# Loom Driver Orchestration Tightening Audit

ID: audit:20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening-audit
Type: Audit
Status: recorded
Created: 2026-05-15
Updated: 2026-05-15
Audited: 2026-05-15 06:42 UTC
Target: ticket:20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening

## Summary

Ralph reviewed the Loom Driver orchestration-tightening ticket before closure, challenging the amended spec, prompt, Codex TOML, OpenCode permissions, manifests/docs, validation evidence, and product-surface leakage risk. The review returned a `clear` verdict with no material findings within scope.

## Target

The target was `ticket:20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening`, especially `ACC-006`: a fresh Ralph-backed audit before closure. The review covered acceptance support for `ACC-001` through `ACC-006` and the closure story for the follow-up tightening work.

## Audit Scope And Lenses

Scope covered the current ticket, amended Driver spec, implementation packet, validation evidence, canonical prompt, Codex TOML, OpenCode registration and permissions, Claude/Codex manifests, and named-agent documentation changes.

Lenses used: acceptance, evidence sufficiency, implementation quality, surface boundary, product-surface leakage, permissions, documentation drift, and overclaiming risk.

Out of scope: live runtime invocation in OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Gemini; runtime testing of OpenCode permission matcher behavior; files outside the packet read scope; package manifests not named in the packet; Cursor/Gemini manifests; external harness documentation.

## Context And Evidence Reviewed

- Ralph packet: `.loom/packets/ralph/20260515T063801Z-loom-driver-orchestration-audit.md` - bounded review contract and worker output.
- `ticket:20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening` - target scope, acceptance criteria, and review state.
- `spec:loom-driver-agent` - amended behavior contract.
- `packet:20260515T062418Z-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening` - implementation packet and worker output.
- `evidence:20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening-validation` - validation observations and explicit limits.
- `ticket:20260515-loom-driver-agent` - prior implementation baseline.
- `audit:20260515-loom-driver-agent-audit` and `audit:20260515-loom-driver-final-audit` - prior audit baseline.
- `loom-core/agents/loom-driver.md` - canonical Driver prompt.
- `loom-core/codex/agents/loom-driver.toml` - Codex Driver prompt copy.
- `loom-core/loom-core.mjs` - OpenCode registration, permissions, and smoke checks.
- `loom-core/.claude-plugin/plugin.json` and `loom-core/.codex-plugin/plugin.json` - adapter manifest and default prompt surfaces.
- `INSTALL.md`, `README.md`, `loom-core/README.md`, and `ARCHITECTURE.md` - named-agent and product-surface documentation changes.
- `git status --short` and scoped tracked `git diff` - dirty state, tracked source/docs changes, and untracked prompt/TOML awareness.

## Findings

None - no material findings within audited scope.

## Verdict

`clear`

Within the inspected records, files, scoped diff, and validation evidence, `ACC-001` through `ACC-006` are supportable without material findings. The amended spec, canonical prompt, Codex TOML, OpenCode permission source, docs, manifests, and evidence tell a consistent story: Driver is an inner-loop coordinator for packets, workers, evidence, audit, and ticket reconciliation; it does not present itself as a direct source implementer; and the evidence avoids overclaiming live harness behavior.

This verdict is bounded to the packet read scope and does not itself close the ticket or accept residual runtime-enforcement risk.

## Required Follow-up

Use the ticket surface to decide closure. If closing, keep the runtime-validation limits explicit: live harness invocation was not tested and OpenCode runtime permission matching was not proven beyond source inspection and smoke output.

## Residual Risk

- OpenCode permission enforcement is source/smoke-inspected but not runtime-tested. The broad `"*": "deny"` plus more specific allow/deny patterns rely on OpenCode applying the edit permission map as intended.
- Outside OpenCode, high-authority record protection and source-edit avoidance are prompt-level behavior unless a harness adds equivalent permission enforcement.
- Codex Driver remains an optional custom-agent TOML installation and natural-language invocation path, not automatic plugin-shipped activation.

## Related Records

- `ticket:20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening` - consuming ticket for this audit.
- `packet:20260515T063801Z-loom-driver-orchestration-audit` - review packet and worker output.
- `evidence:20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening-validation` - validation dossier challenged by this audit.
- `spec:loom-driver-agent` - behavior contract reviewed by this audit.
