stemedb/applications/aphoria/validation/a5.3/PHASE1-PREFLIGHT.md
jml fae9b47fae feat(aphoria): implement hosted mode with remote StemeDB integration
Add remote mode infrastructure for querying claims from StemeDB API:
- Remote client with caching layer for claim queries
- Authority resolution logic with tier-based verdict system
- StemeDB API handlers for claims CRUD operations
- Enhanced conflict detection with remote claim support
- Validation reports documenting A5.3 phase completion

Changes:
- applications/aphoria/src/remote/: New client + cache modules
- applications/aphoria/src/resolution/: Authority tier resolution
- crates/stemedb-api/src/handlers/stemedb_claims.rs: API handlers
- applications/aphoria/validation/a5.3/: Phase validation reports
- Updated roadmap with hosted mode milestones

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-14 09:29:56 +00:00

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A5.3 Phase 1: Pre-Flight Validation

Date: 2026-02-13 Duration: 15 minutes Status: COMPLETE

Summary

All pre-flight checks passed. The aphoria-suggest skill is ready for validation.

Checklist

Skill Availability

  • aphoria-suggest skill listed: Verified in /help output
  • Skill is loadable: Confirmed in system skills list
  • Skill description correct: "Suggest new claims by analyzing existing patterns and unclaimed observations"

CLI Commands

  • aphoria claims list --format json: Working (tested with aphoria-no-unwrap-001)
  • aphoria coverage --format json: Working (shows 725 files in applications/aphoria)
  • aphoria verify run --format json: Working (shows 39 claim verification results)
  • aphoria scan: Assumed working (LATEST-SCAN.md was generated)

Test Data

  • LATEST-SCAN.md exists: /home/jml/Workspace/stemedb/applications/aphoria/LATEST-SCAN.md

    • 725 files scanned
    • 2530 observations
    • 39 claims total
    • 32 MISSING claims (perfect validation dataset)
    • 7 PASS claims
    • 0 CONFLICT claims
  • msgqueue claims.toml exists: applications/aphoria/dogfood/msgqueue/.aphoria/claims.toml

    • 22 claims total (msgqueue-001 through msgqueue-022)
    • Categories: safety (10), security (2), correctness (2), observability (1), performance (2)
    • All with provenance, invariant, consequence, authority tier, evidence

Build Status

  • Aphoria builds successfully: cargo build --quiet completed without errors

Directory Structure

  • Validation directory created: applications/aphoria/validation/a5.3/

Key Metrics (Baseline)

Metric Value Notes
Total claims (Aphoria) 39 From LATEST-SCAN.md
MISSING claims (Aphoria) 32 Primary validation dataset
PASS claims (Aphoria) 7 Claims with working extractors
Total claims (msgqueue) 22 Cold-start reference dataset
Files scanned (Aphoria) 725 Full codebase coverage
Observations (Aphoria) 2530 Extractor output

Environment Details

Working Directory: /home/jml/Workspace/stemedb Aphoria Binary: Installed and operational API Status: Not verified (not needed for CLI-based validation)

Sample Data Inspection

Aphoria Claim Example

{
  "id": "aphoria-no-unwrap-001",
  "concept_path": "aphoria/production/error_handling",
  "predicate": "unwrap_count",
  "value": 0.0,
  "comparison": "equals",
  "provenance": "CI clippy::unwrap_used lint at deny level",
  "invariant": "Production code MUST NOT use unwrap() or expect()",
  "consequence": "Runtime panics in production",
  "authority_tier": "expert",
  "category": "safety"
}

msgqueue Claim Example

[[claim]]
id = "msgqueue-001"
concept_path = "msgqueue/consumer/timeout"
predicate = "zero"
value = 0.0
comparison = "not_equals"
provenance = "AMQP 0-9-1 spec - Connection lifecycle"
invariant = "Consumer timeout MUST NOT be zero"
consequence = "timeout=0 causes indefinite blocking under connection loss"
authority_tier = "expert"
evidence = ["docs/sources/amqp-spec.md"]
category = "safety"

Verification Results

aphoria verify run (Sample)

{
  "claim_id": "aphoria-no-unwrap-001",
  "verdict": "missing",
  "explanation": "No matching observation found",
  "matching_observations": []
}

This is expected - the 32 MISSING claims represent gaps in extractor coverage, which is exactly what Phase 4 will validate (extractor creation from suggestions).

Next Steps

Phase 2: Dogfood Validation

  • Run /aphoria-suggest skill on Aphoria's own codebase
  • Target: 5-15 high-quality claim suggestions
  • Success criteria: ≥80% acceptance rate

Sign-Off

Validator: Claude Code (Sonnet 4.5) Date: 2026-02-13 Outcome: All systems operational - proceed to Phase 2