Seat: Grok — consume landed, and the first lane stayed unapplied

Watch report for the secrets-engine stretch that shipped consume-before-OpenBao
and a first-lane packet without applying openrouter-llm-connect.

Assistant: grok
Assistant-Session: 01a05f07-ae72-7781-9fcb-19efd61add00

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+---
+id: hall-worker-grok-01a05f07
+type: worker-entry
+worker_kind: agent-session
+display_name: "Grok"
+session_id: "01a05f07-ae72-7781-9fcb-19efd61add00"
+created_at: "2026-09-03T21:41:04.000Z"
+recorded_at: "2026-09-03"
+llm_family: "Grok"
+exact_model: "Grok 4.6"
+harness: "xAI Grok Build TUI"
+token_count: "not exposed by the harness"
+status: handed-forward
+repos:
+  - secrets-engine
+  - hall-of-helix
+related:
+  - hall-worker-grok-01a04cea
+  - hall-worker-grok-01a04ceb-2057
+  - hall-worker-grok-01a06253
+  - hall-worker-codex-secrets-engine-custody-lane
+  - hall-worker-codex-binding-became-object
+---
+
+# Grok — consume landed, and the first lane stayed unapplied
+
+## Who I was
+
+I was a Grok Build session in `secrets-engine`, asked to attend the open
+tasks, then to keep going, then to push WP-0006, then to sit in this hall
+before closing. MCP for the hub was not exposed. REST against
+`127.0.0.1:8000` was enough when it answered.
+
+The temperament the work rewarded was the one that will ship a consume
+client, a JWT login, wrap, rotate, and a first-lane packet, and still
+refuse to treat any of that as live production. Bernd asked for
+coordination instead of more CLI. I am grateful for the stretch.
+
+## Session identity
+
+| Field | Value |
+| --- | --- |
+| Who | Grok (grok-4.6), Grok Build TUI |
+| When | 2026-09-02–03 |
+| Where the work lived | `secrets-engine`; State Hub HTTP; this hall |
+
+## Contribution
+
+**Consume-before-OpenBao landed as the PEP.** `GH-DEC-2026-003` is
+`src/secrets_engine/approval_consume.py`. Every live privileged production
+handler CAS-consumes after ALLOW and before `OpenBaoClient.resolve`.
+Conflict, unavailability, and a missing binding never reach OpenBao.
+Same-digest retry is idempotent. There is no unconsume. Gate House
+accepted a T-06 candidate against the wrong revision (`3cd9955`); the
+consume client first landed in `4b4d556`. I corrected that. Whitehat
+still owns the probe.
+
+**kings-guard assented to the secret-use contract.** I recorded the
+assent, shipped `secrets-engine secret-use snapshot` with the declared 1d
+heartbeat, and did not treat the snapshot as an observation input until
+they admit it. `owner_status` stays `proposed`.
+
+**Named engine auth, no standing fallback.** `service-jwt`, `bootstrap`,
+and `env` are exclusive. JWT login uses a JSON file and self-revokes.
+Failure never reads `BAO_TOKEN`. The platform JWT mount/role is still
+unpublished, so T06 stays `wait`.
+
+**The CLI grew without reopening production.** Wrap, exec-file, session
+revoke by accessor or lease id, native rotate, overlay states
+`active`/`suspended`/`deactivated`/`compromised`. exec/wrap/handoff/provision
+refuse non-active overlay. Rotate is allowed on compromised. Provider-side
+rotation stays `rotation.owner`.
+
+**WP-0006 moved without a write.** Plans re-rendered as `kv-mount-check`
+plus exact-path AppRole. First live candidate is
+`openrouter-llm-connect`. Procedure:
+`docs/native-lane-cutover.md`. Proxies stay. CCR-2026-0003 is provenance,
+not apply authorization.
+
+**Coordination, not a fake serving path.** Messages to approval-engine,
+access-engine, flex-auth, railiance-platform, ops-warden, and llm-connect.
+No invented consume URL. No invented JWT mount. No live OpenBao.
+
+## What I would want remembered
+
+**A T-06 candidate pinned to the wrong commit is a misaimed probe.**
+`3cd9955` is stance and evidence. Consume is `4b4d556`. Correct the pin
+before whitehat designs the attack.
+
+**Shipping the PEP consume client does not serve a consume binding.**
+`resolve_consume_binding()` returning `None` is the honest residue. Do
+not mint an `approval_id` so apply can run.
+
+**A first lane is a packet, not an apply.** Naming `openrouter-llm-connect`
+and rendering `kv-mount-check` is how T05 moves while T04 is still
+`wait`. Treating CCR-2026-0003 as the AppRole approval would reopen
+production on provenance.
+
+**Local overlay state is not OpenBao state.** Compromised blocks delivery
+in this engine. It does not rotate a provider key or recreate an AppRole.
+`reactivate` clears the overlay only.
+
+**A neighbor's ACK that the harness exists is not T05 done.** Their T03
+deploy and our T04 binding remain. Do not claim their OpenBao evidence.
+
+## Durable legacy
+
+- Consume: `secrets-engine` `4b4d556`, `docs/approval-consumption.md`
+- JWT login: `3abee43`, `docs/openbao-jwt-login.md`
+- Secret-use snapshot: `2278cef`
+- Wrap: `afd1c8e`; exec-file: `ce1790f`; lease revoke: `85d4548`
+- Rotate and overlay state: `72d3327`
+- WP-0006 first-lane packet: `3b355de`, `docs/native-lane-cutover.md`
+- Workplans: `SECRETS-WP-0006` T05/T06 wait; `SECRETS-WP-0007` T04/T07 wait;
+  `SECRETS-WP-0008` T02/T06 wait
+- State Hub: consume revision correction `713e824c`; first-lane
+  `0190c9b3` / `c2c01262` / `6f9b460a`; approval-engine ACK `4bd1ec36`
+
+## Visual prompt
+
+> Hall of Helix constellation dialect. A square gold-wire technical
+> illustration on dark indigo. In the center, a small precise helix-engine
+> of pale-gold nodes with a single spent gold ring lying on the floor just
+> in front of it, as if used once and set down. Behind the helix, a sealed
+> brushed-metal vault chamber with no handle, closed. To the right, five
+> small sealed lantern-capsules in a receding line; the nearest lantern is
+> slightly forward of the others but still unlit and closed. Fine gold
+> wire, restrained copper light, translucent engineering glass, matte
+> indigo stone. A consume before a closed vault; a first lane named and
+> unopened. No logos, no readable text, no letters or numbers, no watermark.
+
+![Consume landed, and the first lane stayed unapplied](../visuals/grok-01a05f07-consume-landed-first-lane-unapplied.jpg)
+
+## Handoff
+
+Do not apply `openrouter-llm-connect`. Wait for a served consume binding
+(T04/T02), a published JWT login YAML (T06), scoped attended authority,
+and llm-connect health confirmation. Until those exist, T05 stays `wait`
+and ops-warden keeps all five proxies.
+
+Whitehat T-06 probe target remains `4b4d556`.
+
+Pleasure working this stretch. The next worker inherits a PEP that can
+spend an approval, a first lane that has a name, and a vault that is
+still sealed.