The rollout-ready branch still conflated dashboard auth with provider credentials, discarded diagnostics when both signal lanes degraded, and treated RESULT_META as optional even though downstream contracts now depend on it. This change separates provider runtime settings from request auth, preserves source diagnostics/data quality in full-failure contracts, requires RESULT_META in the subprocess protocol, and moves A-share holidays into an updateable calendar data source.
Constraint: No external market-calendar dependency is available in env312 and dependency policy forbids adding one casually
Rejected: Keep reading provider keys from request headers | couples dashboard auth to execution and breaks non-anthropic providers
Rejected: Leave both-signals-unavailable as a bare ValueError | loses diagnostics before live/backend contracts can serialize them
Rejected: Keep A-share holidays embedded in Python constants | requires code edits every year and preserves the stopgap design
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Keep subprocess protocol fields explicit and fail closed when RESULT_META is missing; do not route provider credentials through dashboard auth again
Tested: python -m pytest web_dashboard/backend/tests/test_executors.py web_dashboard/backend/tests/test_services_migration.py web_dashboard/backend/tests/test_api_smoke.py orchestrator/tests/test_market_calendar.py orchestrator/tests/test_live_mode.py orchestrator/tests/test_application_service.py orchestrator/tests/test_quant_runner.py orchestrator/tests/test_llm_runner.py -q
Tested: python -m compileall orchestrator web_dashboard/backend
Not-tested: real provider-backed execution across openai/google providers
Not-tested: browser/manual verification beyond existing frontend contract consumers
This change set introduces a versioned result contract, shared config schema/loading, provider/data adapter seams, and a no-strategy application-service skeleton so the current research graph, orchestrator layer, and dashboard backend stop drifting further apart. It also keeps the earlier MiniMax compatibility and compact-prompt work aligned with the new contract shape and extends regression coverage so degradation, fallback, and service migration remain testable during the next phases.
Constraint: Must preserve existing FastAPI entrypoints and fallback behavior while introducing an application-service seam
Constraint: Must not turn application service into a new strategy or learning layer
Rejected: Full backend rewrite to service-only execution now | too risky before contract and fallback paths stabilize
Rejected: Leave provider/data/config logic distributed across scripts and endpoints | continues boundary drift and weakens verification
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: broad
Directive: Keep future application-service changes orchestration-only; move any scoring, signal fusion, or learning logic to orchestrator or tradingagents instead
Tested: python -m compileall orchestrator tradingagents web_dashboard/backend
Tested: python -m pytest orchestrator/tests/test_signals.py orchestrator/tests/test_llm_runner.py orchestrator/tests/test_quant_runner.py orchestrator/tests/test_contract_v1alpha1.py orchestrator/tests/test_application_service.py orchestrator/tests/test_provider_adapter.py web_dashboard/backend/tests/test_main_api.py web_dashboard/backend/tests/test_portfolio_api.py web_dashboard/backend/tests/test_api_smoke.py web_dashboard/backend/tests/test_services_migration.py -q
Not-tested: live MiniMax/provider execution against external services
Not-tested: full dashboard/manual websocket flow against a running frontend
Not-tested: omx team runtime end-to-end in the primary workspace