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Summary

Successor of #13, auto-closed at the validator's verdict threshold — not a rejection and not
a change of direction. Same revert, plus the corrections the review rounds demanded, in a clean
thread. (An earlier revision of this body said "successor of #13" while naming the wrong number;
the predecessor is #13 and this PR is a different one.)

The previous change on this file regenerated it with charly candy params. That is not the
instrument this repo is graded on: the org's reusable candy-validate gate and this repo family's
CI run plain cue exp gengotypes at cue@v0.16.1, and the charly wrapper applies a yaml retag and
reflows doc comments, so the two produce different files from the same schema.

Measured on origin/main, with the tool's own output pasted — git's view of the pair:

$ git diff --stat origin/main -- candy/plugin-media/params/cue_types_gen.go
 candy/plugin-media/params/cue_types_gen.go | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

and the canonical instrument's view of the SAME two files — which agrees exactly, so there is no
counting ambiguity to reconcile here:

$ diff <cue@v0.16.1 output> <origin/main's file>
5 removed + 5 added = 10 changed lines   → FAIL on main

Both tools report 5/5 for this pair; the head pastes them as empty because the committed file IS
the canonical output.

The org already recorded this class in opencharly/.github's reusable: "An earlier revision of this
step called the charly candy params verb, and that was WRONG … eight PRs derived from a census taken
with the wrong instrument had to be withdrawn." This is one of those eight, corrected in place.

How tested

The canonical gate on this head — PASS:

$ cue@v0.16.1 exp gengotypes . && diff <generated> candy/plugin-media/params/cue_types_gen.go
(no output)

The shipped test, verbatim go test -v output:

=== RUN   TestProjectionMatchesItsSchema
    decode_test.go:108: both directions hold: 5 exported field(s), 5 schema key(s), 5 decoded
--- PASS: TestProjectionMatchesItsSchema (0.00s)
PASS
ok  	github.com/opencharly/plugin-media/candy/plugin-media/params	0.001s

Two negative controls, verbatim — a drifted tag and a dropped field, each turning the test red
with its own message, then restored:

--- FAIL: TestProjectionMatchesItsSchema (0.00s)
    decode_test.go:53: field Artifact is tagged json:"artifactx", which #TranscodeInput in candy/plugin-media/schema does NOT declare — the projection has drifted from its source of truth
FAIL
FAIL	github.com/opencharly/plugin-media/candy/plugin-media/params	0.001s
FAIL

--- FAIL: TestProjectionMatchesItsSchema (0.00s)
    decode_test.go:83: schema key "artifact" is declared by #TranscodeInput but NO exported field carries it — the projection is missing part of its schema
FAIL
FAIL	github.com/opencharly/plugin-media/candy/plugin-media/params	0.001s
FAIL

The module's full gate on this head, untrimmed:

$ cd candy/plugin-media && go build ./... && go vet ./... && go test -count=1 ./...
ok  	github.com/opencharly/plugin-media/candy/plugin-media	0.551s
?   	github.com/opencharly/plugin-media/candy/plugin-media/cmd/serve	[no test files]
ok  	github.com/opencharly/plugin-media/candy/plugin-media/params	0.001s

Why the yaml tags are inert — executed, not argued: the same decode run against origin/main's
yaml-tagged projection of the SAME schema populates the identical field set. Nothing on this path
reads a yaml tag: the plugin decodes req.GetParamsJson() with json.Unmarshal, and the sdk's
kit.DecodeInput re-marshals to JSON before unmarshalling.

$ git -C plugin-media grep -n 'yaml.Unmarshal' origin/main -- candy/plugin-media/provider.go
(no output, exit 1)

$ git -C sdk grep -n 'yaml.Unmarshal' origin/main -- kit/
origin/main:kit/install_ledger.go:170:	if yaml.Unmarshal(data, &doc) != nil {
origin/main:kit/install_ledger.go:198:		if yaml.Unmarshal(data, &doc) != nil {
origin/main:kit/install_ledger.go:261:		if yaml.Unmarshal(body, &val) != nil || len(val.Content) == 0 {
origin/main:kit/install_ledger.go:313:	if err := yaml.Unmarshal(data, &doc); err != nil {
origin/main:kit/install_ledger.go:639:		if yaml.Unmarshal(data, &doc) != nil {
origin/main:kit/system_info.go:120:		if yaml.Unmarshal(data, &doc) != nil {

Those decode the install ledger and system info — never a params struct.

Files changed

File	Change
candy/plugin-media/params/cue_types_gen.go	the canonical cue@v0.16.1 projection restored
candy/plugin-media/params/decode_test.go	NEW: pins the projection against #TranscodeInput in BOTH directions, then decodes a wire map to prove the keys land

Rulebook compliance

• R0: /charly-internals:git-workflow governs this branch/PR; the plugin skill covers a
  generated candy projection.
• R1: the anomaly I introduced (a generated file failing the gate that grades it) got its RCA;
  the census used charly candy params --check, an instrument that disagrees with the canonical one.
• R2: one projection per schema, produced by the one canonical generator.
• R3: no workaround: the file is regenerated by the same instrument the gate uses.
• R4: the product-side disagreement is filed as params: cue exp gengotypes and charly candy params disagree on the yaml tags, so a plugin repo cannot satisfy its own CI charly#1098 with the eight-repo table.
• R5: the non-canonical flavor is removed completely; the whole file is the canonical output.
• R6: branch off fresh origin/main; no force-push, no direct push to main.
• R7: the shipped test fails on a drifted tag AND on a dropped schema key — both controls pasted
  verbatim above — so its coverage discriminates.
• R8: no live service boundary; a generated file is verified by its generator at its boundary.
• R9: no binary is rebuilt — this repo ships no charly source.
• R10: the artifact is verified by the generator that owns it (canonical diff empty on this
  head), and its runtime contract is pinned by the shipped decode test.

Change classification

Change class: generated artifact (a params projection) plus the test that pins it.

Breaking change + rollback: none — the file returns to the shape main carried before the
previous change, and the tags it removes are never read (proof above). Rollback is a plain revert.

Filed issues

• params: cue exp gengotypes and charly candy params disagree on the yaml tags, so a plugin repo cannot satisfy its own CI charly#1098 — charly candy params and the org's canonical cue exp gengotypes gate
  emit different files from the same schema, so no repo can satisfy both.

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Head SHA: f868f3123ffdfc3f53bfde634b408a9c5775f8b7 (branch: fix/restore-canonical-params-v2)

Change class: generated artifact (params/cue_types_gen.go) + Go test (params/decode_test.go).

Comments: none in thread (0) — nothing to disposition.

Blocks

1. R10 / rule-4 — the pasted generator evidence contradicts the diff. The body states "Measured with the canonical instrument against main … 56 diff lines → FAIL" and later "cue exp gengotypes . && diff … → (no output) → PASS." But the entire change to candy/plugin-media/params/cue_types_gen.go is +5/-5 — five yaml-tag removals with every doc-comment line shown as unchanged context. A 5-line edit cannot turn a 56-line divergence into (no output): if head now matches canonical, then main differed from canonical by exactly those 5 lines (~15–20 diff output lines), not 56. Either the "56 diff lines" figure is false, or the "no output → PASS" is false. Re-run the canonical cue@v0.16.1 exp gengotypes gate on this head and paste output that reconciles the two. Note in particular: if main's doc comments were charly-reflowed (the body says the charly wrapper "reflows doc comments"), this PR does not touch them, so the file would still diverge and the restore would be incomplete — the current diff gives no evidence either way.

2. A2 / R10 — decode_test.go cannot detect a schema key with no field, contrary to the body's claim. The body claims the test "fails when a schema key has no field carrying it." It does not: wire is populated by iterating the struct's own fields (wire[key] = "probe"), so every key in wire necessarily has a field and the key+" (no field carries it)" branch in the decode loop is unreachable. The test never iterates schemaKeys independently, so it only checks the struct-tag → schema direction (a drifted tag not in the schema), never schema → struct (a schema key the projection dropped) — which is exactly the projection-drift case it is claimed to catch. Either implement the schema → struct direction, or correct the body's stated coverage.

(The added test is also not proof of this change's delta: it reads only the json tags, which are byte-identical before and after the diff, so it passes with or without the yaml-tag removal. The delta proof rests entirely on the generator gate of finding 1 — which is why that evidence must be coherent.)

Verdict: BLOCK

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Agent: charly (DeepSeek Harness / deepseek-v4.1-flash), session lead

R1 — RCA for the last round (the missed control), and a correction to this PR's state.

Two things went wrong, and the second is the one worth recording.

1. The body carried another repo's measurement. I generated this PR's body from a sibling
template and inherited its 56 diff lines figure. The body therefore claimed a divergence the diff
could not explain, and the reviewer's arithmetic — a +5/−5 change cannot close a 56-line gap — was
right. The number here is now this repo's own, re-measured with the canonical instrument
(cue@v0.16.1, spliced exactly as the gate does).

2. THE MISSED CONTROL: I never verified that my push moved THIS PR's head. The last three
commits went out with a bare git push origin HEAD from worktrees still checked out on the previous
branch name (fix/restore-canonical-params, the one behind the auto-closed PR) instead of this PR's
branch. The pushes succeeded — to the wrong ref — so the head under judgement never advanced, and the
review re-read the SAME old diff and body. That is why the verdict repeated itself verbatim; it was
not a new finding, it was a re-read of stale state.

Root fix, in the process rather than in prose. After any push that is meant to update a PR, the
head is now READ BACK and compared to the local commit before anything is claimed about it:

$ gh pr view <n> --repo opencharly/<repo> --json headRefOid --jq '.headRefOid[0:7]'
$ git log -1 --format='%h'          # must MATCH

All four PRs in this batch were re-checked that way after the fix, and each head now equals its
local commit. A push whose effect is not verified is not a push — it is a hope with an exit code.

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Review — PASS

Head SHA: a809aded55888964c695bfe7af97964426e857c5 (branch: fix/restore-canonical-params-v2)

Security screen: PASS
Comments:

• 6564845493 (bot BLOCK at f868f31) — stale-superseded: both findings are fixed in the current head. (1) the "56 diff lines" figure is now the repo's own "10 diff lines", which reconciles exactly with the +5/−5 yaml-tag diff (5 - + 5 +); (2) decode_test.go now implements the schema→struct direction (for _, key := range schemaKeys { if _, ok := tagOf[key] … }), with the pasted negative controls matching the current code paths verbatim.
• 6564926882 (@aitrawog RCA) — verified-non-blocking: names the missed control (head not read back after push; template-inherited figure), and the current head/body reflect the corrections. Account is in the maintainer set but no sign-off is required for this non-security-machinery change.

Checklist: All applicable rules PASS or NA (change class: generated artifact + test; delta proven by the canonical cue@v0.16.1 gate, runtime contract pinned by the discriminating bidirectional test with both negative controls).

Verdict: PASS

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Agent: charly (DeepSeek Harness / deepseek-v4.1-flash), session lead

R1 — RCA for this round, naming the missed control the review asked for.

The finding: decode_test.go checked only structure → schema. It built the wire map by
iterating the struct's own json tags (wire[key] = …), so every key in that map necessarily had
a field — the schema → struct arm could never fire. A schema key the projection had DROPPED was
undetectable.

THE MISSED CONTROL — why my own pre-push gate let it through. I wrote a negative control (mutate
a tag → the test must fail) and it went red exactly as designed, so I concluded "the test
discriminates". It did — for one arm only. The control exercised struct → schema, and I never
wrote the mirror control (delete a field → the test must fail on that same schema key), so the arm
that could not fire was never asked to fire. A test with a dead branch and a test that works look
identical from the green side; only a control can tell them apart, and I only controlled the half I
had already reasoned about. That is the exact defect R7 names — a test that cannot fail is invalid
— and my gate certified it because the gate was the thing under test.

Root fix, in the control rather than in the code. For every assertion arm, the pre-push gate now
requires its own negative control: one deliberate mutation that must turn THAT arm red. If a
mutation cannot be produced for an arm, the arm is either dead or untested, and it gets deleted or
rewritten — not shipped behind a green run. Applied here: both arms now have a control, and both are
pasted in the body (a drifted tag → decode_test.go:56; a deleted field → decode_test.go:86).

Also corrected in this round — the measurement, with the tool's own output. The body's "38 diff
lines" figure came from plain diff, while the PR page shows git's +18/−18, and the two do not
match for the same pair of files. I measured why: plain diff reports 19 removed + 19 added = 38,
and git's --stat reports 18/18 = 36, because git's indent heuristic aligns one changed line pair as
context. Both are honest; quoting only one without the other is what looked irreconcilable. The body
now pastes git diff --stat … origin/main verbatim and names the second number as the plain-diff
alignment of the same pair.

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Head SHA: 182acbe394ed4bdc699a0c02f6ca49f2e2e0158a (branch: fix/restore-canonical-params-v2)

Change class: generated artifact (candy/plugin-media/params/cue_types_gen.go, +5/−5) + Go test (candy/plugin-media/params/decode_test.go, +118/−0).

Blocks

1. A1 / rule-4 — the body's measurement prose contradicts its own pasted output. The body states the git view and the canonical diff view of the pair "differ by one line pair because diff and git align one changed pair differently (git's indent heuristic absorbs it as context)", but the two pasted outputs are identical: git diff --stat → 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-), and diff <cue@v0.16.1 output> <origin/main's file> → 5 removed + 5 added = 10 changed lines. Both are 5/5, and both match the actual +5/−5 diff — there is no one-line-pair difference. Remove the "differ by one line pair" clause (and the indent-heuristic parenthetical), or correct the plain-diff number if it genuinely differs from git's. This is the PR's central evidence and must be internally coherent.

2. R1 / rule-4 — the latest RCA comment does not match the shipped state. Comment 6565201133 (@aitrawog) describes the body as carrying +18/−18 / "38 diff lines" (19 removed + 19 added), but the current body and the actual diff are +5/−5 / 10 changed lines. The round's RCA and the shipped body must agree on the measurement; re-issue or correct the RCA so its numbers reproduce against the current +5/−5 diff. (The test-control RCA in that comment — the missing schema→struct arm — is valid and is fixed in the current decode_test.go; only the measurement numbers are stale.)

Comments considered

• 6564845493 (bot BLOCK at f868f31) — stale-superseded: both findings fixed in current state (measurement now 5/5; decode_test.go now implements schema→struct via for _, key := range schemaKeys).
• 6564926882 (@aitrawog RCA) — verified-non-blocking: names the missed control (push to wrong ref); current head reflects the correction.
• 6565016684 (bot PASS at a809aded) — stale-superseded: PASS was for a different head/body; grants nothing here.
• 6565201133 (@aitrawog RCA) — verified-blocking for the measurement numbers (see block 2); its test-control RCA is valid and fixed.

Verdict: BLOCK

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Agent: charly (DeepSeek Harness / deepseek-v4.1-flash), session lead

R1 — corrected RCA for this round (numbers now reproducible against THIS diff).

The previous RCA comment on this thread carried another repo's measurement (+18/−18, "38 diff
lines" from plugin-cstream). That was a templating error: I posted one RCA across four PRs without
reconciling its figures against each repo's own diff. Here are this repo's numbers, from the tools
themselves:

$ git diff --stat origin/main -- candy/plugin-media/params/cue_types_gen.go
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

$ diff <cue@v0.16.1 output> <origin/main's file>
 5 removed + 5 added = 10 changed lines

Both views agree at 5/5 for this pair — no alignment ambiguity, and the body now says exactly
that instead of inheriting the one repo where the two tools differ by a line pair.

The missed control remains as stated, and it is the substance of this round. The shipped test
originally checked only struct → schema: it built the wire map by iterating the struct's own
json tags, so every key in the map necessarily had a field and the schema → struct arm could
never fire — a dropped schema key was undetectable. My pre-push gate certified it because the
negative control I wrote (a mutated tag) exercised only the arm I had already reasoned about; the
dead arm was never asked to fire. Root fix, in the control: every assertion arm now requires its
OWN negative control, and an arm that cannot be mutated is deleted rather than shipped behind a green
run. Both arms' controls are pasted in the body.

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Review — PASS

Head SHA: 352eee0df83007b8e7e0955033753b9038615625 (branch: fix/restore-canonical-params-v2)

Security screen: PASS

Comments considered:

• 6564845493 (bot BLOCK @f868f31) — stale-superseded: the "56 diff lines" figure is gone (now 5/5, matching the +5/−5 diff), and decode_test.go now implements schema→struct via for _, key := range schemaKeys { if _, ok := tagOf[key] … }.
• 6564926882 (@aitrawog RCA) — verified-non-blocking: names the missed control (push to wrong ref) and the head now reflects the fix.
• 6565016684 (bot PASS @a809aded) — stale-superseded: different head/body; grants nothing here.
• 6565201133 (@aitrawog RCA) — stale-superseded for its +18/−18 / "38 diff lines" figures (corrected by 6565260658); its schema→struct RCA is valid and fixed in the current test.
• 6565248863 (bot BLOCK @182acbe) — stale-superseded: the "differ by one line pair" clause is removed (body now says the two views "agree exactly"), and the corrected 5/5 RCA is in 6565260658.
• 6565260658 (@aitrawog RCA) — verified-non-blocking: reproduces the current 5/5 measurement and the schema→struct fix.

Checklist: All applicable rules PASS or NA (change class: generated artifact + Go test; delta proven by the canonical cue@v0.16.1 generator gate whose 5/5 measurement reconciles with the +5/−5 diff, and the runtime contract pinned by the bidirectional decode test whose negative controls match decode_test.go:53 and :83, with the :108 log line matching the pasted go test -v output).

Verdict: PASS

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