ops-mason/SCOPE.md
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# SCOPE
## One-liner
Builder of NetKingdom security infrastructure — creates, changes,
maintains, and tears down OpenBao AppRoles, policies, and KV secret paths
so ops-warden always has something real to route to.
## Core Idea
Four-phase process: (1) construction plan — respect/extend/compact
existing structure before proposing new; (2) review/optimize against
what already exists; (3) executive summary — the one mandatory human
decision gate, in plain terms; (4) build, only after approval.
## In Scope
- Construction plans for new/changed/retired OpenBao AppRoles, policies,
KV secret path *structure* (never values)
- Consistency review — reuse over duplication, compaction over sprawl
- The executive-summary format that makes a plan decidable at a glance
- Proposing pointer-only entries (`warden_executes: false`, no authored
`steps`) in ops-warden's routing catalog for what it builds — a normal
git contribution to that repo, not a live API
- Its own audit trail of what it built, under which approved plan
## Out of Scope
- Deciding *whether* access should exist — that's architecture/founder,
ops-mason builds what's already decided
- Runtime authorization decisions — access-engine
- Identity/MFA — key-cape/Keycloak
- Routing consumers to lanes once built — ops-warden
- SSH certificate issuance — ops-warden
- OpenBao cluster init/unseal, platform deploy — railiance-platform
- Touching secret values at all, even transiently — delivered via
ops-warden's existing `paste_once_provision` desk instead
## Current State
The four-phase construction process, OpenBao AppRole/Kubernetes-auth builders,
metadata inventory, and guarded Kubernetes-plane CLI are implemented and tested.
Construction plans and build evidence live in `plans/` and `docs/evidence/`.
OpenBao builds require an approved plan whose machine-readable specification
and approved digest match the supplied execution inputs. Existing policies are
content-pinned before reuse. AppRole credentials are delivered through private,
exclusive files; the builders do not read downstream KV values. See
`docs/construction-plan-format.md` for review and execution requirements.
Kubernetes apply enforces pinned readiness tiers, the explicit whitehat
placement, the dated policy-nexus transition, and recorded emergency activation.
See `docs/kubernetes-plane.md`.
The layer declaration is `Staff`, with PEP-shaped behavior, in `INTENT.md`.
The founder-approved plan-approval exception and direct-contact gaps remain
explicitly declared; this is not a claim of full layer-model conformance.
Remaining work is held in existing blocked workplans: credential descriptions
(MASON-WP-0004), the attended Telegram credential lane (MASON-WP-0005), and the
2026-12-21 readiness/approval review (MASON-WP-0006-T06). `WORK-RECORDS.md` is
the generated index; workplan files remain the source of task status.
## Getting Oriented
- Start with: `INTENT.md`
- Agent instructions: `AGENTS.md`
- Workplans: `workplans/`
## Repository maintenance reuse
The tracked `.generated-work-records.json` adopts the Custodian staged-source
adapter for WORK-RECORDS.md. `make generated-work-records` uses the existing
State Hub renderer through `.generated-work-records.mk`; the shared pre-commit
hook runs this isolated recipe only for opted-in repositories. The corresponding
`make generated-work-records-check` is read-only. Canonical repository identity
is explicit and does not depend on the checkout directory.
Unstaged source changes are preserved; conflicts and unstaged generated-file
changes stop the commit. For `git commit --only`, generate first and include
WORK-RECORDS.md with the selected source paths. Existing generated-only guards
and exact-scope secret scans remain in place. This is repository maintenance,
not a runtime service, authorization decision, deployment or publication.
Other index generators and hub-derived briefs retain their owner boundaries.
## Local orientation brief
`.custodian-brief.md` is a generated local orientation snapshot. It remains on
disk for offline use and is root-ignored rather than versioned. Regenerate it
with the State Hub brief renderer; workplans and other authored repository
records remain authoritative. Brief refreshes must not create Git commits.