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System Limits Reporter (The Honesty Protocol)

Architecture: Deterministic Boundary Validation

Summary: The System Limits Reporter (also known as the "Honesty Protocol") is a specialized static analysis sensor. Its sole purpose is to detect structural anomalies, dynamic routing, and legacy architectural patterns that compromise the deterministic mathematical mapping of the repository.

The "Ancient Dragons"

Certain legacy COBOL commands fundamentally break modern Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) analysis because they alter the execution flow or memory structure at runtime. The reporter scans line-by-line (ignoring standard punch-card comments) to flag these critical limiters:

1. The ALTER Statement (CRITICAL)

  • Detection: ALTER ... TO PROCEED TO ...
  • Architectural Impact: The ALTER statement dynamically rewrites the target of a GO TO jump during runtime. This mathematically compromises the control flow graph. The static AST cannot guarantee where the execution will route, completely blinding the Microservice Slicer.

2. CICS Asynchronous Jumps (CRITICAL)

  • Detection: EXEC CICS HANDLE CONDITION
  • Architectural Impact: This command establishes asynchronous error routing. If a specific condition occurs anywhere in the program, the execution flow instantly jumps to an error-handling paragraph, bypassing the static DAG. This breaks topological execution sorting.

3. Macro Substitution (HIGH)

  • Detection: COPY ... REPLACING
  • Architectural Impact: While the Graveyard Reaper attempts to actively resolve and expand copybooks, heavy macro substitution means the static source code may drift significantly from the actual compiled execution path.

Master Audit Integration

When the orchestrator runs, the System Limits Reporter acts as a strict verification gateway. * If no anomalies are detected, the pipeline certifies that the DAG is "100% mathematically deterministic." * If anomalies are detected, the engine refuses to fail silently. It aggregates the specific files, line numbers, and severity codes into the Master Audit Report, explicitly flagging the repository as requiring human architectural review or autonomous LLM remediation before the modernization can be trusted.



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