A lens has one charter, the one this pipeline ships; what a repository
knows that is not general to the lens - its platform and layers, the
record it keeps its decisions in, what its users already have, the
calibration entries that are its own - goes in a file the config names
for the lens (lenses.<name>.section), and Charter appends it after one
blank line. The charter sha in every reuse key covers the combined text.
The config refuses a path outside the repository - absolute, or
climbing out with `..` - by the check slots.dir had, now one both
settings share; a file missing or one the run could not use (a dangling
link, unreadable, not UTF-8) is a problem too, checked through the
reader Charter uses (Prompt::ReadSection), so a section is never
dropped in silence, and a name that is no lens is the unknown key it
always was. Nothing lists a directory, so what lies beside the files is
no concern of the config's: a directory listed would have to tolerate or
refuse every foreign entry. The run logs which charters got one.
The better-solution charter gains a consumer's general entry
(2026-10-31: a mechanism reworked a second time in one submission is the
signal to derive the fix at every layer the data crosses). The procedure
names the section wherever it names the charter: among the config's keys,
in the lens inputs, in the reuse rule (an edit to either re-runs the lens)
and in the feedback loop, which routes a repository's own lesson to its
section and a general one to the shipped charter.
The modules that turn a frozen range into passes and passes into a
verdict: :Schema, :Tools (the DENY, git and base lists, a leaf, so the
config and the pool both read them), :Plan, :Artifact, :Inventory,
:Dispositions, :State, :Normalize, :Stream, :Prompt, :Config, and the URL
half of :PgWire. Units, jobs, results, the config and the claude stream
stay JSON from end to end, so every key keeps its place; :Text gives JSON
values truthiness, get, ==, membership and Str(), and throws Dyn::Error
under a name for each kind of unexpected data.
Exactness where the bytes are seen:
- the stream classifiers are hand-written scanners with case-insensitive
folds (the Kelvin sign is a k), Unicode \b and \s, and `.` stopping at
\n; the SQL call detection takes `<exe> sql` with any path before it;
- config problems carry the JSON scanner's and the UTF-8 decoder's own
texts, positions included;
- a float total is Neumaier's compensated sum, and the build passes
-ffp-contract=off: -march=native would fuse a*b+c;
- `crafter-review inventory` and `config` print what the goldens record,
byte for byte (the fixture and 14 configs, broken ones included); a
message names this binary as the command to run.
tests/Goldens: the recorded answers over the fixtures next to them (the
commits fixture, a rich versioned series with CRLF, a folded subject,
Markdown headings in and out of fences, the code-key rewrites); the suite
compares 2304 results as DumpFile writes them, so a key out of order fails
too. All agree.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
