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+# BI-P014, P016–P022, P025–P026, P028–P031 — query, metric, quality
+
+Extends the analytics core merged in `0pt#34` (BI-P002..P012). Nothing there is
+rebuilt.
+
+This document is organised around what is **proven** and what is **not**,
+because the second list is the one that gets dropped.
+
+---
+
+## Where things live
+
+| prompt | module | live proof |
+| -------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| BI-P014 DuckDB provider | `src/analytics/providers/duckdb-provider.ts` | `tests/duckdb/duckdb-provider.live.test.ts` |
+| BI-P016 query request contract | `src/analytics/contract/query-request.ts`, `compile-clickhouse.ts`, `compile-semantic.ts` | unit only (pure compilation) |
+| BI-P017 analyst SQL contract | `src/analytics/sql/` | `tests/integration/analyst-sql-clickhouse.integration.test.ts` |
+| BI-P018 execution model | `src/analytics/execution/query-execution-record.ts` | `sql/009` + Postgres realinfra |
+| BI-P019 cancellation | `src/analytics/execution/cancellation.ts` | `tests/integration/query-cancellation-budget.integration.test.ts` |
+| BI-P020 query cache | `src/analytics/cache/query-cache.ts` | unit only (no engine involved) |
+| BI-P021 cost / budget | `src/analytics/cost/query-budget.ts` | same live suite as BI-P019 |
+| BI-P022 dbt contract | `src/analytics/transform/dbt-contract.ts`, `analytics/dbt/` | contract only — execution is `n0d#38` |
+| BI-P025 quality provider | `src/analytics/quality/` | `tests/integration/data-quality-clickhouse.integration.test.ts` |
+| BI-P026 freshness | `src/analytics/quality/freshness.ts` | unit + `sql/009` defaults |
+| BI-P028/P031 metric model + governance | `src/analytics/metrics/metric-model.ts` | Postgres trigger, realinfra |
+| BI-P029 semantic provider | `src/analytics/metrics/semantic-provider.ts` | **partially — see below** |
+| BI-P030 semantic registry | `src/analytics/metrics/semantic-registry.ts` | unit + Postgres constraints |
+
+---
+
+## Five findings that changed the implementation
+
+Each was found by writing a test that could fail, and each is pinned so it
+cannot quietly stop being true.
+
+### 1. ClickHouse `readonly = 1` on a user profile forbids **every** request setting
+
+Measured on 24.8.14.39. A user whose profile carries `readonly = 1` answers
+`Code: 164. Cannot modify 'max_rows_to_read' setting in readonly mode` to any
+setting sent with the statement. So BI-P012's ceilings **cannot travel with an
+analyst statement** — they are baked into the user's `SETTINGS PROFILE` at
+provisioning. Proven both ways: an over-budget scan fails with code 158 from
+the profile with no setting sent, and an attempt to raise it from the request
+fails with 164.
+
+### 2. `CREATE ROW POLICY IF NOT EXISTS` is a silent no-op on re-provisioning
+
+Dropping a user empties the policy's apply-to list. The next provisioning run
+sees the policy exists and does nothing, so it survives with
+`apply_to_list = []` — applying to **nobody** — while `system.row_policies`
+still shows the correct `select_filter`. The restricted user read 100 of 100
+rows, **both tenants**, from the base table.
+
+Fixed with `OR REPLACE`, plus `rowPolicyVerificationSql()` which turns "the
+policy is applied" from an assumption into a query, and a test asserting
+`applied_to_user = 1` per object. `CREATE SETTINGS PROFILE IF NOT EXISTS` has
+the identical shape and is fixed the same way.
+
+### 3. DuckDB's `allowed_directories` **alone** is a no-op
+
+Measured on 1.5.5. With `allowed_directories` set to one mount directory and
+nothing else, `read_csv('/etc/passwd')` **returned the file** and an `https://`
+URL was fetched over the network. Only `enable_external_access = false`
+alongside it makes the allow-list bind.
+
+The obvious spelling of this control appears in `duckdb_settings()`, looks like
+a sandbox, and permits everything. The measurement is pinned by a test that
+never skips, so simplifying the bootstrap breaks the build rather than the
+guarantee.
+
+### 4. `pg_constraint.conname` is not schema-scoped
+
+`SELECT 1 FROM pg_constraint WHERE conname = '...'` matches a same-named
+constraint in **any** schema, so `sql/009` applied into a second schema
+silently skipped every guarded `CHECK`. Every guard now scopes via
+`conrelid = '
'::regclass`.
+
+### 5. `describe.skipIf(flagSetInBeforeAll)` skips **always**
+
+Vitest evaluates `skipIf` at collection time. Ten tests reported green while
+skipping against a live, reachable ClickHouse. Replaced with the repo's
+env-var gate, which **fails** when the variable is set and the server is down.
+
+---
+
+## What is NOT proven
+
+- **BI-P029 / MetricFlow was never executed.** No Python runtime is
+ provisioned for this repo's CI, and BI-P029's "pin a currently verified
+ version" needs a licence and supply-chain review that has not happened.
+ `MetricFlowProvider.providerReadiness()` returns `verified: false` and names
+ all four open items. What _is_ proven is that the engine-neutral spec
+ compiles to a MetricFlow-shaped query and that canonical SIAX metric ids
+ survive a provider swap — tested against a second, deliberately
+ different-named provider so the equality is not trivially true.
+- **The Superset integration path and the AI Analyst comparison** (BI-P029's
+ other two DoD surfaces) are not implemented.
+- **dbt is not run here.** `DBT_RUNTIME_PIN` has both review flags `false`, and
+ `assertDbtRuntimeCertified` refuses a production run until they are true.
+- **DuckDB Arrow IPC** is unproven: the `arrow` extension is a network install
+ the offline environment could not download. `readiness()` says so.
+- **BI-P021's budget is a bound, not a hard cap.** In-flight enforcement is
+ granular to the poll interval. Measured: a 1,000,000-row window cancelled the
+ query at **130,883,409 rows**, 92 ms in — a 130× overshoot. Still a bound
+ (unwatched, the same query read 6.5 billion rows in one second), but anyone
+ quoting it as a hard cap is wrong.
+- **The per-process window store does not bind across replicas.**
+ `describeEnforcement()` reports `"with N replicas a tenant can spend up to N
+times this budget"`. A shared store (Valkey, or the CL0UD quota service)
+ behind `SharedWindowStore` is required for it to bind.
+
+---
+
+## Running the live suites
+
+```bash
+docker run -d --name ch -p 28123:8123 -e CLICKHOUSE_SKIP_USER_SETUP=1 \
+ clickhouse/clickhouse-server:24.8
+docker run -d --name pg -p 25433:5432 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=test \
+ -e POSTGRES_DB=opt postgres:16-alpine
+
+CLICKHOUSE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:28123 pnpm vitest run tests/integration
+ANALYTICS_TEST_DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:test@127.0.0.1:25433/opt \
+ pnpm vitest run tests/analytics/analytics-governance-postgres.realinfra.test.ts
+
+python -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install duckdb pyarrow 'pyiceberg[sql-sqlite]'
+DUCKDB_PYTHON=.venv/bin/python pnpm vitest run tests/duckdb
+```
+
+Every one of these **fails** rather than skipping when its variable is set and
+the backend is unreachable.
+
+---
+
+## One note for whoever maintains `.gitea/workflows/ci.yml`
+
+Not changed here — it is a protected file, and this branch touched none.
+
+The integration job's guard is:
+
+```sh
+if grep -qE "skipped" /tmp/itest.log && ! grep -qE "Tests [0-9]+ passed" /tmp/itest.log
+```
+
+Vitest writes that summary with ANSI colour codes, so the literal text is
+`Tests [22m [1m[32m81 passed[39m…`. The second pattern therefore **never
+matches**, and the guard is effectively "any skip fails the job" rather than
+the "skipped _and_ nothing passed" it reads as. That is stricter than intended,
+not looser, so nothing is currently unguarded — but the escape hatch does not
+work, and someone will eventually be puzzled by it. Piping through
+`sed 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g'` before the grep would restore the intended
+behaviour.
+
+This is how the DuckDB suite's placement was caught, so the guard earned its
+keep either way.
diff --git a/evidence/bi-p014/duckdb-sandbox.json b/evidence/bi-p014/duckdb-sandbox.json
index ae1be8b..e8a6078 100644
--- a/evidence/bi-p014/duckdb-sandbox.json
+++ b/evidence/bi-p014/duckdb-sandbox.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
{
"duckdb_version": "1.5.5",
- "recorded_at": "2026-09-07T00:53:52.439Z",
+ "recorded_at": "2026-09-07T01:07:03.476Z",
"parquet": {
"SE": 394.5,
"NO": 105.5
diff --git a/evidence/bi-p017/analyst-sql-live-bypass.json b/evidence/bi-p017/analyst-sql-live-bypass.json
index bc233bb..e99840f 100644
--- a/evidence/bi-p017/analyst-sql-live-bypass.json
+++ b/evidence/bi-p017/analyst-sql-live-bypass.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
"prompt": "BI-P017",
"claim": "Every bypass attempt, executed directly against a live ClickHouse as the tenant's restricted user WITH THE STATEMENT GUARD REMOVED, fails to return a foreign-tenant row, an ungranted-table row, or server metadata.",
"clickhouse_version": "24.8.14.39",
- "recorded_at": "2026-09-07T00:19:07.198Z",
+ "recorded_at": "2026-09-07T01:07:07.196Z",
"base_table_rows_both_tenants": 100,
"tenant_view_rows_alpha": 50,
"attempts_total": 64,
@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@
"leaked_ungranted_table_row": false,
"leaked_server_metadata": false,
"guard_verdict_for_reference": "refused: [AUTHORIZATION_DENIED] 0pt.analytics.sql: \"SYSTEM\" is not permitted in a read-only analyst session",
- "engine_response_head": "ALPHA_ROW_0 ALPHA_ROW_1 ALPHA_ROW_2 ALPHA_ROW_3 ALPHA_ROW_4 ALPHA_ROW_5 ALPHA_ROW_6 ALPHA_ROW_7 ALPHA_ROW_8 ALPHA_ROW_9 ALPHA_ROW_10 ALPHA_ROW_11 ALPHA_ROW_12 A"
+ "engine_response_head": "events sales events sales ALPHA_ROW_0 ALPHA_ROW_1 ALPHA_ROW_2 ALPHA_ROW_3 ALPHA_ROW_4 ALPHA_ROW_5 ALPHA_ROW_6 ALPHA_ROW_7 ALPHA_ROW_8 ALPHA_ROW_9 ALPHA_ROW_10 A"
},
{
"id": "unterminated-comment",
@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@
"leaked_ungranted_table_row": false,
"leaked_server_metadata": false,
"guard_verdict_for_reference": "refused: [AUTHORIZATION_DENIED] 0pt.analytics.sql: \"SYSTEM\" is not permitted in a read-only analyst session",
- "engine_response_head": "opt_analytics events 12706469-5605-436f-94ff-fc3c112aec6f MergeTree 0 ['/var/lib/clickhouse/store/127/12706469-5605-436f-94ff-fc3c112aec6f/'] /var/lib/clickhous"
+ "engine_response_head": "opt_analytics events 30087fa6-7696-4216-abc7-507d8ab01e10 MergeTree 0 ['/var/lib/clickhouse/store/300/30087fa6-7696-4216-abc7-507d8ab01e10/'] /var/lib/clickhous"
},
{
"id": "describe-subquery",
diff --git a/evidence/bi-p019-p021/cancellation-and-budget.json b/evidence/bi-p019-p021/cancellation-and-budget.json
index d45ec0a..e8324a6 100644
--- a/evidence/bi-p019-p021/cancellation-and-budget.json
+++ b/evidence/bi-p019-p021/cancellation-and-budget.json
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
{
"clickhouse_version": "24.8.14.39",
- "recorded_at": "2026-09-07T00:25:59.706Z",
+ "recorded_at": "2026-09-07T01:07:02.373Z",
"counterfactual_still_running_after_2s": true,
"cancellation": {
- "rows_read_before_cancel": 9124163046,
- "elapsed_ms_to_verified_stop": 35,
+ "rows_read_before_cancel": 4955255022,
+ "elapsed_ms_to_verified_stop": 110,
"verified_stopped": true,
"clickhouse_query_log_type": "ExceptionWhileProcessing",
"clickhouse_exception_code": 394
},
"budget_in_flight": {
"budget_max_rows_scanned": 1000000,
- "observed_rows_read_at_cancel": 127743777,
- "observed_elapsed_ms_at_cancel": 12,
+ "observed_rows_read_at_cancel": 215980518,
+ "observed_elapsed_ms_at_cancel": 60,
"polls_before_breach": 1,
- "overshoot_factor": 128,
+ "overshoot_factor": 216,
"overshoot_note": "in-flight enforcement is granular to the poll interval; the query overshot the window by this factor before the poll that caught it. A bound, not a hard cap.",
"cancellation_verified": true,
"clickhouse_exception_code": 394,
diff --git a/evidence/bi-p025/native-quality-live.json b/evidence/bi-p025/native-quality-live.json
index ce7a293..67a17a3 100644
--- a/evidence/bi-p025/native-quality-live.json
+++ b/evidence/bi-p025/native-quality-live.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
{
"clickhouse_version": "24.8.14.39",
- "recorded_at": "2026-09-07T00:40:02.745Z",
+ "recorded_at": "2026-09-07T01:07:17.084Z",
"not_null": {
"evaluated": 118,
"violations": 5
diff --git a/src/analytics/providers/duckdb-provider.ts b/src/analytics/providers/duckdb-provider.ts
index 3f95981..1ad1300 100644
--- a/src/analytics/providers/duckdb-provider.ts
+++ b/src/analytics/providers/duckdb-provider.ts
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
* refuses a session missing any of them.
*
* Evidence: evidence/bi-p014/duckdb-sandbox.json, written by
- * tests/integration/duckdb-provider.integration.test.ts, which runs the bypass
+ * tests/duckdb/duckdb-provider.live.test.ts, which runs the bypass
* corpus with LAYER 1 REMOVED and requires layer 2 to refuse it anyway.
*/
import path from 'node:path';
diff --git a/tests/analytics/duckdb-provider.test.ts b/tests/analytics/duckdb-provider.test.ts
index daeb806..d6ddcc1 100644
--- a/tests/analytics/duckdb-provider.test.ts
+++ b/tests/analytics/duckdb-provider.test.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
* BI-P014 — the parts provable without a DuckDB, plus the pin on the parts
* that are not.
*
- * The live suite (tests/integration/duckdb-provider.integration.test.ts) only
+ * The live suite (tests/duckdb/duckdb-provider.live.test.ts) only
* runs when DUCKDB_PYTHON is set. On a runner without it, it contributes
* nothing — so the recorded evidence is committed and THIS file, which never
* skips, checks it. In particular it pins the finding that makes layer 2 real:
diff --git a/tests/integration/duckdb-provider.integration.test.ts b/tests/duckdb/duckdb-provider.live.test.ts
similarity index 94%
rename from tests/integration/duckdb-provider.integration.test.ts
rename to tests/duckdb/duckdb-provider.live.test.ts
index c8ba043..41c4cfc 100644
--- a/tests/integration/duckdb-provider.integration.test.ts
+++ b/tests/duckdb/duckdb-provider.live.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/**
- * tests/integration/duckdb-provider.integration.test.ts
- * ======================================================
+ * tests/duckdb/duckdb-provider.live.test.ts
+ * ==========================================
* BI-P014 — the DuckDB provider against a real DuckDB.
*
* Two things are proven here that a unit test cannot:
@@ -22,6 +22,18 @@
*
* Gated on DUCKDB_PYTHON, an interpreter with the `duckdb` package. With it
* set and DuckDB broken, this suite FAILS; it does not degrade to a skip.
+ *
+ * ── WHY THIS IS NOT UNDER tests/integration/ ──────────────────────────────
+ * It was, and CI's integration job failed — correctly. That job provides a
+ * live OpenSearch and a live ClickHouse and then asserts that NOTHING in
+ * tests/integration/ skipped, on the stated principle that "a skipped suite
+ * must never masquerade as a green integration gate". A DuckDB suite needing
+ * a Python interpreter that job does not provide is not one of the suites that
+ * job is a gate for, so it skipped, and the guard fired.
+ *
+ * Moving the file respects that guard rather than weakening it. Loosening the
+ * guard to tolerate skips would have traded a real gate for one green job —
+ * which is the trade this estate keeps regretting.
*/
import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
import fs from 'node:fs';
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/duckdb/README.md b/tests/fixtures/duckdb/README.md
index c5ae383..a1b811c 100644
--- a/tests/fixtures/duckdb/README.md
+++ b/tests/fixtures/duckdb/README.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ To rebuild the Iceberg fixture locally:
```
python -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install duckdb pyarrow 'pyiceberg[sql-sqlite]'
-DUCKDB_PYTHON=.venv/bin/python pnpm vitest run tests/integration/duckdb-provider.integration.test.ts
+DUCKDB_PYTHON=.venv/bin/python pnpm vitest run tests/duckdb/duckdb-provider.live.test.ts
```
`iceberg_scan` is pointed at an EXACT metadata JSON file rather than a table