State pdp_digest explicitly; decline to publish a vocabulary mapping

flex-auth asked whether this engine should publish an action/target
mapping between the claim binding's vocabulary (secrets.kv.destroy,
{"id": "lane-openbao-root"}) and a policy package's (destroy, lane:...),
since their package makes no cross-check that a claim was approved for
the action being decided.

Answered no. A PIP asserting that one vocabulary's action means
another's would author policy semantics it does not own, over
vocabularies it does not own, and the failure mode is asymmetric: a wrong
mapping silently accepts a claim approved for a different action, which
is worse than no mapping. binding.pdp_digest is the correspondence and
sidesteps vocabulary entirely -- it compares the PDP's own digest to the
PDP's own digest, with no translation by anyone.

Implemented the part that was ours. pdp_digest was emitted only when
recorded, so a consumer could not distinguish "not issued against a
decision" from "we forgot to look". It is now always present and null in
that case, required-but-nullable in the schema, and documented as
something a PEP on a privileged lane must refuse. This engine states the
fact; enforcing the lane's policy stays with the consumer.

Both published examples were already contradicting the updated schema by
omitting the field -- the same fixture-versus-contract defect flex-auth
hit twice this week and that secrets-engine implemented. Fixed both, made
them cover the PDP-bound and unbound shapes so neither is inferred from
the other, and added tests/test_examples.py to validate every example
against the schema so the class cannot recur here. jsonschema added as a
dev dependency.

94 tests pass (6 new).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TvyJPAaVCGsVheVhcCwNND

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"""The published examples must satisfy the published schema.
flex-auth shipped two defects in one day from fixtures that contradicted their
own contracts, and secrets-engine built a validator against one of them. A
contract whose examples contradict its prose will be implemented as its
examples, so the examples are tested rather than trusted.
"""
import json
from pathlib import Path
import pytest
jsonschema = pytest.importorskip("jsonschema")
ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
SCHEMA = json.loads((ROOT / "schemas" / "approval_claim.schema.json").read_text())
EXAMPLES = sorted((ROOT / "examples").glob("claim.*.json"))
def test_examples_exist():
assert EXAMPLES, "no claim examples found to validate"
@pytest.mark.parametrize("path", EXAMPLES, ids=lambda p: p.name)
def test_example_matches_schema(path):
jsonschema.validate(json.loads(path.read_text()), SCHEMA)
@pytest.mark.parametrize("path", EXAMPLES, ids=lambda p: p.name)
def test_example_states_pdp_digest_explicitly(path):
"""Absence must be a stated null, never a missing key."""
assert "pdp_digest" in json.loads(path.read_text())["binding"]
def test_examples_cover_both_pdp_binding_states():
"""An implementer must see both shapes, not infer one from the other."""
states = {
json.loads(p.read_text())["binding"]["pdp_digest"] is None for p in EXAMPLES
}
assert states == {True, False}