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+# PromptKit v0.8.0 Upgrade Implementation Plan
+
+Status: Ready for implementation.
+
+## Purpose And Authority
+
+This plan translates the accepted
+[PromptKit v0.8.0 upgrade roadmap](promptkit-v0.8.0.md) into an ordered,
+decision-complete implementation procedure. The feature roadmap owns purpose,
+scope, policy, and the desired end state. This document owns implementation
+order, concrete work allocation, stage boundaries, and verification until the
+upgrade is complete.
+
+The implementing agent must complete the stages in numerical order. Each stage
+is sized for one focused prompt handled by `gpt-5.6-terra` with high reasoning.
+Do not combine stages merely because adjacent work touches the same package.
+
+## Locked Decisions
+
+The following decisions are final for this implementation:
+
+- upgrade directly from PromptKit `v0.5.0` to `v0.8.0`;
+- declare one corrective call in each embedded prompt through
+  `repair_attempts: 1` rather than adding WeatherReporter repair logic;
+- keep the repair budget in the exact embedded prompt definition and add no
+  global, per-report, CLI, profile, or operator configuration override;
+- advance all four exact prompt versions from `2.0.0` to `2.1.0`;
+- make `weather-light`, `weather-balanced`, and `weather-deep` minimal aliases
+  of the corresponding PromptKit built-ins through `base_profile`;
+- retain the existing report-to-profile assignments and effective model
+  ladder;
+- allow successfully inspected endpoint-only profiles to have an empty backend
+  ID while continuing to require a nonblank model;
+- treat `APIKeyEnv` as an optional lookup source and reject only profiles that
+  report `APIKeyRequired`, because WeatherReporter supplies no direct request
+  credential;
+- support PromptKit's built-in `rakestrawhome-gemma-4-31b` profile without
+  WeatherReporter-specific backend configuration;
+- expose provider HTTP status through a project-owned safe generation error,
+  while writing provider code, type, and message only to explicit secure debug
+  capture;
+- emit only `weatherreporter.comparison.v2`, with repair provenance, and do not
+  preserve v1 guarded-replacement support; and
+- retain PromptKit dependency types inside the adapter and preserve all
+  stateless execution, atomic publication, comparison independence, and
+  disclosure invariants.
+
+## Implementation Rules
+
+For every stage:
+
+- read `docs/development.md`, all files under `docs/policy/`, this plan, the
+  feature roadmap, and the task-specific documents named by the stage;
+- inspect the current code and tests before editing; use the repository's code
+  knowledge graph first for code discovery and fall back to text search for
+  literals, assets, and documentation;
+- implement only the stage's scope and preserve unrelated user changes;
+- keep PromptKit/provider types, client construction, YAML parsing, repair
+  mechanics, and provider transport inside the existing adapter boundary;
+- use deterministic, offline, credential-free tests and injected clients or
+  synthetic fixtures rather than live OpenRouter, Rakestrawhome, or local
+  endpoint calls;
+- add tests at the narrowest stable owner identified by the testing policy and
+  avoid copying PromptKit's internal test matrices;
+- update the canonical documentation owners listed for that stage in the same
+  change as the implemented contract;
+- run `gofmt` on changed Go files, the stage's focused tests,
+  `GOWORK=off go test -count=1 ./...`, and `git diff --check`; and
+- leave the repository passing before proceeding to the next stage.
+
+Stages affecting concurrent comparison, cancellation, or secure debug
+filesystem work must also run the named focused packages with `-race`. Do not
+weaken an existing assertion solely to accommodate the new dependency. When a
+test encodes an intentionally changed contract, replace it with a behavioral
+assertion for the accepted policy.
+
+## Implementation Stages
+
+### Stage 1: Upgrade The Dependency And Establish A v0.8.0 Baseline
+
+Purpose: move to the tagged dependency and isolate compatibility changes before
+adopting new WeatherReporter behavior.
+
+Work:
+
+1. Update `go.mod` to require
+   `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit v0.8.0` and refresh `go.sum` with
+   `GOWORK=off go mod tidy`. Do not add `go.work`, `vendor`, or a `replace`
+   directive and do not change WeatherReporter's Go version.
+2. Resolve any compile failures using PromptKit's public root package only.
+   Keep all `Profile` and `OpenAICompatibleProfileConfig` literals keyed. Do not
+   register the now-reserved `rakestrawhome` backend.
+3. Reconcile adapter tests that directly exercise PromptKit's changed optional
+   credential behavior. A profile whose only credential metadata is
+   `api_key_env` must reach an injected client when the environment value is
+   absent; it must no longer expect PromptKit to return
+   `ErrAPIKeyEnvMissing`. Do not change WeatherReporter's application preflight
+   in this stage.
+4. Verify that every current embedded prompt, content file, schema, and fallback
+   profile inspects under v0.8.0. Verify selected invalid local endpoints and
+   malformed selected profile definitions still map to project-owned
+   configuration or profile-load categories.
+5. Review the v0.6.0 compatibility corrections against supported
+   WeatherReporter inputs: metadata-authoritative identities, exact contained
+   `content_file` paths, regular embedded files, structurally valid endpoints,
+   bounded JSON-compatible values, cancellation identity, and strict response
+   framing. Add consumer tests only for a WeatherReporter boundary not already
+   protected by PromptKit.
+
+Do not enable profile inheritance or output repair yet. The expected result is
+the current WeatherReporter feature set running against PromptKit v0.8.0.
+
+Focused verification:
+
+```sh
+GOWORK=off go test -count=1 ./internal/adapters/promptkit ./internal/promptassets
+GOWORK=off go test -race -count=1 ./internal/adapters/promptkit
+```
+
+### Stage 2: Adopt Profile Inheritance And Current Credential Routing
+
+Purpose: adopt v0.7.0 profile composition, endpoint-only routing, optional
+credential semantics, and the Rakestrawhome built-in without changing the model
+ladder.
+
+Work:
+
+1. Replace the three embedded profile bodies with these exact leaf/base
+   relationships and no duplicated execution settings:
+
+   | Leaf | Base |
+   | --- | --- |
+   | `weather-light` | `deepseek-4-flash` |
+   | `weather-balanced` | `gemini-flash-latest` |
+   | `weather-deep` | `claude-sonnet-latest` |
+
+2. Update prompt-asset fixtures and tests to understand `base_profile`. Assert
+   that all three leaf IDs remain selected identities and resolve to the same
+   backend, model, timeout, service tier, and reasoning settings exposed by the
+   current standalone definitions. Test relationships and effective behavior,
+   not copied private constants beyond the intentional model-ladder contract.
+3. Preserve source precedence. Cover a standalone same-ID operator override, a
+   derived operator override, a configured source that shadows a base ID, and
+   selected missing-base, cyclic, malformed-base, and incomplete-target
+   failures. Do not implement inheritance or merging in WeatherReporter; all
+   resolution must remain PromptKit-owned.
+4. Change application profile preflight to accept a successful inspection with
+   a nonblank model and an empty backend ID. Trust PromptKit inspection to have
+   resolved either a backend or endpoint; do not add the endpoint to
+   `promptexec.ProfileInspection` or ordinary provenance.
+5. Remove application-level environment lookup and rejection for a nonblank
+   `APIKeyEnv`. Remove the now-unused `LookupEnv` fields and plumbing from
+   prompt, batch, and comparison inspection requests. Continue rejecting
+   `CredentialRequired`/`APIKeyRequired` before weather collection with the
+   existing missing-credential category.
+6. Add an end-to-end offline regression proving the maintained endpoint-only
+   `weather-light` example passes application inspection, retains an empty
+   backend ID, and does not expose its endpoint.
+7. Prove `rakestrawhome-gemma-4-31b` can pass ordinary and comparison profile
+   inspection through the existing adapter and reports the PromptKit
+   `rakestrawhome` backend ID. Do not make a provider call or add
+   Rakestrawhome-specific configuration.
+
+Canonical documentation in this stage:
+
+- update `docs/policy/architecture.md` so only direct-key-required profiles
+  fail credential preflight and backend identity is optional for endpoint-only
+  profiles;
+- update `docs/config.md` to distinguish same-ID source replacement from
+  `base_profile` chain inheritance and to describe optional environment
+  credentials;
+- update `docs/integrations/promptkit.md` for profile composition, parent
+  lookup precedence, endpoint-only identity, optional credentials, and
+  Rakestrawhome availability; and
+- update `docs/internal/promptkit-adapter.md` and focused app internals for the
+  implemented inspection behavior.
+
+Focused verification:
+
+```sh
+GOWORK=off go test -count=1 ./internal/promptassets ./internal/adapters/promptkit ./internal/app
+GOWORK=off go test -race -count=1 ./internal/adapters/promptkit ./internal/app
+```
+
+### Stage 3: Extend The Project-Owned Prompt Execution Contract
+
+Purpose: establish dependency-neutral repair and structured-generation-error
+values before the adapter or application relies on them.
+
+Work:
+
+1. Add `RepairAttempts int` to `promptexec.OutputContract`. It is the configured
+   additional-call budget from the exact prompt contract.
+2. Add `RepairAttempts int` to `promptexec.Validation`. It is the number of
+   corrective calls actually started for the completed result. Update
+   `NewValidation` and every caller so construction is explicit; reject or
+   normalize no values here because PromptKit owns output-contract validity.
+3. Update all copy helpers, equality/provenance helpers, fixtures, and tests so
+   repair values are retained without sharing mutable state.
+4. Add a project-owned immutable `promptexec.GenerationError` with unexported
+   status and provider-detail fields plus safe accessors:
+
+   - `StatusCode() int`
+   - `ProviderCode() string`
+   - `ProviderType() string`
+   - `ProviderMessage() string`
+   - `Category() ErrorCategory`, always returning `Generation`
+   - `Error()`, exposing only the WeatherReporter generation category/message
+     and optional HTTP status
+   - `GoString()`, returning the same safe representation
+   - `Unwrap()`, preserving a project-owned `*promptexec.Error`
+
+5. Provide one constructor used by adapters. Defensively normalize valid UTF-8
+   and bound code/type to 256 Unicode code points and message to 4,096 Unicode
+   code points, even though PromptKit already bounds its accessors. Do not
+   expose fields through struct formatting, JSON tags, or exported mutable
+   fields. Preserve the dependency cause only behind the project-owned error so
+   `errors.Is`/`errors.As` identities remain available without entering error
+   text.
+6. Add focused tests proving nil/zero safety, category and unwrap behavior,
+   status-only ordinary formatting, `%#v` redaction, provider-detail bounds,
+   and repair-value copying.
+
+Do not import PromptKit from `internal/promptexec` and do not change CLI or
+artifact schemas in this stage.
+
+Focused verification:
+
+```sh
+GOWORK=off go test -count=1 ./internal/promptexec
+```
+
+### Stage 4: Map PromptKit v0.8.0 Repair And Generation Errors In The Adapter
+
+Purpose: make the adapter faithfully translate v0.8.0 preparation, execution,
+validation, usage, and failure values into the Stage 3 contract.
+
+Work:
+
+1. Map `promptkit.OutputContract.RepairAttempts` in prompt inspection and
+   prepared-execution details. Map
+   `promptkit.ValidationResult.RepairAttempts` in completed execution.
+2. Preserve PromptKit's cumulative usage exactly as reported across the initial
+   call and every completed correction. Continue returning only the final raw
+   candidate and final validation result, subject to WeatherReporter's 64 KiB
+   generated-output bound.
+3. In adapter error classification, retain cancellation, deadline, and capacity
+   precedence. Before the generic `ErrLLMGenerate` branch, use `errors.As` for
+   `*promptkit.GenerationError` and construct the project-owned
+   `promptexec.GenerationError` with status, code, type, message, and hidden
+   cause. Initial and corrective generation failures use the same mapping.
+4. Extend the injected adapter client used by tests so it can return an ordered
+   sequence of responses or errors and record each request safely.
+5. Use a synthetic PromptKit prompt with JSON Schema validation and
+   `repair_attempts: 1` to cover:
+
+   - first-pass valid output with zero corrections;
+   - explicitly empty or invalid output followed by valid corrected output;
+   - one-attempt exhaustion returning a final failed validation result rather
+     than an operational error;
+   - a non-2xx-style `GenerationError` during correction;
+   - cumulative token usage and actual repair count; and
+   - the same prepared prompt/profile identity across the corrective flow.
+
+6. Keep these tests at the adapter boundary. Do not assert PromptKit's private
+   corrective-message wording or reconstruct its internal repair algorithm.
+
+Canonical documentation in this stage: update
+`docs/internal/promptkit-adapter.md` for the repair/result/error mappings. Do
+not yet claim that embedded WeatherReporter prompts enable repair.
+
+Focused verification:
+
+```sh
+GOWORK=off go test -count=1 ./internal/adapters/promptkit ./internal/promptexec
+GOWORK=off go test -race -count=1 ./internal/adapters/promptkit
+```
+
+### Stage 5: Carry Repair Provenance Through Application Workflows
+
+Purpose: make application orchestration understand configured and actual repair
+counts before changing the embedded prompt policy.
+
+Work:
+
+1. Add an expected generated-text repair budget to `report.Definition` and set
+   it explicitly to zero for all four current `2.0.0` definitions in this
+   stage. Include it in report-definition validation and retained contract
+   tests.
+2. Extend exact prompt preflight so format, validation mode, schema path, and
+   repair budget must all match the resolved report definition. Extend
+   preparation and completion provenance checks to require the same repair
+   budget across inspection and the opaque prepared snapshot.
+3. Add `RepairAttempts *int` to application outcomes where execution may fail
+   before validation exists. Set it to a fresh pointer immediately after a
+   non-nil completed execution is returned, before WeatherReporter's secondary
+   generated-text validation. A pointer is required so completed first-pass
+   zero is distinguishable from unavailable provenance.
+4. Carry independent copies through `ReportResult`, `BatchReportResult`, batch
+   conversion, comparison execution's internal outcome, and relevant test
+   fakes. Do not expose the new value in CLI or comparison JSON yet.
+5. Preserve the actual count on PromptKit validation rejection and on later
+   WeatherReporter generated-text or render failures. Leave it unavailable on
+   preparation, capacity, cancellation, deadline, and generation errors that
+   return no completed PromptKit result.
+6. Add focused tests for provenance mismatch, completed zero, completed
+   positive, validation rejection, later local validation failure, early
+   operational failure, batch copying, and independent concurrent profile
+   outcomes.
+
+Canonical documentation in this stage: update the focused prepared-report and
+app-orchestration internals to describe configured versus actual repair
+provenance. Current public documents should continue to report the embedded
+budget as zero until Stage 6.
+
+Focused verification:
+
+```sh
+GOWORK=off go test -count=1 ./internal/report ./internal/app ./internal/cli
+GOWORK=off go test -race -count=1 ./internal/app
+```
+
+### Stage 6: Activate One Repair And Expose Ordinary Result Provenance
+
+Purpose: switch the operational prompts to the accepted one-correction policy
+and make ordinary generate/run/batch output report what occurred.
+
+Work:
+
+1. Add `repair_attempts: 1` to the output contract of all four embedded prompt
+   definitions and change each exact prompt version from `2.0.0` to `2.1.0`.
+   Do not change prompt text or generated-text schemas solely for this upgrade.
+2. Change all four report registry definitions to exact prompt version `2.1.0`
+   and expected repair budget one. Update exact-version fixtures and assertions
+   throughout adapter, app, CLI, report, and prompt-asset tests. Remove tests
+   that classify `repair_attempts` as a retired setting and replace them with
+   an exact one-attempt contract assertion.
+3. Add `repairAttempts` to successful and failed generate and batch JSON result
+   shapes through the Stage 5 pointers. Emit integer zero for a completed
+   first-pass result, a positive integer for a completed repaired result, and
+   omit the field when no completed validation made it available.
+4. Keep the existing `validationStatus` and failure categories authoritative.
+   A repaired valid result proceeds normally. Repair exhaustion remains
+   `validation_rejected`, publishes no report for that profile, and retains the
+   actual attempt count.
+5. Add representative offline assembled tests proving first-pass success,
+   repaired success, exhaustion, explicit empty initial content, and batch
+   result propagation. Reuse the real PromptKit adapter with an injected
+   sequence client for at least one end-to-end repaired execution; use the
+   existing app fake at other boundaries where lower-level repair is already
+   covered.
+6. Confirm no application loop, provider retry, profile fallback, or
+   request-level `OutputContract` override was introduced.
+
+Canonical documentation in this stage:
+
+- update `docs/policy/architecture.md` with PromptKit-owned bounded repair and
+  failed-exhaustion invariants;
+- update `docs/integrations/promptkit.md` with exact prompt version `2.1.0`, one
+  configured repair, actual-count semantics, cumulative usage, explicit-empty
+  handling, and the distinction from operational retries;
+- update `docs/cli.md` for generate and batch `repairAttempts` fields;
+- update `docs/internal/report-registry.md`, prepared-report internals, and app
+  orchestration internals for exact version and repair flow; and
+- keep configuration documentation unchanged because no repair setting is
+  added.
+
+Focused verification:
+
+```sh
+GOWORK=off go test -count=1 ./internal/promptassets ./internal/report ./internal/adapters/promptkit ./internal/app ./internal/cli
+GOWORK=off go test -race -count=1 ./internal/adapters/promptkit ./internal/app
+```
+
+### Stage 7: Migrate Comparison Bundles To v2
+
+Purpose: preserve repair activity in the profile-evaluation artifact and make
+the strict durable schema change explicit.
+
+Work:
+
+1. Change `comparison.SchemaVersion` to
+   `weatherreporter.comparison.v2`. Emit and recognize v2 only; do not retain a
+   v1 parser or guarded-replacement compatibility path.
+2. Add `RepairAttempts *int` to each application comparison profile result,
+   CLI comparison profile summary, and durable `comparison.Result`. Propagate a
+   fresh copy from Stage 5's execution outcome.
+3. Place `repairAttempts` immediately after `validationStatus` in the canonical
+   result-object JSON field order. Encode zero for completed first-pass
+   validation, a positive integer for completed correction, and omit it only
+   when no completed validation exists.
+4. Tighten manifest invariants: every non-nil repair count is non-negative; a
+   successful result must have `validationStatus: "passed"` and a non-nil
+   repair count; a failed result with a completed validation status must also
+   have a non-nil count; and an early operational failure may omit both.
+5. Update the strict token-level JSON recognizer to accept only the canonical
+   `repairAttempts` field at its correct object level, reject duplicate,
+   unknown, negative, fractional, string, overflow, and malformed values, and
+   continue rejecting v1 as an unsupported current bundle.
+6. Update manifest construction, cloning, validation, exact serialization
+   tests, guarded replacement tests, malicious bundle tests, partial-success
+   tests, and CLI comparison summaries. Preserve flat layout, result ordering,
+   hashes, atomic publication, cancellation safety, and no Distributor calls.
+7. Cover concurrent peers where one succeeds first-pass, one repairs, one
+   exhausts, and one fails operationally. The counts must remain attached to
+   the selected profile positions without races or cross-contamination.
+
+Canonical documentation in this stage:
+
+- replace the v1 contract in `docs/integrations/comparison-bundle.md` with v2,
+  including exact field order, presence rules, and the lack of v1 replacement
+  compatibility;
+- update `docs/cli.md` for comparison `repairAttempts`;
+- update `docs/operations.md` to tell operators to move or remove an existing
+  v1 bundle before replacing at the same destination; and
+- update comparison execution/publication internals and architecture policy as
+  needed for the current-only version invariant.
+
+Focused verification:
+
+```sh
+GOWORK=off go test -count=1 ./internal/comparison ./internal/app ./internal/cli
+GOWORK=off go test -race -count=1 ./internal/comparison ./internal/app
+```
+
+### Stage 8: Add Secure Provider-Failure Debug Capture
+
+Purpose: expose useful PromptKit v0.7.0 provider diagnostics only through the
+existing explicit secure debug boundary while keeping ordinary errors safe.
+
+Work:
+
+1. Extend prompt preparation debug output with configured
+   `repairAttempts` and advance its schema identifier from
+   `weatherreporter.prompt_preparation_debug.v2` to
+   `weatherreporter.prompt_preparation_debug.v3`.
+2. Extend execution validation debug output with actual `repairAttempts` and
+   advance its schema identifier from
+   `weatherreporter.prompt_execution_debug.v2` to
+   `weatherreporter.prompt_execution_debug.v3`. Retain cumulative token usage.
+3. Add a dedicated `failure.json` artifact with schema identifier
+   `weatherreporter.prompt_failure_debug.v1`. Its canonical fields are:
+
+   - top level: `schemaVersion`, `reportId`, `validDate`, `runId`, `failure`;
+   - failure object: `category`, `statusCode`, `providerCode`, `providerType`,
+     `providerMessage`;
+   - omit absent provider fields and zero status; and
+   - never include the raw provider body, headers, endpoint, credentials,
+     request, schema, rendered prompt, or generated candidate.
+
+4. Add `PromptDebugWriter.WriteFailure` using the existing handle-relative
+   secure run directory, `0700` directory and `0600` file modes, canonical JSON
+   encoding, and no-follow/atomic replacement behavior. Disabled writers must
+   perform no filesystem work.
+5. When execution returns an error, use `errors.As` only against the
+   project-owned `*promptexec.GenerationError`. If explicit debug capture is
+   enabled, write `failure.json` using that profile's existing debug reference.
+   This applies equally to initial and corrective provider failures and keeps
+   comparison profile directories isolated.
+6. If failure-debug writing also fails, retain the generation failure as the
+   primary categorized error and join the safe debug-write failure rather than
+   replacing or hiding the provider failure. Never place provider code, type,
+   or message in the joined error text.
+7. Ordinary generate, batch, and comparison errors should gain only the safe
+   HTTP status already rendered by `promptexec.GenerationError.Error`; do not
+   add provider detail fields to CLI summaries, comparison manifests, logs, or
+   Distributor requests.
+8. Add adversarial tests for formatter redaction, malicious provider strings,
+   JSON escaping, bounds, absent fields, file modes, symlink/path attacks,
+   write failure, cancellation identity, initial versus corrective failures,
+   and concurrent comparison captures.
+
+Canonical documentation in this stage:
+
+- update `docs/operations.md` with the three debug artifact versions,
+  `failure.json`, sensitivity, permissions, and retention;
+- update `docs/integrations/promptkit.md` with ordinary status-only disclosure
+  and debug-only provider detail;
+- update prompt-debug, PromptKit-adapter, and app-orchestration internals; and
+- ensure `docs/policy/architecture.md` explicitly prohibits provider-controlled
+  diagnostics from ordinary outputs.
+
+Focused verification:
+
+```sh
+GOWORK=off go test -count=1 ./internal/promptexec ./internal/promptdebug ./internal/adapters/promptkit ./internal/app ./internal/cli
+GOWORK=off go test -race -count=1 ./internal/promptdebug ./internal/adapters/promptkit ./internal/app
+```
+
+### Stage 9: Reconcile Documentation And Perform The Final Upgrade Audit
+
+Purpose: verify the complete end state as one coherent WeatherReporter feature
+and leave no stale v0.5.0, prompt v2.0.0, comparison v1, credential, profile,
+repair, or debug claims.
+
+Work:
+
+1. Re-read the feature roadmap, `docs/development.md`, every policy document,
+   and every canonical document changed by Stages 1-8. Reconcile them against
+   executable behavior and remove duplicated or stale definitions. Keep
+   unimplemented future ideas in `docs/roadmap/future.md`, not current-state
+   documents.
+2. Search code, embedded assets, examples, tests, and documentation for stale
+   contractual literals and review every occurrence of:
+
+   - PromptKit `v0.5.0`, `v0.6.0`, and `v0.7.0` as an active dependency claim;
+   - prompt version `2.0.0`;
+   - `weatherreporter.comparison.v1`;
+   - prompt debug schema v2 identifiers;
+   - claims that profile fields never inherit;
+   - claims that every `APIKeyEnv` must be populated;
+   - claims that backend ID is always required;
+   - claims that repair is disabled or `repair_attempts` is retired; and
+   - provider detail in ordinary output.
+
+   Historical release documents may retain accurate historical literals.
+3. Verify canonical ownership:
+
+   - architecture owns invariants and boundaries;
+   - config owns operator profile and credential behavior, but no repair field;
+   - PromptKit integration owns logical prompt/profile/output contracts;
+   - CLI owns result fields;
+   - operations owns explicit debug handling and old comparison-bundle cleanup;
+   - comparison integration owns the complete v2 manifest; and
+   - internal documents own implementation flow without duplicating the public
+     references.
+
+4. Verify maintained examples remain valid, secret-free, and tested. The local
+   `weather-light` example remains a standalone endpoint-only profile rather
+   than inheriting an OpenRouter backend it cannot clear.
+5. Review the complete diff for architecture leakage. Production packages
+   outside `internal/adapters/promptkit` must not import PromptKit; no
+   application repair loop, provider client, raw provider diagnostic, profile
+   YAML parser, or durable application state may have appeared.
+6. Review tests under the testing policy. Keep consumer contract and regression
+   coverage, remove accidental duplication of upstream implementation tests,
+   and ensure every default test is offline and repeatable.
+7. Run the complete validation set:
+
+```sh
+gofmt -w <all changed Go files>
+GOWORK=off go test -count=1 ./...
+GOWORK=off go test -race -count=1 ./...
+GOWORK=off go vet ./...
+GOWORK=off go build ./...
+GOWORK=off go mod tidy -diff
+go run ./cmd/weatherreporter --help
+go run ./cmd/weatherreporter compare --help
+test -z "$(git ls-files go.work go.work.sum)"
+test ! -e vendor
+git diff --check
+```
+
+8. Confirm `go.mod` has no `replace`, the resolved PromptKit module is exactly
+   v0.8.0, and no live credential or provider call occurred during validation.
+9. After every check passes, update this plan's status to Completed and add a
+   concise completion note listing the implemented stages. Do not delete either
+   roadmap until the maintainer has reviewed the implementation. Do not create
+   a release document or tag; release preparation remains a separate maintainer
+   action once a version is selected.
+
+## Completion Standard
+
+The implementation is complete only when all nine stages pass their focused
+and repository-wide checks, all locked decisions are observable in code and
+canonical documentation, and the feature roadmap's completion criteria are
+satisfied. Passing compilation alone is insufficient. The final state must
+demonstrate repaired success, repair exhaustion, comparison provenance,
+endpoint-only routing, optional credentials, inherited profiles, Rakestrawhome
+inspection, safe ordinary provider failures, secure debug-only detail, and
+unchanged publication and concurrency invariants.
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+# PromptKit v0.8.0 Upgrade Roadmap
+
+Status: Accepted feature direction; implementation has not started.
+
+## Purpose
+
+WeatherReporter should upgrade its PromptKit dependency from `v0.5.0` to
+`v0.8.0` and deliberately adopt the useful consumer-facing capabilities added
+in `v0.6.0`, `v0.7.0`, and `v0.8.0`. The upgrade should improve output-contract
+reliability, profile composition, local and alternate endpoint support, and
+provider-failure diagnosis without moving PromptKit responsibilities into
+WeatherReporter or weakening the application's stateless and security
+boundaries.
+
+This roadmap defines the intended scope, policy, and end state. The
+[implementation plan](implementation.md) owns the procedure for reaching that
+state.
+
+## User Intent
+
+The upgrade is intended to:
+
+- use PromptKit's bounded output repair to recover from occasional malformed
+  structured weather prose;
+- keep WeatherReporter's domain profile IDs stable while inheriting maintained
+  PromptKit model definitions;
+- make PromptKit's additional built-in backend and profile available for
+  explicit generation and profile comparisons;
+- support unauthenticated or optionally authenticated OpenAI-compatible
+  endpoints without inventing a WeatherReporter transport layer;
+- make provider HTTP failures more actionable under an explicit
+  WeatherReporter disclosure policy; and
+- receive PromptKit's intervening correctness, safety, cancellation, resource,
+  and efficiency improvements as part of one tested dependency upgrade.
+
+The model ladder and report assignments do not change as part of this work:
+Hourly continues to select `weather-light`; Daily, Today, and Tomorrow continue
+to select `weather-balanced`; and `weather-deep` remains available for explicit
+selection. This upgrade does not promote the new Rakestrawhome profile into
+that default ladder.
+
+## Current State
+
+WeatherReporter currently depends on
+`gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit` at `v0.5.0`. The PromptKit adapter
+supplies embedded prompts, JSON Schemas, and
+application-fallback profiles, plus an optional configured profile source and
+the conventional local backend.
+
+The four generated-text prompts are exact version `2.0.0` JSON Schema prompts.
+They omit `repair_attempts`, so execution is single-pass. The project-owned
+`promptexec.OutputContract` and validation result also omit repair budgets and
+actual repair counts.
+
+The three embedded WeatherReporter profiles duplicate the effective fields of
+these PromptKit built-ins:
+
+| WeatherReporter profile | PromptKit built-in with the same target |
+| --- | --- |
+| `weather-light` | `deepseek-4-flash` |
+| `weather-balanced` | `gemini-flash-latest` |
+| `weather-deep` | `claude-sonnet-latest` |
+
+WeatherReporter preflights any nonblank `api_key_env` as a required credential,
+even though PromptKit v0.7.0 distinguishes an optional environment source from
+an explicit `APIKeyRequired` target. Provider generation failures are reduced
+to WeatherReporter's safe `generation` category; the PromptKit dependency error
+is retained as a hidden cause, but its structured HTTP status and provider
+diagnostics are not mapped into project-owned values.
+
+The maintained `weather-light` local override is an endpoint-only profile, and
+the configuration contract says endpoint-only profiles are supported. PromptKit
+inspection correctly reports no backend ID for that form, but WeatherReporter
+application preflight currently requires both a nonblank backend and model.
+That mismatch prevents the documented example from reaching generation and
+should be corrected as part of adopting the current PromptKit target contract.
+
+## Upstream Release Assessment
+
+### PromptKit v0.6.0
+
+`v0.6.0` adds no public declarations, but it is a material compatibility and
+safety release. It centralizes execution-setting, output-contract, endpoint,
+and JSON-compatible-value validation; makes YAML metadata authoritative for
+prompt and profile identity; hardens `content_file` containment and regular-file
+requirements; validates OpenAI-compatible endpoints structurally; bounds JSON
+trees and successful provider bodies; requires exactly one JSON value in
+provider responses; preserves cancellation and transport error identities; and
+reuses schema and rendered-artifact work within an operation.
+
+WeatherReporter should receive these improvements directly from the dependency
+and audit its own supported assets and configuration paths against the stricter
+contracts. It should not duplicate PromptKit's internal validators or tests.
+The existing embedded prompt paths, inline data-package input, generated-output
+limit, and adapter boundary remain conceptually correct.
+
+### PromptKit v0.7.0
+
+`v0.7.0` adds four potentially useful consumer features:
+
+- linear, cycle-safe profile inheritance through `base_profile` and
+  `Profile.BaseProfileID`;
+- the built-in `rakestrawhome` backend and
+  `rakestrawhome-gemma-4-31b` profile;
+- optional API-key environment sources, with `APIKeyRequired` reserved for an
+  explicit local credential requirement; and
+- bounded structured `GenerationError` details for non-2xx responses from the
+  built-in OpenAI-compatible client.
+
+WeatherReporter has no manual `rakestrawhome` registration and uses keyed
+PromptKit profile literals, so the two source-compatibility hazards called out
+by the release do not require migration shims. The profile, credential, and
+error features do require deliberate application-policy choices described
+below.
+
+### PromptKit v0.8.0
+
+`v0.8.0` activates the existing output-contract repair budget. A positive
+`repair_attempts` value authorizes up to that many corrective model calls after
+eligible `basic`, `json`, or `json_schema` validation failures. The supported
+budget is zero through three. Repairs preserve the original rendered
+conversation, effective target, session, structured-output contract, and
+backend capacity policy. The final result reports cumulative token usage and
+the number of corrective calls actually made.
+
+Repair exhaustion is a completed generation with failed validation, not an
+operational error. WeatherReporter's existing policy should continue to reject
+that result and publish no report for that profile. Explicit empty provider
+content now reaches output validation; for WeatherReporter's JSON Schema
+prompts it is therefore eligible for repair rather than being misclassified as
+a malformed provider envelope.
+
+## Desired End State
+
+WeatherReporter builds and tests against PromptKit `v0.8.0` with no workspace,
+vendor, or module replacement dependency. Its public behavior remains
+stateless, its PromptKit dependency types remain confined to the adapter, and
+its ordinary summaries and logs remain safe.
+
+The completed integration:
+
+- benefits from the v0.6.0 safety and efficiency corrections;
+- composes WeatherReporter domain profiles from PromptKit's maintained built-in
+  profiles while preserving WeatherReporter-owned leaf IDs and operator
+  override precedence;
+- accepts a successfully inspected endpoint-only profile with a nonblank model
+  even though it has no logical backend ID;
+- permits explicit use of PromptKit's Rakestrawhome profile without custom
+  backend wiring;
+- applies an accepted bounded-repair policy to every operational structured
+  prompt;
+- validates repair configuration during preflight and records actual repair
+  activity in project-owned result values;
+- retains PromptKit's cumulative usage accounting in explicit debug output;
+- distinguishes safe provider HTTP status from potentially sensitive provider
+  diagnostics; and
+- documents the changed profile, credential, repair, comparison, debug, and
+  failure contracts in their canonical owners.
+
+## Dependency And Compatibility Policy
+
+The module requirement should move directly from `v0.5.0` to `v0.8.0`, followed
+by a clean module tidy. WeatherReporter already requires Go 1.26 while PromptKit
+`v0.8.0` requires Go 1.25.5, so no Go version change is needed for this upgrade.
+
+Consumer validation must cover the paths called out by PromptKit v0.6.0:
+
+- every embedded prompt, content file, schema, and fallback profile inspects
+  through PromptKit `v0.8.0`;
+- configured single-file and directory profile sources retain their lazy,
+  metadata-authoritative identity and precedence behavior;
+- malformed selected profiles and invalid local endpoints retain actionable
+  WeatherReporter categories;
+- the inline YAML data package and prepared-execution path remain within the
+  new JSON and response bounds; and
+- cancellation, deadline, and backend-capacity identities still cross the
+  adapter correctly.
+
+PromptKit owns its 16 MiB successful transport-response bound and JSON framing.
+WeatherReporter retains its stricter 64 KiB generated-text acceptance bound.
+The consumer suite should protect that relationship without reproducing
+PromptKit's lower-level transport matrix.
+
+## Domain Profile Composition
+
+The embedded profiles should become application-owned aliases:
+
+```yaml
+id: weather-light
+base_profile: deepseek-4-flash
+```
+
+```yaml
+id: weather-balanced
+base_profile: gemini-flash-latest
+```
+
+```yaml
+id: weather-deep
+base_profile: claude-sonnet-latest
+```
+
+The effective backend, model, timeout, service tier, and reasoning settings
+must initially remain identical to the current WeatherReporter definitions.
+The selected leaf remains the durable logical profile identity even though its
+effective target is inherited.
+
+Profile source precedence remains:
+
+1. explicit in-memory profiles used by tests or embedding consumers;
+2. the configured `profile_file` or `profile_dir` source;
+3. WeatherReporter's embedded fallback catalog; and
+4. PromptKit's built-in catalog.
+
+Sources still do not merge definitions of the same ID. Once a selected
+definition names `base_profile`, however, each parent ID is resolved through
+that same precedence order and the resulting linear chain is merged from root
+to leaf according to PromptKit's inheritance contract. Documentation must make
+that distinction explicit. A malformed leaf, missing or malformed base, cycle,
+overlong chain, or incomplete resolved target fails profile inspection before
+weather collection.
+
+An operator may continue to replace `weather-light`, `weather-balanced`, or
+`weather-deep` with a standalone definition. An operator may also define a
+derived replacement. The maintained local endpoint example should remain
+standalone because PromptKit profile inheritance has no clearing syntax: using
+an OpenRouter base would retain its backend identity and capacity policy even
+when the child replaces the endpoint.
+
+WeatherReporter should treat the adapter's successful profile inspection as
+authoritative that PromptKit resolved a usable route. A nonblank model remains
+required, but backend ID is optional for an endpoint-only profile and should be
+omitted from safe provenance where unavailable. WeatherReporter still must not
+surface the endpoint outside explicit debug capture. This aligns application
+preflight with PromptKit and with the existing CLI, comparison, and debug value
+shapes, all of which already permit an absent backend identity.
+
+## Rakestrawhome Availability
+
+The reserved `rakestrawhome` backend and built-in
+`rakestrawhome-gemma-4-31b` profile should be supported automatically through
+ordinary PromptKit selection. Operators may choose that profile with the
+existing global profile setting or as one entry in `compare`, and PromptKit's
+backend capacity policy remains authoritative.
+
+WeatherReporter should not register, wrap, or duplicate the backend or profile,
+and should not add a Rakestrawhome-specific configuration field. Its canonical
+PromptKit integration documentation should link to PromptKit for the current
+built-in catalog and credential contract rather than copying volatile endpoint
+or capacity values. Offline inspection coverage should prove that the built-in
+profile crosses the WeatherReporter adapter with the expected logical backend
+identity.
+
+## Bounded Structured-Output Repair
+
+The accepted repair budget belongs to the exact PromptKit output contract, not
+to a WeatherReporter retry loop. PromptKit alone should construct corrective
+messages, perform additional calls, enforce the budget, aggregate usage, and
+coordinate backend capacity. WeatherReporter must not retry provider failures,
+switch profiles, or layer another repair mechanism around `RunPrepared`.
+
+All four embedded prompt definitions should declare `repair_attempts: 1`.
+Because this changes prompt
+execution behavior, latency, cost, hash, and provenance, each definition and
+its report-registry binding should advance from exact version `2.0.0` to
+`2.1.0`. Prompt text and generated-text schemas do not need to change solely
+for this feature.
+
+The embedded prompt definition is the per-report pipeline policy owner. This
+upgrade should not add a global or per-report operator configuration field for
+repair attempts and should not construct a request-level replacement output
+contract. A future pipeline may select another budget only through a deliberate
+prompt-definition and exact-version change.
+
+The project-owned PromptKit boundary should retain:
+
+- the configured repair budget in prompt inspection and preparation output
+  contracts;
+- the number of corrective calls actually made in completed validation;
+- cumulative PromptKit token usage across initial and corrective calls; and
+- the final candidate and final validation result only, consistent with the
+  PromptKit contract.
+
+Prompt inspection and preparation provenance must require the repair budget to
+match the exact expected prompt definition just as they currently require the
+format, validation mode, and schema path to match. A zero-attempt successful
+result is normal when the first candidate passes. A repair-exhausted result
+continues through WeatherReporter's ordinary `validation_rejected` failure
+path, and an operational or generation failure during correction remains that
+profile's ordinary operational failure.
+
+For concurrent comparison, every profile should use the same prompt repair
+budget. A corrective call remains part of that profile's one prepared
+execution and uses PromptKit's existing backend capacity pool. One profile's
+repair or failure must not cancel independent peers.
+
+## Repair Observability And Comparison Contract
+
+The actual repair count is safe operational provenance and should be visible
+where WeatherReporter already reports completed validation. Generation, batch,
+and comparison action summaries should expose it without exposing candidates,
+schemas, or diagnostics. Explicit execution debug output should add it to the
+validation object alongside PromptKit's already mapped cumulative usage.
+
+Profile comparison needs this value in `comparison.json`: a successful result
+that required correction is materially different from a first-pass success
+when evaluating model reliability, latency, and cost. The manifest should
+therefore advance to `weatherreporter.comparison.v2` and add a non-negative
+`repairAttempts` field to each result. The field is zero when no corrective
+call began, including ordinary first-pass success. A failure carries the count
+when PromptKit returned a completed validation result; it is omitted only when
+execution failed before a completed validation result made the value known.
+
+The v2 manifest should remain flat, strict, deterministic, and atomically
+published. WeatherReporter does not need to preserve v1 replacement
+compatibility: comparison bundles are operator-owned development outputs, and
+the current integration contract intentionally recognizes only its current
+schema. The release notes and comparison documentation must call out the
+version change so an operator can remove or relocate an older bundle before
+using guarded replacement at the same destination.
+
+## Credential Semantics
+
+PromptKit v0.7.0 treats `APIKeyEnv` as an optional lookup source. If the
+environment variable is absent or blank and no direct credential is supplied,
+the built-in client omits `Authorization` and lets the endpoint respond.
+`APIKeyRequired` is the distinct signal that a usable credential must be
+provided locally.
+
+WeatherReporter cannot supply PromptKit's request-scoped direct API-key value,
+so a profile reporting `APIKeyRequired` remains unsupported and must fail
+before weather collection. WeatherReporter should not require a nonblank value
+for an optional `APIKeyEnv` during application preflight. The built-in client
+should omit `Authorization` when that source is unavailable and let the
+endpoint return any authentication failure through the ordinary structured
+generation-error path.
+
+## Structured Generation Failures
+
+PromptKit v0.7.0's `GenerationError` can report a provider HTTP status plus
+bounded provider code, type, and message. WeatherReporter should consume that
+type only inside the PromptKit adapter and map any adopted fields into a
+project-owned immutable error. PromptKit dependency types must not become app
+or CLI contracts.
+
+HTTP status is safe enough for ordinary diagnostics. Provider code, type, and
+message remain untrusted and may contain request or schema fragments. They
+must never enter ordinary errors, action summaries, comparison manifests,
+logs, generated reports, or Distributor payloads. The full structured
+diagnostic belongs only in an explicitly requested secure `--llm-debug-dir`
+`failure.json` artifact. That artifact may contain PromptKit's normalized
+bounded fields but never the raw provider body, headers, endpoint, credentials,
+or reconstructed request.
+
+Initial-call and corrective-call non-2xx responses should follow the same
+mapping. Cancellation and deadline categories continue to take precedence over
+provider classification where PromptKit preserves those identities.
+
+## Testing Policy
+
+The default suite must remain deterministic, offline, and credential-free.
+Use injected PromptKit clients and synthetic embedded or temporary assets for
+consumer behavior; do not call OpenRouter, Rakestrawhome, or a local endpoint.
+
+Risk-based coverage should include:
+
+- all embedded prompts and inherited domain profiles inspecting successfully
+  under PromptKit `v0.8.0`;
+- unchanged effective targets and report-to-profile assignments after the
+  alias refactor;
+- external standalone and derived profile precedence, plus selected missing,
+  cyclic, and malformed-base failures at the WeatherReporter boundary;
+- end-to-end preflight and prepared execution through the maintained
+  endpoint-only `weather-light` override without exposing its endpoint;
+- offline inspection of `rakestrawhome-gemma-4-31b`;
+- a first-pass valid result with zero repairs;
+- an invalid structured result repaired successfully within one corrective
+  call;
+- one-attempt exhaustion returning failed validation and no published report;
+- a corrective generation failure retaining its safe category and provider
+  status policy;
+- cumulative usage and actual repair-count mapping;
+- comparison peers remaining independent when one profile repairs, exhausts,
+  or fails;
+- v2 comparison manifest validation and guarded replacement; and
+- absent or blank optional `APIKeyEnv` values reaching the provider without an
+  `Authorization` header, while `APIKeyRequired` profiles fail preflight.
+
+Do not reproduce PromptKit's internal matrices for path traversal, JSON tree
+bounds, response framing, inheritance depth, repair prompt construction, or
+provider-detail normalization. WeatherReporter tests should protect only its
+adapter mappings, application policy, provenance, publication, and public
+contracts. Run ordinary and race-enabled repository tests because the repaired
+execution path participates in concurrent comparisons.
+
+## Documentation And Release Impact
+
+Implementation must update each canonical owner whose contract changes:
+
+- `docs/policy/architecture.md` for prompt-execution, credential, diagnostic,
+  and comparison invariants;
+- `docs/config.md` and the maintained local profile example for profile-source,
+  inheritance, and credential semantics;
+- `docs/integrations/promptkit.md` for exact prompt versions, repair policy,
+  profile composition, Rakestrawhome availability, and safe errors;
+- `docs/integrations/comparison-bundle.md` for the v2 manifest and repair count;
+- `docs/cli.md` for repair-count fields in action summaries;
+- `docs/operations.md` for changed failure behavior and any explicit provider
+  diagnostic capture;
+- focused internal PromptKit adapter, app orchestration, prompt-debug, and
+  comparison documentation; and
+- release notes for the dependency jump, prompt version change, possible
+  additional model call, credential behavior, profile inheritance, diagnostic
+  behavior, and comparison schema change.
+
+Current-state documentation must not describe this behavior until the
+implementation lands. PromptKit remains the canonical owner of its complete
+built-in catalogs, YAML merge rules, transport limits, corrective-message
+construction, and public Go API.
+
+## Scope
+
+The completed feature includes:
+
+- the direct module upgrade and tidy dependency graph;
+- a v0.6.0 compatibility audit of WeatherReporter's supported PromptKit paths;
+- inherited WeatherReporter domain profile definitions with unchanged
+  effective targets;
+- correction of application preflight so PromptKit endpoint-only profiles work
+  as documented while retaining a required model identity;
+- ordinary access to the Rakestrawhome built-in profile;
+- PromptKit's optional-credential policy, while direct-key-required profiles
+  remain unsupported;
+- `repair_attempts` on all operational prompts and exact prompt-version bumps;
+- project-owned repair budget, actual-attempt, usage, and provenance mappings;
+- repair observability in action summaries, explicit debug output, and a v2
+  comparison manifest;
+- safe provider HTTP status in ordinary errors and bounded provider detail only
+  in explicit secure debug capture;
+- focused offline and race-enabled regression coverage; and
+- canonical current-state and release documentation updated with the code.
+
+## Non-Goals
+
+This upgrade does not include:
+
+- application-implemented repair prompts or provider transport;
+- retries for HTTP, network, timeout, capacity, or other operational failures;
+- automatic profile escalation, fallback, ranking, or resampling;
+- changing the weather profile ladder, default report assignments, or concrete
+  model targets beyond inheriting their maintained PromptKit definitions;
+- making Rakestrawhome a default or adding provider-specific configuration;
+- live-provider tests or a permanent benchmark framework;
+- exposing raw provider responses or sensitive diagnostics routinely;
+- a general prompt-source or pipeline plugin system; or
+- compatibility shims for PromptKit versions older than `v0.8.0`.
+
+## Completion Criteria
+
+The roadmap is complete when:
+
+- `go.mod` and `go.sum` resolve PromptKit `v0.8.0` without a replacement,
+  workspace, or vendor tree;
+- all PromptKit v0.6.0 compatibility points relevant to WeatherReporter have
+  been checked and valid supported inputs retain project-owned error identity;
+- the three WeatherReporter profiles inherit the intended PromptKit built-ins,
+  retain their logical IDs, and inspect to the intended effective targets;
+- external standalone and inherited overrides obey documented precedence and
+  failure behavior;
+- the maintained endpoint-only local override passes application preflight,
+  retains an empty backend ID, and keeps its endpoint out of ordinary values;
+- `rakestrawhome-gemma-4-31b` is selectable through ordinary generation and
+  comparison paths without WeatherReporter backend registration;
+- every operational prompt has one bounded repair attempt at exact
+  version `2.1.0`;
+- inspection, preparation, execution, debug, and comparison values accurately
+  preserve configured and actual repair counts;
+- first-pass success, repaired success, repair exhaustion, repair generation
+  failure, and explicit empty content follow the documented outcomes;
+- the v2 comparison bundle distinguishes first-pass and repaired results;
+- credential preflight accepts absent optional environment credentials while
+  rejecting direct-key-required profiles, and provider-error disclosure does
+  not leak sensitive values;
+- the default test suite is offline and deterministic, ordinary and race
+  validation pass, and no redundant upstream implementation suite is copied;
+  and
+- every implemented contract is documented by its canonical current-state
+  owner and disclosed in the eventual release notes.