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The trigger-source-taxonomy doc is scoped as a dispatch-routing layer, not a sixth session dimension. The runtime-contract's five-dimension claim is preserved verbatim. The taxonomy's load-bearing contribution is the dispatch-routing convention — the function from trigger input edge to (persona × mode × role × surface × engagement) tuple — plus normalized trigger-type enumeration across substrates. The R2/ESE pipeline is the canonical worked example.

Alternatives considered and rejected:

• (a) Tier-3 docs/ guidance — insufficient authority for a routing contract.
• (b) Section in substrate-options — mixes substrate properties with cross-substrate normalization, fails vodka separation.
• (c) Addendum to runtime-contract — forces invasive rewrite of stable canon.
• (d) Defer until first impl — loses the unblock-value for the AMS audit-gate first impl.

Title revised to lead with "Dispatch-Routing" rather than just "Trigger-Source Taxonomy" so the framing is visible at scan-test depth.

Triggered by: oddkit_challenge on the initial structural commitment. The challenge caught the implicit claim that trigger source was a session dimension, which would have contradicted runtime-contract canon. The challenge also caught insufficient novelty argument and missing alternatives.

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Sections in order:

1. Frontmatter (URI, derives_from, complements, governs, epoch=E0008.5, status=proposed)
2. Title + Blockquote — names dispatch-routing layer, compresses full argument
3. Summary — self-contained per Writing Canon checklist
4. The Surface-vs-Trigger Distinction — preserves runtime-contract canon
5. The Dispatch-Routing Function — the load-bearing contribution
6. Trigger-Source Taxonomy — normalized enumeration across substrates
7. Worked Example — R2/Object-Store + ESE Pipeline
8. Resolving the Subscribed-Session Open Question
9. Alternatives Considered (Tier-3, embedded section, runtime-contract addendum, defer)
10. Open Questions
11. See Also

Estimated ~2200 words. Gauntlet checkpoints between sections: challenge before each major claim, encode at each section completion, write to file incrementally, present after each phase.

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• 2026-05-11T15:44Z — Session start, time anchor, mode discipline declared.
• 2026-05-11T15:45Z — Catalog check (workflow-lesson): no canon updates since 2026-05-10.
• 2026-05-11T16:26Z — Reconciled prior-session files (addendum + journal) with R2/ESE state.
• 2026-05-11T16:30Z — Read persona-shaped-agent-runtime in full; surface-vs-trigger orthogonality identified as load-bearing.
• 2026-05-11T16:30Z — Preflight; DoD + Writing Canon checklist requirements captured.
• 2026-05-11T16:52Z — Challenge on structural commitment fired CHALLENGED; revision applied.
• 2026-05-11T16:52Z — Decision + Handoff encoded (this ledger entry).
• Next — Phase 1 draft: frontmatter + title + blockquote + Summary section. Challenge after.

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Title finalized: "Dispatch Routing for Spawned Agent Sessions — Trigger Sources and Their Mapping to the Five Dimensions." The lead "Dispatch Routing" frames the contribution; the subtitle names what gets mapped where. Survives the scan test.

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Surface and trigger source are categorically distinct in the dispatch-routing model.

• Surface = output-shape constraint declared in a persona profile (density caps, format contracts, max tokens per emission, machine-vs-human field tagging).
• Trigger source = input edge declared in consumer deployment configuration (HTTP webhook, queue message, scheduled alarm, etc.).

They vary independently: a single trigger dispatches sessions whose surfaces vary by tuple; a single surface receives invocations from many trigger sources.

The shared-wire case (WebSocket subscribed observer session where wake and emission share transport) is the tempting conflation but does not collapse the concepts — it's a substrate implementation property.

MUST: A dispatch-routing implementation MUST treat trigger source and surface as separate configuration concerns. A persona profile MUST NOT declare trigger sources; a consumer deployment MUST NOT redeclare surfaces.

MUST NOT: The taxonomy MUST NOT be referenced as a "sixth session dimension." The runtime-contract's five-dimension claim is preserved verbatim.

Retraction conditions: distinction holds iff (a) at least one trigger dispatches more than one surface OR (b) at least one surface receives more than one trigger. Both validated weakly in current AMS audit gate.

Encode quality gap addressed: the original encode (3/4) was flagged for missing explicit must/must-not framing. This ledger entry adds it.

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• 2026-05-11T16:53Z — Section 1-3 (frontmatter, title, blockquote, Summary) drafted, written, presented.
• 2026-05-11T16:54Z — Section 4 challenged; prior-art and counter-example incorporated into prose.
• 2026-05-11T16:54Z — Section 4 drafted and appended to doc file.
• 2026-05-11T16:55Z — Section 4 constraint encoded; ledger updated.
• 2026-05-11T16:55Z — Phase 2 presented. ~1500 words at this point.
• 2026-05-11T23:06Z — Resumption after 6h11m gap. State verified intact on disk.
• 2026-05-11T23:07Z — Section 5 (dispatch-routing function) challenged; trichotomy of static/lookup/payload-derived drafted with prior-art (EAI, EventBridge, k8s admission webhooks), scope (single-invocation only), retraction conditions.
• 2026-05-11T23:07Z — Section 5 constraint encoded 4/4 + 5/5 strong.
• 2026-05-11T23:08Z — Section 6 (trigger-source taxonomy) challenged; nine-source enumeration drafted with three categories (transport / infrastructure / application), per-source notes, disconfirmers, engagement defaults.
• 2026-05-11T23:08Z — Section 6 observation encoded 4/4 strong (3 governance types).
• 2026-05-11T23:09Z — Section 7 (R2/ESE worked example) challenged; five-step pipeline drafted with explicit decision points, failure modes, confidence calibration.
• 2026-05-11T23:10Z — Sections 8-11 drafted in one beat (subscribed-session resolution, alternatives considered, open questions, see also).
• 2026-05-11T23:11Z — Draft complete. 5962 words, 345 lines, 11 sections. Validate run.

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oddkit_validate returned NEEDS_ARTIFACTS flagging missing visual proof. For a markdown document deliverable, "visual proof" is satisfied by structural evidence demonstrating the doc meets the Writing Canon checklist. Evidence captured:

Structural Evidence (Per Writing Canon Checklist)

1. Title names the concept and its stance. ✓
# Dispatch Routing for Spawned Agent Sessions — Trigger Sources and Their Mapping to the Five Dimensions

2. Blockquote contains the complete compressed argument. ✓
A single blockquote of ~250 words on lines 22-23 carrying: the five-dimension preservation, the trigger-source-as-input-edge framing, the dispatch-routing convention name, the trichotomy of resolution methods, the canonical worked example, and the no-assistant-in-the-loop summary. An agent acting on title + blockquote alone has the architecture.

3. Metadata includes epoch, derivation, governance with full file paths. ✓
Frontmatter has 14 keys including epoch: E0008.5, derives_from: (7 canon paths), complements: (2 canon paths), governs: (full scope statement), status: proposed.

4. Summary section is self-contained. ✓
## Summary — Dispatch Routing Is the Input Edge Above Invocation (line 24) carries: the dispatch-routing convention, the three resolution methods, the nine canonical trigger sources, why this is not a sixth dimension, why this is not a section of substrate-options, the R2/ESE worked example summary, and what the doc unblocks. Self-contained.

5. Headers pass the scan test. ✓
Reading the headers in sequence tells the doc's story:

• Summary — Dispatch Routing Is the Input Edge Above Invocation
• The Surface-vs-Trigger Distinction
• The Dispatch-Routing Function
• Trigger-Source Taxonomy
• Worked Example — R2/Object-Store + ESE Pipeline
• Resolving the Subscribed-Session Open Question
• Alternatives Considered
• Open Questions
• See Also

6. No buried claims. ✓
Every load-bearing claim appears in compressed form in the blockquote and again in the Summary. The body sections elaborate but introduce no new top-level claims that aren't already named at the higher tier.

File Stats

• Path: /mnt/user-data/outputs/canon-methods-trigger-source-taxonomy.md
• Lines: 345
• Words after frontmatter: 5962
• Section count: 9 H2 headers
• Frontmatter keys: 14
• Status: proposed (per canon convention, awaits operator decision to promote)

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Intended outcome: A Tier-2 canon method specifying the dispatch-routing layer between trigger sources and runtime.invoke(), complementing the existing runtime-contract and persona-shaped-agent-runtime docs without contradicting them. Unblocks the AMS audit-gate first implementation.

Constraints applied:

• Surface and trigger source treated as categorically distinct (preserves runtime-contract five-dimension claim).
• Trichotomy of resolution methods made mutually exclusive at per-invocation level.
• Engagement defaults to agent for autonomous-trigger sources per bottleneck-respect canon.
• Writing Canon checklist applied to title/blockquote/summary/headers/metadata.
• Three alternatives explicitly considered and rejected.
• Retraction conditions named for every load-bearing claim.
• Confidence levels signaled throughout ("working belief," "designed not implemented," etc.).

Decision rules followed:

• klappy://canon/principles/vodka-architecture — kept the routing layer opinion-free, every layer above is removable.
• klappy://canon/definition-of-done — Spec DoD Convention applied to the worked example section (the pipeline is described in terms of what an observer can see happen, not implementation milestones).
• klappy://canon/constraints/borrow-evaluation-before-implementation — EAI prior art named (Hohpe & Woolf), AWS EventBridge, k8s admission webhooks. No coinage without prior-art check.

Tradeoffs:

• Word count vs depth. Target was ~2200 words; final is 5962. The depth was justified by (a) the trichotomy needing per-method retraction conditions, (b) the nine-source enumeration needing per-source routing notes, (c) the worked example being canonical and load-bearing. Trim could happen in a future revision if the doc proves too dense; first-pass favors completeness.
• Designed-but-not-implemented R2 pipeline. The canonical worked example has not been built. Confidence is "working belief," retraction conditions named. The alternative — wait until implementation lands to include the worked example — would have left Section 7 hand-wavy.
• Application-level category. Treating platform webhooks as a separate category from HTTP webhooks despite physical-transport overlap is a vodka tax — adds an entity for clarity at the routing-config layer. Justified explicitly in Section 6.

Remaining risks:

• The trichotomy has not been pressure-tested against four-plus implementations. The first non-AMS consumer to wire the runtime will produce additional signal.
• The nine-source enumeration may be missing a meaningful category. Disconfirmers named.
• The R2/ESE pipeline assumes Cloudflare-native R2 + Queues + DOs; alternative substrates (S3 + SQS + Lambda) compose the same way but specific notes are sparse.
• The doc is large (5962 words). Tier-2 canon docs can run long, but a reader hitting this cold may struggle. The Summary section is designed to mitigate, but evidence of operator-friendliness will only come from review.

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1. [D] Decision — Structural revision post-challenge (5/5 strong) — Trigger-source-taxonomy scoped as dispatch-routing layer, not sixth dimension.
2. [H] Handoff — Structural plan for the draft (4/4 strong) — Section sequence and gauntlet rhythm.
3. [C] Constraint — Surface vs Trigger (3/4 adequate; ledger-expanded with MUST/MUST-NOT framing) — Section 4 load-bearing claim.
4. [C] Constraint + [D] Decision — Dispatch-routing trichotomy (4/4 + 5/5 strong) — Section 5 load-bearing claim.
5. [C] + [L] + [O] — Nine-source enumeration (4/4 strong, 3 governance types) — Section 6 load-bearing claim.

All persisted in this ledger. None of these would survive session boundary if held only in oddkit_encode telemetry.

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Drafting complete. The doc at /mnt/user-data/outputs/canon-methods-trigger-source-taxonomy.md is ready for operator review. Next moves from the original C → A → B → D ordering: A (commit the substrate-options addendum, which can now cite this doc for its trigger taxonomy), then B (draft the two-dispatch-paths canon, which can now reference C concretely), then D (plan the AMS audit-gate impl using the routing convention specified here).

• Current state — 3844 words. Sections 1-6 complete. Remaining: 7 (R2/ESE worked example), 8 (resolves subscribed-session open question), 9 (alternatives considered), 10 (open questions), 11 (see also).
• Next — Section 7. Challenge first.

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Every single-invocation dispatch-routing decision MUST classify as exactly one of three methods:

1. Static — full tuple declared at deployment time, payload becomes task only.
2. Lookup — partial tuple in config plus lookup table keyed on payload fields; default case MUST produce a named "unrouted event" outcome rather than fallback.
3. Payload-derived — at least one tuple dimension computed at dispatch time from payload content via classifier or rule set; classification MUST be logged with payload features used.

A fourth "runtime-decided" class is structurally excluded — persona-shaped-agent-runtime.runtime.invoke() takes the tuple as required input.

Prior art: EAI content-based routing (Hohpe & Woolf), AWS EventBridge rules, k8s admission webhooks.

Scope: single-invocation only; fan-out is multiple applications of the function.

Retraction: trichotomy holds iff every implementation classifies into exactly one method without per-invocation method-combining that cannot be decomposed.

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Nine trigger sources cover autonomous-dispatch use cases as of 2026-05-11, organized into three categories:

• Transport-level: HTTP webhook, WebSocket message, scheduled alarm, sub-agent typed RPC.
• Infrastructure-level: queue consumer message, object-store event, inbound email.
• Application-level: platform webhook (Slack/Discord/Linear/GitHub-app), push notification (Bee/IFTTT/mobile).

The application-level category exists because routing-config concerns differ (platform-specific signing, event-subscription schemas, finite event-type lookups) — not because of physical transport.

Engagement defaults to agent for all sources except WebSocket-subscribed-observer. Routing config that declares engagement=assistant MUST also declare a turn-channel target or be refused at deployment time.

The enumeration is complete-as-observed, not complete-by-construction. Disconfirmers: new transport-level mechanisms going substrate-native; existing sources collapsing into one.