#!/usr/bin/env python3 """Check kings-guard against the NetKingdom security layer model (§5, §11). Read-only. kings-guard's whole position under the standard rests on one claim: it holds no direct client for any Tooling-layer system, and the capabilities that would need one sit at zero instead (§11 blocked-clean) That claim has been asserted in prose since KG-DEC-2026-001. §11 (v0.7) requires a machine-readable declaration because prose cannot distinguish a declaration from a transcribed review. This script is what makes the claim checkable: it fails if a Tooling client appears in src/ without a matching layer.yaml entry. The failure it exists to catch is a *convenience* — someone reaching for an OpenBao or cluster client during an incident because the engine surface still does not exist (§9.2). That is precisely the "small convenience" §6 warns about, and it would arrive as a one-line import. Declaration form (GH-DEC-2026-017, amendments A9, A11, A12): INTENT.md's frontmatter `layer:` key governs; layer.yaml is a derived artifact that must be marked derived, name INTENT.md, and agree with it. Layer comparison ASCII-folds case against §3's closed four-token vocabulary, so `Staff` and `staff` agree and neither file is re-spelled. A disagreement that survives the fold is reported as a finding, not resolved by precedence. Neither form may carry a `standard_version`; the version this check was built and validated against is the checker's own, VALIDATED_AGAINST below, and is printed in every run's output — this script's output is the derived conformance record A12 points to. Review dates are reported, never enforced: a date-triggered failure breaks the build on a calendar day with no code change. Exit 0 clean, 1 undeclared contact found or the two declaration forms disagree, 2 declaration malformed. """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import ast import re import sys from datetime import date from pathlib import Path import yaml ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] SRC = ROOT / "src" / "kings_guard" DECL = ROOT / "layer.yaml" INTENT = ROOT / "INTENT.md" # The standard text this checker was built and validated against. This is the # derived conformance record's version (GH-DEC-2026-017 §5 / A12), moved here # from layer.yaml's former `standard_version: "0.7"`, which recorded the same # fact in a place the ruling says a declaration must not carry it. Bump it when # the checker is re-validated against a newer accepted text. VALIDATED_AGAINST = "net-kingdom/canon/standards/security-layer-model_v0.7.md" # §3's closed layer vocabulary (A9): four tokens, compared ASCII case-insensitively. LAYER_VOCABULARY = {"taxonomy", "tooling", "engine", "staff"} EXPECTED_LAYER = "staff" # kings-guard's own §4 row, folded # Import roots that would constitute a direct Tooling-layer client under §4. # Matched against the top-level module of every import in src/. TOOLING_IMPORTS = { "hvac": "OpenBao / Vault client", "bao": "OpenBao client", "kubernetes": "cluster client", "kubernetes_asyncio": "cluster client", "psycopg": "direct database connection", "psycopg2": "direct database connection", "asyncpg": "direct database connection", "sqlalchemy": "direct database connection", "pymysql": "direct database connection", "redis": "direct datastore connection", "ldap3": "direct LDAP client (key-cape tooling)", "python_ldap": "direct LDAP client (key-cape tooling)", "docker": "container runtime client", } # §3.4 rule 1 — no standing credential held in the repository or its # configuration. Filenames that would be a standing secret, and assignments # of well-known secret env vars to string literals in src/. CREDENTIAL_FILENAMES = { ".env", ".env.local", ".env.production", "credentials.json", "secrets.yaml", "secrets.yml", "id_rsa", "id_ed25519", "id_ecdsa", } CREDENTIAL_LITERAL = re.compile( r"""(?x) \b(?:VAULT_TOKEN|OPENBAO_TOKEN|BAO_TOKEN|AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY| PRIVATE_KEY|BEGIN\ (?:RSA\ )?PRIVATE\ KEY) """ ) SKIP_CREDENTIAL_SCAN_DIRS = {".git", ".venv", "__pycache__", ".pytest_cache", ".ruff_cache"} def fold(value: object) -> str: """ASCII case-fold, per §3 as amended (A9): two spellings are one token.""" return str(value).encode("ascii", "replace").decode("ascii").lower() def _malformed(message: str) -> None: print(f"FAIL: {message}", file=sys.stderr) raise SystemExit(2) def load_governing_layer() -> str: """The declaration: INTENT.md frontmatter `layer:` (§11, GH-DEC-2026-017 §1).""" if not INTENT.exists(): _malformed(f"no {INTENT.name} — §11's governing declaration form") lines = INTENT.read_text().splitlines() if not lines or lines[0].strip() != "---": _malformed(f"{INTENT.name} has no frontmatter to carry the declaration (§11)") try: end = lines[1:].index("---") + 1 except ValueError: _malformed(f"{INTENT.name} frontmatter is not terminated") try: front = yaml.safe_load("\n".join(lines[1:end])) or {} except yaml.YAMLError as exc: _malformed(f"{INTENT.name} frontmatter is not parseable: {exc}") if "layer" not in front: _malformed(f"{INTENT.name} frontmatter has no 'layer' key — §11's declaration") if "standard_version" in front: _malformed( f"{INTENT.name} frontmatter carries 'standard_version' — a layer " "declaration MUST NOT carry a standard version (§11 as amended by A12)" ) layer = front["layer"] if fold(layer) not in LAYER_VOCABULARY: _malformed( f"{INTENT.name} declares layer {layer!r}, outside §3's closed vocabulary " f"{sorted(LAYER_VOCABULARY)} (case-insensitive)" ) if fold(layer) != EXPECTED_LAYER: _malformed(f"{INTENT.name} declares layer {layer!r}, expected Staff (§4 row)") return str(layer) def load_declaration() -> dict: """The derived form, layer.yaml (§11 derived-artifact rule).""" if not DECL.exists(): _malformed(f"no declaration at {DECL.relative_to(ROOT)} (§11)") try: data = yaml.safe_load(DECL.read_text()) except yaml.YAMLError as exc: print(f"FAIL: {DECL.name} is not parseable: {exc}", file=sys.stderr) raise SystemExit(2) from exc for key in ("layer", "repository", "tooling_contacts", "derived", "derived_from"): if key not in data: _malformed(f"{DECL.name} missing required key '{key}' (§11)") if data["derived"] is not True: _malformed(f"{DECL.name} must be marked 'derived: true' (§11, GH-DEC-2026-017 §1)") if data["derived_from"] != "INTENT.md": _malformed( f"{DECL.name} derives from {data['derived_from']!r}; §11 names INTENT.md " "as the governing declaration" ) if "standard_version" in data: _malformed( f"{DECL.name} carries 'standard_version' — a layer declaration MUST NOT " "carry a standard version (§11 as amended by A12)" ) if fold(data["layer"]) not in LAYER_VOCABULARY: _malformed( f"{DECL.name} declares layer {data['layer']!r}, outside §3's closed " f"vocabulary {sorted(LAYER_VOCABULARY)} (case-insensitive)" ) return data def forms_disagree(governing: object, derived: object) -> bool: """A11: the derived form must agree with INTENT.md, after the A9 case fold.""" return fold(governing) != fold(derived) def imported_modules(path: Path) -> set[str]: """Top-level module name of every import in one file.""" try: tree = ast.parse(path.read_text()) except SyntaxError: return set() found: set[str] = set() for node in ast.walk(tree): if isinstance(node, ast.Import): found.update(alias.name.split(".")[0] for alias in node.names) elif isinstance(node, ast.ImportFrom): if node.level == 0 and node.module: found.add(node.module.split(".")[0]) return found def scan() -> list[tuple[Path, str, str]]: hits: list[tuple[Path, str, str]] = [] for path in sorted(SRC.rglob("*.py")): for module in sorted(imported_modules(path)): if module in TOOLING_IMPORTS: hits.append((path, module, TOOLING_IMPORTS[module])) return hits def scan_standing_credentials() -> list[tuple[Path, str]]: """§3.4 rule 1: no standing credential in the repository or its config.""" hits: list[tuple[Path, str]] = [] for path in ROOT.rglob("*"): if not path.is_file(): continue if any(part in SKIP_CREDENTIAL_SCAN_DIRS for part in path.parts): continue if path.name in CREDENTIAL_FILENAMES: hits.append((path, f"credential-shaped file {path.name}")) continue if path.suffix in {".pem", ".key"} and "test" not in path.parts: hits.append((path, f"key material file {path.name}")) if SRC.is_dir(): for path in sorted(SRC.rglob("*.py")): text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8") if CREDENTIAL_LITERAL.search(text): hits.append((path, "standing-credential literal or private-key block")) return hits def main() -> int: parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__) parser.add_argument("--report", action="store_true", help="print the declaration summary") args = parser.parse_args() governing = load_governing_layer() decl = load_declaration() declared = {c.get("id") for c in decl.get("tooling_contacts") or []} hits = scan() credential_hits = scan_standing_credentials() undeclared = [h for h in hits if h[1] not in declared] rules = decl.get("agent_principal_rules") or {} checks = decl.get("agent_principal_rule_checks") or {} if args.report: print(f"kings-guard — layer: {governing} (declared in INTENT.md; §11 governing form)") print(f" layer.yaml: derived from {decl['derived_from']}, layer: {decl['layer']}") print(f" checker validated against: {VALIDATED_AGAINST}") print(f" tooling contacts declared: {len(declared)}") print(f" unowned capabilities (§11 blocked-clean): " f"{len(decl.get('unowned_capabilities') or [])}") today = date.today() for cap in decl.get("unowned_capabilities") or []: review = cap.get("review") stale = "" if review and date.fromisoformat(str(review)) < today: stale = " [REVIEW OVERDUE]" print(f" - {cap['id']}: {cap.get('owner_status', '?')}{stale}") print(" agent-principal rule checks (§3.4):") for name, meta in checks.items(): form = meta.get("form", "unspecified") if isinstance(meta, dict) else "unspecified" print(f" - {name}: {form} (claimed={rules.get(name)})") if forms_disagree(governing, decl["layer"]): print("", file=sys.stderr) print("FAIL: the two declaration forms disagree (§11, A11)", file=sys.stderr) print(f" INTENT.md (governs): layer: {governing}", file=sys.stderr) print(f" layer.yaml (derived): layer: {decl['layer']}", file=sys.stderr) print(" Case is already folded, so this is a real layer disagreement.", file=sys.stderr) print(" It is a finding in its own right; precedence does not erase it.", file=sys.stderr) return 1 if undeclared: print("", file=sys.stderr) print("FAIL: undeclared Tooling-layer client (§11 undeclared violation)", file=sys.stderr) for path, module, what in undeclared: rel = path.relative_to(ROOT) print(f" {rel}: imports '{module}' — {what}", file=sys.stderr) print("", file=sys.stderr) print(" A Staff repository may not hold a direct Tooling client (§5).", file=sys.stderr) print(" Route it through the owning engine, or if none exists, raise an", file=sys.stderr) print(" engine gap — do not declare this to make the check pass.", file=sys.stderr) return 1 if credential_hits: print("", file=sys.stderr) print("FAIL: standing credential material (§3.4 rule 1)", file=sys.stderr) for path, what in credential_hits: try: rel = path.relative_to(ROOT) except ValueError: rel = path print(f" {rel}: {what}", file=sys.stderr) print("", file=sys.stderr) print(" Authority is per task, time-bounded, and attributable to the", file=sys.stderr) print(" principal acted for. Do not hold a standing secret here.", file=sys.stderr) return 1 if rules.get("no_standing_credential") is not True: print("FAIL: layer.yaml does not claim no_standing_credential (§3.4 rule 1)", file=sys.stderr) return 2 if not args.report: print( f"OK: no direct Tooling client in {SRC.relative_to(ROOT)}; " "no standing credential (§5, §11, §3.4 rule 1); " f"declaration forms agree; validated against {VALIDATED_AGAINST}" ) return 0 if __name__ == "__main__": raise SystemExit(main())