The agent declares that its work is finished; the reader re-derives the hash
from the file rather than trusting the number in the declaration. A manifest the
watcher wrote itself would attest only that the watcher saw a stable file, which
is the self-certifying evidence shape rejected earlier in this issue.
Finalizing promotes a staged report by atomic rename before writing the
manifest, so a reader cannot observe a half-written report as final. Rewriting
the report afterwards invalidates the declaration immediately, because the
recomputed hash no longer matches -- a new body needs a new finalization.
A job that declared side effects must show evidence for every one of them.
Partial evidence is treated as none: the work is not known to be complete.
publish_event gains --finalize-report, --side-effect and --attempt-id, and does
the finalization before publishing. A `completed` event whose report is still
being written would invite exactly the partial adoption the contract forbids, so
a failure there fails the publish.
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Pins what the system refuses to do today, so nothing added later can weaken it
quietly. X-01 records the property the whole phase leans on: a job with no
completion manifest is already held, which is why an agent that declares nothing
stays on the explicit path without a single new branch.
X-03 and X-04 record the layering decision and its evidence. The engine compares
an expected attempt against a record field that does not exist, falling back to
the loop-iteration counter, which means something else. So auto-completion does
not use that guard; the attempt check stays where attempt identity actually
lives, comparing observed evidence against the dispatch record. X-03 will fail
if a record ever starts carrying an attempt id, which is the moment to revisit
the decision.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UrDNJkHmm18uu7n7JwV5Qd
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