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Reconstruction coverage

rea evaluate-reconstruction-coverage coverage.json --json evaluates an inline coverage workspace and its selected boundary_id. MCP exposes the same input through evaluate_reconstruction_coverage. Results contain a status, reasons, recommended probes and Evidence references; the supplied bundle retains the complete records.

Evidence IDs and bundle manifests must authenticate before evaluation. A valid record can still be insufficient proof: a passing verifier summary cannot promote inferred Evidence into a replay observation. That case returns unknown, while a missing or tampered record remains an input error.

Effective completion scope

The selected boundary requires the union of its explicit surface IDs, the surfaces of every required claim, and every declared dependency reachable from those surfaces. Cycles are visited once. Missing reachable dependencies remain visible as dependency-surface-missing; they keep closure partial. The required_surfaces summary counts this complete set, including absent IDs, and required_claims counts unique required claims.

Every reachable surface receives the same ownership, path, distribution, disposition and authority-independence checks. Active contradictions on any of these surfaces affect the boundary even when the caller did not repeat the surface ID in required_surface_ids. Package proof must cover the artifacts of this effective scope. A claim verifier must commit to its own surfaces and their reachable dependencies, including their artifact and implemented-owner digests. Callers do not need to duplicate the transitive closure in the request.

Comparable verifier Evidence

At least one record explicitly cited by the latest verifier observation must support the declared contract authority:

Contract authority Evidence source Confidence
shipped-artifact shipped-artifact observed or derived
controlled-replay controlled-replay observed
live-observation controlled-replay or external-service observed
external external-service observed

Contextual references can accompany qualifying proof. An unrelated observed record elsewhere in the bundle cannot repair a result that cites only inference. Older observed results cannot replace the newest weak result. Equivalent observations at the same instant can share qualifying proof from one of those observations; conflicting tied assessments remain unknown.

Package and integration proof

Build, clean-install and runtime-routing claims require observed runtime Evidence (controlled-replay or external-service). Package-content and authority-independence audits can also use observed or derived shipped-artifact Evidence. Each proof must cite its qualifying records and cover the selected boundary's artifact digests. An inference alone establishes neither a passing nor a failed package workflow.

The evaluator preserves Evidence provenance and returns an actionable unknown when qualification is unavailable. It does not change the cited records to make their authority match a caller's declaration.

All applicable package-proof outcomes participate. A failed applicable proof fails closure even when another proof passes; unknown, unsupported or skipped applicable outcomes keep it unknown. The result cites all applicable outcomes. Proof array order does not establish freshness or supersession. A proof for unrelated artifact digests does not contradict the selected boundary.

Function reconstruction claims

verify_reconstruction evaluates declared claims over retained comparison Evidence. An overall function claim includes active residual unknowns scoped to any of that comparison's dimensions. For example, an open pseudocode question keeps the overall claim unknown and retains its unknown ID and recommended probe; an independent assembly claim can still pass. An unknown scoped only to overall does not block every individual dimension.

Selection uses each unknown's latest revision, its comparison identity and Evidence references. Explicit unknown dependencies remain relevant across dimensions. Unknowns for another comparison and resolved heads do not become blockers merely because their source Evidence overlaps.