A policy-as-code capable authorization registry/control-plane service.
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Publish approval_binding_digest: a claim cannot name the request carrying it
secrets-engine confirmed T03, and re-verifying against the regenerated
destroy fixture found something neither repository can fix alone: a
pdp_digest recorded at issue time can never equal the request_digest of a
request that carries the claim in its context, because the claim is part
of the context that is hashed. Embedding the claim changes the very
digest the claim would need to name.

Not fixture staleness. It holds for every dual-control request whose
claim travels in context -- the shape GH-DEC-2026-008 had just ruled
mandatory. Left unresolved that ruling was unimplementable for exactly
the case it was written for, and destroy would have been permanently
un-allowable in production, failing closed forever on a check that could
never pass.

flex-auth owns the canonical request digest, so the fix is ours.
binding.approval_binding_digest is the same material with
context.approval removed, emitted only when a claim was carried. An
approval issued against a claim-free Check records that Check's
request_digest; the claim-bearing request reproduces it here.

DELIBERATELY ADDITIVE, and the reason matters. The tempting fix is to
drop context.approval from request_digest entirely. That is wrong:
request_digest is the replay identity, and two requests differing only in
which approval was presented must not share one, because their decisions
differ -- one allows, the other denies dual_control_required. Collapsing
them would let an allow obtained with a valid claim be replayed against a
request carrying none. So request_digest still covers the claim and still
moves; approval_binding_digest deliberately does not, and is documented
as not a replay identity. The tests assert the two functions DISAGREE on
a claim-bearing request, which is approval-engine's formulation of how to
defend a distinction that looks like duplication.

The fixture now demonstrates the property rather than asserting it: its
claim's pdp_digest equals the envelope's approval_binding_digest with
pdp_path true, and changing the claim's contents moved request_digest
while leaving approval_binding_digest untouched. Two files a consumer can
diff.

Also picked up approval-engine's new required binding.pdp_path via the
cross-repo schema test added yesterday -- which is the test doing exactly
what it was built for, one day later.

T03 is done. secrets-engine's own digest-material defect, which our two
real envelopes caught, is recorded in the workplan.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JTbVXpEiXA7mNJVpDnEPcB

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.claude/rules docs: workplan-first agent guidance prose (CUST-WP-0055 T04 batch 2) 2026-07-08 16:41:17 +02:00
.forgejo/workflows Publish images via CI; file staged-promotion overlay debt 2026-08-11 10:35:34 +02:00
.github/workflows Land foundations: assessment, ADR-001/002/003, FLEX-WP-0005, Go skeleton 2026-05-16 01:54:44 +02:00
.repo-manager Publish approval_binding_digest: a claim cannot name the request carrying it 2026-09-06 14:52:33 +02:00
charts/flex-auth Enforce caller-auth on flex-auth-user-engine and record the live A2 probe 2026-08-19 14:00:53 +02:00
cmd/flex-auth feat(policy): add credential grant authorization package 2026-08-23 13:59:03 +02:00
decisions Publish approval_binding_digest: a claim cannot name the request carrying it 2026-09-06 14:52:33 +02:00
deploy feat(authz): bind decisions to exact actions 2026-08-23 13:18:26 +02:00
docs Publish approval_binding_digest: a claim cannot name the request carrying it 2026-09-06 14:52:33 +02:00
examples Publish approval_binding_digest: a claim cannot name the request carrying it 2026-09-06 14:52:33 +02:00
history Align INTENT and SCOPE to security layer model v0.7; plan conformance work 2026-08-29 14:43:49 +02:00
intakes chore(registrar): assign State Hub identifiers 2026-08-29 02:45:11 +02:00
internal Add schemaguard; correct check_request subject.type against shipped reality 2026-09-06 14:21:28 +02:00
pkg/api Publish approval_binding_digest: a claim cannot name the request carrying it 2026-09-06 14:52:33 +02:00
railiance Add isolated ops-warden warn pin (FLEX-WP-0016); FLEX-WP-0007 stays finished 2026-08-19 14:50:04 +02:00
registry Add capability registry with seed entry from reuse-surface 2026-06-16 01:46:54 +02:00
schemas Publish approval_binding_digest: a claim cannot name the request carrying it 2026-09-06 14:52:33 +02:00
tests Enforce caller-auth on flex-auth-ops-warden (FLEX-WP-0016-T03) 2026-08-19 20:10:31 +02:00
tools Finish FLEX-WP-0019 layer-model v0.7 conformance 2026-09-03 23:48:45 +02:00
values Enforce caller-auth on flex-auth-ops-warden (FLEX-WP-0016-T03) 2026-08-19 20:10:31 +02:00
workplans Publish approval_binding_digest: a claim cannot name the request carrying it 2026-09-06 14:52:33 +02:00
.custodian-brief.md chore(consistency): sync task status from DB [auto] 2026-09-06 08:15:07 +02:00
.gitignore Land foundations: assessment, ADR-001/002/003, FLEX-WP-0005, Go skeleton 2026-05-16 01:54:44 +02:00
.golangci.yml Land foundations: assessment, ADR-001/002/003, FLEX-WP-0005, Go skeleton 2026-05-16 01:54:44 +02:00
.repo-classification.yaml Human-review .repo-classification.yaml (CUST-WP-0050 follow-up) 2026-06-22 17:56:17 +02:00
AGENTS.md docs(agents): repoint remote State Hub URL to the in-cluster address 2026-08-25 00:21:00 +02:00
CLAUDE.md Add credential routing instructions for all agent runtimes 2026-06-18 22:48:37 +02:00
Containerfile Package flex-auth policy service 2026-08-09 01:35:30 +02:00
go.mod Implement policy package loader 2026-05-17 05:30:40 +02:00
go.sum Implement policy package loader 2026-05-17 05:30:40 +02:00
INTENT.md Finish FLEX-WP-0019 layer-model v0.7 conformance 2026-09-03 23:48:45 +02:00
LICENSE Adopt Target Revenue Source License V1C1 (org-wide preliminary rollout) 2026-07-30 00:16:31 +02:00
Makefile Finish FLEX-WP-0019 layer-model v0.7 conformance 2026-09-03 23:48:45 +02:00
README.md Refine workplans for CARING profile 2026-05-17 04:15:38 +02:00
SCOPE.md Review the stance register's second row; record why T04 cannot proceed 2026-09-06 09:31:40 +02:00
tenancy.yaml fix(posture): remove redundant implemented level 2026-08-22 15:22:33 +02:00
WORK-RECORDS.md chore(consistency): sync brief and task status [auto] 2026-09-06 08:15:30 +02:00

flex-auth

Policy-as-code authorization registry and control plane for NetKingdom-aligned systems.

Start with INTENT.md for the project boundary and direction. Research notes and ADRs live in docs/ and docs/adr/.

The product boundary is captured in SCOPE.md, and the current Product Requirements Document is docs/ProductRequirementsDocument.md.

The 2026-05-15 pre-implementation assessment that shapes the current sequencing is in docs/pre-implementation-assessment.md.

The CARING reference-implementation approach is captured in docs/caring-architecture-blueprint.md.

Workplans live in workplans/, with sequencing captured in docs/workplan-planning-map.md.