A policy governed qonto domain API and MCP assistant for binky-control.
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tegwick 1f0f979e36 QONTO-WP-0004-T04: live flex-auth + tenant-engine authorization gate
Replaces the config-only QONTO_ASSISTANT_ENFORCE_SCOPE cached-claim
check with two live-checked facts, per docs/SecurityPractice.md #4:

1. flex-auth POST /v1/check on finance.qonto.read for the calling
   actor/tenant (FlexAuthCheckClient, modeled on tenant-engine's own
   client for the same API). Registration lives in the flex-auth repo
   (examples/qonto-assistant/) -- rules + embedded tests verified with
   flex-auth test-policy/load-registry/check, and a live flex-auth
   serve hit by this exact client over real HTTP (not a mock).
2. tenant-engine's live capability-role lookup
   (GET /tenants/{id}/roles/live), denying unless the tenant currently
   holds one of QONTO_TENANT_ENGINE_REQUIRED_ROLES (default VEN,CUS) --
   optional and additive to the flex-auth check.

Both clients fail closed by construction (unreachable/malformed/non-2xx
all deny, never grant), matching FlexAuthCheckClient's existing
fail-closed philosophy elsewhere in the fleet. LiveAuthorizationGate
combines both and is wired into CapabilityService._execute ahead of
the internal policy kernel; off by default (no QONTO_FLEX_AUTH_URL
set) so existing deployments are unaffected until configured.

Verified beyond mocked unit tests: ran a real `flex-auth serve` loaded
with the registered policy, and a real tenant-engine instance seeded
with a VEN grant for tenant:friendly:binky, and exercised this repo's
actual FlexAuthCheckClient/TenantEngineClient/LiveAuthorizationGate
against both live processes over real HTTP -- allow for the correct
tenant, live_authz_denied for a mismatched tenant.

28 new unit tests (flex_auth_client, tenant_engine_client,
live_authorization_gate + CapabilityService integration). Full suite
-> 80 passed; REST/MCP smokes and compileall still clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-24 00:19:04 +02:00
docs QONTO-WP-0004-T04: live flex-auth + tenant-engine authorization gate 2026-07-24 00:19:04 +02:00
research Bootstrap qonto-assistant: intent, blueprint, research, workplans 2026-07-21 23:32:24 +02:00
scripts QONTO-WP-0003-T06: MCP smoke script + operator runbook update 2026-07-23 11:04:39 +02:00
specs Add SecurityPractice.md, Security Genome record, and deny-escalation lockout 2026-07-23 22:59:06 +02:00
src/qonto_assistant QONTO-WP-0004-T04: live flex-auth + tenant-engine authorization gate 2026-07-24 00:19:04 +02:00
tests QONTO-WP-0004-T04: live flex-auth + tenant-engine authorization gate 2026-07-24 00:19:04 +02:00
workplans chore(consistency): write back QONTO-WP-0004 hub IDs 2026-07-23 23:00:18 +02:00
.custodian-brief.md chore(consistency): sync task status from DB [auto] 2026-07-23 23:00:09 +02:00
.gitignore Bootstrap qonto-assistant: intent, blueprint, research, workplans 2026-07-21 23:32:24 +02:00
.repo-classification.yaml Complete Phase 1: policy kernel, REST service, and local smoke tooling 2026-07-22 21:21:05 +02:00
AGENTS.md Complete Phase 1: policy kernel, REST service, and local smoke tooling 2026-07-22 21:21:05 +02:00
INTENT.md Seeded intent and initial workplan 2026-07-22 00:31:50 +02:00
LICENSE Initial commit 2026-07-21 21:19:44 +00:00
Makefile Complete Phase 1: policy kernel, REST service, and local smoke tooling 2026-07-22 21:21:05 +02:00
pyproject.toml QONTO-WP-0004-T03: verify key-cape IAM Profile tokens 2026-07-24 00:10:41 +02:00
README.md QONTO-WP-0003-T07: close out Phase 2 MCP workplan 2026-07-23 13:56:06 +02:00
SCOPE.md Bootstrap qonto-assistant: intent, blueprint, research, workplans 2026-07-21 23:32:24 +02:00
WORK-RECORDS.md chore(consistency): write back QONTO-WP-0004 hub IDs 2026-07-23 23:00:18 +02:00

qonto-assistant

Policy-governed Qonto domain API and MCP assistant for Binky (and later multi-tenant dogfood).

One choke point for bank access across every coding agent and harness. Clients never hold the Qonto API key. v1 policy: read for awareness only — no spend, no volume-cost actions.

Start here

Doc What
INTENT.md Why this exists; boundaries
specs/ArchitectureBlueprint.md Architecture, phases, policy model
research/2026-07-21-mcp-gateway-and-governed-domain-assistant.md External + internal research
docs/operator-runbook.md How to run and verify Phase 1 (REST)
docs/mcp-integration.md How to run and verify Phase 2 (MCP)

Status

Phase 1 runtime is implemented:

  • Python 3.12 service under src/qonto_assistant/
  • default-deny YAML policy
  • Qonto read-only client (organization, transactions)
  • REST endpoints: /v1/health, /v1/accounts, /v1/transactions, /v1/snapshot
  • audit metadata, rate limiting, concurrency bounds, tests

Phase 2 (MCP surface, workplans/QONTO-WP-0003-mcp-surface.md) is finished: a streamable-HTTP MCP adapter is mounted at /mcp on the same capability core and policy kernel as REST — proven identical by test, not just by construction (tests/test_policy.py, tests/test_audit_parity.py) — with tools qonto_org_summary, qonto_list_transactions, and qonto_cost_run_rate_hints. The endpoint is gated by a shared-secret bearer token (QONTO_ASSISTANT_MCP_TOKEN); see docs/mcp-integration.md for the auth model, its explicit gap vs. the OIDC/workload target (no issuer exists in this fleet yet), and the shared multi-harness client config snippet. The finance-qonto-read agent-harness tool profile is documented (qonto-assistant side) but not yet registered in agent-harness itself — separate repo, separate workplan.

Current verification:

  • PYTHONPATH=src ../state-hub/.venv/bin/python -m pytest31 passed
  • python3 -m compileall src tests scripts
  • ../state-hub/.venv/bin/python scripts/smoke_rest_api.py --python ../state-hub/.venv/bin/python
  • ../state-hub/.venv/bin/python scripts/smoke_mcp.py --python ../state-hub/.venv/bin/python

Local fixture-backed smoke mode is available through QONTO_FIXTURE_DIR, so the service can be exercised without real Qonto credentials. The REST smoke checks both a 31-day recent snapshot and a 90-day recurring-cost snapshot; the MCP smoke additionally exercises the bearer-token auth gate and an out-of-catalog tool deny path.

Phase 3 (flex-auth resource finance.qonto.read, graduated quotas, redaction profiles) is not started — see workplans/QONTO-WP-0003-mcp-surface.md closure notes for the seed.

Normal local workflow, when toolchain support exists:

make install-dev
make test
make run
  • OpenBao lane: tenants/binky/qonto-api (ops-warden binky-qonto-api)
  • First pull / CostRunRate: binky-control BINKY-WP-0005