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# Run State Internals
This document describes the implementation collaborators behind output, cache,
and debug state. User-visible fields belong in [Configuration](../config.md),
and layouts and lifecycle belong in [Operations](../operations.md).
## Composition
`internal/cli` is the only physical-path composition root. It resolves the
effective configuration, selects exact roots, allocates requested debug bundles,
constructs cache collaborators, writes logical output files, and reports paths.
Pipeline modules receive interfaces and request data, never output, cache, or
debug roots.
## Output And Cache
The pipeline runner returns logical output files. After validating every
logical name, the CLI exclusively creates the run directory beneath the
selected output root and performs confined, atomic file writes within it.
`internal/framework/chunkplan` owns source-addressed plan storage, validation,
and atomic publication. Its store is constructed only when the selected mode is
not `bypass`.
`internal/framework/checkpoint` owns checkpoint identity, manifests, payload
codecs, loader, and recorder. The CLI constructs a recorder whenever checkpoint
recording is enabled and constructs a loader only for a `--resume` invocation.
Identity incorporates explicit stable semantic fingerprints collected from
prepared modules and validators in addition to configuration, input,
references, runtime overrides, and LLM profiles.
The serialized
`workspace_schema_version` identifiers are frozen wire-compatibility fields;
they do not describe a current public state surface.
Ordered-step lane checkpoints include the step identity in their storage scope.
When a later lane consumes a generated artifact, its dependency fingerprints
include the producer's artifact kind, complete schema identity, media type,
canonical content digest, and size. Ordinary resume compares those fingerprints
when progressively loading consumer stage checkpoints, so changed producer
content produces `dependency_invalidated` rather than stale downstream reuse.
Selective recomputation instead requires each unselected producer's accepted
normalized artifact; invalid accepted state records its specific bounded reason
and stops before the dependent. The selected step and its transitive dependents
record `forced_recompute`.
Ordinary resume loads extract, merge, and normalize checkpoints progressively
and may execute later lane stages after an earlier cache miss. Selective
recomputation instead asks the loader for the required producer's accepted
normalize artifact. That lookup reuses the existing normalize files, requires
workspace schema v3 plus an exact non-empty invocation identity, and deliberately
does not require extract or merge checkpoint files or dependency fingerprints.
The runner performs canonical codec and producer-provenance validation before
cloning the artifact into normal step output. Success restores only stored
normalize warnings and emits one normalize decision; failure retains the files,
records the decision, and stops without executing the producer or consumer.
The loader assigns a typed category and reason code at each validation site;
diagnostic prose is not classified after the fact. The runner then applies
forced-execution policy, validates reusable artifact bytes through the prepared
codec once, returns the canonical hydrated value to the stage, and records the
final decision before enforcing a required-predecessor failure. That failure
names only the step, lane, and stable reason code. Decision detail is selected
from code-owned descriptions by reason code and then UTF-8 normalized and
bounded; callers cannot supply arbitrary diagnostic prose. Typed categories and
codes remain intact through pipeline events and become strings only in manifest
and debug-summary JSON. [Operations](../operations.md#resume-and-selective-recompute)
is the canonical operator-facing reason-code reference.
`internal/core/fileio` provides confined atomic file writes used by state
collaborators. The chunk-plan store retains its stronger entry validation.
## Debug Bundles
`internal/core/debugbundle` allocates an explicitly requested per-run bundle
with `summary/` and `trace/` roots. `SummaryWriter` persists redacted command,
resolution, run, warning, and failure artifacts. `internal/framework/debug`
implements the pipeline-facing trace recorder under the trace root.
The CLI allocates a bundle before pipeline resolution and treats requested
summary or trace persistence failures as command failures. The pipeline's debug
boundaries redact sensitive metadata and credential-shaped bytes while allowing
application-owned trace material. Debug data is never a checkpoint source or
cache input.
Generated reference bytes exist only in cloned operation requests and are not
written as paths into checkpoints, manifests, or debug summaries. Those state
surfaces retain canonical identities and bounded producer provenance so that a
resume decision can be explained without copying generated campaign content.
After allocation, one CLI-owned state value accumulates the known report paths,
pipeline outcome counts, and validation status. A single guarded terminalization
operation writes the success report, or makes one attempt each to write the
failure report and error log. Terminal persistence failures are reported
separately and never replace the command's primary error.
## Tests To Inspect
- `internal/cli/run_contract_test.go`: command-owned state allocation,
terminalization, and output/report boundaries.
- `internal/cli/state_hardening_test.go`: independent roots, reuse, failures,
permissions, cleanup, and redaction.
- `internal/cli/recompute_execution_contract_test.go`: selective recomputation,
filesystem recovery, deterministic decisions, and failed predecessor state.
- `internal/cli/production_contract_test.go`: production composition and
configuration validation at the CLI boundary.
- `internal/cli/example_contract_test.go`: maintained example ownership.
- `internal/core/debugbundle/*_test.go`: bundle allocation and summary writes.
- `internal/framework/checkpoint/*_test.go`: checkpoint serialization and
reuse.
- `internal/framework/chunkplan/store_test.go`: plan envelope, confinement,
publication, and permissions.