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Why

Policy evaluation needs one configured metadata source to return acquired facts through a dedicated hook. Ordinary hook dispatch would run every metadata.fetch handler, and policy-mode route resolution returns no ordinary plugin chain, so a source the caller already named would never run.

Closes #240.

Changes

• Add the unphased metadata.fetch hook, with MetadataFetchRequest and MetadataFetchResult. The request names one plugin instance and carries the acquired-facts record the handler returns. Framework code still validates, stamps, and installs that record.
• Let a payload name its target plugin. invoke, invoke_named, and invoke_by_name then dispatch only that instance and skip route filtering. A missing instance denies with plugin.not_found.
• Keep the capability-filtered extension view. A handler cannot install a metadata record by writing MetadataExtension; a forged record is dropped on the way back.
• Reject a handler whose hook family is not metadata, both on direct registration and on configuration load.
• Document metadata.fetch in the pipeline hook table.

APL fetch(name), route scheduling, and an HTTP metadata source stay out of scope.

Test plan

• cargo test -p praxis-policy-core --lib metadata
• cargo test -p praxis-policy-core --lib hooks::
• make check and make lint
• CI on this pull request

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added metadata fetching from a specifically selected source, with returned facts checked and added to the policy evaluation process.
  • Requests for a source that isn’t available are denied.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance on metadata fetching, including how source selection and returned facts are handled.

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• crates/ppe-core/src/engine.rs
• crates/ppe-core/src/hooks/metadata.rs
• crates/ppe-core/src/hooks/payload.rs
• crates/ppe-core/src/hooks/types.rs
• crates/ppe-core/src/lib.rs
• crates/ppe-core/src/metadata.rs
• crates/ppe-core/src/plugin.rs
• crates/ppe-core/src/prelude.rs
• docs/content/pipeline.md

Walkthrough

The change adds a typed metadata.fetch hook for acquiring facts from a named source. The engine filters targeted dispatch to the matching plugin instance, while untargeted dispatch retains route-based filtering. Registry tests, source-dispatch tests, and pipeline documentation are updated.

Changes: Metadata fetch dispatch

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Metadata hook contract and registration crates/ppe-core/src/metadata.rs, crates/ppe-core/src/hooks/metadata.rs, crates/ppe-core/src/hooks/types.rs, crates/ppe-core/src/lib.rs, crates/ppe-core/src/prelude.rs, crates/ppe-core/src/plugin.rs, docs/content/pipeline.md	The crate defines and registers the typed metadata.fetch hook. The public exports and pipeline documentation describe named source selection and the request/result contract.
Named dispatch and source validation crates/ppe-core/src/hooks/payload.rs, crates/ppe-core/src/engine.rs, crates/ppe-core/src/metadata.rs	Payloads can specify a target plugin. All three invocation entry points dispatch to matching entries and return plugin.not_found when no matching hook entry exists. Tests cover direct, typed, dynamic, and configuration-based dispatch, capability filtering, and hook-family validation.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant PolicyEngine
  participant MetadataSource as metadata.fetch source
  Caller->>PolicyEngine: Submit MetadataFetchRequest with instance name
  PolicyEngine->>MetadataSource: Dispatch to matching plugin instance
  MetadataSource->>PolicyEngine: Return request with acquired facts
  PolicyEngine->>Caller: Return PipelineResult

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Possibly related issues

• praxis-proxy/policy issue 184 — This implements the framework hook layer of the external-metadata feature; HTTP fetching and APL execution remain outside this change.
• praxis-proxy/policy issue 248 — The hook and protected result-installation boundary are provided for the metadata HTTP adapter.
• praxis-proxy/policy issue 241 — The change supports named dispatch and result return, but does not add APL scheduling.
• praxis-proxy/policy issue 277 — The named-source fetch pipeline is implemented as a prerequisite; the demo still needs APL execution and an HTTP adapter.
• praxis-proxy/policy issue 245 — The hook returns acquired facts for later assertion rendering.
• praxis-proxy/policy issue 242 — The tests cover metadata capability filtering and reject direct metadata-record replacement.
• praxis-proxy/policy issue 243 — The hook adds the acquired-facts result and installation path for later policy-engine projections.

Suggested reviewers: araujof

Merge Risk: Low · up to 6a63b

The identified concerns do not show a failure of named metadata dispatch, but the cloning and convention issues remain for the owner to address.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning · 1 inconclusive

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 25.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 36 functions across 8 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Linked Issues check		Issue #240 coding objectives are implemented in the reviewed changes. The PR adds typed metadata.fetch request/result types, named dispatch, plugin.not_found denial, capability filtering, forged-r…	Provide verifiable results for the affected crates' default and all-feature tests, formatting, and clippy checks.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: adding named-source dispatch for the metadata.fetch hook.
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes remain within issue #240. Engine target filtering supports named metadata-source dispatch. Metadata types, registration validation, capability tests, catalog updates, and pipeline document…

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changes remain within issue #240. Engine target filtering supports named metadata-source dispatch. Metadata types, registration validation, capability tests, catalog updates, and pipeline documentation implement or verify the issue objectives. No APL fetch(name), route scheduling, HTTP source, or unrelated feature appears in the reviewed scope.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 25.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 36 functions across 8 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #240 coding objectives are implemented in the reviewed changes. The PR adds typed metadata.fetch request/result types, named dispatch, plugin.not_found denial, capability filtering, forged-record rejection, hook-family validation, direct and factory registration tests, and hook documentation. The available evidence does not establish that the affected crates passed the required default/all-feature tests, formatting, and clippy checks. The test plan lists checks but does not report their results.

Resolution

Provide verifiable results for the affected crates' default and all-feature tests, formatting, and clippy checks.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/ppe-core/src/engine.rs:
- Line 2347: In the targeted branches of invoke_by_name, invoke, and
invoke_named, move the owned vector returned by entries_for_target into the Arc
instead of cloning all_entries with to_vec(). Preserve the existing borrowed
all_entries behavior in the else branches.
- Line 2299: In the targeted-not-found branches of invoke_by_name, invoke, and
invoke_named, remove the payload clone and move the already-owned payload into
finish’s denial result; preserve the existing behavior of the surrounding return
paths.

Review comments at @crates/ppe-core/src/metadata.rs:
- Around line 63-71: Update from_pipeline_result to return Option<&Self> and
remove the clone so callers can borrow metadata; clone only at the caller that
installs the record into extensions, where ownership is required.
- Around line 257-266: Add explanatory failure messages to the new assertions in
this metadata test, including the continuation, source call-count, metadata, and
response checks; make call-count messages identify which source should or should
not be dispatched. Apply the same treatment to matching new assertions in the
module.
- Line 104: Replace the allow lint suppression on the test module with an expect
suppression for clippy::expect_used and clippy::unwrap_used, retaining the
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• crates/ppe-core/src/engine.rs
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• crates/ppe-core/src/lib.rs
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