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+# Activity Core repo-manager Forgejo read lane (CCR-2026-0034, number to confirm)
+
+Status: **proposed**, drafted 2026-10-04 for STATE-WP-0094 memo 3
+(`freshness-runner-deploy-trial-e77f8b4`, accepted by the founder 2026-10-04,
+approval `4ae04c8e`) and RMGR-WP-0020-T04. Nothing here is approved, applied or
+provisioned. No Forgejo, OpenBao or cluster object was created. Confirm the CCR
+number with the CCR tooling before registering; 0033 was the highest seen.
+
+## Why
+
+The bounded freshness runner (`rmgr freshness run`, repo-manager `e77f8b4`)
+runs inside the Activity Core worker (`activity-core/actcore-worker`). It reads
+each repository's default-branch HEAD through the Forgejo API at
+`forgejo.coulomb.social/coulomb/<slug>`. Anonymous reads fail on private
+repositories, which the runner records as a refusal and which stops the memo 3
+trials. `warden route find` (2026-10-04) has no route for this workload:
+
+- `state-hub-forge-derivation-read` is bound to SA `state-hub/state-hub` only.
+- `core-hub-forgejo-source-read` (CCR-2026-0031) and
+  `policy-nexus-forgejo-source-read` (CCR-2026-0014) are bound to other namespaces.
+
+Reusing any of them would share one identity across workloads, which the
+CCR-2026-0014 and CCR-2026-0031 precedent avoids. This lane gives the runner its
+own read-only identity.
+
+## Shape
+
+| Item | Value |
+| --- | --- |
+| Forgejo user | `activity-core-freshness` (restricted, non-admin, private; random unrecorded password) |
+| Forgejo team | `coulomb/activity-core-freshness-readers`: permission read, all repositories, `repo.code` read, every other unit none, cannot create repos |
+| PAT | `activity-core-freshness-read-<UTC timestamp>`, scope exactly `read:repository` |
+| OpenBao | `platform/workloads/activity-core/repo-manager-forgejo-read` fields `FORGEJO_READ_TOKEN`, `API_USER`, `API_BASE_URL`, `TOKEN_SCOPES`, `GENERATED_AT` |
+| Policy | `workload-kv-read-activity-core-repo-manager-forgejo` (read on data + metadata of that one path) |
+| Auth | Kubernetes role `external-secrets-activity-core-repo-manager-forgejo`, bound to SA `external-secrets/external-secrets`, TTL 15m |
+| Delivery | ExternalSecret `activity-core/actcore-repo-manager-forgejo-read` → separate Secret, key `FORGEJO_READ_TOKEN`. Never merged into `actcore-runtime-secret`, so the token is not in the worker env |
+| Consumer | worker mounts the Secret read-only at `/var/run/secrets/repo-manager` (`defaultMode: 0440`) and sets `REPO_MANAGER_FORGEJO_TOKEN_FILE=/var/run/secrets/repo-manager/FORGEJO_READ_TOKEN` (activity-core `docs/rollout-owner-return-and-freshness-worker.md` §3b, lines marked "only once 3c is resolved") |
+| Rotation | every 180 days or owner change; Forgejo PATs have no server-side expiry |
+| Front door | ops-warden `activity-core-repo-manager-forgejo-read`, follow-up after approval |
+
+Open choice for the reviewer: either a dedicated ClusterSecretStore
+`openbao-activity-core-repo-manager-forgejo` (CCR-2026-0031 pattern, below) or
+granting the existing `openbao-activity-core` store role read on the new path.
+The dedicated store keeps this high-risk org-wide read separate from the
+worker's other secrets and is the default here.
+
+## Draft manifests (land only after metadata apply)
+
+```yaml
+# CCR-2026-0034 (to confirm). Do not apply until approval and confirm-binding.
+apiVersion: external-secrets.io/v1
+kind: ClusterSecretStore
+metadata:
+  name: openbao-activity-core-repo-manager-forgejo
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: railiance-gitops
+    railiance-platform/component: external-secrets
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: activity-core
+spec:
+  provider:
+    vault:
+      server: http://openbao.openbao.svc:8200
+      path: platform
+      version: v2
+      auth:
+        kubernetes:
+          mountPath: kubernetes
+          role: external-secrets-activity-core-repo-manager-forgejo
+          serviceAccountRef:
+            name: external-secrets
+            namespace: external-secrets
+  conditions:
+    - namespaces:
+        - activity-core
+---
+apiVersion: external-secrets.io/v1
+kind: ExternalSecret
+metadata:
+  name: actcore-repo-manager-forgejo-read
+  namespace: activity-core
+spec:
+  refreshInterval: 5m
+  secretStoreRef:
+    kind: ClusterSecretStore
+    name: openbao-activity-core-repo-manager-forgejo
+  target:
+    template:
+      metadata: {}
+    name: actcore-repo-manager-forgejo-read
+    creationPolicy: Owner
+    deletionPolicy: Retain
+  data:
+    - secretKey: FORGEJO_READ_TOKEN
+      remoteRef:
+        key: workloads/activity-core/repo-manager-forgejo-read
+        property: FORGEJO_READ_TOKEN
+```
+
+## Attended sequence (after approval)
+
+1. Reviewers approve and confirm the binding with the CCR tooling
+   (`credential-change.py approve …`, `confirm-binding …`).
+2. Founder, in their own terminal: delegated metadata apply (policy + auth
+   role), then mint the PAT through `warden access forgejo-admin-api-token
+   --exec`, verify scope, private-repository read and denials, write the value
+   to OpenBao from stdin and read it back for equality. A bootstrap script
+   modelled on `scripts/openbao-bootstrap-core-hub-source.sh` and
+   `scripts/provision-core-hub-forgejo-source.py` is still to be written; it is
+   not part of this draft.
+3. Commit the two manifests and let Argo sync; check presence only.
+4. activity-core adds the token env and mount lines from its rollout package
+   §3b, syncs, and runs the memo 3 apply trials.
+5. Add the ops-warden catalog entry and move the CCR to verified/active with
+   evidence.