Accept now extends a single-schema chain. Verify walks it; a rewritten
payload_hash is a break. Tamper evidence is that detector plus an
external chain-head attestation, not WORM.
Postgres now reports custody_class=operational with a cited 30-day
recoverable window. Join ITC-CAP operations.audit at D4, publish the
interface card, and overlay user-engine tenants [*] from Git so an
ExternalSecret refresh cannot shrink it.
AUDIT-WP-0004 T01, T02, T07.
T01 - ingestion wrote to SQLite directly and never called the AuditBackend
contract, so a 202 meant a row existed rather than that a backend with a
declared retention policy had accepted the event. Adds IdempotentAuditBackend
to the contract: duplicate detection lives inside the backend so custody and
idempotency state share a transaction and cannot diverge. SQLiteAuditBackend
implements it with WAL, synchronous=FULL and a busy timeout. Ingestion now
refuses any backend declaring durable=False, so the development file backend
cannot silently become the production sink.
The atomicity claim was tested rather than asserted, and the first attempt
failed: with a single shared connection, 16 racing submissions of one event
told two callers they were first. Storage was correct but the response was
not. Fixed with per-thread connections and BEGIN IMMEDIATE around the
insert/read pair, and locked in by a test.
T02 - storage errors previously escaped the handler with start_response never
called, and the auth check sat outside the try block so a non-ASCII
Authorization header crashed the request. Adds a catch-all, maps conflict to
409, backend unavailability to 503 and unexpected faults to 500, and
documents the full response contract with the retry semantics each status
implies, since senders key their behaviour off it.
T07 - ingestion tests 2 -> 23, suite 15 -> 36. accepted_at is now UTC rather
than local time, and naive timestamps are rejected instead of silently
assumed.
Remaining in WP-0004: T03 tenant/source binding, T04 redaction policy,
T05 operator read surface, T06 production serving layer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
