# Verification Report

**Change**: runtime-image-normalization-pipeline
**Version**: draft
**Date**: 2026-03-26
**Issue**: #267

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## Completeness

| Metric                  | Value |
|-------------------------|-------|
| Tasks total (Phase 1+2) | 17    |
| Tasks complete          | 16    |
| Tasks incomplete        | 1     |

Incomplete tasks:

- [ ] **2.11** — Integration tests for history image context injection (Phase 2C). Unit tests exist
  for all components, but the end-to-end integration test verifying history roundtrip across turns
  is not yet written.

Phase 3 tasks (3.1–3.3) are explicitly deferred and out of scope for this change.

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## Build & Tests Execution

**Build**: `cargo check` passed at implementation time (not independently re-run during
verification).

**Tests**: 2888 tests passed at implementation time (`cargo test`). Not independently re-run during
this verification pass. Unit test files exist for all implemented components (media.rs, traits.rs,
schema.rs).

**Clippy**: `cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings` clean at implementation time.

**Fmt**: `cargo fmt --all -- --check` clean at implementation time.

**Note**: Build and test results reflect implementation-time execution (Task 2.12). Independent
re-verification was not performed during this static analysis pass.

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## Spec Compliance Matrix

### REQ-1: Canonical Runtime Representation

| Scenario                                          | Test                                        | Result       |
|---------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|--------------|
| Image flows through canonical pipeline            | (structural — see Correctness)              | ✅ STRUCTURAL |
| Marker syntax rejected for inbound representation | (design constraint — no marker code exists) | ✅ STRUCTURAL |

### REQ-3: MIME Validation Rules

| Scenario                               | Test                                                                        | Result                            |
|----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
| Magic bytes override declared MIME     | `media.rs > validate_mime_ignores_declared_when_sniff_fails`                | ✅ COMPLIANT                       |
| Unsupported format rejected            | `media.rs > validate_mime_rejects_unknown_bytes`                            | ✅ COMPLIANT                       |
| SVG rejected despite image MIME prefix | `media.rs > validate_mime_rejects_unknown_bytes` (covers generic non-match) | ⚠️ PARTIAL (no SVG-specific test) |

### REQ-4: Size and Count Limits

| Scenario                           | Test                                                            | Result      |
|------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|-------------|
| Default size limit applied         | `media.rs > stage_rejects_oversize_body`                        | ✅ COMPLIANT |
| Config override reduces limit      | `media.rs > stage_custom_max_bytes_lower_than_default_rejects`  | ✅ COMPLIANT |
| Config override increases limit    | `media.rs > stage_custom_max_bytes_accepts_within_custom_limit` | ✅ COMPLIANT |
| Too many images in one turn        | `media.rs > validate_image_count_rejects_over_limit`            | ✅ COMPLIANT |
| Early rejection via Content-Length | (code at media.rs:246-248 — no dedicated test)                  | ⚠️ PARTIAL  |

### REQ-6: Conversation History Image Representation

| Scenario                                         | Test                                                | Result       |
|--------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|--------------|
| Follow-up question about previous image          | (task 2.11 — integration test NOT written)          | ❌ UNTESTED   |
| Image context distinguishes multiple image turns | (task 2.11 — integration test NOT written)          | ❌ UNTESTED   |
| History does not store raw bytes                 | (structural: ImageHistoryMeta stores metadata only) | ✅ STRUCTURAL |

### REQ-7: Error Taxonomy

| Scenario                          | Test                                                  | Result      |
|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|-------------|
| Disabled rejection                | `media.rs > rejection_reason_display_uses_snake_case` | ✅ COMPLIANT |
| Channel not allowed rejection     | same test                                             | ✅ COMPLIANT |
| Missing vision route rejection    | same test                                             | ✅ COMPLIANT |
| Route not image-capable rejection | same test                                             | ✅ COMPLIANT |
| Fetch failure rejection           | same test                                             | ✅ COMPLIANT |
| Channel not supported rejection   | `media.rs > rejection_reason_display_uses_snake_case` | ✅ COMPLIANT |

### REQ-8: Configuration Contract

| Scenario                                      | Test                                                                                | Result      |
|-----------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------|
| Valid config with custom size limit           | `schema.rs > multimodal_max_image_bytes_valid_value_accepted`                       | ✅ COMPLIANT |
| Invalid config — enabled without vision route | `schema.rs > multimodal_enabled_without_hint_rejected`                              | ✅ COMPLIANT |
| Invalid config — max_image_bytes too large    | `schema.rs > multimodal_max_image_bytes_exceeds_ceiling_rejected`                   | ✅ COMPLIANT |
| Invalid config — max_image_bytes is zero      | `schema.rs > multimodal_max_image_bytes_zero_rejected`                              | ✅ COMPLIANT |
| Warning for non-MVP channel in allowlist      | `schema.rs > multimodal_non_mvp_channel_warns` (structural — tracing::warn emitted) | ✅ COMPLIANT |

**Compliance summary**: 15/20 scenarios compliant, 2 partial, 2 untested, 1 resolved

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## Correctness (Static — Structural Evidence)

| Requirement                             | Status        | Notes                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
|-----------------------------------------|---------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| REQ-1: Canonical Runtime Representation | ✅ Implemented | `ContentPart::Image` exists in `channels/traits.rs`. `StagedImage` in `media.rs:84-93`. `ChatRequest.images` in `traits.rs:98-100`. No marker syntax for inbound.                                                       |
| REQ-2: Normalization Pipeline           | ✅ Implemented | 5-step pipeline: parse (traits.rs), gate (mod.rs:689-804), fetch+stage (mod.rs:1016-1058, media.rs:232-304), validate (media.rs:160-218), handoff (compatible.rs, referenced). Fail-closed throughout.                  |
| REQ-3: MIME Validation Rules            | ✅ Implemented | Magic-byte sniffing in `validate_mime()` (media.rs:160-199). JPEG, PNG, WebP detected. Declared MIME explicitly ignored (`let _ = declared`).                                                                           |
| REQ-4: Size and Count Limits            | ✅ Implemented | `stream_validate_and_stage()` accepts `max_bytes: u64` param (media.rs:237). `MAX_IMAGE_BYTES_CEILING = 50 MiB` (media.rs:12). Config override wired.                                                                   |
| REQ-5: Remote Fetch Safety              | ✅ Implemented | `stage_channel_images()` (mod.rs:1016-1058) dispatches only to Telegram/WhatsApp/Discord-specific fetch methods. No generic URL fetch path.                                                                             |
| REQ-6: History Image Representation     | ✅ Implemented | `ImageHistoryMeta` (media.rs:109-156), `ChatMessage.image_metadata` (traits.rs:14-15), history storage (mod.rs:1233-1246), context injection in `build_history()` (mod.rs:1070-1086).                                   |
| REQ-7: Error Taxonomy                   | ✅ Implemented | 10 variants exist matching spec: `Disabled`, `ChannelNotAllowed`, `MissingVisionRoute`, `RouteNotImageCapable`, `TooManyImages`, `FetchFailed`, `MimeRejected`, `Oversize`, `ProviderError`, `ChannelNotSupported`.     |
| REQ-8: Configuration Contract           | ✅ Implemented | `validate_multimodal_config()` (schema.rs:3123-3190) checks: max_image_bytes > 0, ≤ 50 MiB ceiling, vision_model_hint required when enabled, allowed_channels non-empty, non-MVP channel warning. Logs effective limit. |

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## Coherence (Design Match)

| Decision                                         | Followed?   | Notes                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
|--------------------------------------------------|-------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| ADR-1: Structured Enum over Markers              | ✅ Yes       | `ContentPart::Image` is the sole inbound representation.                                                                                                                                                                  |
| ADR-2: Compact metadata + model description      | ✅ Yes       | `ImageHistoryMeta` struct matches design exactly (media.rs:112-125). `to_context_string()` format matches. `from_staged()` constructor matches.                                                                           |
| ADR-3: max_image_bytes Config Wiring             | ⚠️ Deviated | **Ceiling value**: Design says "Validate at config load: reject `max_image_bytes` values ≤ 0 or > 100 MiB". Code and spec use **50 MiB**. Spec is authoritative; code is correct. Design document is stale on this point. |
| ADR-4: Error Taxonomy Stability                  | ✅ Yes       | Design table lists 10 variants including both `ProviderError` and `ChannelNotSupported`. Spec, design, and code are aligned.                                                                                              |
| ADR-5: Provider-Agnostic Handoff via StagedImage | ✅ Yes       | `ChatRequest.images: &[StagedImage]` is the boundary. Provider reads `temp_path`.                                                                                                                                         |
| File Changes table                               | ✅ Yes       | All files listed in design were modified as described. `config/schema.rs` was modified (validation added) despite "Unchanged" in table — but this is a justified improvement.                                             |

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## Issues Found

**CRITICAL** (must fix before archive):

None.

**WARNING** (should fix):

1. ~~**Spec/code error taxonomy mismatch (REQ-7)**~~: **RESOLVED** — Code now has all 10 variants
   including both `ProviderError` and `ChannelNotSupported`. Spec, design, and code are aligned on a
   10-variant taxonomy.

2. **Design ADR-3 ceiling mismatch**: Design document says "reject `max_image_bytes` values ≤ 0 or >
   100 MiB". Spec (REQ-4, REQ-8) says ceiling is **50 MiB**. Code implements 50 MiB (
   `MAX_IMAGE_BYTES_CEILING = 52_428_800`). **Spec is authoritative and code is correct.** Design
   ADR-3 should be updated from "100 MiB" to "50 MiB" to eliminate the contradiction.

3. **Integration test gap (task 2.11)**: The integration tests for history image context injection
   are not written. This means REQ-6 scenarios "Follow-up question about a previous image" and "
   Image context distinguishes multiple image turns" are structurally implemented but not
   behaviorally validated with passing tests.

**SUGGESTION** (nice to have):

1. **SVG-specific MIME test**: REQ-3 scenario "SVG rejected despite image MIME prefix" is covered by
   the generic `validate_mime_rejects_unknown_bytes` test, but a dedicated SVG test with
   `image/svg+xml` declared MIME would improve scenario traceability.

2. **Early Content-Length rejection test**: REQ-4 scenario "Early rejection via Content-Length" has
   code evidence (media.rs:246-248) but no dedicated test. The existing
   `stage_rejects_oversize_body` test covers streaming rejection, not early Content-Length
   rejection.

3. **Model-generated description**: Design ADR-2 mentions extracting a description from the
   assistant response, but this is deferred (open question in design.md).
   `ImageHistoryMeta.description` is always `None` in the current implementation. This is acceptable
   for MVP but should be tracked.

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## Proposal → Spec Traceability

| Proposal Goal                                    | Spec Coverage                                                            |
|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Formalize runtime normalization contract         | REQ-1 (canonical representation), REQ-2 (pipeline), REQ-5 (fetch safety) |
| Design conversation-history image representation | REQ-6 (3 scenarios)                                                      |
| Wire `max_image_bytes` config override           | REQ-4 (5 scenarios), REQ-8 (5 scenarios)                                 |
| Formalize error taxonomy as stable contract      | REQ-7 (6 scenarios)                                                      |

All 4 proposal goals are covered by spec requirements. ✅

## Spec → Design Traceability

| Spec Requirement | Design Coverage                                      |
|------------------|------------------------------------------------------|
| REQ-1            | ADR-1: Structured Enum over Markers                  |
| REQ-2            | Architecture diagram + sequence diagram              |
| REQ-3            | Formalized from existing code (no new design needed) |
| REQ-4            | ADR-3: max_image_bytes Config Wiring                 |
| REQ-5            | ADR-5: Provider-Agnostic Handoff                     |
| REQ-6            | ADR-2: Conversation History Image Representation     |
| REQ-7            | ADR-4: Error Taxonomy Stability                      |
| REQ-8            | ADR-3 + validate_multimodal_config section           |

All 8 spec requirements have design coverage. ✅

## Design → Tasks Traceability

| Design Component               | Tasks                              |
|--------------------------------|------------------------------------|
| ADR-1 (Enum over Markers)      | 1.3 (spec formalization)           |
| ADR-2 (History representation) | 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.11 |
| ADR-3 (Config wiring)          | 2.3, 2.4, 2.9, 2.10                |
| ADR-4 (Error taxonomy)         | 1.3 (spec formalization)           |
| ADR-5 (StagedImage handoff)    | 1.3 (spec formalization)           |

All 5 ADRs have task coverage. ✅

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## Verdict

**PASS WITH WARNINGS**

The implementation is structurally complete and correct. All 4 proposal goals are covered by specs,
all 8 spec requirements have design and code coverage, and 16/17 Phase 1+2 tasks are complete. The
three warnings (spec/code taxonomy mismatch, design ceiling mismatch, integration test gap) are
documentation fixes and a test addition — no behavioral bugs were found. The code correctly
implements the 50 MiB ceiling per spec authority despite the design document's stale 100 MiB
reference.
