flex-auth stays the only PDP. Zone membership reaches /v1/check as compiled
registry data, never a synchronous lookup. Uncommitted tenant-engine
read/role/grouping policy was discarded, not mixed into this pin.
ops-warden WARDEN-WP-0031 T04 minted audience-flex-auth tokens as
system:serviceaccount:ops-warden:ops-warden and held the warn-log count.
Helm rev 2 is enforce. Live probe 200/401/403. policy.enabled is theirs.
policy.enabled cannot flip against the user-engine or tenant-engine
bindings. Helm release flex-auth-ops-warden rev 1 serves the production
registry in warn. Workstation warden sends no caller token; enforce and
the yaml flip stay ops-warden's.
flex-auth-tenant-engine Helm rev 2 is enforce on sha256:138aa347 after
tenant-engine 2063470 started sending a projected caller token
(sha256:7dc9d7bf). Probe 200/401/403. tenancy.current.A is 2. T04
cancelled: AuthZEN waits for a PEP we do not control.
Helm-adopted the kubectl-managed user-engine pin, promoted sha256:138aa347
warn then enforce. Reviewer volume needs fsGroup 65532; reviewer tokens
must use the API default audiences or TokenReview 401s on this k3s.
Live probe from user-engine-8569d7cb87-fp7px: 200 / 401 / 403. tenant-engine
is unchanged. tenancy.current.A stays 0 until that pin moves.
The sanctioned Helm chart could not promote ADR 0004 at all, and the
emergency manifests selected enforce. That made a FLEX-WP-0011 apply
either a no-op or a global 401. First production pin is now warn, per
consumer, on CI digest sha256:138aa347… . Enforce stays a later
per-consumer flip so USER-WP-0023-T03 can close without waiting on
tenant-engine.
TokenReview-based caller identity with audience-scoped tokens and exact
resource.system to ServiceAccount bindings, per ops-warden's recommendation.
Deletes the unwired tenant-engine live-roles adapter (T03) and adds
make verify-posture (T05). Source implements A2; running digest is still A0
until promotion, so tenancy.current.A stays 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Publishes tenancy.yaml (I1 A0 E2 P n/a R n/a, enables A3), the review
answering rapp-postgres's three asks, and FLEX-WP-0015 to close the gaps.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
FLEX-WP-0014. Package tenant-engine.write-api.mutate v1 now carries
nine actions: tenant.guardrail.read and tenant.guardrail.set on
resource type guardrail, verbatim from tenant-engine's mapping.
The read/write split is used now: flex-auth may read ceilings and is
denied action_not_granted on set; tenant-engine may do both. 17/17
Rego tests and 23/23 fixtures pass. Live e2e against a real
tenant-engine FlexAuthWriteAuthorizer matches.
In source only; production still serves the seven-action 9320df39 pin.
Extend the tenant-engine write-API policy package with tenant.update,
tenant.retire, and tenant.reactivate, the three actions TEN-WP-0005
introduced. Until now every lifecycle mutation resolved to deny
unknown_action, blocking TEN-WP-0005-T05 production rollout.
- policy_package.md: three actions in valid_actions and frontmatter;
CARING capabilities extended with EditAny/Archive/Restore
- protected_system_manifest.yaml, subject_manifest.yaml, and the rebuilt
registry_snapshot.json carry all seven actions
- docs/tenant-engine-action-vocabulary.md documents the HTTP surfaces
- 8 new fixture pairs and 5 new Rego tests, including action-drift
guards (tenant.retired, tenant_update -> unknown_action)
T02 decision, recorded in policy_package.md: tenant.retire does NOT get
stricter authorization yet. With one service subject and no assurance
claim in the CheckRequest there is nothing stricter to check, and a
condition the sole caller always satisfies would falsely read as
separate control. Retirement is reversible and non-destructive. Revisit
on KEY-WP-0005 assurance claims or a second operator subject.
Verified: 11/11 Rego tests, 16/16 fixtures, go test ./... green, gofmt
and go vet clean. End-to-end against a live serve with a real
tenant-engine through the unmodified FlexAuthWriteAuthorizer: update
6176c39c2f4d7b15, retire 8a801b8ee8455080, reactivate c64cf3713cecd970
all allow; unregistered actor denied unknown_subject
(59d3e99c6416be89, 403 write_denied).
Handoff revision for TEN-WP-0005-T05: package
tenant-engine.write-api.mutate v1 (ready, caring-0.4.0-rc2).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs/tenant-engine-{resource-namespace,action-vocabulary}.md: four actions
(tenant.create, tenant.role.grant, tenant.role.revoke, tenant.plan.assign)
matching tenant_engine/src/tenant_engine/authz.py's _RESOURCE_TYPES mapping
exactly. No resource_manifest.yaml -- tenant-engine's resources are created
dynamically, unlike ops-warden's fixed SSH-certificate inventory; documented
as a deliberate deviation.
examples/tenant-engine/: protected_system_manifest.yaml, subject_manifest.yaml
(one registered caller: tenant-engine's own service identity),
policy_package.md (Rego rules + embedded tests), policy_fixtures.yaml (8
allow/deny pairs), assembled registry_snapshot.json, two standalone
check_request examples, README.
Design decision made explicit in the workplan: operator/service-identity
authorization (one known subject, four known actions), not aal2+assurance +
tenant-capability-role checking -- CheckRequest carries no assurance claim
yet (TEN-WP-0003 already flagged actor as a plain request-body field, not a
real auth context), and a tenant's capability roles are the tenant's own
state, not a property of who may call tenant-engine's admin API. Revisit
once KEY-WP-0005 gives callers a real assurance-bearing identity.
Verified for real: built ./cmd/flex-auth, ran test-policy (6 tests + 8
fixtures, all pass), load-registry, check against both example requests.
Then ran a live flex-auth serve with this exact registry+policy and pointed
tenant-engine's real, unmodified FlexAuthCheckClient/FlexAuthWriteAuthorizer
at it over real HTTP: unknown subject -> 403, tenant-engine -> 201. go test
./... still green across the whole repo.
T03 (live-lookup context adapter for other protected systems) stays open --
new Go adapter package, tracked separately.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add production_registry_snapshot.json from ops-warden inventory with CI
coverage for real actors, IAM subject binding, ttl_out_of_bounds, and
unknown_actor_resource. Extend serve contract tests with /healthz and
publish the registry sync contract for operator deployment.
Completes FLEX-WP-0005 T05 and closes the Foundations and Topaz
Alignment workstream.
docs/iam-profile-consumption.md captures flex-auth's input surface
against NetKingdom IAM Profile v0.1:
- boundary (flex-auth consumes verified claims; upstream layer
validates signatures and audiences)
- normalized input envelope (matches Markitect's EnterpriseIdentity)
- required, recommended, and tolerated claim variations
- role-claim location union (top-level / realm_access / resource_access)
- scope encoding (string vs array)
- principal-type detection (human / service / emergency)
- group-overage and freshness expectations
- production vs local-development handling
examples/claims/ ships five contract fixtures:
- key-cape-lightweight.yaml (profile minimum)
- keycloak-heavy.yaml (full variation set + MFA)
- service-account.yaml (svc-* hub-to-hub)
- emergency.yaml (break-glass with incident metadata)
- keycloak-group-overage.yaml (Entra-style hasgroups: true)
All fixtures parse as valid YAML. They become contract tests for the
standalone evaluator (FLEX-WP-0002 P2.4) and the Topaz adapter
(FLEX-WP-0004 T01); both code paths must produce identical normalized
envelopes for the same fixture.
FLEX-WP-0005 workstream marked status=done in this file and completed
in the State Hub. FLEX-WP-0002 is now fully unblocked.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes FLEX-WP-0005 T04. Validates ADR-003's commitment to shape the
standalone core for cheap Topaz adapter work.
Spike output:
- docs/topaz-mapping-spike.md — vocabulary map (subject, group, tenant,
knowledge_base, document, plus parent / owner_team / reader / steward /
member relations), Rego module shape, decision envelope, wire-protocol
ranking (gRPC primary, REST fallback, embedding rejected), schema
restatement recommendation, implications for FLEX-WP-0002 / 0004.
- examples/topaz/ — runnable docker-compose deploying Topaz with the
flex-auth-shaped manifest. seed and probe one-shots cover three
scenarios: alice (steward) allow, bob (group→reader) allow, eve
(outsider) deny. End-to-end green on 2026-05-16:
probe: steward-allow OK (check=true)
probe: reader-allow OK (check=true)
probe: outsider-deny OK (check=false)
probe: all checks passed
Key findings recorded as Implementation Notes in the spike doc:
- Rego input contract bridging (Topaz raw shape ↔ flex-auth canonical
shape) is adapter scope, not core scope.
- Topaz identity objects are a Topaz convention; the adapter
materializes them at directory import time.
- Directory-only permission resolution is sufficient for the common
case; Rego is reserved for context-dependent decisions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pre-implementation assessment and boundary review
(docs/pre-implementation-assessment.md) lead to three ADRs:
- ADR-001 Go + repo skeleton
- ADR-002 Rego-in-Markdown policy package format
- ADR-003 Topaz-aligned MVP (Topaz spike moves into foundations)
New workplan FLEX-WP-0005 (Foundations and Topaz Alignment) is inserted
between WP-0001 (done) and WP-0002 (core). WP-0002 pins Rego-in-Markdown
for P2.3; WP-0004 P4.1 refocused from Topaz evaluation to Topaz adapter.
Go skeleton at repo root: cmd/flex-auth + internal/{registry,policy,
decision,audit,adapters} + pkg/api + Makefile + .golangci.yml + GitHub
Actions CI. make ci green locally; bin/flex-auth --version works.
INTENT/SCOPE cite the NetKingdom IAM Profile and add the ops-warden /
ops-bridge disjoint-surface clarifications.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
