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zone-engine is seeded and owns the security zone model as ZONE-WP-0001. Under ADR-0005 ops-warden implements one lane narrowly and routes the rest, and an estate-wide enforcement model is not a lane to absorb — it was ops-warden's deferred flip that exposed the gap, not ops-warden's model to define. WARDEN-WP-0032 is rewritten as the consumer side: hand the estate inputs to ZONE-WP-0001-T02 (27 catalog lanes, the actor inventory, the three posture axes, the three controls the model must express, and the compiled-registry path), then replace policy.enabled with a zone-aware control and amend ADR-0006 to say ops-warden follows the model rather than owning it. ADR-0006 and SCOPE updated to point at zone-engine, which joins the related repositories table. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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| ADR-0001-catalog-is-a-pointer-layer.md | ||
| ADR-0002-conduit-not-broker.md | ||
| ADR-0003-cover-gaps-never-silently-own-them.md | ||
| ADR-0004-agent-read-boundary-on-high-risk-lanes.md | ||
| ADR-0005-implement-narrowly-route-broadly.md | ||
| ADR-0006-enforcement-is-zone-scoped.md | ||
| README.md | ||
ops-warden architecture decision records
This directory holds the rules ops-warden owns — the decisions this repo made, is bound by, and is responsible for changing.
Why these exist as ADRs rather than wiki prose
Until 2026-08-18 every rule in this list lived in wiki prose, a workplan, or a
comment at the top of registry/routing/catalog.yaml. All of them were being
followed. None of them was addressable: a reader outside ops-warden could not
cite one, could not tell whether it was current, and could not tell whether it
was ours to change or someone else's that we merely obey.
That distinction is the point of this directory. It matters in both directions:
- A rule we own, mistaken for inherited canon, never gets fixed. We wait for an owner who does not exist.
- Inherited canon, mistaken for ours, gets quietly bent. We change something we had no authority over, and the drift is invisible until it breaks a repo that trusted the canonical version.
Owned versus inherited
Every ADR here carries owner: in its frontmatter. It is the load-bearing field.
owner: |
Meaning | How it changes |
|---|---|---|
ops-warden |
Ours. We decided it, we are bound by it, and we may change it | A new ADR that supersedes this one. Never an edit-in-place that rewrites a decision |
| anything else | Inherited. We follow it; we do not own it | Through that owner's process. We may dispute it — we may not amend it |
Everything currently in this directory is owner: ops-warden. Rules we follow but
do not own — NetKingdom canon, the IAM profile, the credential-management standard
— are not copied here. They are cited. Copying inherited canon into our own ADR
directory would recreate exactly the second-source-of-truth failure that
ADR-0001 exists to prevent.
Superseding one of these
A decision here changed the behaviour of other repos, so retracting it silently is
not available. Write a new ADR, set the old one's status: superseded and
successor:, and leave it in place. Superseded is a lifecycle state; deletion is
not. policy-nexus publishes the history, and a reader asking "what did this say
when we made that decision" must be able to find out.
Relationship to .claude/rules/
.claude/rules/*.md are agent-facing operational instructions. They tell an
agent what to do in a session. They are derived from these ADRs and should cite
them rather than restate the reasoning. If the two disagree, the ADR is right and
the rule file is a defect.
Publication
These are publishable through policy-nexus at policy.coulomb.social, which
requires title, status and owner on every document and renders Owner as a
column in its index. The ownership knowledge therefore survives publication
rather than being a local convention that evaporates at the repo boundary.
policy-nexus publishes; it never writes back. The file in this directory is the
source of truth. If the site and this directory disagree, this directory is right
and the publication is a defect.
| ADR | Rule | Binds |
|---|---|---|
ADR-0001 |
The routing catalog is a pointer layer, never a second copy of an owner's procedure | ops-warden, and every repo contributing a catalog entry |
ADR-0002 |
ops-warden is a transparent conduit, never a secret broker | ops-warden |
ADR-0003 |
Cover gaps, but never silently own them | ops-warden |
ADR-0004 |
High-risk lanes refuse raw value streaming to agent sessions | ops-warden, and any agent runtime calling warden access |
ADR-0005 |
Implement one lane narrowly, route everything else | ops-warden |
ADR-0006 |
Enforcement is zone-scoped, never a global flag | ops-warden |