net-kingdom/README.md
tegwick 0efa06fe5c Security Layer Model v0.5 — four reviews, nine changes
All four reviewing repositories returned findings on v0.4 and one contested a
rule. Every change below came from a reviewer, not from gate-house.

- §9.1 split into `pending` (no route, capability zero) and `declared-gap`
  (route exists under §5.3, capability works). v0.4's single mark would have
  forced a false "pending" onto ops-warden's production SSH issuance —
  the fix was worse than the defect, and the defect was in this section.
- §9.3 rewritten. flex-auth contested it and was right: it collapsed "engine
  reachable but degraded" with "engine unreachable", and the second has no
  evaluator in the path to express anything. Input degradation is the engine's;
  unreachability is the consumer's, bounded by a declared auditable total
  stance — which ops-warden ADR-0009 already satisfies. v0.4 had ruled against
  shipped behaviour in a repository that assented to it.
- §5 scoped: "Tooling-layer system" means a §4 Tooling row. Without this every
  Staff repository was in undeclared violation for writing progress events.
- §9.4 requires the outbox to be local — no synchronous audit-core dependency
  inside the state-change transaction, so an audit outage cannot block a
  revocation.
- §9.5 forbids compiling maturity levels into registry content while decision
  provenance carries no registry-snapshot digest.
- §9.6 gained load-bearing versus attributive evidence, the mirror rule that
  absence is not evidence of non-occurrence, and kings-guard's finding that
  suppression biases posture optimistic and silently.
- §11 gained a fourth state: blocked-clean, which MUST NOT rank below
  conforming. A repository that declined a break-glass path and left a
  capability at zero complied at cost; one that quietly opened a client and
  declared nothing did not.
- §11 gained a machine-readable declaration form; ops-warden's layer.yaml is
  the reference implementation.
- §13 gained state and owner-status columns; access-engine's decline of
  authentication evidence is recorded.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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NetKingdom

NetKingdom is the canonical security architecture, integration boundary, and bootstrap/reference implementation for NetKingdom environments. It defines identity, tenancy, credential, workload-zone, and security-composition contracts while leaving provider and Railiance execution in their owning repositories.

The dynamic, self-optimizing security platform is the long-term direction in INTENT.md, not a claim about current delivery.

Orientation

  • SCOPE.md — what this repo owns, current state, and when it is relevant
  • Security layer model — how the security estate is layered (Taxonomy / Tooling / Engines / Staff) and what each layer may own
  • Security scenario composition — deterministic, plan-only capability and trust composition
  • Posture feedback — deterministic, proposal-only posture and evidence remediation findings

Security Infrastructure Documents

  • secrets-engine security infrastructure boundary defines how secrets-engine participates in the NetKingdom security infrastructure and how it interacts with OpenBao, flex-auth, user-engine, ops-warden, ops-bridge, info-tech-canon, State Hub, and agents.