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Summary

Stack Encrypt is the Rust encryption engine behind the Go SDK. Today it can produce only one of EQL's 51 encrypted column types (EQL is the SQL that lets Postgres store and search encrypted values). The numbers, dates, timestamps and decimals are blocked on undecided byte formats, not on code. This PR records those decisions as ADR-0002, a decision record that lives in the repo, so the work that follows has one written reference rather than a forum thread.

It also fixes a gap the decisions exposed. Columns written by Stack Encrypt and columns written by cipherstash-client (the engine behind the TypeScript SDK) look identical to Postgres, but their search terms never match. The ADR gives Stack Encrypt its own EQL name, eql_v4, built from the same SQL, so Postgres refuses a mismatched query instead of silently returning no rows.

Docs only. No code, package or published surface changes.

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  • docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md (new) covers:
    • New value kinds: 8-, 16- and 128-bit integers, plus Date, Timestamp and Decimal, with their frozen ciphertext tags.
    • Canonical forms: one per kind, used for search terms (microsecond timestamps, normalised decimals, Postgres-style floats, NFC text with accent- and case-folded ordering).
    • Which kinds get which terms: Bool is ciphertext-only.
    • Where the code goes: term derivation moves into vitaminc (vitaminc-prf and a new vitaminc-ore), which deletes stack-encrypt's Scalar and dynamic::Value.
    • EQL v4: the v3 SQL emitted a second time with "v": 4 envelopes. One @cipherstash/eql package ships both, and stash eql install --eql-version picks between them.
  • docs/plans/2026-10-04-plan-builder.md previously defined "EQL v4" as a Stack Encrypt payload inside v3 domains. It now points at the ADR.

Verification

  • Every repo fact the ADR states was checked against origin/main, including:
    • which kinds stack-encrypt derives terms for today;
    • the existing tag table, and the transport tags that collide with it;
    • the VALUE->>'v' = '3' check on every v3 domain;
    • ADR-0001's rule on disposable schemas.
  • No build or tests were run, because nothing but Markdown changed.

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  • Start with "Options considered" and the EQL v4 section. Its relationship to ADR-0001 (data domains in public, disposable implementation schemas) is the subtlest point.
  • Deferred, and listed in the ADR:
    • block ORE for text, until ore-rs's variable-length scheme ships;
    • block ORE for Bool;
    • locale collation;
    • ASCII-packed text.
  • Out of scope: how existing v3 columns migrate to v4. That belongs to the decision that moves the TypeScript stack onto Stack Encrypt.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Added an accepted architecture decision documenting the shared value and encoding model, EQL v4, and its integration with Stack Encrypt.
    • Clarified that EQL v3 remains the existing bundle for cipherstash-client, while EQL v4 uses separate domains and version-4 envelopes.
    • Documented compatibility constraints, including that moving a column from v3 to v4 requires re-encryption, along with language mappings, packaging, and release sequencing.

…oducer

Stack Encrypt can produce one EQL type because its ciphertext, equality and
order encodings disagree about which kinds exist, and the mapping from a kind
to a Rust type lives in stack-encrypt (Scalar, dynamic::Value) instead of
vitaminc. EQL also cannot tell a Stack Encrypt column from a
cipherstash-client one, so a query from one producer against the other's
column matches nothing, silently.

ADR-0002 records the decisions from the value-encodings RFC review: the new
kinds and their frozen tags, one canonical form per kind for terms, term
derivation moving into vitaminc-prf and a new vitaminc-ore, and EQL v4 as the
v3 SQL emitted under a second name with "v": 4 envelopes, so Postgres keeps
the two producers apart.

The plan-builder plan defined "EQL v4" as a name for a Stack Encrypt payload
in the v3 envelope and eql_v3 domains; it now points at the ADR.
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The accepted ADR defines a shared value model and canonical encodings, Stack Encrypt term integration, and separate EQL v3 and v4 bundles. The builder plan updates its EQL v4 definition to match the ADR.

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Shared Value Model and EQL v4

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared value and encoding rules
docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md
The ADR specifies value kinds, payload tags, canonical term forms, term availability, and crate responsibilities. It also records deferred encoding work.
Stack Encrypt term integration
docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md
The ADR specifies Stack Encrypt’s use of vitaminc values and order terms, supported order encodings, and Go and JavaScript mappings with shared test vectors.
EQL producer domains and rollout
docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md, docs/plans/2026-10-04-plan-builder.md
The ADR defines EQL v4 envelopes, domains, packaging, CLI selection, and compatibility constraints. The plan updates its EQL v4 definition and clarifies that EQL v3 remains unchanged.

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This documentation-only change does not alter runtime behavior, but the accepted EQL v4 contract should be corrected before implementation: separate domain names may not prevent cross-version comparisons. The ADR and plan also need to clarify kind coverage, text support under block ORE, and when the v4 target applies.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md: Adds the accepted ADR’s problem statement and options. It identifies mismatches among ciphertext, equality, and order types; duplicated value and ordering logic; producer-specific encoding differences; and cross-producer EQL comparisons. It chooses to keep the value model and term derivation in vitaminc, separate producers by emitting one SQL source as v3 and v4 bundles with distinct domains, and ship both bundles in one package.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md: Defines vitaminc 0.6.0’s added kinds, Value rename and compatibility alias, non-exhaustive types, deep cloning into fresh Protected leaves, and new ciphertext payload tags and formats. It moves transport framing tags to 0xF0–0xF2 while keeping the sealed leaf tag table frozen and contiguous.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md: Specifies canonical term forms: timestamps truncate to microseconds; decimals normalize scale and reject NaN/infinities; floats fold negative zero and canonicalize NaNs; and text uses pinned NFC equality and accent- and case-folded ordering. It also requires Unicode-versioned domains, refusal of unassigned code points, and domain-labeled truncation and alphabet-packing settings.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md: Defines term availability and crate responsibilities. Scalars receive ciphertext; all except Bool receive equality and order terms, while containers and null receive none. Equality moves to vitaminc-prf over canonical bytes, and order encoding and schemes move to vitaminc-ore; typed cllw-ore implementations and fixed-length orderable-bytes output remain available for cipherstash-client. Term derivation takes &Value and returns a typed error for unsupported layer/kind pairings.

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Code review (medium): 8 inline findings on the ADR.

Attestation: reviewed docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md and docs/plans/2026-10-04-plan-builder.md; model: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (claude-sonnet-5-5), single pass, no verification stage.


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hand-written SQL.
3. **One SQL source, emitted under two names.** The build writes the same
source out as `eql_v3` (cipherstash-client terms) and `eql_v4` (Stack
Encrypt terms). A column's domain names its producer, and Postgres refuses

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The claim that Postgres refuses eql_v4_* vs eql_v3_* comparisons at plan time is unverified. All EQL domains are AS jsonb; when no operator matches the domain exactly, Postgres resolves operators on the base type, so a v4 query term against a v3 column can fall through to jsonb = jsonb and silently return no rows — the failure option 3 is meant to prevent. Worth a test (or softening the claim) before it is recorded as a decision.


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| `Decimal` | scale normalised (`1`, `1.0` and `1.00` are equal). NaN and ±Infinity are refused at encode time; rust_decimal cannot represent them |
| `Float32`, `Float64` | `-0.0` folded into `+0.0`; every NaN replaced by one positive quiet NaN, which sorts above +Infinity. This matches Postgres |
| text, equality | NFC |
| text, order | NFC, then NFD, combining marks removed, Unicode default case folding |

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The text order-term pipeline doesn't say whether case folding is simple or full, or whether it runs before or after mark stripping. Folding after NFD can emit non-NFD output (ß → ss), and different orderings give different bytes. The encoding is frozen once data is stored, so an implementer's choice becomes permanent — please pin it.


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Text normalisation is pinned. The Unicode version is part of the encoding's
domain label (for example `text-nfc/unicode-16/v1`), the
`unicode-normalization` crate is pinned to it, and strings containing
unassigned code points are refused. Order terms fold accent and case because

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Refusing strings with unassigned code points also affects NFC equality, and no upgrade path is given when the Unicode pin moves. A string with a character added after Unicode 16 (e.g. newer emoji) would be rejected on write even for a plain TextEq column, and moving the pin changes the domain label and forces re-encryption.


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| Kind | Canonical form for terms |
|---|---|
| `Timestamp` | truncated to microseconds, Postgres's precision |

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"Truncated to microseconds" doesn't say whether it floors or truncates toward zero, or how it relates to Postgres rounding. For pre-1970 or boundary values the two give different microseconds, so equality against Postgres-rounded values can fail.


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`time.Time` means `Timestamp`, and `encrypt.Date{Year, Month, Day}` is a
date. A field whose EQL target is a date family accepts `time.Time`,
truncated to its UTC calendar day.
- **JavaScript.** A `BigInt` maps to the smallest kind that holds it, up to

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BigInt maps to the smallest kind that holds it, so the stored kind depends on the value: in one column 200n becomes UInt8 and -1n Int8, and equality/order terms are computed per kind, so terms across values in the same column disagree. The signed/unsigned choice for non-negative values is also unspecified. The kind should come from the column's declared EQL type.


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- **Order:** every scalar kind except `Bool`, under all three schemes.
- **`Bool` has a ciphertext only.** A keyed hash or an order term over a
domain of two values hides nothing: it splits the rows into two groups, and
an order term also says which group is `true`. The existing CLLW order terms

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Removing the existing CLLW Bool order terms conflicts with the statements elsewhere that cipherstash-client's terms and cllw-ore's typed impls are unchanged. It's unclear whether cllw-ore drops its Bool impl (which would break stored v3 data) or only the new vitaminc-ore path does.


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| Kind | Canonical form for terms |
|---|---|
| `Timestamp` | truncated to microseconds, Postgres's precision |
| `Decimal` | scale normalised (`1`, `1.0` and `1.00` are equal). NaN and ±Infinity are refused at encode time; rust_decimal cannot represent them |

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The Decimal row says NaN and ±Infinity are refused at encode time, but rust_decimal cannot represent them, so the sentence is dead as written. The real failure inputs (values outside Postgres numeric range, scale above 28) aren't specified and may be handled inconsistently.


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## The problem

In October 2026 Stack Encrypt could produce one of EQL's 51 types, `TextEq`.
The number, date, timestamp and boolean families were blocked on encoding,

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The problem statement says the boolean family was blocked on encoding, but Bool ends up ciphertext-only in the decision, and EQL already ships eql_v3_boolean as storage-only. The problem and decision sections disagree, so a reader may expect searchable boolean domains from v4.


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| Kind | Canonical form for terms |
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| `Timestamp` | truncated to microseconds, Postgres's precision |

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P2 Badge Round timestamps instead of truncating them

For timestamps with sub-microsecond precision, this canonicalization does not match PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL rounds when reducing timestamp precision rather than truncating (PostgreSQL timestamp implementation). For example, a value ending in .123456789 canonicalizes here to .123456, while PostgreSQL represents it as .123457; encrypting before versus after a PostgreSQL timestamp round trip would therefore derive different equality/order terms and silently miss the row. Define the canonical form using PostgreSQL-compatible rounding, including its behavior for negative timestamps.

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Review comments at
@docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md:
- Line 162: Qualify the all-schemes order-term guarantee in the ADR’s support
statement: identify block ORE for text as the exception until ore-rs supports
variable-length input, while preserving the broader guarantee for other
supported kind-and-scheme combinations.
- Line 71: Update the ADR statement about comparing `eql_v4_*` query terms with
`eql_v3_*` columns: clarify that domain names do not prevent cross-version
operator resolution through the shared `jsonb` base type, and state that every
operator must check producer tags.
- Around line 90-91: Update the ADR’s claims about exhaustive matches: describe
per-layer handling plus the existing conformance test as the enforcement
mechanism for consistent kind support, and clarify that the test checks each
supported kind in every layer because the enums are non-exhaustive. Preserve the
documented behavior for unsupported pairings.

Review comments at @docs/plans/2026-10-04-plan-builder.md:
- Line 665: Qualify the EQL v4 statement as post-migration behavior so it does
not imply current engine output is already v4; retain the stated version-field
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3. **One SQL source, emitted under two names.** The build writes the same
source out as `eql_v3` (cipherstash-client terms) and `eql_v4` (Stack
Encrypt terms). A column's domain names its producer, and Postgres refuses
to compare an `eql_v4_*` query term with an `eql_v3_*` column at plan time.

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

# Locate the versioned domain and operator definitions for inspection.
rg -n -i -C 4 'CREATE[[:space:]]+(DOMAIN|OPERATOR|CAST)|eql_v[34]_' .

Repository: cipherstash/stack

Length of output: 45585


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set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- ADR context ---'
nl -ba docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md | sed -n '55,80p'

printf '%s\n' '--- candidate files ---'
rg --files \
  -g '*.sql' -g '*.rs' -g '*.md' -g '*.toml' -g '*.yml' -g '*.yaml' \
  packages languages scripts docs \
  | rg 'eql|migration|ddl|schema|domain|sql' \
  | head -n 300

printf '%s\n' '--- focused v4/v3 definitions ---'
rg -n -i -g '*.sql' -g '*.rs' -g '*.md' -g '*.ts' -g '*.mjs' \
  'eql_v4|eql_v3|CREATE[[:space:]]+DOMAIN|CREATE[[:space:]]+OPERATOR|CREATE[[:space:]]+FUNCTION' \
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printf '%s\n' '--- files ---'
rg --files packages languages scripts docs | rg '(^|/)(eql|sql|migrations?|ddl|schema)(/|[._-])|eql'
printf '%s\n' '--- focused matches ---'
rg -n -i -g '*.sql' -g '*.rs' -g '*.md' -g '*.ts' -g '*.mjs' 'eql_v4|eql_v3|CREATE[[:space:]]+DOMAIN|CREATE[[:space:]]+OPERATOR|CREATE[[:space:]]+FUNCTION' packages languages scripts docs | rg 'v4|v3' | head -n 500

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printf '%s\n' '--- paths containing eql ---'
rg --files | rg '(^|/)(eql|.*eql.*)(/|$)' | head -n 250
printf '%s\n' '--- exact v4 references outside broad generated trees ---'
rg -n -F --glob '!languages/typescript/packages/protect-ffi/src/eql-v3-types/**' --glob '!**/node_modules/**' --glob '!**/dist/**' -- 'eql_v4' . | head -n 300
printf '%s\n' '--- domain/operator declarations ---'
rg -n -i --glob '*.sql' --glob '*.rs' --glob '*.md' --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.mjs' \
  'CREATE[[:space:]]+(DOMAIN|OPERATOR|FUNCTION)|eql_v3_(text|integer|bigint|double|date)|domain.*base|base.*domain' \
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printf '%s\n' '--- v3 schema domains ---'
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  'CREATE DOMAIN|CREATE OPERATOR|CREATE FUNCTION.*(eq|lt|gt|gte|lte)|query_[a-z_]+|public\.eql_v3_' \
  packages/eql/src/v3/schema.sql packages/eql/src/v3/common.sql \
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  packages/eql/packages/eql/sql/cipherstash-encrypt.sql \
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Do not rely on domain names for producer isolation.

The generated v3 operators include overloads with jsonb. PostgreSQL resolves domain operands through their base type, so emitting the same SQL under eql_v4 does not prove that an eql_v4 operator rejects an eql_v3 domain. Keep the producer-tag check in each operator, or add a plan-time SQL test that proves the generated v4 DDL rejects this cross-version call.

Suggested ADR correction
--- "a/docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md"
+++ "b/docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md"
@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@
 3. **One SQL source, emitted under two names.** The build writes the same
    source out as `eql_v3` (cipherstash-client terms) and `eql_v4` (Stack
    Encrypt terms). A column's domain names its producer, and Postgres refuses
-   to compare an `eql_v4_*` query term with an `eql_v3_*` column at plan time.
+   Domain names alone do not prevent an `eql_v4_*` query term from
+   resolving against an `eql_v3_*` column through the domains' `jsonb` base type.
+   Producer tags must be checked by every operator.
    Chosen.
 
 **How v3 and v4 ship.** Bumping `main` to v4 and patching v3 from a branch
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to compare an `eql_v4_*` query term with an `eql_v3_*` column at plan time.
Domain names alone do not prevent an `eql_v4_*` query term from
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Producer tags must be checked by every operator.
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Update the ADR statement about comparing `eql_v4_*` query terms with `eql_v3_*`
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Comment on lines +90 to +91
for one release. `Value` and `ValueKind` become `#[non_exhaustive]`, so later
kinds are additive.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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git show 2bab28801108c3c83e8afd71728cf8934becc673:docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md | nl -ba | sed -n '45,60p;84,101p;158,174p'
rg -n 'non_exhaustive|ValueKind|term.deriv|conformance' crates packages

Repository: cipherstash/stack

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set -u
printf '%s\n' '--- ADR relevant sections ---'
git show 2bab28801108c3c83e8afd71728cf8934becc673:docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md |
  nl -ba | sed -n '1,190p;230,330p'
printf '%s\n' '--- repository paths for vitaminc and manifests ---'
git ls-tree -r --name-only 2bab28801108c3c83e8afd71728cf8934becc673 |
  rg -n '(^|/)(vitaminc|aead-value|prf|ore)(/|$)|(^|/)(Cargo.toml|Cargo.lock)$' || true
printf '%s\n' '--- manifest references ---'
rg -n -F --glob 'Cargo.toml' --glob 'Cargo.lock' -- 'vitaminc-aead-value|vitaminc-prf|vitaminc-ore|vitaminc' . || true
printf '%s\n' '--- source references to Value consumers ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.rs' -- 'vitaminc_aead_value::Value|vitaminc_aead_value::{|&Value|Value<' 'packages' 'crates' 2>/dev/null || true

Repository: cipherstash/stack

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Replace the exhaustive-match guarantee with the conformance-test guarantee.

vitaminc-prf and vitaminc-ore are separate crates from vitaminc-aead-value. Downstream matches on its #[non_exhaustive] enums must include a wildcard, so adding a variant will not make those matches fail to compile. The ADR already specifies a conformance test that fails when a kind is missing from a layer without an exception. Use that test as the enforcement mechanism.

Suggested ADR correction
-2. **Keep it in vitaminc, and move term derivation there too.** All three
-   encodings then live in one repository, and one exhaustive `match` on the
-   value type per layer makes "a kind exists in every layer or in none" a
-   compile error rather than a convention. Chosen.
+2. **Keep it in vitaminc, and move term derivation there too.** All three
+   encodings then live in one repository. Per-layer handling, together with
+   the conformance test described below, makes "a kind exists in every layer
+   or in none" an enforced rule rather than a convention. Chosen.
...
-- **Term derivation** takes a `&Value` in `vitaminc-prf` and `vitaminc-ore`,
-  with one exhaustive match per layer that keeps leaves inside `Protected`. A
-  pairing a layer does not support returns a typed error from vitaminc.
+- **Term derivation** takes a `&Value` in `vitaminc-prf` and `vitaminc-ore`,
+  with a match per layer that keeps leaves inside `Protected`. Because the
+  value enums are `#[non_exhaustive]`, the conformance test checks that each
+  supported kind is handled by every layer. A pairing a layer does not
+  support returns a typed error from vitaminc.
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@docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md around
lines 90 - 91:
Update the ADR’s claims about exhaustive matches: describe per-layer handling
plus the existing conformance test as the enforcement mechanism for consistent
kind support, and clarify that the test checks each supported kind in every
layer because the enums are non-exhaustive. Preserve the documented behavior for
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existing fixed-length output does not change.
- A `Scheme` trait, with block ORE (over ore-rs), CLLW ORE and CLLW OPE
(over cllw-ore). A scheme only encrypts the bytes the plaintext layer
produces, so every orderable kind works under every scheme.

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Qualify the all-schemes order-term guarantee.

Lines [141] and [162] state that every non-Boolean orderable kind works under all three schemes. The deferred section says block ORE for text is not available until ore-rs supports variable-length input (Lines [259]-[261]). Name this scheme-specific exception in the support statement.

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162:
Qualify the all-schemes order-term guarantee in the ADR’s support statement:
identify block ORE for text as the exception until ore-rs supports
variable-length input, while preserving the broader guarantee for other
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The value of `encrypt_into` is the Go type name.

An EQL value has the EQL v3 envelope: its version field is `3`, and Postgres stores it in an `eql_v3` domain.
An EQL value from the engine is an EQL v4 value: its version field is `4`, and Postgres stores it in an `eql_v4_*` domain.

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Mark the EQL v4 statement as a target-state contract.

Line 665 says engine EQL values use v4, but Line 669 says current TextEq output remains in an eql_v3 domain until migration. Qualify Line 665 as post-migration behavior so the plan does not present the target format as current output.

Proposed wording
--- "a/docs/plans/2026-10-04-plan-builder.md"
+++ "b/docs/plans/2026-10-04-plan-builder.md"
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@
 Each type has a query type, with `Query` after its name: `TextEqQuery`.
 The value of `encrypt_into` is the Go type name.
 
-An EQL value from the engine is an EQL v4 value: its version field is `4`, and Postgres stores it in an `eql_v4_*` domain.
+After the EQL v4 migration, an EQL value from the engine is an EQL v4 value: its version field is `4`, and Postgres stores it in an `eql_v4_*` domain.
 The ciphertext inside it is a Stack Encrypt ciphertext, which starts with `stack-encrypt:1:`.
 EQL v4 is the v3 SQL, emitted from the same source under a second name, so that a column written by Stack Encrypt and one written by cipherstash-client are different Postgres types ([ADR-0002](../adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md)).
 This replaces this plan's first definition, under which "EQL v4" named a Stack Encrypt payload in the v3 envelope and an `eql_v3` domain; Postgres could not tell the two producers apart, and a query from one against a column written by the other matched nothing.
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An EQL value from the engine is an EQL v4 value: its version field is `4`, and Postgres stores it in an `eql_v4_*` domain.
After the EQL v4 migration, an EQL value from the engine is an EQL v4 value: its version field is `4`, and Postgres stores it in an `eql_v4_*` domain.
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Review comment at @docs/plans/2026-10-04-plan-builder.md at line 665:
Qualify the EQL v4 statement as post-migration behavior so it does not imply
current engine output is already v4; retain the stated version-field and
Postgres-domain details.

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