Follow the value, not the spelling, when a disclosed fact is read

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What this is

#1363 established the rule that a declared-type fact this run disclosed — reported as neither proved nor guarded — must not discharge a downstream goal at Tier 1, and it found such a fact by asking a syntactic question: is this match scrutinee spelled as a call to a disclosed function. A syntactic question has as many answers as there are spellings, and two of them defeated the rule outright:

• A let-bound disclosed call keeps Tier 1: the #1363 taint follows the call site, not the value #1406 — let @T = mk(x); match @T.0 { … }. The scrutinee arrives as a slot reference, so the test answered False. One token, and the rule was gone.
• A forwarding wrapper is never disclosed, so a disclosed value keeps Tier 1 through it #1407 — fn wrap(…) { mk(x) }, then match wrap(x). A forwarder makes no claim needing the disclosed fact, contributes no obligation, and so never enters the obligation-derived disclosed set at any depth.

Both were measured pre-existing on release/v0.2.0 the only way that settles it: the postcondition is verified at Tier 1 and vera run --fn f -- -7.0 refutes it.

Disclosure is now a property of the value. A disclosed call's result term is recorded where it is minted, and the fact gate asks whether the value in hand carries one — by occurrence, so a projection, a branch join, and a value taken apart and rebuilt all answer yes without any of them being named. Nothing in the fix names a spelling, which is why the let chain, the pipe, the where helper and the join move with the two reported shapes rather than needing cases of their own.

Fixes #1406
Fixes #1407
Closes #1413

The carrier is load-bearing

Option<PosInt>, not #1363's own tuple. Codegen guards a refined return and a refined tuple component at the function boundary, so the tuple shape traps inside the producer and never reaches the caller's contract — it can exhibit a status difference but not a runtime one. An ADT payload is guarded nowhere. float_to_int supplies the opacity: a refutable narrowing would be violated/E505, an error rather than a disclosure, and would exhibit nothing.

Every spelling carries its clean control, differing in mk's body alone (Some(float_to_int(...)) discloses, Some(7) proves). Without them a fix that demoted every match would pass the whole file.

Constructed-from, raised in #1431's review

A value rebuilt from a disclosed component — Some(@PosInt.0) in a match arm — is the projected-from case one step on. The rule already covers it; that was measured on four trees rather than argued, using the reviewer's literal spelling:

tree	reviewer's literal None-arm spelling
release/v0.2.0 base (768eecb9)	E699 — that is #1424
with #1431's sort fix only	verified, and the run refutes it
with this branch only	E699
both	tier3/E534

That E699 is #1424 — Rebuilding an Option<Refined> in a match arm dies with Z3Exception: sort mismatch — which is this exact spelling, and which #1431 fixes along with its cross-module twin #1421. The two changes are orthogonal and compose: #1431 decides whether the term can be built, this decides which facts may discharge a goal over it. Note row 2 — the sort fix alone turns a crash into a false Tier 1, which is why this lands before #1431.

The literal spelling cannot be an end-to-end cell here (it ICEs before an obligation exists), so the whole-program shape is carried by carriers that translate on both revisions: a rebuild whose arms both construct, at one and two hops, and a single-constructor ADT whose rebuild has no arm join at all — the cell that separates construction from the join ite_join already covers. Both were verified at Tier 1 on the base with the run refuting; both are tier3/E534 here, with clean twins still proving and still returning 7.

A bug found while rebasing, fixed here

Rebasing over #1420 turned the F3 shared-helper-name cell red, and the cause is the same keying defect in the other half of the disclosed set.

That set is read as the union of an obligation-derived derivation and a result-derived one. F3 scoped the second. The first went on keying a where helper by its bare fn_name — a name that means a different function in every owner — so one owner's disclosing helper demoted another owner's clean caller.

The attribution is measured, not assumed. The isolated shape (two same-named helpers, each disclosing through an obligation of its own, no forwarding anywhere) reports both callers tier3/E534 on release/v0.2.0 before #1420 as well as after:

tree	tainted	f (clean caller)
212f1a1d — before #1420	tier3/E534	tier3/E534 ← wrong
35ff4def — after #1420, this branch absent	tier3/E534	tier3/E534 ← wrong
768eecb9 — the base this PR sits on	tier3/E534	tier3/E534 ← wrong
this branch	tier3/E534	verified

So the defect was latent in that half from the start, reachable whenever a helper carried a disclosing obligation; what #1420 changed is the reach, by obligating a helper's return so that a merely forwarding helper carries one too. Both halves now spell a helper's key through one function — a set consulted as a union cannot have two spellings for a member — and the obligation carries the top-level owner that key needs.

Two cells rather than one: the forwarding cell goes green again if only the result-derived half is scoped, and the isolated one does not.

Scoping cannot lose a demotion that was needed, which is the direction that would matter: a where helper is reachable only through its owner's lexical chain (_scope_fn_names), and #1383 refuses a bare call to an imported module's helper — so every caller of a helper sits inside the owner and looks it up under the same key. The residual is unchanged and still errs toward demotion: two helpers of the same name under one owner share a key, which is pinned by its own cell.

Found, not fixed here

• A disclosed value passed as an argument satisfies a refined parameter with no obligation anywhere #1410 — a disclosed value passed as an argument satisfies a refined parameter with no obligation anywhere. That false proof lives in the callee, made once for every caller, and no taint in the caller reaches it. Fixed by Obligate a call argument for the refinements inside its parameter's type #1420 (merged into the release branch). It is pinned here as a measured-both-ways cell, verified before and after this change for every spelling in the matrix.
• Rebuilding an Option<Refined> in a match arm dies with Z3Exception: sort mismatch (E699) #1424 / E699 Z3 sort mismatch verifying a module that rebuilds an imported Option<Nat> as Option<{refined}> #1421 — the sort mismatch above; fixed by Derive one sort for a refined payload, wherever a term is rebuilt #1431, which this must precede.
• Two same-named where helpers in one block are check-clean and verify-clean, then fail codegen with duplicate func identifier #1433 — two same-named where helpers verify clean and then fail codegen with duplicate func identifier. Pre-existing on both revisions; a small separate PR after this one.

Evidence

• Mutation battery — 17 mutations, 17 killed, 0 survivors, with the unmutated and restored baselines both at 103. Two are new this round: unscoping the obligation-derived half of the disclosed set, and never stamping the obligation's owner — each reds exactly the two F3 cells and nothing else. The battery itself shrank honestly: two mutations targeted the warm-fixpoint terms removed as dead earlier in this PR, so one was rewritten against the surviving union term and the other retired with the code it mutated. A mutation that truncates the occurrence walk to the root term reds the three rebuild cells together with the projection, destructure and join ones, which is what makes the construction coverage attributable to the walk's descent rather than to something else.
• Dead code removed, on evidence. A guard on the owner stamp comparing the recording function's name against the scope's was written and then removed: all 73 _record_obligation call sites pass the declaration under verification, and an instrumented run over 919 cells and 251 example and conformance programs never reached a case where the two differed. Three further terms were removed earlier in the same way after the battery showed both halves of the warm fixpoint union covering each other.
• Corpus differential against the merge base 768eecb9 — 474 files, 370 emitting a summary, 0 movers, and the accounting identity len(obligations) == total + violated + tier3_unguarded holds on every summary. Reported as expected, not evidence: exactly one corpus program discloses at all — p4_refined_arg_clause.vera, a single refine_bind, with nothing downstream reading the fact — so the differential is near-silent by construction. Completeness is measured by the clean controls and a selectivity cell instead.
• Warm == cold over every spelling, not a sample — sampling two of them is precisely what let a where-helper forwarder drop out of the warm disclosed set.

#1412 landed mid-review, and removed one of this PR's mechanisms

#1412 checks every obligated narrowing at the place that obligates it, closing at its source the gap the cross-module half of this PR was written for.

The gap was: a forwarder made no claim, so recorded no obligation, so a forwarder inside an imported library was invisible to its importer while the same declarations in one file demoted correctly. The fix had been to make #1399's manifest emit the union of the obligation-derived disclosed set with the result-derived one.

After #1412 a forwarder that hands on a refined value carries its own unguarded obligation, so the dichotomy is complete: a forwarder either publishes the refinement — and is named by the obligation-derived set — or drops it, and hands on no fact for a consumer to lean on.

The experiment, union reverted on a scratch tree, five shapes chosen to break that dichotomy:

shape	with union	without union
forwarder drops the refinement (-> @Option<Int>)	E500 refuted	E500 refuted
forwarder through a where helper	tier3/E534	tier3/E534
forwarder returning a tuple carrying the payload	tier3/E534	tier3/E534
forwarder two import hops away	tier3/E534	tier3/E534
forwarder in an Exn-declared function	tier3/E534	tier3/E534

No shape's verdict differs, and across the whole suite the failure sets are identical with and without it. Grounded rather than inferred: in every shape that hands the refinement on, the library forwarder carries its own tier3_unguarded obligation, so disclosed_fn_names already names it.

So the union is removed, with VerifyResult.result_disclosed and the declaration-line helper that existed only to feed it; its cells are retired with the reasoning recorded where they stood, and the manifest consumes the obligation-derived set alone.

The in-module half of the same union is not dead and stays — isolated, not assumed: reverting it reds the two rebuild spellings. Removing both because they look symmetrical would have been the error.

#1412 also moved three things under the cells, each repaired toward the claim rather than its encoding:

• The runtime exhibit moved site. An ADT payload used to be guarded nowhere, so the bad value reached the consumer's postcondition and refuted it; now the constructor sub-pattern guard refuses the program first. Seven cells named only the older site and now assert the refusal at whichever guard reaches it, through one helper so the sites cannot drift apart again.
• The two Two more readers of a disclosed value's declared-type facts are ungated, and each yields a false Tier 1 #1413 readers moved from tier3_unguarded to tier3, their narrowings now being guarded. They asserted that exact pair when their claim is that the narrowing is not a Tier-1 proof, so they assert that instead — after checking the gate is still what produces it, since reverting the gate takes both back to verified.
• The lost-value-behind-a-forwarder cell lost its Option<Nat> carrier, @Nat payload narrowings now being guarded and disclosing nothing. It returns to Option<PosInt> laundered through an array, where M_mint still flips it to verified.

Known gap

CodeRabbit's CR-1 case — an imported-generic-clone pass contributing a forwarder — has no cell of its own; it is covered only incidentally by the superset term.

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The verifier now propagates disclosure taint by value through SMT terms, forwarding functions, scopes, imports, caches, and established-fact readers. Regression tests cover demotion, provenance, isolation, replay, and refined returns.

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Disclosure taint propagation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Disclosure state, obligations, and cache replay vera/smt.py, vera/obligations/cache.py, vera/obligations/core.py, vera/obligations/session.py	SMT contexts track disclosed terms and citation sites. Obligations identify owning functions. Cache replay restores result disclosures and extends the disclosure fixpoint.
Value propagation and established-fact gating vera/verifier.py	The verifier propagates taint through calls, bindings, projections, destructuring, wrappers, forwarding functions, helper scopes, and generic refined returns. Disclosed facts are withheld from first-pass reasoning.
Disclosure manifest provenance vera/disclosure.py	Manifests include result-derived forwarders and resolve imported or declaration citation sites.
Regression and boundary coverage tests/test_disclosure_taint_follows_value_1406.py	Tests cover value-flow spellings, runtime refutation, imports, opaque stand-ins, cache replay, scope isolation, helper collisions, generic returns, and reconstructed values.
Specification and project records spec/06-contracts.md, CHANGELOG.md, README.md, FAQ.md, ROADMAP.md, TESTING.md, vera/README.md	The disclosure contract, changelog, test totals, test index, and module statistics are updated.

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A disclosed value can still be laundered into a false static proof through nested refinement, undermining the verifier’s soundness. This should be fixed before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ContractVerifier
  participant SmtContext
  participant VerificationSession
  participant DisclosureManifest
  ContractVerifier->>SmtContext: track disclosed call results
  SmtContext-->>ContractVerifier: return taint and citation sites
  ContractVerifier->>VerificationSession: cache result disclosures
  VerificationSession-->>ContractVerifier: replay disclosures and extend fixpoint
  ContractVerifier->>DisclosureManifest: publish forwarding provenance

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Adversarial review — PR #1418

Measured against head a85f1825 on its own base aecc1a6a, and — because the branch is DIRTY against the release tip — against a locally assembled rebase onto f23db8f7 (the tip carrying #1402). That tree resolves the one predicted conflict in ContractVerifier.__init__ by keeping both fields, is mypy clean over 105 files, ruff and ruff --select S clean, and runs this file plus test_verifier_cross_module_disclosure.py, test_verifier_truth_consult_status.py and test_obligations.py at 901 passed, 1 skipped. Every finding below was re-measured on that tree and holds there. Each probe ran with cwd == PYTHONPATH == the tree under test and a vera.__file__ canary printed from the same process (an earlier round of measurements was discarded: python -m puts cwd ahead of PYTHONPATH, so a probe launched from another checkout silently reads that checkout's compiler).

What reproduces

The core claims hold, independently.

• RED-FIRST. The new file is 19 red on aecc1a6a, 57 green on head, and the reds fail for the issues' own reason, not incidentally: let_bound fails on ('verified', None) != ('tier3', 'E534'), and both #1413 cells on [('verified', None)] != [('tier3_unguarded', 'E506')]. The 38 that pass on base are the controls and pins.
• The three readers, independently. Reader 2 (rebind) and reader 3 (destructure) are refine_bind/verified on base while vera run --fn f -- -7.0 returns -7 for a value declared Big (> -3) with no trap; on head both are tier3_unguarded/E506 and the run is unchanged, which is the honest report for a site nothing guards. Both clean twins stay verified and return 7 on both revisions. All three readers do route through _established_facts; no reader keeps an inline check.
• Fourth reader. I could not construct one. The only other places a value's declared type becomes a premise are _translate_call_with_info's #746 refined-return assumption and the R1 refined-parameter assume in _verify_fn — the first restricted to the five runtime-guarded primitive bases, the second being #1410's axis. Both are correctly out of scope. See F5 for the roster's blind spot.
• Corpus. 472 .vera files under examples/ and tests/, base vs head, comparing each obligation's (kind, status, error_code, description, line) plus the summary: 0 movers, 0 accounting-identity violations, 370 summaries, 0 programs carrying a disclosed obligation. Exactly the PR's numbers, and — as the PR says — silent by construction.
• Mutation. Seven independent mutations, seven kills: term test off (17 cells), fixpoint feed off in both cold and warm (7 — all four wrappers, the where helper, the wrap1 run and warm cells), result term never recorded (16), reader 1 ungated (17 including direct and the roster cell), reader 2 ungated (2 — rebind + roster), reader 3 ungated (2 — destructure + roster), warm replay drops result_disclosed (1 — the wrap1 warm cell). M-reader2 and M-reader3 each redden their behavioural cell and the structural roster cell, as claimed.
• Warm edits. Editing the wrapped callee to remove the disclosure drops wrap out of the disclosed set warm, and adding it puts wrap back; both match cold. A disclosed program followed by an unrelated clean one in the same session leaks nothing.
• Cross-import, with #1402 present. On the assembled rebase, let-bound and wrapper-forwarded imported disclosures move verified → tier3/E534 with clean controls staying verified, and the direct spelling stays demoted. Composition is as described.
• Gates on head. Full suite 12,934 passed / 184 skipped / 26 deselected / 0 failed (13,144 collected); mypy clean over 104 files; ruff and ruff --select S clean; conformance 248/248; examples 43/43; check_doc_counts consistent at 13,144 / 198; check_diagnostic_fields, check_site_assets, check_version_sync, check_explicit_encoding, check_limitations_sync green. Fixes #1406 / Fixes #1407 / Fixes #1413 each on its own line.

Findings

#	Sev	What	Evidence	Repro
F1	High	A spelling that still hands the disclosed fact over: a container whose let binding the SMT layer cannot translate. Store a disclosed value in a Tuple and destructure it, or in an array literal and index it back out, and the postcondition is verified at Tier 1 while the program refutes it. verified on base, on head, and on the assembled rebase; vera run --fn f -- -7.0 reports a postcondition violation on all three. The inter-function half falls with it: a wrapper that launders through the same tuple never joins _result_disclosed_fns, so its caller keeps Tier 1 too. The fact is load-bearing — the same shape with an unrefined Option<Int> payload is violated, so the Tier-1 proof is derived from the disclosed refinement and nothing else. The mechanism is exact: with an Option<PosInt> carrier the binding falls to _fresh_opaque_slot, so the gate sees term='Tuple_0(_opaque_let_16_37)' against discl=['_call_mk_1'] and answers False, while _subpattern_source_facts still reads the payload refinement off the slot's declared type. The array literal severs the same way (term='index_Array_Option_…(_call_array_lit_2, 0)'). Carrier-specific, and that is what makes it easy to miss: the identical tuple spelling over an Option<Nat> carrier translates to Tuple(_call_mk_1, 1), answers True, and demotes correctly. This is #1363's asymmetry moved one layer down — where the SMT layer loses the value, the reader keeps the fact and the taint does not. It is a pre-existing miss rather than a regression, but spec §6.4.2 as amended by this PR now asserts the coverage ("through a projection or a destructure"), and the test file has no cell for it.	Producer refine_bind tier3_unguarded/E506 in every cell; f's ensures ('verified', None) on aecc1a6a, a85f1825 and rebase; run refutes on all three.	Three files below.
F2	High	A new warm/cold divergence, in the unsound direction, on the where-helper spelling. Over all ten of the PR's caller spellings × both polarities, cold (vera verify --json) and warm (VerificationSession, first run and replay) agree on nineteen and disagree on exactly one: where_helper disclosed is cold ('tier3','E534'), warm ('verified', None), and stays verified on replay. Base has no divergence (both are the unsound verified), so the PR fixes cold and leaves warm behind — warm now proves at Tier 1 exactly what cold demotes, which is the failure disclosed_fn_names' own docstring records as the #1363 warm/cold bug. Cause is structural, not a cache miss: session.py's slice loop walks program.declarations and records result_disclosed = decl.name in verifier._result_disclosed_fns, so only a top-level forwarder is ever carried. _verify_fn adds the where helper h to _result_disclosed_fns (which is why cold works), but h is never a decl.name in that loop, so the session's result_disclosed set omits it and the warm fixpoint settles one hop early. The PR's warm cell is parametrised over ["let_bound", "wrap1"] — the two that work — so nothing covers the one that does not. The repair is to cache the slice's whole contribution to _result_disclosed_fns (a set, keyed per slice) rather than a bool about the top-level name. Reaches the LSP/proof-delta surface, which is the agent-facing one.	Sweep over all ten spellings × 2 polarities, cold vs warm vs replay: one DIVERGENCE, where_helper/disclosed. Same on the assembled rebase.	Below.
F3	Low	Bare-name keying of _result_disclosed_fns newly demotes a clean function. Two where helpers in different top-level functions both named h, one forwarding a disclosed producer and one forwarding a clean one: base verified/verified, head tier3/tier3 — the clean caller loses its Tier-1 proof to a name it merely shares. Order-independent (same with the clean helper declared first), and selective once the names differ (h/h2 → tier3/verified on head, verified/verified on base). The collision axis is pre-existing for a helper that carries its own disclosed obligation (that shape is tier3/tier3 on base too), so this PR widens it to forwarders rather than inventing it — which the PR body names under "Bare-name keying". What is not covered is the magnitude: the claim "Every clean control stays verified: no completeness regression anywhere in the matrix" is true of the matrix and false off it, and no cell pins this shape in either direction. Worth a cell and a sentence, or a scope-qualified key.	collide.vera (both h): base verified,verified → head tier3,tier3. collide2.vera (h,h2): base verified,verified → head tier3,verified. collide3.vera (self-disclosing helper): tier3,tier3 on base already.	Below.
F4	Low	A 13-line comment block is duplicated verbatim-ish at vera/verifier.py:5830-5846: "#1413: the THIRD reader…" appears twice, the second a reworded copy of the first. In a change whose thesis is that there is one place to read to learn what the rule is, two adjacent statements of it is the wrong artefact. Keep the second (it is the one that mentions the _disclosure_is_live skip).	sed -n '5824,5852p' vera/verifier.py.	—
F5	Info	The structural roster cell cannot see vera/smt.py. test_1413_every_reader_of_a_source_fact_consults_the_one_gate parses vera/verifier.py only, with a two-name producer roster. That is the right scope for today — both producers live there and I found no fourth reader — but the recording hook and term_is_disclosed now live in the SMT layer, so a future premise seeded there (the shape _translate_call_with_info's #746 block already has, kept sound only by its five-primitive-base restriction) is outside the walk. One sentence in the docstring saying so would stop the cell being read as a whole-compiler guarantee.	Test body lines 757-824; _translate_call_with_info refined-return assumption at vera/smt.py:2394-2438.	—
F6	Info	A pre-existing E699 blocks the post-processing-wrapper shape. match mk(x) { Some(@PosInt) -> Some(@PosInt.0), None -> None } over an Option<PosInt> producer dies with Internal compiler error … Z3Exception: sort mismatch — identically on aecc1a6a and head, so not this PR's, and #1360-adjacent. It is worth a tracker row because it is the shape a reviewer reaches for when asking "is a rebuilt value still disclosed?". The reachable neighbour answers the question: a wrapper whose result flows out of a match over a let-bound disclosed value is demoted (tier3/E534, run refutes), so the rule holds where it can be measured.	/tmp/wr.vera below; base and head both E699.	—
F7	Info	Rebase note: the count-bearing docs must be recomputed, not merged. Both sides move them, so a textual merge will ship stale numbers past a CI gate that checks them. The tip f23db8f7 carries 13,141 tests / 198 files / 250 conformance programs; the PR head carries 13,144 / 198 / 248. Post-rebase the file adds 57 tests to the tip's total, so TESTING.md, README.md, FAQ.md, ROADMAP.md and vera/README.md want ~13,198 across 199 files with 250 conformance programs, docs/llms-full.txt regenerating via build_site.py, and the PR body's "248/248" line updating. Run check_doc_counts and check_site_assets after the rebase, not before. My assembled rebase also hit conflicts in ROADMAP.md, TESTING.md, docs/llms-full.txt, spec/06-contracts.md, vera/README.md, CHANGELOG.md, FAQ.md and README.md — all count/adjacency, none semantic; the only code conflict is the predicted one in ContractVerifier.__init__.	git show f23db8f7:TESTING.md | grep Tests vs the same on a85f1825.	—

Repros

F1 — three files, each verified on aecc1a6a, a85f1825 and the assembled rebase, each refuted by the run:

type PosInt = { @Int | @Int.0 > 0 };

private fn mk(@Float64 -> @Option<PosInt>)
  requires(true)
  ensures(true)
  effects(pure)
{
  Some(float_to_int(@Float64.0))
}

public fn f(@Float64 -> @Int)
  requires(true)
  ensures(@Int.result > 0)
  effects(pure)
{
  let @Tuple<Option<PosInt>, Int> = Tuple(mk(@Float64.0), 1);
  let Tuple<@Option<PosInt>, @Int> = @Tuple<Option<PosInt>, Int>.0;
  match @Option<PosInt>.0 {
    Some(@PosInt) -> @PosInt.0,
    None -> 41
  }
}

The array variant replaces f's body with let @Array<Option<PosInt>> = [mk(@Float64.0)]; match @Array<Option<PosInt>>.0[0] { … }. The wrapper variant moves the tuple hop into a forwarder:

private fn wtup(@Float64 -> @Option<PosInt>)
  requires(true)
  ensures(true)
  effects(pure)
{
  let @Tuple<Option<PosInt>, Int> = Tuple(mk(@Float64.0), 1);
  let Tuple<@Option<PosInt>, @Int> = @Tuple<Option<PosInt>, Int>.0;
  @Option<PosInt>.0
}

with f matching on wtup(@Float64.0). For each: vera verify --json reports mk's refine_bind as tier3_unguarded/E506 and f's ensures(@Int.result > 0) as verified; vera run --fn f -- -7.0 prints Postcondition violation in f. Swapping the payload to a bare Int makes the same ensures violated, which is what identifies the disclosed refinement as the premise carrying the proof. Swapping the carrier to Option<Nat> (int_to_nat over a handled Exn<Int>, as test_verifier_cross_module_disclosure builds it) makes the identical tuple spelling demote correctly on head — the discriminator is whether the binding translated, not the shape.

F2 — the PR's own where_helper fixture, through both paths:

from vera.obligations.session import VerificationSession
src = _source("where_helper", disclosed=True)          # from the new test file
s = VerificationSession()
r = s.verify_source(src, file="/tmp/x.vera")
[(o.status, o.error_code or None) for o in r.obligations
 if o.kind == "ensures" and o.expr_text == "@Int.result > 0"]
# warm  -> [('verified', None)]   (and the same on a second verify_source)
# cold  -> [('tier3', 'E534')]    via `vera verify --json` on the same source

F3 — collide.vera: mk disclosed and mk_ok clean at top level; tainted matches on a where helper h forwarding mk; f matches on its own where helper, also named h, forwarding mk_ok. On head both ensures are tier3/E534; on base both are verified. Renaming the second helper to h2 gives tier3/verified on head.

Recommendation

F2 is the one I would hold the PR for: it is a soundness regression the PR introduces, in the surface the PR spends a section on, and the missing case is one of the ten spellings the PR itself enumerates. Adding where_helper to the warm cell's parametrisation reddens before the fix and greens after, so it is measurable in exactly the file that exists for it.

F1 is not a regression and I would not block on fixing it, but I would not ship the spec sentence as written either — it now promises "through a projection or a destructure" in a chapter that is the language's contract, and there is a reachable projection out of a disclosed value that keeps Tier 1 while the program refutes it. Either narrow the sentence to what the term walk can see, or table the gap as a bug-labelled issue with a KNOWN_ISSUES row alongside #1410 and cite it from the sentence. Tabling is cheap here: the diagnosis is one line (_fresh_opaque_slot mints a term with no provenance, and the array-literal translation does the same), and the natural repair — record the opaque stand-in as disclosed when the expression it stands in for contains a disclosed call — sits next to the recording hook this PR already adds.

F3 and F4 are small enough to fold in; F5, F6 and F7 are notes.

Two things I checked and could not break, worth saying so they are not re-litigated: mutual recursion between two forwarders terminates and demotes correctly (tier3/E534 disclosed, verified clean); and a lambda returning a captured disclosed value, and a generic identity function round-tripping one, are tier3/E522 in both polarities — opaque, so no false Tier 1 is reachable through either, matching the PR's closure pin.

VERDICT: OPEN — 7 findings (2 High, 2 Low, 3 Info)

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Follow-up review — PR #1418 at 5e7bca88

Re-measured against head 5e7bca88 (rebased; git merge-base with origin/release/v0.2.0 is the tip f23db8f7 exactly), with f23db8f7 as the base for every differential. Each probe ran with cwd == PYTHONPATH == the tree under test and a vera.__file__ canary asserted from the same process.

All seven findings from the first round are addressed. Two of the three I rated High are fixed structurally — not special-cased — and I could not break either. The third round of probing turned up one new false Tier 1 of the same family and one untested change.

The previous findings, re-measured

#	Claim	Verdict	Evidence
F1	Container laundering fixed at the mint	Fixed	tuple_destructure, array_index and wrapper_through_tuple all move verified → tier3/E534 against f23db8f7, clean twins stay verified. M_mint (make _inherit_disclosure return before recording) reddens exactly those three cells and nothing else — a clean partition, so the mechanism is doing the work and only that work. I added the third shape from my brief, a stand-in minted for a match result (let @Tuple<…> = match c { true -> Tuple(mk(x),1), false -> Tuple(mk2(x),2) }): base verified with vera run --fn f -- -7.0 refuting, head tier3/E534. Fixed without a cell naming it, which is what "called at every mint rather than at the two known callers" buys. The other two shapes are measured non-movers: a Map literal (map_insert(map_new(), "k", mk(x)) → map_values → index) and a nested tuple-in-array are tier3/E522 on both revisions — the value is opaque there, so no false Tier 1 is reachable and there is nothing to demote.
F2	Warm/cold divergence fixed by caching the slice's whole delta	Fixed	My own sweep, re-run: over all ten caller spellings × both polarities, cold vs warm vs replay — DIVERGENT: []. where_helper, the one case that diverged, now agrees on all three. Warm edit differentials on where_helper specifically: disclosed → clean gives tier3→verified, clean → disclosed gives verified→tier3, and three consecutive replays of the disclosed program hold tier3/E534. Same on the top-level wrapper, plus no leakage from a disclosed program into an unrelated clean one in the same session. The delta is name-agnostic, and both halves are load-bearing: M_replay (a replayed slice does not seed back) and M_delta (a fresh slice contributes nothing) each redden five warm cells including where_helper. Helper-of-a-helper (f → h1 → h2 → mk, both helpers in one where block): verified → tier3/E534, so the chain composes. The forwarder reached only through an imported generic (public forall<T> fn gwrap(@T, @Int -> @Option<Nat>) { mk(@Int.0) }, called as lib::gwrap(true, x)) is tier3/E522 in both polarities — opaque result, no false Tier 1 reachable, a non-mover rather than a gap.
F3	Scoped helper keying	Fixed, residual has a witness	collide.vera is now tier3/verified where it was tier3/tier3; M_scopekey (return the bare name) reddens exactly that cell. See G3 below for the residual, which now has a program behind it.
F4	Duplicated comment	Fixed	One occurrence of "#1413: the THIRD reader" in vera/verifier.py.
F5	Roster walk blind to vera/smt.py	Fixed	The walk iterates (verifier_mod, smt_mod) and keys readers by module:name.
F6	Pre-existing E699 on the re-wrapping arm	Tabled as #1424	Correct disposition — it is not this PR's.
F7	Rebase must recompute counts	Done in the tree, stale in the PR body	check_doc_counts passes at 13,221 tests / 199 files / 250 conformance, check_site_assets green, conformance 250/250, examples 43/43. The PR body still says "13,204 collected", "13,204 tests / 199 files" and "mypy clean over 104 files"; the tree is 13,221 and 105. See G4.

New findings

#	Sev	What	Evidence	Repro
G1	High	A forwarder inside an IMPORTED module is still never disclosed — the cross-boundary twin of #1407, and a false Tier 1 with a runtime refutation. oplib declares a disclosing mk and a wrap that forwards it; the importer matches on oplib::wrap(x). f's postcondition is verified at Tier 1 on f23db8f7 and on 5e7bca88 alike, and vera run --fn f -- -7.0 reports a postcondition violation. The premise holds: vera verify oplib.vera on its own reports mk's refine_bind as tier3_unguarded/E506, so the library's own run did disclose. The oracle is the sharp part — take the same three declarations and put them in ONE file (mk, wrap, f) and head reports tier3/E534, while the direct import match oplib::mk(x) reports tier3/E534 too. So after this PR the verdict depends on which side of the import the forwarding hop sits, which is the defect statement #1399 was opened with ("the SAME program split in two must say the same thing"), one hop further out. It is not a regression — verified on both revisions — but it is inside Fixes #1407's scope now that #1402 is in the base: _result_disclosed_fns is per-verifier and the module manifest carries obligation-derived disclosures, not the module's forwarders. The PR's three cross-import cells all put the forwarder in the importer, so nothing measures the other side.	Verify + run on both revisions, plus the one-file oracle and the standalone-library premise, all four measured.	Below.
G2	Medium	The _set_fn_scope hoist has no test that fails when it is reverted. Commit 8b1ab84b fixes CodeRabbit's Major — _check_generic_refined_return translating a body before the scope state was assigned, so a generic read the previous function's helpers. The fix is right and I verified it structurally: _set_fn_scope(decl, enclosing) is the first statement of _verify_fn and dominates every exit, including the if decl.forall_vars: branch, and it derives all three pieces of state from one (decl, enclosing) so they cannot disagree. But reverting it precisely — skip the call when decl.forall_vars, leaving the previous function's _scope_fn_names / _scope_owner / _tainted_sites standing, which is exactly the reported bug — leaves the new file 80/80 green, the disclosure neighbours (test_verifier_cross_module_disclosure, test_verifier_truth_consult_status, test_obligations) 844 passed / 1 skipped, and seven generic- and scope-themed files 140/140 green. And the whole suite: 13,009 passed / 186 skipped / 26 deselected / 0 failed, which is the head's own clean result — so nothing in the 13,221 collected tests notices the revert. By this repo's own rule a change that is green both before and after proves nothing about itself, and this one closes a soundness hole (the docstring says a generic could have a local call suppressed, or an import applied to a local call of the same name). A cell — a generic whose body calls a bare name that is also a where helper of a previously verified function — would fix that.	Mutation M_scopeorder; the four test runs above.	Below.
G3	Low	The documented F3 residual now has a program behind it, and the program shows the demotion is unnecessary. _result_disclosed_key keys a helper under its top-level owner, so two helpers of the same bare name under ONE owner share a key — which the docstring records as deliberate and safe. It is reachable: an owner f whose where block declares a clean h, and whose helper outer has a nested where block declaring a tainted h. f calls the outer, clean h, and vera run --fn f -- -7.0 returns 7 — the clean value, so f provably never reads the disclosed helper — yet head reports f's postcondition tier3/E534 where f23db8f7 reports verified. Safe direction and small, but it is a new Tier-1 loss on a program whose own run shows the premise is intact, and no cell pins it, so nothing would notice if the key later widened. Worth a pinned cell recording the measurement, in the same spirit as the #1410 pin.	f3_overdemote.vera: base verified → head tier3/E534, run returns 7. The sibling where f reaches the tainted helper (f3_nested_diamond.vera) demotes and its run refutes, so that one is right.	Below.
G4	Info	PR body counts are one push stale. "Full suite 13,204 collected", "check_doc_counts consistent at 13,204 tests / 199 files" and "mypy vera/ clean over 104 files" against a tree at 13,221 tests / 199 files and 105 mypy source files. The docs in the tree are correct and gated; only the body is behind. Worth a refresh before merge since the body is what the release notes are read from.	check_doc_counts output vs the body.	—
G5	Info	Two helpers of the same name in ONE where block type-check and verify, then fail codegen. vera check and vera verify are clean; vera run dies with WAT compilation failed: duplicate func identifier. Identical on f23db8f7 and 5e7bca88, so not this PR's — but it is adjacent to the F3 keying work and it is a check-clean program that cannot be compiled, which is the shape that usually gets a tracker row.	f3_dup_same_block.vera, both revisions.	—

The lens battery, re-run

• RED-FIRST. The file is 36 red on f23db8f7, 80 green on head. Every cell written for my findings is among the reds: test_1418_f1_a_lost_value_still_carries_its_disclosure[array_index|tuple_destructure|wrapper_through_tuple], test_1418_f3_a_shared_helper_name_does_not_demote_a_clean_caller[h|h2], test_1418_a_nested_helper_is_keyed_under_the_top_level_owner, and test_1407_a_warm_session_agrees_with_the_cold_run[where_helper] — which is now parametrised over nine spellings rather than two.
• Corpus. 474 files, base vs head: 0 movers, 0 accounting-identity violations, 370 summaries, 0 programs carrying a disclosed obligation. Reproduces the PR's numbers exactly.
• Mutation. Eight applied, seven killed: M_mint (3 cells, the F1 family), M_scopekey (1, the F3 cell), M_scopeowner — enclosing[0] → enclosing[-1], the pre-5e7bca88 nested keying — (1, the nested-owner cell), M_replay (5 warm cells), M_delta (5 warm cells), M_reader2 (2: rebind + the roster cell), M_reader3 (2: destructure + the roster cell). M_scopeorder survived — G2.
• Cross-import citation. Direct, let-bound and importer-side-forwarder spellings all emit the same sentence naming oplib::mk, its file and line, and the E504/E506 code. The claim holds across all three.
• Gates. mypy clean over 105 files; ruff check . and ruff check --select S vera/ clean; conformance 250/250; examples 43/43; check_doc_counts (13,221 / 199 / 250), check_diagnostic_fields, check_site_assets, check_version_sync, check_explicit_encoding, check_limitations_sync all green.

Repros

G1 — oplib.vera and main.vera, both declaring PosInt the way the PR's own cross-import fixture does:

-- oplib.vera
type PosInt = { @Int | @Int.0 > 0 };

public fn mk(@Float64 -> @Option<PosInt>)
  requires(true) ensures(true) effects(pure)
{ Some(float_to_int(@Float64.0)) }

public fn wrap(@Float64 -> @Option<PosInt>)
  requires(true) ensures(true) effects(pure)
{ mk(@Float64.0) }

-- main.vera
import oplib;

type PosInt = { @Int | @Int.0 > 0 };

public fn f(@Float64 -> @Int)
  requires(true)
  ensures(@Int.result > 0)
  effects(pure)
{
  match oplib::wrap(@Float64.0) {
    Some(@PosInt) -> @PosInt.0,
    None -> 41
  }
}

vera verify --json main.vera reports f's ensures verified on f23db8f7 and on 5e7bca88; vera run main.vera --fn f -- -7.0 reports Postcondition violation in f. Swap oplib::wrap for oplib::mk and it is tier3/E534 on both. Concatenate the two files into one and head reports tier3/E534.

G2 — in vera/verifier.py, replace the first statement of _verify_fn

        self._set_fn_scope(decl, enclosing)
        if decl.forall_vars:

with

        if not decl.forall_vars:
            self._set_fn_scope(decl, enclosing)
        if decl.forall_vars:

then run the test suite.

G3 — one owner, two helpers named h, one nested:

public fn f(@Float64 -> @Int)
  requires(true) ensures(@Int.result > 0) effects(pure)
{ match h(@Float64.0) { Some(@PosInt) -> @PosInt.0, None -> 41 } }
where {
  fn outer(@Float64 -> @Option<PosInt>)
    requires(true) ensures(true) effects(pure)
  { h(@Float64.0) }
  where {
    fn h(@Float64 -> @Option<PosInt>)
      requires(true) ensures(true) effects(pure)
    { mk(@Float64.0) }
  }

  fn h(@Float64 -> @Option<PosInt>)
    requires(true) ensures(true) effects(pure)
  { mk_ok(@Float64.0) }
}

f's ensures: verified on f23db8f7, tier3/E534 on head; vera run --fn f -- -7.0 returns 7.

Recommendation

The three High findings from round one are properly closed, and closed at the mechanism rather than at the symptom — _inherit_disclosure catches a spelling I invented afterwards, and the session delta is keyed on nothing. The mutation battery says the new machinery is load-bearing in every part except one.

G1 is the one worth a decision before merge. I would not ask for it in this PR — the fix belongs next to #1402's manifest, which is what would have to carry a module's forwarder set across the boundary — but I would not let Fixes #1407 stand unqualified either, because after the merge the issue's own title ("A forwarding wrapper is never disclosed") is still true of any wrapper that lives in an imported module, and the program that shows it is four declarations long with a runtime refutation. Either file it and note the scope beside the Fixes line, or add the library-side forwarder as a fourth cross-import cell pinned at its current verified the way #1410 is pinned, so the next change to the manifest is measured against it.

G2 is cheap to close and worth closing: one cell, and the change it covers is a soundness fix that currently nothing would notice being reverted. G3 wants a pin rather than a fix. G4 is a body refresh. G5 is a tracker row for someone else.

VERDICT: OPEN — 5 findings (1 High, 1 Medium, 1 Low, 2 Info); all 7 from the previous round resolved

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8037-8043: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Route nested-refinement premises through _established_facts.

For an ast.SlotRef, _value_source_disclosed falls through to _scrutinee_is_disclosed_call and returns False. This skips smt.term_is_disclosed(val), so a let-bound disclosed producer can add tainted source_facts to premises and can produce a false Tier-1 verified obligation.

         source_facts, _ = self._nested_refinement_facts(smt, source_ty, val)
         premises = list(assumptions)
-        if source_facts:
-            if disclosed:
-                smt._tainted_facts.extend(source_facts)
-            else:
-                premises.extend(source_facts)
+        if source_facts:
+            premises.extend(self._established_facts(
+                source_facts, source=value_node, term=val, smt=smt))

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Final review — PR #1418 at 63c37af4

Fresh fetch of pull/1418/head, git merge-base with origin/release/v0.2.0 is d88bf490 exactly, and d88bf490 is the base for every differential below. Each probe ran with cwd == PYTHONPATH == the tree under test and a vera.__file__ canary asserted in-process.

All four findings from the 5e7bca88 round are addressed, and the two-halves keying repair found during the rebase is a real improvement on the base rather than only a repair of this PR's own work. One finding remains, and it is about a test rather than the code.

The previous findings

#	Verdict	Evidence
G1 — imported forwarder	Fixed, and the union is load-bearing	Proved on a carrier where only the result-derived half can reach: lib::mk / lib::wrap / lib::wrap2 over Option<Nat> (int_to_nat of a handled Exn<Int>), where the library's standalone run carries exactly one unguarded obligation — mk's — so the forwarders record nothing of their own. One hop and two hops both move verified → tier3/E534 against d88bf490, and all three clean-library controls stay verified. Applying M_union (the manifest emits the obligation half only) puts both forwarders straight back to verified, so the mechanism is doing the work. See H1 for the test.
G2 — _set_fn_scope hoist untested	Pinned	M_scopeorder (skip the call for decl.forall_vars, leaving the previous function's scope standing) now reds test_1418_g2_a_generic_refined_return_reads_its_own_scope. Last round the same mutation survived all 13,009 tests.
G3 — shared-key residual	Pinned, with the witness, and no longer this PR's	test_1418_g3_the_scope_key_residual_errs_toward_demotion carries the nested-where program and asserts both halves — the tier3/E534 verdict and that vera run --fn f -- -7.0 returns 7, which is what makes "safe direction" a measurement rather than a claim. It also stopped being a regression: d88bf490 reports tier3/E534 on that program too, so head introduces nothing.
G4 — stale counts	Current	check_doc_counts green at 13,465 tests / 201 files / 250 conformance; check_site_assets green; the [Unreleased] bullet for this change appears exactly once.
G5 — duplicate helpers refused by wasm-tools	Filed as #1433	Correct disposition.

The rebase-found keying defect, checked independently

V2's account is that disclosed_fn_names keyed a where helper by bare fn_name, that this was latent in the obligation-derived half from #1363, and that #1420 widened its reach by giving a forwarding helper an obligation. My own files from the previous round confirm all three parts against d88bf490:

• collide.vera (one owner's helper forwards a disclosed producer, another owner's forwards a clean one, both named h): base tier3/tier3 → head tier3/verified. The clean caller gets its Tier-1 proof back — a completeness loss that exists on the base today and that this PR removes.
• collide3.vera (the isolated shape: two same-named helpers each disclosing through an obligation of its own, no forwarding anywhere): base tier3/tier3 → head tier3/verified. This is the half that has nothing to do with forwarding, so it corroborates "latent from the start" rather than "introduced by the F3 change".
• collide2.vera (distinct names) is tier3/verified on both — the selectivity control.

M19 (unscope the obligation half) and M22 (never stamp the owner) each red exactly two cells, test_1418_f3_the_obligation_derived_half_is_scoped_too and test_1418_f3_a_shared_helper_name_does_not_demote_a_clean_caller[h], which is the two-cell separation V2 describes: the forwarding cell alone goes green again if only the result-derived half is scoped.

Helper-of-a-helper under one owner is reachable, and the answer is the G3 pin: a helper's own nested where block can declare a name the owner's where also declares, and the two then share the owner key. f calling the outer, clean helper is demoted while vera run returns 7 from it. Two helpers of the same name in ONE block are reachable too but are #1433 — check-clean, verify-clean, refused by wasm-tools.

The rest of the battery

• Construction over a disclosed component. M18 (truncate the term walk to the root) reds 12 cells including all three rebuild cells — rebuild_ctor, rebuild_ctor2 and the single-constructor rebuild — beside the projection, join and destructure ones. The claim that the shape needs no rule of its own, because the disclosed term is still inside the constructor's argument, is what that partition shows.
• Warm vs cold. My sweep, re-run over every spelling × both polarities, cold vs warm vs replay: DIVERGENT: [].
• Corpus. 474 files against d88bf490: 0 movers, 370 summaries, 0 accounting-identity violations. See H2 on the reachability sentence.
• Red-first. 102 pass on head, 32 red on d88bf490 — including both F3 cells, the G2 cell, and the whole rebuild family, so those are pinned against a base that lacks them. The exceptions are noted in H1.
• Gates. mypy clean over 105 files; ruff check . and ruff check --select S vera/ clean; check_doc_counts, check_diagnostic_fields, check_site_assets, check_version_sync, check_explicit_encoding, check_limitations_sync all green. check_conformance 250/250 and check_examples 43/43. The whole pytest tests/ run was still in flight when I finished writing — the machine is running three other full suites concurrently — so I am not reporting a number for it; every other gate above is measured, and the 102-cell file plus the disclosure neighbours are green.

Findings

#	Sev	What	Evidence	Repro
H1	Medium	The G1 cell is green in three states: on the base without the fix, on head with the fix disabled, and on head. Copying the new file onto d88bf490 and running it there, test_1418_g1_an_imported_forwarder_is_disclosed[one_hop] and [two_hop] pass — on a tree that does not contain this PR at all — while 32 of the file's other cells go red. And M_union (the manifest emits the obligation-derived half only) leaves all 102 cells green while genuinely reverting the behaviour: with the mutation applied, lib::wrap and lib::wrap2 over an Option<Nat> carrier go straight back to verified at Tier 1. The cause is that _G1_LIB_ONE_HOP and _G1_LIB_TWO_HOP use the Option<PosInt> / float_to_int carrier, and on d88bf490 — after #1420 and #1435 — a forwarder's refined return is itself obligated: verifying that fixture's library standalone reports refine_bind/tier3_unguarded/E506 at line 16 (wrap) and line 24 (outer), so both are in the obligation-derived half and the cell is satisfied without the union ever contributing. The cell's docstring still states the pre-move premise verbatim — "A forwarder makes no claim and so records no obligation" — which is no longer true of its own fixture. The same drift clipped M_mint: it reddened three F1 cells at 5e7bca88 and reds two here, wrapper_through_tuple having likewise gained an obligation of its own. Neither is a defect in the fix — I verified the union works, on a carrier that isolates it — but the file no longer measures the change it was written for, and the next edit to the manifest would not be caught. The repair is a carrier swap: the Option<Nat> shape test_verifier_cross_module_disclosure already uses records nothing in a forwarder. Cheaper still, and worth having anyway: assert the premise inside the cell (the library's forwarder carries no unguarded obligation of its own) so a future base move fails loudly instead of quietly.	Both G1 cells pass on d88bf490; M_union → 102 passed; the same mutation flips both Option<Nat> forwarders back to verified; the fixtures' libraries standalone show tier3_unguarded/E506 at line 16 (_G1_LIB_ONE_HOP's wrap) and lines 16 and 24 (_G1_LIB_TWO_HOP's wrap and outer).	Below.
H2	Info	The corpus reachability sentence is stale. The PR body says "no corpus program discloses anything, so the differential is silent by construction". One does now: tests/probes/state_handlers/clause_scoping/p4_refined_arg_clause.vera carries refine_bind/tier3_unguarded/E506 at line 15 on this head — another consequence of the moved base. The 0 movers result is unaffected and still holds; only the "silent by construction" reasoning needs the number corrected, and it is a slightly stronger result with a live program in it.	Instrumented corpus run: PROGRAMS CARRYING A DISCLOSED OBLIGATION (head): 1, then verified directly.	—
H3	Info	KNOWN_ISSUES.md reads No known bugs. while ~30 open bug-labelled issues exist — among them #1406, #1407 and #1413, which this PR closes, plus #1410, #1424 and #1433. Not this PR's: the file is untouched in this diff and d88bf490 already carries the zero state, so it is a base-branch matter and adjacent to #1401. Raised only because the table's own preamble says it matches the tracker's open bug issues, and because the three issues this PR closes would ordinarily be the ones removed from it. check_limitations_sync is green either way.	git show d88bf490:KNOWN_ISSUES.md; gh issue list --label bug --state open.	—

Repro for H1

With the tree at 63c37af4, in vera/disclosure.py replace

    for name, sites in result.result_disclosed.items():

with for name, sites in {}.items(): and run tests/test_disclosure_taint_follows_value_1406.py — 102 passed. Then run this pair against the mutated tree and against the clean one:

-- lib.vera
public fn mk(@Int -> @Option<Nat>)
  requires(true) ensures(true) effects(pure)
{
  int_to_nat(handle[Exn<Int>] {
    throw(@Nat) -> { nat_to_int(@Nat.0) }
  } in { throw(@Int.0) })
}

public fn wrap(@Int -> @Option<Nat>)
  requires(true) ensures(true) effects(pure)
{ mk(@Int.0) }

public fn wrap2(@Int -> @Option<Nat>)
  requires(true) ensures(true) effects(pure)
{ wrap(@Int.0) }

-- main.vera
import lib;

public fn use_it(@Int -> @Int)
  requires(true)
  ensures(@Int.result >= 0)
  effects(pure)
{
  match lib::wrap(@Int.0) {
    Some(@Nat) -> nat_to_int(@Nat.0),
    None -> 0
  }
}

Clean tree: tier3/E534 for wrap and for wrap2, verified for all three against a Some(7) library. Mutated tree: verified for wrap and wrap2, tier3/E534 for mk. vera verify lib.vera on its own reports exactly one tier3_unguarded obligation, mk's — which is the property the current fixture no longer has.

Recommendation

The code is in good shape. G1 is fixed at the right place — a function is disclosed when its result is a disclosed value, on either side of an import — and I could not find a spelling that escapes it. G2 and G3 are pinned the way I would have asked. The keying repair is better than a repair: it removes a completeness loss that exists on d88bf490 today, in a half of the union that has nothing to do with this PR's own work, and the two-cell separation makes that checkable.

H1 is worth fixing before merge, not because anything is broken but because the cell that guards the newest and least obvious part of this change no longer fails when that part is removed — and the reason it stopped is exactly the kind of quiet base drift a test is supposed to catch. A carrier swap or a premise assertion is a few lines. H2 is one sentence in the body. H3 belongs to whoever owns the burndown's zero state.

VERDICT: OPEN — 3 findings (1 Medium, 2 Info); all 5 from the previous round resolved

[aallan]

Completing the one measurement my final review left open: the full suite on 63c37af4 has now finished — 13,253 passed, 186 skipped, 26 deselected, 0 failed (9m25s), which matches TESTING.md's stated 13,253 passed exactly. It was queued behind three other full suites on this machine when I posted, which is why I reported no number rather than guess at one.

That completes the gate battery: full suite green, mypy clean over 105 files, ruff check . and ruff check --select S vera/ clean, conformance 250/250, examples 43/43, and check_doc_counts / check_diagnostic_fields / check_site_assets / check_version_sync / check_explicit_encoding / check_limitations_sync all green.

No change to the verdict: H1 stands (the G1 cell is green on d88bf490, green under the M_union mutation, and green on head, so it does not measure the manifest union it was written for), with H2 and H3 as notes.

[aallan]

Delta spot-check — PR #1418 at 0b31c0e6

Fresh fetch, merge-base with origin/release/v0.2.0 is 768eecb9 exactly, and that is the base for every differential. cwd == PYTHONPATH == tree with an in-process vera.__file__ canary on every probe; verify and run legs capped at 60s. This is the delta only — I did not re-run the full pass.

(1) The forwarder shape the union used to cover

Confirmed for the carriers #1412 obligates; one carrier is not covered, and its verdict did change.

With an Option<PosInt> payload, #1412 does exactly what the removal comment says: verifying the library alone now reports refine_bind/tier3_unguarded/E506 at both mk (line 8) and the forwarder wrap (line 16), so the obligation-derived half carries the forwarder on its own. All three importer spellings — oplib::mk, oplib::wrap, and a two-hop mid::reexport re-exporting the forwarder — are tier3/E534 on 768eecb9 and on 0b31c0e6 alike, and the run no longer returns -7: it traps with Refinement violation in constructor sub-pattern Some(…), which is #1412's guard. The false-Tier-1 differential is gone at its source rather than papered over, which is the right shape of fix. A nested carrier is better still: Option<Option<PosInt>> through a library forwarder is verified on the base and tier3/E534 on head, so the branch moves one shape in the right direction here. An Array<PosInt> carrier is violated/ok:false on both — an honest error, not a Tier-1 claim.

The exception is the Option<Nat> / int_to_nat carrier, which is the shape the union was introduced for. Its library forwarder still publishes nothing: vera verify lib.vera reports exactly one unguarded obligation, mk's nat_bind/E504 at line 7, on both revisions. The importer then reads:

importer spelling	768eecb9	0b31c0e6	63c37af4 (previous head, union present)
match lib::mk(x)	tier3+E534	tier3+E534	tier3+E534
match lib::wrap(x) — forwarder in the library	verified	verified	tier3+E534
match mid::reexport(x) — re-exported, two import hops	verified	verified	—

So "the union changed no verdict" holds for the five shapes measured and not for this one: removing it takes lib::wrap from tier3/E534 at the previous head back to verified, and the same declarations in one file still demote, so the import boundary decides again for this carrier. What I could not produce is a runtime refutation behind it, and I tried: int_to_nat returns a genuine Nat, so the -7 path takes the None arm and the postcondition holds; and the sharper variant — a constructor-field @Nat narrowing over an opaque negative, forwarded across the import — traps at #1412's guard (Negative value bound into a @Nat slot) rather than returning a bad value. That is why I rate it Low rather than a soundness finding. It is worth saying plainly that "I found no exhibit" is weaker than "unreachable", and the removal's justification is stated as the stronger claim.

(2) The fourth reader

Confirmed, and the fix generalises further than the cell that pins it. Seven spellings of the same disclosed value reaching consume's nested-refined parameter, refine_bind statuses, disclosed beside clean:

spelling	768eecb9	0b31c0e6
consume(mk(x))	all tier3_unguarded	all tier3_unguarded
let @T = mk(x); consume(@T.0)	one verified beside three disclosed	all tier3_unguarded
consume(wrap(x))	all tier3_unguarded	all tier3_unguarded
let @T = wrap(x); consume(@T.0)	one verified	all tier3_unguarded
x |> mk() |> consume()	one verified	all tier3_unguarded

Every clean control is fully verified on both revisions, so the gate did not simply demote every argument. wrap_let and pipe are movers the PR's own cell does not name — it parametrises direct and let_bound — which is what routing through the shared gate rather than patching two spellings buys. M_fourth (the site extends premises with the raw source_facts again) reds both behavioural cells and the structural roster cell.

The rebuilt spelling is not measurable and I am not reporting a verdict for it: merely declaring fn rebuild(...) { match mk(x) { Some(@PosInt) -> Some(@PosInt.0), None -> None } } in the file trips the #1424 E699 sort mismatch on 768eecb9 and 0b31c0e6 alike, so every cell in the batch dies before reaching the reader. That is #1431's to unblock; the shape should be added to this cell once it is.

(3) The deleted helper

Clean. Zero live references to _value_source_disclosed — no definition, no self. call. The two textual hits are historical prose, one in the gate comment at vera/verifier.py:8538 and one in the roster docstring, both describing what the site used to do and why. That is the right residue to leave.

(4) Battery and corpus

Corpus: 474 files against 768eecb9 — 0 movers, 370 emitting a summary, 0 accounting-identity violations. Reproduces the claim.

Cells: 103 pass on head; 34 red on 768eecb9, including the fourth-reader let_bound cell, both F3 cells and the G2 cell, so the delta's own cells are red-first.

Mutations: seven killed, one survived.

mutation	cells red
M_fourth — the fourth reader bypasses the gate	3 (both nested spellings + the roster cell)
M_scopeorder — revert the _set_fn_scope hoist for generics	1
M19 — unscope the obligation half of the key	2
M22 — never stamp the owner	2
M18 — truncate the term walk to the root	13
M_mint — a stand-in inherits nothing	3
M_scopekey — unscope the result half	2
M_roster — drop _nested_refinement_facts from the roster	0 — survived

M_mint reddening three cells rather than two is worth noting positively: that is the carrier drift I flagged last round, closed by the re-carriering.

Gates: mypy clean over 105 files; ruff check . and ruff check --select S vera/ clean; check_doc_counts (13,562 / 202 / 250), check_site_assets, check_limitations_sync green.

Findings

#	Sev	What	Evidence	Repro
J1	Low	Removing the union changed one verdict, on the carrier the union was for. A library forwarder over an Option<Nat> payload still publishes no obligation under #1412, so the importer proves at Tier 1 through it — and through a two-hop re-export — while the direct call to the same library demotes and the same declarations in one file demote. tier3/E534 at 63c37af4, verified now. I could not produce a runtime refutation behind it (the None arm absorbs the -7, and the constructor-field variant traps at #1412's guard), so this is a reporting inconsistency rather than a demonstrated soundness hole — but the removal is justified as "unreachable", and what is measured is "the five shapes we tried did not move". Either widen the measurement to this carrier and say what it shows, or narrow the claim to the dichotomy #1412 actually closes: a forwarder publishing a refined return.	Library standalone: one unguarded obligation (nat_bind/E504 at line 7) on both revisions. Importer: verified for lib::wrap and mid::reexport, tier3/E534 for lib::mk.	Below.
J2	Info	M_roster survives: the structural cell can be narrowed without failing. Deleting _nested_refinement_facts from the producer roster leaves 103/103 green. The cell's guard against a narrowed roster is len(readers) >= 3, and the roster yields 4 readers today (_check_nested_refinement_obligation, _check_refined_binding_obligation_term, _subpattern_source_facts, _walk_for_nat_binding_obligations) against 3 without the new producer — so the floor has exactly one reader of slack, which the fourth reader occupies. The cell is the thing that makes "a fourth reader is a call to the gate or a failing test" structural rather than conventional, and it is the one part of the mechanism nothing pins. Raise the floor to the actual count, or assert the roster set itself.	M_roster → 103 passed; reader counts 4 vs 3 measured from the module ASTs.	—
J3	Info	The rebuilt spelling of the fourth reader is unmeasurable behind #1424. Declaring the rebuild function at all kills verification with the E699 sort mismatch, identically on both revisions, so no verdict can be read for it. Not this PR's, and #1431 is the unblock — worth a line in the cell's docstring so the gap is recorded rather than assumed covered.	Every cell in the batch returns E699 with the rebuild declaration present; all measure normally without it.	—

Repro for J1

-- lib.vera
public fn mk(@Int -> @Option<Nat>)
  requires(true) ensures(true) effects(pure)
{
  int_to_nat(handle[Exn<Int>] { throw(@Nat) -> { nat_to_int(@Nat.0) } } in { throw(@Int.0) })
}

public fn wrap(@Int -> @Option<Nat>)
  requires(true) ensures(true) effects(pure)
{ mk(@Int.0) }

-- main.vera
import lib;

public fn use_it(@Int -> @Int)
  requires(true)
  ensures(@Int.result >= 0)
  effects(pure)
{
  match lib::wrap(@Int.0) {
    Some(@Nat) -> nat_to_int(@Nat.0),
    None -> 0
  }
}

vera verify lib.vera reports one tier3_unguarded obligation, mk's. vera verify --json main.vera gives use_it's ensures as verified; swapping lib::wrap for lib::mk gives tier3/E534; concatenating the two files gives tier3/E534. A third module forwarding lib::wrap and imported by main is verified too.

Recommendation

The delta is sound work. Removing machinery that a later fix made redundant is the right instinct, the fourth reader is now closed by the same gate as the other three rather than by a fourth opinion, and the deleted helper left only the prose that explains why it went. J1 is the one I would settle before merge, and settling it may be a sentence rather than a change: if the intended claim is "a forwarder that publishes a refined return now carries its own obligation", that is what I measured and it holds — it is the unqualified "the union changed no verdict" that my Option<Nat> shape contradicts. J2 is two characters. J3 is a docstring line.

VERDICT: OPEN — 3 findings (1 Low, 2 Info); items (1)-(4) all checked, (2) and (3) clean

[aallan]

@coderabbitai The outside-diff finding on vera/verifier.py was right and it was a live false Tier 1: reproduced before fixing, the same value gave that obligation tier3_unguarded/E506 spelled consume(mk(x)) and verified spelled let @T = mk(x); consume(@T.0), so _check_nested_refinement_obligation now routes source_facts through _established_facts and the local syntactic test is deleted rather than left beside the gate.

The more useful half is why the structural cell missed it — its producer roster named the two producers of the day rather than the kind of function a reader reads from — so _nested_refinement_facts joins the roster, the AST walk reds on the bypass (green with the fix, red with it reverted), and both spellings plus their clean controls are pinned as cells.

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@aallan Thanks for the precise reproduction and fix.

Routing source_facts through _established_facts closes the false Tier-1 path in _check_nested_refinement_obligation. Removing the local syntactic test also prevents a second, divergent disclosure rule.

The updated structural cell covers the reader category. The pinned disclosed and clean-control cases cover both call-site spellings.

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✏️ Learnings added

Learnt from: aallan
URL: https://github.com/aallan/vera/pull/1418

Timestamp: 2026-09-07T15:35:31.034Z
Learning: In `vera/verifier.py`, `_check_nested_refinement_obligation` must route `source_facts` through `_established_facts`. Disclosed source facts can otherwise produce a false Tier-1 proof when a function result is first bound and then projected. Structural regression coverage must classify declared-type fact readers by the function category that reads facts, such as `_nested_refinement_facts`, rather than by a temporary producer roster.

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[aallan]

Delta re-verification — PR #1418 at 08c4c76e

Fresh fetch, merge-base with origin/release/v0.2.0 is bcaae63f exactly, and that is the base for every differential. cwd == PYTHONPATH == tree with an in-process vera.__file__ canary on every probe, verify legs capped by perl -e 'alarm shift; exec @ARGV' 90. Delta only.

All three findings are resolved, and the Closes #1413 claim holds. One new finding, in a comment rather than in code.

J1 — the imported forwarder

Fixed. My fixture, re-run unchanged from scratchpad/j1/:

entry	bcaae63f	08c4c76e
main_direct — lib::mk	tier3+E534	tier3+E534
main_wrap — lib::wrap	verified	tier3+E534
main_reexport — mid::reexport	verified	tier3+E534
onefile — same decls, one file	verified	tier3+E534

lib.vera standalone still reports exactly one unguarded obligation — ('nat_bind', 'tier3_unguarded', 'E504') at line 13, the handler-clause @Nat payload bind — on both revisions, so the premise is unchanged and it is the consumption that moved. The single-revision asymmetry the finding rested on is gone: at 08c4c76e the split and the one-file spellings now agree.

The diagnosis in the restored code is the right one and sharper than mine: a same-typed forwarder narrows nothing, so #1412 obligates it nothing, so the obligation-derived half is structurally blind to it — the manifest half is the value-following taint crossing the import. That generalises past the carrier I happened to find.

The cells are the right shape. M_union (the manifest emits the obligation-derived half only) reds four: test_1418_j1_an_imported_forwarder_publishes_its_disclosure[forwarder] and [two_hops], plus test_1418_j1_the_import_boundary_changes_nothing[forwarder] and [two_hops]. The fixture was adopted verbatim — _J1_LIB is the int_to_nat(handle[Exn<Int>] { throw(@Nat) -> … }) carrier, character for character.

One observation on the instrument, not a finding: of the three equality cells, only [direct] is red on bcaae63f. [forwarder] and [two_hops] pass there because both sides of the comparison are equally wrong — split verified and one-file verified — which is what an equality assertion cannot see. The status cells are what stop that, and M_union reds both kinds, so the pair carries it. Worth knowing that the equality half alone would not have caught the bug it was written for.

J2 — the roster

Fixed. The floor is gone; the cell now asserts exact membership over the four readers (_check_nested_refinement_obligation, _check_refined_binding_obligation_term, _subpattern_source_facts, _walk_for_nat_binding_obligations). M_roster — dropping _nested_refinement_facts from the producer set, the omission that let the fourth reader in — reds test_1413_every_reader_of_a_source_fact_consults_the_one_gate, where before it left 103/103 green.

J3 — the rebuilt spelling

Fixed. test_1418_j3_the_literal_rebuilt_spelling_is_disclosed is a real cell now that #1431 lets the program reach the verifier: Some(@PosInt.0) beside a None arm is tier3+E534 with the producer's refine_bind tier3_unguarded/E506 and a refused run, against a clean twin that stays verified and returns 7. It is red on bcaae63f and M18 (truncate the term walk to the root) reds it along with the other three rebuild cells — so it is pinned by the walk it claims to need no rule for.

Closes #1413 — verified by gate-revert

The claim is that both of #1413's readers demote only with the shared gate. Reverting each site independently on its own reproducer:

mutation	cells red
reader 2 — _check_refined_binding_obligation_term extends with the raw src_fact	test_1413_a_renarrowing_off_a_disclosed_value_is_not_tier_1[rebind] + the roster cell
reader 3 — _walk_for_nat_binding_obligations seeds the raw comp_fact	…[destructure] + the roster cell

Each reverted site reds its own reproducer and only its own, which is what "the gate is what makes them demote" means operationally. The footers are one keyword per issue on their own lines — Fixes #1406, Fixes #1407, Closes #1413. closingIssuesReferences is empty, as it is for any release-branch base, so the three still need closing by hand at merge.

Battery, corpus, gates

• Cells: 111 pass on head; 38 red on bcaae63f, including both J1 status cells, a J1 equality cell, the J3 literal-rebuild cell and the rebuild family.
• Corpus: 477 files against bcaae63f — 0 movers, 371 emitting a summary, 0 accounting-identity violations.
• Mutations: M_union (4), M_roster (1), M_reader2 (2), M_reader3 (2), M18 (14) — all killed, each reddening the cells written for it and no others.
• Gates: mypy clean over 106 files; ruff check . and ruff check --select S vera/ clean; check_doc_counts (13,686 / 204 / 253), check_site_assets, check_version_sync, check_diagnostic_fields, check_limitations_sync all green; the [Unreleased] bullet appears exactly once. check_conformance and check_examples were still running when I finished writing (the machine is under load), so I report no number for them rather than guess — everything else above is measured.

Finding

#	Sev	What	Evidence	Repro
K1	Low	vera/disclosure.py still argues the union's removal, twenty-nine lines above the restored union. Lines 438-439 are current ("the loop after it adds the RESULT-derived half"), but 440-466 are the removal case and three of their claims are now false. "Since #1412 that has ONE kind of evidence: an obligation of its own" — the union restores the second kind, in the loop below. "a forwarder … that does NOT publish the refinement hands on no fact for a consumer to lean on" — this is exactly what the J1 fixture refutes, and what the restoration's own diagnosis (a same-typed forwarder narrows nothing) contradicts. "removing it changed no cell in the suite" — M_union now reds four. The final paragraph reads as a live conditional — "If a shape is found where such a producer's disclosure DOES reach an importer through a forwarder, this is where the union goes back" — when the shape was found and the union did go back. A reader landing on this function reads a paragraph headed THE CLAIM IS BOUNDED BY WHAT WAS MEASURED arguing against the code immediately beneath it. The CHANGELOG has this right ("That union was removed mid-review and then restored, and the reason it had to come back is worth recording"); only the source comment is behind. The array/Map observation in the same block is still true and worth keeping — it is the surrounding argument that needs inverting.	sed -n '438,466p' vera/disclosure.py against the for name, sites in result.result_disclosed.items(): loop at line 482.	—

Recommendation

The three findings are closed properly — J1 at the mechanism with an instrument that reds when it is removed, J2 by replacing a floor with the actual set, J3 by a cell that only became writable when its blocker landed. The Closes #1413 addition is earned: each reader's gate carries its own reproducer and nothing else's.

K1 is a comment edit and the only thing I would ask for before merge. It matters more than a normal stale comment because this file's whole job is to explain a rule that took three rounds to get right, and the paragraph a reader meets first now argues the opposite of what the code does — with emphasis. Inverting it costs a few lines and leaves the array/Map paragraph, which is still accurate, in place.

VERDICT: OPEN — 1 finding (Low); J1, J2 and J3 all resolved, Closes #1413 verified by gate-revert

[aallan]

Completing the two gates my delta review left open — both landed green on 08c4c76e moments after I posted: check_conformance 253/253 and check_examples 43/43.

That closes the gate battery for this head: mypy clean over 106 files, ruff check . and ruff check --select S vera/ clean, conformance 253/253, examples 43/43, and check_doc_counts (13,686 / 204 / 253), check_site_assets, check_version_sync, check_diagnostic_fields, check_limitations_sync all green, with the [Unreleased] bullet appearing exactly once.

No change to the verdict: K1 stands as the single open item — vera/disclosure.py:440-466 still argues the union's removal directly above the restored union, with three claims that the restoration made false.

[aallan]

K1 is fixed in 9a34cbc0, which is the first commit of #1458 rather than a push to this branch — #1418 was merged before I could land it here. The paragraph is inverted to the mechanism (the obligation-derived half is blind to a forwarder because #1412 obligates narrowings and a same-typed forward narrows nothing; the manifest half is the value-following taint crossing the import), the removal is kept as history with the reason it did not hold, and the array/Map paragraph stays — now carrying its point, that the set of sites #1412 leaves unguarded is not closed, which is why the manifest publishes by value instead of enumerating them.

[aallan]

K1 is addressed by 9a34cbc0 (first commit of #1458), and it says what the finding asked for.

Verified comment-only: every changed line in vera/disclosure.py is a comment line — no statement moved — and the commit carries a Skip-changelog: trailer for that reason.

All three false claims are gone, and each is replaced by the mechanism rather than by a hedge. "ONE kind of evidence" becomes "TWO kinds of evidence, which is why both loops are here". The claim I refuted — that a forwarder which does not publish the refinement hands on no fact — is replaced with why the obligation-derived half cannot see it: #1412 obligates narrowings, and a forwarder whose declared return is the same refined type as its callee's narrows nothing, so it records no obligation however plainly it hands the fact on. That is a better statement of the defect than the one in my finding, because it does not depend on the carrier I happened to reach it through. And the removal survives as history with the reason it did not hold: "Six carriers were surveyed and none contradicted it, which settled nothing: a survey is evidence about the carriers surveyed."

The closing conditional is gone, and the array/Map paragraph is kept and now earns its place — the set of sites #1412 leaves unguarded is not closed, which is the argument for publishing by value rather than enumerating them. That is the right generalisation to draw from J1.

Nothing further from me on this one.