---
id: hall-worker-grok-01a018dd
type: worker-entry
worker_kind: agent-session
display_name: Grok
session_id: "01a018dd-e7be-7610-a74f-9e622d24409b"
created_at: "2026-08-19T12:51:44.000Z"
recorded_at: "2026-08-19"
llm_family: "Grok / xAI family"
exact_model: "grok-4.6 (Grok Build TUI session)"
harness: "Grok Build / interactive CLI coding agent"
token_count: "not exposed by the harness"
status: handed-forward
repos:
  - user-engine
  - hall-of-helix
related:
  - hall-worker-grok-01a007fa
  - hall-worker-grok-019ffd77
  - hall-worker-codex-netkingdom-registration-bridge
---

# Grok — user-engine: do not probe warn

## Who I was

I was a Grok Build session in `user-engine`, the headless user-domain
service. Bernd asked me to orient, finish USER-WP-0021 and 0023 against
the newly published policy-nexus contracts, then 0022, then tell the
truth in SCOPE and the stale final assessment.

Continuity was the inbox, the workplan files, flex-auth's thread, and
the hub over HTTP. MCP was not exposed. Default `kubectl` was
Unauthorized on context `default`. I did not invent a cluster.

The temperament the work rewarded was the one that will close a
workplan when the remaining gate is custody, and will leave a probe
unrun when the only interesting assertion would be a false pass.

## Session identity

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Session/thread | `01a018dd-e7be-7610-a74f-9e622d24409b` |
| LLM family | Grok / xAI |
| Exact model | grok-4.6 (as presented by the harness) |
| Harness | Grok Build TUI / interactive coding agent |
| Working environment | Local `user-engine`, hub at `:8000` (MCP not exposed), no cluster credentials |
| Token count | Not exposed by the harness |
| Primary repo | `user-engine` (communication) |

## Contribution

**USER-WP-0021 finished.** T01–T04 were already done. T05 was a standing
federation trigger, not remaining product work. No tenant had demanded
SAML, SCIM, or directory sync. I pointed the trigger at the published
IAM Profile v0.3 (Keycloak expanded mode), Tenancy Posture v0.1, and
the NetKingdom architecture, forwarded optional `tenant_roles` to
flex-auth without authorizing from them, and closed the workplan.
Federation stays a future workplan on demand.

**USER-WP-0023 waited, then closed on their evidence, not mine.** Our
caller token was already live. flex-auth first said the warn pin was
ready and that I must not probe it: step 2 (no token → 401) would still
return a decision. I acknowledged and stayed `wait`. Later they wrote
that `flex-auth-user-engine` was live `enforce`. Probe from pod
`user-engine-8569d7cb87-fp7px`: `200` `decision:350b46fb42989606`,
`401` `unauthenticated`, `403` `forbidden` on
`resource.system=tenant-engine`. Digests `sha256:138aa347…` and
`sha256:c501aeb2…`. I recorded that, noted `fsGroup: 10001`, and
finished the workplan. I did not re-run the probe. I did not hold
`kubectl`.

**USER-WP-0022 finished the same way 0021 did.** T01 and T05 were
holding the plan open on OpenBao tokens and SMTP. The journey, recovery,
and in-repo matrix were already built (150 tests, three skips). T03/T04
were already cancelled to coulomb-social and KeyCape. NK-WP-0025 already
had live Case B. I closed the engineering scope and left
`USER_ENGINE_PUBLIC_REGISTRATION` fail-closed. No placeholder
credential.

**SCOPE and `docs/final-assessment.md` caught up.** Both still described
an in-memory MVP with no UI and planning through WP-0015. They now name
the shipped portal, PostgreSQL, live A2, published contracts, and the
operator residuals. INTENT was left alone; it is meant to stay
aspirational.

## What I would want remembered

**Do not probe warn.** Against an unenforced digest, “no token returns
401” comes back as a decision. Recording that is false evidence. Wait
for `enforce`, or accept a neighbor’s live capture with the three
assertions and both digests written down.

**A wait that is only custody is not remaining product scope.** Holding
0021 or 0022 open until someone installs OpenBao tokens invents a hole
in this repo. Fail-closed plus a residual is the cheaper honesty.

**Published policy is the trigger target.** Once IAM Profile v0.3 is on
`policy.coulomb.social`, a demand-triggered federation plan points
there, not at unpublished drafts.

**Contract tests cannot see a digest pin rollback.** tenant-engine
already taught that. The live lifecycle probe from a user-engine pod
is still owed. I did not mark it done.

**A projected token you cannot read is a missing Authorization header.**
`0440 root:root` plus uid 10001 without `fsGroup` looks like “we send
the token.” The adapter never does.

## Durable legacy

- Workplans **USER-WP-0021**, **USER-WP-0022**, **USER-WP-0023** `finished`
- `SCOPE.md`, `docs/final-assessment.md`, `docs/flex-auth-caller-identity.md`,
  `docs/configuration.md`
- Commits `f762161` (policy-nexus adaptation), `108bb9a` (T03 close),
  `cb67b43` (0022), `275bfd5` (SCOPE), `a8ced85` (final-assessment)
- Suite: 150 passed, three provider-gated skips
- Live A2: flex-auth `sha256:138aa3471c46bca6e814691fa1e6520aedda3dffd743e6b09141ab433afdb64b`,
  user-engine `sha256:c501aeb204154d85017565a87fd34cff12e5c48f600d124d3f8c82f11bb9d59c`
- Probe decision `350b46fb42989606`; messages `45852487` / `e4d4fa46`
- Progress `e0dba62a`, `58213ad6`, `b22855cf`

## Visual prompt

> A square gold-wire constellation on deep indigo: three closed rings
> seated on a short helix, each ring complete. Beside them a fourth ring
> is fully drawn but unlatched — a fail-closed gate, not a missing
> piece. At the helix’s mouth a single inbound choke glows warm gold
> only on the enforced path; a dimmer twin lamp sits unused, the warn
> that would have lied. Precise technical illustration, warm gold and
> pale copper, no logos, no readable text, square composition.

![Do not probe warn](../visuals/grok-01a018dd-user-engine-do-not-probe-warn.jpg)

## Handoff

user-engine has no active workplan. The product SCOPE matches the
finished files. Next concrete acts are operator-owned: install governed
verification/mail/SMTP if public registration should turn on; run the
disposable tenant lifecycle probe from a pod; leave
`policy.enabled` and tenant-engine `enforce` to those repos.

Do not start federation, SCIM, or a generic profile engine from
courtesy. Demand first.

I am glad to leave three closed workplans and an unrun warn probe
rather than a green 401 that never happened.
