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• lintSuppress now docks on a triggers[] and a handlers[] node too. The key arrived (see below) on agents, stores and api routes; on a trigger or a handler it was not ignored but a hard parse error (unknown_field) that broke the document — which put the two advisories an author is most likely to have reviewed out of reach: cron_tenant_required, reported on a cron/manual trigger, and typescript_handler_module, reported on a handler whose module is TypeScript source. Both node kinds now take the same [{ code, because }] list under the same fail-closed rules (the code vocabulary contains no error codes, and an empty or whitespace-only because is rejected at parse), with the same node scope — a suppression filters only advisories whose path lies under its own node — and the same stale_suppression rot detector, which names the trigger by its name and the handler by its id. An acknowledgement records a reviewed decision and quiets doctor; it changes no enforcement. doctor moves the finding from warnings to suppressed with the justification and the finding's path. Nothing else consults the list: rayspec plan reports the raw advisory pass, so an acknowledged finding is still listed in its specWarnings; a document declaring a cron or manual trigger still aborts the boot when RAYSPEC_CRON_TENANT_ID is unset; and the deploy loader still loads compiled JavaScript only, so a .ts module still needs its build step. The plan reference and the PlanResult field doc now state that divergence rather than claiming the two commands report the same entries. The field is optional with no default, so a document that declares no suppression parses byte-identically. The exported JSON-Schema artifacts spec.schema.json and version-1.0.schema.json carry the key on both new nodes; product.schema.json is byte-unchanged (the product profile declares neither section).
• absent_state: not_found_404 — a view can now answer an unknown reference with a 404. The member decides what a single read serves when it matches no row: 404 { error: 'not_found', detail } alongside the existing empty_200 (the declared read.absent DTO at 200) and not_ready_409. Neither existing member has ever produced a 404, and until now there was no way to say that a reference does not exist at all. Which member is correct is decided by when the backing row appears, not by the view — the read sees zero rows either way. not_found_404 fits a read model whose row exists from the moment the reference is valid: a catalog or reference store materialized before any workflow runs, or a store written at acceptance. It is wrong for a store that a workflow step writes, because there an absent row is a job that has not finished, and a 404 would tell a polling client that its reference does not exist. The reference page and the views-runtime README now state that precondition next to the vocabulary, and lint rejects the declarations that cannot mean anything: not_found_404 together with a read.absent shape (a fixed error body leaves nothing to project) and not_found_404 on a list/collect read. The detail on the 404 is a constant string and carries nothing derived from the request. What makes that hold is where the body is built: a view returns its response from the interpreter and the route layer serializes it verbatim, so it does not pass the auth-core error chokepoint that strips details from a 404 — there is no later stage that could remove an echoed path or filter value, so none is put in. The status choice leaks nothing either way: the read is tenant-bound, so a foreign row and an absent row both yield zero rows and take the same arm under every member. Nothing a view answers changed. This is a vocabulary addition, not a migration: no shipped example or fixture document was touched, all 24 absent_state declarations in the shipped example and fixture documents still read empty_200 or not_ready_409, and both existing members behave exactly as before. The dispatch around them did change, so a 1.7.0→1.8.0 diff shows all three arms as new text rather than one arm added: the interpreter and the OpenAPI emitter no longer test absent_state with an if-chain ending in an empty_200 fall-through — each looks the member up in one map annotated satisfies Record<ViewAbsentState, …>. That annotation is what makes a fourth member a build failure instead of a silent 200: both files are non-test modules under src/, which the package tsconfig includes while excluding **/*.test.ts, and the package's typecheck script is tsc -p tsconfig.json --noEmit.
• A boot warning when a served page carries an inline <style> / <script> / style= / on*= that the active Content-Security-Policy does not permit. The default policy for a served frontend is default-src 'self' with no 'unsafe-inline', and a page that violates it fails in a way nothing on the server side shows: the response is 200, the bytes are exactly what the build produced, and only the browser applies the policy. It need not say so there either — a refused inline <style> can produce no console message at all, which is why the warning tells the reader the browser console is not a way to check this. The signal now arrives at boot, naming the file. It rides the pass over the declared mounts that already runs once per boot to compute what /health reports as frontend, so no /health request re-reads anything, and it covers both boot shapes that serve frontend[] mounts — the static (frontend-only) profile and a full-backend boot — because both stamp the same headers on mount responses. It is warn-only and cannot fail a boot, and what makes that true is that the scan's only product is a string handed to the boot's warn sink that no caller reads back — the readiness /health reports is computed without it — while every filesystem call it makes is individually wrapped, so an unreadable directory or file is skipped rather than raised. Serving a page the policy blocks is a deployment's choice, and RAYSPEC_FRONTEND_CSP is how it overrides the baseline. It judges the page against the active policy, not the shipped default: a policy that carries 'unsafe-inline' for the directive governing a shape says nothing about that shape, and a policy governing none of them is not scanned at all — the four shapes are resolved through their own CSP fallback chains (style-src-elem / style-src-attr / script-src-elem / script-src-attr → style-src / script-src → default-src), and the warning names the directive that decided. Nothing about its reach is left implicit. The bounds: at most 200 HTML files per boot across all mounts, at most the first 1 MiB of any one file, at most 5 offending files named (the rest are counted). Each of the three appears in the message when it truncates — the file-count line is printed off the file the scan actually DECLINED to open, not off the budget being spent, so a build of exactly 200 pages is never told anything was skipped. The fidelity: it is a heuristic text scan, not an HTML parser — it strips comments, skips <script>/<style> bodies as raw text, and reads attributes off start tags (every start tag, so an on*= handler on a <script src=…> is reported like any other element's), but markup quoted inside an attribute or a string can still be named and unusual markup can be missed. It also computes no hashes, so a policy carrying a hash or nonce source is treated as permitting that shape. The message says all of this in the same breath as the finding. The coverage: the walk runs the mount's own three request-path checks as it goes, so it does not name a page one of them refuses — a dot-segment path, a symlink whose real path escapes the served directory, and, under a / mount, anything beneath the reserved /v1, /health and /oidc namespaces, which the mount declines before the file server ever runs. An in-tree symlink it does follow, because the mount serves those. It is not a fetch, and the converse is not claimed: clearing those three checks is not a proof that the page resolves. (Issues #355, #345, #313.)
• GET /v1/subscribe — an SSE subscription over the tenant event stream, with a resume protocol that cannot silently drop frames. The emit half gave a handler somewhere durable to announce a change; this is the half a client reads it back from, so a workspace UI holds one connection open instead of polling. It is a platform route (nothing declares it), on the same authenticated chain as every other route, gated by a new events:read permission — granted to owner, admin and member, and grantable on an api-key. That permission is deliberately not a reuse of store:read: an event payload is whatever a handler passed to init.emit, so it can carry values from capabilities no declared store route serves, and folding it in would have retroactively widened every api-key already minted with that scope. It is not added to the OIDC scope list. The route serves whenever the deployment enabled the bus (deployment.eventBus.enabled, or structurally on a product deployment) and answers a clean 501 naming the key to set when it did not — never a 404, and never an empty stream that reports itself healthy. What a subscriber observes: a data frame carries id: (the cursor), event: (the author's topic) and data: (the payload as JSON); a control frame carries no id:, which is the discriminator and is structural rather than nominal — a topic is author data, so a handler could emit rayspec.truncated itself, but it could never emit a frame without a sequence number, and a control frame therefore can never come back as a cursor. There are two: rayspec.live (your backlog is drained) and rayspec.truncated (your cursor is older than retention; it carries the floor, and the stream resumes there). The event timestamp is deliberately not on the wire — it is not monotone with seq, so shipping it would only invite clients to sort by it. The cursor is <tenant_id>:<seq>, not a bare number, and arrives either as the standard Last-Event-ID reconnect header or as ?since=: a sequence means something different in every tenant's stream, so an untagged cursor would resume silently at the wrong place after an org switch. Four cursor shapes are refused with a 400 rather than served — a malformed one, one tagged with another tenant, a sequence that is not plain decimal digits (a hexadecimal, exponent, fractional, signed, padded or empty one is refused rather than coerced, since coercing resumes the subscriber somewhere it never asked for while looking successful), and one ahead of the stream. A Last-Event-ID that is present but empty is none of them: an EventSource's last-event-ID string starts empty, so an empty header says exactly what an omitted one says, and it is read as absent — a ?since= sent beside it still applies. That is the empty string and nothing wider: a header carrying any other value, including one made only of characters HTTP does not count as whitespace, is checked against the four refusals like any other cursor. Omitting the cursor starts at the tail and is not a truncation, however old the stream's floor is. Omitting topics means every topic; an explicitly empty ?topics= is a 400, because an empty filter can only match nothing and that is indistinguishable from a healthy stream on a quiet workspace, and a filter naming more than 64 topics is a 400 as well — a documented bound on the filter rather than one a client discovers by being refused. Each read takes the events above the cursor together with the stream's retention floor from one snapshot, so a subscriber can never be told its cursor is fine about events that are already gone, and the floor is re-checked on every read rather than once at connect — a connection held open for hours can outlive the retention of its own unread history. Delivery is immediate: the emitting transaction wakes the process's one listener, which fans out in memory. Each subscriber also reads on its own interval, and that timer is on by default — a departure from this project's posture that interval knobs are opt-in, made deliberately because a wake is a hint that can be missed (a listener reconnect, a deployment that wires none), and an opt-in backstop would mean the default posture loses events until somebody notices. The same timer is the SSE heartbeat. The server closes a stream after a bounded lifetime — the access-token TTL — and the client reconnects. Permission is middleware, so it is checked once at connect; the reconnect is a fresh request through the whole chain, and that is what makes a revoked principal stop receiving events. No second, bespoke mid-stream authorization path exists. Because that close is the server's own, the route also puts the resume position on the wire before it can happen: an EventSource's last-event-ID string starts empty and is set by nothing but an id:, and control frames carry none, so a subscriber on a quiet workspace would otherwise reach the cap holding no cursor, reconnect without Last-Event-ID, and be started at a freshly probed tail — skipping everything emitted in the reconnect gap while rayspec.live reported the backlog drained. A resume checkpoint (an id: line and nothing else, which the event-stream grammar defines as a cursor update that dispatches no event) is written whenever the cursor moves without a delivery, so the cap costs a round trip and no events. The stream also states the reconnect delay itself, as an SSE retry: field (one second) written before its first frame: the close is the server's own, so how long the client waits before coming back is the server's decision rather than a per-client default — and those defaults differ, which would otherwise make the same deployment resume at a different speed in every browser. There is no WebSocket surface, and none is planned: SSE plus a durable cursor covers the case, and the durable rows — not the connection — are what make a resume correct. examples/live-workspace-events is the whole loop in one bootable document. One change to the emit side comes with this: init.emit now refuses a topic carrying a line break, naming the reason. A subscriber receives the topic as the SSE event: field, whose grammar cannot carry one — so such a row could not be delivered at all, and the stream would die on it and die again on every reconnect that resumed from the cursor in front of it, silencing that tenant permanently. Multi-line content belongs in the payload, which is stored and served verbatim.
• A tenant-scoped event bus: deployment.eventBus turns on init.emit(topic, payload), a durable per-tenant event stream a route or tool handler appends to. Everything real-time in RaySpec was scoped to a single agent run, so a product whose UI is driven by everything happening in a workspace had no transport to carry it and each one rebuilt the same polled events table in product code. A deployment that declares deployment: { eventBus: { enabled: true } } now gives every handler-kind route init, and the tool inits of an in-request agent run, an emit(topic, payload) capability; a product-profile deployment has it structurally, with nothing to declare. Presence follows the blob/enqueue posture exactly: without the declaration the field is absent (not undefined-valued), so a handler that needs it fail-closes loudly rather than dropping events into a silent no-op, and a stream-kind route init and a trigger init do not carry it (the same boundary fsSource/stt/tts already draw). Neither do the tools of an enqueued run (async: true, or a trigger whose action is kind: agent): the durable worker runs a whole run inside one transaction, and an emit allocated there would hold the tenant's sequence lock until that run committed, so the bus is not threaded into the worker's tool inits at all. The capability is tenant-bound by construction — it is built per request from the run's server-derived tenant and has no tenant parameter — and it is positional, so a mis-call in the shape the sibling init.enqueue takes (emit({ topic, payload })) is refused with a named error stating the expected emit(topic, payload) shape, never a 404 and never a corrupt row. What a consumer of the stream may rely on: every event carries a per-tenant sequence number; the order numbers are issued in is the order the writes commit in, so a reader resuming with seq > cursor cannot skip an event that committed late; the sequence is gap-free (a request that rolls back returns its number and the next emit reuses it); and on a route handler the events commit with the handler's own writes, so a reader never sees an event announcing a change it cannot yet read. A tool's emit is a standalone statement on a plain handle, so each is durable as it returns. Two platform tables ship with it (tenant_events, tenant_event_streams, migration 0011), both cascading on org delete and both now reserved store names. Events are kept for retentionHours (default 24) and swept by the daily housekeeping pass that already runs the OIDC prune — an approximate bound, and deliberately so: nothing is deleted inside a product request, so a tenant's oldest events can outlive the declared window, and a bursting tenant can exceed its nominal size, until the next pass. That pass runs on the durable worker, so a deployment that enables the bus without deployment.durableWorker: true emits and serves exactly as described but never sweeps — the stream then grows for as long as it lives, and the boot says so in one line rather than leaving the declared window looking like a bound. (A product-profile deployment always has the worker, so it always sweeps.) seq is the only ordering authority the stream has; the at column is display only and is not monotone with seq under concurrency (it is transaction-start time while the number is issued at flush), so ordering or windowing a query by it reorders and drops events. This entry is the emit and storage half; the subscription surface it exists to feed (GET /v1/subscribe) is the entry above.
• cleanUrls: true on a frontend mount — extensionless URLs resolve to <path>.html, so a generated multi-page site arrives with working links. A static mount resolved a directory to its index.html but never tried <path>.html for an extensionless request, so a site whose navigation links /docs/getting-started while the built file is docs/getting-started.html answered 404 on every such link — the default output shape of common static site generators, and a shape Netlify, Vercel and GitHub Pages all resolve. The only mount knob was spa, which is not a substitute and is worth naming as a trap here: on a multi-page site it turns every broken link into a 200 carrying the root document, so link checkers, uptime probes and curl all pass and the site is wrong only to a reader. The new third mount option resolves the extensionless form instead: the exact path when it is a file, then <path>.html, then <path>/index.html, then — only when spa: true — the SPA fallback, then the mount root's 404.html or the uniform 404. The two options are ordered rather than exclusive, so a mount may set both and each keeps its own promise: a deep link that has a page gets that page, and only a path with no page at all reaches the shell. 404 therefore stays the terminal outcome for every spa: false mount — the distinction spa: true necessarily destroys — and the option is fail-closed in the same two senses as the rest of the module: the <path>.html candidate runs the same dotfile / traversal / symlink-escape guard as any other served path, and the range, method and reserved-namespace guards all still run first. Extensionless is the exact domain, which is what makes that terminal 404 worth having: a path whose last segment carries a . names a typed asset (/app.js, /data.json) and is never rewritten, so a fetch for a file that is not there still gets a 404 rather than 200 text/html from a <name>.<ext>.html sibling — while a dotted directory on the way (/guide/1.2/notes) still resolves its page, since only the last segment decides. It is opt-in (default false), so no existing deployment changes behaviour — and two behaviours change for a site that opts in. Where both <path>.html and <path>/index.html exist for the same path, the .html file now wins where the directory index served before (.html is tried first, the order the hosts above use). And on a mount that ships a root 404.html, /404 is an extensionless path like any other, so it now serves that page with 200. What that displaces depends on spa, since the SPA fallback precedes the 404.html branch: on an spa: false mount the miss branch answered the same bytes with 404, so the status flips, while on an spa: true mount the shell already answered /404 with 200, so the document flips and the status does not. Either way it is the same parity with those hosts, all of which serve /404 as a page, and the reason the status is not "fixed" back to 404. A trailing-slash request (/docs/) is unaffected and still resolves the directory index. The option is echoed in the deploy --dry-run verdict for both the static and the backend profile, so the preview names the resolution boot will use, and the static profile's boot banner marks a mount that sets it. One source-level note for anyone building against the tree in TypeScript: FrontendSpec is the parsed mount type, and a key with a schema default is required on it (this is why spa was already required there), so a hand-written FrontendSpec literal now needs cleanUrls as well. Nothing about a rayspec.yaml document changes — the key stays optional in YAML and defaults to false — and no runtime behaviour changes; it is only literals written in TypeScript against the parsed type that gain a key. The mount literals inside this repository's own tests are updated to match.
• Speech synthesis reaches a backend-profile handler as the optional init.tts capability, behind a new TTS_PROVIDER contract — the egress half of the audio pipeline. The platform shipped a real speech-to-text stack and, since the previous change, an init.stt handle for it; the other direction did not exist in either profile, so every voice product had to hand-roll a raw provider call in product code, each with its own key handling, error hygiene, and provider-drift exposure — exactly the scaffolding the platform otherwise absorbs. A route or tool handler now receives init.tts.synthesize(text, opts) — the text it already assembled in, the audio bytes plus the contentType describing them out, with voice, speed, and format (mp3 | opus | wav) as plain options. Two new packages carry it: @rayspec/tts-port, the provider-neutral TtsAdapter contract and the request rules every adapter behind it applies, and @rayspec/adapter-openai-tts, a raw-fetch OpenAI adapter (tts-1 / tts-1-hd, one REST call, no provider SDK and no new third-party dependency). The engine selects the provider and builds the adapter once at boot, so a handler never names a provider, reads a credential, or constructs an adapter. Presence follows the other optional capabilities exactly: set TTS_PROVIDER and every handler-kind route init and every tool init carries the handle (a stream-kind route init and a trigger init do not — neither builder injects it); leave it unset and the field is absent (not undefined-valued), so a handler that needs it fail-closes loudly instead of speaking into a silent no-op — and an unset provider is never a boot error, since nothing in a spec declares that a handler speaks. TTS_PROVIDER=openai demands OPENAI_API_KEY at boot rather than failing every call at request time (that is the same variable the OpenAI and Pi agent backends already use, so those deployments need no new credential; an Anthropic- or Codex-backed one does not carry it and must supply it), an unsupported provider name is refused at boot naming the wired ones, and TTS_PROVIDER=fake is a working deterministic offline synthesizer for dev and CI (every call returns the same fixed-length tone, byte-identical; the boot warns loudly that nothing is being spoken, warn-only). The fake validates format exactly as the live provider does but encodes nothing, so it always answers WAV bytes under an honest audio/wav content type whatever container was requested — read contentType, never derive it from the requested format. Unlike transcribe, synthesize rejects rather than returning a status union — the happy path is the audio itself — with a structured, content-free TtsAdapterError that never echoes the text, the response body, or the credential (the SDK re-exports the type, so a handler can name what it caught). Two limits are enforced before any provider call, so a rejected request is never billed: the 4096-character text cap is fail-closed (an over-long text is refused, never truncated into a recording that stops mid-sentence), and an unknown voice is refused rather than silently falling back to a default — a blank string is an unknown voice, not an absent one, and is refused the same way; the default is reached by omitting voice, and by an explicit null, which only an untyped caller can send and which is read as absent — while speed is clamped into the supported range. The capability forwards every option the caller expressed rather than every option that is truthy, so a blank format reaches the same membership check a blank voice does instead of being dropped and resolved to the adapter's default container. The offline provider enforces exactly those same limits — it is handed the live adapter's own policy — so a request that passes in CI cannot first fail in production. Deployments that set no provider boot and serve exactly as before.
• Transcription reaches a backend-profile handler as the optional init.stt capability, behind the existing STT_PROVIDER contract. The platform shipped a real speech-to-text stack — the neutral adapter port and a production Deepgram adapter — that only the product profile's audio pipeline could reach; a backend-profile spec had no path to it at all, so a handler that needed a transcript had to deep-import built adapter files across package boundaries and cap its audio at the JSON body limit. A route or tool handler now receives init.stt.transcribe(bytes, opts) — bytes it already holds (a raw-body upload, a blob, a file read through init.fsSource) in, the neutral transcript artifact out, with contentType, languageHint, and detectLanguage as plain options (languageHint and detectLanguage: true are mutually exclusive: a call that sets both comes back as a failed result carrying unsupported_option, on the offline provider exactly as on the real one, so the illegal pair cannot pass in CI and first fail in production). The engine selects the provider and builds the adapter once at boot and resolves the per-call media internally, so a handler never names a provider, reads a credential, or constructs an adapter. Presence follows the other optional capabilities exactly: set STT_PROVIDER and every handler-kind route init and every tool init carries the handle (a stream-kind route init and a trigger init do not — neither builder injects it); leave it unset and the field is absent (not undefined-valued), so a handler that needs it fail-closes loudly instead of transcribing into a silent no-op — and an unset provider is never a boot error, since nothing in a spec declares that a handler transcribes. STT_PROVIDER=deepgram demands DEEPGRAM_API_KEY at boot rather than answering every call with a content-free provider_unavailable at request time, an unsupported provider name is refused at boot naming the wired ones, and STT_PROVIDER=fake is a working deterministic offline transcriber for dev and CI (identical input yields an identical synthetic transcript; the boot warns loudly that no audio is being transcribed, warn-only). A provider-side failure is a status: 'failed' result carrying a content-free error, never a throw and never an echo of the audio or the credential. Trigger inits are unchanged (they carry no optional capability), and a deployment that sets no provider boots and serves exactly as before.
• An optional response projection on declared store routes: project with casing (snake default | camel), omitInjected, rename, and a fields allowlist. A store route serialized rows in exactly one shape — snake_case, every injected column included — so a product whose wire contract predates its backend (an existing frontend, a mobile app, a published API) could not use the declarative surface at all and fell off onto {handler} routes wholesale. project docks on a route or on a store (the route-level one overrides wholesale; project: {} opts a single route back out) and reshapes responses only: casing: camel re-keys every field to its camelCase twin, omitInjected: true drops the injected columns while keeping id, rename maps a declared/injected column to a pinned wire name (id → companionId), and fields — matched against the post-casing/rename wire names, applied last — is the final word on membership (it can re-include an injected column past omitInjected and can drop id). Requests are untouched: bodies keep the declared column names in either casing, and the list query surface (filters, order, operator params) stays author-named — a rename produces a documented request/response naming split, stated in the reference docs and on every projected operation of the generated OpenAPI document, whose response schemas follow the projection (the serializer and the emitter consume one shared resolution, so the documented shape is the served shape). Misconfiguration fails doctor with three new closed error codes — an unknown or dead rename/fields member (projection_unknown_column), two columns on one wire name (projection_collision), and a rename target equal to another column's author name, which would mislead the author-named query surface (projection_query_shadow) — never a runtime surprise. Keyset pagination is projection-immune (the cursor is minted from the stored row, so paging works with id renamed or dropped), and a projected route serializes exactly its projected field set. Additive with one exception: a document without project parses, serves, and documents exactly as before the key existed, except for a store that declares a column named __proto__ — the un-projected serializer now emits that column instead of swallowing it, which is its own entry in this release.
• Two fractional column types for declared stores: double (PostgreSQL float8) and numeric with required precision/scale (exact decimals). The column vocabulary had no honest home for a fractional value — a confidence score, a price, a coordinate — leaving authors to choose between scaled integers, an untyped jsonb slot, or text. A double column is an IEEE-754 binary64 float and round-trips natively as a JSON number (the float a client writes is the float it reads back — the platform never re-rounds); NaN/Infinity are refused fail-closed everywhere a value enters, and a non-finite value planted by direct SQL makes the read a 400 rather than a silent JSON null. A numeric(p, s) column is the exact type for money, and exactness is why its wire form is a decimal string in both directions: JSON numbers pass through float64 in every parser, which corrupts a decimal past 2^53 before any validator could see it. A write must fit the declared shape — at most scale fractional digits and precision − scale integer digits — and is refused rather than rounded when it does not; a JSON number on a numeric column is refused outright; a read returns the exact stored decimal with exactly scale fractional digits. Both types filter (?col=, ?col__in=), order, and keyset-paginate — numeric compares as a number server-side, never lexicographically. precision/scale are validated at parse (integers, 1..1000, scale ≤ precision, both required on numeric, both rejected on any other type), a precision/scale change on an existing column is emitted as a gated ALTER … SET DATA TYPE numeric(p, s) like any other type change, drift detection verifies the live parameters (a numeric(14, 2) column where the spec says numeric(12, 2) is drift, not a pass), and the exported spec JSON-Schema artifacts carry the new vocabulary for editor validation. A spec without the new types produces byte-identical generator, diff, and doctor output.
• An escape-hatch handler can now read the authenticated caller as init.principal — { kind: 'user' | 'apikey' | 'm2m', id, role? }, plain values resolved by the platform middleware. The route init deliberately strips credential headers, but nothing replaced them, so a handler could not tell two users of the same org apart: a "who am I" route had no "who", per-user rows inside a tenant (preferences, drafts, read cursors) had nothing to key on, and audit attribution in custom logic had to be reinvented — even though the platform already resolved the identity to stamp created_by. The new field closes that asymmetry: id is the userId or apiKeyId — exactly the value created_by stamps, derived from the same resolved principal so the two can never disagree — and role is present for user principals with a live org role. Trust posture: the principal is data, never a tenant signal (the tenant stays server-derived) and never an authz input (permission gates run before the handler). The field is ?-optional like headers, so an older engine/init combination stays well-formed with it absent; an invocation context with no authenticated principal (a scheduled trigger fire, the media-token playback path) simply omits it — never a fabricated identity. Route and stream-ingest inits carry it today; the trigger init declares the same optional slot.
• RAYSPEC_AUTH_RATE_MULTIPLIER scales the auth rate-limit buckets for a dev/CI run (default 1). The register (5/min), login (10/min) and refresh (30/min) per-source buckets are sized for production and had no dev/CI override, so a test harness that provisions several orgs against a live boot tripped the register bucket — the 6th registration inside a minute answered 429, and the suite's later assertions then failed 401 far from the cause. A positive integer set in the environment now multiplies the max of exactly those three buckets; the windows and every other bucket (oauth-token, reprocess, trigger-fire, invite-accept, the declared-route tiers) are untouched. Unset, blank or an explicit 1 leaves the limiter byte-identical to before — five registrations per source per minute, 429 on the sixth. Any other value makes the boot log a loud one-line warning naming the variable and the value, so the dev/CI posture can never sit in a production environment silently; a value that is not a positive integer or is above 1000 aborts the boot with a refusal naming the variable and the value, in the same shape as the other env refusals. The ceiling is deliberate and matches the shape RAYSPEC_ACCESS_TOKEN_TTL_SECONDS already had: the variable scales a throttle, so an unbounded value is a way to switch that throttle off by arithmetic — at ×1e9 the register bucket admits 5e9 registrations a minute, which is no limit at all. ×1000 is ten times the documented example and already means 5000 registrations a minute, so no harness meets the bound. The getting-started docs gain a "Testing against a live boot" section naming the buckets and their windows, so suite authors can also stagger registrations knowingly instead.
• A spec node can acknowledge a doctor advisory with lintSuppress — with a mandatory recorded justification. An agent, a store, an api route, a trigger or a handler may carry lintSuppress: [{ code, because }]. code names one of the advisory (warning) codes only — the field's closed vocabulary contains no error codes, so suppressing an error is not expressible — and because is required and non-empty (whitespace-only rejected): a suppression without a recorded reason fails the parse, fail-closed. The scope is the node the list sits on, never global; the same code fired by another node stays visible. doctor moves each acknowledged finding from warnings to a suppressed array carrying the finding's code, the justification verbatim, and the finding's path — visible in review, quiet in the loop. Like warnings, suppressed entries never affect ok or the exit code, and a document declaring no suppression produces byte-identical doctor output to before. A suppression whose code no longer fires on its node is reported as a new advisory, stale_suppression, pointing at the stale entry — an acknowledgement cannot outlive its finding silently (and stale_suppression itself is not suppressible). The exported spec JSON-Schema artifacts carry the new key, so editor validation offers the closed advisory-code list.
• POST /v1/triggers/{name}/fire hands back the run it started when the fired action is an agent action. The 202 was { name, fired } in every case, so the off-request run an agent-action fire had just enqueued could not be followed through the public API — the only ways to observe it were re-deriving the internal deterministic run id client-side or polling a runs listing. An agent-action fire that dispatches now answers { name, fired: true, runId, events: "/v1/runs/{id}/events" } — the real id plus the same events path an async: true run's 202 advertises — and the fire path writes the same pre-enqueue enqueued run header the async run surface writes, so the returned id resolves on GET /v1/runs/{id} and on the events path immediately instead of 404ing until the run ends (and forever, for a run that ends by throwing). A handler-action fire and a deduped no-op keep the exact previous shape (no runId key), and the route's 404/429/501 and audit behavior are unchanged. The route also enters the spec reference next to triggers — method, permission, the 202 bodies, the fired:false ambiguity, the error cases, and the trigger-fire rate bucket (30 fires per 60 seconds per tenant+trigger). The header write is not route-only, and that is a behaviour change beyond this route. It sits in the scheduler's one shared fire path, below the firing reserve and above the enqueue, keyed on nothing about how the fire arrived — so a scheduled cron trigger's agent action writes it too, on every scheduled tick that actually dispatches (a deduped no-op, a tenant-absent skip and a beyond-look-back catch-up replay all return before it, as they always did). A cron-fired run id therefore now resolves on GET /v1/runs/{id} as enqueued from the instant it is enqueued, where it previously 404ed until the run's own header committed and stayed 404 for a run that ended by throwing. So a bounded or thrown cron run now leaves a non-terminal enqueued row in runs rather than no row at all — read such a run's outcome by testing the header for TERMINALITY (isTerminalRunStatus), the same way an API-enqueued run has always had to be read. The documentation that stated the old behaviour outright is corrected with it: the RAYSPEC_AGENT_RUN_MAX_MS note in .env.example, and the 1.7.0 entry that first described it. The write stays advisory on both arms: it is driven by the run-header identity resolver the deployment injects — the one boot path that constructs the cron scheduler always supplies one, resolved off the same agent registry the executor resolves runs from — a write failure is logged and never costs the fire its dispatch, and a resolver that cannot name the agentId logs the skip and writes nothing. Both arms are pinned in packages/workflow/durable-dbos/src/cron-scheduler-run-header.db.test.ts, the scheduled one through fireScheduled — the same body the registered DBOS scheduled-workflow runs.
• Bounded comparison filters on both read surfaces, and a cursor on every list page. Every read was equality-only, so "give me everything after X" — the natural read for an event log, an activity feed, or an incremental sync — could not be written at all. The declared list op now accepts ?<column>__gt= / __gte / __lt / __lte (the __in pattern extended to ranges): allowed only on non-nullable, non-jsonb declared columns — a nullable column, a jsonb column, an undeclared column, and the injected id/created_at/created_by each answer 400 VALIDATION_ERROR, so a typo'd operator never widens a read. Values are coerced with the same per-type rules equality uses (double and numeric compare numerically, numeric exactly), each bound folds into the same AND-chain (two bounds on one column make a range) and composes with equality, __in, order, and keyset pagination; a column literally named <x>__gt still routes as plain equality, and the generated OpenAPI documents the per-column operator params with the eligibility rule. The handler facade takes the same family as a typed filter value — init.db.select('events', { seq: { gt: lastSeen } }, …) (and on count) — a plain serializable object, fail-closed the same way: only a well-formed { gt/gte/lt/lte } object on an eligible declared column is a comparison (an unknown or mixed key, an empty object, a contradictory gt+gte / lt+lte pair, a null/undefined bound, or an ineligible column each reject; on a jsonb column an object remains an equality value, and update/ delete filters still reject objects — no previously-legal filter changes meaning). And the list op now returns X-Next-Cursor on every non-empty keyset-ordered page, not only a full one, so a client can drain a feed, park the cursor, and later pass it as after to receive exactly the rows that arrived since. An empty page carries no cursor (your previously-held cursor remains your frontier), a ranked ?__search= page carries none (relevance-ordered, no keyset), and X-Result-Truncated is still set only when a page fills to the cap.
• sequentialTools: true on an agent serializes its tool calls — they execute one at a time, in the order the model emitted them. A tool-call batch was always dispatched concurrently: the model can batch several calls into one turn, the platform ran such a batch in parallel under the per-run concurrency cap, and no spec field could turn that off — for tools with ordered side effects (a write that must land before a finish, a spawn that must land before a sweep) that is a real race, and instructing the model to "call tools one at a time" does not stop SDK-level batching. The new optional agent field (default false — dispatch is unchanged for a spec that does not set it) is honored at two levels. On openai the adapter sends the provider-side parallel_tool_calls: false, so the model stops batching at the source, and caps the SDK loop's local tool concurrency at 1, so a batch that still arrives executes strictly in emission-index order; with the flag off neither setting is sent and the provider's own default (parallel) applies, exactly as before. Both openai settings are conditioned on the agent actually declaring tools: an agent that sets the flag with an empty tools list has no call to order, so neither setting is sent and its request is byte-identical to the one it sent before — the same wire shape as the flag being off. On every backend the platform additionally serializes the run's tool dispatch through a per-run FIFO width-1 queue in front of the tool dispatcher, so a batched turn's calls run strictly in emission order — handlers, events, and journal steps included. A backend that could honor neither level is rejected at validation time with a capability_violation (never a silent no-op); every wired backend honors it today.
• rayspec deploy --check-env <spec> — the environment a document's boot will require, answered without attempting one. Until now the read-only floor named exactly one of these variables: doctor raises a cron_tenant_required advisory for a declared cron / manual trigger, naming RAYSPEC_CRON_TENANT_ID — and it can only be advisory, because the lint pass is pure over the document and cannot read an environment. Everything else surfaced only as a deploy refusal, and that refusal is not cheap: the demands a declared stream route, playback route or cron trigger raise are reached only after the boot has opened the database and applied the whole committed migration chain. The new flag emits a JSON verdict naming every variable the boot will require, its <VAR>_FILE equivalent where it has one, why this document or this environment demands it, and whether it is currently set. Exit 0 when every demand is met and no refusal is already visible, 1 otherwise; missing lists the unmet demands and errors names a refusal that is not an unset variable (a document that does not validate, an agent selecting an unwired backend, an stt.* step declared without the audio capability). It reads the document and the environment, and it has to read both. Some demands have no document signal at all: on a backend document, setting STT_PROVIDER=deepgram makes DEEPGRAM_API_KEY a demand, and TTS_PROVIDER=openai makes OPENAI_API_KEY one, whatever that document declares — the two speech capabilities are wired from the environment alone. (That is a backend-document law: a product document reads STT_PROVIDER on its own terms and never reads TTS_PROVIDER at all.) A provider selector is never itself an unconditional demand: on a backend document, leaving STT_PROVIDER or TTS_PROVIDER unset means that capability is simply absent, which is not a boot error, so both are reported as optional saying exactly that; on a product document STT_PROVIDER is demanded, but only when the document declares an stt.* step alongside the audio capability whose blob-backed chunks the transcription resolver reads — an stt.* step without audio is refused on the document's shape, before the selector is read at all. In neither case does a credential become a demand before a provider has been selected. Each of the three boot profiles gets its own answer: a frontend-only (static-profile) document is told it needs none of the three platform secrets, and a product document gets its own set (RAYSPEC_PRODUCT_TENANT_ID plus the capability-conditional demands its declarations raise). The demands are not re-derived CLI-side. They come from the same records @rayspec/server composes its boot refusals from, and the deploy guards ask their conditions through the same shared predicates, so a demand the boot raises is a demand this prints. Every existing boot refusal keeps its exact wording. The command opens no socket, no database and no credential, and it loads no extension pack — running pack code is what would break that promise. Every demand a pack changes is therefore invisible, in both directions: a pack-supplied blob backend removes the RAYSPEC_BLOB_ROOT demand, while a pack-contributed api route adds the RAYSPEC_BLOB_ROOT demand (any kind: stream) and the RAYSPEC_MEDIA_SIGNING_KEY demand (mode: playback), and a pack-contributed agent adds its backend's credential demand — the boot guards ask their questions of the post-merge document, and this reads the base one. So that a pack-bearing document is never a silent green, the verdict names the packs it declares (parsed off extensions[], never loaded). All of that is stated in the verdict's notChecked, together with the rest of the boundary: a set <VAR>_FILE mount counts as set from the variable alone (the file is never opened, so a missing or empty secret file still refuses the boot), and no value is validated — a malformed PEM, a non-UUID cron tenant or a media key under 32 bytes is reported as "set" and still refuses. A value is read only where it decides which demands apply (a selected STT_PROVIDER / TTS_PROVIDER, and RAYSPEC_ANTHROPIC_REUSE_LOGIN, whose unrecognised value is reported because it decides whether the anthropic token demand exists at all). No environment value is ever printed; every variable is reported as a set boolean, and the one refusal about a value names the variable without quoting it. The verdict also names the .env files the CLI's auto-loader searched, which is usually the answer to a disputed "unset".

# changed

• A mapping key written literally as __proto__ is now refused at the parse boundary of both document profiles (reserved_document_key), anywhere in the document. It is the one key name the shape validator will not report on where it validates keys at all — and in a free-form slot it validates none, so the parse boundary is the only pass that can see it either way. The YAML loader builds it as a genuine own property — it defines the property rather than assigning it, so the prototype setter is bypassed — and the validator then skips that key by name, in both readers a spec goes through — the strict-object unrecognized-key walk and the record branch — without raising an issue. What that cost, measured on this grammar. Where the grammar reads the level, the key is dropped and the document that reached every rule downstream was not the document the author wrote: api[].project.rename: { __proto__: … } parsed clean, linted clean and did nothing — the column kept its own name on the wire and in the OpenAPI document while the author read the document as a rename. A __proto__ key at the document root, or in metadata, passed the strict unknown-key rejection that refuses every other unknown key. Every record dock behaved the same way: product metadata, a store step's filter/values, a view's fields/params, contracts. Inside a FREE-FORM schema slot the behaviour is the opposite and matters just as much: a tool's parameters and the body of a contracts entry are open z.unknown() regions the validator never descends into, so there the key is not dropped — it survives the parse with its value intact and is carried through to what the engine serves (a contract property named __proto__ reaches components.schemas in the emitted OpenAPI document). Unreported in both directions, which is why the refusal belongs at the parse boundary and not in the grammar. The view-name denylist that already named __proto__ (VIEW_RESERVED_NAMES) shows the same split: for the positions it reads from mapping keys — fields, params, filter/match columns — the key was already gone by the time the lint ran, so that member could not fire for a document anyone actually wrote; for a counts bucket, which is an array value and which the refusal deliberately leaves alone, it fires on a parsed document today. One scan over the raw loaded document closes the reportable gap at once, and it is the only place in the pipeline where the key is both still present and inspectable. The scan is cycle-guarded, because a YAML alias resolves to the very node its anchor labels and an unguarded walk of such a document would not return. This is a validation behaviour change, and it is deliberate: a document that used to parse now fails, with the error pointed at the offending key. No shipped example or fixture document declares such a key (checked across every tracked .yaml/.yml). Two classes of author document are affected, and they are not the same. One was already broken without being told: the key sat on a level the grammar reads, was dropped, and the meaning written under it did nothing — that author now finds out. The other was working: the key sat in a free-form schema slot, survived the parse and was served in the emitted API contract. That document parsed before and is refused now; renaming the property is the migration. Loading such a document never reparented an object either way — the YAML loader defines the property rather than assigning it, so the __proto__ setter is never reached. Only __proto__ is refused. constructor and prototype survive the shape parse as ordinary keys, so they need no parse-boundary refusal and keep their existing treatment: a store column named constructor is a legal declaration this platform serves, and a view field named constructor is still rejected by the view lint on a parsed document. And the refusal is about a key: a __proto__ value is untouched, so a store column named __proto__ stays legal and is served under its own name.
• The 501 from POST /v1/triggers/{name}/fire now names the manual-trigger requirement instead of a durable worker. It read Manual trigger firing requires a configured durable worker and a declared manual trigger. No manual-trigger firer is wired on this deployment., and the worker half of that sentence is never the but-for cause: the composition root wires the fire seam exactly when the deployed document declares a kind: manual trigger, so setting deployment.durableWorker: true alone never clears the refusal. Nor can a document declare a manual trigger without the worker — that is a lint error at parse/deploy time, with the boot abort as its runtime backstop — so the reader most likely to meet the refusal, an operator on an all-cron document such as the shipped acme-notes-backend, whose single trigger is kind: cron, was pointed at a component that is already there. It now reads: "This route fires kind: manual triggers only — a cron trigger fires on its own schedule and is not fireable here. Declare a kind: manual trigger in the deployed document; no manual-trigger firer is wired on this deployment." No behaviour changed: same 501, same NOT_IMPLEMENTED code, same guard on the same wiring (the composition root wires the fire seam only when the deployed document declares a kind: manual trigger). The refusal stays deployment-level and never names the requested trigger — it is raised before the firer's tenant reconciliation and before the trigger-fire rate limiter, so echoing the name would answer "does this trigger exist?" for any authenticated caller, which is exactly what the route's uniform 404 (unknown name, non-manual kind, foreign tenant) refuses to answer. The trigger reference's 501 bullet now states the same cause; the 404 bullet is unchanged.
• rayspec-serve now honours an explicitly set RAYSPEC_AGENT_TRACING, and refuses a value it cannot act on. The variable had exactly one reader, reached only from rayspec deploy, so on rayspec-serve an operator could set RAYSPEC_AGENT_TRACING=off, watch the boot banner state Trace export: EXPORTING TO OPENAI, and have the agent SDK go on exporting — and a typo such as RAYSPEC_AGENT_TRACING=NoNsEnSe was ignored there, while the same value fail-closes by name on deploy. What that transport carries is run metadata and, once an agent calls tools, the tool arguments and tool outputs (the SDK strips the model prompt fields before export). Unset — including blank — is unchanged, and deliberately so: rayspec-serve keeps the agent SDK's own default, which is to export, and rayspec deploy keeps its default of off. The new reader is explicit-only for that reason: it hands off to resolveAgentTracing — the same refusal, in the same words — only once a value is actually stated, so that function's collapse of unset into off is never reached from rayspec-serve, and the deploy path behaves as before. What changes on rayspec-serve is only what an explicit value now does: off disables the export (through the SDK's programmatic setTracingDisabled, because that entrypoint's static imports have already built the trace provider, so writing the SDK's environment switch alone would arrive too late), openai is a no-op, and anything else aborts the boot with the same message deploy raises, from the same line — not a second, entrypoint-specific wording — before the config load and before any port is bound. Who is affected: a deployment that exports RAYSPEC_AGENT_TRACING process-wide and relies on rayspec-serve ignoring it. With off that boot stops exporting; with an unsupported value it now refuses to start rather than booting and exporting. deploy --check-env still does not list this variable — it reports the variables a document's boot demands, and tracing is not demanded. The documentation of the variable is corrected to match on both halves. .env.example no longer presents the block as rayspec deploy only or claims that leaving the variable unset keeps traces in the process: it now states the one thing that differs between the two entrypoints in how they treat the variable, which is what unset means (off on deploy, the SDK's exporting default on rayspec-serve), and names the boots that assemble the server themselves and read no trace-export setting at all. (Both halves of that list moved again later in this release — see "the boot wrappers that assemble the server themselves now honour RAYSPEC_AGENT_TRACING too" below.) The getting-started guide's two "same boot" passages about rayspec deploy <spec> and RAYSPEC_SPEC_PATH=<spec> rayspec-serve now name two differences that matter for what leaves the process and for what can still register a table — this trace-export default, and sealProductStores(), which deploy calls after its boot returns and rayspec-serve never calls — without claiming to have counted every difference between the two entrypoints (withBootTimeout differs as well). The operator-facing messages are corrected while they are being touched. The refusal an unusable value raises stated unset ⇒ off, which is false on the entrypoint this change makes it reachable from; it now states the default per entry point. And both Trace export: banner lines said the export carries prompts. It does not: @openai/agents-openai keeps the model input and response in _-prefixed span fields and @openai/agents-core strips every _-prefixed key in Span.toJSON before the exporter serializes anything, while function spans carry tool arguments and outputs unprefixed. Both lines now say run metadata plus, once an agent calls tools, its tool arguments and outputs — and both name the remediation as RAYSPEC_AGENT_TRACING. (That hint was scoped to rayspec deploy and rayspec-serve at the time, because the banner's other two call sites read nothing; it is unqualified now that they do — see below.)

# fixed

• The boot wrappers that assemble the server themselves now honour RAYSPEC_AGENT_TRACING too, and load their local .env through the shipped loader. examples/local-boot/serve.ts and deployments/acme-notes/serve.mts call assembleServer directly, so neither reached the rayspec-serve entrypoint's main(): an operator who set RAYSPEC_AGENT_TRACING=off on either one still got the agent SDK's exporting default — run metadata and, once an agent calls tools, its tool arguments and outputs leaving for OpenAI — and an unsupported value that fail-closes by name on both documented entrypoints was ignored there. Both wrappers printed the resolved posture on their boot banner throughout, so the export was visible; it was simply not a decision the operator could make. Each now applies the same explicit-only reader the rayspec-serve entrypoint uses, before its first boot input is read: off disables the export through the SDK's programmatic switch (both import the composition root statically, so the trace provider has snapshotted the SDK's own switch long before either boots and an environment write alone would arrive too late), openai is a no-op, unset and blank still change nothing, and anything else aborts with the message the documented entrypoints raise — printed as a message, not a stack, on both. examples/local-boot/serve.ts also carried its own single-path .env reader: a private parser resolving exactly one file, the install-root one, relative to its own module location. That is the construction issue #384 was about, one level down — it ignored RAYSPEC_SKIP_DOTENV=1, never looked at the invoking directory, and parsed values by rules of its own. It now calls the shipped loadLocalDotenvIfPresent, so it resolves configuration exactly as rayspec deploy and rayspec-serve do: $PWD/.env first, the install-root file second, per key, opt-out included. deployments/acme-notes/serve.mts reads no .env at all and still does not — it is a deployment entrypoint whose environment comes from the deployment. The banner's remediation hint drops its entry-point qualifier, because all four boots that print it now read the variable; a source-discovering test requires every bootBanner call site to apply a posture, so a fifth boot that printed the banner without reading the variable fails rather than making that sentence false. And the two .env loaders gain the parity test they never had: the CLI's copy and the server's are behaviourally identical and joined only by a comment in each pointing at the other, which is exactly how they came apart the first time. One suite now runs both shipped modules over the same two-root layout on disk and requires identical resolved values — order, per-key precedence, the opt-out, quote-stripping and the \n unescape — so a change to one that is not made to the other stops being green. (Issues #383, #384.)
• rayspec gen-handler now says WHY it cannot coerce a double or numeric column from a tool arg, instead of refusing the type as if it did not exist. The holes contract carries its own column-type set — the types the deterministic renderer has a coercion arm for — and that set is deliberately narrower than the grammar's, because the renderer has no arm for either fractional type. A columns[] entry naming one has been refused fail-closed all along, which is right; what was wrong is what the refusal said. The message enumerated the seven types it accepts and stopped there, so an author who had just declared a perfectly valid numeric money column read it as a typo and went looking for one. The refusal now appends the reason and the way out: the type is a valid store column type, the renderer has no coercion arm for it, so a handler that coerces that column from an untrusted arg must be hand-written. It also names the path that is NOT closed — a server-stamped fixedValues constant into that column still renders, because fixedValues pins author constants by column name and carries no jsonType — so the refusal cannot be read as "this column is unwritable from a generated handler". A type the grammar does not carry either — a genuine typo like float — still gets the plain refusal, so the two failure modes stay distinguishable. Two smaller rot fixes ride along, both in the same file. The accepted list in the message is now read off the set the validator checks against, rather than spelled out a second time by hand, so it can never quote a vocabulary the renderer has outgrown. And the set of types the refusal calls out by reason is DERIVED, by subtracting the renderer's set from the grammar's enum — nothing re-lists double and numeric, so a type added to the grammar is explained on its own and one that gains a renderer arm drops out on its own. The neighbouring comment claimed the local set mirrored the grammar's and that floats map to jsonb; neither has been true since the fractional types landed. It now states the subset relationship, and names what enforces it: the renderer's coercion switch has no default and returns string, so adding a member to the local set without writing its arm fails tsc. No accepted hole-set renders differently — the seven renderable types, their coercion arms and the emitted bytes are untouched.
• The generated OpenAPI document stops describing a list filter the server refuses, and its numeric pattern is now the envelope the server enforces. Three corrections to what GET /v1/openapi.json publishes for declared {store} routes. Each is a document-accuracy fix — no route behaviour changed, and the runtime was fail-closed throughout — but the document is a product artifact a client generates code from, so a parameter it advertises has to be one the server answers. Suffix companions were de-duplicated against the wrong set. The emitter adds a <col>__in, a <col>__contains and the four <col>__gt/__gte/__lt/__lte companions per eligible column, and dropped a companion whose name collides with a declared filterable column. A jsonb column is not filterable and was therefore missing from that set — while the query builder resolves the FULL query key first, against every declared column. A store declaring an eligible column foo next to a jsonb column literally named foo__gt published a foo__gt parameter that ?foo__gt= answers with 400 VALIDATION_ERROR: Column 'foo__gt' is not filterable. The de-duplication now keys on every declared column name plus the injected created_by — exactly the set the query builder resolves first — and it covers all three suffix families and each of the four comparison operators on its own. Nothing else moved: a non-jsonb column of the same name still wins as plain equality, and a shadowed operator still costs its eligible sibling only that one bound. The numeric pattern was a hand-written copy of the runtime's, and a looser one. The row schema and the numeric filter parameters carried ^-?\d+(\.\d+)?$ while the value gate is ^-?\d{1,1000}(\.\d{1,1000})?$, so the document admitted digit runs the server answers with a 400. All three emitted patterns — row schema, filter parameters, and the create/update body schema that already derived from it — are now the one exported regex, which the body validator and the filter and cursor coercion also test against, so the published envelope and the enforced one cannot diverge. Not covered by this: the per-column numeric(precision, scale) fit the create/update validator additionally applies is a refinement with no JSON-Schema form, so the exported body schema still admits a value the column's typmod refuses. A project: {} route stated a naming split it does not have, and the split sentence understated the request surface. project: {} is the documented per-route opt-out from a store-level projection, and {} is not nullish — so an opted-out operation, whose schemas are byte-identical to an un-projected one, still carried the sentence describing a request/response naming split. The sentence is now emitted only for a non-empty projection. Where it is emitted it also states the request-side casing rule, which it previously left out: a create/update body key may be written as the declared snake_case name or its camelCase twin (both variants of one column in one body are refused as ambiguous), while a query parameter takes the declared name only. Reading only the generated document, a client author would have concluded that snake_case bodies are required — stricter than what the server accepts.
• examples/agent-pack-deployment can be deployed now, and its pack manifest stops claiming the loader compiles TypeScript. The example's whole product surface — a notes store, a lookup_note tool and the note_summarizer agent that references it — ships as a defineExtension pack authored in TypeScript, and the example carried no build step of any kind. The deploy runtime loads compiled JavaScript only (assertCompiledJavaScriptModule refuses a .ts path before importing it), so rayspec deploy examples/agent-pack-deployment/rayspec.yaml aborted at the pack entry — while packs/agent-pack/package.json described the pack as "loaded at deploy/test time by loadExtensions (the importer transforms the .ts)". The example now ships build.mjs and packs/agent-pack/tsconfig.build.json, the same thin-tsc-wrapper pair examples/stream-backend ships: node examples/agent-pack-deployment/build.mjs transpiles the pack's index.ts and handlers/*.ts to ESM under packs/agent-pack/dist/ and marks that output {"type":"module"}. The built pack lands under the pack directory so the entry still resolves @rayspec/platform through the pack's own node_modules, which is the first stop on Node's upward walk from the built file. A new examples/agent-pack-deployment/README.md gives the build command and the one line a deployment changes — module: ./packs/agent-pack/dist — and says plainly that the build clears the compiled-JavaScript boundary and nothing else: the document still needs the boot environment rayspec deploy --check-env reports, and that report is derived from a document declaring no agents of its own, so it does not name the credential the pack's agent needs. The committed rayspec.yaml still points at the pack SOURCE, by design. That is the form the example's tests load, through the loader's explicit typeStrippingImporter seam, and repointing it at dist/ would also drop the pack's handler root from gate:handler-imports and gate:extension-capability, which add <packDir>/handlers only when it exists on disk — in a clean clone dist/handlers does not. The parenthetical was false on the test path too, not just on deploy, so it is deleted rather than narrowed: no importer transforms anything. typeStrippingImporter is the production importer minus the compiled-JavaScript assertion — a bare dynamic import() of the module's own file URL — so whether an un-built .ts executes is the RUNTIME's business and never the loader's: the test runner's transform under pnpm test, Node's own type stripping on the versions that do it by default, and Unknown file extension ".ts" on a Node that does not. (That is why the production boundary is an explicit extension check rather than a reliance on import() failing, as assertCompiledJavaScriptModule's own docblock says.) That sentence shipped byte-identically in examples/stream-backend/packs/stream-pack/package.json, and with the neighbouring "no build/typecheck/test" framing it made nine claims across seven files — both pack manifests, both pack entries, the agent pack's handler, the two examples/* comments in pnpm-workspace.yaml and two paragraphs of the stream-backend README, which called its pack "a pure loaded-at-deploy fixture" while the example shipped a build.mjs, and told a reader that its source-pointing spec "works in this repository because the dev/test importer strips types on the way in" — the same misattribution, plus a compiled-JavaScript boundary wrongly localized to out-of-repo deployments. All nine now say what is true: neither pack declares a build/typecheck/test script and turbo runs none, each example carries its own build.mjs because the deploy runtime loads compiled JavaScript only, and the seam is named as the opt-in it is. packages/app/server/src/deployable-backend-handlers.test.ts gains the third arm of the battery it already ran for acme-notes-backend and stream-backend: the production importer refuses the agent pack's .ts source, runs the documented build, and then resolves the built dist/ — entry, handler and the pack-contributed agents fragment. That test is a @rayspec/server test and runs in CI; the example itself is a @spike/* fixture and is not built, typechecked or tested there. (Issue #364.)
• A port that is already in use now refuses the boot in one actionable line instead of crashing with a raw Node stack. serve() returns while the bind is still pending — immediately after the call the listener's listening is false and its address() is null — so neither entrypoint had anything to catch: the boot reported itself served and the EADDRINUSE arrived afterwards as an unhandled 'error' event, printing Node's throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event report and a node:net stack. On rayspec deploy that landed after the boot had connected to the database and applied migrations, so a successful-looking preamble was followed by an unhandled exception. The raw stack did name the address numerically, but nothing else: not the variable to change, not the host knob, and no remedy. Both shipped entrypoints now refuse instead — the rayspec-serve bin and rayspec deploy, on their normal and their static-profile (frontend-only) boot paths, four listeners in all. Each attaches an 'error' listener the moment serve() returns, and on EADDRINUSE prints one line naming the address (Boot aborted — 127.0.0.1:8191 is already in use. …), the command that finds the process holding it (lsof -nP -iTCP:<port> -sTCP:LISTEN) and the knob that entrypoint's operator turns — PORT=<n> for rayspec-serve, --port <n> or PORT=<n> for rayspec deploy (its --port writes PORT), with RAYSPEC_HOST / --host named for moving the address — then exits 1. It opens Boot aborted — , the same opening as the existing invalid-PORT refusal (Boot aborted — PORT='abc' is not a valid TCP port (1–65535).). Only EADDRINUSE changes. Every other listen error — EACCES on a privileged port, a getaddrinfo failure on an unresolvable RAYSPEC_HOST, anything else — is re-emitted by that listener after it removes itself, so it reaches exactly the handling it reached before: Node's unhandled-'error' report, with its frames, and exit 1. The address in the refusal is built from the host and port the entrypoint already resolved, never from the error object, because a listen error carries address/port for some codes only. (Issue #365.)
• Ctrl-C now stops the example dev-boot servers once they are up. examples/contract-intake/dev-boot.mjs, examples/support-intake-chat/dev-boot.mjs and examples/support-ticket-triage/dev-boot.mjs kept running after SIGINT and after SIGTERM — still answering /health 200 — so a developer who pressed Ctrl-C was left with a live server still holding its database pool and its durable worker. Each wrapper now owns its shutdown: it captures the serve() return value and, on SIGINT/SIGTERM, closes the HTTP server, awaits server.close() (which drains the durable worker, then ends the database pool) and exits 0 — the same wiring packages/app/server/src/serve.ts gives the shipped rayspec-serve entrypoint, which is why that entrypoint is not affected. Two bounds the handler does not remove, both of them consequences of that same wiring rather than of these wrappers. The exit runs inside httpServer.close()'s callback, and Node invokes that callback only once every open connection has ended: the port stops accepting the moment the signal lands, but a request still in flight holds the process until it finishes. And the handler is registered only after the boot completes, so a Ctrl-C during the boot is not the wrapper's to answer — before its dependencies install the handlers described next, the signal kills the process outright and the graceful path never runs; from there until serve() returns it does nothing at all and the server finishes coming up. packages/app/server/src/serve.ts behaves the same way in both cases. Nothing in a dependency changed. The wrappers registered no signal handler of their own, and the SIGINT/SIGTERM handlers their dependencies install each act only when no other listener is registered — @openai/agents-core's tracing provider exits only when process.listeners(sig).length is not greater than 1, and signal-exit re-raises the signal only when that count equals its own listener count — so with both loaded neither one ended the process. An owning handler is what terminates it now, whatever the dependencies decide. SIGHUP is deliberately left unlistened: signal-exit registers for it and @openai/agents-core does not, so signal-exit is its sole listener there and re-raises it — that path is unchanged. The two example READMEs that gave a boot command with no stop instruction (contract-intake, support-intake-chat) now name Ctrl-C, and the authoring skill's dev-boot pattern teaches the handler. (Issue #360.)
• **A deploy that is refused after its product-store DDL applied now names the tables it already committed, instead of reading as if nothing had happened. Each migration is applied in its own transaction, so it is committed the moment it returns; every refusal raised after the migrate step — deploy()'s own [roll out] gate (a handler module that does not load, a product table that never reached the tenant chokepoint) and the boot gates that run on the deploy result (a cron/manual trigger with no durable worker wired, an unset or malformed RAYSPEC_CRON_TENANT_ID) — therefore left the CREATE TABLEs standing and said nothing about them. An operator who read the refusal as "nothing happened" and edited the spec's stores next met a drift refusal on what they believed was a first deploy. Such a refusal now carries a note naming the migrations that were applied and the tables this deployment's stores materialize, stating that a table this deploy created is committed and empty, and giving both ways forward: fix the refusal and re-deploy the same spec — a live schema that matches it classifies present-matching and MOUNTS those tables, applying no product DDL, with no cleanup step in between — or, having changed the stores first, reconcile the drift with a reviewed forward migration (rayspec plan <new-spec> --against <old-spec>, then rayspec deploy --apply-migration <delta.sql>). It names rayspec dev db --reset --yes only as the throwaway-database remedy it is, with its real blast radius: that command DROPs the whole database and its _dbos_sys sibling and re-creates one empty database, so the platform tables and every org registered in them go with it — it is not a table-level cleanup. What is unchanged: the DDL is still committed and still not rolled back. There are no down-migrations in RaySpec and recovery stays forward-fix, so the refusal states the mid-state rather than undoing it. The note is appended to the refusal in place, so the error keeps its class and its existing wording verbatim, with the note on a following line — the CLI and rayspec-serve print it exactly as they printed that refusal before. A refusal raised before** the migrate step carries no note at all: the fact is derived from the migrations the deployer actually applied, not from what the boot planned, so a document whose deploy is refused at validation says nothing about a schema it never touched. The two post-update drift refusals, whose own text already states it, are left alone rather than made to say it twice. Both boot paths carry it — the classic backend deploy and the Product-YAML boot. (Issue #361.)
• The durable worker is now fenced to its own document, so two deployments sharing one DATABASE_URL stop dequeuing each other's off-request work — and a job whose workflow the consuming worker cannot resolve is now written to the workflow_runs journal instead of vanishing from it. Two independent defects produced one loss. DBOS scopes its dequeue by application version, and with nothing supplying one it derives that version by hashing the source of the workflow functions registered in the process plus the SDK version. Every function this platform registers is a thin wrapper, and nothing in that input comes from the workflows the deployed document declares — so two documents that registered the same set of functions computed the same version, whatever they declared. Two Product-YAML boots always did: that profile registers the same three wrappers on every boot and starts no cron scheduler, which is the pair issue #359 measured. A backend boot's set also grows by one registered function per cron trigger the document declares, and the hash is taken over the array of those sources with identical text never collapsed — so two backend documents landed on the same version only when their declared trigger counts matched. With the change reverted, this repo's composition-root boot test (durable-worker-boot.db.test.ts) prints Application version: e0b3d354857e6676f40a2867c79ae41d; issue #359 reports one value across four boots of two different products. Two processes on one DATABASE_URL also derive the same DBOS system database and register the same queue names, and the only other column DBOS's dequeue could have discriminated on — the executor id — is no help either, because nothing here sets it and DBOS defaults it to the same constant in every process. So nothing at all distinguished them: either worker could claim either deployment's job, and on claiming a foreign one its fail-closed resolver killed the run terminally. That resolver throws before the workflow engine is constructed, and the engine is the only writer of the journal's run header — so the killed run left no row at all in workflow_runs, not even an orphaned running header, and the stack trace landed on the stderr of the process that consumed the job rather than the one that accepted it. A durable worker now boots with applicationVersion derived from the deployed document's identity — product.id for a Product-YAML boot, metadata.name for a backend spec, each namespaced by profile and hashed to a short prefixed digest (doc- plus 16 hex characters). Two different documents are fenced from each other; from this release on, the same document keeps the same version across redeploys, so a redeployed process comes back and consumes the work it queued before it restarted. The one boot where that does not hold is the first boot on this release, which changes the version once — see Upgrading below. Deriving it from document content was rejected deliberately: a row whose version matches no running worker is inert in both directions — never dequeued, never recovered — and this deployment has no way back out of that state, because resuming a workflow does not reset the column, DBOS's garbage collection skips the pending, enqueued and delayed rows, and the HTTP escape hatches live on the admin server the platform deliberately never binds. A content hash would therefore have turned every document edit into permanent work-stranding. Both queue registrations now also pass onConflict: "always_update". That is not cosmetic: DBOS's default only writes the queue row when the running version is the newest one registered, which per-document versions make the *un*common case — a second deployment's workerConcurrency would have looked accepted and silently not applied. What the fence does not cover: the queue row itself. The fencing above is about claiming — which worker may dequeue which job. Queue configuration is not fenced, and this release does not change that. The queue names are process-independent constants (workflow-runs, agent-runs) and DBOS's queues table is keyed on the name alone — it carries no application-version column, and always_update upserts ON CONFLICT (name) DO UPDATE. So where two deployments share one DATABASE_URL, and therefore one DBOS system database, they share one queue row per name: the most recently booted deployment's workerConcurrency is the one in effect, for both. Setting different values per deployment is not expressible against a shared system database; give each deployment its own if their concurrency must differ. Verified against the pinned SDK (4.21.6) rather than inferred. What an operator observes. The Application version DBOS prints as it initializes — and the applicationVersion field the public GET /recovery-scope readiness probe reports — is now a doc-… value rather than a platform hash. The probe's fail-closed contract is unchanged: both fields non-empty, else 503. The value is a digest of the document's identity, not of its content, and the derivation is deterministic and lives in this source-available repo — so anyone who can guess a product id or spec name can confirm it against the served value. It distinguishes deployments; it does not conceal which document a deployment serves. Where two documents share one DBOS system database, the one whose version is not the newest row in DBOS's application_versions table prints DBOS's own Current version '…' is not the latest version. warning on every boot, and the most recently registered version prints it on none: that table is ordered by first-registration timestamp and nothing in this platform promotes a version. Expected, and the diagnostic that was missing before — but it is one line on one of the two deployments, not a symptom on both. A run whose workflow the worker cannot resolve now leaves a workflow_runs row with status = "terminal_failure", resumable = false, attempts = 0 and the resolver's own message under error (code workflow_resolve_failed), and the worker emits one line naming the workflow, the tenant and the run id through an injectable sink that defaults to console.warn. The run's reconciled liveness for such a run is now terminal where it was absent. If that run ALREADY carries a header a WORKFLOW EXECUTION wrote — the reachable case is a crash mid-run followed by DBOS crash-recovery re-invoking it against a document that no longer declares the workflow — the existing header is left exactly as it is, whether it is still running or already settled at terminal_failure, because its attempts and its node journal are real and this failure attempted nothing; the worker emits a line naming the status it kept, and a kept running header keeps reading as stalled, the dead-letter classification, rather than being rewritten to terminal. The one header this path does re-settle is one carrying its own mark — terminal_failure together with the workflow_resolve_failed code, which no other writer sets — so that a re-invocation of the same failing job stays idempotent. rayspec's live-smoke run diagnostics consequently print the workflow-journal line for these runs instead of reporting the run in neither journal. Upgrading. The first boot on this release changes the deployment's application version, and both of DBOS's claim paths are scoped by that column: a startable workflow is selected with application_version IS NULL OR application_version = $3, and crash recovery reads pending workflows with status = PENDING AND executor_id = $2 AND application_version = $3. Work left ENQUEUED or PENDING under the previous version is therefore neither dequeued nor recovered after the upgrade, and nothing ages it out — DBOS's garbage collection skips exactly those states. Drain the durable queue before deploying this release. Work already stranded is released by re-stamping the column once from a database session: UPDATE dbos.workflow_status SET application_version = '<the doc-… value GET /recovery-scope reports>' WHERE status IN ('ENQUEUED','PENDING') AND application_version <> '<same value>'. Measured against a throwaway system database: an ENQUEUED row left on the old version was still queued after the new version had been running for twelve seconds, and ran within seconds of the re-stamp. One knob also stops working on a durable worker: DBOS seeds its version from DBOS__APPVERSION, but DBOS.launch prefers the config field this platform now supplies, so that environment value no longer decides the worker's version. What did not change. The happy path writes exactly what it wrote before — same header, same node states, same artifacts. The new journal write is scoped to the resolver alone and never widened over the engine, which keeps its invariant that an invalid spec never creates a run header; it is best-effort and cannot mask a failure, since it goes through the tenant chokepoint inside its own try/catch and the original resolver error is rethrown either way, so the durable job still fails. A worker constructed without a document still gets DBOS's own computed version — the optional field is then absent from the DBOS config, which a DB-free test asserts in both directions. And the bound of the fence is exactly the value it derives from: it separates documents with distinct identities (product.id, metadata.name). Two processes serving the same identity share a version by design — that is what lets a redeploy consume its own queued work — so while one document is being rolled over, the older process can still claim a job for a workflow only the newer document declares. Such a job is what the second half of this entry is about: it now fails with a journalled row rather than silently. Supplying a version also means the SDK version and the wrapper source no longer participate in it; what pins those instead is the exact @dbos-inc/dbos-sdk version this package depends on and the compile-time DBOS key assertions that break tsc -b if the config field is renamed or removed. (Issue #359.)
• rayspec deploy --dry-run now judges a backend-profile document by the backend grammar, so a document deploy validates and boots is no longer reported ok: false by its own preview. The dry run applied the product ruleset to every document: a product document was parsed by it, a frontend-only one was rescued by an explicit classification arm, and a backend one had no arm — so the product grammar's rejection became its verdict. One document, one binary, three answers: doctor and plan accepted it, deploy validated and booted it, and deploy --dry-run returned ok: false, exit 1, and no_code_in_yaml violations about the very handlers, tooling, triggers and extensions keys that profile is made of — scaling with the document, so a larger spec produced proportionally more of them. A deployment spec that declares only an extensions pack was rejected on that key alone (the shipped examples/stream-backend and examples/agent-pack-deployment each came back with one violation at extensions[0].module). A backend document that declares no handlers or tools was rejected just the same, only in the product grammar's other vocabulary: a purely store-backed one (the shipped examples/notes-ui) carried no code-like key for that lint to fire on, so it came back with the product shape rejections instead — a missing product: section, a missing stores[].key, and unknown_field on its api and frontend. The failure was authoritative-looking in the direction that hides work (spec did not validate), and nothing in the output said a different profile's ruleset had been applied. It was also wrong in the other direction: a backend document with a real defect — a dangling handler reference doctor reports as dangling_ref — came back carrying the same product lint and never the actual error, so the arm could neither pass a good document nor diagnose a bad one. --dry-run now dispatches on the document profile before parsing — the order plan already uses — and validates a backend document with the parser doctor and plan use. Consumer-visible verdict change: such a document now returns ok: true and exit 0 where it returned ok: false and exit 1, carrying a new backendProfile block — the profile named plus the declared stores, routes (METHOD /path), agents, handlers and, when the document declares any, frontendMounts: declared names only, no SQL and nothing derived — as the counterpart of the composed and staticProfile blocks. It covers the sections plan also projects (stores, routes, agents) plus the declared handler ids; it is not plan's own payload, which publishes no handlers and carries richer store/route objects. ok: true there means the document validates, never that it boots, and its notProven says so: the shared boundary plus this profile's boot refusals (a stream route with no blob backend configured, a declared handler module that does not resolve as compiled JavaScript under the jailed root, the STT_PROVIDER / TTS_PROVIDER credentials demanded at boot, and a declared frontend mount whose directory does not hold servable built assets — a backend document that also serves a bundled UI, as examples/notes-ui does, boots the full platform, which refuses an unservable mount fail-closed). A document the backend grammar rejects now reports its own violations. A caller gating on the JSON verdict therefore no longer has to know which ruleset was applied. Product and frontend-only documents are untouched — same verdict, same errors, byte-identical payloads — and the profile dispatch keeps the boot dependency graph off every product document's dry run exactly as before.
• A malformed init.enqueue call now fail-closes with a clear error naming the expected { agentId, input } shape, instead of answering 404. The capability takes one request object. Called positionally — init.enqueue(agentId, input), the shape the name reads like — the string landed where the object was expected, agentId read as undefined, the registry lookup missed, and the request ended as 404 NOT_FOUND with the uniform Not found. body: a declared route reporting a not-found from a handler that demonstrably ran, which sends debugging to routing and mounting. A handler ships as an .mjs module, so the published type protects a type-checked call site only. The closure now refuses a malformed argument — anything that is not an object carrying a string agentId — before it reaches the shared enqueue core, with a 500 INTERNAL whose message names the capability, names the expected { agentId, input } shape, reports the type of the argument that arrived (never its value), and names the call form that fits what arrived — that the capability is not positional when a bare positional argument landed, that agentId is absent or not a string when the request object itself arrived. 500 rather than 400 or 404 because a mis-call is a defect in the handler's own code, not something the HTTP caller did — the same register in which this capability family already fails closed (an absent capability throws to 500, and a nullish mis-call already reached 500). The refusal is written as a shared shape the other optional capabilities (blob, fsSource, mintPlayToken, stt, tts) can adopt at their own seams: each supplies its own name, expected argument and call form, because the family is not uniform on the call form (blob.put(key, body, opts?), fsSource.read(path, opts?), stt.transcribe(bytes, opts?) and tts.synthesize(text, opts?) are positional, while enqueue and mintPlayToken take one request object). None is retrofitted here. Note the status change: a call that answers 404 today answers 5xx after this change, so a deployment alerting on 5xx rates will see it. An undeclared but well-formed agent id is unmoved — it still answers the uniform registry-bound 404 — and a correct object-form call is untouched.
• rayspec --help (and -h) is now answered as a help request — exit 0, on stdout — and, named after a command, prints that command's help instead of the whole manual. Every spelling was a usage error: rayspec --help exited 2 from the leading-dash check, rayspec deploy --help and rayspec dev db --help from the subcommand's strict argument parser, and rayspec dev --help from the group dispatcher — and in every case the cliError envelope and the usage text went to stderr, leaving stdout empty. A CI smoke step or a set -e script running rayspec --help therefore failed on a successful help request and had nothing readable on the stream it was reading. All three paths now answer ahead of the check that rejected them, the same interception point --version uses: rayspec --help, rayspec <command> --help, and rayspec <group> <sub> --help each exit 0 and print to stdout, with rayspec dev --help answering for all three dev commands and rayspec dev db --help for that one alone. rayspec deploy --help now shows deploy's six flags (--dry-run, --check-env, --port, --host, --apply-migration, --allowlist) without the rest of the manual around them. This is the one documented exception to "every subcommand emits exactly one JSON object on stdout": the help text is plain text, and every place that carried that promise — the CLI reference's Conventions section and both published package READMEs — now names the exception rather than leaving it quietly broken. Nothing else moves — a genuine usage error (an unknown subcommand, an unknown option, a token after the help flag) is still exit 2 with the cliError envelope and the usage text on stderr, and past the command path the vector is still that command's own to parse, so a -h written further along means exactly what it meant before. The usage text itself is now assembled from one self-contained block per command, so a command's flags are described in a single place that both its scoped help and the general usage read from.
• A valid API key calling GET /v1/auth/me now receives 403 FORBIDDEN with a message naming the actual situation, instead of 401 UNAUTHENTICATED — "Authentication failed.". The key authenticated fine; the route answers a user identity, which a key principal (apikey or m2m) does not have. The old 401 claimed the credential failed and invited clients to re-authenticate, which no re-auth can fix; the response now says This endpoint answers a user identity; the authenticated key principal has none. — uniform with the 403 the platform management routes give an authenticated-but-not-permitted key, but without a missing_permission hint, since no grantable permission would make the route answerable for a key. A JWT or cookie-session user still gets its 200 unchanged, and an invalid or absent credential still gets the uniform 401.
• A refreshed access token carries mship_role again, resolved from live membership at refresh time. POST /v1/auth/refresh re-minted the JWT without the role claim, so after the first refresh (8 minutes in, at the default RAYSPEC_ACCESS_TOKEN_TTL_SECONDS = 480) every claim-trusted permission (store:read, agent:run, agent:read, org:read, apikey:read) answered 403 missing_permission, while every sensitive permission (store:write, apikey:mint, apikey:revoke, the org-management ops) kept working through its live-membership recheck — an inverted session where writes succeeded and reads failed. Both refresh paths — the normal rotation and the grace-window double-submit re-issue — now resolve the role from live membership for the session's current org, the same source login uses, so claim-trusted reads keep answering 200 across refreshes and the workaround of following every refresh with an org switch is no longer needed. A membership revoked between login and refresh yields a token without the claim — fail-closed, exactly as a fresh login would.
• A frontend served beside an API now carries the same Content-Security-Policy and Permissions-Policy the static profile has always emitted. A static-profile boot (a frontend-only spec) answers every response with the two headers — secure defaults (default-src 'self'; frame-ancestors 'none'; object-src 'none'; base-uri 'self' / camera=(), microphone=(), geolocation=()), each overridable verbatim via RAYSPEC_FRONTEND_CSP / RAYSPEC_PERMISSIONS_POLICY. The moment the same spec grew its first store, the boot took the full-backend path, whose global header chain deliberately leaves CSP to a fronting proxy — so the served frontend lost both headers and the two env vars silently stopped doing anything, on exactly the documented core posture (trusted, self-hosted, single node) that has no proxy in front to add them. Now every response a declared frontend mount itself serves — a file, the SPA fallback, a custom 404.html page, a range 416, a method 405 — carries both headers, resolved from the SAME defaults and the SAME env overrides as the static profile through one shared code path, so the two boot shapes cannot drift. Nothing else moved, measured as a before/after diff of full header sets: API and auth responses (/health, /v1/...) still emit no CSP and no Permissions-Policy, and a static-profile boot's responses are byte-identical to before.
• An unparseable RAYSPEC_CLEANUP_SCHEDULE now aborts the boot with a refusal naming the variable and the value, instead of the scheduler's own error. The expression used to be handed to the worker's scheduler exactly as written: shorthand such as @daily or a 4-field expression killed the launch with an unhandled TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'replace') that named neither the variable nor cron, while an out-of-range field (99 99 99 99 99) at least got the parser's field error — still without the variable name. The boot now attempts the parse up front, through the scheduler's own parser rather than a second cron grammar (so a value accepted at boot cannot diverge from one the scheduler accepts), and an operator who mistypes the crontab sees Boot aborted — RAYSPEC_CLEANUP_SCHEDULE='<value>' is not a crontab the scheduler can parse (<the parser's own detail>), in the same shape as the other env refusals. Every currently-valid value is unaffected: a 5-field or 6-field expression reaches the scheduler byte-identically, and unset or blank still resolves to the documented 0 3 * * *. One surface grows: the check runs where the rest of the environment is resolved, so a boot that wires no durable worker — an auth-only boot, or a classic rayspec.yaml without one — now also refuses an unparseable value it previously ignored, with one exception: a frontend-only document is outside the check's scope, because both documented entrypoints branch it to the static profile — whose loadStaticServerConfig resolves no cleanup knob — before the environment is resolved, so such a boot still serves an unparseable value here, exactly as it still serves a malformed DATABASE_URL or a non-numeric RAYSPEC_GDPR_RETENTION_DAYS.
• rayspec run from a vendored checkout now honors the invoking project's ./.env. The CLI's .env auto-loader resolved the file relative to its OWN install location — always the RaySpec install root, never the caller's project — so in the vendored/submodule layout the brownfield docs recommend, a product repo's ./.env was silently ignored and the boot failed closed claiming a variable is missing even though the file set it. The loader now searches $PWD/.env first and the install-root .env second, with the same parser and the same per-key no-override rule, so the effective precedence is: real environment > $PWD/.env > install-root .env — an earlier source always wins per key, a later one only fills what is still unset. RAYSPEC_SKIP_DOTENV=1 keeps skipping the auto-load entirely, now covering both candidates; a run from the RaySpec install root, where the two candidates are the same file, behaves exactly as before.
• A missing-required-variable boot refusal now names the .env paths that were searched. rayspec deploy's fail-closed refusal for a missing required variable gains a trailing (searched: <$PWD/.env>, <install-root .env>) — the auto-loader's candidate paths in precedence order, each listed whether or not the file existed, which is the diagnostic: an operator whose ./.env sits in the invoking project sees at once whether the file they populated was even a candidate. Paths only, never file contents or values; a refusal for an invalid or unsupported value is unchanged, and under RAYSPEC_SKIP_DOTENV=1 the suffix is omitted because nothing was searched.
• A subscription cursor with a zero-padded sequence is refused rather than coerced. GET /v1/subscribe?since=<tenant_id>:007 answered 200 and resumed from 7, skipping the seven events below it, and :00 replayed the stream from the floor — while the route's own 400 body, the spec reference and this changelog already described a padded sequence as refused. The sequence half must now be the canonical spelling the stream itself writes: 0, or digits with no leading zero. No cursor this platform issues is affected: the SSE id: is built by interpolating a number, so it never carries a leading zero, and a client echoing an id: back (as Last-Event-ID or ?since=) resumes exactly as before — :0, the replay-from-floor cursor, included. (Issue #385.)
• rayspec-serve now honours the invoking project's ./.env too — the other half of the .env defect this release closed for the rayspec CLI. The CLI gained a two-candidate search; rayspec-serve kept resolving a single path relative to its OWN install location — always the RaySpec install root — so one checkout could hand the two documented entrypoints different configuration. With a ./.env in the invoking project and another at the install root naming, say, a different DATABASE_URL, rayspec deploy <spec> opened the first and RAYSPEC_SPEC_PATH=<spec> rayspec-serve the second, with nothing said either way. Both entrypoints now search $PWD/.env first and the install-root .env second, deduplicated to a single read when they are the same file, through the same parser and the same per-key no-override rule — so the effective precedence is: real environment > $PWD/.env > install-root .env. Everything else about the loader is unchanged: RAYSPEC_SKIP_DOTENV=1 still skips it entirely, now covering both candidates; an already-set variable still wins over both files; a literal \n is still unescaped, which is what makes the single-line PEM form work; and a file that does not exist is still silent. The boot's refusals are unchanged too — rayspec-serve names no searched paths, where rayspec deploy lists them. The one thing a deployment could notice: a rayspec-serve started from a directory that happens to contain a .env now reads that file, project file first. Started from the install root, where the two candidates are one file, it behaves exactly as before. (Issue #384.)
• A numeric column holding a NaN is refused on read, like a non-finite double — and a page that serves it no longer mints a cursor no client can follow. PostgreSQL's numeric accepts NaN, which is not a decimal at all. Neither write path produces one — the request body validator and the handler facade both check the same plain-decimal shape — so only a direct SQL write or a hand-written migration can plant one, and until now both read paths handed it straight out: the HTTP read returned 200 with "amount":"NaN" under a type documented as the exact stored value in PostgreSQL's canonical rendering with exactly scale fractional digits, and the handler facade returned the same string to an escape-hatch handler, a store_read node and the views interpreter. The follow-on was worse than the value: a keyset page ordered on that column minted an X-Next-Cursor carrying NaN, and the next request rejected its own cursor with Filter '<column>' must be a plain decimal string (no exponent). — a 400 on a filter the client never wrote, with no way to page past the row. Both serializers now refuse such a value with the same 400 VALIDATION_ERROR shape the bigint and double read guards use, naming the column and the row id and never the value. A page is serialized before its pagination headers are minted, so the refusal takes the whole page and mints no cursor: on any route that serves the column, the feed cannot strand a client mid-scroll. The guard reaches exactly as far as the serializer and no further — a route whose project drops the column never serializes it, so the guard never sees the value; that page is served, and because order is validated against the store's columns and not against the projection (the documented author-named query surface), a page ordered on the dropped column still mints the NaN cursor the next request refuses. Both arms — the refusal and its reach — are pinned in store-fractional.db.test.ts, each with the other as its accept control. This is the one read guard keyed on the DECLARED column type rather than the value shape, and it has to be: a numeric value is a string, exactly like the text value beside it, where NaN is ordinary data no read may refuse. Nothing legitimate is affected — every rendering PostgreSQL produces for a decimal passes the check, ±Infinity cannot reach a column that declares a precision and scale (the DB refuses it), and recovering a planted row stays a SQL-level operation, the same price the other two read guards already state.
• A timestamp filter through the handler facade takes an ISO string, instead of failing as an internal fault. The facade's contract is plain serializable rows: it hands a handler an ISO string for a timestamp column and accepts one on the write path. A filter did not: the value went straight to the driver, whose timestamp mapper calls .toISOString() on it, so a string raised a raw TypeError — a 500-shaped fault for what is a handler input mistake, where every other facade input guard produces a 400. It applied to all three filter forms (an equality value, an IN element, and a gt/gte/lt/lte bound), so a handler could not express "rows since this timestamp" with the value the same facade had just returned. All three now pass through the write path's own coercion: a parseable string becomes the Date the driver wants, and an unparseable one is the existing typed input refusal with its existing generic public message. A Date bound is untouched, and no other column type is coerced on a filter — the write range bounds still belong to the write path only.
• A store column named __proto__ is serialized instead of silently dropped on the un-projected read path. Such a column is a legal declaration (the identifier rule admits it, the doctor passes it, the write path stores it), and a route declaring a project already serialized it correctly. A route without one did not: the serializer accumulated into a plain object, where out['__proto__'] = value is not a property write at all. A string value was silently swallowed — the column simply vanished from the response, with no error anywhere — and a value from a jsonb column of that name REPLACED the response object's prototype, so the column vanished and every key of the stored value became readable through the response object. Both paths now accumulate into a prototype-free object. Nothing else moves: an ordinary column is an own property either way and serializes to the same bytes in the same order, so the only response this changes is one whose store declares a column named exactly __proto__ — which could not reach the wire at all before. It is the only name with that property: on a plain {} every other Object.prototype member (constructor, toString, and the rest) already assigned as an own property and already serialized, because __proto__ alone is a setter rather than a plain key.

# documentation

• The two prose lists of which columns omitInjected drops can no longer age quietly. The ResponseProjection doc comment in the grammar and the project section of the spec reference each spell out, by name, the seven server-injected columns a projection removes and the spared id. Both are correct today — checked against the generated injected-column list — but both were written by hand, while the code that enforces the rule derives the set from that generated list. A ninth injected column would change what the platform does and leave both documents quietly describing the old set, with nothing to notice. A test now reads both documents off disk and compares the names they list to the injected set minus id, so adding an injected column turns it red until both documents name it. The chain closes end to end: the set the test compares against is this package's copy of the injected columns, which is itself pinned by an existing equality assertion against the generated list. The extractor requires exactly one marker sentence per document and throws otherwise, so rewriting the sentence out of reach — or duplicating it — fails loudly instead of silently finding nothing and passing. No prose changed and no behaviour changed — what is new is that the next injected column reds a test instead of aging two documents.
• The list of boots that ignore RAYSPEC_AGENT_TRACING was wrong in the direction that matters. .env.example named two wrappers as the ones that "assemble the server themselves and never read this variable at all". Five boots assemble the server themselves. The three the list omitted are the per-example demo wrappers — examples/contract-intake/dev-boot.mjs, examples/support-intake-chat/dev-boot.mjs and examples/support-ticket-triage/dev-boot.mjs — and they are the worse case: they read no trace-export setting and print no boot banner. Two of the three call a model — contract-intake and support-intake-chat declare an extractor, default to the live extraction path, and abort by name without OPENAI_API_KEY — so on those a demo run keeps the agent SDK's exporting default with nothing said either way. support-ticket-triage declares no extractor and demands no model credential, so it makes no model call and has nothing to export; it belongs on the list because it reads the variable no more than the other two do, not because it exports. An operator reading a two-item list concludes the boots it omits honour the variable. The entry no longer enumerates the ones that do not read it against a list that can rot: the two wrappers that print the banner now read the variable (above), and the demo wrappers are named as a shape — examples/<slug>/dev-boot.mjs — with what they do state plainly, along with the agent SDK's own switch as the way to stop that export in their environment.
• A third "same boot" sentence is qualified, and the .env search's install root stops being called a checkout root. The equivalence between rayspec deploy <spec> and RAYSPEC_SPEC_PATH=<spec> rayspec-serve was corrected in the getting-started guide earlier this release — deploy seals the product-store registrar after its boot returns and defaults the agent trace export off, rayspec-serve does neither — while the CLI reference stated the same equivalence unqualified. It links to the corrected passage, so a reader gets there; the clause is now on the sentence itself, and on this changelog's own restatement of it. Separately, the two-candidate .env search was documented as ending at the "checkout root". It ends at the install root: the loader resolves it four segments above its own module, which is a checkout root only when you run from one. Installed from the registry those four segments land outside the package — the consuming project's own root under npm's flat layout, where it is usually the same file as $PWD/.env and the two candidates dedupe to one read, and a directory inside node_modules/.pnpm/ under pnpm's. In neither layout is it the unscoped node_modules/rayspec launcher package, which ships a bin and no loader. install root is what this changelog's own normative sentences for issue #384 already used, so the reference, the environment example, the server package README, the authoring skill and the two loaders' own comments now all say it, and each names how that root is resolved rather than assuming a layout. The missing-required-variable refusal keeps listing the resolved paths themselves, which is the one place an operator reads the actual directory off a real run. The authoring skill additionally still attributed the two-candidate search to the CLI alone; both documented entrypoints have run it since issue #384. Two stale module paths in the CLI loader's comments (packages/cli/{src,dist}, which has never existed at that spelling) are corrected in the same pass.
• The column-type vocabulary is swept: double and numeric now appear everywhere the closed set is enumerated. The reference page was updated when the two fractional types landed; the two surfaces a reader actually starts from were not. The concepts page still called the vocabulary "text, uuid, timestamp, integer, bigint, boolean, and jsonb" — the first thing a first-time reader is told about columns, and flatly wrong. The authoring skill repeated the seven-type list in three more places and, under what it cannot express, told an author that floats map to jsonb. Every one of those now names all nine types. Widening a list is not enough on its own, because numeric is the one column type that does not parse without more: precision and scale are REQUIRED on it and rejected on every other type, and an author following the old list would have written type: numeric and met a lint error the page never mentioned. So the skill's store reference gains the two keys and a short entry on the pair — double is float64 on the wire and never money; numeric is the exact decimal, crosses the wire as a string in both directions, and refuses a JSON number — and the concepts page names the split in one sentence. One place stays at seven ON PURPOSE and now says so: the jsonType set of a gen-handler holes file, which is what the renderer can emit a coercion for, not what a store may declare.
• Three sentences that had outgrown the code they describe. Each states a closed set that a later change widened, and each is now the set the code actually implements. The reference page called the typescript_handler_module advisory "the one a .ts module raises". The trigger set is four-wide — .ts, .tsx, .mts, .cts, matched case-folded from one shared vocabulary — so an author reading that sentence could reasonably conclude a .tsx handler raises nothing and needs no build step. The same page enumerates the surfaces the bigint JSON boundary is enforced on, and the list predates the comparison filters: a ?<col>__gt=-family bound is coerced by the same routine as equality and refuses an out-of-range value identically. The sentence understated the enforcement rather than over-claiming it, but an enumeration that is read as exhaustive should be one. The concepts page promised an X-Next-Cursor "on every non-empty page". A relevance-ranked full-text page is ordered by rank rather than by a stored column and therefore mints no keyset cursor — the one non-empty page that carries none. That exception was already stated on the reference page, in the OpenAPI document and in the authoring skill; the summary page is now consistent with them, which matters because a client polling that header is the reader most likely to have started there.
• rayspec deploy --host <addr> is documented. The flag has always been accepted and has always been printed by rayspec deploy --help, but the CLI reference's deploy section described the other five flags and not this one — both synopsis forms that carry [--port <n>] omitted it, and so did the Flags: summary, leaving --host in the whole document exactly once, inside the quoted deploy --help transcript. So an operator reading the deploy section learned neither the flag nor the loopback bind default from it; both were reachable by running the help text, or from the RAYSPEC_HOST entry in .env.example, the environment surface this reference points readers at. The section now names --host <addr> in both synopsis forms and in the summary, and carries a bullet for it: it writes RAYSPEC_HOST, overriding an ambient value, exactly as --port overrides PORT; unset, blank or whitespace-only binds loopback, so a deployment is not reachable off-box until an operator names another interface; the boot banner reports the address actually bound rather than a fixed loopback string; --dry-run and --check-env bind nothing, so each accepts and ignores it — where both refuse --apply-migration / --allowlist; and it moves the listen address only, leaving the OIDC issuer at its http://127.0.0.1:<port>/oidc default, so a deployment bound to 0.0.0.0 keeps emitting loopback OIDC URLs until OIDC_ISSUER names the address its clients reach it on. A @rayspec/cli test now reads deploy's option set out of the argument parser that declares it and fails when a flag the command accepts is missing from either of those two places; the per-flag bullets are not covered, because --port and --allowlist carry none. Nothing about the command changed — the flag, its loopback default and the help text are exactly as they were.
• The getting-started backend-profile walkthrough now points at rayspec deploy --check-env before the first boot, so a reader can ask for the environment its document demands instead of discovering it one refused boot at a time. The section walks the reader into a boot whose requirements it never lists up front: the surrounding text explains that a missing credential fails the boot fast, and that refusal is clear on its own, but a document raising more than one demand answers them one at a time — and not every one of those attempts is cheap: the demand a declared cron / manual trigger raises is reached only after the boot has opened the database and applied the committed migration chain, while a missing backend credential and the three config-load secrets refuse before the database is opened at all. --check-env was already documented in the CLI reference and answers the whole set in one shot without booting; the walkthrough simply never mentioned it. The added sentence names the deploy spelling — the rayspec-serve entrypoint the section's own code block uses parses no flags, so rayspec-serve --check-env boots as if the flag were absent — and bridges to it through the equivalence the page already states, that rayspec deploy <spec> and RAYSPEC_SPEC_PATH=<spec> rayspec-serve are the same boot up to the differences that page names (product-store sealing and the agent trace-export default), neither of which changes what a document's boot demands. It is scoped to what the check reports (the variables the document's boot will require, why, and whether each is set) and does not present a passing verdict as a boot that will succeed: the check validates no value and opens no database, so it answers ok for a document whose boot still refuses on a non-UUID tenant id or a TypeScript handler module, and it links the CLI reference for what it deliberately does not check. Documentation only — no command, flag or behaviour changed.
• The default Content-Security-Policy a served frontend carries is now documented where someone deploying a built site meets it — and the shipped example stops violating it. The baseline is default-src 'self'; frame-ancestors 'none'; object-src 'none'; base-uri 'self', which names no style-src and no script-src, so an inline <style> or <script> in a served page is blocked. The policy is right and is unchanged; what was missing is that meeting it required a browser. No request shows it: the response is a 200 carrying the exact bytes, so curl, the deploy output and the request logs all look correct and only the rendered page differs — the first encounter reads as "the deployment lost my CSS", with nothing connecting it to the policy. (The server-side signal for it is the boot warning listed under Added above.) The frontend grammar reference, the getting-started static-serving walkthrough, the concepts page and the CLI reference now state the default value in full, that CSS and JS belong in files the page references rather than in inline code (a same-origin file is what the default allows), and that RAYSPEC_FRONTEND_CSP replaces that whole baseline verbatim — it does not add to it — when a page genuinely needs a weaker one. Every page under docs/ that mentioned those two headers framed them as a static-profile property — .env.example already described both boot shapes — and a full-backend boot stamps the same two, from the same two variables, on the responses its own frontend mounts serve, so each of those pages now says both shapes. The bundled examples/notes-ui page carried its loadNotes fetch helper as an inline script — the one shipped asset the platform's own default policy would have blocked; it now lives in web/dist/app.js and the page references it. No behaviour changed: the policy, the two environment variables and the served headers are exactly as they were.
• Three example READMEs stop telling the reader to "register/switch to the tenant", which no deployment has ever allowed. A deployment cannot create its own tenant — the boot fail-closes on a RAYSPEC_PRODUCT_TENANT_ID that names no live org — a POST /v1/auth/register carrying an orgName creates a different, server-generated org (without one it creates no org at all, and the product calls then answer 404), and POST /v1/orgs/{id}/switch answers a bare 404 (Not found.) to an account that is no member of the target, so following the sentence left the reader serving their own tenant rather than the one the demo seeds: reads there answer 200 over no data (GET /tickets → {"tickets":[]}) and a turn is refused 403 with the reason named (cross_tenant). The three files needed two different corrections, because the situations differ. In examples/support-intake-chat/README.md the dev-boot seeds the org 00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000043 and no user, and its four support_catalog rows are seeded under that tenant alone; the README now walks the shipped path instead — rayspec tenant ensure against the demo's own play_support_chat database mints an owner invite for that exact org, and POST /v1/invites/accept redeems it into an account whose 201 already carries an org-scoped token, so no login and no switch follow. It also states why the DATABASE_URL override is load-bearing (the dev-boot ignores .env's value, the CLI does not), why the invite file has to be deleted, and what a re-run does instead of minting a second token — already_owned once the org is claimed, pending while an invite is outstanding, and --reissue-owner-invite for a token lost before redemption. In examples/invoice-intake/README.md and examples/expense-claim/README.md there is no seeded org: the recipe already asks for an existing org uuid, so those two now say where one comes from — a POST /v1/auth/register carrying an orgName returns the new org's id as activeOrgId and a token already scoped to it, which is the value RAYSPEC_PRODUCT_TENANT_ID wants, and it has to exist before the boot because the boot fail-closes on an id that names no live org. No behaviour changed — the correction is in the three READMEs, and the platform paths they now describe are the ones that already shipped.
• examples/contract-intake/README.md now says how to reach the tenant its dev-boot seeds. The wrapper seeds the org 00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000042 and no principal — a booted demo has one org, zero users and zero memberships — so a reader who followed the README could call none of the product: PUT /files/{file_id}, POST /files/{file_id}/submit and GET /contracts all answer 401, and the file carried no auth step of any kind. Registering does not reach that org either: a POST /v1/auth/register carrying an orgName creates a different one and POST /v1/orgs/{the seeded id}/switch answers 404 to a non-member, whose own empty tenant then serves 200 on the reads and on an upload but is refused 403 at the submit, with the reason named (cross_tenant). The README now walks the shipped path instead — rayspec tenant ensure against the demo's own play_contract database mints an owner invite for that exact org, and POST /v1/invites/accept redeems it into an account whose 201 already carries an org-scoped token, so no login and no switch follow. It states why the DATABASE_URL override is load-bearing (the dev-boot ignores .env's value, the CLI does not), why RAYSPEC_API_KEY_PEPPER has to be the value the demo booted with (the invite token is hashed under it, and under a different one it is refused at accept), why the invite file has to be deleted, and what a re-run does instead of minting a second token — already_owned once the org is claimed, pending while an invite is outstanding, and --reissue-owner-invite for a token lost before redemption. It also names this example's own upload pair, PUT /files/{file_id} → POST /files/{file_id}/submit: neither route appeared anywhere under examples/contract-intake/ — the capability mounts them, so the authored document does not declare them, and they were written down in the @rayspec/file-runtime README, the authoring skill and the invoice-intake example, but nowhere in this example's own docs. No behaviour changed — the correction is in the README, and the platform paths it now describes are the ones that already shipped.
• OPENAI_BASE_URL and DEEPGRAM_BASE_URL are documented in .env.example. Both speech adapters read a base URL from the environment at call time — the OpenAI synthesis adapter and the Deepgram transcription adapter, each falling back to the provider's real host — and neither variable appeared in the environment surface the reference points readers at, so the only way to find the seam was to read the adapter source. The speech section now carries both, commented out beside TTS_PROVIDER, as what they are: optional test/dev seams for pointing a suite or a dev boot at a local stub, with the trailing slash stripped either way and unset meaning the real host. The OPENAI_BASE_URL note also states its blast radius, which is wider than speech: the vendored openai client defaults its base URL to that variable and the OpenAI agent backend constructs the client without passing one, so a boot that points the variable at a local stub sends that backend's model calls to the stub as well. Two backends are not redirected by it: Codex deliberately omits the variable (with OPENAI_API_KEY, CODEX_API_KEY and CODEX_BASE_URL) from the subprocess environment it builds, and Pi passes an explicit per-model base URL to every client it constructs, so that client never falls back to the variable — meaning a stub set here does not contain Pi. No behaviour changed — both variables were already read exactly this way.

# security

• A static mount's containment guard now inspects the name the file server actually reads. The mount handler decoded the request path with decodeURIComponent and ran the fail-closed guard — dotfiles, traversal, and the realpath symlink-escape check — on that string, while @hono/node-server's serve-static resolves the path it decodes with decodeURI. Those agree on every path except one carrying a percent-encoded reserved character (/ ? # : @ & = + $ ,), and there the guard cleared one name while a different one was served. A served directory holding a file whose literal name carries such an escape — for instance a symlink named docs%2Fgetting-started.html pointing outside the mount — answered 200 with bytes from outside the served directory, while the identical symlink under a plainly-spelled name was correctly refused. When the two decodings differ, the served name is now guarded as well — and, on a cleanUrls mount, the <name>.html candidate the rewrite would resolve from it. The malformed-escape fallback is mirrored rather than approximated, which is the part that makes the guard complete: on an input decodeURI rejects, serve-static does not fall back to the raw string but retries each escape run on its own, so a raw-string fallback here would have agreed with the other decoder on exactly the inputs where a third, different name is read (/docs%252Fgetting-started.html% reads docs%2Fgetting-started.html%). Appended names are covered too. serve-static resolves a directory to <dir>/index.html and the SPA fallback names /index.html; neither string had ever reached the guard, so a sub/index.html symlink pointing out of the served directory answered 200 with its bytes for GET /sub — needing no unusual filename at all. Both are guarded now, matching the custom-404 branch, which already checked the name it appends. This is not a traversal: decodeURI never turns an escape into a /, and an encoded .. was already refused by both decodings. For every path without a percent-encoded reserved character the two strings are identical, and the appended-name checks fire only where such a name is actually resolved, so an ordinary build sees no change. The behaviour predates this release; it is fixed here rather than carried, and pinned across three mount shapes with the plainly-spelled twin of each escaping symlink as the accept control.
• Two checks that certified files they never read now reach them. The unscoped rayspec launcher — the package npm serves when a user installs the product — carries a bare name, and every --filter in the two required CI lanes was either the @rayspec/* glob or an explicit @rayspec/<name>. It was the only test-carrying workspace member no lane filter matched, so its suite ran in no required check: the only test of the shipped bin, four cases that spawn the launcher and the @rayspec/cli bin side by side and compare exit code, stdout, stderr and the scaffold they write. Lane 1 now names it explicitly, which is where it belongs — the suite spawns two built bins and touches no Postgres — so the deterministic subset goes from 22 packages to 23. Separately, the anti-re-accretion gate (pnpm gate:no-archaeology) enumerates tracked files under a fixed path allowlist, and three example directories were never added to it: examples/live-workspace-events, examples/notes-ui and examples/agent-boot-backend, 7 scanned files between them. Anything under a path the allowlist does not name is not read, so the gate passed on them the way it passes on a clean tree. Neither gap was hiding a live failure: the launcher suite is green on this tree and the three example directories carry no forbidden token — what changes is that a regression in either place is now loud instead of silent. The stale ci.yml comment pointing at a pnpm gate:workspace script (never defined in this repository, nor the gate:tracker-hygiene it named) is deleted rather than renamed, and the deterministic-subset count, wrong in both places it appeared, is corrected and now carries the derivation and the command that recounts it. Repository infrastructure only: no published package, API or runtime behavior changes.
• The transitive nanoid copy behind the test runner is raised from 3.3.17 to 3.3.18 (GHSA-2v37-7h3g-55p8: customAlphabet and customRandom loop indefinitely when configured with a size of 0, hanging the calling thread). That copy has exactly one dependent, postcss, which is itself reached only through vitest → vite, so it never ships in a published package — and the vulnerable functions are never entered on that path: postcss imports the plain generator from nanoid/non-secure and calls it with a fixed size (nanoid(6)), never customAlphabet or customRandom, and no source in this repository calls either. The fix is a patch release inside postcss's declared range (^3.3.16), so the copy is pinned forward via a scoped pnpm.overrides entry (nanoid@3) rather than carried as a scanner exception. The dependency SBOM (docs/dependency-sbom.json) is regenerated to match. The nanoid 5.x copy behind oidc-provider is 5.1.16, past this advisory's fixed 5.1.6, and is unchanged; the graph still resolves to 485 distinct packages.
• The transitive nanoid copy behind oidc-provider is raised from 5.1.15 to 5.1.16 (GHSA-28wg-ghj8-5hjv / CVE-2026-67214: the nanoid/non-secure generators can loop indefinitely when given a negative size). The vulnerable module is not reachable here — oidc-provider imports the secure nanoid entry point and never nanoid/non-secure, in either of the two helpers that use it, so the affected generators are out of reach regardless of the size passed. (Only one of those two helpers passes a fixed size: helpers/nanoid.js builds a 43-character generator, while helpers/user_codes.js derives its length from the user-code mask.) But the fix is a patch release inside oidc-provider's declared range, so the copy is pinned forward via a scoped pnpm.overrides entry (nanoid@5) rather than carried as a scanner exception. The dependency SBOM (docs/dependency-sbom.json) is regenerated to match. The separate nanoid 3.x copy (dev-only, behind postcss) is not affected by this advisory; it is raised for a different one, above.
• The transitive @hono/node-server copy behind the MCP SDK is raised from 1.19.14 to 1.19.15, and the repository's last scanner exception is retired with it (GHSA-frvp-7c67-39w9: a path traversal in serve-static on Windows, reached through an encoded backslash). The reachability argument that carried the exception still measures true — that copy has exactly one dependent, @modelcontextprotocol/sdk, which uses the server for its JSON-RPC transport to a child process and never for static file serving, and the advisory depends on the Windows path resolver treating \ as a separator. It was retired anyway, because the exception rested on a second claim that did not survive measurement: raising the copy was said to force a foreign major version onto that SDK, when the advisory's fixed version is a patch release inside the range the SDK declares (^1.19.9). So the copy is pinned forward via a scoped pnpm.overrides entry (@hono/node-server@1), exactly as the two nanoid copies above are, rather than carried as a scanner exception. osv-scanner.toml now declares no suppressions at all, so every advisory the scanner matches fails the dependency-audit lane. The direct dependency is untouched at 2.0.10, the dependency SBOM (docs/dependency-sbom.json) is regenerated to match, and the graph still resolves to 485 distinct packages.

# upgrade

• Two exported types gained REQUIRED members, so an out-of-repository implementation stops typechecking until it grows them. ServerConfig (@rayspec/server) gains three: frontendCsp: string, permissionsPolicy: string and authRateMultiplier: number. A deployment that builds its config with loadServerConfig needs no change — it fills all three from the environment; only code that constructs the object literally is affected. FrontendSpec (@rayspec/spec) gains cleanUrls: boolean in its OUTPUT type, so a literal built outside this repository needs the key; parsing a document is unaffected, because the field carries a default.
• A document with a mapping key written literally as __proto__ no longer parses. It used to, and then quietly did nothing with whatever sat under that key — a rename renamed nothing, a view field vanished from the response. It is now a named reserved_document_key error at the parse boundary of both profiles. If a document relied on that key surviving into a free-form slot (a tool's parameters, the body of a contracts entry), rename it before upgrading.
• RAYSPEC_AUTH_RATE_MULTIPLIER now has a ceiling and refuses a value above it by name, the way its sibling knobs already did. A deployment that set an implausibly large multiplier must lower it or the boot stops.
• A static mount refuses a served file whose on-disk name carries a percent escape when the two decoders disagree about it, and refuses a directory index or SPA shell that resolves outside the served directory. Both were served before; neither shape is produced by an ordinary build.

# added

• A run executing in another process can now be ended promptly instead of burning until it returns: set RAYSPEC_RUN_CANCEL_POLL_MS. Cancellation (the POST /v1/runs/{id}/cancel entry below) has two halves, and only one of them crosses a process boundary: the per-run record every dispatch consults does, the abort signal does not. The abort lives in a process-local registry, and by default nothing re-reads the record while a run is waiting for its provider, so a run on another worker holds its slot and keeps spending until the call comes back by itself. With this variable set to a number of milliseconds, a run that is executing re-reads its own record on that interval and aborts its own controller. That abort is the one the in-process path delivers, so everything after it is that same path: the same terminal error header, the same journal, the same refusal of every seam the abandoned call reaches for. What that journal holds follows the invocation shape rather than which process cancelled — measured against an in-process control run through the identical invocation shape, the terminal state and the journal are equal. Off by default, and off costs nothing. Unset — the default, and what any unusable value resolves to — no read is issued at all. (The handle itself is not otherwise idle: the dispatch chokepoint writes the run_taint marker through the same one before a non-idempotent tool fires. What is unchanged is that the cancellation path adds no read to it.) Set, the cost is one indexed idempotency_keys lookup per in-flight run, per interval, per worker process, issued on the run's autonomous-commit handle — the worker's second connection, the one the taint marker already uses — and never inside the run's own transaction, because a read that failed there would abort that transaction server-side and take a healthy run down with it. The reads are chained rather than periodic, so at most one is ever in flight per run and a database that has slowed down receives fewer of them rather than a backlog. A read that fails is treated as no answer and asked again on the next tick: an unreadable record never ends a run. 1000–5000 ms is a sensible range; there is no floor, and a shorter interval buys cancellation latency rather than more safety. Every rule cancellation establishes still holds with the variable set. A cancelled run is never automatically re-run — the record is what makes it un-dispatchable — and a run that had already fired a non-idempotent tool is quarantined: its taint marker was committed on the autonomous handle before the side effect, so the run's rollback cannot take it with it. One observable difference, for a cross-process cancellation only: the run now ENDS where it runs, where without the variable it ran to completion. What survives in its journal then follows the invocation shape rather than which process cancelled — it is exactly what an in-process cancellation leaves in that same shape. On the durable worker the run executes inside a transaction, so it rolls back and the steps journaled there are discarded: the run ends with the single cancelled step. On the synchronous HTTP path there is no transaction, so the steps it already committed are kept beside the cancelled one. Both are measured. POST /v1/runs/{id}/cancel's signalled field means "this process's registry reached it", so it stays false for a cross-process cancellation even when that cancellation lands. And the message a cancelled run reports is worded to stay true in both configurations: a model call in flight on another worker "runs on until that process observes the cancellation itself".
• A backend can now bind its authentication at the moment the run identity exists, instead of before it: the neutral Backend contract gains an optional preflightAuth(). A run's auth mode is resolved once, before the run starts, and threaded onto the run context so every journaled step attributes to one mode — that ordering is what makes the attribution honest by construction, and it is not moving. It is also perfectly workable for a local adapter, which reads its own environment and needs no run identity to know how it authenticates. A remote backend cannot work that way: at that instant there is no run id, no tenant and no agent identity, so it cannot select a tenant- or run-scoped credential and can only report a mode it has not actually bound. A backend that implements preflightAuth() is asked there instead, at exactly the same point in the run, and is handed the identity the server derived: the run id, the tenant, the agent's neutral name, the model, and — when the deployment supplies one via the new RunOptions.credentialBindingRef — an opaque credential-binding reference. The mode it returns is the run's pre-run mode, so it reaches the running header while the run is still in flight, every platform-dispatched tool step, and the billing rule that reads the mode. Nothing but identifiers crosses the seam. The payload is a closed set of plain strings the platform minted from what it already held — never model output, never a request body, never credential bytes. The binding reference is a handle the deployment mints and the backend redeems out-of-band; it is forwarded byte-for-byte and the platform never inspects, derives, logs or persists it. An answer outside the neutral auth-mode vocabulary, or a preflight that throws, ends the run closed — before the header transition, before any journal row and before any model call — so the refusal itself writes nothing: no journal_steps row, no run_events row and no runs row of its own. On the synchronous run surface that leaves nothing behind at all, while a run enqueued through the API keeps the enqueued header that path writes before handing the job over, exactly as it stands — the refusal neither advances it nor adds to it. The refusal names the run, never the value it rejected, so a backend that mistakenly handed back its credential does not get it echoed into an error message. A backend that does not implement it runs byte-identically. resolveAuth() is untouched and remains the contract's one required auth method. A backend that omits preflightAuth() — or that carries it as an explicit undefined — takes the same single resolveAuth() call at the same point it always did, and that answer is still used verbatim and unvalidated. The asymmetry is deliberate and it is not about which modes are acceptable — every member of the vocabulary, unauthenticated included, passes the new check. It is about not inventing a failure the contract never had: resolveAuth() is declared to return an AuthMode and its answer has always been used as given, so validating it now would newly refuse a third-party backend that returns an off-vocabulary value at runtime, where today that run completes and records the mode it reported. The new validation therefore applies only to a preflight's answer, which is a value no existing backend has ever produced. No adapter in this repository implements the preflight, so every run in the tree resolves its auth mode by the identical code path it used previously, and no existing test needed changing. Three limits worth stating plainly. The preflight is not bounded: the run's wall-clock bound and its cancellation controller are both armed after this point, so a remote preflight that hangs holds the run — and, on the durable path, a worker slot and the open Postgres transaction the worker wraps the run in, which means a pooled connection for the whole time it hangs. Bounding it is a separate change. Nothing in this repository supplies a RunOptions.credentialBindingRef: the platform mints no credentials and ships no remote backend, so the field is an injection point for a deployment's own composition root, and the only callers that set it here are tests. And an llm step's auth mode is still whatever the adapter records — the Anthropic adapter deliberately reconciles it mid-run from the live session — so the bound mode is guaranteed on every platform-dispatched tool step by construction, and on llm steps by the adapter honouring the context, exactly as it was before.
• One command now creates or resolves the organization a deployment binds to, from a deploy script, with no server running: rayspec tenant ensure --org-id <uuid> --name <n>. A product or cron deployment has to be pointed at an organization that already exists, while the organization service owns id generation — so automating it meant booting the auth surface alone, registering a user through the public API, reading the generated id back, stopping, and booting the real profile. Four steps for a one-step need, and the temporary user it registered could never be removed: the last owner cannot be removed, and a user delete is a soft delete that leaves a row. tenant ensure talks to DATABASE_URL directly and settles the whole thing in one call. It lives in a new top-level tenant group rather than under dev, which is documented as local-development-only — that scoping was the gap. Running it twice with the same --org-id is the same organization and no second row. The chosen id is the operation id: orgs.id is the primary key, so the database itself is the ledger and there is no second key or mapping table to keep. Two concurrent runs of the command converge rather than race — one reports created, the other existing, and both name the same org — and that holds against a fresh database, because the migration step is serialized by an advisory lock rather than left to a migrator whose CREATE … IF NOT EXISTS bootstrap is not concurrency-safe. An id supplied in upper case is the same organization, reported as the database stores it, which is the form a deployment compares against (uuidgen prints upper case on macOS). That makes the command safe to call unconditionally from a script that cannot know whether an earlier attempt got through. The owner handoff leaves no platform user behind. With --owner-email the command writes one owner invite — authored by nobody — in the same transaction as the organization row, so an organization is never created without the thing that makes it claimable. A real person then redeems it at the ordinary public POST /v1/invites/accept, which provisions their account with their password. The command creates no user and no membership at all. The minted token is written to an exclusively-created mode-600 file and appears in no output, no log line and no audit row; the result object has no field that could hold one. There is no flag that takes a token value either — a secret passed as an argument lands in shell history and in ps. It has no HTTP route, in any posture. That is the point of doing it through the database rather than an endpoint: RAYSPEC_TENANT_BOOTSTRAP_ENABLED never has to be set on a production deployment, so POST /v1/auth/bootstrap-tenant is never registered on a production listener at all. It reads exactly two secrets — DATABASE_URL and RAYSPEC_API_KEY_PEPPER — through the existing <VAR>_FILE convention with the same precedence and the same fail-closed abort, and deliberately not RAYSPEC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY, because it mints no JWT and a provisioning job should not have to carry the platform signing key. Two things to know before pointing it somewhere. It applies the committed migration chain to whatever DATABASE_URL names — required on a first bootstrap, idempotent afterwards, and a real side effect if the variable is not what you thought. And the token in --owner-invite-out is a tenant-takeover credential until it is consumed or expires: whoever can read that file owns the organization, which is why the operator default lifetime is one hour rather than the HTTP surface's seven days (--invite-ttl-seconds overrides it, clamped by the same shipped bounds). Nothing that existed changes. rayspec dev bootstrap-tenant and POST /v1/auth/bootstrap-tenant are untouched and fully supported, and the local walkthrough through a running server still reads the same. createOrgWithOwner is not edited — the reservation is a new sibling method — so the public register path emits the identical INSERT it always has. No route is added, removed or re-registered anywhere; turning the bootstrap posture on still adds exactly one path and the reservation contributes none. InviteStore.create and .consume each gain one optional trailing parameter, so both shipped call sites compile to the same handle they did before. There is no migration, no new column and no new table.
• The reserved store names are now drift-locked on both sides, and the authoring skill teaches them. The lint rule and the boot registrar read one shared constant; what could still rot was everything around it. The lock in @rayspec/db derived its expectation from a hand-written list of the platform tables, so a NEW global table added to schema.ts and forgotten there would have stayed unreserved — it now reads every table the schema module exports, which makes forgetting impossible rather than unlikely. The list printed in docs/spec-reference.md had no lock at all and could have drifted from the rule an author actually hits; a test now parses that very paragraph and compares it to the constant. And the authoring skill, which taught reserved_column_name and said nothing about store names, now names all sixteen and the three places the rule binds.
• The tenant bootstrap can target an org id you chose in advance: rayspec dev bootstrap-tenant --org-id <uuid>. Org ids were server-generated without exception, which left the deployment variable RAYSPEC_PRODUCT_TENANT_ID in an awkward position: it has to name an org that already exists, so the only way to configure a deployment was to bring something up, create an org, read its id back, and re-provision with it. With --org-id the id is settled first, and the deployment is configured with it from the outset. The org row and its owner membership are still created in one transaction, so a chosen id can never leave a memberless org behind — and that matters more than it sounds, because invites are owner-only and invites.tenant_id is a NOT NULL foreign key to orgs(id), which makes an org with no owner a permanent dead end rather than an inconvenience. Without the flag the command is unchanged: the same request to the same route, and the database generates the id exactly as before. A chosen id travels over an operator-gated route, and never over the public one. The public, unauthenticated POST /v1/auth/register does not accept an org id and will not start doing so. The reason is concrete: a deployment binds itself to one org id, so if any public caller could name the id, somebody who learned the id an operator intends to deploy against could create that organization first, with themselves as owner, and the deployment would come up bound to an organization they control. Instead the chosen-id path is a separate route, POST /v1/auth/bootstrap-tenant, which a server registers only when it was started with RAYSPEC_TENANT_BOOTSTRAP_ENABLED=true (exact string, like the other operator gates). On any other deployment that path does not exist at all — a 404, not a refusal — so there is no gate to probe and no collision reply to read as an org-existence oracle. Turn it on for the bootstrap boot; leave it off everywhere else. The deployment binds the org as the database stores it, not as the variable spells it. orgs.id is a uuid column, so Postgres matches an id supplied in any letter case and hands it back canonically — while at runtime the bound tenant is compared as a string against a tenant the server derived from that same column (the capability sinks, the reprocess seam). Binding the configured spelling would therefore pass both boot checks and then refuse every capability event with cross_tenant: the same silent misconfiguration one layer down. That is not a thought experiment — uuidgen prints upper case on macOS and BSD. The boot now resolves the id and binds what the database returned, so a differently-cased id is simply the same org. The resolved value is additionally exposed as productTenantId on the boot result — an in-process signal for an embedder that assembles the server itself, not something the CLI prints. Embedder note: ServerConfig — the assembly configuration exported as a type from @rayspec/server — gains a REQUIRED tenantBootstrapEnabled: boolean. loadServerConfig fills it from the environment, so anything that gets its config from there is unaffected; code outside this repository that builds the object literally has to add the field. It carries no default on purpose: the value decides whether an operator route exists at all, and a silent false would be a guess about a deployment's posture rather than a statement of it.
• A 64-bit integer column type: bigint, alongside integer rather than replacing it. The declared integer type maps to PostgreSQL int4, whose ceiling is 2 147 483 647 — for a column counting bytes, 2048 MiB. A store that measures anything real in bytes reaches that ceiling on a perfectly ordinary day, and because status rows are usually written in one transaction, the one value that overflowed fails the whole row. The failure reads like a dead writer rather than an arithmetic limit, which is what makes it expensive to diagnose. bigint maps to PostgreSQL bigint (int8) and is a new member of the column vocabulary: integer is untouched. Widening it would have silently re-typed every already-materialized column in every existing deployment, and, as below, that re-typing is not free — nobody who declared an integer column asked for it. A bigint value crosses every JSON surface as a JSON number, and is refused rather than rounded when it cannot. JavaScript numbers hold integers exactly only up to 9 007 199 254 740 991, so that is the range this API serves, end to end: request body, response body, equality filter, <col>__in element, keyset cursor. A value beyond it is a 400 VALIDATION_ERROR — on the way in, and equally on the way out. The outbound half is the one worth stating plainly, because it can refuse a request the caller did not get wrong: a row can reach an int8 column by a route that is not the HTTP write path — a hand-written migration, a direct SQL write, a low-level handler write, or a column that was integer before a reviewed type change. When such a row is read, the platform can either report the true number or refuse; it will never report a rounded one. The cost is concrete and deliberate: one out-of-range row makes the whole list page containing it fail, and the same bound on filters means you cannot query for that row either, so recovering it is a SQL-level operation. The error names the column and the row id — never the value — so the row is findable, and a page that failed this way carries no pagination cursor, so a client that pages by following one cannot skip silently past the page it never received. Below the bound nothing changes: values are exact, and the column is orderable, filterable, and usable as a keyset pagination column like any other. Changing an existing column from integer to bigint is gated, not automatic. The diff generator emits a single ALTER … SET DATA TYPE bigint and the destructive-migration scanner classifies it exactly as it already classifies any other type change without a USING clause: blocked unless a reviewed allowlist entry covers that exact statement, applied once one does. There is no "safe widening" carve-out, and the reason is what PostgreSQL actually does. int4 and int8 are not binary-coercible, so this ALTER performs a full table rewrite while holding an ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock, rebuilding the column's indexes along the way. Every value survives exactly; what is at risk is availability, and on a large hot table that is a real outage. That is a judgement about a specific deployment at a specific hour, which is precisely why it belongs to a human at review time rather than to a code path. An agent output property typed integer or number in JSON Schema is accepted into a bigint column by the same deploy-time compatibility check that accepts it into an integer one; what differs is the write itself, which enforces the range above and, unlike an integer column, refuses a numeric string rather than letting the driver bind it untyped.
• A declared route can declare its own rate limit: the new optional api[].rateLimit field. Declared routes have been throttled for a while, but only by two allowances shared across the whole declared surface — a strict one for callers whose credential does not validate and a generous one for those whose does. Neither of them knows anything about the path, so a route that costs a model call and a route that lists ten rows drew on exactly the same budget, and an author who could declare a route still could not declare what it costs. rateLimit: { windowSeconds: 60, max: 10 } on a route now gives that route its own budget of ten calls a minute, counted per tenant and principal for that route alone. Both members are whole positive numbers, rejected at parse time by the grammar and again at boot by the engine that turns them into a policy — so a spec assembled in code, which never meets the parser, still cannot start a server on a budget that would never throttle or never expire. The boot names the offending route and member. windowSeconds is additionally capped at 86400 (one day), refused by the linter while authoring and by the boot otherwise. That ceiling is not a security limit but a truthfulness one: the counters live in the serving process, so a window longer than the process is voided by the next restart rather than enforced, and a monthly quota declared here would silently reset whenever the fleet moved. A durable long-window quota needs a shared counter store, not a larger number. It is opt-in and additive, which are the two properties that make it safe to ship. Omitting the field is not a default budget — a route without one behaves exactly as it did before the field existed, and a spec that declares none anywhere does not so much as consult the limiter at boot. Declaring one does not replace the shared tier: a call must be inside both, so the effective allowance is the smaller of the two. That has a consequence worth stating in the direction people will actually try it — a declared max above the tier ceiling cannot take effect, so the field can make a specific expensive route stricter than the surface it sits on and can never make one more permissive than it is today. What the budget deliberately does not do. It is enforced after authentication, because a counter keyed on tenant and principal needs a principal to exist. So an unauthenticated call still meets its usual 401 and spends nothing, while a call that authenticates and then fails the permission check does spend budget before its 403 — the throttle sits ahead of the permission check on purpose, since both the permission check and the tenant resolution touch the database and an over-budget caller must cost no round trip there. It bounds load; it does not authorize. Over budget the answer is the same 429 RATE_LIMITED a tier refusal gives, through the same code path: the identical envelope, Retry-After in whole seconds and error.details.retryAfterMs, fired before the route runs, so nothing executed and no Idempotency-Key reservation was taken. The honest limits. The counters live in the process, exactly like every other throttle here, so a multi-instance deployment grants a caller one budget per instance it reaches; a hard cluster-wide ceiling needs either a shared front-line limiter or, for an embedder, the SharedRateLimitStore port described in its own entry below. Per-route buckets also multiply the number of distinct keys the one bounded in-process store tracks, and that store evicts the oldest live window when it is full — which hands that caller a fresh budget. A deployment with very many budgeted routes and very many principals can therefore see a limit reset early under key pressure, and that store is the single shared one: it also holds the authentication counters (login, register, refresh, oauth-token, invite-accept), eviction is by insertion age across all of them, so the window dropped under per-route key pressure may be an authentication throttle rather than a route budget. That cap is not a deployment setting — it is a constant of @rayspec/auth-core fixed at 100 000 keys and the server constructs its limiter with no arguments, so the lever a deployment holds is the numerator: declare rateLimit on the routes that are expensive rather than on all of them, and keep (budgeted routes × active principals) plus the authentication counters well under that number. A key count that cannot fit belongs behind a shared front-line limiter instead. Both limits are documented in the spec reference rather than concealed, and neither is changed by this release, the store's bound included. A stream playback route may not declare a rateLimit at all: it is authorized by a signed media token on its own middleware tuple and its media principal carries no API-key identity to count on, so a deployment that declares one refuses to boot with a message pointing at the route that mints the token instead — a silently ignored limit would be the worst available outcome. The served OpenAPI document follows suit: a budgeted route names its own allowance in its 429, and the document's previous claim that each allowance is one budget for the whole declared surface is now scoped to the two shared tiers, which is the only place it was ever true.
• A run can be ended on demand: POST /v1/runs/{id}/cancel. Until now nothing could stop an agent run. A synchronous request could give up waiting — that is what the held-request timeout does — but giving up on a request never asked the run to stop, so the model call kept going; and a run enqueued on the durable worker could not be stopped at all, so a provider that had accepted a request and gone quiet held a worker slot until its own retry window ran out. The new route ends a specific run. It is tenant-scoped like every other run route (a foreign or unknown id answers 404 and changes nothing) and requires the same agent:run permission that starting a run does. A cancelled run is terminal as error with the neutral error class cancelled, journaled exactly like every other outcome, so GET /v1/runs/{id} reports it. cancelled is a terminal class, so a same-key retry replays it rather than re-running the agent — cancelling is never a silent re-run, least of all for a run that already fired a non-idempotent tool, which stays quarantined under its key with the taint marker as the record that it needs review. The response is 200 with { runId, cancelled, status, signalled }; cancelled says whether this call made the run terminal, so it is false for a run that had already finished (whose own outcome is never overwritten — which also makes a repeated cancel harmless) and for a run still holding its own header row — one executing on a worker process the abort signal did not reach, which records the cancellation itself when it ends. An executing run IS signalled first, so in the single-process shape it unwinds and the same call goes on to record it: cancelled: true is the ordinary answer for a run caught in flight. What it stops, precisely, because the three cases genuinely differ. A run that has not started is recorded cancelled and never dispatched: the record is what a worker consults, so neither a first dispatch nor a recovery re-dispatch can execute it. A run executing in the same process is handed an abort signal, which run-core races the backend call against and puts on the run context, so the backend adapter can stop the work — this is the half that frees the run rather than only the caller waiting on it, and it is delivered before anything is written, so it is never queued behind the run it is ending. A run executing on another worker process gets no signal by default: the durable engine's own cancellation is cooperative and the whole run occupies a single engine step, so the model call already in flight is not interrupted and the run stops when it stops. (Setting RAYSPEC_RUN_CANCEL_POLL_MS makes such a run observe its own cancellation record and end itself where it runs — see the entry for it above.) It is still recorded cancelled — a run that finishes under a cancellation records the cancellation instead of its own outcome, and persists no output; a run that ends by failing has no result to record with and rolls back everything it wrote, so the worker records the cancellation once that rollback has happened — and it is never dispatched again. The cancel request never waits for the run it is ending: an executing run holds its header row for as long as it runs, so the terminal record is written by whichever side can write it — the cancel surface when the run is not holding it, the run's own side when it is. Which runs you can name. Cancellation is by run id, and the only call that returns an id before the run ends is an asynchronous one (async: true answers 202 with the runId). A synchronous run does not return its id until it completes, and without an Idempotency-Key the run surface never holds it at all — so in practice this cancels asynchronous runs. A synchronous request that is holding a run when it gets cancelled answers 409 CONFLICT, and the run's terminal outcome is readable at GET /v1/runs/{id} either way. Backend support is uneven and the documentation says so. openai passes the signal into the SDK run call, so the model request itself is aborted. anthropic and codex link it to the AbortController each already owns, so the streamed turn and the spawned child are torn down at once instead of at the end of the run. pi has the least direct handle: its prompt call takes no signal at all, so cancelling brings the session's own abort() forward, and that reaches the controller the agent created for the run it is executing — which is the controller whose signal the model request underneath carries. In every case the platform stops waiting immediately; that table is about the provider side, which no platform can promise on an SDK's behalf. A run nobody cancels is unaffected throughout: the signal is never aborted, nothing that shapes a request to a provider changed, and the pinned adapter fixtures are untouched. (The run context now always carries a signal, so an adapter that passes one through — openai — sends it on every run; the emitted option bag is pinned exactly, with and without a signal, by that adapter's own tests.) The generated OpenAPI document for a declared {agent} route follows the same rule: its 200 names cancelled among the terminal classes it also covers, and its 409 describes both conflicts that status carries — the Idempotency-Key ones, which never replay a result, and the run a request was holding being ended on demand, whose outcome a same-key retry does replay.
• Declared routes are rate limited, and the tier is decided after the credential has been validated. Spec-declared api[] routes carried no throttle at all, so the only place a deployment could bound their load was a front proxy — and a proxy cannot validate a Bearer token. All it can see is whether an Authorization header was sent, which makes a tier decided there forgeable: junk in the header buys the generous allowance and switches the protection off. The throttle now sits on the declared-route chain itself, behind the middleware that validates the credential and in front of the one that demands a principal, so the question it asks is whether the credential actually validated. A call with no credential, or with one that failed to validate — an expired or forged token, an unknown API key — is counted in a strict bucket keyed on the client source (the socket peer, or the forwarded address when a configured trusted proxy set the forwarding header), at 30 requests per minute. Every unvalidated shape from one source shares that one budget, so alternating a junk JWT, a junk API key, and no header at all does not multiply an anonymous caller's allowance. A call carrying a validated credential is counted in a generous bucket keyed on the tenant and the principal — the user or the API key, each with its own budget, the same principal in two organizations counted separately — at 600 requests per minute, sized so first-party automation calling in bursts is not locked out. What a consumer observes: a declared route can now answer 429 RATE_LIMITED, in the standard error envelope, carrying the retry advice twice — a Retry-After header in seconds (how much of the window is left, never below 1) and error.details.retryAfterMs in the body, the same field the auth routes' throttle already emits. Retry-After is not a CORS-safelisted response header, so it has been added to the response headers the platform exposes to cross-origin browser clients (alongside the request-id echo, the pagination pair and the idempotent-replay signal) — a fetch client can now read the back-off it is given, on this 429 and on a transient run's 502 alike. On an agent route the throttle's 429 is distinguishable from a run-outcome 429: it fires before the route runs, so it answers the error envelope rather than a RunResult, no agent executed, and no Idempotency-Key reservation was taken or released. Nothing changes under budget — an unauthenticated call still gets its usual 401, because the throttle bounds load and does not authorize — and the media playback route, which mounts on its own token path with its own per-user stream cap, is untouched. The counters are the existing in-process limiter, not a new one and not a shared store, so each instance counts on its own: a multi-instance deployment gives a caller one budget per instance it reaches. Treat both numbers as a per-instance floor rather than a cluster-wide ceiling; for the latter, keep a shared front-line limit in front of the deployment or, as an embedder, give the limiter the SharedRateLimitStore described below.
• A persist handler can cap a model-chosen enum column server-side: the clampValues hole. The persist templates already re-checked a model-chosen IDENTIFIER against a store before writing it (fkRevalidate) — the guarantee that makes "never trust the model's choice" structural rather than a matter of prompt wording. There was no counterpart for a model-chosen CLASSIFICATION, because there is no store to re-check a judgment call against: a severity, a risk level, a policy verdict was whatever the model returned, and the only thing standing between untrusted input and the value that got persisted was how the instructions happened to be phrased. clampValues is that counterpart. An author declares, next to fixedValues, an upper bound per enum column — "clampValues": { "policy_flag": { "max": "review" } } — and the renderer emits a deterministic cap applied after the untrusted-arg coercion and before the write. Rank is the column's declared enumValues order and nothing else defines it, so a proposal ranked above the bound is written AS the bound. The model still chooses: unlike a fixedValues constant, everything at or below the bound persists exactly as proposed, so the judgment stays the model's and only the ceiling is the author's. A bound that FIRES is reported on the handler's result as clamped: [{ column, proposed, applied }] — the model's original choice next to the value actually written — and since that result is what the central tool dispatch opaque-wraps and journals, both survive in the run journal and in the tool result the transcript carries. A tool whose handler declares a clamp must declare clamped in its outputSchema, or dispatch rejects the tool result the first time a bound fires. The key is absent, never an empty array, on a write no bound touched. validateHoles fail-closes on a clamp that cannot mean what it says: a key that is not a declared column, a key on a column with no enumValues (there is no order to rank by), a max outside that column's enumValues, a key that is also pinned by fixedValues (the constant is stamped last, so the bound would never reach the store), a key equal to fkRevalidate.codeArg (an identifier is not a ranked classification) and a key equal to naturalKeyCol (the upsert key is tenant-namespaced from the value read before the clamp and stamped back on last, so the bound would never reach the store while the result still journaled a record claiming it had). Because that order is now load-bearing, a column's enumValues may no longer contain a duplicate: the rendered comparison ranks by first occurrence, so a repeated value names a rung the ladder never reaches, and no reading of it is one the render could honour. The bound is unconditional by design — a rule carrying any key other than max is rejected rather than silently ignored. The hole is optional and additive: a hole-set that declares none renders byte-for-byte what it always did, for both --emit ts and --emit js. The shipped Expense-Claim example now caps its policy_flag at review — an agent may raise "a human should look at this" but may not declare a violation on its own — and its smoke asserts that a claim description demanding one cannot push the stored value past the bound.
• Optional upper bounds on an agent run: RAYSPEC_AGENT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS, RAYSPEC_AGENT_MAX_ATTEMPTS and RAYSPEC_AGENT_RUN_MAX_MS. A provider that accepts a request and never answers used to keep a run alive for as long as the model client's own retry window lasted — on the durable worker that occupies one of its run slots for the whole time, and nothing in the deployment could shorten it. The first two bound the model client the OpenAI backend registers: a per-request timeout, and how many attempts it makes for one request — the first try plus its retries, so 1 is a single attempt with no retry (the client's own knob counts retries, one fewer, and the mapping is pinned by a test). The third is a wall-clock ceiling run-core applies to one whole run, on the synchronous request path and the durable worker alike. What each caller then reports differs, so read it exactly: a synchronous JSON request ends as a 504 GATEWAY_TIMEOUT carrying the neutral timeout class — the same envelope the pre-existing held-request timeout returns, so which of the two ceilings expired first does not change what the client reads — and a streaming request, whose 200 status line has already been sent, ends with the terminal error frame carrying that same class. On the durable worker there is no such envelope: run-core runs inside the executor's transaction, so the ceiling rolls that transaction back and no terminal run header is written. What the bounded run leaves behind there depends on how it was enqueued: a run enqueued through the API keeps the enqueued header that path writes before handing the job over, so reading its outcome has to test the header for TERMINALITY, which is what isTerminalRunStatus is for — while a cron trigger's agent action enqueues without writing a header, so a bounded run of that kind leaves no runs row at all. (SUPERSEDED — that second clause describes this release only. The trigger fire path now writes the same pre-enqueue enqueued header, so a bounded cron- or manual-fired run leaves that non-terminal row behind and is read for TERMINALITY exactly like an API-enqueued one; see the POST /v1/triggers/{name}/fire entry above.) Be precise about what the ceiling does: it stops run-core waiting, it does not cancel the model call — there is no cancellation path, so the provider request continues until it settles by itself. What it does give you is the caller and the worker slot back, and a run-core that refuses what the abandoned call reaches for afterwards: an event it emits is dropped, a journal read or write is refused, a transcript rehydrate is refused, and a tool dispatch it starts after that point is refused closed — the handler does not run, no step is journaled and no taint marker is written. A dispatch already in flight when the ceiling fires is not stopped: its taint marker is written before the handler, the handler runs to completion, and its journal step is then refused, so a side effect it performs happens without a journal row. All three variables are off unless set, and an unusable value (not a number, or — after flooring — below 1 or above 2147483647, the largest delay a timer can hold) is treated as unset, so a deployment that sets none behaves exactly as it did before. The OpenAI adapter gained the matching optional timeoutMs / maxAttempts options, and openai — until now in the tree only through the agents SDK — is a direct pinned dependency of that package. All three variables are documented in .env.example.
• rayspec plan surfaces the non-fatal spec advisories. A backend-profile document that carries a finding from the advisory lint pass — the same findings doctor has always reported in its warnings field, such as a handlers[].module that is TypeScript source and so needs a build step before the production loader will accept it — now has them in the plan envelope too, as the additive specWarnings (the structured list, identical to doctor's entries) and specWarningSummary (one readable line each). plan is the pre-deploy command, so a document it certifies no longer hides an advisory that only doctor would have shown. An advisory never affects ok, never blocks, and changes no phase or gate finding; both fields are omitted when there are none, so an advisory-free plan is byte-identical to before. They are document findings, distinct from the operational stderr warning the read-only shadow guard emits for a broken DATABASE_URL_FILE mount.
• rayspec gen-handler --emit js renders a handler that deploys as it stands. The new --emit <ts|js> flag picks the emit target; ts stays the default and its output is byte-for-byte what it has always been, so nothing changes for an existing invocation. With --emit js the same bounded template renders the same program as plain ESM JavaScript — the default filename becomes <name>.gen.js — which the production loader accepts directly, closing the gap between "codegen worked" and "it runs": a .ts render is TypeScript source, and deploy fail-closed-refuses to load one until a build step has compiled it. The emission is sound because the templates import the handler SDK type-only, so the JavaScript target drops exactly what a compiler would erase (the annotations, the type-only import) and nothing else — same coercion of untrusted args, same tenant-namespaced natural key, same zero npm dependencies, still no import at all. A deployment directory holding the emitted .js must resolve it as ESM ("type": "module" in its nearest package.json, exactly as the bundled build.mjs wrapper writes). --file now has to end in the extension --emit selects, so a name can no longer contradict the module's actual form.
• The gen-handler JSON envelope carries nextSteps and emit. Following the shape rayspec init already returns, a successful render now names what stands between it and a running deployment: for a ts render, that the module is TypeScript source needing a build step before deploy, with the bundled examples/acme-notes-backend/build.mjs wrapper and --emit js as the two ways out; for a js render, the wiring and deploy steps with no build step at all. Both fields are additive and only present on success — a parser reading ok/file/exportName/ template is unaffected.
• detectStaticProfile is re-exported from the @rayspec/server package root. It resolves a spec path into the static boot's input (the path plus the parsed frontend mounts) when the document is a frontend-only one, and returns nothing for a non-static, missing, or unreadable document. The rayspec-serve entrypoint and rayspec deploy now share this one detection instead of carrying a copy each; both boot exactly as before.
• The rule that decides an agent run's HTTP status is written down. A run that fails does not usually fail the request: it completes and returns a result carrying the neutral errorClass, and the synchronous JSON response maps that class onto the status. The mapping has always been deliberate, and it has never been anywhere a caller could read: an invalid provider key (upstream_4xx) came back 200 and a rate limit (rate_limited) came back 429, two same-shaped failed runs treated differently with no discoverable reason. The spec reference now carries it under Agent route runtime semantics, as the rule it is — a transient class (rate_limited → 429, upstream_5xx → 502, timeout → 504) gets a real error status and releases the Idempotency-Key reservation, so a same-key retry re-runs; a terminal class (upstream_4xx, model_refusal, internal) is a real, repeatable outcome, so it stays 200 with the class in the body and a same-key retry replays it — together with the one exception (a run that fired a non-idempotent tool keeps its reservation whatever its class, so a transient one replays at its transient status), when a 429 carries a Retry-After, why a streamed run reports its class in the terminal event instead of the status line, and the fact that GET /v1/runs/{id} is a durable re-read that answers 200 whatever the run's outcome. The section also states the run status vocabulary in full: a run header now exists from enqueue on, so that endpoint answers enqueued and running besides the two terminal values, and only completed and error mean a run is finished. The generated OpenAPI document for a declared agent route describes the same mapping: the 429, 502 and 504 responses are documented alongside the 200/202 it already carried, the 429 documents its Retry-After header, and the 200 says which failed runs it also covers. Behaviour is untouched by all of this — no status, reservation or replay rule changed.
• A journal step records its error class and retry advice as columns: journal_steps.error_class and journal_steps.retry_after_ms. Both values used to exist only inside the step's output jsonb, in a shape that differed per step type — an llm error step carried { error, errorClass, retryAfter }, a tool error step carried the opaque { kind: "tool_error", … } and no classification at all. So the worst-classified failure was also the most common one: a tool error, which the model usually sees and continues past, ending the run as completed, left post-hoc triage nothing to filter on. And reading the classification of ANY failure meant reading the column that also holds raw model I/O — a grant cannot exempt a jsonb path, so the classification and the payload could not be granted apart. Both new columns are nullable and are filled for BOTH step types by the platform's journal sink. error_class holds the neutral class the adapter reported for an llm step (rate_limited, upstream_5xx, upstream_4xx, timeout, model_refusal, internal) and tool_error for a tool step — a value the neutral vocabulary deliberately does not contain, so the column carries MORE than the API ever reports: GET /v1/runs/{id} validates the class it reports and still answers internal for a run whose only failure was a tool error, exactly as before. Read "holds the class the adapter reported" precisely: the sink promotes it only if it is one of those six, so a failing step whose output carries no class, or one the platform does not recognise, records null rather than an unvouched-for string. Filter a journal for failures on status = 'error'; error_class IS NOT NULL is the narrower question of which of those the platform could classify. retry_after_ms holds the upstream's Retry-After when it sent one, in MILLISECONDS — the journaled advice is in seconds and is converted on write — and is null otherwise, because advice is never invented. The HTTP Retry-After header is unchanged: still whole seconds, still only on a retry-advisable status. Nothing moved out of the jsonb: the existing output keys are written exactly as before and every reader still reads them, so a consumer parsing them keeps working untouched. A successful step leaves both columns null, and so does a failed step that a later attempt healed to success. Migration: apply 0010_journal_step_error_columns — two additive nullable ADD COLUMNs on journal_steps, no table rewrite and no backfill, so a row written before it reads back null (unclassified) rather than a fabricated class.
• A release now ships a machine-readable identity manifest, so you can check for yourself which commit the packages you installed were built from. A development branch keeps the previous version string until the release cut, which means a commit hash plus a version field never identified a published artifact — a 1.7 development snapshot and the released 1.6.2 source both say 1.6.2. rayspec-release-identity.json closes that: it names the version, the source commit and whether the working tree was clean at it, and then, for all 29 packages of the runtime closure, the package name, version, tarball integrity and unpacked file-list digest. It also carries the digests of the three checked-in JSON Schema artifacts (unified, backend, product), of pnpm-lock.yaml and of docs/dependency-sbom.json, plus the Node and pnpm requirements, the Git tag and the build workflow run. Every digest form is spelled out in the manifest's own algorithms block, so a reproduction needs nothing from this repository: openssl dgst -sha512 -binary <file>.tgz | openssl base64 -A prints a recorded tarball integrity, and shasum -a 256 pnpm-lock.yaml prints a recorded source digest. Two places, the same bytes. The manifest is attached to the GitHub release, and it ships inside the installed launcher package — node_modules/rayspec/rayspec-release-identity.json after an npm i rayspec, and inside the rayspec tarball itself. What it does not claim. Nothing is invented for a field that has no value: with no release workflow in this repository the build workflow run is an explicit null naming that reason rather than a plausible-looking run, and a manifest generated before the release tag exists records the tag as absent. The manifest is unsigned, and says so, with the reason — signing it in CI would mean moving the release build into CI, and the release is deliberately a human-invoked script. And the launcher records no tarball integrity at all: it is the package the manifest ships inside, so a tarball whose digest included the manifest could never match the tarball that ships. What is recorded for the launcher instead is verifiable on the real artifact — its file-list digest over every entry except the manifest — and a launcher carrying some other manifest fails verification, so the exclusion is checked rather than trusted. Making that true takes an archive reader that reads which file each entry is the way node-tar and libarchive do, then refuses the rest: a tarball carrying one path twice (extraction keeps the last entry, so a forged second copy at the excluded path would be the one installed), one hiding content behind a lone null block (tar, and the node-tar an npm i runs, treat that as a warning and read on), and one that renames an entry through a pax path= override the readers do not agree on — a global-header path, which node-tar and libarchive both ignore, and one smuggled inside another record's value, which node-tar honours (it scans the header line by line) and libarchive does not (it frames records by their declared length). The verifier takes both readings and refuses a header they name differently, rather than picking one and disagreeing with whichever installer you use. A pax header can also move an entry's end, and with it the start of the next one: a size record is applied the way both readers apply it, so an entry swallowed into its predecessor's content changes the file list instead of hiding in it, and any other record that could reach that far is refused rather than ignored. Two more places where a reader can part company with an installer over a NAME get the same treatment: every NUL-terminated string in an archive — the 100-byte name field, the ustar prefix, a GNU long-name block's body — is read both ways and refused when they end it in different places (node-tar's terminator stops at a newline); and the ustar prefix field is read only under the exact magic node-tar requires, so a header rewritten in place with its path split across name and prefix under GNU magic — every digest unchanged — is refused instead of certified. And a directory that declares a body is refused: tar gives a directory no content, so those bytes are the next entries to an installer, which writes them, while a reader that took the declared size at face value would record nothing for them — a package whose own files are attacker-chosen, with every digest still matching. Two narrower shapes of the same fault go with it: an empty name field joined to a prefix (node-tar decides file-vs-directory before the join, so it writes a 0-byte file where the reader sees a directory — emptying a certified file), and an empty prefix in the wide branch, where node-tar prepends a bare / and the resulting absolute path installs a level deeper. And when git cannot answer whether the working tree was clean, generation refuses rather than recording the flattering value — a failed command and a clean tree both produce no output, and only one of them is worth writing down. Verifying is one command. pnpm release:identity-verify --tarballs <dir> recomputes every digest and exits non-zero naming every package that diverged and both values. A tarball whose bytes moved fails on the integrity even when it unpacks to identical content; a tarball whose contents moved fails on the file list even when no integrity is recorded for it. Generating is pnpm release:identity --tarballs <dir>; both are offline, and neither starts a package manager or writes anything to a registry.
• A Product-YAML deployment can now construct every product-side model call itself, through one optional seam on assembleServer: productAgentBackendsFactory. The two spec profiles were not equal here. A backend-profile deployment has always been able to supply an AgentBackendsFactory and decide for itself how each model call comes into existence — which is what lets a deployment broker those calls through its own execution boundary instead of holding provider credentials in the serving process. A product-profile deployment had no such seam at all: the boot built the four in-process adapters directly from OPENAI_API_KEY / CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN / ANTHROPIC_API_KEY / CODEX_HOME, so the only credential boundary available for a product deployment was the whole process. The factory closes that gap for extraction, the conversation responder and the record input-normalizer. It is called once, with the complete set, after composition — never one call at a time. The boot resolves the sidecar configs and composes the capabilities first, then hands the factory every model call the deployed document actually needs: each declared extractor in document order, then the responder, then the normalizer, each with the agent id, the declared backend and the declared model. Returning a Backend per requirement is the whole contract. There is deliberately no per-requirement fallback: a factory that omits one requirement fails the boot rather than having that one call quietly built in-process against an ambient credential, which is the exact outcome the seam exists to prevent. A returned Backend must also report the id the sidecar declared — the seam substitutes construction, not identity, and journal attribution, the native-structured- output boot gate and run-core's capability validation all key on that id. Omitting it changes nothing. With no factory the boot never executes a byte of the survey or of the checks on what a factory returns — that whole block is unreachable without one. What still runs is the seam's own default source, and all it does is make the same makeExtractionBackend call every builder made before, with the same two arguments, at the same point in the same loop. The per-backend environment demands, the anthropic billing and reuse-login warnings and their order, the per-extractor abort order, and every error string — including extraction backend '<x>' is not wired in this boot (wired: openai | anthropic | pi | codex). Fail-closed. — are unchanged. A deterministic executor mode keeps its exact meaning too: RAYSPEC_EXTRACTION_MODE, RAYSPEC_RESPONDER_MODE or RAYSPEC_NORMALIZE_MODE set to deterministic still uses the injected dev/CI Backend, and the factory is never even asked for a Backend that mode would discard. Installing a factory does tighten one check, in the stricter direction. An extractor sidecar whose model is missing or blank is left out of the requirement set, so the factory is never shown it and the boot refuses that call instead of brokering one nobody described. The same document boots without a factory, because the extraction builder does not validate the model itself. If you install a factory and a boot now stops on an extractor it previously accepted, that sidecar is the reason. What it does not cover, stated plainly. Speech-to-text is not part of this seam: the STT adapter is still selected by STT_PROVIDER and still needs DEEPGRAM_API_KEY in the product process, as does the media-preparation path. A deployment that transcribes audio therefore still has a provider credential in-process, and this change should not be read as discharging the whole credential boundary. The seam is also a boot seam: one Backend serves every request tenant the deployment admits, so it is not a place to scope credentials per tenant. And it is embedder-only — there is no environment variable naming a module to load, because that would mean loading operator-named code from the environment into the process holding the boot secrets; rayspec-serve and rayspec deploy cannot install a factory, and a test pins that they cannot.
• An embedder can now give the rate limiter a SHARED store, so several serving instances enforce one combined limit instead of one budget each. @rayspec/auth-core exports a SharedRateLimitStore port whose single consume returns the decision AND the retry hint from one operation — that is the load-bearing clause, because a store that decides first and advises second lets two instances each see the last token before either has taken it. A limiter over such a store is built by RateLimiter.withSharedStore(store), and there is no other way to build one: the factory probes the store as it constructs the limiter (a budget of one must allow then refuse, that refusal must advise a non-zero wait, and a locked key must stay refused with the same lock constant the in-process path reports) and throws instead of returning a limiter that answered any of it wrongly. The declarative route syntax does not change at all — the same rateLimit field, a different backing store — and because there is only ever one limiter in the application, supplying a store moves every counter at once: the login/register/refresh/oauth-token/invite-accept/ reprocess/trigger-fire throttles, both declared-route tiers, and every per-route budget. A deployment that supplies no store is unchanged, and that is asserted rather than assumed. Every rate-limit call site now goes through an …Async method, and on a limiter with no shared store each of those is a call to the synchronous method it always called — same arguments, same returned decision object by identity. createAuthApp keeps its synchronous signature. The synchronous methods themselves now refuse to answer on a limiter that DOES carry a shared store, rather than quietly falling back to the in-process counters and handing that instance a private budget; and a boot that finds a budgeted route about to mount on a shared limiter that never went through the factory aborts instead of serving an unenforced limit. What ships is the port, not a deployment. The server in this repository configures no shared store: there is no environment variable and no configuration field that selects one, no table, and no migration. The only implementation of the port in the tree is a Postgres one under test-support, which exists to prove the contract against real concurrent connections — it has no sweeper and no counterpart to the in-process store's entry bound, and is not a deployable store.
• The platform boot banner now states the resolved housekeeping posture, so an operator can see which way the two irreversible-deletion gates are set and which crontab the cleanup will fire on. The banner said nothing about any of the three: RAYSPEC_GDPR_PURGE_ENABLED, RAYSPEC_ERASURE_ENABLED and RAYSPEC_CLEANUP_SCHEDULE were resolved at startup and handed straight to the cleanup scheduler and the erasure seam, so the first runtime statement of the purge mode was the cleanup job's own summary line — written when the job runs, at 03:00 by default. Every boot that mounts the platform surface now prints a Housekeeping (resolved): block that reports what this boot will actually do and names the variable behind every value it prints: the GDPR tombstone purge reads ARMED or DRY-RUN, the tenant data erasure reads ARMED, DRY-RUN or NOT WIRED, and the daily cleanup prints either the crontab it is scheduled on together with the RAYSPEC_GDPR_RETENTION_DAYS window in days, or NOT SCHEDULED. Resolved values only, so a typo reads as the dry-run it produced rather than as the string that was supplied. Both gates arm on the exact string true and on nothing else, and that comparison is unchanged; what changes is that RAYSPEC_GDPR_PURGE_ENABLED=TRUE now renders the DRY-RUN line instead of saying nothing at all, and the banner is never handed the raw value, so it cannot echo one back as though it had been accepted. Where a line would otherwise advertise something that cannot happen, it says so instead, while still naming the variable it is about: a boot that launches no durable worker reports the cleanup as NOT SCHEDULED rather than printing a crontab that will never fire, and a boot that deployed no product stores reports that there is nothing to erase rather than a gate posture. The static (frontend-only) profile is unchanged. That boot prints its own banner, opens no database, schedules no cleanup and wires no erasure, so it has no resolved housekeeping posture to state and carries no such block. For embedders. BootedServer gains one additive field, housekeeping, carrying the resolved cleanup settings and the resolved erasureEnabled gate — the same values the boot hands to the cleanup scheduler and the erasure seam. bootBanner's signature is unchanged.
• rayspec --version (and -v) now reports the CLI's version instead of failing as a usage error. The top-level dispatch treated any first token beginning with - as "expected a subcommand" and exited 2 before looking at which flag it was, so an installed CLI could not be asked which version it is. Both spellings are now recognised ahead of that check and emit the ordinary single-JSON-object envelope on stdout — { "ok": true, "version": "1.7.0" } — with nothing on stderr and exit 0. The value is read at run time from the CLI package's own manifest, resolved relative to the entrypoint rather than the working directory, and npm places package.json beside dist/ in the packed tarball — so a published install reports the version it actually is, from any directory, with no dependency on the source layout. This is the top-level flag only: it reports the CLI itself, not the versions of the packages installed around it. Every other leading --flag, and every unknown subcommand, is still the same exit-2 usage error on stderr — and so is a token after the flag: rayspec --version --nope is refused rather than answered, because a branch that sits ahead of the leading-dash check would otherwise be a hole in the grammar that check enforces.

# changed

• rayspec deploy no longer exports agent traces to OpenAI unless you ask it to: set RAYSPEC_AGENT_TRACING=openai. The agent SDK exports traces to OpenAI by default, and those traces carry prompts and tool arguments. On a machine running somebody else's workload that is their content leaving for a third party without anyone having chosen it, and deploy is the strongest signal the platform has that the workload is somebody else's — so on that path the export is now an affirmative choice rather than a default. RAYSPEC_AGENT_TRACING=openai turns it on; off, or leaving the variable unset or blank, leaves it off. Any other value refuses the boot by name, so a typo cannot read as "not openai, therefore off" — silence in either direction is the whole point of this entry. It is an affirmative switch rather than a negation of the SDK's own variable: an operator states an intention, and the repository is not bound to a third party's variable name. The export is turned off two ways, because one is not enough. The agent SDK builds its global trace provider while its own module is being evaluated, and that provider reads the kill-switch ONCE, at construction — so rayspec deploy sets the switch before it imports the boot closure (which reaches the SDK through the model adapters), and drives the SDK's programmatic switch afterwards, which is the only thing that can move a provider that already exists. --apply-migration, whose pre-flight loads that closure first, needs the second one. Only rayspec deploy changes. rayspec-serve and the local development wrapper keep the SDK default, because a developer tracing their own agent sees their own prompts, and taking that away would burden the case that was never the risk. The boot banner now states the observed posture on every path — Trace export: OFF or Trace export: EXPORTING TO OPENAI, in an observed block beside the resolved housekeeping one — and it is READ OFF THE SDK's own trace provider rather than derived from any variable, so it stays honest on the entry points that do not change the default, on a deployment that set the SDK's own switch directly, and on a boot where the mechanism failed. Nobody loses tracing without being told, and nobody exports customer content without being told.
• A product deployment whose RAYSPEC_PRODUCT_TENANT_ID is malformed or names no live org now REFUSES TO BOOT. Until now that variable was only checked for being non-empty, so a deployment pointed at nothing came up green and reported healthy — and then failed for everybody, far from the cause: a bare 404 on the reprocess seam, or a cross_tenant throw on the first capability event to reach the tenant-bound dispatcher. Every workflow run, every capability event and every authenticated principal of a product deployment binds to that one org, so a phantom tenant does not degrade the deployment, it makes it serve nobody. Both halves are now checked at startup and the boot aborts with a message naming the variable, its value and the remedy: the shape, through the same tenant chokepoint that already rejects a malformed cron tenant, and the existence, through the same deleted_at IS NULL query the cron tenant is answered with — so a soft-deleted org counts as absent and a deployment can never bind to an erased tenant. What an operator must do, and in which order. Because deploy also serves the auth surface, a product deployment can no longer create its own org through itself, so the tenant has to exist first. Against an org that already exists nothing changes — set RAYSPEC_PRODUCT_TENANT_ID to its id and deploy. From nothing, settle the org first with rayspec tenant ensure --org-id <the uuid> --name <n> — see its entry under Added: it talks to DATABASE_URL directly, needs no running server and creating twice under the same id yields the same org — then deploy with that id. (The longer route through the auth surface still works: boot it alone with RAYSPEC_TENANT_BOOTSTRAP_ENABLED=true rayspec-serve and no spec, run rayspec dev bootstrap-tenant --base-url <url> --org-id <the uuid> against it, stop it, then deploy with the gate off.) A deployment that used to come up and wait for its org to appear will now refuse to start until it does. The cron tenant is deliberately NOT treated this way, and keeps its current behavior exactly. RAYSPEC_CRON_TENANT_ID is still checked for shape only at boot; whether it names an existing org is still asked per firing. The failure profiles are genuinely different, so the decisions are. A cron deployment whose org does not exist yet is merely idle: it comes up, skips each firing with one log line, and starts firing by itself the moment the org appears, no restart needed — and gating that at boot would have made the org impossible to create through the very application it was waiting for. A product deployment in the same state has no such self-healing moment and nothing about it improves by staying up.
• Embedders implementing the neutral DurableExecutor must add a cancel method. The cancel route needs an engine-agnostic way to end a job that has not been dequeued, so DurableExecutor — exported from @rayspec/platform's public surface — gained cancel(jobId: string): Promise<void> as a required member. Every implementation in this repository was updated with it, but an out-of-repo implementation of that interface will not typecheck until it grows the method. It is the whole of the breaking surface: no existing member changed name, shape or meaning, and the neutral DurableJobStatus union already contained cancelled — this release is simply the first thing that produces it.
• The neutral run error class has a seventh value, cancelled. A consumer that enumerated the six and treated anything else as unrecognised will now see it on a run that was ended through the cancel route. It is the one class no backend adapter produces and the upstream classifier never returns: nothing upstream failed, so it is set where the cancellation is recorded rather than inferred from an error shape. It behaves like the other terminal classes everywhere the platform already distinguishes them — 200 on the synchronous status mapping, no Retry-After, and an Idempotency-Key reservation that is kept and replayed rather than released. No existing run's reported class changes.
• A store read through the handler data facade comes back in a defined order. init.db.select applied an ORDER BY only when the caller passed opts.orderBy; without one the rows arrived in whatever order Postgres happened to find them, which it is free to change after a VACUUM, on a different plan, or under a parallel scan. A handler taking a window of a store — { limit: 200 } with no ordering, sorted afterwards in the client — therefore received some 200 rows, neither the newest nor the oldest, and which ones it received shifted as the table churned. A read that declares no ordering is now ordered by id ascending: the same default the declarative list route has always applied, so both read paths order alike. What a consumer observes: an unordered select that used to come back in insertion order — which is what an untouched table tends to give — now comes back in id order, and id is a server-generated UUID, so that is not insertion order; a bounded unordered read returns the same window on every call rather than an arbitrary one. A caller that passes its own orderBy is unaffected — the ordering it declares is emitted verbatim, with no tiebreaker appended, so the statement, the rows and their order are exactly what they were. A declarative view is affected without owning a line of handler code, since the views runtime reads through the same facade: a single view that declares no order_by and whose filter matches more than one row now serves the lowest-id match instead of whichever row the scan reached first, a nested lookup field whose sub-read matches more than one row embeds that same lowest-id match, and a collect, a paged list, or a list/counts sub-read without order_by now returns a defined order and a defined window. A handler rendered by rayspec gen-handler observes it too: a generated lookup tool reads the store unordered and caps the result in the handler (maxRows), so the rows a model receives are now the lowest-id matches rather than an arbitrary subset that shifted between runs — the template is unchanged, only what it returns is now defined. The order column is the injected primary key every store table carries, so it always resolves. A generated store has a primary-key index on id and a separate index on tenant_id but no composite index over the two, so the cost depends on which plan the tenant-scoped read gets: an unbounded one sorts the rows its tenant predicate matched, while a bounded one ({ limit: n }) over a tenant holding a large share of the table is answered by walking the primary-key index in id order with tenant_id as a filter — no sort, but it reads past other tenants' rows, and the smaller a tenant's share the further it reads.
• A deployment that declares a cron or manual trigger boots before its tenant org exists. RAYSPEC_CRON_TENANT_ID names the org a trigger fires under — yet the boot used to verify that org existed and abort when it did not (… is a well-formed UUID but no such active org exists), which is a state a cron deployment legitimately passes through: an org is registered against a running application, so a deployment restarting before its org row is there could not come back up at all, and the only way in was to deploy without the trigger first. The boot no longer asks that question. A well-formed id naming an org that does not exist yet starts the scheduler, and firing begins the moment an orgs row with that id exists. Which id that is remains the row's to decide: POST /v1/orgs, POST /v1/auth/register and a plain rayspec dev bootstrap-tenant all let the database generate it, so an operator using those still reads the id back before setting the variable, while an id chosen up front has to be the id its orgs row is created with — with rayspec tenant ensure --org-id <uuid> --name <n>, which needs no running server, or with rayspec dev bootstrap-tenant --org-id <uuid> against a server in the tenant-bootstrap operator posture (see the Added entries on reserving a tenant and on choosing the org id). Nothing fires under an unknown tenant: the existence check moved to the firing itself, where it runs before the firing's reserve, so a skipped firing dispatches nothing and writes no marker — which leaves that instant explicitly re-fireable instead of burning it. Each skipped firing emits exactly one line naming the trigger, the instant and the tenant; the boot additionally says once that the org is missing and that no restart will be needed. Once the org exists, scheduled firing resumes at the next instant — the check is re-asked per firing, never cached. Read that precisely: the instants skipped in the meantime do not come back on their own, because a scheduled tick reached the skip from inside the engine's per-instant workflow and returned normally, so the engine has recorded that interval as run; what the unwritten marker preserves is the ability to re-fire such an instant explicitly. Read the other way round, an org that is soft-deleted while the deployment runs stops firing at the next instant. The on-demand fire of a manual trigger runs through that same guard, so such a fire dispatches nothing and reports fired: false rather than success — which is why every contract carrying that value (fireNow, fireScheduled, fireCronNow, the manual-fire seam, the POST /v1/triggers/{name}/fire 202 and the immutable audit row that fire writes) now documents the absent-tenant skip alongside the deduped no-op it used to name exhaustively: fired: false is not by itself evidence that the work has run. Two boot refusals are unchanged, both with their exact previous message: a malformed (non-UUID) value, which no waiting could make valid, and an unset RAYSPEC_CRON_TENANT_ID on a spec that declares a cron/manual trigger. doctor and plan now also state the requirement up front, as the new non-fatal cron_tenant_required advisory on each declared cron/manual trigger — it names the variable, says the value is an org id, and says the org may not exist yet. Like every advisory it never affects ok. Embedder note: CronSchedulerDeps — the constructor dependencies of DbosCronScheduler, exported from @rayspec/durable-dbos — gains a REQUIRED tenantExists(tenantId) probe. Anything outside this repository that constructs the scheduler itself has to supply one; there is no default, deliberately, because a scheduler that cannot answer whether its tenant exists is exactly the thing that must not dispatch. Every in-tree construction site is updated.
• /health covers the declared frontend mounts, and its response carries a frontend field. The probe used to report only database reachability, so a deployment that also serves a frontend[] mount could answer 200 {"status":"ok","db":"ok"} while every static asset was still 503 — a deploy tool waiting on that signal reported "ready" while users saw 503. The response is now extended by one additive field, frontend, valued "ok" or "unavailable", and a mount that cannot be served answers 503 instead of 200. A mount is servable when its resolved directory is a readable, traversable directory and — for an spa: true mount — its index.html is a readable file. Both profiles are covered: the full platform ({"status","db","frontend"}) and the static profile ({"status","frontend"}, still no db field). The readiness is computed ONCE at boot and cached, so the probe performs no filesystem access per call no matter how often a load balancer polls it. The existing fields are untouched: same names, same values, and the reachable / unreachable database cases keep their exact 200 / 503. A deployment that declares no frontend mounts omits the new field entirely and answers byte-for-byte as before. The static profile's boot banner, printed by both rayspec-serve and rayspec deploy, describes the endpoint accordingly: its Liveness: block is now a Readiness: one naming the frontend field and the 503.
• A boot secret that normalization actually changed now says so, once, at boot. DATABASE_URL, RAYSPEC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY and RAYSPEC_API_KEY_PEPPER are trimmed on read — leading and trailing whitespace and a leading byte-order mark go, interior bytes stay — and until now that happened in silence. The silence is what hurts on an upgrade: a secret carrying stray edge whitespace that worked before is now trimmed, every request starts rejecting, and nothing points at the cause, so the operator searches the auth logic, the database and the proxy while an invisible character is to blame. The boot now emits one warning per changed secret, naming the variable it was resolved from — <VAR>, or <VAR>_FILE when the mount won — and the kind of change from a closed vocabulary: a leading byte-order mark removed, leading whitespace removed, trailing whitespace removed. It never names the value or any part of it: not truncated, not hashed, not a length, not a count, not an excerpt of what was removed — a warning reaches every log the process writes to, and the value is the secret. It reports the difference rather than prescribing a fix: the trailing newline a > redirect leaves in a secret file is the documented, harmless case and needs no action. A clean secret boots exactly as silently as before, a value that normalizes to nothing still just takes the fail-closed missing-variable abort that already names it, and nothing else moves: the resolved values, the <VAR>_FILE precedence and every abort are byte-for-byte what they were. The trim contract is documented alongside the signal in the README, the concepts guide, the CLI reference, the getting-started guide and .env.example.
• An agent that declares both tools and an outputSchema is now a config error. The linter adds agent_output_schema_shortcircuits_tools: an agents[] entry carrying a non-empty tools list AND a top-level outputSchema is rejected by doctor, plan, and boot, at agents[<i>].outputSchema. The combination is dead at runtime: a backend with native structured output (openai, anthropic, codex) projects the schema into that slot, so the model answers in one turn and never calls a tool; the backend that emulates structured output through instructions (pi) appends a JSON-only directive that pulls the answer the same way. Either way a declared lookup/persist loop silently never fires. The rule is uniform and fail-closed — it rejects the shape on every backend rather than per capability. Previously such a spec passed doctor with ok: true and only a live run exposed it. A spec of this shape must move the structured shape onto the persist tool's parameters and drop the agent's outputSchema (the agent's terminal action is then the tool call). A tool-less agent with an outputSchema — including the persistTo structured-output shape — is unaffected, as is a tool-using agent without one. The examples/acme-notes-backend reference document carried the combination and has been corrected the same way.
• A store named after a platform table is now a config error, not a boot failure. The linter adds reserved_store_name: a stores[] entry whose name is one of the tables the platform owns — api_keys, auth_audit, conversation_items, idempotency_keys, invites, journal_steps, memberships, oidc_models, orgs, run_events, runs, sessions, users, workflow_artifacts, workflow_node_states, workflow_runs — is rejected at stores[<i>].name, in both profiles, and at every other place a store name comes out of a product document: a product artifact's collection, which derives a store of that name, and a view's source: { kind: store, ref: … }, which names the transcript sink store when it resolves to neither a declared store nor a collection. What an author observes differently: such a document previously returned { "ok": true, "errors": [], "warnings": [] } from doctor and ok: true from plan — whose migration then carried the colliding CREATE TABLE — and failed only when the deployed container booted, in a restart loop whose cause was visible solely in container logs, after the build and image had already been paid for. It now fails doctor and plan with a message naming the store and asking for a rename, before anything is deployed. sessions for a chat application, invites and runs are the names most likely to be hit; the match is exact, so a distinguishing prefix (chat_sessions) is the whole fix, and a store renamed that way boots unchanged. The boot registrar's own refusal is untouched and stays the fail-closed net for a spec assembled in code that never meets the parser — it is simply no longer the first thing that says it. The reserved names are documented under stores in the spec reference.
• The release script has no default version any more: it derives the release version from the repository-root package.json and refuses, before it packs anything, if the checkout disagrees with it. scripts/publish.mjs used to fall back to a hard-coded version when --version was omitted, so a release run could stamp, pack and publish a version that no manifest in the tree carried — and neither a published npm version nor a release tag can be taken back. There is now no input that produces one: the version comes from the root manifest, and --version became an assertion against it — supplied and unequal, the run exits nonzero naming both values. Before the first manifest is stamped and before the first pnpm child process starts, the run also refuses when any RaySpec manifest carries a different version — every offender is listed with its path and its value, so one run names the whole drift instead of the first manifest of it — and when HEAD carries an annotated release tag naming another version. The @spike/* example fixtures are outside that check: they are not RaySpec packages, are never published, and are versioned independently. What differs per mode. --publish additionally requires the annotated tag v<version> to exist and point at HEAD, because that is the irreversible one. --pack and --dry-run only report the tag state — absent, lightweight, other-commit or at-head, in the human output and in --json — since both write nothing anywhere and a pack rehearsal legitimately happens before the tag for the version being prepared exists. The double gate for a real registry write (--yes-really-publish and RAYSPEC_ALLOW_PUBLISH=1) is unchanged, and the --json summary keeps every existing key and gains versionSource and tag.

# fixed

• A deployment whose only route to the internet is an HTTP proxy can run agents again. On such a deployment every agent run failed at its first model call with Error: Connection error., zero tokens and errorClass: internal, while the identical call from a freshly spawned process in the same container succeeded — and during the failing run, nothing from the application reached the proxy at all, measured as a delta on the proxy's own access log. The server's runtime closure contains undici v8, and undici v8 runs this the moment it is imported: if Symbol.for('undici.globalDispatcher.2') is unset it installs a plain Agent into it — and its setGlobalDispatcher also writes Symbol.for('undici.globalDispatcher.1'), the slot Node's built-in fetch reads, and exactly where NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1 had installed Node's own EnvHttpProxyAgent at startup. Node core never sets the .2 symbol, so the branch fires on the first import in any process. Importing the boot closure therefore replaced a proxy-aware global dispatcher with a direct-connecting one, and every globalThis.fetch caller in the process — the model SDKs among them — quietly stopped honouring the proxy. The boot now puts a proxy-aware dispatcher back, in the one place every boot shape reaches (assembleServer, which both rayspec deploy and rayspec-serve call, and through which the classic, Product-YAML and auth-only boots all pass), before the app is assembled and so before any run can start. It runs only where the running Node would have run it, and it changes nothing anywhere else. The condition is Node's own, in all three of its parts. First, the runtime has to implement NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY at all — it exists from Node 22.21.0 on the 22 line and across the 24 line and up, and NOT on Node 22.0–22.20 or 23.x, which this project's engines: node >= 22 still admits. Measured, reading Symbol.for('undici.globalDispatcher.1') with the environment set at startup: 22.12.0, 22.19.0, 22.20.0 and 23.11.1 install nothing; 22.21.1, 24.0.0 and 25.6.1 install an EnvHttpProxyAgent. On a Node without the feature the boot installs nothing either — a deployment carrying those variables in anticipation of a newer runtime keeps the direct egress it had. Second, NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY carries a value that runtime accepts, which is not the same value everywhere: the strict "must be 1" comparison arrived on the 24 line at 24.5.0, and the 24 releases before it arm on any non-empty value. Measured the same way, with HTTP_PROXY set — 24.0.0, 24.1.0, 24.2.0, 24.3.0, 24.4.0 and 24.4.1 install an EnvHttpProxyAgent for NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=true, =0 or =2, while 22.21.0, 22.21.1, 24.5.0 and 25.6.1 install nothing for any of them and only =1 arms them; a blank value arms none of them. The boot follows whichever rule the running Node applies rather than picking one and calling it Node's, so a deployment on 24.0–24.4 that spells the opt-in true — proxied by stock Node, and therefore broken by the clobber — is restored too. Third, at least one non-empty HTTP_PROXY / HTTPS_PROXY / http_proxy / https_proxy, which is also what Node requires before it installs anything. Below that bar the boot does not so much as load undici, and the two global-dispatcher symbols come out of it as the same objects they went in as. NO_PROXY keeps working: the dispatcher reads it itself, and a host excluded there is still reached directly.
• A malformed RAYSPEC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY now refuses the boot as a named, fail-closed config abort instead of crashing with the signing library's own error and a stack trace. loadServerConfig checks that the secret is present, and nothing between it and jose looked at the bytes, so a value that is not a PKCS#8 PEM surfaced as TypeError: "pkcs8" must be PKCS#8 formatted string or as DOMException: Invalid character — neither naming the variable, neither hinting that the value needs real newlines, and both taking the entrypoint's unexpected-error branch, which prints a Node stack trace with the absolute paths of the machine that built the artifact. The two shapes that reach it come from one documented value: rayspec dev gen-secrets writes the PEM into .env as a single line carrying literal \n escapes behind a leading ", and only the entrypoint's own .env loader un-escapes that form — a loader that skips any variable already present in the environment. So a value copied out of .env into an inline assignment is never un-escaped: with the quotes still attached the PEM header is not at offset 0, and with them stripped the literal \n survives into base64 decoding. The boot now aborts with Boot aborted — RAYSPEC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY is not a PKCS#8 PEM., naming the shape expected and both of those causes, and pointing at RAYSPEC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY_FILE. It is a BootConfigError, one of the classes the entrypoints print as a message rather than as a crash, so the stack trace is gone as well. No byte of the value is echoed, matching the surrounding secret diagnostics, which name the variable and the kind of problem but never the value. Nothing about what is accepted changed — a value that is not a PKCS#8 PEM still refuses the boot, and a real multi-line PEM, whether supplied directly or through the _FILE variant, boots exactly as before. The lead-qualifier example's boot recipe now passes the key through RAYSPEC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY_FILE, because the value that example's reader has in .env cannot be pasted into the inline assignment it previously showed.
• A cancelled run reports being cancelled, whatever else it also recorded. A run can hold two classed failures at once: the platform records the cancellation for a run that produced its answer anyway — the signal reached it in the post-backend tail, or it executes in a process the signal cannot reach — on top of whatever failing step the run had already journaled. The read path picked between them by position, taking whichever classed step the database returned last, and that order is not specified: the same rows, asked for with the same predicate, come back in different orders for different queries. A cancelled run could therefore read back with an upstream failure as its class, contradicting the rule the write side already follows — a cancelled run records the cancellation as its outcome and commits nothing else. The read now selects by class rather than by position, so it answers the same way regardless of row order. Runs with a single failing step are unaffected.
• Tearing down a pi session can no longer become the run's answer. The adapter tears its session down in a finally whose comment promises it happens "no matter what", but only the abort() call was guarded. A throw from unlinking the cancellation hook, from unsubscribing, or from dispose() escaped run() as a rejection — so a run that had completed perfectly well, or one that had a real upstream error worth reporting, came back to the caller as a tidying-up failure instead — and it skipped whatever teardown stood behind it, which is exactly the part that releases the SDK's resources. Each step is guarded individually now: a failure while tidying up is swallowed, the remaining steps still run, and the run keeps its own outcome.
• The codex adapter's tool-bridge teardown can no longer hang forever, so a cancelled run whose turn ends reaches its end instead of leaving the bridge alive. The adapter hosts an in-process MCP bridge — a listening HTTP server — alongside the codex child, and closed it by awaiting server.close(). That call stops accepting new connections immediately, but its completion callback waits for every connection that still has a request in flight, and nothing was dropping those: any peer still holding a connection with an incomplete request wedged the teardown forever. backend.run() then never settled, and the listening server plus its async work stayed alive behind a caller the run core had already stopped waiting on. The likeliest such peer is the codex child itself — the teardown only signals it, so it need not have exited and released its connection yet. The teardown now drops those connections, so it is bounded. This is not specific to cancellation: the teardown runs at the end of every run, and the regression test that pins it is an ordinary uncancelled run — one that used to hang and now finishes, which is precisely the observable change on a run with no cancellation signal. Everything else there is what it was: the SDK call, the sandbox confinement, the neutral result, the event sequence and the journaled step are pinned by value, save three that cannot honestly be held that way and are pinned by shape: the working directory and the step's wall clock, which are not stable across machines, and the producer stamp, which carries the pinned SDK version. The residual limits are stated in the adapter's README and in the per-backend table in docs/spec-reference.md, and the sharpest one is that a bounded teardown is only reached once the streamed turn ends: the child is signalled rather than force-killed, processes it spawned itself are not signalled, and a child that ignores the signal keeps its stdout — and therefore the whole run — open.
• Cancelling a run on the pi backend no longer lets the model request go out anyway. The adapter linked the run's abort signal to the session's abort(), but that call delegates to the agent's abort, which aborts the controller of the run the agent is currently executing and does nothing at all when there is none. A cancel that landed before the prompt reached the agent — including one that landed while the session was still being created — was therefore swallowed: the run read back as cancelled while the adapter issued the full request against a fresh, never-aborted controller and streamed the entire answer, spending the tokens and holding the provider work open after the caller had already been freed. The adapter now re-checks the run's signal immediately before the SDK call and does not make it on a run that is already over; no new terminal state is invented, because the platform already journals the cancelled run and discards whatever the adapter returns. Cancelling during a run reaches the transport: the agent run's controller signal is the one the model request carries, so an in-flight token stream is aborted, not merely abandoned. Nothing changes on a run nobody cancels: the session option bag and the prompt call are byte-identical whether the run context carries a signal or not, both pinned by tests, and the recorded fixtures and parity suite are untouched. The residual limits — the narrow window that remains and why it is a choice rather than an SDK constraint, the session's separate compaction controller, a run on another worker process, a host tool already in flight and the run() promise that stays pending behind it, and what the adapter returns for a run cancelled before the call — are written down in the adapter's README.
• A tombstoned organization is now absent on the authorization path too. Whether an org is a usable tenant is asked in four places, and three of them treated orgs.deleted_at as decisive: the org list does not return such an org, a login never resolves one, and a product deployment refuses to boot bound to one. The live-membership lookup — the one the org switch and the live re-check for sensitive permissions consult — did not, so a member of an erased tenant could still switch into it and still act in it, in an org the rest of the API behaves as if it had forgotten. It now joins orgs like the others; the switch answers the same uniform 404 it gives for an org you are not a member of, so nothing new is learned from the response. No shipped route sets orgs.deleted_at, so no reachable flow changes — this closes the disagreement rather than a live hole.
• POST /v1/auth/register with an orgName now hands back a token that is actually scoped to the org it just created. The response has always reported activeOrgId, but the session was issued before the org existed, so the row carried null and the token carried no org claim: the very first POST /v1/auth/refresh after the documented onboarding call answered activeOrgId: null, and a browser that registered and reloaded landed in no tenant at all. The org is now created as part of the registration, so the response, the session row and the token's claims name the same tenant, and the owner role travels with it. Registering without an orgName is unchanged. The same seam carries the operator bootstrap route, so a chosen-id tenant likewise comes back ready to use.
• A switch presented with a rotated refresh cookie records the choice on the live session instead of losing it. Inside the refresh grace window a client legitimately still holds the pre-rotation secret — POST /v1/auth/refresh already resolves that to the replacement row. The switch write did not: it landed on the superseded row, which no later refresh reads, so the selection vanished at the next reload. It now resolves the same hop, and the store refuses a write to a superseded row outright, so the rule is structural rather than a convention a future call site could forget. A rotated cookie beyond the grace window still resolves to nothing here; detecting a replay remains the refresh route's job.
• The chosen organization now survives a refresh and a fresh login instead of dying with the access token. POST /v1/orgs/{orgId}/switch re-minted a JWT scoped to the org but recorded the choice nowhere durable: sessions.current_org_id — the column POST /v1/auth/refresh reads back as activeOrgId — was only ever written when a session was created. A browser therefore lost its tenant on every refresh, which at an 8-minute access-token TTL means constantly, and again on every login. The refresh reported activeOrgId: null, so a client that wanted to be back where it already was had to re-run GET /v1/orgs, work out which of the returned organizations it had been in, and switch into it again. The switch now persists the choice on the caller's own session row, strictly after the live-membership recheck — so a denied switch still writes nothing, and the refresh that follows a successful one returns the same activeOrgId the switch returned. Session rotation carries it onto the replacement row, as it already did for a session created with one. POST /v1/auth/login additionally pre-fills the org when the user is an active member of exactly one live organization, the single-workspace case where the list-then-switch round trip was pure ceremony. Two or more memberships still yield null: the server has no basis on which to pick one and does not guess. Two limits are worth stating, because a consumer observes both. First, a refreshed token is now tenant-scoped but still roleless. POST /v1/auth/refresh mints an access token carrying the remembered org — that half is new — but, as it always has, no role claim. So the routes gated on a claim-trusted permission (org:read, apikey:read, store:read, agent:read, agent:run) answer 403 on it, while the permissions that are re-resolved live instead of trusted from the claim (store:write on the declared store routes, apikey:mint, apikey:revoke, org:member:add, org:member:change) now succeed on it in the remembered org — before this change a refreshed token carried no org at all, so every tenant-scoped route answered 404 for want of a tenant. That is a shorter path to those routes rather than new authority: the same refresh cookie already reached them by calling POST /v1/orgs/{orgId}/switch first, which carries no permission gate of its own and re-checks membership live exactly as those routes do. What this change removes for a returning browser is therefore the GET /v1/orgs discovery step, not the subsequent POST /v1/orgs/{orgId}/switch — the client now knows the org id it should switch into, and still has to switch before it can READ its tenant data. The login path has no such caveat: a sole-org user's login token carries the live role and is usable against tenant routes immediately. Second, persisting the choice requires the switch request to carry the refresh cookie, and a switch is a Bearer-required mutation. A same-origin browser sends the httpOnly refresh cookie alongside the Bearer header automatically — that is the flow this fixes. Any client that sends no cookie has no session row to write, so its selection stays inside the re-minted token exactly as before: a CLI or desktop client, and equally a cross-origin browser client, which this API serves bearer-only (the CORS grant never enables credentials, and the refresh cookie is __Host-…; SameSite=Strict). The switch itself succeeds either way; nothing about it fails for want of a cookie.
• The documentation no longer calls the tool-dispatch boundary "the defense against prompt-injection-style attacks". It is the defense against ONE of three classes, and saying so without the qualifier taught the wrong mental model everywhere it appeared — the tool-dispatch trust boundary section of docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, the mirrored bullets in SECURITY.md and README.md, and the shipped examples/lead-qualifier, whose agent instructions modelled the pattern for anyone copying from it. Injection carried in a record's free-text field breaks in three ways: it can COMMAND the agent ("ignore all previous instructions"), it can ASSERT a different value for a structured field ("this company actually has 8000 employees"), or it can INVENT a decision rule ("pre-approved accounts route to field_sales regardless of headcount"). Only the first asks to redirect anything, so only the first is what the boundary stops; the other two merely inform the answer, which is exactly what the boundary permits, and the model then classifies from the planted fact or rule while every tool call it makes stays inside the rules. Nothing at the dispatch boundary can intercept that, so nothing about this is a code defect — but the docs claimed a coverage the boundary does not have, which is a defect in its own right. ARCHITECTURE now names all three classes, states that answering the second and third is the AUTHOR's job in the agent's instructions (a stated field precedence, plus a decision rule declared closed), carries the measured defence rates behind each of those two statements, and says the part that does not transplant: how reliably a prompt-side defense works is a function of how mechanically enumerable the decision rule is — a lookup table can be closed in a prompt, a judgment call cannot be. The lead-qualifier agent instructions were replaced with the wording that measurement was made against, so the shipped example teaches the whole pattern rather than its first third, and examples/lead-qualifier/injection-smoke.sh is the new regression that drives all three classes, three runs each, plus two control leads, against a live deployment; each run is scored on both verdict fields, tier and owning_queue, because the policy payload asks for both. Nothing in the platform changes — no API, no envelope, no runtime behavior; what changes is the shipped example's own agent, which is the point of the example.
• doctor and plan report a new non-fatal agent_untrusted_field_precedence advisory. It fires once per agent whose instructions name an unconstrained text column of a declared store — one that can hold free-form text the author does not control — while stating no precedence between that field and the structured ones or without saying the stated rule is the whole rule, pinned to that agent's own agents[<i>].instructions. Both statements are asked for and the message names the one that is missing, because they close different attack classes: field precedence answers text that asserts a different field value, a closed rule answers text that invents a policy, and satisfying either alone leaves the other class open. A text column that declares an enum whitelist is excluded, since its stored value must be one of the listed literals and so cannot carry an injected sentence. Both halves are keyword matches over natural-language prose, so this advisory is wrong in both directions by construction: instructions that state a precedence in vocabulary outside its small closed list are flagged anyway, and instructions that merely contain one of those words are not. It also cannot confirm that the agent really receives those rows, nor whether it reads a named column or writes it — an agent's input is a runtime value, and the handler that assembles it lives in module source this pass never reads, so the message names the columns without asserting they are input. It is advisory for exactly those reasons: a heuristic over prose must never fail a deploy, so it never affects ok and no document that parsed before stops parsing. Two shipped documents report it as things stand — examples/acme-notes-backend and examples/expense-claim-coder, alongside the typescript_handler_module advisories they already carried — and examples/lead-qualifier, which reported it before its instructions were rewritten, no longer does.
• A full-platform deploy — a document that declares more than a frontend — now fails closed on an spa: true mount without an index.html, instead of booting into a permanent 503. The deploy guard that fail-closes on an unusable frontend.dir and the /health readiness probe disagreed about what makes a declared mount servable. The guard tested only the mount's directory; the probe additionally requires, for an spa: true mount, that the directory carries a readable index.html. A document whose spa directory existed but shipped no index.html therefore passed the gate, booted, served every API route and every real asset — and answered /health 503 for the rest of the process's life, because mount readiness is computed once at boot and cached, so nothing re-evaluated it. A readiness probe pulls such a process out of service permanently even though its API works. Both now decide from one shared per-mount check, so that guard refuses the mounts the probe would call "unavailable", with a BootConfigError naming the route, the declared dir and the resolved path. The directory case keeps its existing message verbatim; the spa case has its own, which additionally says that an spa mount serves index.html for every unmatched deep link and points at building the frontend into frontend.dir or setting spa: false. A frontend-only document is outside this guard's scope: both documented entrypoints branch it to the static profile before the guard runs, so there an unservable mount still boots and then reports /health 503 with "frontend":"unavailable" for the life of the process. That reporting is the extended probe described under Changed above — this fix neither adds nor alters it, and changes only which mounts a full-platform boot accepts. A deployment whose mounts are servable, or which declares no frontend mount at all, boots and answers as it did before this change.
• An async run's runId resolves while the run is still going, instead of 404 until it ends. POST /v1/agents/{id}/runs with async: true answers 202 with a runId and the /v1/runs/{runId}/events path to stream completion from. But the runs header row was written only by the completing upsert at the very end of the run, and both run-read routes read that row — GET /v1/runs/{id} reconstructs the result from it, and GET /v1/runs/{id}/events guards on it — so for the whole duration of the run, exactly when a caller most needs an answer, both replied 404, indistinguishable from "no such run". The header is now created at ENQUEUE with status: "enqueued", so — when that write lands — GET /v1/runs/{id} returns the run with a non-terminal status and the advertised events path is reachable throughout. run-core also moves the header to "running" when execution starts, but the durable worker runs the agent inside ONE transaction, so an async caller polling the endpoint reads enqueued for the whole run and then the terminal status; "running" is what a SYNC run publishes, which executes outside a transaction. A consumer that treated that endpoint's status as always one of completed / error now also sees enqueued and running; the two terminal values are unchanged, and so are the 404s for an unknown or another tenant's runId — the header read is tenant-scoped, so a foreign run in flight is exactly as invisible as a foreign finished one. Both new writes are strictly additive: the enqueue-time insert is an ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING, and the running transition applies only to a header that is still enqueued, so neither can touch a run that already carries an outcome. The completing upsert, which updates only a header that is not already completed, remains the one write that puts a run into a terminal status, and the exactly-once gate that couples it to persistTo output persistence is untouched. The enqueue-time header is written BEFORE the job reaches the durable worker — so it can never wait on a worker transaction that holds that row — and is removed again when the engine confirms the job was never created. That write is ADVISORY and best-effort: a failure to write it at enqueue is logged and the request still answers 202 with the runId rather than failing — but that runId then does not resolve, GET /v1/runs/{id} and the advertised events path answer 404 for the whole run as they did before this change, and never resolve at all for a run that ends by throwing, because the header such a run writes for itself rolls back with the worker transaction it is written in. Two consequences worth knowing. First, a run that THROWS (a crash, a timeout, an exception out of the backend) reaches no completing write at all, so any header it has stays at a non-terminal status and nothing reaps it: GET /v1/runs/{id} then answers 200 with enqueued/running for a run that will never finish, where it used to answer 404. Second, two places that read a run header now key on the status being TERMINAL rather than on the header merely existing: a second POST under an Idempotency-Key whose run is still executing continues to answer 409 "already in progress" rather than replaying a half-finished run, and the conversation reply path's bounded attempt walk re-uses the slot of an interrupted attempt instead of spending one of its deterministic attempt ids on it.
• A stream playback route no longer keeps its second authorization path to itself. Such a route validated, built and booted without a word, and every read attempt ended 401 UNAUTHENTICATED — including with a valid Bearer token of the tenant that had uploaded the bytes. The reason is sound but was invisible in the document: a playback route mounts its own middleware tuple and is authorized by a signed ?token= media token, not by the Bearer chain the other routes mount on, and that token is minted through init.mintPlayToken, a capability only a kind: handler route's handler receives — so a deployment that declares no route minting one leaves that playback route unreachable without an externally issued token. doctor and plan now report that shape as the new non-fatal stream_playback_media_token advisory, once per playback route declared in the document's own api[], pinned to that route's own api[<i>].action.mode. A playback route a pack contributes through extensions[] is merged into the spec at boot, while the advisory pass reads the parsed document, so such a route is outside its field of view — a property of every advisory, not of this one. It states the authorization shape and what follows if nothing mints a token; it deliberately does not claim the mint route is missing, because the mint call lives in handler module source and the advisory pass is pure over the parsed document. As with every advisory it never affects ok, so no document that parsed before stops parsing. The stream section of docs/spec-reference.md now says the same thing in one sentence.
• A document whose handler modules are TypeScript source no longer lints green and then aborts at boot. A backend document declaring a handlers[].module with a TypeScript extension (.ts, .tsx, .mts, .cts) validated with ok: true and no warnings at all, and the container then entered a restart loop: the production handler loader refuses TypeScript source fail-closed, because it loads compiled JavaScript only. Nothing about that needs a running system to see — the extension is written in the document — so doctor now reports the new typescript_handler_module advisory at handlers[<i>].module, naming the handler, the offending path, and the same two ways out a gen-handler render already recommends: compile the module to .js with a build step (the bundled examples/acme-notes-backend/build.mjs wrapper transpiles the handlers and rewrites the spec's module: paths), or re-render it as deployable ESM with rayspec gen-handler --emit js. It is an advisory, never an error: authoring against TypeScript source is the documented loop — the development loader takes un-built source through an explicit opt-in, and the shipped example documents declare such modules on purpose — so doctor still answers ok: true and no document that parsed before stops parsing. extensions[].module is deliberately not flagged, because that field is a pack root DIRECTORY reference rather than a module file path — the extension loader jails it as the pack root and appends its own entry file inside it — so there is no authored module extension there for the advisory to read. The extension set behind all three decisions — the loader's fail-closed guard, the pack resolver's sibling preference, and the new advisory — is written down in exactly one place rather than in copies that could drift, and @rayspec/spec exposes it as the function typeScriptSourceExtensionOf(modulePath), which answers with the TypeScript-source extension a module path carries — case-folded — or nothing when it carries none. It is a function and not a shared set on purpose: a set handed across the package boundary is a live object any consumer, or any code merely sharing the process, can add to or clear, and the loader's fail-closed guard reads that answer, so it must not rest on state a caller can rewrite. The match is case-insensitive at all three sites, so an uppercase extension is the same dead end as a lowercase one. All three make byte-for-byte the decisions they made before.
• rayspec deploy --dry-run reports a frontend-only document truthfully instead of ok: false. Such a document is not a product document, so composing it against the product runtime was never the question — yet that is what the check did, and it answered with three schema violations and exit 1 for a document the same command boots on the static branch. When the product grammar rejects a document, the dry-run now classifies it with the same detection that boot branches on and answers for the boot it would perform: ok: true and exit 0, with a staticProfile block in place of composed naming the profile, listing the frontendMounts it would serve, and stating outright that no database is touched, no migration applies, and there is nothing to compose. The honest boundary narrows with it — only the document was read, so what stays unproven is whether the declared directories hold built assets and that the app serves. Every other document's verdict is byte-for-byte what it was: the compose path, its composed summary and its notProven list are untouched, it stays as fast as it was (a product document's dry-run — whether it composes or reports violations — loads no boot machinery for the new classification, which is asked only of a document that is not the product profile), and the guards are unchanged (--apply-migration with --dry-run, and --apply-migration against a frontend-only document, are both still refused as usage errors).
• rayspec deploy boots a frontend-only document as the static profile, before any secret is read. A document whose only section is frontend is detected by the same fail-closed shape predicate the rayspec-serve entrypoint uses, and takes the same database-less, secret-less static boot — so rayspec deploy ./my-ui.yaml is now what the documentation says it is: the equivalent of RAYSPEC_SPEC_PATH=./my-ui.yaml rayspec-serve. Both previous outcomes were wrong, in opposite directions. With the three boot secrets present in the environment, deploy silently booted the full server on such a document: a live OIDC issuer answering /oidc/.well-known/openid-configuration, GET /v1/auth/me answering 401 instead of 404, and no Content-Security-Policy or Permissions-Policy on the served assets — the documented "provably no authenticated surface behind the assets" turned into its opposite with no signal. Without those secrets — the documented scenario — it refused to start at all, naming DATABASE_URL, RAYSPEC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY and RAYSPEC_API_KEY_PEPPER as missing. What an operator observes now, either way: the static boot banner, no database and no boot secret required, no auth / OIDC / run route mounted (/v1/auth/me → 404), /health reporting the declared mounts' readiness ({"status","frontend"}, still no db field and still no database probe), and the Content-Security-Policy + Permissions-Policy secure defaults on every served response (still overridable verbatim through RAYSPEC_FRONTEND_CSP and RAYSPEC_PERMISSIONS_POLICY). A document that declares anything else — stores, api, agents, tooling, triggers, handlers, extensions, or a durable worker — is unaffected and takes exactly the boot it took before, including its fail-closed error on a missing secret. Because that boot touches no database it reaches no migration engine, so --apply-migration / --allowlist against a frontend-only document are now refused as a usage error (exit 2, the message names the flag) instead of being accepted and dropped — the same rule deploy already applied to --apply-migration --dry-run and to a bare --allowlist. The static boot itself is unchanged; its entry points (isStaticProfile, loadStaticServerConfig, assembleStaticServer, staticBootBanner) are now re-exported from the @rayspec/server package root, so a wrapper can reach them as well.
• A mounted static frontend answers non-content methods with 405 instead of the SPA fallback. A static mount serves GET, HEAD and OPTIONS; every other method on any path under the mount now returns HTTP 405 carrying Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS and the platform's uniform JSON error envelope, with the new METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED code joining the closed error-code set. Previously, on an spa:true mount a POST or DELETE to a path that does not exist — a removed API route, for example — was answered 200 with index.html, so a caller could not tell a route that is gone apart from a write that succeeded; no data was written and no authorization was bypassed, the status was simply wrong. What integrators observe, by what the path used to resolve to: a non-content method against an existing file came back 200 with that file's bytes on either mount type; against a missing path it came back 200 + index.html on an spa:true mount, and on a plain mount either the 404.html page (when the mount ships one) or the uniform 404. All of them now come back 405 with the Allow header. Still answering first and keeping their exact response for every method: the reserved platform prefixes (/v1, /health, /oidc), the fail-closed path guard (traversal, dotfiles, symlink escapes) and the unsatisfiable-range 416 — all three run ahead of the method guard. Unchanged for the methods a mount serves: GET/HEAD of existing files, the GET deep-link fallback (200 + index.html, so History-API navigation still works), and the 404.html convention — a GET/HEAD/OPTIONS miss still gets the custom page, including its HEAD/OPTIONS metadata handling. The custom page is the one preserved surface that narrows: it sits behind the method guard, so on a mount that ships a 404.html a non-content verb is now answered 405 before the page is consulted. This narrows the 1.6.2 note that described the custom page as a plain mount's not-found surface without qualifying it by method.
• A replayed 429 from an agent run now carries the same Retry-After the live one did. A synchronous run that fails with the transient rate_limited class answers 429 and, when the backend adapter captured retry advice from the upstream limit, a Retry-After header read back from the run's failing journal step. One run can answer that twice. A failed run that fired a non-idempotent tool keeps its Idempotency-Key reservation — releasing it would let a retry re-fire the side effect — so a same-key retry replays the stored result, and the replay applies the same status mapping and answered 429 as well. It just answered it bare: for one and the same rate-limited run the first caller was told how long to wait and the second was told nothing, so a client that keys its backoff off the header behaved differently depending on which of the two surfaces it happened to hit. Both now emit the header through one shared path, from the same journal step, so a run's 429 advises every caller identically. Nothing else about either response changes: same status, same body, and a 429 whose upstream sent no retry advice still carries no header, on both surfaces.
• A 502 from an agent run carries its Retry-After too. The header followed the status rather than the advice: it was emitted only for a 429, although an upstream 5xx is classified with whatever retry advice came back exactly as a rate limit is, and upstream_5xx is a transient class whose Idempotency-Key reservation is released precisely so a retry re-runs. So a provider that answered 503 with a Retry-After had that advice written to the run's journal step and then dropped on the way out. It is now emitted for every retry-advisable status, on the live response and the same-key replay alike, and the generated OpenAPI documents the header on the 502 as it already did on the 429. A 504 still carries none — nothing upstream advises a delay for a deadline this platform imposed — and a 502 whose upstream sent no advice still carries no header.
• Every published RaySpec package now declares "engines": { "node": ">=22" }, so installing one under an older Node is reported by your package manager instead of failing later at runtime. The Node requirement was declared only on the repository-root manifest, which is private and never published — so nothing in the packages you actually install said anything about Node, and an install under Node 18 went through silently. The incompatibility then surfaced whenever the code first reached a Node 22 API. All 29 packages of the publish closure carry the field now: the unscoped rayspec launcher, @rayspec/cli, @rayspec/server, the five provider adapters, and every kernel, compose, capability and workflow package they depend on. Installing one under Node 18.20.4 makes npm print npm warn EBADENGINE … required: { node: '>=22' }, and with --engine-strict it refuses outright (npm error code EBADENGINE, exit 1); under Node 22 the same install succeeds. One honest caveat about the closure as a whole: @rayspec/adapter-pi depends on @earendil-works/pi-ai, which declares engines.node: ">=22.19.0", so an --engine-strict install of the full launcher closure needs that patch level rather than any Node 22. The >=22 stamped here is this project's own floor, not a claim about every transitive dependency. Nothing else about the packages changed — same contents, same dependencies, same entrypoints. A future package cannot ship without it. The requirement string has one source, the repository-root engines.node, so a Node bump moves one number. scripts/publish.mjs now refuses a pack, dry-run or publish — before the first manifest is stamped and before the first pnpm child process — when any package in the publish closure omits engines.node or declares a different value, naming every offender with its path and the value it carries. The stamping step deliberately does not inject the field: a package that does not declare the requirement in its committed manifest must not ship at all, which is the whole point of the check. Workspace members outside the publish closure (@rayspec/parity, @rayspec/local-boot) are untouched — nobody installs them.
• The Expense-Claim Auto-Coder example ships the build step its documented live smoke needs. Its spec points handlers[].module at the committed handlers/*.gen.ts, which are the byte-goldens the renderer is pinned against — and the runtime loads compiled JavaScript only, so the boot in that example's README fail-closed on TypeScript source instead of serving. build.mjs now writes the deployable form: it renders each committed hole-set with gen-handler --emit js, marks the output directory as ESM, and copies the spec with its module: paths rewritten — so the example boots from dist/rayspec.yaml the way the bundled hand-written backend already did. It renders rather than transpiles because for a generated handler the JavaScript target is a first-class render, and a comment-stripping transpile would ship a file the renderer never produced. Repository examples only: no published package, API or runtime behavior changes.
• Two backends built into dist/ no longer share one throwaway development database. The local-boot wrapper derives its database name from the spec file's directory precisely so that side-by-side backends do not collide, but it read only the last path segment — which is dist for every built backend, so the second boot silently DROPped and re-created the first one's database. A spec inside a build-output directory is now named after the backend instead, and the derivation is a pure exported function with the collision pinned by a test. Development wrapper only.
• Two backends with long directory names no longer share one throwaway development database either. The same derivation was unbounded in length, and Postgres stores only the first 63 bytes of an identifier — so two sibling directories whose names agree on their first 49 characters were one database, and the second backend's first-deploy boot DROPped and re-created the first one's data. Nothing reported it afterwards, because the connection URL built from the untruncated name resolves to the truncated database. A derived name that would not fit is now capped and disambiguated with a short digest of the resolved spec path, so the result is at most 63 bytes and what keeps two capped siblings apart is that digest rather than how much of their directory names happens to fit. That is a bound, not a guarantee of distinctness: the digest is 8 hex characters, so two capped names still collide when their spec paths' digests do — accepted deliberately for a throwaway development database, where the failure being closed is that every sufficiently-long sibling pair collided by construction. A name that already fits is returned unchanged, byte for byte, so an existing backend keeps the database it has been booting into. A spec at a filesystem root now derives a complete name as well: its directory segment is the empty string, and the fallback only covered an absent one, so every such spec derived the single name rayspec_local_. The cap also reserves the nine bytes the companion <name>_dbos_sys needs: truncation makes that identifier equal to the database's own at exactly 63 bytes, so a cap that only respected the 63-byte limit would have put every newly capped name on the one length where the boot's companion drop names the app database instead of the companion — the drop is issued one statement after that database has been dropped, so it would find nothing and stale workflow state would survive. Capped names are therefore at most 54 bytes and both identifiers stay whole and distinct. A directory name that already fits but is longer than that keeps the aliasing it has today: changing it would orphan the database that backend has been booting into, which is the collision this derivation exists to avoid. Development wrapper only.
• RAYSPEC_REQUIRE_MEDIA_TESTS reaches the suite it gates. The remux suite carries an un-skippable guard that refuses to self-skip when the variable says the real media proof is required — but pnpm test runs the suites through turbo in strict environment mode, and the variable was not among those the test task declares, so it was stripped before any test saw it. Measured with the variable set and ffmpeg unavailable: the suite reported 66 passed and 3 skipped, which is exactly the false green the guard exists to prevent; it now fails. Its two siblings for the database- and provider-backed suites were already declared. Repository tooling only.
• A deployment booted from a *.product.yaml document now runs the daily platform housekeeping job it was always documented to run. The job — one platform-wide pass that hard-deletes expired oidc_models rows and then runs the operator-gated GDPR tombstone purge — rides the durable worker, and the rule has always been that it is wired whenever a durable worker is launched, independently of whether the spec declares cron triggers. A product deployment does launch one, but only the classic rayspec.yaml boot registered the job; the product boot never constructed the scheduler at all, so on that deployment shape the daily pass simply never happened. Nothing said so: no boot line mentions the cleanup, the only symptom is a table that quietly never shrinks, and RAYSPEC_CLEANUP_SCHEDULE, RAYSPEC_GDPR_PURGE_ENABLED and RAYSPEC_GDPR_RETENTION_DAYS were all resolved at boot — the retention window fail-closed-validated, the gate and the crontab taken as written — and then never read. The product boot now registers the same scheduled workflow in the same pre-launch window, over the same pool that boot's worker already runs on, and gains the same on-demand cleanup seam the classic profile has always had: an in-process one, BootedServer.runCleanupNow, available to a host that embeds the server — no route and no CLI command invokes it. The gate keeps its meaning exactly: unset — the default — the purge counts what it would delete and deletes nothing, while the OIDC prune is ungated and always deletes. This changes what a running product deployment does: see the upgrade note. The classic boot is untouched, and both boot shapes are now pinned by tests that assert against the booted server — one seeds an expired token row and waits for the schedule loop to prune it with nobody calling anything, the other arms the gate and watches a past-retention tombstone actually disappear.
• A mistyped key in a gen-handler holes file is refused instead of quietly rendering a handler without the safety it names. The holes parser read the keys it knew and ignored the rest, so a single character was enough to lose a server-side mechanism with nothing to show for it: starting from the Expense-Claim reference hole-set, clampValues written as clampValue rendered a handler with the whole server-side clamp gone (5207 bytes → 3964), and fkRevalidate written as fkRevalidates rendered one with the foreign-key re-validation gone (→ 4648) — and both runs reported ok: true and exited 0, so the author had no way to notice from the render. The same loss was one level down, where a hole key is just as load-bearing: lookupFixedFilter written as lookupFixedFilters rendered a foreign-key re-check without its active: true predicate (5207 bytes → 5186), so the re-check began matching deactivated lookup rows, and — on a hole-set whose enum column carries no clamp, where nothing else notices — enumValues written as enumValue rendered a coercion without the closed-set membership check (3964 → 3895), so any string the model emitted was persisted into the classification column. Every hole object whose shape is fixed now carries a closed key set — the hole-set itself (per template), each columns[] entry, fkRevalidate, and each clampValues rule, the last of which already was — the way the spec grammar already is: an unrecognised key fails the hole-set with the standard malformed-hole-set envelope (ok: false, an errors entry, exit 1), names the offending key, and names the known key it is a near-miss of. The map-valued holes (fixedValues, fixedFilter, lookupFixedFilter, clampValues) are keyed by column name, so their keys stay fenced by the snake_case charset and the column rules — which leaves no tolerated annotation prefix at any level. A hole-set that only uses declared keys is unaffected and renders byte-for-byte what it always did.
• A relative --out no longer scatters the release tarballs one per package directory. scripts/publish.mjs --pack handed --out to each pnpm pack child exactly as it was typed, and those children run with their working directory set to the package being packed — so a relative destination resolved once per target: the 29-package closure landed in 29 separate packages/**/release/v<version>/ directories while the run printed the single unresolved path as if the tarballs were all there. release/ is gitignored at any depth, so nothing about that showed up in git status. The documented release sequence passes exactly such a relative path and then hands the same string to release:identity and release:identity-verify, which resolve it against the repository root — so pointed at a directory the pack never wrote, those two would build and verify a release-identity manifest over whatever an earlier run happened to have left there and report 0 failure(s) for tarballs that are not the ones just packed. The destination is now resolved to an absolute path once, before the first target is packed, so every target lands in that one directory and the tarballs → … line names it. An absolute --out, and the temporary directory used when --out is omitted, are unchanged. Measured on a tree with no release directory anywhere: node scripts/publish.mjs --pack --out release/v1.7.0 from the repository root puts 29 .tgz in <repository-root>/release/v1.7.0/ and find packages -name '*.tgz' -path '*/release/*' finds none, where before it found 29 and the repository root held none; the documented steps that follow then run verbatim. Repository release tooling only: no published package, API or runtime behavior changes.
• A boot that refuses because RAYSPEC_FS_SOURCE_ROOT does not name an existing directory now tells the operator which variable to fix, and tells them without a stack trace. The read-only fs-source root is validated once, at boot: a path that does not exist, and a path naming a regular file, both abort. That refusal is raised inside @rayspec/platform, which is handed a plain root path and never learns which variable produced it, so the message named the resolved path and nothing else — unlike the environment refusals those two boot paths raise themselves (RAYSPEC_GDPR_RETENTION_DAYS, RAYSPEC_ACCESS_TOKEN_TTL_SECONDS, RAYSPEC_CRON_TENANT_ID, RAYSPEC_BLOB_ROOT, RAYSPEC_MEDIA_PREP), which each name the variable they refuse on. It was also outside the small set of classes the rayspec-serve entrypoint recognises as operator-actionable, so it printed as boot failed: followed by a Node stack trace of absolute filesystem paths. Both boot paths now catch that refusal where the variable is known and re-raise it in their own house wording: a spec boot aborts with Boot aborted — RAYSPEC_FS_SOURCE_ROOT='<resolved path>' does not exist or is not a directory. … Fail-closed., and a Product-YAML boot with the same sentence behind that boot's own Boot aborted (Product-YAML) — prefix. Both classes are ones rayspec-serve prints message-only, so the refusal now arrives as that one line and nothing else. Nothing about the decision changed: the same two conditions refuse, the process still exits non-zero, serves nothing, and never creates the directory it refused — measured on the real entrypoint, which exits 1 and leaves the missing path absent. makeFsSourceFactory keeps its (root: string) signature and its own message, so an embedder calling it directly sees exactly what it saw before.
• A product-boot refusal through rayspec deploy no longer carries a stack trace — it is the diagnosis alone, the way the same refusal through rayspec-serve already was. Both entrypoints assemble the same deployment and raise the same refusals, but only the rayspec-serve entrypoint counted ProductBootError among the errors it reports as a message rather than as a crash. Through rayspec deploy a product-boot refusal fell into the unexpected-error arm instead: an operator who set RAYSPEC_PRODUCT_TENANT_ID to something that is not a UUID got the diagnosis followed by seven stack frames of absolute paths belonging to the machine that built the artifact — paths that name nothing on the operator's own machine, in a trace that buries the line telling them what to fix. Measured on the shipped acme-notes product against a throwaway database: that refusal now writes the single line [rayspec deploy] Boot aborted (Product-YAML) — RAYSPEC_PRODUCT_TENANT_ID=… and exits 1, where the same command previously wrote eight lines, seven of them at frames; a well-formed id that names no live org, and an unsupported RAYSPEC_MEDIA_PREP, likewise lose their frames. Exit codes and the wording of every diagnosis are untouched — only the trace is gone. An error that is not one of the fail-closed classes still prints its stack, so a genuine crash stays exactly as debuggable as it was. The two entrypoints now name the identical four classes (BootConfigError, BootTimeoutError, DeployError, ProductBootError), compared at the source by a test so they cannot drift apart again. What each entrypoint prints for a given class is unchanged by this release: a DeployError through rayspec deploy still carries the roll-out refused: prefix and the follow-on line naming the sanctioned registration path, which rayspec-serve does not print.
• A deliberately generous RAYSPEC_FFMPEG_TIMEOUT_MS no longer turns into the shortest cap there is. The variable is a wall-clock cap on ONE ffmpeg or ffprobe child, and the number an operator wrote went straight into a timer — which keeps a delay only up to 2147483647ms and silently substitutes 1ms for anything larger (Node prints TimeoutOverflowWarning beside it). A cap above that ceiling therefore did not wait longer, it waited a millisecond: the child was SIGKILLed while perfectly healthy and the step ended as a fail-closed remux error naming a timeout that had never applied, so every recording that needed stitching — the transcription path included — failed. Both the ffmpeg and the ffprobe child were affected, since they read the same variable. Measured against a stub child that works for two seconds and then fails: at 2147483647 the remux ended on the child's own exit after 2021ms, at 2147483648 it ended on the timer after 6ms. A value above the ceiling is now UNUSABLE and uses the 120000 default, which is the rule the agent-run bounds already apply to their four variables; it is not clamped to the ceiling, because running with a number nobody wrote is its own surprise, and an operator who asks for an enormous cap is asking for the work not to be cut off, which the generous default already gives them. The same now holds at the other end, where a timer behaves identically: a value that floors below 1 — 0.5 — used to reach the timer and become a 1ms cap, and is unusable too. A value in range is read exactly as before, now floored to a whole millisecond so the cap the timer gets is the one the refusal message names. .env.example states the extended rule, in the wording the agent-run bounds block already uses.

# documentation

• Three shipped statements narrowed to what the code carries. (1) The getting-started page said a minted API key "authenticates a client that only holds the API key", one block below a worked GET /v1/auth/me call — so a reader followed the same call with their new key and got a 401 reading Authentication failed. for a credential that is perfectly valid. The key is resolved to a principal; that route just answers a user identity, and an API-key principal has no user behind it, so the handler refuses. The sentence now scopes the key to the routes the spec declares and names the exception. (2) The CLI reference presented path_escape as an emitted error code, in a section that documents code as a closed set — but every read-time refusal is deliberately flattened onto yaml_parse_error so the envelope stays uniform, and the message carries the cause. The reference now says which code actually arrives and that a tool must read the message to tell a jail refusal from a syntax error. (3) The walkthrough tells you to create rayspec.yaml in the repo root, which left a reader who followed it inside their own clone with an untracked file from then on; that path is now ignored, as .env, each dist/ and release/ already were. No behaviour changed in any of the three — the code was right and the words were not.
• The getting-started walkthrough's token-expiry recovery can now be carried out by a reader who followed the page literally. The page provisions the first tenant with a pinned owner address and never passed --password, then promised — in a paragraph added this release — that an expired 8-minute token could be refreshed by running dev bootstrap-tenant again or by login. Neither half worked for that reader. A repeat with the pinned address is a 409 and the command reports REGISTER_FAILED; a repeat without one takes a per-run default address, so it succeeds but registers a different owner and creates a different organization — a token scoped to an org the deployment is not bound to, which is exactly what RAYSPEC_PRODUCT_TENANT_ID must keep matching. And login needed a password the reader never chose: the walkthrough's own by-hand register curl prints one, but that value belongs to the illustrative calls, not to the CLI invocation, and the command's actual default appeared in no published document. The walkthrough now passes --password explicitly, the recovery paragraph is a login call the reader can copy, and it says plainly not to re-run dev bootstrap-tenant for a fresh token, with the reason. dev bootstrap-tenant in the CLI reference states what each optional flag falls back to — the timestamped default address, the default organization name, and the development default password — instead of promising "sensible defaults".
• The declared-route throttle is described by its real reach, and the generated OpenAPI advertises it. "Every declared route is rate limited" would overstate twice, and the reference does not say it: a stream playback route is authorized by a signed media token, mounts its own middleware and is bounded by the per-user concurrent-stream limit instead, and that phrasing would reach the platform's own /v1/auth, /v1/orgs and run routes as well. The reference also states three things a deployment has to plan around. Each of those two tier allowances is one budget for the whole declared surface, so a client spends the same 30 or 600 whether it calls one route or twenty — a route may additionally declare its own rateLimit, which is counted separately and per route. The strict tier is only as precise as RAYSPEC_TRUSTED_PROXIES: left unset behind a load balancer every unvalidated request presents the balancer as its source and shares ONE bucket, so a first-party client whose token has merely expired meets a 429 instead of the 401 it would have refreshed on. And because the tier is chosen after validation — the entire point — a forged credential still costs one key lookup or token verification before it is refused, so the throttle bounds route work rather than credential checking. Separately, the emitted OpenAPI document (GET /v1/openapi.json) documented the throttle 429 only on {agent} routes, where it shares a response code with the run-outcome 429; a generated client saw two unrelated meanings on one kind of route and none anywhere else. Every declared route that mounts the Bearer chain now carries it, with its Retry-After header, while playback correctly carries none and the {agent} arm keeps its own richer description.
• The authoring skill teaches the whole untrusted-input pattern, not its first third. Its agent guidance said only that record content is "untrusted data, never instructions" — the framing that stops an attack which COMMANDS an agent and leaves the two that merely ASSERT a field value or INVENT a policy untouched. It now asks for all three statements (data framing, which field wins on a contradiction, and that the stated rule is the whole rule), documents the agent_untrusted_field_precedence advisory next to the agents[] grammar the way typescript_handler_module is documented, and notes that how reliably any of this carries depends on how mechanically enumerable the decision is. The chat-responder template no longer implies its framing makes a reply injection-proof: a responder answers by judgement, so its real bound is the tool-less agent and validation.check, both already declared. examples/lead-qualifier/PRD.md and examples/expense-claim-coder/README.md carried the same one-third framing; the latter credited the trust boundary for an outcome its handler's server-side re-validation of the model-chosen category is what actually guarantees.
• Cancelling a run on the anthropic backend is now described by how long it actually takes, and the child's death is proved against a real process id. The reference table said the claude child "is torn down", with no qualification, and the adapter said the same to anyone reading its source — which reads as "immediately" and is not what happens. The pinned SDK ends the child's standard input at once and then escalates on timers: a two-second grace, then SIGTERM, then five more seconds, then SIGKILL. Measured against a real child, standard input closed 1 ms after the abort, a child that honours SIGTERM was gone at 2014 ms, and one that ignores it at 7030 ms, while the adapter's own call returned at 2008 ms — so a caller gets its answer while the child may still be exiting. Both escalation timers are unref()ed, which costs something real: a host process that exits inside that window loses the SIGKILL rung, and a child that ignores SIGTERM is then left running — measured still alive twenty seconds after a host that exited 200 ms after the abort, at which point the observation stopped. The adapter's README now lists that limit alongside the four others this backend inherits (every rung is sent to the child's own process id and never to a process group; no signal reaches a run executing in a separate worker process unless RAYSPEC_RUN_CANCEL_POLL_MS is set; a tool call already in flight is not interrupted; work already committed upstream is not undone), and the reference table's anthropic row says seconds rather than implying instants. Nothing about how a run behaves changed — what changed is that a reader can now find out what they are getting, and that a test in the adapter package drives the real SDK against a stand-in executable, holds the process id the SDK spawned and watches it disappear, instead of checking that a boolean flipped. That test exercises the SDK's process-level teardown; it says nothing about the vendor binary's own shutdown behaviour.
• The documented environment surface covers seventeen more variables an operator can set. .env.example is what the CLI reference and the getting-started guide both call the full set, and it omitted every variable in this list, including two that gate irreversible behavior: the GDPR tombstone purge (RAYSPEC_GDPR_PURGE_ENABLED, whose absence leaves the purge counting rather than deleting) and its retention window (RAYSPEC_GDPR_RETENTION_DAYS, where a value that is not a non-negative number refuses the boot). The rest are the access-token lifetime, the body-refresh opt-in, the daily cleanup schedule, the handler and fs-source roots, the media-prep selector with its ffmpeg/ffprobe binaries and per-child timeout, the conversation and normalize executors, the extraction-config override, the update-mode delta and allowlist paths, and the .env auto-load opt-out. Each entry states its default, what an unusable value does, and whether that is a refusal or a fallback. Four variables that only change how this repository's own suites behave are deliberately still absent, as is one the codex adapter writes per run rather than reads.
• Four reference statements a reader could act on wrongly. The /health documentation described the frontend field and the 503 but never the status value that accompanies them, so an operator matching the body exactly would meet an undocumented "degraded" in production; the bigint migration guidance covered only the widening direction, leaving the reviewer's USING obligation and the narrowing failure unstated; the handler facade's ordering paragraph gave the id asc default without the offset-paging caveat its own SDK docstring carries; and the gen-handler section documented a required --holes flag whose file format appeared nowhere in docs/. The authoring skill also gained the api[].rateLimit field, which it had omitted entirely, and its clamp rule now names the mechanism that enforces it. Contributor-facing: the test-suite gates that turn a self-skip into a failure are documented in CONTRIBUTING.md, which previously stated the false-green principle without naming the lever.
• The contributing guide's live-test promise is now the one the suites actually keep, and it names the variable that closes the gap. The guide said RAYSPEC_REQUIRE_LIVE_TESTS=true turns a provider-backed skip into a collection-time failure the way RAYSPEC_REQUIRE_DB_TESTS=true does for the database-backed suites, and then offered a run "where nothing skips". For the cross-backend parity smoke that holds only when no provider credential at all is present: hold exactly one and the guard is satisfied, the blocks whose credential is absent skip themselves, and the run exits 0 — measured collection-only, a single credential collects one of that file's five live blocks and the other four never run. (The server intake smokes and the Deepgram live test do fail on their own missing credential, which is what made the blanket claim look true — but the opt-in does not gate them at all: they call a real provider whenever their own credential is present, so a filled-in repo-root .env is enough for them to spend.) RAYSPEC_LIVE_BACKENDS is what makes it true — a comma-separated list drawn from openai, pi, anthropic and codex naming the backends a run must exercise, where a named backend whose credential is absent, or a name outside those four, fails collection instead of skipping — and it appeared in no document a contributor reads. It is now documented beside the other require-gates, with its value form, the four names and the credential each one needs, and the guide no longer promises a no-skip run it cannot deliver on a partial credential set. No behavior changed: the same credential configurations are refused, with byte-identical messages, and the continuous-integration live lane still names its backends explicitly. The decision itself is now a pure function the parity package tests directly, one case per credential configuration, so the one-credential behavior the guide now describes cannot drift away from it unnoticed.
• The expense-claim auto-coder's smoke script no longer carries its own copy of the boot sequence. Its Prereqs: header restated the setup and pointed RAYSPEC_SPEC_PATH at the committed rayspec.yaml, whose handlers[].module entries are TypeScript source — the loader refuses those fail-closed, so that boot aborted at deploy with exit 1 and nothing was served, which means the Run: line under it could never fire. Holding a second copy is what let it drift out of step with examples/expense-claim-coder/README.md, so the header no longer holds one: it states what the script assumes — the built dist/ backend already being served — and sends the reader to the README's "Run the live smoke", now the single place that sequence lives, as the sibling example scripts already do. The script keeps its own usage line, and its unreachable-server message names the same section.
• The same smoke script no longer announces a 404 on a declared agent route, and the spec reference now states what such a route does with a path parameter. Just before its write-isolation check the script posts POST /claims/{id}/code as a second organization and printed expect 404 — cannot code A's claim, with comments attributing that refusal to a tenant predicate resolving {id} — while its own case arm absorbed a 200 silently, so the announced expectation and the accepted status disagreed. No such resolution exists to refuse anything: an agent action declares agent and an optional persistTo and nothing else, so a route names no store its path parameter could address; the route registers the tier throttle, authentication, tenant resolution and agent:run, then hands the request to the run surface, which prepends the matched parameters to the run input as a labelled Route parameters: block and otherwise leaves them as text for the agent. The script now announces the run result it accepts, says why {id} is not resolved, and keeps the write-isolation re-read as the hard assertion it always was — which holds because every store the run touches goes through the tenant-scoped data layer bound to the caller's organization, so another organization's id matches no row there exactly as an invented one would. docs/spec-reference.md gains a "The path parameter" subsection saying the same for every agent route, including the contrast a reader needs: a store route's get and the run routes do answer 404 on an id outside the caller's tenant. No behavior changed — the correction is in the example script and the reference.
• The expense-claim auto-coder's README points at a security policy that exists. Its trusted-posture note offers exactly one link, and that link routed through a directory at the repository root which this repository does not have and has never had — no commit in the history touches such a path — so from examples/expense-claim-coder/ it resolved to a file that is not there, and the reader weighing the trust boundary the note describes had nothing to follow. The target is now ../../SECURITY.md, which resolves to the repository root SECURITY.md, the only SECURITY.md tracked here. Resolving every relative *.md link in every committed .md file confirms this was the only target that did not exist: of the 81 such links across 12 files, the other 80 each resolve to a file present in the tree.
• RAYSPEC_MEDIA_PREP is documented for the blank value it actually accepts. The .env.example entry promised that "Any OTHER value refuses the boot by name — an invalid value is never coerced", and the doc comment above mediaPrepEnabled said the same for "any OTHER value". Both overstate: the selector is read with ?.trim() and the unset branch accepts the empty string alongside undefined, so a blank value takes the ffmpeg default and wires the prep step. An operator who left RAYSPEC_MEDIA_PREP= in a file — the ordinary way an env var is neutralized without deleting the line — was told to expect a named refusal and got a silent default instead. Both texts now say "blank counts as unset", the phrasing RAYSPEC_ACCESS_TOKEN_TTL_SECONDS and RAYSPEC_GDPR_RETENTION_DAYS already use for the same shape, and both state that the value is trimmed before it is matched, so the refusal claim reads on non-blank values only. No behavior changed — blank keeps counting as unset. The unit tests gain the two arms that pin it: an empty string and a whitespace-only value both resolve to the wired default, alongside a case-variant arm (FFMPEG) that still refuses, since the match is exact after trimming. The refusal message itself now reads "unset or blank ⇒ ffmpeg": the doc comment said blank counts as unset, but the message an operator meets on a typo is the only place that reaches them, and it named unset alone. The comment above the reader no longer claims the repo-wide law that every declared env fail-closes on an invalid value — it states what this reader does.
• Two shipped sentences narrowed to what they can carry. .env.example's RAYSPEC_FS_SOURCE_ROOT entry said the root is checked by "a boot that DEPLOYS A SPEC (a rayspec.yaml or a *.product.yaml document)", but a frontend-only static document is a rayspec.yaml too, and that boot does not read the variable — the entry says so three lines later. It now names a backend spec. In examples/expense-claim-coder/smoke.sh, the comment above the printer said a body "is only ever printed in a form that cannot leak", which claims an invariant the printer does not establish; it now says what the printer does, which is mask three named fields.
• .env.example no longer claims RAYSPEC_FS_SOURCE_ROOT is validated on every boot. The entry said the root is "checked ONCE at boot — a root that does not exist or is not a directory refuses the boot", which an operator reads as a guarantee that a typo cannot start a server. It holds only where the fs-source is actually built, and only two boots build it: the rayspec.yaml deploy and the *.product.yaml deploy. Both build sites are gated on the variable alone, so a spec deploy checks the root whether or not the document declares a handler or tool init.fsSource would be handed to. An auth-only boot (no RAYSPEC_SPEC_PATH) deploys no spec, so it never constructs the factory the check lives in — it resolves the value to an absolute path, validates nothing, and serves; a frontend-only static boot does not read the variable at all. The entry now says where the check applies and what the other two boots do instead. The refusal itself is unchanged, and the boot suite gains the missing half of the picture: the same missing-path and regular-file roots that abort a spec deploy are now asserted to serve on an auth-only boot, beside the arms that pin the refusal. No behavior changed — the correction is in the sample environment file.
• The README's "From source" block now explains the Failed to create bin warnings it makes the reader produce. Its first two commands clone the repository and run pnpm install && pnpm build, and on a fresh clone the install half prints a run of WARN … Failed to create bin at … ENOENT lines and then exits 0: it runs before the build, so the two workspace bins it tries to link — rayspec (@rayspec/cli → ./dist/index.js) and rayspec-serve (@rayspec/server → ./dist/serve.js) — still point at dist/ files nothing has written, and each link is reported more than once. The README said nothing about them, so the first thing the page produced was unexplained red text; getting-started has carried the same explanation since #66, but a reader in the README is not reading getting-started. A blockquote directly beneath that command now says they are non-fatal and why, and states the consequence the rest of the block silently depends on: nothing links those bins until pnpm install is run again after the build, and even then only rayspec-serve reaches the repo-root node_modules/.bin, because the root package depends on @rayspec/server and not on @rayspec/cli — which is why the block's CLI steps invoke node packages/app/cli/dist/index.js rather than rayspec. The same correction lands in docs/getting-started.md, whose note promised that a re-run install "creates the bins cleanly" and so implied both. The block's deploy step also prints the boot's NON-REAL PROVIDER(S) SELECTED banner, because the block selects STT_PROVIDER=fake; its comment now names that banner as the expected dev/CI posture, as the walkthrough already does. No behavior changed — the build sequence the README documents is untouched.

# security

• The two chokepoint-family gates refuse to certify a source root they never read. Both pnpm gate:chokepoint (no raw-db handle or unscoped() in the request path) and pnpm gate:adapter-handlers (no tool handler outside ctx.dispatchTool) walk a fixed list of source roots, and their directory walk returns silently on a path that does not exist. Renaming or moving any one of those packages therefore retired that root's scan without a signal: zero files read, zero violations found, exit 0, and a PASS line indistinguishable from a real one — the adapter gate's line even names all four adapters as clean. Each gate now counts the files it scanned per root, exits non-zero naming any root that read nothing, and reports its coverage in the PASS line the way the handler-imports, extension-capability and no-pack gates already do (… 100 source file(s) across 4 root(s) …). This is the same fail-open, and the same guard, that check-no-pack-imports.mjs already carries. No invariant was unenforced: the roots are correct in this tree and both gates fire on a planted violation — what changes is that a future rename becomes loud instead of silent. Repository infrastructure only: no published package, API or runtime behavior changes. The regression runs locally via pnpm test:gate-coverage.
• The expense-claim-coder live smoke no longer prints credentials to the terminal. Its pp helper pretty-printed whole response bodies at seven call sites, and three of those bodies carry credential material: the user access token from POST /v1/auth/register, the org-scoped access token from POST /v1/orgs/{id}/switch, and the api-key plaintext from POST /v1/orgs/{id}/api-keys — which has no expiry and holds store:write and agent:run. A developer running the smoke therefore had all three in their scrollback, and in any log or paste of that run. pp now replaces the values of accessToken, refreshToken and plaintext with [REDACTED] before printing, at any depth of the body. Masking sits in the printer rather than at the call sites, so all seven are covered at once and any call site added later inherits it; the jq-less fallback path, and a body jq cannot parse, get the same treatment textually. This follows the shape print_run already uses one function down, where a run result is projected to a fixed field list so the raw input never reaches the terminal. What a run observes: keys and every non-credential field print exactly as before — tokenType, expiresIn, keyPrefix, scopes and the run fields are unchanged, and the set of keys printed across a full run is identical — because only the three values are rewritten. No assertion changes: each credential is read with jval out of $BODY, never out of what was printed, so the lookup, injection, clamp, idempotency and write-isolation proofs are untouched.
• Six dependencies carrying published advisories are pinned forward: brace-expansion to 5.0.9, postcss to 8.5.23, fast-uri to 3.1.5, undici to 8.9.0, ip-address to 10.3.1 and hono to 4.12.34, closing ten advisories in total (three High, seven Medium). Every one is held at an exact version through the repository's pnpm.overrides, so closing them is a version change in one place rather than a resolution change: the dependency graph still resolves to the same 485 packages, and no package was added, removed or moved to a different major. brace-expansion and undici reach the closure through the pi coding-agent, ip-address through the agent SDK. None of the advisories is reachable from a route this project exposes, but the dependency audit is deliberately deny-by-default — a known advisory on a shipped dependency fails the lane rather than being reasoned away, and the one suppression this repository carries is documented in osv-scanner.toml with its reachability argument. The dependency SBOM is regenerated with them.
• The boot no longer writes the two auth secrets into process.env, so a spawned child does not inherit them. assembleServer used to mirror the resolved RAYSPEC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY and RAYSPEC_API_KEY_PEPPER onto process.env at the top of the boot, because the readers that need them — assertBootSecrets inside createAuthApp, and getApiKeyPepper on the api-key, session-secret and invite-token hashing paths — resolve lazily and looked only at the environment. That undid the gain the <VAR>_FILE secret mounts exist for: an operator who supplies a key as a mode-600 file precisely so it is not in the process environment found it there anyway once the server was up, every child process the server spawns received a copy of it for free, and it was readable from outside the process (/proc/<pid>/environ, container inspection of the children). The boot now hands the resolved secrets to @rayspec/auth-core in-process through the new setBootSecrets, and the readers take what the boot supplied first, falling back to the environment variables exactly as before for a caller that constructs the app directly. What a deployment observes: after a boot from <VAR>_FILE mounts, neither RAYSPEC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY nor RAYSPEC_API_KEY_PEPPER is present in process.env, nor in the environment of any child spawned afterwards. A value an operator sets as a plain environment variable is left exactly where they put it — the boot does not scrub the environment, it only stops adding to it — so the documented plain-variable path is unchanged. A caller that relied on reading either secret back out of process.env after assembleServer must take it from the ServerConfig it passed in. Fail-closed is unchanged: a missing or blank secret still aborts the boot with the same error, and no path falls back to an empty pepper or an unsigned token. A boot owns every secret it hands over, blank ones included — a caller that passes a hand-built ServerConfig with an empty secret gets that same abort, never a silent boot on whatever the ambient environment happened to hold for that variable.
• Bump the transitive brace-expansion dependency to 5.0.8 (pinned via pnpm.overrides), resolving GHSA-mh99-v99m-4gvg — a regular-expression denial-of-service (ReDoS) advisory in the affected versions. Transitive-only; no API or behavior change.
• Dependency advisories are re-checked on a schedule, not only on a push. A new Dependency advisories workflow scans the committed pnpm-lock.yaml against OSV.dev every Monday at 06:00 UTC (and on manual dispatch), with the same pinned, SHA-256-verified scanner build the push/pull-request audit uses — so an advisory published against a dependency that has not changed surfaces on its own instead of waiting for the next unrelated push to run CI. A finding becomes exactly one issue per advisory id, labeled dependencies (the label is created if it does not exist) and refreshed on later runs rather than re-filed, so an advisory never accumulates duplicates; a clean run files nothing, comments nothing and notifies nobody. The round is read-only: it changes no dependency, so the committed dependency SBOM and its freshness gate are untouched — that gate keeps tracking dependency drift while this round tracks advisory drift against a lockfile that has not moved. Repository infrastructure only: no published package, API or runtime behavior changes. The report-to-issue sync ships as scripts/sync-advisory-issues.mjs and runs locally via pnpm test:advisory-sync.

# upgrade

• Three interfaces gained REQUIRED members, so an out-of-repository implementation stops typechecking until it grows them. ServerConfig (@rayspec/server) gains tenantBootstrapEnabled: boolean; the neutral DurableExecutor (@rayspec/platform) gains cancel(jobId: string): Promise<void>; CronSchedulerDeps (@rayspec/durable-dbos) gains tenantExists(tenantId: string): Promise<boolean>. A deployment that builds its config with loadServerConfig needs no change — it fills the new field from the environment; only code that constructs one of these objects itself is affected.
• Apply migration 0010_journal_step_error_columns. Two additive nullable ADD COLUMNs on journal_steps; no table rewrite and no backfill.
• A product deployment whose RAYSPEC_PRODUCT_TENANT_ID is malformed, or names no live org, now refuses to boot where it previously came up and waited for the org to appear. Settle the org before deploying — rayspec tenant ensure --org-id <uuid> --name <n> does it against DATABASE_URL with no running server. The cron tenant is deliberately unchanged.
• A store read through the handler data facade with no explicit orderBy now comes back ordered id asc. A caller that passes its own orderBy is unaffected. Code that depended on the previous unordered result should state the order it wants.
• A mounted static frontend answers non-content methods with 405 and an Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS header, where such a request previously fell through to the SPA shell with 200. A client that sent one and read the shell as success will now see the refusal.
• /health carries one more field and one more status value. A probe that matches the body exactly should accept frontend next to db, and status: "degraded" with 503 when a covered dependency is not ready.
• errorClass has a new terminal value, cancelled. A client that enumerates error classes should accept it; a same-key retry replays it rather than starting a new run.
• The two auth secrets are no longer mirrored into process.env. Code that read RAYSPEC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY or RAYSPEC_API_KEY_PEPPER back out of the environment after boot now finds nothing there, and a spawned child no longer inherits them.
• A deployment booted from a *.product.yaml document starts running the daily system cleanup, and one half of it deletes data. The job did not run there before, so on such a deployment both halves are new behavior. The OIDC prune is ungated and starts hard-deleting expired oidc_models rows on the first scheduled instant after the upgrade; on a deployment that has been up for a while that first pass can clear a large accumulated backlog in one go — these are already-expired OAuth artifacts, but the delete is real. The GDPR tombstone purge runs only if RAYSPEC_GDPR_PURGE_ENABLED is exactly true: if you have that gate armed on a product deployment today you have been getting nothing from it, and after this upgrade you get the irreversible hard-delete the gate asks for — every user tombstone older than RAYSPEC_GDPR_RETENTION_DAYS (default 30), and every membership tombstone older than its own org's orgs.retention_days where that column is set, else that same default, goes on the first pass, across every org in the database rather than only the deployment tenant. Confirm that is what you want before upgrading; leaving the variable unset, or set to anything other than true, keeps the purge as a dry run that counts and deletes nothing, and that dry run is the only mitigation the shipped surface offers — the on-demand seam is in-process (BootedServer.runCleanupNow, for a host that embeds the server), so there is no command to run the pass once under supervision first. RAYSPEC_CLEANUP_SCHEDULE (default 0 3 * * *) now actually decides when that pass happens on this deployment shape — and because the expression is handed to the worker's scheduler as written, a value that scheduler cannot parse now aborts the boot of a product deployment that previously ignored it. The scheduler takes the standard 5-field crontab and the 6-field form that prepends a seconds field; shorthand such as @daily, a 4-field expression, or an out-of-range field is refused, and the refusal is the scheduler's own error, which names neither the variable nor the cleanup. Check the value before upgrading. Registering the job also adds one durable workflow to this deployment, which rotates the DBOS application version the product boot runs under: runs a pre-upgrade process enqueued or left in flight carry the old version and are neither dequeued nor recovered by the new one, so let the durable queues drain before restarting into this release (the applicationVersion that /recovery-scope reports changes with it). Deployments booted from a classic rayspec.yaml are unaffected: the job is wired there whenever the spec declares deployment.durableWorker: true and backends are wired, exactly as before — a classic spec that declares no durable worker never ran this job and still does not.
• rayspec gen-handler now refuses a holes file carrying a key the hole shape it sits in does not declare, where it previously ignored the key and rendered anyway. This applies at the top level (per template) and inside each columns[] entry, fkRevalidate, and clampValues rule. A holes file that only uses declared keys is unaffected and renders identical bytes; one that carried a typo, a key of the other template, or a hand-added comment/metadata key at any level stops with ok: false and exit 1, and the error names the key (and the declared key it is a near-miss of). Fix the key or drop it — a build step that runs gen-handler will fail until it is settled, which is the point: that key was configuring nothing.
• If you were reading your agent traces in the OpenAI dashboard from a rayspec deploy deployment, set RAYSPEC_AGENT_TRACING=openai before upgrading, or they stop arriving. That path now leaves the export off unless the variable is exactly openai; rayspec-serve and the local development wrapper are unchanged. Set nothing else to that variable — any value other than openai or off refuses the boot. Whichever way you leave it, the boot banner states the resolved posture, so check the Trace export: line on the first boot after upgrading.

# added

• Static frontends can ship a custom 404.html. When a request to a mounted static frontend misses (no file, no dir/index.html, and no SPA fallback), and the mount's root contains a 404.html file, the response is that file's contents with HTTP status 404 (Content-Type: text/html) — the GitHub Pages / Netlify / Cloudflare Pages convention. Backward compatible for a deployment that does not already ship a root 404.html: without the file, behavior is unchanged (the platform's uniform 404). A deployment whose static root already contains a 404.html (or a nested mount that ships one) will begin serving it (status 404) on a miss — the convention. The custom page is served only on a genuine content miss: reserved platform prefixes (/v1, /health, /oidc) and refused paths (traversal, dotfiles, symlink escapes) keep the uniform 404, and a HEAD/OPTIONS miss returns the 404 metadata without a body. On an spa:true mount the SPA index.html fallback still wins, so the custom page is a plain-mount not-found surface.

# changed

• Boot secrets are whitespace-trimmed uniformly, whatever their source. Leading and trailing whitespace — a trailing newline (the echo/printf/env-file classic) and a leading byte-order mark included — is now stripped from every resolved boot secret (DATABASE_URL, RAYSPEC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY, RAYSPEC_API_KEY_PEPPER) whether it is read from a <VAR>_FILE mount or from the plain variable, giving the two sources one documented contract instead of source-dependent behavior. Interior bytes are never touched, so a multi-line PEM keeps its internal newlines and its header at offset 0. For every well-formed secret this is a no-op: a base64 pepper and an RS256 PEM carry no edge whitespace, and the file path already trimmed. The one behavioral change is on the plain variable — a value carrying stray edge whitespace (for example an API-key pepper with a trailing newline) is now trimmed to the same value a file mount produces. Because the pepper is the HMAC key for api-key, session, and invite hashes, a deployment whose plain RAYSPEC_API_KEY_PEPPER currently carries significant edge whitespace must strip it before upgrading (already-issued keys and sessions were hashed under the untrimmed value and would otherwise stop verifying). The one contract limit: a secret whose real bytes must begin or end with whitespace cannot be expressed through a boot variable — encode such a value (for example, base64).
• journal_steps gains a created_at index. Migration 0009 adds a btree index (journal_steps_created_at_idx) on journal_steps(created_at), so time-range and day-bucket scans over the step journal are index-backed instead of sequential — paralleling the existing runs_created_at_idx on the run header. The change is additive and non-destructive; drizzle-kit migrate builds the index on the existing table (a plain, non-CONCURRENTLY build that briefly locks writes for its duration, consistent with the run-header index).

# security

• Transitive postcss pinned to 8.5.18 (GHSA-r28c-9q8g-f849). A pnpm override raises the transitive postcss — pulled only by the vite/vitest development toolchain, never a runtime dependency — to the patched 8.5.18, clearing a source-map (sourceMappingURL) path-traversal advisory flagged by the dependency audit. Build- and test-time only: no runtime code path is affected and no published package's contents change.

# fixed

• @rayspec/db ships its migration chain in the npm tarball. The package declared files: ["dist"], which excluded the committed drizzle/ platform migration chain (meta/_journal.json and 0000..0008_*.sql) from the published tarball. A backend booted from the npm packages therefore failed at startup in applyMigrations() — migrationsDir() resolves to <pkg>/drizzle, absent in the installed package — before reaching the database. Adding drizzle to files ships the chain, so an npm-consumed boot applies its migrations. No API or runtime code changed.

# added

• Boot secrets can be read from a file mount. Each of the three boot secrets — DATABASE_URL, RAYSPEC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY, and RAYSPEC_API_KEY_PEPPER — now also accepts a <VAR>_FILE variant (DATABASE_URL_FILE, RAYSPEC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY_FILE, RAYSPEC_API_KEY_PEPPER_FILE) naming a file to read the value from, so a mounted secret (mode 600) stays out of the container's declared environment (docker inspect) and out of the process's own environment. Precedence is unambiguous and fail-closed: a set <VAR>_FILE wins outright (the plain variable is not consulted); a blank <VAR>_FILE counts as not set (the plain variable is used); and a non-blank <VAR>_FILE pointing at a missing, unreadable, or empty file aborts the boot rather than silently downgrading to the plain variable. Documented in the CLI reference and .env.example.
• A frontend-only spec boots as a static profile — no database, no auth surface. A backend-profile document that declares only a frontend (empty stores, api, agents, tooling, triggers, handlers, and extensions, and no durable worker) now boots with no DATABASE_URL, JWT signing key, or API-key pepper, and mounts no auth / OIDC / run route — the database-and-auth composition is never reached (not merely left empty). /health is liveness-only (200 {"status":"ok"}, no database probe). The two response security headers a reverse proxy would otherwise supply — Content-Security-Policy and Permissions-Policy — are read from the environment (RAYSPEC_FRONTEND_CSP and RAYSPEC_PERMISSIONS_POLICY), each with a secure default when unset, so the app can serve a static UI directly with no proxy in front. This is distinct from serving a static frontend alongside a full API, which is unchanged.
• Inline and hash-pinned extraction prompts. A product-profile extractors[] entry may now carry its extraction system prompt inline as an instructions block scalar, or pin an external prompt file by hash with instructions_ref: { file, sha256 } — the file is read spec-relative (traversal-jailed) and sha256-verified at boot, fail-closed on a missing file or a hash mismatch. Exactly one prompt source is allowed (inline instructions, a pinned instructions_ref, or the existing sidecar prompt_file); declaring more than one fails closed. The no-code guardrail is narrowed, not removed: free-form prompt text is admitted only at the designated instructions field, and everywhere else — including purpose, extraction_constraints, and the still-banned prompt / system_prompt keys — the guardrail stays fail-closed.

# changed

• rayspec plan's read-only shadow guard resolves its target from DATABASE_URL_FILE too. The guard that refuses to shadow-apply when SHADOW_DATABASE_URL resolves to the same host and database as the real DATABASE_URL now resolves that comparison target from a DATABASE_URL_FILE file mount as well (with precedence over the plain variable), so it still fires when the connection string is supplied only through the mount. Because plan is read-only and never connects to the real database, a broken mount is not fatal here (unlike a server boot): it emits one stderr warning — naming the variable, the path, and the OS error code, never the file content — and proceeds with no comparison target rather than falling back to a possibly-stale plain DATABASE_URL.

# security

• Dependency advisories patched. Six advisories are resolved by upgrade (across hono, brace-expansion, fast-uri, and protobufjs — direct dependencies and their transitive copies), and the dependency SBOM is refreshed. One remaining advisory — a Windows-only @hono/node-server serve-static path traversal, reached only transitively (the fixed 2.x line is used directly; the older copy is pulled in solely for a child-process JSON-RPC transport, never for static file serving) and not exercised on this project's Linux code paths — is not silently ignored: it is a single, tightly scoped, documented suppression in the vulnerability-scan allowlist, so a new advisory on any other package still fails the dependency audit.

# documentation

• Add a per-package README.md to the 22 published packages that shipped without one, so every package page on npm renders a purpose description, quickstart pointers, and the license summary. Docs-only release: no runtime, API, or dependency changes.

# added

• RaySpec is installable from npm. npx rayspec init scaffolds a new project (a minimal, valid backend spec you can rayspec plan and deploy without provider credentials), and npm i -g rayspec puts the rayspec command on your PATH — no clone-and-build required. The scoped @rayspec/* packages are published alongside the unscoped rayspec launcher.
• Declarative full-text search. A store can opt into Postgres full-text search with fullTextSearch: true: the store gains a generated tsvector column over its text columns, a GIN index, and a ranked __search query that orders results by relevance. Stores that do not opt in keep the existing substring search unchanged.
• Out-of-band organization invites. Invite a member by email with a single-use, expiring, organization-scoped invite token; the invitee redeems it to join (setting their own password for a new account, or authenticating as an existing one). This closes the account-existence signal the direct member-add response carried.
• Read-only, path-jailed file source. A new fs_source capability gives handlers a deployer-configured, read-only reader over local files, contained by a symlink-safe path jail (no traversal or absolute-path escape).
• Cron catch-up. A cron trigger can opt into missed-interval catch-up with catchUp: true: on startup the worker replays each interval it missed while it was down (bounded look-back). Default behaviour is unchanged (no catch-up).
• Manual trigger firing. Fire a manual trigger on demand through an auth-guarded, rate-limited, tenant-scoped control route (POST /v1/triggers/:name/fire).
• Live-executor readiness probe. A public GET /recovery-scope route reports the live durable-executor identity ({ executorId, applicationVersion }), failing closed (503) until the engine has finished launching.

# changed

• Handler and extension-pack modules load compiled JavaScript in production. The production loader accepts only compiled .js modules (a deterministic, Node-version- independent boundary); a raw .ts module is refused fail-closed. The shipped example backends now include a build step, and the docs state the .js-only contract.
• Durable cron exactly-once is hardened. The run-level exactly-once guard on the durable cron path is strengthened, with a test that asserts the durable invariant directly rather than counting raw invocations.
• A first upload can no longer reset a sealed row. A conditional upsert closes the race where a first upload could reset an already-sealed row.

# fixed

• rayspec plan fails on a boot-fatal document. A document whose stores cannot be derived now returns a non-ok plan verdict instead of reporting ok: true and crashing at boot.

# documentation

• Tenant-table registration guidance corrected. The engine deploy() and the server composition root now describe the real mechanism — a product table joins the deny-by-default chokepoint set at boot through the sanctioned registration hook, and deploy() verifies rather than registers — replacing an out-of-date committed-source description.

# security

• The per-tenant Anthropic credential directory is hardened further. The directory is now created in a single atomic step (create-or-validate, with no check-then-create window), the credential root's ownership and permissions are asserted at startup, and the tenant identifier is validated — an empty, absolute, separator-, traversal-, or NUL-bearing value is rejected — before it is ever used to build a path. This builds on the mode-0700 and containment checks from the previous release.
• All static-analysis findings are resolved. The code-, path-, and label-parsing and file-I/O findings surfaced by static analysis are fixed, or dismissed with a documented rationale, leaving zero open alerts.
• CI supply-chain integrity is tightened further. Container images used in CI are pinned by content digest, and repository secret-scanning with push-protection is enabled.

# changed

• Clearer startup and developer diagnostics. Boot now emits a progress line before the ready banner and fails with an explicit timeout message if it stalls; a failed development-database connection reports its underlying cause; and a second local instance can run alongside the first through container, volume, and port overrides. The getting-started guide is polished to match.
• Source comments and test descriptions are rewritten in self-carrying product language, and the repository check that keeps the shipped source product-neutral is stricter. These are non-functional text and tooling changes; runtime behaviour is unchanged.

# documentation

• The v1 posture now states its honest edges. A new "what v1 does not do yet" section documents that request cancellation is bounded to the request rather than propagated into in-flight work, that the hard-delete purge is operator-gated and off by default, and that the federation and residency columns are shape-only with enforcement deferred to the separate hardening layer.

# security

• The local server now binds to loopback (127.0.0.1) by default. A freshly started instance no longer listens on all network interfaces; it is not reachable from the network until a host is explicitly configured, closing an accidental-exposure default.
• Request bodies are size-bounded on every ingress path. Both the JSON and the audio-upload routes now reject an oversized payload before it is buffered, bounding the memory a single request can consume.
• Rate-limit identity is derived from a trusted peer, and the limiter store is bounded. A spoofed client identifier can no longer evade the limit, and the limiter's memory footprint is capped so a flood of distinct identifiers cannot grow it without bound.
• The session-reprocess affordance is now rate-limited and recorded, so repeated reprocessing of a session is bounded and observable.
• An incoming x-request-id is constrained to a short, printable allow-list before it is echoed or logged, so an untrusted header value cannot inject control characters downstream.
• A declared quote_field that carries no quote is now rejected under the unquoted-claim policy, rather than being silently accepted as an unquoted claim.
• The per-tenant Anthropic credential directory is hardened against loose or hostile paths. It is created with mode 0700; a resolved path that is not a direct child of the configured root, an existing symlink or non-directory, or a group- or world-accessible directory is refused at startup (fail-closed), with containment re-checked against the real path. The adapter's interface and behaviour are otherwise unchanged.
• Supply-chain integrity of the build is strengthened. CI actions are pinned to verified commit SHAs, the gitleaks download is verified against a pinned SHA-256, and a CodeQL static-analysis workflow now runs over the codebase.

# changed

• The live provider parity smoke suites are now behind an explicit opt-in. They run only when RAYSPEC_REQUIRE_LIVE_TESTS=true, with the exercised backends selected via RAYSPEC_LIVE_BACKENDS; without the opt-in an ordinary test run never reaches a live provider or spends against a real credential.
• Build and gate tooling resolve repository roots portably and fail closed on an empty scan, so a seam gate cannot pass vacuously.

# fixed

• An authentication test asserting that a password is never leaked is now deterministic, removing a source of intermittent test failures.

# upgrade

• Anthropic credential directory permissions — one-time action may be required. Anthropic credential directories are now created with mode 0700, and the adapter refuses to start when a credential directory is group- or world-accessible. If you upgrade an existing installation whose credential directory still exists with 0755 (or any group/other permissions), run chmod 0700 on that directory once after upgrading — otherwise the Anthropic adapter will not start.

# added

• Persist a validated agent output to a store (persistTo). An agent action — on both an api route and a trigger — may now declare persistTo: <store>. On a successful run the validated outputSchema output is written as one row into that store, exactly once, atomically with the run header's completing transition, across both the synchronous (in-request) and durable (off-request / recovery) execution paths. Safety is enforced at deploy, not runtime: the doctor validates the mapping in both directions and fails closed at boot on any mismatch — forward (every output property maps to a writable business column of a compatible type) and reverse (every NOT-NULL, no-default business column is reliably produced by a present, required, non-nullable output property; where a column and its mapped property both declare an enum, the property's enum must be a subset of the column's whitelist).
• Declarative record-input normalization (input_normalize). The record_input capability accepts an optional input_normalize: { agent, output_contract } that runs a declared agent over a submitted record before it is persisted: the record is transformed, re-validated, then stored — the stored and emitted value is the normalized one. It runs synchronously through the neutral agent path; a failure is fail-closed (nothing is persisted) and never leaks raw provider or database text to the client. It is idempotent, keyed on the canonical payload hash, so a retry converges while a corrected resubmission re-normalizes. It is wired via a record/<agent>.normalizer.json config (path-jailed and validated); declaring it without a wired normalizer fails closed at deploy. A record capability without it is byte-identical to before.
• Server-side substring search on list routes (?search= / ?<col>__contains=). The declarative list op gains an opt-in, additive, keyset-stable search: ?search=<term> is a case-insensitive OR match across the store's declared text columns, and ?<column>__contains=<term> matches one declared text column. User terms are bound parameters with the LIKE wildcards % and _ escaped (ESCAPE), so they match literally rather than as wildcards. Search folds into the same AND-chain as the equality and set filters and composes with ordering and the keyset cursor. search is a reserved query word — a store that declares a column named search fails lint.
• created_by on escape-hatch handler inserts. A handler-managed store insert now stamps the injected created_by column from the authenticated caller (server-derived and un-spoofable), matching the declarative store create path. A posture with no request principal is unaffected.

# changed

• Handler-facade input-validation rejections now return 400 (previously 500). An unknown column, a server-controlled column, an enum-whitelist violation, an injection attempt, an invalid timestamp, or a negative pagination value now surface as a typed 400 error rather than an internal 500. The client-facing message stays generic and no internal detail ever leaves the server.
• A spec-vs-spec plan no longer emits phantom platform-column deltas. Running rayspec plan <spec> --against <copy> on two identical specs now produces no diff. The real-database injected-column reconcile stays reachable behind a new opt-in --reconcile-injected-columns flag (an update-mode flag that requires --against).
• Opt-in run-journal payload scrub during tenant erasure. Passing journalScrub: true to a tenant erasure NULLs the raw journal payload columns while keeping the journal rows and their idempotency and cost columns intact — closing the content-erasure gap where a per-subject purge left raw payloads behind. The default behaviour is byte-identical (no scrub).

# fixed

• A journaled error step-row no longer bricks an agent re-run. The run-journal writer now upserts a step on its unique key — replacing an error predecessor, but never overwriting a successful row — and reconciles the run header to the healed terminal outcome without ever downgrading an already-completed run. A re-run of a previously-failed step now succeeds, and both run observability and the double-charge guard see the true result.

# documentation

• Documented persistTo (agent output persistence) and input_normalize (record-input normalization) in the spec reference and the authoring skill, and the new server-side substring search (?search= / ?<column>__contains=) under the list-route query surface — correcting the earlier "no LIKE/full-text operators" note.

# added

• Opt-in readonly route handlers. A { kind: route } handler may now declare readonly: true. A handler-kind route is gated on the sensitive store:write permission by default (the platform cannot statically prove a handler only reads, so it fail-closes to the stronger gate); readonly: true is the author's assertion that the handler only reads product stores, so its route is gated on store:read instead — letting a read-scoped credential (for example an ingest-only API key) reach a read-only route. It is an authorization gate / author assertion, not a runtime write restriction. An absent or false flag parses byte-identically to before, so every existing spec, fixture, and golden is unchanged.
• A tenant-scoped session reprocess endpoint. POST /v1/sessions/{id}/reprocess (store:write, strictly tenant-scoped) re-drives a session's declared finalized-session workflow as a fresh durable run under a distinct idempotency key — the operational recovery path for re-running extraction after a fix or unsticking a stuck session, without manual database surgery (simply re-emitting the finalized event deduplicates to the original run and does nothing). It is wired for audio products; a deployment with no reprocessor wired answers 501, and a foreign or absent session id returns 404 with zero enqueue.
• Opt-in reuse of a machine claude login for the Anthropic backend. Setting RAYSPEC_ANTHROPIC_REUSE_LOGIN=true lets the Anthropic subscription backend boot with no CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN/ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in the server environment, reusing a claude login the operator has seeded into the per-tenant config directory under RAYSPEC_ANTHROPIC_CONFIG_ROOT (still required). A loud boot banner announces the mode. Honest caveats: the boot cannot verify any per-tenant directory is actually seeded, so an unseeded tenant boots clean and fails only at first run; seeding the login is a manual operator step; and if a token or key is also present in the environment it wins over the seeded login (the boot warns). Without the flag, boot behaviour is byte-identical (fail-closed when no credential is present). Documented in docs/concepts.md and .env.example.

# fixed

• Store enum whitelists are now enforced on the low-level escape-hatch handler write path too. A text column's declared enum whitelist was already enforced on the HTTP create/update route and the workflow store.write value path, but a custom handler writing directly through the HandlerDb facade was not checked. It is now rejected fail-closed against a table-identity whitelist registry (a non-member value — including a non-string scalar — is refused; the failure names the store and column only, never the offending value), so all three write surfaces agree. This closes the "the facade is not enum-checked" residual noted in 1.3.1.
• Every sealed track of a multi-track audio session is transcribed. The session-finalized event fires as soon as one track seals, but a sibling track could still be uploading at that instant; the transcribe node re-read only the completed tracks and finished, permanently dropping any track that sealed afterward. The durable transcribe node now waits (bounded, with real retry backoff) for all tracks to seal before transcribing, so every sealed track is transcribed under a staggered or concurrent finalize. The finalize emit stays unconditional, so a session-scoped idempotency key still deduplicates to exactly one durable run (never zero). Honest bound: once the wait elapses the run proceeds with whatever sealed and logs loudly, so an abandoned upload can never stall the run forever.
• The migration generator emits foreign keys after the tables they reference. A store that referenced a later-declared store emitted its REFERENCES <parent> before that parent's CREATE TABLE, failing at apply (42P01 relation does not exist) while doctor/plan still reported ok. A stable topological sort now orders every CREATE TABLE ahead of the foreign keys that reference it (an already-ordered spec stays byte-identical, so committed goldens are unchanged). A genuine foreign-key cycle is now a blocking fk_cycle error at doctor/plan time (rather than a throw at apply); a merely out-of-order forward reference is a non-blocking fk_forward_reference advisory.
• An unsatisfiable Range on a static frontend mount now returns 416. The underlying static server mishandled an unsatisfiable byte range — a closed range beyond end-of-file yielded a malformed 0-byte 206, and an open one surfaced as a 500. An additive guard now returns RFC-7233 416 with Content-Range: bytes */<size> for an unsatisfiable range (a start at/after EOF — open or closed — or a reversed range), under GET and every write verb. HEAD/ OPTIONS stay 200 full-size (never 416), every satisfiable/clamped 206 is unchanged, and the fail-closed dotfile/traversal/symlink guard still returns 404 under a Range request. This corrects the 1.3.1 note that said an unsatisfiable range returns 500.
• API-key minting is exactly-once under a concurrent Idempotency-Key. The mint applied idempotency as a non-atomic find-then-act, so two concurrent requests with the same key could each mint a distinct usable key with the loser's key left stranded (usable but never replayable). The mint is now retrofitted onto the atomic reserve-before-execute primitive: a concurrent loser replays the winner's redacted mint metadata (200, plaintext omitted — a caller that lost the original 201 must mint a new key) or gets a 409 while the mint is in progress, and exactly one key is ever minted. The no-idempotency-key path is behaviourally unchanged, and the plaintext secret is still never stored (the kill-trigger closure is preserved). Honest residual (documented in code): exactly-once except a rare ambiguous mint-commit window.
• A user-dismissed collection row is preserved across a rebuild. The collections materializer re-stamped dismissed: false on every rebuild, so re-extracting (or a reprocess) would resurrect a user-dismissed artifact. A dismissed row is now spared unconditionally — reconciliation never deletes it and the upsert loop skips it — mirroring the existing human-edit preservation, independent of preserve_human_edits.
• An extension-pack agent that selects a backend no base agent uses now boots. The env-driven backend factory derived its backend set from the pre-merge base document, so a backend introduced only by a pack agent was never built and the boot failed closed on it — including a backend spec whose only agents come from a pack (zero base agents:). The composition root now builds any backend a merged agent selects (via the same fail-closed path), while a base-only deploy stays byte-identical.

# security

• The API error envelope strips details structurally for non-input-echo codes. The "a bare 401/404 leaks no details" invariant moved from a per-call-site convention to a structural guard at the single envelope chokepoint every non-2xx response flows through: an allowlist keeps details only for the codes whose details echo caller-supplied context (VALIDATION_ERROR, FORBIDDEN, RATE_LIMITED, GATEWAY_TIMEOUT) and drops it for every other code regardless of what a caller passes. Behaviour-preserving — no code outside the allowlist carries a details payload today, so no current response changes — but the guarantee is now enforced by construction rather than by convention.

# documentation

• Updated the spec reference, concepts, and the authoring skill for the readonly route-handler flag, the session reprocess endpoint, the all-three-surfaces enum enforcement (the 1.3.1 handler-facade residual is closed), the static-mount 416 correction (superseding the 1.3.1 "returns 500" note), and the RAYSPEC_ANTHROPIC_REUSE_LOGIN reuse-login option.

# added

• Opt-in soft delete for a store. A store may now declare softDelete: true. When it does, a delete stamps the injected deleted_at tombstone (through the tenant-scoped update chokepoint) instead of physically removing the row, and every read/write hides tombstoned rows — so a soft-deleted row is uniformly invisible: get → 404, list omits it, a second delete → 404, update/PATCH → 404. Tombstone-hiding is enforced on the richer read/write surface too (declarative views, workflow store_read/store_write, and tool/route/trigger handlers), not just the CRUD routes. Without the field the default is unchanged — a delete is a hard physical delete with no deleted_at filtering. Documented caveat: because a tombstoned row physically persists (holding its column values), a unique value from a soft-deleted row still occupies the tenant-scoped unique index, so re-creating that same value returns 409 CONFLICT rather than reusing it.
• Server-enforced enum whitelists on a text column. A text column may declare an enum list of allowed values, and the platform now enforces it server-side: an out-of-whitelist value on a create/update store route is a 400 VALIDATION_ERROR (a z.enum derived at the write chokepoint), and the same whitelist is enforced on the workflow store.write value path. enum is valid only on a text column and its members must be distinct (rejected at validation otherwise). Honest residual: a custom escape-hatch handler that writes directly through the HandlerDb facade is not enum-checked — a handler author owns its own value discipline.
• Foreign keys to a unique parent column (referencesColumn). A store foreign key may set referencesColumn to target a unique: true column of the parent store instead of its injected id. It materializes as a tenant-scoped compound foreign key — (tenant_id, <col>) REFERENCES parent(tenant_id, <refcol>) — which structurally forbids a cross-tenant reference. A create/update naming a non-existent parent value returns 400; a restrict-blocked parent delete returns 409 (both tenant-safe — the 400 names only the local column, the 409 names no relationship at all, never a foreign value). The local column's type must match the referenced column's, the referenced column must be unique: true, and onDelete: 'set null' is rejected (a compound FK cannot null tenant_id). The id-target FK path is unchanged.
• A set (IN) filter on the declarative list op. A list route now accepts a per-column set filter ?<col>__in=v1,v2,… that maps to SQL IN, so a "status is open OR in_progress" read is expressible in one query. The distinct __in suffix keeps plain ?<col>=v equality byte-identical and unambiguous on a comma-bearing value (a real column literally named <x>__in still routes as plain equality). It folds into the same AND-chain as equality filters, keyset pagination, and the tenant predicate. Fail-closed: an empty/blank element, an oversized set (> 100 values), a non-filterable (jsonb) column, or an unknown prefix column each return 400.
• rayspec deploy --apply-migration <delta.sql>. deploy can now apply a reviewed forward migration in place, reaching the existing gated migration engine — an operator with a brownfield schema change no longer has to drop to the dev harness. --allowlist <file.json> supplies the reviewed cover for a destructive statement (a destructive statement without a covering entry is still blocked by the deploy gate); both paths are jailed through the same path check as the spec. It is reboot-safe: the boot classifies the live schema first and mounts a present-matching schema instead of re-applying a non-idempotent delta, so leaving the flag in a process-managed unit applies once and mounts thereafter. --dry-run rejects the flag (it touches no database), and a bare --allowlist (without --apply-migration) is refused. Reachable from both profiles.

# fixed

• An agent-free spec boots and updates with no provider key. The local dev-boot wrapper hard-required OPENAI_API_KEY up front (an unconditional check before the spec was parsed, plus an always-on OpenAI factory), so applying an additive delta to an agent-free spec failed closed on a credential it never uses. The wrapper now routes through the shipped assembleOptsFromEnv, which returns an agent-backends factory only when the spec declares at least one agent — so a stores/api-only backend (or a product-profile document) boots and updates with no provider key, while an agent-bearing spec still fail-closes naming the missing per-agent credential.

# documentation

• Corrected the "deploy applies the migration" overstatement to the mount-only truth. rayspec deploy/rayspec-serve materializes a store on a clean database and mounts a present-matching one, but against an existing deployment it is mount-only: it fail-closes on a drifted schema rather than altering it on its own. A schema change is applied by the explicit rayspec deploy --apply-migration <delta.sql> (with --allowlist for a reviewed destructive statement). The diff/gate and from-clean-database guarantees are unchanged. Corrected across getting-started, the CLI reference, concepts, ARCHITECTURE, and the README.
• New "Restore and key rotation" operational note (ARCHITECTURE → security model): a restored database dump survives whole at the row level — orgs, users, the argon2id password hashes, and all tenant data come back reachable. The only thing a freshly-minted RAYSPEC_API_KEY_PEPPER breaks is the set of copied API keys: their stored HMACs no longer match, so they return 401 — mint new ones. User passwords are argon2id (pepper-independent), so an org owner just logs in again and a fresh JWT under the current signing key reaches the data. (The JWT signing key is the same class and self-heals on that same re-login; an org whose sole credential was an API key needs a fresh key established out of band.)
• Documented the new store features in the spec reference (enum, softDelete, referencesColumn, and the <col>__in set filter), and pinned Range and HEAD on a static frontend mount as a supported feature with tests (byte-range 206 / HEAD 200). Honest edge: an unsatisfiable range currently returns 500 — the underlying static server (@hono/node-server serveStatic) has no RFC-7233 416 path.

# added

• Static frontend serving from the spec. A backend-profile document may now declare a frontend list of { route, dir, spa? } mounts, and the booted server serves each mount's built static assets alongside its API — one config can ship a whole product, UI included. Static mounts are served last: every API route, /health, /v1/*, and /oidc/* always wins (a path under a reserved platform prefix is never answered by a static mount), and a static miss returns the uniform 404. spa: true falls unmatched deep links back to index.html; Range and HEAD requests are honored. Serving is fail-closed — path traversal (including URL-encoded forms), dotfiles/hidden paths, and directory-escaping symlinks are refused, and directories are never listed. A missing/unreadable dir fails the deploy closed with an actionable error, and doctor reports a missing directory and route collisions (a frontend route may not duplicate another mount, equal a declared api path, or target /v1//health//oidc). Not in v1 (documented): SSR, templates, an asset pipeline, cache/CDN headers, and the product profile. See examples/notes-ui/ and the frontend spec reference.

# added

• A server-stamped created_by actor column on every store row. Each row now records the principal that created it — user:<userId> for a JWT request, key:<apiKeyId> for an API-key request. It is stamped on create only (never re-stamped on update), returned in responses, and is not client-settable: it is a reserved column, so a created_by/createdBy field in a request body is rejected (400 VALIDATION_ERROR). It is filterable on a list route, so a caller can list only the rows it created. (A row created before this column existed carries a null created_by.)
• Query power on the declarative store list op. A list route now accepts equality filters (?<column>=<value> on any declared column plus created_by, AND-combined — equality only, no ranges / OR / LIKE), single-column ordering (?order=<column>.asc|desc over non-nullable columns and the injected id/created_at; default id asc), and keyset pagination (?limit= in 1–200, default 200, plus ?after=<opaque cursor>). A full page sets X-Result-Truncated: true and returns an X-Next-Cursor. Every filter, order, and cursor is folded through the tenant predicate, and an unknown query parameter is rejected (400). An offset-paged read or a filtered total count still drops to a handler route.
• Idempotency-Key replay on store create. A create request carrying an Idempotency-Key header is deduplicated per tenant and per store: a repeat with the same key value replays the original row (200 with Idempotency-Replay: true, no duplicate row and no 409), regardless of the request body. A request without the header is never deduplicated. This is distinct from a unique: true column, whose duplicate value is a 409 CONFLICT rather than a replay.
• Owner-gated org membership management. POST /v1/orgs/{orgId}/members adds a member by {email} — owner-only, via a live-membership permission check (a non-owner, or an API-key principal, is refused). An existing user is added idempotently as a member; a new email provisions an account and returns a oneTimePassword once in the owner's response (the core sends no mail — the owner conveys it out of band). GET /v1/orgs/{orgId}/members lists the org's members and is readable by any member. Accepted limitation: because the one-time password appears only for a newly provisioned account, the response reveals whether an email already has a platform account — accepted for the trusted single-node posture and closed by the out-of-band invite flow in the hardening layer (see SECURITY.md).
• A shipped authoring skill, rayspec-author, guiding an assistant from a plain-language product brief to a validated spec and a deployed, curl-testable local backend, plus a gate:skill-drift build guard (in the deterministic CI lane) that fails if the skill drifts from the shipped grammar version, the CLI entrypoints, or the example specs it cites.
• rayspec dev db --reset --yes. An opt-in, destructive local-dev reset that DROPs and re-CREATEs a clean, empty dev database (and drops the sibling <name>_dbos_sys durable-worker system database). It is gated on an explicit --yes; --reset without it refuses and touches nothing. The default dev db remains create-if-absent and never destructive.

# changed

• store create/update bodies accept snake_case or camelCase column keys. A request may key each declared column by its snake_case declared name or its camelCase twin (the form the generated OpenAPI documents); both are accepted. Sending both variants of the same column in one body is rejected (400 VALIDATION_ERROR). Responses are always snake_case.
• Newly minted API keys use an rk_ prefix (previously mk_); the key shape is rk_<public-prefix>.<secret>. Existing mk_ keys stay valid indefinitely — both prefixes are accepted.
• Quieter boot. The benign NOTICE frames Postgres emits for each idempotent DDL guard in the migration chain (… already exists, skipping) are no longer printed, so a clean boot no longer prints a wall of messages that read like errors. A WARNING (or any higher severity) is still logged, and query error handling is unchanged.

# changed

• LICENSE copyright holder is now the legal entity Socialinsiders UG (haftungsbeschränkt). The FSL-1.1-ALv2 notice attributes copyright to the operating legal entity rather than the trade name (counsel instruction, 2026-07-12). No license terms change — the grant, the change date, and the future license are unchanged.

# changed

• An author-declared store column unique: true is now TENANT-SCOPED. The generated unique index is a compound (tenant_id, <col>) index rather than a global one, so two tenants may hold the same value (uniqueness is enforced within a tenant) and a duplicate never reveals another tenant's data. A durable product-store key column keeps its single-column index (its ON CONFLICT upsert target is unchanged).

# fixed

• A same-tenant uniqueness violation on a REST store write now returns 409 CONFLICT instead of a bare 500. The response names the violated column and never echoes the offending value or any foreign-tenant data; it applies to both create and update store routes.
• Every 5xx response now emits one server-side log line — carrying the request id and status, plus the error code and message when the failure was a thrown error. This covers both a thrown error (mapped by the global handler) and a directly returned upstream 502/504 (the live sync-run path), each logged exactly once. The previous 500 branch was a silent swallow; a 4xx (including the new 409) still logs nothing. The line is server-side only (the client still gets the bare envelope); the log path does no database write and never throws, so it is safe during an outage.

# added

• rayspec-serve and rayspec deploy boot a backend-profile spec with agents directly. Point either entrypoint at a backend-profile document that declares agents — rayspec-serve reads RAYSPEC_SPEC_PATH, and rayspec deploy <spec> sets it for you — and the shipped boot builds each declared agent's backend instance from the ambient environment (for example the openai backend from OPENAI_API_KEY), with no hand-written AgentBackendsFactory wrapper. Both paths assemble their deployer seams through the same shared builder, so deploy and serve are the same boot for a spec with agents. A missing or misconfigured credential fails the boot fast, naming the backend and the agent(s) that select it.
• A worked backend-profile example with a live agent. examples/lead-qualifier is a backend-profile spec whose declared agent runs off-request on the durable worker and records its verdict through a persist tool — a runnable end-to-end example (with deterministic and live test suites), not just a grammar showcase.
• Scope-gap 403s name the missing permission. An authenticated request that lacks the required permission now returns a 403 whose error body carries details.missing_permission, so a client can tell which scope it is missing. A membership-failure 403 and an unauthenticated 401 stay bare (no scope leak).

# changed

• LICENSE copyright holder is now RaySpec Labs. The FSL-1.1-ALv2 notice attributes copyright to RaySpec Labs.
• Internal tidy-ups: pnpm lint is warning-free, and the dev-harness scratch directory .dev-blobs/ is now gitignored.

# fixed

• @rayspec/local-boot drops the derived DBOS system database on a fresh-database re-provision. When the local dev harness re-provisions its throwaway database (DROP+CREATE), it now also drops the sibling <db>_dbos_sys durable-worker system database, so a fresh-empty app database never pairs with orphaned workflow/queue state auto-created by a previous run.

# documentation

• Clarified four onboarding points: a backend-profile spec with agents boots directly (no wrapper) — via either rayspec-serve or the equivalent rayspec deploy; a returning user calls POST /v1/auth/login (which returns activeOrgId: null) then POST /v1/orgs/{id}/switch to obtain an org-scoped token; the Anthropic subscription path needs CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN in the server process's own environment; and the declarative store list op is unfiltered, unsorted, and uncounted (capped, with an X-Result-Truncated header) — a filtered, sorted, paged, or counted read drops to a store:write-gated handler route.
• .env.example now documents RAYSPEC_PRODUCT_TENANT_ID and RAYSPEC_EXTRACTION_MODE, the two variables a product-profile deploy requires.

# added

• Declarative spec engine. One version: '1.0' language with two profiles — a full-control backend profile (metadata, stores, api, agents, tooling, triggers, handlers, extensions, deployment) and a higher-level product profile (selected by a top-level product: section). Specs are parsed fail-closed: an unknown key is rejected, not ignored. The deploy pipeline validates, diffs the required migration, gates destructive changes, and materializes the declared backend.
• Accounts, authentication, and tenancy. First-class organizations, memberships, users, API keys, and JWT/OIDC — all owned by the platform. Every query against tenant-owned data carries a tenant predicate, enforced structurally by a single fail-closed, deny-by-default database chokepoint.
• Four in-process agent backends behind one neutral interface. OpenAI Agents, Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK, Pi, and OpenAI Codex all run in-process behind a single neutral Backend interface; an agent is declared once and its backend is chosen from the spec. A cross-backend parity suite holds every adapter to the same neutral contract.
• A generated, tenant-scoped data layer. Declared stores become Postgres/Drizzle tables with the tenancy and data-lifecycle columns injected automatically; migrations are diffed and passed through a safety gate before they apply, including a from-clean-database bootstrap check.
• Durable background work and a run journal. Long-running agent runs and scheduled triggers execute off-request on a durable worker, with a per-step, append-only, tenant-scoped run journal that is the single source of truth for replay, cost accounting, and audit.
• Reusable ingress capabilities. A product profile can request reusable capabilities by name — audio/transcription, file ingest, multi-turn conversation, and structured records — rather than writing the ingress plumbing.
• The rayspec CLI. deploy stands up a product's declared backend from its spec (validate → derive the required migration → plan → apply). Read-only diagnostics — doctor (static validation), plan (a read-only deploy preview with an optional shadow-apply), openapi (emit an OpenAPI document for a product's declared views), and gen-handler (render a bounded escape-hatch handler) — plus a local-dev dev group (gen-secrets, db, bootstrap-tenant).
• The rayspec-serve boot server. An environment-driven boot that fails closed on missing secrets, applies the committed migration chain, and serves the platform — with a loud banner stating its trusted, single-node, not-yet-hardened posture.

# security

• Security by construction from the first boot: tenant isolation enforced by the fail-closed chokepoint (with a CI cross-tenant test), no plaintext secrets, an untrusted-content tool-dispatch trust boundary, an out-of-band audit journal, and per-backend credential isolation. The additional hardening required for untrusted, multi-tenant, public-internet hosting is a separate layer and is deliberately not part of the core — see SECURITY.md.