Two changes, one theme: what a reader needs in order to cite is a property of
the PRODUCER, so neither the excerpt nor the skill may hard-code a list of the
producers someone thought of.
The pass-through rule is now the `source_` PREFIX, not the five keys this
library writes. Measured on the N500 bundle currently on disk: 269 of 274
concepts carry `source_element_id`, a locator that repository chose under this
chain's own rule ("the key says what it indexes") and that this library never
writes. The allowlist dropped it, and an excerpt that names a document without
naming the place in it is the defect this work exists to close. A prefix and
never a substring - `resource_owner` contains the literal and is not a locator,
and promoting it would be fabricated provenance produced by a matching bug. The
known-negative is tested: `bundle_id`, `type` and `ingested_at` do not travel.
Contract 8.5 states the rule as a prefix rather than a list.
K2 control, re-measured against the frozen tool at b6a8c8b, same question and
same k: the RANKING is untouched - same 8 ids in the same order, identical
`text_sha256`, identical `withheld`, denominators 629 = 621 + 8. The FIELD moved:
payload 108 877 -> 113 143 B (+3.92 %), spent 18 606 -> 22 210 (+450.5 B per
excerpt), excerpt members 9 -> 17, 99 changed lines. Known-positive follows the
contract document's bytes again: 12 049 -> 12 563 measured, 11 719 -> 12 227
raw, delta 330 -> 336.
`tools/okf_skill.py` instantiates the template for one bundle: id, ref, concept
count, the conditional-field table with a denominator per field (the `source_*`
rows DISCOVERED from the bundle, not listed), the whole-bundle cost by the gate's
own instrument, the share one measured answer spent, the concept count at which
the withheld bookkeeping alone reaches the limit, and the index-walk-against-
directory control - run once at generation time, never on the question path.
The form was chosen on a measurement that came out against the obvious gate:
the contract checker passes the UNFILLED template against a real payload, and
passes a skill built for a different bundle against this one's. It cannot tell
the two forms apart, so conformance could not decide it. What decides it is that
5's denominators, 6.4's conditional fields and 7.6's breaking point are
per-bundle numbers - a generic skill either leaves them as holes (the template's
own definition of unfinished) or states another corpus's numbers, which is worse
than a gap. Every gate the checker lacks is therefore a test here: no placeholder
survives, the skill names its own bundle's id and ref and not another's, its
commands are absolute and point at files that exist, and it refuses a directory
with no index (exit 1, `bundle_unreadable`), an index with no `bundle_id`
(`bundle_id_missing`), an empty bundle, and an occupied target without --force.
It lives in `tools/` for the reason `okf_consume.py` and `okf_contract_check.py`
state for themselves - outside `src/`, so no consumer's install surface changes -
and because a wheel-installed `okf skill` would emit a command pointing at
`tools/okf_consume.py`, which the wheel does not contain.
Suite 1372 (1347 before), ruff clean, mypy src clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <claude-opus-5>
The pre-pass delivered the right concept and the answer could not name it.
Measured by portfolio-optimiser 2026-09-08 over three paid arms: the gold
concept came back at rank 1 of 8 on 3 of 3 bundles, and the model answered
correctly on 1 of 3, because a delivered excerpt carried `concept_id`, body
text and nothing the document is known by. The previous session measured the
same gap from the other side: the provenance it had just written into every
concept did not reach the payload at all.
`excerpt_for` now carries `title` unconditionally, and `req_number`, the SPEC
5.1 address `sources` and each locator key (`source_pages`, `source_sheet`,
`source_rows`, `source_lines`, `source_offset`) when the concept has them. A key
the producer did not write stays absent: an empty value would assert that they
wrote an empty one, which is the contract's 6.4 failure.
`sources` is read in BOTH YAML forms, on a measurement rather than a taste. K2
writes the flow form on 629 of 629 concepts; the largest N-bundle writes the
block form on 270 of 270 and carries no locator key at all, so a flow-only
reader delivers that bundle with no address whatsoever. Reading the block form
is not a licence to write it - the emission rule is untouched, because the
line-oriented parser still cannot round-trip a block list. A `sources` value
this reader cannot decode is named (`sources_unreadable`), never dropped into
the same silence as an absent one.
Contract 8 gains the requirement and the checker gains its code
(`excerpt_unnamed`, 15 rules now, was 14): an excerpt a reader cannot name is
one an answer cannot cite, whatever its rank. `req_number`, `sources` and the
locators are SHOULD, not MUST - they are conditional on the producer, and a
bundle whose concepts carry no identifier cannot deliver one.
K2 controls, same question and same k, before against a frozen copy of the tool
at b6a8c8b: the RANKING does not move - the same 8 concept ids in the same
order, identical `text_sha256`, identical `withheld`, identical denominators
(629 = 621 + 8). The FIELD is what moved: payload 108 877 -> 111 744 B
(+2.63 %), budget spent 18 606 -> 20 907 (+287.6 B per excerpt), excerpt
members 9 -> 15, 83 changed lines. The contract document's own bytes moved with
8, so the budget instrument's known-positive moves with it: 10 349 -> 12 049
measured, 10 060 -> 11 719 raw, delta 289 -> 330.
New fixture `tests/fixtures/consume-provenance`: the two address forms and a
concept carrying neither address nor identifier. Purpose-built, because the two
real bundles are complementary and neither exercises both forms.
Suite 1347 (1339 before), ruff clean, mypy src clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <claude-opus-5>
The plan document decided what the contract is and who owns it, and said of
itself that nothing in it was implemented. This states the same six elements as
numbered paragraphs with MUST and SHOULD, in the form a checker can read, and
adds the three things the plan layer had no way to carry: concept identity as
the (bundle_id, concept_id) tuple with a content digest per excerpt, the closed
adjudication state set with unknown written explicitly rather than collapsed,
and the prohibition on reaching the verdict layer with a query-time retrieval
tool.
The plan document is not rewritten to match. It records why; this binds. Two
copies of the same rules drift, so the plan carries a pointer instead.
