informed-decision/docs/specs/LifecycleWorkspaceDelivery.md

Lifecycle workspace and delivery

2026-10-05; INFD-WP-0007-T02/T05. Initial workspace deployed; document authoring and review-request preparation are implemented for the next release.

Human workspace

With lifecycle_policy configured, the signed-in home links to /decisions. The workspace uses the same headless service as the API. Existing KeyCape sessions establish identity; existing origin and CSRF checks protect forms. Users can search, prepare a draft, record source metadata and evaluations, comment, publish to explicit members/groups, refine, compare consecutive revisions and download authorized packet entries. Source content is not fetched. The next release adds short text documents and optional required highlights through immutable revisions. Large or binary packets continue to use the API. All forms receive fresh policy checks; rendering a button grants no authority.

Publication records an audience for one revision. Access Engine determines access using authenticated identity and retained record facts. Publication creates no approval and no human disposition. New revisions require their own publication. The workspace exposes authorized outcomes and a protected human review link when an exact revision handoff has been loaded by intake. Drafts without that handoff remain unavailable for acceptance. See LifecycleReviewHandoff.md.

Runtime and deployment inputs

The optional runtime lifecycle_policy object requires exactly origin, package, version, package_digest, caller_token_file. Its package must differ from the review package. No default policy or identity fallback exists. The optional boolean lifecycle_delivery defaults to false. Configure both for an admitted workspace with evidence delivery.

The deployment renderer accepts the same separate policy pins plus pod_name, requires explicit lifecycle_delivery: true with that package, and generates exact egress and an owner-review ingress proposal. It references the existing mounted workload policy credential path; this does not authorize that workload for a new package. Existing admission inputs render without lifecycle changes. The deployed private API has its own admitted TokenReview verifier and separate listener; browser sessions are not bearer credentials there.

Independent evidence

On an enabled audit tick, up to 100 pending mutations are staged as immutable informed-decision.lifecycle commitments in the existing outbox. The event UUID is the delivery identity. Commitment metadata includes memo id, revision, operation, a content digest and an existence assertion. The digest covers the retained event and historical memo. Advisory text stays in source custody; commitment delivery does not provide independent content reconstructability.

Pending obligations clear only after the outbox retains a receiver reference. Lost replies retry with the same identity. The existing worker supplies bounded delivery, reconciliation and a 24-hour lifecycle heartbeat. Undelivered evidence keeps runtime readiness false. The current sink/reconciliation identity is platform-scoped; other tenants fail closed at staging. Multi-tenant receiver admission is not claimed. Kubernetes traffic readiness behavior is unchanged.

Tests use the actual local Audit Core receiver contract, including deduplication and reconciliation. The agent-to-human collaboration scenario creates two records, publishes/comments/refines and drains five events with unchanged runtime configuration bytes. Its identity and PDP transport are synthetic. It proves source behavior, not deployed workload authority or all seven acceptance cases.

Delivery boundary and continuation

The initial rollout passed native agent-to-human-to-agent acceptance, restart retention, public/private isolation and Audit Core reconciliation. See ../evidence/2026-10-05-lifecycle-cutover/. Those receipts describe the deployed 804d89fb image; they do not prove the next source increment is live.

Browser authoring now exposes explicit approval/discussion draft types, document addition with required acknowledgment, packet/highlight comparisons, and durable review-request preparation/download. The adapter calls only the shared service; no store access, local permit or automatic privileged forwarding is introduced. LifecycleReviewHandoff.md specifies the shared retrieval and profile contract.

Review overview discovery remains exact-record-only under compact-sitting v12. The lifecycle workspace discovers authorized records and exposes their outcomes. A later change to legacy overview discovery needs an Access Engine contract, not a consumer-side policy bypass. Broader binding profiles, external identities, source connectors and optional Hub write-back remain T02/T05 work.