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Ota `v1.6.28` : Secret Requirements and Linked Worktrees
Ota `v1.6.28` adds provider-neutral secret-delivery declarations with fail-closed admission, linked-worktree container support, typed Yarn Classic hydration, and safer generated agent guidance.
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Pressure-testing Ota on PythiaLabs:
An eleven-lane PythiaLabs exercise exposed a real formatting failure and Ota discovery defects, without confusing decision evidence, smoke tests, or CI results with execution authority.
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Ota on Eris:
A bounded Eris verification slice passed on native and container lanes. The maintainer declined adoption. Both outcomes matter: execution evidence must stay scoped, and another tool must earn its upkeep.
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Ota on dbmask: Proving a Synthetic PostgreSQL Masking Lane
A merged dbmask integration shows how a declared Ota task, direct database assertions, and a negative control can make one PostgreSQL result reviewable.
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🧭 Better discovery + readiness
`ota tasks --use` now shows task notes, including proof limits.
`ota detect` skips private Taskfile helpers and unresolved GitHub Actions expressions, while rich output adds a compact Ota Readiness summary.
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🔎 The theme of 1.6.28
Make more execution assumptions explicit before anything runs.
Secrets, worktrees, package managers, agent guidance, and readiness follow the same rule:
declare it, verify it, or refuse it.
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V12: Effect-Bound Refusal Assurance Starts Before Execution
V12 gives Ota a bounded, typed path from a declared database change to a verified refusal before the selected execution closure starts.
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Pressure-testing Ota candidates on GitButler: exact source spelling is evidence
GitButler exposed a cross-platform source-identity mismatch and proved that candidate evidence must respect exact repository path spelling.
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Output Parity Is Not Input Parity: What Execution Evidence Must Bind
Two tools can produce plausible outputs while receiving materially different inputs.
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Pressure-testing Ota on Dagger:
A focused Dagger pressure slice models generated TypeScript SDK lineage and replay authority, verifies release-asset fulfillment and admission, and records where execution stops
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A Protected Runner Is Not an Approval System
Four VPS runs show Ota binding exact-scope authority to one governed repository action while expired, revoked, and out-of-scope grants refuse before work.
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Ota `v1.6.27` Now Available: Effect-Bound Refusal Assurance
Ota `v1.6.27` closes `V12` Road map with typed effect declarations, pre-execution refusal, private evidence reconciliation, and bounded Linux/macOS pressure.
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🧩 Refusal evidence can inform the contract
`ota contract effect-refusal-candidate` turns a verified refusal archive into a review-only canary proposal.
It cannot auto-apply the change. Evidence can inform authoring without silently rewriting authority
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🧭 V12 closes with bounded evidence
Ota `1.6.27` was pressure-tested on selected Plausible and Outline paths across Linux and macOS.
The release records what was refused, what was observed, and what remains `not_proved`.
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