Four Soul gates. The first three refused it, each on something real: the row
identity ruling implemented as two different rules that answered opposite ways
on the shape it was written for; both runtimes faulting on an attacker-supplied
cursor through mirror-image overflows; a parity promise neither built nor
listed as outstanding; and a guard deleted on my ruling that took a legal
document shape into an untyped exception.
What lands is one rule for reference resolution in both runtimes, derived from
the wire rather than from preference, with the shared-key vector that never
existed. Malformed cursors reach the wire typed. Every comparator component
that decides output dies under mutation in both runtimes, and the one that
could not be distinguished by any input was deleted rather than recorded as
equivalent. The snapshot_response_raw.v1 envelope and its nested record types
are byte-identical across runtimes at populated and absent optionals, asserted
independently on each side.
The claim is exactly that, and no larger: byte parity for those types and
semantic parity over the named field subset. Whole-message assembly through a
single rows-to-bytes path is its own cut.
Follow-ups stay open and recorded: the C# Stryker survivor list untriaged,
contracts.rs and schema_discovery.rs unmeasured, the --since crash unrooted,
and three Caching tests that need a non-root container to prove and must not
be made to pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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