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+# Engine change-scoped analysis (G2 workstream)
+
+Status: **proposed / in progress** (opened 2026-10-11). Owner: engine. Tracks a concrete lever for the
+engine-detection gap found while driving the G0 baseline. This is G2 ("improve what moves the unseen-repo
+numbers"), gated on the pool metric; it is NOT part of the G0 record-07 baseline (that runs on the quick-rule tier).
+
+## Problem (measured, not assumed)
+
+On real unseen vulnerability changes the engine produces **no finding** — but the diagnosis (live, 300 s long-deadline
+replays) shows it is usually **not a detection-capability gap**:
+
+- **Clean Python injection change** (`aws/bedrock-agentcore-sdk-python`, `install_packages`, introducing, 3-file
+  diff): `wall=303 s`, hit the deadline. The ranker found candidates (`static_rank=1.0`) but **`selected: []`** and
+  every candidate `deferred` with `reason: deadline_exhausted`, `analysis_not_started=deadline_exhausted`,
+  `change_context_incomplete`. **Zero analyses ran.** And the ranked candidates were **repo-wide and unrelated to
+  the push** (`auth.py` access_control/config_secrets), not the changed `install_packages`. The engine is trying to
+  re-audit the whole repo and runs out of budget before analyzing the change.
+- **Noisy last_touch config_secrets change** (`jenkinsci/metrics-plugin`, 14-file diff): finished in 206 s but
+  `comparison_unknown` + `capability_unavailable` + `eligibility_provenance_mismatch` +
+  `contributor-scan ... projection_unavailable`. Multi-causal; correspondence was one part (fixed separately,
+  commit c39fbb8), capability registry is Task 8.3.
+
+## Hypothesis
+
+A pre-push hook should vet **the code this push changed**, not re-scan the whole repository. Seeding/scoping the
+engine's analysis to the **changed declarations and their dataflow neighborhood** (the `change_sites` are already in
+the replay spec) should let analysis **actually run within budget** instead of being deferred — which is where
+detection is being lost, not in Joern's capability.
+
+## Anchors (confirm in increment 1)
+
+- `src/openultrasast/rank.py` — the static-evidence ranker (`ranking_mode="evidence"`, `existing-static-evidence-v1`).
+- `src/openultrasast/mapping.py` — builds the `selected`/`deferred` scope + the budget allocation that defers on
+  `deadline_exhausted`.
+- `src/openultrasast/push/policy.py`, `push/runner.py` — consume the scope; change_sites arrive via the push input.
+- `benchmarks/unseen/replay_entry.py` — carries `changed_paths` / `declaration_paths` in the spec.
+
+## Increments (progress tracking)
+
+- [ ] **0. Confirm the cost split.** Instrument one replay (bedrock) to measure CPG-build vs rank vs analysis time
+  within the 300 s budget. If the **CPG build** alone exhausts it, scoping the analysis won't help (needs a build-time
+  or budget fix instead); if **ranking the whole repo** is the overspend (candidates got ranked, so the build likely
+  finished), change-scoping is the right lever. Decides the whole approach — do this first (instrument rule).
+- [ ] **1. Locate the exact selection/budget code** in `rank.py`/`mapping.py` that marks candidates
+  `selected` vs `deferred:deadline_exhausted`.
+- [ ] **2. Seed analysis from the change.** Prioritize (or restrict first-pass to) the changed declarations plus
+  their call/data neighborhood over repo-wide static rank, within budget.
+- [ ] **3. Soundness.** Keep cross-file dataflow INTO the changed function (don't scope to literal changed lines);
+  add tests; keep existing push tests green.
+- [ ] **4. Live re-test.** Re-run the bedrock change: does analysis now RUN and produce a finding on
+  `install_packages` (vs `deferred`)? Re-run metrics-plugin.
+- [ ] **5. Measure the delta.** Engine-arm sample on the pool (catch/false-alarm + engine-coverage rate) — needs the
+  kube lane (blocked on the AX completion path) for scale.
+
+## Dependencies / notes
+
+- Coverage `complete_within_scope` also needs the capability registry (Task 8.3) regardless of this work; the win
+  here is findings moving from `comparison_unknown`/deferred to a decided novelty → advisory engine finding.
+- Implement directly and verify on the LIVE instrument (a fake-client/unit pass is not evidence the live engine
+  changed); the kube-lane and store endpoints are operator-owned infra, not assumptions to make here.
+</content>
diff --git a/.kiro/steering/roadmap.md b/.kiro/steering/roadmap.md
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@@ -97,6 +97,19 @@ Candidates, each admitted only if it improves the pool metric on a fresh slice:
 (approved plan, now one arm, not the spine), engine coverage and TypeScript, decision-engine prompt and retrieval
 changes, more labelled pairs from more distinct repositories.
 
+Active G2 workstreams (2026-10-11, opened while driving G0; progress tracked in their briefs):
+
+- **Change-scoped engine analysis** (`.kiro/specs/engine-change-scoped-analysis/brief.md`). Live diagnosis on the
+  frozen pool showed the engine's "no finding" on unseen changes is usually *analysis-never-runs*: the engine ranks
+  repo-wide candidates and `deferred: deadline_exhausted` before analyzing anything (even at 300 s), and the ranked
+  sites are unrelated to the pushed change. Lever: seed analysis from the change's declarations + dataflow
+  neighbourhood (`rank.py`/`mapping.py`) so it runs within budget. Increment 0 (confirm CPG-build-vs-analysis cost
+  split) gates the rest. Scale measurement needs the kube lane.
+- **Line-correspondence (done, necessary-not-sufficient).** `snapshot.py` discarded base↔head anchors on
+  non-globally-unique lines → `comparison_unknown` → suppressed findings; fixed to run-aware anchoring
+  (commit c39fbb8, 163 tests). Removes one cause; coverage still needs change-scoped analysis + the capability
+  registry (Task 8.3).
+
 **G3. Decide BLOCK per family** on the pool's false-alarm rate and the pooled precision bound (Req 6.4).
 
 **G4. Detection on push for any repository** (`plane-on-kubernetes` P4 work: `ousast plane scan --base --head`,