- Introduced new advisory documents for archived superseded advisories, including detailed descriptions of features already implemented or covered by existing sprints. - Added "Smart-Diff as a Core Evidence Primitive" advisory outlining the treatment of SBOM diffs as first-class evidence objects, enhancing vulnerability verdicts with deterministic replayability. - Created "Visual Diffs for Explainable Triage" advisory to improve user experience in understanding policy decisions and reachability changes through visual diffs. - Implemented "Weighted Confidence for VEX Sources" advisory to rank conflicting vulnerability evidence based on freshness and confidence, facilitating better decision-making. - Established a signer module charter detailing the mission, expectations, key components, and signing modes for cryptographic signing services in StellaOps. - Consolidated overlapping concepts from triage UI, visual diffs, and risk budget visualization advisories into a unified specification for better clarity and implementation tracking.
Archived Superseded Advisories
Archived: 2025-12-26 Reason: Concepts already implemented or covered by existing sprints
Advisory Status
These advisories described features that are already substantially implemented in the codebase or covered by existing sprint files.
| Advisory | Status | Superseded By |
|---|---|---|
25-Dec-2025 - Implementing Diff‑Aware Release Gates.md |
SUPERSEDED | SPRINT_20251226_001_BE through 006_DOCS |
26-Dec-2026 - Diff‑Aware Releases and Auditable Exceptions.md |
SUPERSEDED | SPRINT_20251226_003_BE_exception_approval.md |
26-Dec-2026 - Smart‑Diff as a Core Evidence Primitive.md |
SUPERSEDED | Existing DeltaVerdict library |
26-Dec-2026 - Reachability as Cryptographic Proof.md |
SUPERSEDED | Existing ProofChain library + SPRINT_007/009/010/011 |
Existing Implementation
The following components already implement the advisory concepts:
DeltaVerdict & DeltaComputer
src/Policy/__Libraries/StellaOps.Policy/Deltas/DeltaVerdict.cssrc/Policy/__Libraries/StellaOps.Policy/Deltas/DeltaComputer.cssrc/__Libraries/StellaOps.DeltaVerdict/(complete library)
Exception Management
src/Policy/__Libraries/StellaOps.Policy.Storage.Postgres/Models/ExceptionEntity.cssrc/Policy/StellaOps.Policy.Engine/Adapters/ExceptionAdapter.cssrc/Policy/__Libraries/StellaOps.Policy.Exceptions/(complete library)
ProofChain & Reachability Proofs
src/Attestor/__Libraries/StellaOps.Attestor.ProofChain/(complete library):Statements/ReachabilityWitnessStatement.cs- Entry→sink proof chainsStatements/ReachabilitySubgraphStatement.cs- Minimal subgraph attestationStatements/ProofSpineStatement.cs- Merkle-aggregated proof bundlesPredicates/ReachabilitySubgraphPredicate.cs- Subgraph predicateIdentifiers/ContentAddressedIdGenerator.cs- Content-addressed IDsMerkle/DeterministicMerkleTreeBuilder.cs- Merkle tree constructionSigning/ProofChainSigner.cs- DSSE signingVerification/VerificationPipeline.cs- Proof verification
src/__Libraries/StellaOps.Replay.Core/ReplayManifest.cs- Replay manifests
Covering Sprints
docs/implplan/SPRINT_20251226_001_BE_cicd_gate_integration.md- Gate endpoints, CI/CDdocs/implplan/SPRINT_20251226_002_BE_budget_enforcement.md- Risk budget automationdocs/implplan/SPRINT_20251226_003_BE_exception_approval.md- Exception workflows (21 tasks)docs/implplan/SPRINT_20251226_004_FE_risk_dashboard.md- Side-by-side UIdocs/implplan/SPRINT_20251226_005_SCANNER_reachability_extractors.md- Language extractorsdocs/implplan/SPRINT_20251226_006_DOCS_advisory_consolidation.md- Documentationdocs/implplan/SPRINT_20251226_007_BE_determinism_gaps.md- Determinism gaps, metrics (25 tasks)docs/implplan/SPRINT_20251226_009_SCANNER_funcproof.md- FuncProof generation (18 tasks)docs/implplan/SPRINT_20251226_010_SIGNALS_runtime_stack.md- eBPF stack capture (17 tasks)docs/implplan/SPRINT_20251226_011_BE_auto_vex_downgrade.md- Auto-VEX from runtime (16 tasks)
Remaining Gaps Added to Sprints
Minor gaps from these advisories were added to existing sprints:
Added to SPRINT_20251226_003_BE_exception_approval.md:
- EXCEPT-16: Auto-revalidation job
- EXCEPT-17: Re-review gate flip on failure
- EXCEPT-18: Exception inheritance (repo→image→env)
- EXCEPT-19: Conflict surfacing for shadowed exceptions
- EXCEPT-20: OCI-attached exception attestation
- EXCEPT-21: CLI export command
Added to SPRINT_20251226_007_BE_determinism_gaps.md:
- DET-GAP-21: Proof generation rate metric
- DET-GAP-22: Median proof size metric
- DET-GAP-23: Replay success rate metric
- DET-GAP-24: Proof dedup ratio metric
- DET-GAP-25: "Unknowns" burn-down tracking
Cross-References
If you arrived here via a broken link, see:
docs/implplan/SPRINT_20251226_*.mdfor implementation taskssrc/Policy/__Libraries/StellaOps.Policy/Deltas/for delta computationsrc/__Libraries/StellaOps.DeltaVerdict/for verdict models