--- 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.