diff --git a/docs/plans/implementation.md b/docs/plans/implementation.md
index a96e1f3..1fd5edf 100644
--- a/docs/plans/implementation.md
+++ b/docs/plans/implementation.md
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ readiness is wave 8.
 | 4 | [Postgres engine](#wave-4--postgres-engine): schema bootstrap, pool/open, listener/forwarder, all mechanisms, tx seam, pg backlog column | wave 1 | implemented + reviewed (2026-10-08) |
 | 5 | [Contract suite](#wave-5--contract-suite): the cross-engine equivalence properties (core-contract.md §Verification backlog), version-stamped per ADR-017 | waves 3 + 4 | implemented + reviewed (2026-10-10) |
 | 6 | [Mem engine](#wave-6--mem-engine): separate `alkstore-mem` crate, full contract v1 over in-memory mechanisms (tx overlay, queue/scheduler/streams/locks/wakes), the suite's third factory column (born pinned), wasm32 compile-clean acceptance | waves 1 + 5 | implemented + reviewed (2026-10-10) |
-| [7](#wave-7--fuzzing) | [Fuzzing](#wave-7--fuzzing): the `fuzz/` sidecar workspace (cargo-fuzz targets over the payload codec, the three `@every` parsers, name validation), committed seed corpora + the corpus-replay gate, detached campaigns | wave 6 | decided (2026-10-10, `docs/research/fuzzing.md`), not yet decomposed |
+| [7](#wave-7--fuzzing) | [Fuzzing](#wave-7--fuzzing): the `fuzz/` sidecar workspace (cargo-fuzz targets over the payload codec, the three `@every` parsers, name validation), committed seed corpora + the corpus-replay gate, detached campaigns | wave 6 | decomposed (2026-10-10) |
 | [8](#wave-8--release-readiness) | [Release readiness](#wave-8--release-readiness): crate docs, deployment matrix final pass, README (written last, honestly), publish prep | wave 7 | not yet decomposed |
 
 ## Wave 1 — Foundations
@@ -398,6 +398,47 @@ workspace/publish-exclusion verification. Committed crash-input seeds
 promote into the corpus
 (the alksocks seed-900/901 posture); grown corpora stay gitignored.
 
+**Wave 7's task set** (the decomposition, 2026-10-10 — the doc's §4
+sequencing: scaffold → exposure → targets in parallel → campaigns +
+gate wiring → review gate):
+
+- `fuzz-scaffold` — the `fuzz/` sidecar workspace per §2's layout,
+  copied from alksocks (nightly pin inside `fuzz/` only, the stable
+  `fuzz/shared` skeleton, `run-detached.sh` verbatim, `json.dict`,
+  `gen_fuzz_seeds.py` skeleton, the `fuzz/.gitignore` corpus pattern),
+  plus the root workspace's defensive `exclude = ["fuzz"]`.
+- `fuzz-parser-exposure` — §3.2's design point, resolved: **option
+  (b)**, `#[doc(hidden)]` narrow re-exports of the three
+  `parse_every_interval` implementations + the three `skip_forward`
+  boundary functions at each engine crate root (substrate untouched —
+  lineage fidelity), with (a) as the recorded in-suite companion and
+  (c) rejected per the family's no-`#[cfg(fuzzing)]` experience.
+- `fuzz-target-payload-codec` — the §3.1 target (core payload
+  encode/decode invariants: no-panic, the typed-failure partition,
+  deep-input loudness, Value + typed round-trips) + its seeds.
+- `fuzz-target-every-parse` — the §3.2 differential target over the
+  three parsers + boundary arithmetic (three-way agreement, overflow
+  posture, the giant-`n` arms) + its seeds; the wave's load-bearing
+  target (the wave-6 finding class lives here).
+- `fuzz-target-name-validation` — the §3.3 target (totality,
+  determinism, typed rejections, reserved-prefix rule, cap-boundary
+  exactness) + its seeds.
+- `fuzz-campaigns-and-gate` — detached campaigns per target (§5's
+  rule, §7's flags), findings dispositioned (crate-side fixed +
+  promoted to seeds; harness-model into the research doc's
+  implementation log), the corpus policy's final state, the
+  AGENTS.md verification-list flip (the corpus-replay gate joins the
+  merge gates), `fuzz/README.md` finalized.
+- `review-wave-7` — the gate (campaigns audit, replay-gate re-run,
+  corpus policy, the named design points audited resolved, the wasm
+  posture, records).
+
+Parallelism note: the scaffold and the exposure task are independent
+of each other; the three targets are mutually parallel once their
+dependencies land (payload-codec and name-validation need only the
+scaffold; every-parse needs scaffold + exposure); campaigns gate on
+all three targets.
+
 ## Wave 8 — Release readiness
 
 The original wave 6, renumbered twice: wave 7 when the mem engine
@@ -609,6 +650,12 @@ decomposes. Specific gates:
   disposition note + Notes bullet, `review-wave-5` §Notes 4's audit row)
   retired with pointers, keeping the mem engine's fire posture written
   against a closed gap before wave 6.
+- **Wave-7 decomposition** (2026-10-10) — the fuzzing decision's
+  task set: scaffold → exposure (§3.2 resolved as option (b) with the
+  (a) companion) → three targets in parallel → campaigns + gate
+  wiring (the AGENTS.md flip) → review gate. Seven tasks; the
+  every-parse differential is the load-bearing one (the wave-6
+  finding class). See the Wave 7 section.
 - **Wave-4 fix-batch decomposition** (2026-10-09) — the general
   review's findings decomposed into seven `pg-fix-*` tasks + a
   `review-wave-4-fixes` gate: Finding 1 → `pg-fix-forwarder-reconnect`
diff --git a/tasks/fuzz-campaigns-and-gate.md b/tasks/fuzz-campaigns-and-gate.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c4e5d18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tasks/fuzz-campaigns-and-gate.md
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+---
+id: fuzz-campaigns-and-gate
+name: Fuzz campaigns (detached) + corpus-replay gate wiring + AGENTS.md verification-list flip
+status: pending
+depends_on: [fuzz-target-payload-codec, fuzz-target-every-parse, fuzz-target-name-validation]
+scope: moderate
+risk: medium
+impact: phase
+level: implementation
+tags: [wave-7, fuzzing]
+---
+
+## Description
+
+The wave's operational close (§4's sequencing tail: seeds committed →
+campaigns → fix anything found → corpus replay green) plus the two
+wiring deliverables the plan names:
+
+- **Campaigns, detached only** (§5 inherited verbatim): per target, via
+  `fuzz/run-detached.sh` — **never a foreground child of an agent
+  session**. Budget 10–30 min per target (`FUZZ_RUNTIME_SECS`), flags
+  per §7's starting points: `payload_codec -max_len=65536
+  -dict=json.dict`; `every_parse -max_len=4096 -use_value_profile=1`;
+  `name_validation -max_len=4096 -use_value_profile=1`. Poll per §5
+  (`tail` the log, `ls` the artifacts dir, `pgrep -af` to LIST, kill by
+  explicit pid from the runner's echoed `pid=` — never
+  pattern-kill-and-recheck in one call).
+- **Findings disposition**: crate-side bugs are fixed (the fix rides
+  this task when small; crash inputs are promoted to committed seeds —
+  the alksocks seed-900/901 posture — and the campaign re-run clean);
+  large or design-shaped findings escalate to the user before any
+  postulate-and-fix. Harness-model findings (no crate bug) are
+  documented in the research doc's implementation log (a new §
+  appended to `docs/research/fuzzing.md` — the alksocks §7
+  successful-negative-result disposition applies if campaigns find
+  nothing crate-side).
+- **Corpus policy final state** (§2): committed hand-made seeds +
+  promoted crash inputs; grown corpora and artifacts gitignored (the
+  scaffold's `fuzz/.gitignore` pattern); verify `git status` shows no
+  grown-corpus noise after campaigns.
+- **The AGENTS.md verification-list flip**: the corpus-replay gate
+  joins the Verification Commands —
+  `cargo test --manifest-path fuzz/shared/Cargo.toml` — with the
+  one-line note that campaigns run only via the detached runner (the
+  AGENTS.md fuzzing paragraph's "until then there is no fuzz gate"
+  clause updated to the landed state). This is the plan's named design
+  point ("joins the verification list when the wave lands").
+- **`fuzz/README.md` finalized**: targets table complete, campaign
+  commands, corpus policy.
+- **Research doc §7's verification list** already carries the gate —
+  no edit needed there beyond the implementation log.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- [ ] Every target has had a detached campaign (≥10 min) via
+      `run-detached.sh`; logs + artifact state recorded in Notes
+- [ ] Campaigns clean, or findings fixed + crash inputs promoted to
+      committed seeds + re-run clean; dispositions recorded (crate-side
+      vs harness-model; the latter in the research doc's log)
+- [ ] Corpus policy verified: committed seeds only in git; grown
+      corpora/artifacts ignored; `gen_fuzz_seeds.py` re-run is a no-op
+      diff on the committed set
+- [ ] `cargo test --manifest-path fuzz/shared/Cargo.toml` green
+      (the gate, on stable)
+- [ ] AGENTS.md Verification Commands carry the gate line; the fuzzing
+      paragraph reflects the landed state
+- [ ] `fuzz/README.md` finalized (targets table, commands, corpus
+      policy)
+- [ ] Root workspace gates + `shared` clippy/fmt gates green; mem wasm
+      check still clean
+
+## References
+
+- docs/research/fuzzing.md §4 (sequencing), §5 (detached-runner rule),
+  §6 (no-CI / the gate), §7 (flags + verification commands)
+- docs/plans/implementation.md §Wave 7 (the named design points this
+  task closes: the AGENTS.md flip)
+- /workspace/@alkdev/alksocks/docs/research/fuzzing.md §5, §7 (the
+  inherited operational posture + the successful-negative-result
+  disposition)
+- tasks/fuzz-scaffold.md (the runner + gitignore this task exercises)
+
+## Notes
+
+> To be filled by implementation agent
+
+## Summary
+
+> To be filled on completion
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diff --git a/tasks/fuzz-parser-exposure.md b/tasks/fuzz-parser-exposure.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+---
+id: fuzz-parser-exposure
+name: Parser exposure — `#[doc(hidden)]` narrow surface for the three `@every` parsers + boundary arithmetic
+status: pending
+depends_on: []
+scope: narrow
+risk: low
+impact: component
+level: implementation
+tags: [wave-7, fuzzing]
+---
+
+## Description
+
+The §3.2 exposure design point, resolved by this decomposition: **option
+(b)** — a `#[doc(hidden)]` narrow exposure mirroring the existing
+`Job::from_row` / `Schedule::new` constructor precedent — with **(a)**
+(the public-`schedule()` path) as the in-suite companion, no new suite
+rows. Option (c) (a `fuzzing` feature flag) is rejected per the family's
+no-`#[cfg(fuzzing)]` experience. Rationale: the fast byte-level
+differential target the upstream docs favor needs direct parser access;
+the parsers are engine-internal test surfaces, not contract surface
+(ADR-017 §3's consumer-read policy governs core types, not these); and
+the `#[doc(hidden)]` precedent already exists in-repo for exactly this
+shape of narrow, undocumented-but-public access.
+
+What gets exposed, per engine — **at the engine crate root only;
+substrate files untouched** (the SQLite parser and its `skip_forward`
+live in the lineage-governed `substrate/queue_ops.rs`, ADR-012 §3 — the
+exposure is a re-export in the engine's `lib.rs`, never a substrate
+edit):
+
+- **alkstore-sqlite**: `#[doc(hidden)] pub use` of
+  `parse_every_interval` (`Result<i64, String>`) and `skip_forward`
+  from `substrate::queue_ops`.
+- **alkstore-postgres**: `parse_every_interval` (`Result<i64>` →
+  `InvalidSpec`, currently `pub(crate)`) and `skip_forward` (currently
+  private) widened to `pub(crate)` as needed and `#[doc(hidden)] pub
+  use`-re-exported from `lib.rs`.
+- **alkstore-mem**: same shape as pg (`scheduler.rs`'s parser +
+  `skip_forward`).
+
+Doc posture: each re-export carries a one-line doc note marking it a
+fuzz/test-only surface (not contract surface, not consumer API, no
+stability guarantee) — the `Job::from_row` precedent's doc style. No
+engine behavior changes; no parser logic moves; the diff is visibility
+plus re-exports.
+
+The **(a) companion** is recorded, not built: the public `schedule()`
+path against the mem and SQLite factories remains the suite's behavioral
+pin (already green, three-way); the `every_parse` target may optionally
+drive `schedule()` for register-path posture seeds, but the byte-level
+differential runs on the exposed functions.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- [ ] All three engines re-export their `parse_every_interval` and
+      `skip_forward` from the crate root, `#[doc(hidden)]`, with the
+      fuzz/test-only doc note
+- [ ] `alkstore-sqlite/src/substrate/**` diff is empty (lineage
+      fidelity preserved — the exposure is engine-side only)
+- [ ] The re-exports are reachable from an external crate (pinned by a
+      compile-level test or the `fuzz-target-every-parse` build itself;
+      record which)
+- [ ] No behavior change: workspace gates green (`cargo build`,
+      `cargo test`, clippy `-D warnings`, fmt); the engines' own
+      scheduler/parser test suites untouched and green
+- [ ] `cargo check --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -p alkstore-mem`
+      still clean (visibility widening is wasm-neutral, pinned anyway)
+
+## References
+
+- docs/research/fuzzing.md §3.2 (the design point this resolves —
+  options (a)/(b)/(c) and the lean)
+- docs/architecture/decisions/012-forked-substrate-design.md §2–§3
+  (one-owner parsers; substrate lineage fidelity)
+- docs/architecture/decisions/017-contract-versioning.md §3 (the
+  `#[doc(hidden)]` precedent's policy boundary — engine-internal
+  surfaces sit outside it)
+- alkstore/src/job.rs (`Job::from_row` — the in-repo doc-hidden
+  precedent)
+
+## Notes
+
+> To be filled by implementation agent
+
+## Summary
+
+> To be filled on completion
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diff --git a/tasks/fuzz-scaffold.md b/tasks/fuzz-scaffold.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+---
+id: fuzz-scaffold
+name: Fuzz sidecar scaffold — `fuzz/` workspace, runner, dict, seed generator, shared-crate skeleton
+status: pending
+depends_on: []
+scope: moderate
+risk: low
+impact: phase
+level: implementation
+tags: [wave-7, fuzzing]
+---
+
+## Description
+
+The wave-7 scaffold ([docs/research/fuzzing.md](../research/fuzzing.md)
+§2 — the layout is inherited wholesale from the four upstream siblings,
+not re-decided): the `fuzz/` sidecar workspace and its stable-toolchain
+gate crate, copied from alksocks' working edition with only naming
+substitutions.
+
+- **`fuzz/` sidecar workspace**: `fuzz/Cargo.toml` (`alkstore-fuzz`,
+  `publish = false`, own `[workspace]` table, `libfuzzer-sys` +
+  `alkstore-fuzz-shared` path dep; `[[bin]]` entries land with the
+  target tasks, not here), `fuzz/rust-toolchain.toml` pinning
+  `channel = "nightly"` + `llvm-tools-preview` **inside `fuzz/` only**
+  — the crates themselves stay on stable, and the root workspace's
+  toolchain behavior must be unaffected.
+- **`fuzz/shared/`** — `alkstore-fuzz-shared`, the STABLE-toolchain
+  library whose `#[cfg(test)]` corpus-replay modules are the fuzz gate
+  (§6): skeleton `lib.rs` with the crate doc carrying the quinn-CI
+  pattern rationale, plus the `arbitrary_value.rs` `JsonValue`
+  bounded-depth helper copied from alksocks (the structured-generation
+  path §3.1's targets share). Dependencies: `alkstore` (path), plus
+  `serde_json` + `arbitrary` (derive feature). Engine-crate deps land
+  with the targets that need them. `shared` consumes public API only —
+  it must never become a dependency of any workspace crate (the wasm
+  note, §2).
+- **`fuzz/run-detached.sh`** — copied verbatim from alksocks
+  (CWD-independent, `setsid` + `nohup` + full redirection, `pid=` echo,
+  `FUZZ_RUNTIME_SECS` override). The §5 isolation rule is inherited
+  unchanged: campaigns never run as a foreground child of an agent
+  session.
+- **`fuzz/json.dict`** — copied from a sibling (alksocks has it at
+  `fuzz/json.dict`).
+- **`fuzz/gen_fuzz_seeds.py`** — the deterministic seed generator
+  (quiche pattern): alksocks' script as the structural template,
+  alkstore's own seed functions land per-target. Skeleton lands here
+  with the shared `seed_name`/`write_seed` plumbing and an empty
+  target registry.
+- **`fuzz/.gitignore`** — the alksocks pattern: `target`, `artifacts`,
+  `coverage`, and `corpus/*` with `!`-negations for the committed seed
+  dirs (each target task adds its negation line when its corpus lands).
+- **`fuzz/README.md`** — skeleton modeled on alksocks' (layout, targets
+  table filled by the target tasks, commands incl. the
+  run-from-`fuzz/`-so-rustup-selects-nightly rule).
+- **Root `Cargo.toml`**: add `exclude = ["fuzz"]` to the `[workspace]`
+  table — defensive insurance against auto-discovery (the alkcall §2
+  lesson; this repo's explicit-members list already prevents it, the
+  exclude makes it structural). The publish-exclusion *verification*
+  stays wave 8's (§2); this task lands the mechanism.
+- **Corpus dirs**: `fuzz/corpus/<target>/` scaffolding lands per-target
+  with the seeds; nothing to commit here.
+
+Toolchain prerequisites verified present in the dev environment
+(2026-10-10): nightly + `cargo-fuzz` 0.13.2 installed; alksocks'
+`fuzz/Cargo.lock` exists as the copy reference.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- [ ] `fuzz/` exists with the §2 layout: sidecar `Cargo.toml` (own
+      `[workspace]`, `publish = false`), `rust-toolchain.toml`
+      (nightly + llvm-tools-preview), `shared/` crate, `run-detached.sh`
+      (executable), `json.dict`, `gen_fuzz_seeds.py`, `README.md`,
+      `fuzz/.gitignore`
+- [ ] `fuzz/shared` compiles and tests green on **stable** via
+      `cargo test --manifest-path fuzz/shared/Cargo.toml` (the gate
+      command works from the wave's first task onward)
+- [ ] `cargo fuzz build` succeeds from `fuzz/` (nightly selected by the
+      pin; zero targets yet is acceptable if cargo-fuzz tolerates it —
+      otherwise a placeholder target documents the check; record which)
+- [ ] Root workspace unaffected: `cargo build` / `cargo test` /
+      `clippy -D warnings` / `fmt --check` green from the root, and the
+      root toolchain is still stable (the pin did not leak upward)
+- [ ] `exclude = ["fuzz"]` present on the root `[workspace]` table
+- [ ] `run-detached.sh` is byte-identical to alksocks' modulo the
+      usage-line naming (no behavior drift)
+- [ ] `shared` is not referenced by any workspace crate manifest
+      (wasm posture intact: `cargo check --target
+      wasm32-unknown-unknown -p alkstore-mem` still clean)
+
+## References
+
+- docs/research/fuzzing.md §2 (layout + toolchain), §5 (runner), §6
+  (no-CI / replay gate)
+- /workspace/@alkdev/alksocks/fuzz/ (the copy source: Cargo.toml,
+  rust-toolchain.toml, run-detached.sh, json.dict, gen_fuzz_seeds.py,
+  .gitignore, README.md)
+- docs/plans/implementation.md §Wave 7
+
+## Notes
+
+> To be filled by implementation agent
+
+## Summary
+
+> To be filled on completion
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diff --git a/tasks/fuzz-target-every-parse.md b/tasks/fuzz-target-every-parse.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+---
+id: fuzz-target-every-parse
+name: Fuzz target — `every_parse` (the three `@every` parsers, differential)
+status: pending
+depends_on: [fuzz-scaffold, fuzz-parser-exposure]
+scope: moderate
+risk: medium
+impact: component
+level: implementation
+tags: [wave-7, fuzzing]
+---
+
+## Description
+
+The §3.2 target: `every_parse` — the wave's load-bearing target, since
+the crate's own track record (the wave-6 gate's three edge-domain
+findings) lives exactly here. Drives the three per-engine
+`parse_every_interval` implementations **differentially** through the
+`fuzz-parser-exposure` surfaces, plus each engine's next-boundary
+arithmetic (`skip_forward`):
+
+- SQLite: `alkstore-sqlite`'s re-export (substrate-owned,
+  `Result<i64, String>`),
+- Postgres: `alkstore-postgres`'s re-export (`Result<i64>` →
+  `InvalidSpec`),
+- Mem: `alkstore-mem`'s re-export (`Result<i64>` → `InvalidSpec`).
+
+Input: arbitrary `&[u8]` → UTF-8-lossy `String`s (lossy is deliberate —
+the engines receive `&str`, always valid UTF-8; the generator still
+stresses the grammar's edge shapes). Invariants (§3.2, verbatim):
+
+- **no-panic on any string** (each parser, each boundary path);
+- **typed rejection**: every rejection is the parser's own typed error
+  (`InvalidSpec` on pg/mem; the substrate's typed error under the
+  engine's mapping on SQLite) — never a panic, never a silent `Ok` on
+  a grammar-violating shape the authored tests already reject;
+- **three-way agreement**: the accept-set and the interval value are
+  identical across the three parsers for every input. Error *identity*
+  is NOT pinned equal (the substrate's `String` vs `InvalidSpec` is a
+  known, typed asymmetry) — the differential pins the Ok/Err partition
+  and the `Ok` value;
+- **overflow posture**: the boundary paths (`skip_forward` driven with
+  adversarial `(next_fire_at, now, interval)` triples — the
+  `i64::MAX` neighborhood, negative shapes, `d`-unit multiplier
+  blowups) reject-or-saturate per each engine's pinned semantics,
+  never wrap or panic — the wave-6 scheduler-register fix's invariant
+  over the whole domain;
+- **the `n <= 0` and giant-`n` arms**: leading-zero forms, digit
+  overflow at exactly `i64::MAX/86400`, positive-zero rejection.
+
+The register-path posture (parse → first-boundary `checked_add` →
+reject with `InvalidSpec`, the wave-6 alignment) is suite-pinned
+already; the target's optional `(a)`-companion leg may drive the public
+`schedule()` on the mem/SQLite factories for register-path seeds —
+optional, recorded if used.
+
+- **`fuzz_targets/every_parse.rs`** + **`shared/src/every_parse.rs`**
+  (invariants + `#[cfg(test)]` replay), `[[bin]]` entry, `shared`
+  manifest gains the three engine crates (path deps — stable-buildable,
+  they already are).
+- **Seeds** via `gen_fuzz_seeds.py`'s `every_parse` function: every
+  grammar-valid unit form (`s|m|h|d`), multi-digit and leading-zero
+  forms, `@every 0s` / `@every -5s` shapes, the `i64::MAX`-neighborhood
+  and `i64::MAX/86400` digit-overflow forms, `d`-multiplier blowups,
+  whitespace/garbage/truncation shapes, non-grammar prefixes (`@once`,
+  `@hourly`-adjacent strings). Corpus committed; gitignore negation.
+- **`fuzz/README.md`** targets-table row.
+
+Risk note: medium because the differential may surface a real
+three-way divergence (that is the target's purpose) — a finding is
+*success*, dispositioned per the campaign task's posture (fix inline or
+escalate), not a task failure.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- [ ] `fuzz_targets/every_parse.rs` + `shared/src/every_parse.rs`
+      exist; `cargo fuzz build` builds the target
+- [ ] All five §3.2 invariant classes implemented and exercised by both
+      the fuzz path and the replay module; the three-way agreement
+      asserted on every input (fuzz) and every seed (replay)
+- [ ] Seed corpus committed, deterministic-generated, gitignore
+      negation in place
+- [ ] `cargo test --manifest-path fuzz/shared/Cargo.toml` green;
+      `shared` clippy/fmt gates green
+- [ ] Root workspace gates still green; substrate diff still empty
+- [ ] Any three-way divergence found during target development is
+      recorded in Notes with its disposition (fixed / escalated), not
+      silently absorbed
+
+## References
+
+- docs/research/fuzzing.md §3.2 (target spec + the exposure decision
+  this target consumes), §4, §7
+- docs/architecture/decisions/009-queue-and-scheduler.md §2 (the
+  `@every` grammar the three parsers implement)
+- docs/architecture/decisions/012-forked-substrate-design.md §2
+  (one-owner rule — why there are three parsers to differ)
+- tasks/review-wave-6.md (the wave-6 finding class this target
+  generalizes; the register-overflow alignment)
+- tasks/fuzz-parser-exposure.md (the surfaces this target drives)
+
+## Notes
+
+> To be filled by implementation agent
+
+## Summary
+
+> To be filled on completion
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diff --git a/tasks/fuzz-target-name-validation.md b/tasks/fuzz-target-name-validation.md
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+---
+id: fuzz-target-name-validation
+name: Fuzz target — `name_validation` (core name validation)
+status: pending
+depends_on: [fuzz-scaffold]
+scope: narrow
+risk: trivial
+impact: component
+level: implementation
+tags: [wave-7, fuzzing]
+---
+
+## Description
+
+The §3.3 target: `name_validation` — the cheapest target, driving core's
+already-`pub` validation surface (`alkstore/src/validation.rs`:
+`validate_name` over all `NameKind`s, `validate_shared_name`,
+`validate_local_name`). No exposure needed.
+
+- **`fuzz_targets/name_validation.rs`** + **`shared/src/
+  name_validation.rs`** (invariants + `#[cfg(test)]` replay),
+  `[[bin]]` entry. Input: arbitrary `&[u8]` → strings (lossy + a
+  structured path), lengths spanning the caps, all `NameKind`s.
+- **Invariants** (§3.3, verbatim): total (no panic on any input);
+  deterministic accept/reject (same input → same verdict, pinned by
+  double-invocation in the invariant fn); rejection only via typed
+  `Error::InvalidName` (or `ReservedName` where the reserved-prefix
+  rule fires — both are the taxonomy's typed rejections; nothing else,
+  no panic); the reserved-prefix rule (`__alkstore_`, ADR-014 §1's
+  shared namespace) rejects in every casing/boundary form the fuzzer
+  finds; length-boundary exactness at the cap (the ±1 neighborhood —
+  a name at the cap is accepted, one past it rejected, per the pinned
+  rule).
+- **Seeds** via `gen_fuzz_seeds.py`'s `name_validation` function:
+  cap-boundary lengths (±1, ±2), the reserved prefix in plain /
+  suffixed / embedded forms, empty and whitespace-only strings, unicode
+  and control-char shapes, the reserved listener-reconnected string.
+  Corpus committed; gitignore negation.
+- **`fuzz/README.md`** targets-table row.
+
+Low expected yield (the doc says so) — the value is the entry-point
+domain guard demonstrated over the whole string space, the gate's
+guard-order discipline made continuous.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- [ ] `fuzz_targets/name_validation.rs` + `shared/src/
+      name_validation.rs` exist; `cargo fuzz build` builds the target
+- [ ] All §3.3 invariants implemented and exercised by both the fuzz
+      path and the replay module
+- [ ] Seed corpus committed, deterministic-generated, gitignore
+      negation in place
+- [ ] `cargo test --manifest-path fuzz/shared/Cargo.toml` green;
+      `shared` clippy/fmt gates green
+- [ ] Root workspace gates still green
+
+## References
+
+- docs/research/fuzzing.md §3.3 (target spec), §4, §7
+- docs/architecture/core-contract.md §Naming / reserved namespace
+- docs/architecture/decisions/014-naming-and-reserved-namespace.md §1
+  (the reserved-prefix rule the target demonstrates)
+- alkstore/src/validation.rs (the surface)
+
+## Notes
+
+> To be filled by implementation agent
+
+## Summary
+
+> To be filled on completion
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+---
+id: fuzz-target-payload-codec
+name: Fuzz target — `payload_codec` (core payload encode/decode invariants)
+status: pending
+depends_on: [fuzz-scaffold]
+scope: moderate
+risk: low
+impact: component
+level: implementation
+tags: [wave-7, fuzzing]
+---
+
+## Description
+
+The §3.1 target: `payload_codec`, driving core's payload surface
+(`alkstore/src/payload.rs` — `encode_payload`, `payload_as::<T>`) —
+already-`pub` API, no exposure needed.
+
+- **`fuzz_targets/payload_codec.rs`** — the thin `fuzz_target!`
+  wrapper (3-line pattern) delegating to
+  `alkstore_fuzz_shared::payload_codec::fuzz_payload_codec(data)`;
+  the `[[bin]]` entry lands in `fuzz/Cargo.toml`.
+- **`shared/src/payload_codec.rs`** — the invariant logic, with the
+  `#[cfg(test)]` corpus-replay module (the gate). Input: raw `&[u8]`
+  plus `arbitrary`-derived `serde_json::Value`s (the
+  `JsonValue` bounded-depth helper from the scaffold). Invariants
+  (§3.1, verbatim):
+  - **no-panic on any byte sequence** (the baseline);
+  - **typed-failure partition**: every decode failure is
+    `Error::Codec` — no other variant, no panic (the ADR-023 §1
+    fallibility pin, demonstrated across the input space);
+  - **deep-input loudness**: serde_json's recursion limit surfaces as
+    typed `Codec`, never a stack overflow;
+  - **Value round-trip**: `encode_payload(v)` → `payload_as::<Value>`
+    yields `v` for every arbitrary `Value` (canonicalization is
+    serde_json's, pinned-not-regressed);
+  - **typed round-trip**: for a representative typed-payload set,
+    `encode(Value::from(t))` decodes back to `t` (the ADR-020 §4
+    decode side).
+- **Seeds** (§3.1's list, via `gen_fuzz_seeds.py` gaining the
+  `payload_codec` function): valid JSON of every Value variant,
+  truncations, deep nesting at and past the recursion limit, non-UTF-8
+  bytes, trailing garbage, oversized numbers, duplicate keys, the
+  `Null`-decode shape (ADR-023 §1's empty-byte-store corruption note).
+  Corpus committed under `fuzz/corpus/payload_codec/`; the
+  `fuzz/.gitignore` gains the `!corpus/payload_codec` negation.
+- **`fuzz/README.md`** targets-table row.
+- `shared`'s manifest gains `alkstore` (path) if the scaffold didn't
+  already carry it, plus `serde_json` + `arbitrary`.
+
+Campaign flags are the campaign task's concern (`-max_len=65536
+-dict=json.dict` starting point, §7); this task lands target + seeds +
+replay.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- [ ] `fuzz_targets/payload_codec.rs` + `shared/src/payload_codec.rs`
+      exist; `cargo fuzz build` builds the target (nightly, ASAN)
+- [ ] All five §3.1 invariants implemented in `shared` and exercised by
+      both the fuzz path and the `#[cfg(test)]` replay module
+- [ ] Seed corpus committed (`fuzz/corpus/payload_codec/`), generated
+      by `python3 fuzz/gen_fuzz_seeds.py` (deterministic — re-running
+      is a no-op diff); gitignore negation in place
+- [ ] `cargo test --manifest-path fuzz/shared/Cargo.toml` green
+      (replays the committed corpus through the invariants)
+- [ ] `shared` clippy/fmt gates green
+      (`cargo clippy --manifest-path fuzz/shared/Cargo.toml
+      --all-targets -- -D warnings`, `fmt --check`)
+- [ ] Root workspace gates still green
+
+## References
+
+- docs/research/fuzzing.md §3.1 (target spec), §4 (wave-1 scope), §7
+  (flags)
+- docs/architecture/decisions/020-payload-encoding.md §4 (the encoding
+  posture the round-trips pin)
+- docs/architecture/decisions/023-fourth-review-round.md §1 (encode
+  fallibility)
+- /workspace/@alkdev/alksocks/fuzz/shared/src/datagram_codec.rs (the
+  invariant-module + replay-test pattern)
+
+## Notes
+
+> To be filled by implementation agent
+
+## Summary
+
+> To be filled on completion
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+---
+id: review-wave-7
+name: Review gate — wave 7 (fuzzing)
+status: pending
+depends_on: [fuzz-campaigns-and-gate]
+scope: moderate
+risk: low
+impact: phase
+level: review
+tags: [wave-7, review]
+---
+
+## Description
+
+The wave-7 review gate (the plan's §Review gates, wave-7 entry). Audit
+the fuzz wave as landed:
+
+1. **Campaigns audit**: each target's campaign ran via the detached
+   runner (logs in `fuzz/artifacts/`), clean — or its findings fixed
+   and crash inputs promoted to committed seeds with the re-run clean.
+   Verify no campaign was run foreground (the §5 rule — process
+   hygiene, checked by reading the logs' provenance and the task
+   Notes).
+2. **Corpus-replay gate green on stable**:
+   `cargo test --manifest-path fuzz/shared/Cargo.toml` re-run this
+   session; the replay modules exercise the same invariant functions
+   the fuzz targets run (the §2 load-bearing layout rule — read one
+   target's wiring end to end to confirm no drift between fuzz path
+   and replay path).
+3. **Corpus policy audit**: committed seeds per policy (hand-made +
+   promoted crash inputs; deterministic generator re-run is a no-op
+   diff); grown corpora + artifacts gitignored; nothing
+   campaign-generated leaked into git.
+4. **Named design points audited as resolved** (the plan's wave-7
+   list): §3.2's parser exposure (option (b) landed, substrate diff
+   empty, the (a)-companion disposition recorded); the AGENTS.md
+   verification-list flip (gate line present, fuzzing paragraph
+   truthful); the workspace/publish-exclusion mechanism (`exclude =
+   ["fuzz"]` on the root workspace table — the *verification* that no
+   published package leaks the sidecar stays wave 8's, per §2).
+5. **Harness-model findings**: documented in the research doc's
+   implementation log (or the successful-negative-result disposition
+   recorded there); any crate-side finding's fix verified against the
+   invariant that caught it.
+6. **wasm posture**: `cargo check --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -p
+   alkstore-mem` still clean; `shared` is referenced by no workspace
+   crate.
+7. **Workspace gates re-run green this session** (`cargo build`,
+   `cargo test`, clippy `-D warnings`, fmt) + the `shared` clippy/fmt
+   gates.
+8. **Records**: `implementation.md`'s wave-7 row updated
+   (implemented + reviewed); the research doc's Status header updated
+   (targets implemented, campaigns run); task files audited (all
+   wave-7 dependency tasks completed, Notes/Summary filled).
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- [ ] Campaign audit recorded per target (runtime, flags, outcome,
+      findings + dispositions)
+- [ ] Corpus-replay gate re-run green this session; fuzz-path/replay
+      drift check recorded for at least one target end to end
+- [ ] Corpus policy verified (committed set, gitignore posture,
+      generator determinism)
+- [ ] The three named design points audited resolved, each with its
+      evidence
+- [ ] Research doc implementation log present (findings or the
+      negative-result disposition)
+- [ ] wasm check + all gates re-run green this session
+- [ ] `implementation.md` wave-7 row updated; task files audited
+
+## References
+
+- docs/plans/implementation.md §Wave 7, §Review gates (wave-7 entry)
+- docs/research/fuzzing.md (§2 layout rules, §4 scope, §5 runner rule,
+  §6 gate, §7 verification)
+- tasks/review-wave-6.md (the gate pattern this mirrors)
+- /workspace/@alkdev/alksocks/docs/research/fuzzing.md §7 (the
+  negative-result disposition precedent)
+
+## Notes
+
+> To be filled by implementation agent
+
+## Summary
+
+> To be filled on completion
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