# Loom Driver Orchestration Audit Packet

ID: packet:20260515T063801Z-loom-driver-orchestration-audit
Type: Packet
Status: consumed
Created: 2026-05-15 06:38 UTC
Updated: 2026-05-15 06:38 UTC
Target: ticket:20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening#ACC-006
Packet Kind: Ralph
Mode: review
Context Style: live-reference
Worker: subagent
Branch: main
Worktree: /Users/alexanderbutler/code_projects/personal/agent-loom
Risk: high - reviews a model-visible agent persona, adapter surfaces, and execution permission boundary before ticket closure.
Review Lens: audit, acceptance, evidence sufficiency, implementation quality, surface boundary, product-surface leakage, permissions, documentation drift

## Mission

Perform a Ralph-backed adversarial audit of `ticket:20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening` before closure. Challenge whether the amended Loom Driver spec, canonical prompt, Codex TOML, OpenCode permissions, manifests/docs, and validation evidence satisfy `ACC-001` through `ACC-006` without overclaiming runtime behavior or leaking contributor-facing process into product surfaces.

## Context Bundle

Records:

- `ticket:20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening` - target ticket, scope, acceptance criteria, and current review state.
- `spec:loom-driver-agent` - amended behavior contract for Driver.
- `packet:20260515T062418Z-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening` - implementation packet and worker output for this follow-up.
- `evidence:20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening-validation` - validation observations supporting the ticket acceptance claims.
- `ticket:20260515-loom-driver-agent` - prior closed Driver implementation baseline.
- `audit:20260515-loom-driver-agent-audit` and `audit:20260515-loom-driver-final-audit` - prior audit baseline that may be stale after this follow-up.

Evidence Or Artifacts:

- `evidence:20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening-validation` - command outcomes and source-inspection claims to challenge for scope and overclaiming.

Files, Diffs, Or External References:

- `loom-core/agents/loom-driver.md` - canonical Driver prompt.
- `loom-core/codex/agents/loom-driver.toml` - Codex Driver prompt copy; should match canonical developer instructions.
- `loom-core/loom-core.mjs` - OpenCode agent registration, permissions, and smoke checks.
- `loom-core/.claude-plugin/plugin.json` - Claude agent manifest includes Driver.
- `loom-core/.codex-plugin/plugin.json` - Codex default prompt mentions optional custom agent TOMLs.
- `INSTALL.md`, `README.md`, `loom-core/README.md`, `ARCHITECTURE.md` - docs touched by named-agent/product-surface wording.
- `git status --short` - current dirty state and untracked Loom/source surfaces.
- `git diff` for tracked changed files - source reality for changed tracked files.
- Current untracked source files should be inspected directly because ordinary `git diff` does not show them.

## Read Scope

- `.loom/tickets/20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening.md`
- `.loom/specs/loom-driver-agent.md`
- `.loom/packets/ralph/20260515T062418Z-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening.md`
- `.loom/evidence/20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening-validation.md`
- `.loom/tickets/20260515-loom-driver-agent.md`
- `.loom/audit/20260515-loom-driver-agent-audit.md`
- `.loom/audit/20260515-loom-driver-final-audit.md`
- `loom-core/agents/loom-driver.md`
- `loom-core/codex/agents/loom-driver.toml`
- `loom-core/loom-core.mjs`
- `loom-core/.claude-plugin/plugin.json`
- `loom-core/.codex-plugin/plugin.json`
- `INSTALL.md`
- `README.md`
- `loom-core/README.md`
- `ARCHITECTURE.md`
- `git status --short`
- `git diff -- INSTALL.md README.md ARCHITECTURE.md loom-core/.claude-plugin/plugin.json loom-core/.codex-plugin/plugin.json loom-core/README.md loom-core/loom-core.mjs`

## Write Scope

Records Or Artifacts:

- this packet - fill `## Worker Output` and update `Status:` to `consumed` when output is recorded.
- `None` for other Loom records - audit record creation belongs to the parent after the worker returns.

Source Paths:

- `None` - this is a read-only audit pass.

## Source Snapshot

As of packet compilation, `git status --short` shows tracked modifications to `ARCHITECTURE.md`, `INSTALL.md`, `README.md`, `loom-core/.claude-plugin/plugin.json`, `loom-core/.codex-plugin/plugin.json`, `loom-core/README.md`, and `loom-core/loom-core.mjs`; untracked additions under `.loom/audit/`, `.loom/evidence/`, `.loom/packets/ralph/`, `.loom/specs/`, `.loom/tickets/`, `loom-core/agents/loom-driver.md`, and `loom-core/codex/agents/loom-driver.toml`. The target ticket is `Status: review` and says implementation appears complete except fresh Ralph-backed audit for `ACC-006`.

Known evidence says Core smoke, Core pack check, `git diff --check`, and Claude Core plugin validation passed after changes. It explicitly does not prove live runtime invocation in supported harnesses or OpenCode runtime glob matcher behavior.

## Task

Review the target as an adversarial auditor. Do not edit source files or non-packet Loom records.

Challenge these questions:

- Does `ACC-001` hold: does the spec define Driver as inner-loop coordination through packets, workers, evidence, audit, and ticket reconciliation with completion, blocker, and escalation outcomes, without slipping into direct implementation?
- Does `ACC-002` hold: do the canonical prompt and Codex TOML align with the amended spec, avoid direct implementation framing, and keep direction-setting records read-only while execution records remain writable?
- Does `ACC-003` hold: do OpenCode permissions and smoke checks support execution-record-only direct edits plus worker orchestration, and are permission pattern order or runtime enforcement risks represented honestly?
- Does `ACC-004` hold: do docs and manifests describe Driver as packetized coordination without unsupported direct-code-edit or unsupported harness invocation claims?
- Does `ACC-005` hold: does validation cover the touched surfaces, including tracked doc/manifest changes and untracked prompt/TOML surfaces, without overclaiming runtime behavior?
- Does `ACC-006` become satisfiable from this review, or are findings required before closure?
- Are there product-surface leakage issues in model-visible Driver instructions, such as package smoke, adapter mechanics, dogfood assumptions, repo workflow, or self-justification?
- Did the implementation or records drift outside the ticket scope, especially by changing `ARCHITECTURE.md` or Claude/Codex manifests beyond what the ticket names?

Non-goals:

- Do not implement fixes.
- Do not close the ticket.
- Do not create the audit record; return review output in this packet.
- Do not reopen broad harness research unless the current docs make an unsupported claim that must be flagged.

## Evidence, Review, Or Verification Expectations

Return concrete audit output with `FIND-*` IDs for material issues. If there are no material findings, say `None - no material findings within audited scope` and explain residual risks. The verdict must use one of `clear`, `concerns`, `changes-needed`, or `inconclusive` and must be bounded to the inspected records, files, diffs, and evidence.

## Stop Conditions

- Return `blocked` if required target records or files are missing.
- Return `escalate` if the review reveals a product-direction or authority decision outside this ticket's scope.
- Return `continue` only if another bounded packet is clearly needed before audit can be recorded.
- Return `stop` when this review pass has enough findings or no-findings output for the parent to record an audit.

## Output Contract

The worker must update this packet or return output with:

- outcome: `continue`, `stop`, `blocked`, or `escalate`
- files changed
- records changed
- evidence, review findings, validation output, or observations gathered
- what was not verified or reviewed
- blockers, risks, or assumptions discovered
- recommended next move for the consuming surface

If material findings exist, include stable `FIND-*` IDs with severity, confidence, cited file/record references, the challenged claim or risk, and required follow-up.

## Worker Output

Outcome: `stop`

Files changed:

- None. Source files were read only.

Records changed:

- Updated this packet only: set `Status:` to `consumed` and replaced `## Worker Output` with audit output.

Evidence, review findings, validation output, or observations gathered:

- Reviewed `ticket:20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening` against `ACC-001` through `ACC-006`.
- Reviewed `spec:loom-driver-agent`; it frames Driver as inner-loop coordination through tickets, Ralph packets, workers, evidence, audit, and ticket reconciliation, with completion, blocker, stale-context, evidence-gap, audit-gap, and higher-authority escalation stops. I did not find direct-implementation framing in the amended spec.
- Reviewed `loom-core/agents/loom-driver.md` and `loom-core/codex/agents/loom-driver.toml`; the Codex developer instructions match the canonical prompt content, both keep direction-setting records read-only during Driver coordination, both limit Driver's own write posture to execution records, and both route source-changing work through packet-bounded workers or another explicit execution context.
- Reviewed `loom-core/loom-core.mjs`; OpenCode registration now loads shipped agents generically, registers `loom-driver`, denies general edits, explicitly denies direction-setting record paths, allows `.loom/tickets/**`, `.loom/packets/ralph/**`, `.loom/evidence/**`, and `.loom/audit/**`, and preserves `task: "allow"` for worker orchestration.
- Reviewed `loom-core/.claude-plugin/plugin.json` and `loom-core/.codex-plugin/plugin.json`; Claude includes `loom-driver.md`, and Codex default prompt describes optional custom-agent TOML installation without claiming plugin-shipped profiles or `@<agent>` invocation.
- Reviewed `INSTALL.md`, `README.md`, `loom-core/README.md`, and `ARCHITECTURE.md`; docs describe Driver as packetized inner-loop coordination and source-changing work through workers, without saying Driver itself directly edits source.
- Reviewed `git status --short`; the dirty and untracked surfaces match the packet snapshot, including the untracked Driver prompt and TOML surfaces that ordinary tracked diff output would omit.
- Reviewed the scoped tracked `git diff`; tracked documentation, manifest, and OpenCode changes are within the ticket's allowed surfaces. The `ARCHITECTURE.md` change is an alignment of product-surface wording and does not introduce a new product behavior claim beyond the ticket's named agent/prompt-surface scope.
- Reviewed `evidence:20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening-validation`; its support claims are bounded and explicitly state that live runtime invocation and OpenCode runtime glob matching were not proven.

Findings:

- None - no material findings within audited scope.

What was not verified or reviewed:

- Did not run live runtime invocation in OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Gemini.
- Did not runtime-test OpenCode permission matching or prove whether its edit permission glob resolution is order-dependent or specificity-dependent.
- Did not rerun Core smoke, Core pack check, `git diff --check`, or Claude plugin validation; I reviewed the evidence dossier recording those successful observations.
- Did not inspect files outside the packet read scope, including package manifests not named in this packet, Cursor/Gemini manifests, or external harness documentation.
- Did not create the final audit record or close the ticket; those belong to the parent/consuming surface.

Blockers, risks, or assumptions discovered:

- No blocker discovered.
- Residual risk: OpenCode permission enforcement is source/smoke-inspected but not runtime-tested. In particular, the presence of a broad `"*": "deny"` and more specific allow/deny patterns relies on OpenCode applying the map as intended; the evidence records this honestly rather than overclaiming runtime behavior.
- Residual risk: Outside OpenCode, high-authority record protection and source-edit avoidance are prompt-level behavior unless a harness adds equivalent permission enforcement.
- Residual risk: Codex Driver remains an optional custom-agent TOML installation and natural-language invocation path, not automatic plugin-shipped activation.

Verdict: `clear`

Bounded verdict:

- 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.

Recommended next move for the consuming surface:

- Parent should record this review in an audit record for `ticket:20260515-loom-driver-orchestration-tightening`, then use the ticket surface to decide closure while keeping the stated residual runtime-validation limits explicit.
