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Stack Encrypt is the Rust encryption engine behind the Go SDK. Today it can produce only one of EQL's 51 encrypted column types (EQL is the SQL that lets Postgres store and search encrypted values). The numbers, dates, timestamps and decimals are blocked on undecided byte formats, not on code. This PR records those decisions as ADR-0002, a decision record that lives in the repo, so the work that follows has one written reference rather than a forum thread.

It also fixes a gap the decisions exposed. Columns written by Stack Encrypt and columns written by cipherstash-client (the engine behind the TypeScript SDK) look identical to Postgres, but their search terms never match. The ADR gives Stack Encrypt its own EQL name, eql_v4, built from the same SQL, so Postgres refuses a mismatched query instead of silently returning no rows.

Docs only. No code, package or published surface changes.

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  • docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md (new) covers:
    • New value kinds: 8-, 16- and 128-bit integers, plus Date, Timestamp and Decimal, with their frozen ciphertext tags.
    • Canonical forms: one per kind, used for search terms (microsecond timestamps, normalised decimals, Postgres-style floats, NFC text with accent- and case-folded ordering).
    • Which kinds get which terms: Bool is ciphertext-only.
    • Where the code goes: term derivation moves into vitaminc (vitaminc-prf and a new vitaminc-ore), which deletes stack-encrypt's Scalar and dynamic::Value.
    • EQL v4: the v3 SQL emitted a second time with "v": 4 envelopes. One @cipherstash/eql package ships both, and stash eql install --eql-version picks between them.
  • docs/plans/2026-10-04-plan-builder.md previously defined "EQL v4" as a Stack Encrypt payload inside v3 domains. It now points at the ADR.

Verification

  • Every repo fact the ADR states was checked against origin/main, including:
    • which kinds stack-encrypt derives terms for today;
    • the existing tag table, and the transport tags that collide with it;
    • the VALUE->>'v' = '3' check on every v3 domain;
    • ADR-0001's rule on disposable schemas.
  • No build or tests were run, because nothing but Markdown changed.

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  • Start with "Options considered" and the EQL v4 section. Its relationship to ADR-0001 (data domains in public, disposable implementation schemas) is the subtlest point.
  • Deferred, and listed in the ADR:
    • block ORE for text, until ore-rs's variable-length scheme ships;
    • block ORE for Bool;
    • locale collation;
    • ASCII-packed text.
  • Out of scope: how existing v3 columns migrate to v4. That belongs to the decision that moves the TypeScript stack onto Stack Encrypt.

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  • Documentation
    • Added an accepted architecture decision describing the shared value and encoding model, EQL v4, and how Stack Encrypt uses it.
    • Clarified the distinction between EQL v3 payloads and EQL v4 envelopes and domains.
    • Documented compatibility considerations, including re-encryption when moving columns from v3 to v4, host-language conversion rules, and release sequencing.
    • Added a phased plan for migrating equality and order terms across the value, scheme, and application layers.

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The accepted ADR defines a shared value model, term encodings, Stack Encrypt integration, and separate EQL v3 and v4 producer domains. The plans describe the target term architecture, clarify EQL v4 naming, and outline migration phases.

Changes: Shared Value Model and EQL v4

Layer / File(s) Summary
Value model and term architecture
docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md, docs/plans/2026-10-11-order-and-equality-terms-layering.md
The ADR defines value kinds, payload layouts, term transforms, supported terms, and encoding responsibilities. The plan describes order and equality interfaces, value exhaustiveness options, and target dependencies.
Stack Encrypt integration and EQL producer domains
docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md, docs/plans/2026-10-04-plan-builder.md
The ADR describes Stack Encrypt’s term inputs, host-language binding rules, and producer-specific EQL bundles. The builder plan clarifies v4 envelopes and domains, and distinguishes cipherstash-client payloads in v3.
Release sequencing and deferred work
docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md, docs/plans/2026-10-11-order-and-equality-terms-layering.md
The documents describe release and migration phases, compatibility effects, re-encryption for columns moved to EQL v4, and deferred encodings and operators.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Other

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The changes document SQL behavior and binding rules but leave two inconsistencies for implementers. Runtime behavior is unchanged, so the risk is bounded, though clarifying the ADR before relying on it would reduce confusion.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md: Adds accepted status, dates, related ADRs, and a revision note describing the shared semantic baseline, per-domain transforms, and remaining open decision.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md: Describes the three encodings, prior gaps in supported kinds and term derivation, duplicated order logic, inconsistent producer encodings, and silent cross-producer mismatches in EQL.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md: Records the selected locations for the value model and order schemes, the dual-name SQL approach for separating producers, and the choice to ship v3 and v4 bundles in one package.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md: Defines new vitaminc kinds, renames FfiValue to Value with a deprecated alias, requires variants in every build, specifies deep cloning and frozen leaf tags, and documents payload layouts for integer, date, timestamp, and decimal values. Transport framing tags move from 0x10–0x12 to 0xF0–0xF2.
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statement: identify block ORE for text as the exception until ore-rs supports
variable-length input, while preserving the broader guarantee for other
supported kind-and-scheme combinations.
- Line 71: Update the ADR statement about comparing `eql_v4_*` query terms with
`eql_v3_*` columns: clarify that domain names do not prevent cross-version
operator resolution through the shared `jsonb` base type, and state that every
operator must check producer tags.
- Around line 90-91: Update the ADR’s claims about exhaustive matches: describe
per-layer handling plus the existing conformance test as the enforcement
mechanism for consistent kind support, and clarify that the test checks each
supported kind in every layer because the enums are non-exhaustive. Preserve the
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Pushed 98de071: the ADR claimed Postgres refuses an eql_v4 query term against an eql_v3 column at plan time. With both bundles installed in one database (Postgres 17), v3col = v4term actually plans as jsonb = jsonb and returns no rows silently, as mismatched pairs within v3 already do. Consequences now says where the protection stops (wrong-version inserts and the function form do fail loudly), and Deferred lists cross-version blocker operators, filed as #1160.

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Review of the ADR-0002 diff against main at 7f972b2c (the ADR, the layering plan, and the plan-builder edit). I checked the concrete claims against the repo and against the vitaminc, cllw-ore and orderable-bytes sources. These check out: the tag table and the transport tag collision, the six vitaminc crates, the 'v' = '3' domain checks, the latest dist-tag policy in npm-publish.mjs, the i16 PRF domain, and the Go widening in stashgen/emit.go. I have left out points already raised in earlier reviews: timestamp rounding, case-fold order, unassigned code points, BigInt term mismatch, Bool CLLW removal, Decimal NaN, #[non_exhaustive] versus exhaustive match, block ORE for text, and cross-version =.

The findings are ranked from most to least severe.

1. Major: lossy order transforms give wrong = results on numeric, date and timestamp _ord domains

Where: docs/plans/2026-10-11-order-and-equality-terms-layering.md:81-90 (and the ADR row it amends, ADR:120-123)

Problem: The plan lets each domain choose lossy order transforms "independently" of equality, for example "an exact timestamp for equality, the day for order". In the EQL SQL that v4 reuses unchanged, the numeric, date and timestamp _ord, _ord_ope and _ord_ore domains carry no hm. Their = is the order term:

  • packages/eql/src/v3/scalars/timestamp/timestamp_types.sql:69-77: the check requires op and no hm.
  • timestamp_ord_functions.sql:22-24: eql_v3.eq is ord_term(a) = ord_term(b).
  • integer_ord_ore_functions.sql:23-25: the same pattern.

skills/stash-indexing/SKILL.md:36 documents why: those order terms are injective, so equality can use them. A day-resolution order term on a timestamp_ord column makes = match every row from that day. The ADR (line 140) calls this kind of result a false match. The "independent" equality term would also be thrown away, because these domains have nowhere to store it.

Why it matters: The query returns wrong rows silently, the encoding is frozen once data is stored, and the index spec (#1063) will be built from this plan.

Fix: State that a non-injective order transform is allowed only on a domain that also stores an equality term and answers = through it. That is the text_ord shape (hm and op). Alternatively, decide that v4's lossy-order domains add hm and route = through eq_term. Whichever you choose, it changes the v4 SQL, which is no longer "the v3 SQL under a second name", so the ADR needs to say so too.

2. Major: the accepted ADR now takes its decisions from a document that says it is not a specification

Where: ADR:9-16; plan:3-8 and 119-190

Problem: The ADR's amendment says "where the two disagree, the plan wins". The plan's own banner says it "must not be used as a formal specification or as a reference for reviewing what was actually built ... the code wins". The plan also leaves open the ADR's central guarantee: that "a kind exists in every layer or in none" is enforced at compile time (Options 2, ADR:63-66). It is listed as an "Open decision" with a leaning only. Consequences (ADR:248-251) still says adding a kind is additive, but under approach A that becomes a breaking change.

Why it matters: An implementer reading the ADR (status accepted) has to diff it against the table at plan:260-271. On several points, including the canonical forms, where OrderScheme lives, the release order and exhaustiveness, the only authoritative text is in a document that disclaims authority.

Fix: Fold the amended decisions into the ADR body, or supersede it with ADR-0003. Keep the plan as the plan. Mark the exhaustiveness question as open in the ADR, or set the status to proposed until it is settled.

3. Major: --eql-version was deliberately removed, and the ADR brings it back without addressing that

Where: ADR:228-230 and 272-273

Problem: stash eql install currently rejects the flag. In languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/db/install.ts:35-41, --eql-version 2 gets the EQL 2.3.1 recovery message, and any other value gets "--eql-version has been removed. EQL v3 is now the only installable generation". skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md:397 documents that removal. The ADR also covers only eql install. stash eql migration is the preferred path, and on Supabase the only durable one (SKILL.md:420: "v3 only — there is no --eql-version here"). The ADR gives no way to get v4 through it.

Fix: Say that the flag is being re-added on purpose, and that 2 keeps its recovery message rather than becoming a plain invalid value. Say how stash eql migration, and the Supabase and Drizzle output it writes, select v4. Add stash eql migration to the CLI surface listed in Consequences.

4. Major: tooling keyed on the eql_v3_ prefix would treat eql_v4_* columns as plaintext

Where: ADR Consequences (241-276), which mentions only skills

Problem: Several detectors match the literal eql_v3_ prefix:

  • languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/init/lib/introspect.ts:67
  • languages/typescript/packages/wizard/src/tools/wizard-tools.ts:168
  • languages/typescript/packages/migrate/src/version.ts:45 (classifyEqlDomain, which stash status and encrypt status use)

The comment on introspect.ts calls this "the dangerous direction to be wrong in: an encrypted column shown as plaintext invites the caller to encrypt it a second time". The installer also hard-codes the disposable schema list as ('eql_v3', 'eql_v3_internal'), in installer/derived-search-index-restoration.ts:90-289 and installer/installation-state.ts:74-111. That is the ADR-0001 capture, rebuild and verify logic, so a v4 install or reinstall would capture and restore none of its own indexes.

Fix: List these in Consequences as work that must land with the first v4 bundle. At minimum, the "is this encrypted" predicates must recognise eql_v4_ before any v4 column can exist.

5. Major: the host-language mappings conflict with the rule that a target accepts exactly one plaintext kind and converts nothing

Where: ADR:196-204

Problem: eql-bindings refuses any value whose kind differs from the target's kind. packages/eql/crates/eql-bindings/src/encryption/targets.rs:186-188 says: "Nothing is converted: the stored bytes must be the declared kind's, and a conversion here would make them something else."

Under the ADR:

  • Go int8, uint8 and uint16 become Int8, UInt8 and UInt16. No Postgres integer type corresponds to those kinds, and the ADR does not say which EQL family, if any, each new kind feeds.
  • A JS BigInt becomes whichever kind is smallest for that particular value.

Under the current rule, most of these values would be refused by smallint, integer and bigint targets. Today they work because Go widens to Int32 (stashgen/emit.go:211-230). The date rule ("accepts time.Time, truncated") is a conversion, which the same invariant forbids. This is wider than the BigInt term-mismatch comment already on the PR. The mapping either breaks writes or needs a conversion rule the ADR does not define.

Fix: Add a kind-to-EQL-family table for the new kinds. Then pick one of two rules:

  • Option (a): each target declares the host kinds it accepts and the single kind it derives terms and the ciphertext from, which means relaxing the "nothing is converted" invariant on purpose.
  • Option (b): bindings choose the kind from the field's declared target, not from the host type.

6. Major: truncating a Go time.Time "to its UTC calendar day" changes the stored date for callers outside UTC

Where: ADR:200-201

Problem: Take time.Date(2026, 10, 12, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.Local) in UTC+11. Its UTC day is 2026-10-11. Go code usually builds dates at local midnight, and t.Date() uses the value's own location. The truncated value is what gets encrypted, so this is not only a term mismatch: the decrypted date is wrong, and nothing reports it.

Fix: Do one of the following:

  • Use t.Date() in the value's own location.
  • Refuse a time.Time that is not midnight UTC.
  • Accept only encrypt.Date for date targets.

7. Minor: the plan for one package with both bundles leaves out the release tooling that assumes one bundle

Where: ADR:84-89 and 226-227

Problem: "One package carrying both bundles needs neither" understates the work. The lockstep machinery keys on a single eql_v3 bundle:

  • The stamp is read from COMMENT ON SCHEMA eql_v3 in scripts/sync-lockstep-versions.mjs:309 and packages/eql/tasks/release/prepare-bindings-assets.sh:45.
  • There is one release-manifest.json per artefact (packages/eql/packages/eql/sql/, packages/eql/crates/eql-bindings/sql/). The CLI's bundle-digest.ts and eql-sql-asset-freshness.test.mjs verify against those manifests.

AGENTS.md notes that this is the path where a stale bundle ships with every digest still verifying. A v4 bundle needs its own stamp, its own manifest entry and its own freshness check, or v4 drift goes unnoticed. The postgres-eql image also needs a stated choice of which bundles it installs.

Fix: Add a Consequences bullet that lists these items.

8. Minor: the frozen tag table is less precise than the code that already implements it

Where: ADR:111-114

Problem: Non-Rust bindings must produce these exact leaf bytes:

  • The ADR says Date is "days counted from 0001-01-01 (num_days_from_ce)". chrono's num_days_from_ce returns 1 for 0001-01-01, and vitaminc's tags.rs on main says "0001-01-01 is day 1". A Go or JS implementer reading "counted from" will plausibly encode it as 0.
  • For Timestamp, vitaminc's tags.rs allows nanoseconds up to 1,999,999,999 at a leap second. The ADR does not mention that.
  • For Decimal, the ADR defers to a crate method. The flag layout (sign bit 31, scale in bits 16-23 and at most 28, other bits zero, then low, mid and high words) is written down only in vitaminc.

Fix: Copy the exact byte specification from tags.rs into the table, since the ADR is meant to be the one written reference.

9. Minor: the list of Stack Encrypt term changes is incomplete, and float equality reverses an earlier decision without explanation

Where: ADR:252-254, 47 and 149-150

Problem: Stack Encrypt's text ORE and OPE terms currently go through cllw-ore's orderize_string (cllw-ore-0.5.0/src/impls/string.rs:186-197). It decomposes to NFD and drops every character that is not alphanumeric, whitespace or ASCII punctuation, which removes symbols, emoji and non-ASCII punctuation as well as accents. It does not fold case. The new text order form folds case and keeps symbols, so every stored text order term changes, but Consequences does not list it. Line 47 describes the cllw-ore form as only "strips accents".

Separately, Stack Encrypt refuses equality terms for floats on purpose (packages/stack-encrypt/src/dynamic/term.rs:391-392: "equality on IEEE-754 values is a modelling error"). The ADR adds them without addressing that reasoning.

Fix: Add text order terms to the list of changes, correct line 47, and give one sentence on why float equality is now acceptable (the canonical NaN and -0.0 folding).

10. Minor: it is unclear how the deferred cross-version blocker operators survive a reinstall

Where: ADR:287-292

Problem: "Created by whichever bundle is installed second" does not say which schema owns the blockers. Under ADR-0001, a reinstall of either bundle starts with DROP SCHEMA … CASCADE. Depending on where the blockers live, that reinstall will either:

  • drop them silently, which reopens the cross-producer =;
  • try to create them again and conflict; or
  • be refused by the external-dependants check in derived-search-index-restoration.ts.

Fix: Before this is built, state which schema owns the blockers and how a reinstall of each bundle treats them.

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Pushed 137c23f, which answers the review above (inline threads answered separately).

  1. Lossy order transforms on _ord domains. New rule under "Equality and order may take different transforms": a non-injective order transform is allowed only on a domain that also stores an equality term and answers = through it (the text_ord shape). Such domains are new, v4-only targets, and the ADR says that is where v4's SQL first diverges from v3's. The layering plan carries the same rule.
  2. Authority. The plan's decisions are folded into the ADR body: semantic baseline plus per-domain transforms, vitaminc at the bottom, OrderScheme, PRF with no ordering dependency, orderable-bytes frozen, and the new release order. The "plan wins" banner is gone. Exhaustive handling of Value is an explicit "Open decision" section, and Consequences no longer claims adding a kind is additive. The plan now says the ADR is the reference and it keeps the steps.
  3. --eql-version. Reintroduced on purpose, on both eql install and eql migration, so the Drizzle and Supabase migration paths can select v4. --supabase grants on each bundle's schemas, and 2 keeps its EQL 2.3.1 message. Consequences lists eql migration.
  4. eql_v3_ prefix detectors. New Consequences bullet naming introspect.ts, wizard-tools.ts, classifyEqlDomain and the installer's hard-coded schema lists, as work that lands with the first released v4 bundle.
  5. Host mappings. Took option (b): the kind comes from the field's declared target, which keeps the "nothing below the binding converts" rule. Added a kind-to-EQL-family table. Int8, UInt8, UInt16, UInt32, UInt64, Int128, UInt128 and Bytes have no family yet. Go integers are accepted when they fit losslessly and range-checked otherwise.
  6. Go dates. time.Time into a date target takes t.Date() in the value's own location.
  7. Release tooling. New Consequences bullet: the stamp, manifests, freshness test, eql_bindings::sql constants, release upload and the postgres-eql image's choice.
  8. Tag table. The table is now byte-exact: Date is day 1 at 0001-01-01; the leap-second nanosecond rule; and the Decimal flag layout and word order.
  9. Term changes and float equality. Text order terms are added to the changes list. The problem statement now describes orderize_string accurately. There's a paragraph on why float equality is acceptable: after the baseline it is exactly Postgres's float8 =, checked on 17.5.
  10. Blockers. The v4 bundle owns them, in eql_v4_internal, against whichever eql_v3_* domains exist. A v4 reinstall recreates them and a v3 reinstall leaves them alone. --eql-version all installs v3 first.

Decisions I made that you may want to revisit: option (b) in item 5, the step order of the text fold, letting unassigned code points pass through rather than refusing them, and v4 as the owner of the blockers.

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@docs/adr/0002-one-value-model-three-encodings-and-eql-v4-by-producer.md:
- Around line 480-481: Update the cross-producer query statement in the
deferred-work section to include qualified `OPERATOR(public.=)` queries among
the exceptions, consistent with the documented `not unique` behavior.
Alternatively, explicitly limit the existing claim to unqualified `=` queries
that can silently return no rows.
- Around line 301-324: Update the kind table and Go mapping in the ADR to make
clear that the seven non-EQL integer kinds and Bytes have no defined Stack
Encrypt target name or target-to-kind mapping. State that Go int8, int16, and
int32 map to Int32, while uint8, uint16, uint32, and byte map to Uint32; remove
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…oducer

Stack Encrypt can produce one EQL type because its ciphertext, equality and
order encodings disagree about which kinds exist, and the mapping from a kind
to a Rust type lives in stack-encrypt (Scalar, dynamic::Value) instead of
vitaminc. EQL also cannot tell a Stack Encrypt column from a
cipherstash-client one, so a query from one producer against the other's
column matches nothing, silently.

ADR-0002 records the decisions from the value-encodings RFC review: the new
kinds and their frozen tags, one canonical form per kind for terms, term
derivation moving into vitaminc-prf and a new vitaminc-ore, and EQL v4 as the
v3 SQL emitted under a second name with "v": 4 envelopes, so Postgres keeps
the two producers apart.

The plan-builder plan defined "EQL v4" as a name for a Stack Encrypt payload
in the v3 envelope and eql_v3 domains; it now points at the ADR.
…m stack

Starting vitaminc-ore under ADR-0002 surfaced four problems: order
encodings, scheme traits and term derivation spread over three
repositories; scheme crates that accept raw, hand-encoded bytes;
vitaminc-prf reaching orderable-bytes through aead-value's canonical
module; and one canonical form shared by equality and order, which
rules out leakage-tuned domains such as an exact timestamp for equality
with day resolution for order.

The plan settles the replacement design: vitaminc-ore owns the order
encodings and an OrderScheme trait with a sealed input, and ore-rs and
cllw-ore implement it; each term crate applies a semantic baseline and
per-domain transforms named in its labels; PRF has no ordering
dependency; orderable-bytes is frozen. Exhaustive matching over Value is
left open, with both approaches and their shared prerequisite laid out.
It includes current and target dependency diagrams and the steps, and
ADR-0002 now points to it.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012zHhtTEo968WazExKxA5oT
The ADR said Postgres refuses to compare an eql_v4 query term with an
eql_v3 column at plan time. It does not. EQL's domains are over jsonb, and
with no operator defined for the exact pair Postgres resolves `=` as the
built-in jsonb = jsonb, so the query returns no rows silently, as a
mismatched pair within v3 already does. Verified on Postgres 17 with both
bundles from #1141 installed in one database.

The decision stands: separate names still reject a wrong-version insert,
make the function form ambiguous, and give typed clients distinct types.
Consequences now says where the protection stops, and Deferred names the
cross-version blocker operators that would close the gap (#1160).
The ADR deferred to a plan whose own banner disclaims being a
specification, so an implementer had no authoritative text for the
canonical forms, the order-scheme layering or the release order. The
amended decisions now live in the ADR body, with exhaustive handling of
Value recorded as the one open decision.

Review fixes: pin the timestamp microsecond rounding to Postgres's
(round half to even, checked on 17.5) and the text fold's step order;
let unassigned code points pass through instead of refusing writes;
forbid lossy order transforms on _ord domains that answer = with the
order term; choose a binding's kind from the declared EQL target, with a
kind-to-family table, and take a Go date in the value's own location;
copy the exact leaf byte layouts from tags.rs; say why float equality is
now acceptable and that text order terms change; keep cllw-ore's Bool
impl; reintroduce --eql-version deliberately on install and migration;
list the eql_v3_-prefix detectors, installer schema lists and
single-bundle release tooling v4 needs; and name the owner of the
deferred cross-version blockers.
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…ic.=) as a loud path

ADR-0002's host-language table claimed the seven non-EQL integer kinds
and Bytes go through Stack Encrypt's own targets, but no target names
them yet. Say so, and say how Go's narrow integers reach a target today.

The Deferred section listed typed clients and the function form as the
only things that catch a cross-producer query, while Consequences also
names OPERATOR(public.=). List all three.

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