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v0.7 item 2 (SPEC-v0.7 §2, G12). FAILED versus AMBIGUOUS is the one decision this project exists to get right, and the kernel does not make it: the user's executor does. The correct rule was already written and implemented in the gateway's outcome.py, reachable only by installing ctrlrun[gateway], while @protect, the surface the README leads with, got a docstring. One rule, one implementation, reachable from core.

What it does

  • ctrlrun.transport in core, stdlib only, for urllib and http.client. The pure rule moves out of gateway/outcome.py, which now imports it: a test asserts both reach the same function object, not merely equal behaviour.
  • It raises NotExecuted chained from the original only when non-execution is proven, and otherwise re-raises the original exception untouched, which the kernel already records AMBIGUOUS. No new error type, no third outcome, no parameter that can change a classification.
  • Proof means: the classifier opened the connection itself, zero request bytes were handed to the socket (counted above TLS, the mark set before the send), and no other send happened in this executor run. DNS failure, refusal, connect timeout and TLS handshake failure satisfy it. After one byte, everything is the original exception.
  • No HTTP status is ever NotExecuted from the classifier. HTTP has no protocol-defined "rejected before dispatch" answer.
  • G12 in verify, with five rows, each with its own effect key, precondition and mutant.

What three review rounds found, all on real sockets

Round 1 broke the first design outright. The call-stack heuristic produced false NotExecuted on requests the peer had received, via xmlrpc.client's built-in retry, FancyURLopener, a build_opener handler on a worker thread, and the ordinary "retry once on reset" loop. Each wrote a confident failed receipt for an effect that may have happened. The heuristic is gone, replaced by a register scoped to one executor run.

Round 2 found the register still let a resumed leg claim: a continuation exists only because the remote spoke, so it can never truthfully say the remote did nothing. Reproduced at both surfaces, including a real MCP upstream holding the exchange after answering input_required. This was shipped behaviour in 0.6.1: the gateway answered -41011, recorded FAILED, and permitted a retry. A resumed run now starts marked, and the rule is general: on a continuation leg nothing may claim FAILED, including the pre-dispatch codes, the 401 rule and the operator's own not_executed_on_error.

Round 3 was clean, after attacking three legs, resumption in another process, a fresh connection, a protocol bypass that drops the continuation token, and a stress run of 8 threads × 30 protected runs.

The limits, stated in the code and the spec

The register sees only this library's own sends. An executor that sends part of an effect through another transport, or on a thread that did not copy the context, and then uses the classifier, can be handed a claim true of these connections and false of the effect. The plain-Thread case is closed by having a send with no register mark every open run (fail-closed: it costs claims, never safety). The sibling-thread race remains and is pinned by a test so the disclosure cannot drift.

Operator-visible change

A gateway in front of an upstream that elicits will now need ctrlrun resolve where 0.6.1 permitted a retry. That is the intended trade: the upstream received the request. The CHANGELOG says what 0.6.1 did.

Evidence

  • Gate on the merged tree: 3235 passed with Postgres, 3137 passed / 92 skipped without. test_transport.py is 124 tests, passing on 3.11 to 3.13; on 3.14 one skips because FancyURLopener was removed.
  • Mutation table: 64 rows, 63 killed, 1 equivalent (G12's listener closing with a FIN rather than a reset: the classifier is blind to exception types). Nine rows were re-anchored after a round of fixes rather than skipped.
  • Three independent review rounds, the first two blocking, using probe scripts on real loopback sockets and a real MCP upstream.
  • Verify counts measured on the merged tree, both documents and both backends.

Merge notes

main moved four times under this branch. Two resolutions were more than mechanical: the executor call now nests item 3's token binding inside this item's register (both items' tests pass), and verify/scenarios.py was spliced so class methods stay in id order. Both are called out for the reviewer.

api and readiness drift; item 6 regenerates, and render_api still does not enumerate ctrlrun.transport, so those pages need adding.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added configurable attempt ceilings that refuse requests exceeding the declared limit.
    • Added precondition fingerprints to detect changes or missing information before approval.
    • Added transport classification for proxy-aware HTTP/HTTPS requests and ambiguous delivery outcomes.
    • Continuation attempts now report ambiguous outcomes when delivery status is uncertain.
    • Added verification guarantee G12 for failures after request data is delivered.
  • Documentation

    • Documented transport behavior, renewal rules, precondition checks, clock-skew reporting, and database safeguards.
    • Updated verification totals and badge counts.

SPEC-v0.7 item 2. The gateway's rule for FAILED versus AMBIGUOUS moves to a
core, stdlib module and the gateway calls the one implementation.

- ctrlrun.transport: Transport and effect_state (the rule, moved from
  gateway/outcome.py), and HTTPConnection, HTTPSConnection and urlopen,
  which raise NotExecuted chained from the original exception only where
  a connection they opened failed before a request byte was handed to its
  socket. The mark is set in send, before the first byte and after any
  connect send triggers, and never cleared; a socket the connection did
  not open, or an opener the classifier did not build, disqualifies the
  claim. No redirect is followed and no status is ever NotExecuted.
- The gateway's Transport is the core one and outcome._transport asks the
  core rule. gateway.transport.request offers the httpx mapping to an
  executor; the forwarder and request() share one observation function.
  The gateway's NotExecuted is chained from the httpx exception.
- verify: G12 under ctrlrun.guarantees/v3, with a loopback peer verify
  binds itself and the refused connection as its control. The test
  suite's network guard is one definition and admits only a connect to a
  127.0.0.1 port the process bound.
- T220 to T231 in tests/test_transport.py, against real loopback sockets
  and a real TLS server; SPEC-v0.7 §12.2 records what building it settled.
Every false NotExecuted the review produced came from two connections in
one effect: the first delivered the request, the second was refused and
judged alone. These tests reproduce each case against a real peer that
receives the whole request first (xmlrpc's retry, FancyURLopener, an
opener that hops threads, a caller's opener around the classifier's own
handler, an executor's retry-once loop, a nested protected call) and
assert the answer is the original exception. They also pin: no claim
outside an executor run; a thread claims only under the executor's
context; an instrumented OpenerDirector.open no longer suppresses a true
claim; the httpx variant's read timeout; httpx behind a proxy claims
nothing; G12's new rows, each with a mutant that fails only there; and a
network guard that records stream binds only and forgets closed ports.
The first independent review of item 2: three blocking findings, four
smaller ones.

- The stack heuristic that asked who built the opener is deleted. It saw
  only urllib's own opener on the current thread, so xmlrpc's retry,
  FancyURLopener, an opener that hops threads, and an executor's own
  retry-once loop each produced NotExecuted after a real peer had the
  whole request. Control now opens a register around every executor call;
  the classifier and the httpx variant mark it before their first byte,
  and a claim needs it unmarked as well as the connection's own evidence.
  Outside a run nothing is claimed. The register sees only this library's
  own sends, and the module, the class and SPEC §2.3 say so.
- G12 gains three observable rows: a read timeout, a reused connection,
  and a second connection in one run. Each is where a different wrong
  classifier is wrong, and each has a mutant in T230 that fails only
  there. As first written G12 passed a classifier that ignored all of its
  evidence.
- The httpx variant's timeout mapping had no test: a read timeout after a
  delivered request is now pinned through request(), the forwarder and
  the gateway.
- Behind a proxy, httpx connect errors and proxy errors are an unknown
  outcome, matching §2.3's tunnel row. The gateway is stricter than 0.6.1
  there, and the changelog says what changed.
- The test network guard records only stream sockets it bound, forgets a
  port when its socket closes, and refuses datagram connects and sends.
A run under load failed once on 3.11 and left no name. Three places
depended on a busy machine scheduling a thread inside a short timeout:
G12's read-timeout row now waits for its listener to report the request
and only then shortens the socket's read timeout; G12's reused row runs
its first exchange on the ordinary wait and shortens only the reconnect;
and T221's backlog filler confirms a full queue with a probe of its own,
since a filler that timed out because the machine was busy would leave a
listener that still accepts and a test asserting nothing.
- A continuation exists only because the remote spoke, so a resumed leg
  can never say the remote did nothing. The kernel row: an executor
  delivers, suspends, the peer dies, and the continuation's refused
  connect must leave the record AMBIGUOUS with the retry refused. The
  gateway rows: an upstream that answered input_required and is holding
  the exchange, then a transport failure, a pre-dispatch JSON-RPC code
  and a 401 on the continuation, each recording AMBIGUOUS and relaying
  what the upstream said. Three controls assert the same answers on a
  first leg still record FAILED.
- HTTPForwarder writes request bytes, so it marks the run it writes in.
- A plain Thread does not copy the context, and it is what an executor
  reaches for: a request it delivers must stop its run from claiming.
  The cost is asserted too: a send that belongs to no run suppresses the
  claims of every run open at that moment.
- The sibling-thread race is pinned as the disclosure describes it.
- The httpx variant reads its proxies when the call starts, not when it
  fails.
- G12's reused row must fail a classifier that keeps the register and
  drops the connection's own byte mark.
The second independent review of item 2: one blocking finding, five
smaller ones.

- A resumed leg was claiming NotExecuted although the remote had the
  request: a continuation exists only because the remote answered and is
  holding the exchange. Control.resume now opens its register already
  marked, and the gateway refuses to record FAILED for anything a
  continuation meets, the pre-dispatch JSON-RPC codes and the 401 rule
  included; the upstream's answer is still relayed unchanged. SPEC
  §12.2.9's paragraph said the opposite and is reversed, with §12.2.12
  arguing the rule and the changelog naming what 0.6.1 did.
- A send that belongs to no register now marks every open run. Not
  copying the context is Python's default, so an executor that hands its
  request to a worker thread was claiming that nothing happened. The
  cost, which is claims lost in unrelated concurrent runs, is asserted by
  a test and stated in the docstrings and §12.2.13.
- HTTPForwarder marks the run it writes in, and only that one: the
  relayed traffic it also carries is never an effect.
- G12's reused row delivers its first request before the attempt, so the
  connection's own byte mark is the only thing that can refuse the claim;
  a classifier that keeps the register and drops the mark now fails it.
- The httpx variant reads whether a proxy is in use when the call begins,
  where the client takes its own proxies, not when it fails.
- The sibling-thread race is pinned by a test so the disclosure cannot
  drift.
The third review round, all three non-blocking.

- Control.resume's docstring said a resumption decides nothing
  differently, and it now does: the mapping is shared, but a continuation
  leg can never record FAILED. That docstring is where an operator reads
  this rather than the specification, so it says so, and says that an
  executor's own NotExecuted is still believed.
- _closed gets its own finally and runs before the context variable is
  reset. Not reachable today, and it is the one piece of global mutable
  state here: a run left open would be marked by every context-less send
  for the life of the process.
- The continuation rule also overrides an operator's
  not_executed_on_error, which SPEC-v0.2 §3.1 makes their claim to make.
  That is correct, because the assertion is about the call the tool
  answers and a continuation is not the call that carries the effect, but
  it was not written down: §12.2.12 and the changelog now name it, and a
  fourth T231b row drives it through a real upstream.
# Conflicts:
#	.github/workflows/ci.yml
#	CHANGELOG.md
#	src/ctrlrun/control.py
#	src/ctrlrun/effect.py
#	src/ctrlrun/verify/guarantees.py
#	src/ctrlrun/verify/scenarios.py
#	tests/test_verify.py
#	tests/test_verify_action.py
#	tests/test_verify_report.py
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The change adds transport classification with executor-wide byte tracking, updates gateway continuation handling, introduces guarantees G12, G15, and G16, and updates specifications, network guards, workflow assertions, and guarantee-count tests.

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Transport classification and verification

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Core transport register and wrappers
src/ctrlrun/effect.py, src/ctrlrun/transport.py
Adds executor-wide request-byte tracking, transport observations, effect_state, HTTP connection wrappers, and non-redirecting URL handling.
Gateway and executor integration
src/ctrlrun/control.py, src/ctrlrun/gateway/...
Shares transport classification across gateway paths, records proxy causes, prevents FAILED on continuation legs, and chains NotExecuted causes.
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src/ctrlrun/verify/..., tests/conftest.py, tests/test_verify.py
Adds loopback scenarios for delivered-byte and no-byte failures. The network guard permits only process-owned loopback TCP listeners.
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docs/SPEC-v0.7.md, CHANGELOG.md, .github/workflows/ci.yml, tests/test_verify_*.py
Documents transport, attempt-ceiling, and precondition-fingerprint rules. Updates guarantee counts and badge expectations.

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  Control->>Transport: send HTTP request
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#: The current run's register, or `None` outside any executor run: on a thread that did not copy
#: the executor's context, and in code `Control` is not running. `None` means nothing is claimed.
_EXECUTOR_RUN: ContextVar[_ExecutorRun | None] = ContextVar("ctrlrun_executor_run", default=None)
CI found this on Linux after a clean macOS run and a clean review round.
The reused row closed its listener and re-bound the port with
SO_REUSEADDR to stop another process taking it. On Linux the port is
still held by the connection it served, so bind answers EADDRINUSE
whatever SO_REUSEADDR says, verify raised an internal error, and
ctrlrun verify exited 3 on every Linux run, for every document, on a
correct kernel: 62 tests red, the cookbook recipe and test_observe
among them.

No port is re-bound after being served now. The row reconnects to the
socket §12.2.1 already describes, bound by verify and never listened on,
which is refused at once on Linux, dropped on macOS, and cannot pass to
another process. The connection's target is nothing to do with what the
row asserts, which is that an object that has already offered a byte
does not claim when its next connect fails, so the row keeps its whole
meaning and loses the platform dependency. §12.2.11 says what happened
and §12.2.1 now names the one mechanism all three failing-connect rows
use.

Also moves _LOOPBACK's comment back to _LOOPBACK: the merge splice left
it in the class body above G13's header.

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In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Line 62: Update the external-opener statement in the changelog to distinguish
caller-built openers that use a fresh classifier connection: an only connection
failure before any bytes in an unmarked executor run can produce NotExecuted,
while redirects or retries after a prior send preserve the original exception.
- Line 53: Regenerate the public API and readiness documentation to include the
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was handed to its socket (DNS failure, refusal, connect timeout, a TLS handshake failure). Every
other failure is the original exception, which the kernel records `AMBIGUOUS`: a reset or a
timeout after the request was offered, a `sendall` that raised part way, a reused connection, a
socket the caller set, an opener the classifier did not build, a proxy that refused a tunnel

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the external-opener statement.

Line 62 says an opener that the classifier did not build always preserves the original exception. That is not the final rule. A caller-built opener can still use a fresh classifier connection and receive NotExecuted when its only connection fails before any byte in an unmarked executor run. Distinguish that case from redirects or retries after a prior send.

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In `@CHANGELOG.md` at line 62, Update the external-opener statement in the
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httpx = http_client()
run = _EXECUTOR_RUN.get()
proxied = _through_a_proxy()

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printf '%s\n' '--- forwarder construction ---'
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Use one proxy snapshot for client construction and classification.

When another thread changes the proxy environment between _through_a_proxy() and httpx.Client(...), proxied can disagree with HTTPX's route. A proxy-path ConnectError can then become Transport.NEVER_CONNECTED, causing request() to raise NotExecuted and permit a retry. The same mismatch can affect HTTPForwarder's fresh path, while its pooled client reads the environment during __init__, before line 323.

Capture the effective proxy configuration once. Build the client with that configuration and trust_env=False. Classify from the same snapshot. Add deterministic race coverage for request() and both forwarder client paths.

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In `@src/ctrlrun/gateway/transport.py` at line 153, Update request() and
HTTPForwarder client construction to capture the effective proxy configuration
once, use that snapshot when constructing httpx.Client with trust_env=False, and
classify connectivity from the same snapshot. Ensure pooled and fresh forwarder
paths follow this behavior, and add deterministic race coverage for request()
and both HTTPForwarder client paths.

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Comment on lines +226 to +229
def _getaddrinfo(host, *args, **kwargs):
if type(host) is not str or host != _LOOPBACK:
_refuse(f"resolve {host!r}")
return _real_getaddrinfo(host, *args, **kwargs)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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import socket

socket.getaddrinfo = lambda *_args, **_kwargs: (_ for _ in ()).throw(RuntimeError("guarded"))
try:
    socket.gethostbyname("localhost")
except RuntimeError:
    raise SystemExit("gethostbyname unexpectedly used patched getaddrinfo")
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import socket

socket.getaddrinfo = lambda *_args, **_kwargs: (_ for _ in ()).throw(RuntimeError("guarded"))
for name, call in (
    ("gethostbyname", lambda: socket.gethostbyname("localhost")),
    ("gethostbyname_ex", lambda: socket.gethostbyname_ex("localhost")),
    ("gethostbyaddr", lambda: socket.gethostbyaddr("127.0.0.1")),
):
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        call()
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    ("gethostbyname", lambda: socket.gethostbyname("localhost")),
    ("gethostbyname_ex", lambda: socket.gethostbyname_ex("localhost")),
    ("gethostbyaddr", lambda: socket.gethostbyaddr("127.0.0.1")),
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Block the other resolver entry points.

The generated sitecustomize.py replaces only socket.getaddrinfo. socket.gethostbyname(), socket.gethostbyname_ex(), and socket.gethostbyaddr() bypass this guard and can invoke the system resolver. Refuse these APIs and add coverage for them.

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In `@tests/conftest.py` around lines 226 - 229, Extend the resolver guard around
_getaddrinfo to replace and refuse socket.gethostbyname(),
socket.gethostbyname_ex(), and socket.gethostbyaddr(), preventing system
resolution through alternate entry points. Add tests covering each blocked API
while preserving the existing loopback-only behavior for getaddrinfo.

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# Conflicts:
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#	tests/test_verify.py
#	tests/test_verify_action.py
#	tests/test_verify_report.py
Item 4 added T252: a catalogue title wider than report._TITLE_WIDTH
breaks the CLI table's alignment. G12's was 48 characters against 32,
the only one over, and the merge is where the two met. The full
sentence, a byte written and the peer killed is AMBIGUOUS and never
FAILED, is in §8.9 and in the row's descends_from; the title is the
table's line.

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3816-3817: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Synchronize the published verification counts.

The workflow asserts verified 14/14 and verified 8/8. The specification and changelog publish older values. Update both documents to match the committed CI contract.

  • docs/SPEC-v0.7.md#L3816-L3817: replace the obsolete 12/12 and 7/7 expectations.
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CI on Linux caught G12's "always claims" mutant with the read-timeout
row rather than the reset row, under a different sentence, and the test
asserts the sentence because the status alone cannot tell one wrong
classifier from another.

The cause is not the merge and not the kernel: a peer that resets after
reading surfaces that reset from the response read on macOS and from the
send on Linux. The double wrapped only the read, so on Linux the reset
row had nothing wrong with it to catch. It now claims from both calls,
which is what "a classifier that guesses" means, and the intended row
catches it on either platform. §12.2.11 records the lesson: a double
that models a wrong classifier has to be wrong everywhere the failure
can land, or it tests the platform.
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arpanghoshal merged commit 6b57f56 into main Sep 11, 2026
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