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tegwick 62233c7c52 Say what the tenant check is, and what view_hash is not
gate-house (GH-DEC-2026-013) was right that our wording implied a fact
about the person. The tenant comparison is store isolation — does this
caller belong to the store this engine serves — and a registration-
supplied claim satisfies that while satisfying no doctrine about the
approver's own membership. Exact equality cannot see the difference, so
state it, and note that provenance gets recorded on the entry the way v4
records principal_type once the claim carries it.

Answer informed-decision's R3 in the claim contract: view_hash and
binding.digest answer different questions and must not be merged. Three
hashes, three questions. Recommend their binding document carry our
digest rather than re-canonicalize the same five fields, so the act has
one canonicalization and a mismatch is detectable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HyybaE7DUXrWYrhbnESCTe

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approval_engine Record the verified principal type on approver entries (schema v4) 2026-09-09 14:09:54 +02:00
deploy Hold the pinned image against the repository's schema 2026-09-09 14:38:21 +02:00
docs Say what the tenant check is, and what view_hash is not 2026-09-10 07:56:28 +02:00
examples Publish the valid-but-unbound claim; the missing shape was confounded 2026-09-07 13:48:00 +02:00
history Align to security layer model v0.7 and open the engine spine 2026-08-29 11:58:28 +02:00
intakes Record GH-DEC-2026-005; strike the spent G3 revisit trigger 2026-09-06 01:36:03 +02:00
schemas Name the execute-time digest target; record the tenant collision 2026-09-06 20:35:59 +02:00
tests Hold the pinned image against the repository's schema 2026-09-09 14:38:21 +02:00
workplans Say what the tenant check is, and what view_hash is not 2026-09-10 07:56:28 +02:00
.custodian-brief.md chore(consistency): sync task status from DB [auto] 2026-09-06 01:09:55 +02:00
.gitignore Implement the engine spine: claim, outbox, machine, API 2026-08-29 12:52:49 +02:00
.repo-classification.yaml Add repo classification to close C-24/C-35 2026-08-29 14:43:52 +02:00
AGENTS.md Finish approval engine spine 2026-09-01 23:45:48 +02:00
cadence.yaml Finish approval engine spine 2026-09-01 23:45:48 +02:00
Containerfile Adopt Alpine as the sanctioned base; release candidate scans clean 2026-09-06 23:01:41 +02:00
INTENT.md Finish approval engine spine 2026-09-01 23:45:48 +02:00
layer.yaml Implement the engine spine: claim, outbox, machine, API 2026-08-29 12:52:49 +02:00
Makefile Adopt Alpine as the sanctioned base; release candidate scans clean 2026-09-06 23:01:41 +02:00
pyproject.toml State pdp_digest explicitly; decline to publish a vocabulary mapping 2026-09-06 09:32:11 +02:00
README.md Harden the PEP harness and KeyCape registration request 2026-09-02 15:46:06 +02:00
SCOPE.md Harden the PEP harness and KeyCape registration request 2026-09-02 15:46:06 +02:00
WORK-RECORDS.md chore(consistency): record decision id for GH-DEC-2026-005 2026-09-06 08:05:00 +02:00

approval-engine

The approval as a durable, authenticated, consumable object — issued before an action, verified at the moment of use, and provably not replayable.

An Engine, role PIP, in the NetKingdom security layer model (statute v0.7, accepted; operative form net-kingdom/SECURITY-COMPANION.md). It answers one question, totally and decidably:

Is this approval valid right now — for this exact action, target, actor, and purpose — and has it already been used?

It does not decide whether the action is permitted. That is access-engine, which stays NetKingdom's only policy decision point. An approval is one input to that decision.

Deliberately small, boring, and strict: atomic supersession and single consumption are what make Canon test T-06 — Approval Replay passable. Flexibility here would be a defect. Graded, evidence-based progression belongs to maturity-engine; the two engines are deliberate opposites.

See INTENT.md and SCOPE.md. Declaration: layer.yaml. Claim: docs/approval-claim.md. Consume: docs/approval-consumption.md. Caller auth: docs/caller-authentication.md. PEP sequence: docs/pep-integration.md. Origin: flex-auth FLEX-DEC-2026-001, raised while assenting to the security layer model.

make test
approval-engine migrate --db approvals.sqlite
approval-engine verify --db approvals.sqlite
approval-engine serve --db approvals.sqlite \
  --jwt-issuer https://auth.netkingdom.local \
  --jwt-audience approval-engine \
  --jwks-url http://key-cape.sso.svc.cluster.local:8080/jwks

POST /v1/approvals/{id}/consume implements GH-DEC-2026-003: the PEP atomically spends the approval before the protected side effect. Same-digest retries are idempotent; a different digest conflicts.

Production operations, caller scopes, audit delivery, and PEP sequencing are documented in docs/storage-operations.md, docs/caller-authentication.md, docs/outbox-contract.md, and docs/pep-integration.md. The checked-in StatefulSet deliberately refuses production startup without a migrated persistent store, KeyCape JWT verification, and authenticated audit delivery.