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docs(stack-encrypt): amend ADR-0007 so the derive emits the combinators - #1584
Stack Encrypt has two ways to say how a struct is encrypted: a Rust derive on the struct, and a plan sent as data by another language (today, Go). ADR-0007 said the derive should build a plan and run it, so both ways would share one code path. This PR amends that decision: the derive generates calls to the engine's combinators directly, and a data plan is lowered to the same combinators by a Planned value. The plan builder that sat between them is removed.
The reason is the owned form of the derive, which encrypts a struct by value and wipes each field it seals. That code is generated from the struct's shape, and a plan, being data, cannot know the shape. A spike confirmed that Planned can compose the combinators from a parsed data plan in about 260 lines, writes the same bytes as today's builder path, and opens the records the builder path wrote.
Changes
ADR-0007: a dated amendment. Two bullets of the decision change; the rest stands. It states the cost plainly: the composition now exists twice (derive at compile time, Planned at run time) and is held together by a byte-level equivalence suite rather than by construction.
No code changes. The three-layer crate split discussed alongside this is deliberately left out.
Verification
The spike is pushed: branch spike/planned-combinators, commit a4da7e931, one commit on next, file packages/stack-encrypt/src/dynamic/planned.rs. Three tests pass: the same four-field data plan through today's lowering and through Planned gives the same record shape and byte-equal eq, ore and match terms, and each side decrypts the other's record; a context-field plan agrees on both paths; a Vec<Planned<..>> is a collection target with no new code. The term test fails when the field label is deliberately broken. The whole stack-encrypt suite passes with the spike applied (1,139 tests), and clippy is clean.
The plain-language checker reports no must-fix findings in the new ADR section or the edited plan text.
Start with the new section at the end of ADR-0007, then the plan's "Record derives" and "Remove the structural API" items. The spike is on spike/planned-combinators for inspection. bf382158b addresses the first review round: the trait impls sit on the destination type, the example uses the dynamic value types, the last builder references are gone, and the amendment names the duplicate-index check the builder's removal must carry over.
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Documentation
Updated the API plan and architecture decision record to clarify how derives, typed queries, and dynamic plans use encryption and decryption combinators.
Documented the removal of the hand-built plan builder and structural API, along with the equivalence tests used to verify derived and dynamic plans.
Two bullets of the decision change. The record derives emit the
combinators, not the plan builder, because the owned form is driven by
the struct's shape and a plan is data. A data plan is lowered to the
combinators by Planned, which is a target, and the builder is removed.
The derive emits no plan. The cost is stated: the composition exists
twice and is held together by a byte-level equivalence suite, not by
construction. Decided after the spike on spike/planned-combinators.
The derive emits the combinators, not the plan builder, and Planned is
a target that lowers a data plan to them. So the plan no longer has the
derive emit encryption_plan(), no longer gives a hand-built plan the
query markers, and lowers a typed query from its marker to the term
combinator rather than through a plan. The structural API's removal
grows to take the builder with it, and must keep an entry point for a
standalone borrowed value. Also corrects three lines that still said
#1504 lands context = and ContextExtension.
Merging this PR will not cause a version bump for any packages. If these changes should not result in a new version, you're good to go. If these changes should result in a version bump, you need to add a changeset.
The API plan and ADR now describe record derives emitting combinators, Planned lowering parsed data plans to those combinators, and removal of the hand-built plan builder and related structural APIs.
Changes: API design and plan composition
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Summary
Derive and dynamic-plan composition docs/plans/2026-10-24-stack-encrypt-api-plan.md, packages/stack-encrypt/docs/adr/0007-bindings-enter-through-a-plan-never-a-second-executor.md
The plan and ADR describe derives emitting combinators directly and Planned composing them from parsed data plans. The ADR records that the two composers are separate and describes the equivalence checks for descriptors, term bytes, and cross-opening records.
Queries and Planned entry points docs/plans/2026-10-24-stack-encrypt-api-plan.md
The plan describes typed queries starting from field markers and dynamic queries lowering through Planned to the same term combinator. It specifies Planned as an EncryptTarget and DecryptSource used with owned entry points, and updates the examples to those entry points.
Structural API removal and naming docs/plans/2026-10-24-stack-encrypt-api-plan.md, packages/stack-encrypt/docs/adr/0007-bindings-enter-through-a-plan-never-a-second-executor.md
The plan lists removal of the plan builder and related structural APIs, and updates the scope and declared-scope names. The ADR revises how its earlier decisions apply after these changes.
cipherstash/stack#1404: The API plan documents Planned using the EncryptTarget and DecryptSource owned-entry-point contract introduced in this PR.
cipherstash/stack#1504: Both PRs describe the record derive output contract and how plans compose through the same engine.
Suggested reviewers:auxesis
Merge Risk: Low · up to d212d
This documentation-only change is mergeable with bounded follow-up, but the Planned examples, obsolete builder requirements, and duplicate-index validation guidance should be aligned before implementation relies on them.
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The title names the primary change: amending ADR-0007 so the derive emits the combinators. The raw summary and objectives confirm that the ADR amendment and the matching API plan update both change the derive to emit combinator calls directly, with Planned lowering data plans to the same combinators. The title is specific and short, and it matches the changeset's main point. The package scope in parentheses and the docs prefix are accurate, since the PR changes documentation only.
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Reviewed d212d9e · posted from Claude Code · claude-sonnet-5-5 · effort medium
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Findings (4): 4 minor — 1 inline, 3 below. Docs-only diff; findings were checked against the full plan file at head, and no existing review feedback overlapped them.
docs/plans/2026-10-24-stack-encrypt-api-plan.md:1036 (outside diff) minor The "Show the context" example still calls EncryptedUser::encryption_plan().contexts(), but this PR says the derive emits no encryption_plan() and emits contexts() on the record directly. Change it to EncryptedUser::contexts().
docs/plans/2026-10-24-stack-encrypt-api-plan.md:70 (outside diff) minor The glossary entry FieldRef still defines it as the builder's reference, and says a field marker is a FieldRef with indexes added. The same PR removes FieldRef and plan/field_ref.rs. Drop the entry or redefine the marker without it.
docs/plans/2026-10-24-stack-encrypt-api-plan.md:1599 (outside diff) minor "Issue #1307 is open for a public plan builder" contradicts the amendment, which removes the builder. State that #1307 is superseded or needs re-scoping.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/plans/2026-10-24-stack-encrypt-api-plan.md:
- Around line 693-694: Update the round-trip example using Planned::new to pass
the supported FieldValues and StackCipherText types instead of Member and Row,
or explicitly specify the conversions and required trait implementations for
those application structs.
- Around line 684-686: Update the description and work item for `Planned` to
place the `EncryptTarget` implementation on the destination row type, satisfying
`encrypt_into`’s required bound; do not describe `Planned` itself as the type
implementing `EncryptTarget`. Keep the existing `DecryptSource` and combinator
descriptions unchanged.
- Around line 1606-1607: Update the context completion criterion to run its
eight scenarios through the retained paths rather than the removed builder, and
remove obsolete builder API naming references such as Plan::scope(..). Keep the
criterion aligned with the plan’s builder removal.
- Around line 696-697: Update the record-call flow around Planned::new and
contexts() to show how callers provide the tenant scope and row binding before
inspecting contexts. Ensure inspection uses the exact context that
encrypt_into_with_context will use.
Review comments at
@packages/stack-encrypt/docs/adr/0007-bindings-enter-through-a-plan-never-a-second-executor.md:
- Around line 326-331: Update the remaining builder requirements in the ADR to
match the amendment: remove claims that the builder lowers calls or receives new
capabilities, and specify that new capabilities belong in the plan and are
lowered by Planned into the combinators. Preserve the retained decision that
bindings enter through a plan and the combinators remain the sole executor.
- Around line 407-412: Preserve duplicate-index validation in the direct derive
before removing the plan builder: ensure its generated path rejects multiple
equality terms targeting the same field, including `Encrypted<(EqualityTerm,
EqualityTerm)>`. Do not rely on the current tuple bounds or type system to
prevent duplicates.
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Record the spike commit. Say where the trait impls sit: the stored row
type implements EncryptTarget<Planned<..>>, and Planned<StackCipherText>
implements DecryptSource, so the example uses the dynamic value types.
State that the three combinator additions stay and that a capability a
plan cannot express is added to the grammar and to Planned's lowering.
Name the one check the builder's removal must carry over: a typed index
set that repeats an index. In the plan, drop the FieldRef glossary row,
the encryption_plan() call in the contexts() example, and the remaining
builder references; run the eight context scenarios on both retained
paths; and say what issue 1307 is.
Addressed the three findings from the Claude review that had no inline anchor, in bf38215:
EncryptedUser::encryption_plan().contexts() in the "Show the context" example is now EncryptedUser::contexts().
The FieldRef glossary row is removed. The glossary already had a "Field marker" row that defines the marker without it.
The #1307 line now says what the issue is: a Go plan-building API for types stashgen cannot tag. It builds a data plan, so the Rust builder's removal does not affect it.
The spike branch is pushed (spike/planned-combinators, a4da7e931) and the amendment records the commit.
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Summary
Stack Encrypt has two ways to say how a struct is encrypted: a Rust derive on the struct, and a plan sent as data by another language (today, Go). ADR-0007 said the derive should build a plan and run it, so both ways would share one code path. This PR amends that decision: the derive generates calls to the engine's combinators directly, and a data plan is lowered to the same combinators by a
Plannedvalue. The plan builder that sat between them is removed.The reason is the owned form of the derive, which encrypts a struct by value and wipes each field it seals. That code is generated from the struct's shape, and a plan, being data, cannot know the shape. A spike confirmed that
Plannedcan compose the combinators from a parsed data plan in about 260 lines, writes the same bytes as today's builder path, and opens the records the builder path wrote.Changes
Plannedat run time) and is held together by a byte-level equivalence suite rather than by construction.docs/plans/2026-10-24-stack-encrypt-api-plan.md): the derive emits noencryption_plan(); a hand-built plan no longer gets query markers; a typed query lowers from its marker to the term combinator;Plannedis a target run by the owned entry points; the structural API's removal (stack-encrypt refactor: remove transitional traits and redundant execution APIs #1488) also removes the builder and must keep an entry point for a borrowed standalone value. The glossary and naming table follow. Three lines that still said feat(stack-encrypt)!: derive owned record declarations with EncryptTarget and DecryptSource #1504 landscontext =andContextExtensionnow sayscope = ".."andDeclaredScopes.No code changes. The three-layer crate split discussed alongside this is deliberately left out.
Verification
spike/planned-combinators, commita4da7e931, one commit onnext, filepackages/stack-encrypt/src/dynamic/planned.rs. Three tests pass: the same four-field data plan through today's lowering and throughPlannedgives the same record shape and byte-equaleq,oreandmatchterms, and each side decrypts the other's record; a context-field plan agrees on both paths; aVec<Planned<..>>is a collection target with no new code. The term test fails when the field label is deliberately broken. The wholestack-encryptsuite passes with the spike applied (1,139 tests), and clippy is clean.Related
Planned, field markers)Scope/Bindparts)Review notes
Start with the new section at the end of ADR-0007, then the plan's "Record derives" and "Remove the structural API" items. The spike is on
spike/planned-combinatorsfor inspection.bf382158baddresses the first review round: the trait impls sit on the destination type, the example uses the dynamic value types, the last builder references are gone, and the amendment names the duplicate-index check the builder's removal must carry over.Summary by CodeRabbit