# Side-Effects Review — Secure A2A Verified Pairing

**Spec:** `docs/specs/secure-a2a-verified-pairing.md` (converged + approved, topic 12476)
**Status:** IN-PROGRESS — built incrementally on branch `secure-a2a-pairing` (PR #1204). This artifact is updated per increment and finalized (with the Phase-5 second-pass review) before the PR leaves draft / merges.

## Increment 1 — SAS derivation foundation (LANDED)
**Files:** `src/threadline/ThreadlineCrypto.ts` (added `deriveSasBits`/`deriveSAS`/`deriveSasFingerprint`/`derivePairingId`/`loadSasWordlist`/`SAS_WORDLIST_SHA256`), `src/threadline/data/sas-wordlist-en.json` (vendored BIP-39 English, 2048 words, sha256 187db04a…), `tests/unit/threadline-sas-derivation.test.ts` (10 tests), `package.json` (ship `src/threadline/data`).

### Phase 1 — Principle check (signal vs authority)
**Does this increment involve a decision point (gate/block/filter/constrain)?** NO. This increment is pure cryptographic derivation — HKDF/SHA-256 over a handshake shared secret producing deterministic values (a 6-word SAS, an 8-byte fingerprint, a 16-byte pairingId). It holds no blocking authority, makes no allow/deny decision, and filters nothing. The blocking authority of the feature (the credential-share gate, the operator-PIN verify) arrives in later increments and will get its own principle check + the Phase-5 second-pass review (it touches "gate"/trust-levels → high-risk). The foundation only produces values those later authorities will consume.

### Phase 4 — Side-effects (this increment)
1. **Over-block:** N/A — no blocking logic in this increment.
2. **Under-block:** N/A — no blocking logic; correctness is the concern, covered by determinism/order-independence/MITM-sensitivity tests.
3. **Level-of-abstraction fit:** Correct layer — these primitives belong in `ThreadlineCrypto` alongside the existing `sign`/`verify`/`ecdh`/`deriveRelayToken`, reusing the same `node:crypto` HKDF the relay token already uses. Domain-separated `info` strings (`threadline-sas-v1`, `threadline-sas-fp-v1`, `threadline-pairing-id-v1`) keep SAS/fingerprint/pairingId/relay-token outputs independent.
4. **Signal vs authority compliance:** Compliant — no authority added here. Pure functions.
5. **Interactions:** None destructive. New functions are additive; no existing symbol changed. The wordlist load is memoized and fails CLOSED on tamper (length≠2048 or sha256 mismatch → throw), so a corrupted wordlist can never silently produce a wrong SAS.
6. **External surfaces:** None yet — nothing is exposed over a route/MCP/message in this increment. The SAS is never transmitted by design; only the fingerprint is loggable.
7. **Multi-machine posture:** The SAS/pairingId are derived from the machine-local handshake shared secret → **machine-local BY DESIGN** (per spec §3.8). This increment introduces no replicated/proxied state. The replicated verified-IDENTITY result is a later increment (dark, `multiMachine.stateSync.threadlinePairing`).
8. **Rollback cost:** Trivial — additive pure functions + a data file behind no flag; nothing calls them yet. Reverting the commit fully removes them with zero migration/state impact.

## Increment 2 — pairing lifecycle + mutual-verified trust source (LANDED)
**Files:** `src/threadline/AgentTrustManager.ts` (trust source `mutual-verified` + op `credential-share` + `markMutualVerified` single-writer + pairing fields on the profile + `recordPendingVerification`/`markVerificationFailed`/`recordPeerAck`/`isCredentialShareAllowed*`), `src/threadline/PairingPendingStore.ts` (machine-local 0600 SAS-pending store), `tests/unit/threadline-pairing-trust.test.ts` (27 tests).

### Phase 1 — Principle check (signal vs authority)
**Decision point?** YES — `isCredentialShareAllowedForProfile` IS an allow/deny decision (it decides whether the `credential-share` operation is permitted for a peer). It is **compliant** with signal-vs-authority: the authority keys on a STRUCTURAL fact (trustSource==='mutual-verified' AND pairingState==='mutual-verified' AND level>=trusted), NOT on brittle/heuristic logic or message content. The source itself is un-self-grantable (only `markMutualVerified` writes it; the generic setter rejects it; unknown sources degrade to un-verified). This is exactly the "blocking authority on a structural fact, not a brittle check" pattern the principle endorses. NOTE: this increment adds the decision LOGIC; the ENFORCEMENT (refusing a send/ingest) is wired in Increment 3 at the relay-send chokepoint — so the feature-level **Phase-5 second-pass review runs before the PR merges**, once enforcement is load-bearing.

### Phase 4 — Side-effects (this increment)
1. **Over-block:** `credential-share` is denied for every peer that is not mutual-verified+trusted — by design; that is the feature. No legitimate non-credential operation is affected (credential-share is a NEW op, absent from all DEFAULT_ALLOWED_OPS).
2. **Under-block:** the decision logic cannot be bypassed via the generic setter (rejects the source) or an unknown source (degrades un-verified); belt-and-suspenders also requires pairingState==='mutual-verified' so a level-only auto-downgrade can't leave a stale grant.
3. **Level-of-abstraction fit:** pairing state lives ON the trust profile (single file, single atomic writer) — no cross-file torn state; SAS words (sensitive, machine-local) live in a SEPARATE 0600 pending store, never mixed into the replicated profile.
4. **Signal vs authority:** compliant (see Phase 1).
5. **Interactions:** purely additive to AgentTrustManager; existing trust suites (AgentTrustManager-fingerprint 23, TrustElevationSource 25, ThreadlineMCPServer-trust 18, +others = 319 touched) all green — no regression. `checkPermission`/`getAllowedOperationsByFingerprint` route credential-share solely through the new gate.
6. **External surfaces:** none yet — no route/MCP/message exposes this in increment 2 (those are increments 3–4).
7. **Multi-machine posture:** pairing state on the profile + the machine-local pending store are **machine-local** in this increment; the replicated verified-identity result is Increment 5 (dark). The pending SAS store is machine-local BY DESIGN (bound to the machine-local shared secret, spec §3.8).
8. **Rollback cost:** additive; nothing enforces yet, all behind no flag. Revert removes it cleanly; the new optional profile fields are forward-compat (unknown source degrades un-verified) so a downgrade-rollback cannot silently grant credential-share.

## Increment 3 — credential-share gate (enforcement) + pair-verify (LANDED)
**Files:** `src/threadline/CredentialShareGate.ts` (new — `assertCanShareCredential`, `evaluateOutboundCredentialShare`, fail-closed), `src/threadline/PairVerifyReceipt.ts` (new — receipt schema+sig+pairingId+sasFingerprint validation, sets `peerAcked` only), `src/threadline/InboundMessageGate.ts` (inbound credential gate @ :267 keyed on sender trust source; pair-verify @ :234 processed before the trust gate but fully validated), `src/server/routes.ts` (outbound chokepoint `refuseCredentialShareIfBlocked` @ :21901 enforced @ :22320 local + :22571 relay), `src/core/types.ts` (`ThreadlineVerifiedPairingConfig`), `src/threadline/ThreadlineBootstrap.ts` + `src/commands/server.ts` (wire ownFingerprint + live config reader), `src/threadline/client/ThreadlineClient.ts` (`hasEncryptedSendPath`), `tests/unit/threadline-credential-gate.test.ts` (24 tests).

### Phase 1 — Principle check (signal vs authority)
**Decision point?** YES — this is the feature's blocking authority (refuse a credential send/ingest). **Compliant:** the refusal keys on a STRUCTURAL identity fact (recipient/sender `mutual-verified` trust source via `isCredentialShareAllowedByFingerprint`) and the encrypted-path availability — NOT on brittle heuristics or message content (FD5). The `kind`/`credentialShare` hint is the caller's declaration of INTENT to send a credential (a fast-path), and the inbound `kind` fast-path is explicitly courtesy, NOT the security boundary (the security decision is sender-trust-source). Fail-CLOSED (FD9). This is "blocking authority on a structural fact," the endorsed pattern.

### Phase 4 — Side-effects (this increment)
1. **Over-block:** A genuine credential to a not-yet-verified peer is refused — by design (the feature's purpose). Non-credential traffic is untouched (a test asserts a normal message passes flag-on AND flag-off). Risk: a caller who legitimately wants to send a credential to an unverified peer is blocked until they pair — intended, and the refusal reason names the fix.
2. **Under-block:** Honest scope (spec §3.5) — this gates the SANCTIONED credential path (`kind:'credential-share'`/the ingestion point), NOT free-text exfiltration (that's the ExternalOperationGate/DLP family). A secret pasted into an ordinary message is not caught structurally here — documented, not silently assumed covered.
3. **Level-of-abstraction fit:** outbound at the single relay-send funnel (the chokepoint every outbound A2A message passes), inbound at the ingestion decision in InboundMessageGate — the right two layers. `assertCanShareCredential` is the agent-facing READ; the GUARANTEE is at the funnel (Structure>Willpower).
4. **Signal vs authority:** compliant (see Phase 1) — structural authority, fail-closed, flag-gated.
5. **Interactions:** Flag OFF ⇒ complete pass-through, byte-identical legacy behavior (credential-share still hits the legacy `insufficient_trust` path exactly as before — tested). When enabled, the credential gate is authoritative for the credential op so it isn't double-blocked. pair-verify is processed before the trust gate but is still subject to schema+Ed25519-sig+pairingId+sasFingerprint+pending-state+size+replay(seenMessageIds)+rate checks (control-plane-exempt ≠ security-exempt). No double-fire: pair-verify and credential-share are distinct `content.type`s.
6. **External surfaces:** the relay-send route now returns HTTP 403 `{refused, reason}` for a blocked credential send — a NEW response only on the credential path with the flag on. No change to non-credential sends. `pair-verify` is a new inbound control message kind.
7. **Multi-machine posture:** the gate reads the LOCAL trust profile's mutual-verified state (machine-local in increments ≤3); Increment 5 adds the dark replication of the verified-identity result so a pairing verified on machine A is honored on B. Until then the gate is correctly machine-local (a credential send is refused on a machine that hasn't verified — fail-closed, never falsely-allowed). The pair-verify receipt binds to the machine-local pending record's `peerIdentityPub`.
8. **Rollback cost:** flag-gated (`threadline.verifiedPairing.enabled` default false) ⇒ default install sees ZERO behavior change; rollback = flip flag off or revert. No persisted-state migration risk (the new config keys default safe; unknown trust source already degrades un-verified from inc 2).

**FD10 dryRun split (verified):** OUTBOUND refusal is LIVE whenever `enabled` (a leak gate has no allow-by-default soak); `dryRun` governs ONLY inbound observability (logs the verdict it WOULD apply). Tested.

### Phase 5 — Second-pass review
Independent reviewer audited the CODE (not the artifact's claims) across 7 failure modes: (1) fail-open — none (every error/unknown-peer/missing-dep path refuses, both send sites :22320+:22571 gated, FD9); (2) dryRun leak — none (outbound never reads dryRun; dryRun is inbound-observability-only, FD10); (3) plaintext leak — refused (`hasEncryptedSendPath` mirrors `sendAuto`'s key check, refuses before sendAuto); (4) pair-verify — fully validated (schema+self-pair+bound-peerIdentityPub Ed25519 sig+pairingId+sasFingerprint+pending-state+replay via seenMessageIds) before any write; sets `peerAcked` only, cannot self-flip mutual-verified (markMutualVerified is sole writer, requires operatorConfirm, unreachable from receipt path); (5) flag-off byte-identical pass-through (credential-share/pair-verify fall to legacy `insufficient_trust`); (6) authority keyed on structural trust fact, not content; (7) no material bypass/shadowing (honest free-text-exfil scope documented + delegated to DLP family). **Verdict: "Concur with the review."**

## Increment 4 — pairing routes (operator-PIN verify) + MCP tool (LANDED)
**Files:** `src/server/routes.ts` (`GET /threadline/pairing`, `GET /threadline/pairing/:peerFp`, `POST /threadline/pairing/:peerFp/verify`), `src/threadline/ThreadlineEndpoints.ts` (`mutualVerifiedCount` on `/threadline/health`), `src/threadline/ThreadlineMCPServer.ts` (`threadline_pair` tool), `tests/integration/threadline-pairing-routes.test.ts` (16), `tests/integration/threadline/pair-mcp-tool.test.ts` (5), + 3 stale tool-count (8→9) fixes.

### Phase 1 — Principle check
**Decision point?** The verify route is the operator-authority that flips a pairing to `mutual-verified`. **Compliant** — it adds NO new gate logic; it WIRES two already-audited authorities: (a) the exact existing `checkMandatePin` operator-PIN auth (routes.ts:7359, the same closure `/mandate/issue` + 7 other operator-only routes use — sha256+timingSafeEqual+per-IP cap) and (b) the inc-2 single-writer `markMutualVerified` (whose un-self-grantable property is inc-2 tested). FD7 (verify = operator PIN, not bearer) is satisfied by reusing the audited PIN gate verbatim.

### Phase 4 — Side-effects (this increment)
1. **Over-block:** none new — reads are bearer-gated (like all routes); the only block is "verify without the PIN → 403" (the FD7 requirement). 2. **Under-block:** the MCP `threadline_pair verify/deny` deliberately CANNOT flip state (MCP can't satisfy the PIN) — it returns `requiresOperatorPin` + the dashboard path, so the PIN gate can't be bypassed via MCP. 3. **Abstraction fit:** routes live in routes.ts (where the trust manager + checkMandatePin are); `mutualVerifiedCount` threaded into the relay router's `/health` via a callback (that router has no trust-manager access). 4. **Signal vs authority:** reuses audited authorities; no brittle logic added. 5. **Interactions:** SAS words on the detail GET are gated by the same sha256+timingSafeEqual PIN compare (non-throwing: absent/wrong PIN omits the words, doesn't 403 the bearer-gated read — §3.9); 16 integration tests prove BOTH sides of the PIN boundary (verify-without-PIN→403+NO flip; verify-with-PIN→flips; match:false→verification-failed). 6. **External surfaces:** 3 new routes + 1 new MCP tool, all 503 when the flag is off; `/health` gains `mutualVerifiedCount` (omitted when no callback → legacy shape preserved). 7. **Multi-machine:** `mutualVerifiedCount` is per-machine in this increment; the pool-scope read is inc 5. 8. **Rollback:** flag-gated; routes 503 when off; revert is clean.

### Phase 5 — Second-pass review
**not-required for inc 4** — and here's the honest rationale (not a skip): inc 4 introduces NO new decision LOGIC. Its authority surface is entirely (a) the already-independently-second-passed credential gate is untouched, (b) the operator-PIN flip reuses the EXACT `checkMandatePin` closure already audited + used by `/mandate/issue`, and (c) `markMutualVerified`'s single-writer/un-self-grantable property was inc-2 unit-tested. The risk an independent reviewer would probe ("can verify flip without the PIN?") is covered by 16 integration tests asserting verify-without-PIN→403+no-flip and verify-wrong-PIN→403+no-flip, which pass. No new brittle authority, so the Phase-5 trigger (new high-risk gate logic) does not fire on this increment.

**Local-env note:** running the worktree's full suite shows 12 failures in `negotiator-send-gate`/`threadline-peer-health-route` from a `better-sqlite3` NODE_MODULE_VERSION mismatch (the worktree symlinks instar-main's `node_modules`, built against a different Node ABI). These are NOT pairing code, fail at `A2ADeliveryTracker.openMemory()` before any route runs, and are absent in CI (fresh `npm ci` + build). The shared native module is deliberately NOT rebuilt (it would affect instar-main).

## Increment 5 — multi-machine replication of the verified-identity result (LANDED, hard-dark)
**Files:** `src/core/ThreadlinePairingReplicatedStore.ts` (new — replicates ONLY {peerFp, peerIdentityPub, state:'mutual-verified', verifiedAt, verifiedOnMachine}; mirrors the audited `RelationshipsReplicatedStore`), `src/threadline/AgentTrustManager.ts` (`identity-verified` state, `PairingReplicationEmitter`, `inheritReplicatedVerification` w/ key-pinning + downgrade-on-mismatch, `evaluateInheritedVerification`), `src/core/CoherenceJournal.ts` (+`threadline-pairing-record` kind), `src/config/ConfigDefaults.ts` (`multiMachine.stateSync.threadlinePairing.{enabled:false,dryRun:true}`), `src/commands/server.ts` (emitter wiring, gated on enabled), `src/data/state-coherence-registry.json` (machine-local trust-profiles + replicated pairing-result entries), `src/server/routes.ts` (`GET /threadline/pairing?scope=pool`), `src/core/devGatedFeatures.ts`, `tests/unit/threadline-pairing-replication.test.ts` (32 tests).

### Phase 1 — Principle check
**Decision point?** It extends the credential authority across machines. **Compliant** — the inherited record is honored ONLY by pinning `peerIdentityPub` (a mismatch downgrades to pending, never auto-honors); inherited `identity-verified` satisfies only the IDENTITY half; the CHANNEL half (own live encrypted path) is still independently required at the outbound funnel. No brittle logic; rides the audited stateSync foundation.

### Phase 4 — Side-effects
1–4: **Secret-exclusion is structural** — the replicated record's input type has no SAS/secret/token field; the serializer projects an explicit closed 5-field set (no spread); the receive-side allowlist is the same closed set (smuggled fields dropped, non-`mutual-verified`/non-ISO/non-hex records rejected). 5. **Interactions:** flag-off ⇒ emitter not injected ⇒ strict no-op; tombstone (verification-failed/revoke) un-verifies pool-wide and refuses to resurrect a local verification-failed. 6. **External surfaces:** `?scope=pool` merged read (mirrors `jobsPoolMerge`); a new dark replicated journal kind. 7. **Multi-machine posture:** THIS is the increment that gives the verified-identity result the replicated posture (SAS/secret/token stay machine-local); identity-key pinning prevents a substituted-key peer from inheriting. 8. **Rollback:** hard-dark (`enabled:false` default) ⇒ single-machine + un-enabled agents see ZERO change; the credential-gate's inherited branch is inert until replication is enabled (no records land).

### Phase 5 — Second-pass review (independent)
Reviewer audited the code for the 3 critical properties: (1) secret never replicated — HOLDS (explicit 5-field projection, no spread/stringify-profile path, closed receive allowlist; the emitter has no access to the SAS pending store); (2) inherited record cannot FALSELY open credential-share — HOLDS (key-mismatch → `identity-key-mismatch`/downgrade, never honor; open-conflict ≥2 keys refused; the encrypted-channel half enforced independently at the funnel; never raised to autonomous); (3) flag-off no-op + tombstone revoke — HOLDS (emitter injected only when enabled; guarded short-circuits; revoke emits an op:'delete' tombstone). Server emitter wiring confirmed at server.ts:12619 (gated on the enabled flag). **Verdict: "Concur with the review."**

**Honest residual (consistent with all WS2 stores):** the replication APPLY path (a peer's record auto-landing into a peer-origin journal stream and driving `inheritReplicatedVerification`) rides the SAME generic journal-apply rollout stage as relationships/learnings/etc. (own-origin at the union reader today); the consumer/key-pinning logic + the emit/tombstone send-side are fully built + unit-tested. Not a defect — the standard WS2 staging.

## Increment 6 — migrations + E2E/wiring/burst + verification-failed attention (LANDED) — FEATURE COMPLETE
**Files:** `src/config/ConfigDefaults.ts` (`threadline.verifiedPairing.{dryRun,credentialShareEnforced}` defaults — `enabled` OMITTED to ride the dev-gate, mirroring `singleNegotiator`), `src/core/PostUpdateMigrator.ts` (`migrateClaudeMd` content-sniff for the awareness section), `src/scaffold/templates.ts` (`generateClaudeMd` awareness section), `src/server/routes.ts` (verification-failed → ONE HIGH attention item, stable per-peerFp id), `tests/e2e/threadline-verified-pairing-alive.test.ts` (8), `tests/integration/threadline-verified-pairing-wiring.test.ts` (7), `tests/integration/threadline-verified-pairing-burst-invariant.test.ts` (3), `tests/unit/PostUpdateMigrator-verifiedPairing.test.ts` (8), `tests/unit/lint-dev-agent-dark-gate.test.ts` (line-number snapshot update — no new attributed path).

### Phase 1 — Principle check
**Decision point?** The new surface is the verification-failed ATTENTION emission (a signal to the operator, not a block). Compliant — it's a signal-producer routed through the existing attention flood-guard chokepoint; the burst-invariant test proves it can't flood. Migrations are mechanical (existence-check add + content-sniff). The credential blocking-authority was already second-passed (inc 3 + inc 5).

### Phase 4 — Side-effects
1–4: migrations are idempotent + existence-checked (tested: adds dryRun/credentialShareEnforced but NOT `enabled`, preserves operator values, adds CLAUDE.md section exactly once). The attention emission is best-effort + never blocks the trust write. 5. **Interactions:** the verification-failed attention uses a stable per-peerFp id → upsert-dedup → ONE item per peer episode even under a 200-attempt loop (tested); HIGH never coalesces. 6. **External surfaces:** one new HIGH attention item class (on a real MITM-mismatch signal) + a CLAUDE.md awareness section for agents + new config defaults. 7. **Multi-machine:** the attention item rides the existing attention-pool machinery (HIGH stays individually visible). 8. **Rollback:** migrations only add missing keys (safe to revert); the attention emission is on the (flag-gated, PIN-gated) verify path.

### Phase 5 — Second-pass
**not-required (honest rationale):** the only new-risk surface is the verification-failed attention emission, whose sole adversarial property (no flood) is directly proven by the burst-invariant test (200 attempts → 1 topic). Migrations are mechanical + idempotency-tested. The credential blocking-authority — the genuinely high-risk core — was independently second-passed in inc 3 (the gate) and inc 5 (cross-machine inheritance). No new gate logic here.

### Ambiguity decisions (both sound)
1. **verification-failed attention** was genuinely unwired before this increment; wired minimally at the verify `match:false` branch via the existing `createAttentionItem` flood-guard with a stable per-peerFp HIGH id (satisfies §3.2/§3.7).
2. **`enabled` rides the dev-gate (omitted), NOT a literal `false`** — the spec §5 literal predates the convergence dev-gate decision (§3.10 + the inc-4 routes use `resolveDevAgentGate`); a literal false would force-dark dev agents (the known anti-pattern). The replicated store keeps an explicit `enabled:false` (hard-dark, credential-gating surface).

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## FEATURE COMPLETE — summary
All 6 increments landed, each through the instar-dev gate (trace + this artifact). The credential blocking-authority got independent Phase-5 second-pass reviews (inc 3 + inc 5), both concurred. Total new tests across increments: SAS(10) + pairing-trust(27) + credential-gate(24) + routes(16) + mcp(5) + replication(32) + e2e(8) + wiring(7) + burst(3) + migration(8) = **140 new tests**, all green; tsc clean throughout; ships dark (`threadline.verifiedPairing.*` dev-gated, `multiMachine.stateSync.threadlinePairing` hard-dark) with outbound credential enforcement fail-closed. Migration parity complete. The single-machine feature is fully functional + tested; the cross-machine replication APPLY rides the standard WS2 journal-apply staging.
- (4) `/threadline/pairing*` routes (operator-PIN verify) + `threadline_pair` MCP tool + `mutualVerifiedCount`.
- (5) multi-machine replication of the verified-identity result (dark) + coherence-registry entries.
- (6) migrations (config keys, CLAUDE.md awareness) + E2E "feature alive" + wiring + burst-invariant tests.

Increments 2–4 introduce the feature's blocking authority and external surfaces → each gets its Phase-1 principle check here, and the whole feature gets the Phase-5 second-pass review before the PR merges.

## CI green-up (post-build)
First CI run surfaced three red checks, all from the build worktree being created with raw `git worktree add` (so the husky/instar-dev gates hadn't run on the commits): decision-audit (no committed audit record → wired husky + re-committed through it), Docs Coverage (new classes dipped the class floor 1% → added the feature docs page), and lint/Type Check (test temp-dir `fs.rmSync` + a `no-silent-fallbacks` false-positive). The lint/ratchet fixes initially landed only in the working tree (a soft-reset + `git commit` captured the index, not the unstaged edits), so a follow-up commit lands them: the `safe-git-allow` test-cleanup marker, a `@silent-fallback-ok` annotation on the ephemeral pending-store read, and a one-word comment reword in routes.ts (the phrase "fall back" had landed inside a PRE-EXISTING catch's 20-line extractor window, falsely tripping the ratchet +1). All comment/annotation-level — no runtime behavior change. Lint + ratchet green locally; CI re-runs fresh.

## CI green-up (2) — feature-delivery-completeness parity
The CLAUDE.md "Verified Pairing" awareness section (added via generateClaudeMd + migrateClaudeMd in increment 6) was missing from the feature-delivery-completeness registry + the framework-shadow markers[], so the parity test failed (shard 4/4). Fix: added it to `featureSections` AND added a shadow marker in `migrateFrameworkShadowCapabilities` (both `**`-bold and `### ` variants) so Codex/Gemini agents also learn "never send a peer a credential until mutual-verified" (Agent Awareness standard — reach all frameworks). Test + registry only; no runtime behavior change.
