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feat(policy): name a decision offered back to the human at turn end - #1050

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Closes CLOUD-1954

  • The rule: policy/turn-ask.rego raises turn ask early when a final message hands back a decision the agent's evidence already settles. It is advice at Stop, like the hedge rule. It has its own rule row, as that verdict's sole raiser. Folding it into stop-posture would rename the hedge row, which config-lint reads as rule-removed.
  • The pattern: deferral-offered is measured over the refactor(gate): retire the engine-verb half of the bash corpus onto batten #928 landing session's 2577 final messages. Bare your call fired 6 times, and 3 of those reported a decision already made. So only the four forward-looking shapes are in (4 of 4 real punts). That is one transcript's evidence, and the pattern row says so.
  • The scrub: the module carries a copy of stop-posture's scrub. policy test loads each module as its own bundle, so an import resolved to nothing.
  • Tests: module-tier cases fire on the witnessed punts and stay silent on reports, clarifying questions, quoted text and compound turns. stop_posture.rs installs both modules through one helper and pins the engine path. The sweep catches deferral-unread and hedge-unread.

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policy/turn-ask.rego raises `turn ask early` when a final message hands back
a decision the agent's evidence settles. Its own rule row and module, as the
verdict's sole raiser: folding it into stop-posture would rename the hedge's
row, which config-lint reads as rule-removed. It carries a copy of that
module's scrub, since `policy test` loads each module as its own bundle and
an import resolved to nothing.

The `deferral-offered` pattern is measured, not chosen: over the #928
landing session's 2577 final messages, bare `your call` fired 6 times and 3
reported a decision already made, so only the four forward-looking shapes
that were 4 of 4 real punts are in. One transcript's evidence, stated on the
row. stop_posture.rs installs both modules through one helper and pins the
engine path; deferral-unread and hedge-unread are both caught by the sweep.

Closes: CLOUD-1954
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The change adds a deferral-offered pattern and a mediated-call policy that checks the final message for matching offers after scrubbing code and quoted spans. It adds policy tests and a Stop integration test for the turn ask early advisory. Integration fixtures now install both end-of-turn modules, and MUTANT_GATES includes additional gate identifiers.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 02079

Some messages that quote an offer or describe a decision already made will receive an incorrect advisory. These are bounded false positives; the change is mergeable with fixes or explicit follow-up.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 02079

The new rule offers non-blocking guidance at turn end. The reviewed path does not grant permissions or add a new externally reachable endpoint. No security finding was established, but the available coverage does not justify treating the change as risk-free.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new behavior can affect turns evaluated under the registered mediated-call policy where the host receives Stop advice. The reviewed test ranges do not themselves expose an additional production entrypoint.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The final message is input to pattern evaluation, but the policy result contains a fixed rule and verdict name plus a count. The Stop path turns that result into advice rather than a permission decision.
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Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the new turn ask early policy rule, its pattern, scrubbing behavior, and test coverage. It directly matches the changeset.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: naming a decision deferred back to the human at the end of a turn. It matches the new turn ask early policy.
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Review comments at @batten.toml:
- Line 2014: Narrow the `Your call, ` alternative in this regex to match
forward-looking offers, not statements about decisions already made. Keep the
corresponding patterns in `policy/turn-ask.rego` and `stop_posture.rs`
synchronized.

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- Line 55: Extend the shared md-quoted-span pattern used by the regex.replace
call to match curly quotation marks as well as straight quotes, and add a silent
integration case for the Stop message containing “Your call, three ways” to
verify it is scrubbed before offer matching and does not raise turn ask early.

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Comment thread batten.toml
# purpose: sentence-initial is the offer; mid-sentence was the report.
[[pattern]]
id = "deferral-offered"
regex = "Your call, |(?i:waiting on your call|both your call|a checkpoint with you)"

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Exclude reports of decisions already made.

Your call, and it was the right one. matches Your call, , although it reports a past decision. A Stop message with that sentence receives the turn ask early advisory. Narrow this alternative to forward-looking offers. Keep the copies in policy/turn-ask.rego and crates/batten/tests/it/stop_posture.rs in sync.

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Review comment at @batten.toml at line 2014:
Narrow the `Your call, ` alternative in this regex to match forward-looking
offers, not statements about decisions already made. Keep the corresponding
patterns in `policy/turn-ask.rego` and `stop_posture.rs` synchronized.

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Comment thread policy/turn-ask.rego
scrubbed := s4 if {
s1 := regex.replace(message, data.batten.patterns["md-fenced-block"], elided)
s2 := regex.replace(s1, data.batten.patterns["md-code-span"], elided)
s3 := regex.replace(s2, data.batten.patterns["md-quoted-span"], elided)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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rg -n 'md-quoted-span|quoted.*offer|quoted.*span' batten.toml policy/turn-ask.rego crates/batten/tests/it/stop_posture.rs
sed -n '45,115p' policy/turn-ask.rego

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Scrub curly-quoted reports before matching offers.

The shared md-quoted-span pattern matches straight double quotes only. A Stop message such as The review quoted “Your call, three ways” as an anti-pattern. can therefore survive the scrub and raise turn ask early.

Extend the shared quoted-span pattern, then add a silent integration case for this message.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comment at @policy/turn-ask.rego at line 55:
Extend the shared md-quoted-span pattern used by the regex.replace call to match
curly quotation marks as well as straight quotes, and add a silent integration
case for the Stop message containing “Your call, three ways” to verify it is
scrubbed before offer matching and does not raise turn ask early.

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