Cordis Ownership and Lifecycle Audit

This is a focused semantic review of Cordis ownership and lifecycle. Start a repository audit from exported plugin entrypoints (apply or a concrete default export invoked by Cordis), then trace module initialization, registered services, listeners, effects, disposers, and transitive calls reachable from those roots. Exclude unrelated helpers, build tools, CLI paths, and tests as finding targets. Read tests and vendored Cordis to establish behavior; report a generated defect against its owning source. Do not report defects in vendored code under this skill.

Sources of truth

• Repository conventions: Cordis ownership requirements.
• Lifecycle and effects: effect acquisition and disposal.
• Services: dependency tracking and service availability.
• Defensive patterns: quiescent teardown and required completion listeners.

Review workflow

1. Locate mutable owners, registrations, resource acquisition, and work admission reachable from the requested plugin roots. For large scopes, use independent directory scans, then consolidate findings involving the same consumer and resource.
2. Trace ownership through the actual context: in a traceable service method, this.ctx is the caller's context. Identify who owns each effect and the disposer that releases it.
3. Trace cleanup through every await to its last service call, emitted event, acknowledged operation, and durable write. Include indirect event delivery and cleanup performed after abort, kill, or cancellation.
4. Compare consumer completion with the time each required listener, registry, writer, connection, domain, or transport becomes unusable. Inspect the current Cordis implementation; reverse start order and dependency registration alone do not establish completion order.
5. Establish a legal failing interleaving and observable impact. Check existing cancellation, explicit sequencing, and documented discard semantics before reporting. Use controlled promises for reproduction where feasible, and label source-only findings accurately.