feat(provenance): a run records which external service it actually called

The egress declaration (Trekk B3) says what a run MAY contact. It cannot say what
it DID: after the run, nothing distinguished "the agents queried the price
register" from "the agents ignored it", and a proposal resting on an external
service should be traceable to it.

ToolCallRecorder(FunctionMiddleware) mirrors BudgetMiddleware(ChatMiddleware) one
layer down — that one observes the debate's chat calls, this one its tool calls.
It observes only: call_next is always awaited, so a trace can never alter the run
it traces. The record lands on ProvenanceStamp.external_calls, read AFTER the
debate so it is a record rather than an intention.

MEASURED, not assumed, before any of it was written: FunctionMiddleware fires for
a tool served over a REAL MCP stdio subprocess, and context.function.name carries
the BARE tool name with no server prefix. That measurement decided the design —
MAF cannot tell us which server a tool came from, so attribution comes from our own
config, and a name allowed by two servers is recorded UNATTRIBUTED (server="")
rather than credited to the first match. Naming a service that may never have been
contacted is the one place a guess must not go.

Only CONFIGURED tools are recorded. The middleware fires for every function the
agents invoke, including the in-process retrieve_cost_docs on the road path;
logging those would turn the record into a false egress claim. An empty list is a
positive statement — nothing outside this process was contacted — which is why it
is always serialized rather than omitted.

Honesty limit, written on ExternalCall itself: this is the call and its source. It
is NOT evidence that the service's answer reached the proposal, nor a verified
rendering of that answer.

One finding, and it is the reason for measuring rather than trusting green: the
road-path negative test was VACUOUS. Its scripted tool call named an argument the
tool does not declare (code vs query), MAF rejected the call before invocation, and
the test asserted an empty record against a run where no tool ran at all — green
under the exact mutation it existed to catch. It now spies on the recorder and
asserts the invocation genuinely reached it before asserting it was not recorded.
This is last session's lesson again: a scenario that cannot distinguish two
implementations proves nothing.

The tool-call double is registered in test_scripted_client_consolidation.py's
_DELEGATING_OVERRIDES — it cannot live in the reply_selector seam, which returns a
reply STRING, and a response that is not text is its whole subject.

Load-bearing MEASURED (tests/test_b4_mcp_call_trace_loadbearing.py) against the
whole 755-test suite, four mutations all red: detach the recorder from the debate
middleware · record every function invocation · attribute an ambiguous name to the
first server · stop reading the recorder into provenance. Control: a run with no
configured servers records nothing, so the empty record is a real answer and not
the only one the seam can produce.

Ran it, not just tested it: the real recorder against a real MCP server subprocess
returns ExternalCall(server='prisregister', tool='lookup_unit_price'), and a
scripted CLI run's outbox artefact carries the empty list.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VtRd8y1PDPGwkrRXFhubqr
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@ -29,6 +29,26 @@ class Citation(BaseModel):
snippet: str
class ExternalCall(BaseModel):
"""One external service call a run actually made (Trekk B4).
**What this is evidence of, and what it is not.** It records that ``tool`` was invoked and which
configured ``server`` it belongs to. It is NOT evidence that the service's answer reached the
proposal, and it is not a verified rendering of what the service returned the framework hands
the answer to the agent, and what the agent does with it is the agent's. Reading this as "the
figure came from the price register" would claim more than the record supports.
``server`` is ``""`` when the tool name cannot be attributed to exactly one configured server.
MEASURED against a real MCP stdio subprocess: MAF passes the BARE tool name to function
middleware, with no server prefix, so two servers exposing one tool name are indistinguishable
at this seam. Unattributed is the honest answer there; naming the first match would put a
service in the record that may never have been contacted.
"""
server: str
tool: str
class ProvenanceStamp(BaseModel):
"""Authoritative provenance for one proposal — at least one citation is mandatory."""
@ -37,6 +57,9 @@ class ProvenanceStamp(BaseModel):
role: str
validator_decision: Literal["validated", "rejected"]
token_usage: int
#: External service calls the run made (B4). EMPTY is a positive statement — "nothing outside
#: this process was contacted" — not an absent field, which is why it is always serialized.
external_calls: list[ExternalCall] = Field(default_factory=list)
def to_annotations(self) -> list[Annotation]:
"""Map to MAF ``Annotation`` dicts for display only (NOT the source of truth)."""