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# Codebase Audit
## Audit Metadata
- **Production target:** `92e89076a268089e703978fb9d7176200e93344c`
- **Branch at target:** `main`
- **Audit date:** 2026-08-08
- **Go version:** `go1.26.5 linux/amd64`
- **PromptKit version:** `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit v0.5.0`
- **Knowledge-graph project:** `notarius-audit-92e8907`
- **Knowledge-graph target:** branch `main`, head
`92e89076a268089e703978fb9d7176200e93344c`
- **Initial worktree:** Clean. There were no pre-existing production or roadmap
changes to record.
The commit above is the production snapshot under audit. Later commits that
change only roadmap audit documents do not change that production target.
## Executive Summary
Pending final synthesis. The initial baseline is healthy. The architecture and
configuration/CLI reviews have found one Medium correctness finding and two
Low findings, with no production dependency inversion.
## Finding Index
Final cross-area ordering is pending synthesis.
| ID | Severity | Category | Title |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ARCH-001 | Low | Documentation/Comments | Repair broken ADR cross-references |
| CFGCLI-001 | Medium | Correctness | Reject additional YAML documents |
| CFGCLI-002 | Low | Correctness | Reject a blank command-level LLM profile |
## Findings
### Architecture And Dependency Boundaries
### ARCH-001 — Repair broken ADR cross-references
- **Severity:** Low
- **Category:** Documentation/Comments
- **Evidence:**
`docs/adr/0012-resolve-opaque-entity-identifiers-deterministically.md:15`
links ADR-0003 as `0003-strongly-typed-stage-interfaces.md`, and line 17
links ADR-0009 as
`0009-prefer-minimal-evidence-grounded-extraction-artifacts.md`. Neither file
exists. The maintained files are
`0003-typed-interfaces-with-two-zone-data-model.md` and
`0009-minimal-evidence-grounded-extraction-artifacts.md`.
- **Impact:** Readers and documentation tooling cannot follow ADR-0012 to the
two architectural decisions it explicitly relies on. Runtime behavior is
unaffected.
- **Recommendation:** Correct only the two relative link targets in ADR-0012.
- **Preserve:** Keep the accepted decision text and its intended references to
ADR-0003 and ADR-0009 unchanged.
- **Validation:** Run a relative Markdown-link check across `docs/adr/` and
confirm both targets resolve; verify the change contains no decision-text
edits.
- **Grouping:** Independent.
### Configuration And CLI Composition
### CFGCLI-001 — Reject additional YAML documents
- **Severity:** Medium
- **Category:** Correctness
- **Evidence:** `internal/core/config/file_config.go:327``353`
constructs a `yaml.Decoder`, enables `KnownFields`, and calls `Decode` only
once. `yaml.Decoder.Decode` reads the next YAML document, so input such as a
valid version 4 configuration followed by `---` and another configuration is
accepted with the second document ignored. The strict file tests in
`internal/core/config/file_config_contract_test.go` cover malformed values,
unknown fields, and duplicate normalized identifiers, but not an additional
document.
- **Impact:** An operator can append a syntactically valid configuration
document, receive a successful validation result, and then run with only the
first document. Settings in the ignored document—including operational or
pipeline settings—have no effect without a diagnostic, contradicting the
documented strict single-file model.
- **Recommendation:** After decoding `FileConfig`, decode once more and require
`io.EOF`; reject any second document, including an empty or malformed one,
with a contextual configuration error.
- **Preserve:** Keep version gating before the full strict decode, unknown-field
and duplicate-key rejection, and the existing defaults → file → environment
precedence unchanged.
- **Validation:** Add focused parser cases for a second valid document, a
second malformed document, and ordinary trailing whitespace/comments; run
`go test ./internal/core/config ./internal/cli`.
- **Grouping:** Independent.
### CFGCLI-002 — Reject a blank command-level LLM profile
- **Severity:** Low
- **Category:** Correctness
- **Evidence:** `internal/cli/run.go:149``166` registers `--llm-profile` as a
plain string flag, while the command's presence-aware empty-value checks
cover session ID, reasoning effort, output/debug directories, and recompute
step but not this flag. `runPipelineCommand` passes the resulting string to
`Config.Resolve`; `internal/framework/pipeline/profile.go:1255``1277` trims
an empty override and treats it as absent. The run contract tests cover a
valid override and an unknown non-empty profile, but not an explicitly
supplied blank value.
- **Impact:** A shell expansion such as `--llm-profile "$PROFILE"` with an
unset or blank value succeeds by silently using binding, pipeline, or
PromptKit defaults. The run can therefore use a different model/profile than
the operator explicitly intended to select.
- **Recommendation:** Make the CLI flag presence-aware and reject an explicitly
supplied empty or whitespace-only profile ID as command syntax before config
loading or physical-state allocation.
- **Preserve:** Keep a genuinely omitted override optional, trim non-empty IDs,
retain command → binding → pipeline → PromptKit precedence, and continue to
apply overrides only to selected LLM-backed bindings and validators.
- **Validation:** Add command-contract cases for blank and whitespace-only
values that assert exit status 2 and no state allocation, plus retain the
valid and unknown-profile run cases; run `go test ./internal/cli`.
- **Grouping:** Independent.
<!--
Finding template for later audit stages:
### AREA-001 — Concise title
- **Severity:** High, Medium, or Low
- **Category:** Correctness, Efficiency, Duplication, Simplicity, Test Quality,
or Documentation/Comments
- **Evidence:** Exact files, symbols, call paths, and observed behavior
- **Impact:** The concrete risk or cost
- **Recommendation:** A bounded implementation direction
- **Preserve:** Invariants and contracts that remediation must retain
- **Validation:** Focused checks that would demonstrate success
- **Grouping:** Independent, or the IDs with which this should be implemented
-->
## Intentional Complexity And Duplication To Preserve
- `internal/modules/generic/register.Register`,
`internal/modules/seriatim/register.Register`, and
`internal/modules/dnd/register.Register` deliberately expose the same small
registrar shape while retaining family-local registration policy and
diagnostics. Combining them would move extension ownership out of the domain
registrars and weaken the composition boundary established by ADR-0004.
- `internal/modules/dnd/register.registerModules`, `registerEvidence`,
`registerValidators`, and `registerDefaultChains` use explicit typed
registration lists. At this architectural pass, that repetition preserves
artifact Go types, module-specific validator order, and registrar-owned
production policy. Later D&D stages may evaluate individual shared
mechanics, but should not replace these lists with a dynamically typed
registration engine.
- `internal/framework/pipeline.RegisterArtifactCodec` and
`exactTypedValue` perform apparently repetitive exact-type checks around
private erasure. The checks deliberately turn incompatible values into
errors at each erased boundary rather than permitting a panic or accepting a
near-matching type, preserving ADR-0003.
- `internal/cli.runPipelineCommand` is a large linear orchestrator, but its
ordering is policy: syntax and config rejection precede run identity and
debug allocation; resolution and profile inspection precede module
preparation and input parsing; framework success precedes durable output;
and terminal debug publication precedes the optional JSON receipt. Existing
helpers isolate reference selection, recomputation, stores, output, result
encoding, and terminal error precedence. A generic lifecycle abstraction
would hide physical-state allocation and publication boundaries; bounded
parsing fixes such as CFGCLI-002 should not reorganize that lifecycle.
- `internal/core/config.validatePipelineProfiles` explicitly walks pipelines,
ordered steps, lanes, bindings, and references. Its nested structure mirrors
the public configuration shape and retains the nearest pipeline/step/lane
context in errors. Replacing it with a reflection-driven validator would
weaken those diagnostics and the presence-aware file-model boundary.
- `internal/cli.selectedReferenceTargets` and `recomputePolicy` perform
explicit resolved-shape traversals for distinct CLI policies: disambiguating
reference selectors against selected module capabilities, and computing the
forward forced/backward reusable checkpoint closure. Keeping these typed
traversals separate avoids adding command syntax or checkpoint policy to the
framework resolver.
## Areas Reviewed Without Findings
### Architecture And Dependency Boundaries
- **Composition root:** `internal/cli.newProductionComponents` constructs the
complete registry set and asset registry, then invokes only the generic,
Seriatim, and D&D family registrars. Direct production imports confirm that
`internal/cli` is the only layer importing those registrar packages.
- **Dependency direction:** A direct production import map found no core or
framework package importing `internal/modules`, no module importing
`internal/cli`, no concrete generic or Seriatim module importing D&D, and no
module importing the file-backed checkpoint, chunk-plan, debug, file-I/O, or
debug-bundle implementations. PromptKit is imported directly only by
`internal/framework/llm`.
- **Graph cross-layer calls:** The refreshed graph reported one
framework-to-module edge from `pipeline.Prepare` to a symbol named `request`
in a D&D validator test. Tracing it showed a confidence `0.06` suffix match
from the local closure call in `Prepare`; `trace_path` classified the target
as test-only, and the production import map disproved a dependency. The graph
reported no module-to-CLI calls.
- **Assets leaf:** `assets/package.go` imports only `embed` and `io/fs`, embeds
content, and exposes the read-only `FS() fs.FS` accessor. It contains no
business logic and has no `internal` or PromptKit dependency.
- **Fixed pipeline shape:** `pipeline.ResolvePipeline` resolves input and
chunk once, fixed extract/merge/normalize bindings per artifact lane, and one
output binding. Ordered steps are barriers around those fixed lanes rather
than arbitrary graph topology. `pipeline.Prepare`, `Runner.Run`,
`runPreparedSteps`, and `runLanes` retain that shape through construction and
execution.
- **Typed artifact boundary:** Typed registrations retain the exact Go type for
codecs and lane operations. Private erasure in `RegisterArtifactCodec` and
`exactTypedValue` verifies exact types and returns contextual errors;
normalized values cross into output through serialized artifacts.
- **Physical-state ownership:** The CLI owns root selection, store factories,
and durable file placement (`chunkPlanStoreForRun`, checkpoint/debug setup,
and `writeOutputFiles`). The framework receives collaborator interfaces and
returns logical output files. The generic JSON output module's direct import
of `internal/framework/chunkmap` validates and republishes the accepted
serialized chunk-map contract; it neither chooses a physical root nor writes
files.
- **Accepted architectural decisions:** ADRs 00010005 and 00070012 were read
against the current high-level composition. Apart from ARCH-001, the
composition root, fixed ordered pipeline, typed boundary, domain packaging,
canonical chunk-plan policy, separate state surfaces, checkpoint policy,
evidence rules, workload profile ownership, centralized asset leaf, and
deterministic entity identity boundary have corresponding current owners.
### Configuration And CLI Composition
- **End-to-end command path:** `RunWithOptions` normalizes injectable process
collaborators once and dispatches to `runPipelineCommand`. The run command
parses and normalizes command input, discovers and loads configuration,
applies command overrides, builds the effective catalog, resolves reference
selectors and the pipeline, inspects effective profiles, materializes
references, constructs runtime/state collaborators, invokes `pipeline.Run`,
publishes output files, terminalizes debug state, and only then publishes a
requested JSON receipt.
- **Precedence and resolution:** `loadConfig` enforces explicit `--config` over
`NOTARIUS_CONFIG` over the system default, then applies `Default`, file
configuration, supported environment overrides, and run-only CLI overrides
in order. `Config.Resolve` recomputes derived worker defaults, validates,
clones the selected profile, and delegates catalog-dependent composition to
the framework resolver. Apart from CFGCLI-001 and CFGCLI-002, unknown fields,
malformed values, normalized-key collisions, unknown command flags, and
invalid selected modules/options are rejected at their owning boundary.
- **Profile-source equality:** Validation-time
`validateExplicitPromptKitProfiles` and runtime
`buildProductionLLMClient` pass the same profile directory, profile file,
mapped local backend, and shared fallback asset registry. Effective profile
collection is sorted, deduplicated, and limited to selected LLM-backed
modules and validators, so inspection and runtime selection use the resolved
profile values rather than recomputing inheritance.
- **Session identity:** `resolvePromptSessionID` uses a versioned SHA-256 value
over the trimmed resolved input-module key, a separator, and exact raw input
bytes. It contains no pipeline ID, reference, profile, retry, input path,
working directory, or run ID; an explicit non-empty session replaces the
generated value. Run contracts verify the same effective session reaches all
prompt-facing requests, manifests, debug metadata, and checkpoint identity.
- **Reference and recomputation controls:** CLI reference selectors are
resolved only against selected chunk/extract/merge/normalize capabilities
before the authoritative effective resolution. Recompute policy is derived
after reference materialization, forces the requested step and transitive
consumers, and requires reusable checkpoints for non-forced transitive
producers. Focused contract tests exercise selector ambiguity, lane
selection, ordered dependency closure, and execution behavior.
- **Publication and terminal outcomes:** Syntax/config failures before run
identity allocate no output or debug state. After debug allocation,
resolution, profile, preparation, input, framework, partial-summary, and
output failures all pass through `failPipelineCommand`. `terminalize` writes
a run report once, preserves an existing primary failure over report/error-log
failures, promotes a success-report failure to primary, and reports other
persistence failures secondarily. Framework cancellation follows the same
wrapped primary-error path. Durable outputs are attempted only after runner
success; a JSON result is encoded before output publication but written to
stdout only after output and debug terminalization. A receipt-delivery
failure leaves already published bundles intact and returns failure.
- **Test ownership:** Configuration tests own strict file/env application,
structural validation, effective cloning/digests, and redaction. CLI command,
run, reference, recomputation, session, production, example, result, and state
contracts assert process-level ordering and side effects rather than merely
repeating lower-level resolver assertions. The two uncovered command/parser
cases are recorded as CFGCLI-001 and CFGCLI-002.
## Validation Record
| Date | Scope | Command or check | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-08-08 | Initial worktree | `git status --short` | Pass; no output |
| 2026-08-08 | Knowledge graph | Full index as `notarius-audit-92e8907` | Pass; 8,322 nodes and 47,887 edges; branch/head matched the production target |
| 2026-08-08 | Baseline tests | `go test ./...` | Pass |
| 2026-08-08 | Baseline static analysis | `go vet ./...` | Pass |
| 2026-08-08 | Baseline build | `go build ./cmd/notarius` | Pass |
| 2026-08-08 | Baseline whitespace | `git diff --check` | Pass |
| 2026-08-08 | Production imports | Direct `go list` import-edge audit plus graph call tracing | Pass; no production dependency inversion found |
| 2026-08-08 | Accepted ADR links | Relative Markdown-link target scan under `docs/adr/` | Two unresolved targets recorded as ARCH-001 |
| 2026-08-08 | Audit target integrity before configuration/CLI review | `git diff --quiet 92e89076a268089e703978fb9d7176200e93344c..HEAD -- . ':(exclude)docs/roadmap/**'` | Pass; production target unchanged |
| 2026-08-08 | YAML decoder contract | `go doc gopkg.in/yaml.v3.Decoder.Decode` and `ParseFileConfigYAML` call trace | Decode consumes the next document; no EOF/second-document check, recorded as CFGCLI-001 |
| 2026-08-08 | Focused configuration and CLI tests | `go test ./internal/core/config ./internal/cli` | Pass |
| 2026-08-08 | Focused configuration and CLI static analysis | `go vet ./internal/core/config ./internal/cli` | Pass |
## Coverage Matrix
| Audit area | Status | Packages and documents inspected | Validation run | Finding IDs |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Architecture and dependency boundaries | Reviewed | Architecture, documentation, and testing policies; internal overview; accepted ADRs; `internal/cli/catalog.go`; production registrars; root `assets` package; representative pipeline, typed-codec, output, and state-owner symbols | Full baseline, fresh graph, direct import map, cross-layer call traces, ADR link scan | ARCH-001 |
| Configuration and CLI composition | Reviewed | `docs/config.md`, `docs/cli.md`, `docs/operations.md`, internal configuration/CLI docs; `internal/core/config/`; CLI run, catalog, session, profile, result, and terminal owners; focused config, command, run, reference, recomputation, session, production, example, result, and state tests | Target-integrity check, graph call/data-owner traces, YAML decoder contract, focused tests and vet | CFGCLI-001, CFGCLI-002 |
| Pipeline resolution, preparation, and typed registries | Pending | — | — | — |
| References and ordered handoffs | Pending | — | — | — |
| Execution, validation, retry, and concurrency | Pending | — | — | — |
| State, checkpoints, debugging, and file safety | Pending | — | — | — |
| LLM runtime, prompt filesystems, and assets | Pending | — | — | — |
| Generic and Seriatim modules | Pending | — | — | — |
| Shared D&D types, codecs, and family mechanics | Pending | — | — | — |
| NPC, item, and location registries | Pending | — | — | — |
| NPC, item, and location occurrences | Pending | — | — | — |
| Spells, scene chunking, and scene descriptions | Pending | — | — | — |
| Combat turns and enemy events | Pending | — | — | — |
| Test ownership, comments, and final synthesis | Pending | — | — | — |