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An accepted purge now targets only application plaintext from before the request opened. Voting and delayed acceptance cannot expand that consented range. The requested prospective retention policy starts at acceptance, and irreversible cleanup waits until the accepted Commit's parent is strictly beyond the rollback horizon on the settled selected branch.

  • Define a draft bounded request, fixed account cohort, unanimous signed decisions, exact terminal proposal sets, and aggregate completion receipts. Any member may create the request app event; active admins mediate canonical opening with local admission, recovery priority and a group-wide cooldown.
  • Preserve first-decision protection across local expiry and restart; candidate validation ignores conflicting proofs observed only off-branch.
  • Reject external join/resync Commits while a request is open; require capable online cohort members to attempt expiry for elapsed or unusably future-dated windows without an online admin. Closure obligations persist through restart and publication failure; adversarial or all-offline liveness is not guaranteed. Require canonical closure before disband, preserve ordinary authority for causal supersession, and withhold account-wide applied receipts when store completeness or coordination is unknown.
  • Correct the feature's layout entry and the workflow's default-branch ref. Add reference regression tests and fixed encoding/hash fixtures to CI.

Validation: 27 reference tests pass; Markdown links, registry consistency, surface-boundary checks, structural phrase checks, and diff hygiene pass. The reference model assumes valid authenticated proofs and an already selected branch. The synthetic signature fixtures test encoding only; this change does not implement or verify MLS convergence, signature validity, or physical deletion.

Tracks consensual purge #418. This is a specification change; client integration is separate.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for unanimous, one-time history purges alongside changes to prospective message-retention duration.
    • Eligible application content is suppressed before display and may be cleaned up after authorization settles, without changing pinned expiry or protocol-data retention.
    • Added safeguards for validation, conflicting decisions, expiration, rollback, restart recovery, and duplicate processing.
    • Registered the history-purge component and related event types.
  • Documentation

    • Added specifications covering feature behavior, retention, protocol handling, components, registries, and conformance scenarios.

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The PR adds the adopted consensual history purge feature. It defines member consent, authorization, commit validation, local suppression, cleanup, retention, registry, and conformance rules.

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Consensual history purge

Layer / File(s) Summary
Component contracts and registration
app-components/history-purge-v1.md, app-components/README.md, foundation/registries.md
Defines request bytes, member decisions, control events, inline authorization, capability negotiation, durable signer decisions, and registered identifiers.
Commit authorization and local effect
features/consensual-history-purge.md, app-components/message-retention-v1.md, protocol-core/retained-history.md, app-components/history-purge-v1.md
Defines unanimous finalization, exact commit validation, retention activation, reversible suppression, cleanup conditions, preserved data, restart behavior, and scope exclusions.
Conformance coverage and specification wiring
foundation/conformance.md, features/README.md, layout.md
Adds coverage for missing and No approvals across clients. Lists the new feature and component documents in the specification indexes.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to bcb87

This documentation-only change defines consensual history-purge behavior without implementing client or runtime behavior, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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In `@app-components/history-purge-v1.md`:
- Line 81: Update MarmotHistoryPurgeAuthorizationV1.approvals to reject a
request when any member has a valid No proof or submits more than one distinct
decision for the same request_id, preventing later Yes proofs from authorizing
deletion. Add a conformance case covering No followed by Yes, asserting the
Commit is invalid and suppression and deletion do not start.
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1 actionable finding.

  1. Major — A prior signed No is not an enforceable veto

Exact changed-line evidence: app-components/history-purge-v1.md:81 validates an authorization when approvals contains exactly one 104-byte Yes proof for every identity in request.members. The same document says a conforming account produces at most one decision and therefore treats No as making unanimous authorization impossible, but Commit validation neither carries nor checks conflicting No proofs.

Triggering state: an account signs No and later signs Yes for the same request_id; the administrator includes only the Yes proof in the authorization.

Consequence: the Commit satisfies the specified validation rules, suppression begins, and eventual plaintext deletion can occur despite the earlier signed refusal. This contradicts the stated consent guarantee. The second signature is non-conforming, but validators cannot detect the equivocation from the authorization, especially because the design intentionally has no independent distributed request state.

Confidence: High.

Smallest sound correction: make the normative guarantee match the enforceable wire semantics—state that authorization depends on one valid Yes proof per member and that an unseen or conflicting No is not globally enforceable. Alternatively, define deterministic, validator-visible conflicting-decision evidence and its retention/replay rules; merely checking locally observed No events would produce inconsistent Commit validity. Add a No-then-Yes conformance scenario matching the chosen rule.

Discussion classification:

  • discussion_r3895874585: supported in substance; its proposed local “has a valid No” check is not sound under the stateless design.
  • pullrequestreview-5068234986: duplicate of that inline finding.
  • issuecomment-5480496236: informational walkthrough, not an additional finding.

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  • Exact head: 28a9d7c689a7a5a052ba8ec8b0e0729bbb36f53f
  • Complete supplied patch coverage: 9 files, 273 additions, 3 deletions.
  • Changed files examined include app-components/history-purge-v1.md, features/consensual-history-purge.md, foundation/conformance.md, protocol-core/retained-history.md, and app-components/message-retention-v1.md.
  • Encodings and bounds, malformed-input handling, request expiry, duplicate/replay behavior, parent and membership binding, capability negotiation, reversible suppression, restart durability, rollback-horizon deletion, recovery-material preservation, and user-facing error/choice states were checked against the supplied patch and bounded source snapshots.

Risk lenses checked:

  • network/protocol: timeouts, retry and duplicate delivery; partial/malformed peer data; version and wire compatibility.
  • user-interface: state restoration and configuration change; accessibility/localization/large text; empty/error/loading states.

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  • The bundle contains no check-run records (runs: []), with all_completed: false and all_successful: false. The PR body reports focused conformance assertions and a repository fast gate as PASS, but no run-level CI record accompanies the bundle.
  • automated_device_gate is null; no physical-device evidence exists for this head. Conclusions therefore rest on exact-head static review and the supplied check metadata.

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In `@foundation/conformance.md`:
- Around line 105-107: Update the restart requirements in
foundation/conformance.md to explicitly require unfinished deletion work to
resume and complete after a partial cleanup. Extend the assertions across the
listed restart boundaries to verify that all remaining pre-activation
application plaintext is deleted and exactly one effective output is produced
per stable effect identity, while preserving the existing duplicate-effect and
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In `@app-components/history-purge-v1.md`:
- Around line 84-86: Clarify the persistence requirements around the signer
decision records referenced by the durable decision/restart rules and the
no-persistent-state removal statement. Distinguish local signer decision records
from persistent group state, and specify migration or cleanup conditions that
allow records to be removed only when doing so cannot permit a previously
refused request_id to receive a Yes proof.
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2 actionable findings.

  1. Major — parent_group_context_hash has no deterministic computation rule
  • Exact changed-line evidence: app-components/history-purge-v1.md, added MarmotHistoryPurgeRequestCoreV1 field: opaque parent_group_context_hash[32];
  • Triggering state: A client constructs or validates a purge request, but the specification never defines which serialization is hashed. The prior rule binding this value to SHA-256(TLS-serialize(candidate_parent_group_context)) was removed, and the field has no other definition in the supplied head context.
  • Consequence: Conforming implementations can derive different request-binding bytes for the same parent GroupContext, producing incompatible request identities or accepting different parent bindings for a deletion-authorizing protocol.
  • Confidence: High.
  • Smallest sound correction: Restore an explicit normative definition: parent_group_context_hash = SHA-256(TLS-serialize(candidate_parent_group_context)), and state that the MLS TLS serialization is used directly without Marmot-specific re-encoding.
  1. Minor — Receipt validity is not explicitly bound to the canonical accepted finalization
  • Exact changed-line evidence: app-components/history-purge-v1.md adds the receipt requirements The authenticated sender MUST be one member account in the accepted request cohort and A sender emits at most one receipt for a finalization, while completion depends on valid receipts; no supplied rule requires the referenced finalization to be the canonical accepted terminal value.
  • Triggering state: A cohort member emits a structurally valid receipt referencing a rejected, cancelled, expired, superseded, or otherwise non-canonical finalization.
  • Consequence: Implementations can disagree on whether that receipt contributes to group_complete, yielding inconsistent cleanup-completion state.
  • Confidence: Medium-high.
  • Smallest sound correction: Define a receipt as valid only when its finalization reference resolves to the canonical accepted terminal value, and require rejection of receipts referencing any other finalization.

Audit evidence:

  • Exact head SHA: 471643bb547b9f870aafd9572cd752a81342d687
  • Changed files examined include app-components/history-purge-v1.md, features/consensual-history-purge.md, foundation/conformance.md, .github/workflows/spec-validation.yml, and scripts/spec_validate.py.
  • Discussion classification: The earlier No-then-Yes authorization, restart cleanup-completion, and durable signer-record comments are stale/addressed at this head. The new model consumes the No proof in rejected finalization, conformance now requires remaining eligible cleanup after restart, and the specification distinguishes temporary group state from durable local signer decision records. Duplicate review-summary items require no separate action.
  • The automated device gate reports capability_checked_not_installable and is bound to the older SHA bcb8739eedd012fdc1f36854076c112ec07e452b; therefore no physical-device evidence exists for this head. Conclusions rest on static review and supplied CI evidence.

Risk lenses checked:

  • release/build: untrusted-input and least-privilege CI; artifact identity/reproducibility; all required paths trigger checks.
  • tests: assertions fail before the fix; boundary and negative cases; test exercises production behavior.

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  • Supplied GitHub Actions run Deterministic spec validation completed with conclusion success.
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  • This check establishes success of scripts/spec_validate.py --mode all; it does not resolve the two normative ambiguities above.

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No actionable findings.

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Datawav marked this pull request as draft September 30, 2026 20:04
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Datawav marked this pull request as ready for review September 30, 2026 21:20
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