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Deterministic Evaluator Spec (Draft) — PREP-POLICY-ENGINE-20-002

Status: Draft (2025-11-20) Owners: Policy Guild Scope: Define deterministic evaluator requirements for Policy Engine to unblock POLICY-ENGINE-20-002.

Determinism rules

  • Evaluation order: lexical by rule ID within policy set; stable tie-breaker by condition hash.
  • Data types: disallow host clock/network; only allow provided inputs; random seeded with fixed seed per run.
  • Outputs: sorted by finding_id; numeric outputs with fixed precision (3 decimals) and invariant culture.
  • Time handling: all timestamps in inputs are treated as UTC; now() not permitted.

Engine contract

  • Input envelope: {policy_set_id, policy_version, inputs_hash, tenant_id, run_id}.
  • Execution context: immutable; no mutations to global state; cache keyed by inputs_hash + policy_version.
  • Result envelope: {run_id, policy_set_id, policy_version, findings[], metrics{duration_ms, rules_evaluated}}.

Testing strategy

  • Golden runs: same inputs produce identical outputs/hashes across runs and machines.
  • Property tests: altering rule order must not change result ordering; injecting clock skew should be rejected.

Open decisions

  • Whether to allow parallel rule evaluation if output ordering remains deterministic (requires stable merge logic).
  • Exact numeric tolerance/rounding strategy.

Handoff

Use this as the PREP artefact for PREP-POLICY-ENGINE-20-002. Update once numeric rounding and parallelism decisions are finalized.