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+# Behavioral equivalence and shared abstraction audit
+
+Reviewed baseline: `5e6db4d` on `main`. This review started with tests of
+corresponding behavior and traced the implementation behind each candidate.
+It considered the existing facade and package boundaries, including the
+[architecture policy](../../policy/architecture.md), and retained deliberate
+differences between operations. No production code or tests were modified.
+
+The offline tests for `internal/candidate`, `internal/git`, `internal/delivery`,
+and `cmd/releasekit/internal/cli` passed using the Go test cache. Focused public
+tests of build source eligibility, inspection errors, and dirty tagged-source
+delivery also passed.
+
+## 1. Source-state observations are independently implemented
+
+**Test evidence:**
+[TestCheckRejectsDirtyTrackedAndUntrackedState and TestCheckRechecksHeadAndWorktreeAfterCallback](../../../internal/candidate/check_test.go)
+exercise clean worktree/index and stable-HEAD requirements for candidate
+checking. [TestBuildSourceEligibilitySurvivesLaterCheckoutCleanup](../../../build_test.go)
+checks the same kinds of changes before and during a build, while
+[TestDeliverRejectsDirtyTaggedSourceBeforeBuildOrHostedWrites](../../../delivery_test.go)
+and [TestInspectTaggedSourceReportsDirtyCheckoutAndReadCommitFile](../../../internal/git/source_test.go)
+exercise dirty-state observations for tagged delivery. These tests imply a
+common need for accurate Git HEAD and repository-wide status observations;
+they do not imply identical decisions about dirty source.
+
+**Implementation:** [candidate.inspectLocalState](../../../internal/candidate/check.go)
+runs branch, HEAD and porcelain-status commands. [build.gitCommit and cleanSource](../../../internal/build/build.go)
+independently run HEAD and status commands through direct subprocesses.
+[git.CaptureHead and InspectTaggedSource](../../../internal/git/source.go)
+perform overlapping observations through the Git package's command boundary.
+
+**Opportunity:** The existing Git package could own small shared commit and
+status observation primitives, leaving each operation to choose when to read
+them and how to interpret them. This would centralize a concrete Git
+responsibility and reduce the number of paths needing parallel fixes for
+inspection, error propagation, and cancellation. The
+[complexity audit](03-complexity.md#2-git-source-inspection-is-repeated-across-package-boundaries)
+also identifies the duplication; the tests above establish the common
+behavioral evidence for considering it here.
+
+**Tradeoffs:** Candidate checking rejects dirty state and checks the branch;
+builds can succeed with dirty state but record source eligibility before and
+after compilation; delivery additionally checks a specific tag. Do not merge
+those policies or alter observation timing. Retain separate caller-level
+tests, so a shared helper cannot make every test pass while all consumers
+interpret its results incorrectly. Coordinate with the existing
+[replacement-object and cancellation findings](01-correctness.md).
+
+## 2. Build-artifact declarations are checked independently by receipts and delivery
+
+**Test evidence:**
+[TestBuildReceiptRoundTripBindsRootAndNestedModuleIdentity](../../../cmd/releasekit/internal/cli/receipt_test.go)
+constructs and reloads a receipt binding a selected target to its expected
+filename. [TestDeclaredBuildAssetsGenerateManifestFromBuildResult and TestDeclaredBuildAssetsRejectsArtifactDeclarationMismatch](../../../internal/delivery/assets_test.go)
+exercise the corresponding build-result declarations and reject a mismatched
+filename. [TestBuildAndPrebuiltDeliveryUseSameDirectoryBase](../../../cmd/releasekit/assets_test.go)
+connects the two paths through a real build, receipt, and prebuilt delivery.
+Together they support a shared requirement that a target's recorded artifact
+identity agree with the selected build, without requiring receipt loading to
+read artifact contents.
+
+**Implementation:** Both
+[validateBuildReceipt](../../../cmd/releasekit/internal/cli/receipt.go) and
+[declaredBuildAssets](../../../internal/delivery/assets.go) independently
+check target uniqueness, artifact counts, one artifact per target, and names
+derived from targets. They already share `artifact.ExpectedBuild` and
+`artifact.ValidComponent`, but each builds and checks its own target-to-name
+mapping.
+
+**Opportunity:** Consider a narrow, pure declaration-matching helper in the
+existing [artifact package](../../../internal/artifact/artifact.go), accepting
+target/filename metadata and reporting a mismatch without opening files. Both
+paths could reuse it after converting their own types. Centralizing the shared
+identity rule would reduce drift when target or filename conventions evolve.
+
+**Tradeoffs:** The receipt additionally requires a schema, specific output
+path and digest syntax, and intentionally loads without checking the files;
+delivery accepts source-only results and separately stats and verifies local
+content after preflight. Keep those boundary-specific rules and ordering where
+they are. Avoid making `internal/artifact` depend on CLI receipt types,
+`internal/build`, or forge policy. Preserve independent public and CLI tests
+with concrete expected filenames and bytes rather than using the new helper to
+compute every test expectation.