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FLEX-WP-0008 T01-T02: tenant-engine resource/action vocabulary + policy package
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>
2026-07-23 23:05:57 +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

These are the only four 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 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/