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Note this includes the findings from the earlier prototype

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The Python SDK will declare an encrypted model with one class decorator,
@stash.model("users"). The decorator reads the Annotated hints, asks the
engine to check them, and stores the result on the class, so a forgotten
field fails as the class is defined, not on the first write. This is the
first backlog decision after the tracer attempt; status is proposed and the
reviewers decide.

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  • languages/python/docs/adr/0001-…: the ADR, with the options rejected
    (a separate plan statement, a base class, both) and the model contract
    as a Protocol instead of a dataclass.

Verification

A probe over dataclass, slots dataclass, NamedTuple, attrs, pydantic and
SQLAlchemy declarative classes showed one reader handles all six and the
constructor check catches the wrong decorator order. Not run: the engine's
plan check inside the decorator.

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Refs #1130, #1132 (the kinds and ORE gaps the ADR leaves room for).

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    • Added prototype findings and an execution record covering completed work, test results, known gaps, and remaining tasks.
    • Documented a proposed Python model declaration approach, including validation expectations and supported model patterns.

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The changes add a Python SDK tracer findings report, an execution ledger for Tasks 1–7, and an ADR proposing declaration-time model validation through a class decorator.

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Prototype execution record
docs/plans/2026-10-13-python-sdk-tracer-ledger.md
The ledger records setup, decisions, findings, and test results through Task 7. Tasks 8 and 9 were not started, and the branch remains an unmerged prototype.
Prototype findings and restart questions
docs/plans/2026-10-13-python-sdk-tracer-findings.md
The report records demonstrated capabilities, engine and Python constraints, provisional decisions, defects in the earlier plan, and questions for restarting the work.
Declaration-time model check
languages/python/docs/adr/0001-a-declaration-is-checked-when-the-class-is-defined.md
The ADR proposes a context-carrying class decorator that checks model declarations, defines the model contract, and records probe results and limitations.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/plans/2026-10-13-python-sdk-tracer-findings.md: Adds the prototype status and disposition, records five demonstrated capabilities—including TextEq PostgreSQL round trips and Rust byte parity—and notes that CI and the scorecard were not completed.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/plans/2026-10-13-python-sdk-tracer-findings.md: Adds findings on engine features and catalog limits: only TextEq is currently producible as an EQL type; match, ore, and non-text kinds have distinct blockers and dependencies. Records the engine’s broader bare-output behavior, field and index constraints, ciphertext tree structure, context-derived identifiers, credential discovery, and TextEq indexing requirements.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/plans/2026-10-13-python-sdk-tracer-findings.md: Adds Python and toolchain findings covering PyO3 0.29 and abi3-py39, maturin-only extension-module configuration, libpython loader requirements, Tokio handling of Pending, annotation width and null behavior, marker types, psycopg JSON handling, and machine-specific setup constraints.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/plans/2026-10-13-python-sdk-tracer-findings.md: Adds provisional design decisions: targets resolve by kind and index with an explicit EQL-name escape hatch; records map field names to column values; SQLAlchemy is proposed as a separate pure-Python distribution; and live-test gating depends on engine construction rather than CS_* environment variables.
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byte-identical.
5. **The whole six-step path through PostgreSQL**: insert into
`public.eql_v3_text_eq`, equality query through `eql_v3.query_text_eq`,
read back, decrypt. This is the "TextEq proven end to end in PostgreSQL"

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Hyphenate “end-to-end” in this descriptor.

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- **"The engine checks the declaration when Python defines the class"
(week-1 step 2) — not quite.** The check runs at `build()`, one call
later, wherever the caller puts that call.
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I read this against the language-integration guide in #1287 (#1287, packages/stack-encrypt/docs/language-integration.md), which is now the yardstick for a new binding and SDK. Not a formal review; these are the things I would want settled before the ADR is accepted and the restart plan is written.

The decision itself is right. A class decorator that runs the check as the class statement finishes, the model contract as a Protocol, Cipher(User) with no plan in the public surface, and "Python holds no table of kinds, ValueKind::from_str is the only check" all line up with the principles and with how the Go SDK does it. The comments below are about what the ADR is silent on, and about facts under it that have moved.

1. Say which check is whose, and name the engine entry

"The engine checks the declaration" is two checks. Python's: every annotation carries a marker (rule A) and the decorator is outermost. The engine's: the plan grammar, which indexes a kind admits (admits), and whether a named EQL type is producible. The ADR should say which is which, and name the engine call the decorator makes (dynamic::record::plan_with with the target resolver; the Go guest's se_plan_check is the same call). That also closes the "Not run" line: the one sentence this ADR exists to make true is the one that has not been exercised yet, so I would not accept it until the decorator has invoked the engine check once, even with stand-in markers.

2. What the markers become on the wire (the biggest gap)

The guide, section 4, has the plan grammar. A field is either the outputs form, {"context": ["users", "email"], "outputs": ["c", "eq"], "type": "string"}, or the target form, {"context": ["users", "email"], "target": "TextEq"}. Go's declaration names the EQL type (stash:"age,encrypt_into=IntegerEq") and sends the target form; the engine and eql-bindings decide whether an int32 fits IntegerEq.

The tracer instead sent {"kind": "string", "index": "eq"} and resolved it to TextEq in a hand-written table in the Python binding's targets.rs. Under the guide that table is a copy of the catalog, which is the one thing a binding must not keep. Decision 7 ("an index marker alone means an EQL column with that index") is where that table would hide in the restart.

Recommendation: the markers name the EQL type, generated from the catalog the way Go's encrypt/eql package is (eql-codegen already emits the Go table; a Python emitter is the same job). So Annotated[str, stash.TextEq], not Annotated[str, stash.Text, stash.Equality]. Whether the kind can then be derived from the hint where it is unambiguous (str, datetime.date vs datetime.datetime) and required only where it is not (int) is a fair question for the 1.1 user test, but either way the name on the wire is the EQL type's, and the ADR should say so.

Two consequences for the decorator's signature. A target field's context must be exactly [table, column], so "context pieces as positional arguments" only fits the outputs form; one argument, the table. What varies per caller nests to the left of the label through the cipher's extend, as the ADR says, and the plan-level context_field exists for a record that names its own tenant (guide, section 4). Worth a sentence each.

3. The tree API the tracer was built on is gone

The findings describe a stored record as a "CipherText tree, not bytes", a decrypted record needing "a tree codec", and the shell was written against FfiValue. On next, where every piece of engine work is landing and where #1287 is based, FfiValue no longer exists in the dynamic module. A record crosses as a frame (ValueFrame), the engine reads it in place, and there is deliberately no tree type to hold plaintext (guide, section 5). The largest piece of the Python binding is therefore a vitaminc-aead-frame codec, or a Rust-side reader inside the extension that walks the model's attributes straight into a frame and builds the model straight from the decrypted frame.

A good first test for the restart: reproduce the bytes in the guide's section 10 from Python. {"age": 42} with age declared Int32 must encode to f1 01000000 03000000 616765 04 2a000000, and the one-field plan to the bytes given there.

4. The findings are a snapshot of main on 13 October, and parts are already false

Worth a "superseded on next" header on the findings document, or trimming it to the Python and toolchain section (pyo3 0.29, maturin-only extension-module, libpython on the loader path, Pending as IntoFuture, width narrowing, the psycopg plumbing), which is the durable part. Specifically:

  • "The catalog produces exactly one EQL type, TextEq." On next 32 of the 51 EQL v4 types are producible: every family's plain, Eq, and for most families Ord and OrdOpe, plus TextMatch, Date, Timestamp, Numeric and Smallint. The block ORE types and TextSearch are in feat(eql)!: EQL v4 text search queries carry only the term their operator reads; produce TextSearch #1274 and feat(eql)!: produce the block ORE EQL v4 types through ore-rs 6-bit block ORE #1280. The storage-only Text is producible, so decision 7's "Encrypted on a text field is refused" is no longer true. So "decision 9 and backlog item 5 wait on the engine" should be re-read against next, not amended from this list.
  • The tracer stored into public.eql_v3_text_eq. Stack Encrypt's EQL types are v4 only (public.eql_v4_text_eq, eql_v4.query_text_eq); the v3 domains hold cipherstash-client's encoding, which the engine's is not byte-compatible with. The guide's worked example is a "v": 4 row. The restart installs the v4 bundle.
  • The "value encodings for new EQL kinds" proposal the findings link to has landed as vitaminc-ore and the new kinds; type accepts decimal, date and timestamp today.

5. The checklist the restart plan should carry

Guide, section 11, applies to the Python binding as it does to any other, and none of it is in the plan yet:

  1. The frame conformance corpus passes, byte for byte, including the refusals.
  2. A differential fuzz target feeds the Python codec's output to the engine's reader and back.
  3. Plaintext hygiene tests for the binding's own copies. Python strings and bytes cannot be wiped, so the boundary has to sit inside the extension: read attributes into a frame in Rust, build the model from the frame in Rust, and never route a plaintext through a Python dict on the way in or out. The ADR's model(**row) in decrypt is exactly such a dict; it should be constructed on the Rust side or documented as the one copy Python owns.
  4. A frozen stored-rows fixture written by the first Python release and opened on every build.
  5. The versions are tied: the wheel carries the engine, so the wheel's release notes say which stack-encrypt and which frame-format version it carries.
  6. The cross-language fixtures (record_lowering.json, query_operators.json, value_kinds.json) are read from the Python tests too.

6. Errors

DeclarationError and Cipher's refusal of an undecorated class should be built from the engine's structured error (the field name and the Reason, guide section 8), not from parsing message text, and no message may carry a value, which includes a dataclass default. The ADR's "with the remedy in the message" is right; say where the remedy's facts come from.

Housekeeping

  • The findings and the ledger reference the discovery ticket by its Linear identifier seven times and link a private claude.ai document. GitHub is public and Linear is not; the ADR already says "the Python SDK discovery ticket", which is the form to use everywhere, and the linked document's substance should either be in the repository or not referenced.
  • This PR targets main. The ADRs it extends, the guide, and the engine facts above are on next; retarget there.
  • The three CodeRabbit wording threads are fine to take.

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…defined

Backlog item 1 asks whether "the engine checks the declaration when Python
defines the class" holds by construction or by convention. The first
tracer met it by convention: build() at module level, so a call moved
into a function fails on the first write instead.

The ADR proposes construction: one class decorator carries the context,
runs the engine's plan check as the class statement finishes, and the call
site takes the class. A class the user does not own is declared by calling
the same decorator, so Plan.of leaves the public surface and G6 holds. The
model contract is a Protocol (Annotated hints, kwargs constructor,
attribute access), not a dataclass; a probe over six class styles grounds
it, and the constructor check catches the wrong decorator order.

The example uses the marker spelling recommended for item 1.1: a kind
marker plus a bare Equality, Encrypted or Passthrough. Status is proposed:
the reviewers decide.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A metaclass or __init_subclass__ also runs at class creation; the
decorator is chosen because it works with the model bases the first user
already has, not because it is the only shape. And a new kind still needs
a public marker name beside the shell codec; only the declaration reader
is unchanged.

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Markers name EQL types generated from the catalog, as Go's encrypt/eql
does, so Python holds no copy of the kind-and-index table (G1). The
earlier kind-plus-index spelling is recorded as dropped. Plaintext
crosses the binding as a frame built in Rust, and the model instance is
the one copy Python owns. Errors are built from the engine's structured
reason, never from message text, and carry no value. A model never
prints a sealed value by default: the decorator writes a redacting repr
from the same markers, with a class-level opt-out. The decorator's
engine check is named (dynamic::record::plan_with, as se_plan_check)
and the 2026-10-20 rig that ran it at class definition is recorded.

The findings doc gets a "superseded on next" header: frames replaced
the FfiValue tree, Stack Encrypt's EQL types are v4 only, and 32 of 51
types are producible. Linear identifiers and a private document link
are removed from the findings and the ledger, since the repo is public.

Refs #1284

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Rebased onto next and retargeted, as the review asked. The four commits are the same changes re-signed on top of next; the rebase was conflict-free, since the three files in this PR do not differ between main and next.

The last commit addresses the review: markers name EQL types generated from the catalog, plaintext crosses as a Rust-built frame, errors are built from the engine's structured reason, a model never prints a sealed value by default, the engine check is named with the rig that ran it, the findings doc carries a "superseded on next" header, and the Linear identifiers and private link are removed.

Refs #1284

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Mutation testing (cargo-mutants, --in-diff, stack-auth + stack-encrypt)

caught missed unviable timeout
459 0 368 0

Every mutant in the changed lines was caught by a test.

A record that names its own tenant (the engine's `context_field`) is
a record-level setting in the plan grammar, so if the SDK supports it,
it is a second decorator argument and not a field marker.
The first version does not support it; a tenant attaches to the cipher.

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A tenant can't be attached to the cipher here. Every sealed marker in this ADR is an EQL type, so every sealed field is a target field. On next, packages/stack-encrypt/src/dynamic/record.rs refuses an extended plan for a target field with TargetError::Extended: a tenant part on the label leaves no <table>/<column> for the EQL i. So Cipher(User) plus a tenant fails for every TextEq field. The "Consequences" line (tenant attaches through the engine's extend, G4) says the same thing and hits the same refusal. Either the first version has no per-caller tenant for EQL-typed fields, or the engine needs a change first. The ADR should say which.

The call is `dynamic::record::plan_with` with the target resolver,
the same call the Go generator makes through `se_plan_check`.
4. **The call site takes the class.** `Cipher(User)`.
`Cipher` refuses a class the decorator has not seen, with the remedy in

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A subclass gets past this check. If the decorator stores its result as a class attribute, class Admin(User): nickname: str inherits it through the MRO. Cipher(Admin) then accepts a class whose extra, unmarked field was never checked, and that field is dropped or not encrypted. I checked on CPython 3.13: getattr(Sub, "__stash__") returns the parent's value, and "__stash__" in Sub.__dict__ is False. The contract should say the check reads cls.__dict__, not getattr, and that a subclass must be decorated itself.

5. **The model contract is a `Protocol`, not a dataclass.**
A model class must give:
- field hints that `typing.get_type_hints(cls, include_extras=True)`
returns, each carrying its stash markers in `Annotated`;

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Calling typing.get_type_hints(cls, include_extras=True) while the class statement finishes causes two problems the contract doesn't cover. (1) It evaluates forward references then. A SQLAlchemy posts: Mapped[list["Post"]] that points to a class defined later in the module, any module with from __future__ import annotations, and 3.14's deferred annotations all raise NameError at decoration. I reproduced this with a "list[Post]" hint. (2) It returns ClassVar and InitVar hints and annotations inherited from a base (pydantic's model_config: ClassVar[ConfigDict]). Under rule A, each of those needs a marker or gets refused. The contract should name the field source (for example, skip ClassVar and use the library's own field list) and say how unresolved references are handled.

2. **One decorator, and it carries the context.**
`@stash.model("users")`, with one argument: the table.
The engine's target context is exactly a table and a column, and the
column is the field's name, so the class needs nothing more.

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Using the Python attribute name as the column part of an authenticated context makes a rename a data-loss event. The context is sealed into every ciphertext, so renaming email to email_address in Python, with no schema change, means every stored row no longer opens. SQLAlchemy also allows an attribute name that differs from the column name (mapped_column("email_addr")), and a pydantic alias does the same. Then i.c doesn't match the SQL column, which the findings say "should be the same word". The ADR should either let a field override its column, or record that the attribute name is permanent once data is written.

The same markers that drive encryption drive the print, so a sealed
field added later is hidden the day it is added; no per-field
`repr=False` is needed, and none is read.
Python's `logging` calls `__str__`, so logs are covered by the same

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This covers __repr__ and __str__, but plaintext also leaves the model through dataclasses.asdict(user), NamedTuple._asdict() and iteration or indexing, pydantic's model_dump(), model_dump_json() and __rich_repr__, vars(user), and any log line that formats those. A structured logger or logger.info("%s", user.model_dump()) prints the sealed values. Decision 9's heading ("A model never prints a sealed value") claims more than these two methods deliver. Either narrow the claim or list the other paths and say which ones are deliberately left uncovered.

for the same plaintext are *different* JSON and an index on the column
itself never matches. The index EQL v3 is built for is a functional one on
the extracted term —
`create index … using hash (eql_v3_internal.eq_term(col))` (or `btree`:

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eql_v3_internal.eq_term does not exist. The function the bundle defines is eql_v3.eq_term(a public.eql_v3_text_eq) (packages/eql/src/v3/scalars/text/text_eq_functions.sql:13). Only a stale doc comment in src/v3/sem/hmac_256/functions.sql uses the _internal name. Open question 8 below proposes this exact index for the SDK docs, and a user who copies it gets function eql_v3_internal.eq_term does not exist. On next the type is v4 (eql_v4_text_eq), so the guidance should name the v4 extractor.

methods.
`@stash.model("users", redact=False)` is the class-level opt-out.
A class that defines its own `__repr__` or `__str__` by hand is
refused at the class statement with the remedy named (`redact=False`,

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There's no test that can tell a "hand-written" __repr__ from a generated one. @dataclass and NamedTuple put plain functions in cls.__dict__, as a hand-written method does. pydantic's is inherited from BaseModel. A project-wide Base(DeclarativeBase) with a hand-written __repr__ is a common SQLAlchemy pattern, and as written it is unclear whether that is refused or replaced. Separately, redaction depends on the decorator being outermost, and the order check is the constructor check. That check passes when a base already provides a **kwargs __init__ (pydantic, SQLAlchemy), so a decorator applied above can regenerate __repr__ without any error. The ADR should state the detection rule and close that gap.

> Python and toolchain section (pyo3 0.29, maturin-only `extension-module`,
> libpython on the loader path, `Pending` as `IntoFuture`, width narrowing,
> the psycopg plumbing) still holds. The restart plan reads
> `packages/stack-encrypt/docs/language-integration.md` on `next` first.

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This guide is not on next: packages/stack-encrypt/docs/language-integration.md exists only in open PR #1287. The ADR's "section 10" and "section 11" references depend on it too, so this PR should merge after #1287 or link that PR. Other dangling references in this file: line 19 says to "start again from main", which contradicts this note. "Where the record is" says "This branch: prototype/python-sdk-tracer", but this file now lands on next. And docs/plans/2026-10-08-python-sdk-tracer.md and languages/python/README.md exist only on the prototype branch.

Task 6: Ruling (plan revised, with the user, 2026-10-13): NO committed
fixture. The plan's `tests/fixtures/record.json` carried an equality term
that is an HMAC under the workspace keyset, so the committed bytes would pass
only in the workspace that generated them — the user's `TCDLFX5CQ6T5LKCP`

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This public repo would carry a contributor's CipherStash workspace ID (TCDLFX5CQ6T5LKCP) and their home-directory paths (/Users/yuji/.local/share/mise/... at lines 104 and 212). Neither is needed to understand the ruling. Replace them with placeholders such as <workspace-id> and $(mise where node).

a record-level setting in the plan grammar, so if the SDK supports it,
it is a second decorator argument and not a field marker.
The first version does not support it; a tenant attaches to the cipher.
3. **The decorator does four things and nothing else.**

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"The decorator does four things and nothing else" and "with one argument: the table" (decision 2) both conflict with decision 9. There the decorator also writes __repr__ and __str__ on the class, refuses hand-written ones, and takes a second argument, redact=False. Update decisions 2 and 3 so the ADR states one contract.

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