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## Most of the shape is idiomatic Go, and some details need changesI reviewed the interface that callers see in this plan. I checked each type-system claim with a small program on Go 1.25.7 before I wrote it down. The comments match the plan as of commit d446789.
The core design is sound. A target value carries its output type, so EncryptAs infers its return type. Readers return a typed value, where today the caller passes an out any. Encrypt and Decrypt stay methods, and only the generic calls become package functions.
Some shapes do not compile as written, and some names will mislead Go readers. The line comments give the detail, in this order of weight:
Pending[O]andRun(ctx, scope, ...Pending)cannot share a name, andPrepareneeds to return a pointer.Runcan be a method, and the*Clientrefusal of encrypt work can be a compile-time check.- Element belongs to
EncryptandDecrypt, not toDecryptAs. The plan also removes the encrypt side with no replacement. Equality.Under(c)cannot return four different types whileEqualityis aTermKindconstant.- In Phase B,
eqlv3.TextEqcannot be both the generated type and the target constructor. - Smaller points: the
Value()andErr()pair, two homes forTargetOption, the nameOpen, reused words, and the default column check.
This Phase A shape applies the changes
ct, err := keyset.Encrypt(ctx, stackencrypt.Element(row), c)
pt, err := client.Decrypt(ctx, stackencrypt.Element(ct), c)
probe, err := stackencrypt.EncryptAs(ctx, keyset, "bob@example.com", stackencrypt.Equality.Under(email.Context()))
user, err := stackencrypt.DecryptAs(ctx, client, row, stackencrypt.Into[User](usersPlan))
e := stackencrypt.EncryptInto("alice@example.com", stackencrypt.Equality.Under(email.Context()).Extend(tenant)) // *PendingEncryption[EqualityTerm]
d := stackencrypt.DecryptInto(stored, stackencrypt.Into[User](usersPlan)) // *PendingDecryption[User]
err = keyset.Run(ctx, e, d) // ...Op
err = client.Run(ctx, d) // ...DecryptOp: passing e here does not compile
v, err := e.Result()The sketch shows direction only. The PR still settles the exact names in godoc.
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@coderdan thank you for planning this — it's definitely steering Stack in the right direction.
Approved, with some notes:
- I have left some suggested formatting changes, to improve readability for future humans
- I have made a follow up PR #1070 which proposes changes to make the Golang API design more idiomatic
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Updated the plan, ADR-0007 and the glossary to record today's second round of decisions, taken after the first three implementation PRs: #1068 (source modes, Three signed commits:
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I kept the Go section as it was, apart from a one-line pointer to #1070 and the removed |
A review of #1070 found claims that disagreed with decisions on #1052. This commit settles the ones that have a ruling. A field crosses the binding only when its value does. The section said generated code sends the full declaration and skips passthrough values. Decision 9 of the plan says every plan field must be present in the value. Agreed with Dan: a field with no value sends no declaration, so decision 9 holds and the data grammar does not change. The generated file still names every field, because that file is what a reviewer reads. The record fixture replaces the golden snapshots as the proof of the lowering. Sequencing item 7 rested on plantest.Golden, and this design removes the package that writes those snapshots. The fixture compares term bytes and checks that each side opens the other's records, because a ciphertext is not the same bytes twice. The sentence about #1025 is gone: it merged. The generator checks a declaration with the embedded guest. A second copy of the engine's rules in stashgen is the "lives twice" cost that ADR-0007 accepted only for an encoder. It was an open question. The EQL envelope is stated. eql-bindings writes the eql_v3 types with SchemaVersion 3 and a ciphertext prefixed "stack-encrypt:1:", and its module doc says the envelope and SQL domains are unchanged. "EQL v4" in the plan names that form. Principle 5 forbade a single-value form while a field entry's Encrypt takes one value. The exception is now written. The principles ADR moves to the stack-encrypt series as ADR-0008. docs/adr/0002 and packages/stack-encrypt/docs/adr/0002 were two different ADR-0002s, and this ADR rests on ADR-0007 in that series. The glossary gains Binding, Language SDK and Declaration, which the principles define and the glossary used loosely. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014jiJy4WhYH2LXojK2jSoxi
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis PR adds a plan for a shared plan-builder front end to stack-encrypt. It documents the plan model, engine lowering, derive changes, binding interfaces, context rules, EQL handling, and implementation sequencing. ChangesUnified Plan Builder
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…targets The plan behind #1046, with the decisions settled on 2026-10-04: Encrypt takes a Context and never raw bytes; a target is a value carrying its output type, so EncryptAs infers its return and misuse does not compile; Run carries mixed batches as Pending::all does; per-target and per-run options are distinct interfaces; the EQL domain types are generated into a stackencrypt/eqlv3 sub-package holding every domain, and the one guest carries all of eql-bindings. Two phases: the reshape, which can start now, and EQL v3 targets, which wait on #971.
Decision 1 said Go's Encrypt would take a Context and never raw bytes. Rust accepts bytes as one context part, and what Rust can seal under Go must be able to as well, so the bytes stay: spelled as NewContext(bytes), a Context like any other, rather than as a separate []byte parameter. The open question about Rust's encrypt is withdrawn.
The example used an undefined usersPlan and a plan.Rows() target that existed only because Target[O] fixes the output type. A plan is one target, Target[EncryptedRecord]; a slice of sources goes through EncryptAll / PrepareAll with the same target, which also covers many probes under one context. The example now defines the record type and its plan, and says what Under means: a term's context is part of its identity.
Target[O] is an interface whose unexported method names O, and Go infers O from a concrete implementor, so EncryptAs(ctx, keyset, user, usersPlan) needs no .Target(). Verified with a small program.
The first draft kept the Go binding's value / record / probe split and added a generic Target[O] so one EncryptAs could serve all three. Reviewing it against the Cipher showed the split was the problem: a tree already seals any value, and what a row needs beyond that is a context per field and indexes per field. A plan is those two facts, saved as the tail of the ordinary encrypt call so the write, the query and the read take one declaration. The doc now records the settled chain (context / fields / encrypt / encrypt_index / passthrough / using / query, .await as finalizer), how each builder call lowers to the existing Encryption combinators, the three engine additions (passthrough(), execute-by-value, Index<S> / Indexes<S>), and the consolidation: the derive emits the builder and dynamic::record becomes a lowering into it, so Rust, the derive, the guest and Go produce the same bytes by construction. The Go mirror follows the same chain with Run(ctx) as the finalizer. Refs #1046
Index and Term are split: an index is the declared derivation named in a plan, a term is what it produces. Plan is redefined as the reusable saved declaration of any shape (one value or field by field), written by hand, generated by the derive or lowered from data, which produces one operation description per run. Struct record becomes Field-by-field record, one level deep. Passthrough and Identity are defined. Refs #1046
…uery Cipher-directed and target-directed are the preferred entry points for a native Rust caller; target-directed is Rust-only and a binding reaches the same engine through a plan lowered from data. Query is deriving the terms for a plaintext under a field's plan, with no ciphertext. Refs #1046
… second executor Two front ends drove the engine by hand, the derive's codegen and dynamic::record, and had already drifted on the leaf encoding. The ADR records that a binding reaches the engine only through a plan lowered from data into the one builder, that the derive emits that builder, and that cipher-directed and target-directed encryption stay the preferred entry points for native Rust. The plan doc gains decision 12 and points at it. Refs #1046
A third field verb, index(name, indexes), derives indexes with no ciphertext beside them. The JSON SteVec is such an index: it has no canonical c, its entries carry the node ciphertexts and entry 0 is the document's, so it is an index whose output happens to be reversible rather than a target. An index answers queries by source type, which is how the JSON index offers containment, a selector and equality at a path through one plan field. The engine gains one core operation, sealing N entries under one data key. Go shows the full chain (plan built and run in one call) and names its tag plan with PlanOf[T], the spelling of EncryptedUser::plan(); tags are never applied silently. The glossary's Index and Term entries follow. Refs #1046
…chronously The plan doc and ADR-0007 said term derivation awaits the keyset's index key per field, so a data plan could not hand back a Pending without an await and a hoist was needed. That is wrong: KeysetCipher::equality_term and its siblings are plain functions over the PRF the keyset cipher already holds (loaded once when the keyset was resolved) and return Pending::ready. dynamic::record::encrypt is async only because it settles those ready pendings eagerly rather than zipping them into the batch, which the lowering removes. The open question is withdrawn. Refs #1046
Records why the plan stays synchronous: a future server-side PRF derivation is batched with the data keys as a new Request kind, which pending::dispatch already names as the one place that changes, so no plan, chain, derive or binding changes shape. Refs #1046
Checks the design against Node/TS, Python and C#. The Go guest does no I/O of its own and the ABI crate is shared, so with ADR-0007 a binding is a host plus a chain in that language; each host supplies transport, token source, the FfiValue codec and an error mapping. Records that the TypeScript schema builder is already a plan in another spelling and that converging it is the TS version of retiring dynamic::record. Refs #1046
Two places need a decision before further bindings: the guest's synchronous transport import on single-threaded async hosts (resolved by exporting the two halves Pending already separates, so the guest does no I/O), and a type per field in the plan grammar so dynamically typed hosts cannot leave an indexed value's type to guesswork. Records the TypeScript path: retire protect-ffi and ship a stack-encrypt major of @cipherstash/stack. Refs #1046
The section assumed a Wasm preference. Rewritten: native shells (napi, PyO3, JNI, cdylib) are the default and run stack-encrypt in-process with its own HTTP client and stack-auth strategies; the WASI guest is one shell among them, for Go, the edge runtimes and sandboxing. The synchronous-transport strain shrinks to the wasm-inline edge path; the per-field type in the plan grammar is independent of the shell and stays in the first engine PR. Refs #1046
Names the three places the declared type is load-bearing in a dynamically typed host, fixes its vocabulary to vitaminc's tag table, and records it as the one gap the language check found in the plan approach itself. Refs #1046
Decrypt through a plan is open, because StackCipher::decrypt already exists with another signature. A plan has two starts and takes its context from exactly one of three sources. The typed verb encrypt_into and the picker are Rust-only. The derive emits the plan only after its grammar is narrowed and the plan's widened, so the two stay one grammar. EQL types are assembled per language from standard outputs, with no registry and no target name in the data grammar. The lowering table now names what #1068, #1069 and #1071 shipped.
…er language The derive emits the plan only after its grammar is narrowed to the plan's and the plan gains the typed verb, context_field, the picker and the two starts. EQL types are assembled per language from standard outputs, with no registry and no target name in the data grammar, so the EQL encoding lives in Rust and Go behind a cross-language fixture.
Open is decrypting through a plan; decrypt stays the cipher-directed word. A context field holds the context of a value's other fields. A target decides a field's layout, Rust-only, with generated code as a binding's counterpart. Plan names its two starts and the one-source rule for its context, and Record avoids row, the word a database uses for where a record is stored.
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A review of #1070 found claims that disagreed with decisions on #1052. This commit settles the ones that have a ruling. A field crosses the binding only when its value does. The section said generated code sends the full declaration and skips passthrough values. Decision 9 of the plan says every plan field must be present in the value. Agreed with Dan: a field with no value sends no declaration, so decision 9 holds and the data grammar does not change. The generated file still names every field, because that file is what a reviewer reads. The record fixture replaces the golden snapshots as the proof of the lowering. Sequencing item 7 rested on plantest.Golden, and this design removes the package that writes those snapshots. The fixture compares term bytes and checks that each side opens the other's records, because a ciphertext is not the same bytes twice. The sentence about #1025 is gone: it merged. The generator checks a declaration with the embedded guest. A second copy of the engine's rules in stashgen is the "lives twice" cost that ADR-0007 accepted only for an encoder. It was an open question. The EQL envelope is stated. eql-bindings writes the eql_v3 types with SchemaVersion 3 and a ciphertext prefixed "stack-encrypt:1:", and its module doc says the envelope and SQL domains are unchanged. "EQL v4" in the plan names that form. Principle 5 forbade a single-value form while a field entry's Encrypt takes one value. The exception is now written. The principles ADR moves to the stack-encrypt series as ADR-0008. docs/adr/0002 and packages/stack-encrypt/docs/adr/0002 were two different ADR-0002s, and this ADR rests on ADR-0007 in that series. The glossary gains Binding, Language SDK and Declaration, which the principles define and the glossary used loosely. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014jiJy4WhYH2LXojK2jSoxi
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101-102: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Detected with Advanced Tier | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winExploitability: Difficult
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Verification did not complete.Verify context-field tamper detection for index-only records.
If a builder permits a context field with only non-reversible index-only fields, opening has no ciphertext to authenticate the stored context against. A storage writer could change the non-empty context field, and
opencould return that modified passthrough value. Verify that plan construction rejects this shape or that decryption detects the change; otherwise, narrow the guarantee to records with an authenticated field.The supplied implementation excerpt at
packages/stack-encrypt/src/plan/build.rsLines 695-725 shows the context field stored as passthrough. The test atpackages/stack-encrypt/tests/derive_plan.rsLines 735-753 rejects an empty stored context, but does not establish behavior for a non-empty mutation.
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- Line 430: Reconcile the two references to #1076 in the plan: verify its
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derive/data-plan discussion or the “open draft” next-step entry so both describe
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- Around line 170-174: Update the field-by-field record definitions in
packages/stack-encrypt/CONTEXT.md, lines 170-174, and
docs/plans/2026-10-04-plan-builder.md, lines 76-79, to describe fields as
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Explicitly distinguish index-only and passthrough field modes, and qualify
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Reconcile the status of #1076.
Line 430 says the derive emits the plan “done in #1076.” Line 732 calls #1076 an open draft and lists it as a next step. Align these statements so the plan gives one implementation status.
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| walks the cipher and the caller decides the context, which may be absent. | ||
| Nothing declares an index and no output type is involved. One of the two | ||
| preferred entry points for a native Rust caller, and the one path every | ||
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Clarify the binding entry point.
“The one path every binding has natively” reads as a direct cipher-directed entry point. The binding-entry rule in packages/stack-encrypt/docs/adr/0007-bindings-enter-through-a-plan-never-a-second-executor.md Lines 19-21 says bindings enter through a plan. Clarify that a binding expresses cipher-directed behavior through a plan, rather than implying a second front door.
This wording should match the binding-entry rule in packages/stack-encrypt/docs/adr/0007-bindings-enter-through-a-plan-never-a-second-executor.md Lines 19-21.
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Both definitions imply that every field is sealed and readable. The plan also supports index-only fields and passthrough fields, so the wording overstates those guarantees.
packages/stack-encrypt/CONTEXT.md#L170-L174: define field-by-field records as independently handled fields and distinguish index-only and passthrough fields.docs/plans/2026-10-04-plan-builder.md#L76-L79: qualify the sealing and readback description to cover these field modes.
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Summary
A design plan for how encryption is declared and run across stack-encrypt, its derive, the WASI guest and the Go binding, plus the glossary and ADR that record it. Today stack-encrypt has one execution engine and two separate front ends that drive it by hand: the derive's generated code and the
dynamic::recordmodule the Go guest runs. The plan replaces both with one chained builder that the derive emits and that a binding lowers data into, so every author produces the same bytes for the same declaration because it is the same code. Cipher-directed and target-directed encryption stay the preferred entry points for native Rust; the plan is a binding's only front door.This supersedes the first draft on this PR (generic
Target[O],EncryptAs,EncryptAll,Prepare/Run), which was dropped before any code was written. The doc records why.Changes
docs/plans/2026-10-04-plan-builder.md(renamed from2026-10-04-go-encrypt-as.md): goal, why the first draft was dropped, terminology, twelve settled decisions, the Rust chain, a table mapping every builder call to the existingEncryptioncombinators, the three engine additions, the consolidation of the derive anddynamic::record, the Go mirror, the guest, EQL v3 domains as field targets, sequencing, non-goals, open questions.packages/stack-encrypt/CONTEXT.md: Index and Term split (an index is the declaration, a term is what it produces); Plan redefined as the reusable saved declaration of any shape; Field-by-field record replaces struct record; Passthrough, Identity and Query defined; the two directions placed (native Rust's preferred entries; target-directed is Rust-only).packages/stack-encrypt/docs/adr/0007-bindings-enter-through-a-plan-never-a-second-executor.md: the rule and its consequences.Verification
Documentation only. No code changes. Facts about the engine were checked against
packages/stack-encrypt/src/target/{operations,pending,core}.rs,src/dynamic/record.rsand the derive'sshape.rs/encrypt.rs.Related
Refs #1046. Builds on #1050, #971, #1025.
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Start with the ADR, then "Why the first draft was dropped" and "The Rust API" in the plan. The combinator mapping table is the part most worth checking against the code.
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