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title: "wasi-cli — Mova code model"
description: "Mova code model of wasi-host/src/main.rs: components with their labels, obernants and the model text."
url: "https://groupants.elamur.ai/free/en/mova/wasi-host/src/main.rs.groupant/"
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# wasi-cli

The groupant beside wasi-host/src/main.rs in the Mova repository: what the code computes, what it never does, how to go back from its outputs, its invariants, cost and checks.

## Facts

- **kind:** groupant
- **status:** partial source bound model
- **source:** [`wasi-host/src/main.rs`](https://github.com/ElamurAI/mova-free/blob/main/wasi-host/src/main.rs)
- **source SHA-256:** `2200229297d1dde6…`
- **repository folder:** [`wasi-host/src/main.rs.groupant`](https://github.com/ElamurAI/mova-free/tree/main/wasi-host/src/main.rs.groupant)
- **repository commit:** `48f2e6f74146`

> **Implementation material.** A Mova code model describes this code at one source revision: partial models, finite checks and their stated scope. It is not a reviewed general exposition, and its labels are shown as written, never raised.

## Components

| component | label | where |
|---|---|---|
| **approximant** | partial | [approximant](#approximant) |
| **ast** | partial | `syntax.json` |
| **composition** | partial | [composition](#composition) |
| **cost** | symbolic source derived | [invariant](#invariant) |
| **descriptant** | present | [descriptant](#descriptant) |
| **invariant** | partial | [invariant](#invariant) |
| **tests** | executed bounded checks | [tests](#tests) |

## Obernants

The typed relations around the forward model: the behaviour complement (what the code never does), the reverse reconstruction (every input compatible with an output) and specialised views.

| id | type | label | where |
|---|---|---|---|
| `behavior_complement` | behavior_complement | partial source derived model | [behavior_complement](#behavior-complement) |
| `reverse_reconstruction` | reverse_reconstruction | partial source derived model | [reverse_reconstruction](#reverse-reconstruction) |
| `option_boundary` | option_boundary | partial source derived model | [option_boundary](#option-boundary) |
| `export_gate` | export_gate | partial source derived model | [export_gate](#export-gate) |
| `journal_failure` | journal_failure | partial source derived model | [journal_failure](#journal-failure) |
| `memory_cast` | memory_cast | partial source derived model | [memory_cast](#memory-cast) |

## Parts

- [wasi-cli-effects](https://md.groupants.elamur.ai/free/en/mova/wasi-host/src/main.rs.groupant/wasi-cli-effects.groupant/)

## Model text


### descriptant

#### wasi-cli

CLI parses leading options, reads and validates module, rejects unknown imports, imports host directories to bounded Vfs, runs with echo, conditionally exports, optionally journals/stats, then clamps exit to0..255.

##### Epoch 2026-10-31

Prospective review recorded before edits. Source review found late output FAULT effects and weaker-than-capability rights metadata; these are modeled as current behavior rather than silently repaired. Only bounded new test blocks were added; production code remains unchanged. Actual finite results and exact restoration receipts live under $MOVA_DATA/runs/octopus-wave31-wasi-2026-10-31. No full mlab guest, frozen suite, GPU or corpus run. This node retains its scoped observations for future refinement.

### approximant

#### Forward relation

CLI parses leading options, reads and validates module, rejects unknown imports, imports host directories to bounded Vfs, runs with echo, conditionally exports, optionally journals/stats, then clamps exit to0..255.

Scope: `wasi-cli`. State and transitions follow the authoritative source, including partial effects before errors. No executable approximate replacement is attached: categorical errno/effects and module execution lack a useful validated percentage metric; future numerical profiles may only use1/2/5/10% caps after domain/reference evidence.

### invariant

#### Invariant and cost

CLI parses leading options, reads and validates module, rejects unknown imports, imports host directories to bounded Vfs, runs with echo, conditionally exports, optionally journals/stats, then clamps exit to0..255.

The invariant is conditional on the admitted transition: A trapped guest cannot trigger export through the normal gate; missing option value cannot run a module. A journal-write error does not necessarily exclude exit0.

Cost: O(args bytes+module bytes+import/export bytes)+Vfs and engine costs; host IO unbounded by guest fuel.

No wall-time gain, universal resource bound or atomic rollback is inferred. External Vfs/wasmi/native-mlab work remains separately charged.

### composition

#### Composition

CLI parses leading options, reads and validates module, rejects unknown imports, imports host directories to bounded Vfs, runs with echo, conditionally exports, optionally journals/stats, then clamps exit to0..255.

Immediate fragments partition selected mechanisms; their byte ranges refer to this single source and reuse its syntax projection. Memory helper success is a precondition for ABI transport, not proof that all linker wrappers dispatch correctly. WASI path/read/write helpers call real Vfs; mlab remains an external reference. Remaining top-level definitions and test bodies stay covered only by the parent source model.

### models

## Typed model catalog

### behavior_complement

Subject: `wasi-host/src/main.rs` at SHA-256 `2200229297d1dde6d9f8477a577a7320c854d0db4fb3ea450b457a9858107122`, scope `wasi-cli`. Domain: the source transition and bounded fixtures described in approximant.md; readable valid host resources where required. Observation: returned values, byte coordinates, state/effect order, not total-system semantics. Operator/relation: A trapped guest cannot trigger export through the normal gate; missing option value cannot run a module. A journal-write error does not necessarily exclude exit0.

Status: partial source-derived relation; complement is a scoped exclusion hypothesis, reverse preserves all compatible antecedents described rather than a chosen inverse. Assumptions: production branch order, declared coordinate/resource premises; no completeness claim for untested inputs. Evidence: tests.md distinguishes actual execution from source review; finite observations can falsify but not prove the relation.

### reverse_reconstruction

Subject: `wasi-host/src/main.rs` at SHA-256 `2200229297d1dde6d9f8477a577a7320c854d0db4fb3ea450b457a9858107122`, scope `wasi-cli`. Domain: the source transition and bounded fixtures described in approximant.md; readable valid host resources where required. Observation: returned values, byte coordinates, state/effect order, not total-system semantics. Operator/relation: Exit2 admits usage/module/import/export failures. Final exit cannot reconstruct options or filesystem history; journal error can coexist with successful guest exit.

Status: partial source-derived relation; complement is a scoped exclusion hypothesis, reverse preserves all compatible antecedents described rather than a chosen inverse. Assumptions: production branch order, declared coordinate/resource premises; no completeness claim for untested inputs. Evidence: tests.md distinguishes actual execution from source review; finite observations can falsify but not prove the relation.

### option_boundary

Subject: `wasi-host/src/main.rs` at SHA-256 `2200229297d1dde6d9f8477a577a7320c854d0db4fb3ea450b457a9858107122`, scope `wasi-cli`. Domain: the source transition and bounded fixtures described in approximant.md; readable valid host resources where required. Observation: returned values, byte coordinates, state/effect order, not total-system semantics. Operator/relation: Only leading -- arguments are host options; suffix after module becomes guest argv. stats consumes one token; other flags require value.

Status: partial source-derived relation; complement is a scoped exclusion hypothesis, reverse preserves all compatible antecedents described rather than a chosen inverse. Assumptions: production branch order, declared coordinate/resource premises; no completeness claim for untested inputs. Evidence: tests.md distinguishes actual execution from source review; finite observations can falsify but not prove the relation.

### export_gate

Subject: `wasi-host/src/main.rs` at SHA-256 `2200229297d1dde6d9f8477a577a7320c854d0db4fb3ea450b457a9858107122`, scope `wasi-cli`. Domain: the source transition and bounded fixtures described in approximant.md; readable valid host resources where required. Observation: returned values, byte coordinates, state/effect order, not total-system semantics. Operator/relation: Export occurs iff guest code0 and no trap; first export error returns2 before journal/stats, prior exports may persist.

Status: partial source-derived relation; complement is a scoped exclusion hypothesis, reverse preserves all compatible antecedents described rather than a chosen inverse. Assumptions: production branch order, declared coordinate/resource premises; no completeness claim for untested inputs. Evidence: tests.md distinguishes actual execution from source review; finite observations can falsify but not prove the relation.

### journal_failure

Subject: `wasi-host/src/main.rs` at SHA-256 `2200229297d1dde6d9f8477a577a7320c854d0db4fb3ea450b457a9858107122`, scope `wasi-cli`. Domain: the source transition and bounded fixtures described in approximant.md; readable valid host resources where required. Observation: returned values, byte coordinates, state/effect order, not total-system semantics. Operator/relation: Journal write errors print but do not alter final exit; no atomic export+journal transaction.

Status: partial source-derived relation; complement is a scoped exclusion hypothesis, reverse preserves all compatible antecedents described rather than a chosen inverse. Assumptions: production branch order, declared coordinate/resource premises; no completeness claim for untested inputs. Evidence: tests.md distinguishes actual execution from source review; finite observations can falsify but not prove the relation.

### memory_cast

Subject: `wasi-host/src/main.rs` at SHA-256 `2200229297d1dde6d9f8477a577a7320c854d0db4fb3ea450b457a9858107122`, scope `wasi-cli`. Domain: the source transition and bounded fixtures described in approximant.md; readable valid host resources where required. Observation: returned values, byte coordinates, state/effect order, not total-system semantics. Operator/relation: parse_size returns integer cast to usize; architecture width matters. Seed/fuel parse u64; default mem1GiB.

Status: partial source-derived relation; complement is a scoped exclusion hypothesis, reverse preserves all compatible antecedents described rather than a chosen inverse. Assumptions: production branch order, declared coordinate/resource premises; no completeness claim for untested inputs. Evidence: tests.md distinguishes actual execution from source review; finite observations can falsify but not prove the relation.


### tests

#### Checks and limits

Named actual-source tests run twice per debug/release; exact commands and numeric statuses retained externally. Test success is finite evidence only.

Exact names: wave31_cli_tiny_guest_isolated_effects.

wave31_cli_tiny_guest_isolated_effects invokes actual wasi-run with one tiny empty guest and one unreachable guest, root-local import/export/journal and two usage failures.

Five compiled production/helper-source controls: append offset, virtual clock advance, trap status, CLI export gate and newest-mtime max. Each compiles, fails its selected assertion, restores exact original bytes and passes again. These controls cover their target relations, not every node. No assertion-only mutants. See external source-test-map.json, native-commands.json, verify.rs and numeric/raw receipts in $MOVA_DATA/runs/octopus-wave31-wasi-2026-10-31. The example main and frozen mlab paths are never executed.