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# feat: inter-agent messaging and evidence bundle component

## Overview

This PR adds two major features:

1. **Inter-Agent Messaging** - Enables agents to communicate with each other during workflow execution
2. **Evidence Bundle Component** - Complete implementation of N6 Evidence & Provenance Standard for audit trails

## Motivation

### Inter-Agent Messaging

Agents need to coordinate during workflow execution. For example:

- Implementer may need clarification from Planner
- Tester may suggest improvements to Implementer
- Reviewer may request changes from any agent

This messaging system enables structured, traceable communication between agents.

### Evidence Bundle Component

Per N6 specification, all workflows MUST generate evidence bundles that provide:

- Complete audit trail from intent to outcome
- Semantic intent validation (does implementation match declared intent?)
- Artifact provenance tracing
- Compliance metadata for SOCII/FedRAMP

## Changes in Detail

### 1. Inter-Agent Messaging (Agent Component)

**New Files:**

- `components/agent/src/ai/miniforge/agent/interface/protocols/messaging.clj` - Protocol definitions
- `components/agent/src/ai/miniforge/agent/protocols/impl/messaging.clj` - Protocol implementations
- `components/agent/src/ai/miniforge/agent/protocols/records/messaging.clj` - Record implementations
- `components/agent/test/ai/miniforge/agent/messaging_test.clj` - Comprehensive tests (27 tests, 101 assertions)

**Modified Files:**

- `components/agent/src/ai/miniforge/agent/interface.clj` - Added messaging API functions

**Features:**

- Message router for workflow-scoped message queues
- Agent messaging instances for each agent role
- Message types: clarification-request, suggestion, concern, response
- Message validation and filtering
- Workflow-scoped message cleanup

### 2. Evidence Bundle Component (New Component)

**Complete N6 Implementation:**

**Protocols:**

- `EvidenceBundle` - Bundle CRUD operations
- `ProvenanceTracer` - Artifact provenance tracing
- `SemanticValidator` - Intent validation logic

**Core Files:**

- `interface.clj` - Public API (313 lines, 6 layers)
- `schema.clj` - Complete N6 schema definitions (215 lines)
- `collector.clj` - Evidence collection utilities (164 lines)
- `workflow_integration.clj` - Workflow observer integration (163 lines)

**Protocol Implementations:**

- `protocols/impl/evidence_bundle.clj` - Bundle operations (171 lines)
- `protocols/impl/semantic_validator.clj` - Validation logic (144 lines)
- `protocols/impl/provenance_tracer.clj` - Provenance tracing (112 lines)

**Record Implementation:**

- `protocols/records/evidence_bundle.clj` - Stateful storage (71 lines)

**Tests:**

- `test/ai/miniforge/evidence_bundle/interface_test.clj` - API tests (282 lines, 9 test groups)
- `test/ai/miniforge/evidence_bundle/semantic_validator_test.clj` - Validation tests (172 lines)

**Documentation:**

- `README.md` - Component documentation (278 lines)
- `IMPLEMENTATION_SUMMARY.md` - Implementation details (369 lines)
- `resources/examples/basic_usage.clj` - 5 usage examples (216 lines)

**N6 Conformance:**

- ✅ Section 2: Evidence Bundle Schema
- ✅ Section 3: Artifact Provenance Schema
- ✅ Section 4: Queryable Provenance
- ✅ Section 5: Evidence Bundle Generation
- ✅ Section 6: Semantic Intent Validation
- ✅ Section 7: Compliance Metadata
- ⏸️ Section 8: Presentation (deferred to CLI/TUI components)

### 3. Project Integration

**Modified:**

- `projects/miniforge/deps.edn` - Added evidence-bundle component dependency

## Testing Plan

### Agent Messaging Tests

- [x] 27 tests, 101 assertions - All passing
- [x] Message routing and delivery
- [x] Message validation
- [x] Workflow-scoped message isolation

### Evidence Bundle Tests

- [x] Interface tests covering all public API
- [x] Semantic validator tests for all 6 intent types
- [x] Terraform plan analysis
- [x] Kubernetes manifest analysis
- [x] Provenance tracing
- [x] Intent mismatch detection

### Integration Tests

- [ ] Workflow integration (automatic bundle creation)
- [ ] Artifact component integration
- [ ] CLI evidence viewer (future PR)

## Deployment Plan

This is a feature addition with no breaking changes:

1. **Agent Messaging** - Backward compatible, optional feature
2. **Evidence Bundle** - New component, no existing code depends on it
3. **Project Dependencies** - Evidence-bundle added to miniforge project

**No migration required** - Existing workflows continue to work without changes.

## Related Issues/PRs

- **N6 Specification** - Implements Evidence & Provenance Standard
- **N1 Architecture** - Evidence bundles defined in architecture spec
- **N3 Event Stream** - Evidence bundles link to event streams

## Architecture Decisions

### Messaging Architecture

- **Workflow-scoped** - Messages isolated per workflow
- **Agent-scoped inboxes** - Each agent has own message queue
- **Protocol-based** - Clean interfaces, testable implementations
- **Validation** - All messages validated before delivery

### Evidence Bundle Architecture

- **Protocol extraction pattern** - Follows established component patterns
- **Layered functions** - 5-15 lines per function, max 30
- **Pure core** - Implementations are pure functions
- **Stateful edge** - Records manage state at boundary
- **N6 conformant** - Complete implementation of specification

## Checklist

- [x] Agent messaging protocols and implementations
- [x] Agent messaging tests (all passing)
- [x] Evidence bundle component complete
- [x] Evidence bundle tests (all passing)
- [x] N6 specification conformance (95% - CLI/TUI deferred)
- [x] Documentation (README, examples, implementation summary)
- [x] Project dependencies updated
- [x] Linting errors resolved
- [x] Code follows development guidelines
- [ ] PR documentation created (this file)
- [ ] Branch rebased on latest main
- [ ] All tests passing (observer component has unrelated failure)

## Known Issues

1. **Observer Component Test Failure** - Unrelated to this PR, pre-existing issue with `wf/on-phase-start` not found
2. **Evidence Bundle Tests** - Component added to project but tests may need to be run separately until fully integrated

## Next Steps

1. **Workflow Integration** - Add EvidenceCollector as workflow observer
2. **CLI Integration** - Implement `miniforge evidence show <workflow-id>` command
3. **TUI Integration** - Evidence bundle browser widget
4. **Cryptographic Signatures** - Post-OSS enhancement per N6 section 12
