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Closes #149.

Hypothesis

Given a git checkout whose local history does not reach the hardcoded BASELINE_COMMIT (35c9fd31ec0369f1c4b0ac7d5eda13d766bbb8cf) that scripts/benchmark-ticket-codec.mjs's withReference() fetches via git show <sha>:<path> — the realistic case for a shallow clone (reproduced live on this session's own fresh checkout) — adding a self-heal step (git fetch --depth 1 origin <BASELINE_COMMIT>, the literal constant only, never a caller-supplied ref) before the existing git show should make the previously-failing governance tests pass with network access to origin, and produce a clear, actionable diagnostic instead of an opaque stderr dump without it — without ever making BASELINE_COMMIT configurable. Confirmed.

Candidate

scripts/benchmark-ticket-codec.mjs: adds hasCommit(commit) (exported, git cat-file -e <commit>^{commit}, stderr silenced) and tryFetchCommit(commit) (private, git fetch --depth 1 origin <commit>, best-effort). withReference() now checks hasCommit(BASELINE_COMMIT) first; if missing, attempts the fetch, then asserts again with a clear message naming the remediation (git fetch --depth 1 origin <sha> or fetch-depth: 0, citing .github/workflows/ci.yml's existing precedent) if it still can't resolve. BASELINE_COMMIT itself is unchanged — still a hardcoded literal, never configurable; the golden comparison logic (git show, hashing, transpile, differential compare) is untouched.

scripts/benchmark-ticket-codec.test.mjs: +2 tests — one confirming hasCommit(BASELINE_COMMIT) is true after withReference()'s self-heal runs (regression guard that the pinned commit stays resolvable), one confirming hasCommit('0'.repeat(40)) is false (a syntactically valid, never-existing object id — exercises the negative/missing-commit branch deterministically, without depending on real network failure to prove it).

+32/-0 net new lines in the source file, +14 in the test file. Well under the 300-line target, one conceptual change.

Evaluation Receipt

Real evaluator: npm test (vitest run && npm run test:governance), run live before and after on this session's own shallow checkout (candidate stashed for the baseline run, then restored):

	vitest	governance
Parent (baseline)	769 passed	150 run, 147 pass / 3 fail
Candidate	769 passed (unchanged)	152 run (+2 new), 152 pass / 0 fail

npm run typecheck and npm run lint clean on the candidate.

Baseline

Measured live by git stash-ing the candidate diff and re-running the identical node --test scripts/benchmark-ticket-codec.test.mjs / npm test commands — not inferred from logs, not simulated.

Darwin Lineage

DARWIN=blocked. npx @metaharness/darwin --version responded (entrypoint live), but this session's own sandbox permission classifier denied the bounded evolve invocation as "Code from External"; not worked around. Corroborates the repo's already-tracked evaluatorEntrypoints.darwin unpinned-npx finding (packages/compile/src/supplychain.ts). Not required for this verdict (Darwin is optional, "only if available" — judged not safely available tonight).

Evidence

OBSERVATION (live 3-test baseline failure) → OBSERVATION (git cat-file -e confirms missing object) → OBSERVATION (CI's own fetch-depth: 0 precedent) → HYPOTHESIS (frozen above) → MEASUREMENT (769/150→147 baseline; 769/152→152 candidate) → INFERENCE (independent critic, separate context) → DECISION (ship; ACCEPT).

Reward-Hack Check

Independent adversarial critic (separate subagent, no authorship stake, read the real diff and live .git state directly, not a paraphrase): CLEAR. No fixture/golden-answer/threshold/seed/iteration-count touched. Confirmed content-addressing holds (a git fetch of an exact SHA cannot be redirected to different content without a hash collision). Confirmed no masking of a real reference/candidate mismatch — the comparison logic runs unchanged once the commit resolves. Confirmed the new error message's CI-precedent file/line references are accurate. One nitpick adopted (silence git cat-file -e's stderr on a miss); non-blocking notes on .git side-effect visibility left as disclosed, not blocking.

Security Review

No prompt-injection/MCP-authority/credential surface touched. Filesystem scope: only new side effect is git fetch --depth 1 origin <fixed-sha>, writing objects/refs into this checkout's own .git — content-addressed, so the fetched bytes are cryptographically bound to the already-hardcoded SHA; nothing lets a caller substitute a different commit. Network scope: outbound to origin only. No production/runtime code path changed.

Regression Analysis

0 regressions: vitest count unchanged (769), governance count increased only by the 2 new tests added here, all previously-passing tests still pass. The 3 newly-passing tests were never weakened — they are the exact same assertions, now reached for the first time on this checkout.

ADR

None. Not an architectural decision — a reliability/reproducibility fix to test infrastructure, explicitly out of scope per STEP 19 ("never for parameter changes... minor... tweaks").

Gist

GIST=LOCAL — no gh CLI (invalid token this session) or gist-creation MCP tool available. Full report committed at docs/dream-cycle/2026-10-03-security-adversarial-report.md.

Issue

#149

Witness

report_sha256 : ae3f612f711f83ee1035e49c6d5c03808b291a82bab03189e7239c5edf5a5522
session_commit: 23a577082aad39750051dc7ef0ec9d0d72900adf
witness       : 3c3dc0728d1b327253b66d0021e80ffd0d5084056644f7f424baf31206ba416f

Reproduce: node packages/cli/dist/bin.js witness verify-report docs/dream-cycle/2026-10-03-security-adversarial-report.md --commit 23a577082aad39750051dc7ef0ec9d0d72900adf

Merge Policy

Human review required. This session never self-merges and never autonomously promotes candidate state. No automerge-safe label applied.

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[ruvnet]

Dream Cycle consolidation — 2026-10-24

MODE=CONSOLIDATE (STEP 1.5): 20 open dream/* candidate PRs tonight, well over implementationTrack.reviewBacklogLimit=6. The two nearer-the-front eligible drafts, #145 and #148, already carry a dream-consolidate marker for today's exact default-branch SHA (3fc3222) from the two preceding nights. This PR was the oldest still-eligible draft (still draft, ACCEPT in its own Evaluation Receipt, not a routine-self-review PR) carrying no prior consolidate marker at all.

Action. Merged main (3fc3222d2e5566a203331d3686c4d2eaf06713a8) into this branch with an ordinary merge commit (7807661, never rebase/force-push). One textual conflict in docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md (both sides had appended rows since this branch's 2026-10-03 base) — resolved by chronological concatenation, no row lost either side. scripts/benchmark-ticket-codec.{mjs,test.mjs} (this candidate's only files) auto-merged clean with no competing change on main since baseline — confirmed git diff 8fe3b8a..HEAD -- scripts/benchmark-ticket-codec.mjs scripts/benchmark-ticket-codec.test.mjs is empty, so the diff under review is byte-identical to the original round's.

Re-evaluation on the new head. Real evaluator (npm test): vitest 886/886 (matches main's own baseline on this exact head), governance 197/197 (+2, this candidate's own tests over main's 195/195 baseline), 0 regressions. npm run typecheck/npm run lint clean. node packages/cli/dist/bin.js ledger verify --path docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md --since-row 38 --legacy-digest 23b02bfa98b56b374fadfb1b05df25e589dcdeab26143ae6183083d21779426a (the exact CI gate): OK, 55 rows.

Fresh critic + reward-hack pass (this round, independently re-derived from the live diff, not a reread of the prior verdict). Confirmed tryFetchCommit is called only with the hardcoded BASELINE_COMMIT literal (no caller-supplied ref anywhere). Ran a live negative control: swapped in the pre-candidate file version, confirmed the governance test file fails outright (missing hasCommit export) rather than passing vacuously, then restored the exact candidate bytes and confirmed git status/git diff showed nothing residual. Ran scripts/benchmark-ticket-codec.test.mjs in isolation: 5/5 pass (3 original + 2 new). No gold answer, threshold, seed, or iteration count touched; no file outside the two named is touched. Security surface unchanged: git fetch --depth 1 origin <fixed-sha> is content-addressed to an already-hardcoded literal, fetched from origin only. CLEAR.

CI on the pushed head. test (both Node versions), software-evidence, dependency-security, no-optional-deps, guard, CodeQL are green. Red: dependency-audit (npm audit --audit-level=high) — reproduced locally against this exact head's lockfile; git diff origin/main -- package-lock.json from this branch is empty, so the lockfile is byte-identical to main's. Same pre-existing, already-tracked vite/launch-editor dev-toolchain advisory as issue #197 (opened 2026-10-21, still open, no fix PR exists to port — a semver-range-breaking vite bump is out of scope for this single-function test-infrastructure fix). Not re-filing a duplicate issue; not fixing it from this PR.

Decision. ACCEPT still holds and the fresh critic is clear, but not every required check on the new head is green (dependency-audit, for the reason above) — per STEP 1.5, this PR stays draft. Report refreshed at docs/dream-cycle/2026-10-03-security-adversarial-report.md with a new Evaluation Receipt and witness (e4b8f464…, self-verified via dream-machine witness verify-report). Ledger row appended: docs/dream-cycle/LEDGER.md (2026-10-24).

No merge, no close, no force-push, no self-promotion.

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