCommitPointerMissing`)
 
 Identity validation supports caller-provided expectations:
 
@@ -159,6 +227,21 @@ Caller policy is intentionally outside artifacts helpers:
 - some callers downgrade missing state to status/findings;
 - some callers skip optional behavior when state is missing.
 
+## Remote Lock Objects
+
+The artifacts package defines the independent remote-lock payload and identity
+contract. Each canonical publish source maps to one object below the validated
+session `locks/` prefix; its filename is the lowercase SHA-256 digest of the
+exact source followed by `.lock`.
+
+Lock payloads are strict versioned JSON containing the canonical source, an
+optional reason, and a UTC creation time. Reads are bounded to
+`MaxRemoteLockObjectBytes` (64 KiB), reject unknown fields and trailing values,
+and verify that the payload source matches the key digest. Exact lookup reports
+presence explicitly, prefix listing validates every object and sorts by source,
+creation uses an absence precondition, forced replacement uses one observed
+generation, and removal is idempotent.
+
 ## Key Path Helpers
 
 `internal/artifacts/paths.go` and S3-key helpers define canonical helpers for:
@@ -171,8 +254,13 @@ Caller policy is intentionally outside artifacts helpers:
 New publication creates run-scoped immutable objects, including
 `runs/{run_id}/commit.json` and `runs/{run_id}/session-manifest.json`. The sole
 mutable selector is `current/commit-pointer.json`; readers verify its selected
-commit and declared object generations/checksums. Legacy current-pair loading
-is confined to `current_state_legacy.go` for migration only.
+commit and declared object generations/checksums.
+
+A `published_output` declaration may identify its commit's run or an earlier
+immutable run in the same campaign/session namespace. The key parser validates
+that namespace, rejects mutable and malformed keys, and derives the originating
+run from the exact declaration. All other commit artifacts remain confined to
+the commit's own run prefix.
 
 Campaign, session, and Narratio run IDs are validated as portable opaque
 segments at configuration and artifact boundaries before they can be used in a
@@ -199,10 +287,10 @@ physical layout.
   `internal/artifacts/catalog.go`, `internal/artifacts/transcripts.go`,
   `internal/artifacts/extraction_catalog.go`,
   `internal/artifacts/extraction_evidence.go`,
-  `internal/artifacts/extraction_input.go`
+  `internal/artifacts/extraction_input.go`,
+  `internal/artifacts/prepared_input.go`
 - Current state: `internal/artifacts/current_state.go`,
   `internal/artifacts/current_state_commit.go`,
-  `internal/artifacts/current_state_legacy.go`
 - Paths and keys: `internal/artifacts/paths.go`,
   `internal/artifacts/s3_keys.go`
 - Previous requirements: `internal/artifacts/previous_requirements.go`

docs/internal/command-restore.md

@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ physical restore scope belong in
 Restore separates remote authority, local conflict policy, and filesystem
 mutation so each remains testable independently.
 
+The public command supplies production defaults to one private,
+invocation-scoped dependency value. Discovery, planning, and execution use that
+same value, so focused sequencing tests can replace one boundary without
+mutable package hooks.
+
 ## Discovery Contract
 
 Discovery delegates current-state pointer and manifest loading to
@@ -34,18 +39,25 @@ Planner behavior:
 
 - a new-protocol restore uses only the selected commit's declared artifact set;
   each action carries that artifact's immutable key, checksum, size, and
-  generation. Coherent legacy state remains on the isolated compatibility path;
+  generation;
 - remote-to-local mapping is traversal-safe;
 - actions are sorted by local relative path and then remote key;
+- planning opens the selected session root and inspects every target by its
+  normalized session-relative path. Missing ancestors produce a missing target;
+  an ancestor or leaf symlink is a non-regular conflict and is never opened for
+  hashing;
 - force converts differing eligible regular files from conflicts to downloads;
-  directories and other non-regular targets remain conflicts.
+  directories, symlinks, and other non-regular targets remain conflicts.
 
 For a non-dry-run restore, planning/classification happens only after acquiring
 the session lock. Runner manifest/reuse checks acquire that same lock first.
 
 Previous-cache readiness is resolved through `previouscache.Resolve` for restore,
-prepare, status, and validation. A committed source is selected only by its
-exact source identity; legacy fallback remains isolated and rejects ambiguity.
+prepare, status, and validation. Each requirement selects the unique
+`published_output` for its canonical source in the pointer-selected commit,
+then strips only that run's immutable `published/` prefix for its safe local
+cache path. It never probes candidate objects or derives paths from manifests,
+configuration, or basenames.
 
 ## Execution Contract
 
@@ -53,10 +65,14 @@ Execution order and safety:
 
 - non-manifest downloads happen before manifest install;
 - `manifest.json` installs last;
-- downloads use sibling temp files plus atomic rename;
+- downloads use sibling temp files, validate the complete object, then use an
+  atomic rename;
 - manifest replacement is validated before rename;
 - each committed object is verified against its declared checksum, size, and
   generation before installation;
+- installation reopens the selected session root, creates only validated
+  missing directory components with workspace modes, and rejects symlinked or
+  non-regular ancestors and leaves before replacement;
 - a committed manifest already verified during discovery is retained for the
   matching restore action and revalidated before installation, avoiding a
   second body transfer;
@@ -67,15 +83,17 @@ Execution order and safety:
 - restored manifest local references are rebased beneath the selected local
   session root. Unsafe relative references and producer-machine absolute paths
   outside the manifest's producer session root are rejected; producer-local
-  spool/cache and cleanup locations are not restored as authority.
+  spool paths and run-local diagnostic references are not restored as
+  authority. Cleanup remains ordinary restored stage state and is not reset or
+  synthesized by restore.
 
 Audio restore path:
 
 - uses `audio.MaterializeS3Audio`;
 - integrates spool and S3 audio cache paths;
-- reuses cached audio only when its no-follow regular file, content digest, and
+- reuses cached audio only when its opened regular file, content digest, and
   identity sidecar all match the selected remote object version; otherwise it
-  refreshes through the durable download path.
+  refreshes through the validated download path.
 
 ## Reporting Contract
 
@@ -92,9 +110,7 @@ Audio restore path:
   loaded at discovery; later pointer changes cannot add objects or substitute a
   different run into its plan;
 - a verified `current/commit-pointer.json` and its selected immutable commit
-  establish new-protocol remote commitment; coherent legacy
-  `current/run_id.txt` plus `current/manifest.json` remains read-only migration
-  support;
+  establish remote commitment; when absent, republish the session;
 - restore does not execute pipeline stages.
 
 ## Implementation And Tests
@@ -107,4 +123,5 @@ Audio restore path:
 - Tests: `internal/app/restore_discovery_test.go`,
   `internal/app/restore_plan_test.go`,
   `internal/app/restore_execution_test.go`,
+  `internal/app/restore_recovery_test.go`,
   `internal/app/restore_workflow_test.go`

docs/internal/configuration.md

@@ -0,0 +1,216 @@
+# Configuration Internals
+
+User-visible fields, defaults, and selection behavior belong in the
+[Configuration Reference](../config.md). This document describes the internal
+pipeline-loading boundary implemented by `internal/config`.
+
+## Pipeline Loading
+
+`LoadPipeline` assembles and validates a pipeline in this order:
+
+1. Give ConfigKit a fresh typed `PipelineConfig` default value, the root file,
+   enabled imports, and the caller's overlay selection. Omitted, empty, and
+   exact `default` selections use the base; named overlays use the fixed
+   `overlays/<name>.yml` convention.
+2. ConfigKit parses the root and declared imports, additively merges base
+   sources, applies only the selected overlay, and strictly decodes the result.
+3. The definition resolver applies recorded entry-level and inherited defaults,
+   runs deterministic domain normalization, records derived publish destinations,
+   and resolves ordinary paths relative to the root pipeline file.
+4. The definition validator performs read-only checks that require only the
+   pipeline file. Checks requiring canonical-party family expansion remain at
+   the existing explicit pipeline/campaign resolution boundary.
+5. Narratio inspects public ConfigKit metadata to reject artifact and family keys
+   declared by multiple base files, adapts source ownership records, attaches
+   runtime-only state, and computes the normalized effective digest.
+
+This ordering preserves monolithic configuration behavior. Moving a field to
+an imported fragment changes its source ownership, not its path base, default,
+or schema semantics.
+
+## Loaded Context Resolution
+
+`LoadedPipelineCampaign` carries one already composed pipeline and its selected
+campaign into session resolution. `LoadSessionWithPipelineCampaignOptions`
+loads a local session against that context, while
+`ResolveLoadedPipelineCampaign` also accepts an already loaded remote session
+or no session while a caller retrieves one. Compatibility loaders route through
+these functions after their initial pipeline and campaign reads.
+
+Application commands own pipeline and campaign discovery, campaign-file versus
+registry selection, and the corresponding mutual-exclusion rules. Once they
+have a `LoadedPipelineCampaign`, local session discovery and remote-session
+download retain that exact pipeline object and its private provenance. Removing
+a temporary downloaded session file therefore cannot invalidate the resolved
+pipeline or campaign context.
+
+Campaign and session files use independent ConfigKit definitions with imports
+and overlays disabled. Campaign files normally load directly from their source;
+session files are first read through the 8 MiB bounded-read boundary because the
+application must reject unresolved template placeholders before passing an exact
+byte snapshot to ConfigKit. Local and remotely downloaded session bytes then use
+the same typed loader and retain the existing post-load identity expectations,
+stable-input precedence, and source-relative path semantics.
+
+The application also has a separate read-only inspection resolver for `config
+validate`, `config show`, `config sources`, and `config artifacts`. It uses the
+same production root, overlay, and campaign selection functions, but never routes
+through session discovery,
+remote-session download, adapter composition, workspace
+initialization, manifest access, or cleanup. A pipeline with retained artifact
+family declarations must resolve its selected campaign before ordinary pipeline
+validation, which expands its canonical-party members and generated publish
+rules. A pipeline without those declarations may be validated by itself.
+Secret-directory bootstrap remains invocation-scoped and happens before the
+ordinary ConfigKit load because explicit typed references must resolve even for
+inspection.
+
+`MarshalEffectivePipeline` is the configuration-owned projection for `config
+show`. It serializes one explicit typed safe projection with the existing YAML
+encoder. The projection has no slots for resolution-only artifact family
+declarations or private provenance. The result has one trailing newline;
+commands do not marshal runtime objects directly.
+
+`EffectivePipelineSources` and `EffectiveCampaignSources` provide the separate
+safe provenance projection for `config sources`. Pipeline ownership begins with
+the complete logical field paths projected from the schema and classifies
+each contributor as root, import, overlay, or centralized default. The
+projection replaces generated concrete member paths with paired family and
+canonical-party records, and does the same for generated publish rules.
+Campaign records identify campaign-owned fields and party inputs; canonical
+derived players point to the party source. The application command only joins these sorted
+records with selection metadata and never reparses configuration files.
+
+`EffectiveArtifactCatalog` projects the same finalized concrete artifact map for
+`config artifacts`. It derives source identity from each map key, carries sorted
+effective dependencies, aggregates ConfigKit definition contributors, and adds
+family/character/party provenance for generated members. It does not inspect
+files named after artifacts or infer another runtime graph.
+
+`config diff` uses a thin paired loader that performs two independent ConfigKit
+loads. When campaign
+resolution is needed, the command loads one selected campaign and party and
+expands both effective pipelines from that same party value. The configuration
+owner projects each normalized effective mapping directly from that same typed
+projection into sorted logical paths using JSON number preservation;
+mapping leaves are compared individually while sequence values remain atomic.
+Values are compact deterministic JSON representations for command output, not
+raw YAML fragments, ownership records, or secret material. A differing digest
+with no projected difference is treated as an internal consistency error.
+
+Campaign context construction reads the campaign-owned party source through
+`ParseParty`. The required canonical party retains its raw bytes and normalized
+roster in runtime-only `ResolvedParty` provenance. Canonical resolution creates
+a deterministic `derived_from_party` players projection. The party is the only
+configured roster authority; player and session-party fields are unsupported.
+
+## Canonical Party Domain
+
+`ParseParty` is the package-owned boundary for parsing a party source. Its
+single-source ConfigKit definition disables imports and overlays, requires
+`schema_version` through `VersionRule`, and strictly decodes the
+character-keyed typed schema before applying Narratio's party-domain checks.
+Successful metadata coordinates recover authored character-map order without a
+second YAML parse; class and alias slice order comes directly from typed decode.
+The canonical value retains a separate exact byte copy of its source so
+consumers can materialize the authored party document without reserializing it.
+Its `PlayersYAML` method deterministically derives the ID-sorted, versioned
+players-only projection.
+
+An unversioned source is rejected before resolution, family expansion, or
+prepare-stage materialization.
+
+## Validation Ownership
+
+Configuration validation remains within `internal/config`, with the public
+entry points and pipeline-domain sequencing separated from the private owners
+for core pipeline/session rules, external adapters, publish/storage, Notarius,
+Scriptorium, and shared scalar/path checks. These are package-local ownership
+boundaries rather than extension points or a general validation framework.
+
+Validation is read-only, fails fast, and does not define which of several
+independent invalid fields is reported first. Map-backed declarations are
+nevertheless traversed deterministically. Reusable domain normalization is an
+explicit preceding operation for both loaded and programmatically constructed
+pipelines. Notarius normalization commits canonical scalar, reference, and output
+values only after the complete normalization succeeds; its validator then checks
+that candidate without changing it. Scriptorium validates artifact declarations
+and outputs, dependencies and inputs, variables, referenced outputs, and the final
+dependency graph in deterministic artifact order.
+
+Diagnostics identify the relevant semantic field. Merge conflicts also
+retain every claiming source needed to correct an additive ownership conflict.
+Complete prose, punctuation, formatting, and private validation choreography are
+not compatibility contracts.
+
+## Diagnostics And Runtime Metadata
+
+Syntax, duplicate-key, merge, overlay, and schema failures include the
+relevant source name and full field path. Additive conflicts report every
+claiming source so operators can repair the split without repeatedly
+rediscovering additional conflicts.
+
+The loaded pipeline retains private runtime metadata for the absolute root
+path, ordered imports, selected overlay name, source, and path, original
+ConfigKit metadata and source snapshots, effective digest,
+and leaf ownership. Base
+leaves retain their root/import owners, replaced leaves belong to the selected
+overlay, and centrally supplied values use the synthetic `default` owner. This
+metadata does not participate in YAML decoding or alter the public
+configuration model.
+
+The effective digest is SHA-256 over a versioned deterministic JSON encoding of
+the same typed safe projection used by show and diff. Runtime Notarius paths remain absolute for
+execution, but the digest substitutes their normalized logical values captured
+before root-relative resolution, so relocating an equivalent configuration
+bundle does not change provenance. Because ConfigKit and resolution metadata
+are private, the digest excludes source layout, overlay name, and ownership.
+Configuration stores credentials as ConfigKit typed references. A successful
+load resolves their values inside the opaque typed boundary, while this safe
+projection serializes only `EnvName()` identities. Credential-value changes are
+therefore never hashed; reference-name changes remain ordinary provenance.
+The optional Notarius credential follows the same path even for disabled or
+resumable extraction; normalization copies the opaque reference without reading
+or resolving it again. Direct YAML serialization has a configuration-owned safe
+projection so only the reference name can leave this boundary.
+`recomputePipelineEffectiveDigest` is the single package-owned refresh point
+for later runtime expansion.
+
+## Test Surfaces
+
+`pipeline_configkit_test.go` exercises real imports and fixed-path overlays,
+base selection, unselected-overlay isolation, source attribution, and Narratio's
+unique artifact/family base-declaration rule. Existing focused configuration
+tests protect defaults, explicit-value semantics, strict decoding, validation,
+metadata, and root-relative path behavior. Application configuration-loader tests protect the
+single-read boundary by changing the pipeline file after its initial load and
+confirming local session resolution retains the original pipeline. Other
+configuration tests continue to protect defaults and validation after assembly.
+`party_test.go` protects the versioned typed party schema, domain invariants,
+authored character order, retained bytes, and deterministic players projection
+without involving campaign or runtime wiring.
+`party_resolution_test.go` protects campaign-owned party loading, canonical
+input restrictions, source provenance, and virtual players input selection.
+
+## Artifact Family Resolution
+
+Pipeline loading retains `scriptorium.artifact_families` as a resolution-only
+declaration. Once campaign party resolution establishes a canonical roster,
+configuration expands families in sorted family-key and character-ID order
+into ordinary `ScriptoriumArtifactConfig` values. The expansion owns the narrow
+`{character_id}` output substitution, closed member-variable selectors, key and
+output collision checks, and the runtime-only family-origin catalog. It then
+removes family declarations from `ScriptoriumConfig`, runs ordinary Scriptorium
+validation, and refreshes the effective pipeline digest. Stages and adapters
+therefore receive only concrete artifact maps.
+
+The catalog retains sorted family member keys plus family/character/source
+origins and the typed dependency/publish declarations for their later owners.
+`member_dependencies` add corresponding ordinary concrete dependencies, while
+the family-only `narratio.member_artifact.<family>` input form is rewritten to
+the matching ordinary configured-artifact source. The catalog records those
+resolved dependency and input identities with their declaring family and party
+member. No member-artifact source is registered as a runtime policy source.
+An enabled family publish declaration expands to ordinary configured-artifact
+publish rules before the existing publish and lock validators run. Runtime
+publication consequently receives no family wildcard or special matcher.

docs/internal/fileops.md

@@ -1,71 +1,55 @@
 # Internal: File Operations
 
-`internal/fileops` owns the narrow mechanics for durable replacement of one
+`internal/fileops` owns the narrow mechanics for atomically visible replacement of one
 byte file. Callers keep ownership of serialization, validation, cancellation,
 and destination-directory policy.
 
-## Destination Confinement
+## Destination Paths
 
-Before it creates, replaces, or installs a destination file, `fileops` opens
-each ancestor from the filesystem root and rejects symbolic links or components
-that change during traversal. The resulting parent-directory handle is retained
-for sibling temporary-file creation and rename, so a later pathname swap cannot
-redirect the replacement. Existing destination symlinks are replaced as leaf
-entries; their targets are never followed.
+Ordinary workspace replacement uses standard operating-system path semantics.
+Callers with a root-scoped safety contract own that validation at their boundary.
 
-Remote object acquisition uses a writer supplied by the storage owner. The
-writer receives a `fileops`-owned, already-open sibling temporary file rather
-than a mutable destination path. Callers still own remote object selection,
-validation, conflict handling, and final mode.
+Remote object acquisition is owned by its domain caller. The caller writes a
+sibling temporary file, validates the complete result, and passes that file to
+`InstallSiblingTempFile` only when it is ready to become canonical. Callers own
+remote object selection, validation, conflict handling, and temporary-file
+cleanup.
 
-Directory promotion keeps the verified destination parent open while it creates
-the temporary tree, copies regular source entries, and performs the platform
-no-replace rename. Platforms without a verified handle-relative atomic
-no-replace primitive reject promotion before writing a temporary tree.
+Directory bundles are not promoted by `internal/fileops`; extraction owns its
+validated Notarius bundle rename.
 
 ## Cleanup Contract
 
-`RemoveAllUnderRoot` accepts an explicit root and a proper descendant. It opens
-the root and each target ancestor without following symlinks, then removes the
-tree through those directory handles. It rejects root deletion and any symlink
-encountered in the target path or tree; repeated removal of a missing target is
-successful. Command and post-publish policy remains owned by `internal/app`.
+`RemoveAllUnderRoot` accepts an explicit root and a proper descendant, opens
+that root with `os.OpenRoot`, and removes the normalized root-relative target
+with `Root.RemoveAll`. It rejects root, traversal, and out-of-root targets; a
+missing target is successful. `RemoveFileUnderRoot` additionally requires an
+existing leaf to be regular. Command and post-publish policy remains owned by
+`internal/app`.
 
-## Confined Reads
+## Bounded Reads
 
-`ReadRegularFileUnderRoot` is the no-follow, bounded read primitive for a
-caller-selected root and relative file path; `ReadRegularFile` is its
-path-based convenience wrapper. They verify every ancestor through directory
-handles and admit only a stable regular-file handle. Callers enforce their own
-byte limits and access policy. Credential mode policy and environment
-precedence remain owned by `internal/app`.
+`ReadFileBounded` opens a normal path and reads at most its caller-supplied
+limit. Credential mode policy and environment precedence remain owned by
+`internal/app`.
 
 ## Replacement Contract
 
 `ReplaceFileAtomic` requires an existing destination directory. It creates a
 sibling temporary file, writes the complete byte sequence, applies the
-caller-supplied mode, syncs and closes the file, runs an optional pre-rename
-check, replaces the destination with a rename, then syncs the containing
-directory.
+caller-supplied mode, closes the file, runs an optional pre-rename check, and
+replaces the destination with a rename.
 
 The pre-rename check is the last point at which a caller can cancel without
 installing a new destination. A failure before the rename leaves the old
-destination unchanged and removes the temporary file; any cleanup failure is
-returned alongside the primary failure. A failure after the rename may leave
-the new file visible, but it is not reported as crash-durable.
+destination unchanged and removes the temporary file. Successful replacement
+provides atomic visibility; it makes no crash- or power-loss durability claim.
 
 Replacement follows the operating system's same-filesystem rename semantics.
 If a platform cannot replace an existing destination, the operation returns an
 error and never removes the old file as an emulation step.
 
-## Directory-Sync Support
-
-Linux and macOS attempt to sync the destination directory. Windows opens the
-directory with backup semantics and flushes its buffers. If either operation
-is unavailable for the platform, directory handle, or filesystem,
-`ErrDirectorySyncUnsupported` is returned. Narratio does not treat that result
-as successful crash-durable replacement.
-
-`WriteFileAtomic`, copy helpers, and downloaded temporary-file installation
-retain their compatibility behavior of creating the destination parent with
-the repository's workspace permissions before using this contract.
+`WriteFileAtomic` and the copy helpers create the destination parent with the
+repository's workspace permissions. `InstallSiblingTempFile` requires the
+caller to provide an existing temporary file in the existing destination
+directory.

docs/internal/manifest.md

@@ -2,29 +2,46 @@
 
 ## Purpose
 
-Explain the session-progress and invocation-audit models implemented by
-`internal/manifest`. Physical manifest placement belongs in
+Explain the session-progress model implemented by `internal/manifest`. Physical
+manifest placement belongs in
 [Operations](../operations.md#local-state-layout).
 
 ## Session Manifest
 
 `manifest.Manifest` records:
 
+- required `schema_version: narratio.session-manifest.v1`
 - identity (`session_id`, `campaign`, `run_id`)
 - local path metadata (`local_workdir`, `local_spool_dir`)
 - remote identity metadata (`s3_bucket`, `s3_session_prefix`, `s3_run_prefix`)
 - `inputs` records
 - durable `artifacts` records
-- per-stage `stages` map
-- an optional `post_publish_cleanup` obligation, which binds a committed run,
-  remote commit identity, and each exact root-confined local target to its
-  completion evidence
+- per-stage `stages` map, including the ordinary cleanup stage record
 
 Session, campaign, and run identities in local and downloaded manifests must be
 portable opaque segments. Unsafe legacy identities are rejected with migration
 guidance rather than being normalized into a different workspace or remote
 namespace.
 
+Decoding rejects unknown typed fields, including informational fields inside
+`effective_config` and its nested selection. The schema version remains
+`narratio.session-manifest.v1`; there is no compatibility reader that silently
+drops retired fields. See [overlay migration](../operations.md#migrating-manifest-overlay-provenance)
+for deliberate migration of retired selection provenance. Cleanup progress uses
+only the cleanup entry in `stages`.
+
+Every persisted session manifest has a non-nil `stages` map. Each entry is
+non-nil and its embedded `name` exactly matches its map key; loading never
+invents either marker. A missing or unsupported schema version, or incomplete
+stage identity, is unsupported local state: move it aside and regenerate it,
+or restore a verified current committed snapshot when that is authoritative.
+
+Prepare records independent `party` and `players` input checksums. In canonical
+party mode, the party record retains its campaign source identity while the
+players record uses `derived_from_party`; raw roster content is never embedded
+in manifest metadata. Both records remain the durable authority for consumers
+of their prepared input source IDs.
+
 The model admits these stage states:
 
 - `pending`
@@ -35,15 +52,118 @@ The model admits these stage states:
 - `stale`
 - `interrupted`
 
-## Run Manifest
+### Transcribe-owned speaker state
 
-`manifest.RunManifest` is created for each invocation and records:
+A `transcribe` stage record may carry `transcribe_state_version: 1` and a
+`transcribe_speakers` map keyed by the existing derived speaker ID. The version
+is the authority marker: a versioned empty map means that no earlier speaker
+completion is reusable. Absence of both fields is accepted as legacy
+aggregate-only state so current Narratio can read older manifests.
 
-- invocation identity and `force` flag
-- requested stages
-- per-stage action (`run` or `skip`)
-- per-stage status
-- overall run status (`running`, `succeeded`, `failed`)
+Each map entry represents one completed speaker only. It binds a versioned
+fingerprint to the session-relative audio path, audio SHA-256 and size, one
+canonical `transcript_raw` output with its path, SHA-256 and size, and the
+producer run ID. Paths must be canonical and session-relative, checksums must
+be lowercase SHA-256 values, and the record and output producer identities
+must agree. Other stages cannot carry this transcribe-owned state.
+Audio size is nonnegative; WhisperX determines whether that audio can be
+transcribed. Output size remains positive and the transcript must be valid JSON.
+
+Transcribe reconciles this collection against the current prepared audio set
+and observable WhisperX semantics. Missing or corrupt regular outputs become
+work; unsafe or non-regular evidence is rejected. It saves the reconciled
+collection before HTTP dispatch and saves a detached candidate after each
+validated completion. Only after a save succeeds is the candidate installed as
+live authority. Canonical bytes produced before an unsuccessful save are not a
+completion record.
+
+Aggregate transcribe status still describes the whole invocation. A failed,
+running, stale, or interrupted aggregate may therefore retain reusable speaker
+records, while aggregate outputs are declared only after the current
+collection is complete. Ordinary retry reconciles and reuses those records.
+Force first checkpoints an empty current collection, preventing later retries
+from reviving pre-force results.
+
+Older aggregate-only transcribe success is conservatively regenerated once
+when transcribe is selected because it does not bind individual outputs to the
+audio bytes used. The session-manifest schema identifier remains
+`narratio.session-manifest.v1`; this additive state is accepted by current
+Narratio, but older strict-decoding binaries may reject manifests after these
+fields have been written.
+
+### Analyze-owned artifact state
+
+Every `analyze` stage record carries `analyze_state_version: 1` and an
+`analyze_artifacts` map keyed by normalized configured artifact key. The
+version is the authority marker: version 1 with no entries is a valid evaluated
+empty set. An absent or unsupported version is unsupported local state and is
+rejected rather than being treated as aggregate-only authority.
+
+Each analyze artifact record has one disposition:
+
+- `current`: the configured artifact is available and carries a versioned
+  fingerprint plus a complete output record and separate output size;
+- `stale`: the recorded semantic identity is no longer current;
+- `missing`: no validated current result exists;
+- `failed`: the attempted work failed and carries a bounded diagnostic; or
+- `unselected`: the artifact was intentionally outside the evaluated set.
+
+Records bind their normalized key and dependencies, fingerprint contract when
+evaluated, canonical session-relative output identity when current, producing
+Narratio run, update time, and bounded non-secret Scriptorium provenance and
+diagnostic paths. A current output includes its configured source ID, contract,
+checksum, and positive byte size. Non-current records cannot carry an output,
+so an older file is not advertised through stale, missing, failed, or
+unselected state.
+
+Family-produced records additionally retain optional `family` and
+`character_id` provenance supplied by configuration resolution. These fields
+do not replace the concrete configured key or infer family membership from a
+name, so older records without them remain valid.
+
+The session-stage collection is the reconciled authority across invocations.
+These records remain analyze-owned data inside the fixed stage; they are not
+dynamic stages or generic subtasks.
+
+Analyze checkpoints one complete validated candidate collection after each
+successful artifact and before exposing that artifact to later work. It saves a
+detached manifest candidate and installs its version, collection, and updated
+timestamp into live state only after the store reports success. Aggregate stage
+outputs are ordinary result outputs rebuilt in configured-key order from current
+session records only.
+
+Successful incremental execution replaces only evaluated artifact records and
+preserves valid unrelated current records. Rebuilt outputs are compared by
+bytes and contract: an unchanged identity permits an unselected dependent with
+the same recomputed fingerprint to remain current, while a changed identity
+removes output authority from every unselected transitive dependent by marking
+it stale. A partial analyze invocation can therefore succeed while unrelated
+configured records remain stale. Existing canonical files never create current
+records without validated execution and a successful checkpoint.
+
+Aggregate analyze status is deliberately coarser than this collection. Resume
+validation may skip a succeeded aggregate record when the selected artifact
+closure is current even if unrelated records are stale. Conversely, a stale
+aggregate record may cross the ordinary runner boundary and perform zero
+Scriptorium calls when reconciliation proves every selected artifact current;
+ordinary successful stage completion then restores the aggregate status.
+
+On an artifact error, analyze installs a complete retry collection on the live
+manifest before returning. The active record is failed without output, current
+transitive dependents are stale, unrelated current records survive, and only
+earlier checkpointed completions remain current. The runner's ordinary failure
+path marks aggregate analyze failed, clears aggregate outputs, invalidates
+delivery dependents, and saves that collection. A terminal session-save failure
+is joined with the original adapter, validation, filesystem, cancellation, or
+checkpoint cause.
+
+If an artifact checkpoint fails, analyze rolls its working collection back to
+the last committed collection before constructing the active failed record.
+Newly materialized canonical bytes therefore remain incidental and cannot
+become current authority. A later ordinary run reconciles the durable records,
+reuses earlier current artifacts, and resumes with the failed or stale work.
+The same recovery applies after process interruption: the aggregate record may
+be non-successful, but every completed artifact checkpoint remains reusable.
 
 ## Remote Commit Manifest
 
@@ -60,66 +180,164 @@ binds that object by checksum, size, and generation. Readers strictly reject
 unknown fields, version mismatches, pointer/commit identity mismatches, and
 objects that do not match their declaration.
 
-The reader retains a temporary, clearly isolated compatibility path for a
-coherent legacy `current/manifest.json` plus `current/run_id.txt` pair. That
-path is removable after migration and is never used to write new state.
+An absent commit pointer means no remote state is published. Republish to
+establish a current immutable snapshot.
 
 ## Persistence Semantics
 
 `manifest.LocalStore`:
 
-- validates loaded documents;
-- normalizes missing maps/stage records;
-- writes through a sibling temporary file, syncing the completed file and
-  destination directory after atomic replacement;
+- accepts only the exact supported session-manifest schema version;
+- rejects unknown fields and multiple JSON values;
+- validates stage-map identity without synthesizing missing maps, records, or
+  names;
+- retains only representation-preserving collection normalization;
+- writes through a sibling temporary file and atomic replacement visibility;
 - updates `updated_at` on save.
 
-If the operating system or filesystem cannot sync a directory, save returns an
-explicit error instead of claiming crash-durable replacement. A returned error
-after the rename can therefore leave the new manifest visible but not confirmed
-durable; callers must reload it before retrying.
+### Checkpoint persistence boundary
+
+Analyze and transcribe share one private checkpoint operation in
+`internal/stage`. Their typed callers still decide when to checkpoint, validate
+their collections, populate stage-owned fields, and serialize access. The
+shared operation copies the manifest and its checkpoint-relevant mutable
+collections, applies the typed update to the copied target record, and calls
+the existing `manifest.Store` exactly once. Only after that save succeeds does
+it promote the saved target record and manifest `updated_at` into live state;
+it preserves an existing target record's identity and leaves unrelated live
+stage records in place.
+
+The copy boundary includes stage records, input and artifact slices, aggregate
+output/log/configuration slices, and the typed analyze and transcribe
+collections that callbacks or `LocalStore.Save` may modify. Metadata and other
+pointer fields remain shared read-only because neither checkpoint callback nor
+the store mutates them. This is a bounded execution helper, not a general
+manifest clone or a transaction across transcript/artifact files.
+
+Manifest replacement provides atomic visibility, not a crash- or power-loss
+durability guarantee. Callers reload after a returned save error before retrying.
+A transcribe or analyze checkpoint error leaves the prior manifest collection
+as authority. The runner then attempts to persist the aggregate failure; if
+that terminal save also fails, its error is joined with the originating failure
+and the next invocation must reconcile from the last readable manifest.
 
 ## Execution Semantics
 
-The application runner marks an executing stage running and then succeeded or
-failed in both manifests, persisting each transition. On success it records
-outputs, logs, generated configuration references, and metadata. Artifact
+Planning and execution share one pure pre-execution decision over the recorded
+stage status, force selection, and normalized resume-validation result. That
+decision identifies run versus reuse and any required stale and dependent
+invalidation transition. Planning applies it only to a cloned manifest.
+Execution remains the sole owner of observed stage results and persistence.
+
+For each selected stage, the application runner computes semantic evidence,
+performs any eligible resume validation, applies the pre-execution decision,
+and persists required invalidation before either reusing the existing success
+or beginning an attempt. The same one-stage execution owner marks the attempt
+running before invoking the stage and then records and persists its failed,
+skipped, or successful terminal state before a later stage may start. On
+success it records outputs, logs, generated configuration references, metadata,
+and—when the stage implements the optional contract—a versioned
+semantic-configuration fingerprint. Artifact
 records may include optional contract and external provenance objects; old
 manifests remain compatible when those fields are absent. A successful forced
-rerun marks only succeeded downstream session-stage records stale.
+rerun marks only succeeded transitive dependent session-stage records stale.
+The application owns a fixed dependency relation distinct from execution order;
+dependents are returned in canonical order. Render and extract therefore never
+stale one another, while either can stale analyze, publish, notify, and cleanup.
 
 Starting an execution clears the current session-stage record's prior outputs,
-logs, generated configuration references, and metadata. Failed and skipped
+logs, generated configuration references, metadata, and semantic fingerprint.
+Failed and skipped
 transitions enforce the same clearing rule directly, while success repopulates
 only fields returned by the new result. Marking a record stale does not clear
 those details because resume validation and diagnosis may still require them
-before execution begins. Invocation run manifests remain immutable audit
-records of their own outcomes.
+before execution begins.
+
+Aggregate lifecycle clearing deliberately preserves both the transcribe-owned
+speaker collection and the analyze-owned per-artifact collection. This lets
+later reconciliation replace only non-current entries without erasing durable
+completions. Other stages retain aggregate-only lifecycle behavior and are
+forbidden from carrying either collection.
 
 A stage may explicitly return a skipped disposition and stable reason. The
-runner persists that outcome in both manifests, clears older outputs for the
-session-stage record along with older logs, generated configuration references,
-and metadata, then applies any bounded details from the current skip and
-continues. This self-skip is distinct from deciding not to execute an
+runner persists that outcome in the session manifest, clears older outputs,
+logs, generated configuration references, and metadata, then applies any
+bounded details from the current skip and continues. This self-skip is distinct from deciding not to execute an
 already-succeeded stage and is reconsidered on later runs. Skipped results
-cannot contain outputs.
+cannot contain outputs. An intentional self-skip records the current semantic
+fingerprint because it is a completed, reusable stage result; failed or
+interrupted work never promotes one.
 
-When an already-succeeded stage is skipped, the invocation run manifest records
-the `skip` action and reason. The session manifest deliberately retains its
-existing succeeded record because it remains the cross-invocation progress
-authority. Stages with a resume validator, currently extraction, may reject an
-otherwise eligible skip when the recorded durable result is obsolete; the
-runner marks it stale and executes it.
+When an already-succeeded stage is skipped, the session manifest deliberately
+retains its existing succeeded record because it remains the cross-invocation
+progress authority. If a stage supplies semantic configuration evidence, reuse first
+requires the persisted positive schema version and lowercase SHA-256 digest to
+match the current resolved stage semantics. Missing semantic evidence, malformed
+evidence, or a mismatch makes the stage and its fixed transitive dependents
+stale. The existing stage-specific resume
+validator runs only after this semantic check succeeds; both checks are
+required. Extraction, analyze, and cleanup have resume validators and may
+reject an otherwise eligible skip when their selected durable evidence is
+obsolete; the runner marks the aggregate record stale and executes it.
+Analyze's validator can still accept a partial selection when only unrelated
+artifact records are stale.
 
-Session manifest is the authoritative stage-progress ledger across invocations.
-Run manifest is invocation-scoped audit state.
+Implemented reuse coverage is deliberately split between aggregate semantic
+evidence and focused durable validators:
+
+| Work | Reuse authority | Focused owners |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| prepare | aggregate semantic fingerprint | [prepare](stage-prepare.md) |
+| transcribe speakers | aggregate semantic fingerprint plus per-speaker input/output reconciliation | [transcribe](stage-transcribe.md), [WhisperX](../integrations/whisperx.md) |
+| merge | aggregate semantic fingerprint | [merge](stage-merge.md), [Seriatim](../integrations/seriatim.md) |
+| polish | aggregate semantic fingerprint | [polish](stage-polish.md), [Audita](../integrations/audita.md) |
+| normalize | aggregate semantic fingerprint | [normalize](stage-normalize.md), [Seriatim](../integrations/seriatim.md) |
+| trim | aggregate semantic fingerprint | [trim](stage-trim.md), [Scriptorium](../integrations/scriptorium.md), [Seriatim](../integrations/seriatim.md) |
+| render | aggregate semantic fingerprint | [render](stage-render.md), [Seriatim](../integrations/seriatim.md) |
+| extract | aggregate semantic fingerprint plus reference/output validator | [extract](stage-extract.md), [Notarius](../integrations/notarius.md) |
+| analyze artifacts | per-artifact fingerprint, reconciliation, and output validator | [analyze](stage-analyze.md), [Scriptorium](../integrations/scriptorium.md) |
+| publish | aggregate semantic fingerprint plus immediate lock/commit checks | [publish](stage-publish.md), [storage adapter](adapters.md) |
+| notify | aggregate delivery-mode fingerprint | [pipeline overview](overview.md), [configuration](../config.md#notifications) |
+| cleanup | aggregate semantic fingerprint plus publish-evidence and target-absence validator | [cleanup](stage-cleanup.md), [workspace](workspace.md) |
+
+These contracts record resolved choices Narratio can observe, not operational
+runner tuning. External model, module, prompt, profile, and configuration-file
+contents that a tool privately loads remain outside the contract when their
+configured identifier is unchanged; operators must force the affected work
+after such a private content change.
+
+The session manifest is the authoritative stage-progress ledger across
+invocations. It retains the most recently resolved invocation's bounded
+configuration provenance. It identifies the selected overlay name and source
+(`explicit` when selected) plus the effective configuration digest, but never a raw
+secret or overlay content. This provenance is informational: it does not
+participate in stage resume or cache decisions. An overlay change therefore
+invalidates only stages whose semantic configuration changed. When a private
+external-tool model, module, prompt, or profile changes behind an unchanged
+configured identifier, use `--force` for the affected work.
+
+`session plan` computes the same current fingerprint and applies the shared
+decision and invalidation rules to a cloned manifest. It predicts the runner
+decision without persisting session state. The semantic fingerprint owner
+hashes deterministic JSON from stage-owned typed structs; stage providers must
+exclude secrets, complete effective-configuration dumps, and operational
+values that cannot affect canonical results. Concrete coverage is owned by the
+focused stage and integration documents linked above.
+
+Before an explicitly bounded execution starts after `prepare`, the application
+reads the session manifest and accepts only `succeeded` or `skipped` for every
+excluded canonical prefix stage. The first other status or absent record fails
+the request before layout mutation, adapter initialization, session-manifest
+writes, or run-directory creation. Excluded prefix records are not passed to
+resume validators. Records after the selected end are not prerequisites and
+may be made stale by selected work without being scheduled.
 
 After a publish commits remotely, any configured local cleanup is first recorded
 as a session-manifest obligation before deletion begins. Each target becomes
 complete only after its confined deletion (or safe absence check) and a
-successful manifest save. An incomplete obligation is retried on later
-invocations independently of their selected stages and retains the committed
-run and remote identity that authorized it.
+successful manifest save. An incomplete obligation is retried when publish
+executes again and retains the committed run and remote identity that authorized
+it; an invocation that does not execute publish does not perform cleanup.
 
 Each invocation derives campaign, session, run, local-path, and remote-prefix
 metadata from the validated resolved configuration as one projection. A persisted
@@ -127,31 +345,32 @@ session manifest must agree on campaign and session identity before execution;
 the current projection is refreshed for every invocation while stage progress,
 inputs, and durable artifacts remain session history.
 
-For handled failures after an invocation record is created, the runner records
-the failure on the session ledger and persists it before persisting the failed
-run audit record. This preserves the resume authority while making a partial
-persistence disagreement visible. Abrupt process death remains an accepted case
-where a durable running record can require operator interpretation.
+For handled failures after the session identity transition, the runner records
+the failure on the session ledger and atomically attempts its save while
+preserving the originating error. Abrupt process death remains an accepted case
+where the last session transition can require operator interpretation.
 
 ## Invariants
 
 - stage resume/skip decisions are session-manifest driven.
+- semantic fingerprint comparison precedes stage-specific resume validation.
+- only successful and intentional-skipped results promote current semantic
+  evidence.
 - running, failed, and self-skipped stages do not retain result payloads from
   an earlier success.
 - stale stages retain prior details until replacement execution starts.
-- force reruns stale downstream succeeded stages.
-- run manifest does not replace session manifest as progress authority.
+- force reruns stale succeeded stages in the fixed dependency relation.
+- the session manifest is the only durable local progress ledger.
 - remote commitment is established by a verified current pointer and remote
   commit relationship, never by a mutable session-manifest boolean.
 
 ## Implementation And Tests
 
-- Models and transitions: `internal/manifest/manifest.go`,
-  `internal/manifest/run_manifest.go`
+- Models and transitions: `internal/manifest/manifest.go`
 - Remote commit model and readers: `internal/artifacts/remote_commit.go`,
   `internal/artifacts/current_state_commit.go`,
-  `internal/artifacts/current_state_legacy.go`
 - Persistence and validation: `internal/manifest/store.go`
+- Transcribe speaker state: `internal/manifest/transcribe_state.go`
 - Package tests: `internal/manifest/*_test.go`
 - Assembled execution behavior: `internal/app/runner_test.go`,
   `internal/app/run_stage_test.go`

docs/internal/overview.md

@@ -22,20 +22,29 @@ session safety controls, and runs commands. Pipeline commands execute the
 canonical stage sequence through adapter interfaces, while manifests record
 progress and artifact services resolve durable inputs and outputs.
 
+The pipeline runner follows one explicit invocation lifecycle: inspect bounded
+prerequisites without mutation, prepare the workspace layout, acquire one
+session lock, load or create the authoritative session manifest, compose only
+the collaborators needed by the selected range, execute each selected stage in
+order, and then return the summary. Cleanup, when selected, is the ordinary
+final stage rather than runner finalization work.
+The lock remains held from manifest initialization through finalization, and a
+failed stage or required manifest save prevents later stages from starting.
+
 ## Components
 
 | Area | Implemented owners | Responsibility |
 | --- | --- | --- |
 | Executable | `cmd/narratio` | Process entry, standard stream wiring, argument handoff, and exit status. |
-| Application orchestration | `internal/app` | Command dispatch, configuration selection, secret-file environment loading, production composition, session locking, planning, execution, restore, cleanup gates, and user-facing reporting. |
-| Configuration | `internal/config` | Strict YAML loading, discovery, defaults, normalization, session templating, and validation. |
+| Application orchestration | `internal/app` | Command dispatch, configuration selection, secret-file environment loading, production composition, session locking, planning, execution, restore, and user-facing reporting. |
+| Configuration | [`internal/config`](configuration.md) | ConfigKit-backed pipeline imports and overlays, canonical party and family expansion, strict YAML loading, defaults, normalization, session templating, and validation. |
 | Pipeline stages | `internal/stage` | Canonical stage registry, shared stage contract, execution dependencies, and implemented stage behavior. |
 | External boundaries | `internal/adapters`, `internal/audio` | WhisperX HTTP, downstream subprocesses, notification, object storage, and S3 audio materialization behind Narratio contracts. |
-| Manifests | `internal/manifest` | Durable session progress, invocation audit state, stage transitions, validation, and atomic persistence. |
+| Manifests | `internal/manifest` | Durable session progress, stage transitions, validation, and atomic persistence. |
 | Artifacts and paths | `internal/artifacts`, `internal/pathsafe` | Artifact identities and resolution, local and remote path/key models, current-state discovery, and confined relative destinations. |
 | Previous-session cache | `internal/previouscache` | Deterministic planning and materialization requirements for configured previous-session inputs. |
 | Artifact policy | `internal/artifactpolicy` | Source and destination policy, configured artifact identity validation, and publish destination safety. |
-| Shared models and file operations | `internal/artifactmodel`, `internal/contracts`, [`internal/fileops`](fileops.md) | Transcript and artifact data contracts plus durable single-file replacement helpers; unsupported directory syncing is reported explicitly. |
+| Shared models and file operations | `internal/artifactmodel`, `internal/contracts`, [`internal/fileops`](fileops.md) | Transcript and artifact data contracts plus atomic single-file replacement, bounded reads, workspace modes, and root-scoped cleanup helpers. |
 | Logging | `internal/logging` | Application logger construction and shared structured logging behavior. |
 
 The application boundary composes concrete implementations. Stages depend on
@@ -43,6 +52,26 @@ Narratio-level contracts; external transport and SDK details remain in
 adapters. The normative rules for these relationships remain in
 [Architecture](../policy/architecture.md).
 
+Command execution normalizes one private dependency value per invocation.
+Pipeline configuration-path discovery, configuration reads, secret-directory
+reads, remote downloads, object-store construction, and restore phase functions
+use that value throughout the command. Public command entry points supply the
+canonical discovery and production defaults, while focused tests may provide
+invocation-owned discovery candidates or replace only the external or sequencing
+boundary they exercise without mutating package state.
+
+Pipeline execution and `session plan` share the same inclusive contiguous-range
+model and the same pure pre-execution decision over recorded status, force, and
+normalized resume validation. Planning applies that decision and modeled
+selected-stage transitions to cloned session state; it does not persist, create
+invocation state, initialize stage-execution adapters, or claim to observe an
+execution result. Command configuration loading can still retrieve a
+missing session file through configured remote storage. It retains the initially
+composed pipeline and selected campaign while resolving either a local or
+downloaded remote session, so one invocation cannot mix pipeline revisions.
+Analyze planning additionally exposes the artifact closure's targets,
+prerequisite rebuilds, execution order, and current reuse.
+
 ## Pipeline Stage Set
 
 The implemented canonical order is:
@@ -53,26 +82,38 @@ The implemented canonical order is:
 4. [`polish`](stage-polish.md)
 5. [`normalize`](stage-normalize.md)
 6. [`trim`](stage-trim.md)
-7. [`extract`](stage-extract.md)
-8. [`render`](stage-render.md)
+7. [`render`](stage-render.md)
+8. [`extract`](stage-extract.md)
 9. [`analyze`](stage-analyze.md)
 10. [`publish`](stage-publish.md)
 11. `notify` (no-op)
+12. [`cleanup`](stage-cleanup.md)
 
 `notify` currently has no persisted pipeline outputs and uses the explicit
-`noop` notification mode. The focused stage documents own implementation
-mechanics. The
+`noop` notification mode. Its versioned semantic evidence records that delivery
+mode and excludes adapter credentials and response data. The focused stage
+documents own implementation mechanics. The
 [CLI](../cli.md) and [Operations](../operations.md) own user-visible invocation
 and execution semantics.
 
+Execution order and invalidation are separate application contracts. The stage
+registry owns the flat execution sequence. The application orchestration owner
+uses a fixed, validated dependency relation to find transitive dependents in
+canonical order. In particular, `render` and `extract` are sibling consumers of
+trimmed transcript state: neither invalidates the other, while either can stale
+`analyze`, `publish`, `notify`, and `cleanup`. Cleanup is a dependent of notify,
+so any earlier replacement can stale a prior cleanup result.
+
 ## Focused Documentation
 
+- [Configuration Internals](configuration.md): pipeline imports and overlays,
+  field ownership, decoding, and root-relative path semantics.
 - [Adapter Internals](adapters.md): external adapter boundaries, composition,
   failure behavior, and test surfaces.
 - [Artifact Internals](artifacts.md): source identities, runtime catalog,
   resolution, previous requirements, and current-state helpers.
-- [Manifest Internals](manifest.md): session and run records, persistence, and
-  execution transitions.
+- [Manifest Internals](manifest.md): session records, persistence, and execution
+  transitions.
 - [Storage Internals](storage.md): object-store interface and S3 behavior.
 - [Workspace Internals](workspace.md): local layout, locking, and cleanup
   guardrails.
@@ -84,10 +125,11 @@ and execution semantics.
 - [`polish`](stage-polish.md)
 - [`normalize`](stage-normalize.md)
 - [`trim`](stage-trim.md)
-- [`extract`](stage-extract.md)
 - [`render`](stage-render.md)
+- [`extract`](stage-extract.md)
 - [`analyze`](stage-analyze.md)
 - [`publish`](stage-publish.md)
+- [`cleanup`](stage-cleanup.md)
 
 Use this map to find an owner, then read its focused documentation and tests
 before changing behavior.

docs/internal/stage-analyze.md

@@ -2,11 +2,17 @@
 
 ## Purpose
 
-Execute selected configured Scriptorium artifacts in dependency order and materialize outputs.
+Reconcile configured Scriptorium artifacts, execute only required work in
+dependency order, and safely materialize validated outputs.
 
 ## Inputs
 
-- configured artifacts from `pipeline.scriptorium.artifacts`
+- ordinary configured artifacts from `pipeline.scriptorium.artifacts`; canonical
+  party artifact families have already expanded into this map during
+  configuration resolution, including corresponding member dependencies and
+  rewritten member-artifact input sources. Each artifact's dependency list is
+  already the normalized union of explicit ordering edges and configured-artifact
+  input edges.
 - optional selected artifact keys supplied through the stage environment
 - built-in, configured, extraction, and previous-session source references in
   artifact inputs
@@ -14,35 +20,124 @@ Execute selected configured Scriptorium artifacts in dependency order and materi
 Supported source families:
 - built-ins: `narratio.transcript.*`, `narratio.bounds.session`
 - prepared stable inputs: `narratio.input.players`, `narratio.input.party`,
-  `narratio.input.glossary`
+  `narratio.input.glossary`, `narratio.input.spell_catalog`
 - configured artifacts: `narratio.artifact.<key>`
 - extraction lanes: `narratio.extraction.<key>`
 - previous-session cache: `narratio.previous_session.artifact.<key>`
 
 ## Outputs
 
-- one materialized output per executed configured artifact (`output_path`)
+- one current per-artifact manifest record per validated materialized output
 - stage metadata describing selected/generated/reused artifacts
 
 ## Key Behavior
 
-- when Scriptorium is absent or no configured artifact is executable, completes
-  successfully with no outputs and records explanatory metadata. This is not an
-  explicit self-skip: both manifests record success, satisfy publish's
-  prerequisite, and an ordinary later run reuses the result until forced.
+- when `pipeline.scriptorium` is absent or no configured artifact is
+  executable, completes successfully and records explanatory metadata. Before
+  returning, it reconciles and checkpoints the complete session collection:
+  records removed from configuration are dropped, while valid records for
+  configured but unselected artifacts remain authoritative. This is not an
+  explicit self-skip: the session manifest records success, satisfies publish's
+  prerequisite, and an ordinary later run reuses the result while the effective
+  set remains empty. Enabling or selecting an artifact later makes missing
+  versioned evidence non-resumable and schedules it without requiring force.
 - builds a runtime artifact catalog containing built-ins, configured artifacts,
   and configured extraction lanes. Extraction availability is hydrated only
   from compatible successful extraction evidence.
 - uses enabled configured artifacts by default. An explicit `--artifacts`
-  selection is a one-invocation override: it makes exactly the named configured
-  artifacts executable even when disabled, and does not automatically include
-  dependencies. A selected artifact's dependencies must instead already be
-  available to the catalog.
-- marks non-executable configured artifacts as reusable when output files already exist.
+  selection is a one-invocation override that makes exactly the named
+  configured artifacts explicit targets even when disabled. The work planner
+  adds required configured prerequisites, reuses current ones, and schedules
+  stale, missing, or otherwise non-current prerequisites before dependents.
+- makes a non-executable configured artifact reusable only when its current
+  manifest record and durable output pass the configured-artifact evidence
+  contract; an incidental or stale canonical file is unavailable.
 - validates selected artifact dependency order (cycle-safe topo ordering).
-- resolves required/optional inputs per artifact source definition.
-- omits an unavailable optional input; an unavailable required input fails.
-- resolves prepared stable input sources from `inputs/*.yml` materialized by `prepare`.
+- consumes only the concrete dependency graph finalized by configuration;
+  planning, prerequisite closure, execution, reuse, invalidation, and semantic
+  evidence do not infer a second graph from inputs.
+- resolves required/optional inputs per artifact source definition into an
+  ordered semantic identity. Each identity records the configured input name,
+  canonical source ID, required policy, explicit presence, source contract,
+  checksum, size, and a source-based logical identity. Workspace paths and
+  producer run IDs are excluded.
+- orders input identities by configured input name independently of Go map
+  iteration. Runtime adapter paths remain a separate execution-only map.
+- omits an unavailable optional input from the adapter request while retaining
+  explicit absence in its semantic identity; an unavailable required input
+  fails.
+- resolves prepared stable input sources through the shared manifest-authoritative
+  identity resolver; it does not accept incidental files or fall back to
+  campaign/session source paths.
+- reuses checksums and sizes from validated prepared, extraction, and current
+  configured-artifact evidence. Other resolved inputs are hashed as confined
+  regular files with streaming reads and the central resolved-artifact size
+  limit.
+- owns a versioned SHA-256 fingerprint contract with one fixed-field canonical
+  JSON payload and no map serialization. Configured artifacts are fingerprinted
+  in deterministic dependency order.
+- fingerprints the normalized artifact key, prompt and profile identifiers,
+  effective render-debug behavior, session-relative output identity, sorted
+  dependency keys, ordered input declarations and semantic identities,
+  validated current dependency-output identities, and sorted effective
+  Scriptorium variables (including Narratio's sticky session variable).
+- provides read-only reconciliation that classifies each configured record as
+  current, stale, missing, failed, or otherwise non-resumable, and
+  separately identifies manifest records removed from current configuration.
+  A record is current only when its fingerprint version and value match and its
+  configured output still passes manifest-authoritative evidence validation.
+- owns a read-only typed work planner. Its explicit targets are enabled
+  artifacts by default or the exact normalized `--artifacts` selection when
+  supplied. It closes targets over configured prerequisites, orders the closure
+  topologically, reuses current members, and schedules every non-current member
+  before its dependents.
+- force applies only to explicit targets. A current prerequisite is reused
+  unless it is itself an explicit forced target; disabled prerequisites may be
+  rebuilt when required, while unrelated disabled artifacts are excluded.
+- the work plan carries explicit targets, prerequisite-only work, deterministic
+  execution and reuse lists, invalidated and removed records, and a cloned
+  reconciled starting collection. Valid unrelated configured records survive
+  reconciliation, removed records are omitted, and incidental files never
+  become current without manifest-backed regeneration.
+- implements aggregate resume validation by running the same read-only catalog,
+  fingerprint reconciliation, and work planner used by execution. A succeeded
+  aggregate record is reusable exactly when the selected closure schedules no
+  artifact work and no removed configuration records require a checkpoint;
+  stale unrelated records do not block a partial selection.
+- exposes the typed artifact decision to `session plan`. Planning applies it to
+  a cloned manifest after modeling earlier selected stage transitions, so
+  aggregate run/skip and artifact execute/reuse decisions match the ordinary
+  runner without creating durable state or invoking Scriptorium.
+- executes only the work plan's scheduled entries. Manifest-validated current
+  prerequisites remain available through the runtime catalog without invoking
+  Scriptorium; newly produced prerequisites enter that catalog with the same
+  contract, checksum, and size identity used for persisted current evidence.
+- before the first adapter call, checkpoints the reconciled starting collection
+  when it removed configuration records or cleared obsolete authority. After
+  each successful artifact, checkpoints the complete collection before making
+  that artifact available to the next scheduled dependent. Analyze supplies
+  its typed update to the shared
+  [checkpoint persistence boundary](manifest.md#checkpoint-persistence-boundary)
+  and refreshes its working and committed collections only after the save
+  succeeds.
+- keeps adapter output in the invocation's run-local analyze directory until
+  it is a safe, non-empty, bounded regular file with a calculated checksum and
+  complete output contract. Canonical replacement uses the shared atomic file
+  operation boundary and verifies that the installed checksum matches the
+  validated run-local bytes.
+- records each successful artifact's freshly computed fingerprint, canonical
+  relative output path, contract, checksum, size, producer run ID, bounded
+  Scriptorium provenance, logs, and generated configuration references in the
+  analyze-owned manifest collection.
+- preserves valid unrelated current records during partial execution. If a
+  rebuilt output's bytes and contract are unchanged, unselected dependents may
+  remain current. If that semantic identity changes, unselected transitive
+  dependents become stale without being executed; dependents included in the
+  invocation are evaluated in dependency order instead.
+- returns aggregate outputs from every current session record in normalized-key
+  order after the complete reconciled collection has been checkpointed;
+  unrelated stale records do not make an otherwise successful partial
+  invocation fail.
 - resolves previous-session sources from local `previous/` cache only.
 - runs optional render-debug, then artifact execution.
 - validates non-empty output files and materializes canonical outputs.
@@ -57,17 +152,63 @@ Supported source families:
   guidance.
 - dependency cycles or unavailable required dependencies fail.
 - adapter validation failures fail stage.
+- a scheduled artifact failure installs a retry collection on the live manifest
+  with the active artifact marked `failed`, a bounded error, and no output
+  authority. Current transitive dependents become stale without execution.
+- earlier artifacts remain current only after their run-local output passed
+  validation, canonical materialization, and a successful complete-collection
+  manifest checkpoint; unattempted later artifacts retain their reconciled
+  session state.
+- unrelated current records survive a partial failure. Old canonical bytes for
+  the failed artifact and newly materialized bytes whose checkpoint fails are
+  incidental, not current evidence.
+- a checkpoint failure stops the queue immediately. The in-memory retry
+  collection starts from the last successful checkpoint, marks the active
+  artifact failed without output authority, and stales its current transitive
+  dependents.
+- the runner's ordinary error path marks aggregate analyze failed, clears its
+  aggregate outputs, invalidates publish, notify, and cleanup through the
+  application dependency relation, and persists the live retry collection.
+  Terminal-save errors are joined with the original artifact or checkpoint
+  failure.
 
 ## Invariants
 
 - `analyze` performs no remote storage calls for previous-session source resolution.
+- input-identity resolution is read-only: it does not invoke adapters,
+  materialize outputs, update status, or create run-local files.
+- fingerprints exclude timeouts, retries, timestamps, producer and Narratio run
+  IDs, executable and config paths, workspace roots, diagnostic locations, and
+  executable or private transitive configuration contents. A change that is
+  visible only inside Scriptorium—such as a file privately loaded by its config
+  path—requires an explicit forced regeneration.
 - output provenance and metadata are deterministic per execution.
+- a canonical file without current per-artifact manifest evidence is never
+  promoted to current state.
+- an ordinary retry after interruption or partial failure reuses every valid
+  earlier checkpoint and schedules only failed, stale, missing, or otherwise
+  non-current work in dependency order.
 
 ## Related Contracts And Tests
 
 - [Configuration](../config.md#scriptorium-artifact-entries) owns artifact
-  fields and source-selection rules.
+  fields and source-selection rules, including
+  [artifact families](../config.md#scriptorium-artifact-families).
 - [CLI](../cli.md) owns user-visible artifact selection.
 - [Scriptorium](../integrations/scriptorium.md) owns the subprocess contract.
 - Implementation and tests: `internal/stage/analyze.go`,
-  `internal/stage/analyze_test.go`
+  `internal/stage/analyze_artifact_execution.go`,
+  `internal/stage/analyze_execution_state.go`,
+  `internal/stage/analyze_input_identity.go`,
+  `internal/stage/analyze_fingerprint.go`,
+  `internal/stage/analyze_reconciliation.go`, `internal/stage/analyze_plan.go`,
+  `internal/stage/analyze_resume.go`, `internal/stage/analyze_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/analyze_checkpoint_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/analyze_input_identity_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/analyze_fingerprint_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/analyze_reconciliation_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/analyze_plan_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/analyze_incremental_execution_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/analyze_failure_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/analyze_resume_test.go`, and
+  `internal/app/analyze_checkpoint_recovery_test.go`.

docs/internal/stage-cleanup.md

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+# Stage: cleanup
+
+## Purpose
+
+Remove explicitly configured local data for the run selected by a successful
+publish commit. Cleanup is the twelfth and final canonical stage, after
+`notify`.
+
+## Authorization And Targets
+
+Cleanup is disabled unless at least one of these policies is true:
+
+- `pipeline.spool.delete_audio_after_publish`
+- `pipeline.workspace.cleanup_after_publish`
+
+An enabled cleanup requires the manifest's publish stage to be succeeded with
+`uploaded=true`, a canonical `published_run_id`, and the exact remote commit and
+current commit-pointer keys for the manifest campaign/session prefix. The
+configured campaign and session must match the manifest. Cleanup derives its
+only possible targets through the canonical artifact path helpers:
+
+- the published run's session spool-audio directory; and
+- the published run's workspace run directory.
+
+It does not scan parent directories, infer the newest run, or read object
+storage. Every deletion uses the root-confined file operation, which rejects a
+root itself, traversal, symlink escape, and out-of-root targets.
+
+## Execution And Resume
+
+Disabled cleanup records an explicit skipped result. Enabled cleanup removes
+targets in deterministic policy order and treats an already-missing target as
+success. A successful record contains the published run ID and completed policy
+names.
+
+A previous cleanup success is reusable only while its semantic configuration
+matches and every selected target remains absent. A recreated target makes the
+stage non-resumable. A failure is recorded against cleanup; publish remains
+succeeded and remote current state is unchanged. On a later normal full run,
+valid upstream stages are skipped and cleanup is retried without republishing.
+
+`narratio publish` selects publish only and never invokes cleanup. A bounded run
+through `notify` or any earlier endpoint also excludes it. Operators may run
+`narratio run-stage cleanup <session_id>` directly; missing, failed, malformed,
+or identity-mismatched publication evidence fails before deletion.
+
+## Implementation And Tests
+
+- Planning and evidence validation: `internal/stage/cleanup_plan.go`
+- Execution and resume: `internal/stage/cleanup.go`
+- Root-confined deletion: `internal/fileops/cleanup.go`
+- Focused tests: `internal/stage/cleanup_plan_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/cleanup_test.go`, and
+  `internal/app/cleanup_orchestration_test.go`

docs/internal/stage-extract.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ## Responsibility
 
-`extract` runs after `trim` and before `render`. It converts the canonical
+`extract` runs after `render` and before `analyze`. It converts the canonical
 `narratio.transcript.final_trimmed` JSON into configured Notarius lane artifacts.
 An omitted or disabled Notarius section makes the stage explicitly self-skip
 with reason `notarius_disabled`, no outputs, and no Notarius runner.
@@ -17,15 +17,26 @@ procedures belong in [Operations](../operations.md).
 `internal/stage/extract.go`:
 
 1. resolves the final trimmed transcript from the shared artifact catalog;
-2. resolves and fingerprints the Notarius invocation contract;
-3. creates a run-local staging directory and invokes the injected
-   `notarius.Runner`;
-4. validates the successful receipt, confined index, configured required lane
-   descriptors, and regular payload files;
-5. atomically promotes the complete bundle to its immutable durable location;
-6. records one non-selectable `notarius_index` output and one selectable
+2. resolves every configured prepared reference through the shared
+   manifest-authoritative identity resolver before creating run-local output;
+3. resolves each reference to a stable content-addressed session snapshot,
+   reusing verified bytes or reconstructing a missing/corrupt regular entry,
+   and rejects any source change observed while copying;
+4. fingerprints the byte- and provenance-bearing Notarius invocation evidence,
+   including sorted reference identities and the explicit downstream
+   configuration-overlay selection;
+5. creates a run-local staging directory and invokes the injected
+   `notarius.Runner`, carrying the optional already-resolved credential
+   reference without exposing its value, the optional exact configuration
+   overlay, plus effective resume and chunk-cache controls after force
+   precedence;
+6. revalidates the reference snapshots, then validates the v2 successful
+   receipt, confined index, management documents, configured required lane
+   descriptors, validation summaries, and regular payload files;
+7. atomically promotes the complete bundle to its immutable durable location;
+8. records one non-selectable `notarius_index` output and one selectable
    `notarius_lane` output per configured lane; and
-7. registers each lane as `narratio.extraction.<output_key>` for downstream
+9. registers each lane as `narratio.extraction.<output_key>` for downstream
    Scriptorium and publish resolution.
 
 Lane records retain checksum, contract, producer run ID, and Notarius system,
@@ -34,22 +45,59 @@ root, receipt, diagnostic paths, rejection/warning summaries, producing
 Narratio run ID, the resolved trimmed-input identity, and invocation
 fingerprint. The input identity binds the exact transcript bytes, canonical
 source ID, producer stage/output/run identity, and resolution provenance.
-Validation completes before
-promotion, so a rejected result cannot expose a partial durable bundle.
+Reference metadata contains only selector, source ID, canonical session-relative
+path, checksum, and size; adapter requests receive selector and absolute stable
+snapshot path, never payload contents. Snapshot bytes must
+match the prepared identity both before and after Notarius runs, so a concurrent
+prepared-file replacement cannot make recorded provenance describe different
+bytes from those supplied to Notarius.
+Validation completes before the single durable rename, so a rejected result
+cannot expose a partial durable bundle.
+
+Snapshot destinations are owned by `internal/artifacts` under
+`cache/notarius/references/<sha256>/<prepared-basename>`. They contain no run ID
+or timestamp and can be reused across invocations. Identical bytes and basename
+share a verified file; changed bytes select a different digest directory.
+Unsafe path components and non-regular conflicts fail without recursive
+deletion. Snapshot paths are delivery details and never become manifest output
+evidence or prerequisites for reuse of an already complete extract bundle.
 
 Any executed extraction outcome that replaces a different effective outcome
-marks succeeded downstream stages stale. Repeating the same disabled self-skip
-with no outputs is stable and does not repeatedly invalidate downstream stages.
+marks succeeded analysis and delivery dependents stale. Render is an independent
+sibling and remains current. Repeating the same disabled self-skip with no
+outputs is stable and does not repeatedly invalidate dependent stages.
 
 ## Resume Validation
 
-`internal/stage/extract_resume.go` permits a skip only when the existing stage
-record succeeded and still matches the current invocation fingerprint. The
-fingerprint covers the resolved executable and config paths, pipeline ID,
-timeout, working directory, sorted configured output contracts, and the current
-direct trimmed-transcript identity. The same identity is resolved again for
-artifact evidence, so changing the current transcript bytes or producer
-identity makes the prior extraction obsolete.
+Before the focused validator runs, the application compares extract's versioned
+semantic fingerprint. It covers enablement, Notarius pipeline identity, sorted
+reference selector/source mappings, sorted declared output contracts, and each
+canonical `narratio.extraction.<key>` output identity. It also covers the
+explicit Notarius configuration-overlay selection; omitted, empty, and exact
+`default` selectors share the base-selection identity. It excludes executable,
+timeout, working directory, config path, and private Notarius config contents.
+Credential presence, reference name, and resolved value are likewise
+operational-only and excluded. Ordinary command loading still resolves a
+selected reference before resume evaluation, but a credential-only change does
+not rerun a valid completed extraction or stale its dependents.
+
+`internal/stage/extract_resume.go` then permits a skip only when the existing
+stage record still matches the current byte- and provenance-bearing invocation
+evidence. That evidence covers the current direct trimmed-transcript identity,
+sorted prepared-reference identities, pipeline identity, and configured output
+contracts, plus the same downstream overlay-selection identity. The same
+reference helper and transcript identity are resolved again for artifact
+evidence, so changing current transcript bytes, reference bytes, producer
+identity, or a named downstream selection makes the prior extraction obsolete.
+Operational runner settings do not invalidate otherwise current durable
+evidence. This includes `resume` and `chunk_cache`; changing them alone cannot
+make a complete extraction non-resumable. If extraction executes, ordinary
+runs forward the configured values, while force disables resume and selects
+`refresh`.
+
+A valid prepared-reference change makes extraction non-resumable. Missing,
+unsafe, or checksum-inconsistent prepared evidence is a hard validation error
+with prepare-force guidance because an immediate extract rerun cannot succeed.
 
 The validator then checks the producing run identity, canonical immutable
 bundle root, path confinement and absence of symlink components, receipt
@@ -58,33 +106,43 @@ contracts and provenance, regular-file status, and stored checksums. Missing or
 obsolete results are non-resumable and run again; unsafe filesystem conditions
 return an error rather than silently accepting or replacing data.
 
-The fingerprint cannot observe files imported by Notarius configuration,
-profile contents, prompt/module definitions, or other transitive inputs.
-Operators must force extraction after changing any such input.
+This sensitivity is limited to the explicit downstream selector. Narratio's
+own overlay label and whole effective-configuration digest are not blanket
+extraction invalidators. Neither contract can observe files imported by
+Notarius configuration, profile contents, prompt/module definitions, or other
+transitive inputs. Operators must force extraction after changing any such
+private input behind a stable identifier.
 
 ## Failure Behavior
 
 Adapter startup, timeout, nonzero exit, receipt decoding, path confinement,
-index compatibility, required-lane rejection, payload inspection, checksum, or
-promotion errors fail the stage through ordinary manifest transition handling.
+index compatibility, inconsistent warning or diagnostic envelopes,
+required-lane rejection or incomplete validation, payload inspection,
+checksum, or installation errors fail the stage through ordinary manifest
+transition handling.
 Stdout receipt and stderr diagnostics remain separate. Downstream stages are
 not given selectable extraction sources unless the complete configured result
-has passed validation and promotion.
+has passed validation and installation.
 
 When a replacement attempt begins, the current session-stage record no longer
 advertises payload from the previous success. A failed replacement therefore
 has no current outputs, logs, generated configuration references, or metadata,
-while the earlier invocation manifest and immutable promoted bundle remain
-available for audit and recovery.
+while the earlier immutable promoted bundle remains available for audit and
+recovery.
 
 ## Implementation And Focused Tests
 
 - Stage execution, selection, and resume validation: `internal/stage/extract.go`,
   `internal/stage/extract_resume.go`,
-  `internal/stage/extract_test.go`
+  `internal/stage/extract_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/semantic_contracts_delivery.go`
+- Stable snapshot materialization and verification:
+  `internal/stage/extract_references.go`
 - Subprocess boundary: `internal/adapters/notarius/subprocess.go`,
   `internal/adapters/notarius/subprocess_test.go`
 - Catalog hydration: `internal/artifacts/extraction_catalog.go`,
   `internal/artifacts/extraction_catalog_test.go`
 - Composition and downstream behavior: `internal/app/runner_test.go`,
   `internal/stage/analyze_test.go`, `internal/stage/publish_test.go`
+- Opt-in Notarius v0.8.1 production-boundary coverage:
+  `internal/stage/notarius_cache_integration_test.go`

docs/internal/stage-merge.md

@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ Normalize raw transcript inputs and merge into base transcript via Seriatim.
 
 ## Key Behavior
 
-- discovers and validates raw transcript inputs.
+- discovers and validates raw transcript inputs. For versioned transcribe
+  state, discovery requires aggregate transcribe success and consumes only the
+  aggregate outputs that exactly match the current per-speaker collection.
+  Partial checkpoints and orphaned files are not merge inputs. Legacy/manual
+  workflows without versioned speaker state retain directory discovery.
 - normalizes each raw transcript (`seriatim.Normalize`) into run-local scratch output.
 - merges normalized inputs (`seriatim.Run`) into base transcript.
 - validates merged transcript and optional report JSON.
@@ -26,12 +30,28 @@ Normalize raw transcript inputs and merge into base transcript via Seriatim.
 ## Invariants
 
 - merge always consumes normalized forms of raw inputs.
+- a versioned transcribe collection is usable only through its complete,
+  successful aggregate output declaration.
 - base transcript must validate before stage success.
 - report output is config-gated.
 
+## Resume Evidence
+
+Merge records a versioned semantic-configuration fingerprint for the Seriatim
+merge operation, output schema, coalesce gap, and every configured advanced
+merge transformation. A change reruns merge and stales only its fixed
+descendants; prepare and transcribe remain reusable. Binary path, timeout,
+report emission, logs, and diagnostic retention are operational exclusions.
+
+Configuration or resources loaded privately inside Seriatim are outside
+Narratio's observable contract and require `--force` when changed. An existing
+successful merge record without evidence reruns once when selected.
+
 ## Related Contracts And Tests
 
 - [Seriatim](../integrations/seriatim.md) owns subprocess and output semantics.
 - [Configuration](../config.md#pipeline) owns operator-selected Seriatim values.
 - Implementation and tests: `internal/stage/merge.go`,
-  `internal/stage/merge_test.go`
+  `internal/stage/merge_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/semantic_contracts_initial.go`, and
+  `internal/stage/semantic_contracts_initial_test.go`

docs/internal/stage-normalize.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Normalize polished transcript into final transcript using Seriatim.
 
 ## Key Behavior
 
-- resolves polished transcript from manifest outputs/canonical fallback.
+- resolves polished transcript only from verified manifest output evidence.
 - applies `pipeline.normalize` config or default normalize config.
 - runs Seriatim normalize with configured timeout/binary.
 - validates normalized transcript and optional report.
@@ -26,9 +26,17 @@ Normalize polished transcript into final transcript using Seriatim.
 - final transcript must validate as processed transcript JSON (`segments` array).
 - normalize defaults are applied when `pipeline.normalize` is unset.
 
+## Resume Semantics
+
+The versioned semantic fingerprint covers the Seriatim normalize operation,
+output schema and canonical output identity, plus the configured transcript
+transformations. Seriatim's executable and timeout and optional report
+generation are operational and do not invalidate the normalized transcript.
+
 ## Related Contracts And Tests
 
 - [Seriatim](../integrations/seriatim.md) owns subprocess and output semantics.
 - [Configuration](../config.md#pipeline) owns normalize fields and defaults.
 - Implementation and tests: `internal/stage/normalize.go`,
-  `internal/stage/normalize_test.go`
+  `internal/stage/normalize_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/semantic_contracts_refinement.go`

docs/internal/stage-polish.md

@@ -12,21 +12,41 @@ Run Audita polishing on base transcript and produce polished transcript.
 ## Outputs
 
 - `transcripts/polished.json`
-- optional `artifacts/audita.report.json`
+
+The transcript is the only canonical output. Available `errors.yml`,
+`recoveries.yml`, and `report.md` remain beside the run-local transcript and
+are recorded as diagnostics, not artifact outputs.
 
 ## Key Behavior
 
-- resolves base transcript from merge outputs/canonical fallback.
-- invokes an Audita runner configured with static model/runtime options; the
-  invocation supplies paths and modules.
+- resolves base transcript only from verified merge manifest output evidence.
+- invokes an Audita v2 runner with external configuration selectors and
+  explicitly forwarded provider credentials; the invocation supplies paths.
 - validates processed transcript structure (`segments` array required).
-- validates optional report JSON.
-- materializes canonical outputs; records logs/generated config and adapter metadata.
+- validates reported diagnostic paths against the three fixed adjacent names.
+- materializes only the canonical transcript; records available reports with
+  stdout/stderr logs, generated invocation, and safe adapter metadata.
 
 ## Invariants
 
 - polished transcript schema validation is mandatory.
-- report output is config-gated.
+- reports are optional diagnostics; Audita's external configuration may disable
+  them. A failed invocation never promotes an incidental transcript.
+
+## Resume Semantics
+
+Version 2 semantic evidence covers Audita's config path, downstream overlay,
+proposal and validation profile selectors, ordered module selection (including
+the distinction between omission and an explicit empty list), transcript
+description, output schema, and canonical polished-transcript identity.
+Credentials, executable path, timeout, and diagnostics are operational and do
+not invalidate a successful result. Public credential reference names may
+participate in configuration provenance but never expose resolved values.
+
+Narratio fingerprints selections, not the contents of Audita-owned config or
+profiles. Force `polish` after changing those files behind unchanged selections.
+When polish is selected, older semantic evidence is reconsidered and the stage
+reruns; a downstream-only invocation does not eagerly run polish.
 
 ## Related Contracts And Tests
 
@@ -34,4 +54,5 @@ Run Audita polishing on base transcript and produce polished transcript.
   semantics.
 - [Configuration](../config.md#pipeline) owns operator-selected Audita values.
 - Implementation and tests: `internal/stage/polish.go`,
-  `internal/stage/polish_test.go`
+  `internal/stage/polish_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/semantic_contracts_refinement.go`

docs/internal/stage-prepare.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Materialize canonical current-session inputs before processing stages.
 
 - resolved campaign, session, and pipeline configuration
 - stable input files (`speakers`, `autocorrect`, `glossary`, `players`, `party`)
+- optional spell-catalog overlay
 - one resolved local or S3 audio source
 - enabled configured artifact input requirements for previous-session sources
 
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ Materialize canonical current-session inputs before processing stages.
 - `inputs/glossary.yml`
 - `inputs/players.yml`
 - `inputs/party.yml`
+- optional `inputs/spell_catalog.json`
 - `audio/*.flac`
 - optional `previous/manifest.json`
 - optional `previous/artifacts/**`
@@ -34,6 +36,11 @@ Materialize canonical current-session inputs before processing stages.
 - gives distinct local source paths with the same basename deterministic unique
   prepared filenames so neither source is overwritten.
 - materializes S3 audio through spool/cache-aware logic.
+- materializes a configured spell catalog with checksum and provenance, or
+  safely removes an obsolete canonical spell catalog and its manifest record
+  when the effective input is omitted.
+- copies the validated canonical party bytes unchanged and deterministically
+  generates the prepared players projection.
 - scans enabled configured artifact inputs for `narratio.previous_session.artifact.*` requirements.
 - clears managed `previous/` state on every invocation, then, when requirements exist:
   - resolves the pointer-selected previous source through the shared resolver;
@@ -41,8 +48,10 @@ Materialize canonical current-session inputs before processing stages.
   - records previous inputs in `manifest.inputs`.
 
 Required previous-session inputs fail when unavailable; optional missing inputs
-are typed skipped results. Committed sources use their exact source-to-destination
-mapping, while the isolated legacy reader rejects ambiguous fallback matches.
+are typed skipped results. Each requirement resolves only from its unique
+`published_output` declaration in the pointer-selected remote commit. Prepare
+strips that selected run's immutable `published/` prefix to derive the local
+cache path, then validates the committed checksum, size, and generation.
 
 ## Invariants
 
@@ -52,6 +61,26 @@ mapping, while the isolated legacy reader rejects ambiguous fallback matches.
 - managed `previous/` state represents only the current requirement set.
 - `manifest.inputs` ordering is deterministic (`kind`, `path`).
 
+## Resume Evidence
+
+Prepare records a versioned semantic-configuration fingerprint for the
+resolved campaign/session selection, local-versus-S3 audio mode and canonical
+audio names, stable-input ownership/presence, previous-session identity, and
+the party mode plus canonical players projection version, and the effective
+previous-artifact requirement set. A change reruns prepare and
+stales its fixed descendants. Existing successful records without this
+evidence rerun once when selected.
+
+Workspace, spool, and cache placement and absolute source relocation are not
+semantic when logical selection, canonical names, and bytes are equivalent.
+The fingerprint deliberately does not read or rehash large audio. Prepared
+input checksums remain the content provenance. Before reusing success, prepare
+validates every durable prepared copy and compares current stable-input bytes,
+canonical party and derived-player bytes, local audio membership/checksums, or
+S3 key/size/entity-tag identity with that provenance. Source relocation with
+equivalent names and bytes remains reusable; changed or unavailable evidence
+causes a normal prepare rerun.
+
 ## Related Contracts And Tests
 
 - [Configuration](../config.md) owns audio selection, stable input fields, and
@@ -61,5 +90,10 @@ mapping, while the isolated legacy reader rejects ambiguous fallback matches.
 - [Storage Internals](storage.md) and [Artifact Internals](artifacts.md) explain
   the internal collaborators.
 - Implementation and tests: `internal/stage/prepare.go`,
-  `internal/stage/prepare_test.go`, `internal/audio/s3_audio_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/prepare_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/prepare_resume.go`,
+  `internal/stage/prepare_resume_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/semantic_contracts_initial.go`,
+  `internal/stage/semantic_contracts_initial_test.go`,
+  `internal/audio/s3_audio_test.go`,
   `internal/previouscache/*_test.go`

docs/internal/stage-publish.md

@@ -7,15 +7,16 @@ Upload run/session outputs to object storage and atomically advance remote curre
 ## Inputs
 
 - successful preceding stages from the [canonical stage set](overview.md#pipeline-stage-set)
-- invocation-scoped run files
+- declared run-local diagnostic files
 - resolved publish output rules
-- effective publish locks (static + remote merged lock set), revalidated at the
-  remote commit boundary
+- independent per-source remote lock objects read at planning start
+- the validated prior current commit when an initially locked source may carry
 - durable previous-session cache files when present
 
 ## Outputs
 
-- uploaded invocation record and selected publish outputs;
+- uploaded session manifest, declared run-local diagnostics, and selected
+  publish outputs;
 - uploaded durable previous-session cache files when present;
 - immutable run-scoped commit manifest; and
 - current commit pointer, written last.
@@ -25,36 +26,63 @@ Exact remote placement and the operator workflow belong in
 
 ## Key Behavior
 
+`publish.go` retains the transaction-owning `Run` path. Source discovery,
+manifest-derived archive metadata, confined opening, and checksum validation
+live in `publish_sources.go`; artifact-catalog matching, selection, required
+and optional rules, destination resolution, and collision inputs live in
+`publish_outputs.go`. Copying, hashing, immutable upload, reuse checks, and
+remote verification live in `publish_transfer.go`; committed-manifest,
+immutable-commit, and current-pointer encoding and writes live in
+`publish_commit.go`. `publish_output_plan.go` owns the deterministic, I/O-free
+five-outcome model and its secret-free metadata projection.
+
 - when publishing or run upload is disabled, completes successfully with no
   outputs and records explanatory metadata. This is not an explicit self-skip:
-  both manifests record success, and an ordinary later run reuses that result
-  until publish is forced.
+  the session manifest records success. Enablement and upload policy are
+  fingerprinted, so changing either automatically makes the prior result
+  non-resumable.
 - validates prerequisite stage success and object-store availability.
-- derives a deterministic run-archive allowlist from the validated run
-  `manifest.json`: declared run-local outputs, logs, generated configs, and the
-  manifest itself. Unlisted workspace files are not archive candidates.
+- derives a deterministic run-archive allowlist from the session manifest's
+  declared current-run outputs, logs, and generated configurations. References
+  outside the current run root, including canonical session files and prior-run
+  diagnostics, are not archive candidates. No distinguished diagnostic file is
+  read or uploaded.
 - opens each archive candidate beneath its archive root without following
   symlinked ancestors or leaf entries, verifies that it is a regular file and
   checks a declared checksum when present, then streams the opened descriptor.
 - derives the durable previous-cache archive from its validated manifest using
   the same confinement and regular-file checks.
-- resolves publish output sources through runtime artifact catalog and manifest-aware resolution.
+- resolves publish output sources through runtime artifact catalog and
+  manifest-aware resolution. Configured Scriptorium outputs are publishable
+  only from validated `current` per-artifact analyze evidence; an incidental
+  canonical file, aggregate output, stale/failed/unselected record, or
+  mismatched path, size, or checksum remains unavailable. Built-in and
+  extraction sources likewise require their own current manifest evidence.
 - publishes extraction lanes only through explicit configured output rules;
   neither run-local nor durable Notarius bundles are scanned or uploaded wholesale.
 - selected artifact filter applies to configured artifact sources only.
-- locked outputs are skipped intentionally (including required ones).
-- optional missing outputs are skipped; required missing unlocked outputs fail.
+- plans every configured output into exactly one source-sorted outcome:
+  `published`, `carried_locked`, `locked_unpublished`, `optional_missing`, or
+  `unselected`.
+- an initially locked selected output carries its exact prior
+  `published_output` declaration when one exists. The declaration may point to
+  an earlier run in the same session and retains its source, key, checksum,
+  size, and generation; the bytes are not copied.
+- verifies a carried object's exact key, size, and generation through object
+  metadata without downloading or opening the local output source.
+- an initially locked source with no prior declaration remains absent even
+  when the output rule is required. Optional missing unlocked outputs remain
+  absent; required missing unlocked outputs fail.
 - creates one complete immutable source-to-destination mapping before upload;
 - uploads and verifies every declared immutable object and the commit manifest;
-- updates `current/commit-pointer.json` exactly once, last; and
-- does not write the legacy `current/manifest.json` or `current/run_id.txt` pair.
-- rechecks remote lock state immediately before the pointer update. A newly
-  committed lock aborts selection, leaving any uploaded immutable attempt
-  unselected.
-- reads the mutable remote lock document through a direct limit-plus-one read
-  capped by `MaxRemoteLockStoreBytes` (1 MiB), retaining the generation returned
-  with the opened body for conditional updates. Oversized lock documents fail
-  before YAML decoding; published artifact payloads do not use this limit.
+- writes the immutable commit from the combined new and exact carried
+  declarations.
+- rereads every initially unlocked participating source after the immutable
+  commit. A newly present lock aborts selection, leaving the uploaded immutable
+  attempt unselected. Removing an initial lock may conservatively produce one
+  carry because the initial snapshot controls the plan.
+- updates `current/commit-pointer.json` exactly once, last, and writes no other
+  mutable publication control record.
 
 ## Metadata Signals
 
@@ -62,9 +90,8 @@ Includes counts/lists for:
 - run uploads
 - published output uploads
 - previous uploads
-- skipped optional outputs
-- skipped unselected outputs
-- locked outputs
+- one `publish_output_outcomes` collection containing all five output states,
+  exact declared keys, and key-derived origin runs where applicable
 - remote commit and current-pointer key paths
 - the run identifier selected by the commit
 
@@ -77,23 +104,44 @@ Includes counts/lists for:
   from verified descriptors; symlinks, special files, replacement races, and
   undeclared entries are rejected or ignored before uploads begin.
 - run-local diagnostics, including Notarius receipt and stderr files, are
-  archived only when recorded by the run manifest.
-- publish locks are not overridden by `--force`; remote locks are revalidated
-  immediately before current-state selection.
-- post-commit local cleanup is authorized by the committed publish metadata and
-  is durably recorded by the application lifecycle before any local deletion.
+  archived only when recorded by the session manifest. A run with no declared
+  current-run diagnostics legitimately uploads none.
+- independent publish locks are not overridden by `--force`; every initially
+  unlocked relevant source is reread immediately before current-state
+  selection.
+- successful uploaded publication records the exact run ID, remote commit key,
+  and current-pointer key consumed by the later cleanup stage.
 
-The commit boundary and cleanup gate are normative architecture invariants; see
+## Resume Semantics
+
+The versioned semantic fingerprint covers enabled behavior, run-upload policy,
+normalized source/destination/required output rules, and the remote backend,
+bucket, region, endpoint, and root-prefix identity. Rule ordering is
+canonicalized. Credential
+environment names, path-addressing transport mode, local workspace placement,
+and run identifiers are excluded. Independent remote locks remain mutable state
+and are read directly by publish at planning and commit boundaries; semantic
+evidence does not replace those safety checks.
+
+The commit boundary and cleanup authorization are normative architecture invariants; see
 [Architecture](../policy/architecture.md#publish-commit-boundary).
 
+Publish never deletes local state. The standalone `publish` command selects
+only this stage; a full run selects notify and cleanup afterward.
+
 ## Related Contracts And Tests
 
-- [Configuration](../config.md#publish-configuration-summary) owns output and
-  static-lock fields.
+- [Configuration](../config.md#publish-configuration-summary) owns output
+  rules.
 - [Operations](../operations.md#publish-locks) owns remote lock lifecycle and
   physical remote state.
 - [Artifact Internals](artifacts.md) explains source resolution and current-state
   helpers.
 - Implementation and tests: `internal/stage/publish.go`,
-  `internal/stage/publish_test.go`, `internal/app/operator_helpers_test.go`,
-  `internal/app/post_publish_cleanup_test.go`
+  `internal/stage/publish_sources.go`, `internal/stage/publish_outputs.go`,
+  `internal/stage/publish_output_plan.go`,
+  `internal/stage/publish_transfer.go`, `internal/stage/publish_commit.go`,
+  `internal/stage/publish_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/semantic_contracts_delivery.go`,
+  `internal/app/operator_helpers_test.go`, and
+  `internal/app/cleanup_orchestration_test.go`

docs/internal/stage-render.md

@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 ## Purpose
 
 Render Markdown transcript artifacts from normalized JSON transcripts via Seriatim.
+It runs after `trim` and before `extract` in the canonical sequence. Render and
+extract are independent sibling consumers: replacing render output does not
+invalidate extraction, but it does invalidate succeeded analysis and delivery
+records that may consume rendered transcripts.
 
 ## Inputs
 
@@ -17,12 +21,13 @@ Render Markdown transcript artifacts from normalized JSON transcripts via Seriat
 ## Key Behavior
 
 - uses `pipeline.render` settings (enabled/format/title/booleans).
-- resolves inputs manifest-first, then canonical fallback.
+- resolves inputs only from verified manifest output evidence.
 - writes run-local outputs first, then materializes canonical session outputs.
 - records input provenance, output paths, adapter metadata, logs, and generated config refs.
 - when `pipeline.render.enabled=false`, completes successfully with no outputs
   and records explanatory metadata. This is not an explicit self-skip: both
-  manifests record success, and enabling render later requires a forced run.
+  manifests record success. Because enablement is fingerprinted, enabling
+  render later automatically makes the prior result non-resumable.
 
 ## Failure Semantics
 
@@ -36,9 +41,20 @@ Render Markdown transcript artifacts from normalized JSON transcripts via Seriat
 - only `format: markdown` is supported.
 - render stage owns production of built-in Markdown transcript sources.
 
+## Resume Semantics
+
+The versioned semantic fingerprint covers enablement, final format, resolved
+title (including the session-title fallback), timestamp, segment-ID and
+metadata inclusion, both canonical input identities, and both Markdown output
+identities. Seriatim's executable, timeout, and report behavior are operational
+and do not invalidate rendered transcripts. A render-only change leaves the
+independent `extract` sibling reusable while invalidating their shared
+downstream consumers.
+
 ## Related Contracts And Tests
 
 - [Seriatim](../integrations/seriatim.md) owns render subprocess behavior.
 - [Configuration](../config.md#pipeline) owns render fields and defaults.
 - Implementation and tests: `internal/stage/render.go`,
-  `internal/stage/render_test.go`
+  `internal/stage/render_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/semantic_contracts_refinement.go`

docs/internal/stage-transcribe.md

@@ -14,12 +14,19 @@ Generate raw per-speaker transcripts from prepared audio using WhisperX.
 
 ## Key Behavior
 
-- discovers prepared audio from manifest inputs or canonical audio directory.
-- derives the transcript identity from the prepared `.flac` filename.
-- dispatches WhisperX requests through a bounded worker pool.
-- validates each output as JSON.
-- writes run-local outputs then materializes canonical transcript outputs only
-  after every planned request succeeds.
+- discovers prepared audio from manifest inputs or the canonical audio
+  directory and derives each speaker identity from its `.flac` filename.
+- hashes the current audio and reconciles it with the versioned per-speaker
+  completion collection before starting HTTP work.
+- reuses only records whose audio identity, observable WhisperX semantics,
+  canonical output location, JSON, checksum, and size remain current.
+- durably checkpoints the reconciled collection before dispatch, then sends
+  only missing or obsolete speakers through the bounded worker group.
+- validates each successful run-local response, rechecks the audio bytes,
+  materializes the canonical raw transcript, and checkpoints that speaker
+  before accepting another completion.
+- rebuilds aggregate stage outputs in stable speaker order from the complete
+  current collection, including records produced by earlier invocations.
 
 ## Invariants
 
@@ -28,8 +35,49 @@ Generate raw per-speaker transcripts from prepared audio using WhisperX.
 - output path returned by adapter must match requested output path.
 - an empty adapter result path means the requested path; adapters cannot select
   an alternate destination.
-- each successful output is validated before stage success, and cancellation or
-  incomplete dispatch cannot be reported as a successful result.
+- candidate collection construction, the shared
+  [checkpoint persistence boundary](manifest.md#checkpoint-persistence-boundary),
+  and installation into live state are serialized by transcribe's mutex.
+  Expensive hashing and HTTP work remain outside that critical section.
+- a canonical file has no completion authority until its manifest checkpoint
+  succeeds. A save failure preserves the last successfully committed
+  collection for ordinary retry.
+- each successful output is validated before its checkpoint, and cancellation,
+  incomplete dispatch, or a failed aggregate save cannot be reported as
+  aggregate stage success.
+- removed audio inputs are omitted from the current collection and aggregate
+  output list; reconciliation does not delete arbitrary transcript files.
+- merge cannot consume a partial versioned collection: it requires transcribe
+  aggregate success and an exact match between current speaker records and
+  declared aggregate outputs.
+
+## Resume Evidence
+
+Each completed speaker record binds the speaker ID, session-relative audio
+path, streamed audio checksum and size, the Narratio-visible WhisperX service
+URL and recognition language, and the canonical transcript path, checksum,
+size, and producer run. Changed audio bytes select that speaker for replacement;
+a changed URL or language selects every speaker. Either case stales fixed
+descendants through the normal runner decision. Retry count/delay, concurrency,
+timeout, credentials, and diagnostic locations are operational and do not
+change this evidence.
+
+An ordinary retry reuses every valid speaker checkpoint even when aggregate
+transcribe status is failed, running, or stale. A succeeded stage is skipped only
+when its stored speaker set and aggregate output evidence also match the current
+collection. Otherwise, execution repairs those records without retranscribing
+reusable speakers and stales dependents through the normal runner path.
+`--force` first durably replaces
+the collection with an empty versioned collection, so a later ordinary retry
+cannot resurrect pre-force results; speakers checkpointed by that forced
+attempt remain reusable.
+
+WhisperX models or private service configuration not exposed by Narratio's
+adapter contract cannot be fingerprinted; use `--force` after changing them.
+An older aggregate-only transcribe record has no trustworthy audio-to-output
+binding. When transcribe is next selected, every current speaker is therefore
+generated once and recorded in the versioned collection; later invocations can
+reuse it normally.
 
 ## Related Contracts And Tests
 
@@ -38,4 +86,9 @@ Generate raw per-speaker transcripts from prepared audio using WhisperX.
 - [Configuration](../config.md#pipeline) owns concurrency and other
   operator-selected values.
 - Implementation and tests: `internal/stage/transcribe.go`,
-  `internal/stage/transcribe_test.go`
+  `internal/stage/transcribe_reconciliation.go`,
+  `internal/stage/transcribe_execution_state.go`,
+  `internal/stage/transcribe_resume.go`,
+  `internal/stage/transcribe_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/transcribe_reconciliation_test.go`, and
+  `internal/stage/transcribe_checkpoint_test.go`

docs/internal/stage-trim.md

@@ -33,6 +33,19 @@ When `trim.enabled=false`:
 - bounds output exists only in enabled trim path.
 - render-debug output is diagnostic and not a declared stage output.
 
+## Resume Semantics
+
+The versioned semantic fingerprint covers enablement, the bounds prompt and
+profile identifiers, the Scriptorium configuration identity, transcript input
+name, sticky session variable, bounds and trimmed output identities, and the
+Seriatim trim operation. Diagnostic bounds rendering, diagnostic output paths,
+timeouts, executable paths, and optional reports are operational and do not
+invalidate the canonical trimmed transcript.
+
+Narratio cannot inspect prompt, profile, or configuration content that
+Scriptorium or Seriatim privately resolves behind a stable identifier. Force
+`trim` after changing such private content without changing its identifier.
+
 ## Related Contracts And Tests
 
 - [Scriptorium](../integrations/scriptorium.md) owns bounds generation and
@@ -40,4 +53,5 @@ When `trim.enabled=false`:
 - [Seriatim](../integrations/seriatim.md) owns transcript trimming behavior.
 - [Configuration](../config.md#pipeline) owns trim fields and defaults.
 - Implementation and tests: `internal/stage/trim.go`,
-  `internal/stage/trim_test.go`
+  `internal/stage/trim_test.go`,
+  `internal/stage/semantic_contracts_refinement.go`

docs/internal/storage.md

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ operator-selected storage fields and credential mechanisms belong in
 - `Download(ctx, key, localPath)`
 - `Upload(ctx, localPath, key, opts)`
 - `UploadConditional(ctx, source, key, opts, condition)`
+- `Delete(ctx, key)` removes one object and succeeds when it is already absent
 - `Exists(ctx, key)`
 
 Key invariant:
@@ -47,6 +48,8 @@ not own discovery, defaults, or configuration validation.
 - `Read` binds a returned body to its S3 ETag. `UploadConditional` maps an ETag
   match or absence precondition directly to the provider request and reports a
   failed precondition without performing a local check-then-write replacement.
+- `Delete` maps one normalized key to the provider delete-object operation and
+  treats an absent object as success.
 - `Exists` maps not-found responses to `false`.
 
 ## Invariants
@@ -55,6 +58,11 @@ not own discovery, defaults, or configuration validation.
 - bounded reads never retain more than the caller's limit plus one byte and do
   not replace owner-specific size policy.
 - publish ordering semantics are owned by stage/app code, not storage adapters.
+- A caller that installs remote content into a canonical workspace path first
+  writes a sibling temporary file, validates the complete object against its
+  owner-specific contract, and only then replaces the destination. Temporary
+  files used solely for remote comparisons are removed by their callers and do
+  not represent installed workspace state.
 
 ## Implementation And Tests
 

docs/internal/workspace.md

@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ path model, and layout creation goes through `EnsureLayoutFor`. Callers should
 consume those helpers instead of rebuilding relative paths.
 
 `internal/pathsafe` validates relative destinations. `internal/fileops` opens
-cleanup roots and their descendants through no-follow directory handles before
-removing them.
+explicit cleanup roots and removes only normalized proper descendants through
+the resulting root handle.
 
 `internal/fileops` owns the ordinary workspace mode contract. On POSIX,
 `WorkspaceDirectoryMode` is setgid `02775` and `WorkspaceFileMode` is `0664`.
@@ -33,15 +33,16 @@ previous-session cache paths remain session-durable and are never redirected
 into run-local output space.
 
 Extraction uses run-local receipt, stderr, and output-root helpers, then
-promotes the validated external bundle to the unique immutable Notarius bundle
-path supplied by `internal/artifacts`. `internal/fileops.PromoteDirectory`
-copies only regular files and directories to a same-filesystem temporary
-sibling. Source traversal uses confined directory handles and identity checks
-so replacing an inspected root, directory, or file is rejected rather than
-followed. The completed tree is atomically renamed without replacing an
-existing destination. Exact physical paths belong in
+validates and renames the external bundle to the unique immutable Notarius
+bundle path supplied by `internal/artifacts`. Exact physical paths belong in
 [Operations](../operations.md#extraction-workflow).
 
+Prepared references delivered to Notarius use session-durable paths owned by
+`internal/artifacts` beneath
+`cache/notarius/references/<sha256>/<prepared-basename>`. These verified
+content-addressed snapshots are outside run-local layout, survive ordinary
+published-run cleanup, and are excluded from publish and restore enumeration.
+
 ## Locking
 
 `artifacts.LocalStore` enforces the single-writer session lock via an
@@ -50,21 +51,25 @@ file retains owner metadata after release or process death; its existence is
 not evidence that a lock is active. Command and restore flows wait for this
 lock only while their context remains active, and report a release failure.
 
+The runner assigns every invocation a run-workspace identity but creates the
+physical directory only before an executing stage that requires it. Fully
+reused invocations and cleanup-only invocations therefore do not accumulate
+empty run directories.
+
 ## Cleanup Semantics
 
-Automatic post-publish cleanup:
+The canonical cleanup stage:
 
-- is created only after a successful publish commit with complete publish
-  metadata, then is persisted before any deletion;
-- requires `uploaded=true`, a remote commit key, and a current commit-pointer
-  key in publish metadata;
+- runs after notify only when selected by the invocation range;
+- requires a succeeded publish record with `uploaded=true`, the published run
+  ID, remote commit key, and current commit-pointer key;
 - consumes the resolved cleanup policy described in
   [Configuration](../config.md);
-- refuses unsafe deletes (root delete, out-of-root delete, and symlinked
-  ancestors or entries);
-- retries any recorded incomplete target on later invocations even when no
-  publish work is selected. Missing targets are a successful, idempotent
-  cleanup result only after the completion evidence is saved.
+- refuses unsafe deletes (root delete, traversal, and out-of-root targets);
+- treats missing targets as successful, idempotent deletion; and
+- uses its ordinary failed/succeeded manifest stage record for retry. A later
+  full run can skip reusable upstream stages and retry cleanup without
+  republishing.
 
 Manual cleanup uses the same root-confined deletion mechanism. Invocation
 syntax and exact deletion scope belong in [CLI](../cli.md#clean) and
@@ -75,6 +80,8 @@ syntax and exact deletion scope belong in [CLI](../cli.md#clean) and
 - campaign-aware session root is mandatory.
 - manifest-driven stage state is durable across runs.
 - cleanup guardrails prevent destructive root/out-of-scope deletion.
+- restore installation is confined to validated relative paths beneath the
+  selected session root.
 - ordinary workspace paths retain group-writable directory and file modes across
   nested creation, replacement, and Notarius promotion.
 
@@ -83,12 +90,14 @@ syntax and exact deletion scope belong in [CLI](../cli.md#clean) and
 - Path model and local store: `internal/artifacts/paths.go`,
   `internal/artifacts/local.go`
 - Run-local materialization: `internal/stage/run_local.go`
-- Immutable bundle promotion: `internal/fileops/directory.go`
+- Immutable bundle installation: `internal/stage/extract.go`
 - Workspace modes: `internal/fileops/modes.go`
 - Cleanup confinement: `internal/fileops/cleanup.go`,
-  `internal/app/cleanup_targets.go`, `internal/app/post_publish_cleanup.go`
+  `internal/stage/cleanup.go`, `internal/stage/cleanup_plan.go`, and
+  `internal/app/cleanup_targets.go`
 - Tests: `internal/artifacts/paths_model_test.go`,
   `internal/artifacts/local_test.go`, `internal/stage/run_local_test.go`,
-  `internal/fileops/directory_test.go`, `internal/fileops/modes_posix_test.go`,
+  `internal/fileops/modes_posix_test.go`,
   `internal/fileops/cleanup_test.go`, `internal/app/cleanup_targets_test.go`,
-  `internal/app/post_publish_cleanup_test.go`
+  `internal/stage/cleanup_test.go`, and
+  `internal/app/cleanup_orchestration_test.go`

docs/operations.md

@@ -36,7 +36,12 @@ narratio session init 2026-04-04 --remote --force
 
 If `campaign.yml` sets `session_template_file`, `session init` renders it. Template variables must resolve to concrete values.
 
-Campaigns must provide stable input files for speakers, autocorrect, glossary, players, and party. Session files may override those paths for one session. The `prepare` stage materializes them under `inputs/`; configured Scriptorium artifacts can reference prepared `players`, `party`, and `glossary` files with `narratio.input.players`, `narratio.input.party`, and `narratio.input.glossary`.
+Campaigns must provide stable input files for speakers, autocorrect, glossary,
+players, and party, and may provide an optional spell-catalog overlay. Session
+files may override those paths for one session. The `prepare` stage
+materializes them under `inputs/`; configured consumers use the prepared files,
+never the original campaign or session source paths. Field definitions and
+source IDs are in [Configuration](./config.md#notarius-reference-bindings).
 
 ## Standard Session Workflow
 
@@ -65,6 +70,22 @@ narratio run 2026-04-04
 narratio session status 2026-04-04
 ```
 
+Run, plan, and status output identify the resolved pipeline overlay (or `none`)
+and effective configuration digest. Status distinguishes the current resolved
+value from the last value persisted in the session manifest, which helps
+diagnose overlay switches without changing resume authority.
+
+Before switching an operational overlay, compare its effective meaning with the
+production base through `narratio config diff default <overlay>`.
+The command is read-only and succeeds whether it finds differences or not. Its
+sorted records describe defaulted, expanded concrete configuration—not source
+file layout—so it can be used to review model, artifact, and publish changes
+without creating a session or run. Use `narratio config artifacts` to review the
+concrete artifact identities, definitions, outputs, and dependencies. Select the
+same campaign explicitly when overlays could resolve different campaign paths;
+see the [CLI reference](cli.md#config-validate-config-show-config-sources-config-artifacts-and-config-diff)
+for syntax and record format.
+
 ## Stage Execution and Continuation Behavior
 
 Canonical stage order:
@@ -75,22 +96,46 @@ Canonical stage order:
 4. `polish`
 5. `normalize`
 6. `trim`
-7. `extract`
-8. `render`
+7. `render`
+8. `extract`
 9. `analyze`
 10. `publish`
 11. `notify`
+12. `cleanup`
 
 Execution rules:
 
-- succeeded stages are skipped unless `--force` is set;
+- succeeded stages are skipped unless `--force` is set; stages with semantic
+  configuration contracts additionally require matching versioned evidence;
 - `run` continues interrupted or partially completed sessions by running non-succeeded stages;
-- forcing an upstream stage marks succeeded downstream stages as `stale` before
-  the replacement runs; and
+- forcing a stage marks succeeded transitive dependents as `stale` before the
+  replacement runs; render and extract are independent siblings; and
 - an executed failure, changed self-skip, or success that replaces a different
-  effective upstream outcome also marks succeeded downstream stages stale. A
+  effective outcome uses the same fixed dependency relation. A
   repeated self-skip with the same reason and no outputs is stable and does not
-  perpetually rerun downstream work.
+  perpetually rerun dependent work.
+
+Every aggregate stage except analyze currently provides semantic-configuration
+evidence; transcribe additionally reconciles per-speaker completion evidence,
+while analyze retains its more precise per-artifact fingerprints and validator.
+Prepare additionally validates current stable/local/S3 source identity and the
+checksums of its durable prepared copies before reuse. Changed bytes, audio
+membership, S3 object identity, or missing/tampered copies rerun prepare and
+its fixed descendants without requiring `--force`. Changing prepare selection
+semantics likewise reruns all fixed descendants; changing
+WhisperX language/service identity reuses prepare; changing a Seriatim merge
+transformation reuses prepare and transcribe; and changing a selected Audita
+overlay, profile, or module sequence reuses prepare, transcribe, and merge while
+rebuilding transcript refinement. A trim change invalidates both render and
+extract through the fixed dependency relation, while a render-only change
+preserves the extract sibling.
+
+Operational timeouts, retry/concurrency tuning, executable paths,
+workspace/cache/spool placement, reports, diagnostics, and secret values are
+excluded. Configuration, models, prompts, modules, or resources loaded
+privately inside external tools remain unobservable to Narratio. If their
+contents change behind the same configured identifier, explicitly force the
+affected stage.
 
 An explicit self-skip is a durable `skipped` stage outcome that later runs
 reconsider. It differs from successful no-output execution: disabled `render`
@@ -106,14 +151,231 @@ Single-stage execution:
 narratio run-stage normalize 2026-04-04 --force
 ```
 
+Contiguous bounded execution uses inclusive canonical endpoints:
+
+```bash
+narratio session plan 2026-04-04 --from extract --through analyze --force
+narratio run 2026-04-04 --from extract --through analyze --force
+```
+
+Omitting `--from` selects from `prepare`; omitting `--through` selects through
+`cleanup`. Force applies only within the selected range. Repeating `--from`,
+`--through`, or `--force` is rejected instead of resolving by argument order.
+The plan command uses the same selection contract and prints only the selected
+range. Planning is read-only: it clones the loaded manifest, models selected
+stage transitions and invalidation in memory, and invokes resume validation
+without writing the manifest, creating run directories, materializing files,
+or invoking pipeline adapters. Analyze detail separates explicit targets,
+prerequisite rebuilds, scheduled execution, and current reuse. This lets a
+coarsely stale aggregate analyze stage show zero artifact executions when its
+selected artifact evidence is still semantically current.
+
+Before a bounded run or plan whose range starts after `prepare`, every excluded
+prefix stage must already have a session-manifest status of `succeeded` or
+`skipped`. Narratio reports the first absent, pending, running, failed, stale,
+or interrupted prerequisite without creating a run-local directory or changing
+session state. Widen `--from` to include that stage, or recover it explicitly
+before retrying. Excluded prefix stages are not resume-validated or repaired as
+part of the bounded invocation; selected stages still reject missing, unsafe,
+or manifest-inconsistent inputs at their owning boundary.
+
+Stages after `--through` are not prerequisites and are never scheduled by the
+bounded invocation. A selected forced stage can mark one of those succeeded
+dependents stale through the fixed invalidation relation, but the dependent
+does not execute until a later invocation selects it. Production composition
+likewise initializes only collaborators needed by the selected range and
+shared session lifecycle. In particular, render does not require Notarius or
+Scriptorium, extract does not require Scriptorium, and analyze does not require
+the transcription, Seriatim, Audita, or Notarius adapters.
+
+### Transcription continuation and replacement
+
+Transcribe checkpoints each validated speaker independently. If a later
+speaker exhausts HTTP retries, the process is canceled, or the aggregate stage
+save fails, the aggregate stage is not successful and downstream merge cannot
+consume the partial set. The last successfully saved speaker records and their
+canonical `transcripts/raw/<speaker>.json` files remain durable, however.
+
+After correcting the underlying problem, retry normally:
+
+```bash
+narratio run-stage transcribe 2026-04-04
+```
+
+Narratio hashes the current prepared audio, validates recorded transcript JSON,
+checksum, size, and location, and calls WhisperX only for missing or obsolete
+speakers. A changed audio file replaces only its speaker; a changed WhisperX
+URL or language makes every current speaker non-reusable. Retry, timeout, and
+concurrency tuning do not invalidate completed speakers.
+
+Use force only when every current transcript must be replaced, including after
+a WhisperX model or private server-side configuration changes behind the same
+URL and language:
+
+```bash
+narratio run-stage transcribe 2026-04-04 --force
+```
+
+Force durably clears the reusable collection before sending requests. If that
+forced attempt fails, a later ordinary retry reuses only replacement speakers
+checkpointed after the reset; it does not revive pre-force results. Do not edit
+speaker checksums or copy older JSON into the canonical directory to influence
+reuse.
+
+The first current Narratio invocation that selects transcribe for an older
+aggregate-only manifest retranscribes every current speaker once because the
+old record cannot prove which audio bytes produced each file. Subsequent runs
+reuse the new versioned evidence normally. The overall session-manifest schema
+identifier is unchanged, but older strict-decoding Narratio binaries may reject
+a manifest after current Narratio writes the additive speaker fields; retain a
+backup or complete the upgrade before relying on downgrade.
+
+Restoring a manifest does not implicitly publish or restore every raw speaker
+file. If a recorded canonical transcript is absent locally, ordinary
+reconciliation schedules that speaker again. Removing run directories does not
+remove canonical checkpointed transcripts and does not by itself invalidate
+them.
+
+## Artifact Development Workflows
+
+Choose the narrowest workflow that matches the intended replacement:
+
+| Intent | Command | Preserved and rebuilt state |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Rebuild analysis only | [`narratio analyze 2026-04-04`](./cli.md#analyze) | Preserves transcripts and the current extraction bundle; force-runs selected analysis artifacts and their required analysis prerequisites. |
+| Rebuild extraction and analysis | [`narratio regenerate-artifacts 2026-04-04`](./cli.md#regenerate-artifacts) | Preserves transcripts; force-runs the complete configured extraction bundle, then selected analysis. `--artifacts` narrows analysis only. |
+| Continue bounded work normally | [`narratio run 2026-04-04 --from extract --through analyze`](./cli.md#run) | Uses ordinary resume decisions: current extraction and analysis can be skipped, while incomplete or obsolete work runs. |
+
+All three stop before publication. Inspect the results and run
+[`narratio publish`](./cli.md#publish) separately when delivery is intended.
+
+For the extraction-plus-analysis development loop, use:
+
+```bash
+narratio regenerate-artifacts 2026-04-04
+narratio regenerate-artifacts 2026-04-04 --artifacts session_recap,player_handout
+```
+
+This command is a transparent expansion to a forced bounded `run` from
+`extract` through `analyze`. Extraction always rebuilds its complete configured
+bundle. Analysis rebuilds the selected targets and their required analysis
+prerequisites, or uses the normal default selection when no artifact names are
+given. The command does not run publish, notify, or cleanup; delivery and
+retention remain separate operator actions.
+
+Inspect current artifact evidence, then publish explicitly when the regenerated
+set is ready:
+
+```bash
+narratio session artifacts 2026-04-04
+narratio publish 2026-04-04
+```
+
+If planning or execution reports stale, missing, failed, or tampered
+analysis evidence, regenerate the affected target instead of copying an older
+canonical file into place or editing the manifest. See
+[Troubleshooting: Analysis artifact evidence is not current](./troubleshooting.md#analysis-artifact-evidence-is-not-current).
+
+Analyze checkpoints each completed configured artifact before starting later
+artifact work. After a partial failure or interruption, retry normally: valid
+earlier checkpoints are reused and execution resumes with failed, stale, or
+missing work in dependency order. `--force` is unnecessary unless the operator
+intends to replace otherwise-current artifacts.
+
+### Developing With Audita And Notarius Overlays
+
+All three applications use ConfigKit, but each owns its root configuration and
+its own `overlays/` directory beside that file. A Narratio testing overlay can
+explicitly select downstream testing overlays without requiring their names to
+match. For example, Narratio's `overlays/testing.yml` may contain:
+
+```yaml
+audita:
+  overlay: testing
+notarius:
+  config_overlay: downstream-economy
+```
+
+Place Audita's settings in `overlays/testing.yml` beside its configuration, and
+Notarius's settings in `overlays/downstream-economy.yml` beside its configuration.
+Use each tool's own schema for model/profile selection and other settings;
+Narratio neither copies those settings nor implicitly forwards its overlay name.
+Select the Narratio file with `--overlay testing` on the desired command. Each
+downstream selector is used only when its stage actually executes: `polish` for
+Audita and `extract` for Notarius. Production can omit both selectors.
+
+For Audita debug inspection, its testing overlay can include:
+
+```yaml
+diagnostics:
+  debug: true
+  work_dir: /path/to/audita-debug
+```
+
+Audita retains detailed artifacts under that directory. Inspect them there;
+Narratio does not collect or manage them. Ordinary Audita reports remain a
+separate existing integration. Leave debug disabled in Audita's production
+configuration unless deliberately needed.
+
+Notarius's debug controls are different: `debug.directory` selects a location
+but does not enable capture. Capture requires its `--debug` flag, which Narratio
+does not currently forward. Selecting a Notarius testing overlay therefore does
+not by itself enable a debug bundle. See the upstream
+[Audita configuration](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v2.0.1/docs/config.md)
+and [Notarius CLI](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/notarius/src/tag/v0.8.1/docs/cli.md)
+for their respective controls.
+
+Edits inside downstream configuration behind an unchanged selector are not
+automatically detected by Narratio. To inspect a fresh Audita debug run, explicitly
+rerun polish, for example:
+
+```sh
+narratio run SESSION --overlay testing --force --from polish --through polish
+```
+
+This replaces polish output and invalidates dependent results; it is not a
+diagnostics-only operation. Selecting testing does not create an isolated
+workspace or retain a separate current result.
+
+Notarius v0.8+ defaults to two additional eligible transient provider attempts
+per generation. Review downstream retry settings and Narratio's extraction
+timeout together; retries can increase elapsed time and provider charges.
+Notarius v0.8.1 refreshes its built-in profile checkpoint identity, so older
+checkpoints may not be reused. Source-keyed chunk plans and already published
+outputs are unaffected; no manual cache deletion is required.
+
+Selecting Narratio's `testing` overlay then supplies `downstream-economy` only
+when extraction executes. Switching that explicit selector makes a recorded
+extraction non-current and reruns it when `extract` is in the selected stage
+range; the usual dependent invalidation then applies. Selecting an overlay does
+not create a separate workspace or retain a separate current extraction result.
+
+Narratio cannot observe edits inside Notarius configuration behind an unchanged
+selector. Force extraction after such an edit when a replacement is intended.
+Use `regenerate-artifacts` when both extraction and analysis must be rebuilt;
+use `analyze` when the existing extraction bundle should be preserved. Field
+semantics belong in [Configuration](./config.md#notarius-configuration-overlay),
+with Audita selectors covered under
+[Audita selection and credentials](./config.md#audita-selection-and-credentials).
+Exact downstream invocations belong in the [Audita](./integrations/audita.md)
+and [Notarius](./integrations/notarius.md#invocation) integration contracts.
+
 ## Artifact Selection
 
-`--artifacts` can be used on `run`, `run-stage`, `analyze`, and `publish`.
+For a configured artifact family, selecting its family key expands to every
+concrete character artifact. Select a concrete generated key to operate on one
+member only. Manifests and plan output retain the concrete key as the durable
+identity and include the family and character ID as optional provenance.
+
+`--artifacts` can be used on `run`, `session plan`, `run-stage`, `analyze`, and
+`publish`. For a bounded run or plan, the selected range must contain `analyze`
+or `publish`.
 
 Selection behavior:
 
 - validates names against `pipeline.scriptorium.artifacts`;
-- filters analyze execution to selected configured artifacts;
+- selects explicit analyze targets and permits their required configured
+  prerequisites to be reused or rebuilt first;
 - filters publish rules for `narratio.artifact.<name>` sources only;
 - does not suppress built-in transcript, bounds, or explicitly configured
   `narratio.extraction.<name>` publish sources; and
@@ -135,17 +397,148 @@ The directory is immutable once promoted. Configured lanes become
 the bundle and `index.json` are retained for audit and resume validation but
 are not selectable or published implicitly.
 
+Configured Notarius references resolve only from the current manifest-backed
+prepared inputs. Their canonical locations are `inputs/party.yml`,
+`inputs/players.yml`, `inputs/glossary.yml`, and, when configured,
+`inputs/spell_catalog.json`. Extraction supplies Notarius with verified,
+content-addressed copies under
+`cache/notarius/references/<sha256>/<prepared-basename>`. The full lowercase
+SHA-256 digest identifies the reference bytes, so retries and later invocations
+reuse the same path while changed bytes select a new path. Older snapshots are
+retained and are not current artifact evidence. A concurrent refresh of
+canonical prepared files therefore cannot change the bytes consumed by an
+in-flight invocation.
+For a canonical party, preparation retains the validated authored party bytes
+at `inputs/party.yml` and generates `inputs/players.yml` from that roster.
+The manifest records their checksums separately, with the players input marked
+as derived from the party; refresh preparation after changing the roster rather
+than editing either prepared file.
+Inspect the effective stable-input inventory and
+prepared-file readiness with:
+
+```bash
+narratio session status 2026-04-04
+narratio session validate 2026-04-04
+```
+
+Reference metadata records selector, source ID, session-relative path,
+checksum, and byte size, but never payload contents. Changing a prepared
+reference changes extraction identity: ordinary continuation rejects the old
+result, reruns Notarius, and marks successful downstream stages stale. If the
+prepared file is missing or inconsistent with its manifest checksum, repair
+the source configuration and refresh prepared state first:
+
+```bash
+narratio run-stage prepare 2026-04-04 --force
+```
+
 Starting a replacement clears the previous extraction payload from the current
 session-stage record. If that replacement fails or self-skips, the current
-record does not fall back to the earlier outputs. The earlier run manifest and
-immutable bundle remain available for inspection, but downstream resolution
-requires a new current successful extraction record.
+record does not fall back to the earlier outputs. The earlier immutable bundle
+remains available for inspection, but downstream resolution requires a new
+current successful extraction record.
 
-Atomic Notarius bundle promotion is supported on Linux and macOS. On Windows
-and other operating systems, extraction fails before copying the bundle into a
-temporary promotion tree because Narratio has no verified atomic no-replace
-directory primitive there. This is an extraction limitation, not a broader
-platform-support guarantee for every Narratio workflow.
+Notarius extraction validates its run-local bundle and moves it once to the
+unique durable bundle path. A pre-existing durable destination is a collision;
+no duplicate promotion tree is created.
+
+`pipeline.notarius.resume` and `pipeline.notarius.chunk_cache` control work
+inside an executed Notarius invocation. Ordinary extraction forwards their
+configured values. Forced extraction always disables checkpoint loading and
+requests chunk-plan `refresh`, even when the configured mode is `bypass`.
+Refresh regenerates and replaces only the active input's accepted chunk plan;
+it is not cache deletion.
+
+Notarius checkpoint recording must be enabled in the deployed Notarius
+configuration. Narratio neither creates a Notarius pipeline/configuration nor
+reads it to infer checkpoint availability. Configure explicit persistent
+Notarius chunk-plan and checkpoint roots when reuse must survive separate
+Narratio subprocesses. A changed reference, transcript, selected profile,
+profile content, endpoint, or other Notarius checkpoint identity input can
+produce a legitimate cold miss.
+
+There are two independent resume boundaries: Narratio may skip a completed
+`extract` stage without invoking Notarius, while `--resume` allows Notarius to
+reuse compatible accepted work only after Narratio has decided extraction must
+execute. Deleting Narratio's local reference snapshots does not invalidate a
+complete durable extraction; missing snapshots are reconstructed only when a
+later extraction actually runs.
+
+## Migrating Manifest Overlay Provenance
+
+The pipeline-selection rename is a clean cutover. Manifests containing
+`effective_config.selected_profile` are rejected by strict decoding; Narratio
+does not silently discard or translate that retired field.
+
+Before using an affected local session with the new version:
+
+1. Stop Narratio activity for the session and back up its manifest.
+2. Rename only `effective_config.selected_profile` to `selected_overlay`, keeping
+   its `name` and `source`, or remove the retired informational member. If a
+   current `selected_overlay` member already exists, retain it and remove the
+   retired member rather than creating duplicate keys.
+3. Preserve the schema version, digest, stage records, checkpoint evidence,
+   output references, and other session state. Retry the intended command.
+
+This metadata is informational, not resume authority. Do not delete session
+progress or force all stages merely to perform this migration. Other unknown
+fields still require investigation rather than blanket removal.
+
+Do not edit immutable remote committed snapshots. Restoring an older snapshot
+with retired provenance requires a compatible previous Narratio version, followed
+by migration of the restored local manifest before using the new version.
+
+## Migrating Audita and Provider Credentials
+
+This is a breaking clean cutover to Audita v2. Narratio does not translate an
+Audita v1 configuration, retain old field aliases, or generate a downstream
+configuration. Update both the deployed Audita executable/configuration and
+the Narratio pipeline before running polish. Retired Narratio fields are
+rejected by strict configuration loading; account for this break when choosing
+a release version.
+
+| Previous Narratio setting | New ownership and selection |
+| --- | --- |
+| `audita.base_url` | Audita v2 `backends.<id>.endpoint` |
+| `audita.total_llm_concurrency`, `proposal_llm_concurrency`, `validation_llm_concurrency` | Audita v2 `backends.<id>.concurrency` and optional `queue_capacity`; backend capacity is shared across roles |
+| `audita.model`, `validation_model` | Audita PromptKit profile files; optionally select them from Narratio with `audita.proposal_profile` and `validation_profile` |
+| `audita.llm_api_key` | `audita.credentials: [PROVIDER_KEY_NAME]`, matching each Audita backend's `credential` name |
+| `notarius.llm_api_key` | `notarius.credentials: [PROVIDER_KEY_NAME]`, matching references in Notarius-owned profiles |
+| `audita.work_dir_retention`, `report` | Remove; Audita's external configuration owns diagnostics and reporting |
+
+An Audita configuration can also be selected through `audita.config_path`,
+and `audita.overlay` selects an Audita overlay independently of Narratio's
+`--overlay`. Narratio forwards no implicit provider key: a single provider-named
+secret source may be listed for both adapters, and an Audita-only backend key
+may be listed only for Audita. Audita resolves credentials for all configured
+backends, including those not currently selected. Notarius looks up its own
+profiles; Narratio does not discover their credential names. Credential lists
+may be cleared with `[]` in a Narratio overlay.
+
+Prepare the external file from Audita's maintained
+[local example](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v2.0.0/examples/minimal-config.yml),
+[service example](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v2.0.0/examples/production-config.yml),
+and [v2 migration guide](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v2.0.0/docs/migrations/v2.md).
+Before switching the executable, validate the file offline:
+
+```bash
+audita config validate --config /usr/local/etc/audita/config.yml
+```
+
+Use `audita config print-effective --config /usr/local/etc/audita/config.yml --view profiles`
+to inspect downstream profile selection without contacting a provider. For a
+production Audita configuration, leave ordinary reports enabled
+and debug disabled unless an operator deliberately chooses otherwise; Narratio
+does not override those settings. Audita writes `errors.yml`, `recoveries.yml`,
+and `report.md` beside the polished output when reporting is enabled. An
+exit-zero run with a valid transcript succeeds even if those reports describe
+recoverable errors or no applied corrections. See the [Audita integration
+contract](./integrations/audita.md) for report placement and limits.
+
+Narratio's polish resume evidence tracks selected config path, Audita overlay,
+profiles, ordered modules, description, schema, and output identity. Editing
+Audita-owned files behind unchanged selectors is invisible to Narratio; force
+polish with `narratio run-stage polish <session-id> --force` after such edits.
 
 ## External Command Lifecycle
 
@@ -164,16 +557,26 @@ tree and reports which stream exceeded the limit.
 
 Run-local diagnostics are:
 
+- `runs/{run_id}/polish/outputs/transcripts/errors.yml`,
+  `recoveries.yml`, and `report.md` when Audita writes them beside its
+  run-local polished transcript
 - `runs/{run_id}/extract/notarius.receipt.json`
 - `runs/{run_id}/extract/notarius.stderr.log`
 - `runs/{run_id}/extract/notarius-output/` before durable promotion
 
-The run-record upload is an allowlist derived from the validated run manifest,
-not a workspace scan. Each declared source is opened without following
-symlinked ancestors or the leaf, verified as a regular file, and streamed from
-that verified descriptor. Unlisted files and unsafe entries are never uploaded.
-The durable bundle is never scanned for implicit publication; only lanes named
-by explicit `pipeline.publish.outputs` rules are uploaded.
+The run upload is an allowlist derived from the session manifest's declared
+current-run outputs, logs, and generated configurations, not a workspace scan.
+References to canonical session files and prior-run paths are excluded. Each
+declared source is opened without following symlinked ancestors or the leaf,
+verified as a regular file, and streamed from that verified descriptor.
+Unlisted files and unsafe entries are never uploaded; a run with no declared
+current-run diagnostics uploads no run-local files. No distinguished diagnostic
+file is uploaded. The durable bundle is never scanned for implicit publication;
+only lanes named by explicit `pipeline.publish.outputs` rules are uploaded.
+To inspect a published polish report remotely, read its declared object under
+the run archive's `polish/outputs/transcripts/` prefix. Session restore does
+not restore run-archive diagnostics as canonical session files; it restores only
+the committed manifest and declared transcript/artifact objects.
 
 To intentionally replace the current extraction result, run:
 
@@ -181,15 +584,27 @@ To intentionally replace the current extraction result, run:
 narratio run-stage extract 2026-04-04 --force
 ```
 
-Narratio automatically reruns extraction when its recorded invocation contract
-or durable output validation changes. It cannot fingerprint configuration
-files, profiles, prompts, modules, or references loaded transitively by
-Notarius. Force extraction after changing any of those inputs, even when the
+Narratio automatically reruns extraction when its recorded invocation contract,
+prepared Narratio reference identities, or durable output validation changes.
+The semantic portion covers Notarius enablement, pipeline identity, declared
+reference mapping, output contracts, and the explicit Notarius configuration
+profile selector. Executable, timeout, working directory, and private
+config-file paths are operational and do not invalidate a current result.
+It cannot fingerprint configuration or profile contents, prompts, modules, or
+other references loaded transitively by Notarius itself. Force extraction after
+changing any of those inputs behind an unchanged selector, even when the
 top-level Narratio and Notarius config paths remain the same. A forced extract
 marks successful downstream stages stale. Ordinary extraction failures or
 outcome changes also stale affected downstream stages, while an identical
 repeated `notarius_disabled` self-skip does not repeatedly invalidate them.
 
+Publish reuse additionally tracks enabled/run-upload behavior, normalized
+output rules, and remote backend/bucket/region/endpoint/root identity.
+Credential environment names, local workspace placement, and run IDs are
+excluded. Regardless of semantic reuse evidence, executing publish reads
+independent remote locks directly and rechecks initially unlocked sources
+before commit selection.
+
 ## Publish Workflow
 
 Run publish only:
@@ -204,6 +619,9 @@ Equivalent:
 narratio run-stage publish 2026-04-04 --force
 ```
 
+This standalone command stops after publish and does not invoke cleanup. A
+default full `run` continues through notify and cleanup.
+
 Publish commit model:
 
 - uploads eligible run files under `{session_prefix}/runs/{run_id}/`, excluding
@@ -227,31 +645,44 @@ commit by version, checksum, size, and storage generation; committed artifacts
 are also checksum- and generation-bound. Readers accept this contract now and
 strictly reject mismatched or unknown data.
 
-Legacy reads are limited to a coherent `current/manifest.json` and
-`current/run_id.txt` pair; a torn pair is rejected. New publication does not
-write that pair and remote commit state does not carry local
-`current_pointer_written` metadata.
+A selected commit may carry a `published_output` declaration from an earlier
+run in the same campaign/session. Restore, previous-session caching, status,
+and artifact inspection use that declaration's exact immutable key and stable
+source; they do not reconstruct a current-run key or scan the session prefix.
+Other artifact types remain confined to the selected commit's own run.
+
+When the pointer is absent, remote state is not published; republish the
+session to establish a committed snapshot. Remote commit state does not carry
+local `current_pointer_written` metadata.
 
 ## Publish Locks
 
-Lock sources:
+Each mutable lock is an independent strict JSON object at
+`{session_prefix}/locks/{sha256(source)}.lock`. The lowercase digest is computed
+from the exact canonical source. Listing validates every object in that
+reserved prefix and reports locks sorted by source.
 
-- static locks in `pipeline.publish.locks`
-- mutable remote locks in `{session_prefix}/locks.yml`
+Upgrades do not read, migrate, or delete the retired `{session_prefix}/locks.yml`
+object. It has no effect on publication and may be removed manually after
+verifying lock commands and publication behavior with the upgraded Narratio
+version. No migration command is required.
 
-Effective lock rules:
+Operational rules:
 
-- static and remote locks are merged;
-- static locks win on source collisions;
-- locked outputs are intentional skips;
-- lock add/remove commands mutate only remote lock state through generation-bound
-  conditional writes. A command retries a bounded number of concurrent
-  conflicts while its invocation context remains active, so it never replaces a
-  different lock-document generation; and
-- a publish re-reads remote locks immediately before it writes the current
-  commit pointer. A lock committed before that recheck prevents selecting the
-  new snapshot, even though its already-uploaded immutable objects may remain
-  available for a later retry.
+- add uses conditional creation and reports an existing lock;
+- add with `--force` observes the current generation and attempts one
+  generation-matched replacement. A concurrent change is reported for an
+  explicit operator retry;
+- remove is idempotent and reports whether a lock was present;
+- the initial publish lock snapshot controls output planning. A locked source
+  carries its exact declaration from the prior current commit when available;
+  a never-published locked source remains absent even when required;
+- carried bytes are not copied. Publish verifies the prior object's exact key,
+  size, and generation without downloading it; and
+- after immutable uploads and the immutable commit, publish re-reads every
+  initially unlocked participating source. A newly added lock prevents the
+  current pointer from advancing, although the immutable attempt may remain.
+  A removed initial lock may conservatively cause one carry.
 
 Examples:
 
@@ -285,13 +716,22 @@ Default restore scope:
 
 - the committed session manifest and the committed transcript/artifact objects
   declared by the selected remote commit
-- `previous/**` when needed by configured previous-session artifact inputs
+- `previous/**` when needed by configured previous-session artifact inputs;
+  each is selected from its exact committed `published_output` declaration
 
 Optional:
 
 - `--include-audio` to include `audio/**`
 - `--force` to overwrite eligible conflicting regular files; it never replaces
-  directories or other non-regular local targets
+  directories, symlinks, or other non-regular local targets
+
+Restore treats a local leaf symlink or any symlinked ancestor beneath the
+selected session root as a conflict, even when the linked content matches the
+selected remote object. `--force` does not override that conflict.
+
+Before each install, restore validates the destination again beneath the
+selected session root. A target changed into a symlink, directory, or other
+non-regular entry is not overwritten.
 
 Restore writes an execution report at `reports/restore-latest.json`.
 
@@ -319,10 +759,24 @@ Durable session paths:
 - `logs/**`
 - `config/**`
 - `runs/**`
+- `cache/notarius/references/<sha256>/<prepared-basename>`
+
+`manifest.json` is the versioned session-progress document. Narratio accepts
+only `narratio.session-manifest.v1`. Do not edit unsupported session state to
+add missing markers. Move it aside and regenerate it, restore a verified
+current committed snapshot, or republish healthy regenerated state as the
+relevant workflow requires.
 
 Validated Notarius bundles live below `artifacts/notarius/{run_id}/`; receipt,
 stderr, and pre-promotion output remain in the producing run's `extract`
 directory as described in [Extraction Workflow](#extraction-workflow).
+Stable reference snapshots live in the session cache path above. Ordinary
+published-run cleanup removes its selected run-local target but retains this
+cache, and publish/restore never enumerate it as an artifact. Remove a snapshot
+or digest directory manually only while no command is active for the session;
+regular missing or corrupt content is reconstructed on the next executed
+extraction, while symlinks, directories, and other unsafe conflicts must be
+investigated and removed deliberately.
 
 Run-local layout:
 
@@ -344,6 +798,8 @@ Cache layout (durable S3 audio cache):
 Each cached audio file has an adjacent managed identity record. It binds the
 file to its remote object version and verified digest; deleting or altering the
 record simply causes Narratio to download and verify the object again.
+Remote audio and restored files are fully transferred into sibling temporary
+files and validated before they replace their canonical workspace paths.
 
 ### Workspace Permissions
 
@@ -355,18 +811,29 @@ converge on `0664`. Narratio explicitly applies these modes so a restrictive
 caller umask does not remove group write or setgid. It does not change file or
 directory ownership: the configured workspace's existing group is inherited.
 
-Windows does not implement POSIX mode bits or setgid semantics. Configure the
-workspace, spool, and cache locations with an ACL that grants the collaborating
-group read/write access, and configure credential locations with an ACL limited
-to the intended credential owner. Do not use POSIX mode displays as evidence of
-Windows access control.
-
 API keys are credentials, not ordinary workspace data. Store them outside the
 shared workspace or in a separately restricted credential location; ordinary
 workspace group access must never be treated as authorization to read keys.
-On POSIX, provision a credential directory as `0700` and credential files as
-`0600`; Narratio rejects group- or other-readable configured credential paths.
-On Windows, restrict the directory and files with ACLs to the credential owner.
+Provision a credential directory as `0700` and credential files as `0600`;
+these permission modes are an operator requirement and are not enforced by
+ConfigKit.
+
+Every pipeline-loading command bootstraps credentials once, before the first
+configuration load and before any adapter is constructed. `--secrets-dir`
+selects an explicit directory (relative paths use caller CWD). Otherwise a
+present `secrets/` beside the resolved root pipeline is used, while an absent
+conventional directory is skipped. Explicit missing/empty selections and
+invalid existing directories fail the command. ConfigKit follows a symlink used
+as the selected directory, but immediate entries must be regular non-symlink
+files. Existing environment variables—including empty values—always win.
+
+S3 `access_key_id` and `secret_access_key` are an optional pair of typed
+environment references. When both are absent, the AWS SDK retains its default
+credential provider chain. When both are configured, Narratio supplies their
+load-time resolved values through an explicit static provider. Audita and
+Notarius credential lists likewise resolve at pipeline load. Each adapter
+receives only its listed names and captured values, with no alias mapping or
+ambient environment inheritance. See [configuration](./config.md#audita-selection-and-credentials).
 
 External adapter results are individually bounded before Narratio validates or
 materializes them. These per-file limits do not reserve disk space: prevent hard
@@ -399,13 +866,29 @@ Rules:
 - `clean` deletes work/spool session state;
 - cache is preserved unless `--clear-cache` is set;
 - each deletion is confined beneath its configured workspace, spool, or cache
-  root and refuses symlinked paths;
-- automatic post-publish cleanup is gated by successful publish commit plus:
+  root; root, traversal, and out-of-root targets are refused;
+- the final cleanup stage is gated by successful publish evidence plus:
   - `pipeline.spool.delete_audio_after_publish=true`
   - `pipeline.workspace.cleanup_after_publish=true`
-  - Narratio first records the exact run-scoped cleanup obligation. If cleanup
-    reports incomplete, the remote committed snapshot remains current; rerun
-    Narratio to retry only the outstanding confined local cleanup.
+  - the manifest publish record has `uploaded=true`, the published run ID, the
+    exact remote commit key, and the current commit-pointer key.
+
+Cleanup derives only the configured run-scoped spool and workspace targets,
+uses root-confined deletion, and does not read or mutate object storage. A
+failure leaves publish succeeded and the remote committed snapshot current.
+Retry with a normal full run: valid upstream work, including publish and notify,
+is skipped while the failed cleanup stage runs again. `run-stage cleanup` is
+also available when the manifest has valid publish evidence. A range ending at
+`notify` or earlier and the standalone `publish` command never delete local
+state.
+
+Older local manifests that contain the retired cleanup-obligation field are
+intentionally incompatible with strict manifest decoding. If such an
+obligation is still outstanding, complete it with the pre-upgrade binary.
+Otherwise verify that the remote publication is committed, move aside or
+regenerate the incompatible local manifest (or restore the verified remote
+snapshot), and then use the cleanup stage. Manual JSON editing is not the
+normal migration path.
 
 ## Operational Caveats
 
@@ -413,4 +896,5 @@ Rules:
 - Publish requires prerequisite stages through `render` and `analyze` to be succeeded.
 - Markdown publish defaults require render outputs (`transcripts/final.md` and `transcripts/final.trimmed.md`).
 - Restore requires configured object storage and committed remote current state.
-- Storage-backed commands load filesystem secrets before object-store initialization.
+- Pipeline-loading commands bootstrap filesystem secrets once before configuration
+  resolution and object-store initialization.

docs/oss/attribution.md

@@ -0,0 +1,213 @@
+# Open Source Attribution Notices
+
+## Standard Repository Policies
+
+Material: `docs/policy/agents.md`, `architecture.md`, `documentation.md`,
+`testing.md`, `release.md`, `meta.md`, and `oss.md`; 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 `v0.4.2`.
+
+Copyright (C) 2026 Eric Rakestraw
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later
+
+License and notices: [LGPL 3.0](licenses/LGPL-3.0.txt) |
+[GPL 3.0](licenses/GPL-3.0.txt) |
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/commit/67c03690181c5af8dde6be325abac241dae6732f/COPYRIGHT) |
+[LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/commit/67c03690181c5af8dde6be325abac241dae6732f/LICENSE).
+
+[Source](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/commit/67c03690181c5af8dde6be325abac241dae6732f).
+
+## 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: MIT AND Apache-2.0
+
+License and notices: [MIT](licenses/MIT.txt) |
+[Apache 2.0](licenses/Apache-2.0.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).
+
+## 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: MIT AND Apache-2.0
+
+License and notices: [MIT](licenses/MIT.txt) |
+[Apache 2.0](licenses/Apache-2.0.txt) |
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/yaml/go-yaml/blob/1c17b9cee72bf81ae73a8be50fbd7dd3a9985125/LICENSE) |
+[NOTICE](https://github.com/yaml/go-yaml/blob/1c17b9cee72bf81ae73a8be50fbd7dd3a9985125/NOTICE).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/yaml/go-yaml/commit/1c17b9cee72bf81ae73a8be50fbd7dd3a9985125).
+
+## go-cmp
+
+Selected module: `github.com/google/go-cmp` at `v0.7.0` (test-only).
+
+Copyright (c) 2017 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+License and notices: [BSD 3-Clause](licenses/BSD-3-Clause.txt) |
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/google/go-cmp/blob/9b12f366a942ebc7254abc7f32ca05068b455fb7/LICENSE).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/google/go-cmp/commit/9b12f366a942ebc7254abc7f32ca05068b455fb7).
+
+## Go sync extension
+
+Selected module: `golang.org/x/sync` at `v0.22.0`.
+
+Copyright 2009 The Go Authors.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+License and notices: [BSD 3-Clause](licenses/BSD-3-Clause.txt) |
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/golang/sync/blob/1eb64d4bc0cde6da1bb8ebc7f178bb577508e5d0/LICENSE) |
+[PATENTS](https://github.com/golang/sync/blob/1eb64d4bc0cde6da1bb8ebc7f178bb577508e5d0/PATENTS).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/golang/sync/commit/1eb64d4bc0cde6da1bb8ebc7f178bb577508e5d0).
+
+## Go system extension
+
+Selected module: `golang.org/x/sys` at `v0.47.0`.
+
+Copyright 2009 The Go Authors.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+License and notices: [BSD 3-Clause](licenses/BSD-3-Clause.txt) |
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/golang/sys/blob/9e7e939dcafac07e8ab4cffa6e5fc74908413f00/LICENSE) |
+[PATENTS](https://github.com/golang/sys/blob/9e7e939dcafac07e8ab4cffa6e5fc74908413f00/PATENTS).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/golang/sys/commit/9e7e939dcafac07e8ab4cffa6e5fc74908413f00).
+
+## Go runtime and standard library
+
+Material: Go `1.26.7` runtime and standard library material incorporated in
+release binaries built with the declared `golang:1.26.7` CI toolchain.
+
+Copyright 2009 The Go Authors.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+License and notices: [BSD 3-Clause](licenses/BSD-3-Clause.txt) |
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/golang/go/blob/e3336a22ad3f0a90bd252c95d8b5544e02674205/LICENSE) |
+[PATENTS](https://github.com/golang/go/blob/e3336a22ad3f0a90bd252c95d8b5544e02674205/PATENTS).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/golang/go/commit/e3336a22ad3f0a90bd252c95d8b5544e02674205).
+
+## AWS SDK for Go v2
+
+Selected modules under `github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2` at source revision
+`2223642aeafb3b46ae924667ee47d31a1cf5a9d5`: root `v1.41.7`,
+`aws/protocol/eventstream` `v1.7.10`, `config` `v1.32.17`, `credentials`
+`v1.19.16`, `feature/ec2/imds` `v1.18.23`, `internal/configsources`
+`v1.4.23`, `internal/endpoints/v2` `v2.7.23`, `internal/v4a` `v1.4.24`,
+`service/internal/accept-encoding` `v1.13.9`, `service/internal/checksum`
+`v1.9.15`, `service/internal/presigned-url` `v1.13.23`,
+`service/internal/s3shared` `v1.19.23`, `service/signin` `v1.0.11`,
+`service/sso` `v1.30.17`, `service/ssooidc` `v1.35.21`, and `service/sts`
+`v1.42.1`.
+
+Copyright 2015 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+
+Copyright 2014-2015 Stripe, Inc.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+License and notices: [Apache 2.0](licenses/Apache-2.0.txt) |
+[LICENSE.txt](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/blob/2223642aeafb3b46ae924667ee47d31a1cf5a9d5/LICENSE.txt) |
+[NOTICE.txt](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/blob/2223642aeafb3b46ae924667ee47d31a1cf5a9d5/NOTICE.txt).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/commit/2223642aeafb3b46ae924667ee47d31a1cf5a9d5).
+
+## AWS SDK for Go v2 S3
+
+Selected module: `github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/s3` at `v1.101.0`.
+
+Copyright 2015 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+
+Copyright 2014-2015 Stripe, Inc.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+License and notices: [Apache 2.0](licenses/Apache-2.0.txt) |
+[LICENSE.txt](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/blob/84ddd08980744ac0f3bacfe7d2796c861671accc/service/s3/LICENSE.txt) |
+[NOTICE.txt](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/blob/84ddd08980744ac0f3bacfe7d2796c861671accc/NOTICE.txt).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/commit/84ddd08980744ac0f3bacfe7d2796c861671accc).
+
+## AWS Smithy Go
+
+Selected module: `github.com/aws/smithy-go` at `v1.25.1`.
+
+Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+License and notices: [Apache 2.0](licenses/Apache-2.0.txt) |
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/aws/smithy-go/blob/e094f45e716e33a1b950cf8bbe804790bf87f965/LICENSE) |
+[NOTICE](https://github.com/aws/smithy-go/blob/e094f45e716e33a1b950cf8bbe804790bf87f965/NOTICE).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/aws/smithy-go/commit/e094f45e716e33a1b950cf8bbe804790bf87f965).
+
+## Go singleflight in AWS SDK for Go v2
+
+Material: `internal/sync/singleflight` in the selected AWS SDK root module.
+
+Copyright (c) 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+
+Copyright 2013 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+License and notices: [BSD 3-Clause](licenses/BSD-3-Clause.txt) |
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/blob/2223642aeafb3b46ae924667ee47d31a1cf5a9d5/internal/sync/singleflight/LICENSE).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/commit/2223642aeafb3b46ae924667ee47d31a1cf5a9d5).
+
+## Go singleflight in AWS Smithy Go
+
+Material: `internal/sync/singleflight` in the selected smithy-go module.
+
+Copyright (c) 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+
+Copyright 2013 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+License and notices: [BSD 3-Clause](licenses/BSD-3-Clause.txt) |
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/aws/smithy-go/blob/e094f45e716e33a1b950cf8bbe804790bf87f965/internal/sync/singleflight/LICENSE).
+
+[Source](https://github.com/aws/smithy-go/commit/e094f45e716e33a1b950cf8bbe804790bf87f965).

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+
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+above cannot be given local legal effect according to their terms,
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+an absolute waiver of all civil liability in connection with the
+Program, unless a warranty or assumption of liability accompanies a
+copy of the Program in return for a fee.
+
+                     END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
+
+            How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
+
+  If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
+possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
+free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
+
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+to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
+state the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
+the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
+
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+    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
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+    along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
+
+  If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short
+notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:
+
+    <program>  Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
+    This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
+    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
+    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
+
+The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
+parts of the General Public License.  Of course, your program's commands
+might be different; for a GUI interface, you would use an "about box".
+
+  You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school,
+if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary.
+For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the GNU GPL, see
+<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+  The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program
+into proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you
+may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with
+the library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
+Public License instead of this License.  But first, please read
+<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html>.

docs/oss/licenses/LGPL-3.0.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+                   GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
+                       Version 3, 29 June 2007
+
+ Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/>
+ Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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+
+
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+the terms and conditions of version 3 of the GNU General Public
+License, supplemented by the additional permissions listed below.
+
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+General Public License, and the "GNU GPL" refers to version 3 of the GNU
+General Public License.
+
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+other than an Application or a Combined Work as defined below.
+
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+Defining a subclass of a class defined by the Library is deemed a mode
+of using an interface provided by the Library.
+
+  A "Combined Work" is a work produced by combining or linking an
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+
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+   on the Library, uncombined with any other library facilities,
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+   is a work based on the Library, and explaining where to find the
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+
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+Library.

docs/oss/licenses/MIT.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and
+associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the
+following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial
+portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT
+LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO
+EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER
+IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE
+USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

docs/policy/agents.md

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+# Agent Policy
+
+**Base Policy Version:** 1.3
+
+**Last Updated**: 2026-09-28
+
+**Upstream Source**: 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.
+
+## 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.

docs/policy/architecture.md

@@ -1,10 +1,41 @@
-# Architecture
+# Architecture Policy
 
-This document defines Narratio's intended high-level architecture and the
-invariants that changes must preserve. Implemented component details belong in
-the [Internal Overview](../internal/overview.md) and its linked documents.
-Significant architectural decision history belongs under `docs/adr/` when such
-records exist.
+**Base Policy Version:** 1.3
+
+**Last Updated**: 2026-09-28
+
+**Upstream Source**: 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.
 
 ## System Shape
 
@@ -29,6 +60,10 @@ in the [integration documentation](../integrations/).
 The pipeline has one canonical ordered stage set. Configuration may enable,
 disable, or parameterize supported behavior, but it must not turn that sequence
 into an arbitrary DAG or hide orchestration in generic workflow abstractions.
+An invocation selects either the full sequence or one inclusive contiguous
+range of it. Execution remains flat and canonical even though invalidation is
+dependency-aware: the application owns a separate fixed relation used only to
+stale transitive dependents, including dependents outside a selected range.
 The implemented stage inventory belongs in the
 [Internal Overview](../internal/overview.md).
 
@@ -87,8 +122,10 @@ merely on incidental files existing on disk.
 
 A failed or interrupted stage must not be presented as successful. Failure
 should preserve enough local state and diagnostics for inspection, recovery,
-and resume. Forcing an upstream stage invalidates succeeded downstream work
-according to the canonical stage order.
+and resume. Forcing a stage invalidates succeeded transitive dependents
+according to a fixed application-owned relation that is separate from canonical
+execution order. The relation is validated against the stage inventory and is
+not configurable.
 
 A stage may explicitly self-skip with a stable reason and no outputs. That
 outcome is persisted, clears older outputs owned by the stage, and is
@@ -110,8 +147,11 @@ adapter and publish metadata.
 
 Resume and skip decisions are manifest-driven. Filesystem state may be
 inspected and validated, but file presence alone does not replace recorded
-stage state. Invocation-scoped run records provide an audit of one execution;
-they do not replace the session manifest as progress authority.
+stage state. Each invocation retains an in-memory command summary and a
+run-local workspace identity, but neither is a durable progress ledger. The
+physical run directory is created on demand only when an executing stage
+requires it; a fully reused invocation or a cleanup-only invocation does not
+leave an empty run directory.
 
 Restore treats committed remote current state as its authority. It must plan
 deterministically, confine remote-to-local paths, protect local conflicts, and
@@ -137,8 +177,16 @@ Configuration is strict, explicit, centralized, and operator-oriented.
 - YAML decoding rejects unknown fields.
 - Defaults are centralized and testable.
 - Empty configured values do not silently replace meaningful defaults.
-- Validation rejects invalid composition before stage execution where
+- Validation rejects invalid configuration before stage execution where
   practical.
+- Root-owned imports and one selected overlay resolve deterministically through
+  the configuration owner; commands do not implement their own merge rules.
+- Canonical party rosters are campaign-owned. Their derived players projection
+  and concrete character-family artifacts are resolved before runtime stages
+  or adapters receive configuration.
+- Resume uses stage- or artifact-owned semantic evidence for observable
+  result-affecting configuration; overlay identity and an effective digest are
+  provenance, never blanket cache keys.
 - Session templating remains narrow and deterministic rather than becoming a
   general configuration language.
 - Secret values are supplied indirectly and are not persisted in ordinary
@@ -171,8 +219,8 @@ availability.
 Writes, moves, replacements, and deletions must use narrow, explicit,
 root-confined destinations. Symlinks, traversal, broad roots, and ambiguous
 relative destinations must not expand the scope of an operation. Cleanup is
-permitted only through explicit operator action or configured post-publish
-gates, and it must preserve durable cache unless cache removal is explicitly
+permitted only through explicit operator action or the configured final cleanup
+stage, and it must preserve durable cache unless cache removal is explicitly
 requested.
 
 Physical layout, retention, and operational lifecycle belong in
@@ -188,16 +236,26 @@ the immutable commit manifest, and finally the current commit pointer.
 `current/commit-pointer.json` is the sole mutable selector and must be written
 exactly once, last. Failed, incomplete, skipped, or uncommitted publish attempts
 must not be presented as current remote state. Publish locks remain authoritative
-and are not bypassed by a forced run. Mutable remote locks use provider-enforced
-generation preconditions and are revalidated immediately before pointer
-selection; loss of that check leaves the prior committed snapshot current.
+and are not bypassed by a forced run. Each mutable remote lock is an independent
+per-source object; lock mutations use provider-enforced generation preconditions.
+Publish revalidates every initially unlocked participating source after writing
+the immutable commit and before pointer selection. A lock observed then leaves
+the prior committed snapshot current. A lock created after that final check may
+race the pointer write; the commit protocol does not claim a stronger distributed
+transaction boundary.
 
 Automatic local cleanup is permitted only after a successful publish commit,
 only when explicitly configured, and only through the path-safety guardrails.
-It is a durable local obligation bound to that committed run and its exact
-targets, not an inferred side effect of the current stage list. A cleanup
-failure makes the invocation incomplete while leaving the committed remote
-snapshot authoritative; later invocations resume the recorded obligation.
+It is the final ordinary pipeline stage after `notify`. The stage derives its
+exact run-scoped targets from validated publish metadata and the configured
+campaign/session identity; it never infers a target from directory contents or
+rereads remote storage. A cleanup failure makes the invocation incomplete while
+leaving publish succeeded and the committed remote snapshot authoritative. A
+normal later full run reuses valid upstream stages and retries cleanup.
+
+The standalone `publish` command selects only publish and therefore never
+invokes cleanup. Operators may select cleanup directly only when the manifest
+contains valid successful publication evidence.
 
 ## Security, Privacy, And Diagnostics
 
@@ -207,20 +265,26 @@ configuration, logs, reports, diagnostics, and Notarius artifacts—is
 intentionally shareable with the configured workspace group. API-key material
 is sensitive and is not covered by the ordinary workspace-sharing policy.
 
-On POSIX systems, Narratio-created ordinary workspace directories converge on
+Narratio supports Linux on amd64 and arm64. macOS arm64 is best effort: it has
+a cross-build gate and release asset, but no native runtime release gate.
+Windows and macOS amd64 are unsupported and have no compatibility promise or
+release asset.
+
+On supported systems, Narratio-created ordinary workspace directories converge on
 setgid `02775` and ordinary workspace files on `0664`, even when the caller's
 umask is restrictive. This preserves the existing workspace group for nested
 creation and atomic replacements without changing ownership. API-key storage
-uses a separate restrictive contract. On Windows, POSIX mode bits and setgid
-are not authoritative; operators must provide the equivalent shared-group and
-credential-restricted ACLs described in [Operations](../operations.md#workspace-permissions).
+uses a separate restrictive contract.
 
 Raw secrets must not be stored in pipeline, campaign, or session YAML or written
 to manifests, logs, generated configuration, reports, publish metadata,
-documentation, or examples. Secrets enter through configured environment
-variable names or secret-file references. Diagnostics should avoid transcript
-and prompt content unless a deliberate, bounded inspection mechanism requires
-it.
+documentation, or examples. Pipeline configuration names environment variables;
+command-owned startup may populate previously unset variables from ConfigKit's
+explicit or conventional secrets directory. This bootstrap occurs once per
+invocation before any typed configuration load or adapter construction and is
+not hidden inside library loaders. Safe bootstrap diagnostics may identify
+files and statuses but never values. Diagnostics should avoid transcript and
+prompt content unless a deliberate, bounded inspection mechanism requires it.
 
 Logs, reports, generated invocation files, generated configuration, and render
 debug files are diagnostics, not canonical pipeline products. They should be

docs/policy/documentation.md

@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
 # Documentation Policy
 
+**Base Policy Version:** 1.11
+
+**Last Updated**: 2026-09-28
+
+**Upstream Source**: 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 Narratio documentation accurate, concise, discoverable, and resistant
+to keep Narratio's documentation accurate, concise, discoverable, and resistant
 to drift for users, operators, developers, integrators, and LLM coding agents.
 
 ## Core Rules
@@ -12,36 +18,38 @@ to drift for users, operators, developers, integrators, and LLM coding agents.
 
 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
-instead of repeating volatile details.
+for volatile details.
 
 Volatile details include commands, flags, configuration fields and defaults,
-stage or integration 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.
+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.
 
-ADRs are the narrow exception: an ADR may record an accepted architectural
-decision before implementation, but acceptance must not be presented as proof
-that the behavior exists. 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.
+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. User and operator docs should not expose implementation detail.
-Developer docs should link to user-facing and external contracts rather than
-restate them.
+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 instead of embedding a second complete copy.
+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.
@@ -57,51 +65,69 @@ secret values.
 
 | Topic | Canonical owner | Owned content | Content owned elsewhere |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| Product orientation and minimal end-to-end quickstart | `README.md` | What Narratio is, why it is useful, one shortest successful invocation, and links onward. | Complete command reference, configuration reference, operational procedures, implementation detail. |
-| Contributor entry point | `docs/development.md` | Task-oriented reading guide, minimal contributor orientation, baseline validation commands, and links to canonical docs. | Package inventory, architecture rules, subsystem behavior, detailed change recipes. |
-| Current application architecture | `docs/policy/architecture.md` | System shape, normative ownership, dependency direction, architectural boundaries, invariants, safety properties, and non-goals. | Concrete package inventory, implementation mechanics, contributor procedures, decision history, future work. |
-| Documentation organization | `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-based sufficiency, test boundaries, doubles, coverage guidance, regression-test policy, and criteria for adding, rewriting, or deleting tests. | Subsystem behavior, application contracts, subsystem-specific test inventories, and implementation plans. |
-| CLI contract | `docs/cli.md` | Commands, arguments, flags, invocation semantics, output conventions, and exit behavior. | End-to-end operating procedures, configuration field definitions, runtime filesystem layout, stage implementation details. |
-| Configuration contract | `docs/config.md` | Discovery and precedence, file schemas, fields, defaults, environment overrides, validation rules, and user-selectable stage or integration settings. | Complete example files, CLI syntax, runtime state lifecycle, implementation details. |
-| Operations | `docs/operations.md` | Runtime workflows, physical filesystem and remote-state layout, output and diagnostic handling, resume, cleanup, permissions, recovery, and operational limits. | CLI flag syntax, configuration field definitions, logical artifact schemas, implementation mechanics. |
-| Troubleshooting | `docs/troubleshooting.md` | Symptom-driven diagnosis, likely causes, safe inspection steps and remedies, and links to relevant contracts. | CLI syntax, configuration definitions, operational procedures, integration contracts, implementation mechanics. |
-| Public HTTP contract, if introduced | `docs/api.md` | Routes, authentication, media types, request and response schemas, status codes, pagination, caching, idempotency, rate limits, and HTTP retry semantics. | Client walkthroughs, upstream or downstream integration internals, implementation detail. |
-| Consumer guidance, if a public package or API is introduced | `docs/consumers/` | Task-oriented use of the public interface, minimal client examples, and consumer responsibilities. | HTTP wire semantics, external protocol contracts, internal implementation detail. |
-| External and durable integration contracts | `docs/integrations/` | External file formats and protocols, upstream and downstream contracts, logical artifact paths and schemas, media types, and compatibility behavior. | Physical runtime placement and lifecycle, internal transformations, CLI syntax, configuration defaults. |
-| Implemented component inventory | `docs/internal/overview.md` | Current packages and components, their implemented responsibilities, and links to focused internal docs. | Normative architecture, contributor reading policy, external contracts. |
-| Internal component behavior | Other files under `docs/internal/` | Implementation flow, internal collaborators and state transitions, package-local guarantees and failures, and relevant tests. | Global architecture invariants, configuration definitions and defaults, external schemas, operator procedures. |
-| Architectural decision history | `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. |
-| Complete copyable artifacts | `examples/` | Maintained configuration, inputs, and other files intended to be copied or run. | Field-by-field reference, command reference, prose explanation. |
+| 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; 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 text | `LICENSE` | Complete GPLv3 project license text. | Companion dependency license texts 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 | `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. |
+| Troubleshooting | `docs/troubleshooting.md` | Symptom-driven diagnosis, likely causes, safe inspection, and remedies. | Canonical commands, configuration definitions, operational procedures, and integration contracts. |
+| Integration contracts for external components (if applicable) | `docs/integrations/` | 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. |
+| 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. |
 
-Documents that do not exist are required only when the corresponding interface
-or responsibility exists. Do not create placeholder API, consumer, integration,
-or operations documents for behavior the application does not have.
+Create supporting documents for existing interfaces and responsibilities when
+substantive content is available.
 
 ## Boundary Rules
 
 ### Orientation
 
-The README owns product orientation. The developer guide routes contributors.
-Architecture owns normative structure. Internal overview owns the current
-concrete component map. These documents may link to one another but should not
-maintain parallel package or behavior descriptions.
+Link among orientation, architecture, and internal documents; maintain each
+package or behavior description in its canonical owner.
 
 ### Commands, Configuration, Operations, And Troubleshooting
 
 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. Troubleshooting
-starts from observable symptoms and links readers to the owning command,
-configuration, operational, or integration contract. When a workflow crosses
-these topics, choose the document that owns the task and link to the other
-contracts.
+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. Troubleshooting begins with observable symptoms and links to the owning contract.
+
+### 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 Narratio implements or consumes those
+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.
 
@@ -110,8 +136,7 @@ dependency, but must link to its canonical contract for the definition.
 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. Troubleshooting owns safe diagnostic and remediation guidance.
-Internal docs own implementation mechanisms only.
+artifacts. Internal docs own implementation mechanisms only.
 
 ## Architecture Decision Records
 

docs/policy/meta.md

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Policy Set Provenance
+
+**Base Policy Version:** 1.0
+
+**Last Updated**: 2026-09-28
+
+**Upstream Source**: 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).

docs/policy/oss.md

@@ -0,0 +1,217 @@
+# Open Source Licensing And Attribution Policy
+
+**Base Policy Version:** 1.8
+
+**Last Updated**: 2026-09-28
+
+**Upstream Source**: 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.
+
+## 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.
+
+## Narratio Licensing Scope
+
+Narratio application code remains GPL-3.0-or-later under its existing
+[COPYRIGHT](../../COPYRIGHT) and [LICENSE](../../LICENSE). Its source and release
+artifacts are hosted on Gitea; separately installed subprocess applications are
+not incorporated merely because Narratio invokes them. The
+[release procedure](../release.md) owns publication mechanics. Policy documents
+adapted from Standard Repository Policies retain CC-BY-SA-4.0 under the distinct
+scope recorded in COPYRIGHT and [attribution](../oss/attribution.md).
+
+## 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/a469273adda336625f96b9d769ea27b33999f146/examples/licensing/application/COPYRIGHT)
+or [library COPYRIGHT example](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/a469273adda336625f96b9d769ea27b33999f146/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/a469273adda336625f96b9d769ea27b33999f146/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 Narratio's README with two friendly statements linking to its actual grant
+in root `COPYRIGHT` and to `docs/oss/attribution.md`, using paths relative to
+the README. The statements identify Narratio's GPL v3.0-or-later grant and make
+the open source attribution notices discoverable.
+
+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.
+
+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.

docs/policy/release.md

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+# Release Policy
+
+**Base Policy Version:** 1.4
+
+**Last Updated**: 2026-09-28
+
+**Upstream Source**: 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.
+
+## 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. Human review gates are strongly disfavored: add one
+only through an explicit project-specific policy decision explaining the
+concrete risk and why ordinary change review or automation is insufficient.
+Do not add routine confirmations for checks the command can perform itself.
+
+## Narratio Candidate Checks
+
+Narratio's candidate checker adds the following checks to the one full,
+race-enabled offline suite:
+
+- `go mod tidy -diff` detects an incomplete checked-in module graph without
+  changing source.
+- Tracked Go formatting and diff whitespace checks catch inexpensive source
+  hygiene defects before publication.
+- Race instrumentation adds distinct coverage for concurrent I/O,
+  cancellation, and shared state.
+- `go vet ./...` detects static issues not established by runtime tests.
+- The asset builder verifies the declared Linux amd64, Linux arm64, and
+  best-effort macOS arm64 binaries and checks the embedded version on the host.
+
+The checker uses `GOWORK=off` and readonly module mode for tests, vet, and
+builds. Versioned module replacements are allowed; filesystem replacements
+are not release inputs. Workspace and vendor files are not prohibited solely
+by their presence.
+
+## 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.

docs/policy/testing.md

@@ -1,39 +1,32 @@
 # Testing Policy
 
+**Base Policy Version:** 1.3
+
+**Last Updated**: 2026-09-28
+
+**Upstream Source**: 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 do not optimize for test count, line coverage, exhaustive isolation, or the fewest possible tests. We optimize for sufficient confidence in important behavior while imposing as little unnecessary friction as possible on future development.
+We optimize for sufficient confidence in important behavior while minimizing friction on future development.
 
 ## Every test has a cost
 
-Testing is not an unqualified good. Every test imposes both an immediate cost and a continuing lifetime cost.
-
-A test must be:
-
-- written and reviewed;
-- understood by future maintainers and coding agents;
-- executed in local and CI workflows;
-- diagnosed when it fails;
-- updated when legitimate behavior changes;
-- maintained as fixtures, APIs, and dependencies evolve; and
-- removed or rewritten when it becomes redundant, brittle, misleading, or obsolete.
-
-Tests also create cognitive and architectural friction. They can constrain refactoring, duplicate policy, slow feedback loops, add noise to failures, and cause harmless implementation changes to require unrelated edits across the suite.
+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.
-
-Apply this cost-benefit analysis at two levels:
+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?
 
-The preferred test suite is a **lean suite that provides sufficient confidence in the risks that matter, without redundant or low-value tests**. We seek sufficient confidence with the least unnecessary testing friction, not the fewest possible tests.
+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.
 
-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. They should not make ordinary internal changes needlessly expensive.
-
-The cost of a test is not a reason to omit testing by default. Do not cite maintenance cost abstractly. 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.
+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
 
@@ -55,7 +48,7 @@ Control clocks, randomness, environment variables, and other process-global or m
 
 ## What deserves tests
 
-Prioritize tests for:
+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.
@@ -65,15 +58,27 @@ Prioritize tests for:
 6. Previously observed or plausible regressions.
 7. Representative integration and end-to-end workflows.
 
-A package-level contract is behavior relied upon by another package or major collaborator, not every observable detail of a package implementation.
+A package-level contract comprises behavior relied upon by another package or major collaborator.
 
-For behavior involving **data integrity, destructive operations, compatibility, security, concurrency, idempotency, or recovery**, presume that durable tests are required unless the behavior is already credibly protected at another layer.
+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
 
-Test through the narrowest stable boundary that expresses the behavior clearly.
+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:
 
@@ -81,28 +86,15 @@ This is often the package API, but it may instead be:
 - 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.
 
-Do not force all behavior through oversized end-to-end tests. Do not test every private helper merely because it exists. Choose the boundary that gives durable confidence with the least incidental coupling.
-
 ## Test behavior, not implementation
 
-A test should protect a decision, contract, or invariant—not memorialize the current implementation.
+A test should protect a selected decision, contract, or invariant.
 
-Before adding or retaining a test, ask:
+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.
 
-> What realistic defect would this test catch?
-
-A test is suspect when its main purpose is to detect that someone:
-
-- changed an internal constant;
-- renamed or split a private helper;
-- reordered equivalent internal operations;
-- changed incidental formatting;
-- replaced one correct algorithm with another; or
-- refactored internal object structure without changing behavior.
-
-Refactoring should normally require no test edits unless the refactored structure is itself part of the contract.
-
-A test can be factually correct and still have negative value. Accurately describing current behavior is not enough; the protected behavior must be important enough to justify the future friction.
+Behavioral tests should normally remain stable through internal refactoring that preserves the contract.
 
 ## Expected effects of different changes
 
@@ -119,12 +111,13 @@ A test failing is not the same as a test needing to be edited. Many tests may co
 
 ## Separate mechanism from policy
 
-Configurable thresholds and defaults must not be duplicated throughout the test suite.
+Derive expectations from test-controlled configuration and relationships.
 
-For example, do not encode an internal concurrency limit indirectly:
+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 policy:
+// Production default:
 const maxConcurrency = 4
 
 // Brittle test:
@@ -142,25 +135,30 @@ require.NoError(t, runner.Start(limit))
 require.ErrorIs(t, runner.Start(limit+1), ErrTooMuchConcurrency)
 ```
 
-The test should prove:
+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, not duplicated literals.
+Apply the same rule to limits, timeouts, capacities, retry counts, and ranges: test relationships and behavior.
 
-For concurrency limits, test both kinds of behavior when relevant:
+For established concurrency limits, distinguish these behaviors where the contract requires them:
 
-1. **Configuration enforcement:** invalid or excessive requested values are handled correctly.
+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. Do not merely assert today's default value.
+Use a test-controlled limit and measure the behavior relative to that limit.
 
-## Avoid semantic duplication across layers
+## Assign each behavior a test owner
 
-Each behavior should have a clear test owner.
+Where these layers exist, assign ownership as follows:
 
 - Parser tests own parsing cases.
 - Validator tests own validation rules.
@@ -170,9 +168,7 @@ Each behavior should have a clear test owner.
 - CLI tests own argument and configuration mapping.
 - End-to-end tests prove that representative assembled workflows work.
 
-Higher-level tests should not repeat every lower-level case. A single intentional policy change should not require unrelated edits across many test files.
-
-Tests that are individually reasonable may still be collectively redundant. Evaluate the marginal value of each additional test in light of the protection already provided by the rest of the suite.
+Give each layer its distinct responsibility and keep expectation updates localized to the contract being changed.
 
 ## Use test doubles deliberately
 
@@ -193,104 +189,76 @@ Mocks are appropriate when the contract includes facts such as:
 - an expensive API is called no more than once; or
 - a security audit event is emitted.
 
-Do not use mocks merely to isolate every object or reproduce the implementation's call graph.
-
 ## Go-specific guidance
 
-Use:
+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 for parsers, normalization, path handling, and broad input spaces;
+- 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.
+- a small number of representative end-to-end tests when assembled workflows expose meaningful risks not adequately covered at narrower boundaries.
 
-Avoid exact error-string assertions unless the wording is itself contractual. Prefer `errors.Is`, `errors.As`, typed errors, or structured error fields.
+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. Do not snapshot complete diagnostic wording unless it 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. Test helpers and fixture frameworks must earn their own maintenance cost; do not build elaborate test infrastructure for small or isolated needs.
+Keep tests readable and direct. Size test helpers and fixture frameworks to the maintenance benefit they provide.
 
 ## Coverage
 
-Coverage is a diagnostic, not a target.
-
-Use it to find untested critical branches and unexpectedly weak packages. Do not write low-value tests solely to increase a percentage, and do not infer test quality from coverage alone.
+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.
 
-Increasing coverage is valuable only when the newly covered behavior protects a meaningful risk at an acceptable cost.
-
 ## 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; do not preserve accidental implementation details from the original bug.
+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.
 
-Not every historical bug requires a permanent test. If the underlying design has made recurrence impossible, the test has become redundant, or a stronger invariant test now subsumes it, remove or consolidate it.
+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
 
-Tests are maintained code, not permanent historical artifacts.
-
-Delete or rewrite a test when its maintenance cost exceeds the confidence it provides.
+Delete or rewrite tests when maintenance cost exceeds their continuing
+protective value.
 
 Strong candidates include tests that:
 
 - require updates after harmless internal changes;
-- directly assert private constants without protecting a real contract;
-- duplicate the same policy across several layers;
+- assert incidental private constants or snapshot large amounts of incidental output;
 - verify mock choreography rather than outcomes;
-- snapshot large amounts of incidental output;
-- test trivial private helpers already exercised through stable package behavior;
-- protect risks already covered more effectively elsewhere;
+- 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. Replace them with one durable behavior-level or invariant test rather than preserving all of them.
-
-Deleting a low-value test can improve the quality of the suite by reducing noise, maintenance burden, and friction around legitimate change.
+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 the value, boundary, or durability of a proposed test is not self-evident. Significant test additions should be reviewable against them, but written answers are not required for every routine 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. What realistic defect would it catch?
-2. How likely is that defect?
-3. How consequential would it be?
-4. Is the behavior already protected elsewhere?
-5. At which layer should this behavior be owned?
-6. Does the test assert a durable contract or an incidental implementation detail?
-7. Could the implementation be refactored without changing the behavior and without editing this test?
-8. What should cause this test to fail?
-9. What legitimate changes should not cause this test to fail?
-10. What ongoing maintenance, execution, and diagnostic cost will the test impose?
-11. Is there a smaller or more direct test that protects the same risk?
-
-Do not add the test when its expected lifetime cost exceeds its expected protective value.
-
-When deciding not to test plausible behavior, record or be able to explain why the risk is low, already protected, obvious, reversible, or cheaper to detect elsewhere.
+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 contracts and invariants are protected;
-- meaningful boundaries and failure modes are exercised;
-- realistic and consequential regressions are credibly protected against silent recurrence;
-- behavior involving data integrity, destructive operations, compatibility, security, concurrency, idempotency, and recovery is credibly protected;
-- important external boundaries have realistic integration coverage;
-- representative complete workflows are tested;
-- failures provide useful signal rather than redundant noise;
-- legitimate internal changes usually do not require test edits; and
+- 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.
 
-Sufficiency is a risk judgment, not a coverage percentage or test count. Reassess it as the application, its users, and the consequences of failure evolve.
-
-The governing rule is:
-
-> Test heavily where failure is consequential, subtle, or difficult to detect after the fact. Test lightly where failure is obvious, reversible, and inexpensive—and retain no test whose lifetime cost exceeds the confidence it provides.
+Reassess sufficiency as the application, its users, and the consequences of
+failure evolve.

docs/release.md

@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+# Releasing Narratio
+
+This is the maintainer runbook for the [Release Policy](policy/release.md).
+The source release completes when the intended tag is successfully pushed to
+`origin`; binary delivery is a separate asynchronous status.
+
+## Prepare the candidate
+
+Use `main` and the authoritative Git remote `origin`. Install Git, a POSIX
+shell, standard Unix build tools, and Go 1.26. Have the selected Go modules
+available before offline validation. Git access must permit fetch and tag push.
+Application-provider credentials are not required; Gitea delivery credentials
+belong to CI.
+
+Choose an unused stable `vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH` under the
+[compatibility rules](policy/release.md#versioning-and-compatibility). Narratio
+is past v1.0.0, so intentional CLI or configuration breaks require a major
+release. Update affected canonical documentation with the change. Write the
+matching `docs/releases/vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.md` with a short summary and any
+relevant compatibility impact or upgrade action; choose sections to suit the
+release.
+
+End that checked-in note with these three links, replacing the version in
+each URL with the intended tag. The tag need not exist remotely yet. Check that
+`COPYRIGHT`, `LICENSE`, and `docs/oss/attribution.md` are present in the
+candidate. The tag CI reuses the checked-in note as the hosted release body.
+
+```markdown
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/src/tag/vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH/COPYRIGHT) | [LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/src/tag/vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH/LICENSE) | [ATTRIBUTION](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/src/tag/vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH/docs/oss/attribution.md)
+```
+
+Retire completed roadmaps included in the release while preserving planned or
+deferred work and repairing affected links. Review the change through the
+ordinary development workflow for unintended files, credentials, private data,
+and documentation accuracy. Commit and push the candidate to `origin/main`
+before tagging; record its exact commit if needed:
+
+```sh
+git rev-parse HEAD
+```
+
+## Publish
+
+From a clean `main` checkout at the pushed candidate, run one command:
+
+```sh
+scripts/release.sh vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
+```
+
+It fetches `origin/main` and tags; requires local `HEAD` to equal
+`origin/main`; checks the committed note and unused version; runs the
+candidate checker **once**; then repeats cheap mutable-state guards before
+creating an unsigned lightweight tag at the recorded commit. It verifies the
+tag target and pushes only
+`refs/tags/vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH:refs/tags/vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH`. It does not
+commit, push `main`, force updates, or publish all tags.
+
+The checker runs `go mod tidy -diff`, tracked Go formatting and diff whitespace
+checks, one `go test -mod=readonly -race -count=1 ./...` full suite, and
+`go vet -mod=readonly ./...`. Its asset builder cross-builds Linux amd64,
+Linux arm64, and best-effort macOS arm64, then checks the embedded version
+on a host binary. The macOS cross-build proves compilation, not native
+runtime behavior. Owned Go commands run with `GOWORK=off`; tests, vet, and
+builds use readonly module mode. The deterministic suite includes documentation
+and maintained-example checks. The command does not contact application
+services or Gitea and does not wait for CI.
+
+A successful tag push is the source-release completion point. The command
+prints the tag and commit and exits without a separate network read-back.
+For optional diagnosis before publication, run
+`scripts/check-release-candidate.sh vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH`; publication will
+validate the candidate again, so this is not a required preparation step.
+
+## Artifact delivery
+
+Tag-triggered `.woodpecker/release.yml` independently validates the tagged
+source, builds the same three targets, and publishes these Gitea downloads:
+
+- `narratio-vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-linux-amd64`
+- `narratio-vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-linux-arm64`
+- `narratio-vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-darwin-arm64` (best effort)
+- `SHA256SUMS`
+
+The builder embeds the tag version and checks host `version` output. CI
+generates checksums and uses non-overwriting publication settings. It does
+not select versions, change the source, or move tags. No image or package
+registry output is declared. Tag publication is not proof that these
+asynchronous downloads are available.
+
+## Failure and recovery
+
+If validation fails before tagging, correct and commit the candidate, push
+it to `main`, and rerun the publication command. If the tag push reports
+failure, its outcome may be ambiguous: keep the local tag and inspect the
+exact `refs/tags/vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH` at `origin` before declaring success
+or retrying. A reachable matching remote tag at the recorded commit establishes
+publication; a confirmed absent tag permits investigation of the transport
+failure. If `origin` cannot be inspected, publication status is unknown.
+Do not move, overwrite, or automatically retry the tag. Remove a local tag
+only after confirming it was never published or used by a release channel.
+
+A transient CI or delivery failure can be retried from the same immutable
+tag. Missing assets may be added later if they match the tagged source and
+any published checksum manifest; do not overwrite existing binaries,
+checksums, or release-note contents. A source/content defect, or delivery
+that cannot be corrected without replacement, requires a new suitable
+version and matching note. Leave the original release intact.
+
+Optional consumer inspection may compare the tag's remote commit with the
+recorded candidate, check the Woodpecker delivery job and hosted Gitea note,
+download the assets into an empty directory, run `sha256sum --check
+SHA256SUMS` (or `shasum -a 256 --check SHA256SUMS` on macOS), and run
+the matching host binary's `version` command. This is separate delivery
+observation, never a source-release gate.

docs/releases/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Release Notes
+
+This directory contains immutable historical release notes for Narratio.
+Future notes use the matching stable version and begin with
+`# Narratio vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH`. Include a short summary and relevant
+compatibility or upgrade guidance; choose sections suited to the release.
+End each new note with the three immutable-tag notice links specified in the
+[release procedure](../release.md).
+
+See the [release procedure](../release.md) for creating a candidate and tag.
+When asynchronous publication succeeds, the corresponding Gitea release is the
+canonical source for downloadable binaries and checksums.
+
+- [v3.1.0](v3.1.0.md)
+- [v3.0.0](v3.0.0.md)
+- [v2.2.1](v2.2.1.md)
+- [v2.2.0](v2.2.0.md)
+- [v2.1.2](v2.1.2.md)
+- [v2.1.1](v2.1.1.md)
+- [v2.1.0](v2.1.0.md)
+- [v2.0.0](v2.0.0.md)
+- [v1.7.0](v1.7.0.md)
+- [v1.6.0](v1.6.0.md)
+- [v1.5.0](v1.5.0.md)

docs/releases/v1.5.0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# Narratio v1.5.0
+
+Narratio v1.5.0 makes repeated post-transcript artifact development faster and
+more explicit while retaining the fixed, stage-driven pipeline model.
+
+## Highlights
+
+- The canonical pipeline now completes deterministic rendering before
+  extraction, cleanly separating transcript-generating stages from
+  artifact-generating stages.
+- `narratio run` and `narratio session plan` accept inclusive `--from` and
+  `--through` bounds. Excluded transcript stages are not executed or
+  invalidated by a bounded artifact-regeneration run.
+- `narratio regenerate-artifacts SESSION` is an exact convenience alias for a
+  forced run from `extract` through `analyze`, including focused
+  `--artifacts` selections.
+- Configured Scriptorium artifacts now have independent,
+  manifest-authoritative freshness. Narratio reuses validated current work,
+  rebuilds stale prerequisites in dependency order, and persists successful,
+  failed, and newly stale artifact state when an analysis invocation only
+  partially succeeds.
+- Publish consumes only configured artifacts backed by current manifest
+  evidence; incidental or tampered files are not promoted as current output.
+
+## Reliability And Administration
+
+- Bounded prerequisites are checked again under the session lock before any
+  run mutation, closing a concurrent-run race.
+- Analysis fingerprints are stable across executable and configuration path
+  changes and continue to cover only Narratio-observable semantic inputs.
+- Runner composition now carries one validated execution plan from command
+  parsing through prerequisite validation, adapter composition, manifest
+  recording, and stage execution.
+- `narratio version` reports the exact tag embedded in official release
+  binaries; ordinary source builds report `dev`.
+
+## Upgrade Notes
+
+- Existing unbounded commands and direct `run-stage`, `analyze`, and `publish`
+  workflows retain their meanings.
+- Manifests written before artifact-level analysis state remain readable.
+  Legacy aggregate analysis success is not sufficient freshness evidence, so
+  the first analysis evaluation after upgrading may regenerate configured
+  artifacts once.
+- Narratio cannot observe executable contents or configuration, prompt,
+  profile, module, and other files loaded privately by Scriptorium. Explicitly
+  force affected artifacts after changing those private inputs.

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+# Narratio v1.6.0
+
+Narratio v1.6.0 makes large pipeline configurations easier to organize,
+inspect, and vary while adding character-oriented artifact generation and a
+guarded, reproducible release procedure.
+
+## Summary
+
+Pipeline configuration can now be assembled from explicit additive imports and
+a selected production or testing profile. Campaigns can own a canonical,
+versioned party roster, and Scriptorium artifact families can expand one
+definition into concrete per-character artifacts, dependencies, variables, and
+publish rules.
+
+New read-only configuration commands expose the fully resolved pipeline,
+source provenance, semantic digest, and profile differences before a session is
+run. Stage reuse now records configuration-sensitive semantic evidence so
+profile or configuration changes cannot silently reuse incompatible work.
+
+## Compatibility
+
+This is a backward-compatible feature release. Existing monolithic pipeline
+files, concrete Scriptorium artifacts, publish rules, and configurations
+without profiles remain supported. When profiles are declared and no explicit
+profile is selected, Narratio uses the configured production default.
+
+An unversioned party file plus a separate players file remains available as an
+isolated legacy compatibility path, but it cannot drive artifact families. New
+campaigns and new party-oriented features should use the `narratio.party.v1`
+schema. Existing manifests remain readable; missing legacy semantic evidence
+is treated as stale rather than trusted.
+
+Narratio continues to consume the documented Notarius D&D pipeline contract.
+The release workflow still cross-compiles Linux, macOS, and Windows binaries
+for `amd64` and `arm64`; cross-compilation is not native runtime evidence for
+macOS or Windows.
+
+## Upgrade
+
+No special action is required for existing monolithic configurations that do
+not adopt profiles or artifact families. On the first run after upgrading,
+stages recorded by older manifests may regenerate once because those records do
+not contain the new semantic configuration evidence.
+
+To adopt the new configuration model, use the maintained
+`examples/production-testing` bundle as a migration reference: split stable
+settings into explicit imports, define a production default and optional
+testing profile, convert campaign party data to `narratio.party.v1`, remove the
+separate players file, and then introduce character artifact families. Review
+the result with `narratio config validate`, `config show`, `config sources`, and
+`config diff` before running a session.
+
+Campaign, session, previous-session, and run identifiers must satisfy the
+documented portable identity grammar. Existing manifests or remote state with
+unsafe legacy identifiers must be migrated before use.
+
+## Changes
+
+- Added root-owned, non-recursive additive pipeline imports with strict,
+  source-aware conflict detection.
+- Added named pipeline profiles with an explicit production default and
+  deliberate command-line selection.
+- Added `config validate`, `config show`, `config sources`, and `config diff`
+  for read-only inspection of resolved configuration and provenance.
+- Added the strict `narratio.party.v1` campaign roster, including stable
+  character IDs, player and character names, optional aliases, and classes.
+- Added deterministic players derivation and canonical party delivery to
+  downstream integrations.
+- Added character-oriented artifact families, corresponding member
+  dependencies, family selection, and generated publish policies.
+- Added semantic configuration fingerprints and stage-specific resume checks
+  across transcript and artifact stages.
+- Added shared release candidate, asset build, and guarded tag-publication
+  scripts, with tag-triggered publication remaining asynchronous.

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+# Narratio v1.7.0
+
+Narratio v1.7.0 completes the maintainability refactor begun after v1.6.0. It
+simplifies filesystem and process handling, makes resumable work more precise,
+replaces legacy local and remote state with explicit authorities, and turns
+cleanup into the final ordinary pipeline stage.
+
+## Summary
+
+The session manifest is now the sole durable local progress ledger. Analyze
+checkpoints successful artifacts individually, allowing an interrupted or
+partially failed analysis to resume at the first incomplete artifact without
+rerunning successful siblings unless forced.
+
+Remote publication now commits immutable run state before advancing one
+verified current pointer. Publish locks are independent per-source objects;
+locked outputs retain their previously committed declarations rather than
+being overwritten or silently omitted. Local cleanup runs after notification
+as a separately recorded, safely retryable stage.
+
+The release also adopts Go 1.26, simplifies ordinary file operations around
+Narratio's trusted group-owned workspace model, improves subprocess lifecycle
+handling, decomposes several large orchestration and validation components,
+and removes mutable global test seams.
+
+## Compatibility
+
+This is a minor release with deliberate removal of compatibility paths that
+were deprecated and documented as subject to removal:
+
+- Campaigns must use one versioned `narratio.party.v1` `party.yml`. Separate
+  players files, session-level party overrides, and unversioned party documents
+  are rejected.
+- Session manifests must declare `schema_version:
+  narratio.session-manifest.v1` and satisfy the current strict schema. Older
+  unversioned state and manifests containing the retired
+  `post_publish_cleanup` obligation are rejected rather than migrated.
+- Remote current state must be selected by
+  `current/commit-pointer.json` and its referenced immutable run commit. Legacy
+  current-state layouts are no longer inferred.
+- The retired aggregate `locks.yml` object is ignored. Publish locks now live
+  as independent strict objects under the session lock prefix.
+- Run manifests are no longer produced or consumed. The session manifest owns
+  durable stage progress; invocation summaries and run workspaces remain
+  operational data rather than a second progress authority.
+
+The CLI and current pipeline/configuration formats otherwise remain compatible.
+Building and maintaining Narratio now requires Go 1.26. Cross-built Linux,
+macOS, and Windows assets remain available for `amd64` and `arm64`.
+
+## Upgrade
+
+Before upgrading a campaign that still uses compatibility data:
+
+1. Replace legacy party/player inputs with the documented
+   [`narratio.party.v1`](../integrations/party.md) campaign roster.
+2. If a local manifest contains an outstanding `post_publish_cleanup`
+   obligation, complete it with the pre-upgrade binary. Otherwise verify the
+   remote commit, move aside or regenerate the incompatible manifest, or
+   restore a verified committed snapshot. Do not migrate state by manually
+   editing JSON.
+3. Republish sessions that do not yet have a valid immutable run commit and
+   `current/commit-pointer.json`; legacy remote layouts are not current state in
+   v1.7.0.
+4. Recreate any required publication locks with `narratio session locks add`.
+   After verifying the new locks and publication behavior, the ignored legacy
+   `locks.yml` object may be removed manually.
+
+Existing compatible session manifests and already committed remote snapshots
+need no special action. Consult [Operations](../operations.md) and
+[Troubleshooting](../troubleshooting.md) for recovery procedures.
+
+## Changes
+
+- Upgraded the maintained development and release baseline to Go 1.26.
+- Reworked subprocess execution and Windows process-tree supervision while
+  preserving contextual wait and cleanup failures.
+- Replaced custom confined ordinary I/O and directory-promotion machinery with
+  simpler standard-library operations while retaining bounded reads, atomic
+  single-file visibility, workspace modes, validated downloads, and
+  root-confined destructive operations.
+- Removed legacy party, manifest, artifact-discovery, remote-current, and lock
+  compatibility paths.
+- Consolidated durable progress in the session manifest and removed the run
+  manifest domain model.
+- Unified runner planning and execution decisions, separated invocation
+  lifecycle responsibilities, and avoided creating empty run workspaces for
+  fully reused or cleanup-only invocations.
+- Added per-artifact analyze execution, checkpointing, reconciliation, and
+  recovery.
+- Decomposed configuration validation by domain and made validation diagnostics
+  deterministic without treating incidental ordering or wording as a contract.
+- Introduced immutable remote publish commits, one final current pointer,
+  explicit output planning, safe cross-run carried outputs, and independent
+  per-artifact remote locks.
+- Added `cleanup` as the final canonical stage after `notify`, with validated
+  publish evidence, safe retry, explicit selection, and no separate cleanup
+  obligation.
+- Replaced mutable command test hooks with invocation-scoped dependencies and
+  improved structural test diagnostics.

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+# Narratio v2.0.0
+
+Narratio v2.0.0 replaces its configuration infrastructure with ConfigKit,
+simplifies the supported release platforms, and makes artifact definitions and
+their effective dependency graph directly inspectable.
+
+## Summary
+
+Pipeline roots now use ConfigKit v0.1.2 for strict YAML loading, explicit
+imports, fixed-path named profiles, provenance, defaults, and typed credential
+references. The recommended production layout keeps production values in the
+base, defines each ordinary artifact and artifact family in its own imported
+file, and keeps testing changes in `profiles/testing.yml`.
+
+Configured-artifact inputs now create their dependency edges automatically.
+`narratio config artifacts` reports the finalized concrete catalog, including
+generated party-family members, without loading a session or initializing
+runtime adapters.
+
+## Compatibility
+
+This is a breaking configuration and platform release. There is no runtime
+fallback for the retired Narratio composition/profile catalog, `pipeline.secrets`
+or `secrets.env_dir`, credential `_env` fields, or the previous YAML
+presence/default behavior. Defaults apply only to absent values; explicit empty,
+zero, false, and null values retain their typed meaning and may fail Narratio
+domain validation.
+
+The maintained binaries are Linux amd64, Linux arm64, and macOS arm64. Windows
+and macOS amd64 builds are no longer produced or supported. Existing v1 release
+notes remain historical descriptions of their releases.
+
+Inspection commands still avoid session, manifest, workspace, adapter, and
+remote-service activity, but they are not credential-free loaders: every
+explicit typed credential reference in the selected effective configuration must
+resolve; references replaced or removed by that profile need not resolve.
+Pipelines containing artifact families also require a campaign so the canonical
+party can be expanded.
+`config show` is a secret-safe review projection, not a promised reloadable
+authoring file.
+
+## Upgrade
+
+Migrate each operational bundle before running v2:
+
+1. Replace old composition syntax with root-owned
+   [`configkit.imports`](../config.md#pipeline-imports-and-profiles). Imports are
+   additive base sources; they do not override one another.
+2. Fold the old production overlay into the base pipeline. Move testing changes
+   to `profiles/testing.yml`; compare the two independent resolutions with
+   `narratio config diff default testing`.
+3. Follow the maintained
+   [`examples/production-testing`](../../examples/production-testing/pipeline.yml)
+   layout: one explicit artifact entry per `artifacts/<key>.yml` and one family
+   entry per `artifact-families/<key>.yml`. The map key, not the filename, is the
+   stable artifact identity.
+4. Move credential files to an untracked `secrets/` directory beside
+   `pipeline.yml`, or pass `--secrets-dir`. Rename S3 fields to `access_key_id`
+   and `secret_access_key`, and rename the Audita field to `llm_api_key`.
+5. For static S3 credentials, configure both S3 references (commonly
+   `OBJECT_STORAGE_KEY_ID` and `OBJECT_STORAGE_KEY`) and make them resolvable.
+   To use instance roles, workload identity, shared SDK files, or another AWS SDK
+   discovery provider, omit both references. A partial pair is invalid.
+6. Remove a `depends_on` entry when it only duplicates a
+   `narratio.artifact.<key>` input. Keep explicit entries that express ordering
+   without supplying the upstream output as an input.
+7. Review ConfigKit's stricter explicit-value/null semantics and correct values
+   that previously acquired defaults after being explicitly empty. Do not use
+   `config show` output as a source migration mechanism.
+8. Run `config validate`, `config show`, `config sources`, and `config artifacts`
+   with the same profile, campaign, and secrets selection intended for runtime.
+   Resolve the campaign-owned party whenever families are present.
+9. Update deployment and download automation to one of the three maintained
+   platform assets before removing the v1 binary.
+
+The [configuration reference](../config.md), [CLI reference](../cli.md), and
+[maintained examples](../../examples/README.md) are the canonical detailed
+guides.
+
+## Changes
+
+- Adopted ConfigKit v0.1.2 across pipeline, campaign, session, and party loading
+  while keeping Narratio domain validation and post-campaign expansion explicit.
+- Added ConfigKit imports and fixed `profiles/<name>.yml` pipeline overlays,
+  unified safe effective show/diff/digest projection, and source provenance.
+- Added invocation-scoped ConfigKit secrets-directory bootstrap and typed S3 and
+  Audita credential references without exposing resolved values.
+- Inferred, normalized, and validated configured-artifact input dependencies as
+  part of the one concrete graph consumed by analyze planning and resume logic.
+- Added `config artifacts` with stable concrete identities, definition sources,
+  effective dependencies, and generated family/party provenance.
+- Added the maintained production-base/testing-overlay artifact authoring layout.
+- Reduced release assets and active platform support to Linux amd64/arm64 and
+  macOS arm64.

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+# Narratio v2.1.0
+
+This release adds explicit Notarius credential forwarding and cache reuse,
+with predictable forced regeneration and clearer artifact-development guidance.
+
+## Summary
+
+Narratio can pass one typed API-key reference to Notarius and opt into reuse of
+its accepted execution checkpoints. Stable, verified reference snapshots allow
+unchanged references to retain their cache identity across Narratio invocations.
+Configuration loading now uses ConfigKit v0.3.0.
+
+## Compatibility
+
+The new `notarius.llm_api_key`, `notarius.resume`, and `notarius.chunk_cache`
+fields are optional. Existing v2 configuration needs no schema migration.
+Configured credential references must resolve during configuration loading,
+even when extraction will not execute; omitted references add no requirement.
+
+Forced extraction now omits Notarius checkpoint loading and requests chunk-plan
+refresh. This includes `regenerate-artifacts`, which remains an alias for a
+forced run from extract through analyze. `analyze` continues to force analysis
+only, preserving extraction results and transcripts.
+
+Notarius v0.7.0 is the tested cache integration baseline, not an unconditional
+minimum-version gate. The executable must support the flags selected for the
+invocation, including `--chunk_cache refresh` for forced extraction. Reference
+bindings retain the contract introduced in Notarius v0.6.0. Receipt and artifact
+schemas are unchanged; reused producers may report zero production attempts.
+
+Supported release platforms remain Linux amd64/arm64 and best-effort macOS
+arm64. macOS validation is cross-compilation, not native runtime testing.
+
+## Upgrade
+
+No special migration is required for existing v2 configuration. To use the new
+features:
+
+- Declare `notarius.llm_api_key` with the environment-variable name expected by
+  the deployed Notarius profile, supplying its value through the existing
+  environment or secrets-directory mechanism.
+- Enable checkpoint recording in Notarius configuration before setting
+  Narratio's `notarius.resume: true`. Prefer explicit persistent Notarius cache
+  roots for service deployments. An optional `notarius.chunk_cache` overrides
+  its ordinary chunk-plan policy.
+- Expect an initial checkpoint miss when moving from old run-local reference
+  paths to stable session snapshots. No migration or deletion of old caches is
+  required. Force refreshes the current input's plan, not the whole cache.
+- Use `narratio analyze SESSION` for analysis-only iteration, and
+  `narratio regenerate-artifacts SESSION` when extraction should also be rebuilt.
+
+See [Configuration](../config.md), the
+[Notarius integration contract](../integrations/notarius.md), and
+[Artifact Development Workflows](../operations.md#artifact-development-workflows)
+for current details.
+
+## Changes
+
+- Upgraded ConfigKit from v0.1.2 to v0.3.0 and isolated pipeline-discovery tests
+  from machine configuration.
+- Added optional typed Notarius credentials, exact-name environment delivery,
+  safe configuration projections, and captured-stream redaction for custom names.
+- Added Notarius resume and chunk-cache controls with force taking precedence.
+- Added verified, content-addressed session reference snapshots that survive
+  ordinary run cleanup without becoming published artifacts.
+- Preserved relative-workspace support for snapshot delivery and confinement.
+- Kept credentials and cache-policy controls outside extract's semantic resume
+  identity, so operational changes alone do not invalidate completed results.
+- Added an opt-in real Notarius integration test using a local provider to
+  verify reuse, partial-failure recovery, and forced refresh without paid calls.

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+# Narratio v2.1.1
+
+This release fixes configuration loading for publish rules that explicitly set
+requiredness while relying on a derived destination.
+
+## Summary
+
+Publish rules with a derivable source and omitted `dest` now load correctly
+whether `required` is omitted, explicitly true, or explicitly false. Previously,
+explicit requiredness could trigger ConfigKit's `resolve.unrecorded_change`
+diagnostic instead of accepting valid configuration.
+
+## Compatibility
+
+This is a backward-compatible bookkeeping correction. Publish schemas,
+destination derivation, requiredness defaults, and YAML syntax support are
+unchanged. Explicit destinations and explicit false values remain intact.
+No ConfigKit upgrade or publication/storage behavior change is involved.
+
+## Upgrade
+
+No special upgrade action or configuration migration is required. Operators
+need not add a derivable `dest`, remove explicit `required` values, or change
+flow-style YAML to block-style YAML. See the
+[configuration reference](../config.md#publish-configuration-summary).
+
+## Changes
+
+- Recorded derived publish destinations at ConfigKit's atomic sequence boundary
+  while retaining field-level resolution records.
+- Added real load/validation and safe effective-configuration regression coverage
+  for built-in and configured-artifact sources, explicit requiredness, and an
+  explicit destination that must remain unchanged.

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+# Narratio v2.1.2
+
+This release allows secrets directories to contain hidden metadata without
+preventing credential loading.
+
+## Summary
+
+ConfigKit v0.3.1 ignores dot-prefixed entries such as `.git`, `.gitignore`, and
+`.DS_Store` during secrets bootstrap. These entries no longer block otherwise
+valid credentials from loading and are omitted from bootstrap reports.
+
+## Compatibility
+
+This is a backward-compatible dependency bug fix. Configuration schemas,
+existing-environment precedence, and validation of non-hidden entries are
+unchanged. Hidden entries still count toward the directory entry limit.
+
+## Upgrade
+
+No special upgrade action or configuration migration is required. See the
+[credential configuration reference](../config.md) for secrets-directory usage.
+
+## Changes
+
+- Updated ConfigKit from v0.3.0 to v0.3.1.
+- Clarified hidden-entry handling in the secrets-directory documentation.

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+# Narratio v2.2.0
+
+This release adds resumable per-speaker transcription, replayable WhisperX
+uploads, and explicit Notarius configuration profile selection.
+
+## Summary
+
+Successfully checkpointed speaker transcripts survive later transcription
+failures. Ordinary retry reuses valid completed speakers and processes only the
+remaining work. WhisperX uploads can now be replayed by the HTTP transport
+without buffering whole audio files.
+
+## Compatibility
+
+Existing CLI commands, speaker identities, transcript formats, and pipeline
+ordering are unchanged. Session manifests gain optional per-speaker completion
+evidence. Older manifests remain readable, but older Narratio binaries may
+reject manifests containing the new fields; downgrading after transcription
+is not transparent.
+
+The optional `pipeline.notarius.config_profile` field selects a downstream
+Notarius configuration profile independently of Narratio's own profile. Using
+it requires a Notarius version supporting `--config-profile`; v0.7.0 is a known
+supporting version. Omitting the field retains downstream default selection.
+
+## Upgrade
+
+No configuration migration is required. When transcribe is next selected for
+an older aggregate-only manifest, all current speakers are transcribed once
+to establish reusable evidence. Previously unrecorded results from failed runs
+are not automatically imported.
+
+Use ordinary run/resume to retain valid checkpoints. Forcing transcribe resets
+reuse of prior results; an ordinary retry after a failed forced invocation can
+retain replacements already checkpointed by that attempt. See the
+[operations guide](../operations.md) and
+[Notarius profile configuration](../config.md#notarius-configuration-profile).
+
+## Changes
+
+- Persist validated speaker completions independently of aggregate stage status,
+  with serialized saves for concurrent work and input/output integrity checks.
+- Rebuild aggregate transcript references when speakers are removed or those
+  references need repair, without retranscribing otherwise-current speakers.
+- Keep removed and incomplete speaker results out of versioned merge inputs.
+- Permit checkpoint evidence for zero-byte audio when WhisperX accepts it;
+  service rejection still fails normally.
+- Provide fresh streaming multipart bodies for HTTP transport replay while
+  preserving application retries, cancellation, and resource cleanup. This
+  addresses the missing-body-replay limitation, not persistent upstream
+  protocol failures or exactly-once service execution.
+- Pass explicit Notarius configuration profiles through the CLI and include
+  their selection in extraction reuse decisions.

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+# Narratio v2.2.1
+
+This maintenance release consolidates checkpoint persistence for transcription
+and analysis without changing their operator-facing behavior.
+
+## Summary
+
+Transcribe and analyze now share one internal operation for preparing isolated
+checkpoint candidates, saving them, and promoting successfully saved progress
+into live state. Each stage retains its own progress model and recovery policy.
+
+## Compatibility
+
+CLI commands, configuration, manifest schemas, artifact formats, and external
+integration contracts are unchanged. Speaker concurrency, artifact selection,
+force behavior, and ordinary resume semantics are preserved. No dependency
+upgrade or new external-tool version requirement is introduced.
+
+## Upgrade
+
+No special upgrade action or configuration migration is required when upgrading
+from v2.2.0. See the [v2.2.0 release notes](v2.2.0.md) when upgrading from an
+earlier version for the original speaker-checkpoint upgrade considerations.
+
+## Changes
+
+- Replace duplicate analyze/transcribe save-and-promote sequences with a
+  shared, private checkpoint helper.
+- Isolate checkpoint collections from live state, including analyze records
+  normalized during a transcription checkpoint save.
+- Preserve transcription's caller-owned locking and failure handling, and
+  analysis's working/committed collections and rollback behavior.
+- Add focused checkpoint integrity tests while retaining stage and application
+  recovery coverage.
+- Document the shared [checkpoint persistence boundary](../internal/manifest.md#checkpoint-persistence-boundary).

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+# Narratio v3.0.0
+
+This major release moves Narratio pipeline selection to ConfigKit overlays and
+updates its Audita and Notarius integration contracts. Existing deployments
+must migrate configuration before running affected sessions.
+
+## Compatibility and upgrade
+
+- Replace Narratio's `--profile <name>` with `--overlay <name>` and move selected
+  `profiles/<name>.yml` files to `overlays/<name>.yml` beside the pipeline root.
+  The old flag and selected directory are no longer supported; explicit imports
+  from a directory named `profiles` remain valid. Update `config diff` positional
+  selections accordingly. See [configuration](../config.md#pipeline-imports-and-overlays)
+  and the [CLI reference](../cli.md).
+- Before opening a session manifest containing
+  `effective_config.selected_profile`, back it up and follow the
+  [manifest migration procedure](../operations.md#migrating-manifest-overlay-provenance).
+  Strict decoding rejects the retired field. Preserve the manifest's stage and
+  checkpoint state; this informational rename does not itself require rerunning
+  every stage. Immutable remote snapshots are not edited in place.
+- Deploy an Audita v2 executable and migrate its configuration before running
+  `polish`. Narratio no longer generates an Audita config or accepts the old
+  endpoint, model, concurrency, singular API-key, report, and retention fields.
+  Audita now owns backends, PromptKit profiles, reporting, and debug settings;
+  Narratio accepts optional downstream selectors and forwards only names listed
+  in `pipeline.audita.credentials`. Follow the
+  [Audita migration table](../operations.md#migrating-audita-and-provider-credentials)
+  and [integration contract](../integrations/audita.md).
+- Replace `pipeline.notarius.llm_api_key` with the
+  `pipeline.notarius.credentials` list. Rename
+  `pipeline.notarius.config_profile` to `config_overlay` and move selected
+  downstream Notarius files to its `overlays/` directory. The old fields have
+  no compatibility aliases. A named downstream overlay requires a compatible
+  Notarius executable; v0.8.1 is the tested baseline, while deployments that
+  omit the selector gain no new version requirement. See the
+  [Notarius configuration reference](../config.md#notarius-configuration-overlay)
+  and [integration contract](../integrations/notarius.md).
+
+## Changes
+
+- Narratio and downstream overlay names are independent. Operators can select
+  separate Audita and Notarius overlays from one Narratio overlay without
+  implicit name forwarding. ConfigKit is updated to v0.4.2.
+- Audita's corrected transcript remains the canonical polish output. Available
+  `errors.yml`, `recoveries.yml`, and `report.md` files are retained as bounded
+  diagnostics; missing reports are allowed, and an exit-zero valid transcript
+  succeeds even when reports describe recoverable errors or no corrections.
+- Audita and Notarius credential lists resolve at pipeline load and forward
+  captured values under their exact names, with captured subprocess output and
+  failure diagnostics redacted. Narratio does not discover backend credentials
+  from downstream configuration; operators must list the names those tools need.
+- Repository policy, license/attribution notices, release validation, and the
+  asynchronous artifact-delivery procedure are aligned with the current
+  [release runbook](../release.md). Completed implementation roadmaps have been
+  retired from the candidate source.
+
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/src/tag/v3.0.0/COPYRIGHT) | [LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/src/tag/v3.0.0/LICENSE) | [ATTRIBUTION](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/src/tag/v3.0.0/docs/oss/attribution.md)

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+# Narratio v3.1.0
+
+This minor release adds explicit provider-credential forwarding to Scriptorium
+for trim bounds generation and artifact analysis.
+
+## Compatibility and upgrade
+
+Existing pipelines remain valid. An omitted, null, or empty
+`pipeline.scriptorium.credentials` list continues to forward no provider keys.
+When Scriptorium needs a credential, provision its environment variable through
+Narratio's existing environment or secrets-directory mechanism and list the
+exact name in the pipeline, for example:
+
+```yaml
+scriptorium:
+  credentials: [OPENROUTER_API_KEY]
+```
+
+Selected references must resolve to nonempty values when Narratio loads the
+pipeline, even if the current command will not run Scriptorium. A Narratio
+overlay replaces the complete list, and `[]` clears it. After correcting a
+failed trim or analysis invocation, retry normally; successful work need not be
+forced solely because a credential was added or rotated. See
+[Scriptorium credentials](../config.md#scriptorium-credentials) and the
+[401 troubleshooting guide](../troubleshooting.md#scriptorium-returns-http-401-during-trim-or-analyze).
+
+## Changes
+
+- Forward selected, already-resolved credential names and values to Scriptorium
+  for trim, analysis, character-family generation, and render-debug calls.
+  Scriptorium still owns provider and profile selection; Narratio does not add
+  a model-request `--api-key-env` override.
+- Register selected values for captured subprocess-output and failure-diagnostic
+  redaction. Inspection and invocation metadata contain credential names, never
+  their values. This protection does not scan files Scriptorium writes directly.
+- Reuse the credential-forwarding boundary shared with Audita and Notarius.
+  Retire the completed Scriptorium credential-forwarding bug report from the
+  source roadmap; its history remains in Git.
+
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/src/tag/v3.1.0/COPYRIGHT) | [LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/src/tag/v3.1.0/LICENSE) | [ATTRIBUTION](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/src/tag/v3.1.0/docs/oss/attribution.md)

docs/troubleshooting.md

@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ Symptom:
 
 Likely cause:
 
-- stale field name, typo, invalid enum, or invalid duration/path format.
+- stale field name, typo, invalid enum, invalid duration/path format, or an
+  unsupported local manifest schema/state marker.
 
 Diagnostics:
 
@@ -68,9 +69,69 @@ Safe fix:
 
 - align config with [Configuration](./config.md) and the
   [maintained examples](../examples/README.md).
+- for a manifest schema error, move the unsupported local state aside and
+  regenerate it; restore a verified current committed snapshot or republish
+  healthy regenerated state when appropriate. Do not add version or stage
+  markers by hand.
+- if an older manifest is rejected for its retired cleanup-obligation field,
+  finish outstanding cleanup with the pre-upgrade binary. Otherwise verify the
+  remote commit, move aside or regenerate the incompatible manifest, and use
+  the cleanup stage. Do not treat manual JSON editing as the normal migration
+  path.
 
 Relevant reference: [Configuration](./config.md).
 
+## Party schema version rejected
+
+Symptom:
+
+- configuration loading reports that `party.schema_version` is required or
+  unsupported.
+
+Likely cause:
+
+- the campaign `party.yml` is an unversioned legacy document, or names a
+  schema other than `narratio.party.v1`.
+
+Safe fix:
+
+- replace the file with one exact, single-document
+  [`narratio.party.v1` party](./integrations/party.md); do not add a version
+  marker to an otherwise incompatible legacy structure. The versioned party is
+  the only configured roster authority.
+
+Relevant reference: [Canonical Party Input](./integrations/party.md).
+
+## Unexpected imported or overlay value
+
+Symptom:
+
+- an effective configuration value differs from the root file, or a duplicate
+  ownership/configuration error is hard to locate.
+
+Diagnostics:
+
+```bash
+narratio config sources --config /path/pipeline.yml --overlay testing
+```
+
+Add `--campaign` or `--campaign-file` when the pipeline has party-driven
+artifact families. The output identifies each effective logical field's root,
+import, overlay, default, campaign, party, or family source without printing
+the field value or credential contents.
+
+Safe fix:
+
+- move a duplicated base field so it has one owner;
+- correct the selected overlay; or
+- correct the campaign party/family declaration that owns generated values.
+
+To review what would actually change before switching overlays, run `config
+diff` with the same pipeline and campaign selectors. It compares normalized
+effective values rather than YAML formatting or source-file layout.
+
+Relevant reference: [Configuration inspection](./config.md#read-only-effective-pipeline-inspection).
+
 ## Audio mode conflict
 
 Symptom:
@@ -117,6 +178,205 @@ Safe fix:
 
 Relevant reference: [CLI artifact selection](./cli.md).
 
+## Bounded run prerequisite is unusable
+
+Symptom:
+
+- `run` or `session plan` reports that a prerequisite stage is absent or has a
+  pending, running, failed, stale, or interrupted status before the selected
+  start.
+
+Likely cause:
+
+- `--from` excludes upstream work that has not reached the terminal
+  `succeeded` or `skipped` state in the session manifest.
+
+Diagnostics:
+
+```bash
+narratio session status 2026-04-04
+narratio session plan 2026-04-04 --from render --through analyze
+```
+
+Safe fix:
+
+- widen the bounded range to include the first reported stage, or recover that
+  stage explicitly with `run-stage` before retrying. The failed check does not
+  create a run-local directory or modify the manifest. Narratio does not
+  resume-validate excluded prefix stages, and stages after `--through` are not
+  prerequisites.
+
+If prerequisite statuses are terminal but a selected stage reports a missing,
+unsafe, or checksum-inconsistent artifact, repair the artifact at the stage
+that owns it; do not edit the manifest to bypass the selected stage's concrete
+input validation.
+
+Relevant reference: [Operations: Stage Execution and Continuation Behavior](./operations.md#stage-execution-and-continuation-behavior).
+
+## Transcription retries speakers that previously finished
+
+Symptom:
+
+- an ordinary transcribe retry calls WhisperX for a speaker that appeared to
+  finish earlier; or
+- an older successful session retranscribes all speakers once after upgrade.
+
+Likely causes:
+
+- the earlier response or canonical file was not followed by a successful
+  speaker manifest checkpoint;
+- the prepared audio bytes/path, WhisperX URL, or language changed;
+- the canonical transcript is missing, unsafe, non-regular, invalid JSON, or
+  no longer matches its recorded size/checksum;
+- the previous invocation used `--force`, which durably cleared pre-force
+  speaker authority; or
+- the manifest has only legacy aggregate transcribe state and cannot bind old
+  outputs to their source audio.
+
+Safe fix:
+
+- inspect the reported speaker and filesystem error, repair the prepared input
+  or canonical-output path when needed, then retry transcribe normally;
+- allow a legacy aggregate-only record to regenerate once; and
+- do not edit the manifest or copy an old JSON file into place as a substitute
+  for a successful checkpoint.
+
+```bash
+narratio run-stage transcribe 2026-04-04
+```
+
+Valid earlier speaker checkpoints remain reusable even while aggregate
+transcribe status is failed or interrupted. Merge remains gated until
+transcribe reaches aggregate success with the complete current set.
+
+Relevant reference: [Operations: Transcription continuation and replacement](./operations.md#transcription-continuation-and-replacement).
+
+## WhisperX model changed but transcription was reused
+
+Symptom:
+
+- WhisperX model weights, prompts, or private server configuration changed at
+  the same configured URL, but Narratio still considers speaker transcripts
+  current.
+
+Likely cause:
+
+- Narratio can fingerprint its configured URL and language, not private state
+  loaded behind the service boundary.
+
+Safe fix:
+
+- explicitly force transcribe to establish a durable reset, then use ordinary
+  retry if the replacement attempt is interrupted.
+
+```bash
+narratio run-stage transcribe 2026-04-04 --force
+```
+
+Transport replay and application retries do not provide an exactly-once remote
+execution guarantee. Investigate server-side failures or duplicate work using
+WhisperX diagnostics; do not infer completion from a server log without the
+local speaker checkpoint.
+
+Relevant references: [WhisperX integration](./integrations/whisperx.md) and
+[Transcribe internals](./internal/stage-transcribe.md).
+
+## Transcription manifest checkpoint failed
+
+Symptom:
+
+- transcribe reports that a speaker completed but the session manifest could
+  not be saved.
+
+Likely causes:
+
+- the workspace is unwritable or out of space;
+- the manifest path or parent directory is unsafe or the wrong type; or
+- a transient filesystem error interrupted atomic replacement.
+
+Safe fix:
+
+- correct the reported filesystem or permission problem and retry transcribe
+  normally. Narratio reconciles from the last readable collection and reuses
+  only successfully checkpointed speakers.
+
+A canonical raw transcript left by the failed checkpoint is incidental and
+does not become reusable authority. Preserve the manifest and diagnostics if
+the failure repeats; do not advertise the file by editing manifest evidence.
+
+Relevant references: [Manifest persistence](./internal/manifest.md#persistence-semantics)
+and [Transcribe internals](./internal/stage-transcribe.md).
+
+## Notarius credential reference unavailable
+
+Symptom:
+
+- configuration loading reports `secret.unset`, `secret.empty`, or an invalid
+  name in `pipeline.notarius.credentials`, including during inspection or a
+  run that would not execute extraction.
+
+Likely causes:
+
+- the named environment variable is absent or empty;
+- the selected secrets directory lacks a file with that exact name;
+- a process environment variable exists but is empty, so bootstrap correctly
+  leaves it in place; or
+- the Narratio reference name does not match `api_key_env` in the selected
+  Notarius/PromptKit profile.
+
+Safe fix:
+
+- set the exact nonempty environment variable or provide an equivalently named
+  file through the conventional or explicit secrets directory;
+- remove, set to `null`, or set to `[]` when that deployment needs no credential;
+  and
+- use `config show`, `config sources`, and `config diff` to inspect the public
+  reference name and ownership without exposing its value.
+
+Narratio resolves selected credential references during ordinary pipeline
+loading, before stage selection or resume. Credential changes alone do not
+invalidate a completed extraction, but the current reference must still resolve
+for the command to proceed.
+
+Relevant references: [Secrets](./config.md#secrets-handling) and
+[Notarius credentials](./config.md#notarius-credentials).
+
+## Audita v2 configuration or credential failure
+
+Symptom:
+
+- Narratio rejects a retired `pipeline.audita` field during loading, reports
+  `secret.unset` or `secret.empty` for a listed credential, or Audita rejects
+  its external configuration or selected profile when polish runs.
+
+Likely causes:
+
+- the Narratio pipeline still uses v1 endpoint, model, capacity, singular key,
+  report, or retention settings;
+- the named key is missing or empty, including a present but empty process
+  environment variable that takes precedence over a secrets-directory file;
+- Audita's external v2 file references a backend credential name not forwarded
+  by `pipeline.audita.credentials`, including a backend not selected by the
+  current profile; or
+- an Audita overlay or profile selector names a missing downstream definition.
+
+Safe fix:
+
+- follow the [migration table](./operations.md#migrating-audita-and-provider-credentials)
+  and use a supported Audita v2 executable and configuration;
+- provide each needed provider-named variable through the environment or
+  secrets directory, and list that same name in `pipeline.audita.credentials`;
+- validate the external file offline with
+  `audita config validate --config <file>` before switching executables; and
+- inspect Audita's effective profile selection separately from Narratio's
+  `config show`. Narratio does not infer downstream selectors.
+
+An exit-zero polish with a valid transcript succeeds even when Audita reports
+recoverable errors or no corrections. Missing reports are allowed when Audita
+reporting is disabled externally. Edits to Audita-owned files behind unchanged
+selectors require `narratio run-stage polish <session-id> --force` to replace a
+previously successful result. See the [Audita integration contract](./integrations/audita.md).
+
 ## Notarius executable missing
 
 Symptom:
@@ -158,28 +418,118 @@ is expected audit state, not a signal to relink the old bundle manually.
 
 Relevant reference: [Operations: Extraction Workflow](./operations.md#extraction-workflow).
 
-## Atomic Notarius promotion unsupported
+## Prepared Notarius reference missing or inconsistent
 
 Symptom:
 
-- extraction fails with `atomic no-replace directory promotion is unsupported`
-  before a durable bundle or temporary promotion tree is created.
+- extraction or resume validation reports that a configured reference source is
+  unavailable, unsafe, empty, or checksum-inconsistent and recommends
+  `prepare --force`.
 
-Likely cause:
+Likely causes:
 
-- Narratio is running on an operating system other than Linux, macOS, or
-  Windows, where the required atomic no-replace directory primitive has not
-  been implemented and verified.
+- `prepare` has not run since the campaign/session stable input changed;
+- the configured source file is missing;
+- a prepared `inputs/` file or its manifest record was modified independently;
+- a spell-catalog binding exists without an effective `spell_catalog_file`.
+
+Diagnostics:
+
+```bash
+narratio session status 2026-04-04
+narratio session validate 2026-04-04
+```
 
 Safe fix:
 
-- run extraction on Linux, macOS, or Windows. Do not replace the atomic commit
-  with a manual copy or move; the session manifest must never observe a partial
-  or overwritten bundle.
+- correct the campaign/session input path, then refresh canonical prepared
+  evidence before extraction:
 
-This is an extraction-specific platform boundary, not a support statement for
-unrelated Narratio workflows. See
-[Operations: Extraction Workflow](./operations.md#extraction-workflow).
+```bash
+narratio run-stage prepare 2026-04-04 --force
+```
+
+Do not point Notarius directly at the original source path or edit the manifest
+checksum. Relevant references: [Notarius reference configuration](./config.md#notarius-reference-bindings)
+and [Operations: Extraction Workflow](./operations.md#extraction-workflow).
+
+## Notarius reference snapshot cache conflict
+
+Symptom:
+
+- extraction reports that a path beneath
+  `cache/notarius/references/<sha256>/` is a symlink, directory, or another
+  non-regular or unsafe entry.
+
+Safe fix:
+
+- stop commands for the affected session and inspect the exact reported path;
+- investigate unexpected links or special files as possible tampering; and
+- remove only the reported conflicting leaf or digest directory after
+  confirming it belongs to the reconstructible reference cache.
+
+A missing snapshot or corrupt regular snapshot is reconstructed automatically
+from currently verified prepared input. Do not recursively delete the session
+root, edit the manifest checksum, or remove cache entries while extraction is
+active.
+
+Relevant reference: [Operations: Extraction Workflow](./operations.md#extraction-workflow).
+
+## Notarius resume executes work instead of reusing it
+
+Symptom:
+
+- Narratio executes `extract`, and Notarius makes provider calls despite
+  `pipeline.notarius.resume: true`.
+
+Likely causes:
+
+- checkpoint recording is disabled in the Notarius configuration;
+- Notarius is using a nonpersistent or different checkpoint root;
+- transcript/reference bytes, reference paths, pipeline/profile content,
+  local-backend endpoint, selected lanes, or another checkpoint identity input
+  changed; or
+- Narratio extraction was forced, which deliberately omits `--resume`.
+
+Safe fix:
+
+- validate the deployed Notarius configuration and configure explicit
+  persistent chunk-plan and checkpoint roots;
+- inspect Notarius checkpoint decision reason codes for a legitimate cold miss;
+  and
+- retry without force only when reuse is intended.
+
+Remember that Narratio skipping a completed `extract` stage is separate from
+Notarius reusing work inside an extraction that does execute. Narratio does not
+read the Notarius configuration to infer checkpoint enablement.
+
+Relevant references: [Notarius cache controls](./config.md#notarius-cache-controls)
+and [Notarius integration](./integrations/notarius.md).
+
+## Notarius reference selector or generated-handoff collision
+
+Symptom:
+
+- Notarius exits nonzero with an undeclared reference-slot, incompatible media,
+  or external/generated reference collision error.
+
+Likely causes:
+
+- a selector does not identify a slot declared by the selected Notarius target;
+- a prepared file does not satisfy that slot's Notarius media contract; or
+- a CLI binding attempts to replace a same-run generated D&D handoff.
+
+Safe fix:
+
+- compare external bindings with the selected Notarius pipeline's canonical
+  consumer documentation;
+- keep only campaign-owned external slots on the CLI; and
+- leave registry, scene, combat, and occurrence handoffs to Notarius pipeline
+  composition.
+
+Narratio validates selector structure and prepared evidence, while Notarius
+owns slot declarations, media compatibility, and generated-handoff conflicts.
+Relevant reference: [Notarius integration](./integrations/notarius.md).
 
 ## Notarius receipt or index incompatible
 
@@ -198,7 +548,7 @@ Safe fix:
 
 - compare installed Notarius output with the canonical Notarius contracts,
   including receipt `index_file: index.json` and index management names
-  `manifest.json`, `rejected.json`, and `warnings.json`; align
+  `manifest.json`, `rejected.json`, `warnings.json`, and `diagnostics.json`; align
   `pipeline.notarius` constraints and rerun. Do not bypass confinement or schema
   checks.
 
@@ -228,16 +578,23 @@ Symptom:
 
 Likely causes:
 
-- the executable/config path, pipeline ID, timeout, working directory, or
-  configured output contracts changed;
+- the pipeline ID or configured output contracts changed;
+- a configured prepared reference selector, source, path, checksum, or byte
+  size changed;
+- the direct trimmed transcript identity or bytes changed; or
 - the durable bundle, index, lane set, provenance, regular-file status, or
   checksum no longer validates.
 
 Safe fix:
 
 - allow the automatic rerun after verifying the current configuration. Treat
-  an unsafe path or symlink error as filesystem corruption or tampering and
-  investigate it rather than replacing files manually.
+  an unsafe path or bundle symlink error as filesystem corruption or tampering
+  and investigate it rather than replacing files manually.
+
+Executable, config path, timeout, working directory, and Notarius credential
+changes are operational and do not by themselves invalidate reusable extraction
+evidence. A newly selected credential must nevertheless resolve during command
+configuration loading.
 
 ## Notarius transitive configuration changed
 
@@ -252,12 +609,176 @@ Safe fix:
 narratio run-stage extract 2026-04-04 --force
 ```
 
-Narratio fingerprints its invocation contract, not the contents of transitive
-Notarius inputs. Always force extraction after changing them; downstream
+Narratio fingerprints its invocation contract and prepared Narratio reference
+identities, not the contents of other transitive Notarius inputs. Always force
+extraction after changing those external inputs; downstream
 successful stages are then marked stale normally.
 
 Relevant reference: [Operations: Extraction Workflow](./operations.md#extraction-workflow).
 
+## Analysis artifact evidence is not current
+
+Symptom:
+
+- ordinary continuation or `session plan` schedules one or more configured
+  artifacts even though a canonical output file exists; or
+- publish reports a configured artifact source unavailable.
+
+Likely causes:
+
+- the per-artifact record is stale, missing, failed, unselected, or malformed;
+- a configured prompt/profile, dependency, input identity, output path, or
+  effective variable changed; or
+- the recorded output is missing, unsafe, empty, or has a size/checksum that no
+  longer matches its manifest evidence.
+
+Diagnostics:
+
+```bash
+narratio session status 2026-04-04
+narratio session artifacts 2026-04-04
+narratio session plan 2026-04-04 --from analyze --through analyze
+```
+
+Safe fix:
+
+- investigate unexpected path or checksum changes as possible tampering;
+- otherwise let the selected analyze work rerun, or explicitly regenerate only
+  the affected targets; and
+- never edit the fingerprint/checksum in the manifest or copy an old file into
+  the canonical path as a substitute for current evidence.
+
+```bash
+narratio analyze 2026-04-04 --artifacts session_recap
+```
+
+Relevant references: [Operations: Artifact Selection](./operations.md#artifact-selection)
+and [Artifact Internals](./internal/artifacts.md#resolution-rules).
+
+## Analysis manifest checkpoint failed
+
+Symptom:
+
+- analyze reports that it could not save the session manifest after completing
+  an artifact.
+
+Likely causes:
+
+- the workspace is unwritable or out of space;
+- the manifest path or its parent directory has unsafe permissions or type; or
+- a transient local filesystem error interrupted atomic manifest replacement.
+
+Safe fix:
+
+- correct the reported filesystem or permission problem;
+- inspect `session artifacts` to identify the last durable current records; and
+- rerun analyze normally. Narratio reuses earlier successful checkpoints and
+  retries the failed or non-current artifact and its required dependents.
+
+Do not treat a newly created canonical artifact file as current when its
+checkpoint failed, and do not edit the manifest to advertise it. If the error
+recurs, preserve the manifest and run-local diagnostics before repairing the
+workspace.
+
+Relevant references: [Operations: Stage Execution and Continuation Behavior](./operations.md#stage-execution-and-continuation-behavior)
+and [Manifest Internals](./internal/manifest.md#persistence-semantics).
+
+## Built-in transcript or bounds source is unavailable
+
+Symptom:
+
+- analyze, extract, render, or publish says a built-in source is unavailable
+  even though a file exists at its usual session path.
+
+Likely cause:
+
+- the producing stage has not succeeded, its output lacks the exact registered
+  source, run ID, or checksum, its evidence is duplicated or stale, or the
+  durable bytes no longer match the manifest checksum.
+
+Safe fix:
+
+- do not copy or rename the file to make it discoverable. Rerun the producing
+  stage to regenerate both the bytes and current manifest evidence, then retry
+  the consumer.
+
+## An older manifest schema is rejected
+
+Symptom:
+
+- Narratio rejects a local session manifest because `schema_version` is missing
+  or unsupported; or
+- restore rejects a committed remote session manifest for the same reason.
+
+Likely causes:
+
+- the manifest predates the supported canonical state contract. Narratio
+  rejects it at the schema boundary rather than interpreting aggregate output
+  lists or incidental files as current authority; or
+- an older strict-decoding Narratio binary is reading a current manifest that
+  contains additive transcribe speaker state it does not recognize.
+
+Safe fix:
+
+- for unsupported local state, move the old manifest aside and regenerate, or
+  restore a verified current committed snapshot when one is authoritative;
+- for unsupported committed remote state, regenerate healthy local state as
+  needed and republish the session; and
+- for a downgrade rejection, return to the current binary or restore a verified
+  pre-upgrade backup. Do not delete only the speaker fields by hand.
+
+```bash
+narratio run 2026-04-04
+narratio publish 2026-04-04
+```
+
+After current records exist, inspect them and publish explicitly. Do not copy
+old files into canonical paths merely to influence selection; availability is
+manifest-owned.
+
+Relevant references: [Operations: Stage Execution and Continuation Behavior](./operations.md#stage-execution-and-continuation-behavior)
+and [Manifest Internals](./internal/manifest.md#transcribe-owned-speaker-state).
+
+## Scriptorium returns HTTP 401 during trim or analyze
+
+Check that Narratio's pipeline selects the credential names required by
+Scriptorium, for example `scriptorium.credentials: [OPENROUTER_API_KEY]`.
+Provision the values through the existing environment or secrets directory;
+exporting a key without selecting it does not forward it to the child process.
+See [Scriptorium credentials](config.md#scriptorium-credentials).
+
+Once corrected, retry the failed run normally; forcing previously successful
+transcription or analysis is unnecessary. If authentication still fails, check
+the selected Scriptorium backend, credential validity, and provider access
+without printing keys. A 401 can indicate an invalid key as well as a missing
+one.
+
+## Scriptorium private input changed without a rerun
+
+Symptom:
+
+- a prompt, profile, imported configuration file, executable, or other input
+  loaded privately by Scriptorium changed, but Narratio still considers an
+  artifact current.
+
+Likely cause:
+
+- analysis fingerprints cover Narratio-observable semantic identities, not
+  executable contents or arbitrary files and transitive configuration that
+  Scriptorium loads behind its configured paths and identifiers.
+
+Safe fix:
+
+- explicitly force the affected target after changing an unobserved private
+  input. Force applies to explicit targets; current prerequisites remain
+  reusable unless selected themselves.
+
+```bash
+narratio analyze 2026-04-04 --artifacts session_recap
+```
+
+Relevant reference: [Analyze Internals](./internal/stage-analyze.md#invariants).
+
 ## Previous-session artifact input missing
 
 Symptom:
@@ -267,7 +788,9 @@ Symptom:
 Likely causes:
 
 - missing `session.previous_session_id`;
-- previous artifact not restored/published for source session.
+- the selected previous-session commit does not declare the required canonical
+  source as a `published_output`; or
+- the declared published object is unavailable or fails identity validation.
 
 Diagnostics:
 
@@ -325,6 +848,8 @@ Symptom:
 Likely cause:
 
 - local durable files differ from remote restore sources.
+- a restore target or one of its ancestors is a symlink or another non-regular
+  filesystem entry.
 
 Diagnostics:
 
@@ -335,7 +860,11 @@ narratio session restore 2026-04-04 --dry-run
 Safe fix:
 
 - review conflicts;
-- rerun with `--force` only when remote state should overwrite local.
+- rerun with `--force` only when remote state should overwrite an eligible
+  regular local file; repair a symlink or other non-regular conflict first.
+
+If the filesystem changed after the plan was printed, rerun restore after
+repairing the destination; installation performs the same safety check again.
 
 Relevant reference: [Operations: Restore Workflow](./operations.md#restore-workflow).
 
@@ -428,7 +957,8 @@ Symptom:
 
 Likely causes:
 
-- invalid `pipeline.secrets.env_dir`;
+- missing, unreadable, or invalid explicit `--secrets-dir`;
+- invalid entries in the conventional `secrets/` directory beside the root pipeline;
 - missing credential environment variables;
 - invalid S3 endpoint/bucket settings.
 
@@ -436,12 +966,12 @@ Diagnostics:
 
 ```bash
 ls -la /path/to/secrets_dir
-env | sed 's/=.*//' | grep -E 'OBJECT_STORAGE|AWS|AUDITA|SCRIPTORIUM'
+env | sed 's/=.*//' | grep -E 'OBJECT_STORAGE|AWS|AUDITA|NOTARIUS|SCRIPTORIUM'
 ```
 
 Safe fix:
 
-- correct secret-file path and permissions;
+- correct `--secrets-dir`, secret-file type/name, and operator-managed permissions;
 - provide required env vars;
 - keep secret values out of YAML.
 

examples/README.md

@@ -11,6 +11,26 @@ in the [configuration reference](../docs/config.md).
   WhisperX URL.
 - [Production-shaped pipeline](pipeline.production.yml): S3 storage, publish,
   external tools, and configured Scriptorium artifacts.
+- [Production-base/testing-overlay bundle](production-testing/pipeline.yml):
+  explicit `conf.d` imports, one ordinary artifact per `artifacts/<key>.yml`,
+  one family per `artifact-families/<key>.yml`, and the fixed
+  `overlays/testing.yml` overlay. Production values live in the base. The
+  bundle demonstrates an input-only artifact dependency, two character families
+  sharing the campaign party, and a testing-only disabled artifact. Inspect it
+  offline with:
+
+  ```sh
+  narratio config validate --config examples/production-testing/pipeline.yml --campaign-file examples/campaigns/sample-campaign/campaign.yml
+  narratio config show --config examples/production-testing/pipeline.yml --campaign-file examples/campaigns/sample-campaign/campaign.yml --overlay testing
+  narratio config sources --config examples/production-testing/pipeline.yml --campaign-file examples/campaigns/sample-campaign/campaign.yml --overlay testing
+  narratio config artifacts --config examples/production-testing/pipeline.yml --campaign-file examples/campaigns/sample-campaign/campaign.yml --overlay testing
+  narratio config diff default testing --config examples/production-testing/pipeline.yml --campaign-file examples/campaigns/sample-campaign/campaign.yml
+  ```
+
+  These inspection commands load configuration and resolve explicit credential
+  references, but do not load a session or create runtime state. This bundle is
+  intentionally local-storage and credential-reference free so the walkthrough
+  needs no tools or cloud services.
 - [Full annotated pipeline](pipeline.full.annotated.yml): every implemented
   pipeline section with explanatory comments.
 - [Extraction subset pipeline](pipeline.extraction-subset.yml): a focused
@@ -37,12 +57,27 @@ with the sample campaign and a compatible local- or S3-audio session.
 - The sample campaign references its local
   [speakers](campaigns/sample-campaign/speakers.yml),
   [autocorrect](campaigns/sample-campaign/autocorrect.yml),
-  [glossary](campaigns/sample-campaign/glossary.yml),
-  [players](campaigns/sample-campaign/players.yml), and
-  [party](campaigns/sample-campaign/party.yml) fixtures.
+  [glossary](campaigns/sample-campaign/glossary.yml), and canonical
+  [party](campaigns/sample-campaign/party.yml) fixture, plus an optional
+  [spell-catalog overlay](campaigns/sample-campaign/spell_catalog.json) that
+  follows the Notarius v0.7 contract. Narratio derives the players projection
+  from this party source.
 - [Sample speaker audio](audio/sample-speaker.flac) is a text placeholder that
   reserves the expected filename and directory shape. Replace it with a real
   FLAC file before running transcription.
 
-The examples contain environment-variable names but no credential values. They
-use fictional campaign content and reserved example domains.
+The examples contain environment-variable names but no credential values. Set
+`OBJECT_STORAGE_KEY_ID`, `OBJECT_STORAGE_KEY`, `AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY`, and
+`NOTARIUS_LLM_API_KEY` to nonempty synthetic or real values before loading the
+examples that reference them. They use fictional campaign content and reserved
+example domains. The Audita and Notarius names are example references, not
+implicit aliases: external backend/profile configurations must use those exact
+names, or the Narratio credential lists must be changed to match. See the
+[Audita v2 migration guide](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v2.0.0/docs/migrations/v2.md)
+for maintained downstream configuration examples.
+
+For a deployed bundle, keep credential files out of source control in a
+`secrets/` directory beside the root `pipeline.yml`, one file per referenced
+environment-variable name, or select another directory with `--secrets-dir`.
+Static S3 credentials are optional: omit both S3 credential references to use
+the AWS SDK discovery chain.

examples/campaigns/sample-campaign/campaign.yml

@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ inputs:
   speakers_file: ./speakers.yml
   autocorrect_file: ./autocorrect.yml
   glossary_file: ./glossary.yml
-  players_file: ./players.yml
   party_file: ./party.yml
+  spell_catalog_file: ./spell_catalog.json

examples/campaigns/sample-campaign/party.yml

@@ -1,2 +1,26 @@
-- name: Example Hero
-  type: pc
+schema_version: narratio.party.v1
+
+characters:
+  arannis:
+    player:
+      name: Rowan Hale
+    character:
+      name: Arannis
+      alias:
+        - Ari
+        - The Grey Owl
+      classes:
+        - name: wizard
+          level: 8
+  brenna:
+    player:
+      name: Rowan Hale
+    character:
+      name: Brenna
+      alias:
+        - Shield of Dawn
+      classes:
+        - name: paladin
+          level: 6
+        - name: warlock
+          level: 2

examples/campaigns/sample-campaign/players.yml

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-- name: Example Player
-  role: player

examples/campaigns/sample-campaign/spell_catalog.json

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+{
+  "schema_version": "notarius.dnd.spell-catalog-overlay.v1",
+  "catalogs": [
+    {
+      "id": "narratio.sample-campaign",
+      "ruleset": "dnd-5e-2014",
+      "source": {
+        "title": "Narratio sample campaign spell names"
+      },
+      "spells": [
+        {
+          "name": "Aegis of Emberfall",
+          "aliases": ["Emberfall Aegis"]
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}

examples/pipeline.extraction-subset.yml

@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ notarius:
   config_path: /usr/local/etc/notarius/config.yml
   pipeline_id: dnd-session
   timeout: 3h
+  references:
+    glossary: narratio.input.glossary
+    party: narratio.input.party
+    players: narratio.input.players
+    spell_catalog: narratio.input.spell_catalog
   outputs:
     npc_registry:
       lane_id: npc-registry
@@ -52,4 +57,3 @@ scriptorium:
         scenes:
           source: narratio.extraction.scene_descriptions
           required: true
-

examples/pipeline.full.annotated.yml

@@ -7,9 +7,8 @@ workspace:
   # Optional: remove run-scoped workdir after successful publish commit.
   cleanup_after_publish: false
 
-# Optional: local secret file loader (directory of ENV_VAR_NAME files).
-# secrets:
-#   env_dir: ./secrets
+# Credential files, when used, belong in a sibling secrets/ directory or in the
+# directory selected with --secrets-dir; they are not pipeline configuration.
 
 storage:
   # Defaults to "local". Use "s3" explicitly for publish + S3 audio workflows.
@@ -24,8 +23,8 @@ storage:
     endpoint: ""
     force_path_style: false
     # Optional; defaults shown explicitly.
-    access_key_id_env: OBJECT_STORAGE_KEY_ID
-    secret_access_key_env: OBJECT_STORAGE_KEY
+    access_key_id: OBJECT_STORAGE_KEY_ID
+    secret_access_key: OBJECT_STORAGE_KEY
 
 campaigns:
   # Optional; defaults to /usr/local/share/narratio/campaigns.
@@ -91,22 +90,18 @@ seriatim:
     filler_max_duration: 1.25
 
 audita:
-  # Optional overrides; defaults shown explicitly where applicable.
+  # Optional overrides. Audita owns its own configuration and profiles.
   binary: audita
   timeout: 3h
-  llm_api_key_env: AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY
-  modules: [glossary, homophones, spoken_word, grammar]
-  base_url: ""
-  model: ""
-  total_llm_concurrency: 2
-  proposal_llm_concurrency: 1
-  validation_model: ""
-  validation_llm_concurrency: 1
+  # Names must match credentials on every backend in the Audita v2 config.
+  credentials: [AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY]
+  # Omit modules for Audita's default sequence; modules: [] disables corrections.
+  overlay: ""
+  proposal_profile: ""
+  validation_profile: ""
   transcript_description: ""
   config_path: /usr/local/etc/audita/config.yml
   output_schema: audita-v1
-  work_dir_retention: auto
-  report: true
 
 normalize:
   # Optional; defaults shown explicitly.
@@ -129,13 +124,33 @@ trim:
     report: false
 
 notarius:
-  # Optional structured extraction between trim and render.
+  # Optional structured extraction after render and before analyze.
   enabled: true
   binary: notarius
+  # Optional environment-variable references. Match these names to the
+  # selected Notarius/PromptKit providers; never put credential values here.
+  credentials: [NOTARIUS_LLM_API_KEY]
+  # Optionally select a Notarius ConfigKit overlay when extraction runs. This
+  # is independent of Narratio's selected overlay and may use a different name.
+  # See docs/config.md and docs/integrations/notarius.md for the contracts.
+  # config_overlay: downstream-economy
   config_path: /usr/local/etc/notarius/config.yml
   pipeline_id: dnd-session
   timeout: 3h
   working_directory: /usr/local/etc/notarius
+  # Reuse compatible accepted Notarius checkpoints during executed extraction.
+  # The Notarius config must enable recording and provide persistent cache roots.
+  resume: true
+  # auto uses or creates a source-addressed chunk plan. Forced Narratio
+  # extraction overrides this with refresh and disables checkpoint loading.
+  chunk_cache: auto
+  # External campaign references use prepared Narratio source IDs. Omit an
+  # optional binding when the selected Notarius pipeline does not need it.
+  references:
+    glossary: narratio.input.glossary
+    party: narratio.input.party
+    players: narratio.input.players
+    spell_catalog: narratio.input.spell_catalog
   # Each key creates source narratio.extraction.<key>. These constraints match
   # the current Notarius D&D lane contracts; update them with Notarius.
   outputs:
@@ -202,6 +217,9 @@ notarius:
 
 scriptorium:
   binary: scriptorium
+  # Select provider names provisioned through Narratio's environment/secrets.
+  # Used for trim, analysis, and render-debug calls; no provider override.
+  # credentials: [OPENROUTER_API_KEY, RAKESTRAWHOME_API_KEY]
   config_path: /usr/local/etc/scriptorium/config.yml
   timeout: 10m
   render_debug: false

examples/pipeline.production.yml

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ storage:
     bucket: my-dnd-archive
     root_prefix: dnd
     region: us-east-1
-    access_key_id_env: OBJECT_STORAGE_KEY_ID
-    secret_access_key_env: OBJECT_STORAGE_KEY
+    access_key_id: OBJECT_STORAGE_KEY_ID
+    secret_access_key: OBJECT_STORAGE_KEY
 
 campaigns:
   root: /usr/local/share/narratio/campaigns
@@ -57,14 +57,9 @@ seriatim:
 audita:
   binary: audita
   timeout: 3h
-  llm_api_key_env: AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY
-  modules: [glossary, homophones, spoken_word, grammar]
+  credentials: [AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY]
+  # Omit modules to use Audita defaults; modules: [] disables corrections.
   output_schema: audita-v1
-  work_dir_retention: auto
-  total_llm_concurrency: 2
-  proposal_llm_concurrency: 1
-  validation_llm_concurrency: 1
-  report: true
 
 normalize:
   output_path: transcripts/final.json
@@ -73,6 +68,7 @@ normalize:
 
 scriptorium:
   binary: scriptorium
+  # credentials: [OPENROUTER_API_KEY] # Enable when this provider is configured.
   config_path: /usr/local/etc/scriptorium/config.yml
   timeout: 10m
   render_debug: false

examples/production-testing/artifact-families/character_items.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+scriptorium:
+  artifact_families:
+    character_items:
+      enabled: true
+      for_each: party.characters
+      prompt_id: dnd.character_items
+      profile_id: production-placeholder
+      output_path_pattern: artifacts/characters/{character_id}/items.md
+      inputs:
+        character_meta:
+          source: narratio.member_artifact.character_meta
+          required: true
+      member_vars:
+        character_id: character_id
+        character_name: character.name
+        aliases: character.alias_summary
+      publish:
+        enabled: true
+        required: false
+        dest_pattern: artifacts/characters/{character_id}/items.md

examples/production-testing/artifact-families/character_meta.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+scriptorium:
+  artifact_families:
+    character_meta:
+      enabled: true
+      for_each: party.characters
+      prompt_id: dnd.character_meta
+      profile_id: production-placeholder
+      output_path_pattern: artifacts/characters/{character_id}/meta.md
+      member_vars:
+        character_id: character_id
+        character_name: character.name
+        player_name: player.name
+        class_summary: character.class_summary

examples/production-testing/artifacts/player_handout.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+scriptorium:
+  artifacts:
+    player_handout:
+      enabled: true
+      prompt_id: dnd.player_handout
+      profile_id: production-placeholder
+      output_path: artifacts/player-handout.md
+      inputs:
+        recap:
+          source: narratio.artifact.session_recap
+          required: true

examples/production-testing/artifacts/session_recap.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+scriptorium:
+  artifacts:
+    session_recap:
+      enabled: true
+      prompt_id: dnd.session_recap
+      profile_id: production-placeholder
+      output_path: artifacts/session-recap.md
+      inputs:
+        transcript:
+          source: narratio.transcript.final_trimmed
+          required: true

examples/production-testing/conf.d/platform.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+workspace:
+  root: ./workspace
+
+campaigns:
+  root: ../../campaigns
+  default_campaign_id: sample-campaign
+
+cache:
+  root: ./cache
+
+spool:
+  root: ./spool

examples/production-testing/conf.d/publish.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+publish:
+  enabled: true
+  upload_run: false
+  outputs:
+    - source: narratio.transcript.final_markdown
+      dest: transcripts/final.md
+      required: true

examples/production-testing/conf.d/storage.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+storage:
+  backend: local

examples/production-testing/conf.d/transcript.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+whisperx:
+  transcribe_url: https://transcription.example.com/transcribe
+  language: en
+
+seriatim:
+  binary: seriatim
+  output_schema: seriatim-intermediate
+
+audita:
+  binary: audita
+  modules: [glossary, grammar]
+  output_schema: audita-v1
+  proposal_profile: narratio-production-model-placeholder
+  validation_profile: narratio-production-validator-placeholder
+
+normalize:
+  output_path: transcripts/final.json
+  output_schema: seriatim-intermediate

examples/production-testing/overlays/testing.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+audita:
+  proposal_profile: narratio-testing-model-placeholder
+  validation_profile: narratio-testing-validator-placeholder
+
+scriptorium:
+  artifacts:
+    session_recap:
+      profile_id: testing-placeholder
+    player_handout:
+      profile_id: testing-placeholder
+    testing_notes:
+      enabled: false
+      output_path: artifacts/testing-notes.md
+  artifact_families:
+    character_meta:
+      profile_id: testing-placeholder
+    character_items:
+      profile_id: testing-placeholder

examples/production-testing/pipeline.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Copyable production-base/testing-overlay entry point. ConfigKit expands only
+# these explicit path and glob imports; Narratio never scans directories itself.
+configkit:
+  imports:
+    - path: conf.d/platform.yml
+    - path: conf.d/storage.yml
+    - path: conf.d/transcript.yml
+    - path: conf.d/publish.yml
+    - glob: artifacts/*.yml
+    - glob: artifact-families/*.yml
+
+scriptorium:
+  binary: scriptorium
+  config_path: ./scriptorium/config.yml

go.mod

@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 module gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio
 
-go 1.25.0
+go 1.26.0
 
 require (
+	gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit v0.4.2
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config v1.32.17
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials v1.19.16
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/s3 v1.101.0
 	github.com/aws/smithy-go v1.25.1
+	github.com/google/go-cmp v0.7.0
+	golang.org/x/sync v0.22.0
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.47.0
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1
 )
@@ -26,4 +29,5 @@ require (
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sso v1.30.17 // indirect
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/ssooidc v1.35.21 // indirect
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sts v1.42.1 // indirect
+	go.yaml.in/yaml/v4 v4.0.0-rc.6 // indirect
 )

go.sum

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit v0.4.2 h1:ZMxmv8pOnLtAx2hFTf8Z+pHKUbR89xErkBhwjr4yK24=
+gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit v0.4.2/go.mod h1:tYWpsrbLyu05r8+1MapWp5fN6ZrX9I8hU2xEPedYmYk=
 github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2 v1.41.7 h1:DWpAJt66FmnnaRIOT/8ASTucrvuDPZASqhhLey6tLY8=
 github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2 v1.41.7/go.mod h1:4LAfZOPHNVNQEckOACQx60Y8pSRjIkNZQz1w92xpMJc=
 github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws/protocol/eventstream v1.7.10 h1:gx1AwW1Iyk9Z9dD9F4akX5gnN3QZwUB20GGKH/I+Rho=
@@ -34,6 +36,12 @@ github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sts v1.42.1 h1:F/M5Y9I3nwr2IEpshZgh1GeHpOIt
 github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sts v1.42.1/go.mod h1:mTNxImtovCOEEuD65mKW7DCsL+2gjEH+RPEAexAzAio=
 github.com/aws/smithy-go v1.25.1 h1:J8ERsGSU7d+aCmdQur5Txg6bVoYelvQJgtZehD12GkI=
 github.com/aws/smithy-go v1.25.1/go.mod h1:YE2RhdIuDbA5E5bTdciG9KrW3+TiEONeUWCqxX9i1Fc=
+github.com/google/go-cmp v0.7.0 h1:wk8382ETsv4JYUZwIsn6YpYiWiBsYLSJiTsyBybVuN8=
+github.com/google/go-cmp v0.7.0/go.mod h1:pXiqmnSA92OHEEa9HXL2W4E7lf9JzCmGVUdgjX3N/iU=
+go.yaml.in/yaml/v4 v4.0.0-rc.6 h1:1h7H1ohdUh93/FyE4YaDa1Zh64K6VVbjF4K6WUxMtH4=
+go.yaml.in/yaml/v4 v4.0.0-rc.6/go.mod h1:aZqd9kCMsGL7AuUv/m/PvWLdg5sjJsZ4oHDEnfPPfY0=
+golang.org/x/sync v0.22.0 h1:SZjpbeLmrCk4xhRSZFNZW5gFUeCeFgjekvI/+gfScek=
+golang.org/x/sync v0.22.0/go.mod h1:9xrNwdLfx4jkKbNva9FpL6vEN7evnE43NNNJQ2LF3+0=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.47.0 h1:o7XGOvZQCADBQQ4Y7VNq2dRWQR7JmOUW8Kxx4ZsNgWs=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.47.0/go.mod h1:4GL1E5IUh+htKOUEOaiffhrAeqysfVGipDYzABqnCmw=
 gopkg.in/check.v1 v0.0.0-20161208181325-20d25e280405 h1:yhCVgyC4o1eVCa2tZl7eS0r+SDo693bJlVdllGtEeKM=

internal/adapters/audita/fake.go

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"path/filepath"
 
-	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/internal/adapters/subprocess"
 	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/internal/fileops"
 )
 
@@ -18,13 +17,11 @@ func (n *NoopRunner) Run(ctx context.Context, req PolishRequest) (PolishResult,
 	if err := ctx.Err(); err != nil {
 		return PolishResult{}, err
 	}
-	if err := materializePlaceholders(req); err != nil {
+	if err := materializePlaceholders(req, false); err != nil {
 		return PolishResult{}, err
 	}
 	return PolishResult{
 		ProcessedTranscriptPath: req.OutputProcessedPath,
-		ReportPath:              req.ReportPath,
-		WorkDir:                 req.WorkDir,
 		StdoutLogPath:           req.StdoutLogPath,
 		StderrLogPath:           req.StderrLogPath,
 		GeneratedConfigPath:     req.GeneratedConfigPath,
@@ -48,18 +45,20 @@ func (f *FakeRunner) Run(ctx context.Context, req PolishRequest) (PolishResult,
 	if f.Err != nil {
 		return PolishResult{}, f.Err
 	}
-	if err := materializePlaceholders(req); err != nil {
+	if err := materializePlaceholders(req, true); err != nil {
 		return PolishResult{}, err
 	}
 	res := f.Result
 	if res.ProcessedTranscriptPath == "" {
 		res.ProcessedTranscriptPath = req.OutputProcessedPath
 	}
-	if res.ReportPath == "" {
-		res.ReportPath = req.ReportPath
-	}
-	if res.WorkDir == "" {
-		res.WorkDir = req.WorkDir
+	if res.Reports == (ReportBundle{}) {
+		dir := filepath.Dir(req.OutputProcessedPath)
+		res.Reports = ReportBundle{
+			ErrorsPath:     filepath.Join(dir, "errors.yml"),
+			RecoveriesPath: filepath.Join(dir, "recoveries.yml"),
+			OverviewPath:   filepath.Join(dir, "report.md"),
+		}
 	}
 	if res.StdoutLogPath == "" {
 		res.StdoutLogPath = req.StdoutLogPath
@@ -76,25 +75,25 @@ func (f *FakeRunner) Run(ctx context.Context, req PolishRequest) (PolishResult,
 	return res, nil
 }
 
-func materializePlaceholders(req PolishRequest) error {
+func materializePlaceholders(req PolishRequest, reports bool) error {
 	if req.GeneratedConfigPath != "" {
 		payload := map[string]any{
-			"schema":                 "audita.generated.v1",
+			"schema":                 "audita.generated.v2",
 			"placeholder":            true,
 			"merged_transcript_path": req.MergedTranscriptPath,
 			"output_path":            req.OutputProcessedPath,
 		}
-		if err := subprocess.WriteYAMLAtomic(req.GeneratedConfigPath, payload, fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
+		if err := writeGeneratedYAML(req.GeneratedConfigPath, payload); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("write generated config %q: %w", req.GeneratedConfigPath, err)
 		}
 	}
 	if req.StdoutLogPath != "" {
-		if err := subprocess.WriteFileAtomic(req.StdoutLogPath, []byte("audita noop/fake stdout placeholder\n"), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
+		if err := fileops.WriteFileAtomic(req.StdoutLogPath, []byte("audita noop/fake stdout placeholder\n"), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("write stdout log %q: %w", req.StdoutLogPath, err)
 		}
 	}
 	if req.StderrLogPath != "" {
-		if err := subprocess.WriteFileAtomic(req.StderrLogPath, []byte("audita noop/fake stderr placeholder\n"), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
+		if err := fileops.WriteFileAtomic(req.StderrLogPath, []byte("audita noop/fake stderr placeholder\n"), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("write stderr log %q: %w", req.StderrLogPath, err)
 		}
 	}
@@ -104,11 +103,18 @@ func materializePlaceholders(req PolishRequest) error {
 	}); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	if err := writeJSONIfRequested(req.ReportPath, map[string]any{
-		"schema": "audita.report.v1",
-		"steps":  []any{},
-	}); err != nil {
-		return err
+	if !reports {
+		return nil
+	}
+	for _, report := range []struct{ name, contents string }{
+		{"errors.yml", "schema: audita-errors\nversion: 1\nstatus: completed\nerrors: []\n"},
+		{"recoveries.yml", "schema: audita-recoveries\nversion: 1\nstatus: completed\nrecoveries: []\n"},
+		{"report.md", "# Audita report\n"},
+	} {
+		path := filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(req.OutputProcessedPath), report.name)
+		if err := fileops.WriteFileAtomic(path, []byte(report.contents), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("write report %q: %w", path, err)
+		}
 	}
 	return nil
 }
@@ -124,7 +130,7 @@ func writeJSONIfRequested(path string, payload any) error {
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("marshal placeholder json for %q: %w", path, err)
 	}
-	if err := subprocess.WriteFileAtomic(path, data, fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
+	if err := fileops.WriteFileAtomic(path, data, fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("write placeholder json %q: %w", path, err)
 	}
 	return nil

internal/adapters/audita/generated_config.go

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package audita
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/internal/fileops"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
+)
+
+func writeGeneratedYAML(path string, payload any) error {
+	data, err := yaml.Marshal(payload)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("marshal generated YAML for %q: %w", path, err)
+	}
+	if err := fileops.WriteFileAtomic(path, data, fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("write generated YAML %q: %w", path, err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}

internal/adapters/audita/runner.go

@@ -11,24 +11,29 @@ type Runner interface {
 	Run(ctx context.Context, req PolishRequest) (PolishResult, error)
 }
 
-// PolishRequest describes an audita invocation.
+// PolishRequest describes an Audita invocation. Nil Modules uses the runner's
+// configured selection; a non-nil empty slice selects no modules.
 type PolishRequest struct {
 	GeneratedConfigPath  string
 	MergedTranscriptPath string
 	OutputProcessedPath  string
 	GlossaryPath         string
-	ReportPath           string
-	WorkDir              string
 	Modules              []string
 	StdoutLogPath        string
 	StderrLogPath        string
 }
 
-// PolishResult describes a polish output.
+// ReportBundle contains optional reports adjacent to the requested output.
+type ReportBundle struct {
+	ErrorsPath     string
+	RecoveriesPath string
+	OverviewPath   string
+}
+
+// PolishResult describes a polish output and available diagnostics.
 type PolishResult struct {
 	ProcessedTranscriptPath string
-	ReportPath              string
-	WorkDir                 string
+	Reports                 ReportBundle
 	StdoutLogPath           string
 	StderrLogPath           string
 	GeneratedConfigPath     string

internal/adapters/audita/subprocess.go

@@ -3,13 +3,14 @@ package audita
 import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
-	"net/url"
 	"os"
-	"strconv"
+	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
+	configkit "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit"
 	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/internal/adapters/subprocess"
 	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/internal/fileops"
 )
@@ -17,89 +18,27 @@ import (
 // MaxProcessedOutputBytes bounds Audita's processed-transcript JSON result.
 const MaxProcessedOutputBytes int64 = 64 * 1024 * 1024
 
-// MaxReportOutputBytes bounds Audita's optional report JSON result.
+// MaxReportOutputBytes bounds each optional Audita report.
 const MaxReportOutputBytes int64 = 16 * 1024 * 1024
 
 // SubprocessRunnerConfig defines deterministic settings for Audita CLI execution.
 type SubprocessRunnerConfig struct {
-	Binary                   string
-	Timeout                  time.Duration
-	LLMAPIKeyEnv             string
-	Modules                  []string
-	BaseURL                  string
-	Model                    string
-	TranscriptDescription    string
-	ConfigPath               string
-	OutputSchema             string
-	WorkDirRetention         string
-	TotalLLMConcurrency      *int
-	ProposalLLMConcurrency   *int
-	ValidationModel          string
-	ValidationLLMConcurrency *int
-	Report                   bool
+	Binary                string
+	Timeout               time.Duration
+	Credentials           []configkit.Secret
+	Modules               []string
+	Overlay               string
+	ProposalProfile       string
+	ValidationProfile     string
+	TranscriptDescription string
+	ConfigPath            string
+	OutputSchema          string
 }
 
 // SubprocessRunner invokes Audita via subprocess.
 type SubprocessRunner struct {
-	binary                   string
-	timeout                  time.Duration
-	llmAPIKeyEnv             string
-	modules                  []string
-	baseURL                  string
-	model                    string
-	transcriptDescription    string
-	configPath               string
-	outputSchema             string
-	workDirRetention         string
-	totalLLMConcurrency      *int
-	proposalLLMConcurrency   *int
-	validationModel          string
-	validationLLMConcurrency *int
-	report                   bool
-}
-
-// NewSubprocessRunnerFromConfigValues parses config-derived values once.
-func NewSubprocessRunnerFromConfigValues(
-	binary string,
-	timeout string,
-	llmAPIKeyEnv string,
-	modules []string,
-	baseURL string,
-	model string,
-	transcriptDescription string,
-	configPath string,
-	outputSchema string,
-	workDirRetention string,
-	totalLLMConcurrency *int,
-	proposalLLMConcurrency *int,
-	validationModel string,
-	validationLLMConcurrency *int,
-	report bool,
-) (*SubprocessRunner, error) {
-	if strings.TrimSpace(timeout) == "" {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("audita timeout is required")
-	}
-	parsedTimeout, err := time.ParseDuration(timeout)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("parse audita timeout %q: %w", timeout, err)
-	}
-	return NewSubprocessRunner(SubprocessRunnerConfig{
-		Binary:                   binary,
-		Timeout:                  parsedTimeout,
-		LLMAPIKeyEnv:             llmAPIKeyEnv,
-		Modules:                  modules,
-		BaseURL:                  baseURL,
-		Model:                    model,
-		TranscriptDescription:    transcriptDescription,
-		ConfigPath:               configPath,
-		OutputSchema:             outputSchema,
-		WorkDirRetention:         workDirRetention,
-		TotalLLMConcurrency:      totalLLMConcurrency,
-		ProposalLLMConcurrency:   proposalLLMConcurrency,
-		ValidationModel:          validationModel,
-		ValidationLLMConcurrency: validationLLMConcurrency,
-		Report:                   report,
-	})
+	cfg SubprocessRunnerConfig
+	run func(context.Context, subprocess.RunRequest) (subprocess.RunResult, error)
 }
 
 // NewSubprocessRunner constructs a validated Audita subprocess runner.
@@ -115,278 +54,172 @@ func NewSubprocessRunner(cfg SubprocessRunnerConfig) (*SubprocessRunner, error)
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("audita module at index %d is empty", i)
 		}
 	}
-	if strings.TrimSpace(cfg.BaseURL) != "" {
-		u, err := url.Parse(cfg.BaseURL)
-		if err != nil || u.Scheme == "" || u.Host == "" {
-			if err != nil {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("audita base url %q is invalid: %w", cfg.BaseURL, err)
-			}
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("audita base url %q is invalid", cfg.BaseURL)
-		}
-	}
-	if cfg.TotalLLMConcurrency != nil && *cfg.TotalLLMConcurrency <= 0 {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("audita total llm concurrency must be > 0 when provided")
-	}
-	if cfg.ProposalLLMConcurrency != nil && *cfg.ProposalLLMConcurrency <= 0 {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("audita proposal llm concurrency must be > 0 when provided")
-	}
-	if cfg.ValidationLLMConcurrency != nil && *cfg.ValidationLLMConcurrency <= 0 {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("audita validation llm concurrency must be > 0 when provided")
-	}
 	switch strings.TrimSpace(cfg.OutputSchema) {
 	case "", "bare-segments", "audita-v1":
 	default:
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("audita output schema must be one of: bare-segments, audita-v1")
 	}
-	switch strings.TrimSpace(cfg.WorkDirRetention) {
-	case "", "always", "auto", "never":
-	default:
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("audita work dir retention must be one of: always, auto, never")
+	cfg.Binary = strings.TrimSpace(cfg.Binary)
+	cfg.Credentials = append([]configkit.Secret(nil), cfg.Credentials...)
+	cfg.Modules = cloneModules(cfg.Modules)
+	for i := range cfg.Modules {
+		cfg.Modules[i] = strings.TrimSpace(cfg.Modules[i])
 	}
-
-	modules := make([]string, len(cfg.Modules))
-	for i, m := range cfg.Modules {
-		modules[i] = strings.TrimSpace(m)
-	}
-
-	return &SubprocessRunner{
-		binary:                   strings.TrimSpace(cfg.Binary),
-		timeout:                  cfg.Timeout,
-		llmAPIKeyEnv:             strings.TrimSpace(cfg.LLMAPIKeyEnv),
-		modules:                  modules,
-		baseURL:                  strings.TrimSpace(cfg.BaseURL),
-		model:                    strings.TrimSpace(cfg.Model),
-		transcriptDescription:    strings.TrimSpace(cfg.TranscriptDescription),
-		configPath:               strings.TrimSpace(cfg.ConfigPath),
-		outputSchema:             strings.TrimSpace(cfg.OutputSchema),
-		workDirRetention:         strings.TrimSpace(cfg.WorkDirRetention),
-		totalLLMConcurrency:      cfg.TotalLLMConcurrency,
-		proposalLLMConcurrency:   cfg.ProposalLLMConcurrency,
-		validationModel:          strings.TrimSpace(cfg.ValidationModel),
-		validationLLMConcurrency: cfg.ValidationLLMConcurrency,
-		report:                   cfg.Report,
-	}, nil
+	return &SubprocessRunner{cfg: cfg, run: subprocess.Run}, nil
 }
 
-// Run executes Audita process with deterministic flags and validates output artifacts.
+func cloneModules(modules []string) []string {
+	if modules == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return append([]string{}, modules...)
+}
+
+// Run executes Audita process and validates its corrected transcript.
 func (r *SubprocessRunner) Run(ctx context.Context, req PolishRequest) (PolishResult, error) {
 	if r == nil {
 		return PolishResult{}, fmt.Errorf("audita subprocess runner is nil")
 	}
-	if strings.TrimSpace(req.MergedTranscriptPath) == "" {
-		return PolishResult{}, fmt.Errorf("audita merged transcript path is required")
-	}
-	if strings.TrimSpace(req.GlossaryPath) == "" {
-		return PolishResult{}, fmt.Errorf("audita glossary path is required")
-	}
-	if strings.TrimSpace(req.OutputProcessedPath) == "" {
-		return PolishResult{}, fmt.Errorf("audita output processed path is required")
-	}
-	if strings.TrimSpace(req.WorkDir) == "" {
-		return PolishResult{}, fmt.Errorf("audita work dir is required")
-	}
-	if r.report && strings.TrimSpace(req.ReportPath) == "" {
-		return PolishResult{}, fmt.Errorf("audita report is enabled but report path is missing")
-	}
-
-	reqModules := req.Modules
-	if reqModules == nil {
-		reqModules = append([]string(nil), r.modules...)
-	}
-	args := r.buildArgs(req, reqModules)
-
-	credentialEnvVar := strings.TrimSpace(r.llmAPIKeyEnv)
-	credentialPresent := false
-	env := map[string]string{}
-	if credentialEnvVar != "" {
-		credential, ok := os.LookupEnv(credentialEnvVar)
-		if !ok || strings.TrimSpace(credential) == "" {
-			return PolishResult{}, fmt.Errorf("audita: required credential environment variable %s is not set", credentialEnvVar)
+	for _, field := range []struct{ name, value string }{
+		{"merged transcript path", req.MergedTranscriptPath},
+		{"glossary path", req.GlossaryPath},
+		{"output processed path", req.OutputProcessedPath},
+	} {
+		if strings.TrimSpace(field.value) == "" {
+			return PolishResult{}, fmt.Errorf("audita %s is required", field.name)
 		}
-		env["AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY"] = credential
-		credentialPresent = true
 	}
-
+	modules := req.Modules
+	if modules == nil {
+		modules = r.cfg.Modules
+	}
+	for i, module := range modules {
+		if strings.TrimSpace(module) == "" {
+			return PolishResult{}, fmt.Errorf("audita module at index %d is empty", i)
+		}
+	}
+	modules = cloneModules(modules)
+	for i := range modules {
+		modules[i] = strings.TrimSpace(modules[i])
+	}
+	args := r.buildArgs(req, modules)
+	env, names, err := subprocess.CredentialEnvironment(r.cfg.Credentials)
+	if err != nil {
+		return PolishResult{}, fmt.Errorf("audita credentials: %w", err)
+	}
 	if req.GeneratedConfigPath != "" {
-		if err := r.writeInvocationConfig(req, args, reqModules, credentialPresent); err != nil {
+		if err := r.writeInvocationConfig(req, args, modules, names); err != nil {
 			return PolishResult{}, fmt.Errorf("write audita invocation config %q: %w", req.GeneratedConfigPath, err)
 		}
 	}
-
-	runRes, err := subprocess.Run(ctx, subprocess.RunRequest{
-		Executable:      r.binary,
-		Args:            args,
-		Timeout:         r.timeout,
-		EnvOverrides:    env,
-		DiagnosticOwner: "audita",
-		StdoutLogPath:   req.StdoutLogPath,
-		StderrLogPath:   req.StderrLogPath,
+	run := r.run
+	if run == nil {
+		run = subprocess.Run
+	}
+	runRes, runErr := run(ctx, subprocess.RunRequest{
+		Executable: r.cfg.Binary, Args: args, Timeout: r.cfg.Timeout,
+		EnvOverrides: env, SensitiveEnvNames: names, DiagnosticOwner: "audita",
+		StdoutLogPath: req.StdoutLogPath, StderrLogPath: req.StderrLogPath,
 	})
-	if err != nil {
-		wrappedMessage := fmt.Sprintf(
-			"run audita process (binary=%q, stdout_log=%q, stderr_log=%q)",
-			r.binary,
-			req.StdoutLogPath,
-			req.StderrLogPath,
-		)
-		wrappedMessage = addSubprocessStreamHint(wrappedMessage, err)
-		return r.failureResult(req, reqModules, runRes, credentialPresent), fmt.Errorf(
-			"%s: %w",
-			wrappedMessage,
-			err,
-		)
+	result := r.result(req, modules, names, runRes)
+	if runErr != nil {
+		result.Reports, _ = discoverReports(req.OutputProcessedPath)
+		return result, fmt.Errorf("run audita process (binary=%q, output_dir=%q, stdout_log=%q, stderr_log=%q): %w",
+			r.cfg.Binary, filepath.Dir(req.OutputProcessedPath), req.StdoutLogPath, req.StderrLogPath, runErr)
 	}
-
 	if err := validateProcessedOutput(req.OutputProcessedPath); err != nil {
-		return r.failureResult(req, reqModules, runRes, credentialPresent), fmt.Errorf("validate audita processed output %q: %w", req.OutputProcessedPath, err)
+		result.Reports, _ = discoverReports(req.OutputProcessedPath)
+		return result, fmt.Errorf("validate audita processed output %q: %w", req.OutputProcessedPath, err)
 	}
-	if r.report {
-		if err := validateJSONFile(req.ReportPath); err != nil {
-			return r.failureResult(req, reqModules, runRes, credentialPresent), fmt.Errorf("validate audita report output %q: %w", req.ReportPath, err)
-		}
+	reports, err := discoverReports(req.OutputProcessedPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		return result, err
 	}
-
-	return PolishResult{
-		ProcessedTranscriptPath: req.OutputProcessedPath,
-		ReportPath:              req.ReportPath,
-		WorkDir:                 req.WorkDir,
-		StdoutLogPath:           req.StdoutLogPath,
-		StderrLogPath:           req.StderrLogPath,
-		GeneratedConfigPath:     req.GeneratedConfigPath,
-		ExitCode:                runRes.ExitCode,
-		Duration:                runRes.Duration,
-		InvokedBinary:           r.binary,
-		Metadata: map[string]any{
-			"adapter":                    "audita_subprocess",
-			"modules":                    reqModules,
-			"base_url":                   r.baseURL,
-			"model":                      r.model,
-			"transcript_description":     r.transcriptDescription,
-			"config_path":                r.configPath,
-			"output_schema":              r.outputSchema,
-			"work_dir_retention":         r.workDirRetention,
-			"validation_model":           r.validationModel,
-			"total_llm_concurrency":      r.totalLLMConcurrency,
-			"proposal_llm_concurrency":   r.proposalLLMConcurrency,
-			"validation_llm_concurrency": r.validationLLMConcurrency,
-			"credential_env_var":         r.llmAPIKeyEnv,
-			"credential_present":         credentialPresent,
-		},
-	}, nil
+	result.Reports = reports
+	return result, nil
 }
 
-func (r *SubprocessRunner) failureResult(req PolishRequest, modules []string, runRes subprocess.RunResult, credentialPresent bool) PolishResult {
+func (r *SubprocessRunner) result(req PolishRequest, modules, names []string, runRes subprocess.RunResult) PolishResult {
 	return PolishResult{
 		ProcessedTranscriptPath: req.OutputProcessedPath,
-		ReportPath:              req.ReportPath,
-		WorkDir:                 req.WorkDir,
-		StdoutLogPath:           req.StdoutLogPath,
-		StderrLogPath:           req.StderrLogPath,
-		GeneratedConfigPath:     req.GeneratedConfigPath,
-		ExitCode:                runRes.ExitCode,
-		Duration:                runRes.Duration,
-		InvokedBinary:           r.binary,
+		StdoutLogPath:           req.StdoutLogPath, StderrLogPath: req.StderrLogPath,
+		GeneratedConfigPath: req.GeneratedConfigPath, ExitCode: runRes.ExitCode,
+		Duration: runRes.Duration, InvokedBinary: r.cfg.Binary,
 		Metadata: map[string]any{
-			"adapter":                    "audita_subprocess",
-			"modules":                    modules,
-			"base_url":                   r.baseURL,
-			"model":                      r.model,
-			"transcript_description":     r.transcriptDescription,
-			"config_path":                r.configPath,
-			"output_schema":              r.outputSchema,
-			"work_dir_retention":         r.workDirRetention,
-			"validation_model":           r.validationModel,
-			"total_llm_concurrency":      r.totalLLMConcurrency,
-			"proposal_llm_concurrency":   r.proposalLLMConcurrency,
-			"validation_llm_concurrency": r.validationLLMConcurrency,
-			"credential_env_var":         r.llmAPIKeyEnv,
-			"credential_present":         credentialPresent,
+			"adapter": "audita_subprocess", "modules": modules,
+			"overlay": r.cfg.Overlay, "proposal_profile": r.cfg.ProposalProfile,
+			"validation_profile":     r.cfg.ValidationProfile,
+			"transcript_description": r.cfg.TranscriptDescription,
+			"config_path":            r.cfg.ConfigPath, "output_schema": r.cfg.OutputSchema,
+			"credential_names": names,
 		},
 	}
 }
 
 func (r *SubprocessRunner) buildArgs(req PolishRequest, modules []string) []string {
-	args := []string{
-		"process",
-		req.MergedTranscriptPath,
-		"--glossary", req.GlossaryPath,
-		"--output", req.OutputProcessedPath,
-		"--work-dir", req.WorkDir,
-	}
-	if r.baseURL != "" {
-		args = append(args, "--base-url", r.baseURL)
-	}
-	if r.model != "" {
-		args = append(args, "--model", r.model)
-	}
-	if len(modules) > 0 {
+	args := []string{"process", req.MergedTranscriptPath, "--glossary", req.GlossaryPath, "--output", req.OutputProcessedPath}
+	if modules != nil {
 		args = append(args, "--modules", strings.Join(modules, ","))
 	}
-	if r.report {
-		args = append(args, "--report-json", req.ReportPath)
-	}
-	if r.transcriptDescription != "" {
-		args = append(args, "--transcript-description", r.transcriptDescription)
-	}
-	if r.configPath != "" {
-		args = append(args, "--config", r.configPath)
-	}
-	if r.outputSchema != "" {
-		args = append(args, "--output-schema", r.outputSchema)
-	}
-	if r.workDirRetention != "" {
-		args = append(args, "--work-dir-retention", r.workDirRetention)
-	}
-	if r.totalLLMConcurrency != nil {
-		args = append(args, "--total-llm-concurrency", strconv.Itoa(*r.totalLLMConcurrency))
-	}
-	if r.proposalLLMConcurrency != nil {
-		args = append(args, "--proposal-llm-concurrency", strconv.Itoa(*r.proposalLLMConcurrency))
-	}
-	if r.validationModel != "" {
-		args = append(args, "--validation-model", r.validationModel)
-	}
-	if r.validationLLMConcurrency != nil {
-		args = append(args, "--validation-llm-concurrency", strconv.Itoa(*r.validationLLMConcurrency))
+	for _, setting := range []struct{ flag, value string }{
+		{"--config", r.cfg.ConfigPath}, {"--overlay", r.cfg.Overlay},
+		{"--proposal-profile", r.cfg.ProposalProfile}, {"--validation-profile", r.cfg.ValidationProfile},
+		{"--transcript-description", r.cfg.TranscriptDescription}, {"--output-schema", r.cfg.OutputSchema},
+	} {
+		if setting.value != "" {
+			args = append(args, setting.flag, setting.value)
+		}
 	}
 	return args
 }
 
-func (r *SubprocessRunner) writeInvocationConfig(req PolishRequest, args []string, modules []string, credentialPresent bool) error {
-	payload := map[string]any{
-		"schema":                     "audita.generated.v1",
-		"binary":                     r.binary,
-		"args":                       args,
-		"timeout":                    r.timeout.String(),
-		"modules":                    modules,
-		"base_url":                   r.baseURL,
-		"model":                      r.model,
-		"transcript_description":     r.transcriptDescription,
-		"config_path":                r.configPath,
-		"output_schema":              r.outputSchema,
-		"work_dir_retention":         r.workDirRetention,
-		"validation_model":           r.validationModel,
-		"total_llm_concurrency":      r.totalLLMConcurrency,
-		"proposal_llm_concurrency":   r.proposalLLMConcurrency,
-		"validation_llm_concurrency": r.validationLLMConcurrency,
-		"report_enabled":             r.report,
-		"merged_transcript_path":     req.MergedTranscriptPath,
-		"glossary_path":              req.GlossaryPath,
-		"output_path":                req.OutputProcessedPath,
-		"report_path":                req.ReportPath,
-		"work_dir":                   req.WorkDir,
-		"credential_env_var":         r.llmAPIKeyEnv,
-		"credential_present":         credentialPresent,
+func (r *SubprocessRunner) writeInvocationConfig(req PolishRequest, args, modules, names []string) error {
+	return writeGeneratedYAML(req.GeneratedConfigPath, map[string]any{
+		"schema": "audita.generated.v2", "binary": r.cfg.Binary, "args": args,
+		"timeout": r.cfg.Timeout.String(), "modules": modules,
+		"overlay": r.cfg.Overlay, "proposal_profile": r.cfg.ProposalProfile,
+		"validation_profile":     r.cfg.ValidationProfile,
+		"transcript_description": r.cfg.TranscriptDescription,
+		"config_path":            r.cfg.ConfigPath, "output_schema": r.cfg.OutputSchema,
+		"merged_transcript_path": req.MergedTranscriptPath, "glossary_path": req.GlossaryPath,
+		"output_path": req.OutputProcessedPath, "credential_names": names,
+	})
+}
+
+func discoverReports(outputPath string) (ReportBundle, error) {
+	var reports ReportBundle
+	for _, report := range []struct {
+		name string
+		dest *string
+	}{
+		{"errors.yml", &reports.ErrorsPath},
+		{"recoveries.yml", &reports.RecoveriesPath},
+		{"report.md", &reports.OverviewPath},
+	} {
+		path := filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(outputPath), report.name)
+		info, err := os.Lstat(path)
+		if errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+			continue
+		}
+		if err != nil {
+			return reports, fmt.Errorf("inspect audita report %q: %w", path, err)
+		}
+		if !info.Mode().IsRegular() {
+			return reports, fmt.Errorf("audita report %q is not a regular file", path)
+		}
+		if _, err := fileops.ReadFileBounded(path, MaxReportOutputBytes); err != nil {
+			return reports, fmt.Errorf("audita report %q exceeds or cannot be read within %d-byte limit: %w", path, MaxReportOutputBytes, err)
+		}
+		*report.dest = path
 	}
-	return subprocess.WriteYAMLAtomic(req.GeneratedConfigPath, payload, fileops.WorkspaceFileMode)
+	return reports, nil
 }
 
 func validateProcessedOutput(path string) error {
-	data, err := readAuditaResult(path, MaxProcessedOutputBytes, "processed transcript")
+	data, err := fileops.ReadFileBounded(path, MaxProcessedOutputBytes)
 	if err != nil {
-		return err
+		return fmt.Errorf("audita processed transcript result exceeds or cannot be read within %d-byte limit: %w", MaxProcessedOutputBytes, err)
 	}
-
 	var payload map[string]any
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &payload); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("parse json: %w", err)
@@ -400,34 +233,3 @@ func validateProcessedOutput(path string) error {
 	}
 	return nil
 }
-
-func addSubprocessStreamHint(message string, runErr error) string {
-	if runErr == nil {
-		return message
-	}
-	lower := strings.ToLower(runErr.Error())
-	if strings.Contains(lower, "bad file descriptor") || strings.Contains(lower, "exit code 120") {
-		return message + "; hint=audita child process may have started with invalid stderr/stdout descriptors"
-	}
-	return message
-}
-
-func validateJSONFile(path string) error {
-	data, err := readAuditaResult(path, MaxReportOutputBytes, "report")
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	var v any
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &v); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("parse json: %w", err)
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-func readAuditaResult(path string, limit int64, category string) ([]byte, error) {
-	data, err := fileops.ReadRegularFile(path, limit)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("audita %s result exceeds or cannot be read within %d-byte limit: %w", category, limit, err)
-	}
-	return data, nil
-}

internal/adapters/audita/subprocess_test.go

@@ -2,665 +2,262 @@ package audita
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"encoding/json"
-	"fmt"
+	"errors"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
-	"runtime"
+	"reflect"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
+
+	configkit "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/internal/adapters/subprocess"
 )
 
-func TestSubprocessRunnerSuccessArgsEnvAndValidation(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
-
-	t.Setenv("GO_WANT_AUDITA_HELPER", "1")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_MODE", "success")
-	t.Setenv("OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE", "super-secret")
-
-	recordPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "record.json")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_RECORD_PATH", recordPath)
-
-	wrapper := writeAuditaHelperWrapper(t)
-	totalLLMConcurrency := 3
-	proposalLLMConcurrency := 2
-	validationLLMConcurrency := 2
-	runner, err := NewSubprocessRunner(SubprocessRunnerConfig{
-		Binary:                   wrapper,
-		Timeout:                  mustParseAuditaDuration(t, "2s"),
-		LLMAPIKeyEnv:             "OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE",
-		Modules:                  []string{"glossary", "homophones", "glossary"},
-		BaseURL:                  "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
-		Model:                    "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it",
-		TranscriptDescription:    "Campaign Session 42",
-		ConfigPath:               "/etc/audita/config.yml",
-		OutputSchema:             "audita-v1",
-		WorkDirRetention:         "auto",
-		TotalLLMConcurrency:      &totalLLMConcurrency,
-		ProposalLLMConcurrency:   &proposalLLMConcurrency,
-		ValidationModel:          "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it",
-		ValidationLLMConcurrency: &validationLLMConcurrency,
-		Report:                   true,
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("NewSubprocessRunner() error = %v", err)
-	}
-
+func auditaTestRequest(t *testing.T) PolishRequest {
+	t.Helper()
 	dir := t.TempDir()
-	req := PolishRequest{
-		GeneratedConfigPath:  filepath.Join(dir, "audita.generated.yml"),
-		MergedTranscriptPath: filepath.Join(dir, "base.json"),
+	return PolishRequest{
+		MergedTranscriptPath: filepath.Join(dir, "merged.json"),
 		GlossaryPath:         filepath.Join(dir, "glossary.yml"),
 		OutputProcessedPath:  filepath.Join(dir, "polished.json"),
-		ReportPath:           filepath.Join(dir, "audita.report.json"),
-		WorkDir:              filepath.Join(dir, "artifacts", "audita-work"),
-		StdoutLogPath:        filepath.Join(dir, "audita.stdout.log"),
-		StderrLogPath:        filepath.Join(dir, "audita.stderr.log"),
-	}
-	writeAuditaTestFile(t, req.MergedTranscriptPath, `{"segments":[]}`)
-	writeAuditaTestFile(t, req.GlossaryPath, "terms: []\n")
-
-	res, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Run() error = %v", err)
-	}
-	if res.ProcessedTranscriptPath != req.OutputProcessedPath {
-		t.Fatalf("ProcessedTranscriptPath = %q, want %q", res.ProcessedTranscriptPath, req.OutputProcessedPath)
-	}
-	if res.ReportPath != req.ReportPath {
-		t.Fatalf("ReportPath = %q, want %q", res.ReportPath, req.ReportPath)
-	}
-	if res.WorkDir != req.WorkDir {
-		t.Fatalf("WorkDir = %q, want %q", res.WorkDir, req.WorkDir)
-	}
-	if res.InvokedBinary != wrapper {
-		t.Fatalf("InvokedBinary = %q, want %q", res.InvokedBinary, wrapper)
-	}
-	if res.ExitCode != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("ExitCode = %d, want 0", res.ExitCode)
-	}
-	if res.Duration <= 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("Duration = %s, want > 0", res.Duration)
-	}
-	assertJSONFileAudita(t, req.OutputProcessedPath)
-	assertJSONFileAudita(t, req.ReportPath)
-	if _, err := os.Stat(req.StdoutLogPath); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("stdout log missing: %v", err)
-	}
-	if _, err := os.Stat(req.StderrLogPath); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("stderr log missing: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	rec := readAuditaHelperRecord(t, recordPath)
-	wantArgs := []string{
-		"process", req.MergedTranscriptPath,
-		"--glossary", req.GlossaryPath,
-		"--output", req.OutputProcessedPath,
-		"--work-dir", req.WorkDir,
-		"--base-url", "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
-		"--model", "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it",
-		"--modules", "glossary,homophones,glossary",
-		"--report-json", req.ReportPath,
-		"--transcript-description", "Campaign Session 42",
-		"--config", "/etc/audita/config.yml",
-		"--output-schema", "audita-v1",
-		"--work-dir-retention", "auto",
-		"--total-llm-concurrency", "3",
-		"--proposal-llm-concurrency", "2",
-		"--validation-model", "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it",
-		"--validation-llm-concurrency", "2",
-	}
-	if strings.Join(rec.Args, "\n") != strings.Join(wantArgs, "\n") {
-		t.Fatalf("args = %#v, want %#v", rec.Args, wantArgs)
-	}
-	if rec.Env["AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY"] != "super-secret" {
-		t.Fatalf("AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY = %q, want propagated secret", rec.Env["AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY"])
-	}
-	if rec.Env["AUDITA_LLM_CONCURRENCY"] != "" {
-		t.Fatalf("AUDITA_LLM_CONCURRENCY = %q, want empty/omitted", rec.Env["AUDITA_LLM_CONCURRENCY"])
-	}
-
-	cfgData, err := os.ReadFile(req.GeneratedConfigPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("read generated config: %v", err)
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(string(cfgData), "super-secret") {
-		t.Fatalf("generated config must not contain credential value")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSubprocessRunnerMissingConfiguredCredentialFails(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
-	runner := mustAuditaRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{
-		Binary:       writeAuditaHelperWrapper(t),
-		Timeout:      mustParseAuditaDuration(t, "2s"),
-		LLMAPIKeyEnv: "MISSING_AUDITA_KEY",
-		Modules:      []string{"glossary"},
-		BaseURL:      "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
-		Model:        "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it",
-		Report:       false,
-	})
-	req := auditaReqForTest(t, false)
-
-	_, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req)
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected error, got nil")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "required credential environment variable MISSING_AUDITA_KEY is not set") {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %q, want missing credential guidance", err.Error())
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSubprocessRunnerUnconfiguredCredentialEnvOmitsCredential(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
-	t.Setenv("GO_WANT_AUDITA_HELPER", "1")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_MODE", "success")
-	recordPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "record.json")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_RECORD_PATH", recordPath)
-
-	runner := mustAuditaRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{
-		Binary:       writeAuditaHelperWrapper(t),
-		Timeout:      mustParseAuditaDuration(t, "2s"),
-		LLMAPIKeyEnv: "",
-		Modules:      []string{"glossary"},
-		BaseURL:      "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
-		Model:        "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it",
-		Report:       false,
-	})
-	req := auditaReqForTest(t, false)
-
-	res, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Run() error = %v", err)
-	}
-	if res.Metadata["credential_present"] != false {
-		t.Fatalf("credential_present = %#v, want false", res.Metadata["credential_present"])
-	}
-	rec := readAuditaHelperRecord(t, recordPath)
-	if rec.Env["AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY"] != "" {
-		t.Fatalf("AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY = %q, want omitted/empty", rec.Env["AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY"])
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSubprocessRunnerOmitsUnspecifiedParentEnvironment(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
-	t.Setenv("GO_WANT_AUDITA_HELPER", "1")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_MODE", "success")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_INHERITED_MARKER", "inherited-from-parent")
-	recordPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "record.json")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_RECORD_PATH", recordPath)
-
-	runner := mustAuditaRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{
-		Binary:       writeAuditaHelperWrapper(t),
-		Timeout:      mustParseAuditaDuration(t, "2s"),
-		Modules:      []string{"glossary"},
-		BaseURL:      "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
-		Model:        "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it",
-		Report:       false,
-		LLMAPIKeyEnv: "",
-	})
-	req := auditaReqForTest(t, false)
-	if _, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Run() error = %v", err)
-	}
-
-	rec := readAuditaHelperRecord(t, recordPath)
-	if rec.Env["AUDITA_INHERITED_MARKER"] != "" {
-		t.Fatalf("AUDITA_INHERITED_MARKER = %q, want omitted from the child environment", rec.Env["AUDITA_INHERITED_MARKER"])
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSubprocessRunnerOmitsModulesFlagWhenNotConfigured(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
-	t.Setenv("GO_WANT_AUDITA_HELPER", "1")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_MODE", "success")
-	recordPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "record.json")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_RECORD_PATH", recordPath)
-
-	runner := mustAuditaRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{
-		Binary:       writeAuditaHelperWrapper(t),
-		Timeout:      mustParseAuditaDuration(t, "2s"),
-		LLMAPIKeyEnv: "",
-		BaseURL:      "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
-		Model:        "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it",
-		Report:       false,
-	})
-	req := auditaReqForTest(t, false)
-	if _, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Run() error = %v", err)
-	}
-	rec := readAuditaHelperRecord(t, recordPath)
-	for i := 0; i < len(rec.Args); i++ {
-		if rec.Args[i] == "--modules" {
-			t.Fatalf("args contained --modules unexpectedly: %#v", rec.Args)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSubprocessRunnerOmitsBaseURLAndModelFlagsWhenNotConfigured(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
-	t.Setenv("GO_WANT_AUDITA_HELPER", "1")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_MODE", "success")
-	recordPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "record.json")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_RECORD_PATH", recordPath)
-
-	runner := mustAuditaRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{
-		Binary:       writeAuditaHelperWrapper(t),
-		Timeout:      mustParseAuditaDuration(t, "2s"),
-		LLMAPIKeyEnv: "",
-		Report:       false,
-	})
-	req := auditaReqForTest(t, false)
-	if _, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Run() error = %v", err)
-	}
-	rec := readAuditaHelperRecord(t, recordPath)
-	for i := 0; i < len(rec.Args); i++ {
-		if rec.Args[i] == "--base-url" {
-			t.Fatalf("args contained --base-url unexpectedly: %#v", rec.Args)
-		}
-		if rec.Args[i] == "--model" {
-			t.Fatalf("args contained --model unexpectedly: %#v", rec.Args)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSubprocessRunnerSubprocessFailure(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
-	t.Setenv("GO_WANT_AUDITA_HELPER", "1")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_MODE", "fail")
-	t.Setenv("OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE", "super-secret")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_RECORD_PATH", filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "record.json"))
-
-	runner := mustAuditaRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{
-		Binary:       writeAuditaHelperWrapper(t),
-		Timeout:      mustParseAuditaDuration(t, "2s"),
-		LLMAPIKeyEnv: "OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE",
-		Modules:      []string{"glossary"},
-		BaseURL:      "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
-		Model:        "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it",
-		Report:       true,
-	})
-	req := auditaReqForTest(t, true)
-	_, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req)
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected error, got nil")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "run audita process") {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %q, want subprocess context", err.Error())
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "exit code") {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %q, want exit code context", err.Error())
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), req.StdoutLogPath) || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), req.StderrLogPath) {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %q, want stdout/stderr log paths", err.Error())
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSubprocessRunnerSubprocessFailureAddsStderrDescriptorHint(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
-	t.Setenv("GO_WANT_AUDITA_HELPER", "1")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_MODE", "fail_bad_fd")
-	t.Setenv("OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE", "super-secret")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_RECORD_PATH", filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "record.json"))
-
-	runner := mustAuditaRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{
-		Binary:       writeAuditaHelperWrapper(t),
-		Timeout:      mustParseAuditaDuration(t, "2s"),
-		LLMAPIKeyEnv: "OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE",
-		Modules:      []string{"glossary"},
-		BaseURL:      "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
-		Model:        "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it",
-		Report:       true,
-	})
-	req := auditaReqForTest(t, true)
-	_, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req)
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected error, got nil")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "hint=audita child process may have started with invalid stderr/stdout descriptors") {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %q, want stderr descriptor hint", err.Error())
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSubprocessRunnerMissingOutputFails(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
-	t.Setenv("GO_WANT_AUDITA_HELPER", "1")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_MODE", "missing_output")
-	t.Setenv("OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE", "super-secret")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_RECORD_PATH", filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "record.json"))
-
-	runner := mustAuditaRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{
-		Binary:       writeAuditaHelperWrapper(t),
-		Timeout:      mustParseAuditaDuration(t, "2s"),
-		LLMAPIKeyEnv: "OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE",
-		Modules:      []string{"glossary"},
-		BaseURL:      "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
-		Model:        "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it",
-		Report:       false,
-	})
-	req := auditaReqForTest(t, false)
-	_, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req)
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected error, got nil")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "validate audita processed output") {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %q, want output validation context", err.Error())
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSubprocessRunnerInvalidOutputJSONFails(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
-	t.Setenv("GO_WANT_AUDITA_HELPER", "1")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_MODE", "invalid_output")
-	t.Setenv("OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE", "super-secret")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_RECORD_PATH", filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "record.json"))
-
-	runner := mustAuditaRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{
-		Binary:       writeAuditaHelperWrapper(t),
-		Timeout:      mustParseAuditaDuration(t, "2s"),
-		LLMAPIKeyEnv: "OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE",
-		Modules:      []string{"glossary"},
-		BaseURL:      "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
-		Model:        "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it",
-		Report:       false,
-	})
-	req := auditaReqForTest(t, false)
-	_, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req)
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected error, got nil")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "parse json") {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %q, want parse json context", err.Error())
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSubprocessRunnerSegmentsMissingFails(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
-	t.Setenv("GO_WANT_AUDITA_HELPER", "1")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_MODE", "segments_missing")
-	t.Setenv("OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE", "super-secret")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_RECORD_PATH", filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "record.json"))
-
-	runner := mustAuditaRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{
-		Binary:       writeAuditaHelperWrapper(t),
-		Timeout:      mustParseAuditaDuration(t, "2s"),
-		LLMAPIKeyEnv: "OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE",
-		Modules:      []string{"glossary"},
-		BaseURL:      "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
-		Model:        "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it",
-		Report:       false,
-	})
-	req := auditaReqForTest(t, false)
-	_, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req)
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected error, got nil")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "segments") {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %q, want segments validation context", err.Error())
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSubprocessRunnerInvalidReportJSONFails(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
-	t.Setenv("GO_WANT_AUDITA_HELPER", "1")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_MODE", "invalid_report")
-	t.Setenv("OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE", "super-secret")
-	t.Setenv("AUDITA_HELPER_RECORD_PATH", filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "record.json"))
-
-	runner := mustAuditaRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{
-		Binary:       writeAuditaHelperWrapper(t),
-		Timeout:      mustParseAuditaDuration(t, "2s"),
-		LLMAPIKeyEnv: "OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE",
-		Modules:      []string{"glossary"},
-		BaseURL:      "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
-		Model:        "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it",
-		Report:       true,
-	})
-	req := auditaReqForTest(t, true)
-	_, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req)
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected error, got nil")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "validate audita report output") {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %q, want report validation context", err.Error())
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSubprocessRunnerConstructorValidation(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := NewSubprocessRunnerFromConfigValues("", "3h", "AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY", []string{"glossary"}, "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it", "", "", "", "", nil, nil, "", nil, true)
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected binary validation error")
-	}
-	_, err = NewSubprocessRunnerFromConfigValues("audita", "bad", "AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY", []string{"glossary"}, "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it", "", "", "", "", nil, nil, "", nil, true)
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected timeout parse error")
-	}
-	_, err = NewSubprocessRunner(SubprocessRunnerConfig{
-		Binary:       "audita",
-		Timeout:      mustParseAuditaDuration(t, "1s"),
-		LLMAPIKeyEnv: "AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY",
-		Modules:      []string{"glossary"},
-		BaseURL:      "://",
-		Model:        "openrouter/google/gemma-4-31b-it",
-	})
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected base url validation error")
-	}
-}
-
-type auditaHelperRecord struct {
-	Args []string          `json:"args"`
-	Env  map[string]string `json:"env"`
-}
-
-func TestAuditaSubprocessHelper(t *testing.T) {
-	if os.Getenv("GO_WANT_AUDITA_HELPER") != "1" {
-		return
-	}
-
-	args := os.Args
-	start := -1
-	for i := range args {
-		if args[i] == "--" {
-			start = i + 1
-			break
-		}
-	}
-	if start < 0 || start >= len(args) {
-		_, _ = os.Stderr.WriteString("missing -- args separator\n")
-		os.Exit(2)
-	}
-	procArgs := args[start:]
-	outPath := auditaFlagValue(procArgs, "--output")
-	reportPath := auditaFlagValue(procArgs, "--report-json")
-	recordPath := os.Getenv("AUDITA_HELPER_RECORD_PATH")
-	if strings.TrimSpace(recordPath) != "" {
-		rec := auditaHelperRecord{
-			Args: procArgs,
-			Env: map[string]string{
-				"AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY":      os.Getenv("AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY"),
-				"AUDITA_LLM_CONCURRENCY":  os.Getenv("AUDITA_LLM_CONCURRENCY"),
-				"AUDITA_INHERITED_MARKER": os.Getenv("AUDITA_INHERITED_MARKER"),
-			},
-		}
-		data, _ := json.Marshal(rec)
-		_ = os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(recordPath), 0o755)
-		_ = os.WriteFile(recordPath, data, 0o644)
-	}
-
-	mode := os.Getenv("AUDITA_HELPER_MODE")
-	switch mode {
-	case "success":
-		writeAuditaHelperFile(outPath, `{"schema":"audita.processed.v1","segments":[]}`)
-		if reportPath != "" {
-			writeAuditaHelperFile(reportPath, `{"schema":"audita.report.v1","steps":[]}`)
-		}
-		_, _ = os.Stdout.WriteString("audita helper success stdout\n")
-		_, _ = os.Stderr.WriteString("audita helper success stderr\n")
-		os.Exit(0)
-	case "fail":
-		_, _ = os.Stderr.WriteString("audita helper failure\n")
-		os.Exit(8)
-	case "fail_bad_fd":
-		_, _ = os.Stderr.WriteString("OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor\n")
-		os.Exit(120)
-	case "missing_output":
-		if reportPath != "" {
-			writeAuditaHelperFile(reportPath, `{"schema":"audita.report.v1","steps":[]}`)
-		}
-		os.Exit(0)
-	case "invalid_output":
-		writeAuditaHelperFile(outPath, `not-json`)
-		if reportPath != "" {
-			writeAuditaHelperFile(reportPath, `{"schema":"audita.report.v1","steps":[]}`)
-		}
-		os.Exit(0)
-	case "segments_missing":
-		writeAuditaHelperFile(outPath, `{"schema":"audita.processed.v1"}`)
-		if reportPath != "" {
-			writeAuditaHelperFile(reportPath, `{"schema":"audita.report.v1","steps":[]}`)
-		}
-		os.Exit(0)
-	case "invalid_report":
-		writeAuditaHelperFile(outPath, `{"schema":"audita.processed.v1","segments":[]}`)
-		if reportPath != "" {
-			writeAuditaHelperFile(reportPath, `not-json`)
-		}
-		os.Exit(0)
-	default:
-		_, _ = os.Stderr.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("unknown helper mode %q\n", mode))
-		os.Exit(2)
-	}
-}
-
-func mustAuditaRunner(t *testing.T, cfg SubprocessRunnerConfig) *SubprocessRunner {
-	t.Helper()
-	r, err := NewSubprocessRunner(cfg)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("NewSubprocessRunner() error = %v", err)
-	}
-	return r
-}
-
-func auditaReqForTest(t *testing.T, withReport bool) PolishRequest {
-	t.Helper()
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	merged := filepath.Join(dir, "base.json")
-	glossary := filepath.Join(dir, "glossary.yml")
-	writeAuditaTestFile(t, merged, `{"segments":[]}`)
-	writeAuditaTestFile(t, glossary, "terms: []\n")
-	req := PolishRequest{
 		GeneratedConfigPath:  filepath.Join(dir, "audita.generated.yml"),
-		MergedTranscriptPath: merged,
-		GlossaryPath:         glossary,
-		OutputProcessedPath:  filepath.Join(dir, "polished.json"),
-		WorkDir:              filepath.Join(dir, "artifacts", "audita-work"),
-		StdoutLogPath:        filepath.Join(dir, "audita.stdout.log"),
-		StderrLogPath:        filepath.Join(dir, "audita.stderr.log"),
+		StdoutLogPath:        filepath.Join(dir, "stdout.log"),
+		StderrLogPath:        filepath.Join(dir, "stderr.log"),
 	}
-	if withReport {
-		req.ReportPath = filepath.Join(dir, "audita.report.json")
-	}
-	return req
 }
 
-func writeAuditaHelperWrapper(t *testing.T) string {
+func auditaTestRunner(t *testing.T, cfg SubprocessRunnerConfig) *SubprocessRunner {
 	t.Helper()
-	exe, err := os.Executable()
+	if cfg.Binary == "" {
+		cfg.Binary = "audita"
+	}
+	if cfg.Timeout == 0 {
+		cfg.Timeout = time.Second
+	}
+	runner, err := NewSubprocessRunner(cfg)
 	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("os.Executable() error = %v", err)
+		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "audita-helper-wrapper.sh")
-	content := "#!/bin/sh\nexec \"" + exe + "\" -test.run=TestAuditaSubprocessHelper -- \"$@\"\n"
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(content), 0o755); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile(%q) error = %v", path, err)
-	}
-	return path
+	return runner
 }
 
-func writeAuditaTestFile(t *testing.T, path, contents string) {
+func auditaTestSecret(t *testing.T, name, value string) configkit.Secret {
 	t.Helper()
-	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(path), 0o755); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("MkdirAll(%q): %v", path, err)
+	t.Setenv(name, value)
+	type loaded struct {
+		Credential configkit.Secret `yaml:"credential"`
 	}
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(contents), 0o644); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile(%q): %v", path, err)
+	result, err := configkit.Load(configkit.Bytes("credential.yml", []byte("credential: "+name+"\n")), configkit.Options[loaded]{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return result.Config.Credential
+}
+
+func writeAuditaTestFile(t *testing.T, path, value string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(value), 0o600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 }
 
-func writeAuditaHelperFile(path, contents string) {
-	if strings.TrimSpace(path) == "" {
-		return
-	}
-	_ = os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(path), 0o755)
-	_ = os.WriteFile(path, []byte(contents), 0o644)
-}
-
-func auditaFlagValue(args []string, name string) string {
-	for i := 0; i < len(args)-1; i++ {
-		if args[i] == name {
-			return args[i+1]
+func TestSubprocessRunnerUsesV2InvocationAndCapturedCredentials(t *testing.T) {
+	const first = "NARRATIO_AUDITA_CUSTOM_ONE"
+	const second = "NARRATIO_AUDITA_CUSTOM_TWO"
+	firstSecret := auditaTestSecret(t, first, "loaded-one")
+	secondSecret := auditaTestSecret(t, second, "loaded-two")
+	t.Setenv(first, "parent-changed")
+	t.Setenv(second, "parent-changed-too")
+	t.Setenv("NARRATIO_AUDITA_UNSELECTED", "not-forwarded")
+	runner := auditaTestRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{
+		Credentials: []configkit.Secret{firstSecret, secondSecret},
+		Modules:     []string{"grammar", "glossary", "grammar"},
+		Overlay:     "testing", ProposalProfile: "proposal", ValidationProfile: "validation",
+		TranscriptDescription: "campaign", ConfigPath: "/etc/audita/config.yml", OutputSchema: "audita-v1",
+	})
+	req := auditaTestRequest(t)
+	var captured subprocess.RunRequest
+	runner.run = func(_ context.Context, processReq subprocess.RunRequest) (subprocess.RunResult, error) {
+		captured = processReq
+		writeAuditaTestFile(t, req.OutputProcessedPath, `{"segments":[]}`)
+		for _, name := range []string{"errors.yml", "recoveries.yml", "report.md"} {
+			writeAuditaTestFile(t, filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(req.OutputProcessedPath), name), "recoverable diagnostic\n")
 		}
+		return subprocess.RunResult{}, nil
 	}
-	return ""
-}
-
-func readAuditaHelperRecord(t *testing.T, path string) auditaHelperRecord {
-	t.Helper()
-	data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	result, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req)
 	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ReadFile(%q): %v", path, err)
+		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	var rec auditaHelperRecord
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &rec); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("json unmarshal helper record: %v", err)
+	want := []string{"process", req.MergedTranscriptPath, "--glossary", req.GlossaryPath, "--output", req.OutputProcessedPath,
+		"--modules", "grammar,glossary,grammar", "--config", "/etc/audita/config.yml", "--overlay", "testing",
+		"--proposal-profile", "proposal", "--validation-profile", "validation", "--transcript-description", "campaign", "--output-schema", "audita-v1"}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(captured.Args, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("args = %#v, want %#v", captured.Args, want)
 	}
-	return rec
-}
-
-func assertJSONFileAudita(t *testing.T, path string) {
-	t.Helper()
-	data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	if len(captured.EnvOverrides) != 2 || captured.EnvOverrides[first] != "loaded-one" || captured.EnvOverrides[second] != "loaded-two" || captured.EnvOverrides["NARRATIO_AUDITA_UNSELECTED"] != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("credential forwarding = %#v", captured.EnvOverrides)
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(captured.SensitiveEnvNames, []string{first, second}) {
+		t.Fatalf("sensitive names = %#v", captured.SensitiveEnvNames)
+	}
+	if result.Reports.ErrorsPath == "" || result.Reports.RecoveriesPath == "" || result.Reports.OverviewPath == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("reports = %#v", result.Reports)
+	}
+	generated, err := os.ReadFile(req.GeneratedConfigPath)
 	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ReadFile(%q): %v", path, err)
+		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	var v any
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &v); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("json unmarshal %q: %v", path, err)
+	if !strings.Contains(string(generated), "audita.generated.v2") || !strings.Contains(string(generated), first) || strings.Contains(string(generated), "loaded-one") {
+		t.Fatalf("unsafe or incomplete generated invocation: %s", generated)
 	}
 }
 
-func mustParseAuditaDuration(t *testing.T, value string) time.Duration {
-	t.Helper()
-	d, err := time.ParseDuration(value)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("time.ParseDuration(%q) error = %v", value, err)
+func TestSubprocessRunnerModulePresenceAndReportAbsence(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, test := range []struct {
+		name       string
+		configured []string
+		requested  []string
+		wantFlag   bool
+		wantValue  string
+	}{
+		{"omitted", nil, nil, false, ""},
+		{"configured", []string{"grammar", "grammar"}, nil, true, "grammar,grammar"},
+		{"empty override", []string{"grammar"}, []string{}, true, ""},
+	} {
+		t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			runner := auditaTestRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{Modules: test.configured})
+			req := auditaTestRequest(t)
+			req.Modules = test.requested
+			runner.run = func(_ context.Context, processReq subprocess.RunRequest) (subprocess.RunResult, error) {
+				index := -1
+				for i, arg := range processReq.Args {
+					if arg == "--modules" {
+						index = i
+					}
+					if strings.HasPrefix(arg, "--report") || arg == "--debug" || arg == "--work-dir" {
+						t.Fatalf("retired or unwanted flag %q", arg)
+					}
+				}
+				if (index >= 0) != test.wantFlag || (index >= 0 && processReq.Args[index+1] != test.wantValue) {
+					t.Fatalf("args = %#v", processReq.Args)
+				}
+				writeAuditaTestFile(t, req.OutputProcessedPath, `{"segments":[]}`)
+				return subprocess.RunResult{}, nil
+			}
+			result, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req)
+			if err != nil || result.Reports != (ReportBundle{}) {
+				t.Fatalf("result = %#v, error = %v", result, err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSubprocessRunnerRejectsMissingOrMalformedTranscript(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, output := range []string{"", `{"segments":"wrong"}`} {
+		t.Run(output, func(t *testing.T) {
+			runner := auditaTestRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{})
+			req := auditaTestRequest(t)
+			runner.run = func(context.Context, subprocess.RunRequest) (subprocess.RunResult, error) {
+				if output != "" {
+					writeAuditaTestFile(t, req.OutputProcessedPath, output)
+				}
+				return subprocess.RunResult{}, nil
+			}
+			if _, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req); err == nil {
+				t.Fatal("missing or malformed transcript was accepted")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSubprocessRunnerPreservesFailureAndAvailableReports(t *testing.T) {
+	runner := auditaTestRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{})
+	req := auditaTestRequest(t)
+	processFailure := errors.New("audita exited after writing output")
+	runner.run = func(context.Context, subprocess.RunRequest) (subprocess.RunResult, error) {
+		writeAuditaTestFile(t, req.OutputProcessedPath, `{"segments":[]}`)
+		writeAuditaTestFile(t, filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(req.OutputProcessedPath), "errors.yml"), "status: failed\n")
+		return subprocess.RunResult{ExitCode: 7}, processFailure
+	}
+	result, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req)
+	if !errors.Is(err, processFailure) || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), filepath.Dir(req.OutputProcessedPath)) {
+		t.Fatalf("error = %v", err)
+	}
+	if result.Reports.ErrorsPath == "" || result.Reports.RecoveriesPath != "" || result.Reports.OverviewPath != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("reports = %#v", result.Reports)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSubprocessRunnerDoesNotMaskProcessFailureWithReportError(t *testing.T) {
+	runner := auditaTestRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{})
+	req := auditaTestRequest(t)
+	processFailure := errors.New("audita process failed")
+	runner.run = func(context.Context, subprocess.RunRequest) (subprocess.RunResult, error) {
+		path := filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(req.OutputProcessedPath), "errors.yml")
+		if err := os.WriteFile(path, make([]byte, MaxReportOutputBytes+1), 0o600); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		return subprocess.RunResult{ExitCode: 7}, processFailure
+	}
+	if _, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req); !errors.Is(err, processFailure) {
+		t.Fatalf("error = %v, want original process error", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSubprocessRunnerBoundsAdjacentReports(t *testing.T) {
+	runner := auditaTestRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{})
+	req := auditaTestRequest(t)
+	runner.run = func(context.Context, subprocess.RunRequest) (subprocess.RunResult, error) {
+		writeAuditaTestFile(t, req.OutputProcessedPath, `{"segments":[]}`)
+		path := filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(req.OutputProcessedPath), "errors.yml")
+		if err := os.WriteFile(path, make([]byte, MaxReportOutputBytes+1), 0o600); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		return subprocess.RunResult{}, nil
+	}
+	if _, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "errors.yml") || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "16777216") {
+		t.Fatalf("error = %v, want named report limit", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSubprocessRunnerRedactsCustomCredentialStreams(t *testing.T) {
+	const first = "NARRATIO_AUDITA_STREAM_ONE"
+	const second = "NARRATIO_AUDITA_STREAM_TWO"
+	for _, fail := range []bool{false, true} {
+		t.Run(map[bool]string{false: "success", true: "failure"}[fail], func(t *testing.T) {
+			firstSecret := auditaTestSecret(t, first, "audita-first-secret")
+			secondSecret := auditaTestSecret(t, second, "audita-second-secret")
+			req := auditaTestRequest(t)
+			body := "#!/bin/sh\nprintf '%s\\n' \"$" + first + "\"\nprintf '%s\\n' \"$" + second + "\" >&2\n"
+			if fail {
+				body += "exit 7\n"
+			} else {
+				body += "printf '{\"segments\":[]}' > \"" + req.OutputProcessedPath + "\"\n"
+			}
+			binary := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "audita-helper")
+			writeAuditaTestFile(t, binary, body)
+			if err := os.Chmod(binary, 0o700); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			runner := auditaTestRunner(t, SubprocessRunnerConfig{Binary: binary, Credentials: []configkit.Secret{firstSecret, secondSecret}})
+			_, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req)
+			if (err != nil) != fail {
+				t.Fatalf("error = %v, fail = %v", err, fail)
+			}
+			for _, path := range []string{req.StdoutLogPath, req.StderrLogPath} {
+				data, readErr := os.ReadFile(path)
+				if readErr != nil {
+					t.Fatal(readErr)
+				}
+				if strings.Contains(string(data), "audita-first-secret") || strings.Contains(string(data), "audita-second-secret") || !strings.Contains(string(data), "<redacted>") {
+					t.Fatalf("unredacted stream %q: %s", path, data)
+				}
+			}
+			if fail && (strings.Contains(err.Error(), "audita-first-secret") || strings.Contains(err.Error(), "audita-second-secret")) {
+				t.Fatalf("unredacted failure: %v", err)
+			}
+		})
 	}
-	return d
 }

internal/adapters/notarius/fake.go

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 package notarius
 
-import "context"
+import (
+	"context"
+
+	configkit "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit"
+)
 
 // FakeRunner is a configurable in-memory runner for stage tests.
 type FakeRunner struct {
@@ -14,7 +18,14 @@ func (f *FakeRunner) Run(ctx context.Context, req RunRequest) (RunResult, error)
 	if err := ctx.Err(); err != nil {
 		return RunResult{}, err
 	}
-	f.Requests = append(f.Requests, req)
+	copyRequest := req
+	copyRequest.Credentials = append([]configkit.Secret(nil), req.Credentials...)
+	if req.ConfigOverlay != nil {
+		profile := *req.ConfigOverlay
+		copyRequest.ConfigOverlay = &profile
+	}
+	copyRequest.References = append([]ReferenceBinding(nil), req.References...)
+	f.Requests = append(f.Requests, copyRequest)
 	if f.Err != nil {
 		return RunResult{}, f.Err
 	}

internal/adapters/notarius/runner.go

@@ -4,18 +4,30 @@ package notarius
 import (
 	"context"
 	"time"
+
+	configkit "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit"
 )
 
-const ReceiptSchemaVersion = "notarius.run-result.v1"
+const ReceiptSchemaVersion = "notarius.run-result.v2"
 
 // Runner is the adapter boundary for a complete Notarius pipeline invocation.
 type Runner interface {
 	Run(ctx context.Context, req RunRequest) (RunResult, error)
 }
 
+// ReferenceBinding maps one normalized Notarius selector to an absolute
+// external reference path.
+type ReferenceBinding struct {
+	Selector string
+	Path     string
+}
+
 // RunRequest contains the resolved inputs and diagnostic destinations for one invocation.
 type RunRequest struct {
-	Binary           string
+	Binary string
+	// Credentials are already-resolved environment references selected for Notarius.
+	Credentials      []configkit.Secret
+	ConfigOverlay    *string
 	ConfigPath       string
 	PipelineID       string
 	InputPath        string
@@ -24,20 +36,43 @@ type RunRequest struct {
 	ReceiptPath      string
 	LogPath          string
 	Timeout          time.Duration
+	Resume           bool
+	ChunkCache       string
+	References       []ReferenceBinding
 }
 
 // Receipt is the transport-neutral successful run receipt.
 type Receipt struct {
-	SchemaVersion         string
-	RunID                 string
-	PipelineID            string
-	OutputDirectory       string
-	IndexFile             string
-	NormalizedOutputCount int
-	RejectedOutputCount   int
-	WarningCount          int
-	ValidationStatus      string
-	DebugDirectory        string
+	SchemaVersion             string
+	RunID                     string
+	PipelineID                string
+	OutputDirectory           string
+	IndexFile                 string
+	NormalizedOutputCount     int
+	RejectedOutputCount       int
+	WarningGroupCount         int
+	WarningOccurrenceCount    int
+	DiagnosticGroupCount      int
+	DiagnosticOccurrenceCount int
+	DiagnosticsTruncated      bool
+	ValidationStatus          string
+	ValidationSummaries       []ValidationSummary
+	DebugDirectory            string
+}
+
+// ValidationSummary retains the bounded outcome of one Notarius producer result.
+type ValidationSummary struct {
+	Stage                string
+	StepID               string
+	LaneID               string
+	ModuleKey            string
+	ChunkID              string
+	Status               string
+	RejectingValidators  []string
+	ReasonCodes          []string
+	IncompleteValidators []string
+	ProducerAttemptCount int
+	TerminalAction       string
 }
 
 // LaneDescriptor identifies one normalized lane payload discovered through the index.
@@ -72,6 +107,8 @@ type Index struct {
 	RejectedPath    string
 	WarningsFile    string
 	WarningsPath    string
+	DiagnosticsFile string
+	DiagnosticsPath string
 	Lanes           []LaneDescriptor
 	ChunkMap        *PipelineDescriptor
 	EvidenceContext *PipelineDescriptor
@@ -90,8 +127,29 @@ type RejectionSummary struct {
 
 // WarningSummary retains structured warning identity without free-form messages.
 type WarningSummary struct {
-	Scope      string
-	ReasonCode string
+	Disposition     string
+	Category        string
+	ReasonCode      string
+	Origin          DiagnosticOrigin
+	OccurrenceCount int
+}
+
+// DiagnosticOrigin identifies the framework-owned pipeline location of a finding.
+type DiagnosticOrigin struct {
+	Stage        string
+	StepID       string
+	LaneID       string
+	ModuleKey    string
+	ValidatorKey string
+}
+
+// DiagnosticSummary retains bounded advisory or observation group metadata.
+type DiagnosticSummary struct {
+	Disposition     string
+	Category        string
+	ReasonCode      string
+	Origin          DiagnosticOrigin
+	OccurrenceCount int
 }
 
 // RunResult describes a successfully decoded and validated Notarius bundle.
@@ -105,4 +163,5 @@ type RunResult struct {
 	Duration    time.Duration
 	Rejections  []RejectionSummary
 	Warnings    []WarningSummary
+	Diagnostics []DiagnosticSummary
 }

internal/adapters/notarius/subprocess.go

@@ -11,17 +11,24 @@ import (
 
 	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/internal/adapters/subprocess"
 	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/internal/fileops"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/internal/notariusref"
 	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/internal/pathsafe"
 )
 
 const (
-	maxReceiptBytes       = 1 << 20
-	maxIndexBytes         = 4 << 20
-	maxSummaryBytes       = 4 << 20
-	canonicalIndexFile    = "index.json"
-	canonicalManifestFile = "manifest.json"
-	canonicalRejectedFile = "rejected.json"
-	canonicalWarningsFile = "warnings.json"
+	maxReceiptBytes          = 1 << 20
+	maxIndexBytes            = 4 << 20
+	maxSummaryBytes          = 4 << 20
+	canonicalIndexFile       = "index.json"
+	canonicalManifestFile    = "manifest.json"
+	canonicalRejectedFile    = "rejected.json"
+	canonicalWarningsFile    = "warnings.json"
+	canonicalDiagnosticsFile = "diagnostics.json"
+	warningsSchemaVersion    = "notarius.warnings.v2"
+	diagnosticsSchemaVersion = "notarius.diagnostics.v1"
+	maxWarningGroups         = 128
+	maxDiagnosticGroups      = 256
+	maxFindingSamples        = 3
 )
 
 type subprocessRun func(context.Context, subprocess.RunRequest) (subprocess.RunResult, error)
@@ -41,25 +48,44 @@ func (r *SubprocessRunner) Run(ctx context.Context, req RunRequest) (RunResult,
 	if r == nil || r.run == nil {
 		return RunResult{}, fmt.Errorf("notarius subprocess runner is nil")
 	}
-	if err := validateRunRequest(req); err != nil {
+	references, err := validateRunRequest(req)
+	if err != nil {
 		return RunResult{}, err
 	}
+	envOverrides, sensitiveEnvNames, err := subprocess.CredentialEnvironment(req.Credentials)
+	if err != nil {
+		return RunResult{}, fmt.Errorf("notarius credentials: %w", err)
+	}
 
 	args := []string{
 		"run", req.PipelineID,
 		"--config", req.ConfigPath,
 		"--input", req.InputPath,
 		"--output-dir", req.OutputRoot,
-		"--json",
 	}
+	if req.Resume {
+		args = append(args, "--resume")
+	}
+	if req.ChunkCache != "" {
+		args = append(args, "--chunk_cache", req.ChunkCache)
+	}
+	for _, reference := range references {
+		args = append(args, "--reference", reference.Selector+"="+reference.Path)
+	}
+	if req.ConfigOverlay != nil {
+		args = append(args, "--config-overlay", *req.ConfigOverlay)
+	}
+	args = append(args, "--json")
 	processResult, err := r.run(ctx, subprocess.RunRequest{
-		Executable:      req.Binary,
-		Args:            args,
-		WorkingDir:      req.WorkingDirectory,
-		Timeout:         req.Timeout,
-		DiagnosticOwner: "notarius",
-		StdoutLogPath:   req.ReceiptPath,
-		StderrLogPath:   req.LogPath,
+		Executable:        req.Binary,
+		Args:              args,
+		WorkingDir:        req.WorkingDirectory,
+		Timeout:           req.Timeout,
+		DiagnosticOwner:   "notarius",
+		StdoutLogPath:     req.ReceiptPath,
+		StderrLogPath:     req.LogPath,
+		EnvOverrides:      envOverrides,
+		SensitiveEnvNames: sensitiveEnvNames,
 	})
 	baseResult := RunResult{
 		ReceiptPath: req.ReceiptPath,
@@ -95,24 +121,45 @@ func (r *SubprocessRunner) Run(ctx context.Context, req RunRequest) (RunResult,
 	if err != nil {
 		return baseResult, err
 	}
+	diagnostics, diagnosticOccurrences, diagnosticsTruncated, err := loadDiagnostics(index.DiagnosticsPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		return baseResult, err
+	}
+	if receipt.NormalizedOutputCount != len(index.Lanes) || receipt.RejectedOutputCount != len(rejections) ||
+		receipt.WarningGroupCount != len(warnings) || receipt.DiagnosticGroupCount != len(diagnostics) {
+		return baseResult, fmt.Errorf("notarius receipt counts do not match published bundle")
+	}
+	warningOccurrences, err := sumWarningOccurrences(warnings)
+	if err != nil {
+		return baseResult, err
+	}
+	if receipt.WarningOccurrenceCount != warningOccurrences ||
+		receipt.DiagnosticOccurrenceCount != diagnosticOccurrences ||
+		receipt.DiagnosticsTruncated != diagnosticsTruncated {
+		return baseResult, fmt.Errorf("notarius receipt occurrence counts do not match published bundle")
+	}
 
 	baseResult.Receipt = receipt
 	baseResult.Index = index
 	baseResult.BundleRoot = bundleRoot
 	baseResult.Rejections = rejections
 	baseResult.Warnings = warnings
+	baseResult.Diagnostics = diagnostics
 	return baseResult, nil
 }
 
-func validateRunRequest(req RunRequest) error {
+func validateRunRequest(req RunRequest) ([]ReferenceBinding, error) {
 	if strings.TrimSpace(req.Binary) == "" {
-		return fmt.Errorf("notarius binary is required")
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius binary is required")
 	}
 	if strings.TrimSpace(req.PipelineID) == "" {
-		return fmt.Errorf("notarius pipeline id is required")
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius pipeline id is required")
 	}
 	if req.Timeout <= 0 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("notarius timeout must be positive")
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius timeout must be positive")
+	}
+	if !validChunkCacheMode(req.ChunkCache) {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius chunk cache mode must be empty, auto, bypass, or refresh")
 	}
 	for label, path := range map[string]string{
 		"config":            req.ConfigPath,
@@ -123,47 +170,133 @@ func validateRunRequest(req RunRequest) error {
 		"log":               req.LogPath,
 	} {
 		if strings.TrimSpace(path) == "" {
-			return fmt.Errorf("notarius %s path is required", label)
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius %s path is required", label)
 		}
 		if !filepath.IsAbs(path) {
-			return fmt.Errorf("notarius %s path must be absolute", label)
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius %s path must be absolute", label)
 		}
 	}
 	if filepath.Clean(req.ReceiptPath) == filepath.Clean(req.LogPath) {
-		return fmt.Errorf("notarius receipt and log paths must be different")
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius receipt and log paths must be different")
+	}
+	references := make([]ReferenceBinding, 0, len(req.References))
+	selectors := make(map[string]struct{}, len(req.References))
+	for index, binding := range req.References {
+		selector, err := notariusref.NormalizeSelector(binding.Selector)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius reference %d selector: %w", index, err)
+		}
+		if _, duplicate := selectors[selector]; duplicate {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius reference selector %q is duplicated", selector)
+		}
+		selectors[selector] = struct{}{}
+		if strings.TrimSpace(binding.Path) == "" {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius reference %q path is required", selector)
+		}
+		if !filepath.IsAbs(binding.Path) {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius reference %q path must be absolute", selector)
+		}
+		references = append(references, ReferenceBinding{Selector: selector, Path: binding.Path})
 	}
 	if err := requireRegularFile(req.ConfigPath); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("validate notarius config path: %w", err)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("validate notarius config path: %w", err)
 	}
 	if err := requireRegularFile(req.InputPath); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("validate notarius input path: %w", err)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("validate notarius input path: %w", err)
 	}
 	if err := requireDirectory(req.OutputRoot); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("validate notarius output root: %w", err)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("validate notarius output root: %w", err)
 	}
 	if err := requireDirectory(req.WorkingDirectory); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("validate notarius working directory: %w", err)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("validate notarius working directory: %w", err)
 	}
 	if err := validateLogDestination(req.ReceiptPath); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("validate notarius receipt path: %w", err)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("validate notarius receipt path: %w", err)
 	}
 	if err := validateLogDestination(req.LogPath); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("validate notarius log path: %w", err)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("validate notarius log path: %w", err)
+	}
+	return references, nil
+}
+
+func validChunkCacheMode(mode string) bool {
+	switch mode {
+	case "", "auto", "bypass", "refresh":
+		return true
+	default:
+		return false
 	}
-	return nil
 }
 
 type receiptDocument struct {
-	SchemaVersion         string `json:"schema_version"`
-	RunID                 string `json:"run_id"`
-	PipelineID            string `json:"pipeline_id"`
-	OutputDirectory       string `json:"output_directory"`
-	IndexFile             string `json:"index_file"`
-	NormalizedOutputCount *int   `json:"normalized_output_count"`
-	RejectedOutputCount   *int   `json:"rejected_output_count"`
-	WarningCount          *int   `json:"warning_count"`
-	ValidationStatus      string `json:"validation_status"`
-	DebugDirectory        string `json:"debug_directory"`
+	SchemaVersion             string                      `json:"schema_version"`
+	RunID                     string                      `json:"run_id"`
+	PipelineID                string                      `json:"pipeline_id"`
+	OutputDirectory           string                      `json:"output_directory"`
+	IndexFile                 string                      `json:"index_file"`
+	NormalizedOutputCount     *int                        `json:"normalized_output_count"`
+	RejectedOutputCount       *int                        `json:"rejected_output_count"`
+	WarningGroupCount         *int                        `json:"warning_group_count"`
+	WarningOccurrenceCount    *int                        `json:"warning_occurrence_count"`
+	DiagnosticGroupCount      *int                        `json:"diagnostic_group_count"`
+	DiagnosticOccurrenceCount *int                        `json:"diagnostic_occurrence_count"`
+	DiagnosticsTruncated      *bool                       `json:"diagnostics_truncated"`
+	ValidationStatus          string                      `json:"validation_status"`
+	ValidationSummaries       []validationSummaryDocument `json:"validation_summaries"`
+	DebugDirectory            string                      `json:"debug_directory"`
+}
+
+type validationSummaryDocument struct {
+	Stage                string   `json:"stage"`
+	StepID               string   `json:"step_id"`
+	LaneID               string   `json:"lane_id"`
+	ModuleKey            string   `json:"module_key"`
+	ChunkID              string   `json:"chunk_id"`
+	Status               string   `json:"status"`
+	RejectingValidators  []string `json:"rejecting_validators"`
+	ReasonCodes          []string `json:"reason_codes"`
+	IncompleteValidators []string `json:"incomplete_validators"`
+	ProducerAttemptCount *int     `json:"producer_attempt_count"`
+	TerminalAction       string   `json:"terminal_action"`
+}
+
+func validValidationStatus(value string) bool {
+	switch value {
+	case "approved", "rejected", "incomplete":
+		return true
+	default:
+		return false
+	}
+}
+
+func validateValidationSummaries(documents []validationSummaryDocument) ([]ValidationSummary, error) {
+	summaries := make([]ValidationSummary, 0, len(documents))
+	for _, document := range documents {
+		if document.Status != "complete" && document.Status != "rejected" && document.Status != "incomplete" {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius validation summary status %q is invalid", document.Status)
+		}
+		if document.ProducerAttemptCount == nil || *document.ProducerAttemptCount < 0 || !validTerminalAction(document.TerminalAction) {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius validation summary is missing required fields")
+		}
+		summaries = append(summaries, ValidationSummary{
+			Stage: document.Stage, StepID: document.StepID, LaneID: document.LaneID,
+			ModuleKey: document.ModuleKey, ChunkID: document.ChunkID, Status: document.Status,
+			RejectingValidators:  append([]string(nil), document.RejectingValidators...),
+			ReasonCodes:          append([]string(nil), document.ReasonCodes...),
+			IncompleteValidators: append([]string(nil), document.IncompleteValidators...),
+			ProducerAttemptCount: *document.ProducerAttemptCount, TerminalAction: document.TerminalAction,
+		})
+	}
+	return summaries, nil
+}
+
+func validTerminalAction(value string) bool {
+	switch value {
+	case "accepted", "reject_output", "warn_continue", "fail_run":
+		return true
+	default:
+		return false
+	}
 }
 
 func loadReceipt(path, pipelineID string) (Receipt, error) {
@@ -177,7 +310,9 @@ func loadReceipt(path, pipelineID string) (Receipt, error) {
 	if strings.TrimSpace(document.RunID) == "" || strings.TrimSpace(document.PipelineID) == "" ||
 		strings.TrimSpace(document.OutputDirectory) == "" || strings.TrimSpace(document.ValidationStatus) == "" ||
 		document.NormalizedOutputCount == nil ||
-		document.RejectedOutputCount == nil || document.WarningCount == nil {
+		document.RejectedOutputCount == nil || document.WarningGroupCount == nil ||
+		document.WarningOccurrenceCount == nil || document.DiagnosticGroupCount == nil ||
+		document.DiagnosticOccurrenceCount == nil || document.DiagnosticsTruncated == nil {
 		return Receipt{}, fmt.Errorf("notarius receipt is missing required fields")
 	}
 	if document.IndexFile != canonicalIndexFile {
@@ -186,9 +321,18 @@ func loadReceipt(path, pipelineID string) (Receipt, error) {
 	if document.PipelineID != pipelineID {
 		return Receipt{}, fmt.Errorf("notarius receipt pipeline id %q does not match requested pipeline %q", document.PipelineID, pipelineID)
 	}
-	if *document.NormalizedOutputCount < 0 || *document.RejectedOutputCount < 0 || *document.WarningCount < 0 {
+	if *document.NormalizedOutputCount < 0 || *document.RejectedOutputCount < 0 ||
+		*document.WarningGroupCount < 0 || *document.WarningOccurrenceCount < 0 ||
+		*document.DiagnosticGroupCount < 0 || *document.DiagnosticOccurrenceCount < 0 {
 		return Receipt{}, fmt.Errorf("notarius receipt counts must be non-negative")
 	}
+	if !validValidationStatus(document.ValidationStatus) {
+		return Receipt{}, fmt.Errorf("notarius receipt validation_status %q is invalid", document.ValidationStatus)
+	}
+	validationSummaries, err := validateValidationSummaries(document.ValidationSummaries)
+	if err != nil {
+		return Receipt{}, err
+	}
 	if !filepath.IsAbs(document.OutputDirectory) {
 		return Receipt{}, fmt.Errorf("notarius receipt output directory must be absolute")
 	}
@@ -196,16 +340,21 @@ func loadReceipt(path, pipelineID string) (Receipt, error) {
 		return Receipt{}, fmt.Errorf("notarius receipt debug directory must be absolute when present")
 	}
 	return Receipt{
-		SchemaVersion:         document.SchemaVersion,
-		RunID:                 document.RunID,
-		PipelineID:            document.PipelineID,
-		OutputDirectory:       filepath.Clean(document.OutputDirectory),
-		IndexFile:             document.IndexFile,
-		NormalizedOutputCount: *document.NormalizedOutputCount,
-		RejectedOutputCount:   *document.RejectedOutputCount,
-		WarningCount:          *document.WarningCount,
-		ValidationStatus:      document.ValidationStatus,
-		DebugDirectory:        document.DebugDirectory,
+		SchemaVersion:             document.SchemaVersion,
+		RunID:                     document.RunID,
+		PipelineID:                document.PipelineID,
+		OutputDirectory:           filepath.Clean(document.OutputDirectory),
+		IndexFile:                 document.IndexFile,
+		NormalizedOutputCount:     *document.NormalizedOutputCount,
+		RejectedOutputCount:       *document.RejectedOutputCount,
+		WarningGroupCount:         *document.WarningGroupCount,
+		WarningOccurrenceCount:    *document.WarningOccurrenceCount,
+		DiagnosticGroupCount:      *document.DiagnosticGroupCount,
+		DiagnosticOccurrenceCount: *document.DiagnosticOccurrenceCount,
+		DiagnosticsTruncated:      *document.DiagnosticsTruncated,
+		ValidationStatus:          document.ValidationStatus,
+		ValidationSummaries:       validationSummaries,
+		DebugDirectory:            document.DebugDirectory,
 	}, nil
 }
 
@@ -214,6 +363,7 @@ type indexDocument struct {
 	OutputFiles     *[]laneDocument   `json:"output_files"`
 	RejectedFile    string            `json:"rejected_file"`
 	WarningsFile    string            `json:"warnings_file"`
+	DiagnosticsFile string            `json:"diagnostics_file"`
 	ChunkMap        *pipelineDocument `json:"chunk_map"`
 	EvidenceContext *pipelineDocument `json:"evidence_context"`
 }
@@ -250,6 +400,7 @@ func loadIndex(bundleRoot, indexPath string) (Index, error) {
 		{name: "manifest_file", got: document.ManifestFile, want: canonicalManifestFile},
 		{name: "rejected_file", got: document.RejectedFile, want: canonicalRejectedFile},
 		{name: "warnings_file", got: document.WarningsFile, want: canonicalWarningsFile},
+		{name: "diagnostics_file", got: document.DiagnosticsFile, want: canonicalDiagnosticsFile},
 	} {
 		if field.got != field.want {
 			return Index{}, fmt.Errorf("notarius index %s %q is incompatible; want %q", field.name, field.got, field.want)
@@ -260,10 +411,11 @@ func loadIndex(bundleRoot, indexPath string) (Index, error) {
 	}
 
 	index := Index{
-		Path:         indexPath,
-		ManifestFile: document.ManifestFile,
-		RejectedFile: document.RejectedFile,
-		WarningsFile: document.WarningsFile,
+		Path:            indexPath,
+		ManifestFile:    document.ManifestFile,
+		RejectedFile:    document.RejectedFile,
+		WarningsFile:    document.WarningsFile,
+		DiagnosticsFile: document.DiagnosticsFile,
 	}
 	var err error
 	if index.ManifestPath, err = resolveRegularFile(bundleRoot, index.ManifestFile); err != nil {
@@ -275,6 +427,9 @@ func loadIndex(bundleRoot, indexPath string) (Index, error) {
 	if index.WarningsPath, err = resolveRegularFile(bundleRoot, index.WarningsFile); err != nil {
 		return Index{}, fmt.Errorf("resolve notarius warning file: %w", err)
 	}
+	if index.DiagnosticsPath, err = resolveRegularFile(bundleRoot, index.DiagnosticsFile); err != nil {
+		return Index{}, fmt.Errorf("resolve notarius diagnostics file: %w", err)
+	}
 
 	seenLanes := make(map[string]struct{}, len(*document.OutputFiles))
 	for _, lane := range *document.OutputFiles {
@@ -362,12 +517,34 @@ func loadRejections(path string) ([]RejectionSummary, error) {
 	return summaries, nil
 }
 
-type warningDocument struct {
-	Warnings *[]struct {
+type findingGroupDocument struct {
+	Disposition     string                   `json:"disposition"`
+	Category        string                   `json:"category"`
+	ReasonCode      string                   `json:"reason_code"`
+	Origin          diagnosticOriginDocument `json:"origin"`
+	OccurrenceCount *int                     `json:"occurrence_count"`
+	Samples         *[]struct {
 		Scope      string `json:"scope"`
-		ReasonCode string `json:"reason_code"`
 		Message    string `json:"message"`
-	} `json:"warnings"`
+		ChunkID    string `json:"chunk_id"`
+		ChunkIndex *int   `json:"chunk_index"`
+	} `json:"samples"`
+	OmittedSampleCount *int `json:"omitted_sample_count"`
+}
+
+type diagnosticOriginDocument struct {
+	Stage        string `json:"stage"`
+	StepID       string `json:"step_id"`
+	LaneID       string `json:"lane_id"`
+	ModuleKey    string `json:"module_key"`
+	ValidatorKey string `json:"validator_key"`
+}
+
+type warningDocument struct {
+	SchemaVersion   string                  `json:"schema_version"`
+	GroupCount      *int                    `json:"group_count"`
+	OccurrenceCount *int                    `json:"occurrence_count"`
+	Groups          *[]findingGroupDocument `json:"groups"`
 }
 
 func loadWarnings(path string) ([]WarningSummary, error) {
@@ -375,21 +552,153 @@ func loadWarnings(path string) ([]WarningSummary, error) {
 	if err := decodeBoundedJSON(path, maxSummaryBytes, &document); err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("decode notarius warnings: %w", err)
 	}
-	if document.Warnings == nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius warning document is missing warnings array")
+	if document.SchemaVersion != warningsSchemaVersion || document.GroupCount == nil ||
+		document.OccurrenceCount == nil || document.Groups == nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius warning document is missing or incompatible required fields")
 	}
-	summaries := make([]WarningSummary, 0, len(*document.Warnings))
-	for _, item := range *document.Warnings {
-		if strings.TrimSpace(item.ReasonCode) == "" || strings.TrimSpace(item.Message) == "" {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius warning entries require reason_code and message")
+	if *document.GroupCount < 0 || *document.GroupCount > maxWarningGroups || *document.OccurrenceCount < 0 ||
+		*document.GroupCount != len(*document.Groups) {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius warning document counts are inconsistent")
+	}
+	summaries := make([]WarningSummary, 0, len(*document.Groups))
+	occurrences := 0
+	for _, group := range *document.Groups {
+		if err := validateFindingGroup(group); err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius warning group: %w", err)
 		}
-		summaries = append(summaries, WarningSummary{Scope: item.Scope, ReasonCode: item.ReasonCode})
+		if group.Disposition != "warning" {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius warning group disposition %q is invalid", group.Disposition)
+		}
+		if *group.OccurrenceCount > int(^uint(0)>>1)-occurrences {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius warning occurrence count overflows")
+		}
+		occurrences += *group.OccurrenceCount
+		summaries = append(summaries, WarningSummary{
+			Disposition: group.Disposition, Category: group.Category, ReasonCode: group.ReasonCode,
+			Origin: diagnosticOrigin(group.Origin), OccurrenceCount: *group.OccurrenceCount,
+		})
+	}
+	if occurrences != *document.OccurrenceCount {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("notarius warning document occurrence count is inconsistent")
 	}
 	return summaries, nil
 }
 
+type diagnosticDocument struct {
+	SchemaVersion                string                  `json:"schema_version"`
+	GroupCount                   *int                    `json:"group_count"`
+	OccurrenceCount              *int                    `json:"occurrence_count"`
+	Truncated                    *bool                   `json:"truncated"`
+	UnrepresentedOccurrenceCount *int                    `json:"unrepresented_occurrence_count"`
+	Groups                       *[]findingGroupDocument `json:"groups"`
+}
+
+func loadDiagnostics(path string) ([]DiagnosticSummary, int, bool, error) {
+	var document diagnosticDocument
+	if err := decodeBoundedJSON(path, maxSummaryBytes, &document); err != nil {
+		return nil, 0, false, fmt.Errorf("decode notarius diagnostics: %w", err)
+	}
+	if document.SchemaVersion != diagnosticsSchemaVersion || document.GroupCount == nil ||
+		document.OccurrenceCount == nil || document.Truncated == nil ||
+		document.UnrepresentedOccurrenceCount == nil || document.Groups == nil {
+		return nil, 0, false, fmt.Errorf("notarius diagnostics document is missing or incompatible required fields")
+	}
+	if *document.GroupCount < 0 || *document.GroupCount > maxDiagnosticGroups || *document.OccurrenceCount < 0 ||
+		*document.UnrepresentedOccurrenceCount < 0 || *document.GroupCount != len(*document.Groups) {
+		return nil, 0, false, fmt.Errorf("notarius diagnostics document counts are inconsistent")
+	}
+	if !*document.Truncated && *document.UnrepresentedOccurrenceCount != 0 {
+		return nil, 0, false, fmt.Errorf("notarius diagnostics document has unrepresented occurrences without truncation")
+	}
+	summaries := make([]DiagnosticSummary, 0, len(*document.Groups))
+	representedOccurrences := 0
+	for _, group := range *document.Groups {
+		if err := validateFindingGroup(group); err != nil {
+			return nil, 0, false, fmt.Errorf("notarius diagnostic group: %w", err)
+		}
+		if group.Disposition != "advisory" && group.Disposition != "observation" {
+			return nil, 0, false, fmt.Errorf("notarius diagnostic group disposition %q is invalid", group.Disposition)
+		}
+		if *group.OccurrenceCount > int(^uint(0)>>1)-representedOccurrences {
+			return nil, 0, false, fmt.Errorf("notarius diagnostic occurrence count overflows")
+		}
+		representedOccurrences += *group.OccurrenceCount
+		summaries = append(summaries, DiagnosticSummary{
+			Disposition: group.Disposition, Category: group.Category, ReasonCode: group.ReasonCode,
+			Origin: diagnosticOrigin(group.Origin), OccurrenceCount: *group.OccurrenceCount,
+		})
+	}
+	if *document.UnrepresentedOccurrenceCount > int(^uint(0)>>1)-representedOccurrences ||
+		representedOccurrences+*document.UnrepresentedOccurrenceCount != *document.OccurrenceCount {
+		return nil, 0, false, fmt.Errorf("notarius diagnostics document occurrence count is inconsistent")
+	}
+	return summaries, *document.OccurrenceCount, *document.Truncated, nil
+}
+
+func validateFindingGroup(group findingGroupDocument) error {
+	if strings.TrimSpace(group.Disposition) == "" || strings.TrimSpace(group.Category) == "" ||
+		strings.TrimSpace(group.ReasonCode) == "" || !validDiagnosticOriginStage(group.Origin.Stage) ||
+		!validDiagnosticCategory(group.Disposition, group.Category) ||
+		group.OccurrenceCount == nil || *group.OccurrenceCount <= 0 || group.Samples == nil ||
+		group.OmittedSampleCount == nil || *group.OmittedSampleCount < 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("missing required fields")
+	}
+	if len(*group.Samples) == 0 || len(*group.Samples) > maxFindingSamples ||
+		*group.OmittedSampleCount != *group.OccurrenceCount-len(*group.Samples) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("sample counts are inconsistent")
+	}
+	for _, sample := range *group.Samples {
+		if strings.TrimSpace(sample.Scope) == "" || strings.TrimSpace(sample.Message) == "" ||
+			(sample.ChunkIndex != nil && *sample.ChunkIndex < 0) {
+			return fmt.Errorf("samples require scope and message")
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func validDiagnosticCategory(disposition, category string) bool {
+	switch disposition {
+	case "warning":
+		return category == "configuration" || category == "degradation" ||
+			category == "validation_incomplete" || category == "fallback"
+	case "advisory":
+		return category == "data_quality"
+	case "observation":
+		return category == "normalization"
+	default:
+		return false
+	}
+}
+
+func validDiagnosticOriginStage(stage string) bool {
+	switch stage {
+	case "references", "chunk", "extract", "merge", "normalize":
+		return true
+	default:
+		return false
+	}
+}
+
+func diagnosticOrigin(document diagnosticOriginDocument) DiagnosticOrigin {
+	return DiagnosticOrigin{
+		Stage: document.Stage, StepID: document.StepID, LaneID: document.LaneID,
+		ModuleKey: document.ModuleKey, ValidatorKey: document.ValidatorKey,
+	}
+}
+
+func sumWarningOccurrences(values []WarningSummary) (int, error) {
+	total := 0
+	for _, value := range values {
+		if value.OccurrenceCount > int(^uint(0)>>1)-total {
+			return 0, fmt.Errorf("notarius warning occurrence count overflows")
+		}
+		total += value.OccurrenceCount
+	}
+	return total, nil
+}
+
 func decodeBoundedJSON(path string, limit int64, destination any) error {
-	data, err := fileops.ReadRegularFile(path, limit)
+	data, err := fileops.ReadFileBounded(path, limit)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("notarius JSON result exceeds or cannot be read within %d-byte limit: %w", limit, err)
 	}

internal/adapters/notarius/subprocess_test.go

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	configkit "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit"
 	sharedsubprocess "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/internal/adapters/subprocess"
 )
 
@@ -52,6 +53,10 @@ func TestSubprocessRunnerBuildsExactInvocationAndDiscoversBundle(t *testing.T) {
 	if result.Receipt.SchemaVersion != ReceiptSchemaVersion || result.Receipt.RunID != "notarius-run-1" {
 		t.Fatalf("receipt = %#v", result.Receipt)
 	}
+	if len(result.Receipt.ValidationSummaries) != 1 || result.Receipt.ValidationSummaries[0].LaneID != "npc-registry" ||
+		result.Receipt.ValidationSummaries[0].Status != "complete" {
+		t.Fatalf("validation summaries = %#v", result.Receipt.ValidationSummaries)
+	}
 	if len(result.Index.Lanes) != 1 || result.Index.Lanes[0].LaneID != "npc-registry" {
 		t.Fatalf("lanes = %#v", result.Index.Lanes)
 	}
@@ -64,22 +69,301 @@ func TestSubprocessRunnerBuildsExactInvocationAndDiscoversBundle(t *testing.T) {
 	if len(result.Rejections) != 1 || result.Rejections[0].LaneID != "spells" || result.Rejections[0].ReasonCode != "invalid_spell" {
 		t.Fatalf("rejections = %#v", result.Rejections)
 	}
-	if len(result.Warnings) != 1 || result.Warnings[0].Scope != "lane:npc-registry" || result.Warnings[0].ReasonCode != "normalized_name" {
+	if len(result.Warnings) != 1 || result.Warnings[0].Category != "degradation" || result.Warnings[0].ReasonCode != "normalized_name" {
 		t.Fatalf("warnings = %#v", result.Warnings)
 	}
+	if len(result.Diagnostics) != 1 || result.Diagnostics[0].Category != "data_quality" || result.Diagnostics[0].ReasonCode != "low_confidence" {
+		t.Fatalf("diagnostics = %#v", result.Diagnostics)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSubprocessRunnerMapsCacheControlsToArguments(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name       string
+		resume     bool
+		chunkCache string
+		want       []string
+	}{
+		{name: "resume", resume: true, want: []string{"--resume"}},
+		{name: "auto", chunkCache: "auto", want: []string{"--chunk_cache", "auto"}},
+		{name: "bypass", chunkCache: "bypass", want: []string{"--chunk_cache", "bypass"}},
+		{name: "refresh", chunkCache: "refresh", want: []string{"--chunk_cache", "refresh"}},
+		{name: "resume and mode", resume: true, chunkCache: "auto", want: []string{"--resume", "--chunk_cache", "auto"}},
+	}
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			req := validRunRequest(t)
+			req.Resume = test.resume
+			req.ChunkCache = test.chunkCache
+			var captured sharedsubprocess.RunRequest
+			runner := &SubprocessRunner{run: func(_ context.Context, processReq sharedsubprocess.RunRequest) (sharedsubprocess.RunResult, error) {
+				captured = processReq
+				writeValidBundleAndReceipt(t, req, false)
+				return sharedsubprocess.RunResult{ExitCode: 0}, nil
+			}}
+
+			if _, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req); err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("Run() error = %v", err)
+			}
+			want := []string{
+				"run", req.PipelineID, "--config", req.ConfigPath, "--input", req.InputPath,
+				"--output-dir", req.OutputRoot,
+			}
+			want = append(want, test.want...)
+			want = append(want, "--json")
+			if !reflect.DeepEqual(captured.Args, want) {
+				t.Fatalf("subprocess args = %#v, want %#v", captured.Args, want)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSubprocessRunnerMapsConfigOverlayToArgumentPair(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name     string
+		supplied bool
+		value    string
+	}{
+		{name: "omitted"},
+		{name: "empty", supplied: true},
+		{name: "default", supplied: true, value: "default"},
+		{name: "named", supplied: true, value: "inexpensive"},
+	}
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			req := validRunRequest(t)
+			if test.supplied {
+				req.ConfigOverlay = &test.value
+			}
+			var captured sharedsubprocess.RunRequest
+			runner := &SubprocessRunner{run: func(_ context.Context, processReq sharedsubprocess.RunRequest) (sharedsubprocess.RunResult, error) {
+				captured = processReq
+				writeValidBundleAndReceipt(t, req, false)
+				return sharedsubprocess.RunResult{ExitCode: 0}, nil
+			}}
+
+			if _, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req); err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("Run() error = %v", err)
+			}
+			flagIndex := -1
+			for index, arg := range captured.Args {
+				if arg == "--config-overlay" {
+					flagIndex = index
+					break
+				}
+			}
+			if !test.supplied {
+				if flagIndex >= 0 {
+					t.Fatalf("subprocess args unexpectedly contain config overlay: %#v", captured.Args)
+				}
+				return
+			}
+			if flagIndex < 0 || flagIndex+2 >= len(captured.Args) || captured.Args[flagIndex+1] != test.value || captured.Args[flagIndex+2] != "--json" {
+				t.Fatalf("config overlay argument boundary = %#v, want flag, exact value, then --json", captured.Args)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSubprocessRunnerRejectsInvalidChunkCacheBeforeLaunch(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, mode := range []string{"AUTO", "invalid", " auto "} {
+		t.Run(mode, func(t *testing.T) {
+			req := validRunRequest(t)
+			req.ChunkCache = mode
+			started := false
+			runner := &SubprocessRunner{run: func(context.Context, sharedsubprocess.RunRequest) (sharedsubprocess.RunResult, error) {
+				started = true
+				return sharedsubprocess.RunResult{}, nil
+			}}
+			_, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req)
+			if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "chunk cache mode") {
+				t.Fatalf("Run() error = %v, want chunk cache validation failure", err)
+			}
+			if started {
+				t.Fatal("subprocess started with invalid chunk cache mode")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSubprocessRunnerForwardsLoadedCredentialWithoutRereadingEnvironment(t *testing.T) {
+	const envName = "NARRATIO_NOTARIUS_CUSTOM_LLM_KEY"
+	const otherName = "NARRATIO_NOTARIUS_CUSTOM_OTHER_KEY"
+	const loadedValue = "loaded-notarius-credential"
+	const otherValue = "loaded-notarius-other-credential"
+	credential := loadTestCredential(t, envName, loadedValue)
+	otherCredential := loadTestCredential(t, otherName, otherValue)
+	t.Setenv(envName, "changed-parent-credential")
+	t.Setenv(otherName, "changed-parent-other-credential")
+
+	req := validRunRequest(t)
+	req.Credentials = []configkit.Secret{*credential, *otherCredential}
+	var captured sharedsubprocess.RunRequest
+	runner := &SubprocessRunner{run: func(_ context.Context, processReq sharedsubprocess.RunRequest) (sharedsubprocess.RunResult, error) {
+		captured = processReq
+		writeValidBundleAndReceipt(t, req, false)
+		return sharedsubprocess.RunResult{ExitCode: 0}, nil
+	}}
+	if _, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Run() error = %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(captured.EnvOverrides) != 2 || captured.EnvOverrides[envName] != loadedValue || captured.EnvOverrides[otherName] != otherValue {
+		t.Fatal("subprocess did not receive exactly the loaded credential overrides")
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(captured.SensitiveEnvNames, []string{envName, otherName}) {
+		t.Fatalf("sensitive environment names = %#v, want configured reference name", captured.SensitiveEnvNames)
+	}
+	wantArgs := []string{
+		"run", req.PipelineID, "--config", req.ConfigPath, "--input", req.InputPath,
+		"--output-dir", req.OutputRoot, "--json",
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(captured.Args, wantArgs) {
+		t.Fatalf("subprocess args = %#v, want %#v", captured.Args, wantArgs)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSubprocessRunnerRejectsInvalidProgrammaticCredentialBeforeLaunch(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, test := range []struct {
+		name      string
+		reference configkit.Secret
+	}{
+		{name: "unresolved", reference: configkit.SecretEnv("NARRATIO_NOTARIUS_UNRESOLVED_KEY")},
+		{name: "empty", reference: configkit.SecretEnv("")},
+	} {
+		t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			req := validRunRequest(t)
+			req.Credentials = []configkit.Secret{test.reference}
+			started := false
+			runner := &SubprocessRunner{run: func(context.Context, sharedsubprocess.RunRequest) (sharedsubprocess.RunResult, error) {
+				started = true
+				return sharedsubprocess.RunResult{}, nil
+			}}
+			_, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req)
+			if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "resolved and nonempty") {
+				t.Fatalf("Run() error = %v, want credential validation failure", err)
+			}
+			if started {
+				t.Fatal("subprocess started with an invalid credential")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSubprocessRunnerBuildsOrderedReferenceArguments(t *testing.T) {
+	req := validRunRequest(t)
+	referenceRoot := t.TempDir()
+	req.References = []ReferenceBinding{
+		{Selector: " party ", Path: filepath.Join(referenceRoot, "party context=primary.json")},
+		{Selector: " npc-registry . extract . glossary ", Path: filepath.Join(referenceRoot, "glossary.json")},
+	}
+	originalReferences := append([]ReferenceBinding(nil), req.References...)
+	var captured sharedsubprocess.RunRequest
+	runner := &SubprocessRunner{run: func(_ context.Context, processReq sharedsubprocess.RunRequest) (sharedsubprocess.RunResult, error) {
+		captured = processReq
+		writeValidBundleAndReceipt(t, req, false)
+		return sharedsubprocess.RunResult{ExitCode: 0}, nil
+	}}
+
+	if _, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Run() error = %v", err)
+	}
+	wantArgs := []string{
+		"run", req.PipelineID,
+		"--config", req.ConfigPath,
+		"--input", req.InputPath,
+		"--output-dir", req.OutputRoot,
+		"--reference", "party=" + req.References[0].Path,
+		"--reference", "npc-registry.extract.glossary=" + req.References[1].Path,
+		"--json",
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(captured.Args, wantArgs) {
+		t.Fatalf("subprocess args = %#v, want %#v", captured.Args, wantArgs)
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(req.References, originalReferences) {
+		t.Fatalf("Run() mutated caller references = %#v, want %#v", req.References, originalReferences)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSubprocessRunnerRejectsInvalidReferencesBeforeLaunch(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name       string
+		references func(string) []ReferenceBinding
+		wantErr    string
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "invalid selector",
+			references: func(root string) []ReferenceBinding {
+				return []ReferenceBinding{{Selector: "lane.prepare.party", Path: filepath.Join(root, "party.json")}}
+			},
+			wantErr: "selector",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "duplicate normalized selector",
+			references: func(root string) []ReferenceBinding {
+				return []ReferenceBinding{
+					{Selector: "lane.party", Path: filepath.Join(root, "party.json")},
+					{Selector: " lane . party ", Path: filepath.Join(root, "party-2.json")},
+				}
+			},
+			wantErr: "duplicated",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "empty path",
+			references: func(string) []ReferenceBinding {
+				return []ReferenceBinding{{Selector: "party", Path: "  "}}
+			},
+			wantErr: "path is required",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "relative path",
+			references: func(string) []ReferenceBinding {
+				return []ReferenceBinding{{Selector: "party", Path: "references/party.json"}}
+			},
+			wantErr: "path must be absolute",
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			req := validRunRequest(t)
+			req.References = tt.references(t.TempDir())
+			started := false
+			runner := &SubprocessRunner{run: func(context.Context, sharedsubprocess.RunRequest) (sharedsubprocess.RunResult, error) {
+				started = true
+				return sharedsubprocess.RunResult{}, nil
+			}}
+
+			_, err := runner.Run(context.Background(), req)
+			if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), tt.wantErr) {
+				t.Fatalf("Run() error = %v, want containing %q", err, tt.wantErr)
+			}
+			if started {
+				t.Fatal("subprocess started after request validation failure")
+			}
+		})
+	}
 }
 
 func TestSubprocessRunnerUsesMinimalEnvironmentAndSeparatesStreams(t *testing.T) {
+	const envName = "NARRATIO_NOTARIUS_CUSTOM_CAPTURE_KEY"
+	const otherName = "NARRATIO_NOTARIUS_CUSTOM_CAPTURE_OTHER_KEY"
+	const canary = "notarius-captured-stream-canary"
+	const otherCanary = "notarius-captured-stream-other-canary"
+	const unrelated = "NARRATIO_NOTARIUS_UNRELATED_PARENT_KEY"
 	req := validRunRequest(t)
+	req.Credentials = []configkit.Secret{*loadTestCredential(t, envName, canary), *loadTestCredential(t, otherName, otherCanary)}
 	writeValidBundleAndReceipt(t, req, false)
 	receiptFixture := req.ReceiptPath + ".fixture"
 	data, err := os.ReadFile(req.ReceiptPath)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("ReadFile(receipt) error = %v", err)
 	}
-	if err := os.WriteFile(receiptFixture, data, 0o644); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile(receipt fixture) error = %v", err)
+	var receipt map[string]any
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &receipt); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("decode receipt fixture: %v", err)
 	}
+	receipt["credential_echo"] = canary + " " + otherCanary
+	writeJSONFile(t, receiptFixture, receipt)
 	if err := os.Remove(req.ReceiptPath); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("Remove(receipt) error = %v", err)
 	}
@@ -91,27 +375,67 @@ func TestSubprocessRunnerUsesMinimalEnvironmentAndSeparatesStreams(t *testing.T)
 	script := writeShellScript(t, `#!/bin/sh
 pwd > "$NOTARIUS_CAPTURE_DIR/working-directory"
 printf '%s' "$NOTARIUS_INHERITED_VALUE" > "$NOTARIUS_CAPTURE_DIR/environment"
-printf 'diagnostic stream\n' >&2
+if [ "$`+envName+`" != '`+canary+`' ]; then
+  printf 'selected credential mismatch\n' >&2
+  exit 8
+fi
+if [ "$`+otherName+`" != '`+otherCanary+`' ]; then
+  printf 'other selected credential mismatch\n' >&2
+  exit 10
+fi
+if [ -n "$`+unrelated+`" ]; then
+  printf 'unrelated credential inherited\n' >&2
+  exit 9
+fi
+printf '%s\n' "$`+envName+`" >&2
+printf '%s\n' "$`+otherName+`" >&2
 cat "$NOTARIUS_RECEIPT_FIXTURE"
 `)
 	req.Binary = script
 	t.Setenv("NOTARIUS_CAPTURE_DIR", captureDir)
 	t.Setenv("NOTARIUS_INHERITED_VALUE", "inherited-value")
 	t.Setenv("NOTARIUS_RECEIPT_FIXTURE", receiptFixture)
+	t.Setenv(unrelated, "unrelated-parent-credential")
 
 	if _, err := NewSubprocessRunner().Run(context.Background(), req); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("Run() error = %v", err)
 	}
 	assertTextFile(t, filepath.Join(captureDir, "working-directory"), req.WorkingDirectory+"\n")
 	assertTextFile(t, filepath.Join(captureDir, "environment"), "")
-	assertTextFile(t, req.LogPath, "diagnostic stream\n")
+	assertRedactedCredentialFile(t, req.LogPath, canary)
+	assertRedactedCredentialFile(t, req.LogPath, otherCanary)
 	receiptBytes, err := os.ReadFile(req.ReceiptPath)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("ReadFile(receipt) error = %v", err)
 	}
-	if strings.Contains(string(receiptBytes), "diagnostic stream") {
-		t.Fatal("receipt contains stderr output")
+	assertRedactedCredentialBytes(t, receiptBytes, canary)
+	assertRedactedCredentialBytes(t, receiptBytes, otherCanary)
+}
+
+func TestSubprocessRunnerRedactsCredentialOnProcessFailure(t *testing.T) {
+	const envName = "NARRATIO_NOTARIUS_CUSTOM_FAILURE_KEY"
+	const otherName = "NARRATIO_NOTARIUS_CUSTOM_FAILURE_OTHER_KEY"
+	const canary = "notarius-failure-stream-canary"
+	const otherCanary = "notarius-failure-stream-other-canary"
+	req := validRunRequest(t)
+	req.Credentials = []configkit.Secret{*loadTestCredential(t, envName, canary), *loadTestCredential(t, otherName, otherCanary)}
+	req.Binary = writeShellScript(t, `#!/bin/sh
+printf '%s\n' "$`+envName+`"
+printf '%s\n' "$`+envName+`" >&2
+printf '%s\n' "$`+otherName+`" >&2
+exit 7
+`)
+	_, err := NewSubprocessRunner().Run(context.Background(), req)
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("Run() error = nil, want process failure")
 	}
+	if strings.Contains(err.Error(), canary) || strings.Contains(err.Error(), otherCanary) || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "<redacted>") {
+		t.Fatal("process failure did not return redacted diagnostics")
+	}
+	assertRedactedCredentialFile(t, req.ReceiptPath, canary)
+	assertRedactedCredentialFile(t, req.ReceiptPath, otherCanary)
+	assertRedactedCredentialFile(t, req.LogPath, canary)
+	assertRedactedCredentialFile(t, req.LogPath, otherCanary)
 }
 
 func TestSubprocessRunnerReturnsProcessFailuresWithoutParsingStdout(t *testing.T) {
@@ -129,6 +453,10 @@ func TestSubprocessRunnerReturnsProcessFailuresWithoutParsingStdout(t *testing.T
 	for _, test := range tests {
 		t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			req := validRunRequest(t)
+			if test.name == "nonzero" {
+				profile := "missing-profile"
+				req.ConfigOverlay = &profile
+			}
 			req.Binary = writeShellScript(t, "#!/bin/sh\n"+test.scriptBody)
 			req.Timeout = test.timeout
 			ctx := context.Background()
@@ -171,8 +499,10 @@ func TestLoadReceiptValidation(t *testing.T) {
 	valid := map[string]any{
 		"schema_version": ReceiptSchemaVersion, "run_id": "run-1", "pipeline_id": "pipeline-1",
 		"output_directory": filepath.Join(root, "outputs", "run-1"), "index_file": "index.json",
-		"normalized_output_count": 1, "rejected_output_count": 0, "warning_count": 0,
-		"validation_status": "approved", "future_field": true,
+		"normalized_output_count": 1, "rejected_output_count": 0,
+		"warning_group_count": 0, "warning_occurrence_count": 0,
+		"diagnostic_group_count": 0, "diagnostic_occurrence_count": 0,
+		"diagnostics_truncated": false, "validation_status": "approved", "future_field": true,
 	}
 	tests := []struct {
 		name      string
@@ -183,11 +513,12 @@ func TestLoadReceiptValidation(t *testing.T) {
 	}{
 		{name: "unknown fields tolerated", wantOK: true},
 		{name: "malformed", raw: []byte("{")},
-		{name: "unsupported version", mutate: func(v map[string]any) { v["schema_version"] = "notarius.run-result.v2" }},
+		{name: "unsupported version", mutate: func(v map[string]any) { v["schema_version"] = "notarius.run-result.v1" }},
 		{name: "missing field", mutate: func(v map[string]any) { delete(v, "run_id") }},
 		{name: "pipeline mismatch", mutate: func(v map[string]any) { v["pipeline_id"] = "other" }},
 		{name: "relative output", mutate: func(v map[string]any) { v["output_directory"] = "run-1" }},
-		{name: "negative count", mutate: func(v map[string]any) { v["warning_count"] = -1 }},
+		{name: "negative count", mutate: func(v map[string]any) { v["warning_group_count"] = -1 }},
+		{name: "invalid validation status", mutate: func(v map[string]any) { v["validation_status"] = "valid" }},
 		{
 			name: "nested index", mutate: func(v map[string]any) { v["index_file"] = "nested/index.json" },
 			wantError: `index_file "nested/index.json"`,
@@ -369,22 +700,26 @@ func TestLoadDiagnosticSummariesValidateBoundsAndTolerateUnknownFields(t *testin
 	root := t.TempDir()
 	rejectedPath := filepath.Join(root, "rejected.json")
 	warningsPath := filepath.Join(root, "warnings.json")
+	diagnosticsPath := filepath.Join(root, "diagnostics.json")
 	writeJSONFile(t, rejectedPath, map[string]any{"rejected": []any{map[string]any{
 		"stage": "validate", "lane_id": "spells", "reason_code": "invalid", "message": "do not retain this", "future": true,
 	}}, "future": true})
-	writeJSONFile(t, warningsPath, map[string]any{"warnings": []any{map[string]any{
-		"scope": "lane:spells", "reason_code": "bounded", "message": "do not retain this", "future": true,
-	}}, "future": true})
+	writeJSONFile(t, warningsPath, findingEnvelope(warningsSchemaVersion, []any{findingGroup("warning", "degradation", "bounded", "normalize", 2)}, 2, false, 0))
+	writeJSONFile(t, diagnosticsPath, findingEnvelope(diagnosticsSchemaVersion, []any{findingGroup("advisory", "data_quality", "low_confidence", "normalize", 3)}, 4, true, 1))
 	rejections, err := loadRejections(rejectedPath)
 	if err != nil || len(rejections) != 1 || rejections[0].ReasonCode != "invalid" {
 		t.Fatalf("loadRejections() = %#v, %v", rejections, err)
 	}
 	warnings, err := loadWarnings(warningsPath)
-	if err != nil || len(warnings) != 1 || warnings[0].Scope != "lane:spells" {
+	if err != nil || len(warnings) != 1 || warnings[0].Category != "degradation" || warnings[0].OccurrenceCount != 2 {
 		t.Fatalf("loadWarnings() = %#v, %v", warnings, err)
 	}
+	diagnostics, occurrences, truncated, err := loadDiagnostics(diagnosticsPath)
+	if err != nil || len(diagnostics) != 1 || occurrences != 4 || !truncated || diagnostics[0].Category != "data_quality" {
+		t.Fatalf("loadDiagnostics() = %#v, %d, %t, %v", diagnostics, occurrences, truncated, err)
+	}
 
-	for name, path := range map[string]string{"rejections": rejectedPath, "warnings": warningsPath} {
+	for name, path := range map[string]string{"rejections": rejectedPath, "warnings": warningsPath, "diagnostics": diagnosticsPath} {
 		t.Run("malformed "+name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte("{"), 0o644); err != nil {
 				t.Fatalf("WriteFile() error = %v", err)
@@ -392,8 +727,10 @@ func TestLoadDiagnosticSummariesValidateBoundsAndTolerateUnknownFields(t *testin
 			var err error
 			if name == "rejections" {
 				_, err = loadRejections(path)
-			} else {
+			} else if name == "warnings" {
 				_, err = loadWarnings(path)
+			} else {
+				_, _, _, err = loadDiagnostics(path)
 			}
 			if err == nil {
 				t.Fatal("summary decoder error = nil")
@@ -410,16 +747,28 @@ func TestLoadDiagnosticSummariesValidateBoundsAndTolerateUnknownFields(t *testin
 	if _, err := loadRejections(oversized); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "exceeds") {
 		t.Fatalf("loadRejections(oversized) error = %v", err)
 	}
+	if _, _, _, err := loadDiagnostics(oversized); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "exceeds") {
+		t.Fatalf("loadDiagnostics(oversized) error = %v", err)
+	}
 }
 
 func TestFakeRunnerCapturesRequestsAndHonorsContextAndError(t *testing.T) {
-	req := RunRequest{PipelineID: "pipeline"}
+	profile := "testing"
+	req := RunRequest{PipelineID: "pipeline", ConfigOverlay: &profile, References: []ReferenceBinding{{Selector: "party", Path: "/references/party.json"}}}
 	want := RunResult{BundleRoot: "/bundle"}
 	fake := &FakeRunner{Result: want}
 	got, err := fake.Run(context.Background(), req)
 	if err != nil || !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) || !reflect.DeepEqual(fake.Requests, []RunRequest{req}) {
 		t.Fatalf("Run() = %#v, %v; requests = %#v", got, err, fake.Requests)
 	}
+	req.References[0].Path = "/references/changed.json"
+	if fake.Requests[0].References[0].Path != "/references/party.json" {
+		t.Fatalf("fake retained aliased request references: %#v", fake.Requests[0].References)
+	}
+	profile = "changed"
+	if *fake.Requests[0].ConfigOverlay != "testing" {
+		t.Fatalf("fake retained aliased config overlay: %q", *fake.Requests[0].ConfigOverlay)
+	}
 
 	wantErr := errors.New("configured failure")
 	fake.Err = wantErr
@@ -461,6 +810,56 @@ func validRunRequest(t *testing.T) RunRequest {
 	}
 }
 
+func loadTestCredential(t *testing.T, envName, value string) *configkit.Secret {
+	t.Helper()
+	t.Setenv(envName, value)
+	type testConfig struct {
+		Credential *configkit.Secret `yaml:"credential"`
+	}
+	result, err := configkit.Load(configkit.Bytes("credential.yml", []byte("credential: "+envName+"\n")), configkit.Options[testConfig]{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("load test credential: %v", err)
+	}
+	return result.Config.Credential
+}
+
+func assertRedactedCredentialFile(t *testing.T, path, canary string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ReadFile(%q) error = %v", path, err)
+	}
+	assertRedactedCredentialBytes(t, data, canary)
+}
+
+func assertRedactedCredentialBytes(t *testing.T, data []byte, canary string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	text := string(data)
+	if strings.Contains(text, canary) || !strings.Contains(text, "<redacted>") {
+		t.Fatal("captured stream did not contain the required redaction marker")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestValidateValidationSummariesAcceptsReusedProducerWithoutAttempts(t *testing.T) {
+	zero := 0
+	summaries, err := validateValidationSummaries([]validationSummaryDocument{{
+		Stage: "chunk", Status: "complete", ProducerAttemptCount: &zero, TerminalAction: "accepted",
+	}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("validateValidationSummaries() error = %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(summaries) != 1 || summaries[0].ProducerAttemptCount != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("summaries = %#v, want one reused producer with zero attempts", summaries)
+	}
+
+	negative := -1
+	if _, err := validateValidationSummaries([]validationSummaryDocument{{
+		Stage: "chunk", Status: "complete", ProducerAttemptCount: &negative, TerminalAction: "accepted",
+	}}); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("validateValidationSummaries() negative producer attempts error = nil")
+	}
+}
+
 func writeValidBundleAndReceipt(t *testing.T, req RunRequest, includeUnknown bool) {
 	t.Helper()
 	bundle := filepath.Join(req.OutputRoot, "notarius-run-1")
@@ -478,13 +877,12 @@ func writeValidBundleAndReceipt(t *testing.T, req RunRequest, includeUnknown boo
 		}
 	}
 	rejection := map[string]any{"stage": "validate", "lane_id": "spells", "reason_code": "invalid_spell", "message": strings.Repeat("external detail", 20)}
-	warning := map[string]any{"scope": "lane:npc-registry", "reason_code": "normalized_name", "message": strings.Repeat("external warning", 20)}
 	if includeUnknown {
 		rejection["future"] = true
-		warning["future"] = true
 	}
 	writeJSONFile(t, filepath.Join(bundle, "rejected.json"), map[string]any{"rejected": []any{rejection}, "future": true})
-	writeJSONFile(t, filepath.Join(bundle, "warnings.json"), map[string]any{"warnings": []any{warning}, "future": true})
+	writeJSONFile(t, filepath.Join(bundle, "warnings.json"), findingEnvelope(warningsSchemaVersion, []any{findingGroup("warning", "degradation", "normalized_name", "normalize", 2)}, 2, false, 0))
+	writeJSONFile(t, filepath.Join(bundle, "diagnostics.json"), findingEnvelope(diagnosticsSchemaVersion, []any{findingGroup("advisory", "data_quality", "low_confidence", "normalize", 3)}, 4, true, 1))
 	index := validIndexValue([]any{map[string]any{
 		"lane_id": "npc-registry", "file": "lanes/npc.json", "media_type": "application/json",
 		"module_key": "dnd/npc-registry", "schema_id": "notarius.dnd.npc_registry",
@@ -503,7 +901,13 @@ func writeValidBundleAndReceipt(t *testing.T, req RunRequest, includeUnknown boo
 	receipt := map[string]any{
 		"schema_version": ReceiptSchemaVersion, "run_id": "notarius-run-1", "pipeline_id": req.PipelineID,
 		"output_directory": bundle, "index_file": "index.json", "normalized_output_count": 1,
-		"rejected_output_count": 1, "warning_count": 1, "validation_status": "rejected",
+		"rejected_output_count": 1, "warning_group_count": 1, "warning_occurrence_count": 2,
+		"diagnostic_group_count": 1, "diagnostic_occurrence_count": 4,
+		"diagnostics_truncated": true, "validation_status": "rejected",
+		"validation_summaries": []any{map[string]any{
+			"stage": "normalize", "lane_id": "npc-registry", "status": "complete",
+			"producer_attempt_count": 1, "terminal_action": "accepted",
+		}},
 	}
 	if includeUnknown {
 		receipt["future"] = true
@@ -517,7 +921,7 @@ func createBundleSkeleton(t *testing.T) string {
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(bundle, "lanes"), 0o755); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("MkdirAll(bundle) error = %v", err)
 	}
-	for _, name := range []string{"manifest.json", "rejected.json", "warnings.json", "lanes/npc.json", "chunk-map.json"} {
+	for _, name := range []string{"manifest.json", "rejected.json", "warnings.json", "diagnostics.json", "lanes/npc.json", "chunk-map.json"} {
 		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(bundle, filepath.FromSlash(name)), []byte("{}"), 0o644); err != nil {
 			t.Fatalf("WriteFile(%q) error = %v", name, err)
 		}
@@ -528,10 +932,31 @@ func createBundleSkeleton(t *testing.T) string {
 func validIndexValue(lanes []any) map[string]any {
 	return map[string]any{
 		"manifest_file": "manifest.json", "output_files": lanes,
-		"rejected_file": "rejected.json", "warnings_file": "warnings.json",
+		"rejected_file": "rejected.json", "warnings_file": "warnings.json", "diagnostics_file": "diagnostics.json",
 	}
 }
 
+func findingGroup(disposition, category, reasonCode, origin string, occurrences int) map[string]any {
+	return map[string]any{
+		"disposition": disposition, "category": category, "reason_code": reasonCode,
+		"origin": map[string]any{"stage": origin, "lane_id": "npc-registry"}, "occurrence_count": occurrences,
+		"samples":              []any{map[string]any{"scope": "lane:npc-registry", "message": "external detail"}},
+		"omitted_sample_count": occurrences - 1,
+	}
+}
+
+func findingEnvelope(schema string, groups []any, occurrences int, truncated bool, unrepresented int) map[string]any {
+	value := map[string]any{
+		"schema_version": schema, "group_count": len(groups), "occurrence_count": occurrences,
+		"groups": groups,
+	}
+	if schema == diagnosticsSchemaVersion {
+		value["truncated"] = truncated
+		value["unrepresented_occurrence_count"] = unrepresented
+	}
+	return value
+}
+
 func writeJSONFile(t *testing.T, path string, value any) {
 	t.Helper()
 	data, err := json.Marshal(value)

internal/adapters/scriptorium/fake.go

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ package scriptorium
 import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
+	"slices"
 
-	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/internal/adapters/subprocess"
 	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/internal/fileops"
 )
 
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ func (f *FakeRunner) RunArtifact(ctx context.Context, req RunArtifactRequest) (A
 	if err := ctx.Err(); err != nil {
 		return ArtifactResult{}, err
 	}
+	req.Credentials = slices.Clone(req.Credentials)
 	f.RunRequests = append(f.RunRequests, req)
 	if f.RunErr != nil {
 		return ArtifactResult{}, f.RunErr
@@ -106,6 +107,7 @@ func (f *FakeRunner) RenderArtifact(ctx context.Context, req RenderArtifactReque
 	if err := ctx.Err(); err != nil {
 		return ArtifactResult{}, err
 	}
+	req.Credentials = slices.Clone(req.Credentials)
 	f.RenderRequests = append(f.RenderRequests, req)
 	if f.RenderErr != nil {
 		return ArtifactResult{}, f.RenderErr
@@ -143,7 +145,7 @@ func (f *FakeRunner) RenderArtifact(ctx context.Context, req RenderArtifactReque
 
 func materializeRunPlaceholders(req RunArtifactRequest) error {
 	if req.OutputPath != "" {
-		if err := subprocess.WriteFileAtomic(req.OutputPath, []byte("scriptorium noop/fake run artifact\n"), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
+		if err := fileops.WriteFileAtomic(req.OutputPath, []byte("scriptorium noop/fake run artifact\n"), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("write run output %q: %w", req.OutputPath, err)
 		}
 	}
@@ -155,17 +157,17 @@ func materializeRunPlaceholders(req RunArtifactRequest) error {
 			"prompt_id":   req.PromptID,
 			"output_path": req.OutputPath,
 		}
-		if err := subprocess.WriteYAMLAtomic(req.GeneratedConfigPath, payload, fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
+		if err := writeGeneratedYAML(req.GeneratedConfigPath, payload); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("write generated config %q: %w", req.GeneratedConfigPath, err)
 		}
 	}
 	if req.StdoutLogPath != "" {
-		if err := subprocess.WriteFileAtomic(req.StdoutLogPath, []byte("scriptorium noop/fake run stdout placeholder\n"), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
+		if err := fileops.WriteFileAtomic(req.StdoutLogPath, []byte("scriptorium noop/fake run stdout placeholder\n"), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("write stdout log %q: %w", req.StdoutLogPath, err)
 		}
 	}
 	if req.StderrLogPath != "" {
-		if err := subprocess.WriteFileAtomic(req.StderrLogPath, []byte("scriptorium noop/fake run stderr placeholder\n"), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
+		if err := fileops.WriteFileAtomic(req.StderrLogPath, []byte("scriptorium noop/fake run stderr placeholder\n"), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("write stderr log %q: %w", req.StderrLogPath, err)
 		}
 	}
@@ -174,7 +176,7 @@ func materializeRunPlaceholders(req RunArtifactRequest) error {
 
 func materializeRenderPlaceholders(req RenderArtifactRequest) error {
 	if req.OutputPath != "" {
-		if err := subprocess.WriteFileAtomic(req.OutputPath, []byte("{\"schema\":\"scriptorium.render.v1\",\"placeholder\":true}\n"), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
+		if err := fileops.WriteFileAtomic(req.OutputPath, []byte("{\"schema\":\"scriptorium.render.v1\",\"placeholder\":true}\n"), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("write render output %q: %w", req.OutputPath, err)
 		}
 	}
@@ -186,17 +188,17 @@ func materializeRenderPlaceholders(req RenderArtifactRequest) error {
 			"prompt_id":   req.PromptID,
 			"output_path": req.OutputPath,
 		}
-		if err := subprocess.WriteYAMLAtomic(req.GeneratedConfigPath, payload, fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
+		if err := writeGeneratedYAML(req.GeneratedConfigPath, payload); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("write generated config %q: %w", req.GeneratedConfigPath, err)
 		}
 	}
 	if req.StdoutLogPath != "" {
-		if err := subprocess.WriteFileAtomic(req.StdoutLogPath, []byte("scriptorium noop/fake render stdout placeholder\n"), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
+		if err := fileops.WriteFileAtomic(req.StdoutLogPath, []byte("scriptorium noop/fake render stdout placeholder\n"), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("write stdout log %q: %w", req.StdoutLogPath, err)
 		}
 	}
 	if req.StderrLogPath != "" {
-		if err := subprocess.WriteFileAtomic(req.StderrLogPath, []byte("scriptorium noop/fake render stderr placeholder\n"), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
+		if err := fileops.WriteFileAtomic(req.StderrLogPath, []byte("scriptorium noop/fake render stderr placeholder\n"), fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("write stderr log %q: %w", req.StderrLogPath, err)
 		}
 	}

internal/adapters/scriptorium/generated_config.go

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package scriptorium
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/narratio/internal/fileops"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
+)
+
+func writeGeneratedYAML(path string, payload any) error {
+	data, err := yaml.Marshal(payload)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("marshal generated YAML for %q: %w", path, err)
+	}
+	if err := fileops.WriteFileAtomic(path, data, fileops.WorkspaceFileMode); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("write generated YAML %q: %w", path, err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}

internal/adapters/scriptorium/runner.go

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ package scriptorium
 import (
 	"context"
 	"time"
+
+	configkit "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -32,7 +34,7 @@ type RunArtifactRequest struct {
 	StderrLogPath       string
 	GeneratedConfigPath string
 	Timeout             time.Duration
-	APIKeyEnv           string
+	Credentials         []configkit.Secret
 	WorkingDir          string
 }
 
@@ -49,7 +51,7 @@ type RenderArtifactRequest struct {
 	StderrLogPath       string
 	GeneratedConfigPath string
 	Timeout             time.Duration
-	APIKeyEnv           string
+	Credentials         []configkit.Secret
 	WorkingDir          string
 }
 

internal/adapters/scriptorium/subprocess.go

@@ -28,7 +28,12 @@ func (r *SubprocessRunner) RunArtifact(ctx context.Context, req RunArtifactReque
 	if r == nil {
 		return ArtifactResult{}, fmt.Errorf("scriptorium subprocess runner is nil")
 	}
-	credentialPresent, err := validateCommonRunRequest(req.Binary, req.ConfigPath, req.PromptID, req.OutputPath, req.Timeout, req.APIKeyEnv, req.InputPaths, req.Vars)
+	err := validateCommonRunRequest(req.Binary, req.ConfigPath, req.PromptID, req.OutputPath, req.Timeout, req.InputPaths, req.Vars)
+	if err != nil {
+		return ArtifactResult{}, err
+	}
+
+	envOverrides, sensitiveNames, err := subprocess.CredentialEnvironment(req.Credentials)
 	if err != nil {
 		return ArtifactResult{}, err
 	}
@@ -46,8 +51,7 @@ func (r *SubprocessRunner) RunArtifact(ctx context.Context, req RunArtifactReque
 			InputPaths:        cloneStringMap(req.InputPaths),
 			Vars:              cloneStringMap(req.Vars),
 			OutputPath:        req.OutputPath,
-			APIKeyEnv:         strings.TrimSpace(req.APIKeyEnv),
-			APIKeyEnvPresent:  credentialPresent,
+			CredentialNames:   sensitiveNames,
 			WorkingDir:        req.WorkingDir,
 			RenderFormat:      "",
 			RenderPromptStore: false,
@@ -56,7 +60,6 @@ func (r *SubprocessRunner) RunArtifact(ctx context.Context, req RunArtifactReque
 		}
 	}
 
-	envOverrides, sensitiveNames := credentialEnvironment(req.APIKeyEnv)
 	runRes, runErr := subprocess.Run(ctx, subprocess.RunRequest{
 		Executable:        req.Binary,
 		Args:              args,
@@ -80,12 +83,11 @@ func (r *SubprocessRunner) RunArtifact(ctx context.Context, req RunArtifactReque
 		PromptID:            req.PromptID,
 		ProfileID:           req.ProfileID,
 		Metadata: map[string]any{
-			"adapter":             "scriptorium_subprocess",
-			"config_path":         strings.TrimSpace(req.ConfigPath),
-			"inputs_count":        len(req.InputPaths),
-			"vars_count":          len(req.Vars),
-			"api_key_env":         strings.TrimSpace(req.APIKeyEnv),
-			"api_key_env_present": credentialPresent,
+			"adapter":              "scriptorium_subprocess",
+			"config_path":          strings.TrimSpace(req.ConfigPath),
+			"inputs_count":         len(req.InputPaths),
+			"vars_count":           len(req.Vars),
+			"credential_env_names": sensitiveNames,
 		},
 	}
 
@@ -114,7 +116,12 @@ func (r *SubprocessRunner) RenderArtifact(ctx context.Context, req RenderArtifac
 	if r == nil {
 		return ArtifactResult{}, fmt.Errorf("scriptorium subprocess runner is nil")
 	}
-	credentialPresent, err := validateCommonRunRequest(req.Binary, req.ConfigPath, req.PromptID, req.OutputPath, req.Timeout, req.APIKeyEnv, req.InputPaths, req.Vars)
+	err := validateCommonRunRequest(req.Binary, req.ConfigPath, req.PromptID, req.OutputPath, req.Timeout, req.InputPaths, req.Vars)
+	if err != nil {
+		return ArtifactResult{}, err
+	}
+
+	envOverrides, sensitiveNames, err := subprocess.CredentialEnvironment(req.Credentials)
 	if err != nil {
 		return ArtifactResult{}, err
 	}
@@ -132,8 +139,7 @@ func (r *SubprocessRunner) RenderArtifact(ctx context.Context, req RenderArtifac
 			InputPaths:        cloneStringMap(req.InputPaths),
 			Vars:              cloneStringMap(req.Vars),
 			OutputPath:        req.OutputPath,
-			APIKeyEnv:         strings.TrimSpace(req.APIKeyEnv),
-			APIKeyEnvPresent:  credentialPresent,
+			CredentialNames:   sensitiveNames,
 			WorkingDir:        req.WorkingDir,
 			RenderFormat:      "json",
 			RenderPromptStore: false,
@@ -142,7 +148,6 @@ func (r *SubprocessRunner) RenderArtifact(ctx context.Context, req RenderArtifac
 		}
 	}
 
-	envOverrides, sensitiveNames := credentialEnvironment(req.APIKeyEnv)
 	runRes, runErr := subprocess.Run(ctx, subprocess.RunRequest{
 		Executable:        req.Binary,
 		Args:              args,
@@ -166,13 +171,12 @@ func (r *SubprocessRunner) RenderArtifact(ctx context.Context, req RenderArtifac
 		PromptID:            req.PromptID,
 		ProfileID:           req.ProfileID,
 		Metadata: map[string]any{
-			"adapter":             "scriptorium_subprocess",
-			"config_path":         strings.TrimSpace(req.ConfigPath),
-			"inputs_count":        len(req.InputPaths),
-			"vars_count":          len(req.Vars),
-			"api_key_env":         strings.TrimSpace(req.APIKeyEnv),
-			"api_key_env_present": credentialPresent,
-			"format":              "json",
+			"adapter":              "scriptorium_subprocess",
+			"config_path":          strings.TrimSpace(req.ConfigPath),
+			"inputs_count":         len(req.InputPaths),
+			"vars_count":           len(req.Vars),
+			"credential_env_names": sensitiveNames,
+			"format":               "json",
 		},
 	}
 
@@ -191,57 +195,39 @@ func validateCommonRunRequest(
 	promptID string,
 	outputPath string,
 	timeout time.Duration,
-	apiKeyEnv string,
 	inputPaths map[string]string,
 	vars map[string]string,
-) (bool, error) {
+) error {
 	if strings.TrimSpace(binary) == "" {
-		return false, fmt.Errorf("scriptorium binary is required")
+		return fmt.Errorf("scriptorium binary is required")
 	}
 	if strings.TrimSpace(configPath) == "" && configPath != "" {
-		return false, fmt.Errorf("scriptorium config path must be non-empty when provided")
+		return fmt.Errorf("scriptorium config path must be non-empty when provided")
 	}
 	if strings.TrimSpace(promptID) == "" {
-		return false, fmt.Errorf("scriptorium prompt id is required")
+		return fmt.Errorf("scriptorium prompt id is required")
 	}
 	if strings.TrimSpace(outputPath) == "" {
-		return false, fmt.Errorf("scriptorium output path is required")
+		return fmt.Errorf("scriptorium output path is required")
 	}
 	if timeout <= 0 {
-		return false, fmt.Errorf("scriptorium timeout must be > 0")
+		return fmt.Errorf("scriptorium timeout must be > 0")
 	}
 	for name, path := range inputPaths {
 		if strings.TrimSpace(name) == "" {
-			return false, fmt.Errorf("scriptorium input names must be non-empty")
+			return fmt.Errorf("scriptorium input names must be non-empty")
 		}
 		if strings.TrimSpace(path) == "" {
-			return false, fmt.Errorf("scriptorium input %q path is required", name)
+			return fmt.Errorf("scriptorium input %q path is required", name)
 		}
 	}
 	for name := range vars {
 		if strings.TrimSpace(name) == "" {
-			return false, fmt.Errorf("scriptorium variable names must be non-empty")
+			return fmt.Errorf("scriptorium variable names must be non-empty")
 		}
 	}
 
-	trimmedEnv := strings.TrimSpace(apiKeyEnv)
-	if trimmedEnv == "" {
-		return false, nil
-	}
-	value, ok := os.LookupEnv(trimmedEnv)
-	if !ok || strings.TrimSpace(value) == "" {
-		return false, fmt.Errorf("scriptorium required credential environment variable %s is not set", trimmedEnv)
-	}
-	return true, nil
-}
-
-func credentialEnvironment(apiKeyEnv string) (map[string]string, []string) {
-	name := strings.TrimSpace(apiKeyEnv)
-	if name == "" {
-		return nil, nil
-	}
-	value, _ := os.LookupEnv(name)
-	return map[string]string{name: value}, []string{name}
+	return nil
 }
 
 func buildRunArgs(req RunArtifactRequest) []string {
@@ -258,9 +244,6 @@ func buildRunArgs(req RunArtifactRequest) []string {
 	for _, kv := range sortedKeyValues(req.Vars) {
 		args = append(args, "--var", kv)
 	}
-	if envName := strings.TrimSpace(req.APIKeyEnv); envName != "" {
-		args = append(args, "--api-key-env", envName)
-	}
 	args = append(args, "--timeout", req.Timeout.String())
 	args = append(args, "--out", req.OutputPath)
 	return args
@@ -280,9 +263,6 @@ func buildRenderArgs(req RenderArtifactRequest) []string {
 	for _, kv := range sortedKeyValues(req.Vars) {
 		args = append(args, "--var", kv)
 	}
-	if envName := strings.TrimSpace(req.APIKeyEnv); envName != "" {
-		args = append(args, "--api-key-env", envName)
-	}
 	args = append(args, "--timeout", req.Timeout.String())
 	args = append(args, "--format", "json")
 	args = append(args, "--out", req.OutputPath)
@@ -316,8 +296,7 @@ type invocationPayload struct {
 	InputPaths        map[string]string
 	Vars              map[string]string
 	OutputPath        string
-	APIKeyEnv         string
-	APIKeyEnvPresent  bool
+	CredentialNames   []string
 	WorkingDir        string
 	RenderFormat      string
 	RenderPromptStore bool
@@ -336,17 +315,16 @@ func writeInvocationConfig(path string, payload invocationPayload) error {
 		"input_paths":          payload.InputPaths,
 		"vars":                 payload.Vars,
 		"output_path":          payload.OutputPath,
-		"api_key_env":          payload.APIKeyEnv,
-		"api_key_env_present":  payload.APIKeyEnvPresent,
+		"credential_env_names": payload.CredentialNames,
 		"working_dir":          payload.WorkingDir,
 		"render_format":        payload.RenderFormat,
 		"render_prompt_logged": payload.RenderPromptStore,
 	}
-	return subprocess.WriteYAMLAtomic(path, data, fileops.WorkspaceFileMode)
+	return writeGeneratedYAML(path, data)
 }
 
 func validateNonEmptyOutput(path string) error {
-	data, err := fileops.ReadRegularFile(path, MaxOutputFileBytes)
+	data, err := fileops.ReadFileBounded(path, MaxOutputFileBytes)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("scriptorium artifact output exceeds or cannot be read within %d-byte limit: %w", MaxOutputFileBytes, err)
 	}

internal/adapters/scriptorium/subprocess_test.go

@@ -6,20 +6,25 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
-	"runtime"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
+
+	configkit "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit"
 )
 
 func TestSubprocessRunnerRunSuccessBuildsDeterministicArgsAndCapturesLogs(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
 
 	t.Setenv("GO_WANT_SCRIPTORIUM_HELPER", "1")
 	t.Setenv("SCRIPTORIUM_HELPER_MODE", "run_success")
 	t.Setenv("OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE", "super-secret")
+	loaded, err := configkit.Load[struct {
+		Credentials []configkit.Secret `yaml:"credentials"`
+	}](configkit.Bytes("test.yml", []byte("credentials: [OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE]\n")))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Setenv("OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE", "changed-after-load")
 	recordPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "record.json")
 	t.Setenv("SCRIPTORIUM_HELPER_RECORD_PATH", recordPath)
 
@@ -38,7 +43,7 @@ func TestSubprocessRunnerRunSuccessBuildsDeterministicArgsAndCapturesLogs(t *tes
 		StderrLogPath:       filepath.Join(dir, "logs", "scriptorium.run.stderr.log"),
 		GeneratedConfigPath: filepath.Join(dir, "config", "scriptorium.run.generated.yml"),
 		Timeout:             mustParseScriptoriumDuration(t, "2s"),
-		APIKeyEnv:           "OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE",
+		Credentials:         loaded.Config.Credentials,
 	}
 	writeScriptoriumFile(t, req.InputPaths["transcript"], `{"segments":[]}`)
 	writeScriptoriumFile(t, req.InputPaths["other"], "notes\n")
@@ -74,7 +79,6 @@ func TestSubprocessRunnerRunSuccessBuildsDeterministicArgsAndCapturesLogs(t *tes
 		"--input", "transcript=" + req.InputPaths["transcript"],
 		"--var", "campaign_name=Icewind Dale",
 		"--var", "session_id=2026-05-03",
-		"--api-key-env", "OPENAI_KEY_SOURCE",
 		"--timeout", "2s",
 		"--out", req.OutputPath,
 	}
@@ -95,19 +99,34 @@ func TestSubprocessRunnerRunSuccessBuildsDeterministicArgsAndCapturesLogs(t *tes
 }
 
 func TestSubprocessRunnerRunExitCodeOneFails(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
 	t.Setenv("GO_WANT_SCRIPTORIUM_HELPER", "1")
 	t.Setenv("SCRIPTORIUM_HELPER_MODE", "fail_exit1")
 	t.Setenv("SCRIPTORIUM_HELPER_RECORD_PATH", filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "record.json"))
+	t.Setenv("CUSTOM_PROVIDER_KEY", "synthetic-failure-secret")
+	loaded, loadErr := configkit.Load[struct {
+		Credentials []configkit.Secret `yaml:"credentials"`
+	}](configkit.Bytes("test.yml", []byte("credentials: [CUSTOM_PROVIDER_KEY]\n")))
+	if loadErr != nil {
+		t.Fatal(loadErr)
+	}
 
 	runner := NewSubprocessRunner()
 	req := runReqForTest(t, writeScriptoriumHelperWrapper(t))
+	req.Credentials = loaded.Config.Credentials
 	res, err := runner.RunArtifact(context.Background(), req)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("RunArtifact() error = nil, want non-nil")
 	}
+	if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "synthetic-failure-secret") {
+		t.Fatal("failure leaked credential")
+	}
+	data, readErr := os.ReadFile(req.StderrLogPath)
+	if readErr != nil {
+		t.Fatal(readErr)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(string(data), "synthetic-failure-secret") || !strings.Contains(string(data), "<redacted>") {
+		t.Fatal("failure log did not redact selected credential")
+	}
 	if res.ExitCode != 1 {
 		t.Fatalf("ExitCode = %d, want 1", res.ExitCode)
 	}
@@ -118,9 +137,6 @@ func TestSubprocessRunnerRunExitCodeOneFails(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestSubprocessRunnerRunExitCodeTwoReturnsValidationFailureAndPreservesOutput(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
 	t.Setenv("GO_WANT_SCRIPTORIUM_HELPER", "1")
 	t.Setenv("SCRIPTORIUM_HELPER_MODE", "fail_exit2_with_output")
 	t.Setenv("SCRIPTORIUM_HELPER_RECORD_PATH", filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "record.json"))
@@ -144,9 +160,6 @@ func TestSubprocessRunnerRunExitCodeTwoReturnsValidationFailureAndPreservesOutpu
 }
 
 func TestSubprocessRunnerRunMissingOutputOnSuccessFails(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
 	t.Setenv("GO_WANT_SCRIPTORIUM_HELPER", "1")
 	t.Setenv("SCRIPTORIUM_HELPER_MODE", "run_success_missing_output")
 	t.Setenv("SCRIPTORIUM_HELPER_RECORD_PATH", filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "record.json"))
@@ -166,9 +179,6 @@ func TestSubprocessRunnerRunMissingOutputOnSuccessFails(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestSubprocessRunnerRenderSuccess(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		t.Skip("helper wrapper script uses /bin/sh")
-	}
 	t.Setenv("GO_WANT_SCRIPTORIUM_HELPER", "1")
 	t.Setenv("SCRIPTORIUM_HELPER_MODE", "render_success")
 	recordPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "record.json")
@@ -261,6 +271,7 @@ func TestScriptoriumSubprocessHelper(t *testing.T) {
 		os.Exit(0)
 	case "fail_exit1":
 		_, _ = os.Stderr.WriteString("scriptorium helper failure\n")
+		_, _ = os.Stderr.WriteString(os.Getenv("CUSTOM_PROVIDER_KEY"))
 		os.Exit(1)
 	case "fail_exit2_with_output":
 		writeScriptoriumHelperFile(outputPath, "validation failed artifact\n")