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Review layer model v0.6; publish the PEP stance map §6.4 requires
All three v0.4 findings were acted on — §9.1 split into pending/declared-gap and
§5's scope rule adopted as recommended and credited, and §9.6 ruled via the
load-bearing/attributive distinction with ops-warden's `# audit must not block
signing` named as the estate's live example.

Checked the favourable ruling rather than accepting it. §9.6's test is "no
control branches on its presence": the only consumer of audit.jsonl is `warden
activity`, which displays. Nothing gates on a signing record, so the lane is
genuinely attributive. AuditTrail.md now records the ruling instead of the open
question, and states that the trade must be revisited if a control ever gates on
the trail.

CONFORMANCE ACTION. §6.4 obligation 3 requires a stance map "published rather
than held in code", and requires every PEP-shaped consumer to publish one so the
maps can be inventoried — naming ADR-0009 as the reference shape. ops-warden was
not doing it: the map lived in PolicyConfig.failure_modes, a dataclass default.
Not a code comment, but not published either.

pep-stance.yaml publishes it, and the test asserts the published map EQUALS the
shipped default. A published map that may drift from the code is worse than no
map, because it invites reliance it cannot support.

Two findings sent to gate-house, in history/2026-08-29-layer-model-v06-review.md:
§6.4 obligation 1 (no side effect without a decision record) contradicts
obligation 3 and §9.3, with ops-warden's blessed fail-open stance as the
instance; and §6.4 mandates a stance-map inventory in §13 that §13 does not
implement — where ops-warden is currently the only PEP to have published one.

402 tests pass, ruff clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YWBMovyFoy9RRrfL7zKvPJ

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# ops-warden — PEP unreachable-engine stance map
#
# Framework: net-kingdom/canon/standards/security-layer-model_v0.6.md §6.4, §9.3
# Rule of record: docs/adr/ADR-0009
# Validate: pytest tests/test_layer_conformance.py -k stance
#
# §6.4 obligation 3 requires a declared unreachable-engine stance that is total,
# scoped per zone, carries no implicit default and no per-call discretion, and is
# "published rather than held in code comments". §6.4 further requires every
# PEP-shaped consumer to PUBLISH its map so the maps can be inventoried. This
# file is ops-warden's, published because a map that lives only in a dataclass
# default is not published — it is merely written down.
#
# The property that makes this worth reading: it is asserted equal to the shipped
# default in src/warden/config.py (PolicyConfig.failure_modes) by
# tests/test_layer_conformance.py. A published map that may drift from the code
# is worse than none, because it invites reliance it cannot support.
schema_version: "0.1"
framework: netkingdom-security-layer-model
standard_version: "0.6"
repository: ops-warden
pep_shape: true
declared_by: docs/adr/ADR-0009
protected_action: "SSH certificate issuance (warden sign / cert_command)"
decision_engine: access-engine # flex-auth until the governed rename
scope: security-zone # security-zones_v0.1 membership of the TARGET workload
# Total by construction: every zone in security-zones_v0.1, plus the two
# non-zone outcomes. No implicit default — an unlisted value is a config error,
# not a permissive fallback.
stance:
z0-experimental: fail_open
z1-operational: fail_open
z2-protected: fail_open
z2-continuity: fail_open
z3-critical: fail_closed
unknown: fail_open # versioned build profile (ADR-0009); explicit, never inferred
not-applicable: fail_closed
# What happens when the stance is applied. §6.4 obligation 1 requires a decision
# record for a protected side effect; where the engine is unreachable there is no
# decision to hold, so ops-warden records the APPLICATION OF THE STANCE instead.
# See the assessment note: obligation 1 as written admits no such case.
on_apply:
recorded_fields:
- policy_zone
- policy_failure_mode
- policy_decision_id # present only where a decision was actually rendered
- outcome
written_to:
- "signatures log (src/warden/ca.py)"
- "audit.jsonl (src/warden/audit.py)"
never_recorded: "any secret material, any certificate private key"
# §6.4 obligation 2 — the verdict is never cached. Input claims (zone membership,
# compiled from the flex-auth registry snapshot) are cached under their own
# freshness rules; the answer is not.
verdict_caching: none
input_claim_caching: "registry/flex-auth/production_registry_snapshot.json, rebuilt by scripts/build_flex_auth_registry.py"
# §6.4 obligation 4 — reconstructability, bounded by §9.6. ops-warden's audit
# emission on this lane is deliberately non-atomic and therefore ATTRIBUTIVE, not
# load-bearing: no control branches on the presence of a signing record
# (`warden activity` displays it; nothing gates on it). Registered in §13.
reconstructability:
bound: "§9.6 attributive — completeness is not claimed"
declared_at: wiki/AuditTrail.md