audit-core/audit_core/senders.py
tegwick b098fb12ca AUDIT-WP-0009 T04/T06/T07 — heartbeats, reconciliation, and a home for findings
The detection half audit-core argued up to a MUST and then could not support.
Two registered sources were waiting on it.

T04, heartbeats. A heartbeat is an ordinary event — same envelope, same
append-only custody, same chain, no special table. Deliberate: a heartbeat
stored outside the chain would be the one record here that could be back-dated.
Declared per class rather than per source, because a per-source heartbeat from
a mixed-volume emitter is satisfied by its chattiest class and says nothing
about the quiet, security-relevant one, which is the only reason heartbeats
exist. Not the §17 cadence schema T05 waits on: cadence describes expected
rate, this says how often a source promises to say "nothing to report" for a
class that may legitimately be silent.

no_heartbeat_since_registration is its own finding kind rather than a skip —
it is the case most likely to be a broken integration and the one a naive
"compare against last seen" implementation silently drops. Grace widens the
window so one late run does not flap; it never removes a finding.

T06, reconciliation. Counts, never payloads. The awkward part is that every
registered sender holds may_read: false, which taken literally makes the §9.6
reconciliation obligation undischargeable by every source actually registered.
Resolved by observing that a source asking how many of its own events we hold
is not reading the archive — it learns nothing it did not itself emit. So the
surface is scoped to the caller's own sources and tenants and returns no
payloads; anything wider stays behind may_read and full tenant scope. Another
source's counts return 403 rather than an empty count, because a zero would
read as "we hold none of yours" — a false answer to a question about
completeness. No default window, since a count whose bounds the caller did not
choose is not comparable to anything the caller computed.

T07, the findings surface. /v1/stream-findings, following the dead-letter and
secret-finding conventions: may_read plus full tenant scope, since findings
span every sender and carry no tenant key to filter on.

The bound is on every response rather than in a document nobody opens beside
it. A missing heartbeat is not proof of suppression, and agreement on counts
proves neither completeness nor that any event occurred. Both controls cover
loss, outage, drain failure and accident; neither covers a source lying about
itself, and where the emitter is compromised both agree with it. Closing that
needs an observer independent of the emitter, which §16 put outside our scope.

The scope overlay may shorten a heartbeat interval or add a class, never
lengthen or remove one — same asymmetry as evidence_kind, and for the same
reason: a ConfigMap refresh must not widen the window in which a suppressed
class goes unnoticed without anyone deciding to.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"""Sender identities and what they are permitted to claim.
AUDIT-WP-0004-T03. WP-0003 recorded tenant isolation as delivered, but the
receiver accepted whatever ``tenant`` and ``source`` a caller sent as long as
it held the one shared token. This module binds a credential to the sources and
tenants it may write for, and drives that binding from configuration rather
than literals.
Each identity carries a *list* of tokens so a credential can be rotated without
a delivery gap: publish the replacement alongside the incumbent, move the
sender, then drop the old one.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import hmac
import json
import os
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any, Iterable
from audit_core.redaction import POLICIES, POLICY_REDACT
WILDCARD = "*"
# §9.6 evidence kinds. The obligations differ, so the archive must record
# which one a source declared rather than infer it from traffic.
#
# load-bearing: a control's soundness depends on the event being present, so
# the source owes emission atomicity and a detection surface (heartbeat or
# reconciliation) for rare classes.
# attributive: the trail is useful but no control depends on its completeness,
# which is what lets a deliberately non-atomic trail stay legitimate — while
# it is declared, and never described as complete.
EVIDENCE_LOAD_BEARING = "load-bearing"
EVIDENCE_ATTRIBUTIVE = "attributive"
EVIDENCE_KINDS = (EVIDENCE_LOAD_BEARING, EVIDENCE_ATTRIBUTIVE)
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class SenderIdentity:
"""A credential holder and the claims it is allowed to make."""
name: str
tokens: tuple[str, ...]
sources: frozenset[str]
tenants: frozenset[str] = field(default_factory=lambda: frozenset({WILDCARD}))
may_write: bool = True
may_read: bool = False
# Optional absolute expiry for deliberately temporary credentials. A token
# remains unusable after this instant even if a stale Secret value is still
# present in the process environment.
expires_at: datetime | None = None
# Secret-shaped field handling. Defaults to redact-and-accept, so a
# legitimate event is not lost over one field; a higher-assurance channel
# can be set to reject instead (AUDIT-WP-0004-T04).
secret_policy: str = POLICY_REDACT
# §9.6 evidence kind (AUDIT-WP-0009-T03). Defaults to ``attributive`` on
# purpose: a source that has not declared must not be silently treated as
# load-bearing, because that would let audit-core imply a completeness
# obligation the source never accepted. Declaring load-bearing is an
# explicit act by the source and its owner.
evidence_kind: str = EVIDENCE_ATTRIBUTIVE
# The trade an attributive source has deliberately made — typically
# emitting after commit rather than inside the state-change transaction.
# §9.6 requires the trade be declared where the trail is documented, so it
# travels with the identity rather than living only in prose.
completeness_trade: str | None = None
# §9.6 heartbeat declaration (AUDIT-WP-0009-T04): event class -> the
# longest gap, in seconds, that is not yet a finding.
#
# This is deliberately NOT the §17 emission-cadence schema that T05 waits
# on. Cadence describes a stream's expected *rate* and belongs to Taxonomy;
# this is a registration property saying how often a source promises to say
# "nothing to report" for a class that may legitimately be silent. The two
# are complementary and audit-core is not inventing a competing rate shape.
#
# Keyed per class, not per source, on purpose. A per-source heartbeat from
# a mixed-volume emitter is satisfied by its chattiest class and says
# nothing about the quiet, security-relevant one — which is the only case
# heartbeats exist for.
heartbeat_classes: tuple[tuple[str, int], ...] = ()
def __post_init__(self) -> None:
if not self.name:
raise ValueError("sender identity needs a name")
if self.secret_policy not in POLICIES:
raise ValueError(
f"sender {self.name!r}: secret_policy must be one of {POLICIES}, "
f"got {self.secret_policy!r}"
)
if not self.tokens or any(not t for t in self.tokens):
raise ValueError(f"sender {self.name!r} needs at least one non-empty token")
if not self.sources:
raise ValueError(f"sender {self.name!r} needs at least one permitted source")
if self.expires_at is not None and self.expires_at.tzinfo is None:
raise ValueError(f"sender {self.name!r}: expires_at must include a timezone")
if self.evidence_kind not in EVIDENCE_KINDS:
raise ValueError(
f"sender {self.name!r}: evidence_kind must be one of "
f"{EVIDENCE_KINDS}, got {self.evidence_kind!r}"
)
if self.completeness_trade is not None and not str(self.completeness_trade).strip():
raise ValueError(
f"sender {self.name!r}: completeness_trade must say what the trade "
"is, or be omitted"
)
if self.is_load_bearing and self.completeness_trade is not None:
# A load-bearing source has no trade to make: §9.6 requires
# atomicity of it. Carrying a declared trade alongside would
# record a contradiction as though it were a policy.
raise ValueError(
f"sender {self.name!r}: a load-bearing source may not declare a "
"completeness_trade — §9.6 requires emission atomicity of it"
)
for action, interval in self.heartbeat_classes:
if not action or not str(action).strip():
raise ValueError(
f"sender {self.name!r}: a heartbeat class needs an event class"
)
if not isinstance(interval, int) or isinstance(interval, bool) or interval <= 0:
raise ValueError(
f"sender {self.name!r}: heartbeat interval for {action!r} must "
f"be a positive number of seconds, got {interval!r}"
)
@property
def is_load_bearing(self) -> bool:
return self.evidence_kind == EVIDENCE_LOAD_BEARING
def evidence_declaration(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
"""What audit-core will say about this source's stream.
Deliberately states the bound rather than only the kind. Neither kind
licenses the claim that the archive proves an event occurred, or that
absence proves it did not (§9.6).
"""
return {
"sender": self.name,
"evidence_kind": self.evidence_kind,
"completeness_claimed": False,
"completeness_trade": self.completeness_trade,
"heartbeat_classes": dict(self.heartbeat_classes),
"detection_surface": None,
}
def permits_source(self, source: str) -> bool:
return WILDCARD in self.sources or source in self.sources
def is_active(self, now: datetime) -> bool:
"""Whether the credential is inside its configured lifetime."""
if now.tzinfo is None:
raise ValueError("authentication time must include a timezone")
return self.expires_at is None or now < self.expires_at
def has_full_tenant_scope(self) -> bool:
"""Whether this identity is unrestricted across tenants.
The read surfaces that are not tenant-keyed — chain verification,
counters, dead letters, secret findings — cannot be filtered, so they
are reserved for an identity that could read every tenant anyway.
Anything else would hand a scoped reader instance-wide facts.
"""
return WILDCARD in self.tenants
def permits_tenant(self, tenant: str) -> bool:
"""Whether this identity may write for ``tenant``.
Tenant identifiers are opaque here. Their shape
(``tenant:<grouping>:<name>``) is owned by the IAM Profile and
tenant-engine; matching is exact, never parsed or pattern-derived.
"""
return WILDCARD in self.tenants or tenant in self.tenants
class SenderRegistry:
"""Resolves a credential to the identity that holds it."""
def __init__(self, identities: Iterable[SenderIdentity]) -> None:
self.identities = tuple(identities)
if not self.identities:
raise ValueError("at least one sender identity is required")
def authenticate(
self,
authorization_header: str | None,
*,
now: datetime | None = None,
) -> SenderIdentity | None:
"""Return the matching identity, or None.
Every candidate token is compared even after a match is found, so the
work done does not depend on which credential was supplied or how many
identities precede it.
"""
supplied = str(authorization_header or "")
checked_at = now or datetime.now(timezone.utc)
matched: SenderIdentity | None = None
for identity in self.identities:
for token in identity.tokens:
try:
hit = hmac.compare_digest(supplied, f"Bearer {token}")
except TypeError:
# compare_digest rejects non-ASCII str; such a header is
# simply not a valid credential.
hit = False
if hit and identity.is_active(checked_at) and matched is None:
matched = identity
return matched
@classmethod
def from_env(cls, env: dict[str, str] | None = None) -> "SenderRegistry":
"""Build a registry from ``AUDIT_CORE_SENDERS`` (JSON).
Shape::
[{"name": "user-engine",
"tokens": ["current", "next"],
"sources": ["user-engine"],
"tenants": ["tenant:friendly:binky"],
"may_read": false}]
``tenants`` defaults to ``["*"]``. Omitting it is a deliberate choice to
accept any tenant from that sender and should be justified per sender,
not adopted by default.
"""
env = env if env is not None else dict(os.environ)
raw = env.get("AUDIT_CORE_SENDERS")
if raw:
return cls(_apply_scope_overlay(_parse_identities(raw), env))
legacy = (env.get("AUDIT_CORE_INGEST_TOKEN") or "").strip()
if not legacy:
raise ValueError(
"no sender configuration: set AUDIT_CORE_SENDERS (preferred) "
"or AUDIT_CORE_INGEST_TOKEN"
)
# Legacy single-token form. Kept so an existing deployment keeps
# working, but it grants every tenant — which is what T03 exists to
# stop, so it is deliberately noisy about what it is.
return cls([
SenderIdentity(
name="legacy-ingest-token",
tokens=(legacy,),
sources=frozenset({"user-engine"}),
tenants=frozenset({WILDCARD}),
)
])
def _load_scope_overlay(env: dict[str, str]) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Non-secret sender policy. Tokens never come from here.
``AUDIT_CORE_SENDERS_SCOPE`` is inline JSON (tests).
``AUDIT_CORE_SENDERS_SCOPE_PATH`` is a file (production ConfigMap).
"""
inline = env.get("AUDIT_CORE_SENDERS_SCOPE")
if inline:
payload = json.loads(inline)
else:
path = env.get("AUDIT_CORE_SENDERS_SCOPE_PATH")
if not path:
return []
payload = json.loads(Path(path).read_text())
if not isinstance(payload, list):
raise ValueError("sender scope overlay must be a JSON list")
return [entry for entry in payload if isinstance(entry, dict) and entry.get("name")]
def _apply_scope_overlay(
identities: list[SenderIdentity], env: dict[str, str]
) -> list[SenderIdentity]:
"""Overlay non-secret fields from Git/ConfigMap onto Secret-backed tokens.
ExternalSecret refresh cannot shrink ``user-engine`` tenants below the
declared scope (AUDIT-WP-0006-T05). Tokens are never taken from the overlay.
"""
overlay = {entry["name"]: entry for entry in _load_scope_overlay(env)}
if not overlay:
return identities
merged: list[SenderIdentity] = []
for identity in identities:
extra = overlay.get(identity.name)
if extra is None:
merged.append(identity)
continue
tenants = extra.get("tenants")
sources = extra.get("sources")
merged.append(
SenderIdentity(
name=identity.name,
tokens=identity.tokens,
sources=(
frozenset(str(s) for s in sources) if sources else identity.sources
),
tenants=(
frozenset(str(t) for t in tenants) if tenants else identity.tenants
),
may_write=(
bool(extra["may_write"]) if "may_write" in extra else identity.may_write
),
may_read=(
bool(extra["may_read"]) if "may_read" in extra else identity.may_read
),
secret_policy=identity.secret_policy,
expires_at=identity.expires_at,
evidence_kind=_overlay_evidence_kind(identity, extra),
completeness_trade=(
_clean_trade(extra["completeness_trade"])
if "completeness_trade" in extra
else identity.completeness_trade
),
heartbeat_classes=_overlay_heartbeats(identity, extra),
)
)
return merged
def _overlay_evidence_kind(identity: SenderIdentity, extra: dict[str, Any]) -> str:
"""Let the overlay raise the evidence kind, never lower it.
Same principle as tenants: the ConfigMap is the authority for non-secret
policy, but a refresh must not be able to quietly weaken a declaration.
Downgrading a load-bearing source to attributive would drop its atomicity
and detection obligations without anyone deciding to, so it is refused
here and has to be a deliberate change to the Secret-backed declaration.
"""
declared = str(extra.get("evidence_kind") or identity.evidence_kind)
if declared == identity.evidence_kind:
return declared
if identity.is_load_bearing and declared == EVIDENCE_ATTRIBUTIVE:
raise ValueError(
f"sender {identity.name!r}: the scope overlay may not downgrade a "
"load-bearing source to attributive"
)
return declared
def _overlay_heartbeats(
identity: SenderIdentity, extra: dict[str, Any]
) -> tuple[tuple[str, int], ...]:
"""The overlay may add a heartbeat class or shorten an interval, never
lengthen or remove one.
Same asymmetry as ``evidence_kind`` and for the same reason: a ConfigMap
refresh must not be able to widen the window in which a suppressed class
goes unnoticed, or drop the obligation entirely, without anyone deciding
to. Tightening detection is safe in the direction a mistake would take it.
"""
if "heartbeat_classes" not in extra:
return identity.heartbeat_classes
declared = dict(identity.heartbeat_classes)
proposed = dict(_heartbeat_classes(extra["heartbeat_classes"]))
for action, interval in declared.items():
if action not in proposed:
raise ValueError(
f"sender {identity.name!r}: the scope overlay may not remove "
f"heartbeat class {action!r}"
)
if proposed[action] > interval:
raise ValueError(
f"sender {identity.name!r}: the scope overlay may not lengthen "
f"the heartbeat interval for {action!r} "
f"({interval}s -> {proposed[action]}s)"
)
return tuple(sorted(proposed.items()))
def _parse_identities(raw: str) -> list[SenderIdentity]:
try:
entries = json.loads(raw)
except json.JSONDecodeError as exc:
raise ValueError(f"AUDIT_CORE_SENDERS is not valid JSON: {exc}") from exc
if not isinstance(entries, list) or not entries:
raise ValueError("AUDIT_CORE_SENDERS must be a non-empty JSON list")
return [_identity_from(entry) for entry in entries]
def _identity_from(entry: Any) -> SenderIdentity:
if not isinstance(entry, dict):
raise ValueError("each sender entry must be an object")
tokens = entry.get("tokens") or ([entry["token"]] if entry.get("token") else [])
return SenderIdentity(
name=str(entry.get("name") or ""),
tokens=tuple(str(t) for t in tokens),
sources=frozenset(str(s) for s in (entry.get("sources") or [])),
tenants=frozenset(str(t) for t in (entry.get("tenants") or [WILDCARD])),
may_write=bool(entry.get("may_write", True)),
may_read=bool(entry.get("may_read", False)),
secret_policy=str(entry.get("secret_policy", POLICY_REDACT)),
expires_at=_parse_expiry(entry.get("expires_at")),
evidence_kind=str(entry.get("evidence_kind", EVIDENCE_ATTRIBUTIVE)),
completeness_trade=_clean_trade(entry.get("completeness_trade")),
heartbeat_classes=_heartbeat_classes(entry.get("heartbeat_classes")),
)
def _heartbeat_classes(value: Any) -> tuple[tuple[str, int], ...]:
if not value:
return ()
if not isinstance(value, dict):
raise ValueError("heartbeat_classes must be an object of class -> seconds")
return tuple(sorted((str(k), v) for k, v in value.items()))
def _clean_trade(value: Any) -> str | None:
if value in (None, ""):
return None
return str(value)
def _parse_expiry(value: Any) -> datetime | None:
if value in (None, ""):
return None
try:
parsed = datetime.fromisoformat(str(value).replace("Z", "+00:00"))
except (TypeError, ValueError):
raise ValueError("sender expires_at must be an RFC3339 timestamp") from None
if parsed.tzinfo is None:
raise ValueError("sender expires_at must include a timezone")
return parsed.astimezone(timezone.utc)
def development_registry(token: str) -> SenderRegistry:
"""A single permissive sender, for tests and local development.
Accepts any tenant. Not a production configuration — production binds each
sender to the tenants it may write for via ``AUDIT_CORE_SENDERS``.
"""
return SenderRegistry([
SenderIdentity(
name="development",
tokens=(token,),
sources=frozenset({"user-engine"}),
tenants=frozenset({WILDCARD}),
may_read=True,
)
])