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Brief: #928, yaml: escapes checked and decoded once in the grammar; 0x/0o converted for their shape (owner’s decisions 2026-10-30)

Read first: docs/specification/adr/adr-yaml-1.md, D4 (amended), D5’s last paragraph and D11 (the owner’s decisions of 2026-10-30, the reason this brief exists), then packages/yaml/src/main.nika and its tests as y1-tree-core.md left them (its report and debrief beside it). This brief needs scalar::from (y4-1003-scalar-from.md, the brief before it): check grep -rn "scalar::from" crates/nikaia-std first; absent, stop with Result: blocked, Needs: y4.

The decisions, short (owner, 2026-10-30; decided, so none of this is a way around a gap)

Facts the last builder paid for (y1 debrief)

To build (each step a commit)

  1. Probe: does the prover carry a grammar guard’s fact into the action? A program of a few lines in a scratch project: a rule reading four hex digits into v, a guard if(v < 0xD800 || v > 0xDFFF) (and whatever else the precondition needs, stated in the guard, not after it), an action calling scalar::from(v), built at the default unproved-claims = "error", with --asserts. Proved: go on. Refused (NK1300) or checked at run time: that is a compiler defect. Fix it in crates/ as its own commit with a test in tests/compiler/tests/ (the gate of .claude/agents/builder.md then applies; Changelog: one sentence) if it is within this run; otherwise stop: Result: blocked, Found: the probe, nothing written around it. Prefer the form whose fact is plain to the prover (e.g. \x’s two digits as a u8, then b as scalar, which always fits) and name the forms you tried in Body:.
  2. Escapes in the grammar. DoubleChar/Double check the digits and range of \x, \u, \U by guards and decode every escape (and the escaped line break and line folding of 7.3) in the action into the scalar’s value; Scalar carries that value (a field, e.g. value: String, owned for a double-quoted scalar with an escape or a line break, a view otherwise); text() returns it for Double and keeps folding Plain/Single on request; escaped() and the lazy decoding go. Tests: tests/quoted_scalars.nika gains "\x41", "é", "
", "\U0001F600"; tests/errors_carry_line_and_column.nika gains "\uD800", "\U00110000", "\x4G", "\u12" with their line and column (YAML 1.2.2 5.7; name the yaml-test-suite case where one exists).
  3. 0x and 0o in as_i64/as_f64 by decision 1: 0x1F 31, 0o17 15, 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF and 0o777777777777777777777 i64::MAX, 0x000000000000000001F 31, 0x8000000000000000 and 0o1000000000000000000000 an error naming the text, as_f64 of 0x1F 31.0. Extend tests/plain_scalars_resolve_by_the_core_schema.nika. Check that Value::Int is only ever built by the classifier (so its shape is known); say so in the header comment of as_i64.

Done when

target/fast/nikaia test --project packages/yaml passes; the package gate below is green (and the builder.md gate if step 1 changed crates/); each step committed and pushed; the last commit’s message says Part of #928.

Rules (CLAUDE.md; this block is pasted into every brief, also a fix-forward)

Report (at most 15 lines, to exactly /home/user/Nikaia/docs/briefs/yaml/y5-escapes-and-radix.md.report.md)

Fields of docs/architect.md, Briefs and reports: Result: done|noop|partial|blocked (the bare word alone on that line: Result: done, never a summary after it, which cuts the batch, b869a 2026-10-27; Owner: is a question for the owner or none, never a role), Files, Commit, Body (optional, one paragraph for the commit message), Fixes, Pushed, Tests, Gate (green|red), Deviation, Found, Needs, Changelog, Owner, Disk freed, and for a move Rs2nika: (the kept N of M lines of rs2nika --score, then the three costliest hand edits; none for a task that moves no Rust, none (redesign) for a brief with Shape: redesign and no Convert: line). none where nothing, and then the bare word: Deviation: none (a note) cuts the batch (batch.nika compares exactly); a note goes into the commit message. Found: is only for a defect outside your change (it cuts the batch); a process event such as another session resetting or rewriting your files is no Found:, it goes under Needs: (m3a 2026-10-28); a converter draft that came out wrong is no Found:, it is one of the costliest edits under Rs2nika:, which the converter lane reads (e12-4b 2026-10-27); how you solved your own step goes into the commit message. Deviation: is only a step of the brief built otherwise than written or not built (a choice the brief left to you, such as keep what X needs and say so, is no deviation: it goes into the commit message; nor is building two steps in one commit when every step is built, e12-3a 2026-10-27, nor a step another commit on develop already built, shown by your test failing with that commit’s change reverted, b889 2026-10-27: name the commit in Body:, nor a test’s expected .stdout/.stderr taken from what the program really prints where the brief’s sketch of it was short or wrong, b934 2026-10-29: say so in Body:, nor a lowering that follows the ADR governing it where the brief’s expected lowering contradicts that ADR, b933 2026-10-29: name the ADR in Body:, nor re-keying an allow-list entry (KNOWN) whose hash changed for the same program and the same reason, b-fixforward-sweep2 2026-10-28: say so in Body:); how you verified (e.g. a test not run against the unfixed compiler) goes under Tests:. A noop says why under Tests: (what was probed), not under Deviation:. Final answer, one line: done <sha>, report <path> (or BLOCKED: ... / PUSH REJECTED ...).

Attribution: Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 noreply@anthropic.com Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UVxJDveRM5qKZKyCqq6Y24

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