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What changed

This PR adds the praxis policy documentation and deprecates the laptop CPEX build.

• docs/praxis-policy.md is a new page. It tells the reader how to turn policy on,
  which filters the gateway builds, where the policy sits in the filter chain, how to
  record the decision in the session row, and which gaps the policy has.
• The page holds five policy examples. praxis/server/tests/doc_policy_examples.rs
  loads every tagged example through PPE, so a bad example fails the test.
• cmd/cortex/praxis.go adds warnDeprecatedCpex: true, and scripts/install.sh
  prints the same sentence. The two sentences are identical.
• README.md, cmd/README.md, docs/README.md, docs/cpex-plugin.md,
  docs/laptop-service.md and praxis/README.md link to the new page and carry the
  deprecation text.
• .github/workflows/praxis.yaml now starts the Rust job when
  docs/praxis-policy.md changes, and counts that change as blocking, because the
  Rust test reads the page. .github/CLAUDE.md and praxis/README.md record the
  paths that block the job.
• The plan is in docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-13-ppe-praxis-docs-1800.md.

How it was tested

The full gate passed at deeeaf13b:

pre-commit run --all-files
sh scripts/install_test.sh
GOWORK=off go -C cmd/cortex vet ./...
GOWORK=off go -C cmd/cortex test -race ./...
cargo fmt --check --all --manifest-path praxis/Cargo.toml
cargo clippy --all-targets --locked --manifest-path praxis/Cargo.toml -- -D warnings
cargo test --locked --manifest-path praxis/Cargo.toml -p cortex-gateway

The review also checked by hand that every construct in the five examples exists in
the locked crates, and that the PEM in the JWT example is a valid P-256 key.

The fix round aeb4c7b21 changes Markdown only. On it,
cargo test -p cortex-gateway --test doc_policy_examples passes with five examples,
and pre-commit run --all-files passes.

The fix rounds 946502989 and a1653cca6 change Markdown and the praxis workflow.
On a1653cca6:

• cargo test -p cortex-gateway --test doc_policy_examples passes with five examples.
• pre-commit run --files <the changed files> passes.
• A probe that calls praxis_filter::PolicyFilter::from_config, which is the gateway's
  own load path, fails on core/plugins/cpex/testdata/hr-cpex/cpex-policy.yaml with
  no factory registered for plugin kind 'delegator/oauth' (plugin 'workday-oauth').
  The page now says so.
• The workflow YAML parses, and the new blocking pattern matches
  docs/praxis-policy.md and does not match a path such as docs/README.md.

The fix round 544daad2f changes two Markdown files. On it,
cargo test -p cortex-gateway --test doc_policy_examples passes with five examples,
and pre-commit run --files <the two changed files> passes. Each claim in the new
"Known gaps" bullet comes from the source of praxis-proxy-filter 0.8.0 and from its
tests on_response_body_in_read_only_is_a_no_op and
prompt_and_resource_result_rules_fail_filter_construction.

The fix round 3f9743d9b changes the same two Markdown files. On it,
cargo test -p cortex-gateway --test doc_policy_examples passes with five examples,
and pre-commit run --files <the two changed files> passes. It also changes the text
that 544daad2f added: the "Known gaps" bullet no longer sends the reader to a
pre_invocation step for a completion check.

Size

• Counted lines: 424 (410 added, 14 removed).
• Exempt lines: 806. This is the plan document
  docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-13-ppe-praxis-docs-1800.md.

The counted lines are below the 2000-line limit.

Part of #1800

Review findings that these rounds fixed

aeb4c7b21 fixes three findings from the review of deeeaf13b:

• [important] The model allow-list paragraph read as a complete control. A body with
  no readable model takes no llm: route, because the gateway sets
  llm.require_model: false. The page now states which admission runs on it, and
  "Known gaps" names it. praxis-proxy-filter 0.8.0 runs the global rules on that
  request, so the page says that, not the identity-only admission that 0.7.5 gave.
• [important] "Turn policy on" said that agentop setup --praxis installs
  cortex-gateway. It only adopts an installed one. The step now gives the installer
  one-liner, the --ref=main fallback when the release has no gateway build, and the
  source build. docs/laptop-service.md and the plan carry the same text.
• [minor] The MCP tool example had the same unstated fallback. The page now names the
  case this example admits, and the JSON-RPC envelope that gets 500.

946502989 and a1653cca6 fix the findings of the delta review of the page:

• [must] The migration steps told a CIBA config to set store: { kind: memory }. The
  gateway builds no CIBA plugin, so the file does not load. The steps now delete the
  plugin. A probe showed that this is not enough: the gateway also builds no
  delegator/oauth plugin and no cedar-direct PDP, and hr-cpex names all three.
  Step 2 now names all three, and the steps that call them: an approval step, a
  delegate(...) step and a cedar: step with no handler each deny the request.
• [must] The gateway sets no body_access, so the policy runs in the filter's default
  read_only mode. A field rewriter such as args.ssn: redact(...) loads and has no
  effect. "Known gaps" now says so.
• [must] The praxis workflow did not name docs/praxis-policy.md, so a change to the
  page started no Rust job. Both paths: lists and the blocking pattern now name it.
• [minor] "Known gaps" now says that a praxis.policy block does nothing while
  praxis.enabled is false, and that startup prints no warning.
• [minor] .github/CLAUDE.md and praxis/README.md described which paths block the
  praxis job, and left out the Go side. Both now name it.

544daad2f fixes the must-fix findings of the review of a1653cca6:

• [must] "Known gaps" described read_only as a limit on field rewrites. In
  praxis-proxy-filter 0.8.0, on_response_body returns before every response-phase
  dispatch, so no llm:, tool:, prompt: or resource: response-phase rule runs.
  The bullet now says so.
• [must] The stream example named SSE as the case that skips response-phase policy.
  The reader could take a non-streamed response as checked. The example now names the
  llm: route.
• [suggestion] The first draft of that bullet said every result.<field> rule on those
  routes loads and has no effect. That is false for prompt: and resource:: a
  result.<field> rule on either route stops the policy from loading. The bullet now
  gives the two cases apart.
• [suggestion] "No response-phase policy" was broader than the code. A
  post_invocation step on an http: route or under global: runs at the response
  header phase, which carries no completion. The bullet says this.

3f9743d9b fixes the must-fix finding of the review of 544daad2f:

• [must] The bullet ended with "Put a check on a completion in a pre_invocation
  step". A pre_invocation step runs before the upstream answers, and the completion
  facts are filled only in the cmf.llm_output dispatch. The bullet now says that no
  rule reads the response body of the request it judges, and that a limit on the
  request belongs in a pre_invocation deny.
• [suggestion] "No rule can check a completion" overclaimed. llm.request gives a
  pre_invocation step the parsed body, which carries messages, so a later turn can
  read an earlier completion. The sentence is now about the response body only.
• [suggestion] The advice that named llm.input.max_tokens read as a rewrite, which
  read_only discards, and it does not hold for a request with no cap. The bullet now
  names the deny form and the no-cap case.

Review findings that are not fixed

These are deferred. Each needs its own change.

• The read_only bullet does not say that an http: route with authorization:
  beside a tool:, prompt: or resource: route stops the policy from loading
  (http_route_beside_entity_routes). A reader who adds an http: step to one of the
  two tool: examples gets that load error. It needs its own sentence.

• The taint paragraph says the step needs a resolved subject and an X-Session-Id
  header. The resolved subject is the requirement, and the header only scopes the label
  to a session. The page shows no step that reads the label.

• A behavioral test covers only the model allow list, through the existing
  praxis/server/tests/gateway.rs fixture. The tool allow list, the JWT example, the
  taint step and the stream deny are load-tested only. A rule that never fires still
  loads. A follow-up test would send one read_file call and one other tool call.

• The Go test matches the deprecation sentence by prefix, and so does
  scripts/install_test.sh. A later edit to one sentence drifts silently. The cheap
  guard is to compare the whole sentence in both tests.

• warnDeprecatedCpex is called only from outboundEntries. It can be inlined, which
  removes about ten lines.

• T3 coverage note, not a defect. The review re-ran go test -run TestOutboundEntries
  (pass), go vet ./... in cmd/cortex (pass), pre-commit run --all-files (all
  pass) and sh scripts/install_test.sh (273 passed, 0 failed). It did not re-run
  go test -race ./... for cmd/cortex or the three cargo steps.

• T1 environment note, not a defect in the commit. The default cargo on this machine is
  1.94.1, and praxis/Cargo.toml pins rust-version 1.96. To re-run the gate, set
  PATH=/Users/haihuang/.cargo/bin:$PATH RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN=1.96.0. The same failure
  exists at the base commit.

• warnDeprecatedCpex runs inside outboundEntries, which buildPipelines calls on
  every config hot-reload. A laptop user who edits config.yaml again and again gets
  the Warn line again on each reload. The plan accepts this, and it matches the
  existing praxis skip Warn.

• Style nit in docs/laptop-service.md: the paragraph reads
  **Deprecated.** The laptop cpex build is deprecated. The repeated word is harmless.

• T2: the test writes five YAML files to /tmp/cortex-doc-policy-<pid>/ and never
  removes them. Each run leaves files behind. This breaks nothing.

• T2: policy_examples() stops the body at the first line that starts with a closing
  fence. A tagged example that shows a nested code block would be cut short at the
  inner fence. The page has no such block today.

Task branches that are kept

• feat/ppe-docs-1800-pP1 is the PR branch. Last commit: a1653cca6 docs: Name the gateway gaps in the CPEX migration steps. Worktree:
  /Users/haihuang/works/go/src/github.com/kagenti/kagenti-extensions/.claude/worktrees/ppe-docs-1800-pP1.
• feat/ppe-docs-1800 holds the plan commits. Last commit: 8fcc4e130 docs: Fix the praxis docs plan's API names, gate and coverage (#1800). Worktree:
  /Users/haihuang/works/go/src/github.com/kagenti/kagenti-extensions/.claude/worktrees/ppe-docs-1800.

For a human after review

These steps are outside the repository. No task does them.

1. Tell the CPEX contributor about the deprecation. It needs T1 and T3.
   • Contact Frederico Araujo (araujof). He wrote observe_codes, the principal
     token_file and synthetic egress in Breaking change: Upgrade the cpex plugin to CPEX 0.3.1 #1429.
   • Send the deprecation sentence from Global Constraints, and the link to
     docs/praxis-policy.md.
2. Send the external message only after the PR merges. It needs P1.
   • Do not announce a deprecation that the main branch does not carry yet.
3. Add the release-notes line to the release that ships this change. It needs P1.
   • Open the release record for that version.
   • Add one line under the deprecations heading. Use the deprecation sentence from
     Global Constraints, and say that Kubernetes is not affected.
4. Tick PPE 4/5: Document PPE in praxis mode and deprecate the laptop CPEX build #1800 in the Replace the Go CPEX plugin with PPE in cortex-gateway under --praxis #1785 checklist and close PPE 4/5: Document PPE in praxis mode and deprecate the laptop CPEX build #1800. It needs P1 merged.
   • Comment on Replace the Go CPEX plugin with PPE in cortex-gateway under --praxis #1785 with the PR link.
   • Close PPE 4/5: Document PPE in praxis mode and deprecate the laptop CPEX build #1800 when the release that carries the change is out, or when the
     maintainers agree the merge is enough.

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Walkthrough

The changes add a Praxis policy guide, link related documentation to it, and test that its policy examples load. They add deprecation warnings for laptop CPEX use and update related documentation. Kubernetes CPEX use is explicitly not deprecated.

Changes: Praxis policy and laptop CPEX deprecation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document and validate Praxis policy docs/praxis-policy.md, docs/README.md, docs/laptop-service.md, praxis/README.md, praxis/server/tests/doc_policy_examples.rs, .github/workflows/praxis.yaml, .github/CLAUDE.md, docs/superpowers/plans/*	Documents policy setup, gateway policy behavior, examples, responses, limitations, and CPEX migration. Links the guide from related documentation and validates five marked YAML examples with PolicyFilter::from_config. Adds the policy guide to Praxis workflow triggers and blocking conditions.
Add CPEX deprecation warnings cmd/cortex/praxis.go, cmd/cortex/praxis_test.go, scripts/install.sh, scripts/install_test.sh	Logs a deprecation warning for a local install that configures the CPEX outbound plugin. The installer warns when --cpex is selected. Tests cover the warning behavior.
Document laptop CPEX deprecation README.md, cmd/README.md, docs/cpex-plugin.md, docs/laptop-service.md	Marks laptop CPEX use as deprecated and points readers to Praxis mode and praxis.policy. Clarifies that Kubernetes use of the authbridge-cpex image is not deprecated.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: alan-cha, esnible, evaline-ju

Merge Risk: Low · up to 544da

The new policy guide tells readers to check completions in a step that runs before the completion exists. Users following it could believe an output restriction is enforced when it is not. Fix this one line before or shortly after merge; nothing else blocks the change.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "docs: Document praxis policy and deprecate the laptop cpex build" matches the main changes. The PR adds docs/praxis-policy.md, and it marks the laptop CPEX build as deprecated in the instal…
Linked Issues check		Directly linked issue #1800 is the only active target. Its coding requirements are unchanged from the previous review. Each requirement maps to changes already verified at aeb4c7b: - Requirement 1 …
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed files map to #1800 requirements or to supporting work: - Documentation: docs/praxis-policy.md, docs/README.md, docs/laptop-service.md, docs/cpex-plugin.md, README.md, `cmd/READM…
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Explanation

The title "docs: Document praxis policy and deprecate the laptop cpex build" matches the main changes. The PR adds docs/praxis-policy.md, and it marks the laptop CPEX build as deprecated in the installer, the Go startup warning, and the docs. The title names both major parts of the change. It does not mention the Rust test, the workflow change, or the Kubernetes non-deprecation, but the title does not need to cover every detail. The title uses a conventional commit prefix and fits in one sentence.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Directly linked issue #1800 is the only active target. Its coding requirements are unchanged from the previous review. Each requirement maps to changes already verified at aeb4c7b:

• Requirement 1 (docs page) [#1800]: docs/praxis-policy.md exists with setup, built and unbuilt PPE features, chain position, decision recording, five examples, deny responses, known gaps, and reload behavior. Links from docs/README.md, docs/laptop-service.md, and praxis/README.md are present.
• Requirement 2 (migration) [#1800]: the page has a migration section. It covers the CIBA store change, the 0.5 to 0.6 changes, removal of the cpex outbound entry, and a table of CPEX options with no equivalent. Commits 9465029 and a1653cc remove the CIBA config block and name the missing gateway plugins (delegator/oauth, cedar-direct).
• Requirement 3 (deprecation) [#1800]: docs/cpex-plugin.md has a banner that keeps Kubernetes unaffected. scripts/install.sh prints one deprecation line for --cpex. cmd/cortex/praxis.go adds warnDeprecatedCpex, which logs one Warn for a local install with cpex outbound and praxis disabled, and not for sidecars. TestOutboundEntries_WarnsDeprecatedCpexOnLocalInstall covers these cases. The code uses a localInstall flag, not ArchiveRunsOnLocalInstall. The issue allows this because it says 'or the check that it uses'.
• Requirement 4 (example test) [#1800]: praxis/server/tests/doc_policy_examples.rs extracts five tagged examples and loads each through PolicyFilter::from_config.

Head 544daad adds one commit after the previous review (docs: Correct what the read_only policy mode skips). Its subject indicates a Markdown change. The incremental diff could not be read because the changed blobs are missing from the checkout. The previous conclusions are therefore kept, and the content of 544daad is not independently verified. The Rust test and cargo gate were not re-run here. Their results are reported by the author, not verified.

Kubernetes, the Go plugin, and authbridge-cpex are not changed.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changed files map to #1800 requirements or to supporting work:

• Documentation: docs/praxis-policy.md, docs/README.md, docs/laptop-service.md, docs/cpex-plugin.md, README.md, cmd/README.md, praxis/README.md.
• Code and tests: cmd/cortex/praxis.go, cmd/cortex/praxis_test.go, praxis/server/tests/doc_policy_examples.rs, scripts/install.sh, scripts/install_test.sh.
• CI and agent notes: .github/workflows/praxis.yaml and .github/CLAUDE.md. These make the Rust job run and block on changes to the policy page, which the Rust test reads. This supports requirement 4.
• Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-13-ppe-praxis-docs-1800.md. It is a plan for the same PR and does not change behavior.

The issue excludes removing CPEX functionality (#1801) and building Cedar, OPA, OAuth, or CIBA into the gateway. The reviewed changes do not remove code or add a plugin build. The incremental commit 544daad could not be inspected, so its scope is taken from its subject line only.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/praxis-policy.md:
- Line 186: Update the Known gaps section to document that the gateway’s policy
filter defaults to read_only body mode because gateway.yaml does not set
body_access. State that policies can inspect request and response bodies, but
body mutations are discarded, so field mutators such as redact(...) do not
change the body sent to the origin.

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• README.md
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• cmd/cortex/praxis_test.go
• docs/README.md
• docs/cpex-plugin.md
• docs/laptop-service.md
• docs/praxis-policy.md
• docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-13-ppe-praxis-docs-1800.md
• praxis/README.md
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• scripts/install.sh
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[clawgenti]

Summary

Docs-and-deprecation PR for #1800: a new docs/praxis-policy.md with five load-tested policy examples, a Rust test that loads each tagged example through the gateway's own PolicyFilter::from_config, and a single deprecation sentence for the laptop cpex build printed by both cmd/cortex and install.sh.

Verified empirically against head aeb4c7b: the deprecation sentence in cmd/cortex/praxis.go and scripts/install.sh is byte-identical; localInstall is set in cmd/cortex/main.go:460 before the first buildPipelines call that reaches outboundEntries; cmd/cortex/gateway.go confirms the documented filter chain (ip_acl, cortex_attribution, …, load_balancer) and llm.require_model: false. Full CI is green including DCO, install.sh tests, and the new doc_policy_examples test. No must-fix findings; the rest are suggestions/nits.

Author: huang195 (MEMBER — maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Go, Rust tests, Shell (install.sh), Docs, Security
Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none
Commits: 7 commits, all signed-off: yes
CI status: passing (all checks)

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[clawgenti]

suggestion — The issue requires the Go Warn line and the installer warn line to carry "the same text", and they do today (verified byte-for-byte). But neither test pins that: this assertion matches only the prefix the laptop cpex build is deprecated, and the shell test in scripts/install_test.sh likewise matches only warning: the laptop cpex build is deprecated. A later edit to one sentence drifts silently past both tests.

Suggested fix: assert the full sentence here —

if !strings.Contains(buf.String(), deprecatedCpexWarning) {
	t.Errorf("log %q does not carry the full deprecation sentence", buf.String())
}

That single change makes the Go test the guard for both copies (the installer sentence can still drift from the Go const, but at least one test pins the canonical text).

Why now: this PR is the one that establishes the sentence; the guard is one line while the context is fresh.

[clawgenti]

suggestion — The test writes five YAML files to /tmp/cortex-doc-policy-<pid>/ and never removes them, so each run leaves files behind. Harmless, but it accumulates across CI and developer runs.

Suggested fix: clean up at the end of the test —

std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();

after the loop (or use the tempfile crate, though that adds a dev-dependency and the plan's constraint says add no dependency — the one-liner is enough).

[clawgenti]

nit — policy_examples() stops each block at the first line starting with \n```` — a future example that shows a nested code fence inside a yaml policy` block would be silently truncated at the inner fence. The page has no such block today and a truncated load would most likely fail loud rather than pass, so no change is needed now — just something to keep in mind if an example ever needs an embedded fence.

[clawgenti]

nit — The paragraph opens **Deprecated.** The laptop cpex build is deprecated. — the repetition is harmless and the paragraph does everything the plan asks (deprecation, link, section stays for existing installs, Kubernetes not affected), but **Deprecated.** Use praxis mode with … would read a touch cleaner. Purely cosmetic.

[clawgenti]

Reviewed the full diff: the new policy page and its five load-tested examples, the Rust test, the Go deprecation warning and its test, the installer line and its test, the workflow path additions, and all linked docs.

No must-fix issues found. The deprecation sentence is byte-identical between cmd/cortex/praxis.go and scripts/install.sh, the workflow's blocking pattern covers docs/praxis-policy.md in both paths: lists and the grep, and the Rust test pins the example count at exactly five. CI is fully green and the load-test, Go test and installer test all pass on head. The two inline comments echo the most useful of the author's own deferred items so they are anchored to the files they belong to.

Author: huang195 (MEMBER — maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Docs, Go, Rust tests, Shell, CI (GitHub Actions), installer
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[clawgenti]

suggestion Both this test and scripts/install_test.sh match the deprecation sentence only by prefix (the laptop cpex build is deprecated), so a later edit to either the Go const or the installer string can drift silently while both tests stay green. As the PR body notes, the cheap guard is to assert the full sentence in both tests — worth a small follow-up before #1801's removal work makes the string load-bearing.

[clawgenti]

suggestion The test writes five YAML files to /tmp/cortex-doc-policy-<pid>/ and never removes them (also noted in the PR body). A std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir) at the end keeps repeated CI and local runs from leaving debris. Also worth remembering: policy_examples() stops at the first \n``` , so a future example showing a nested code block would be truncated — fine today, but a one-line comment on FENCE would warn the next editor.

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Summary

The delta since aeb4c7b (CPEX migration steps, the body_access gap, the praxis workflow gating, .github/CLAUDE.md/praxis/README.md) is correct as far as I checked it: the workflow paths: and blocking pattern now name docs/praxis-policy.md; validatePraxisPolicy really is skipped while praxis.enabled is false; hr-cpex really declares delegator/oauth, elicitation/ciba and cedar-direct; and cortex-gateway is built with only policy-jwt + policy-cel, so the migration step's delete list is right. CI is green, including Rust (praxis).

One must-fix. The body_access fix in this round says only half of what read_only does. In praxis-proxy-filter 0.8.0, read_only does more than drop field rewrites. It skips the whole response phase, so every post_invocation rule is skipped for every response, streamed or not. The page tells readers the opposite in two places: it calls SSE the case that skips response-phase policy. Details inline. I have not repeated the earlier review's comments (the test's prefix match, temp-dir cleanup, fence parsing); they still apply as suggestions.

Author: huang195 (MEMBER — maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Docs (checked against praxis-proxy-filter 0.8.0 / praxis-policy 0.6.0 source as locked in praxis/Cargo.lock), CI/GitHub Actions, Go, Rust test, Shell
Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none
Commits: 9 commits, all signed-off: yes
CI status: passing

[clawgenti]

must-fix: read_only skips the whole response phase. It does more than turn field rewrites into no-ops.

In praxis-proxy-filter 0.8.0 (src/builtins/http/security/policy/filter.rs, on_response_body), the early return comes before any response dispatch:

// Response hooks require the buffering enabled by `read_write`.
if !matches!(self.cfg.body_access, BodyAccessMode::ReadWrite) {
    return Ok(FilterAction::Continue);
}

That return comes before dispatch_llm_response and before the MCP post hooks. The crate's own docs say: "read_only skips all MCP entity response rules, including attribute-only post_invocation rules". It also says cmf.llm_output runs only "With body_access: read_write". At load the filter logs "... body_access is read_only, which does not buffer the response: those rules will never run" for llm:, tool: and prompt:/resource: post rules (warn_on_inference_response_gaps / warn_on_entity_response_gaps).

In the generated gateway.yaml (cmd/cortex/gateway.go), then, any post_invocation rule on an llm:, tool:, prompt: or resource: route loads and never runs. That includes a response-side deny, and not only a redact(...). The SSE case is not special. This round set out to document the read_only consequence, so the fix is incomplete as it stands. A CPEX user who migrates a response-side deny gets fail-open behaviour and no doc warning. They also get no error, only a Warn line in the gateway log.

Suggested wording for this bullet:

The gateway sets no body_access, so the policy runs in the filter's default read_only mode. That mode does not buffer the response, so no response-phase rule runs: every post_invocation step and every result.<field> rule on an llm:, tool:, prompt: or resource: route loads and has no effect, streamed or not. A request-side rewrite such as args.ssn: redact(...) also has no effect. Write every check as a pre_invocation step.

The same text is in the plan (docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-13-ppe-praxis-docs-1800.md, the copied Known gaps block), which needs the same edit.

[clawgenti]

must-fix (same root cause as the body_access comment): this sentence and the Known-gaps bullet at line 191 present SSE as the case where response-phase policy is skipped, which implies a non-streamed response is checked. Under the gateway's read_only mode, no response is checked: on_response_body returns before the SSE check matters (the SSE release at the top of on_response_body is itself gated on read_write).

The example itself is still useful. It is a request-phase deny, and that is the only phase that runs. Suggested framing:

The gateway runs no response-phase policy (see Known gaps), so a check on what the model returns cannot be enforced. To refuse streamed responses outright, deny the stream in the request phase:

Line 191 can then go, or fold into the body_access bullet.

[clawgenti]

suggestion: "The step needs a resolved subject and an X-Session-Id header" is stricter than PPE 0.6.0, and the taint also has no reader anywhere on this page.

• praxis-policy-apl-runtime session_resolver::resolve_session tries X-Session-Id (bound to the subject), then a JWT session_id claim, then an identity-derived id (sha256(sub:caller:this)). So a resolved subject is the real requirement, and the header is optional. Without an identity/jwt plugin on the route, no session resolves and taint(...) records nothing. That is the important part for a laptop user copying this example on its own: it has no authentication:, so as written it never taints anything.
• A taint that nothing reads does nothing. One line pointing at the reader would help, e.g. a later llm:/tool: step that uses security.labels contains "oversized" (the predicate form the crate docs use) in a deny(...).

Suggested: "The step records the label only when the request has a resolved subject (add an identity/jwt plugin under authentication:). X-Session-Id, when present, scopes the label to that session for the subject. A later step reads it with security.labels contains "oversized"."

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Remove the instruction to inspect a completion in pre_invocation.

pre_invocation runs before the completion exists. Moving a completion check there cannot enforce an output restriction. This instruction also contradicts Lines 155–156. State that completion checks are unavailable in this gateway configuration. Remove the same instruction from the plan at Line 305.

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Update the completion-check guidance in the pre_invocation section and the corresponding plan entry: state that completion checks are unavailable in this gateway configuration, and remove any instruction to inspect a completion during pre_invocation.

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[clawgenti]

Summary

This round fixes most of what was asked. The read_only bullet now says the whole response phase is skipped for llm:, tool:, prompt: and resource: routes, streamed or not. It keeps the load-time failure for prompt/resource result: rules apart from the tool case, which loads and does nothing. It also says that http:/global: post_invocation runs at the response header phase. The stream example no longer suggests that a non-streamed response is checked. I checked each of these claims against the praxis-proxy-filter 0.8.0 and praxis-policy-* 0.6.0 sources locked in praxis/Cargo.lock, and they hold. CI is green on 544daad2f, and that includes Rust (praxis), which runs doc_policy_examples.

One must-fix is left, and this round added it. The new bullet ends with "Put a check on a completion in a pre_invocation step." That cannot work. The completion facts are filled only in the cmf.llm_output dispatch, and that dispatch never runs under read_only. A pre_invocation rule on llm.output.* therefore reads an absent attribute. It never fires and fails open, or with != it denies every request. The policy loads either way, with no warning. The sentence is in the page and in the plan. Details inline.

I have not repeated the open suggestions from the earlier reviews: the deprecation sentence matched by prefix, the temp-dir cleanup, the fence parsing, and the taint wording. They still apply, and the PR body defers them.

Author: huang195 (MEMBER — maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Docs (delta a1653cca6..544daad2f, checked against the locked crate sources), plus a re-check of the Go, Rust test, shell and workflow parts of the full diff
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[clawgenti]

must-fix: the last sentence, "Put a check on a completion in a pre_invocation step", tells the reader to do something that cannot work. Followed as written, it gives a policy that fails open or denies everything.

The rest of the bullet now matches praxis-proxy-filter 0.8.0. I checked each claim: the read_only early return in on_response_body comes before dispatch_llm_response and the MCP post hooks. warn_on_inference_response_gaps and warn_on_entity_response_gaps only log. prompt_and_resource_result_rules_fail_filter_construction refuses prompt/resource result: rules. The args.* re-serialize is gated on ReadWrite. on_response runs the HTTP response hook whatever body_access is.

The last sentence is wrong, though:

• pre_invocation runs on the request, before the upstream has answered. There is no completion yet.
• The completion facts (llm.output.* / completion.*, from praxis-policy-apl-cmf completion.rs) are filled only from extensions.completion. The filter sets that in one place, filter.rs:1668, inside the cmf.llm_output dispatch. That dispatch never runs under read_only.
• So a pre_invocation rule on llm.output.* reads an absent attribute. By the evaluator's rules (praxis-policy-apl-core evaluator.rs header), an absent key is false for ==, membership and order, so llm.output.tokens.output > 4000: deny(...) never fires. The policy loads, the gateway logs no warning, and the check fails open. != is the reverse case: an absent key is not equal to a value, so llm.output.model != 'x': deny(...) denies every request.

This is the same fail-open trap the round set out to document, now coming from the page's own advice. It also contradicts lines 155-156 ("a check on the completion cannot be enforced"). @coderabbitai flagged the same sentence.

Suggested replacement for the last sentence:

No rule in this gateway can check a completion. A pre_invocation step sees only the request: write limits on what the request asks for, such as llm.input.max_tokens, there.

The plan carries the same sentence (docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-13-ppe-praxis-docs-1800.md line 305). It needs the same edit.

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[coderabbitai]

✅ Fixed in #1866.

[clawgenti]

must-fix (same as the comment on docs/praxis-policy.md line 190): this copy of the Known gaps bullet ends with the same "Put a check on a completion in a pre_invocation step". A pre_invocation rule cannot read a completion, so the check never fires, or with != it denies every request. Keep this copy in step with the page.

[clawgenti]

Summary

The 3f9743d round fixes the must-fix from the review of 544daad. The "Known gaps" bullet no longer says to put a completion check in a pre_invocation step, and the plan copy matches it. I checked the new wording against the crates locked in praxis/Cargo.lock. llm.input.max_tokens is written only when the request carries a cap (praxis-policy-apl-cmf 0.6.0, llm.rs: if let Some(v) = req.max_tokens), so the "no cap" caveat is right. A pre_invocation deny on that fact is the only form that runs under read_only. I found no must-fix issues in the whole PR at this head.

I also checked the rest of the page against the code: the filter chain and llm.require_model: false (cmd/cortex/gateway.go), the deny-response table (praxis-proxy-filter 0.8.0 policy/mod.rs, error.rs), the hot reload of the policy file (referenced_files plus the config-reload feature in praxis/server/Cargo.toml), the default promote_params that gives the stream example custom.llm.stream, the installer's has no cortex-gateway build message, and the agentop setup --praxis fix text. All of it holds. The relative links and the #the-cpex-build anchor resolve.

One suggestion, inline: a few laptop-cpex entry points still read as supported. I did not repeat the open suggestions from earlier reviews, which the PR body defers.

Author: huang195 (MEMBER — maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Docs (checked against praxis-proxy-filter/praxis-proxy 0.8.0 and praxis-policy-* 0.6.0 sources), Go, Rust test, Shell, CI/GitHub Actions
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Commits: 11 commits, all signed-off: yes
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[clawgenti]

suggestion: The warning is right. A few other laptop-cpex entry points still present the build as supported, with no deprecation note:

• scripts/install.sh:181, the --help text: --cpex install cortex built with the cpex policy plugin (macOS arm64, Linux amd64/arm64). A user who reads --help before running sees no deprecation.
• Makefile:98, the make help line for cortex-cpex: Build cortex with the cpex plugin (cgo) .... cmd/README.md now calls make cortex-cpex deprecated on a laptop.
• docs/proxy-contract.md:208, the --cpex row of the installer flags table.

The issue does not list these, so they need not block. Adding (deprecated; see --praxis) to the help line and the Makefile comment, and a short note in the contract row, would make every entry point say the same thing.