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Summary

This PR updates the SDK feature matrix documentation to reflect a security fix in the TypeScript SDK where cache.secure.wrap() now enforces encryption (LAB-513).

What Changed

Documentation-only update to sdk-feature-matrix.md and CHANGELOG.md reflecting a behavioral change in the TypeScript SDK (cachekit-ts#123):

  • Encryption enforcement cell flipped ❌ → ✅: The "Does the secure API enforce encryption?" row for TypeScript now shows ✅. Previously, cache.secure.wrap() was an unconditional alias for wrap() that silently cached plaintext (CWE-311) on any instance not built by createCache.secure().

  • New behavior documented: Both cache.secure.wrap() and cache.withExecutionContext(ctx).secure.wrap() now throw ConfigurationError at wrap time on any instance without encryption configured, routing through a single private guard (CacheImpl.secureWrap). There is no opt-in to run unencrypted.

  • Cross-SDK parity noted: All three SDKs now refuse a missing key on the secure entry point — Python raises at decoration time, Rust's secure() returns Err, and TypeScript throws at wrap time.

Why

Before this change, the matrix documented a CWE-311 (plaintext storage) trap in TypeScript's secure API. The code fix eliminated that trap, so the documentation is updated to:

  1. Flip the enforcement cell to reflect the fail-closed behavior.
  2. Rewrite the "Intent-preset semantics" warning to describe the enforced contract.
  3. Update the "cells that reversed" summary and Rust builder-stub cross-reference.
  4. Replace stale source references (e.g., cache-core.ts:832/:873/:486, cache.ts:87, intents-core.ts:240) with current line references.

Impact

Readers relying on the matrix now see accurate, current guidance that TypeScript's cache.secure.wrap() enforces encryption and fails loudly when misconfigured, aligning it with the Python and Rust SDKs.


Description

This PR updates documentation to reflect that the TypeScript SDK's secure.wrap() API now enforces encryption (fails closed), flipping the feature-matrix indicator from ❌ to ✅.

Background

Previously, cache.secure.wrap() in the TypeScript SDK was an unconditional alias for the plaintext wrap() method. On a cache instance without encryption configured, a "secure" registration would silently store plaintext data — with no error, warning, or type error (CWE-311). This behavior diverged from the Python and Rust SDKs, which both refuse a missing key on their secure entry points.

Changes

This is a documentation-only change across two files:

  • sdk-feature-matrix.md

    • Clarifies the wording in the "Does the secure API enforce encryption?" row to more precisely describe the prior insecure behavior: that on an instance without configured encryption, a "secure" registration cached plaintext (while it always encrypted on an encrypted instance).
    • Refines the LAB-513 warning note to clarify that the affected instances are those without encryption configured — typically ones not built by createCache.secure().
  • CHANGELOG.md

    • Expands the changelog entry to more accurately describe the pre-LAB-513 behavior, distinguishing between unencrypted instances (plaintext) and encrypted instances (always encrypted).
    • Notes that TypeScript callers who explicitly want plaintext should call wrap() directly, since there is no opt-in to run the secure entry point unencrypted.

Enforced Contract (documented)

All three SDKs now refuse a missing key on the secure entry point:

  • TypeScript: secure.wrap() throws ConfigurationError at wrap time
  • Python: raises at decoration time
  • Rust: secure() returns Err

The clarifications ensure the documentation accurately distinguishes the old vulnerable behavior from the new fail-closed contract, without overstating the prior risk (encrypted instances were never affected).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Clarified that TypeScript secure cache wrappers throw a ConfigurationError at wrap time when encryption is not configured, including execution-context views.
    • Documented missing-key behaviour consistently across supported SDKs.
    • Updated guidance on Rust encryption configuration, including the risks of disabling the encryption feature, which can result in plaintext storage.
    • Refreshed intent-preset, reversal, and source-reference documentation for accuracy.

…o ✅ (LAB-513)

Tracks cachekit-ts#123. The Encryption row, the Intent-preset semantics warning, the reversed-cells summary and the Rust builder-stub cross-reference all described cache.secure.wrap() as an unconditional alias for wrap(); with the guard shipped that is a stale claim. Stale line references corrected in the same pass.
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The changelog and SDK feature matrix document TypeScript secure-wrapper failures when encryption is missing. They also clarify Rust feature behaviour, preset semantics, and the unchanged TypeScript type surface.

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The documentation states that TypeScript secure wrappers throw ConfigurationError without configured encryption. It also records execution-context behaviour, Rust encryption feature semantics, preset details, and the unchanged TypeScript type surface.

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In `@sdk-feature-matrix.md`:
- Line 71: Update sdk-feature-matrix.md at lines 71-71 to scope the former
secure alias’s plaintext behavior to instances without configured encryption.
Update CHANGELOG.md at lines 14-17 to limit the historical claim to the secure
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Comment thread sdk-feature-matrix.md Outdated
The pre-LAB-513 secure.wrap() alias delegated to wrap(), which honours
instance-level encryption: plaintext only ever landed on instances with
no encryption configured, and wrap() remains the explicit plaintext path.
Scope the matrix row, the intent-preset warning and the CHANGELOG entry
to that condition instead of implying every secure registration stored
plaintext.
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