target-revenue/workplans/TREV-WP-0012-phase-provenance-and-policy-modeling.md

id	type	title	domain	repo	status	owner	topic_slug	created	updated	state_hub_workstream_id
TREV-WP-0012	workplan	Phase provenance, ledger reference, and degeneration-policy modeling	infotech	target-revenue	finished	claude	infotech	2026-07-30	2026-08-03	763a31ee-85fe-43d0-9040-1e6fd432601c

Phase provenance, ledger reference, and degeneration-policy modeling

Triggered by using the Control Plane UI for the first time (WP-0009-T04): the Phase registration form asked for a bare source_revision with no repo attribution, a hand-typed ledger URI, and an opaque degeneration_policy id with no way to see what it actually specifies. These aren't UI bugs — the Phase Manifest schema (schemas/phase_manifest.schema.json) itself doesn't yet carry the structure the UI would need to show any of this properly, and FR-11 (Successive Phases, specs/ProductRequirementsDocument.md) already commits the framework to base-release/prior-Phase provenance that the schema has never modeled either.

This is a modeling-only workplan: it produces documents (a use-cases spec and a discussable spec addendum) and decisions, not schema or UI changes. Implementation follows in later workplans once the addendum is reviewed (T05).

id: TREV-WP-0012-T01
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "2871b8ff-b845-4ed4-aaa1-8fdfd1f601b7"

Write the use-cases document, as its own spec file (not folded into specs/PhaseManifestSpecification.md) — working title specs/PhaseLifecycleUseCases.md. Cover, systematically, at minimum:

1. First Phase ever declared for a repo (the three real pilot candidates: net-kingdom, railiance-vergabe-teilnahme, info-tech-canon).
2. A successive Phase on a repo that already had an earlier, converted Phase (FR-11) — including what "base release" means when the prior Phase's Milestone Release is itself the base.
3. Operator registers a Phase; Contributor proposes a Development Credit; Operator/Admin reviews (already built, WP-0009 — include for completeness/cross-reference, not to redesign it).
4. Remission Credit accrual over time under the active degeneration policy — note as an open gap for WP-0013, not solved here.
5. Conversion Event fires, Attestation published — note as a UI gap for WP-0014.
6. Monetization Extension registration and canonical-status review — note as a UI gap for WP-0014.
7. Breach/Compliance Record publication — note as a UI gap for WP-0014.
8. A second Licensor tenant besides binky onboards.
9. An external auditor verifies a Phase's evidence package offline, without needing to trust or even reach the Control Plane UI (FR-8/FR-9 — call out explicitly that this use case has no UI surface by design, so it doesn't get silently forgotten as "not yet built").

Result: specs/PhaseLifecycleUseCases.md written, covering all nine use cases. Two findings worth flagging beyond the original scope: (a) use case 2 (successive Phases) and use case 1 (first Phase) turned out to share one underlying provenance model rather than being separate concerns, so T02 below covers both together; (b) cross-checking specs/TargetRevenueControlPlaneConcept.md §2's rights table while writing use cases 6–7 found that breach-record publication already has a decided rights tier (Operator+) but extension registration/canonicalization does not — that's now recorded as an explicit open question for WP-0014-T01 rather than something to assume while building that UI.

id: TREV-WP-0012-T02
status: done
priority: high
human_accept_required: true
human_accepted_by: Bernd
human_accepted_at: "2026-07-30"
state_hub_task_id: "1d888dc7-360d-4ee5-8f4c-d1173670b0f7"

Decide repo identification and Phase-provenance fields (human gate). Per direction already given: identity rests on the Forgejo instance ("home hub") plus the repo's own stable id within that instance, and the Forgejo service URI and repo name are also retained (not derived) — so a rename or instance move stays repairable rather than silently breaking a Phase's provenance link. Concretely decide and record:

• Field names/shape for milestone_release: a hub identifier, a Forgejo-internal repo id, the Forgejo service URI, and the repo name (owner/repo slug) — four values, not one string.
• Whether this is required or recommended for Stage 0 (precedent: longstop_at moved from recommended to required under a working default, specs/OpenQuestions-WorkingDefaults.md Q8).
• How a successive Phase (use case 2 above) references its base — a trsl:phase:... id, and what a first-ever Phase puts there instead (null, or an explicit "no prior Phase" marker — decide which is cleaner for fold/validation logic downstream).
• Whether any of this is retroactively backfillable for the three existing pilot-candidate example manifests, or only required going forward.

Result (accepted 2026-07-30): Grounded against the real Forgejo instance before deciding, not assumed — confirmed live that forgejo.coulomb.social assigns every repo a stable numeric id (target-revenue is 103, via GET /api/v1/repos/coulomb/target-revenue) that survives renames, and confirmed it has no instance-level identity endpoint (/api/v1/nodeinfo → 404, /api/v1/version returns only a version string) — so unlike the repo id, a hub identifier is necessarily something this project mints, not something Forgejo already provides.

Decided:

• phase.milestone_release gains four required fields: repo_hub (a stable slug, e.g. "forgejo-coulomb"), repo_hub_uri (the Forgejo service URL, e.g. "https://forgejo.coulomb.social"), repo_id (Forgejo's own numeric repo id), repo_name ("owner/repo" slug). Required immediately, not merely recommended — no grace period, unlike target_basis's current recommended-only status.
• phase.base_phase_id (optional, trsl:phase:... pattern) references a prior Phase for a successive Phase; simply absent for a first-ever Phase — no sentinel value, matching how ledger_entry.schema.json's reverses is already optional-only-when- applicable.
• Important refinement from the maintainer's own steer: the repo_hub → repo_hub_uri mapping is not static data checked into this repo. target-revenue is the generic framework, not a specific deployment's list of repos it happens to monetize — that mapping is operational data owned by the hosted Trust Service (a new table, analogous to licensor_identities, auto-populated the first time a hub is seen), never a file in this git repo. A Phase Manifest stays fully self-describing and offline-verifiable regardless (it carries repo_hub_uri/repo_name directly at registration time, per use case 9) — the hosted table exists purely as an admin/repair convenience if a hub's URI ever needs correcting after the fact, not a validation dependency.
• The three existing example manifests will be backfilled — deferred until after T03/T04 and the T05 spec addendum, since the schema change is shared across all three decision tasks and the maintainer's own process (item f, chat 2026-07-30) calls for the addendum to be discussed before any implementation, including this backfill.

id: TREV-WP-0012-T03
status: done
priority: high
human_accept_required: true
human_accepted_by: Bernd
human_accepted_at: "2026-07-30"
state_hub_task_id: "dbbabc02-8694-4e7d-8a15-c626ff72875b"

Decide the degeneration-policy / calculation-model spec-file convention (human gate). Per direction already given: every policy or calculation model (this includes the Development Effort Calculator's own Candidate A formula, specs/DevelopmentEffortCalculatorConcept.md, not just degeneration policies) corresponds to a markdown specification file with a simple, distinct name, an id, and a revision — built on git's own mechanisms (commit hash and/or file path, no new versioning infrastructure). Concretely decide:

• Where these spec files live (likely already specs/*.md — decide whether a dedicated subdirectory or naming convention is needed so a policy id like trsl:policy:linear-longstop-v0 maps unambiguously to one file).
• What "id and revision, built on git internals" means precisely — e.g. the policy id embeds the file path and a pinned commit hash, or the file's own frontmatter carries an id/revision pair that a human commits to alongside code changes (check how the-custodian/state-hub already present read-only reference-documentation views linked by id, per the user's explicit steer to reuse that pattern rather than invent a new one, and follow whichever mechanism is actually in use there).
• How the Control Plane UI links a policy id shown next to a Phase to a read-only rendered view of that spec file — no in-UI editing, consistent with every other governance-action pattern in this project.
• Whether this same convention should also cover the six canonical monetization profiles (specs/CanonicalMonetizationProfiles.md) for consistency, or is scoped to degeneration policies and calculators only for now.

Result (accepted 2026-07-30): Checked the maintainer's specific state-hub reference before deciding — it's dashboard/src/docs/*.md, built via Observable Framework into static HTML, opened as a standalone page or in a "?" context-help overlay iframe (dashboard/src/docs/reference.md). That's a real static-site build pipeline, materially heavier than anything else in this repo. Decided to carry the spirit (markdown spec → rendered read-only view, linked contextually from wherever the id appears) without adopting that toolchain, since target-revenue's Control Plane is a lightweight FastAPI+Jinja2 app with no existing build step to hang a static-site generator off of.

Decided:

• New specs/policies/ subdirectory, one file per degeneration policy — e.g. specs/policies/linear-longstop-v0.md — extracted out of Q7's prose in specs/OpenQuestions-WorkingDefaults.md (which stays as the index of decisions about policies, not the policies' own content). Each file's frontmatter carries the full versioned policy id (e.g. policy_id: trsl:policy:linear-longstop-v0@1.0), so the id→file mapping is explicit and machine-checkable, not merely inferred from the filename.
• specs/DevelopmentEffortCalculatorConcept.md already conforms as-is — one file, one model, distinct name — no move. Add/confirm an id+revision-shaped frontmatter field for consistency with the new policy files (there's no trsl:... schema id for calculators today, since they aren't referenced by id from inside a Phase Manifest the way degeneration_policy is — this is a documentation-traceability convention only, not a new schema value).
• Extend the same convention to the six canonical monetization profiles now, in this same pass — a new specs/profiles/ subdirectory, one file per profile (development, operations, ideation, service, consulting, sponsorship), splitting them out of the shared specs/CanonicalMonetizationProfiles.md, even though nothing currently links to a profile by bare id from the UI the way degeneration_policy is linked. id+revision frontmatter, matching the policy files.
• "Id and revision, built on git internals" means: the id is the stable policy/profile identifier already used in Phase Manifests today (including its existing @version suffix, e.g. ...@1.0), mapped to exactly one file by naming convention; the revision/audit trail is simply that file's own git history (git log -- specs/policies/ linear-longstop-v0.md) — no new versioning table, no pinned-commit scheme, nothing beyond what git already provides for free.
• Control Plane UI rendering: a small Python markdown library, one new read-only route (e.g. GET /reference/policies/{slug}, and equivalently for profiles/calculators), rendering the spec file's current content server-side at request time. A plain link next to wherever a policy id already appears (phase_detail.html, phase_new.html) — never in-UI editable, matching every other governance-action pattern already established in this project.

As with T02, no files are moved or created yet — specs/policies/, specs/profiles/, and the new render route are implementation, deferred to after T04 and the T05 spec addendum per the maintainer's own established sequencing (item f, chat 2026-07-30).

id: TREV-WP-0012-T04
status: done
priority: medium
human_accept_required: true
human_accepted_by: Bernd
human_accepted_at: "2026-08-03"
state_hub_task_id: "a1cf0180-2dc7-44bb-a34f-99b5e92f5144"

Decide the ledger's UI treatment (human gate). Per direction already given: keep the ledger field in the schema — not as something the standard Phase view surfaces, but as an internal reference reachable only via an explicit drill-down/details action. This is intentional groundwork for eventually supporting more than one ledger per Phase (federation, specs/ProductRequirementsDocument.md NFR-3), not just a display preference. Decide:

• What the drill-down actually shows (the raw ledger URI/reference plus a link to GET /phases/{id}/ledger's live data, or something more), and where it lives in the Control Plane's navigation (a "details" link on phase_detail.html rather than a top-level field).
• Whether the Phase registration form still needs a ledger input at all going forward, or whether the Trust Service should compute/assign it automatically now that it is always the ledger's host in Stage 0 — distinct from the schema question of whether the field stays.

Result (accepted 2026-08-03):

• The Phase registration form (phase_new.html) drops the ledger input entirely. The Trust Service auto-computes and assigns the canonical /phases/{id}/ledger reference at registration time — no human ever types it in v0. The schema field itself is untouched by this decision (still present, still federation-ready for a future Phase whose ledger genuinely lives elsewhere) — this is a Control Plane UI simplification, not a schema change, and needs no addendum-level review of its own.
• The drill-down view shows only the raw ledger reference/URI as stored in the manifest, plus — only when it resolves to this same Trust Service instance — a link to GET /phases/{id}/ledger's live JSON. No new rendering of ledger data: phase_detail.html's existing Ledger entries table already covers that and stays exactly as prominent as it is today; this decision only concerns the otherwise- invisible raw reference string, reachable via a small "ledger reference" link/disclosure on phase_detail.html rather than a top-level field.

All four T02–T04 decisions now feed T05's spec addendum draft.

id: TREV-WP-0012-T05
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "152b54a6-08a9-4ced-a5f6-d5638d102900"

Draft the spec addendum reflecting T01–T04's accepted decisions, for review before any implementation — schema changes (schemas/ phase_manifest.schema.json), the policy-spec-file convention, and the Control Plane UI changes it implies. Do not implement anything from this task; it produces a reviewable document only. Once accepted, file the implementation work as its own workplan(s), consistent with how WP-0009 and WP-0010 were split from a single combined plan.

Result: specs/PhaseProvenanceSpecAddendum.md written — six sections covering the schema diff (§1), the specs/policies// specs/profiles/ extraction with concrete file lists and frontmatter shapes (§2), the ledger UI change (§3), a new forgejo_hubs migration sketch for the hub-registry decision from T02 (§4), the backfill plan for the three example manifests (§5), and a suggested implementation task breakdown (§6) for whatever workplan follows once this addendum is reviewed. Not yet accepted — this is the document to discuss before any implementation work is filed or started. All five WP-0012 tasks are now done; this workplan is finished pending that discussion, which happens outside this workplan's own task list.

Use cases 4, 6, and 7 above are bigger than a modeling exercise — they are missing implementation, not missing documentation — and are tracked separately rather than folded in here:

• workplans/TREV-WP-0013-remission-credit-automation.md — use case 4.
• workplans/TREV-WP-0014-control-plane-extensions-breach-attestation-ui.md — use cases 5, 6, 7.

Use case 8 (second Licensor tenant onboarding) is judged small enough to stay under workplans/TREV-WP-0008-governance-and-pilot-rollout.md rather than warrant its own workplan — revisit that call if it turns out to need real design work once a second tenant is actually on the table.