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Closes #1054.

Summary

When running forgelm purge --check-policy --config <path>, operators frequently supply a YAML containing only a retention: section for scheduled retention sweeps, rather than an entire training configuration (which would otherwise require model, lora, training, and data blocks).

Changes

  • Updated _maybe_load_config with allow_retention_only: bool = False (used by _run_purge_check_policy). If the YAML file contains a retention: block without training/model sections, it validates against RetentionConfig directly and returns a namespace holding the validated retention model.
  • Invalid retention: blocks continue to raise structured ConfigError and exit with EXIT_CONFIG_ERROR (1).
  • Added comprehensive unit tests in tests/test_gdpr_erasure.py::TestCheckPolicyStrictLoad:
    • test_check_policy_retention_only_config_succeeds
    • test_check_policy_retention_only_invalid_exits_config_error
  • All 60 tests in tests/test_gdpr_erasure.py pass.

Summary by Sourcery

Support retention-only configuration files for purge --check-policy while preserving strict validation and configuration error handling.

New Features:

  • Allow purge --check-policy --config to load YAML files containing only a retention: section.

Bug Fixes:

  • Ensure invalid retention-only policies and malformed partial configurations return structured configuration errors instead of being ignored.

Enhancements:

  • Preserve full-config validation for files containing any top-level key beyond retention: and omit raw configuration values from retention validation errors.

Documentation:

  • Document retention-only configuration support for GDPR retention-policy checks in English and Turkish guides, references, and user manuals.

Tests:

  • Add coverage for retention-only policies, null retention blocks, invalid values, unexpected top-level keys, missing files, and protected validation errors.

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  • New Features
    • Policy checks accept either a full training configuration or a configuration file containing only retention:.
    • An empty retention: block reports nothing to enforce and exits successfully.
    • Successful checks return a JSON report with a success status, violation details, and a count.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Files with other top-level keys are validated as full configurations. Invalid settings, malformed YAML, and missing files produce errors; validation messages do not expose supplied values.
  • Documentation
    • Updated the retention-policy guidance to describe accepted configuration formats.

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The purge policy check now accepts YAML files containing only a retention block. It validates that block separately, while files with other top-level keys are validated as full configurations. Tests and documentation describe the accepted formats and error handling.

Changes: Retention policy configuration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retention-only config loading
forgelm/cli/_config_load.py
_load_retention_policy validates a retention-only mapping as an optional RetentionConfig. It loads files with other top-level keys as full ForgeLM configurations and converts YAML and validation errors to ConfigError.
Policy check integration and coverage
forgelm/cli/subcommands/_purge.py, tests/test_gdpr_erasure.py, CHANGELOG.md, docs/guides/*, docs/reference/*, docs/usermanuals/*
--check-policy uses the retention policy returned by the new loader. _maybe_load_config remains a best-effort loader without strict mode. Tests cover valid and empty retention blocks, full-config validation, invalid fields, and missing files. Documentation describes the accepted configuration formats.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Possibly related issues

  • Issue #1054: The change addresses the reported failure for retention-only configuration files and tests invalid retention settings.
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5e42e

A duplicate retention setting can hide an overdue artefact from the policy report. Resolve that risk before merging; also correct the release note so operators know valid training configurations remain accepted.

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Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: allowing a retention-only config file for purge --check-policy.
Description check Passed The description explains the issue, intended behavior, error handling, tests, documentation, and linked issue. It does not explicitly complete the template's Type and Checklist sections, and it descri…
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #1054 allows the selected behavior: accept a file with only retention: and validate it with RetentionConfig. _load_retention_policy applies that rule and sends files with other top-level k…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The loader refactor, focused tests, documentation updates, and changelog entry support Issue #1054. The changes preserve best-effort loading for other purge paths and add strict loading only for `--ch…
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 3 files. (7 skipped: 7…
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The description explains the issue, intended behavior, error handling, tests, documentation, and linked issue. It does not explicitly complete the template's Type and Checklist sections, and it describes the earlier _maybe_load_config implementation rather than the final _load_retention_policy implementation, but it remains mostly complete and relevant.

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Issue #1054 allows the selected behavior: accept a file with only retention: and validate it with RetentionConfig. _load_retention_policy applies that rule and sends files with other top-level keys through full load_config validation. _run_purge_check_policy preserves structured configuration errors and exit code 1. Tests cover a valid retention-only horizon, an invalid retention block with exit code 1, null retention, and partial or misspelled top-level keys. The English and Turkish retention documentation also records the behavior.

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The loader refactor, focused tests, documentation updates, and changelog entry support Issue #1054. The changes preserve best-effort loading for other purge paths and add strict loading only for --check-policy. No unrelated feature or unrelated behavior is demonstrated.

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The PR adds an opt-in retention-only configuration path to strict purge --check-policy loading, validating the standalone retention block with RetentionConfig while preserving existing full-config behavior and error handling, and adds tests for success and validation failure cases.

Sequence diagram for retention-only purge policy configuration

sequenceDiagram
    participant Operator
    participant Purge as purge --check-policy
    participant Loader as _maybe_load_config
    participant YAML as yaml.safe_load
    participant Retention as RetentionConfig

    Operator->>Purge: run with --config path
    Purge->>Loader: _maybe_load_config(path, strict=True, allow_retention_only=True)
    Loader->>YAML: safe_load(config_file)
    YAML-->>Loader: YAML mapping with retention
    Loader->>Retention: RetentionConfig(**retention_raw)
    Retention-->>Loader: validated retention
    Loader-->>Purge: SimpleNamespace(retention=retention_obj)
    Purge-->>Operator: check policy using retention config
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Change Details Files
Support retention-only YAML files for strict purge policy checks without weakening full configuration validation.
  • Add an opt-in loader flag used only by --check-policy.
  • Parse retention-only mappings and validate them directly with RetentionConfig.
  • Return validated retention settings through a lightweight namespace while preserving existing full-config loading otherwise.
  • Convert malformed YAML, non-mapping content, invalid retention shapes, and validation failures into structured configuration errors.
forgelm/cli/subcommands/_purge.py
Cover successful and invalid retention-only policy configurations with focused integration-style unit tests.
  • Verify a retention-only file completes policy checking successfully and emits the expected JSON fields.
  • Verify an invalid retention block exits with the configuration-error status code.
tests/test_gdpr_erasure.py

Assessment against linked issues

Issue Objective Addressed Explanation
#1054 Allow purge --check-policy --config to accept a YAML file containing only a retention: block, validating that block with RetentionConfig rather than requiring a complete ForgeConfig. ✅
#1054 Add tests for the chosen behavior, including confirming that an invalid retention-only block exits with code 1. ✅

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Hey - I've found 5 issues

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Please address the comments from this code review:

## Individual Comments

### Comment 1
<location path="forgelm/cli/subcommands/_purge.py" line_range="1478" />
<code_context>
+                f"Configuration file must contain a YAML mapping, got {type(yaml_data).__name__}"
+            )
+
+        if "retention" in yaml_data and "model" not in yaml_data:
+            # Retention-only YAML: validate specifically with RetentionConfig
+            retention_raw = yaml_data.get("retention")
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Invalid settings pass policy check**

When the YAML contains a retention block and other top-level entries but omits model, `_maybe_load_config` validates only `retention` and returns a namespace, discarding the remaining keys instead of applying `ForgeConfig`'s `extra="forbid"` validation; `--check-policy` reports success with an incomplete or misleading policy report.

Validate the full top-level configuration, including unrelated keys, before returning the retention-only namespace.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 2
<location path="forgelm/cli/subcommands/_purge.py" line_range="1488" />
<code_context>
+            try:
+                retention_obj = RetentionConfig(**retention_raw)
+            except ValidationError as e:
+                raise ConfigError(f"Configuration validation failed:\n{e}") from e
+            except (TypeError, ValueError) as e:
+                raise ConfigError(f"Configuration validation failed: {e}") from e
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Secrets appear in error output**

When a retention-only YAML value containing a secret fails validation, `RetentionConfig`'s `ValidationError` includes rejected input values, and `_maybe_load_config` embeds `str(e)` in a `ConfigError` that the CLI prints or logs, exposing the secret in terminal or CI output.

Sanitize validation errors before including them in `ConfigError`, omitting rejected input values.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 3
<location path="forgelm/cli/subcommands/_purge.py" line_range="1481-1484" />
<code_context>
+        if "retention" in yaml_data and "model" not in yaml_data:
+            # Retention-only YAML: validate specifically with RetentionConfig
+            retention_raw = yaml_data.get("retention")
+            if not isinstance(retention_raw, dict):
+                raise ConfigError(
+                    f"Configuration validation failed: 'retention' must be a mapping, got {type(retention_raw).__name__}"
+                )
+            try:
+                retention_obj = RetentionConfig(**retention_raw)
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Null retention is rejected**

When a retention-only YAML file has `retention: null` and no `model` key, `_maybe_load_config` rejects a null `retention` value as a non-mapping, even though `ForgeConfig.retention` is optional and accepts `null`; `--check-policy` therefore exits with a config error instead of treating the policy as unset.

Treat `retention: null` as an unset retention block and return a config object whose `retention` is `None`.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 4
<location path="forgelm/cli/subcommands/_purge.py" line_range="1469" />
<code_context>
+
+        with open(config_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            try:
+                yaml_data = _yaml.safe_load(f)
+            except _yaml.YAMLError as e:
+                raise ConfigError(f"Invalid YAML syntax in {config_path}: {e}") from e
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Invalid encoding escapes config errors**

When the retention-only config file contains invalid UTF-8 bytes, `safe_load` reads the text file and can raise `UnicodeDecodeError`, which is not a `yaml.YAMLError`; `_maybe_load_config` does not wrap it and `_run_purge_check_policy` does not catch it. The command therefore emits an unstructured traceback instead of its config-error response, breaking JSON-mode consumers.

Catch `UnicodeError` while reading the file and wrap it as `ConfigError` so the existing structured error path handles it.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 5
<location path="tests/test_gdpr_erasure.py" line_range="1121-1130" />
<code_context>
+        from forgelm.cli.subcommands._purge import _run_purge_cmd
+
+        cfg = tmp_path / "retention-only.yaml"
+        cfg.write_text("retention:\n  ephemeral_artefact_retention_days: 30\n")
+        args = _build_args(check_policy=True, config=str(cfg), output_dir=str(tmp_path))
+        with pytest.raises(SystemExit) as ei:
+            _run_purge_cmd(args, output_format="json")
+        assert ei.value.code == 0
+        captured = capsys.readouterr()
+        data = json.loads(captured.out)
+        assert data["success"] is True
+        assert "violations" in data
+        assert "count" in data
+
+    def test_check_policy_retention_only_invalid_exits_config_error(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Configured retention can be ignored**

When the retention-only loader discards the configured horizon and returns default retention settings, the test still passes if the retention-only loader discards the configured value and uses default retention settings: the empty output directory yields an empty report, and the assertions only check that the report has the expected keys. The test therefore does not catch the check-policy path applying the wrong retention settings.

Add an aged artefact to the test directory and assert the report reflects the configured 30-day horizon.
</issue_to_address>

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🧹 Nitpick comments: 2
forgelm/cli/subcommands/_purge.py: 1

1469-1469: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Avoid silently overriding duplicate retention keys.

yaml.safe_load keeps the last value for a duplicate mapping key before RetentionConfig validates it. _scan_retention_violations uses the resulting audit_log_retention_days value for audit_log.jsonl, so a later 0 can suppress that report while --check-policy exits successfully.

The repository does not currently require duplicate-key rejection; load_config uses the same loader. If duplicate keys are not intentional, add duplicate-key detection to the shared YAML loading path and convert it to ConfigError, so --check-policy exits with code 1.

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Review comment at @forgelm/cli/subcommands/_purge.py at line 1469:
Add duplicate mapping-key detection to the shared YAML loading path used by
load_config and the retention policy flow, then raise ConfigError when
duplicates are found so policy validation fails with exit code 1 instead of
using the last value.
tests/test_gdpr_erasure.py: 1

1115-1130: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that the retention-only configuration affects the CLI report.

The test creates no artefact and checks only JSON shape. It can pass if the retention block is accepted but its horizon is ignored. Add an old report and assert the configured 30-day horizon appears in the violation.

Suggested fix
         cfg = tmp_path / "retention-only.yaml"
         cfg.write_text("retention:\n  ephemeral_artefact_retention_days: 30\n")
+        report = tmp_path / "data_audit_report.json"
+        report.write_text("{}")
+        old_mtime = report.stat().st_mtime - 120 * 86400
+        os.utime(report, (old_mtime, old_mtime))
         args = _build_args(check_policy=True, config=str(cfg), output_dir=str(tmp_path))
         with pytest.raises(SystemExit) as ei:
             _run_purge_cmd(args, output_format="json")
         assert ei.value.code == 0
         captured = capsys.readouterr()
         data = json.loads(captured.out)
         assert data["success"] is True
-        assert "violations" in data
-        assert "count" in data
+        assert data["count"] == 1
+        assert data["violations"][0]["artefact_kind"] == "data_audit_report"
+        assert data["violations"][0]["horizon_days"] == 30
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Review comment at @tests/test_gdpr_erasure.py around lines 1115 - 1130:
Update test_check_policy_retention_only_config_succeeds to create a
data_audit_report.json with an mtime older than the configured 30-day retention
horizon, then assert the CLI report contains exactly one violation for
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Review comments at @forgelm/cli/subcommands/_purge.py:
- Line 1469: Add duplicate mapping-key detection to the shared YAML loading path
used by load_config and the retention policy flow, then raise ConfigError when
duplicates are found so policy validation fails with exit code 1 instead of
using the last value.

Review comments at @tests/test_gdpr_erasure.py:
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Hi @chiragjangiir, thank you for picking up #1054 so quickly and for the clear description. The direction is right: accepting a file that holds only retention: is the behaviour we want, and --check-policy reads nothing from the loaded config except .retention, so the approach is safe at runtime.

We checked out the branch on top of development (735a02f) and ran it.

  • The case from the issue now works: a file with only retention: returns a report and exits 0.
  • An invalid value (ephemeral_artefact_retention_days: -5) exits 1 with the structured JSON error.

A few things need to change before we can merge. Each one comes with a concrete fix, which we ran through the full local gauntlet (all green).

Required changes

1. CI is red: two lint errors and the module-size budget.

  • ruff check reports I001 (import order) in both files, and ruff format would reformat _purge.py. ruff check --fix . && ruff format . fixes both.

  • forgelm/cli/subcommands/_purge.py is a deferred-split module with only 5 lines of headroom in tools/check_module_size.py. The PR takes it to 1259 lines against a 1224 budget, which fails tests/test_check_module_size.py and the validate job. Please do not raise the budget.

    Instead, move the loader into forgelm/cli/_config_load.py, the CLI's config-loading module. It has plenty of room, and the retention-only rule then lives next to load_config's other callers. This version passed the full gauntlet for us:

    # forgelm/cli/_config_load.py  (add `from typing import Optional` and import RetentionConfig from ..config)
    def load_retention_policy(config_path: Optional[str]) -> Optional[RetentionConfig]:
        """Return the ``retention:`` block that ``forgelm purge --check-policy`` reports against.
    
        The file is either a full ForgeLM config or one whose only top-level key is ``retention``: a
        scheduled retention report needs no training config (#1054). Any other top-level key makes it
        a full config, validated as one, so a misspelt ``retension:`` fails instead of being ignored.
        Raises ``ConfigError`` or ``OSError`` as ``load_config`` does.
        """
        if not config_path:
            return None
        with open(config_path, encoding="utf-8") as fh:
            try:
                data = yaml.safe_load(fh)
            except yaml.YAMLError as exc:
                raise ConfigError(f"Invalid YAML syntax in {config_path}: {exc}") from exc
        if not (isinstance(data, dict) and set(data) == {"retention"}):
            return load_config(config_path).retention
        if data["retention"] is None:
            return None
        try:
            return RetentionConfig.model_validate(data["retention"])
        except ValidationError as exc:
            raise ConfigError(f"Configuration validation failed:\n{exc}") from exc

    Then make three changes in _run_purge_check_policy:

    • import it with from .._config_load import load_retention_policy;
    • call retention = load_retention_policy(getattr(args, "config", None));
    • use retention where the code now reads config_loaded.retention, and change the None check to if retention is None:.

    --check-policy was the only caller of _maybe_load_config(..., strict=True). Please also remove the strict parameter, its docstring paragraph and the if strict: raise branch, so that no dead option is left behind. With these changes _purge.py goes down to 1212 lines.

2. Only a file whose single top-level key is retention should skip full validation. The current check, "retention" in yaml_data and "model" not in yaml_data, also accepts files with other keys and ignores those keys silently. Before this PR, both of these files exited 1 with validation errors:

File With this PR
retention: plus a misspelt retension: {staging_ttl_days: 1} Exit 0 with "no violations": the operator's 1-day staging horizon is dropped and the 7-day default is used.
retention: plus a training: block but no model: Exit 0: the half-written training config is never reported.

--check-policy loads its config strictly on purpose, so that a mistake in the file is never mistaken for "no violations". ForgeConfig rejects unknown keys for the same reason. The helper above checks set(data) == {"retention"} and sends every other file through load_config, which reports the full errors. This also resolves the docstring mismatch PR Lens pointed out (the docstring says "lacks training/model keys" while the code checks only model).

3. The success test should prove that the configured horizon is used. We replaced the loader with one that ignores the file and returns RetentionConfig() defaults: both new tests still passed, because the output directory is empty and the test checks only the JSON shape. This test fails on that version and passes on yours. It uses a 60-day-old report because 60 days is past the configured 30-day horizon but within the 90-day default. A 120-day-old file, as suggested in one bot comment, would exceed both horizons and could not tell them apart.

    def test_check_policy_retention_only_config_applies_its_horizon(self, tmp_path: Path, capsys) -> None:
        """#1054: the horizon from a retention-only file is the one applied, not the default."""
        import json
        import os
        import time

        from forgelm.cli.subcommands._purge import _run_purge_cmd

        report = tmp_path / "data_audit_report.json"
        report.write_text("{}")
        sixty_days_ago = time.time() - 60 * 86400
        os.utime(report, (sixty_days_ago, sixty_days_ago))
        cfg = tmp_path / "retention-only.yaml"
        cfg.write_text("retention:\n  ephemeral_artefact_retention_days: 30\n")
        args = _build_args(check_policy=True, config=str(cfg), output_dir=str(tmp_path))
        with pytest.raises(SystemExit) as ei:
            _run_purge_cmd(args, output_format="json")
        assert ei.value.code == 0
        data = json.loads(capsys.readouterr().out)
        assert data["count"] == 1
        assert data["violations"][0]["artefact_kind"] == "data_audit_report"
        assert data["violations"][0]["horizon_days"] == 30

Please also add a test for point 2. It fails on the current branch and passes with the helper:

    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
        "body",
        [
            "retention:\n  ephemeral_artefact_retention_days: 30\nretension:\n  staging_ttl_days: 1\n",
            "retention:\n  ephemeral_artefact_retention_days: 30\ntraining:\n  num_train_epochs: 3\n",
        ],
        ids=["misspelt-top-level-key", "partial-training-config"],
    )
    def test_check_policy_other_top_level_keys_mean_a_full_config(self, tmp_path: Path, body: str) -> None:
        """#1054: only a file whose sole key is `retention` skips full validation; a typo is not ignored."""
        from forgelm.cli.subcommands._purge import _run_purge_cmd

        cfg = tmp_path / "config.yaml"
        cfg.write_text(body)
        args = _build_args(check_policy=True, config=str(cfg), output_dir=str(tmp_path))
        with pytest.raises(SystemExit) as ei:
            _run_purge_cmd(args, output_format="json")
        assert ei.value.code == 1

Keep your test_check_policy_retention_only_invalid_exits_config_error; it is good as it is.

4. Record the behaviour in the purge reference. #1054's first criterion asks for the chosen behaviour to be recorded. In the --check-policy section, add one sentence at the end of the paragraph that starts "Read-only scan." / "Salt-okunur tarama." (line 59 in both files).

docs/reference/purge_subcommand.md:

The config can be a full training config or a YAML file whose only top-level key is `retention:`; a file with any other top-level key is validated as a full config.

docs/reference/purge_subcommand-tr.md (the Turkish sentence, ready to paste):

Config, tam bir eğitim config'i ya da tek üst düzey anahtarı `retention:` olan bir YAML dosyası olabilir; başka bir üst düzey anahtar içeren dosya tam config olarak doğrulanır.

5. CHANGELOG. Add a line under ## [Unreleased] → ### Changed, for example: "forgelm purge --check-policy --config accepts a file whose only top-level key is retention:; a file with any other top-level key is still validated as a full config (#1054)."

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development requires every review conversation to be resolved before merge. Please reply in each thread with the outcome and resolve it:

Comment Outcome
Sourcery "Invalid settings pass policy check" and PR Lens's docstring note Fixed by point 2.
Sourcery "Configured retention can be ignored" and CodeRabbit's test nitpick Fixed by point 3.
Sourcery "Null retention is rejected" Fixed by the helper: a file with only retention: and no value behaves like a full config without a retention block (the "nothing to enforce" note, exit 0).
Sourcery "Secrets appear in error output" Not applicable: the message has the same form as load_config's for every config, and the retention fields are integers and an enum.
Sourcery "Invalid encoding escapes config errors" Not in this PR: load_config behaves the same today. Tracked as CR-A01-137 (#664).
CodeRabbit "duplicate retention keys" Not in this PR: the shared YAML loader keeps the last duplicate everywhere. Tracked as CR-A01-025 (#545).

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Push the changes as new commits on this branch; no force-push is needed. We will re-run CI and review again. Thanks again for the contribution. If you enjoy working on ForgeLM, a ⭐ on the repository helps us a lot, and there are more good first issues waiting.

cemililik and others added 2 commits October 22, 2026 16:17
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Finish the retention-only config support along the lines of the review:

- Move the loader to forgelm/cli/_config_load.py as
  _load_retention_policy(). Only a file whose single top-level key is
  `retention` skips full validation; any other key (a misspelt
  `retension:`, a partial `training:` block) goes through load_config
  and exits 1 instead of being ignored.
- Validate the block with hide_input_in_errors, as ForgeConfig does, so
  a validation error names the field without echoing its raw value.
- `retention: null` gives the "nothing to enforce" note, as in a full
  config; a missing file keeps load_config's not-found message.
- Remove the now-unused `strict` parameter of _maybe_load_config;
  _purge.py goes from 1259 LOC (over its 1224 budget) to 1213.
- Tests: the configured horizon is the one applied (a 60-day-old report
  against a 30-day horizon), other top-level keys mean a full config,
  the null block, hidden raw input and a missing file.
- Record the behaviour in the purge reference, the GDPR erasure guide
  and the GDPR user-manual page (EN + TR), and in CHANGELOG.

Refs HodeTech#1054

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Hi @chiragjangiir, thank you again for opening this pull request and for the first version of the retention-only loader. The branch had been quiet since our review, so we pushed a follow-up commit (5e42ee5) to finish it along the lines of that review and close #1054. Your commit stays in the history, and the pull request is still yours.

What the follow-up commit changes

  • The loader now lives in forgelm/cli/_config_load.py as _load_retention_policy(). Only a file whose single top-level key is retention skips full validation. A file with any other top-level key, such as a misspelt retension: or a partial training: block, goes through load_config and exits 1, so it is no longer ignored.
  • retention: with no value produces the "nothing to enforce" note (exit 0), as it does in a full config.
  • A missing --config keeps the usual "Configuration file not found" message.
  • _maybe_load_config loses the strict parameter, which no caller used any more. forgelm/cli/subcommands/_purge.py goes from 1259 lines to 1213, back within its 1224-line budget, so the validate job's module-size check passes again.
  • Tests: the success test now proves that the configured horizon is used. It plants a 60-day-old report, uses a 30-day horizon, and expects one violation with horizon_days: 30. New tests cover other top-level keys, the null block, hidden input values and a missing file. Your invalid-block test is unchanged.
  • The behaviour is now documented in the purge reference, the GDPR erasure guide and the GDPR user-manual page (English and Turkish), and in a CHANGELOG line.

A correction to our review. We wrote that Sourcery's "Secrets appear in error output" did not apply. It does. ForgeConfig sets hide_input_in_errors=True, so validation errors for a full config never repeat raw values, but validating RetentionConfig on its own did. The retention-only path now validates with the same setting, and a test pins this behaviour.

How we checked it

  • The full local gauntlet passes (6,671 tests passed).
  • Seven mutants of the helper are each caught by at least one test.
  • We ran forgelm purge --check-policy from the command line on ten config files: retention only, retention plus training:, a misspelt key, a null block, a negative value, a secret-looking value, a list, an empty file, a missing file and invalid UTF-8.

Out of scope, and tracked elsewhere

Thanks for the contribution! If you enjoy working on ForgeLM, a ⭐ on the repository helps us a lot, and there are more good first issues waiting.

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The retention-only entry read as if any file with another top-level key
exited 1. A valid full training config still reports normally; only an
invalid one, such as a misspelt `retension:` or a partial training
config, exits 1.

Refs HodeTech#1054

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

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The follow-up commits address every item from our earlier review, and all review threads are resolved. Approving. Thank you, @chiragjangiir!

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forgelm purge --check-policy --config requires a complete ForgeConfig; a file with only a retention block exits 1

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