C1-A04 follow-up — Compare effective refs using repository identity

[LogicDuke]

Purpose

Quarantined child repair for the CURRENT/P1 repository-ref-identity contract finding discovered on PR #35.

This PR intentionally targets:

repair/c1-a04-symref-claim

It MUST NOT target PR #21's branch, PR #14's branch, or main.

Finding

Terminal/effective ref-name spelling alone does not necessarily establish repository ref identity.

Where repository semantics alias distinct spellings — for example a case-insensitive ref store — exact terminal-name string inequality is insufficient to prove isolation from the protected parent.

Classification:

CURRENT / P1

Repair

Clarifies that the trusted repository/Git execution boundary must determine effective ref identity under the repository's actual ref-identity semantics, or fail closed where the required identity/distinctness cannot safely be established.

No executable TypeScript changes.

No runtime behavior changes.

No authority expansion.

Evidence

Parent:

7444080372a91bafb2d2fa036320960ac00632dc

Repair commit:

467ccc39b7c497c904aa527f9d3d50940d2593c7

Canonical patch SHA-256:

36557A087D4740E650A5594F0AC2CC58B8BCBE10F91B36BCD5BAD7F01D10878C

Canonical patch bytes:

4226

Changed files exactly:

• docs/architecture/C1-repair-job-authority.md
• src/domain/repair-job.ts

Independent validation:

PASS

Executable TypeScript identity:

UNCHANGED

Quarantine

Required flow:

this child
→ exact-head CI
→ independent reviews
→ classify findings
→ policy/evidence gate
→ Ready
→ post-Ready observation
→ human CREATE A MERGE COMMIT upward into PR #35 branch
→ establish PR #35 NEW HEAD
→ fresh PR #35 parent audit

Failure means this child remains quarantined and PR #35 stays untouched.

MERGE IS HUMAN/OPERATOR AUTHORITY ONLY.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Clarified how trusted repair operations determine whether repository references are distinct.
  • Documented repository-specific reference identity rules, including symbolic references and case-insensitive names.
  • Clarified that operations fail safely when required reference identity cannot be established.

[coderabbitai]

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The repair-job authority documentation now requires repository-aware comparison of effective ref identities. The trusted execution boundary must resolve symbolic refs and fail closed when distinctness cannot be proven.

Changes

Repair-job authority

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Repository-aware ref identity contract docs/architecture/C1-repair-job-authority.md, src/domain/repair-job.ts	The documentation distinguishes canonical ref-name comparison from repository-resolved identity. The trusted execution boundary accounts for case-insensitive ref stores and refuses execution when effective ref distinctness is uncertain.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 467cc

The PR clarifies repository-aware ref identity, but the trusted execution path still does not consume the authorization permit or enforce the required identity checks for repair operations. Merge should wait until that enforcement gap is fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner.

Poem

I’m a rabbit guarding refs tonight,
Names alone must prove they’re right.
Resolve each path, compare with care,
If doubt remains, stop repair there.
Thump, thump—fail closed!

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 1 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)
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.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: comparing effective refs using repository identity.

✨ Finishing Touches

📝 Generate docstrings

• Create stacked PR
• Commit on current branch

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch repair/c1-a04-repository-ref-identity

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Codex Review: Didn't find any major issues. Delightful!

Reviewed commit: 467ccc39b7

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Inline comments:
In `@src/domain/repair-job.ts`:
- Around line 528-535: Implement a trusted consuming executor for
ExecutionPermit that consumes the permit and performs repair.commit,
repair.push, or repair.change_request instead of relying solely on
permitAuthorizes. Resolve effective refs using the repository’s actual
ref-identity semantics, reject identity changes, and fail closed whenever
required ref distinctness or identity cannot be safely established.

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• docs/architecture/C1-repair-job-authority.md
• src/domain/repair-job.ts

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