feat(pmpl-verify): report a warrant level per claim; never a bare OK by hyperpolymath · Pull Request #167 · hyperpolymath/palimpsest-license

hyperpolymath · 2026-10-14T01:56:41Z

Summary

PR D of the PMP-01 stack. #166 has merged, so this PR's base is now main. It meets the acceptance criterion "pmpl-verify emits level for every claim" and the new §5 MUST.

Before this PR: pmpl-verify recomputed the SHA3-256 content hash, then printed OK: <path>, and its directory summary counted these as "Verified". It never checks the cryptographic signature. A TODO: Verify cryptographic signature when PQC libs are integrated has been there since the tool was written. Under §7, that output is a bare pass for a claim that is at most epi.

Now each signed file yields one signed-by claim at its level:

Hash matches: epi, printed as evidence present (signature …, content hash matches; pmpl-verify does not check ML-DSA-65 signatures yet), not verified.
Hash differs: FAILED, held at warrant. A signature over other content is not a token for this file.
--existence-only: epi, with the content hash not checked. This needs a parseable signature block and an existing artefact. An empty or malformed .sig gives no claim.
The summary counts claims by level (sound / epi / warrant), plus failed, unsigned and errored files.
Exit codes are unchanged (non-zero when a claim fails), so the GitHub and GitLab integration templates behave as before.
Level::Sound exists for when signatures are verified (rule signature-verify). Nothing produces it today.
Values read from the signature file (signer, algorithm, hashes) and the file path are printed with control characters escaped. A \r or terminal escape can't rewrite the level shown on the line.

tools/README.adoc no longer says the tool verifies signatures. A CI job, warrant.yml / pmpl-verify reports a level per claim, runs cargo test. It was added because ci.yml runs only for PRs into main, which this PR wasn't until now.

FAILED   signed-by ML-DSA-65:author@example.org …/b.txt: content hash does not match the signature (expected 0000…, actual 81e0…); held at warrant
epi      signed-by ML-DSA-65:author@example.org …/a.txt: evidence present (signature …/a.txt.sig, content hash matches; pmpl-verify does not check ML-DSA-65 signatures yet), not verified

Summary: 2 claims
  sound:    0
  epi:      1
  warrant:  0
  failed:   1
  unsigned: 1
  errors:   0

Type of Change

Bug fix (a bare pass for an unverified signature)
Documentation update

Related Issues

#162

Files Updated

tools/pmpl-verify/src/main.rs, tools/README.adoc, .github/workflows/warrant.yml, PROOF-NEEDS.adoc.

Provenance Notes

The older "What Needs Proving" row in PROOF-NEEDS.adoc for pmpl-verify ("Signature verification is correct") describes a check the tool doesn't perform yet. This PR makes the output say so; it doesn't add PQC verification.

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SPDX headers unchanged/present
Commit messages follow schema

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cargo test (tools/pmpl-verify) → test result: ok. 13 passed; 0 failed

What the tests cover:

A matching hash is epi and renders "not verified".
A mismatch fails at warrant.
--existence-only gives epi for a parsed block.
An unsigned file makes no claim.
An empty sidecar makes no claim.
A signature with no artefact makes no claim.
Control characters in Signer are escaped.

Negative controls, each reverted after the run:

Returning Sound for a matching hash fails the epi test.
Dropping the escaping fails the escape test.
Restoring the old early return in existence-only mode fails three tests.

Review (CodeRabbit): both Major findings are fixed in 8122605 and their threads resolved. The replies in those threads name ed843f7; that was the same commit before I rebased it onto the branch after it was rebased on GitHub.

CWE-117: control characters are now escaped.
CWE-20: no epi without a parsed signature.

The docstring-coverage pre-merge warning is addressed by doc comments on the functions this PR touches.

cargo clippy reports one warning, &PathBuf instead of &Path, in a function signature that predates this PR. The original file wasn't rustfmt-clean either, so I didn't reformat lines I hadn't touched.

Status row: WL-9 → TESTED.

Stack: #163, #164, #165 and #166 are merged → D (this) → #168 E press text.

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- Provenance checks now report claims by warrant level. A matching content hash is reported as “not verified” because cryptographic signature verification is not performed; a mismatch is reported as a failed warrant.
- In existence-only mode, a found signature is reported without checking the content hash. Directory reports include counts by claim level and flag failed claims or files that could not be checked.
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- Clarified the verification tool’s current limitations and reporting.

The verifier now reports results as warrant-level claims. Matching content hashes are reported as unverified evidence, while mismatches produce failed claims. Single-file and directory modes render claims and report errors. Tests and a workflow job cover the tool.

Changes: PMPL verifier

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Claim model and verification outcomes `tools/pmpl-verify/src/main.rs`	The verifier adds warrant, epi and sound claim levels and returns claim reports. Matching hashes produce unverified epi claims; mismatches produce failed warrant claims. Tests cover matching and mismatching hashes, existence-only mode and unsigned files.
CLI reporting and validation `tools/pmpl-verify/src/main.rs`, `tools/README.adoc`, `PROOF-NEEDS.adoc`, `.github/workflows/warrant.yml`	Single-file mode renders a claim and fails on failed claims. Directory mode renders claims, reports claim-level totals, and fails on failed claims or file-check errors. The documentation describes the current signature-checking limits, and the workflow runs `cargo test` for the tool.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI as pmpl-verify CLI
  participant Verifier as verify_file
  participant Output as Rendered output
  CLI->>Verifier: Check file
  Verifier-->>CLI: Return optional ClaimReport
  CLI->>Output: Render claim and report totals

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hyperpolymath · 2026-10-14T01:59:08Z

CI note for this stacked PR. Its own check is Warrant levels / pmpl-verify reports a level per claim (cargo test, 10 tests). The red checks are the set that is also red on main and on #163–#165, and none involves a file this PR touches:

scan / gitleaks: still 3 findings, all in .gitleaks-estate.toml, the scanner's own downloaded config. Nothing in this stack is flagged, including the B2 fixture's Ed25519 public keys and signatures.
Check SPDX headers, governance / Actions lockfile verify (no actions.lock), Workflow security linter and Check Workflow Staleness (hypatia-scan.yml and scorecard.yml pin a standards commit that isn't on its main), Check external links (the lychee download URL returns 404) and Security / CodeQL Analysis (python): details in the comment on feat(proofs): Provenance.Warrant, the signature SoundWarrant and the consent non-upgrade #164.

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Review comments at @tools/pmpl-verify/src/main.rs:
- Line 88: Escape `self.kind`, `self.subject`, and `self.path.display()` in the
rendered `head` line so control characters cannot alter terminal output or forge
log entries. Keep the original field values unchanged for signature and warrant
checks.
- Around line 198-203: Update the `Level::Epi` existence-only branch before
`report` to require a readable, non-empty signature token and an existing
artefact before issuing the signed-by claim. Keep content-hash verification
optional in this mode.

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pmpl-verify recomputed the SHA3-256 content hash and then printed "OK: <path>", and its directory summary counted these as "Verified", although the cryptographic signature is never checked (a TODO since the tool was written). Under spec/PROVENANCE-SPEC.adoc §7 that output is a bare pass for a claim that is at most epi. Each signed file now yields one signed-by claim at its level: - hash matches: epi, "evidence present (signature ..., content hash matches; pmpl-verify does not check <alg> signatures yet), not verified"; - hash differs: FAILED, held at warrant (rule 7: a signature over other content is not a token for this file); - --existence-only: epi, content hash not checked. The summary counts claims by level (sound / epi / warrant), plus failed, unsigned and errored files. Exit codes are unchanged: non-zero when a claim fails, so the CI integration templates behave as before. Level::Sound exists for the day signatures are verified (rule signature-verify, §7.5) and is not produced today. tools/README.adoc no longer says the tool verifies signatures. Tests: a matching hash is epi and renders "not verified"; a mismatch fails at warrant; existence-only is epi; an unsigned file has no claim. Control: making the hash-match path return Sound fails the epi test. Refs #162 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LET2eHeDbN3b4WuxYjMUX9

…arsed signature Two findings from review on #167: - CWE-117: Signer, Algorithm, Content-Hash and the path come from files an attacker can write, and render() printed them raw. A carriage return or terminal escape in Signer could rewrite the "epi" shown on the line or forge a "sound ... verified" entry in a CI log. render() now escapes every control character (\r, \u{1b}, ...); the values used for checks are unchanged. - CWE-20: with --existence-only, an empty or malformed .sig file produced an epi claim, and so did a .sig beside a missing artefact. §7.3 rule 2 requires a token for epi. The signature block is now read and parsed, and the artefact must exist, before any claim, in both modes. The content hash stays unchecked under --existence-only. Tests: an empty sidecar gives no claim; a signature without its artefact gives no claim; control characters in Signer are escaped and the line still starts with "epi". Controls: dropping the escaping fails the escape test; restoring the old early return fails three tests. Doc comments on the functions this PR touches, for CodeRabbit's docstring-coverage check. cargo test: 13 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LET2eHeDbN3b4WuxYjMUX9

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## Summary PR E of the PMP-01 stack, **stacked on #167**. It meets the acceptance criterion "No README or press text describes a consent claim as verified". I searched `README.adoc`, `README.nl.adoc`, `press-lobby-kit/`, `campaigns/press/`, `OUTREACH/`, `PRESENTATION/` and `docs/` for consent described as verified, validated, proven or guaranteed. The only README or press text that did so is `press-lobby-kit/video-scripts/technical-deep-dive-30min.adoc`. Three passages change: - The learning objective "*Deploy* Haskell validators for consent verification" now reads "*Deploy* Haskell validators that report each consent claim at its warrant level (a declared consent is evidence, never verified consent)". - In the code walkthrough, the `Granted` reason "Creator has granted consent for AI training" (read straight from a metadata field) becomes "Metadata declares consent for AI training (evidence, not verified)". - The voiceover "The creator allows AI training" becomes "The metadata declares that the creator allows AI training. That declaration is evidence, not verification: the validator reports it as 'evidence present, not verified', never as verified consent." The rest of the script is unchanged: `Denied` and `Pending`, the registry stub, and the timing. ## Type of Change - [x] Documentation update ## Related Issues #162 ## Files Updated `press-lobby-kit/video-scripts/technical-deep-dive-30min.adoc` ## Provenance Notes - Basis: `spec/PROVENANCE-SPEC.adoc` §7.3 rule 4 (no rule entails `consented-for-training`) and rule 5 (no bare pass below `sound`). ## Checklist - [x] AsciiDoc validated (`asciidoctor --failure-level=WARN`) - [x] Commit message follows schema ## Additional Context **Left for the owner to decide:** `campaigns/consent-layer/*` uses "verify consent" for a proposed registry lookup. Examples are `GET /consent/verify` and "Block API access if consent not verified". These are design documents for a system that isn't built yet, not README or press text, so I haven't changed them. Under §7, a registry receipt is `epi` for consent; only its signature can make `signed-by` sound. Whether to reword them is the owner's call. **Stack:** #163 (merged) → #164 (merged) → #165 (merged) → #166 B2 → #167 D → E (this). 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) https://claude.ai/code/session_01LET2eHeDbN3b4WuxYjMUX9 --- _Generated by [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code/session_01LET2eHeDbN3b4WuxYjMUX9)_ Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

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