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Amr Gharbeia 8fd56dece3 v0.8.2: cleanup + prose + structure + decomposition + budget + errors
Phase 1 — dedup + hardening (~9 items):
- Remove duplicate *skill-registry* defvar from core-skills
- Merge *backend-registry* into *probabilistic-backends*, delete backend-register
- Remove inject-stimulus alias, standardize on stimulus-inject
- Add pre-eval sandbox (skill-source-scan) blocks restricted symbols before eval
- Remove dead plist-get function; remove duplicate json-alist-to-plist export
- Fix read-framed-message whitespace DoS (4096-iteration max)
- Add *read-eval* nil to dispatcher-approvals-process read-from-string (RCE)
- Add test-op to ASDF; update .asd version 0.4.3→0.7.2

Phase 2 — prose + contracts + reorder:
- Split ROADMAP: 2623→1089 lines (TODO only), CHANGELOG: 260→1528 lines (full DONE history, 14 versions reverse chron)
- Add Contracts + Overview to 6 channel files + embedding-native + programming-standards + symbolic-scope
- Reorder 28 .org files: Contract → Test Suite → Implementation (TDD order)
- Add 7-phase inline prose to think() in core-reason
- Expand USER_MANUAL: 183→461 lines (10 new sections)

Phase 3 — decomposition + export organization:
- Decompose think() into think-assemble-prompt, think-call-llm, think-parse-response orchestrator
- Organize 188 exports into 16 grouped sections by module

Phase 4 — budget enforcement + error protocol:
- Per-session budget enforcement (SESSION_BUDGET_USD env var, budget-exhausted-p, guard in think-call-llm)
- Error condition hierarchy (6 conditions: pipeline-error, llm-error, gate-error, budget-error, protocol-error)
- Restarts in loop-process: skip-signal, use-fallback, abort-pipeline
2026-05-13 09:17:48 -04:00

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#+TITLE: SKILL: Policy (org-skill-policy.org)
#+AUTHOR: Agent
#+FILETAGS: :system:policy:constitutional:
#+PROPERTY: header-args:lisp :tangle ../lisp/security-policy.lisp
* Architectural Intent: The Constitutional Layer
The Policy skill encodes the non-negotiable values of Passepartout. Every action the agent proposes must pass through this gate. If the action lacks justification, it is blocked — not because it's dangerous, but because it's opaque.
This is the "Radical Transparency" invariant in practice. The agent must explain *why* it wants to do something, not just *what* it wants to do. An action with ~:explanation "Because I said so"~ is rejected. An action with ~:explanation "The user asked me to read their TODO list and summarize it"~ passes.
The Policy skill is intentionally simple. It has one job: ensure every action has a meaningful explanation. Other security concerns (secret scanning, path blocking, network exfiltration) are handled by the Dispatcher. The Policy is about values, not threats.
** Contract
1. (policy-compliance-check action context): if ~action~ has an
~:explanation~ string longer than 10 characters, returns the action
unchanged. Otherwise, returns a ~:LOG~ rejection plist with
~:level :warn~.
** Boundaries
- Does NOT check for dangerous content — the Dispatcher does that.
- Does NOT validate explanation quality — only length and presence.
- Does NOT consider ~context~ — implementation ignores it currently.
* Test Suite
#+begin_src lisp
(eval-when (:compile-toplevel :load-toplevel :execute)
(ql:quickload :fiveam :silent t))
(defpackage :passepartout-security-policy-tests
(:use :cl :fiveam :passepartout)
(:export #:policy-suite))
(in-package :passepartout-security-policy-tests)
(def-suite policy-suite :description "Verification of the Constitutional Policy Layer")
(in-suite policy-suite)
(test test-policy-passes-valid-explanation
"Contract 1: action with sufficient explanation passes through unchanged."
(let* ((action '(:type :REQUEST :payload (:action :read :explanation "The user asked me to read the TODO list for today.")))
(result (policy-compliance-check action nil)))
(is (equal action result))))
(test test-policy-rejects-short-explanation
"Contract 1: action with explanation ≤10 characters is rejected with :LOG."
(let* ((action '(:type :REQUEST :payload (:action :read :explanation "hi")))
(result (policy-compliance-check action nil)))
(is (eq :LOG (getf result :type)))
(is (search "blocked" (getf (getf result :payload) :text) :test #'char-equal))))
(test test-policy-rejects-missing-explanation
"Contract 1: action without :explanation is rejected."
(let* ((action '(:type :REQUEST :payload (:action :read)))
(result (policy-compliance-check action nil)))
(is (eq :LOG (getf result :type)))))
#+end_src
* Implementation
** Package Context
#+begin_src lisp
(in-package :passepartout)
#+end_src
** Policy Logic (policy-compliance-check)
;; REPL-VERIFIED: 2026-05-03T13:00:00
#+begin_src lisp
(defun policy-compliance-check (action context)
"Enforces constitutional invariants on proposed actions."
(declare (ignore context))
(let* ((payload (proto-get action :payload))
(explanation (proto-get payload :explanation)))
(if (and explanation (stringp explanation) (> (length explanation) 10))
action
(progn
(log-message "POLICY VIOLATION: Action lacks sufficient explanation.")
(list :type :LOG
:payload (list :level :warn
:text "Action blocked: Missing or insufficient :explanation. Please justify your reasoning."))))))
#+end_src
** Skill Registration
#+begin_src lisp
(defskill :passepartout-security-policy
:priority 500
:trigger (lambda (ctx) (declare (ignore ctx)) t)
:deterministic #'policy-compliance-check)
#+end_src