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fix(ladder): plan with a capability that can never buy - #1871

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Summary

  • The ladder planner now builds its capability through planningCapability, which takes no flag and always wires the disabled write side, so planning can never hold real purchase or exchange clients even with both ladder switches on.
  • The real-client branch of wireLadderWriteSide and the exchange adapter stay for the sweep that reshapes.

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  • New test builds the planning capability from the real AWS ladder and checks PurchaseLayer returns ErrLadderExecutionDisabled; it blanks every AWS credential source first, so a regression fails on credentials instead of buying from a developer machine.
  • Unit tests for internal/server and internal/config pass locally on macOS; CI covers Linux and the integration suites.

Part of #70

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Ladder planning no longer performs purchases or reshapes; attempts to write through the planning flow are rejected.
    • Ladder purchase and reshape execution remains gated by the required ladder switches.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified how the execution setting affects ladder actions and that planning does not use that setting.

ladder_run wired the ladder capability's write side from the global
ladder_execution_enabled flag, so with both ladder switches on the
planner held a capability with real purchase and exchange clients, even
though planning only reads. The planner now builds its capability
through planningCapability, which takes no flag and always wires the
disabled write side; the flag no longer flows into the planning path.
The real-client branch of wireLadderWriteSide and the exchange adapter
stay for the sweep that reshapes.

A test builds the planning capability from the real AWS ladder and
checks that PurchaseLayer returns ErrLadderExecutionDisabled. It blanks
every AWS credential source first, so a regression that wired real
clients fails on credentials instead of buying from a developer machine.

Part of #70

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@cristim cristim added severity/medium Moderate harm triaged Item has been triaged priority/p1 Next up; this sprint urgency/this-quarter Within the quarter impact/many Affects most users effort/xl Multi-week / refactor type/feat New capability labels Nov 9, 2026
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Ladder planning now builds a capability with its write side disabled. The run functions no longer pass an execution flag. The configuration comment documents the flag’s relationship to ladder purchases, reshapes, and planning.

Changes: Ladder planning

Layer / File(s) Summary
Planning capability and disabled write side
internal/config/types.go, internal/server/ladder_write.go, internal/server/ladder_write_test.go
The planning capability always wires the write side as disabled. The new test checks that a real AWS ladder returns ErrLadderExecutionDisabled for a valid purchase. The configuration comment describes the flag and planning behavior.
Ladder run wiring
internal/server/handler_ladder.go, internal/server/handler_ladder_inflight_test.go, internal/server/handler_ladder_test.go, internal/server/ladder_compute_cap_test.go
The run functions no longer accept or forward the execution flag. The handler uses the planning capability, and tests call the updated function signature.

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Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

  • Issue 70 covers the ladder pipeline and its plan-only scheduled task. This change updates the ladder planning path and its write-side gating.

Possibly related PRs

Suggested reviewers: iamjsd

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to df6dc

The planning path no longer selects purchase or exchange clients based on the execution flag. No merge-blocking defect remains; handler-level regression coverage is a recommended follow-up.

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Nitpick comments: 1

internal/server/ladder_write_test.go: 1

118-119: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift

Test the capability selected by the handler.

The real-AWS test calls planningCapability directly, so it would not catch the handler selecting execution-enabled write wiring again. Add a handler-level test with both switches enabled that checks the capability passed to planning refuses purchases.

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Review comment at @internal/server/ladder_write_test.go around lines 118 - 119:
Add a handler-level test in place of relying only on the direct
planningCapability check, with both switches enabled. Exercise the handler and
verify that the capability it passes to planning refuses purchases; retain the
real-AWS test’s existing coverage.

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Review comments at @internal/server/ladder_write_test.go:
- Around line 118-119: Add a handler-level test in place of relying only on the
direct planningCapability check, with both switches enabled. Exercise the
handler and verify that the capability it passes to planning refuses purchases;
retain the real-AWS test’s existing coverage.

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  • internal/config/types.go
  • internal/server/handler_ladder.go
  • internal/server/handler_ladder_inflight_test.go
  • internal/server/handler_ladder_test.go
  • internal/server/ladder_compute_cap_test.go
  • internal/server/ladder_write.go
  • internal/server/ladder_write_test.go

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APPROVED df6dc5c by claude-darling

Cold review; I did not write this change. The PR body is a claim, so I checked the code. The change only removes capability and I found no path that now buys, runs or skips wrongly. One test gap is worth a follow-up (finding 1, non-blocking).

What the slice does: planningCapability (ladder_write.go:98-112) always wires the disabled write side, and runLadderConfigs / processOneLadderConfig lose the executionEnabled argument. #70's design for ladder_run is plan-only (handler_ladder.go:83), and executeLadderRun calls only read-side methods (GetUsageBaseline, layer states, rates). PurchaseLayer and ReshapeBuffer have no production caller in internal/server at this head.

Callers

  • runLadderConfigs: one production caller, handleLadderRun (handler_ladder.go:133), which used to pass globalCfg.LadderExecutionEnabled. The flag only picked how the write side was wired, so dropping it changes nothing the planner reads. Four test files call it; all passed false before, so their behavior is identical.
  • wireLadderWriteSide: its only production caller is now planningCapability, with false.
  • The flag still gates the real thing where it matters, in internal/purchase/ladder_execution_recheck.go:57, which this diff does not touch. So the ladder cannot trigger a purchase it could not before.

Read side unaffected (checked in the pinned go provider, providers/aws/ladder): AWSLadder keeps ris/sps/riCoverage/onDemand/utilization separate from riPurchase/spPurchase/exchange; WireWriteSideDisabled replaces only the last three. Planning reads do not go through the purchasers, so a deployment with ladder_execution_enabled=true plans exactly as before (and no longer loads AWS credentials just to build clients it never uses).

Disabled or mid-edit configs: the !dbCfg.Enabled early return and the cadence/multi-account gates come before the capability build and are unchanged.

Probes (scoped to ladder tests in internal/server, scratch copy, each reverted; green at this head)

  • Killed: planningCapability passing true fails TestPlanningCapability_RealAWSLadder_RefusesPurchases.
  • Survived (finding 1): processOneLadderConfig calling the factory and wireLadderWriteSide(ctx, true, ...) directly, bypassing planningCapability, passes every test. The handler tests use fake capabilities, and wireLadderWriteSide returns a non-*AWSLadder unchanged, so no existing test observes how the handler builds its capability. The safety property is pinned at planningCapability only, not at its call site. Suggested follow-up: a handler-level test with a real *AWSLadder factory (blank credentials, like the new test) asserting the capability executeLadderRun receives refuses PurchaseLayer, or a test that processOneLadderConfig is the only user of planningCapability.

Notes (non-blocking)
2. The PR body says the real-client branch of wireLadderWriteSide and exchangeRunnerAdapter "stay for the sweep that reshapes". No such sweep exists in the repo today, so that branch is production-dead (the adapter is used only by tests). Fine as a staged slice, but it is untested dead code until the reshape slice lands.
3. Full suites: CI on this head (38 checks SUCCESS, 2 still running when I looked, none failing).

No blocking findings.

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APPROVE @ df6dc5c by claude-nibblets

Cold review of #1871 (part of #70, +63/-25), a money-path guard. I read every production change and every remaining caller of the wiring.

  • planningCapability (internal/server/ladder_write.go) takes no flag and always calls wireLadderWriteSide(ctx, false, ...), so ladder_run can no longer ask for real purchase or exchange clients, whatever ladder_execution_enabled says; the flag is dropped from handleLadderRun, runLadderConfigs and processOneLadderConfig (internal/server/handler_ladder.go:133, :201, :220, :258).
  • It is the only caller of wireLadderWriteSide (searched internal/), so the real-client branch is now unreachable in production. The PR says it stays for the reshape sweep; fine, but until that sweep exists it is dead code (non-blocking).
  • Planning only uses read methods of the capability (SupportedLayers, GetUsageBaseline, GetLayerStates, the commitment-rate capabilities; handler_ladder.go:320-341), so nothing the planner does changes. With both switches on it used to load the default AWS config and wire real clients it never called; it no longer does.
  • A non-AWS capability (test fake) is returned unwired, as before. The LadderExecutionEnabled field and its arming grant (internal/api/ladder_arming_grant.go) and the purchase-side recheck (internal/purchase/ladder_execution_recheck.go:57) are untouched, and the doc comment on the field now says what it gates.

Scoped probes (go test -run Ladder|PlanningCapability|WireLadder, scratch worktree at this head, baseline ok), each killed: planning wires real clients (TestPlanningCapability_RealAWSLadder_RefusesPurchases; the test blanks every AWS credential source first, so a regression fails on credentials, not on a real purchase); planning skips the disabled wiring (same test); disabled branch unreachable (that test and TestWireLadderWriteSide_ExecutionDisabled_RealAWSLadder_RefusesWithoutAWSCall).

Non-blocking: the new test pins PurchaseLayer only; ReshapeBuffer comes from the same disabled wiring but has no assertion on the planning capability.

CI at this head: 38 pass, 2 pending when I looked; mergeStateStatus BLOCKED on those.

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