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<div class="wrap"><header><div class="eyebrow"><span>CUST-ADR-004</span> <span class="stat">accepted · accepted-1</span> <span>the-custodian</span> <span>reviewed 2026-03-26</span><span>generated from canonical source — do not edit</span></div><h1>Connectivity-First Network Posture for Custodian Infrastructure</h1><p class="sub">Source: <code>the-custodian · canon/architecture/adr-004-connectivity-first-network-posture.md · f9435cd605cc5b3cb0f2e957ce6287d9f3129aac</code></p><p class="sub">Review due: 2026-09-26</p></header><div class="layout"><nav class="rail" aria-label="Sections"><ol><li><a href="#status"><span class="n">·</span>Status</a></li><li><a href="#context"><span class="n">·</span>Context</a></li><li><a href="#decision"><span class="n">·</span>Decision</a></li><li><a href="#rationale"><span class="n">·</span>Rationale</a></li><li><a href="#consequences"><span class="n">·</span>Consequences</a></li><li><a href="#alternatives-rejected"><span class="n">·</span>Alternatives Rejected</a></li></ol></nav><main><section id="status"><h2>Status</h2>
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<p>Accepted.</p>
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<section id="context"><h2>Context</h2>
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<p>The Custodian infrastructure spans multiple machines: a primary workstation, a shared compute node (COULOMBCORE), and Railiance cluster nodes. Agents running on remote machines need to reach the state-hub API and MCP server, which live on the workstation. Human operators and agents also need to reach remote services (k3s API, Gitea, Temporal) from the workstation.</p>
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<p>Two network postures were considered for how these components communicate:</p>
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<p><strong>Option A — Connectivity-first:</strong> Components are connected by default via controlled, observable access paths (reverse SSH tunnels managed by ops-bridge). Isolation is added selectively where there is a specific threat model or compliance reason to do so.</p>
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<p><strong>Option B — Isolation-first (zero-trust):</strong> No component trusts any other by default. Every connection requires mutual authentication, short-lived credentials, and explicit authorisation at the point of use. Connectivity is earned, not assumed.</p>
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<p>This decision is architectural policy — it governs how ops-bridge tunnels are designed, how agent-to-hub communication works, and how new infrastructure components are onboarded.</p>
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<section id="decision"><h2>Decision</h2>
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<p><strong>Connectivity-first, with isolation as a deliberate option.</strong></p>
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<p>The default posture for Custodian infrastructure is: components that need to work together are connected. Access paths are explicit, observable, and managed (via ops-bridge), but they are persistent by default rather than ephemeral. Isolation is introduced where there is a specific, articulated reason — not as a blanket policy applied uniformly.</p>
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<section id="rationale"><h2>Rationale</h2>
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<h3>1. Scale and team size</h3>
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<p>The infrastructure is operated by a single human and a bounded set of automation agents. The overhead of zero-trust (credential rotation, SPIFFE/SPIRE identity, mTLS everywhere, short-lived tokens per request) is disproportionate for this scale. It would consume significant operational complexity without a commensurate security return.</p>
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<h3>2. Observability over perimeter hardening</h3>
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<p>The primary security control at this scale is <strong>observability</strong>: knowing what connected, when, from where, and what it did. ops-bridge provides this — every tunnel is named, actor-attributed, health-checked, and audited. A perimeter of invisible short-lived connections would actually reduce observability.</p>
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<h3>3. The threat model does not require zero-trust today</h3>
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<p>The main threats are:</p>
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<ul><li>A runaway agent consuming resources (mitigated by nproc/memory cgroups)</li><li>A compromised workload reaching state-hub and corrupting state (mitigated by the read-model design of state-hub — write surface is narrow and sanctioned)</li><li>An external attacker reaching internal services (mitigated by the tunnels being reverse SSH — no inbound ports exposed)</li></ul>
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<p>Zero-trust would address a different threat model: lateral movement between hostile tenants, or untrusted code running in the same environment as sensitive data. That is not the current situation.</p>
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<h3>4. Degrade-gracefully requires persistent connectivity</h3>
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<p>The Custodian's foundational value of <strong>local-first, degrade-gracefully</strong> requires that agents can orient themselves even when some connections are slow or partially degraded. Ephemeral connectivity (zero-trust tokens, service mesh sidecars) introduces additional failure modes that conflict with graceful degradation. Persistent SSH tunnels with auto-reconnect are more resilient to intermittent conditions.</p>
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<h3>5. Isolation remains the right choice in specific cases</h3>
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<p>Connectivity-first does not mean no isolation. The following cases call for explicit isolation and are handled separately:</p>
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<ul><li><strong>Tenant separation</strong> (when/if multi-user or multi-org) — each tenant gets its own network segment</li><li><strong>Privileged execution</strong> — CI runners and agent actions with write access to production systems run in ephemeral, isolated environments (per the Privileged Execution Control standard)</li><li><strong>Secrets</strong> — credentials are never transmitted over tunnels in plaintext; age-encrypted at rest, SOPS for config</li></ul>
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<section id="consequences"><h2>Consequences</h2>
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<h3>Immediate</h3>
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<ul><li>ops-bridge tunnels are <strong>persistent</strong> (max_attempts: 0, auto-reconnect) and are treated as infrastructure, not one-off connections</li><li>Agents on remote machines check tunnel health at session start and restore dropped tunnels before accessing state-hub (documented in global CLAUDE.md)</li><li>New infrastructure components are onboarded with a named tunnel entry in <code>~/.config/bridge/tunnels.yaml</code> — not ad-hoc SSH commands</li></ul>
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<h3>Deferred</h3>
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<ul><li>If the infrastructure grows to multi-tenant or multi-operator, this decision should be revisited. At that point, isolation-first becomes proportionate.</li><li>If a security audit identifies a specific lateral movement risk, targeted isolation (network policy, mTLS for that service) is the response — not a wholesale posture change.</li></ul>
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<section id="alternatives-rejected"><h2>Alternatives Rejected</h2>
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<h3>Zero-trust / isolation-first</h3>
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<p>Rejected for current scale. The operational overhead (credential lifecycle, service mesh, mutual TLS) is disproportionate, observability would decrease, and the threat model does not require it. Noted for re-evaluation at multi- tenant scale.</p>
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<h3>VPN (WireGuard / Tailscale)</h3>
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<p>Considered briefly. VPN would solve the connectivity problem but introduces a persistent network layer that all traffic traverses, reducing the explicitness of individual access paths. ops-bridge tunnels are per-service and per-actor, which gives better observability and blast-radius control. VPN is not ruled out as a future complement but is not the primary approach.</p>
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<h3>Ad-hoc SSH (no ops-bridge)</h3>
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<p>The pre-ops-bridge approach. Rejected because it has no health checks, no actor attribution, no audit log, and requires manual intervention to restore. ops-bridge formalises the same SSH tunnel pattern with operational discipline.</p>
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