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The BOX spec, written from gominimal/inbox#731 (owner-approved 2026-09-25) through the spec-author skill: stories transcribed verbatim, three checkpoints with the author, EARS via spec-ears, tiers via spec-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

Spec id Requirements Tiers Owns
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first BOX 69 top-level, plus 30 nested failure/flag cases with their own tier and verify (ids stable, with gaps) top level: 52 T0 · 15 T1 · 2 T2; nested: 28 T0 · 2 T1 the model: the box record and lifecycle (id, states, stop/retention/reap, resume, task run, events, exec operations); the Box Spec in minimal.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 verbs

Forward 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

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/detached events, 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 writes memory.max and whether an undeclared ram is 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_id alone 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 --new suffixes the name; min session run is a usage error; attached exec id on stderr and min box show lists live execs; BCLI-041/050 and the BOX-021 stopped selector removed.

  • Shipit pass after the loop: CodeRabbit's and minimal-foundry's threads on the pushed heads (min session attach aliases 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.

  • CodeRabbit's five Major findings on the first push (id entropy and collision refusal per BEP-070; rename property allowing its own event; attached vs detached stdout; cgroup limits conditional on enforced; name lookups vs id-keyed references) are fixed and the threads resolved.
  • Local review-fix loop (spec reviewed against arch, NET, BEP, feat(sessions): prompt user when shell process exits #731 and ci(linux-kvm): make the lane gate-ready — changes filter, aggregator, apt retries #698): cycle 1 found 7 Must / 9 Should; all applied in b28445b (resume hooks, the bare min stop alias window, the projection property enumerating exactly the §6.3.2 field set, the brokered-secret enforcer, the generality claim, stopped-record exit codes, a detached event, min provider list --all as BOX-147, the first slice). Cycle 2 across all three (0eb8112): [machine] and on_oom owned by BRES alone; BRES cgroup limits scoped to enforced hosts; 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_reserved against a resolved "auto" ram as BRES-015; the BRES/ci(linux-kvm): make the lane gate-ready — changes filter, aggregator, apt retries #698 overlap on who writes memory.max recorded 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 omitted ram; 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 rename bound and the alias table completed (session destroy → box rm --force so BEP-043's revoke still fires; session policy kept 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 on lifetime; a running record on daemon restart becomes stopped (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 the running state (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 and min box wait returns 128 + signal, 137 for a record the daemon restart marked stopped; three owner decisions recorded (restart → stopped; min host stop stops running boxes first, --force forces 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 any pty_enabled box, the --network/--ingress overrides 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/--ingress overrides so its render is what the daemon receives; and an owner revision to volumes: a write hold is kept while stopped and released on exited or 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 that min shell --new does not say what name a parallel instance gets).
  • spec-lint on each file reports only P004, 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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  • Documentation
    • Added a specification for local-first boxes, covering retained records, stable IDs, types, parent relationships, lifecycle states, events, and stored specifications.
    • Defined requirements for stopping, resuming, executing, listing, inspecting, and reaping boxes, including process termination and retention behavior.
    • Documented configuration expansion, validation, type constraints, legacy compatibility, projection checks, and operation on unenrolled hosts.
    • Recorded security invariants, design decisions, non-goals, and open questions.

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.

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This pull request adds a specification for local-first boxes. It defines box records and lifecycle, configuration expansion and admission, execution, and requirements for un-enrolled hosts.

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Local-First Box Specification

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Box records and lifecycle
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md
Introduces first-slice requirements and user stories. Defines box identity, naming and lookup, lifecycle states, retention, reaping, events, logs, listing, and record reads.
Box Spec expansion and admission
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md
Defines configuration expansion, legacy-key migration, Box Type constraints, validation, projection digests, and daemon-side admission requirements.
Execution, host operation, and security
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md
Specifies exec behavior and un-enrolled-host operation. Records the CLI grammar boundary, non-goals, design decisions, security invariants, and open questions.

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docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md — 72 finding(s)

docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:47: P004 BOX-001 names test 'create_assigns_uuidv7_id_type_and_parent', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:62: P004 BOX-002 names test 'vm_host_mints_box_id_before_in_vm_create', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:67: P004 BOX-003 names test 'restart_migrates_records_missing_type_or_parent_once', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:71: P004 BOX-004 names test 'name_unique_among_running_on_host_reusable_after_stop', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:76: P004 BOX-163 names test 'create_names_box_from_box_name_else_entry', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:86: P004 BOX-005 names test 'unqualified_name_resolves_running_else_latest', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:97: P004 BOX-007 names test 'self_as_name_is_exit3', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:101: P004 BOX-010 names test 'rename_changes_only_alias_and_records_event', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:109: P004 BOX-011 names test 'record_state_is_one_of_five_with_exit_reason', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:124: P004 BOX-012 names test 'restart_reaps_only_pending_and_materializing', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:130: P004 BOX-154 names test 'restart_sets_orphaned_running_record_stopped_without_signal', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:134: P004 BOX-013 names test 'stop_sends_term_then_kill_and_records_exited_stopped_with_signal', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:141: P004 BOX-015 names test 'daemon_never_stops_for_idle_or_client_loss', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:145: P004 BOX-016 names test 'pty_client_loss_records_detach', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:149: P004 BOX-017 names test 'stopped_box_filesystem_served_by_cp', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:153: P004 BOX-018 names test 'stopped_box_record_readable_until_reaped', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:157: P004 BOX-019 names test 'rm_deletes_record_and_filesystem', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:167: P004 BOX-021 names test 'prune_selectors_reap_and_print', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:171: P004 BOX-024 names test 'no_automatic_reaper_runs', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:175: P004 BOX-025 names test 'resume_restarts_from_stored_spec_same_id_and_name', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:185: P004 BOX-027 names test 'resume_runs_only_on_attach_hook', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:189: P004 BOX-028 names test 'hooks_on_resume_reruns_on_activate', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:193: P004 BOX-030 names test 'pty_box_resumes_from_stopped_and_exited', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:200: P004 BOX-037 names test 'until_complete_timeout_terms_then_kills_box_and_execs_reason_timeout', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:204: P004 BOX-038 names test 'until_complete_ends_on_entrypoint_return_without_client', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:208: P004 BOX-155 names test 'box_output_logged_from_start_complete_after_disconnect', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:212: P004 BOX-040 names test 'events_written_outside_box_filesystem_with_box_parent_ts_type', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:216: P004 BOX-041 names test 'in_box_root_cannot_append_events', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:220: P004 BOX-164 names test 'in_box_root_cannot_write_record_or_log', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:224: P004 BOX-045 names test 'events_survive_stop_deleted_on_rm', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:228: P004 BOX-162 names test 'events_read_returns_full_retained_stream_in_order', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:235: P004 BOX-158 names test 'list_returns_every_retained_record_with_state', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:242: P004 BOX-159 names test 'show_returns_record_state_identity_and_live_execs', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:249: P004 BOX-046 names test 'type_noun_tables_are_boxes_sugar', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:256: P004 BOX-048 names test 'defaults_merge_lists_union_scalars_replace', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:261: P004 BOX-049 names test 'flat_per_entry_keys_and_legacy_keys_keep_meaning', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:265: P004 BOX-050 names test 'legacy_session_table_reads_as_defaults_session_with_hint', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:272: P004 BOX-165 names test 'no_session_entry_expands_implicit_default_session', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:279: P004 BOX-051 names test 'legacy_defaults_task_keys_with_hint', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:283: P004 BOX-052 names test 'legacy_params_reads_as_args_with_hint', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:287: P004 BOX-054 names test 'interactive_task_exit3_names_session', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:291: P004 BOX-059 names test 'box_type_resolves_to_builtin_root', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:300: P004 BOX-061 names test 'expanded_spec_violating_constraint_exit3_names_type_and_layer', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:305: P004 BOX-156 names test 'derived_type_loosening_constraint_exit3_names_type_key_parent', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:310: P004 BOX-160 names test 'admission_refuses_spec_breaching_builtin_root_constraint_exit3', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:314: P004 BOX-062 names test 'constraint_never_adds_package_port_or_egress', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:319: P004 BOX-063 names test 'session_and_task_entries_expand_and_validate', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:326: P004 BOX-064 names test 'expansion_order_and_merge_rules', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:331: P004 BOX-065 names test 'expansion_is_byte_identical_across_runs', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:336: P004 BOX-066 names test 'invalid_key_exit3_names_key_and_layer', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:340: P004 BOX-161 names test 'expansion_reports_layer_and_type_per_value_outside_spec_bytes', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:347: P004 BOX-068 names test 'create_sends_expanded_spec_and_stores_it', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:351: P004 BOX-071 names test 'projection_is_the_6_3_2_field_set', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:365: P004 BOX-072 names test 'projection_digest_mismatch_refuses_create', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:370: P004 BOX-073 names test 'unenrolled_evaluates_no_policy', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:374: P004 BOX-074 names test 'get_version_reports_expander_version', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:381: P004 BOX-145 names test 'example_expansion_matches_golden_vectors', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:385: P004 BOX-076 names test 'sections_follow_box_toml_with_nested_egress', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:407: P004 BOX-079 names test 'network_mode_legacy_spelling_hint_and_canonical_value', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:411: P004 BOX-157 names test 'flat_egress_keys_hint_and_canonical_nested_keys', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:415: P004 BOX-080 names test 'network_bep_secrets_passed_unchanged', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:422: P004 BOX-081 names test 'broker_secret_unenrolled_exit5', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:426: P004 BOX-085 names test 'params_accepted_and_rendered', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:438: P004 BOX-149 names test 'exec_runs_argv_unshelled_in_box_namespaces_and_cgroup', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:458: P004 BOX-150 names test 'exec_client_loss_ends_exec_keeps_box', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:466: P004 BOX-151 names test 'stop_exec_ends_process_group', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:471: P004 BOX-152 names test 'exec_events_carry_principal_argv_pty_code', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:476: P004 BOX-153 names test 'exec_disabled_refuses_exit5', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:483: P004 BOX-140 names test 'unenrolled_operations_over_file_mode_trust', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:487: P004 BOX-141 names test 'store_secret_passed_through_unenrolled', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:491: P004 BOX-142 names test 'enrolled_and_unenrolled_expansion_identical', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/29-spec-box-local-first/29-spec-box-local-first.md:496: P004 BOX-143 names test 'nothing_keys_on_box_name', which was not found in the repository

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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
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every tier/verify line.

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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
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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
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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.

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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
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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).
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The exec-timeout sub-bullet cites BOX-151, which owns the end sequence.
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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
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Proposal: an implicit default session entry

BOX-050 reads a legacy [session] table as [defaults.session], not as an entry. That is the right meaning, since [session] contributes to every session. But a project with only [session], which today is every project, then has session defaults and no session entry. Bare min session start, and BCLI-042's alias for bare min session activate, have nothing to start.

#1991 proposes that the bare start verbs pick the entry named default, else the only matching entry. The other half belongs here:

  • BOX-0xx WHERE a file declares no entry whose type, or whose type's built-in root, is session, and no entry named default THE SYSTEM SHALL expand an implicit [sessions.default] entry from the file's layers, as BOX-064 orders them, with no entry layer of its own.
    tier: T0
    verify: cargo nextest run -p mfile no_session_entry_expands_implicit_default_session
    • WHEN a file declares its first session entry THE SYSTEM SHALL stop expanding the implicit entry.
      tier: T0
      verify: cargo nextest run -p mfile declared_session_entry_replaces_implicit_default

Notes:

  • Legacy projects keep working unchanged. [session] → [defaults.session] → the implicit default entry, so min session activate behaves as today through the grace release. When [session] starts failing with exit 3 after the grace release, the hint names the migration: [defaults.session] for shared settings, plus [sessions.default] as the entry.
  • A project with no minimal.toml keeps working. It gets the implicit entry from built-in defaults alone, as min session activate works today in a bare directory.
  • No name collision. If a non-session entry already holds the name default, no implicit entry is made, and min session start fails with exit 2 naming the fix.
  • Open for the owner: permanent or one release. I suggest permanent, so a bare min session start works in any project. It is a rule about the absence of session entries, not a legacy alias, so it does not belong in BOX-050's grace window.
  • Effect on the golden vectors. BOX-145's vectors come from the architecture's example, which declares session entries, so the implicit entry never appears in them. A vector for the implicit case would be a new addition.

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Thanks, that was fast. Checked f61020b through 28d8723 against gominimal/arch main (f41edd3). Fixes 1, 3, 4 and 5 match what the architecture now says. Two things diverge, because the arch PRs all merged before 06:00 on 2026-10-06 and the spec is still pinned to 2e11b6d; a re-pin picks everything up.

BOX-163 refuses every collision, a run included. Addressing (arch#117, merged) rules a hybrid: a creation under the box's name refuses a name a running box on the host holds, exit 2 naming the holder, which is what BOX-163 says — but run and --new create a fresh instance named <name>-<n>, n the smallest positive integer no retained record of that name on the host uses. As written, BOX-163 refuses a second concurrent min task run build on one host, which is the CI case the hybrid exists for. Ask: scope the refusal to a creation that does not request a fresh instance, and add the <name>-<n> rule for one that does (a task run, or a start with --new); BOX-004's property then ranges over both. The [box] name comment in box.toml and the worked example (reviewer, with dev-1 as a --new instance) are already aligned, so arch#122 is closed as ruled by #117. --name overriding [box] name (BCLI-069) is fine; its tree line comes in the next arch PR.

Stale against main, each one line once re-pinned:

The implicit default session entry: accepted, permanent. It is a rule about the absence of session entries, not a legacy alias, and it is what keeps every [session]-only project and every bare directory working. Two conditions: min box spec default renders the implicit entry with an explicit provenance (BOX-161's layer for it is "implicit", so nobody hunts for a table that is not in the file), and BOX-145's vectors gain the implicit case. The bare min session start / min box start half on #1991 is accepted the same way; the architecture line for both lands in the next arch PR.

arch#114: min box attach is in (arch#117); the per-exec --timeout with exec_exited reason timeout is accepted and lands in the next arch PR; and the daily shortcuts come out of the architecture until there is usage experience to design them from, as the review asked.

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gominimal/arch#124 is merged (main at 823f45f): the implicit [sessions.default] entry is in the minimal.toml layout with the two conditions (entry marked implicit in min box spec default; a non-session default blocks it), min box exec --timeout and the exec_exited reason timeout are in the min box exec paragraph, and the daily shortcuts are gone from the architecture. With #117 to #121 that is every open question's architecture line; a re-pin to 823f45f lets them all become citations.

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.

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@msample Thanks. cd2e309 re-pins to 823f45f and takes both comments:

state_key (task-only, until Box Volumes) is still an addition with no architecture line. I dropped its marker with the rest of #98's questions. Say if you want it back.

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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.

Two notes, neither blocking merge:

  1. 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.

  2. BCLI has not caught up. Design reasoning says "BCLI maps run and --new onto that second kind", but #1991 at 3695dcc still has BCLI-069 refusing min task run on 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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* 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
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* docs(specs): date the BCLI spec to its last revision

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* docs(specs): pin the BCLI spec's arch link to a commit

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* 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
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* docs(specs): name the name column in BCLI's first slice

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* 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
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* 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

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