Drop the legacy-metadata overlay path (runtimeToolSpecAllowingLegacy,
assembleSchemaRegistryFromBoundAllowingLegacy, metadata-based agent
selection, dry-run seams) so assembly flows exclusively through
ContractFinal; gate MCP fixture machinery behind a build flag so it can
never enter production assembly. Wire output verified identical before
and after; policy tripwire reports 26 products, 847 tools.
EnvironmentLoader.Load has returned a constant empty catalog since live
discovery was retired, leaving a zombie chain: loader interface, catalog
types, degraded-error semantics kept alive only by a `var _ =` suppressor,
and runner/recovery fallback branches that could never succeed.
- loader.go shrinks to the env constants and CLIFlagHint; the
DiscoveryCatalog / DiscoveryCatalogLoader / DiscoveryDegraded families
are deleted.
- runtimeRunner and recoveryRuntime drop the loader field; a direct-runtime
miss is now terminal through handleCatalogMiss, and recovery endpoint
resolution is directRuntimeEndpoint only. directRuntimeToolEndpoint loses
its sole caller and is removed.
- Tests: loader-injection branches are deleted; live-behavior coverage
(mock mode, direct-runtime hit/miss, recovery resolution, catalog-miss
error path) is rewritten against the new flow.
- NewSchemaCommand / NewMCPCommand / newCatalogCommand no longer accept a
DiscoveryCatalogLoader they always discarded; schema's no-discovery
property is now structural, retiring the panic-loader test guard along
with the trivial root.go wrappers and the unused buildMCPCommandFn seam.
- Delete the lazy sync.Once / atomic counter around the retired MCP pin:
runtimeMCPMetadata only existed so a diagnostic counter could observe a
loader that always returns the constant empty pin. Assembly now calls
emptyPinnedMCPMetadata directly and SchemaMetadataLoadCounts loses the
dead MCPMetadata field (the policy bans keep the retired names from
reappearing).
Complete the in-flight rename: Catalog / CatalogLoader / CatalogDegraded*
become DiscoveryCatalog / DiscoveryCatalogLoader / DiscoveryDegraded* in
internal/cli/loader.go, the minimal stubs no longer live in internal/ir,
and schema_static_test.go's panic loader is migrated so the cli test
package compiles again.
Close each owned os.Stdin file when replacing it in the stdin coverage
matrix so Windows TempDir cleanup does not fail on leaked handles. Update
the command registry coverage test for contract_identity source and drop
the retired loadPinnedMCPMetadata loader reference gate from policy.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>