Gate House ruled all three questions within a day, attributing the speed to the
request being filed before the architecture with candidate answers and their
costs.
R1 PEP-shaped, confirmed as proposed. The ruling settles the shape; the layer
stays ours to declare, so layer.yaml is written in this repository's voice
rather than transcribed from the reply.
R2 yes to a presentation claim, no second catalog row, under three limits now
declared in layer.yaml and tested. Limit 2 — the claim must never be an input to
the decision it presents for — is load-bearing: our self-dealing argument was
accepted because it holds, not despite it. Limit 3 drives architecture, since
here the actor being audited and the evidence source are the same component.
R3 (b) with the authority rule: binding digest authoritative for what the
request is, view_hash only for what was shown, neither substitutable, and a
disagreement between them is a finding against the presenting surface rather
than a fact about the request. Linkage is co-reference; nesting was refused
because it reproduces the GH-DEC-2026-008 hash cycle.
Built to v0.8 obligation 3 rather than migrating later: axis enumerated, unknown
resolves to fail_closed, absent distinguishable from unknown in the record, and
published-equals-shipped asserted by test rather than claimed. Every stance is
fail_closed, which is a conclusion not a shortcut — ops-warden can justify
fail_open on a continuity argument that does not exist here.
GH-DEC-2026-010 inherited as a declared gap in four documents: a decision cannot
today be proven to have come from access-engine. The decision path must not be
described as validated while FLEX-WP-0024 is open.
46 tests pass. T05 and T07 unblocked.
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approval-engine replied to INFD-IN-0001 with docs/approver-surface-requirements.md
(31da1af, 5203f46) and two corrections. Several of my requirements were wrong or
incomplete; revised rather than appended to.
Corrected:
- PR-02 listed only approval:approve. Wrong — the surface also needs
approval:read to fetch what it renders. As drafted it would have shipped a
client able to submit an entry it could never display. That changes a
registration key-cape has already implemented, so it is their call (open
question A).
- NC-03 implied approval-engine refuses non-human approver entries. It does not;
only /consume is principal-restricted, and the operator service client holds
approval:approve. Enforcement of "humans bind, agents draft" is therefore ours
alone, and is auditable via schema v4's entries[].principal_type — never from
the shape of subject_id.
Added:
- PR-04 assurance shape. approval-engine persists it verbatim and accepts an
empty object, so it is the only place MFA survives into the approval record.
Needs auth method, acr/amr, auth_time, agreed with key-cape.
- PR-05 entitlement. A 200 from the engine is not permission to view; we owe
access-engine a check before rendering. Consuming a decision, not making one.
- PR-06 response mapping, including 409 duplicate_approver rendered as SUCCESS
(a browser double-submit is routine and the first entry stands) and 503 as
fail-closed.
- PR-07 and a matching INTENT wrongness condition: never render `approved` as
permission to act. That is a PDP in the browser wearing UI copy.
- L-05, L-06 and EvidenceModel 8b: view_hash cannot ride into the entry — the
POST discards its body by design — so Stage 1 correlates by (approval_id,
subject, approved_at). DoD-3 is satisfied by the triple, not by a stored hash.
PRD open question 1 is answered by construction: there is no inbox endpoint and
there will not be one, so the approvals-inbox shape is foreclosed upstream.
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Claim ownership of the browser-facing approver UI that approval-engine
deliberately does not contain. approval-engine's INTENT names an approvals
inbox under Non-Goals, and docs/keycape-service-registrations.md records that
the human approver client's client_id and callback URI "must come from its
owner once it exists" — leaving key-cape's KEY-WP-0013-T02 blocked on an
unassigned component.
- INTENT.md: Decision Memo concept, the binding/awareness split and the two
hashes, ownership and non-ownership against the named estate repositories,
and a provisional PEP-shaped layer placement flagged for a gate-house ruling
rather than asserted.
- GOAL.md: Stage 1 is the L3 approval approver surface — the narrowest real
consumer with a live blocking dependency — plus the written answer to who
owns the approver UI.
- workplans/INFD-WP-0001: founding documents, the gate-house layer/ownership
ruling, the four specs (PRD, UseCaseCatalog, ArchitectureBlueprint,
EvidenceModel), schema and canonicalizer promotion out of history/ with the
isolation vectors under test, the key-cape client registration, and a
walking skeleton that includes return and discuss.
history/ is preserved unmodified as provenance.
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