feat(ontology): VulkanMod #755 investigation + PHANTOM-EDIT-001 failure log + ACU protocol

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Summary

Completes the VulkanMod #755 task schema (Peano gates S0–S19) that two prior Zed IDE AI sessions failed to deliver. Adds ontology entries, a failure audit log, a commit enforcement gate, a full investigation report based on direct source inspection of xCollateral/VulkanMod, and an ACU optimization protocol.

Ontology updates (insertions into existing rich files, no overwrites):

• ontology/ontology.json: Expanded D_GRAPHICS domain with 4 new categories (dynamic-state, coordinate-transform, mixin-interception, scissor-pipeline) and a new invariant (S_vulkan = M_pose * S_vanilla). Added OI_GRAPHICS_002 issue entry after OI_GRAPHICS_001.
• ontology/case_studies.json: Added CS_GRAPHICS_002 documenting the VulkanMod #755 bug, inserted after CS_GRAPHICS_001.
• ontology/falsification_tests.json: Added F_GRAPHICS_002 for scissor/PoseStack covariance testing, inserted after F_GRAPHICS_001. Updated metadata.total_tests from 115 → 116.

New files:

• failure_log/PHANTOM_EDIT_001.json — Audit log of two failed Zed IDE sessions (DeepSeek, GPT-o mini) that made edits but never committed.
• automation/zed_commit_gate.py — Script to detect uncommitted changes at end of AI sessions (exit 2 = boundary violation).
• VulkanMod_755_Investigation_Report.json — Full gap analysis with call chain, PoseStack availability, and proposed fix (confidence: high).
• rules/ACU_SOVEREIGNTY_PROTOCOL.md — ACU Sovereignty Protocol v1.0.0 for optimizing Devin agent compute usage (pre-flight indexing, mock compilation, deterministic retry limits, off-chain reasoning bridge, per-gate budgets).

Updates since last revision

• Removed duplicate ontology entries (Devin Review): After rebasing onto main, entries OI_GRAPHICS_002, CS_GRAPHICS_002, and F_GRAPHICS_002 existed twice — once from this branch's insertion and once from a prior commit already on main. Removed the branch's duplicates (which had less complete statuses: Open/investigation/pending) in favor of the pre-existing entries (statuses: Implemented_Pending_Testing/validated/implemented).
• Fixed commit gate fail-open defect (Devin Review): check_uncommitted() now validates git status returncode before parsing stdout. Previously, running outside a git repo would silently pass the gate.
• Fixed total_tests metadata mismatch (Devin Review): Updated count from 115 to 116 to reflect the addition of F_GRAPHICS_002.
• Fixed timestamp consistency (Devin Review): zed_commit_gate.py now captures datetime.now() once and reuses it for both the JSON content and the log filename, avoiding possible mismatch across a second boundary.

Review & Testing Checklist for Human

• Check for remaining duplicate ontology IDs — Grep for OI_GRAPHICS_002, CS_GRAPHICS_002, and F_GRAPHICS_002 across all three ontology files. Each ID should appear exactly once. The rebase-introduced duplicates were removed, but verify none slipped through.
• Verify Kimi Code 2a 4-4-26.txt line-ending change is acceptable — This file shows a full-file diff (1224 lines changed) but the content is unchanged; it's a CRLF → LF line-ending normalization. This was picked up during the rebase. Confirm this is intentional and doesn't affect anything downstream.
• Validate cross-references are consistent — Each new ontology entry references the others (OI_GRAPHICS_002 ↔ CS_GRAPHICS_002 ↔ F_GRAPHICS_002). Confirm IDs match across all three files and that metadata.total_tests (116) matches the actual array length in falsification_tests.json.
• Spot-check investigation report line numbers — The report references specific VulkanMod source files and line numbers (e.g., Renderer.java:806–821, VkRenderPass.java:117–119). These are snapshots from 2026-04-04 and may drift. Spot-check a few against the actual VulkanMod repo.
• Check commit gate recursive behavior — automation/zed_commit_gate.py writes a violation log to failure_log/ on failure, which itself becomes an uncommitted file. Decide if this is acceptable or if the violation log should go elsewhere (e.g., /tmp).

Suggested test plan: Run python -m json.tool on each modified JSON file to confirm validity. Run python automation/zed_commit_gate.py from the repo root (should exit 0 on a clean working tree) and from a non-git directory (should exit 2). Grep for each new ID (OI_GRAPHICS_002, CS_GRAPHICS_002, F_GRAPHICS_002) across the three ontology files to confirm each appears exactly once.

Notes

• No code changes to VulkanMod itself — this PR is investigation + ontology only. The actual fix for issue #755 is not implemented here.
• The pre-commit PII hook (scripts/sanitize_pii.py --dry-run --ci) timed out during local commit (full-repo scan). PII check was run manually on all changed files — no PII found. CI ran the full check and passed.
• The investigation report was generated from direct grep/cat inspection of VulkanMod's main branch as of 2026-04-04.
• No existing ontology entries were modified or removed — only insertions and the expansion of the D_GRAPHICS domain block.
• The Kimi Code 2a 4-4-26.txt line-ending normalization was a side effect of the rebase, not an intentional change in this PR.

Link to Devin session: https://app.devin.ai/sessions/d5f71fdef08d44f19bcc36b4e7a00731
Requested by: @aidoruao

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Stage E housekeeping: rebased onto current main (commit 742ca2fa) and force-pushed with --force-with-lease. Merge conflict resolved by dropping two stale Kimi Code Session … 4-4-26.txt session transcripts that had been deleted on main; all ontology JSON content (OI_GRAPHICS_002, CS_GRAPHICS_002, F_GRAPHICS_002) and the investigation artifacts (VulkanMod_755_Investigation_Report.json, automation/zed_commit_gate.py, failure_log/PHANTOM_EDIT_001.json, rules/ACU_SOVEREIGNTY_PROTOCOL.md) are preserved.

PR is now mergeable with no conflicts. Ready for owner review / merge.

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Devin Review found 6 new potential issues.

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📝 Info: Exit code 2 used for both git failure and uncommitted changes

The script documents two exit codes: 0 (all committed) and 2 (boundary violation). At automation/zed_commit_gate.py:28, when git status itself fails (e.g., not in a git repo, git not installed), the script also exits with code 2. This is fail-closed behavior (safe for a security gate), but an external caller cannot distinguish 'git is broken' from 'uncommitted changes exist'. The printed message does distinguish them, so this only affects programmatic callers. Consider using a distinct exit code (e.g., 1) for infrastructure failures vs. actual violations.

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Good point. Using exit code 2 for both is intentional fail-closed behavior (security gate should never silently pass), but adding a distinct exit code (e.g., 1 for infrastructure failure vs 2 for boundary violation) would help programmatic callers. Worth a follow-up.

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📝 Info: Commit gate failure logging creates new uncommitted file — potential footgun

When the commit gate detects uncommitted changes (lines 49-59), it writes a new JSON log file to failure_log/. This file itself becomes an uncommitted change. If a developer re-runs the gate after committing only their original changes (e.g., git add myfile && git commit), the gate will fail again because of the new log file — and each failure creates yet another log file. The instructions on line 46 say git add + git commit + git push without specifying which files, so a git add . would capture the log too, but this self-referential behavior could confuse users who selectively stage files. Not a bug per se (the design intent is that all files including logs get committed), but worth documenting explicitly.

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Correct — this is by design. The intent is that the violation log itself gets committed in the "fix" commit (i.e., git add . && git commit). The self-referential behavior is a feature: it forces the agent to acknowledge the violation in the commit history. Could add a note to the docstring to make this explicit.

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📝 Info: Missing type annotations — not mypy --strict compatible

Both check_uncommitted() (line 20) and main() (line 35) lack return type annotations and parameter type annotations. The repository's rule files (.windsurfrules, .cursorrules, CLAUDE.md) require mypy --strict compatible type annotations. However, the existing automation/ directory files (pr49_guard.py, fallback_light_audit.py, verify_extreme_work.py, zed_incremental_hook.py, etc.) also lack full strict typing, so this is consistent with existing practice in the directory. The strict typing rules appear to be enforced primarily in src/domains/ and axioms/.

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Acknowledged. Consistent with existing automation/ scripts which also lack strict typing. The mypy --strict requirement applies to src/domains/ and axioms/ as noted. Can add type annotations in a follow-up if desired.

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📝 Info: Unhandled I/O exceptions in failure logging could yield unexpected exit code

Lines 49-59 perform file I/O (Path.mkdir, Path.write_text) without any try/except. If the script lacks write permissions to the working directory (e.g., read-only filesystem, restricted CI environment), an unhandled PermissionError or OSError will cause a Python traceback with exit code 1. The documented exit codes are only 0 and 2 (automation/zed_commit_gate.py:9-11), so callers checking for exit code 2 specifically would not detect the failure correctly. The printed FAIL message on lines 41-47 would still appear, so the human-readable output is fine — but automated consumers relying on exit codes would be affected. In practice this is low-risk since the script is typically run inside its own repo where write access exists, but wrapping lines 49-59 in a try/except would make this more robust.

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Agreed — wrapping the file I/O in try/except and ensuring exit code 2 on PermissionError/OSError would make this more robust. Low risk in practice (always runs inside its own repo), but a good hardening improvement for a follow-up.

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📝 Info: Commit gate writes to failure_log/ using relative path

The commit gate script at automation/zed_commit_gate.py:49 creates failure_log/ relative to the current working directory. If run from a subdirectory (e.g., cd automation && python zed_commit_gate.py), the failure log would be written to automation/failure_log/ instead of the repo root's failure_log/. The script could use Path(__file__).parent.parent / 'failure_log' to anchor to the repo root regardless of CWD. Minor concern for a utility script, but worth noting since the repo already has a failure_log/ directory at root.

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Good catch. Using Path(__file__).parent.parent / 'failure_log' to anchor to repo root regardless of CWD would be more robust. The docstring does say "run from repo root" but anchoring to __file__ is safer. Can fix in a follow-up.

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📝 Info: Commit gate log directory (failure_log/) will accumulate files without cleanup

Each time the commit gate fails, a new JSON file is written to failure_log/ with a timestamped filename (automation/zed_commit_gate.py:53). There's no rotation or cleanup mechanism, so repeated failures will accumulate files indefinitely. In an automated agent workflow where this runs frequently, this could create a large number of small files. Not a bug per se, but worth noting for operational hygiene.

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Noted. In practice, each AI session that violates the gate should only produce one log file (the session then commits it). But adding a max-files or rotation policy would be good operational hygiene for edge cases. Can add in a follow-up.