AUDIT-WP-0009 T02/T10 — schedule attestation, and make the §5 check total

T02. deploy/attest-cronjob.yaml: daily at 03:17 UTC against the 168h window,
its own ServiceAccount, and a Role reaching exactly one named ConfigMap —
get/update/patch, no create, no list. audit_core/attest_publish.py does the
publish in stdlib; the image carries no kubectl, and adding one to an audit
receiver's image to write a single file is the worse trade.

Three refusals, all deliberate:

  The producer is not the receiver. A receiver that could rewrite its own
  attestation could forge it. audit-core-egress is now scoped to
  component: receiver and a separate audit-core-attest-egress carries the 6443
  rule, so the receiver never gains API-server reach. Asserted by test.

  It refuses to publish over a broken chain. A fresh head written over a break
  replaces an honest chain_break with a fresh-looking attestation. Stale
  degrades the claim visibly; false does not.

  Mounted as a directory, not subPath. Found while writing the manifest: a
  subPath ConfigMap mount is resolved once at pod start and never updates, so
  the daily attestation would land in the ConfigMap and never reach the running
  receiver — tamper_evidence would age out to false while the job reported
  success every night, silent in both directions.

The offsite copy stays an operator step. audit-core holds no Nextcloud
credential and should not acquire one to publish a hash, so docs/integrity.md
states the bound plainly: until that copy exists the delivered control defends
against a database owner, not a cluster owner, and no stronger claim may be
made from it.

T10. layer.yaml lists four infrastructure contacts — platform-pg, state-hub,
kube-apiserver, the container registry — each with its role and whether another
layer reads it. tooling_contacts stays [], which is true under §5 as written;
the companion's totality request is met by the uncatalogued list rather than by
inventing a Tooling row. tests/test_layer_conformance.py derives the egress
destinations from the manifests and the registry from the pinned digests, so a
new contact appearing in deploy/ without a row fails the test rather than
waiting for a reviewer to notice.

Applying the manifests remains an operator action; nothing here was applied.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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tests/test_attest_publish.py

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+"""AUDIT-WP-0009-T02. Publishing the chain-head attestation."""
+
+import json
+
+import pytest
+
+from audit_core import attest_publish
+
+
+class _Response:
+    status = 200
+
+    def __enter__(self):
+        return self
+
+    def __exit__(self, *exc):
+        return False
+
+
+@pytest.fixture()
+def service_account(tmp_path):
+    (tmp_path / "token").write_text("sa-token\n")
+    (tmp_path / "namespace").write_text("audit-core\n")
+    (tmp_path / "ca.crt").write_text("")
+    return str(tmp_path)
+
+
+def test_publish_patches_one_key_with_the_projected_token(service_account):
+    seen = {}
+
+    def opener(request):
+        seen["url"] = request.full_url
+        seen["method"] = request.method
+        seen["headers"] = {k.lower(): v for k, v in request.headers.items()}
+        seen["body"] = json.loads(request.data.decode())
+        return _Response()
+
+    status = attest_publish.publish(
+        {"head": "abc", "observed_at": "2026-09-10T03:17:00+00:00"},
+        directory=service_account,
+        host="https://api.test",
+        opener=opener,
+    )
+
+    assert status == 200
+    assert seen["url"] == "https://api.test/api/v1/namespaces/audit-core/configmaps/audit-core-chain-head"
+    assert seen["method"] == "PATCH"
+    assert seen["headers"]["authorization"] == "Bearer sa-token"
+    # A merge patch replaces one key. A full PUT would drop anything else the
+    # operator put in the ConfigMap.
+    assert seen["headers"]["content-type"] == "application/merge-patch+json"
+    assert set(seen["body"]) == {"data"}
+    assert set(seen["body"]["data"]) == {"chain-head.json"}
+    assert json.loads(seen["body"]["data"]["chain-head.json"])["head"] == "abc"
+
+
+def test_publish_raises_rather_than_returning_a_failure(service_account):
+    """A silent failure leaves a stale attestation aging out with nobody told."""
+
+    def opener(request):
+        raise OSError("apiserver unreachable")
+
+    with pytest.raises(OSError):
+        attest_publish.publish(
+            {"head": "abc"}, directory=service_account,
+            host="https://api.test", opener=opener,
+        )
+
+
+def test_a_broken_chain_is_not_published_over(monkeypatch, tmp_path, capsys):
+    """The refusal that matters: a fresh head over a break would hide it."""
+
+    class _Report:
+        intact = False
+        first_break = "event-42"
+
+    class _Backend:
+        def verify_chain(self):
+            return _Report()
+
+        def close(self):
+            pass
+
+    published = []
+    monkeypatch.setattr(attest_publish, "publish", lambda *a, **k: published.append(a))
+    monkeypatch.setenv("AUDIT_CORE_ATTESTATION_OUTPUT", str(tmp_path / "head.json"))
+    monkeypatch.setattr("audit_core.cli._postgres_backend", lambda *a, **k: _Backend())
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        "audit_core.integrity.write_attestation", lambda path, report: {"head": "x"}
+    )
+
+    assert attest_publish.main([]) == 1
+    assert published == []
+    assert "refusing to publish" in capsys.readouterr().err

tests/test_layer_conformance.py

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+"""AUDIT-WP-0009-T10. Make the §5 conformance check total rather than vacuous.
+
+`layer.yaml` declares `tooling_contacts: []`, which is true under §5 as
+written — audit-core is an Engine and holds no key-cape or OpenBao client. The
+companion asks that uncatalogued infrastructure be listed anyway, and a list
+nobody checks decays into a list nobody updates. These tests make the claim of
+totality mechanical.
+"""
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+yaml = pytest.importorskip("yaml")
+
+ROOT = Path(__file__).parents[1]
+LAYER = yaml.safe_load((ROOT / "layer.yaml").read_text())
+
+
+def _listed() -> set[str]:
+    return {row["id"] for row in LAYER.get("uncatalogued_infrastructure", [])}
+
+
+def test_the_declaration_states_the_layer_and_role():
+    assert LAYER["layer"] == "engine"
+    assert LAYER["role"] == "evidence"
+    assert LAYER["decision_surfaces_exposed"] == "none"
+    # §9.4, normative and permanent.
+    assert LAYER["approval_validity_query"] == "forbidden"
+
+
+def test_the_evidence_bound_never_claims_occurrence():
+    bound = LAYER["evidence_bound"]
+    does_not = " ".join(bound["does_not_prove"]).lower()
+    assert "ever sent" in does_not
+    assert "non-occurrence" in does_not
+    proves = " ".join(bound["proves"]).lower()
+    # The archive's claim is about records it holds, never about the world.
+    assert "altered" in proves and "truncated" in proves
+    assert set(bound["not_claimed"]) >= {"WORM", "object-lock", "archival-custody"}
+
+
+def test_every_infrastructure_contact_is_listed():
+    """The totality claim, checked rather than asserted.
+
+    Each probe below names a contact that exists in `deploy/`. When a new one
+    appears, this fails and the list gets a row — which is the whole point of
+    the companion's carve-out being total.
+    """
+    listed = _listed()
+    assert "platform-pg" in listed
+    assert "state-hub" in listed
+    assert "kube-apiserver" in listed
+    assert "forgejo.coulomb.social" in listed
+
+
+def test_a_new_egress_destination_must_appear_in_the_declaration():
+    """Derived from the manifests, so drift fails here rather than at review."""
+    policies = (ROOT / "deploy" / "networkpolicies.yaml").read_text()
+    # Namespaces audit-core is permitted to egress to, by name.
+    for namespace, expected in [("databases", "platform-pg"), ("kube-system", None)]:
+        assert f"kubernetes.io/metadata.name: {namespace}" in policies
+        if expected:
+            assert expected in _listed()
+    # The attest job's API-server reach is real infrastructure and is declared.
+    assert "port: 6443" in policies
+    assert "kube-apiserver" in _listed()
+
+
+def test_the_registry_pinned_in_deploy_is_declared():
+    manifests = "".join(
+        path.read_text() for path in (ROOT / "deploy").glob("*.yaml")
+    )
+    for row in LAYER["uncatalogued_infrastructure"]:
+        if row["id"] == "forgejo.coulomb.social":
+            break
+    else:
+        pytest.fail("registry not declared")
+    assert "forgejo.coulomb.social" in manifests
+    # Pinned by digest, never by tag: a mutable tag makes the registry able to
+    # change what runs without any change here.
+    images = [
+        line.strip() for line in manifests.splitlines()
+        if line.strip().startswith("image:")
+    ]
+    assert images
+    assert all("@sha256:" in image for image in images)
+    assert not any(":latest" in image for image in images)
+
+
+def test_the_receiver_has_no_api_server_egress():
+    """The separation T02 depends on, asserted rather than assumed."""
+    documents = (ROOT / "deploy" / "networkpolicies.yaml").read_text().split("\n---\n")
+    receiver = next(d for d in documents if "name: audit-core-egress" in d)
+    assert "component: receiver" in receiver
+    assert "6443" not in receiver
+    attest = next(d for d in documents if "name: audit-core-attest-egress" in d)
+    assert "component: attest" in attest
+    assert "6443" in attest