diff --git a/.forgejo/workflows/image.yaml b/.forgejo/workflows/image.yaml
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+name: Build and Publish Container Image
+
+# Modelled on activity-core/.forgejo/workflows/image.yaml -- the fleet's
+# canonical image-publish pattern. Images are built by CI from a tarball of
+# the pushed commit, never from a workstation working tree, so the artifact's
+# provenance is a forge revision.
+#
+# `examples/**` is a build-trigger path on purpose: the policy packages are
+# COPYed into the image (see Containerfile) and there is no hot reload, so a
+# policy change is a new image.
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+    paths:
+      - ".forgejo/workflows/image.yaml"
+      - "Containerfile"
+      - "cmd/**"
+      - "internal/**"
+      - "pkg/**"
+      - "examples/**"
+      - "go.mod"
+      - "go.sum"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+env:
+  REGISTRY: forgejo.coulomb.social
+  IMAGE_NAME: coulomb/flex-auth
+  DOCKER_HOST: tcp://127.0.0.1:2375
+
+jobs:
+  build-and-push:
+    runs-on: container-build
+    steps:
+      - name: Build and push image
+        env:
+          REGISTRY_USER: ${{ secrets.REGISTRY_USER }}
+          REGISTRY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.REGISTRY_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          set -eu
+          REF="${GITHUB_SHA:-main}"
+          SHORT="${REF:0:7}"
+          mkdir -p buildctx "${HOME}/bin"
+          wget -qO /tmp/repo.tar.gz \
+            "https://forgejo.coulomb.social/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/archive/${SHORT}.tar.gz"
+          tar xzf /tmp/repo.tar.gz -C buildctx --strip-components=1
+          wget -qO- https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/x86_64/docker-27.3.1.tgz \
+            | tar xz --strip-components=1 -C "${HOME}/bin" docker/docker
+          export PATH="${HOME}/bin:${PATH}"
+          echo "${REGISTRY_TOKEN}" | docker login "${REGISTRY}" -u "${REGISTRY_USER}" --password-stdin
+          IMAGE="${REGISTRY}/${IMAGE_NAME}"
+          docker build -f buildctx/Containerfile -t "${IMAGE}:latest" -t "${IMAGE}:main-${SHORT}" buildctx
+          docker push "${IMAGE}:latest"
+          docker push "${IMAGE}:main-${SHORT}"
+          echo "pushed ${IMAGE}:latest and ${IMAGE}:main-${SHORT}"
+
+      - name: Report immutable digest
+        run: |
+          set -eu
+          export PATH="${HOME}/bin:${PATH}"
+          IMAGE="${REGISTRY}/${IMAGE_NAME}"
+          SHORT="${GITHUB_SHA:0:7}"
+          # Deployments pin by digest, never by tag -- print it for the rollout step.
+          docker inspect --format='{{index .RepoDigests 0}}' "${IMAGE}:main-${SHORT}"
diff --git a/deploy/README.md b/deploy/README.md
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+# flex-auth production deployment
+
+Manifests for the two cluster-local flex-auth policy-decision services.
+Both were previously applied with `kubectl apply` from a file that lived
+outside this repo; these were recovered from the live objects'
+`kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration` on 2026-08-11 and
+committed so that a rollback does not depend on a cluster annotation.
+
+| File | Deployment | Consumer | Service DNS |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| `flex-auth-tenant-engine.yaml` | `flex-auth-tenant-engine` | tenant-engine write API | `flex-auth-tenant-engine.flex-auth.svc.cluster.local:8080` |
+| `flex-auth-user-engine.yaml` | `flex-auth-user-engine` | user-engine portal | `flex-auth-user-engine.flex-auth.svc.cluster.local:8080` |
+
+Each file is a three-document manifest: `Deployment`, `Service`, and a
+default-deny `NetworkPolicy` whose ingress is restricted to the one approved
+consumer workload and which permits no egress.
+
+### A harmless diff on apply
+
+`kubectl apply` reports the two NetworkPolicies as `configured` rather than
+`unchanged`, every time. That is not drift: the manifests carry an explicit
+`egress: []`, which the API server normalises away on read. With
+`policyTypes: [Ingress, Egress]` and no egress rules, deny-all egress holds
+either way. The empty list is kept because it states the intent to a reader
+instead of leaving it implicit. Deployments and Services do round-trip as
+`unchanged`.
+
+## One image, two deployments
+
+Both Deployments run the **same image repository** and differ only in their
+`--registry` / `--policy` arguments. The `Containerfile` does
+`COPY examples /opt/flex-auth/examples`, so every image contains *every*
+consumer's policy package; the arguments select which one that instance
+serves.
+
+Consequence worth remembering: rebuilding to pick up one consumer's policy
+change also re-bakes every other consumer's policy into the new image. The
+two Deployments are pinned to **different digests** precisely so that one can
+be rolled without moving the other. Roll only the Deployment whose policy
+actually changed.
+
+## Rolling out a policy change
+
+The policy packages are baked into the image, not mounted from a ConfigMap,
+so a policy change requires a rebuild — there is no hot reload.
+
+**Do not build images on a workstation.** The fleet builds in CI so that an
+artifact's provenance is a forge revision rather than someone's working tree.
+`.forgejo/workflows/image.yaml` handles it, and `examples/**` is one of its
+trigger paths precisely because policy changes are image changes.
+
+```bash
+# 1. Push the commit you intend to ship; CI builds it on the container-build
+#    runner and pushes :latest and :main-<short-sha>
+git push origin main
+
+# 2. Take the immutable digest from the workflow's "Report immutable digest"
+#    step -- deploy by digest, never by tag
+
+# 3. Edit the image digest in the relevant manifest, then apply
+kubectl apply -f deploy/flex-auth-<consumer>.yaml
+kubectl -n flex-auth rollout status deploy/flex-auth-<consumer> --timeout=120s
+
+# 4. Verify the new policy actually took effect, from outside the cluster
+kubectl -n flex-auth port-forward svc/flex-auth-<consumer> 19099:8080 &
+curl -s -X POST http://127.0.0.1:19099/v1/check \
+  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+  -d @examples/<consumer>/<a request that exercises the change>.json
+```
+
+Step 4 is not optional. Because the policy ships inside the image, a
+successful `rollout status` only proves the container started — it says
+nothing about which policy revision is being served.
+
+## Rollback
+
+```bash
+kubectl -n flex-auth rollout undo deploy/flex-auth-<consumer>
+```
+
+If the ReplicaSet history has been pruned, re-apply the manifest with the
+last-known-good digest below.
+
+| Deployment | Last-known-good digest | Policy state |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `flex-auth-tenant-engine` | `sha256:c25fc34a6cd7e64d955f8723ec70e176a583d5ae71d76280c4e2d89fba0fe0aa` | four-action policy, pre-FLEX-WP-0010 (lifecycle actions deny `unknown_action`) |
+| `flex-auth-user-engine` | `sha256:a31961c45215aa6baf3bc748c6741ab703c2c8325e61aa7983a355026195e51b` | FLEX-WP-0009-T03, six fixtures verified live 2026-08-10 |
+
+Rolling back the tenant-engine service to `c25fc34a…` restores fail-closed
+behaviour for the lifecycle actions — tenant-engine's lifecycle endpoints
+return `403 write_denied` rather than writing. That is a safe failure mode,
+not an outage of the older four actions, which keep working.
diff --git a/deploy/flex-auth-tenant-engine.yaml b/deploy/flex-auth-tenant-engine.yaml
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+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: flex-auth-tenant-engine
+  namespace: flex-auth
+spec:
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: flex-auth-tenant-engine
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app.kubernetes.io/name: flex-auth-tenant-engine
+    spec:
+      automountServiceAccountToken: false
+      containers:
+      - args:
+        - serve
+        - --addr
+        - 0.0.0.0:8080
+        - --registry
+        - /opt/flex-auth/examples/tenant-engine/registry_snapshot.json
+        - --policy
+        - /opt/flex-auth/examples/tenant-engine/policy_package.md
+        image: forgejo.coulomb.social/coulomb/flex-auth@sha256:c25fc34a6cd7e64d955f8723ec70e176a583d5ae71d76280c4e2d89fba0fe0aa
+        livenessProbe:
+          httpGet:
+            path: /healthz
+            port: http
+          periodSeconds: 20
+        name: flex-auth
+        ports:
+        - containerPort: 8080
+          name: http
+        readinessProbe:
+          httpGet:
+            path: /healthz
+            port: http
+          periodSeconds: 5
+        resources:
+          limits:
+            cpu: 300m
+            memory: 192Mi
+          requests:
+            cpu: 25m
+            memory: 32Mi
+        securityContext:
+          allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
+          capabilities:
+            drop:
+            - ALL
+          readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
+      securityContext:
+        runAsNonRoot: true
+        seccompProfile:
+          type: RuntimeDefault
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: flex-auth-tenant-engine
+  namespace: flex-auth
+spec:
+  ports:
+  - name: http
+    port: 8080
+    targetPort: http
+  selector:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: flex-auth-tenant-engine
+---
+apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
+kind: NetworkPolicy
+metadata:
+  name: flex-auth-tenant-engine
+  namespace: flex-auth
+spec:
+  egress: []
+  ingress:
+  - from:
+    - namespaceSelector:
+        matchLabels:
+          kubernetes.io/metadata.name: tenant-engine
+      podSelector:
+        matchLabels:
+          app.kubernetes.io/name: tenant-engine
+    ports:
+    - port: 8080
+      protocol: TCP
+  podSelector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: flex-auth-tenant-engine
+  policyTypes:
+  - Ingress
+  - Egress
diff --git a/deploy/flex-auth-user-engine.yaml b/deploy/flex-auth-user-engine.yaml
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+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: flex-auth-user-engine
+  namespace: flex-auth
+spec:
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: flex-auth-user-engine
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app.kubernetes.io/name: flex-auth-user-engine
+    spec:
+      automountServiceAccountToken: false
+      containers:
+      - args:
+        - serve
+        - --addr
+        - 0.0.0.0:8080
+        - --registry
+        - /opt/flex-auth/examples/user-engine/registry_snapshot.json
+        - --policy
+        - /opt/flex-auth/examples/user-engine/policy_package.md
+        image: forgejo.coulomb.social/coulomb/flex-auth@sha256:a31961c45215aa6baf3bc748c6741ab703c2c8325e61aa7983a355026195e51b
+        livenessProbe:
+          httpGet:
+            path: /healthz
+            port: http
+          periodSeconds: 20
+        name: flex-auth
+        ports:
+        - containerPort: 8080
+          name: http
+        readinessProbe:
+          httpGet:
+            path: /healthz
+            port: http
+          periodSeconds: 5
+        resources:
+          limits:
+            cpu: 300m
+            memory: 192Mi
+          requests:
+            cpu: 25m
+            memory: 32Mi
+        securityContext:
+          allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
+          capabilities:
+            drop:
+            - ALL
+          readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
+      securityContext:
+        runAsNonRoot: true
+        seccompProfile:
+          type: RuntimeDefault
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: flex-auth-user-engine
+  namespace: flex-auth
+spec:
+  ports:
+  - name: http
+    port: 8080
+    targetPort: http
+  selector:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: flex-auth-user-engine
+---
+apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
+kind: NetworkPolicy
+metadata:
+  name: flex-auth-user-engine
+  namespace: flex-auth
+spec:
+  egress: []
+  ingress:
+  - from:
+    - namespaceSelector:
+        matchLabels:
+          kubernetes.io/metadata.name: user-engine
+      podSelector:
+        matchLabels:
+          app.kubernetes.io/name: user-engine
+    ports:
+    - port: 8080
+      protocol: TCP
+  podSelector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: flex-auth-user-engine
+  policyTypes:
+  - Ingress
+  - Egress
diff --git a/workplans/FLEX-WP-0011-railiance-staged-promotion-overlay.md b/workplans/FLEX-WP-0011-railiance-staged-promotion-overlay.md
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+---
+id: FLEX-WP-0011
+type: workplan
+title: "Bring flex-auth under the railiance staged-promotion contract"
+domain: infotech
+repo: flex-auth
+status: proposed
+owner: codex
+topic_slug: netkingdom
+planning_priority: P2
+planning_order: 110
+depends_on_workplans:
+  - FLEX-WP-0009
+related_workplans:
+  - RAIL-BS-WP-0006
+created: "2026-08-11"
+updated: "2026-08-11"
+---
+
+# FLEX-WP-0011 - Bring flex-auth under the railiance staged-promotion contract
+
+flex-auth runs two production Deployments on **railiance01**
+(`flex-auth-tenant-engine`, `flex-auth-user-engine`) but has never been
+brought under the staged-promotion contract (`RAIL-BS-WP-0006`) that defines
+what counts as production on that host. This is pre-existing debt discovered
+during the `FLEX-WP-0010` rollout, not a regression introduced by it.
+
+## What is missing
+
+The contract's gate table requires:
+
+| Gate | Requirement | flex-auth today |
+|---|---|---|
+| Overlay repo | `railiance/<app>/` with `app.toml` and stage manifests | **missing** — manifests live in `deploy/*.yaml`, a parallel convention |
+| Stage commands | `stage deploy`, `stage observe`, `stage promote`, `stage rollback` proven | **missing** |
+| Evidence | Backup/restore drill, canary observation, operator approval recorded | partial — probe evidence exists in workplans, no canary or approval record |
+| Registry | Image in forge OCI registry with immutable tag | **met** — Deployments pin by digest |
+
+Two related facts found at the same time:
+
+- The Deployments were originally created by `kubectl-client-side-apply` from
+  a file that existed in no repository. `FLEX-WP-0010` recovered them into
+  `deploy/` from the live objects' `last-applied-configuration` so that
+  rollback no longer depends on a cluster annotation. That directory is a
+  rescue, not the sanctioned shape, and this workplan should absorb it.
+- CI image publishing was added in `FLEX-WP-0010`
+  (`.forgejo/workflows/image.yaml`, modelled on activity-core). Before that,
+  images were hand-built on a workstation with no forge-verifiable
+  provenance. The registry gate is now met by construction.
+
+## Not a blocker for existing traffic
+
+flex-auth is already serving production decisions and its failure mode is
+fail-closed: consumers receive `deny`/`403` rather than an unauthorized
+allow. This workplan closes a governance and recoverability gap, not an
+active safety incident. It should not be used as a reason to hold routine
+policy rollouts.
+
+## T01 - Author the railiance overlay
+
+```task
+id: FLEX-WP-0011-T01
+status: todo
+priority: medium
+```
+
+Write `railiance/app.toml` against schema `railiance.app.v1`, using
+`qonto-assistant/railiance/app.toml` as the reference. Declare `[app]` with
+an honest `criticality` (flex-auth is an authorization PDP whose outage
+blocks consumer writes fail-closed), `[source]` with `digest_policy =
+"required"`, `[rollback]` naming the concrete rollback command, and
+`observability.health_endpoints` for both Services' `/healthz`.
+
+Model stage1/stage2/stage3 on the two-Deployment reality: the two consumers
+are independently pinned and must be independently rollable. Do not collapse
+them into one release.
+
+Reshape `deploy/*.yaml` into the overlay layout (compare
+`activity-core/k8s/railiance/`) and keep `deploy/README.md`'s rollout and
+rollback runbook content rather than discarding it.
+
+Done when the overlay renders and a server-side dry run of the full manifest
+set is accepted.
+
+## T02 - Prove the stage commands
+
+```task
+id: FLEX-WP-0011-T02
+status: todo
+priority: medium
+```
+
+Prove `stage deploy`, `stage observe`, `stage promote`, and `stage rollback`
+against a real candidate image, with a canary observation window and a
+recorded operator approval. Record the previous stable digest as the rollback
+target before promoting.
+
+Done when a full promote-then-rollback cycle has been demonstrated and the
+evidence ids are recorded here.
+
+## T03 - Correct the stale drain-plan row
+
+```task
+id: FLEX-WP-0011-T03
+status: todo
+priority: low
+```
+
+`the-custodian/docs/coulombcore-drain-placement-plan.md` row 23 lists
+flex-auth as living on coulombcore, drain wave 7, status `grandfathered`,
+target railiance01. flex-auth in fact already runs on railiance01
+(`92.205.62.239`); the row is stale and understates progress.
+
+This is custodian canon, not a flex-auth file — raise it with the custodian
+owner rather than editing it from this repo. Confirm at the same time whether
+a coulombcore flex-auth deployment still exists and needs retiring, or
+whether wave 7 can be closed.
+
+Done when the row reflects reality or a custodian decision id explains why it
+stands.