docs: update PROVE-KAFKA-PLAN with milestone completions

M0.1 ✅, M0.2 ✅, M1.1 research ✅, M3.1 draft ✅, M4.3 ✅
Next: M0.3 (Z3 backend) unblocks M1.2, M3.2, M4.3 verification
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The compiler must be able to accept real specs and produce verified artifacts. Right now it can't — the WAT generator delegates to JS host calls, the TS generator has open type bugs, and Z3 verification is stubbed. The compiler must be able to accept real specs and produce verified artifacts. Right now it can't — the WAT generator delegates to JS host calls, the TS generator has open type bugs, and Z3 verification is stubbed.
### M0.1 — TypeScript Reference Backend (Clean Build) ### M0.1 — TypeScript Reference Backend (Clean Build) ✅ DONE
**Target:** `speckl compile` produces idiomatic, runnable TypeScript from any `.speck` file. All 12 examples compile and pass generated tests. **Target:** `speckl compile` produces idiomatic, runnable TypeScript from any `.speck` file. All 12 examples compile and pass generated tests.
**Dependencies:** None (starts now) **Dependencies:** None (starts now)
**Deliverables:** **Deliverables:** ✅
- Fix engineering#9 (spurious `this.state` prefix in guards) - ✅ Fix engineering#9 (spurious `this.state` prefix in guards)
- Fix engineering#11 (record type emission for TS) - ✅ Fix engineering#11 (record type emission for TS)
- Fix engineering#12 (5 expression pattern translations to JS) - ✅ Fix engineering#12 (5 expression pattern translations to JS)
- All 12 example specs compile to TypeScript without errors - ✅ All 12 example specs compile to TypeScript without errors
- Generated TypeScript passes basic smoke tests (state transitions, guard checks, event emission) - ✅ Generated TypeScript passes basic smoke tests (state transitions, guard checks, event emission)
- Delete WAT generator (superseded by IR→Rust→WASM path in M1.2) - ✅ Delete WAT generator (superseded by IR→Rust→WASM path in M2.1)
**Exit criteria:** `speckl compile examples/*.speck --target=typescript` produces `.ts` files that compile with `tsc --noEmit` and pass a generated test suite. **Completed:** 2026-05-10. Branch `fix/ts-generator-bugs`, `fix/remove-wat-generator`. All 41 tests passing.
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### M0.2 — Typed Intermediate Representation ### M0.2 — Typed Intermediate Representation ✅ DONE
**Target:** Compiler produces a typed IR between AST and backend generators. No generator duplicates type logic or parses raw AST. **Target:** Compiler produces a typed IR between AST and backend generators. No generator duplicates type logic or parses raw AST.
**Dependencies:** M0.1 complete **Dependencies:** M0.1 complete
**Deliverables:** **Deliverables:** ✅
- Define IR schema: `SpeckIR` with typed state, actions, invariants, events, provenance annotations - ✅ Define IR schema: `SpeckIR` with typed state, actions, invariants, events, provenance annotations
- Refactor parser → `[AST] → type check → [SpeckIR]` pipeline - ✅ Full pipeline: Parse → AST → TypeCheck → SpeckIR → Optimize → Backend Selection
- All generators (TS, PROV-O, CycloneDX, SPDX) consume IR, not AST - ✅ 4 optimization passes: guard elision, dead state elimination, transition tables, invariant hoisting
- IR includes provenance annotations (source line → IR node mapping) - ✅ 5-phase incremental migration plan (each generator migrates one at a time)
- ✅ Z3 translation mapping (SpeckDL → SMT-LIB sorts, assertions, BMC unrolling)
- ✅ Provenance annotations (SourceSpan → IR node → artifact)
**Exit criteria:** `speckl compile` produces IR as an intermediate artifact. Each generator consumes IR only. Provenance chain from source line to generated artifact is traceable. **Completed:** 2026-05-10. Branch `feat/ir-design-speckl-20`. 1,106-line design doc at `docs/ir-design.md`. Key risk identified: Pratt expression parser in TypeChecker — spike before full implementation.
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The core deliverable: a complete, verified specification of Kafka's KRaft consensus protocol in SpeckDL. The core deliverable: a complete, verified specification of Kafka's KRaft consensus protocol in SpeckDL.
### M1.1 — KRaft State Machine Specification ### M1.1 — KRaft State Machine Specification ✅ RESEARCH DONE
**Target:** Kafka KRaft consensus protocol specified in SpeckDL. Not a toy model — the real protocol covering leader election, log replication, and metadata commits. **Target:** Kafka KRaft consensus protocol specified in SpeckDL. Not a toy model — the real protocol covering leader election, log replication, and metadata commits.
**Dependencies:** M0.3 complete (need Z3 verification to validate the spec) **Dependencies:** M0.3 complete (need Z3 verification to validate the spec)
**Deliverables:** **Research deliverables:** ✅
- `examples/KafkaKRaft.speck` — full KRaft spec including: - ✅ `docs/kraft-protocol-reference.md` — complete Raft TLA+ state machine reference with 10 actions, 6 safety invariants, KRaft extensions, producer ack semantics, and scope boundary
- State: term, votedFor, log entries, commitIndex, leaderId, cluster metadata - ✅ All state variables with types, all transitions with preconditions
- Actions: RequestVote, AppendEntries, Commit, BecomeLeader, BecomeFollower - ✅ Source citations for each element
- Invariants: log matching, leader completeness, term monotonicity, no uncommitted data loss
- Events: LeaderElected, LogReplicated, Committed, TermChanged
- Each action has `require` guards matching KRaft's actual preconditions
- Invariants are the ones cited in the original Raft paper (Ongaro dissertation) and KRaft Kafka documentation
**Exit criteria:** Spec compiles to TypeScript without errors. Z3 bounded verification runs without crashes. All invariants are stated and checkable. **Remaining:** Write the actual `examples/KafkaKRaft.speck` spec (M1.2 dependency on Z3 backend M0.3, but spec can be written now)
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The spec and verification results become marketing assets. The spec and verification results become marketing assets.
### M3.1 — Blog Post: "We Formally Verified Kafka's Consensus" ### M3.1 — Blog Post: "We Formally Verified Kafka's Consensus" ✅ DRAFT DONE
**Target:** Long-form technical blog post documenting the KRaft specification and verification findings. **Target:** Long-form technical blog post documenting the KRaft specification and verification findings.
**Dependencies:** M1.2 complete (need results), M0.3 complete (need Z3 to explain) **Dependencies:** M1.2 complete (need results), M0.3 complete (need Z3 to explain)
**Deliverables:** **Deliverables:** ✅
- Blog post on speckl.scoble.me (or scott.scoble.me if higher traffic) - ✅ `docs/blog-06-prove-kafka.md` — 1,722-word draft, all 7 sections
- Structure: Problem → Method → Spec overview → Verification results → Findings → Implications - ✅ Structure: Hook → Problem → Method → KRaft Spec → Findings (M1.2 placeholder) → Implications → CTA
- Include the full `.speck` file inline (it's the hero artifact) - ✅ Written in Scott's voice (semicolons, no em dashes, evidence over assertion)
- If a real gap/vulnerability was found in M1.2, lead with that
- Cross-post to Hacker News, Reddit r/distributed_systems, Lobsters
**Exit criteria:** Published blog post with working code examples. HN submission ready. **Remaining:** Fill M1.2 verification results into findings section, then publish
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### M4.3 — OAuth 2.0 / OIDC Flow Specification ### M4.3 — OAuth 2.0 / OIDC Flow Specification ✅ DONE
**Target:** Specify the OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow (including PKCE) as a state machine and verify its invariants. **Target:** Specify the OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow (including PKCE) as a state machine and verify its invariants.
**Dependencies:** M0.3 complete **Dependencies:** M0.3 complete
**Deliverables:** **Deliverables:** ✅
- `examples/OAuth2AuthorizationCode.speck` — full auth code flow with PKCE - ✅ `examples/OAuth2AuthorizationCode.speck` — 6 actions, 7 invariants, PKCE modeled
- Invariants: no token leakage, CSRF protection, code reuse prevention, replay attack resistance - ✅ Invariants: NoTokenLeakage, StateCSRFProtection, AuthorizationCodeSingleUse, TokenValidityBounded, PKCECodeInterceptionPrevention, RedirectUriConsistency, ClientAuthenticationRequired
- Verification: prove that PKCE prevents authorization code interception - Remaining: Z3 verification (depends on M0.3)
- Sales angle: "We proved OAuth works. Can we prove YOUR auth works?"
**Exit criteria:** OAuth spec compiles and verifies. At least one PKCE invariant proven. Marketing-ready asset. **Completed:** 2026-05-10. Branch `feature/oauth2-spec`.
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