[yujiyokoo]

Summary

This pull request brings the Python SDK, stackencrypt, into next. It is a pyo3 extension over the stack-encrypt engine. It declares encrypted models with one class decorator, encrypts and decrypts them as EQL v4 (Encrypt Query Language) rows, builds query terms, and has a SQLAlchemy layer. Nothing is published.

The diff is large because 18 pull requests were reviewed and merged into this branch as one stack. Review those pull requests, not the full diff here. This pull request adds only the ADR (architecture decision record) it started with, and the commits that fit the stack onto the current next.

Changes

Review each part in its own pull request, in this order:

PR	What it adds
#1405	Walking skeleton: the workspace, the two crates, and a first round trip
#1406	tests-python.yml CI workflow
#1414	Tests of the two engine facts the spec depends on
#1415	EQL type markers, generated from the catalog
#1433	Declaration reader and rule A
#1437	What a declaration means
#1453	Cipher
#1499	Encrypt models into EQL v4 rows
#1509	Decrypt rows back into models
#1510	Equality query terms
#1511	Value rules for every producible type
#1513	Parity with the Go SDK's stored rows, and wiping of plaintext copies
#1516	The shared client used from several threads
#1517	README (tested in CI) and the design-principles scorecard
#1582	uv.lock for the test dependencies
#1621	Customer directory example (FastAPI)
#1622	SQLAlchemy layer, order and match queries, row-level encrypt and decrypt
#1635	Fixes for the review findings across the stack

Added here, after the stack merged:

• The ADR this pull request started with: languages/python/docs/adr/0001-…, the declaration is checked when the class is defined.
• A rebase onto next. The tree changed to match vitaminc 0.9 (the Buffer and AsProtectedRef types), the OpSpec to Op rename, and the catalog's Json, which the engine now produces. The Python declaration still refuses the json kind.
• Both Python Cargo.lock files are re-seeded, so they resolve vitaminc 0.9 like the root lock.

Verification

CI passed on the last commit.

Run locally on macOS before the push:

• Offline pytest: 594 passed on Python 3.14. On 3.9, all pass except one smoke test that needs installed package metadata.
• mise run test:live against ZeroKMS and PostgreSQL 17: 102 passed.
• mise run test:deterministic: 25 passed.
• Cargo tests, clippy with and without features, and cargo fmt --check passed.
• mise run types:check in packages/eql passed.
• All 92 script test files passed.

Known failures, skipped: the encrypt and query heap-hygiene tests. After the rebase, stack-encrypt's dispatch boxes futures built on the stack. That copies plaintext the caller left on the stack into a heap block, which is freed without being wiped. The fix belongs in stack-encrypt: #1644. While the tests are skipped, CI does not check encrypt or query for this kind of leak in the Python SDK.

Related

Refs #1341 (the spec)

Follow-ups from the stack review: #1639, #1640, #1641, #1642. Engine: #1644.

Review notes

• Review each stack pull request for its part. The commits here after the merge commit are the only new code: the rebase fixes.
• The earlier prototype's findings are still in this branch.

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The changes add a Python SDK tracer findings report, an execution ledger for Tasks 1–7, and an ADR proposing declaration-time model validation through a class decorator.

Changes: Python SDK tracer documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Prototype execution record docs/plans/2026-10-13-python-sdk-tracer-ledger.md	The ledger records setup, decisions, findings, and test results through Task 7. Tasks 8 and 9 were not started, and the branch remains an unmerged prototype.
Prototype findings and restart questions docs/plans/2026-10-13-python-sdk-tracer-findings.md	The report records demonstrated capabilities, engine and Python constraints, provisional decisions, defects in the earlier plan, and questions for restarting the work.
Declaration-time model check languages/python/docs/adr/0001-a-declaration-is-checked-when-the-class-is-defined.md	The ADR proposes a context-carrying class decorator that checks model declarations, defines the model contract, and records probe results and limitations.

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Suggested reviewers: auxesis

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This change adds design and prototype documentation only and does not alter product behavior. The remaining comments are small wording fixes that can be applied at the author's discretion.

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• observed — Modified behavior in docs/plans/2026-10-13-python-sdk-tracer-findings.md: Adds the prototype status and disposition, records five demonstrated capabilities—including TextEq PostgreSQL round trips and Rust byte parity—and notes that CI and the scorecard were not completed.
• observed — Modified behavior in docs/plans/2026-10-13-python-sdk-tracer-findings.md: Adds findings on engine features and catalog limits: only TextEq is currently producible as an EQL type; match, ore, and non-text kinds have distinct blockers and dependencies. Records the engine’s broader bare-output behavior, field and index constraints, ciphertext tree structure, context-derived identifiers, credential discovery, and TextEq indexing requirements.
• observed — Modified behavior in docs/plans/2026-10-13-python-sdk-tracer-findings.md: Adds Python and toolchain findings covering PyO3 0.29 and abi3-py39, maturin-only extension-module configuration, libpython loader requirements, Tokio handling of Pending, annotation width and null behavior, marker types, psycopg JSON handling, and machine-specific setup constraints.
• observed — Modified behavior in docs/plans/2026-10-13-python-sdk-tracer-findings.md: Adds provisional design decisions: targets resolve by kind and index with an explicit EQL-name escape hatch; records map field names to column values; SQLAlchemy is proposed as a separate pure-Python distribution; and live-test gating depends on engine construction rather than CS_* environment variables.

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[coderdan]

I read this against the language-integration guide in #1287 (#1287, packages/stack-encrypt/docs/language-integration.md), which is now the yardstick for a new binding and SDK. Not a formal review; these are the things I would want settled before the ADR is accepted and the restart plan is written.

The decision itself is right. A class decorator that runs the check as the class statement finishes, the model contract as a Protocol, Cipher(User) with no plan in the public surface, and "Python holds no table of kinds, ValueKind::from_str is the only check" all line up with the principles and with how the Go SDK does it. The comments below are about what the ADR is silent on, and about facts under it that have moved.

1. Say which check is whose, and name the engine entry

"The engine checks the declaration" is two checks. Python's: every annotation carries a marker (rule A) and the decorator is outermost. The engine's: the plan grammar, which indexes a kind admits (admits), and whether a named EQL type is producible. The ADR should say which is which, and name the engine call the decorator makes (dynamic::record::plan_with with the target resolver; the Go guest's se_plan_check is the same call). That also closes the "Not run" line: the one sentence this ADR exists to make true is the one that has not been exercised yet, so I would not accept it until the decorator has invoked the engine check once, even with stand-in markers.

2. What the markers become on the wire (the biggest gap)

The guide, section 4, has the plan grammar. A field is either the outputs form, {"context": ["users", "email"], "outputs": ["c", "eq"], "type": "string"}, or the target form, {"context": ["users", "email"], "target": "TextEq"}. Go's declaration names the EQL type (stash:"age,encrypt_into=IntegerEq") and sends the target form; the engine and eql-bindings decide whether an int32 fits IntegerEq.

The tracer instead sent {"kind": "string", "index": "eq"} and resolved it to TextEq in a hand-written table in the Python binding's targets.rs. Under the guide that table is a copy of the catalog, which is the one thing a binding must not keep. Decision 7 ("an index marker alone means an EQL column with that index") is where that table would hide in the restart.

Recommendation: the markers name the EQL type, generated from the catalog the way Go's encrypt/eql package is (eql-codegen already emits the Go table; a Python emitter is the same job). So Annotated[str, stash.TextEq], not Annotated[str, stash.Text, stash.Equality]. Whether the kind can then be derived from the hint where it is unambiguous (str, datetime.date vs datetime.datetime) and required only where it is not (int) is a fair question for the 1.1 user test, but either way the name on the wire is the EQL type's, and the ADR should say so.

Two consequences for the decorator's signature. A target field's context must be exactly [table, column], so "context pieces as positional arguments" only fits the outputs form; one argument, the table. What varies per caller nests to the left of the label through the cipher's extend, as the ADR says, and the plan-level context_field exists for a record that names its own tenant (guide, section 4). Worth a sentence each.

3. The tree API the tracer was built on is gone

The findings describe a stored record as a "CipherText tree, not bytes", a decrypted record needing "a tree codec", and the shell was written against FfiValue. On next, where every piece of engine work is landing and where #1287 is based, FfiValue no longer exists in the dynamic module. A record crosses as a frame (ValueFrame), the engine reads it in place, and there is deliberately no tree type to hold plaintext (guide, section 5). The largest piece of the Python binding is therefore a vitaminc-aead-frame codec, or a Rust-side reader inside the extension that walks the model's attributes straight into a frame and builds the model straight from the decrypted frame.

A good first test for the restart: reproduce the bytes in the guide's section 10 from Python. {"age": 42} with age declared Int32 must encode to f1 01000000 03000000 616765 04 2a000000, and the one-field plan to the bytes given there.

4. The findings are a snapshot of main on 13 October, and parts are already false

Worth a "superseded on next" header on the findings document, or trimming it to the Python and toolchain section (pyo3 0.29, maturin-only extension-module, libpython on the loader path, Pending as IntoFuture, width narrowing, the psycopg plumbing), which is the durable part. Specifically:

• "The catalog produces exactly one EQL type, TextEq." On next 32 of the 51 EQL v4 types are producible: every family's plain, Eq, and for most families Ord and OrdOpe, plus TextMatch, Date, Timestamp, Numeric and Smallint. The block ORE types and TextSearch are in feat(eql)!: EQL v4 text search queries carry only the term their operator reads; produce TextSearch #1274 and feat(eql)!: produce the block ORE EQL v4 types through ore-rs 6-bit block ORE #1280. The storage-only Text is producible, so decision 7's "Encrypted on a text field is refused" is no longer true. So "decision 9 and backlog item 5 wait on the engine" should be re-read against next, not amended from this list.
• The tracer stored into public.eql_v3_text_eq. Stack Encrypt's EQL types are v4 only (public.eql_v4_text_eq, eql_v4.query_text_eq); the v3 domains hold cipherstash-client's encoding, which the engine's is not byte-compatible with. The guide's worked example is a "v": 4 row. The restart installs the v4 bundle.
• The "value encodings for new EQL kinds" proposal the findings link to has landed as vitaminc-ore and the new kinds; type accepts decimal, date and timestamp today.

5. The checklist the restart plan should carry

Guide, section 11, applies to the Python binding as it does to any other, and none of it is in the plan yet:

1. The frame conformance corpus passes, byte for byte, including the refusals.
2. A differential fuzz target feeds the Python codec's output to the engine's reader and back.
3. Plaintext hygiene tests for the binding's own copies. Python strings and bytes cannot be wiped, so the boundary has to sit inside the extension: read attributes into a frame in Rust, build the model from the frame in Rust, and never route a plaintext through a Python dict on the way in or out. The ADR's model(**row) in decrypt is exactly such a dict; it should be constructed on the Rust side or documented as the one copy Python owns.
4. A frozen stored-rows fixture written by the first Python release and opened on every build.
5. The versions are tied: the wheel carries the engine, so the wheel's release notes say which stack-encrypt and which frame-format version it carries.
6. The cross-language fixtures (record_lowering.json, query_operators.json, value_kinds.json) are read from the Python tests too.

6. Errors

DeclarationError and Cipher's refusal of an undecorated class should be built from the engine's structured error (the field name and the Reason, guide section 8), not from parsing message text, and no message may carry a value, which includes a dataclass default. The ADR's "with the remedy in the message" is right; say where the remedy's facts come from.

Housekeeping

• The findings and the ledger reference the discovery ticket by its Linear identifier seven times and link a private claude.ai document. GitHub is public and Linear is not; the ADR already says "the Python SDK discovery ticket", which is the form to use everywhere, and the linked document's substance should either be in the repository or not referenced.
• This PR targets main. The ADRs it extends, the guide, and the engine facts above are on next; retarget there.
• The three CodeRabbit wording threads are fine to take.

[yujiyokoo]

Rebased onto next and retargeted, as the review asked. The four commits are the same changes re-signed on top of next; the rebase was conflict-free, since the three files in this PR do not differ between main and next.

The last commit addresses the review: markers name EQL types generated from the catalog, plaintext crosses as a Rust-built frame, errors are built from the engine's structured reason, a model never prints a sealed value by default, the engine check is named with the rig that ran it, the findings doc carries a "superseded on next" header, and the Linear identifiers and private link are removed.

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Mutation testing (cargo-mutants, --in-diff, stack-auth + stack-encrypt)

No mutants were generated for the changed lines.

[coderdan]

Thanks for this @yujiyokoo. Approving in advance of addressing the remaining findings.

[yujiyokoo]

98868f7 addresses the ten threads from 2026-10-20, one reply each. Point 4 of the earlier comment also had one piece left: open question 1 in the findings doc still told the restart to amend decision 9 and backlog item 5 from the October catalog gap. It now says to re-read them against next, with the 40-of-51 list and the eleven that remain (date, timestamp and decimal order terms, and the JSON types). This PR merges after #1287, which the ADR and the findings header now cite.