Opens the State Hub capability request 893ff109, unanswered since
2026-07-02. Drafted as proposed/P3 rather than as the blocker it was
filed as, because two of its premises no longer hold:
- It is not blocking anyone. railiance-platform re-scoped and closed
RAILIANCE-WP-0005-T07 the same day it filed the request; WP-0005 is
finished and their grant catalog already enforces TTL, actor-type,
purpose and delivery-mode bounds locally. This buys defence in depth
and central decision records, not unblocking.
- The stated technical blocker is wrong. The request says the CARING
/v1/check schema cannot express TTL, purpose or delivery mode; the
ops-warden package in this repo already denies ttl_out_of_bounds by
reading input.context.ttl_hours against resource.attributes. CARING
constrains descriptor vocabulary, not the request payload.
The real gap is narrower: no credential-grant policy package exists, and
the helper's flat payload/response shape differs from CheckRequest. Its
endpoint path is configurable, so no bespoke endpoint is strictly
required. T01 makes the adapter-vs-consumer-mapping call an explicit,
jointly-agreed decision rather than a default.
Flags two things worth knowing before anyone implements: the helper sends
requested_ttl as a duration string while the ops-warden precedent compares
numeric hours (mis-parsing it would fail open on the check that matters
most), and without --require-flex-auth the helper continues by local
preauthorization when flex-auth is unreachable -- a different posture from
the tenant-engine and ops-warden gates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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