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One record, one spec, one grammar for every session and task on a stock install: 146 EARS requirements across the box record and lifecycle, the Box Spec in minimal.toml and its deterministic expansion, the min box grammar with one-release aliases, memory admission, and the un-enrolled local provider. T1 property tests on expansion, type constraints and names; T2 Kani harnesses on the record state machine and admission arithmetic; the three local Box Provider API requirements wait on gominimal/arch#45. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@docs/specs/25-spec-box-local-first/25-spec-box-local-first.md`:
- Line 655: Revise BOX-143 to require records, events, and audit entries to use
box_id, and define CLI name lookups as resolving the current name alias to that
ID. Limit rename invariance to ID-addressed references rather than old-name
lookups.
- Line 94: Update the rename property in BOX-010 to require that the prior
events are preserved and exactly one renamed event is appended, rather than
requiring events to be equal before and after rename. Keep the existing id,
spec, and filesystem path invariants unchanged.
- Line 53: Update BOX-001 to normatively reference or restate the existing
box-ID guarantees from the egress-proxy specification: UUIDv7 random fields must
use OS-CSPRNG entropy, and ID collisions with retained records must be rejected.
Keep the host-side minting and client-supplied-ID prohibition intact.
- Line 184: Update BOX-032 to limit the stdout passthrough and “write nothing
else” requirements to attached `min run` executions. Define the detached output
contract alongside BOX-034: print only the box ID to stdout and capture task
output for retrieval through `min task logs`.
- Line 599: Update BOX-130 to make box memory cgroups and memory.max conditional
on an enforced memory controller, with memory.min applied only when enforced.
Define advisory behavior as admission accounting without memory cgroup limits,
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BOX keeps the record, the Box Spec and the grammar (122 requirements, ids stable with gaps). Resources move to 26-spec-box-resources (BRES, 13 requirements, T2 admission harnesses intact) and Box Volumes to 27-spec-box-volumes (BVOL, 8 requirements). The dash goes to an amendment of 07-spec-min-dash-tui, the local Box Provider API waits on gominimal/arch#45, and the test-suite meta-requirements are carried by every tier/verify line. Review cycle 1: resume hooks, the bare `min stop` alias window, the projection field set per Gatehouse 6.3.2, `min box spec self` as a nesting non-goal, the brokered-secret enforcer, the generality claim, stopped-record exit codes, a `detached` event, `min provider list --all` (BOX-147), and the first slice. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cycle 2 across the three siblings: [machine] and on_oom owned by BRES alone, BRES limits scoped to enforced hosts, volumes keyed by project (arch AT21) with an access mode and a hold that survives stop and resume, the type-noun verb aliases (BOX-148), ram_reserved against a resolved auto ram (BRES-015), and the BRES/#698 overlap recorded as an open question. BOX: 24 refusal and flag cases that were splits of a parent behaviour are now indented sub-bullets of that parent, tier and verify lines kept; references point at the parent. 99 top-level requirements. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
BOX-076 admits BVOL-011's volume items; the min shell ambiguity case sits under BOX-090; parent tier lines precede their sub-bullets; the network non-goal range is corrected. BRES-006 covers an omitted ram, BRES-016 adds the advisory-host creation warning arch requires. BVOL mounts at /volumes/<name> (open question for arch) and BVOL-012 keeps prune off held volumes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Line 48: Align BRES-004 with the `admit_iff_fit_and_reservations` harness:
either define a supported box-count limit of eight and scope the specification’s
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BOX now specifies the model only: the record, lifecycle, events, exec operations, the Box Spec and its expansion, and the un-enrolled path, with triggers stated as operations rather than verbs (60 requirements). BCLI carries the min box verb set, type nouns, shortcuts, exec flags, output schemas, exit codes, the one-release alias window, docs, and the host and provider commands (52 requirements), each binding to a BOX operation by id and carrying the BOX id it came from. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@docs/specs/25-spec-box-local-first/25-spec-box-local-first.md`:
- Line 304: Clarify the interaction between BOX-149 PTY reattachment and BOX-150
client-disconnect termination: explicitly state whether disconnecting the client
used by `min attach --exec` ends the exec. If it does, limit BOX-149
reattachment to execs that remain active; otherwise, specify the condition under
which the exec is preserved for later attachment.
In `@docs/specs/28-spec-box-cli/28-spec-box-cli.md`:
- Line 199: Clarify BCLI-030’s `min session attach` alias by either adding `min
box attach` to the command tree in BCLI-026 or specifying that `min session
attach` aliases the top-level `min attach` shortcut in BCLI-032. Ensure the
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The exec-timeout sub-bullet cites BOX-151, which owns the end sequence. BOX-065 and BOX-142 take the client's [secret-store-rules] set as an input, since expansion now resolves store references from it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The sessions crate is being renamed to boxes before BOX is implemented, so that the crate holding the box domain types says box. Point BOX's ten `cargo nextest run -p sessions` checks at `-p boxes`. The test names are unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CdRDynXbYoKR6dByN13KsD
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Proposal: an implicit BOX-050 reads a legacy #1991 proposes that the bare
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Thanks, that was fast. Checked f61020b through 28d8723 against gominimal/arch main ( BOX-163 refuses every collision, a Stale against main, each one line once re-pinned:
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Re-pin the architecture link to gominimal/arch 823f45f, where every open question citing arch#97, #98, #99, #112, #113, #114 and #123 is merged, and turn those questions into citations. - BOX-163: refuse a held name only for a creation that asks for no fresh instance; a fresh instance is named <name>-<n> (arch#117). - BOX-071: project egress.deny_subnets as network.egress_deny_subnets (Gatehouse v1.26). - BOX-002 and the id-mint invariant: scoped to un-enrolled VM hosts; the STS mints on enrolled nodes (Gatehouse v1.27). - BOX-013 states the 10 s default grace; BOX-025's name refusal is exit 2 (arch#97 row 2). - BOX-165: the implicit [sessions.default] entry (arch#124), marked implicit by BOX-161 and covered by BOX-145's vectors. Three open questions remain: the NET/GWI reading (#2041), [params] delivery (arch#100) and exec_enabled, still proposed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CdRDynXbYoKR6dByN13KsD
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Approved at cd2e309, checked against gominimal/arch 823f45f. Every item from the review and the two follow-ups is in: BOX-163's refusal scoped to a creation that requests no fresh instance with <name>-<n> for one that does, BOX-071 projecting deny_subnets, BOX-002 and the invariant scoped per Gatehouse v1.27, the exit 2 and 10 s statements, BOX-165 with the non-session block and the implicit provenance, and the open questions turned into citations. Dropping the state_key marker is fine; it is a transitional key the architecture never had.
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A misplaced sentence in Non-goals (line 503). The bare-start bullet ends with three sentences that belong to the NET bullet above it: "This spec accepts and passes the
[network]section (BOX-076, BOX-079 to BOX-081); NET enforces it. How NET's 'exists' … (#2041)." A copy slip from splitting the bullet; a one-line move. -
BCLI has not caught up. Design reasoning says "BCLI maps
runand--newonto that second kind", but #1991 at 3695dcc still has BCLI-069 refusingmin task runon a held name and nothing that names a fresh instance. That belongs on #1991 before it merges, not here.
Thanks for the fast turnarounds on this one.
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…#1991) * docs(specs): add the BCLI spec for the min box grammar, split out of gominimal#1697 Moved verbatim from the docs/spec-box-local-first branch so the BOX model spec can land on its own; this document is unchanged from head d8b1e23. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(specs): date the BCLI spec to its last revision Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(specs): pin the BCLI spec's arch link to a commit Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(specs): bind BCLI list, show and spec to the new BOX operations BCLI-001 prints the records BOX-158 lists, BCLI-003 renders the record BOX-159 returns, and BCLI-021 names each value's layer and type as BOX-161 reports them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(specs): name the name column in BCLI's first slice Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(specs): apply the owner's BCLI grammar decisions Drop the daily shortcuts (min shell, min run, min attach, min ls) in favour of the long forms and record them as a non-goal; retire BCLI-008, BCLI-031, BCLI-045, BCLI-054 and BCLI-065, which had no long form. Make BCLI-001's columns a floor, drop BCLI-018's per-type flags, list project types in BCLI-019, and raise BCLI-063 to T1 with a property. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(specs): add min box attach --exec as the PTY exec re-attach verb BCLI-068 re-attaches a live PTY exec by id on the long form, with refusals for an unknown id (exit 4), a non-PTY exec (exit 2) and an ended exec (exit 4). BCLI-026 lists attach; Design reasoning and Open questions note min box attach as an architecture follow-up. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(specs): give min box attach a bare form over the box's PTY BCLI-068's bare form re-attaches a pty_enabled box and refuses a box without a PTY with exit 2 naming min box logs. min session attach (BCLI-032) becomes its filtered form, and BCLI-007 and BCLI-009 name min box attach beside it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(specs): re-transcribe BCLI's verb-set story from the epic The epic's S10 now lists min box attach and drops the shortcut clause. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(specs): follow BOX's renumber to 29 and its event and type rules BCLI cites docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first, binds min box events to BOX-162's read and follow, and refuses min init for a type BOX-063 refuses. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(specs): add min box exec --timeout bound to BOX-149 BCLI-053 gains --timeout for an exec's own timeout, and a timed-out exec returns 124 with code timeout from min box exec and min box wait --exec. BCLI-026, Design reasoning and the open questions follow. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(specs): date BCLI to 2026-10-06 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(specs): cite gominimal/arch#114 for BCLI's command-tree follow-ups Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(specs): limit BCLI-068's no-PTY refusal to a running box A stopped or exited box without a PTY gets BCLI-009's restart refusal naming min task run; min session attach inherits the split. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(specs): bind BCLI's create verbs to BOX-163's name rule BCLI-069 gives min box start, min session start and min task run a --name that overrides [box] name, and reports BOX-163's collision refusal with exit 2 naming the holder and hinting --name. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(specs): re-pin BCLI to arch 823f45f; fresh instances and bare start Re-pin the architecture link to gominimal/arch 823f45f, where the command tree, exit-code rows and resume meaning this spec raised are merged, and turn those open questions into citations. - BCLI-069: --name on start and run; only a plain start reports BOX-163's held-name refusal, with a hint naming --new and --name. - BCLI-070: run and start --new request a fresh <name>-<n> instance (arch#117). - BCLI-071/072: bare session start and box start pick the entry named default, else the only one, counting BOX-165's implicit entry; exit 2 lists candidates or names the blocking non-session default (arch#124). - BCLI-042: bare session activate maps to bare session start. - BCLI-061: prune no longer accepts --stopped (arch#112). One open question remains: NET and GWI re-citing the aliased verbs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CdRDynXbYoKR6dByN13KsD * docs(specs): attach on min box start follows pty_enabled, not the session noun BCLI-029 stated attach-or-detach for min session start only. The architecture has min box start attach when the spec sets pty_enabled, unless --detach, and session start is its alias, so the rule now covers both verbs and keys on the setting. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CdRDynXbYoKR6dByN13KsD * docs(specs): an unattached start closes stdin and hints; box run attaches a PTY entry BCLI-029: a start that returns without attaching closes the box's stdin and, for a box without pty_enabled, hints min box run, logs and wait. BCLI-070: min box run on a pty_enabled entry attaches as start --new, pending gominimal/arch#127. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CdRDynXbYoKR6dByN13KsD * docs(specs): keep bare min session attach; refuse resolution past an unreachable host - BCLI-032: min session attach with no address keeps today's behaviour, picking the current project's session box, else the only one; more than one is a picker on a TTY or exit 2 listing them; none is exit 4 hinting min session start. The context now lists attach among today's verbs. - BCLI-002: an unqualified name resolved across hosts fails with exit 7 naming any host that did not answer, instead of resolving from the rest. - BCLI-070: the PTY attach for min box run is marked as this spec's addition pending gominimal/arch#127, with its reasoning. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Twbss23J4ADZCZsGeGdrMP * docs(specs): bind BCLI exit codes to the arch table and add session logs Give the session noun `logs` like every other type noun, bind BCLI-034 to the architecture's exit-code table instead of a partial list (its [proposed] rows stay with BRES), reserve `org` as a type source, and name box add/restart and the remaining host and provider verbs in Non-goals with their owners. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): align BCLI's init flags, bare attach and box run with arch Add the architecture's --session/--task/--agent/--service aliases to min init, mutually exclusive with --type. Make bare `min session attach` a one-release hidden alias that fails with exit 2 on an ambiguous match instead of opening a picker. Drop the PTY attach on `min box run` until gominimal/arch#127 rules. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): let an unreachable host win over bare session attach's fallback Bare `min session attach` resolves by project root, else the only session on the reachable hosts. That contradicted BCLI-002, which refuses an incomplete cross-host lookup with exit 7. Make the exit 7 refusal take precedence, which also covers BCLI-042's alias. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): carry --loadout and session exec's shell form into BCLI From msample's review: bind `--loadout` on session/box start to BOX-064's selected-loadouts layer (BCLI-073) and carry it through the `session activate` alias; keep `session exec`'s one-argument shell form inside the alias window; refuse `min box attach` without a TTY; widen BCLI-010 to `min box run`; re-pin arch to 4d554e4. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): pick BCLI's restart hint by lifetime and fill the arch gaps Address Norrie's second review of gominimal#1991: - BCLI-074 brings `min box restart` into scope for `until_stopped` boxes; BCLI-009 and BCLI-068 choose the restart hint by `lifetime`. - BCLI-075 resolves `self` from the connection's per-box identity. - BCLI-033 binds the `min/v1/<type>` schema to every emitted object. - BCLI-014 and the run `--detach` sub-bullet cover `min box run`. - BCLI-064 yields to BCLI-002's exit 7 for an unreachable host. - BCLI-026 drops the flags that wait on remote providers, SBOMs and nesting, each named in Non-goals. - Rollout lists every merged requirement citing a removed spelling and holds each alias's expiry until they are re-cited. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): defer self resolution to nesting, as BOX does BOX's Non-goals leave running `min` inside a box out of scope, so a BCLI requirement resolving `self` could not be exercised. Retire BCLI-075 and name `self` in Non-goals beside `--parent self`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): name one local provider per deployment style, per arch#45's ruling gominimal/arch#45 ruled on 2026-10-27 that the local providers are local, local-minvmd and local-box, one per deployment style, and that the 0..N suffix names their hosts. BCLI-046 now names the three providers and the hosts by daemon instance; only local-minimald stays as a one-release alias, in its own WHERE sub-bullet. local-minvmd is the provider's name again, so the Rollout no longer lists NET-049, NET-051 and TEL-034. The S16 non-goal records that the daemons serve the providers over their sockets, and a design-reasoning paragraph carries the ruling. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): keep min box spec's path form and add the entry and box forms on top Main's min box spec [path] renders the Box Egress Proxy rows (BEP-038). BCLI-021 now keeps that form as a sub-bullet, renders BEP-038's rows in the entry form, and BCLI-022 resolves a box only when the argument names neither a directory nor an entry. The directory-first precedence is an open question. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): narrow the self non-goal to the verbs BCLI specifies Main's min box audit already takes self and --parent self (BEP-042). The Non-goals now defer self only on min box spec, show and events, and --parent self only on the verbs this spec specifies. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): cite BVOL and BRES as their open PRs, and state BOX's missing restart BVOL is proposed in gominimal#1990 and BRES in gominimal#1762 (epic gominimal/inbox#698); neither is on main, so BCLI cites them as the open PRs. BOX defines no restart for an until_stopped box and sends those rules to the Agent Box epic gominimal/inbox#678, so the Rollout line says so and an open question asks which spec defines the operation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): print alias hints after the command, and keep the global --provider BCLI-042 and BCLI-046 now print their hint once the command's own work ends, after any attached terminal is released, so no hint precedes the shell of session activate, bare session attach, or a healthy start under --provider local-minimald. The Non-goals and BCLI-026 now defer only --all-providers and --provider naming a remote provider: the global --provider flag stays as the local-provider selector the box verbs take. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): verify BCLI-049 on the VM lane and BCLI-044 against the reference BCLI-049's test is now a scripts/session-e2e.sh case, the form NET-049 and NET-107 use for VM-lane behaviour. BCLI-044 now names the pages it binds (the CLI reference and the sessions concept page) and is checked by a test that reads them, the form NET-036 and NET-111 use; the justfile has no doc-check recipe and the spec skills prescribe none. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): state BCLI's requirements and reasons without decision history Drops the was-BOX provenance comments, the dates, who decided what, the retired-number notes and the plan-task references. Design reasoning keeps each reason and each alternative, stated as a reason. The Rollout's NET-015 line now names what must change before BCLI-066 ships rather than a plan task. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): drop local-minvmd from the expiring aliases local-minvmd is a canonical provider name (BCLI-046); only local-minimald is a one-release alias. Design reasoning now says so. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): choose BCLI-074's refusal hint by lifetime, as BCLI-009 does The sub-bullet picked its hint by Box Type (task); it now names min task run for any box that does not set lifetime = "until_stopped", the same rule BCLI-009 and BCLI-068 use, so behaviour keys on a spec attribute and never on a type name. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): cover the secret invariant by BCLI-063 alone The invariant holds in every output mode; BCLI-063 states that universal with its property. BCLI-021 is the min box spec requirement and renders one of those modes, so it is not the requirement that covers the invariant. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): tighten BCLI's changed lines to the prose rules Splits BCLI-044's alias-note clause into a sub-bullet and BCLI-022's argument precedence into a sub-bullet, states the alias hints as printing after the command ends, and shortens the changed Design reasoning, Rollout and Open question sentences so the lines this round touched add no Vale alerts beyond the verify-line pair every verify line carries. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): close four BCLI review gaps on start, run, stop and restart BCLI-029's off-TTY refusal now runs before the box is created and creates nothing. The fresh-instance reasoning states the refused alternative as one. Bare `stop` maps to `host stop` on the one host the global `--provider` and `--minimal-dir` flags select, with `--force` carried over. The Rollout names the `min box restart` hints of BCLI-009 and BCLI-068 as needing the same daemon operation as BCLI-074. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): bring BCLI's prose to the repo's Vale rules Split long sentences, drop semicolons, passives and unapproved modals, and restate the AI-tell patterns Vale flags. Each requirement keeps its EARS pattern, id, tier and verify line. The alerts left are on the format's verify lines, the owner field, the template's heading dash, and the user stories transcribed from the epic. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): keep bare stop's refusal in its alias window; track restart Bare `min stop` keeps today's refusal while boxes run during its alias window, and maps to `host stop --force` under `--force`. The Rollout names gominimal#2761, a spec-29 amendment in its own PR, as the dependency of BCLI-074 and the `min box restart` hints, which closes the matching Open question. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): map every activate flag and follow arch at 7a86ec7 Rework BCLI-042's alias table: a plain `session activate` maps to `session start --detach` and `--attach` to `session start`, every activate flag is mapped (the network policy flags through the command-line override layer, so `--deny-all-egress` is never dropped), and an alias refuses any flag it does not map with exit 2. `session hooks` maps to `box spec <box>`, which now lists each hook with its declarer. Re-pin the architecture to 7a86ec7 and follow it: `box run` refuses a pty_enabled entry, bare `box attach` and `session attach` are permanent with the attach exit codes 0, 7 and 254, exec refusals name exits 2 and 5, and the held-volume exit code is left to BVOL. Also: BOX-005's second ambiguity refusal, the byte comparison in BCLI-021, BCLI-073 narrowed to `loadout_mode = "open"`, the BCLI-064/BCLI-042 order, `box wait --timeout`, the global-flags non-goal, the provider non-goals after the Box Provider API, and the Rollout's missing citers, scripts and the gominimal#2834 dependency. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): cite the BCLI residual issues and answer the review threads Cite gominimal#2868 for the verbs with no owner, gominimal/arch#160 for the 124 row, gominimal/arch#161 for --no-hooks and --sync, and gominimal#2834 for both halves of BCLI-006, whose disk figure excludes Box Volumes (BVOL-008). From minimal-review on c4896c0: attach fails off a TTY before it resumes the box; a stop or removal ends an attach with 254, not 0; `session hooks <name>` resolves a box, never an entry; and an alias's window ends one release after its listed citers move, stated in the requirement as well as the Rollout. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): put an alias's machine-mode hint in the error object and map short flags From minimal-review on 4b494ed: a failing alias under -o json puts its hint in BCLI-033's error object rather than a second stderr line, and a short flag (-n, -f) maps wherever its long form maps. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): state the bare stop alias's running-box check and its exit code From minimal-review on 990008d: `host stop` stops running boxes, so the bare `stop` alias is not a pure mapping. It checks for running boxes first and refuses with exit 2, keeping today's message byte for byte because the installer matches it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): keep a detached PTY box's terminal input for a later attach From minimal-review on ef58775: BCLI-029 closed stdin on every unattached start, including the `start --detach` that a plain `session activate` now maps to, which would leave a later attach unable to type. The close now applies only without `pty_enabled`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): answer Norrie's review at 990008d - BCLI-022 lists hooks without a declarer: BOX-068 stores the merged expanded spec, so the record keeps none. Open question for the BOX amendment that would restore it. - Rollout lists the scripts each alias's window waits on, session-e2e.sh among them, and gains `session rename`. - The activate alias's network flags each name the spec key they set. - `session destroy --all` and `--force` on a missing box keep today's behaviour through the window. - The `session hooks` hint names the box id. - BCLI-064 states the parse-first order in its text. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): scope `session destroy --all` to session boxes and exempt prune --dry-run From minimal-review on 1bd4c43: `session destroy --all` now removes only boxes of type `session`, as BCLI-030 filters the session verbs; a dry-run prune needs no --yes off a TTY; and the design reasoning no longer claims `box spec` shows each hook's declarer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw * docs(specs): order BCLI-068's --exec refusals From minimal-review on b3d698f: an ended exec without a PTY matched the exit 2 and both exit 4 rules. The unknown-id check now comes first, then the ended exec, then the live exec with no PTY. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSAwDroXL6KqsSxUzdbZGw --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The BOX spec, written from gominimal/inbox#731 (owner-approved 2026-09-25) through the
spec-authorskill: stories transcribed verbatim, three checkpoints with the author, EARS viaspec-ears, tiers viaspec-tiers, then a review-fix loop. Its two siblings now land in their own PRs so this one is reviewed on the model alone: BVOL in #1990 and BCLI in #1991, both byte-identical to what this branch carried at d8b1e23. This is the data-model refactor every later box piece builds on (task and session become one box record), so it goes first.The spec
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-firstminimal.toml(entries, defaults, session and task entries with the six built-in types kept as data, project types, deterministic expansion, the Gatehouse §6.3.2 projection on both sides, schema homes, golden vectors); the un-enrolled path. Triggers are stated as operations, not verbsForward references into the siblings stay as written (BVOL-001/013, BCLI-002/013/024): BOX-076 admits BVOL-011's volume items and BOX-025's resume refusal order cites BVOL-013; those resolve when #1990 and #1991 land.
What moved out, and where
The
mingrammar (epic stories S10–S13) → BCLI (docs(specs): add the min box CLI spec (BCLI) for inbox#731 #1991), so the model lands first and unblocks NET and BEP, the grammar migration is scheduled and reviewed separately, and a non-CLI client binds to the model.Resources (epic story S15) → gominimal/inbox#698 and its resources spec (BRES). Network and secrets stay with NET (Box networking — preview by name, bounded egress, and secure reach across hosts #1437) and BEP (Local box egress proxy — sealed GitHub credentials and host-store secrets without Gatehouse #1501); BOX accepts and validates their
[network],[network.bep]and[secrets]sections and passes them through.Box Volumes (stretch story S19) → BVOL (docs(specs): add the Box Volumes spec (BVOL) for inbox#731 #1990).
The dash (S14) → an amendment to
docs/specs/07-spec-min-dash-tui, filed after this lands.The local providers serving the Box Provider API (S16, BPA-013) → gominimal/arch#45, once it settles transport and authentication for a client-built provider.
Test-suite meta-requirements (S18) → carried by every requirement's
tier:/verify:lines.min box spec self→ gominimal/inbox#568 (in-boxmin); this spec excludes nesting.Open questions and the architecture issues filed for them
gominimal/arch#97 (task timeout exit row, 124 by convention), #98 (
min box rename,min host stop,renamed/resumed/detachedevents, box record states,hooks_on_resume, stop grace duration), #99 ([network]egress key shape: flat in box.toml, nested in NET-060/BEP-008), #100 ([params]surfacing). The local-provider transport question is a comment on gominimal/arch#45. Who writesmemory.maxand whether an undeclaredramis clamped are left to the resources spec under gominimal/inbox#698.Review state
Arch-conformance review (2026-10-05, posted as a comment on this PR): the decisions are applied in 06048e7. The projection takes Gatehouse §6.3.2's field names, with defaults filled before canonicalisation and a base64url digest.
box_idalone is minted outside the VM. The new requirements are an admission constraint check (BOX-160), listing and reading records for the first slice (BOX-158, BOX-159) and per-value provenance (BOX-161). The exec contract, BOX-040's triggers and BOX-001/BOX-072 at T1 are added, and owners are named for the attribute rules, runtime spec change, org types and unenforced sections. BCLI-001, BCLI-003 and BCLI-021 bind to the new ids on docs(specs): add the min box CLI spec (BCLI) for inbox#731 #1991 (488dbca).Arch consistency pass (owner review, 10 findings): constraints checked on the expanded spec and derived types may not loosen a parent; one-release grace for the flat egress keys; rename and cross-host name refusals; volumes are bare read-write names until object storage lands, deduplicated after expansion; OOM kills end the box per
on_oom;min shell --newsuffixes the name;min session runis a usage error; attached exec id on stderr andmin box showlists live execs; BCLI-041/050 and the BOX-021stoppedselector removed.Shipit pass after the loop: CodeRabbit's and minimal-foundry's threads on the pushed heads (
min session attachaliases the top-level shortcut; the volumes first slice includes the single-writer refusal; the fresh-volume claim on resume qualified; the Roles lines as prose; an address that resolves to no box exits 4, BCLI-064) are fixed, replied to and resolved. The four commit subjects that failed commitlint were reworded in a one-time history rewrite of this docs-only branch; commitlint is green.Local review-fix loop: nine cycles, each reviewing the full branch diff against arch, NET, BEP, the EHE/GWI/MRF drafts and the epic. Must/Should counts per cycle: 16, 13, 8, 17 (the CLI split opened new seams), 5, 1, 1, 2, 0, then a fresh full read (cycle 10) found 0 Must / 11 Should, fixed in 9407e92; cycle 11 found 0 Must / 1 Should (fixed in 22dcb37, with an owner revision to volumes); cycle 12 found 0 Must / 3 Should (fixed in 82ec02c); cycle 13 found 0 Must / 1 Should (fixed in 30d19d2); cycle 14 found 0 Must / 1 Should (fixed in 8039910); cycle 15: clean, no Must-fix or Should-fix on any file. One commit per cycle.
enforced; name lookups vs id-keyed references) are fixed and the threads resolved.min stopalias window, the projection property enumerating exactly the §6.3.2 field set, the brokered-secret enforcer, the generality claim, stopped-record exit codes, adetachedevent,min provider list --allas BOX-147, the first slice). Cycle 2 across all three (0eb8112):[machine]andon_oomowned by BRES alone; BRES cgroup limits scoped toenforcedhosts; volumes keyed by project per arch AT21, with an access mode (rw/ro) and a write hold that survives stop and resume; the type-noun verb aliases as BOX-148;ram_reservedagainst a resolved"auto"ramas BRES-015; the BRES/ci(linux-kvm): make the lane gate-ready — changes filter, aggregator, apt retries #698 overlap on who writesmemory.maxrecorded as an open question. The same commit folds 24 BOX refusal and flag cases under the requirement they qualify, per the template's sub-bullet form, so the document reads as 99 requirements without dropping a test. Cycle 3 (be3e772): BOX-076 admits BVOL-011's volume items; fold placement and parent-line ordering; BRES-006 covers an omittedram; BRES-016 adds the advisory-host creation warning; BVOL mounts at/volumes/<name>(open question for arch) and BVOL-012 keeps prune off held volumes. Then the CLI split (adacc0b). Cycle 4 (d318db1), the consistency pass across the four siblings, arch, NET, BEP and the EHE/GWI/MRF drafts: exec client loss scoped to non-PTY, non-detached execs; a stopped box's "exists" mapped onto NET-013/015 with an open question for NET and GWI-005;min box renamebound and the alias table completed (session destroy→box rm --forceso BEP-043's revoke still fires;session policykept as an alias since NET-061/GWI-003 cite it); stop, rm, prune, cp and events bound to their BOX operations; the model's remaining verb names replaced by operations; task end keyed onlifetime; arunningrecord on daemon restart becomesstopped(BOX-154); detached output capture (BOX-155); stored exit codes stated; BRES-004's reservation cap takes arch's overcommit-policy value. Cycle 5 (fb597e2): NET-013/015's and GWI-005's "exists" mapped to therunningstate (a stopped box is neither kept running nor answers its name; open question asks NET and GWI to confirm); a signal-ended stop stores the signal andmin box waitreturns 128 + signal, 137 for a record the daemon restart markedstopped; three owner decisions recorded (restart →stopped;min host stopstops running boxes first,--forceforces both; bare volume name is read-write per arch's example). Cycle 6 (c23f4d4): one Must-fix, in the NET mapping: per NET-128 and the networking design §7.1 a not-running box keeps its name in the zone and answers NODATA, so NET's "destroyed" is a reap, not a stop; resume and name reuse need NET to register at resume as well as at finalise, and the open question asks NET and GWI to confirm. Cycle 7 (5303904): no Must-fix; one Should-fix, NXDOMAIN at reap applies only to the last holder of a name, a reused name follows its remaining holder. Cycle 8 (4fff39e): no Must-fix; two Should-fix on the same corner, a stopped box and a running box sharing a name: NODATA applies while no running box holds the name, and a resume whose name a running box holds is refused (BOX-025) and reported with exit 2 and a rename hint (BCLI-007). Cycle 9: clean. Cycle 10 (9407e92), a fresh consistency read: no Must-fix, 11 Should-fix: the accepted-key set names this spec's additions, legacy mode spellings canonicalise and expire, prune reaps only stopped/exited boxes matching all selectors, NET-015's stop list asked to gain timeout/OOM/entrypoint return, resume applies to anypty_enabledbox, the--network/--ingressoverrides are the last expansion layer, provider aliases expire, secrets render as references in every output mode (BCLI-063), and issue citations point at comments now posted on arch#97 and arch#98. Cycle 11 (22dcb37):min box spec <entry>takes the same--network/--ingressoverrides so its render is what the daemon receives; and an owner revision to volumes: a write hold is kept whilestoppedand released onexitedor reap, so a task re-runs at once, with resume-from-exited refused (exit 5) when another box holds the volume (BVOL-013). Cycle 12 (82ec02c): the expansion properties range over overrides; a resumed box whose volume was removed gets a fresh one; the name-conflict check on resume precedes the volume-hold check. Cycle 13 (30d19d2): the resume refusal order is stated once (PTY check, name check, volume hold) and BVOL-013 applies to PTY boxes only. Cycle 14 (8039910): the unsatisfiable-spec check takes its place in that order, stated once in BOX-025 and cited elsewhere. Cycle 9 had noted the remaining Consider items are wording (a stale "only for non-PTY" clause in BCLI's Design reasoning, an ambiguous "it" in BCLI-007's hint, and thatmin shell --newdoes not say what name a parallel instance gets).spec-linton each file reports onlyP004, one per named test that does not exist yet: the intended to-do list of a pre-implementation spec.Coverage
Every committed story in #731 maps to at least one requirement in one of the three siblings (S1–S9, S17 → BOX here; S10–S13 → BCLI, #1991; S19 → BVOL, #1990), except S15, which moved to gominimal/inbox#698; S14, S16 and S18 are non-goals with the destinations above.
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