---
id: PNEX-WP-0004
type: workplan
title: "Publish the first deferred fleet-standards batch and authenticate CI source acquisition"
domain: infotech
repo: policy-nexus
status: finished
owner: the-custodian
topic_slug: policy-nexus
created: "2026-08-31"
updated: "2026-08-31"
depends_on_workplans:
  - PNEX-WP-0003
state_hub_workstream_id: "a4f65253-4aab-5a43-8a19-3d07c11da244"
---

# PNEX-WP-0004 — fleet standards publication and CI source authentication

## Goal

Publish the first coherent return from `CUST-IN-0016`: five reviewed,
Custodian-owned fleet standards. At the same time, make the scheduled Forgejo
candidate build capable of reading private source repositories through a
dedicated least-privilege credential rather than anonymous HTTP or an admin
token.

Done means the five standards have permanent current and immutable URLs, the
source inventory and ADR-review ledger reflect the Custodian rulings, the
retained-history/currency/release gates pass, and the CI workflow fails closed
with an actionable error when its dedicated source-read credential is absent.

## Publication batch

| id | Source | Address series |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `canon-autonomy-lanes` | `canon/standards/autonomy-lanes_v0.1.md` | `/standards/autonomy-lanes/v0.1/` |
| `canon-contrib-convention` | `canon/standards/contribution-convention_v0.1.md` | `/standards/contribution-convention/v0.1/` |
| `canon-project-repository-flavor` | `canon/standards/project-repository-flavor_v0.1.md` | `/standards/project-repository-flavor/v0.1/` |
| `canon-work-record-types` | `canon/standards/work-record-types_v0.1.md` | `/standards/work-record-types/v0.1/` |
| `canon-workplan-terminology-fleet` | `canon/standards/workplan-terminology-fleet_v0.1.md` | `/standards/workplan-terminology/v0.1/` |

All five are owned by `the-custodian`, reviewed on 2026-08-31, use revision
`accepted-1`, and retain a six-month review interval. Source-owner commit:
`the-custodian@4b951be`.

## Explicit exclusions and deferrals

- `bootstrap-protocol_v0.1.md` and `custodian_constitution_v0.1.md` declare
  `sensitivity: internal`; they must not be published on the public surface.
- `repo-classification-standard_v1.0.md` remains deferred until its `active`
  front-matter and body-level `Draft v1.0` statement are reconciled.
- `sbom-convention_v0.1.md` remains deferred until its authority and operating
  model are reviewed against current SBOM Nexus architecture.
- The other owner repositories and all five conflict rows stay with
  `CUST-IN-0016`; they are not pulled into this bounded batch.

## CI credential boundary

`fetch_sources.py` may accept a Forgejo token only through an environment
variable or an explicit caller-provided value. It sends the token solely to the configured
Forgejo origin over HTTPS, never prints it, never writes it to `source-lock`,
and refuses a credential for a remote on another origin. The workflow uses a
dedicated `FORGEJO_SOURCE_TOKEN` secret. Registry credentials remain confined
to registry login and are not reused for repository reads.

Provisioning the secret is an external Custodian/platform handoff: the token
must have organization-private repository read access and no package write,
admin, cluster, or deployment authority. Code and tests may land before that
secret is installed; the scheduled workflow must fail closed until it is.

## Tasks

### T01 — Owner review and disclosure gate

```task
id: PNEX-WP-0004-T01
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "2301c729-841b-5c5c-a9dd-aa5d4390c36b"
```

Review the Custodian slice, add truthful publication metadata to the five
public fleet standards, and record the internal/deferred sources explicitly in
`CUST-IN-0016`.

Completed 2026-08-31 in `the-custodian@4b951be`. No normative body text was
changed.

### T02 — Register and audit the five standards

```task
id: PNEX-WP-0004-T02
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "a4378f0b-cf58-5dac-9f8e-2a69b07ff6e3"
```

Add five explicit `publication.json` entries, refresh the source inventory and
review ledger, and ensure the two internal constitution sources are never
classified as publishable output.

Completed 2026-08-31. The explicit registry contains 65 documents; the source
audit reports 65 published and 79 metadata-pending sources. The two internal
constitution records are ruled `local` and have no publication address.

### T03 — Authenticate private source acquisition

```task
id: PNEX-WP-0004-T03
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "e0c0fa67-5a90-5990-a4e9-35e517816a7d"
```

Add same-origin Forgejo-token support to `fetch_sources.py`, cover header,
redaction, and cross-origin refusal behavior with unit tests, and pass only the
dedicated source token from the Forgejo workflow. Authenticate the workflow's
own archive download as well as every declared owner-repository fetch.

Completed 2026-08-31. Five authentication-boundary tests cover same-origin
header injection, cross-origin refusal, paired token/origin configuration,
anonymous mode, and full-revision archive addressing. The complete 22-test
suite passes. Installing the read-only Forgejo Actions secret remains the
credential-owner handoff and is not a code-completion gate.

### T04 — Build and publish the immutable candidate

```task
id: PNEX-WP-0004-T04
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "a6f789ea-5d90-55cf-b67b-5cf401b81e66"
```

Run `make check`, retained-history build, currency, and release verification.
Publish the OCI candidate and record its image, publication-manifest,
source-inventory, and source-set digests.

2026-08-31: the local retained-history build, release verifier, and currency
gate pass for all 65 documents. Pre-publication identities are publication
manifest `c54efb4226f964b8af4e37cebcccda6d3becaa5db1cd9465c166392d2a87c842`,
source inventory
`b061ebc593f8e6353929eb795663d66278eca094429f139b6060e7b236e3d8d8`, and
source set
`7e0f0ee3fdf3bcdc8d34e7fc9ba12304ba84864b06c63e9226324e6aa0ea4e7f`.

Completed 2026-08-31 from clean Policy Nexus commit `5fbd44a`. The pushed
candidate identities are OCI
`sha256:da2c7ce7c431c6d6c4809c1539d7cf11218221505c376688122d27bae9666421`,
publication manifest
`e745f1b396f83c3a42e97478f28988327475b81540ba6d6a6d8e21e572efa8e3`,
source inventory
`64dad35098300f1fa0642ed7bb265f7c7d333d69478ff26aac5d9f0fd4e05c21`, and
source set
`8ee7f6db504b6a2dfda2c32fe820283b9df3e56fa97f47a748cc38e4fb39e9fc`.

### T05 — Promote, smoke, and close

```task
id: PNEX-WP-0004-T05
status: done
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "07c9c18d-95cf-5b09-940a-40b5ff5828a7"
```

Update the paired `rapp-policy-nexus` and `railiance-apps` bindings, pass
server-side admission, deploy atomically, and verify all five current and
immutable `accepted-1` URLs before closing this workplan.

Completed 2026-08-31. Paired binding commits `rapp-policy-nexus@29273fc` and
`railiance-apps@96d3716` passed package, image, render, and server-side
admission gates. Helm revision 6 deployed atomically; the live verifier matched
all four identities, and all five current plus five immutable `accepted-1`
addresses returned HTTPS 200.

## Closure

Finished 2026-08-31. The public collection now contains 65 explicit documents.
Five current fleet standards have permanent current and immutable addresses;
the internal constitutions remain unpublished, and 28 additional publish
rulings plus five conflicts remain visible through `CUST-IN-0016`.

Private-source CI support is implemented and tested. Credential routing found
no acceptable existing read-only token, so `railiance-platform@361005c` opened
`CCR-2026-0014`; State Hub message
`15d4ba0d-67d9-4765-b474-0004a1b398ad` requests platform review. Until that
credential is approved and installed, scheduled builds fail closed and the
documented local clean-source path remains the release mechanism.

## Residuals

- Secret provisioning and rotation remain with the credential owner surfaced
  by `warden route`; no token value enters this repository or State Hub.
- `CUST-IN-0016` remains open for 26 other-owner metadata returns, two
  substantive Custodian reviews, and five owner conflict rows. The two internal
  constitutions are explicit local/excluded outcomes, not publication backlog.
