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+"""Invariant: the relay path sheds platform crypto — it re-validates nothing.
+
+Under the A2 trust model (see docs/relay-connector-contract.md §6), the
+*connector* is the sole crypto/identity boundary: it verifies/decrypts every
+inbound platform payload at the edge (it holds the tenant secrets), normalizes
+it to a tenant-scoped ``MessageEvent``, and forwards only the sanitized event.
+The gateway re-validates nothing — it cannot, without being handed the shared
+signing secret, which would itself be the leak on a shared bot.
+
+The relay package therefore MUST NOT import or call platform signature/crypto
+verification (Discord ed25519, Twilio HMAC, WeCom BizMsgCrypt, generic webhook
+signature checks). Those live in the *direct* platform adapters
+(``gateway/platforms/*``) which serve non-relay deployments; the relay receives
+already-trusted events. This test fails if someone bolts re-validation onto the
+relay path, re-coupling the gateway to platform secrets it must never hold.
+
+It is an invariant (asserts the *relation* "relay imports no crypto"), not a
+change-detector snapshot of a frozen import list.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import ast
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
+
+# gateway/relay package directory: tests/gateway/relay/ -> repo root parents[3].
+_REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[3]
+_RELAY_PKG = _REPO_ROOT / "gateway" / "relay"
+
+# Modules / symbols that mean "platform crypto re-validation". If the relay path
+# imports any of these it has re-coupled the gateway to a platform secret.
+_FORBIDDEN_MODULE_TOKENS = (
+    "wecom_crypto",
+    "wecom_callback",
+    "webhook",  # gateway.platforms.webhook holds signature verification
+)
+_FORBIDDEN_SYMBOL_RE = re.compile(
+    r"(ed25519|verify_key|verifykey|verify_signature|verify_ed25519|"
+    r"verify_webhook|bizmsg|hmac|x[-_]signature)",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+
+def _relay_py_files() -> list[Path]:
+    assert _RELAY_PKG.is_dir(), f"relay package missing at {_RELAY_PKG}"
+    return sorted(_RELAY_PKG.glob("*.py"))
+
+
+def test_relay_package_imports_no_platform_crypto():
+    """No module in gateway/relay imports a platform-crypto / verification module."""
+    offenders: list[str] = []
+    for path in _relay_py_files():
+        tree = ast.parse(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"), filename=str(path))
+        for node in ast.walk(tree):
+            mods: list[str] = []
+            if isinstance(node, ast.Import):
+                mods = [alias.name for alias in node.names]
+            elif isinstance(node, ast.ImportFrom):
+                mods = [node.module or ""]
+                mods += [f"{node.module or ''}.{a.name}" for a in node.names]
+            for mod in mods:
+                if any(tok in mod for tok in _FORBIDDEN_MODULE_TOKENS):
+                    offenders.append(f"{path.name}: imports '{mod}'")
+    assert not offenders, (
+        "The relay path must re-validate NOTHING (A2: connector is the sole "
+        "crypto boundary). Found platform-crypto imports in the relay package:\n  "
+        + "\n  ".join(offenders)
+        + "\nMove verification to the connector edge; the gateway trusts the "
+        "normalized MessageEvent. See docs/relay-connector-contract.md §6."
+    )
+
+
+def test_relay_package_calls_no_signature_verification():
+    """No relay module references a signature/crypto-verification symbol by name."""
+    offenders: list[str] = []
+    for path in _relay_py_files():
+        for lineno, line in enumerate(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines(), 1):
+            # Skip comments / docstrings-as-prose: only flag code-like usage.
+            stripped = line.strip()
+            if stripped.startswith("#"):
+                continue
+            m = _FORBIDDEN_SYMBOL_RE.search(line)
+            if m:
+                offenders.append(f"{path.name}:{lineno}: '{m.group(0)}' in: {stripped[:80]}")
+    assert not offenders, (
+        "The relay path must not perform platform signature/crypto verification "
+        "(A2). Found verification-symbol references:\n  "
+        + "\n  ".join(offenders)
+        + "\nThe connector verifies at the edge; the gateway re-validates nothing."
+    )