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# Validation Report

**Session ID**: `phase18-session01-protocol-suggestion-contract-parity` **Package**: `packages/protocol` **Validated**: 2026-06-09 **Result**: PASS

***

## Validation Summary

| Check                     | Status | Notes                                                                                  |
| ------------------------- | ------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Tasks Complete            | PASS   | 23/23 tasks complete                                                                   |
| Files Exist               | PASS   | 8/8 spec deliverables found; supplemental Vitest env isolation fix present             |
| ASCII Encoding            | PASS   | All deliverables and the supplemental test config fix are ASCII with LF endings        |
| Tests Passing             | PASS   | Focused protocol, web, and repo-root Vitest gates pass                                 |
| Database/Schema Alignment | N/A    | No DB-layer changes                                                                    |
| Quality Gates             | PASS   | Format, lint, workspace typecheck, root tests, secret scan, and diff check pass        |
| Conventions               | PASS   | `CONVENTIONS.md` spot-check passed                                                     |
| Security & GDPR           | PASS   | See `security-compliance.md`                                                           |
| Behavioral Quality        | N/A    | Protocol contract library and test-runner config only; no application runtime behavior |

**Overall**: PASS

***

## 1. Task Completion

### Status: PASS

| Category       | Required | Completed | Status |
| -------------- | -------- | --------- | ------ |
| Setup          | 3        | 3         | PASS   |
| Foundation     | 6        | 6         | PASS   |
| Implementation | 11       | 11        | PASS   |
| Testing        | 3        | 3         | PASS   |

### Incomplete Tasks

None.

***

## 2. Deliverables Verification

### Status: PASS

#### Files Created

| File                                          | Found | Status |
| --------------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ |
| `packages/protocol/src/suggestions.ts`        | Yes   | PASS   |
| `packages/protocol/tests/suggestions.test.ts` | Yes   | PASS   |

#### Files Modified

| File                                     | Found | Status |
| ---------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ |
| `packages/protocol/src/events.ts`        | Yes   | PASS   |
| `packages/protocol/src/index.ts`         | Yes   | PASS   |
| `packages/protocol/src/rest.ts`          | Yes   | PASS   |
| `packages/protocol/tests/events.test.ts` | Yes   | PASS   |
| `packages/protocol/tests/rest.test.ts`   | Yes   | PASS   |
| `packages/protocol/README_protocol.md`   | Yes   | PASS   |

#### Supplemental Validation Fix

| File               | Found | Status |
| ------------------ | ----- | ------ |
| `vitest.config.ts` | Yes   | PASS   |

### Missing Deliverables

None.

***

## 3. ASCII Encoding Check

### Status: PASS

| File                                          | Encoding | Line Endings | Status |
| --------------------------------------------- | -------- | ------------ | ------ |
| `packages/protocol/src/suggestions.ts`        | ASCII    | LF           | PASS   |
| `packages/protocol/tests/suggestions.test.ts` | ASCII    | LF           | PASS   |
| `packages/protocol/src/events.ts`             | ASCII    | LF           | PASS   |
| `packages/protocol/src/index.ts`              | ASCII    | LF           | PASS   |
| `packages/protocol/src/rest.ts`               | ASCII    | LF           | PASS   |
| `packages/protocol/tests/events.test.ts`      | ASCII    | LF           | PASS   |
| `packages/protocol/tests/rest.test.ts`        | ASCII    | LF           | PASS   |
| `packages/protocol/README_protocol.md`        | ASCII    | LF           | PASS   |
| `vitest.config.ts`                            | ASCII    | LF           | PASS   |

### Encoding Issues

None.

***

## 4. Test Results

### Status: PASS

| Command                                                                                                                                  | Result                                                           |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `npx vitest run packages/protocol/tests/suggestions.test.ts packages/protocol/tests/events.test.ts packages/protocol/tests/rest.test.ts` | PASS - 3 files, 28 tests                                         |
| `npm test -- --project web`                                                                                                              | PASS - 103 files, 1796 tests                                     |
| `npm test`                                                                                                                               | PASS - 197 files passed, 1 skipped; 2532 tests passed, 1 skipped |

### Additional Quality Gates

| Command                                           | Result                                 |
| ------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| `npm run format:check`                            | PASS - 607 files checked               |
| `npm run lint`                                    | PASS - 609 files checked               |
| `npm run typecheck --workspaces --if-present`     | PASS                                   |
| `npm --workspace packages/protocol run typecheck` | PASS                                   |
| `npm run security:secrets`                        | PASS - 1529 tracked text files checked |
| `git diff --check`                                | PASS                                   |

### Previous Failure Resolution

The prior validation failure was caused by ignored developer-local env files (`.env.local` and `apps/web/.env.local`) being loaded by Vitest, which made War Room web tests see a configured Worker URL instead of local-only defaults. `vitest.config.ts` now disables Vite env-file discovery during tests, while normal dev and build scripts still load local env files. The five previously failing web tests now pass in both the focused web project run and the root test run.

***

## 5. Database/Schema Alignment

### Status: N/A

No DB-layer changes were introduced.

### Issues Found

N/A - no DB-layer changes.

***

## 6. Success Criteria

From `spec.md`:

### Functional Requirements

* [x] All five Quest Board source shapes exist as exported protocol types with runtime validation.
* [x] Analysis item types match the required vocabulary.
* [x] Project scan categories, efforts, and 4-item cap are defined.
* [x] Follow-up task categories are defined.
* [x] `suggestion_update` validates a full mixed-source snapshot and rejects malformed payloads.
* [x] Accept and dismiss contracts exist with the required action distinctions.
* [x] Parity constants are exported.
* [x] `idle_suggestion` remains typed and `quest_board` is retired with the decision documented.

### Testing Requirements

* [x] Focused suggestion contract tests were written and passed.
* [x] Existing event and REST protocol tests were updated and passed.
* [x] Package and workspace typecheck passed.
* [x] Repo-root tests passed after isolating Vitest from ignored local env files.

### Non-Functional Requirements

* [x] No contract implies hosted identity, entitlement gating, telemetry capture, trusted erasure, or real executors.
* [x] File-path fields accept repo-relative paths only and fail closed on absolute paths, traversal segments, and URL-like values.
* [x] Protocol helpers remain dependency-free and reusable by server, web, CLI, hooks, and Worker packages.

### Quality Gates

* [x] All files ASCII-encoded.
* [x] Unix LF line endings.
* [x] Code follows project conventions.

***

## 7. Conventions Compliance

### Status: PASS

* Naming and file layout follow the package-local protocol conventions.
* Error handling stays fail-closed and deterministic.
* Tests are focused and aligned with the existing protocol suite style.
* Vitest env isolation is configured at the root test-runner boundary and does not change app dev or build behavior.
* No commented-out code or obvious convention violations were found.

***

## 8. Security and GDPR Compliance

### Status: PASS

See `security-compliance.md`.

***

## 9. Behavioral Quality Spot-Check

### Status: N/A

This session adds shared protocol contracts, pure validators, tests, docs, and test-runner env isolation. It does not add application runtime code, persisted state, external calls, UI behavior, or user data processing.

***

## Final Result

PASS - session requirements are complete and validation gates are clean.


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