Land only the containment-refusal half of R4: the guard every SOR forwarder
must pass before it does anything — assert engine != local, or refuse. It moves
no traffic, opens no socket, spawns no engine, and builds no SSH chain.
- forwarder.py: assert_isolated (raises on local and on any engine off the
manifest allow-list), isolation_prefix (docker/multipass exec argv, no host
path), ForwarderPlan (construction IS the gate — no plan for local/unknown/
no-container). Allow-list imported from provenance so forwarder and manifest
cannot disagree about what counts as isolated.
- There is no code path in this module that returns an exec prefix for the host;
containment is structural, not a runtime flag.
The traffic-moving half of R4 (gate item 1: 3-hop self-traffic e2e delivery +
per-hop pcaps across the grid) is deliberately NOT implemented — HELD for a live
isolated engine + grid. This guard is fully verifiable offline.
Acceptance (gate item 5) green: local/unknown/no-container refused; isolated
engine accepted with the correct isolation prefix. Python forwarder suite 12
passed; full SOR Python suite 49 passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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