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+id: WARDEN-WP-0027
+type: workplan
+title: "Tamper-resistant credential governance + mass rotation/lockdown (Strand B)"
+domain: infotech
+repo: ops-warden
+status: backlog
+owner: codex
+topic_slug: custodian
+planning_priority: medium
+planning_order: 27
+created: "2026-07-16"
+updated: "2026-07-16"
+---
+
+# Tamper-resistant credential governance + mass rotation/lockdown (Strand B)
+
+## Origin
+
+Explicitly deferred from `WARDEN-WP-0026` (credential disclosure hygiene, Strand A).
+WP-0026 "Out of scope" carves out the heavyweight governance machinery and directs
+that it be "capture[d] separately if/when justified." This workplan is that capture.
+
+Strand A makes accidental disclosure structurally hard and gives every lane
+**advisory** rotation guidance. Strand B is the **executable, tamper-resistant**
+layer: turning that advisory guidance into one-command action and hardening policy
+governance against silent drift or malicious change.
+
+## Status: backlog (captured, not scheduled)
+
+This is deliberately **not `ready`**. It carries real cost and blast radius
+(break-glass re-key, trust-root design) that is not justified until Strand A is in
+production and a concrete trigger appears. See **Activation gate** below. Nothing
+here is implemented until the gate is met and Bernd promotes it to `ready`.
+
+## Activation gate (promote to `ready` only when ≥1 holds)
+
+- A real disclosure incident requires rotating **more than a couple** of secrets at
+  once, making manual per-lane rotation (Strand A) too slow.
+- Fleet policy for OpenBao mandates tamper-evident policy governance or a designed
+  break-glass path.
+- Audit/compliance requires provable "reconcile policy to a known-good commit."
+
+## Goal
+
+Make credential response **executable and trustworthy at fleet scale**: one command
+rotates or re-establishes a set of tainted secrets; policy changes are tamper-evident
+and reconcilable to a known-good state; a graded lockdown / break-glass path exists
+with an explicit trust-root.
+
+## Scope boundary (unchanged from Strand A)
+
+ops-warden still **custodies no secret values**. Strand B orchestrates the owner's
+tools (OpenBao, provider re-mint, railiance-platform credential broker) as the
+caller — it does not hold or vend secrets. Rotation execution runs the owner-native
+path; ops-warden sequences and verifies it.
+
+## Task: Executable mass rotation driver
+
+```task
+id: WARDEN-WP-0027-T01
+status: wait
+priority: high
+```
+
+Turn Strand A's per-lane `rotation:` guidance (WP-0026 T06) into an executable
+driver: `warden rotate <id>` (single lane) and `warden rotate --tainted` (all lanes
+marked EXPOSED per WP-0026 T05). Each step runs the owner-native command
+(provider re-mint, `bao kv put`, re-encrypt+reupload for re-establish lanes) as the
+caller, verifies via capabilities (never reads the value), and clears the
+`exposed_at` taint on success. Dry-run first; idempotent; per-lane failure isolates.
+
+**Done when:** a tainted set of lanes can be rotated/re-established with one command,
+each verified capabilities-safe, taint cleared only on success.
+
+**Depends on:** WP-0026 T05 (taint convention), T06 (rotation registry).
+
+## Task: Graded lockdown / break-glass with explicit trust-root
+
+```task
+id: WARDEN-WP-0027-T02
+status: wait
+priority: medium
+```
+
+Design and document a graded lockdown: (a) soft — deny agent roles read on all
+high-risk lanes; (b) hard — seal + re-key with a pre-designed trust-root and quorum.
+Define the trust-root (who holds unseal shares, recovery keys), the break-glass
+invocation, and the re-entry path. **Design + runbook first**; any executable seal
+step is opt-in and attended.
+
+**Done when:** a documented, rehearsed break-glass path exists with a named
+trust-root and quorum, and soft-lockdown is executable via capabilities-based
+policy toggles.
+
+## Task: Tamper-evident policy governance + reconcile
+
+```task
+id: WARDEN-WP-0027-T03
+status: wait
+priority: medium
+```
+
+Policy-as-code for OpenBao policies/roles with tamper-evidence: a signed/hashed
+manifest of the intended policy set, drift **detection** against live OpenBao, and a
+reconcile-to-known-good-commit path. (Drift detection may land independently even if
+full reconcile stays gated.) Coordinate ownership with railiance-platform (OpenBao
+deployment) — ops-warden contributes the ops-access policy surface, not the cluster.
+
+**Done when:** live OpenBao policy state is diffable against a signed known-good
+manifest, and an attended reconcile can restore it.
+
+**Cross-repo:** railiance-platform (OpenBao cluster + policy custody).
+
+## References
+
+- `WARDEN-WP-0026` — Strand A (disclosure hygiene, advisory rotation) — prerequisite
+- `.claude/rules/credential-routing.md` — ops-warden custodies no secret values
+- `railiance-platform` — OpenBao cluster, policy custody, credential broker
+- `wiki/AccessRouting.md` — issue vs route vs assist boundary