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Summary

The agentic SDLC roadmap previously mixed lean validation, optional assurance, ecosystem delivery and broader architecture work. This change records a bounded delivery sequence, preserves #481/#483 as the lean foundation and defines independently reviewable compatibility, decision-context, workflow-integration and calibration follow-ups.

Refs: #490, #491, #492, #493; amendments to #483, #164, #230, #431, #434 and #169. These stories remain open; this PR delivers planning only. Paired core contract stories: nold-ai/specfact-cli#749 and nold-ai/specfact-cli#750.

Scope and bundle impact

  • OpenSpec roadmap, proposals, acceptance deltas, planning evidence and task ordering.
  • Optional decision context, producer identity and shared bounded-loop budgets remain separate from lean reconciliation prerequisites.
  • Architecture scope consumes approved boundaries and existing analyzers. Evidence export uses in-toto Statement v1/SCAI v0.3 while retaining native report limitations.
  • Statistical sample gates are explicitly operational; they do not prove a 1% false-block population rate.

No bundle source, manifest, registry, command or runtime changes; no version bump or module publication. Implementation tasks remain unchecked. #481 has owner-authorized takeover in a separate clean worktree.

Validation evidence

  • Strict OpenSpec validation: all 10 touched changes passed.
  • Staged Requirements planning-evidence gate: passed, proposal-only.
  • Existing documentation tests: 20 passed.
  • Applicable staged pre-commit hooks: passed, including module signature applicability, format, manifest YAML, import boundaries, generated command contracts and documentation accountability.
  • Code analysis/contract execution: inapplicable to this Markdown/YAML-only surface; explicit scope exception recorded in openspec/AGENTIC_SDLC_VALIDATION.md. Runtime stories retain their required fresh review and TDD gates.
  • GitHub metadata: six new cross-repository stories have parent/type/labels/assignee/project metadata; required native dependency edges verified in both directions.
  • Commit signature: GitHub signed and valid; remote tree exactly matched the checked staged index. Local GPG remained unavailable.

Rollout and review

Review the roadmap and formal acceptance deltas before implementation. Planning does not close delivery issues or establish installed-pair acceptance. Revert this planning commit to restore the prior roadmap. CI results remain separate from the local evidence above.

  • Self-review completed
  • Backward-compatibility and rollout constraints documented
  • No runtime completion claimed

Paired core planning PR: nold-ai/specfact-cli#751

Review triage and corrections — 2026-10-05

Both unresolved findings were independently confirmed and corrected in signed commit 15e0edb2. The original ask-decide-challenge amendment remains intact.

Finding Severity Disposition
Allow missing requirement associations in imported architecture documents. Major Preserve present IDs; report absent associations as missing evidence without rejecting import.
Submit and review the implementation PR before publication. Minor Complete PR review/integration before signed publication and installed-pair handoff.

Strict OpenSpec validation passed for both affected changes; staged planning-evidence and all applicable pre-commit hooks passed; 20 documentation tests passed. The pushed commit signature is valid and its tree exactly matched the checked index. No behavior, RED/GREEN, installed-pair or runtime delivery evidence is claimed. New-head CI/reviewer status remains separate.

Paired follow-up: core PR #751's architecture data-model scenario still has the same mandatory-ID wording at inspection time; align it before runtime adoption. This review pass changes only PR #494.

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Summary

This is a planning-only OpenSpec update. It defines an ordered roadmap for compatibility, decision context, assurance, architecture analysis, evidence export, workflow orchestration, ecosystem adapters, and outcome calibration. It preserves the lean #481/``#483 foundation and keeps implementation tasks open.

Bundle and module surface

No bundle source, manifest, registry, command, adapter, or runtime behavior changes. The proposals assign shared parsing and contracts to specfact-cli and execution or external access to workflow adapters. They do not establish changes to specfact_cli APIs.

Manifest and integrity

No module-package.yaml, semantic version, signature-verification, or registry changes are included. The planned evidence export uses in-toto Statement v1 and SCAI v0.3. It keeps native reports authoritative and distinguishes signature authenticity from claim correctness.

Cross-repo

The roadmap identifies paired core contract stories #749 and #750. The referenced delivery issues remain open. Compatibility work is planned around released contracts and installed-pair tests; this PR does not establish contract implementation or installed-pair acceptance. No dev-dependency path changes are described.

Docs and validation

The changes add or amend OpenSpec roadmap, proposal, design, requirements-evidence, task, validation, handoff, and research documents. The supplied summary reports strict OpenSpec validation, planning-evidence checks, documentation tests, and applicable pre-commit hooks as passing. Runtime implementation and tests remain pending. No modules.specfact.io/GitHub Pages accuracy review, documentation-url-contract change, or CHANGELOG change is established by the supplied evidence.

Walkthrough

This planning-only change updates an Agentic SDLC roadmap and eight delivery tracks. It adds requirements, design details, planning evidence, validation records, and implementation checklists. Runtime behavior, implementation, and runtime test evidence remain pending.

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Agentic SDLC planning roadmap

Layer / File(s) Summary
Roadmap, validation, and handoff
openspec/AGENTIC_SDLC_*.md, openspec/CHANGE_ORDER.md
Records the delivery order and track boundaries, planning validation and remaining limits, and handoff requirements for signed commits. Updates the active-tree count and verification date.
Architecture input and dependency evidence
openspec/changes/architecture-01-solution-layer/*, openspec/changes/architecture-02-module-well-architected/*
Revises architecture planning to cover bounded import and evidence association. Specifies preserved Import Linter provenance, forbidden-dependency fixtures, and UNKNOWN handling for unavailable or incomplete extraction.
Decision context and optional assurance
openspec/changes/requirements-11-decision-context/*, openspec/changes/preflight-02-assurance-runtime/*
Defines optional versioned decision context and a separate digest that leaves legacy plan hashes unchanged. Specifies policy-selected binding of context to assurance seals and distinguishes recorded assertions from authenticated approval.
Context conformance and statistical reporting
openspec/changes/preflight-05-implementation-conformance/*
Specifies context-bound conformance outcomes and preserves independent producer results. Clarifies that operational sample thresholds do not establish population rates and requires uncertainty reporting.
Upstream artifact compatibility
openspec/changes/requirements-10-upstream-format-compatibility/*
Defines supported upstream profiles, extension compatibility, offline import, and validation before persistence. Requires failed imports to preserve existing imported state.
Evidence export and provenance
openspec/changes/governance-01-evidence-output/*
Defines optional digest-bound in-toto/SCAI export and keeps native reports authoritative. Moves OSCAL trace material to non-normative research.
Workflow orchestration and ecosystem adapters
openspec/changes/workflow-01-turn-orchestration/*, openspec/changes/workflow-02-ecosystem-adapters/*
Specifies producer provenance, bounded verification and repair, and optional Spec Kit and GitHub integrations. Defines loss-aware summaries and SARIF projection while preserving native reports and producer outcomes.
Validation outcome pilot
openspec/changes/validation-03-outcome-calibration/*
Defines a 30-change pilot, separate outcome measures, handling for unavailable measurements, and statistical reporting limits. The pilot is not a release gate.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 13ea4

Resolve the architecture acceptance conflict and put adapter review before publication. Both are planning changes, but leaving them inconsistent risks incorrect implementation and release sequencing.

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# Summary

Promote the current `dev` branch to `main`, releasing
`nold-ai/specfact-code-review` **0.51.2**. Portable reviews now resolve
explicit corresponding tests before fallback, avoid unused pytest setup,
and handle pinned CrossHair constructor signatures, callable pytest
markers and Literal inputs without the reproduced runtime crashes.
Pylint similarity caching is bounded to one invocation.

The release also carries the merged agentic SDLC roadmap, risk-first
workflow guidance and public OpenSpec design/evidence updates. It
preserves incomplete-analysis semantics, contracts, deadlines, isolation
and no-write requirements.

Refs: #499, #501, #503, #504, #494, #500; related capsule work #460 and
#498.

## Scope

- [x] Bundle source changes under `packages/`
- [x] Registry/manifest changes and the signed `0.51.2` registry
artifact
- [x] CI/workflow changes for mandatory host proofs and bounded
preparation/failure diagnostics
- [x] Documentation and OpenSpec/governance changes
- [ ] Signing-tool implementation changes

## Bundle Impact

- `nold-ai/specfact-code-review`: **0.51.0 → 0.51.2**.
- Other bundle versions remain unchanged.
- Core compatibility remains `>=0.55.1,<1.0.0`.
- The separate native capsule PR #498 is not included in this promotion.
Its remaining installed/native acceptance follows reviewer promotion.

## Validation Evidence

Checked 2026-10-09, Europe/Berlin, against release head
`bb57584c6d6ea7154f275a470a85d0c68909812c`, including merged source #503
and normal dev registry publication #504.

### Required local gates

The reviewed source in #503 passed format, type/lint, 28 contracts,
normal hooks, clean-code/Semgrep, workflow/manifests/imports, planned
requirements and strict OpenSpec validation. Full and SMART each passed
**27 mandatory host proofs and 5,181 portable tests**, with 75 declared
skips and 95 subtests. The final test-only correction passed all 66
affected dispatch/constructor/bridge checks and normal hooks. Its
affected source and tests, and the complete `packages/` tree, are
byte-for-byte unchanged on this release head, so these gates were not
repeated.

The exact #503 head `2da6cbdd` received an automatic GitHub CodeRabbit
review with no actionable comments across 13 files; some CI context was
skipped for timeout. Its latest CLI review failed with a WebSocket
connection error and is not clean evidence. The release head's fresh CI
and reviews must be assessed separately.

### Signature + version integrity

- [x] All seven manifests pass `verify-modules-signature.py
--require-signature --payload-from-filesystem --enforce-version-bump
--version-check-base origin/main` using the public signing key. The
signed #503 source's entire `packages/` tree matches the current release
head; the new head's module signature CI also passes.
- [x] Code Review version is bumped to `0.51.2`; its signed payload
checksum is
`d4bcfd8db105c60440b3bdefbe414f1dc148a75c21b8533801d43d888b3d0df4`.
- [x] Registry archive and checksum sidecar match SHA-256
`dca4ffc795c54835d437f005c50613b5b42cb401d6937261b4508a92c5fd67b7`; the
packaged signed manifest matches `dev`.
- [x] Registry publication PR #504 is merged. Registry latest version is
0.51.2; archive/sidecar hash and packaged signed manifest match the
actual release head. Current dev publication and module signature checks
pass.

## CI and Branch Protection

Fresh release-head checks and reviews are pending. Preserve the existing
required checks and evaluate actual defect/test failures normally.
Previously reported inline review threads are resolved after
independently verifying their fixes or invalid-finding dispositions. The
independently reproduced P2 same-stem correspondence finding is
explicitly deferred by the owner to the [open #498
annotation](#498 (comment));
the #502 thread is resolved as transferred, not fixed. This does not
claim green CI.

The user approved the known reviewer timeout failures as explicit
exceptions pending promotion. On signed source head `88411209`,
[ordinary CP312
job](https://github.com/nold-ai/specfact-cli-modules/actions/runs/37862310996/job/113601873468)
successfully prepared both runtime descriptors and reported
`crosshair_timeout_observed` with no exception class observed. The
independent installed `0.51.0` reviewer again timed out. These remain
incomplete evidence, never PASS; the exception does not waive crashes,
defects or test failures. No deadline, contract selection or assurance
rule is weakened.

## Docs / Pages

- [x] Existing changelog, agent rules, SDLC roadmap and public change
artifacts are included from merged dev work.
- [x] No Pages workflow changes are included.

## Checklist

- [x] Release diff and bundle/registry impact reviewed.
- [x] All changes are existing merged dev changes; no extra
implementation commits are introduced by this PR.
- [x] Rollout: human merge to `main` promotes the corrected reviewer;
then #498 can continue with the updated reviewer and ordinary
installed/native evidence. Apple Developer ID/notarization remains
separate; accepted first-run trust warnings do not change this release's
assurance claims.

This PR requests promotion only. Creating it does not merge or publish
`main` automatically.

## Integrated release fixes

[Patch PR
#503](#503) merged
to `dev`, followed by normal registry publication
[#504](#504). Both
are now included in this release head. The patch fixes both valid
no-impact preparation rejections, separates mutation from an assertion,
adds identity equality to the deliberate hash-failure fixture, and
removes the brittle exact child pass-count assertion. Normal review,
cleanup, failure exits, contracts, selections, deadlines and
negative-test behavior remain intact. All previously reported fixed
review threads are resolved. The same-stem test-selection fix is not
included in #503. The owner approved deferral to the [open #498
follow-up](#498 (comment)),
with full project test-suite runs for release acceptance during deferral
and correction required before #498 final installed/native acceptance.

Historical #503 CI passed all three CP311/CP312/CP313 customer
candidates. Its independent installed 0.51.0 reviewer returned an
unclassified structured FAIL with findings and Pylint UNKNOWN, and
quality jobs stopped at prerequisites before tools/tests. Individual
private findings were not retained. That failure remains unwaived and is
not established as a timeout; fresh release CI must be assessed on its
own evidence. Known, independently classified timeout failures retain
only the user-approved incomplete-evidence exception.

Native #498 remains separate and must select the next available patch
version when rebased.
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