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Supersedes #1146, whose two naming commits are carried here unchanged.

Almost entirely deletion.

Why these are combined

They collided. #1146 renamed strings inside demos/github-issue/demo-rbac.md — a file this change deletes — so whichever landed second would have hit an edit-vs-delete conflict. Eight of #1146's fifteen files are touched here. Combining also meant the rename effort spent on demo-rbac.md wasn't wasted twice.

Part 1 — naming (from #1146, unchanged)

Say Cortex for the product and AuthBridge for the sidecar. See #1146 for the full rationale, including which authbridge strings are frozen because they're published contract (image names, binary and module paths, x-authbridge-* headers).

Part 2 — doc audit

A pass over all current docs for staleness, duplication and coverage gaps.

What came back clean

Worth recording, because it says where not to spend effort:

Check Result
Stale authbridge/ paths after the flatten 0 in current docs — survivors are all archived design records
CLAUDE.md's checkable numbers all accurate — 12 Go modules, 9 in go.work, 15 plugins_*.go, Go 1.26.5, Envoy v1.37.1
docs/proposals/ status lines all 3 present, pointing at current docs, as docs/README.md claims
Duplication among reference docs near zero — worst pair shares 3 lines
architecture.md, cmd/README.md on the spiffe-helper removal correct — those mentions are negations

Coverage gaps closed

  • stats: had no row in the config index — framework-architecture.md already described the stat server in prose, but the index that routes readers there skipped it. Now has a row.
  • /v1/usage had no operator doc. docs/pricing.md now documents its parameters, the response envelope, and the trap that on a ledger-backed window only endpoint/agent/model are grouped and the rest degrade to group: "none" silently, with HTTP 200 — so callers must read group back. Closes the not yet documented row that Docs: Give pricing and cost their own doc, and clear out stale demos #1141 shipped in that page's own map.
  • docs/README.md gains a configuration index for all ten top-level sections, and names the ones that are gaps rather than destinations: listener.skip_hosts is documented only in CLAUDE.md (AI-assistant context, not operator docs), and tls_bridge: has one field of seven.

Stale claims fixed

  • demos/weather-agent/demo-ui.md said "spiffe-helper is bundled inside the image and gated per-workload by SPIRE_ENABLED". Neither is true. ASCII-box width preserved programmatically.
  • The same claim in build.yaml's two image comments and the git-issue agent manifest, plus the "today's spiffe-helper-driven" comments in core/config.

Five broken links — two of them introduced by the naming commits

Pre-existing: demos/README.md pointed at a since-renamed heading; demo-aiac.md's policy links missed the aiac/ segment (its commands assume cwd=aiac/, its links resolve from the doc); authbridge-hooks.md's TOC pointed at an "Appendices" heading that doesn't exist.

⚠️ Introduced by #1146: the rename changed two headings without updating the links pointing at them — #step-8-test-the-authbridge-flow and #rossoctl-version-notes-ui-import-and-authbridge. CI was green on #1146 (25 checks), so combining is what surfaced these. Both fixed here.

Part 3 — demos retired

demos/github-issue/demo-rbac.md — not an RBAC demo. Its H1 was byte-identical to demo-manual.md's (Manual Deployment) and the Alice/Bob access-control section is in both at the same line; the two had diverged mostly in ASCII-art realignment (diff demos/github-issue/demo-{rbac,manual}.md). It was still drawing maintenance edits — including this PR's own first commit. Its only inbound references were in demos/github-issue/rbac/Makefile, now repointed at demo-manual.md, which carries the same step numbering.

demos/mcp-parser — one README, no code. The parser has 882 lines of unit tests and a plugin-catalog entry; the demo was enablement prose.

demos/mtls — retired as superseded. ⚠️ Note what goes with it: its make targets were assertions, including negative checks, across both deployment shapes, and they were the only thing exercising the envoy-sidecar mTLS filter chains. Rather than silently dropping CLAUDE.md's claim that this demo "proves the same Envoy YAML design", it's rewritten to say plainly that the design now has no end-to-end verification in-tree, and to re-verify by hand after touching those filter chains.

demos/github-issue/demo-aiac.md is kept and now listed in the demo hub, which listed only two of its four guides. It documents demos/github-issue/aiac/ (aiac_cli.py, aiac_agent/, keycloak_ops/, policies/, Makefile) — a complete sub-project with no README of its own, so this doc is its only documentation.

Verification

  • Every link and anchor in the tracked docs — no unresolved reference remains at HEAD, and the ones that were already broken on main are fixed here.
  • ASCII-box alignment diffed against main per file — Cortex is shorter than AuthBridge, so the rename could have skewed the diagrams. No box row changed width.
  • Counts re-derived: 10 demo dirs (CLAUDE.md 12 → 10); 12 Go modules unchanged, since neither removed demo had a go.mod; echo, finance-sparc, ibac keep the "three self-contained demos" claim true.
  • gofmt clean; go vet + go test ./config/ pass in core; every edited YAML file re-parsed.

Follow-ups, deliberately not here

  • listener.skip_hosts needs an operator doc rather than living in CLAUDE.md.
  • tls_bridge: has one field documented of seven.
  • If the envoy-sidecar mTLS design needs verification again, CI is a better home than a demo.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com

Deferred to a follow-up

  • The website quickstart in rossoctl/rossoctl (docs/get-started/laptop.md) installs
    from the pre-Refactor: Flatten authbridge/ into the repo root #1134 authbridge/install.sh path. It was already dead before this PR, and
    moving the canonical copy leaves it a further layout behind, so it needs its own change
    in that repo. README.md carries a comment naming this duplicate.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Updated demo, architecture, security, and getting-started materials to use Cortex branding while retaining AuthBridge terminology where it applies.
    • Added a runtime configuration reference and expanded usage API guidance, including session queries and grouping behavior.
    • Updated installation instructions to use the new installer location.
  • Changes
    • Retired the mTLS demo and removed its deployment guides and verification steps. The MCP Parser and GitHub Issue RBAC guides are no longer listed or available.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Pinned installer downloads now fall back to legacy locations when the new path returns HTTP 404.

Two renames happened and only one finished. Kagenti -> Rossoctl is
complete: the four surviving `kagenti` strings are all inside
docs/superpowers/, a frozen archive.

AuthBridge -> Cortex cannot finish, and that is worth writing down
rather than rediscovering. Of 2,172 live `authbridge` occurrences, 1,075
are published contract -- four image names the operator selects by name,
the binary names and Go module paths, the x-authbridge-* wire headers,
AUTHBRIDGE_* env vars, the authbridge-config / authbridge-runtime
ConfigMap family, /etc/authbridge/config.yaml, and the abph_ prefix. Two
more are another repository's API: Spec.AuthBridgeMode on the operator's
AgentRuntime CRD, and the rossoctl.io/authbridge-mode annotation.
Retiring those needs a deprecation window and coordinated PRs elsewhere.

So the split is a model, not an accident, and the registry path states
it: ghcr.io/rossoctl/cortex/authbridge. Cortex is the product;
AuthBridge is the injected sidecar component.

What was genuinely wrong was prose naming the *product* AuthBridge --
"# AuthBridge", "What AuthBridge Does", "AuthBridge provides secure
token management", "# AuthBridge Demos", and seven demo titles reading
"Demo with AuthBridge". Twenty-four of those, now Cortex. Phrases naming
a concrete artifact are untouched: the sidecar, the images, the
binaries, that container's logs, the mode field.

The root cause was that the convention lived nowhere. It is now in
CLAUDE.md, which is re-read every session, with the frozen list in full;
core/README.md carries a short version. install.sh already followed it
exactly -- zero prose "AuthBridge", with authbridge-proxy appearing only
as the binary it installs -- so it is cited as the reference.

Verified: every frozen identifier's count is byte-identical to main once
the two files documenting them are excluded; docs and one hand-authored
SVG are the only changes; the SVG still parses; broken links stay at the
7 pre-existing.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
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This pull request removes retired demo materials, updates Cortex and SPIRE references, revises runtime configuration and usage documentation, and changes installer paths and fallback behavior.

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Remove retired demo assets
demos/mtls/*, demos/mcp-parser/README.md, demos/github-issue/demo-rbac.md, demos/README.md, CLAUDE.md, .claude/skills/demo/SKILL.md, demos/github-issue/rbac/Makefile
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Update Cortex demo references
demos/README.md, demos/github-issue/*, demos/weather-agent/*, CLAUDE.md, core/README.md, docs/architecture.md, SECURITY.md, .github/workflows/build.yaml, core/config/*
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scripts/install.sh, scripts/install_test.sh
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Layer / File(s) Summary
Index runtime configuration documentation
docs/README.md, docs/framework-architecture.md
The documentation index links runtime configuration sections and notes documented-field gaps. It distinguishes written configuration from derived values. The restart note now includes stats.address.
Revise usage endpoint documentation
docs/pricing.md, docs/proposals/authbridge-hooks.md
The usage documentation adds the session parameter and its HTTP 400 condition, revises window and grouping notes, and links the usage endpoint to the page. The proposal table of contents links directly to Appendix A’s Go payload type definitions.

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In @core/config/config.go:
- Line 42: Update the SPIFFE configuration comment near the pointer field to
state that an absent block leaves the in-process Provider disabled, and that
`spiffe: {}` applies the file-mirror defaults. Remove the inaccurate claim that
an absent block selects those defaults.

In @demos/weather-agent/demo-ui.md:
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```

Merging only the `pipeline:` key into the existing YAML is brittle across operator versions. If the patch above doesn't take effect, `kubectl edit configmap authbridge-runtime-config -n team1` and add the `pipeline:` section to the existing `config.yaml` by hand. See [mcp-parser demo](../mcp-parser/README.md) for the full config format and rationale.
Merging only the `pipeline:` key into the existing YAML is brittle across operator versions. If the patch above doesn't take effect, `kubectl edit configmap authbridge-runtime-config -n team1` and add the `pipeline:` section to the existing `config.yaml` by hand. See the [`mcp-parser` plugin reference](../../docs/plugin-catalog.md) for its config fields.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Link directly to the mcp-parser section.

docs/plugin-catalog.md documents the paths configuration field, so keep the “config fields” wording. Add the section anchor to the link.

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Merging only the `pipeline:` key into the existing YAML is brittle across operator versions. If the patch above doesn't take effect, `kubectl edit configmap authbridge-runtime-config -n team1` and add the `pipeline:` section to the existing `config.yaml` by hand. See the [`mcp-parser` plugin reference](../../docs/plugin-catalog.md) for its config fields.
Merging only the `pipeline:` key into the existing YAML is brittle across operator versions. If the patch above doesn't take effect, `kubectl edit configmap authbridge-runtime-config -n team1` and add the `pipeline:` section to the existing `config.yaml` by hand. See the [`mcp-parser` plugin reference](../../docs/plugin-catalog.md#mcp-parser) for its config fields.
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`endpoint`, `agent` and `model` are actually grouped; `host`, `session` and `status`
fall back to `group: "none"` with no error and HTTP 200. Always read the `group` field

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Include plugin in the ledger fallback list.

plugin is a valid group parameter, but ledger rows do not contain a plugin column. The ledger path therefore serves group: "none" with HTTP 200 for this request. Add plugin to the fallback list.

The ledgerSnapshot implementation in core/sessionapi/usage.go applies GroupNone to unsupported groups.

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Remediates the round-1 strict review (5 classes, 31 sites across 11 files).
Net prose change is zero: every edit substitutes one name or deletes a false
clause. No frozen identifier moved.

INCOMPLETE-RENAME (18 sites) — the PR renamed 19 headings and left the same
product-prose noun two lines below 7 of them. Swept the shape rather than the
symbol: for every file whose heading changed, re-read the opening prose and the
table headers under it.

    git grep -n 'AuthBridge' -- '*.md' ':(exclude)docs/superpowers' ':(exclude)docs/proposals'

That sweep returns far more than was fixed, and most of it is correct: the
sweep found sites the review had not named (demos/README.md's index entries and
the weather demo's "getting-started demo for AuthBridge"), and it also confirmed
that docs/architecture.md needed nothing — all of its remaining occurrences are
"AuthBridge sidecar" or the operator's CRD field. Sites naming the sidecar's own
behaviour were deliberately kept, including demos/README.md's "AuthBridge
inbound JWT validation", "injected on the MCP tool", and "resolves the request
Host header", which are the rule's own "the AuthBridge sidecar validates the
JWT" shape.

RENAME-DRIFT (9 sites) — citations that matched their target's title exactly at
base and no longer did. Each was verified against the target's current first
line, not assumed. cmd/README.md is still titled "AuthBridge Binaries", so the
three citations pointing at it were left alone; docs/kubernetes.md's "AuthBridge
CLAUDE.md" was already wrong at base and is not this PR's to fix.

SELF-CONSISTENCY (1) — the Kagenti claim was falsified by the two lines that
state it: the grep it invites returns its own sentence. Qualified rather than
restated.

STATED-REASON (2) — two frozen-table cells gave a false provenance under a true
conclusion. The wire-header row credited "Envoy config in the rossoctl Helm
chart"; this repo has no chart, and two of those three headers are produced
here (core/praxis/praxis.go builds x-authbridge-unmapped-<name>,
core/plugins/cpex/headers.go consumes x-authbridge-secret). Subtracted the
provenance and kept the conclusion; also corrected the unmapped header's literal,
which never appears without its suffix.

INSTRUCTION-ACTIONABILITY (1) — the keep-list omitted literal UI labels, so a
literal reading told the next agent to rename the four docs quoting the Rossoctl
UI's "Secure with AuthBridge" checkbox, desyncing them from a string this repo
does not define.

Fileset grew 13 -> 15 by decision, not drift: SECURITY.md and
demos/weather-agent/demo-with-abctl.md each carry one citation this PR broke, so
shipping them stale was the worse option.

Verification — the repo has no gate that can fail on any of this (filed
separately), so the invariants are pinned in a review harness and each check was
mutated to prove it can fail:

    | Check | Mutation                                    | Verdict |
    |-------|---------------------------------------------|---------|
    | V1    | frozen ConfigMap id renamed in a doc        | killed  |
    | V2    | kagenti string re-added outside superpowers | killed  |
    | V3    | citation reverted to the old title          | killed  |
    | V3    | cmd/README.md retitled (negative control)   | killed  |
    | V4    | relative link broken                        | killed  |
    | V5    | product prose reverted in a renamed file    | killed  |

V1 was wrong on its first run and is worth naming: written as "counts identical
to base" it flagged core/README.md's new prose mention of AUTHBRIDGE_*, which is
the PR correctly explaining that the name is frozen. The invariant is that no
frozen identifier LOSES an occurrence; gaining one is how a doc discusses it.
V4 needed the same correction — demo-aiac.md links to policies/ where the files
live in aiac/policies/, broken identically at base, so the invariant is "no worse
than base" rather than "all links resolve".

Signed-off-by and DCO per CONTRIBUTING.md.

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Combines the AuthBridge -> Cortex naming pass (formerly rossoctl#1146) with a doc
audit, because the two collided: rossoctl#1146 renamed strings inside
demos/github-issue/demo-rbac.md, a file this change deletes, so whichever
landed second would have hit an edit-vs-delete conflict. Eight of rossoctl#1146's
fifteen files are touched here.

The naming commits are preserved as-is. This commit adds the audit.

A pass over all 77 current docs (27.5k lines) looking for staleness,
duplication and coverage gaps. Most hypotheses came back clean and are worth
recording: no stale `authbridge/` paths survive outside the dated design
records, every checkable number in CLAUDE.md is accurate (12 Go modules, 9 in
go.work, 15 plugins_*.go, Go 1.26.5, Envoy v1.37.1), all three
docs/proposals/ files carry the status lines docs/README.md claims,
duplication among reference docs is near zero, and architecture.md and
cmd/README.md correctly state the spiffe-helper removal.

Coverage gaps closed:

- `stats:` was the one top-level config section documented nowhere. It now has
  a row in framework-architecture.md's hot-reload table, which already
  asserted in prose that the stat server is non-reloadable without listing it.
- `/v1/usage` had no operator doc. docs/pricing.md now documents its three
  parameters, the response envelope, and the trap that on a ledger-backed
  window only endpoint/agent/model are grouped -- host, session and status
  degrade to `group: "none"` silently, with HTTP 200 -- so callers must read
  `group` back. That closes the "not yet documented" row in the same page's map.
- docs/README.md gains a configuration index for all ten top-level sections,
  including the three that are gaps rather than destinations: `mtls:` is
  documented only in CLAUDE.md, which is AI-assistant context rather than
  operator documentation, `listener.skip_hosts` likewise, and `tls_bridge:`
  has one field described of seven.

Stale claims fixed:

- demos/weather-agent/demo-ui.md said "spiffe-helper is bundled inside the
  image and gated per-workload by SPIRE_ENABLED". Neither is true; box width
  preserved.
- The same claim in build.yaml's two image comments and in the git-issue agent
  manifest, plus two "today's spiffe-helper-driven" comments in core/config.
- Five broken links. Three were pre-existing: demos/README.md pointed at a
  renamed heading, demo-aiac.md's policy links missed the `aiac/` segment (its
  commands assume cwd=aiac/, its links resolve from the doc), and
  authbridge-hooks.md's TOC pointed at a non-existent "Appendices" heading.
  Two were introduced by the naming commits, which renamed headings without
  updating the anchors pointing at them -- `#step-8-test-the-authbridge-flow`
  and `#rossoctl-version-notes-ui-import-and-authbridge`. CI was green on both.

Demos retired:

- demos/github-issue/demo-rbac.md -- not an RBAC demo. Its H1 was
  byte-identical to demo-manual.md's "(Manual Deployment)", the Alice/Bob
  access-control section is in both at the same line, `diff` found 143 lines
  across 2,377 (mostly ASCII-art realignment), only 3 substantive lines were
  unique, and nothing linked to it. It was still drawing maintenance edits --
  including the rename in this PR's own first commit.
- demos/mcp-parser -- one README, no code. The parser has 882 lines of unit
  tests and a plugin-catalog entry; the demo was enablement prose.
- demos/mtls -- retired as superseded. Note what goes with it: its six make
  targets were assertions, three negative, across both deployment shapes, and
  they were the only thing exercising the envoy-sidecar mTLS filter chains. The
  Go tests in core/tlsconfig and core/listener/reverseproxy cover the
  proxy-sidecar path only. CLAUDE.md's claim that this demo "proves the same
  Envoy YAML design" is rewritten to say plainly that the design now has no
  end-to-end verification in-tree.

demos/github-issue/demo-aiac.md is kept and now listed in the demo hub, which
listed only two of its four guides. It documents demos/github-issue/aiac/
(aiac_cli.py, aiac_agent/, keycloak_ops/, policies/, Makefile), which has no
README of its own, so the doc is that sub-project's only documentation.

Counts updated: demos 12 -> 10. The 12 Go modules are unchanged -- neither
removed demo had a go.mod -- and echo, finance-sparc and ibac keep the "three
self-contained demos" claim true.

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Seven classes from a strict review of d98aa56. Each was swept repo-wide
before editing; counts below are raw hits then real instances.

DELETION-DANGLING-REF — swept 13 citations of every deleted path, all
filetypes (the .md-only link checker cannot see these), 3 real. The
retirement of demo-rbac.md left demos/github-issue/rbac/Makefile pointing
at it from three targets, so `make help` and `make test-rbac` sent the
reader to a file this PR deletes. Repointed to demo-manual.md, which
carries the identical step numbering (8a-8f, Step 10, 10b-10d) because the
two files were near-duplicates. The other 10 hits are the demo's own name,
correct past-tense retirement notes, and dated design docs.

INCOMPLETE-SWEEP — swept 102 spiffe-helper mentions repo-wide, 3 still
asserted the removed behaviour: config_test.go, the envoy arm of
git-issue-agent-deployment.yaml, and the prose copy in weather-agent
demo-ui.md 208 lines below the box that was fixed. All three now use the
wording already verified in docs/architecture.md and cmd/README.md rather
than new phrasing.

GUARD-REACHABILITY — checked all 7 rows of the reload table against
validateReloadable. Six match; stats.address did not. core/reloader has no
non-test reference to Stats and the validator compares only Mode, Listener,
CostLedger and Session, so the row promised a refusal that cannot happen.
Deleting it also re-trues the sentence below the table about ReloadsFailed,
and the existing "process-scoped ... simply not seen" paragraph already
covers the stat server correctly.

FALSE-REASON — core/README claimed two of four enumerated artifacts are a
CRD field and an annotation; none is. CLAUDE.md makes the same argument
correctly because its table still has those rows. Reason deleted, not
restated. In docs/pricing.md, "boundaries, not lengths" is false for 7d
(Window7dSpan is a rolling span) and "local midnight" is the phrasing
snapshot.go forbids, so the mechanism is gone and only the true conclusion
remains.

FALSE-CLAIM — the mtls: row sent readers away from the operator doc that
exists (framework-architecture.md has a dedicated mTLS section). Omitted
resolution gives one-minute buckets, not a ten-bucket default; that default
belongs to window.

DERIVED-CONSTANT — three counts this diff invalidated: "Both guides" above
a table it grew to three rows, "Three query parameters" for a handler that
reads four, and a silent-degrade list missing plugin. Counts dropped where
they would need maintaining in two places; the omitted session parameter is
documented because it is the only one that hard-400s.

Verified in source, not against other docs: usage.go, snapshot.go,
ledger/query.go, reloader.go.

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# # namespace + ConfigMaps + PAT secret + tool + agent
# make validate # verify pod readiness and operator client registration
# make test-ab # authbridge inbound validation tests (Steps 8a–8f from demo-rbac.md)
# make test-ab # authbridge inbound validation tests (Steps 8a–8f from demo-manual.md)

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List only the steps that test-ab runs.

The recipe runs Steps 8a–8c and 8f. It does not run Steps 8d–8e, which require separate commands in demo-manual.md. Change this mapping to “Steps 8a–8c and 8f” so users do not expect test-ab to run checks it skips.

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Comment thread docs/pricing.md Outdated
Round 2 of review answered two false claims by composing replacement
mechanisms, and both replacements were wrong. This round states no
mechanism at all: every fix below is a deletion, and the one addition is a
single field name into an enumeration that already existed.

docs/pricing.md — the `resolution` row has now been wrong twice: "ten-bucket
default" (round 1) and "one-minute buckets" (round 2). The second is false on
a different axis: resolutionSpan returns oneBucket=true for a symbolic window
with a ledger, ledgerSnapshot takes no resolution argument at all, and
BucketSeconds is then the window's whole length. Since `today`, `month` and
`7d` are three of the four values the row above lists, the default was wrong
for most of the table. The row now describes what the parameter is and claims
no default.

demos/weather-agent/demo-ui.md — the last present-tense spiffe-helper
assertion in the tree, twenty-four lines below the copy round 2 fixed in the
same file. Round 2's sweep had 102 raw hits and triaged them with a keyword
filter; this line asserts the same false thing in words containing none of
those keywords, so the filter hid it. The guard added for it greps the shape
(`spiffe-helper` followed by runs/is bundled/lives/sits/executes) and carries
a positive pin, so a pattern that stops matching fails loudly instead of
reading as zero hits.

CLAUDE.md — round 2 deleted the qualifier "in `core/tlsconfig` and
`core/listener/reverseproxy`", which is what made the sentence true; the
survivor then claimed the Go tests cover the proxy-sidecar path only, and
core/praxis holds five mTLS tests that are not that path. Deleting a
qualifier strengthens whatever survives. The coverage claim is gone; the half
that was verified — nothing in-tree exercises the Envoy filter chains —
stays.

docs/framework-architecture.md — removing the `stats.address` row was right,
since validateReloadable compares only Mode, Listener, CostLedger and
Session. But it left the field undocumented in exactly the
silently-accepted-but-ineffective bucket this section argues is worse than a
refusal, so `stats.address` joins the process-scoped list that already named
the stat server.

Correction to the previous commit message, which cannot be amended without
rewriting pushed history: it said three surviving instances asserted the
removed spiffe-helper behaviour. Four did — the fourth is the demo-ui.md line
above. It also credited docs/architecture.md and cmd/README.md as the witness
for the config_test.go wording; that wording actually mirrors
core/config/config.go, which this PR leaves unchanged.

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install.sh, install_test.sh and keycloak_sync.py were the last loose files at
the repository root; they now sit in scripts/ beside dev/, hooks/,
profile-tags/ and readme-demo/. Git records all three as renames.

THIS CHANGES A PUBLISHED URL. The one-liner becomes

  curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rossoctl/cortex/main/scripts/install.sh | sh

and is updated in README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, the release-notes generator, the
script's own header and --help, and the README demo storyboard. Older tags are
unaffected because raw.githubusercontent serves per ref; what breaks is a copy
of the previous URL pinned to main. This reverses the constraint recorded in
docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-26-repo-layout.md, which excluded install.sh
from the layout work — a deliberate call, not an oversight.

The bootstrap probe goes from two paths to three. `--ref=<tag>` re-downloads
the installer from that ref, so it must still resolve every layout the script
has had: scripts/install.sh, then the repository root (from the rossoctl#1134 flatten
until now), then authbridge/install.sh (before it). Each fallback fires only on
a clean 404 — a transport error still refuses to continue, which is the
guarantee the block exists to give, and it now has to hold on two hops rather
than one.

install_test.sh's scenario matrix takes a status triple instead of a pair, and
all eleven cases were re-derived rather than padded: what the old pair called
"new" is now the middle hop. Two cases are new, because without them the
change would have been untested in both directions:

  404/404/200 -> REEXECED   the third arm is otherwise never exercised, so
                            deleting it would leave the suite green while
                            dropping every pre-flatten tag
  404/000/200 -> DIED       "clean 404 only" otherwise holds on hop 1 and goes
                            unchecked on hop 2

The fake-curl stub gained an arm for the new path, ordered ahead of the bare
one because shell `*` matches `/` and `*/install.sh` would otherwise swallow
`*/scripts/install.sh`. Its BADURL guard covers a ref dropped from the new path
too.

Also fixed, because the move would otherwise have made them false:
`sh install_test.sh` in ci.yaml, the module path in tests/test_keycloak_sync.py,
the runnable `python keycloak_sync.py` in docs/architecture.md, a second
location-dependent path in install_test.sh that resolved the release workflow
from the script's own directory (caught by the suite, not by the sweep), the
repo tree in CLAUDE.md, and a bandit comment calling keycloak_sync.py
root-level. demo.yaml's citation of install.sh line numbers is replaced with the
grep that finds them; two of the four were already stale and every edit here
shifts the rest.

Left alone deliberately: thirteen Go comments and the Makefile/CONTRIBUTING
prose name the script rather than its path, so they stay true; dated
docs/superpowers/ records are archives; and two apparent hits are other
projects' files (astral.sh's uv installer, ansible's run-install.sh).

Verified: 115 install_test.sh cases, 12 pytest, shellcheck --severity=error,
sh -n on both scripts, and the regenerated SVG against
TestCommittedAssetIsCurrent.

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Three must-fix from a strict review of 699b05b, all of them statements that
were true before the scripts/ move and false after it. Two live in the PR body
and are fixed there.

scripts/install.sh — the --ref fallback warned that a ref "has no install.sh at
either path". The probe now tries three. The comment forty-six lines above was
updated with the code; this line, the only user-visible statement of what was
attempted, was not. Swept the class repo-wide across all filetypes: twenty-nine
hits for either/both/two paths, one of them about this probe — every other is a
different subject, from plugin code paths to quoted shell arguments. The arity
is dropped rather than corrected to "three", because a count here is maintained
in two places and has now drifted once.

scripts/readme-demo/demo.yaml — round 3 replaced four stale line citations with
an instruction to grep the quoted string instead, and that instruction resolves
only two of the twelve strings in the shell act: the rest interpolate a variable
at source, so the rendered line never appears in the tree. The conclusion was
right and the method was not; it now says to grep a literal prefix. Two further
citations twelve lines below (install.sh:1219, :1227-1233) are replaced the same
way. Those were already stale at the base commit, so this removes an existing
trap rather than one the move created.

scripts/install_test.sh — the stub's case-arm order is load-bearing, because
shell `*` matches `/` and the bare .../cortex/*/install.sh arm also matches
.../main/scripts/install.sh. Only 699b05b's commit message said so. The
constraint now sits beside the arms, and names the mutant that proves it: M37
reorders them and reds two scenarios.

Guards added for both classes. G36 pins that the fallback warn makes no arity
claim at all, with a positive control so a broken regex cannot read as a clean
line. G37 covers a gap the round-4 review identified in G26: G26 pins only
gh-derived counts, so it stayed green while "both edited YAML files re-parsed"
went from true at ea3a338 to false at HEAD, the delta having grown that set
from two files to six. M44 and M45 restore each defect and confirm the new
guards red; M45 also demonstrates G26 staying green, which is the gap itself.

Two corrections to 699b05b's message, which cannot be amended without
rewriting pushed history. It called docs/superpowers/ a "dated archive" while
CLAUDE.md, in the same file set, says those records are "STILL WRITTEN TO — not
an inert archive"; the triage was right and repo-sanctioned, only the word
collides. And it listed the sites updated for the new install URL without naming
the duplicate that README.md's own comment points at, in rossoctl/rossoctl's
laptop quickstart. That copy is still on the pre-rossoctl#1134 authbridge/ path, so it
was already broken before this PR; it is now recorded in the body's deferred
list instead of a commit message.

Verified: 115 install_test.sh cases, shellcheck --severity=error, and the
readme-demo suite including TestCommittedAssetIsCurrent — the demo.yaml edits
are comments, so the generated SVG is unchanged.

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Reviewed the full diff (53 files, +286/-3228). All 26 CI checks green, 7 commits all signed off. Author is a MEMBER.

Supply-chain gate: the scan flagged .claude/skills/demo/SKILL.md, so I read it in full. Benign prose change — AuthBridge→Cortex in the description/H1 plus a factual correction that the last hand-maintained Envoy filter chain is gone. No hooks, no command, no executables. Clean.

Verified independently rather than taken on trust:

  • No dangling references. Fetched the tree at HEAD and swept every text file for the three moved scripts and three deleted paths. Every actionable reference carries the scripts/ prefix; the only surviving demos/mtls/demo-rbac mentions are explicitly-retired prose or archived docs/superpowers/ records. The install.sh 404-fallback URLs are intentional back-compat.
  • The ASCII-box claim holds. Computed display width of all 117 changed box-drawing lines — every added width matches one already present among the removed. No diagram skewed.
  • "Ten top-level sections" matches the Config struct's yaml tags exactly.
  • rbac/ survives — only its walkthrough was deleted, so the Makefile repoint to demo-manual.md is the right fix rather than a leftover.

Two factual errors in the new docs/pricing.md section (inline, both on lines this PR adds). They're small and surgical, but the irony is pointed: this section's own value is warning readers that group degrades silently, so a reader who trusts it enough to code defensively against that trap is exactly the reader a closed-but-incomplete field list misleads.

Everything else is strong. The frozen-string table in CLAUDE.md is the right answer to a partial rename rather than a blind sed. The honest "no end-to-end verification in-tree" note on the retired mTLS demo is better than quietly dropping the claim. The new install.sh hop got both a positive and a transport-error scenario with the pattern-ordering hazard documented as mutation-tested. And swapping demo.yaml's brittle line-number citations for grep instructions is an improvement nobody asked for.


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| `resolution` | a duration | Bucket size. |
| `session` | a session id | Combining it with a symbolic window (`today`, `month`, `7d`) is rejected with 400. |

Response envelope: `window`, `bucketSeconds`, `group`, `buckets[]`, `totals`, `priced`,

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must-fix — the envelope is not "exactly these fields". Snapshot has 16 JSON fields, not 9 (core/cost/usage/snapshot.go). Missing here: session, daysOutsideRetention, ungroupedCostMicros, ungroupedAvoidedMicros, seriesOvershootMicros, seriesAvoidedOvershootMicros, degraded.

They're all omitempty, so a clean response does match this list — but they populate on exactly the paths an operator reading this page cares about: corrupt or dropped ledger rows (degraded), unattributable spend (ungroupedCostMicros), and a window older than retention (daysOutsideRetention). A client coded to "exactly these fields" discards the degradation disclosures.

The sharper problem is the other direction: pricedBy, unpricedBy and incompleteBy are themselves omitempty and are never present on a ledger-backed window — core/sessionapi/usage.go:287 says they are "deliberately absent", with the reasoning that emitting one and not the other would read as "no pricing gaps here". That's the very window the next paragraph is about, so three of the nine listed fields are absent precisely where the reader is looking.

Suggest softening to the commonly-present fields, noting that omitempty extras appear conditionally, and stating that the three *By maps are absent on ledger-backed windows.

Comment thread docs/pricing.md Outdated

Response envelope: `window`, `bucketSeconds`, `group`, `buckets[]`, `totals`, `priced`,
`pricedBy`, `unpricedBy`, `incompleteBy`. `pricedBy` is keyed by provenance
(`authoritative`, `configured`, `bundled`); `unpricedBy` by `<endpoint> <model>`.

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must-fix — the provenance key set is four values, not three. Provenance.String() returns bundled, discovered, configured, authoritative (core/cost/pricing/provenance.go:43-49); discovered is missing here.

Mitigating, and worth stating in the doc rather than omitting: ProvDiscovered carries an explicit "NOTHING PRODUCES THIS TODAY" comment (LiteLLM /model/info fetching was designed, prototyped and dropped), so it cannot appear in practice right now. But the sentence states the key set as a closed list, and the level was kept deliberately so that anything which later learns rates from a gateway has a defined slot in the precedence order. A client switching exhaustively on the three listed keys would mishandle it the day something does.

Either add discovered to the list, or keep the three and say explicitly that a fourth level exists but is currently unproduced.

…ed lists

Review round 6, from esnible's CHANGES_REQUESTED on rossoctl#1147 plus a sweep of the
same class. Three classes, all "prose states a set as closed and the set is
bigger":

CLOSED-LIST-FALSE (2 instances, both in docs/pricing.md, author-original)
  The envelope was given as nine fields; usage.Snapshot has sixteen json tags.
  Worse in the other direction: pricedBy, unpricedBy and incompleteBy are
  omitempty and never present on a ledger-backed window, which is the window
  the very next paragraph is about. A client coded to the closed list discards
  the degradation disclosures (degraded, ungroupedCostMicros,
  daysOutsideRetention) that only a ledger window populates.

  The provenance key set was given as three; Provenance.String() has four. The
  sweep found a fifth key the review did not name: usage.go's reserved
  unlabelled, for a producer that settles a figure without stating its level.

  Fixed subtractively, per the fix-style table: the closed enumeration is gone
  and what remains states which fields are always present and that the rest are
  conditional. The provenance list is restored from a verified sibling --
  docs/litellm-budgettrack-plugin.md already stated all four levels correctly --
  rather than composed.

UNQUALIFIED-LEDGER-CLAIM (1 instance, docs/pricing.md, written by round 2)
  The resolution row said only "Bucket size." On a ledger-backed window the
  parameter is not read at all and the answer is one bucket spanning the whole
  window; bucketSeconds reports what was actually served. This is the one place
  this round spends new prose, because deletion would have left the row saying
  nothing, and the mechanism is quoted from core/sessionapi/usage.go rather than
  reasoned out.

ORDINAL-UNDERCOUNTS-NAMED-SET (1 instance, docs/framework-architecture.md,
written by round 2)
  "The first two are refused outright" named three refused fields;
  validateReloadable refuses listener.* by DeepEqual, so listener.session_api_addr
  is refused and the ordinal put it in the "simply not seen" bucket. The number
  is dropped rather than corrected, and the blocks are named instead.

Sweeps: provenance enumerations across all markdown, 3 raw / 1 defect (1 correct
sibling, 1 frozen archive record under docs/superpowers/). Ordinal-before-
enumeration, 3 raw / 1 defect (1 different shape in laptop-service.md, 1
archive). Envelope field enumerations, 19 raw / 2 defects. Neither non-archive
sibling is in this PR's diff, and both were checked and are correct.

Guards G38-G41 added, all deriving the expected value from the deciding source
rather than pinning prose -- G11's failure mode is a guard that pins the literal
phrase "Four query parameters" and went permanently red when a later round
correctly deleted the arity claim.

| New assertion | Mutation | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| G38a always-present == non-omitempty tags | doc claims degraded always present (M48) | killed |
| G38a (source side)                        | omitempty dropped from Degraded (M49)   | killed |
| G39a provenance keys == String() + unlabelled | discovered dropped from doc (M50)   | killed |
| G39a                                      | unlabelled dropped from doc (M51)       | killed |
| G39a (source side)                        | 5th level added to String() (M52)       | killed |
| G40a named fields on correct side         | stats.address moved to refused (M53)    | killed |
| G40a                                      | original ordinal sentence restored (M54)| killed |
| G40a (source side)                        | listener.* dropped from decider (M55)   | killed |
| G39c discovered still unproduced          | NOTHING-PRODUCES marker removed (M56)   | killed |
| G41a ledger sets none of the three maps   | PricedBy added to ledgerSnapshot (M57)  | killed |

G23c and G33c had been red since rounds 3 and 5 and were never filed as
findings; rounds 4 and 5 delta-scoped past them. Both are now green, and G40a
replaces G33c's ordinal check, which a subtractive fix makes vacuous.

Stop rule: 2 of 4 finding instances trace to round 2's remediation (50%, at
threshold). Halted and escalated; the user chose to fix all four and to keep the
subtractive style.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>

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Re-review of 318917d. My two docs/pricing.md must-fix findings from the last round are verified fixed — I checked the new text against source at this commit rather than taking the commit message for it. One new must-fix, introduced by this PR.

Both prior findings resolved, correctly

  • Provenance keys — Provenance.String() returns exactly bundled, discovered, configured, authoritative. All four are now listed, with the right caveat that nothing produces discovered today and the level is kept as a defined slot.
  • Response envelope — window, bucketSeconds, group, buckets, totals, priced are the only non-omitempty fields in Snapshot, exactly matching the new "always present" set. The omitempty warning and the "absent on a ledger-backed window" note for the three *By maps are both accurate.

The rewrite added claims I also checked and confirmed rather than assumed: unlabelled is real (core/cost/usage/usage.go:867, reaching pricedBy through eventCost.provenance); totals.pricedRequests and totals.priceableRequests both exist in Counts; and bucketSecondsFor confirms a ledger window is answered as one bucket that ignores resolution.

The framework-architecture.md edit in this round fixes a pre-existing error I had not flagged: core/reloader/reloader.go refuses listener.*, cost_ledger.* and session.* — but not stats.address, which is read once at construction. The old "the first two are refused outright" was wrong about which; the new sentence is right.

One new must-fix (inline, core/config/config.go)

The two edited SPIFFE comments now assert that an absent spiffe: block selects the file-mirror defaults. It does not — config.go:930 gates those defaults behind cfg.SPIFFE != nil, and every cmd/*/main.go only constructs the Provider when the block is non-nil.

Worth being precise about why this one is a regression rather than inherited staleness: the old text said "today's spiffe-helper-driven behavior" — stale, but about an external helper. The rewrite moved the claim in-process and thereby made it wrong about this code. And it is wrong in the costly direction. The repo states the real behavior in its own operator-facing warning at core/praxis/praxis.go:616: "the spiffe block is absent (or commented out), so no provider runs and no SVID files are ever written" — followed by a warning that Praxis will fail to bind its listeners. A reader who trusts the struct comment omits the block expecting working mirrored SVIDs and gets a startup failure on missing cert files.

Everything else

  • 26/26 CI checks green; 8/8 commits signed off; go vet and go test ./config/ pass at HEAD. The 5 gofmt -l hits are pre-existing files this PR does not touch.
  • Supply-chain gate flagged .claude/skills/demo/SKILL.md, so I read it in full. Benign prose: AuthBridge→Cortex plus a factual correction that the last hand-maintained Envoy filter chain went with the retired demo. No hooks, no command, no executables.
  • No dangling references. The only surviving demos/mtls / demo-rbac mentions are deliberate retirement prose (CLAUDE.md:679, SKILL.md:86) or archived docs/superpowers/ records. Unprefixed install.sh / keycloak_sync.py mentions are all bare prose names, and CLAUDE.md's directory tree correctly nests both under scripts/.
  • ASCII-box claim verified programmatically. Computed display width of all 117 changed box-drawing lines; every added width already appears among the removed. No diagram skewed by the shorter Cortex.
  • No hardcoded secrets, no unpinned action refs in added lines.
  • The install.sh fallback chain is careful in a way worth noting: it separates a clean 404 from a transport error, and the http="000" overwrite handles the HTTP 000000 concatenation bug its own comment documents.

The substance of this PR continues to hold up — the frozen-string table, the honest "no end-to-end verification in-tree" note on the retired mTLS demo, and the resolution row that now says a ledger window ignores it. One comment fix and this is ready.


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Comment thread core/config/config.go Outdated
// supplies X.509-SVIDs to the mTLS listeners and a JWT-SVID to the
// token-exchange plugin (when configured). Pointer so absent block
// = today's spiffe-helper-driven behavior (until the chart/operator
// = the file-mirror defaults that replaced spiffe-helper (until the chart/operator

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must-fix — an absent block does not select the file-mirror defaults; it means no Provider runs at all.

Defaults() gates the mirror defaults behind a non-nil block (config.go:930: if cfg.SPIFFE != nil { ... MirrorFiles = &t; MirrorDir = "/opt" }), and every entrypoint constructs the Provider only when the block is present — cmd/authbridge-proxy/main.go:410, cmd/authbridge-praxis/main.go:158, cmd/authbridge-envoy/main.go:125, cmd/authbridge-cpex/main.go:107. With SPIFFE == nil there is nothing to apply defaults to and nothing to mirror.

The repo already says this plainly in operator-facing text — core/praxis/praxis.go:616:

the spiffe block is absent (or commented out), so no provider runs and no SVID files are ever written

...and warns that Praxis "will fail to bind them at startup while those files are absent."

This is a regression rather than inherited staleness, which is why it is blocking. The old wording ("= today's spiffe-helper-driven behavior") was stale but described an external helper writing those files. Moving the claim in-process makes it a false statement about this struct, and false in the expensive direction: a reader who believes it omits the block expecting mirrored SVIDs and gets a bind failure on missing cert files.

Suggest saying what the pointer actually buys — an absent block leaves the Provider disabled, and spiffe: {} is what opts into the file-mirror defaults:

// token-exchange plugin (when configured). Pointer so an absent block
// leaves the Provider disabled; `spiffe: {}` opts into the file-mirror
// defaults that replaced spiffe-helper (until the chart/operator
// follow-ups land and start populating the block).

Comment thread core/config/config.go Outdated
// listeners and a JWT-SVID to the token-exchange plugin (when configured).
//
// Defaults match today's spiffe-helper-driven setup so existing
// Defaults match the file layout spiffe-helper used to write, so existing

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must-fix — same defect as line 42, and it needs its own fix since the sentence stands alone.

"Defaults match the file layout spiffe-helper used to write, so existing deployments boot without changes" is only true for a deployment that has a spiffe: block. For one without, no defaults are applied (config.go:930) and no Provider is constructed, so "boot without changes" is exactly what does not happen — core/praxis/praxis.go:616 predicts a listener bind failure instead.

The file-layout half of the claim is accurate and worth keeping; it is the "existing deployments boot without changes" clause that needs the non-nil precondition attached.

Reviewer round 7 (esnible, CHANGES_REQUESTED) found both edited SPIFFE
comments in core/config/config.go asserting that an absent `spiffe:` block
selects the file-mirror defaults. It selects no Provider at all.

Verified at the deciding source rather than taken from the finding:
Defaults() gates the socket/mirror defaults behind `cfg.SPIFFE != nil`
(config.go), and all four entrypoints construct the Provider only when the
block is non-nil (cmd/authbridge-{proxy,praxis,envoy,cpex}/main.go). The
repo already states the consequence in operator-facing text at
core/praxis/praxis.go: with no block "no provider runs and no SVID files
are ever written", followed by a warning that Praxis fails to bind its
listeners on the missing cert files.

This was a regression, not inherited staleness. The old wording ("today's
spiffe-helper-driven behavior") was stale but described an *external*
helper writing those files; moving the claim in-process made it false
about this struct, and false in the direction that costs a reader a
startup failure.

Both edits are subtractive. The field comment states the nil consequence
and deliberately says nothing about `spiffe: {}`, because the reviewer's
suggested replacement ("`spiffe: {}` opts into the file-mirror defaults")
is itself false on a second axis: authbridge-proxy and authbridge-praxis
gate Provider construction on spiffeProviderNeeded() as well, so a present
block with no `mtls:` and no spiffe-identity plugin logs "spiffe block
present but unused" and mirrors nothing. The type doc keeps the accurate
file-layout half and drops the "existing deployments boot without changes"
promise, which had no non-nil precondition.

Guards G42a-G42e (verify-round11.sh), mutants M58-M62
(mutate-round11.sh). The doc guards are CONDITIONAL on the claim being
present — "if you make this claim it must be correct", not "you must make
this claim" — because G11 and G33c both went permanently red when an
earlier subtractive round correctly deleted the prose they pinned. G42a/b
pin the relation at the source by walking out from the deciding statement
to its enclosing blocks, so M58/M59 mutate the gate and still kill.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
Round-8 review found round 7's own fix crediting `Defaults()` — a function
that exists nowhere in the tree. The gate is an inline `if cfg.SPIFFE != nil`
inside `Load()` (declared core/config/config.go:898, gate at :931). The only
other `Defaults` token in the package is the test name
TestSPIFFEConfig_Defaults.

This is the shape where a false mechanism sits under a true conclusion, so
every check that pinned the conclusion stayed green. Round 7's G42a walks
braces outward from the MirrorDir default and proves the gate EXISTS — true,
and its mutant kills — but it says nothing about the NAME the doc credits.

Worth recording that the mistake was systematic rather than a typo: G42a's own
comment and M58's label repeated the same false citation, so the belief was
consistent across doc and harness and only the doc shipped. Both harness
citations are corrected too, and M61's mutation target is retargeted to the
new wording — left alone it would have silently stopped applying and reported
NO VERDICT.

Verified before accepting the finding, not from the review:
  grep -rnE '\bfunc +(\([^)]*\) *)?Defaults\b' --include='*.go' .   -> exit 1

Guards G43a-G43c (verify-round12.sh, from the review) and mutants M64-M68 stay
as received; both G43a and G43c were red at the previous head and are green on
this one word. G42c is additionally strengthened: its polarity rule decided by
ORDER, which M64 defeated with a claim that leads with an unrelated negation
("no explicit socket, so the file-mirror defaults apply") while asserting what
the guard forbids. It now requires a negation to govern each mirror/defaults
mention within the preceding four words; M69 is the regression test.

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Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>

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Verified the falsifiable claims in this diff against main and against the Go source rather than reading the prose at face value.

The new /v1/usage section is the riskiest addition and it holds up. The non-omitempty envelope list (window, bucketSeconds, group, buckets[], totals, priced) matches core/cost/usage/snapshot.go exactly, and the omitempty set called out for disclosure (degraded, ungroupedCostMicros, daysOutsideRetention) is right. The central warning — that a ledger-backed window silently degrades to group: "none" — is confirmed in core/cost/ledger/query.go labelFor: only model/method, endpoint and agent are handled, and host/session/status/plugin fall through to default: return "", false. So the four axes named as degrading are exactly the four that degrade. pricedBy's provenance keys and unpricedBy's "<endpoint> <model>" format also match.

Other claims checked: "ten top-level sections" in the new docs/README.md config index is exactly right; :9093 is the stats default per config.go; "10 scenarios" in CLAUDE.md is correct (12 demo dirs less the two retired).

Every redirect out of a retired file resolves. demo-rbac.md → demo-manual.md Steps 8a–8f and 10b–10d all exist at the cited numbering, so the content was genuinely absorbed rather than just pointed at. mcp-parser/README.md → plugin-catalog.md, which has a dedicated mcp-parser section. The demo-ui-advanced.md anchor change repairs a real broken link: the old #automated-deploy-and-verify-ci-oriented heading no longer exists and #step-5-optional-verify-via-cli does.

The script move is the only behavioral change, and it is handled carefully. The three-hop fallback (scripts/ → root → authbridge/) keeps pinned-ref installs working, and install_test.sh adds a scenario per hop — including the non-obvious one that a transport error on the middle hop must die rather than advance, which preserves "fall back on a clean 404 only" at every hop instead of just the first. The comment marking pattern-arm order as load-bearing (* matches /, so the bare arm would shadow scripts/) documents a constraint that would otherwise regress silently. REPO_ROOT is correctly introduced now that SCRIPT_DIR is no longer the repo root.

.claude/skills/demo/SKILL.md was read in full per the supply-chain gate: prose-only rename plus one factual correction about a retired Envoy config, no hooks, commands or executables. core/config changes are comment-only.

One note rather than a finding: two frozen archive files under docs/superpowers/ still mention demos/mtls/README.md, but they already carry a pre-#1134 authbridge/ path prefix and are dated design records, not live navigation — leaving them untouched is the right call.

No blocking issues, no suggestions, no nits. 10 commits, all signed off; CI green.

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