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Priority: P1 | Area: security | Labels: feat, P1 | Milestone: v0.1.0 | RFC: none | Task: CTX-0015

Summary

Adds the pure provider_publication module to bitty-ipc-api (zero dependencies, std only):

• 49-byte control header (magic BPPC, version 1, kind, sender, sequence, session id) and typed bodies for kinds 1-13 with exact encode/decode.
• Named policy bounds single-sourced from the draft design (frame/inflight/small-record/bootstrap/payload/model/capability/string/depth/ID/rate/deadline); the crate-root re-export includes every public constant, including CONTROL_ACTIVE_RECEIPTS.
• Canonical provider-routing payload encoder/parser with sorted providers/models/capabilities, duplicate rejection, and digest helpers.
• Identifier types, sequence/session validation helpers, closed reason/error/domain vocabularies.

Baseline finding

The AI-0327 canonical encoder's quote escape is wrong at bitty-ai/crates/bitty-ai-endpoint/src/provider_binding.rs append_json_string (line 272 at a2bb62a; line 294 on current main): it uses br#"\"#, a single backslash byte, so quote-bearing identities produce invalid canonical JSON. This module emits the correct \". metadata_publication.rs is not the canonical encoder and its quote escapes are already correct. The bitty-ai fix is tracked as AI-0335 (issue #530) and targets provider_binding.rs, with a quote-bearing canonical vector.

Verification

• 39 new module tests: every-kind round trips, direction matrix, unknown tag/sender/version/reason/error/domain rejection, every-prefix truncation, trailing bytes, bounds at limit/limit+1, canonical stability and duplicate/unsorted rejection, sequence/session validation, exact spec Admit vector, linear O(n) UTF-8 parsing with early string/numeric bounds (260 KB literal rejects at 129 bytes; invalid UTF-8 fails closed).
• just fmt-check, just clippy, just test, just typecheck, just check, just check-all-features, MSRV 1.85, and rustdoc -D warnings (changed crate) pass; workspace gates green on the rebased head.
• Crate remains dependency-free.

Closes #34

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Rebased onto origin/main f201911 (the branch had been cut from a stale local main). Resolved the lib.rs conflict by keeping both the CTX-0014 modules/re-exports and the new provider_publication module; just check passes on the rebased head.

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Review findings addressed in the latest commit: added CONTROL_ACTIVE_RECEIPTS to the crate-root re-exports; qualified the payload baseline note with the deliberate quote-escape correction; qualified the bounds scope (TLS wrapper limits out of scope); corrected the PR body's file attribution to provider_binding.rs (AI-0327 a2bb62a:272, current :294) - metadata_publication.rs was never the canonical encoder and its escapes are correct. The bitty-ai fix is tracked as AI-0335 / issue #530.

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📝 Walkthrough

The crate adds a public provider-publication API with bounded DTOs, canonical provider-routing JSON, SHA-256 digests, binary control-record encoding and decoding, validation helpers, and policy constants. It re-exports the API from the crate root. Transport and Core/helper integration are outside this change.

Changes: Provider-publication contract

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Protocol constants and shared contract crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/mod.rs, crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/error.rs, crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/ids.rs, crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/lib.rs, crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/tests.rs	Defines protocol limits, error types, fixed-size identifiers, and sequence and session validation helpers. Exposes the API through the crate root.
Canonical provider-routing payloads crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/payload.rs, crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/sha256.rs, crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/tests.rs	Adds validated provider and model DTOs, canonical JSON serialization and parsing, and SHA-256 digests. Tests cover canonical output and parser constraints.
Binary control-record codec crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/record.rs, crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/tests.rs	Adds typed record bodies and fixed-header encoding and decoding. The codec validates record fields, payload digests, message direction, and size limits. Tests cover wire vectors and malformed records.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a13f9

Decoding provider-routing payloads can take far longer than the published size limits imply. A single long identifier near the 256 KiB payload cap can stall whichever side decodes it. The codec is not yet wired into a live receiver, but consumers will inherit this cost. Validate the UTF-8 once per payload before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 53.21% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 156 functions across 8 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly identifies a feature addition to the API: a pure provider-publication control-record contract. It matches the primary changes in the pull request.
Linked Issues check		Issue #34 requires a pure provider-publication contract. The reviewed changes add the fixed 49-byte BPPC header, kinds 1–13, closed enums, checked encoding and decoding, named bounds, identifier and…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within issue #34. They add the provider_publication contract, its crate-root re-exports, the internal SHA-256 helper, and focused module tests. The reviewed module explicitly exclud…

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #34 requires a pure provider-publication contract. The reviewed changes add the fixed 49-byte BPPC header, kinds 1–13, closed enums, checked encoding and decoding, named bounds, identifier and sequence/session helpers, provider-routing DTOs, canonical bytes, digest support, and rejection validation. The crate uses no new external dependency. The module documentation excludes TLS, transport, state machines, and integration. The reported tests cover round trips, vectors, truncation, limits, rejection, and canonical stability. The quote escape correction is part of the canonical encoder and produces valid canonical JSON.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changes stay within issue #34. They add the provider_publication contract, its crate-root re-exports, the internal SHA-256 helper, and focused module tests. The reviewed module explicitly excludes TLS, authentication, transport, receiver state, provider I/O, and integration. No unrelated feature or consumer upgrade appears in the supplied change summary.

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Review comments at @crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/payload.rs:
- Around line 494-501: Update PayloadReader::string to decode characters from a
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📒 Files selected for processing: 8

• crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/lib.rs
• crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/error.rs
• crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/ids.rs
• crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/mod.rs
• crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/payload.rs
• crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/record.rs
• crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/sha256.rs
• crates/bitty-ipc-api/src/provider_publication/tests.rs

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