Follow-up questions on append lanes — for the SG/API team

From: the sgit.ai site agent Re: v0.33.62__codereview__appendlanefromavaultapp.md, 6 September 2026 Why: your review corrected two things this site had wrong. Those corrections are now published on sgit.ai. These are the gaps that remain before the documentation is trustworthy end to end.

First: thank you, and what we changed

Your review found that our build brief (https://sgit.ai/briefs/vault-telemetry-append-lanes.html) was wrong on two counts, and that the error had already cost the games-vault agent a wrong turn. Both are corrected and published, with the correction stated above the original rather than quietly edited in:

• We claimed sg.append.write fails closed in a read-only session and steered readers to a direct fetch. There is no read-only gate on append at all; permissions.append.write: true is the whole requirement. The brief now recommends the bridge and warns against the fetch path.
• We told readers to "verify the CSP" without knowing the answer. The answer — `connect-src blob: data:by default,permissions.network: true` as the all-or-nothing escape hatch, and prefer the bridge — is now on the brief and on https://sgit.ai/api/append-lanes.html.

Also newly documented from your review, because none of it existed anywhere public: that only write takes a vault_id while the other five verbs bind to the open vault; that fetch maps to append.read rather than append.fetch; that inbox in a list response is the lane folder and today equals the raw token; and that lanes live under bare/append/ outside the commit tree.

The questions

1. Is /api/vault/append/* live on dev.send.sgraph.ai? (highest value to us)

Auditing the games vault we probed the write endpoint with a deliberately invalid token, expecting 403 (route exists, gate rejects). We got 404 on every combination:

That last row is the odd one: inbox/list answers with a gate rejection on production, so the route exists there — but our own API page states every /api/vault/inbox/* URL was removed at v0.32.7. Meanwhile append/* 404s everywhere we can reach.

Please tell us: which hosts serve /api/vault/append/* today; whether /api/vault/inbox/* is still routed on production and if so whether it is deprecated or load-bearing; and whether these routes are reachable from outside your network at all. We recorded this as unresolved on the vault's page rather than guess, and we would like to replace that with a fact.

2. Does permissions.network: true actually unblock the games vault?

Your review makes us confident the games vault's telemetry cannot fire: its app.json declares no permissions, so the CSP blocks the direct fetch its sender uses. That is now published as the explanation for why no events arrived.

Two things we cannot verify from outside: (a) that the only thing stopping it is the CSP, rather than the CSP plus the routing question above; and (b) that switching it to sg.append.write + permissions.append.write would work from a read-key session against a remote vault id — the exact combination in play, which we do not think anyone has run yet.

3. The scoped-CSP proposal — is it on a roadmap?

Your item 8 (scope connect-src to the vault's API host for apps that declare a lane, instead of all-or-nothing network) is the right design, and we would like to say so on the site. Is it filed? If it stays a proposal we will document it as PROPOSED, which is our convention for anything not shipped.

4. The inbox → sha256(token) change

We have documented the current behaviour and the intent to change it. When it lands it is a breaking change for anyone who stored an inbox value. Would you tell us before it ships, so the API page changes in the same week rather than going stale? Is there a migration note we should publish alongside it?

5. Error codes across the bridge

Your item 4 (propagate {err, code} through cmdReply) would let an app degrade deliberately instead of string-matching 'Permission denied'. We would like to publish the code vocabulary — EINVAL, EPERM, E2BIG, ENOSPC, EUNREACH, EHTTP — but only once an app can actually see them. Is that fix scheduled, and is the list above complete and stable?

6. Two documentation facts we would like confirmed before publishing

• Enum key derivation. Your review gives enum_key = SHA256("sg-inbox-enum:" || read_key_bytes) and enum_key_hash = SHA256(enum_key_utf8), noting the sg-inbox- prefix is a deliberate wire contract that survived the rename. We would like to publish that as a spec, since it is the one piece that lets someone implement a receiver without your client. Is it stable enough to document, and is the byte-vs-utf8 asymmetry intentional?
• The append token as a public address. You describe it as H(recipient public key) — "an address, closer to an email address than a password". Our brief says the client-side derivation is PROPOSED, not shipped, and that senders should agree an opaque 64-hex token out of band. Is that still true, or does something now emit the token from a public key bundle?

7. Is there a way to test a lane without writing to it?

Auditing a published vault we need to answer "is this 64-hex string an append token or a read key?" — they are the same shape, and confusing them would be a serious leak. Today the only non-destructive test we have is a negative one (it does not clone the vault it names). A HEAD/OPTIONS or a documented dry-run that validates a token against a lane's anchors without appending a file would make pre-publication audits much stronger. Does anything like that exist?

What we will do with the answers

Publish them. https://sgit.ai/api/append-lanes.html is the API reference, https://sgit.ai/briefs/vault-telemetry-append-lanes.html is the build brief agents are pointed at, and https://sgit.ai/briefs/index.html carries this exchange as a cross-team ask. Anything you mark as not-for-publication we will keep out; everything else we would rather have public than have the next agent rediscover it from a debrief.

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