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# Repository Audit Ledger
Status: In progress; Stages 1-6 complete.
This temporary roadmap document is the evidence ledger for the staged audit
defined by [the audit plan](audit-plan.md). It records audit evidence and
status, not implemented product behavior. Current contracts remain with the
canonical owners identified by the
[documentation policy](../policy/documentation.md).
## Executive Summary
Stage 1 established a clean, reproducible baseline. The repository-wide test
suite, CLI help check, formatting check, and vet check all pass. Stage 2 found
that the implemented package graph and principal workflows follow the intended
dependency direction and assigned ownership. It recorded one low-severity
candidate finding for unused internal persistence helpers left outside the
documented stateless workflows. Stage 3 found one medium-severity correctness
defect in wall-clock window construction on daylight-saving transition days
and one medium-severity test gap around Daily run-ID uniqueness. Report
registry identities, command and configuration lookup policies, batch
membership, civil-day periods, and rolling-hour periods otherwise match their
documented contracts. Stage 4 found three medium-severity validation defects:
unsupported missing-source keys are silently accepted, two single-report
notification identities may render blank, and programmatically constructed
report overrides are silently ignored. It also found one low-severity secret
loading atomicity defect. Defaults, file and CLI precedence, strict YAML field
handling, active Promptkit settings, output-path preservation, and maintained
examples otherwise match their contracts. Stage 5 found two medium-severity
CLI correctness defects: operating-system
interrupts never become workflow cancellation, and generate validates report
dates only after constructing its executor. It also found a medium-severity
test gap around assembled generate and ordinary batch result/exit behavior.
Command ownership, flag acceptance, output routing, quiet mode, comparison
error bounding, and the implemented result-to-exit mapping otherwise follow
the documented contract. Stage 6 found four medium-severity defects at the
Weather API boundary: unsupported URL schemes pass validation until transport,
non-2xx response bodies flow verbatim into normal diagnostics, the nominal
response limit silently truncates instead of rejecting oversized bodies, and
required hourly products accept periods without usable time bounds. It also
found one low-severity retry-policy defect because warmup retries permanent
HTTP failures. Source availability policy, checked-empty products, query
construction, cancellation, provenance, normalization ownership, and focused
offline fixtures otherwise match their contracts. Subsystem conclusions and
final disposition remain pending the later stages.
## Baseline Metadata
| Item | Recorded baseline |
| --- | --- |
| Audit date | 2026-08-12 (UTC) |
| Commit | `e7c7262404ba0e8e74009ed840d38f7a0142b347` (`Add audit workflow plan`) |
| Expected commit from audit plan | `151c536cb91ebedb6039270b752bae219dfe33d0` (`Add comparison diagnostics to the future roadmap`) |
| Baseline difference | The audit uses the current `main`, one commit ahead of the expected commit. The intervening commit adds the audit workflow plan used to conduct this audit. |
| Branch | `main` |
| Initial worktree | Clean; `git status --porcelain=v1` produced no entries before the audit ledger was created. |
| Go toolchain | `go version go1.26.5 linux/amd64`; `go env GOVERSION` reported `go1.26.5`. |
| Module | `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/weatherreporter`; module file `/home/eric/Workspace/weatherreporter/go.mod`; `go 1.26`. |
| Workspace context | Module mode with no `go.work`; `go env GOWORK` was empty and the repository contains only `./go.mod`. |
| Graph project | `home-eric-Workspace-weatherreporter` |
| Graph refresh | Refreshed from the baseline checkout in `moderate` mode without a persisted artifact: 2,674 nodes and 11,572 edges. The indexer excluded `docs`, `examples`, embedded-asset directories, and test-data directories, so their inventories below come from tracked files rather than the graph. |
| Baseline exclusions | None. There were no pre-existing worktree changes. |
| Environmental limitations | None encountered. Validation was deterministic and offline. |
## Scope And Inventory
Stage 1 inventories the checked-out repository without judging subsystem
correctness or test sufficiency. The repository has 219 tracked files. Its Go
inventory contains 24 packages, 83 non-test source files, and 50 test files.
### Go Packages And Files
| Package directory | Production `.go` files | `_test.go` files |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| `cmd/weatherreporter` | 1 | 0 |
| `internal/adapters/distributor` | 1 | 1 |
| `internal/adapters/promptkit` | 1 | 1 |
| `internal/adapters/weatherapi` | 1 | 1 |
| `internal/app` | 10 | 11 |
| `internal/briefing` | 21 | 6 |
| `internal/buildinfo` | 1 | 0 |
| `internal/cli` | 4 | 5 |
| `internal/collect` | 1 | 1 |
| `internal/comparison` | 2 | 2 |
| `internal/config` | 7 | 2 |
| `internal/facts` | 1 | 1 |
| `internal/fileutil` | 1 | 1 |
| `internal/forecast` | 3 | 1 |
| `internal/generatedtext` | 8 | 7 |
| `internal/module` | 1 | 1 |
| `internal/promptassets` | 1 | 1 |
| `internal/promptdebug` | 1 | 1 |
| `internal/promptexec` | 2 | 1 |
| `internal/promptinput` | 1 | 1 |
| `internal/report` | 8 | 1 |
| `internal/reporttemplate` | 2 | 1 |
| `internal/timeutil` | 3 | 2 |
| `internal/weatherdata` | 1 | 1 |
| **Total** | **83** | **50** |
### Fixtures
Nine tracked fixtures are present:
- `internal/adapters/weatherapi/testdata/alerts.json`
- `internal/adapters/weatherapi/testdata/convective_outlooks.json`
- `internal/adapters/weatherapi/testdata/current.json`
- `internal/adapters/weatherapi/testdata/discussion.json`
- `internal/adapters/weatherapi/testdata/hourly.json`
- `internal/adapters/weatherapi/testdata/narrative.json`
- `internal/adapters/weatherapi/testdata/observations.json`
- `internal/adapters/weatherapi/testdata/weather_story.json`
- `internal/forecast/testdata/daily_bundle.json`
### Embedded Assets
The three `//go:embed` declarations cover 26 tracked assets:
- one SPC definition file under `internal/briefing/assets/`;
- three Promptkit profiles, ten prompt files, and four generated-text schemas
under `internal/promptassets/assets/`; and
- four report templates and four template partials under
`internal/reporttemplate/templates/`.
The exact embedding owners are
`internal/briefing/spc_convective_outlook_definitions.go`,
`internal/promptassets/promptassets.go`, and
`internal/reporttemplate/reporttemplate.go`.
### Canonical Documents And Maintained Examples
There are 38 tracked, non-roadmap canonical documents and three maintained
example files. The canonical inventory is:
- product and maintainer references: `README.md`, `docs/cli.md`,
`docs/config.md`, `docs/development.md`, `docs/operations.md`,
`docs/release.md`, and `docs/templates.md`;
- policies: `docs/policy/architecture.md`,
`docs/policy/documentation.md`, and `docs/policy/testing.md`;
- architecture decisions: `docs/adr/0001-stateless-execution.md`;
- integration contracts: `docs/integrations/comparison-bundle.md`,
`docs/integrations/promptkit.md`, `docs/integrations/weatherapi.md`, and the
three documents under `docs/integrations/distributor/`;
- internal documents: all 17 tracked documents under `docs/internal/`; and
- release notes: the four tracked documents under `docs/releases/`.
The maintained examples are `examples/config.yml`,
`examples/minimal-config.yml`, and
`examples/weather-light-local-profile.yml`. Roadmaps are coordination records,
not canonical current-state documents; the four pre-existing roadmap files are
therefore outside the canonical count.
## Baseline Validation
| Command | Result | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `go test ./...` | Pass | Exit 0. All 24 packages were evaluated; 22 package test suites passed and `cmd/weatherreporter` plus `internal/buildinfo` reported no test files. |
| `go run ./cmd/weatherreporter --help` | Pass | Exit 0. Help printed usage for help, version, four report generators, two batch commands, and comparison. |
| `git diff --check` | Pass | Exit 0 with no output on the clean pre-ledger baseline. |
| `go vet ./...` | Pass | Exit 0 with no diagnostics. |
Supplementary baseline commands were `git rev-parse HEAD`,
`git rev-list --left-right --count 151c536...HEAD`,
`git status --porcelain=v1`, `git branch --show-current`, `go version`,
`go env GOVERSION GOMOD GOWORK GO111MODULE`, `go list ./...`, tracked-file
inventory commands, graph index refresh, and graph architecture inspection.
## Stage Coverage
| Stage | Scope | Status |
| ---: | --- | --- |
| 1 | Establish the baseline and audit ledger | Complete |
| 2 | Audit architecture and dependency direction | Complete |
| 3 | Audit report identity and time foundations | Complete |
| 4 | Audit configuration, secrets, and validation | Complete |
| 5 | Audit CLI parsing, wiring, and output contracts | Complete |
| 6 | Audit weather data acquisition and collection | Complete |
| 7 | Audit forecast and fact derivation | Pending |
| 8 | Audit module contracts, registry, and source-facing briefing modules | Pending |
| 9 | Audit derived, planning, formatting, and SPC briefing modules | Pending |
| 10 | Audit prompt inputs, assets, and neutral execution contracts | Pending |
| 11 | Audit Promptkit adaptation and secure prompt debugging | Pending |
| 12 | Audit generated-text validation and catalog contracts | Pending |
| 13 | Audit render contexts, templates, and Markdown rendering | Pending |
| 14 | Audit application preparation and prompt preflight | Pending |
| 15 | Audit single-report generation and atomic output | Pending |
| 16 | Audit batch orchestration and Distributor notification | Pending |
| 17 | Audit comparison contracts and transactional publication | Pending |
| 18 | Audit comparison execution and CLI integration | Pending |
| 19 | Audit test hermeticity and execution hygiene | Pending |
| 20 | Audit test risk coverage and ownership | Pending |
| 21 | Audit test durability, duplication, and maintenance cost | Pending |
| 22 | Audit cross-cutting efficiency and complexity | Pending |
| 23 | Audit cross-cutting refactoring and deduplication opportunities | Pending |
| 24 | Audit documentation coherence and executable contracts | Pending |
| 25 | Run dynamic robustness and final diagnostic validation | Pending |
| 26 | Verify, consolidate, and triage findings | Pending |
| 27 | Produce the remediation roadmap and close the audit | Pending |
## Risk-To-Test Coverage
Stage 1 records where tests exist but does not infer sufficiency from package
counts or a passing suite. Assigned stages will replace these pending entries
with evidence about meaningful risks, test ownership, gaps, and duplication.
| Risk area | Current test owner or evidence source | Audit stage | Coverage assessment |
| --- | --- | ---: | --- |
| Architecture and dependency direction | Assembled app and CLI tests; graph traces | 2 | Sufficient at the architectural boundary: direct imports are acyclic, external dependency types remain adapter-local, and representative workflow ordering and publication boundaries have focused tests. `AUD-001` records unused persistence APIs that do not participate in normal execution. |
| Report identity, periods, dates, and timezones | `internal/report`, `internal/timeutil`, plus focused `internal/app` and `internal/forecast` callers | 3 | Partly insufficient. Registry identities, alias policies, batch membership, civil-day boundaries, and elapsed six-hour periods are coherent and exercised. `AUD-002` records incorrect wall-clock windows on daylight-saving transition days, and `AUD-003` records the missing regression test for Daily run-ID uniqueness across dates. |
| Configuration, validation, and secrets | `internal/config`, focused `internal/cli` and Promptkit adapter mapping, maintained examples | 4 | Partly insufficient. Defaults, precedence, known-field parsing, active URL/duration/template checks, output-path preservation, profile-source rules, secret redaction, and examples are exercised. `AUD-004` through `AUD-007` record unsupported missing-source keys, blank notification identities, constructed-report override inconsistency, and non-atomic secret environment mutation. |
| CLI parsing, output, and exit behavior | `cmd/weatherreporter`, `internal/cli`, representative app-facing CLI tests | 5 | Partly insufficient. Command/flag ownership, paths, one-executor mapping, stream separation, quiet mode, comparison safe errors, and visible result/exit rules are coherent. `AUD-008` records missing signal cancellation, `AUD-009` records late generate date validation, and `AUD-010` records missing assembled non-comparison CLI protection. |
| Weather transport and normalized collection | `internal/adapters/weatherapi`, `internal/collect`, `internal/weatherdata` | 6 | Partly insufficient. All eight source requests, required/optional policy, checked-empty products, retryable source statuses, cancellation, normalized provenance, and collection error ownership have focused offline coverage. `AUD-011` through `AUD-015` record unsupported schemes, unsafe response-body diagnostics, an unenforced body-size limit, structurally invalid required hourly periods, and overbroad warmup retries. |
| Forecast and fact derivation | `internal/forecast`, `internal/facts` | 7 | Pending |
| Module and briefing contracts | `internal/module`, `internal/briefing` | 8-9 | Pending |
| Prompt inputs, embedded assets, and execution contracts | `internal/promptinput`, `internal/promptassets`, `internal/promptexec` | 10 | Pending |
| Promptkit boundary and sensitive debug output | `internal/adapters/promptkit`, `internal/promptdebug` | 11 | Pending |
| Generated-text validation | `internal/generatedtext` | 12 | Pending |
| Render contexts and templates | `internal/generatedtext`, `internal/reporttemplate` | 13 | Pending |
| Prompt preflight and prepared inputs | `internal/app` | 14 | Pending |
| Single-report publication and preservation | `internal/app`, `internal/fileutil` | 15 | Pending |
| Batch partial success and notification | `internal/app`, `internal/adapters/distributor` | 16 | Pending |
| Comparison identity and transactional publication | `internal/comparison` | 17 | Pending |
| Comparison concurrency and CLI behavior | `internal/app`, `internal/cli` | 18 | Pending |
| Hermeticity, execution hygiene, portfolio coverage, and durability | Repository-wide suite | 19-21 | Pending |
| Cross-cutting efficiency and maintainability | Graph metrics plus focused tests | 22-23 | Pending |
| Documentation and executable-contract coherence | Canonical documents, code, schemas, templates, examples | 24 | Pending |
| Dynamic robustness and diagnostic checks | Repository-wide deterministic checks | 25 | Pending |
## Findings
### AUD-001: Unused persistence helpers remain after the stateless redesign
- Stage: 2
- Status: candidate
- Severity: low
- Confidence: high
- Category: architecture
- Area: `internal/promptinput.Save`,
`internal/adapters/weatherapi.SaveBundle`, and
`internal/fileutil.WriteJSONAtomic`
- Evidence: Graph inbound traces show `promptinput.Save` has no callers,
`weatherapi.SaveBundle` is called only by `TestSaveBundle`, and
`fileutil.WriteJSONAtomic` is called only by `SaveBundle` and its focused
test. Repository text search found no documentation or other call sites.
Representative generate, batch, comparison, and collection traces do not
reach any of these helpers. `promptinput.Save` and `SaveBundle` write
intermediate prompt input or normalized weather data to arbitrary paths,
while normal publication uses `fileutil.WriteFileAtomic` for selected
Markdown and `comparison.Publish` for selected bundles.
- Contract at risk: The architecture policy and ADR 0001 define normal
execution as an in-memory stateless transformation whose durable files are
operator-selected report outputs, comparison bundles, or explicitly
requested secure prompt debugging.
- Impact: These unreachable exported functions do not create state during
current workflows, but they retain an unsupported persistence surface and
low-value tests that can invite accidental reintroduction of intermediate
artifacts or require maintenance despite having no product caller.
- Recommendation: Remove the two unused domain/adapter save functions, remove
`WriteJSONAtomic` if it then has no production use, and delete or consolidate
tests that protect only those retired APIs.
- Test implications: `TestSaveBundle` and `TestWriteJSONAtomic` protect unused
persistence mechanisms; `promptinput.Save` has no focused test. Preserve
tests for `WriteFileAtomic`, normal report publication, comparison
publication, and explicit prompt-debug writes.
- Validation: Graph and text searches show no remaining production references
to the retired helpers; `go test ./...` passes; normal output, comparison,
and debug-publication tests remain unchanged and pass.
- Related findings: none
- Remediation reference: pending
### AUD-002: Clock windows shift on daylight-saving transition days
- Stage: 3
- Status: candidate
- Severity: medium
- Confidence: high
- Category: correctness
- Area: `internal/timeutil.ClockWindow` and
`internal/forecast.ResolveDayparts`
- Evidence: `ClockWindow` obtains the local civil-day start and creates its
boundaries with elapsed-duration additions such as
`day.Start.Add(17 * time.Hour)`. In `America/Chicago`, adding 17 elapsed
hours to local midnight produces 18:00 on the 2026-03-08 spring transition
and 16:00 on the 2026-11-01 fall transition; adding six hours produces
07:00 and 05:00 respectively. Its only production caller is
`forecast.ResolveDayparts`, which uses those boundaries for daily summaries
and facts. The focused time test covers only an overnight window in a fixed
offset zone, so both transition cases pass unnoticed.
- Contract at risk: Configured daypart clocks are local wall-clock boundaries.
Civil-day and timezone policy requires those clocks to retain their stated
local hour across 23-hour and 25-hour days.
- Impact: On daylight-saving transition dates, observations can enter or leave
a configured daypart an hour early or late, shifting derived daily summaries
and any downstream facts or report content that consume them.
- Recommendation: Construct each boundary as a civil date plus local clock in
the target location, including explicit handling for `24:00` and overnight
windows, rather than adding elapsed hours to midnight.
- Test implications: Add table-driven `America/Chicago` coverage for both
spring-forward and fall-back dates, asserting the requested wall-clock start
and end and the intended overnight date rollover. Retain the existing
half-open period assertions.
- Validation: The new regression test fails against the elapsed-addition
implementation and passes when transition-day boundaries retain their
configured local clocks; focused `timeutil` and `forecast` suites pass.
- Related findings: none
- Remediation reference: pending
### AUD-003: Daily run-ID uniqueness lacks a focused contract test
- Stage: 3
- Status: candidate
- Severity: medium
- Confidence: high
- Category: testing
- Area: `internal/report.Resolved.runID`,
`validStartDateRunIDDisambiguator`, and focused report tests
- Evidence: Daily run IDs append the resolved valid-start date to the shared
generation timestamp and report ID. This distinguishes multiple Daily
reports planned for different dates in one batch, where `GeneratedAt` is the
same. Focused report tests assert that registry identities are nonempty and
app tests use nonempty or fixture run IDs, but no test resolves two Daily
dates at one clock instant and asserts distinct IDs. Downstream
`plannedReportsByRunID` rejects duplicate IDs before building a batch
notification, and Distributor idempotency also consumes the run ID.
- Contract at risk: A run ID must identify one resolved report product, while
one batch may legitimately contain several Daily products for different
valid dates.
- Impact: An accidental removal or weakening of the date disambiguator can
give distinct Daily products the same identity, causing batch notification
construction to fail and creating Distributor idempotency collisions even
though the existing focused suite remains green.
- Recommendation: Add a focused report test that resolves two Daily dates with
the same injected `Now`, asserts distinct nonempty run IDs, and verifies that
each ID carries the corresponding valid-start date. Prefer this relational
contract over freezing unrelated timestamp formatting.
- Test implications: The regression must fail if the Daily disambiguator is
removed while allowing harmless changes to the common run-ID timestamp
representation. An app-level assertion may additionally protect the
multi-Daily batch consumer, but should not duplicate the report invariant.
- Validation: Removing the date disambiguator makes the new focused test fail;
with the invariant intact, report and multi-Daily batch tests pass and
`plannedReportsByRunID` receives unique keys.
- Related findings: none
- Remediation reference: pending
### AUD-004: Unsupported missing-source keys are silently accepted
- Stage: 4
- Status: candidate
- Severity: medium
- Confidence: high
- Category: correctness
- Area: `internal/config.Validate`, `MissingSourceConfig.Sources`, and
`internal/adapters/weatherapi.policyFor`
- Evidence: The configuration contract lists seven optional source keys and
states that hourly forecast data is always required. `Validate` checks only
that each map key is nonblank and its policy is one of `error`, `warn`, or
`none`; it never checks the key against the supported set. The Weather API
adapter looks up policies by its own literal source names and otherwise uses
the default. Its required-hourly path returns an error before consulting the
policy. Consequently a typo such as `alert: error`, an arbitrary key, or an
ineffective `hourly: none` loads successfully. Focused config tests cover an
invalid policy value but no unsupported key.
- Contract at risk: `missing_source.sources` accepts only the documented
optional source identities, and invalid configuration must fail loading
rather than silently changing the effective failure policy.
- Impact: An operator can believe a source-specific `error`, `warn`, or `none`
rule is active while runtime collection ignores it and applies the default;
the mistake is visible only when that source is missing or malformed.
- Recommendation: Give `internal/config` one authoritative supported-source
set and reject every other key, including `hourly`. Keep adapter source names
aligned with that owner without introducing a second independently maintained
list.
- Test implications: Add loaded and constructed configuration cases for every
supported key plus representative typo, unknown, blank, and required-hourly
keys. Assert behavior through `Validate` or `LoadFile`, not private map
iteration.
- Validation: The new unsupported-key cases fail against the current validator
and pass when validation rejects keys that cannot affect optional-source
policy; focused config and Weather API policy tests remain green.
- Related findings: none
- Remediation reference: pending
### AUD-005: Single-report notification identities may render blank
- Stage: 4
- Status: candidate
- Severity: medium
- Confidence: high
- Category: correctness
- Area: `validateDistributorNotify`, `RenderDistributorBundleID`, and
`RenderDistributorIdempotencyKey`
- Evidence: Enabled single-report notification validation rejects an empty
template and unknown variables, and `RenderDistributorPipelineID` rejects a
whitespace-only result. In contrast, the bundle-ID and idempotency-key
renderers return whitespace unchanged and validation does not perform a
nonblank result check. Batch renderers consistently reject whitespace-only
pipeline, bundle, and idempotency identities. The Distributor adapter checks
only equality with the empty string, so whitespace values also pass its
local request checks. Focused tests cover the single pipeline case and all
three batch cases, but omit the two single-report cases.
- Contract at risk: Enabled notification requires usable pipeline, bundle, and
idempotency identities; configuration validation must reject invalid active
templates before report execution.
- Impact: A whitespace bundle ID or idempotency key can reach Distributor after
report publication, risking rejected uploads or collisions between otherwise
distinct report deliveries while configuration preflight reports success.
- Recommendation: Apply the same trimmed-nonempty invariant to all three
single-report identity renderers and exercise those renderers during active
configuration validation.
- Test implications: Extend the existing single-report validation table with
whitespace-rendered bundle and idempotency identities, and retain the batch
table as the parallel contract owner.
- Validation: Both new cases fail against the current single-report renderers
and pass when all active rendered identities are nonblank; focused config,
app notification, and Distributor adapter tests pass.
- Related findings: none
- Remediation reference: pending
### AUD-006: Constructed report overrides depend on inaccessible presence flags
- Stage: 4
- Status: candidate
- Severity: medium
- Confidence: high
- Category: correctness
- Area: `ReportConfig`, `ReportDistributorConfig`,
`Config.ReportModuleOverrides`, and
`Config.ReportDistributorPathOverrides`
- Evidence: YAML unmarshalling sets private `deterministicModulesSet` and
`pathTemplatesSet` flags to distinguish omission from an explicit list.
Both public override accessors skip exported `DeterministicModules` and
`PathTemplates` values unless the corresponding private flag is true. Code
outside package `config` therefore cannot construct an equivalent override:
setting a nonempty exported slice in `Config.Reports` is silently ignored,
and `Validate` skips its contents as well. Tests named for loaded/constructed
consistency reside inside package `config` and manually set the private
flags, so they do not exercise the configuration shape available to app
callers. Graph traces show the accessors feed app report resolution and
single/batch Distributor path rendering.
- Contract at risk: Loaded and programmatically constructed configurations
with the same exported values should validate and produce the same report
module and path overrides.
- Impact: Repository callers and tests that construct a `config.Config` can
silently run default modules or Distributor paths instead of their requested
values, while invalid constructed overrides can pass validation unused.
- Recommendation: Represent presence through an API available to downstream
callers, such as constructors/setters or an optional-list representation
that preserves omitted versus explicitly empty YAML without private state
that exported values cannot establish.
- Test implications: Move or add behavior tests from an external config test
package or an app boundary so they can use only exported construction APIs;
assert both nonempty overrides and explicit-empty rejection.
- Validation: The external-boundary test fails with direct exported-field
construction today and passes when loaded and constructed forms yield the
same overrides and validation result.
- Related findings: none
- Remediation reference: pending
### AUD-007: Failed configuration loads can leave secrets applied
- Stage: 4
- Status: candidate
- Severity: low
- Confidence: high
- Category: security
- Area: `internal/config.Load` and `loadSecrets`
- Evidence: `Load` calls `loadSecrets` before `Validate`. The secret loader
validates and applies directory entries one at a time with `os.Setenv`, with
no preflight of all entries and no restoration of prior environment values.
A valid secret is therefore installed even when later configuration
validation fails, and an earlier secret remains installed when a later
invalid entry, unreadable value, or failed environment assignment aborts the
directory load. Existing tests cover successful replacement, line-ending
trimming, rejection diagnostics, and omission of secret values from errors,
but do not assert failure atomicity.
- Contract at risk: A rejected configuration should not partially apply its
secret-bearing environment interaction, and repeatable in-process loads
should not inherit state from an unsuccessful attempt.
- Impact: The normal CLI process exits after a load failure, limiting the
operational effect, but embedded runners, repeated actions, and tests can
observe or consume credentials from a configuration that was never accepted.
- Recommendation: Validate non-secret configuration before secret application,
preflight and read the complete secret directory before mutation, and either
apply environment changes atomically with rollback or return a scoped lookup
rather than mutating process-global state incrementally.
- Test implications: Add cases for a valid secret followed by an invalid entry
and for valid secrets paired with a later-invalid configuration, asserting
that prior set/unset environment state is restored.
- Validation: Both failure cases leave the environment exactly as it was before
loading; successful overwrite and single-line-ending behavior remain intact.
- Related findings: none
- Remediation reference: pending
### AUD-008: Process interrupts do not cancel active workflows
- Stage: 5
- Status: candidate
- Severity: medium
- Confidence: high
- Category: correctness
- Area: `cmd/weatherreporter.main` and CLI cancellation propagation
- Evidence: `main` calls `cli.Run` with `context.Background()`. Repository code
search found no `signal.Notify`, `signal.NotifyContext`, `os.Interrupt`, or
termination-signal handling. `Runner.Run` correctly forwards the supplied
context to generate, batch, and comparison workflows, and focused app tests
prove that context cancellation prevents pending publication and joins
comparison execution. The production executable never supplies a context
that an operator interrupt can cancel, so those paths are reachable only by
programmatic callers and tests.
- Contract at risk: Documented cancellation failures must reach workflow
cancellation checks so pre-publication destinations are preserved and a
bounded failed result can be finalized when available.
- Impact: `SIGINT` or `SIGTERM` terminates the process abruptly instead of
canceling in-flight collection, Promptkit work, publication preflight, or
notification. The CLI cannot emit its documented canceled result path or
allow workflow cleanup/coordination to finish, increasing interruption risk
around output and comparison transactions.
- Recommendation: Derive the root context from `signal.NotifyContext` for
operator interrupt and termination signals, stop signal delivery on return,
and pass that context through the existing CLI boundary. Preserve the
current nonzero failure exit and bounded error behavior.
- Test implications: Add a narrow executable-boundary test or a testable signal
context seam proving that an interrupt cancels the context passed to CLI.
Keep detailed destination-preservation and goroutine-join assertions with
their existing app/publication owners.
- Validation: An interrupt observed during a controlled blocking action
cancels its workflow context, returns the expected failed/canceled result
when available, and leaves the existing destination intact; ordinary help,
version, and successful exits are unchanged.
- Related findings: `AUD-010`
- Remediation reference: pending
### AUD-009: Generate validates report dates after constructing its executor
- Stage: 5
- Status: candidate
- Severity: medium
- Confidence: high
- Category: correctness
- Area: `internal/cli.Runner.resolveGenerateAction`
- Evidence: Generate validates the command name and syntactic flags, then loads
configuration and constructs the Promptkit executor before checking that
Daily has `--date` or parsing a supplied Daily/Today date. Executor
construction can open and parse configured profile files/directories and can
fail first. The equivalent comparison resolver validates profile selection
before configuration and performs report-date checks before constructing its
one executor. Focused comparison tests assert that input failures construct
no executor, but generate has no corresponding test. The production
`generate daily` diagnostic confirms the missing-date failure is pre-result,
but source tracing shows the executor has already been constructed.
- Contract at risk: Basic command input should be rejected before constructing
an external-dependency adapter or performing work unrelated to the invalid
request; pre-run errors should identify the user's actionable input failure.
- Impact: A missing or malformed report date can instead surface a profile
source/configuration error, needlessly reads configured Promptkit sources,
and follows secret loading from `AUD-007` even though the report request can
never execute.
- Recommendation: After flag parsing, reject a missing Daily date immediately;
then load configuration for the effective timezone, parse/default the date,
resolve paths, and construct the executor only after all request-local
validation succeeds.
- Test implications: Add generate input-failure cases with an injected executor
factory and assert zero factory/application calls and no stdout/stderr for a
missing Daily date, malformed Daily/Today date, unsupported flag, and
unexpected argument. Avoid duplicating `timeutil` parser cases.
- Validation: Every generate input failure returns its input diagnostic without
constructing an executor or emitting a partial summary; valid requests still
construct exactly one executor.
- Related findings: `AUD-007`, `AUD-010`
- Remediation reference: pending
### AUD-010: Assembled non-comparison CLI result paths lack durable tests
- Stage: 5
- Status: candidate
- Severity: medium
- Confidence: high
- Category: testing
- Area: `internal/cli.Runner.Run`, generate/run command tests, and
`cmd/weatherreporter`
- Evidence: The CLI suite directly tests generate summary field copying and
shared output helpers, but has no assembled `Runner.Run` generate success,
result-bearing failure, quiet failure, or pre-result failure test. Generate
calls `app.GenerateDetailed` directly, unlike the injectable batch and
comparison functions, which makes its user-visible wiring difficult to test.
Batch has one assembled notification-failure case but no representative
ordinary success, report partial failure, quiet failure, or returned-error
mapping case. Comparison has comprehensive parser, construction, success,
partial failure, cleanup failure, quiet, and pre-execution tests. The command
package has no test for executable exit or signal behavior.
- Contract at risk: Generate and run must translate result presence, action
status, quiet mode, stdout JSON, batch stderr lines, returned errors, and the
executable's success/failure exit consistently with the CLI reference.
- Impact: A change can suppress a required failed summary, emit routine output
in quiet mode, return success for a failed result, write to the wrong stream,
or construct dependencies for invalid input without a focused CLI test
failing, even while summary-helper and lower app tests remain green.
- Recommendation: Add the smallest generate application injection seam
symmetrical with batch/comparison, then cover one success, one result-bearing
failure, quiet failure, and pre-result failure. Add only representative batch
success/report-failure cases and one executable exit/cancellation check;
leave workflow details with app tests.
- Test implications: Prefer structured JSON/status/error assertions and typed
errors over complete output snapshots or private call choreography. These
tests should own CLI translation, not repeat publication, collection, prompt,
or notification mechanics.
- Validation: Mutations to result/error branching, quiet gating, stream
selection, or failure return status break a focused CLI test, while internal
app refactors that preserve request/result contracts require no CLI edits.
- Related findings: `AUD-008`, `AUD-009`
- Remediation reference: pending
### AUD-011: Unsupported Weather API URL schemes fail only at transport
- Stage: 6
- Status: candidate
- Severity: medium
- Confidence: high
- Category: correctness
- Area: `internal/config.Validate` and
`internal/adapters/weatherapi.New`
- Evidence: Both boundaries accept any parsed absolute URL with a scheme and
host. The adapter always constructs an `http.Request` and executes it with
`http.Client`, so a configured URL such as `ftp://weather.example.test`
passes configuration and adapter construction but fails during warmup with
an unsupported-protocol transport error. The integration contract defines
an HTTP request boundary, and focused configuration and adapter tests cover
malformed or missing URLs but no unsupported absolute scheme.
- Contract at risk: A syntactically valid configuration must select a transport
the Weather API adapter can execute, and intrinsic endpoint incompatibility
should fail validation rather than an attempted collection.
- Impact: An operator can pass configuration validation and Promptkit
preflight only to receive a runtime weather-fetch failure for a base URL that
can never work. This obscures an actionable configuration defect as external
availability and performs avoidable setup before failure.
- Recommendation: Define `http` and `https` as the supported Weather API
schemes, document that bound in the configuration and integration owners,
and reject every other scheme during config validation and defensively in
adapter construction.
- Test implications: Add relational config and adapter cases that accept local
HTTP and HTTPS shapes and reject a representative unsupported absolute URL
without making a request. Do not duplicate generic URL-parser cases.
- Validation: Unsupported schemes fail before Weather API or Promptkit work;
ordinary HTTP test servers and configured HTTPS URLs remain accepted.
- Related findings: none
- Remediation reference: pending
### AUD-012: Weather API failures expose upstream response bodies
- Stage: 6
- Status: candidate
- Severity: medium
- Confidence: high
- Category: security
- Area: `internal/adapters/weatherapi.Client.warmupOnce` and
`fetchHTTPOnce`
- Evidence: Both non-2xx branches interpolate the complete body read by their
10 MiB reader into the returned error. That error is wrapped without
redaction by `fetchHTTP`, `FetchBundle`, and `collect.Run`, then reaches the
application/CLI error path. Focused tests require endpoint and status context
but neither require response text nor prove that marker secrets or large
provider diagnostics are absent. The integration contract promises endpoint
context; it does not make arbitrary upstream bodies part of the diagnostic
contract.
- Contract at risk: Normal errors and summaries must remain bounded and must
not expose provider response detail, credentials echoed by an intermediary,
internal infrastructure diagnostics, or large HTML/error payloads.
- Impact: A failing or compromised service can place up to 10 MiB of arbitrary
text into normal stderr and wrapped action errors. Besides disclosure, this
can overwhelm machine-readable output consumers and make the actionable
endpoint/status diagnostic difficult to use.
- Recommendation: Return the relative endpoint, status code, and a stable
classification only. If response text is operationally necessary, admit a
small sanitized allowlisted excerpt or capture it only through an explicit
secure diagnostic mechanism.
- Test implications: Serve non-2xx bodies containing a unique secret marker and
a large payload; assert that neither appears in the adapter/collection error
while endpoint, status, retry identity, and cancellation remain inspectable.
- Validation: Normal failure output is bounded and marker-free for warmup and
source requests, with existing actionable and retry tests still passing.
- Related findings: `AUD-013`
- Remediation reference: pending
### AUD-013: The Weather API response limit silently truncates bodies
- Stage: 6
- Status: candidate
- Severity: medium
- Confidence: high
- Category: correctness
- Area: `internal/adapters/weatherapi.Client.warmupOnce` and
`fetchHTTPOnce`
- Evidence: Both readers call `io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(resp.Body, 10<<20))`
and never determine whether more bytes remain. Most oversized JSON is
incidentally rejected as truncated syntax, but a complete JSON envelope
followed by enough whitespace or later invalid bytes can be accepted from
the first 10 MiB while the remainder is ignored. Warmup accepts every 2xx
prefix regardless. No focused test defines behavior at, below, or above the
nominal limit.
- Contract at risk: The documented per-response input bound must distinguish a
complete response within the limit from an oversized response; provenance
hashes and decoding must describe the complete accepted source payload.
- Impact: A buggy or hostile service can make Weatherreporter accept a partial
response, hash only its prefix, or treat an oversized warmup as healthy.
Ordinary oversized products usually fail with a misleading JSON decode
error rather than an actionable limit error.
- Recommendation: Give the transport one shared bounded-body reader that reads
at most the maximum plus one byte, rejects excess input explicitly, and is
used by both warmup and source attempts. Keep the configured timeout and body
closure ownership unchanged.
- Test implications: Exercise one response at the limit and one over it,
including a valid JSON prefix with ignored trailing content; assert a stable
size failure and no source decoding or retry for a non-transient size error.
- Validation: No over-limit warmup or source response is accepted, while a
complete at-limit response remains readable and response bodies always
close.
- Related findings: `AUD-012`
- Remediation reference: pending
### AUD-014: Required hourly periods can lack usable time bounds
- Stage: 6
- Status: candidate
- Severity: medium
- Confidence: high
- Category: correctness
- Area: `internal/adapters/weatherapi.bundleBuilder.fetchHourly` and
`internal/weatherdata.ForecastRun`
- Evidence: Required hourly validation rejects a missing/null payload, a JSON
type error, and a zero-length `periods` slice. Go decoding leaves absent
`issuedAt`, `startTime`, and `endTime` fields as zero `time.Time` values, so
`{"data":{"periods":[{}]}}` passes collection with one hourly period.
The adapter also does not reject a period whose end is not after its start.
Downstream period selection depends on those bounds, and the focused required
hourly test covers only explicit `null` rather than structurally unusable
periods.
- Contract at risk: Hourly is the required normalized forecast product; a
present array must contain usable forecast periods rather than merely one
decodable object.
- Impact: Collection can report success and provenance for an hourly product
that cannot contribute to any report period. Later derivation may present an
empty or incomplete forecast as a successful collection instead of the
required-source failure.
- Recommendation: Validate the smallest required hourly invariant at the
normalization boundary: a nonzero issue time if contractually required and,
for every period, nonzero bounds with `endTime` after `startTime`. Keep
meteorological selection and overlap policy in Stage 7 owners.
- Test implications: Add table-driven adapter cases for missing bounds, zero or
reversed duration, and one valid period. Assert direct required-source
failure without duplicating downstream forecast selection tests.
- Validation: Every accepted required hourly period has a usable half-open time
range, and existing valid fixtures still normalize unchanged.
- Related findings: none
- Remediation reference: pending
### AUD-015: Weather API warmup retries permanent HTTP failures
- Stage: 6
- Status: candidate
- Severity: low
- Confidence: high
- Category: correctness
- Area: `internal/adapters/weatherapi.Client.warmup` and `warmupOnce`
- Evidence: Source fetching retries only transport/read failures and the
documented `408`, `429`, `500`, `502`, `503`, and `504` statuses. Warmup uses
a separate attempt implementation and retries every error until its budget
is exhausted, including permanent `400`, `401`, `403`, and `404` responses.
Focused warmup tests cover successful retry of `502` and exhausted `502`,
while the non-retryable status test covers only a source request.
- Contract at risk: The Weather API retry policy distinguishes transient
failures from permanent request/status failures consistently across HTTP
attempts.
- Impact: Permanent warmup failures cause redundant requests and delay an
actionable error by the full retry schedule. The small default budget bounds
the effect, so this is primarily avoidable latency and upstream load.
- Recommendation: Reuse the shared transport attempt classification for
warmup while retaining its distinct success rule that a readable 2xx body
need not decode as a source envelope.
- Test implications: Add a warmup `404` case that makes one request, retain the
`502` retry case, and assert cancellation interrupts its retry delay. Keep
source decoding and optional-source policy tests separate.
- Validation: Warmup retries only the documented transient classes and fails
permanent statuses immediately with endpoint/status context.
- Related findings: none
- Remediation reference: pending
## Retained Decisions
### RET-001: Keep the application package as the explicit composition owner
The package import graph, outbound traces from `GenerateDetailed`,
`RunBatchDetailed`, and `compareDetailed`, and their focused tests were
inspected. `internal/app` has deliberately broad outbound dependencies because
it sequences project-owned domain, collection, execution, publication, and
notification contracts; those dependencies do not point back into app. Splitting
that fan-out merely to reduce a graph metric would obscure workflow ownership.
Reconsider only if a second composition owner emerges or a coherent workflow
can move behind a narrower contract without duplicating ordering policy.
### RET-002: Keep external dependencies behind repository-owned contracts
Production import and data-flow inspection found Promptkit imports only in
`internal/adapters/promptkit` and Distributor imports only in
`internal/adapters/distributor`. The Promptkit adapter implements
`promptexec.Executor`; Weather API collection returns `weatherdata.Bundle`;
and Distributor results are translated before application and CLI summaries.
This explicit translation prevents dependency types and sensitive diagnostics
from becoming application contracts. Reconsider only when an upstream type is
intentionally adopted as a public repository contract with corresponding
architecture and compatibility changes.
### RET-003: Keep publication mechanisms separate by artifact contract
Filesystem-write discovery and call traces were inspected for single reports,
comparison bundles, and secure prompt debugging. `fileutil.WriteFileAtomic`
owns one-file replacement, `comparison.Publish` owns guarded transactional
directory replacement and recovery, and `promptdebug` owns secure explicit
diagnostic files. Their shared use of temporary paths and rename operations is
mechanical similarity, while their authorization, permissions, commit, and
recovery semantics differ materially. Reconsider common abstraction only if
multiple artifact kinds acquire the same complete transaction contract.
### RET-004: Keep collection as a narrow application-facing seam
The `app.Collector` contract, `collect.Run`, the Weather API adapter boundary,
and focused collection tests were inspected. Although `collect.Run` is small,
it keeps adapter creation and error context out of orchestration and gives app
tests a dependency-neutral deterministic seam. Reconsider if collection gains
no additional policy and an equally narrow project-owned adapter contract can
replace it without leaking transport construction into app.
### RET-005: Keep report definitions explicit and independently reviewable
The four registry definitions were compared across stable ID, prompt and
version, template and schema, period resolver, modules, output name,
Distributor paths, and run-ID policy. Their similar structure is contract
data, while meaningful differences include Daily's required date and dynamic
output identity, Today's current local day and Morning membership, Tomorrow's
next local day and both batch memberships, and Hourly's rolling elapsed
period. Explicit definitions make those differences visible and focused tests
assert the exact retained registry surface. Reconsider a shared declarative
builder only if the registry grows enough that it can reduce maintenance while
preserving independent review of every identity field.
### RET-006: Keep command and configuration report lookup policies separate
`IDForCommandName` accepts only the four exact CLI command names, while
`IDForConfigKey` deliberately trims space, folds case, and normalizes hyphens
for configuration keys. Tests also reject retired aliases. Combining the two
lookups because their successful mappings are similar would risk broadening
the CLI contract or narrowing configuration compatibility. Reconsider only if
the accepted-input policies intentionally converge or registry metadata can
generate both maps without changing either boundary.
### RET-007: Keep civil-day and rolling elapsed-time period policies distinct
Daily, Today, and Tomorrow use `CivilDay`, whose `AddDate` boundary correctly
produces 23-hour and 25-hour local days. Hourly instead adds six elapsed hours
to the injected clock, matching its documented rolling-horizon contract.
Batch coverage likewise walks the actual hourly instants within each civil
day, and focused app tests exercise daylight-saving dates. Unifying these
period calculations would conflate calendar and elapsed-time semantics.
Reconsider only if a report's product contract changes which kind of time it
represents.
### RET-008: Keep configured output paths declarative during loading
Configuration preserves a nonblank `output.directory` exactly as supplied and
does not clean, absolutize, inspect, create, expand, or rebase it. App and
publication owners later resolve it against the invocation working directory
and perform destination-specific preflight. This keeps configuration loading
free of working-directory and filesystem lifecycle policy while still rejecting
a meaningless whitespace-only setting. Reconsider only if a new configuration
contract requires an intrinsic path property that can be checked without
assuming an execution destination.
### RET-009: Keep inactive optional integrations free of active-field validation
Distributor templates and delivery settings are validated only when
notification is enabled, and batch templates only when both Distributor and
batch notification are enabled. Likewise, a blank Promptkit local endpoint
means the backend is unregistered and its configured default concurrency is
dormant; CLI mapping forwards the limit only with an endpoint, while the
adapter rejects an active limit without one. This lets complete defaults and
examples describe optional integrations without making unused credentials or
templates mandatory. Reconsider only if dormant configuration must become an
installation-time lint contract distinct from runtime configuration loading.
### RET-010: Keep Promptkit profile source precedence in its adapter boundary
Configuration owns mutual exclusion of `profile_file` and `profile_dir`, URL
and concurrency shape, and the selected profile ID. The Promptkit adapter owns
opening configured sources, complete-definition precedence, embedded and
built-in fallbacks, and classification of malformed profile errors before
collection. Maintained profile tests exercise that boundary offline. Moving
profile parsing into config would duplicate dependency-specific behavior and
leak Promptkit mechanics. Reconsider only if Weatherreporter adopts a
repository-owned profile format independent of Promptkit.
### RET-011: Keep command-specific parsers around one shared flag core
The three action parsers use separate `flag.FlagSet` values so unsupported
flags fail at the command that owns them: generate alone accepts `--out`, run
and compare accept `--out-dir`, compare alone accepts repeated `--profile` and
`--replace`, and only Daily/Today generate or compare accept `--date`.
`addCommonFlags` shares only config, units, timezone, and prompt-debug options.
This small explicit split keeps the acceptance matrix reviewable without a
general command framework. Reconsider if additional actions make the common
registration or post-parse checks materially larger or divergent.
### RET-012: Keep action summaries distinct and bounded by CLI ownership
Generate, batch, and comparison have different public result contracts, so
separate summary types and constructors are preferable to a generic result
envelope. Generate copies selected fields and a compact notification result;
batch preserves ordered report outcomes and independent notification status;
comparison locks its field order and converts top-level failures to bounded
safe categories. Pre-result failures emit no JSON, while result-bearing
failures emit a failed summary before returning an error, and one shared output
gate implements quiet mode. Reconsider common abstraction only if multiple
actions acquire the same complete summary and failure semantics.
### RET-013: Keep source-specific normalization explicit
The eight source methods share transport and missing-policy helpers but retain
visible source semantics: query parameters differ, hourly alone is required,
alerts alone treats explicit `null` as checked empty data, SPC empty arrays are
also checked data, and issue/update timestamps come from different payload
fields. Collapsing those methods into a generic descriptor would hide the
normalization decisions that need independent review. Reconsider a declarative
table only if it can express every source's availability, empty-value,
timestamp, and validation policy without callbacks that recreate the current
methods indirectly.
## Open Questions
No Stage 1 open questions or unexplained baseline failures remain.
Stage 2 routed these investigation leads without treating graph metrics or an
unusual edge as findings:
- `internal/config` imports `internal/briefing` to use module definitions while
validating report-module options. Stages 4, 8, and 23 should determine
whether this remains the smallest single-owner validation path or creates
avoidable registry coupling.
- The graph identifies `internal/cli.Run`, `internal/app.RunBatchDetailed`, and
`internal/app.compareDetailed` as relatively complex orchestration paths.
Their ownership and top-level ordering are coherent; Stages 5, 16, 18, 22,
and 23 should assess their local behavior and maintainability rather than
inferring a finding from metrics.
Stage 3 routed these investigation leads to their assigned later stages:
- `LoadLocation` accepts numeric offsets through `23:59`, while the config
reference does not state an offset range. Stage 4 should assess the effective
configuration contract and validation ownership before judging that bound.
- The report-registry document says focused tests cover run IDs and output
names, but Stage 3 found no behavioral run-ID assertion and only indirect
dynamic output-name coverage. `AUD-003` captures the consequential run-ID
gap; Stage 24 should reconcile the broader documentation claim with the
eventual executable contract.
- Prompt, template, schema, and module IDs are internally consistent at the
report registry. Stages 8 and 10-13 remain responsible for validating the
referenced registries, embedded assets, generated-text schemas, and render
compatibility rather than duplicating those audits here.
Stage 4 routed these investigation leads to their assigned later stages:
- Configuration accepts any absolute URL scheme with a host, matching the
documented term “absolute URL.” Stages 6, 11, and 16 should assess transport
scheme support at the Weather API, Promptkit, and Distributor boundaries
before narrowing the configuration contract.
- `weather_api.base_url` may be empty in a valid configuration because only
collection workflows require it. Stages 5-6 should verify action-specific
failure timing and diagnostics rather than making every non-collection
configuration require an endpoint.
- Report config-key normalization accepts trimmed and case-folded spellings in
addition to the documented hyphen/underscore equivalence. Stage 24 should
decide whether the canonical reference should describe that compatibility
or the executable contract should be narrowed.
- Distributor delivery redaction, runtime template consumption, and notification
idempotency remain assigned to Stage 16. Stage 4 accounts only for active
configuration and safe identity/path rendering before execution.
Stage 5 routed these investigation leads to their assigned later stages:
- Generate and batch summaries intentionally carry project-owned app error and
warning fields, while comparison applies an additional bounded safe-error
translation. Stages 6, 11, and 16 should verify that Weather API, Promptkit,
and Distributor producers never place sensitive endpoint, credential, or
provider detail in the non-comparison fields before Stage 24 judges the full
documented output claim.
- Generate and comparison repeat the Daily/Today flag-acceptance and date
defaulting policy. They currently agree, and the report registry remains the
period owner. Stage 23 should assess whether a shared CLI policy descriptor
would reduce drift without moving parsing into the domain registry.
- The static help text includes `--date` in usage but omits it from the Options
list and describes `--quiet` as suppressing successful output even though it
suppresses failed action summaries too. `docs/internal/cli.md` also still
says the CLI dispatches only generation and batch actions despite implemented
comparison dispatch. Stage 24 should reconcile these documentation/help
statements without expanding Stage 5 into the repository-wide documentation
audit.
- Batch status writes deliberately ignore stderr write failures while JSON
encoding errors are returned. Stage 25 should exercise broken-pipe and output
writer failures dynamically before deciding whether routine-status I/O must
affect the process exit.
Stage 6 routed these investigation leads to their assigned later stages:
- `facts.BuildCollected` and `facts.Bundle` copy source and warning slices but
not nested query maps or warning slices. Prepared-report construction later
deep-copies its complete inputs. Stage 7 should judge whether the earlier
derivation boundary promises mutation isolation or whether immutable
workflow ownership makes the shallow copy intentional.
- `AlertRun.Raw` preserves the complete alert payload in addition to the raw
alert items, but graph-augmented use search found no production consumer of
the full duplicate. Stage 23 should assess removal with other unused and
duplicate internal surfaces; alert-item schema and parsing remain assigned
to Stages 7-9.
- Source provenance retains the adapter-controlled query parameters in the
normalized bundle, while prompt-facing metadata deliberately omits the query
map. Stage 10 should confirm that no prompt input or debug artifact widens
that boundary, and Stage 24 should judge whether the internal documentation
needs an explicit non-secret-query invariant.
- The adapter accepts URL user information, base query parameters, and
fragments because the current absolute-URL check does not constrain them;
endpoint construction drops the fragment and carries base query values into
requests/provenance. The current configuration and examples use none of
these. Stage 24 should clarify the intended base-URL shape after remediation
of `AUD-011`, rather than Stage 6 inventing undocumented authentication or
query behavior.
## Stage Log
### Stage 1: Establish The Baseline And Audit Ledger
- Status: Complete.
- Scope reviewed: repository identity, worktree state, Go module and workspace
context, graph identity, tracked package/source/test/fixture/asset/document
inventory, and required baseline validation.
- Exclusions: none beyond the stage boundary; no production code, tests,
dependencies, examples, or canonical documents were changed.
- Result: the audit is tied to exact commit `e7c7262`; the expected-baseline
difference is explained; every required baseline command passes; and all
later stages remain pending.
- Findings: none.
- Retained decisions: none.
- Open questions: none.
### Stage 2: Audit Architecture And Dependency Direction
- Status: Complete.
- Scope reviewed: `cmd/weatherreporter`, production import boundaries for all
24 Go packages, principal call and data-flow paths, external adapter
containment, project-owned interfaces, publication boundaries, filesystem
writes, ADR 0001, focused orchestration tests, and the architecture policy.
- Exclusions: Detailed report/time, configuration, CLI, weather, domain,
module, prompt, rendering, comparison, and notification correctness remains
assigned to Stages 3-18. Cross-cutting complexity, deduplication, and full
documentation coherence remain assigned to Stages 22-24.
#### Boundary Accounting
| Normative boundary or invariant | Implementation owner and evidence | Disposition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Binary entry and CLI ownership | `cmd/weatherreporter.main` calls `cli.Run`; `internal/cli` owns action parsing, config loading, executor construction, and bounded result output. Graph traces place app calls below action resolution. | Matches policy. |
| Configuration ownership | `internal/config` owns defaults, YAML loading, normalization, secrets, and validation. CLI loads config and passes effective values down; app does not parse config files. | Matches policy; the config-to-briefing validation edge is routed to Stages 4, 8, and 23. |
| Application orchestration | `GenerateDetailed`, `RunBatchDetailed`, and `compareDetailed` sequence preflight, collection, preparation, execution, publication, and notification through repository-owned values and interfaces. No lower package imports app. | Matches policy; retained as `RET-001`. |
| Report and domain ownership | `report`, `timeutil`, `weatherdata`, `forecast`, `facts`, `module`, `briefing`, `promptinput`, `generatedtext`, and `reporttemplate` form one-way deterministic dependencies below app. | Matches policy at package level; local rules remain for Stages 3 and 7-13. |
| Prompt execution boundary | `promptexec.Executor` is dependency-neutral. CLI constructs the Promptkit adapter once per action, app consumes only `promptexec` requests/results, and the prepared-report data flow supplies curated serialized module packages. | Matches policy; retained as `RET-002`. |
| Weather API boundary | App calls its `Collector` interface; the production implementation delegates through `collect.Run` to `adapters/weatherapi.FetchBundle`, which returns normalized `weatherdata.Bundle`. Production HTTP imports occur only in external adapters. | Matches policy; retained as `RET-004`. |
| Distributor boundary | App owns notification timing and repository request/result types; `distributorNotifier` translates them to adapter-local types and the adapter alone imports the Distributor dependency. Comparison exposes no notifier path. | Matches policy. |
| Prompt preflight and curated inputs | Generate inspects the exact prompt/profile before `collectWeather`; batch inspects all candidates before its one collection; comparison inspects prompt and all profiles before collection, then calls `prepareReport` once. Data-flow traces reach `promptinput.Build` and `MarshalYAML`, not raw bundle serialization into Promptkit. | Matches policy at workflow level; detailed checks remain for Stages 10, 11, 14, and 18. |
| Single output and notification order | `publishPromptReport` checks context, calls `fileutil.WriteFileAtomic`, records the path, and only then calls `notifyReport`. Focused tests cover pre-publication preservation and notification ordering. | Matches policy; publication split retained as `RET-003`. |
| Batch output and notification order | `RunBatchDetailed` validates every planned path before sequential execution, suppresses item notification, continues across item failures, and calls `notifyBatch` only after the loop. Focused tests cover preflight, partial failure, and notification-after-publication. | Matches policy at workflow level; detailed review remains for Stage 16. |
| Comparison publication | App preflights before external work and again before publication. `internal/comparison` owns bundle validation, guarded replacement, staging, commit, restoration, and cleanup results. The comparison request has no notifier and the trace does not reach Distributor. | Matches policy at workflow level; detailed review remains for Stages 17-18. |
| Stateless execution | Normal traces retain preparation and execution values in memory. Production filesystem writes are limited to selected Markdown publication, selected comparison bundles, explicit prompt-debug capture, and the unreachable helpers in `AUD-001`; no cache, workspace, history, receipt, or resume owner appears in the package graph. | Matches normal-runtime policy; `AUD-001` records the unused persistence surface. |
| Dependency cycles and direction | The compiler-derived direct-import inventory is acyclic. Entry packages point inward, adapters do not import app/CLI, domain packages do not import orchestration, and no external dependency type appears outside its production adapter. | Matches policy. |
#### Commands And Evidence
- Refreshed graph project `home-eric-Workspace-weatherreporter` in moderate
mode. The graph's branch identity remains production baseline `e7c7262`;
Stage 1's intervening commit changes only this excluded audit document.
- Used graph architecture views for structure, dependencies, entry points,
hotspots, boundaries, layers, and clusters; queried the graph schema and
direct import edges.
- Used graph search, snippets, inbound/outbound call traces, and data-flow
traces for `main`, `cli.Run`, `GenerateDetailed`, `RunBatchDetailed`,
`compareDetailed`, `prepareReport`, `executePreparedProfile`, `collect.Run`,
all three external adapters, `publishPromptReport`,
`comparison.PlanDestination`, `comparison.Publish`, and Distributor
notification.
- Used compiler-derived `go list` direct imports to separate production edges
from test-only graph edges and confirm the build has no import cycle.
- Used graph-augmented code search to inventory external dependency imports,
HTTP ownership, and production filesystem writes. A bounded text search
confirmed the unused persistence helpers have no documentation or hidden
non-code callers.
- Ran
`go test ./internal/app ./internal/cli ./internal/collect ./internal/comparison ./internal/adapters/... ./internal/fileutil ./internal/promptdebug ./internal/promptexec`;
all focused packages passed.
- Findings: `AUD-001`.
- Retained decisions: `RET-001`, `RET-002`, `RET-003`, and `RET-004`.
- Open questions: the two leads recorded above are routed to their assigned
later stages.
### Stage 3: Audit Report Identity And Time Foundations
- Status: Complete.
- Scope reviewed: all production and focused-test code in `internal/report`
and `internal/timeutil`; report and timezone contracts in `docs/cli.md`,
`docs/config.md`, and `docs/internal/report-registry.md`; and the focused
`internal/app` and `internal/forecast` callers that consume batch membership,
run IDs, civil periods, clock windows, and hourly coverage.
- Exclusions: Effective configuration validation and CLI date parsing remain
assigned to Stages 4-5. Forecast derivation beyond the time boundary remains
assigned to Stage 7. Module, prompt, schema, and template compatibility
remains assigned to Stages 8 and 10-13. Batch notification and Distributor
idempotency behavior remains assigned to Stage 16, and documentation-wide
coherence remains assigned to Stage 24.
#### Contract Accounting
| Contract or risk | Implementation and caller evidence | Disposition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Stable report identities | The default registry contains exactly Daily, Today, Tomorrow, and Hourly. Each definition carries the documented prompt `2.0.0`, matching template/schema identity, modules, output name, and Distributor paths; focused registry tests assert the retained surface. | Matches the registry contract; explicit definitions retained as `RET-005`. Asset compatibility remains for later owner stages. |
| Alias resolution | Command lookup accepts exact current command names. Config lookup separately normalizes whitespace, case, and hyphens. Both reject retired aliases in focused tests. | Matches the distinct boundary contracts; separation retained as `RET-006`. |
| Batch membership and ordering | Morning explicitly plans Today then Tomorrow before eligible Daily dates; Evening explicitly plans Tomorrow before eligible Daily dates. Focused app tests cover ordering, flags, multiple Daily dates, and no eligible dates. | Matches CLI and registry contracts. Detailed partial-success and notification semantics remain for Stage 16. |
| Report period policy | Daily requires an explicit date; Today uses an explicit date or current local date; Tomorrow selects the next local civil day; Hourly spans six elapsed hours from the injected clock. `Resolve` defaults a missing location to UTC and a zero clock to the system clock. | Matches documented selection policy; calendar and elapsed policies retained separately as `RET-007`. |
| Civil-day and hourly DST behavior | `CivilDay` uses local midnight plus one calendar day, and batch hourly coverage walks actual instants, correctly accommodating 23-hour and 25-hour dates. Focused batch tests exercise DST civil days. | Sufficient for the reviewed policy. |
| Configured clock windows | `ClockWindow` adds elapsed clock durations to local midnight. The only production path reaches `forecast.ResolveDayparts`, daily summaries, and facts. Fixed-zone tests do not exercise either DST transition. | Incorrect on DST dates; recorded as `AUD-002`. |
| Date and timezone parsing | `ParseLocalDate` uses strict `YYYY-MM-DD` parsing in the selected location. `LoadLocation` covers IANA names, `America/` fallback, documented aliases, fixed US abbreviations, and signed offsets, returning contextual errors for invalid input. | Implementation is coherent for Stage 3. Effective config validation and CLI error presentation remain for Stages 4-5. |
| Clock control | All report resolvers accept an injected `Now`; only zero-valued input falls back to `time.Now`. Focused report and batch tests use fixed clocks. | Sufficient for deterministic period selection. |
| Daily output and run identity | Daily output names derive from the resolved valid-start date, and Daily run IDs append that date so same-clock multi-date products remain distinct. The downstream batch-notification map rejects duplicate IDs. | Implementation is coherent, but the identity invariant lacks a focused behavior test; recorded as `AUD-003`. |
| Half-open period operations | `Period.Valid`, `Contains`, `Overlaps`, and `Intersection` consistently use `[start,end)` semantics, and focused tests protect overlap boundaries. | Matches the internal period contract. |
#### Commands And Evidence
- Used graph search, source snippets, and inbound/outbound traces for the four
report definitions, registry construction and lookup, command/config mapping,
batch mapping and planning, `Resolve`, every period resolver, `CivilDay`,
`ClockWindow`, `ParseLocalDate`, `LoadLocation`, period overlap operations,
Daily output naming, run-ID construction, `ResolveDayparts`, batch hourly
coverage, and `plannedReportsByRunID`.
- Compared the implementation with `docs/cli.md`, `docs/config.md`, and
`docs/internal/report-registry.md`, then inspected the focused report, time,
forecast, and app tests. Bounded text searches were used for string and test
assertion discovery not represented by the code graph.
- Reproduced the clock-window defect with `America/Chicago` transition dates:
17 elapsed hours after midnight yields 18:00 on 2026-03-08 and 16:00 on
2026-11-01; six elapsed hours yields 07:00 and 05:00 respectively.
- Ran
`go test ./internal/report ./internal/timeutil ./internal/forecast ./internal/app`;
all focused packages passed.
- Findings: `AUD-002` and `AUD-003`.
- Retained decisions: `RET-005`, `RET-006`, and `RET-007`.
- Open questions: the three leads recorded above are routed to their assigned
later stages.
### Stage 4: Audit Configuration, Secrets, And Validation
- Status: Complete.
- Scope reviewed: all production and focused-test code in `internal/config`;
the configuration-to-executor mapping in `internal/cli`; Promptkit adapter
configuration and focused tests; all three maintained examples;
`docs/config.md`; and configuration-related architecture, operations,
documentation, and testing rules.
- Exclusions: CLI parsing and action-specific diagnostics remain assigned to
Stage 5. Weather API transport behavior remains assigned to Stage 6.
Promptkit source loading and sensitive execution diagnostics remain assigned
to Stage 11. Output publication preflight remains assigned to Stages 15 and
17, Distributor delivery remains assigned to Stage 16, and repository-wide
documentation coherence remains assigned to Stage 24.
#### Precedence And Validation Map
| Contract or risk | Implementation and consumer evidence | Disposition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Discovery and precedence | `Load` starts with `Defaults`, merges the explicit or default YAML path, tolerates only an absent implicit default file, applies nonempty units/timezone overrides, normalizes report modules, loads configured secrets, and validates. Representative CLI coverage proves explicit units/timezone beat file values while unrelated file values remain. | Matches the documented defaults → file → CLI order. Environment variables do not override config fields. |
| YAML schema and migrations | `mergeFile` uses `KnownFields(true)`; custom notification, report, Distributor-path, and module decoders reject their own unknown fields. Retired `scriptorium`, recent-change, and workspace keys have focused migration/rejection tests. | Sufficient for known struct fields and retired top-level contracts. Unsupported keys inside the semantic missing-source map are `AUD-004`. |
| Defaults and partial merges | Exact documented defaults are built once in `Defaults`; YAML decoding merges partial nested structs over them, and focused tests cover default literals, omitted optional sections, batch partial configuration, and both maintained config examples. | Matches the canonical reference. Exact-default assertions protect user-visible contracts rather than private constants. |
| Output directory | Config accepts empty, relative, and absolute values, preserves them byte-for-byte, and rejects only nonempty whitespace. Graph traces place path resolution, inspection, creation, and publication below app/filesystem owners. | Matches policy; retained as `RET-008`. |
| Weather and daypart validation | Config checks absolute base URLs when present, positive timeout, nonnegative precision, nonempty units/timezone, resolvable timezone, JSON format, nonempty dayparts, names, and parseable clocks. Collection separately requires a base URL for collection actions. | Matches the documented split. The Stage 3 DST defect remains `AUD-002`. |
| Missing-source policy | Policy values and nonblank keys are validated, and the adapter consumes source-specific values by source name with a default fallback. Required hourly failures bypass optional-source policy. | Unsupported and ineffective keys pass silently; `AUD-004`. |
| Report/module overrides | Loaded aliases, duplicate normalized reports, module identities/order, compatibility, duplicate modules/stanzas, typed options, explicit empty lists, and Distributor path templates are validated through report/module registries. | Loaded YAML behavior is well covered. Exported constructed values cannot establish private presence state; `AUD-006`. Detailed module semantics remain for Stages 8-9. |
| Promptkit settings | Config validates mutually exclusive profile sources, positive timeout, optional absolute local endpoint, and nonnegative concurrency. CLI maps a dormant endpoint-less limit to the adapter zero value; adapter construction owns file/directory loading, backend registration, fallbacks, and safe error classification. | Matches the documented inactive/active split; retained as `RET-009` and `RET-010`. |
| Secret directory | Empty disables loading. A configured directory accepts only directly contained regular files with environment-variable basenames, rejects symlinks/directories/nonregular/unreadable entries, removes one LF or CRLF, overwrites the named environment value, and reports only directory/file names and operation context. | Values are absent from tested diagnostics, but failure application is not atomic; `AUD-007`. |
| Distributor configuration | Disabled notification skips active-field checks. Enabled notification validates endpoint, token variable name, timeout, failure policy, allowed template variables, batch activation, and report path safety/uniqueness. Templates render from repository-owned metadata rather than environment values. | Mostly sufficient. Two single-report rendered identities omit the nonblank invariant; `AUD-005`. |
| Filesystem and URL timing | Config validates intrinsic string/URL shape. Output destinations are inspected by app/publication owners, Promptkit sources by its adapter, and secret entries by the config loader. No audit command contacted an external service. | Matches ownership boundaries for Stage 4; transport-specific scheme support is routed to later stages. |
| Constructed configuration | `Validate`, report override accessors, and focused tests attempt to provide loaded/constructed consistency without mutating caller-owned option values. | General scalar validation is consistent, but report override presence is not externally constructible; `AUD-006`. |
| Maintained examples | Both YAML configuration examples load through the strict config suite. The endpoint-only `weather-light` profile is inspected through the real Promptkit adapter with embedded assets and no network or credential. All examples contain synthetic endpoints and no secrets. | Matches documentation and testing policy. |
#### Commands And Evidence
- Used graph search, source snippets, call traces, and graph-augmented test
searches for defaults, `Load`, YAML merging and migration rejection,
`Validate`, secret loading, report/module/path traversal, notification
renderers, CLI executor mapping, Promptkit adapter construction, Weather API
missing-source policy consumption, and app notification consumers.
- Compared executable fields, defaults, precedence, templates, paths, profile
settings, source keys, and secret behavior with `docs/config.md`, maintained
examples, and the configuration-related operations and architecture rules.
- Ran the production CLI with `examples/minimal-config.yml`. It reached offline
profile credential preflight and returned `missing_credential` before weather
collection, confirming that the endpoint-less local concurrency default is
intentionally dormant rather than rejected by adapter construction.
- Ran
`go test ./internal/config ./internal/adapters/promptkit ./internal/cli`;
all focused packages passed.
- Findings: `AUD-004`, `AUD-005`, `AUD-006`, and `AUD-007`.
- Retained decisions: `RET-008`, `RET-009`, and `RET-010`.
- Open questions: the four leads recorded above are routed to their assigned
later stages.
### Stage 5: Audit CLI Parsing, Wiring, And Output Contracts
- Status: Complete.
- Scope reviewed: `cmd/weatherreporter`, all production and representative
tests in `internal/cli`, `docs/cli.md`, `docs/internal/cli.md`, immediate
config/report/time/executor mapping, and app request/result/error boundaries.
Comparison parsing and CLI translation were reviewed, while detailed
comparison execution remains excluded.
- Exclusions: Weather collection, report generation, publication, notification,
and comparison execution correctness remain assigned to Stages 6-18.
Cross-cutting parser deduplication, test portfolio durability, documentation
coherence, and dynamic robustness remain assigned to Stages 21 and 23-25.
#### Command And Exit Accounting
| Command or risk | Parsing, result, and exit evidence | Disposition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Root help and version | No arguments, `-h`, and `--help` print static help without config/provider setup. Exact `--version` prints the injected or build version; extra version arguments fail. Main prints any returned error to stderr and exits `1`; nil returns normally. | Matches the documented root contract. Help wording drift is routed to Stage 24. |
| Generate dispatch | Requires one of four exact report names. Command-specific flag sets accept only documented flags; Daily requires a date, Today defaults or parses one, and Tomorrow/Hourly reject `--date`. Config and explicit output/working-directory values map into one app request and one executor. | Functional mapping matches, but date validation occurs after executor construction; `AUD-009`. Assembled result/exit coverage is `AUD-010`. |
| Run dispatch | Requires exact Morning or Evening batch identity, accepts `--out-dir` rather than `--out`, resolves only explicit relative overrides against the absolute invocation directory, preserves configured fallback, and constructs one executor/request. | Matches the parser/wiring contract. Representative assembled result coverage is incomplete in `AUD-010`; detailed batch behavior remains Stage 16. |
| Compare dispatch | Requires a valid report and two distinct nonblank ordered profiles before config/executor work; applies the same report date eligibility; clears the configured default profile; maps exact bundle destination/replace/debug options; constructs one executor. | Matches the CLI contract. Focused tests cover parser, construction frequency, pre-execution failure, success/partial/cleanup summaries, quiet behavior, and safe errors. Detailed execution remains Stage 18. |
| Common flags and ownership | `addCommonFlags` registers config, units, timezone, and prompt debug only. Each action separately registers its output, quiet, date, profile, and replacement flags. Report and batch name lookup delegates to `internal/report`; config precedence delegates to `internal/config`. | Intentional explicitness retained as `RET-011`; repeated date policy is routed to Stage 23. |
| Validation ordering | Unknown commands/reports, unsupported flags, extra args, and comparison profile shape fail before configuration or executor creation. Generate performs Daily presence and Daily/Today parsing after config and executor creation. | Partly incorrect; `AUD-009`. |
| Output paths | CLI captures/validates one absolute working directory, preserves configured fallbacks, and resolves only nonempty relative explicit output overrides against that directory. App owns default naming and publication. | Matches CLI/config documentation and architecture ownership. |
| Stdout, stderr, and quiet | Result-bearing actions emit indented JSON to stdout. Run emits compact ordered item/notification/batch lines to stderr first. Quiet returns before both routine channels but the returned error still reaches main stderr. Pre-result failures emit no structured output. | Matches the documented separation; summary design retained as `RET-012`. Broken status-writer behavior is routed to Stage 25. |
| Generate summaries | Selected report, prompt, time, profile/model, warnings, validation, output, debug, notification, and error fields are copied; status is failed exactly when a result accompanies an error. | Shape matches documentation, but only the constructor is tested; assembled behavior is `AUD-010`. Producer redaction remains for Stages 6, 11, and 16. |
| Batch summaries and exit | Report counters remain independent of notification failure. Any failed report or failed notification makes summary status/error failed, emits status lines unless quiet, and returns typed `BatchError` so main exits nonzero. | Mapping is coherent and notification failure is assembled-tested. Broader representative translation coverage is `AUD-010`. |
| Comparison summaries | Field order is fixed by the explicit DTO; profile order is retained; unpublished artifact fields are omitted; errors are mapped to bounded aggregate, cancellation, deadline, Promptkit, destination, cleanup, or application categories. | Matches the documented safe CLI contract with strong focused coverage. |
| Cancellation | `Runner.Run` forwards its context to every app action, and app tests protect cancellation behavior. Production main supplies an uncancelable background context and has no signal bridge. | Programmatic propagation is correct; executable cancellation is `AUD-008`. |
| Test ownership | Parser/resolver tests own flag acceptance, paths, configuration mapping, and one-executor construction; summary tests own selected fields; comparison command tests own assembled translation. | Comparison is sufficient. Non-comparison assembled coverage is insufficient in `AUD-010`; lower workflow details correctly remain in app tests. |
#### Commands And Evidence
- Used graph inventory, source snippets, inbound/outbound traces, and
graph-augmented searches for root dispatch, every action parser/resolver,
common flag registration, working/output path resolution, executor mapping,
summary/status construction, output routing, error classification, app
cancellation consumers, and process signal handling.
- Compared executable help, accepted flags, summary fields, error/status rules,
and action wiring with `docs/cli.md`, `docs/internal/cli.md`, and the
configuration, architecture, documentation, and testing contracts.
- Ran `go test -cover ./internal/cli`; the suite passed at 75.8% statement
coverage. Coverage was used only to guide test inspection, not as a finding.
- Ran `go run ./cmd/weatherreporter --help`,
`go run ./cmd/weatherreporter --version`, and
`go run ./cmd/weatherreporter generate daily`; help and development-version
paths succeeded, while missing Daily date returned the documented pre-result
error and nonzero status without contacting an external service.
- Findings: `AUD-008`, `AUD-009`, and `AUD-010`.
- Retained decisions: `RET-011` and `RET-012`.
- Open questions: the four leads recorded above are routed to their assigned
later stages.
### Stage 6: Audit Weather Data Acquisition And Collection
- Status: Complete.
- Scope reviewed: all production code and focused tests in
`internal/adapters/weatherapi`, `internal/weatherdata`, and
`internal/collect`; all eight adapter fixtures; the Weather API integration,
normalized weather-data, and collection internal documents; and immediate
app/prompt-facing consumers needed to account for provenance, warnings, and
error exposure.
- Exclusions: Meteorological selection, alert interpretation, forecast/fact
derivation, and aliasing policy remain assigned to Stage 7. Prompt-facing
curation remains assigned to Stages 8-10, app orchestration to Stages 14-16,
cross-cutting cleanup to Stage 23, documentation reconciliation to Stage 24,
and adversarial dynamic checks to Stage 25.
#### Source And Failure Accounting
| Source or transport risk | Required, empty, malformed, and provenance behavior | Disposition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Warmup | Calls `/conditions/current` first with format, units, and precision; requires a readable 2xx body; closes it; and stops before source requests on failure. Context cancels requests and retry waits. | Endpoint and cancellation behavior match. Permanent statuses are retried contrary to the shared policy in `AUD-015`; body safety/limits are `AUD-012` and `AUD-013`. |
| Observations | Optional. Missing/null and malformed data use configured policy. A successful value records observation timestamp as issue time plus endpoint, query, fetch time, and compact-data hash. | Matches the source contract. |
| Current conditions | Optional. Missing/null and malformed data use configured policy; successful normalized fields and provenance are retained. | Matches the source contract. |
| Hourly forecast | Required regardless of optional-source policy. Missing/null, decode failure, and an empty period list fail collection; format, units, precision, and timezone are sent. | Availability mapping matches, but periods with zero/reversed time bounds pass; `AUD-014`. |
| Narrative forecast | Optional. Missing/null and malformed data use configured policy; issue/update timestamps and forecast periods are normalized. An empty period list remains checked data. | Matches the documented source contract. Semantic forecast use remains Stage 7. |
| Active alerts | Optional. An absent member is missing, explicit `null` is checked empty data with a hash and no warning, and malformed non-null data uses configured policy. Alert items remain raw payloads at this boundary. | Matches the explicit alerts exception. Full duplicate raw payload is routed to Stage 23. |
| Forecast discussion | Optional. Missing/null and malformed data use configured policy; issue/update times, key messages, and short/long sections are normalized. | Matches the source contract. |
| Weather story | Optional. Uses format only; missing/null and malformed data use configured policy; start/update provenance is retained when available. | Matches the source contract. |
| SPC convective outlooks | Optional. Uses format/timezone without units; missing/null uses configured policy; non-null empty outlook/discussion lists are checked data; issue time prefers `issuedAt` and falls back to `asOf`; GeoJSON remains raw. | Matches the explicit SPC empty-data and provenance contract. |
| Optional-source policy | `error` aborts with no partial bundle, `warn` records the same stable warning in source and bundle, and `none` records a missing source without a warning. Transport/status/envelope failures remain direct request errors. | Matches the documented division. Unsupported policy keys remain the Stage 4 finding `AUD-004`. |
| Endpoint construction | Joins every fixed endpoint to a base path prefix and applies only the required format/units/precision/timezone matrix. | Query/path behavior matches for HTTP(S); unsupported absolute schemes survive until runtime in `AUD-011`. Base URL query/user-info shape is routed to Stage 24. |
| HTTP attempt lifecycle | Requests carry context and configured client timeout; response bodies close after bounded reads; source attempts retry transport/read failures and only the documented transient statuses. | Mostly coherent. Unsafe response text and silent truncation are `AUD-012`/`AUD-013`; warmup classification divergence is `AUD-015`. |
| Normalization and collection ownership | `weatherdata` contains no HTTP/config/filesystem behavior. The adapter translates wire envelopes into project types. `collect.Run` constructs one adapter, forwards context, and distinguishes setup from fetch errors. | Matches architecture; the narrow collection seam remains retained under `RET-004`. Source-specific normalization remains explicit under `RET-013`. |
| Test assets and ownership | Adapter tests use `httptest.Server` for HTTP/query/status/retry/cancellation/policy behavior and eight small checked-in JSON fixtures for translation. `weatherdata` owns a focused GeoJSON round trip; `collect` owns three real local composition/error cases. Fixtures are synthetic, credential-free, and total under 5 KiB. | Ownership is distinct and offline. Missing high-risk cases are attached to `AUD-011` through `AUD-015`, not inferred from coverage alone. |
#### Commands And Evidence
- Used graph architecture, symbol search, source snippets, inbound traces, and
graph-augmented use searches for adapter construction, all eight source
methods, HTTP attempts and retries, body lifecycle, endpoint/query assembly,
missing/malformed policy, hashes and timestamps, normalized source consumers,
`collect.Run`, and propagation toward app/CLI boundaries.
- Compared implementation and fixtures with
`docs/integrations/weatherapi.md`, `docs/internal/weather-data.md`,
`docs/internal/collect.md`, the architecture policy, and the testing policy.
Bounded text inspection was used for documentation, JSON fixtures, literal
credential markers, and known test assertions outside graph discovery.
- Ran
`go test -coverprofile=/tmp/weatherreporter-stage6-cover.out ./internal/adapters/weatherapi ./internal/weatherdata ./internal/collect`;
all focused packages passed. Adapter statement coverage was 84.9% and
collection coverage 100%; coverage was used only to guide branch inspection.
- Findings: `AUD-011`, `AUD-012`, `AUD-013`, `AUD-014`, and `AUD-015`.
- Retained decisions: existing `RET-004` was revalidated and `RET-013` records
explicit source normalization.
- Open questions: the four leads recorded above are routed to their assigned
later stages.