flex-auth/docs/tenant-engine-action-vocabulary.md
tegwick 8e127e50f7 Authorize tenant-engine lifecycle actions (FLEX-WP-0010)
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>
2026-08-10 20:52:10 +02:00

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tenant-engine Action Vocabulary

This document defines the action vocabulary for tenant-engine as a flex-auth protected system (FLEX-WP-0008-T01). Action names here match tenant-engine's own authz.FlexAuthWriteAuthorizer mapping exactly (tenant_engine/src/tenant_engine/authz.py) — coordinated between the two repos, not independently invented.

Action tenant-engine write endpoint Resource type Decision effects
tenant.create POST /tenants tenant allow, deny
tenant.role.grant POST /tenants/{id}/roles/grant role-grant allow, deny
tenant.role.revoke POST /tenants/{id}/roles/revoke role-grant allow, deny
tenant.plan.assign POST /tenants/{id}/plan plan-assignment allow, deny
tenant.update PATCH /tenants/{id} tenant allow, deny
tenant.retire POST /tenants/{id}/retire tenant allow, deny
tenant.reactivate POST /tenants/{id}/reactivate tenant allow, deny

The last three are the tenant lifecycle actions added by FLEX-WP-0010 for TEN-WP-0005. They are three actions rather than one tenant.write because tenant-engine separated them so policy can permit renaming a tenant without thereby permitting retiring it. Under the current single-operator model all three resolve identically — the separation is a seam for later, and the reasoning for not yet treating tenant.retire more strictly is recorded in examples/tenant-engine/policy_package.md.

These are the only seven actions tenant-engine sends to POST /v1/check — its FlexAuthCheckClient (TEN-WP-0003) never sends anything else, and tenant-engine's reads (/roles, /roles/live) are never gated through flex-auth at all; they're tenant-engine's own cache-read and live-lookup endpoints, consumed by key-cape and flex-auth respectively.

Not in scope for this vocabulary

tenant-engine's capability roles (PLTF/IAM/VEN/CUS, ADR-0014) are tenant state — what a tenant is allowed to do on the platform. This vocabulary governs a different question: which operator/service subjects are allowed to call tenant-engine's admin API at all. The lifecycle actions do not change that boundary: tenant.retire asks whether this caller may retire a tenant, not what a retired tenant may still do — the latter is tenant state that tenant-engine enforces itself. The two must not be conflated — a policy package that checked a caller's action against a tenant's capability roles would be checking the wrong thing. See examples/tenant-engine/policy_package.md's Rules section for how the distinction is enforced.

  • docs/tenant-engine-resource-namespace.md
  • examples/tenant-engine/