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Split out of #626. Stacked on #639 (both touch platform.py and test_service_config.py); retarget to main once that merges.

A platform-only run (default KAS, no km instances) lost settings that were only ever written onto the km instances:

  • EC/hybrid wrapping — services.kas.preview.ec_tdf_enabled / hybrid_tdf_enabled are now set on the generated platform config, so ec-wrapped and pqc cells run instead of skipping green.
  • Root key — a template with no services.kas.root_key now gets one generated into the platform config, which is where every KAS reads it. A pinned key is left alone (golden-TDF fixtures are encrypted against it). A generated key is carried over from the previous generated config on later starts, so restart platform doesn't rotate it out from under running KAS instances, keys in Postgres, or an exported OT_ROOT_KEY.
  • KAS fails fast — a KAS started without a root key now fails at start() with a start_error naming root_key, instead of surfacing as cipher: message authentication failed at decrypt time minutes later.

Tests: otdf-local/tests/test_service_config.py.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Enabled previews for EC and hybrid TDF formats.
    • Generated KAS root keys are retained across restarts, while keys explicitly configured in a template remain unchanged.
  • Bug Fixes
    • KAS startup reports a clear error when its required root key is missing or empty.
    • Invalid configuration no longer interrupts an already-running KAS or platform service during startup or restart.
    • Configuration file errors now identify the affected file, and updates are saved more safely.

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Platform and KAS configuration generation now handles KAS root keys and preview flags. YAML helpers report parse and nested-value errors. Platform and KAS startup and restart run configuration preflight before stopping existing processes.

Changes: Platform and KAS Configuration

Layer / File(s) Summary
YAML configuration support
otdf-local/src/otdf_local/utils/yaml.py, otdf-local/tests/test_yaml.py
YAML parsing errors include the file path. Saving replaces the target file after dumping. Nested updates create mappings for missing or null values and reject scalar or list intermediates. Tests cover these cases.
Platform config generation
otdf-local/src/otdf_local/services/platform.py, otdf-local/tests/test_service_config.py
Platform config generation enables KAS EC and hybrid TDF preview flags. It generates a root key when needed, preserves a template-pinned key, and reuses a generated key across regeneration. Tests cover key handling, logging, and template isolation.
Configuration preflight before service shutdown
otdf-local/src/otdf_local/services/base.py, otdf-local/src/otdf_local/services/platform.py, otdf-local/src/otdf_local/services/kas.py, otdf-local/tests/test_service_config.py, otdf-local/tests/test_startup_failures.py
Platform and KAS startup and restart validate configuration before stopping existing processes. KAS config generation rejects a missing or empty platform root key. Tests cover preflight failures without stopping a running service or killing a process on the KAS port.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: abarabash-virtru

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Regenerating a restricted platform config can make its root key readable to other local users. Preserve the file mode before merging, or accept this bounded risk.

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Split out of #626.

`otdf-sdk-mgr install platform` puts the platform source at
`xtest/platform/src/<ref>/`, but
`otdf_local.config.settings._find_platform_dir` only looked for a
`platform/` sibling of an ancestor of `xtest` (the hand-cloned
`tests/platform/`). An installed platform was invisible to `otdf-local
up` unless `OTDF_LOCAL_PLATFORM_DIR` was set by hand.

- **Discovery** knows both layouts. The sibling checkout still wins when
it exists; one installed ref is used; several installed refs are an
error naming `OTDF_LOCAL_PLATFORM_DIR` rather than an arbitrary pick.
The bare `platform.git` is excluded by shape (needs
`docker-compose.yaml` + `opentdf-dev.yaml`), not by name.
- **`opentdf.yaml` seeding.** It is gitignored in the platform repo and
made by hand in the manual setup, so an installed worktree has none and
`up` died with a bare `FileNotFoundError`. It is now seeded once from
the committed `opentdf-dev.yaml` — before the first generation, since
generation also *writes* `opentdf-dev.yaml`; without a pristine copy
each run's output would become the next run's input.

Known gaps (from review, not addressed here):
- `install_helper_scripts` creates `xtest/platform/src/scripts--main`,
which has platform shape, so it counts as a second ref after a scenario
install.
- The ambiguity error is raised while building `Settings`, so it fails
every `otdf-local` command, including `env`.

#641 builds on this.


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* **Bug Fixes**
* Docker restart now reports startup errors and exits unsuccessfully
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* Platform discovery now checks for required configuration files,
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* Configuration generation now preserves an existing template or creates
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A config that fails validation (e.g. no services.kas.root_key) used to
stop a working KAS and then return False. Generate the config first so
a bad config leaves the running instance alone -- for the platform as
well as KAS, and on restart as well as start (Service.restart runs a
_preflight before stop()).

Config problems now all arrive as OSError/ValueError and are reported via
start_error: load_yaml wraps ruamel parse errors in a ValueError naming
the file, set_nested raises ValueError rather than TypeError, and a KAS
started before the platform config exists says to start the platform
first. save_yaml writes atomically, and an unreadable previous platform
config is an error rather than a reason to mint a new root key.

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def save_yaml(path: Path, data: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
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"""Save data to a YAML file, preserving formatting.

Writes a sibling temp file and renames it over `path`, so an interrupted
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Preserve the existing configuration mode during replacement.

When PlatformService regenerates opentdf-dev.yaml during up or restart, the generated data can contain services.kas.root_key. save_yaml creates the temporary file with open(partial, "w"), so a 0600 target can become 0644 under umask 022 after partial.replace(path). Other local users can then read the root key. Set the temporary file mode from the existing target before writing the secret.

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Stages are milestones, not pull requests. Records the stack each stage lands
as, with branch names; runs stages 2 and 3 as parallel tracks from main, since
they share no imports; and adds a size budget and refactor-first rule to the
merge discipline.

Also brings the plan up to date: the work that landed as separate fixes
(#638, #640, #641, #647), #622's payload sizes, item 7's move into stage 3,
the neutral-nightly gap (DSPX-5260), and scratch-disk scheduling (DSPX-5253).

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… record benchmark arms (#626)

## TL;DR

Adds **`otdf-sdk-mgr install benchmark <sdk> <ref>...`**: one command
that resolves any number of SDK refs (releases, branches, SHAs, `pr:N`)
to commits, installs them side by side under `xtest/sdk/<sdk>/dist/`,
and writes a manifest recording exactly which commit is in each
directory. It makes comparing SDK variants a local, one-command job
instead of a CI dispatch or a hand-built set of `dist/` directories. It
is part 2c of the [DSPX-4372-t1
plan](#657), based on `main` now
that #667 and #668 (the manifest contract) have merged, and it is the
preparation step CI will share (#660).

## Why: quicker local testing of multiple SDK variants

Today, there are two ways to compare SDK builds:

- **Dispatch the xtest workflow with `run-benchmarks`.** That is about
45 minutes per SDK per attempt, and a mis-set input (`main` rather than
`main latest`) spends the whole run before it says so.
- **Reproduce locally**, per `xtest/perf/README.md`: "whatever two
builds you want, side by side under `sdk/<name>/dist/`". You install
each build yourself and need to know:
- whether each ref is a release or a source build, and the right `--ref`
for it;
- which directory it will land in: `pr:123` builds into
`refs--pull--123--head`, and `otdfctl/v0.24.0` and `v0.24.0` share
`dist/v0.24.0`;
  - how to provision `otdfctl` and the platform separately.

Nothing records which commit a directory holds. A `dist/main` left from
last week is measured, and labelled, as today's `main`.

With this PR:

```bash
otdf-sdk-mgr install benchmark go v0.38.0 main pr:123 --platform main --otdfctl v0.38.1
```

- **Any number of variants in one command.** Refs are kept in order, and
the first one is the reference. Stage 3 (#658) measures up to four.
- **Fails fast.** Every ref, and the `--otdfctl` pin, is resolved to a
full commit before anything builds, so a mistyped branch or tag costs a
lookup rather than minutes of compilation. Two refs that would share one
`dist/` directory at different commits are rejected before either
builds. (A full SHA is not checked to exist; see Follow-ups.)
- **Doesn't measure a commit against itself.** If every ref resolves to
one commit, preparation stops with `neutral` instead of benchmarking A
against A.
- **Cheap re-runs.** A source build records its commit in
`dist/<slug>/.version` and is reused only when that record matches.
Re-running after pushing to a branch rebuilds the branch, not
everything. The record is all it checks, so after a hand `make` of local
edits, delete `dist/<slug>` (the README says so).
- **A manifest instead of hand-built env vars.**
`xtest/sdk/benchmark.installed.json` records, for each arm, the
requested alias, repository, commit, `dist/` directory and install
method, plus the platform and `otdfctl` pins. `otdf-local env` exports
its path and the `otdfctl` pin (#642), and from #670 `pytest --bench`
reads the arms from it. Until then, name the arms with
`--bench-baseline`/`--bench-candidate`, as the README now says. CI runs
this same command (#660), so a local result and a CI result come from
the same preparation.

## What's in this PR

- **`install benchmark`** (`cli_install.py`, `bench_prepare.py`)
resolves, checks for collisions, installs releases via `install_release`
and source refs via `cmd_tip`, then installs the platform and the
`otdfctl` pin.
- **Separate provisioning pin.** `--otdfctl` is recorded apart from the
measured arms. It joins the collision check only when it shares the
arms' `dist/` tree, which is only the case for Go.
- **Collision and neutral checks** run before anything builds. They,
`dist_slug`, and the manifest's data model are in #668; this PR is the
command that uses them.
- **Manifest** (schema `v1alpha1`, defined in #668). The status is
`success`, `neutral`, `partial` or `failed`, with a `status_message`:
- `failed` means nothing was installed; `partial` means some installs
completed but not all.
- The manifest is written on every exit path, an exception or Ctrl-C
included.
  - The exit code is 0 for `success` or `neutral`, 1 otherwise.

**Size.** About 640 non-test lines, over the plan's ~400-line budget.
About 315 of them are code; the rest are docstrings, comments and the
README section. Resolution, installation and the manifest's exit paths
are one command: a PR that resolved without installing would ship a
command that does nothing. Two thirds of the diff is tests.

**Since the first review:**
- Java release arms resolved nothing, because the wrong tag infix was
used. Fixed.
- The manifest now has one write site: `status` is required, reads check
`schema_version`, and writes create the parent directory and replace the
file atomically.
- JS release arms land in `dist/vX.Y.Z`.
- `platform` is rejected as an SDK.
- The platform pin records the directory it was installed to.
- A first-arm failure is now `failed`, not `partial`.

**Since review of #668:**
- **Abbreviated commits are rejected.** A ref that resolves to a commit
that isn't a full SHA (in practice, an abbreviated SHA that no branch,
tag or PR head points at) now fails before anything installs: "give the
full commit SHA for …", with a `failed` manifest and exit code 1.
Before, `abc1234` and its own full SHA weren't recognised as one build,
so the commit was built twice and reported as `success`. Reusing a
`dist/` directory and detecting a moved ref now compare full SHAs
exactly.
- An empty ref list fails instead of writing a `success` manifest with
no arms. Every manifest written sets `metadata.sdk` and passes #668's
strict reader.
- Platform and `otdfctl` install failures are caught narrowly
(`PlatformInstallError`, `BenchPrepareError`, `OSError`). Anything else
aborts with its traceback, and the manifest records `partial`
"Preparation aborted", as arm installs already did. A platform whose
`.version` has no full commit is `partial`.

**Since the 2026-10-29 review:**
- An arm whose stale `dist/` cannot be removed (`OSError`) is now
`failed`/`partial` with the error, like the `otdfctl` pin, rather than
"Preparation aborted".
- If the *first* manifest write fails, the CLI no longer prints
"Manifest: …" pointing at an earlier run's file. `prepare_benchmark`
raises `BenchPrepareError` for that case. `RuntimeError` is no longer
caught around the whole run: `xtest/sdk` is located up front,
`--manifest` or not.
- The CLI tests now go through Typer (`CliRunner().invoke(install_app,
…)`), so a lost registration or renamed option fails them. They also
assert a clean `typer.Exit`, since `CliRunner` reports an uncaught
exception as exit 1 too.
- New tests:
- npm-only js releases: one version is `neutral` ("whose commit is
unknown"), two versions are not;
  - a dist of unknown provenance is emptied before rebuilding;
  - an arm `OSError`;
  - a failed final write.
- Comments: two were wrong and are now corrected:
- the repeated-builds example `v0.38.0 main` is in fact neutral, so it
is now `v0.38.0 main pr:123`;
- the `otdfctl` pin "never provisions the fixtures it is measured
against" contradicted `check_collision`.

Stale ones fixed: js tags are `sdk-vX.Y.Z`; the go fallback affects
`v0.30.x`, not "older tags"; the java Makefile sources
`java/<slug>.env`. The `# type: ignore` is gone, and the CLI help
example now uses `v0.38.0`/`v0.38.1`.
- README:
- says reuse trusts `.version`, and that a release `dist/` is reused as
is;
  - says a full SHA is not checked;
  - says `pytest --bench` doesn't read the manifest yet.

**Validation** (on this commit):
- `uv run pytest` 404 passed; ruff check, ruff format and pyright are
clean, with no `noqa` or `type: ignore`.
- Each new test was checked against a deliberate break of the code it
covers: the unregistered command, the missing `rmtree`, the uncaught arm
`OSError`, the unwrapped first write and the neutral message all fail at
least one test.
- Live, from an empty `xtest/sdk/go`:
- `install benchmark go v0.38.0 main --otdfctl v0.38.1` gave `success`,
exit 0. The arms were `v0.38.0` at `308002c2` (release) and `main` at
`ef874839` (source). `dist/main/.version` matches `git -C src/main
rev-parse HEAD`. The pin was `v0.38.1` at `99b51145`.
- The same command re-run gave `success` in 1.4 s, with nothing rebuilt.
- `install benchmark go 0e4b0d1 main` gave `failed`, "give the full
commit SHA for 0e4b0d1", with exit 1 and no arms.
- `--manifest` under a regular file gave "Error: cannot write the
manifest …", exit 1, and no "Manifest:" line.
- The platform pin (`--platform`) was not exercised live on this commit;
its last live run predates the review fixes.

## Stack ([DSPX-4372-t1
plan](#657))

Two parallel tracks from `main`; they share no imports and meet in stage
5.

| Part | PR | Base |
|---|---|---|
| 2a: bare-repo and js install fixes | #667 (merged) | `main` |
| 2b: manifest contract | #668 (merged) | `main` |
| 2c: `install benchmark` | **#626 (this PR)** | `main` |
| 2d: `otdf-local env` exports | #642 | 2c |
| 3a: arms as a tuple | #669 | `main` |
| 3b: two to four arms | #658 | 3a |
| 3c: pytest reads the manifest | #670 | 3b |
| 4: candidate-to-candidate conclusions | #659 | 3c |
| 5, 6: CI and report | #660, #661 | not yet moved onto these stacks |

#667 and #668 were split out of this PR so the fixes and the contract
can be reviewed on their own. Split out of an earlier version so they
could land first: #638, #639, #640 and #641, all merged. #647, the
golden-key configuration CI needs once `otdf-local` starts the platform,
is still open.

**Related, independent of this stack:** #684 makes go release installs
put a real `otdfctl` binary in `dist/`. Before it, a go release arm ran
`go run` on every call (about 370 ms wall and 1 s CPU, against 54 ms for
the binary), while source-built candidates ran a binary. That made
release baselines look slower than they are.

## Follow-ups

None of these blocks merge. All but the "Re-run" message are now noted
in the code or the README.

- **Go repository URL.** Go arms are all recorded under the monorepo
URL. The monorepo carries `otdfctl/v0.10.0`–`v0.29.0` at the archived
repo's commits, but not `v0.30.x`, which `resolve` answers from the
archived repo. That makes `v0.30.x` arms the ones recorded with a commit
the monorepo lacks. The fix needs `resolve` to report the repo it
matched.
- **Fallback on any error.** Go resolution falls back to the archived
otdfctl repo whenever the monorepo lookup fails, so a transient error
can resolve `main` or `pr:N` against the wrong repo. A source arm then
fails the read-back, but the error says "the ref moved".
- **Unhelpful "Re-run" advice.** "The ref moved… Re-run" is wrong for a
worktree that `is_mutable_ref` treats as fixed (full SHAs; web-sdk
`release/x.y.z` branches). Checkout never resets those, so a re-run
fails the same way. The message should name `src/<slug>` and say to
delete it.
- **Reuse trusts `.version`.** The SDK Makefiles rebuild into
`dist/<slug>` without touching `.version`, and `_built_commit` doesn't
check for a dirty worktree. The README now tells users to delete the
directory; a code check (`git status --porcelain`, a binary hash) would
be better.
- **Release dists reused as is.** A release arm adopts an existing
`dist/<tag>` (`install_release`'s skip), including a half-finished
install.
- **Full SHAs unverified.** A typo fails at checkout after the arms
before it have built, giving `partial`.
- **`--platform` not resolved up front.** It is not resolved before the
arms build: `--platform latest` becomes `service/vlatest` and fails
after every build. The release/source label for the pin is also a
`startswith("v")` guess; both installers build from source.

**Downstream:** #642 is rebased onto this commit with no conflicts (it
touches only `otdf-local` and `xtest/perf/README.md`). Its local-run
example uses `--otdfctl v0.30.0`, one of the `v0.30.x` tags above;
`v0.38.1` would avoid that.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added an `install benchmark` command to prepare SDK benchmarks from
ordered references, with optional platform and CLI tool artifacts.
* Benchmark preparation validates references and installation conflicts,
reuses matching builds, and records progress and results in a manifest.
Results distinguish successful, neutral, partial, and failed
preparations.
* **Documentation**
* Added guidance for preparing benchmarks and troubleshooting common
test failures.

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Signed-off-by: Dave Mihalcik <dmihalcik@virtru.com>
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