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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
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#+TITLE: SKILL: Protocol Validator (org-skill-protocol-validator.org)
#+AUTHOR: Agent
#+FILETAGS: :system:protocol:validation:
#+PROPERTY: header-args:lisp :tangle ../lisp/security-validator.lisp
* Overview
The Protocol Validator enforces schema compliance on every message entering or leaving the cognitive pipeline. It checks that messages are valid plists, that they have the required ~:type~ and ~:payload~ fields, and that the type is one of the known types (~:REQUEST~, ~:EVENT~, ~:RESPONSE~, ~:LOG~, ~:STATUS~). This prevents malformed messages from crashing the pipeline and ensures backward compatibility when the protocol evolves.
* Architectural Intent
The Protocol Validator wraps ~validate-communication-protocol-schema~
(the core communication function) in a skill-level gate. It is the first
filter every message passes through — malformed messages are rejected
before they reach any cognitive stage.
** Contract
1. (validator-protocol-check msg): returns ~msg~ if valid per
~validate-communication-protocol-schema~. Signals ~error~ on
malformed messages (caught by the skill's deterministic gate).
2. The skill's deterministic gate wraps the validator: valid actions pass
through; invalid actions produce a ~:LOG~ rejection with
~:level :error~.
** Boundaries
- Does NOT define the schema — that is ~core-transport.org~.
- Does NOT validate semantic content — that is the Dispatcher and Policy.
* Test Suite
#+begin_src lisp
(eval-when (:compile-toplevel :load-toplevel :execute)
(ql:quickload :fiveam :silent t))
(defpackage :passepartout-security-validator-tests
(:use :cl :fiveam :passepartout)
(:export #:validator-suite))
(in-package :passepartout-security-validator-tests)
(def-suite validator-suite :description "Verification of the Protocol Validator")
(in-suite validator-suite)
(test test-validator-passes-valid-message
"Contract 1: a valid message passes protocol check."
(let ((msg '(:type :EVENT :payload (:sensor :heartbeat))))
(handler-case
(progn
(validator-protocol-check msg)
(pass))
(error (c)
(fail "Validator rejected a valid message: ~a" c)))))
(test test-validator-rejects-missing-type
"Contract 1: a message missing :type is rejected."
(let ((msg '(:payload (:sensor :heartbeat))))
(signals error
(validator-protocol-check msg))))
#+end_src
* Implementation
** Package Context
#+begin_src lisp
(in-package :passepartout)
#+end_src
** Validation Logic
;; REPL-VERIFIED: 2026-05-03T13:00:00
#+begin_src lisp
(defun validator-protocol-check (msg)
"Enforces structural schema compliance on protocol messages."
(validate-communication-protocol-schema msg))
#+end_src
** Skill Registration
#+begin_src lisp
(defskill :passepartout-security-validator
:priority 95
:trigger (lambda (ctx) (declare (ignore ctx)) t)
:deterministic (lambda (action ctx)
(declare (ignore ctx))
(handler-case
(progn (validator-protocol-check action) action)
(error (c)
(list :type :LOG :payload (list :level :error :text (format nil "Protocol Violation: ~a" c)))))))
#+end_src