FLEX-IN-0002 asked for review of v0.3; v0.4 supersedes it, so the assessment is
against v0.4 plus the in-place section 11 amendment.
Assent, with one rule contested:
- Section 9.3 conflates two failure cases. Input degradation inside a reachable
engine is flex-auth's fallback and is accepted. Engine unreachability is not:
there is no evaluator in the path to express anything, which is why flex-auth
has held that fail-open is not expressible by a PDP at all. As written 9.3
also collides with ops-warden ADR-0009 (accepted, superseding ADR-0006),
which retires the global flag for a total per-zone map in the consumer PEP —
the correct design, since the alternative makes flex-auth a hard dependency
of the SSH certificate the tunnel carrying the policy call depends on.
- Section 13 names access-engine as intended owner of two capabilities never
reviewed here. Containment is plausible and recorded as proposed owner only.
Authentication/assurance evidence is declined as stated: flex-auth consumes
assurance claims and never re-defines them.
- Three consistency defects: frontmatter status proposed vs section 14
"accepted"; "seven of fifteen"/"remaining eight" against sixteen
estate-authored catalog rows and nine listed; "all three repositories" above
a table of four.
FLEX-IN-0002's two questions answered: the approval boundary unblocks T03
design, but T05 needs the approval claim bound to the same request digest
NewDecisionBinding computes, and a named owner and ordering for single
consumption. The maturity claim route works as a request claim, not as registry
content, until the self-declared provenance digest gap closes.
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flex-auth answers gate-house's assent request on the three items ratified in
GH-DEC-2026-001, following the estate precedent that a boundary is drawn on
review by the other side.
Assent to all three, with one conformance debt flex-auth accepts as its own and
two conditions on the rename:
- Engine framing and sole decision point: assent. flex-auth cannot hold this
boundary against zone-engine and decline it as a general rule. But standard
section 6 also binds flex-auth: DecisionProvenance carries no registry
snapshot digest, so a decision that turned on registry content cannot be
replayed from its own provenance. Recorded as a known non-conformance rather
than claimed as conformance.
- access-engine rename: assent to the name, not to execution. Repository
identity and runtime identity must rename in separate revertible steps —
since FLEX-WP-0016 the enforcing ops-warden pin binds tokens to the
protected-system name, so a single-step rename 401s every warden sign,
including the certificate the ops-bridge tunnels depend on. FLEX-WP prefix
ownership stays with the repository.
- Authoring/evaluation split: assent, with the section 6 test applied
symmetrically — a gate-house authority ceiling that determines an outcome
reaches the decision as an input claim or as a rule in the versioned policy
package, so its application stays reconstructable from the decision record.
FLEX-WP-0017-T03 stays wait: the design half re-routes to gate-house, the
durable storage half remains unowned and is raised as an engine gap under
section 5.
Decision id follows the canon scheme {PREFIX}-DEC-YYYY-NNN.
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