AUDIT-WP-0004-T04, closing the workplan.
Decision (Bernd): default to redaction, allow rejection per sender. Losing an
audit record over one field is worse than storing it masked, but a
higher-assurance channel must be able to refuse rather than mask. secret_policy
is set per sender identity in AUDIT_CORE_SENDERS and defaults to redact.
Detection now covers the whole payload at any depth, including lists, rather
than only the top level of data. Under redaction the value is masked and the
key is preserved: dropping the key would hide that the sender transmitted the
field at all, which is exactly what an operator needs in order to stop it. The
stored record carries details.redaction with policy and affected paths, so a
reader never has to infer whether what they see is what was sent.
Idempotency is unaffected - the payload hash is taken over the original request
body, so redaction is deterministic and a resubmission still reconciles as a
duplicate.
Both outcomes are counted durably by sender, source, action and field path,
exposed at GET /v1/secret-findings. Per-path aggregation is the point: the
actionable unit is "stop emitting data.auth.token on membership.added", not
"there were 47 redactions". Counters survive restart because the fix they drive
lives in another service.
Contract doc updated to match. Tests 46 -> 50. WP-0004 is finished.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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