Project Lock v1

Status: implemented bounded dependency-free Project lock; HOSTED GREEN under the v0.4.0 release baseline. Resolution, acquisition, registry/cache, effects, licenses, SBOMs, provenance, signatures and target execution are not supplied by this lock.

Audience: people and agents building with semaprax.toml, package-tooling authors, and compiler contributors.

Project Lock v1 is semaprax.lock beside semaprax.toml. Unlike Offline Semantic Lock v3, which proves a supplied dependency graph, it binds the exact package in one working tree. Rendering uses only the authenticated snapshot. Verification re-renders and compares exact bytes, so source, manifest, or compiler drift fails closed. Commands are explicit; check never writes or verifies the lock implicitly.

Commands

semaprax lock [<dir>|semaprax.toml]           # print the canonical lock to stdout
semaprax lock [<dir>|semaprax.toml] --write   # replace semaprax.lock beside the manifest
semaprax lock [<dir>|semaprax.toml] --verify  # verify an existing semaprax.lock
semaprax lock [<dir>|semaprax.toml] --compare <base.lock>       # coarse: classify against a baseline lock
semaprax lock [<dir>|semaprax.toml] --emit-interface            # emit the scalar interface descriptor
semaprax lock [<dir>|semaprax.toml] --compare-interface <b.json># fine: per-export scalar interface diff

From a directory containing semaprax.toml, the manifest operand can be omitted, and naming a directory selects the semaprax.toml inside it, matching check.

Each mode authenticates and checks the project exactly as check does, then acts:

• The default prints the canonical lock and writes nothing.
• --write stages the bytes in a sibling file, renames them over semaprax.lock, and prints wrote semaprax.lock for <name> (<digest>). The ordinary held-object recheck still runs after the write.
• --verify reads semaprax.lock beside the manifest and compares it against a fresh rendering, printing verified semaprax.lock for <name> (<digest>) on success.

--compare <baseline.lock> renders the current project lock and classifies it against the baseline (see below). Select only one of --write, --verify, or --compare. check, run, test, and build never read or write the lock.

Compatibility comparison

--compare is a coarse, digest-level compatibility verdict over the facts the lock records, the project-level counterpart of the fine-grained offline Compatibility Evidence v1. It prints a semaprax.project-lock-compatibility.v1 report to stdout and exits 0 when the change is compatible and 1 when it is breaking, so a CI gate can fail on a break. The classification:

Change	Verdict
Package name or frozen contract changed	breaking
An export was removed	breaking
An export was added	nonbreaking
The interface descriptor digest changed with the same export set	breaking
A required capability was added (widened)	breaking
A required capability was removed	nonbreaking
A target was removed	breaking
A target was added	nonbreaking
Only the version changed	informational

A pure display rename does not change the interface descriptor digest, which is normalized without display names, so it is not breaking. The overall verdict is breaking if any change is breaking, else compatible. This verdict is over the lock's recorded facts; the per-export type, ownership, effect, and contract classification remains the offline Compatibility Evidence over Report-v2 subjects.

Fine-grained scalar interface comparison

For a Project v1 scalar package, --emit-interface prints the semaprax.project.scalar-wit-interface.v1 descriptor, which carries each export's stable id, parameter WIT types, and result WIT type. Store it as a baseline and later run --compare-interface <baseline.json> to get a per-export verdict, printed as semaprax.project-scalar-wit-compatibility.v1 and exiting nonzero when breaking. Unlike the coarse --compare, this names the exact export and how its signature changed:

Change	Verdict
An export was removed	breaking
An export was added	nonbreaking
A retained export's result type changed	breaking
A retained export's parameter count changed	breaking
A retained export's parameter type changed	breaking (names the position)

Only export signatures and the interface digest are compared, never the project revision, so two descriptors of the same interface at different revisions are compatible. --emit-interface and --compare-interface are scalar-profile only; other profiles have no scalar WIT interface and return the existing SPX-J105 diagnostic. A missing or foreign baseline descriptor rejects with SPX-J124.

Envelope and payload

The file is one line of compact JSON plus a terminal LF. Keys of every object are in byte order. The envelope carries bytes, digest, payload, and schema, where schema is semaprax.project-lock.v1, payload is the object below, bytes is its compact length, and digest is sha256:<hex> over the domain semaprax.project-lock.v1 plus NUL, the little-endian u64 payload length, and the exact payload bytes.

Field	Meaning
schema	semaprax.project-lock.v1.
package	name, version (null for the frozen v1 layout, which carries none), manifest_schema (the layout the bytes were parsed from), contract (the frozen profile contract the manifest lowers to), profile (scalar or the profile name), and manifest_digest over the canonical manifest bytes under the domain semaprax.project-lock.manifest.v1 plus NUL.
program_root	The project revision: the digest binding the canonical manifest and the workspace revision, and the value check prints. This is the lock's program root.
source	workspace_revision and one files row per declared source with path, source_revision, and source_digest. Source text is never embedded.
interface	exports (the manifest's exported stable IDs), kind, and digest. kind is scalar-wit.v1 for the scalar contract (the retained WIT digest), public-owned-data-api.v1, flat-owned-record-api.v1, owned-utf8-api.v1, or nested-owned-record-api.v1 for the owned profiles (the retained descriptor digest), and unproven with a null digest for the six useful-data and command profiles, which retain no interface descriptor.
dependencies	The manifest's [dependencies] rows. Always empty on this toolchain, because a declared dependency fails every build closed with SPX-J121 before a lock can be rendered.
targets	One row per target with state: declared for a [targets] matrix, default for native64 and wasm32 when the manifest declares none. A declaration, not proof that the target builds or runs.
capabilities	The manifest's required capabilities.
compiler	package, version, lock_compatibility, and the admitted manifest_layouts. A different compiler version renders different bytes and therefore reports the lock stale; that is the compatibility rule of this version.
resolution_policy	dependencies = none, range_grammar = exact-tilde-caret.v1, registry = none, cache = none.
nonclaims	Fixed strings naming what the lock does not assert.

Diagnostics

Code	Meaning
SPX-J123	semaprax.lock is stale: the message lists the drifted payload fields.
SPX-J124	semaprax.lock or a --compare baseline is missing, is not a plain file of at most 1 MiB, is not readable UTF-8, or is not a Project Lock v1 JSON object.
SPX-J125	--write could not stage or rename the lock.

Usage errors of lock exit with status 2 and a semaprax lock --help hint.

Evidence and nonclaims

tests/project.rs::project_lock_v1 pins: byte-identical renders, digest recomputation from the payload bytes, the program root equal to the revision check prints, digest-only source rows, the default target rows, the --write round trip and its idempotence, --verify success and the missing-lock rejection, source drift and manifest drift each failing with SPX-J123 and the exact drifted field list, foreign and directory locks failing with SPX-J124, check passing unaffected with and without a lock, the interface kinds for the scalar, command, and owned-data profiles, and the usage and scoped-help contracts.

The lock does not resolve, acquire, or cache dependencies, does not execute any target, and carries no effect, license, SBOM, provenance, or signature facts. Those remain the subjects of Offline Semantic Lock v3, Offline Resolver v2, and the reserved tables of Package Manifest v1.