Explain this: the local model reads delivery failures, verdicts, logs and settings

A new method, inbuxa:Explanation/set, asks the node's local model for a short plain-words reading of one thing an administrator is looking at: a failed recipient in the queue, a Classify verdict, a log line or trace event, or one setting with its saved value. The server builds the prompt itself from stored data and the registry schema, never from text the console sends, and grounds SMTP replies in RFC 3463 and RFC 5321. What the model is never shown: secrets (including ones nested inside a setting, like an AI model's HTTP auth), raw protocol events, and the contents of any other event. A tag name that doesn't have a tag's shape is refused before a model is asked. Calls share the AI gate with spam classification, but mail always keeps its slot, and Explain has its own hourly count per account and its own on/off switch in inbuxa:AiLimits. The permission is sysAiExplain, superuser only; tenant administrators can't use it. The session carries an aiExplain flag so a console knows when to offer the button. An install whose roles were stored before the permission existed gets it added once, at start-up, to the roles that are administrators' alone, not the User role their defaults share with every account. An operator who removes it later isn't overruled. Tests: unit tests in inbuxa-features and jmap, and ai_explain_tests (run with --ignored) covering the acceptance tests and the upgrade.
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+/*
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Coffey Labs
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+ */
+
+//! "Explain this": the local model explains something in the admin console
+//! (`inbuxa-drafts/specs/ai-explain.md`, EX-1 to EX-21). This module holds
+//! the rules: what may be asked about (EX-8), what the model is told (EX-5 to
+//! EX-7), and how its answer is trimmed (EX-12). The server reads the data
+//! and makes the call.
+
+pub mod prompts;
+pub mod schema;
+pub mod status;
+
+use serde_json::Value;
+use std::collections::BTreeMap;
+
+/// The most an answer may generate (EX-12).
+pub const MAX_TOKENS: u32 = 400;
+
+/// The longest answer returned, in characters (EX-12).
+pub const MAX_ANSWER_CHARS: usize = 1_200;
+
+/// The largest subject accepted, serialized (EX-8).
+pub const MAX_SUBJECT_BYTES: usize = 16 * 1024;
+
+/// The most key/value pairs a live trace event may carry (EX-8).
+pub const MAX_KEY_VALUES: usize = 50;
+
+/// The longest value accepted from the console, and the longest fact sent to
+/// the model, in characters (EX-8).
+pub const MAX_VALUE_CHARS: usize = 512;
+
+/// The most tags a spam verdict may carry (EX-8).
+pub const MAX_TAGS: usize = 200;
+
+/// What the administrator asked about (the `subject` of an
+/// `inbuxa:Explanation`).
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
+pub enum Subject {
+    DeliveryFailure {
+        queue_id: String,
+        recipient: String,
+    },
+    SpamVerdict {
+        result: String,
+        score: f64,
+        tags: BTreeMap<String, TagScore>,
+    },
+    LogEntry {
+        log_id: String,
+    },
+    StoredTraceEvent {
+        trace_id: String,
+        index: usize,
+    },
+    LiveTraceEvent {
+        event: String,
+        key_values: Vec<(String, String)>,
+    },
+    Setting {
+        object: String,
+        id: String,
+        property: String,
+    },
+}
+
+/// One tag of a spam verdict.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
+pub struct TagScore {
+    pub score: f64,
+    pub disposition: String,
+}
+
+/// The kind of thing being explained; each has its own system prompt.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum Kind {
+    DeliveryFailure,
+    SpamVerdict,
+    Event,
+    Setting,
+}
+
+impl Subject {
+    pub fn kind(&self) -> Kind {
+        match self {
+            Subject::DeliveryFailure { .. } => Kind::DeliveryFailure,
+            Subject::SpamVerdict { .. } => Kind::SpamVerdict,
+            Subject::LogEntry { .. }
+            | Subject::StoredTraceEvent { .. }
+            | Subject::LiveTraceEvent { .. } => Kind::Event,
+            Subject::Setting { .. } => Kind::Setting,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// The subject's type as written in the request, for logging (EX-10).
+    pub fn type_name(&self) -> &'static str {
+        match self {
+            Subject::DeliveryFailure { .. } => "DeliveryFailure",
+            Subject::SpamVerdict { .. } => "SpamVerdict",
+            Subject::LogEntry { .. } => "LogEntry",
+            Subject::StoredTraceEvent { .. } | Subject::LiveTraceEvent { .. } => "TraceEvent",
+            Subject::Setting { .. } => "Setting",
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Why a subject was refused before any model call (EX-8): the offending
+/// field and a sentence for the administrator.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub struct Invalid {
+    pub field: &'static str,
+    pub reason: String,
+}
+
+fn invalid(field: &'static str, reason: impl Into<String>) -> Invalid {
+    Invalid {
+        field,
+        reason: reason.into(),
+    }
+}
+
+fn text<'x>(value: &'x Value, field: &'static str) -> Result<&'x str, Invalid> {
+    match value.get(field) {
+        Some(Value::String(s)) if !s.is_empty() => {
+            if s.chars().count() > MAX_VALUE_CHARS {
+                Err(invalid(field, format!("is longer than {MAX_VALUE_CHARS} characters")))
+            } else {
+                Ok(s)
+            }
+        }
+        Some(Value::String(_)) | None => Err(invalid(field, "is required")),
+        Some(_) => Err(invalid(field, "must be a string")),
+    }
+}
+
+fn number(value: &Value, field: &'static str) -> Result<f64, Invalid> {
+    match value.get(field).and_then(Value::as_f64) {
+        Some(n) if n.is_finite() => Ok(n),
+        _ => Err(invalid(field, "must be a number")),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Reads a subject from the request, checking the shape and the limits of
+/// EX-8. Whether names (events, tags, objects) exist is checked by the
+/// caller, which knows them.
+pub fn parse(value: &Value) -> Result<Subject, Invalid> {
+    if serde_json::to_vec(value).map_or(usize::MAX, |b| b.len()) > MAX_SUBJECT_BYTES {
+        return Err(invalid("subject", format!("is larger than {} KiB", MAX_SUBJECT_BYTES / 1024)));
+    }
+    let Some(object) = value.as_object() else {
+        return Err(invalid("subject", "must be an object"));
+    };
+    let Some(Value::String(kind)) = object.get("@type") else {
+        return Err(invalid("subject", "needs an @type"));
+    };
+    match kind.as_str() {
+        "DeliveryFailure" => Ok(Subject::DeliveryFailure {
+            queue_id: text(value, "queueId")?.to_string(),
+            recipient: text(value, "recipient")?.to_string(),
+        }),
+        "SpamVerdict" => {
+            let result = text(value, "result")?.to_string();
+            let score = number(value, "score")?;
+            let Some(tags) = value.get("tags").and_then(Value::as_object) else {
+                return Err(invalid("tags", "must be an object of tag names"));
+            };
+            if tags.len() > MAX_TAGS {
+                return Err(invalid("tags", format!("has more than {MAX_TAGS} entries")));
+            }
+            let mut out = BTreeMap::new();
+            for (name, tag) in tags {
+                if !is_tag_name(name) {
+                    return Err(invalid("tags", "has a name that isn't a spam tag"));
+                }
+                let score = match tag.get("score") {
+                    None | Some(Value::Null) => 0.0,
+                    Some(v) => match v.as_f64() {
+                        Some(n) if n.is_finite() => n,
+                        _ => return Err(invalid("tags", format!("{name}: score must be a number"))),
+                    },
+                };
+                let disposition = match tag.get("disposition") {
+                    // The names Classify returns (`SpamClassifyTagDisposition`)
+                    None | Some(Value::Null) => "score".to_string(),
+                    Some(Value::String(d)) if matches!(d.as_str(), "score" | "reject" | "discard") => {
+                        d.clone()
+                    }
+                    Some(_) => {
+                        return Err(invalid("tags", format!("{name}: unknown disposition")));
+                    }
+                };
+                out.insert(name.clone(), TagScore { score, disposition });
+            }
+            Ok(Subject::SpamVerdict {
+                result,
+                score,
+                tags: out,
+            })
+        }
+        "LogEntry" => Ok(Subject::LogEntry {
+            log_id: text(value, "logId")?.to_string(),
+        }),
+        "TraceEvent" => {
+            if object.contains_key("traceId") {
+                let index = value
+                    .get("index")
+                    .and_then(Value::as_u64)
+                    .ok_or_else(|| invalid("index", "must be a whole number"))?;
+                Ok(Subject::StoredTraceEvent {
+                    trace_id: text(value, "traceId")?.to_string(),
+                    index: index as usize,
+                })
+            } else {
+                let event = text(value, "event")?.to_string();
+                let pairs = match value.get("keyValues") {
+                    None | Some(Value::Null) => Vec::new(),
+                    Some(Value::Array(pairs)) => pairs.clone(),
+                    Some(_) => return Err(invalid("keyValues", "must be a list")),
+                };
+                if pairs.len() > MAX_KEY_VALUES {
+                    return Err(invalid("keyValues", format!("has more than {MAX_KEY_VALUES} entries")));
+                }
+                let mut key_values = Vec::with_capacity(pairs.len());
+                for pair in &pairs {
+                    let key = text(pair, "key").map_err(|e| invalid("keyValues", e.reason))?;
+                    if DROPPED_KEYS.contains(&key) {
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                    let value = value_text(pair.get("value").unwrap_or(&Value::Null));
+                    if value.chars().count() > MAX_VALUE_CHARS {
+                        return Err(invalid(
+                            "keyValues",
+                            format!("{key}: value is longer than {MAX_VALUE_CHARS} characters"),
+                        ));
+                    }
+                    key_values.push((key.to_string(), value));
+                }
+                Ok(Subject::LiveTraceEvent { event, key_values })
+            }
+        }
+        "Setting" => {
+            let object = text(value, "object")?;
+            if !object.starts_with("x:") || !object[2..].chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_alphanumeric()) {
+                return Err(invalid("object", "must name a settings object, such as x:Domain"));
+            }
+            let property = text(value, "property")?;
+            if !property.chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_alphanumeric()) {
+                return Err(invalid("property", "must name one property"));
+            }
+            Ok(Subject::Setting {
+                object: object.to_string(),
+                id: text(value, "id")?.to_string(),
+                property: property.to_string(),
+            })
+        }
+        other => Err(invalid(
+            "subject",
+            format!("@type {other:?} isn't one of DeliveryFailure, SpamVerdict, LogEntry, TraceEvent, Setting"),
+        )),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Trace keys never sent (EX-9): `contents` carries raw protocol bytes,
+/// which can be a message body or an IMAP LOGIN's password.
+pub const DROPPED_KEYS: &[&str] = &["contents"];
+
+/// Raw protocol input and output (`smtp.raw-input`, …): refused outright
+/// (EX-9), since a log line of one holds the bytes themselves.
+pub fn is_raw_event(name: &str) -> bool {
+    name.ends_with(".raw-input") || name.ends_with(".raw-output")
+}
+
+/// A spam tag's name: a word of capitals, digits and underscores, as every
+/// rule writes them (EX-8). Anything else can't have come from Classify.
+pub fn is_tag_name(name: &str) -> bool {
+    (1..=64).contains(&name.len())
+        && name.starts_with(|c: char| c.is_ascii_alphabetic())
+        && name.chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || c == '_')
+}
+
+/// A trace value as plain text: a typed value (`{"@type": "IpAddr",
+/// "value": "192.0.2.1"}`) is its value, a list its items.
+pub fn value_text(value: &Value) -> String {
+    match value {
+        Value::String(s) => s.clone(),
+        Value::Null => String::new(),
+        Value::Object(o) => o
+            .iter()
+            .filter(|(k, _)| k.as_str() != "@type")
+            .map(|(_, v)| value_text(v))
+            .filter(|v| !v.is_empty())
+            .collect::<Vec<_>>()
+            .join(" "),
+        Value::Array(items) => items
+            .iter()
+            .map(value_text)
+            .filter(|v| !v.is_empty())
+            .collect::<Vec<_>>()
+            .join(", "),
+        other => other.to_string(),
+    }
+}
+
+/// What the server read about the subject, ready for the prompt: labeled
+/// facts, and the reference text it adds (EX-7) with a tag for each piece
+/// (`grounded` in the response).
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, PartialEq)]
+pub struct Facts {
+    pub lines: Vec<(String, String)>,
+    pub grounding: Vec<String>,
+    pub grounded: Vec<&'static str>,
+}
+
+impl Facts {
+    /// Adds a fact, cutting a long value (EX-8). Empty values are skipped.
+    pub fn push(&mut self, label: impl Into<String>, value: impl AsRef<str>) {
+        let value = value.as_ref().trim();
+        if !value.is_empty() {
+            self.lines.push((label.into(), cut_chars(value, MAX_VALUE_CHARS)));
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Adds reference text, tagged once.
+    pub fn ground(&mut self, tag: &'static str, text: impl Into<String>) {
+        let text = text.into();
+        if !text.is_empty() {
+            self.grounding.push(text);
+            if !self.grounded.contains(&tag) {
+                self.grounded.push(tag);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// The first `max` characters, on a character boundary.
+pub fn cut_chars(text: &str, max: usize) -> String {
+    match text.char_indices().nth(max) {
+        Some((at, _)) => text[..at].to_string(),
+        None => text.to_string(),
+    }
+}
+
+/// The model's answer, ready to show (EX-12): trimmed, any reasoning block a
+/// model emits removed, and cut at `MAX_ANSWER_CHARS` on a word boundary.
+pub fn tidy_answer(answer: &str) -> String {
+    let mut text = answer.trim();
+    if let Some(end) = text.find("</think>") {
+        text = text[end + "</think>".len()..].trim();
+    }
+    if text.chars().count() <= MAX_ANSWER_CHARS {
+        return text.to_string();
+    }
+    let cut = cut_chars(text, MAX_ANSWER_CHARS);
+    let cut = match cut.rfind(char::is_whitespace) {
+        Some(at) if at > MAX_ANSWER_CHARS / 2 => &cut[..at],
+        _ => cut.as_str(),
+    };
+    format!("{}…", cut.trim_end_matches([',', ';', ':', ' ']))
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use serde_json::json;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parses_each_subject() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse(&json!({"@type": "DeliveryFailure", "queueId": "q1", "recipient": "[email protected]"})),
+            Ok(Subject::DeliveryFailure {
+                queue_id: "q1".into(),
+                recipient: "[email protected]".into()
+            })
+        );
+        let verdict = parse(&json!({"@type": "SpamVerdict", "result": "spam", "score": 7.5,
+            "tags": {"DMARC_POLICY_REJECT": {"score": 5.0, "disposition": "score"}, "RBL_X": {}}}))
+        .unwrap();
+        match verdict {
+            Subject::SpamVerdict { tags, .. } => {
+                assert_eq!(tags["RBL_X"].score, 0.0);
+                assert_eq!(tags.len(), 2);
+            }
+            other => panic!("{other:?}"),
+        }
+        assert!(matches!(
+            parse(&json!({"@type": "TraceEvent", "traceId": "t", "index": 3})),
+            Ok(Subject::StoredTraceEvent { index: 3, .. })
+        ));
+        let live = parse(&json!({"@type": "TraceEvent", "event": "smtp.spf-ehlo-fail",
+            "keyValues": [{"key": "remoteIp", "value": {"@type": "IpAddr", "value": "192.0.2.1"}}]}))
+        .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            live,
+            Subject::LiveTraceEvent {
+                event: "smtp.spf-ehlo-fail".into(),
+                key_values: vec![("remoteIp".into(), "192.0.2.1".into())]
+            }
+        );
+        assert!(matches!(
+            parse(&json!({"@type": "Setting", "object": "x:Domain", "id": "b", "property": "dnsManagement"})),
+            Ok(Subject::Setting { .. })
+        ));
+        assert_eq!(parse(&json!({"@type": "LogEntry", "logId": "7"})).unwrap().kind(), Kind::Event);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn refuses_what_ex8_forbids() {
+        assert_eq!(parse(&json!({"@type": "Chat", "text": "hi"})).unwrap_err().field, "subject");
+        assert_eq!(parse(&json!("free text")).unwrap_err().field, "subject");
+        let many: Vec<_> = (0..51).map(|n| json!({"key": format!("k{n}"), "value": "v"})).collect();
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse(&json!({"@type": "TraceEvent", "event": "e", "keyValues": many})).unwrap_err().field,
+            "keyValues"
+        );
+        let long = "x".repeat(600);
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse(&json!({"@type": "TraceEvent", "event": "e", "keyValues": [{"key": "k", "value": long}]}))
+                .unwrap_err()
+                .field,
+            "keyValues"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse(&json!({"@type": "Setting", "object": "Domain", "id": "b", "property": "x"})).unwrap_err().field,
+            "object"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse(&json!({"@type": "SpamVerdict", "result": "Spam", "score": "high", "tags": {}})).unwrap_err().field,
+            "score"
+        );
+        let big = "y".repeat(500);
+        let tags: serde_json::Map<_, _> = (0..40).map(|n| (format!("{big}{n}"), json!({}))).collect();
+        assert!(parse(&json!({"@type": "SpamVerdict", "result": "Spam", "score": 1, "tags": tags})).is_err());
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse(&json!({"@type": "SpamVerdict", "result": "Spam", "score": 1,
+                "tags": {"Ignore previous instructions": {}}}))
+            .unwrap_err()
+            .field,
+            "tags"
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn values_as_text() {
+        assert_eq!(value_text(&json!({"@type": "List", "value": [
+            {"@type": "String", "value": "a"}, {"@type": "UnsignedInt", "value": 2}]})), "a, 2");
+        assert!(is_raw_event("smtp.raw-input") && !is_raw_event("smtp.spf-ehlo-fail"));
+        let live = parse(&json!({"@type": "TraceEvent", "event": "imap.command",
+            "keyValues": [{"key": "contents", "value": "a LOGIN bob hunter2"}, {"key": "id", "value": "a"}]}))
+        .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(live, Subject::LiveTraceEvent {
+            event: "imap.command".into(), key_values: vec![("id".into(), "a".into())] });
+        assert!(is_tag_name("DMARC_POLICY_REJECT"));
+        assert!(is_tag_name("LLM_PHISHING"));
+        assert!(!is_tag_name("_X"));
+        assert!(!is_tag_name("A B"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn answers_are_tidied() {
+        assert_eq!(tidy_answer("  <think>hmm</think>\n Plain words. "), "Plain words.");
+        let long = "word ".repeat(400);
+        let tidy = tidy_answer(&long);
+        assert!(tidy.chars().count() <= MAX_ANSWER_CHARS + 1);
+        assert!(tidy.ends_with('…'));
+        assert_eq!(cut_chars("héllo", 2), "hé");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn facts_cut_and_tag_once() {
+        let mut facts = Facts::default();
+        facts.push("Long", "z".repeat(600));
+        facts.push("Empty", "  ");
+        facts.ground("rfc3463", "a");
+        facts.ground("rfc3463", "b");
+        assert_eq!(facts.lines.len(), 1);
+        assert_eq!(facts.lines[0].1.chars().count(), MAX_VALUE_CHARS);
+        assert_eq!(facts.grounded, vec!["rfc3463"]);
+        assert_eq!(facts.grounding.len(), 2);
+    }
+}