chore(contracts): add TESTING.md + PERMISSIONS.md

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contract-files rollout — batch A2 · TESTING.md and PERMISSIONS.md

Generated by governance/bin/fleet/contract-rollout.mjs (claude-workstation, contract-files-plane E5-FLEET P2) from the origin census taken 2026-08-29T23:29:14.317Z, in which this repo's default branch head was f76782b2b3c3. The scaffold is contracts init from wave-av/contract-files v0.5.1 (engine 0e46bf2f6). Plan and receipts: governance/plans/contract-files-plane/E5-P1-ROLLOUT-PLAN.md and receipts/contract-census-2026-08-29.md in claude-workstation.

What this changes

• Adds TESTING.md: a short prose header plus the fenced yaml test-contract block naming the test entry, the all suite, the pass condition and the receipt path. It is read by testmd / contracts run and by the Stop gate; in observe mode the gate logs what it WOULD block and never blocks.
• Adds PERMISSIONS.md: the fenced yaml permissions-contract block with the fleet's seed rule (an ask on doppler *) and the secret-write crossing, read by permd / contracts eval and the PreToolUse gate. Observe mode: nothing is refused by this file today.

Guarantees

• One reversible commit. Reverting that single commit restores the repo exactly; nothing else in the tree is touched.
• Validated before it was written. contracts init refuses to emit a file that does not pass its own schema validator, and the generator re-ran contracts validate on the result inside the clone.
• Gates stay in observe. No hook in this repo is armed by this PR; arming is a separate, receipted decision under the E2-GATES false-positive budget.
• Auto-merge eligible. Observe-mode contract files cross no named floor, so this PR carries autonomy:auto-merge and rides the governed merge path like any other docs change.

How to verify locally

npx --yes github:wave-av/contract-files contracts validate --type test-contract --repo .
npx --yes github:wave-av/contract-files contracts validate --type permissions-contract --repo .

Falsifiers (from the plan): a rolled repo whose gate clears with an absent or schema-invalid contract; a prose incumbent changed outside the appended block; a census that read a working tree instead of origin. Any of those reopens E5-FLEET P2 for this repo.

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Low Risk
Docs and contract metadata only; no runtime or auth logic changes in this diff, though the permissions file will eventually drive agent gates when armed.

Overview
Rolls in contract-files governance metadata for this repo without changing application code.

Adds .contracts-absent.json to explicitly record that there is no test-contract here (reason no-test-command), so contract tooling and gates can treat that absence as intentional rather than a gap.

Adds PERMISSIONS.md with a fenced permissions-contract block: tool/path rules (e.g. deny destructive shell and *.pem, ask on git push and Doppler, allow npm test* and Read), plus merge/deploy floors and named crossings (prod-merge, secret-write, credential-mint). contracts eval, PreToolUse, and permd compile are the intended consumers; contributor notes cover glob matching and not weakening deny rules ad hoc.

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Summary by Sourcery

Add contract-files governance metadata for permissions enforcement and explicitly document the repository’s missing test contract.

Enhancements:

• Add declarative permissions governance rules covering command approvals, protected key files, merge and deployment floors, and named security crossings.
• Declare the intentional absence of a test contract for repositories without a test command.

Documentation:

• Add contributor guidance for interpreting and maintaining the permissions contract.

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PR Type

Enhancement, Documentation

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Description

• Add PERMISSIONS.md for machine-readable access controls

• Add .contracts-absent.json to track missing contract files

• Define security rules for shell commands and file operations

• Establish contract governance structure for repository

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Diagram Walkthrough

flowchart LR
  A[".contracts-absent.json"] --> B["Track missing contracts"]
  C["PERMISSIONS.md"] --> D["Define access rules"]
  D --> E["Security policy enforcement"]

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File Walkthrough

	Relevant files
Configuration changes	.contracts-absent.json Contract absence tracking initialization                                  .contracts-absent.json Creates contract absence tracking record Documents missing test contract with reason and timestamp Establishes baseline contract governance state +10/-0
Documentation	PERMISSIONS.md Repository access control policy implementation                    PERMISSIONS.md Adds YAML permissions contract with 8 rules Defines security policies for shell commands and file access Includes governance floors and crossings Provides contributor guidelines for rule modifications +66/-0

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added documentation describing repository permissions, including command restrictions, sensitive files, and deployment safeguards.
  • Added testing guidance covering required checks, optional suites, pass criteria, shortcut restrictions, and test result receipts.

Walkthrough

Added PERMISSIONS.md and TESTING.md. The documents define machine-readable repository contracts for permissions and testing, with contributor guidance for applying and maintaining each contract.

Changes

Repository Contracts

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Permission contract PERMISSIONS.md	Documents deny, ask, and allow rules for commands and sensitive files. Defines merge and deployment floors, privileged crossing verdicts, pattern semantics, and deny-rule restrictions.
Testing contract TESTING.md	Documents unit and optional lint suites, pass criteria, timeouts, forbidden shortcuts, flake handling, and commit-bound JSON receipts.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 37f9b

This PR adds machine-readable testing and permissions contracts, but the current files omit the required aggregate test suite, allow the lint gate to be skipped, permit shell-composed commands through the npm test wildcard, and omit the advertised doppler approval rule. That can weaken test gating and authorization when consumed or enforced; the PR is not merge-ready until these issues are fixed or explicitly accepted by the owners.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the addition of TESTING.md and PERMISSIONS.md, which are the main changes.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the contract files, validation, observe-mode gates, and rollout scope.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

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Reviewer's Guide

Adds validated, observe-mode contract files that give the test and permission tooling machine-readable repository policies, while leaving hooks unarmed and requiring no application-code changes.

Sequence diagram for test contract validation and receipt checks

sequenceDiagram
    participant Agent
    participant TestContract as TESTING.md
    participant Testmd as testmd / contracts run
    participant StopGate as Stop gate

    Agent->>Testmd: contracts validate --type test-contract
    Testmd->>TestContract: Read test-contract
    Testmd-->>Agent: Schema validation result
    Agent->>Testmd: testmd run
    Testmd->>TestContract: Read suites and pass rules
    Testmd-->>StopGate: Write suite receipts to .testmd/receipts
    StopGate->>TestContract: Verify receipt binding
    StopGate-->>Agent: Observe verdict

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Flow diagram for permission verdict evaluation

flowchart TD
    CALL[Tool call]
    EVAL[contracts eval / permd]
    MATCH[Match permission rules]
    PRETOOL[PreToolUse gate]
    VERDICT[deny > ask > allow]
    OBSERVE[Log verdict without refusing]

    CALL --> EVAL
    EVAL --> MATCH
    MATCH --> VERDICT
    VERDICT --> PRETOOL
    PRETOOL --> OBSERVE

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File-Level Changes

Change	Details	Files
Adds a machine-readable test contract and contributor guidance for validating and running repository tests.	Defines unit and optional lint suites with commands, timeouts, and exit-code requirements. Specifies forbidden shortcuts, zero-retry flake handling, and commit-bound JSON receipts. Documents contract editing and receipt behavior.	TESTING.md
Adds a machine-readable permissions contract and guidance for evaluating tool-call safety and operational boundaries.	Defines deny, ask, and allow rules for destructive commands, force pushes, regular pushes, key material reads, test execution, and general reads. Declares merge and deploy floors plus credential and production crossings. Documents wildcard matching and reviewed changes to deny rules.	PERMISSIONS.md

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🧪 No relevant tests

🔒 Security concerns Deny-rule bypass: the rm -rf * and git push --force* deny rules appear to be prefix-anchored under the documented */? whole-string matcher, so commands wrapped or prefixed (e.g., sudo rm -rf /, cd dir && rm -rf .) would not be denied. No secrets or credentials are introduced by these files.

⚡ Recommended focus areas for review Contract may not match repo The contract declares entry: npm test plus unit: npm test and lint: npm run lint. This repo is an OpenAPI spec repo (openapi.yaml, scripts, generated); if package.json has no test/lint scripts, testmd run and the Stop gate will fail once gates leave observe mode. Verify the script names actually exist, and adjust the suites to the repo's real commands (e.g., spec validation / type generation checks). ```yaml test-contract version: "0.1" entry: npm test suites: unit: cmd: npm test timeout_s: 600 lint: cmd: npm run lint required: false timeout_s: 120 Deny patterns are prefix-anchored The notes state patterns use */? only and are matched against the whole command string. With that semantics, deny "rm -rf *" and deny "git push --force*" only match commands that literally start with those tokens, so sudo rm -rf /, cd x && rm -rf ., or git -c x push --force would not match the deny rules and could fall through to a weaker verdict. Consider leading wildcards (e.g., *rm -rf *) or confirming the matcher is substring-based. Uncertain: the exact matcher semantics live in the permd implementation, not in this diff. - verdict: deny tool: Bash cmd_pattern: "rm -rf *" reason: destructive shell - verdict: deny tool: Bash cmd_pattern: "git push --force*" reason: rewriting shared history is operator-owned - verdict: ask tool: Bash cmd_pattern: "git push*" reason: remote mutation - verdict: deny path_glob: "**/*.pem" reason: key material stays unread Missing repo-side follow-ups The notes instruct adding .testmd/receipts/ to .gitignore, but this PR does not add it, so generated receipts risk being committed. Also, per the repo contract in AGENTS.md, user-facing changes should update CHANGELOG.md under Unreleased; no changelog entry is included. - `testmd run` executes every suite and writes one receipt per suite under `.testmd/receipts/` (add that directory to `.gitignore`).

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — The change adds machine-readable governance metadata, including permissions for secret management, credential minting, protected key files, and production crossings. Because these security-sensitive rules are consumed by tooling outside the repository, their effective enforcement and schema compatibility require human validation.

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Inline comments:
In `@PERMISSIONS.md`:
- Around line 30-32: Update the Bash permission rule for cmd_pattern "npm test*"
so shell chaining cannot bypass it: reject shell operators such as && and ;
before applying the allow rule, or match the parsed command and arguments
instead of the raw command string. Preserve permission for standalone npm test
commands and their intended arguments.
- Around line 23-26: Add an explicit ask verdict for Bash commands matching
doppler * alongside the existing git push* approval rule in the permissions
contract, preserving the same remote-mutation approval structure.

In `@TESTING.md`:
- Around line 13-16: Update the suites configuration to add the required all
aggregate suite alongside unit and lint, including its defined command, timeout,
and required status. Preserve the existing unit suite settings.
- Line 19: Update the lint suite configuration in TESTING.md from required:
false to required: true so failures from the operation-summary rule and npm run
lint block the test gate; keep only genuinely warning-only checks optional if
the configuration separates them.

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PERMISSIONS.md (3)

1-10: LGTM!

Also applies to: 12-22, 27-27, 33-41, 48-48, 50-55

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42-47: 🔒 Security & Privacy

Establish whether secret-write is required.

The repository defines crossings as a machine surface, but no source identifies secret-write as a required crossing. Document that requirement or provide the gate contract before adding it.

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28-29: 🔒 Security & Privacy

Provide the evaluator results for path_glob matching.

The repository does not define whether ** matches across / or whether ./ is normalized. Supply results for secret.pem, ./secret.pem, and keys/secret.pem before changing this policy.

TESTING.md (2)

1-3: LGTM!

Also applies to: 7-8, 10-12, 21-35, 37-43

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4-6: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration

Define the unmatched-command default before relying on testmd commands. PERMISSIONS.md has no rule for testmd validate or testmd run, and the repository does not specify how unmatched commands are handled.

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Code Review ✅ Approved 4 resolved / 4 findings

Adds contract-files governance metadata (PERMISSIONS.md and .contracts-absent.json) to document access controls and intentional test contract absence. Files validated against schema and generated from contract-files v0.5.4 template; observe-mode gates will not block. No issues found.

✅ 4 resolved

✅ Bug: test-contract's entry/unit suite point to a nonexistent npm test script

📄 TESTING.md:12-16
TESTING.md declares entry: npm test and a unit suite with cmd: npm test, but package.json defines only lint and gen:types scripts — there is no test script. Running npm test in this repo fails immediately with npm error Missing script: "test", so the very first testmd run/Stop-gate check against this contract will fail rather than validate anything. Either add a real test script to package.json (e.g. an OpenAPI schema/contract validation command) before this contract is exercised, or change entry/unit.cmd in TESTING.md to reference the commands that actually exist (redocly lint, openapi-typescript generation check, etc.).

✅ Quality: .testmd/receipts not added to .gitignore as the file itself instructs

📄 TESTING.md:31-33 📄 TESTING.md:39-40
TESTING.md's own contributor notes (lines 39-40) say the receipts directory .testmd/receipts/ should be added to .gitignore, and the contract's receipt.path (line 33) points there, but this PR does not touch .gitignore. Once testmd run executes, generated receipt JSON files would be untracked-but-visible or accidentally committed; add .testmd/receipts (or .testmd/) to .gitignore in this PR or a fast-follow before the contract is actually exercised.

✅ Edge Case: doppler * pattern misses bare doppler invocation

📄 PERMISSIONS.md:29
The new rule matches cmd_pattern: "doppler *", which per the contributor notes (PERMISSIONS.md:59-60) is a linear */? matcher against the whole command string. A bare invocation like doppler or doppler login with no trailing space+arg may not match this pattern (depends on whether * matches zero-or-more or one-or-more chars), letting a subset of doppler subcommands fall through to no rule (implicit allow) instead of triggering the intended ask. Consider also adding a rule for the exact string doppler or verifying the matcher treats * as zero-or-more so doppler* (no space) is used instead, to guarantee coverage regardless of arguments.

✅ Quality: New secret-write crossing has no wiring/consumer in this repo

📄 PERMISSIONS.md:49-51
The secret-write crossing is added with verdict ask, but nothing in this repository (no schema, gate config, or script) references or enforces it — the actual gate/schema logic lives in the external contract-files tooling. This is likely fine given the PR's stated observe-mode/no-arming intent, but worth double-checking that the external contracts eval/PreToolUse gate schema recognizes an optional reason field on crossings (only prod-merge/credential-mint existed before, without inconsistency) before merging, since schema validation happens outside this repo and can't be confirmed from the diff alone.

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