tegwick 42bbf5d2dc Adaptive check cadence: the interval is earned, not assigned

Operator ruling 2026-08-20. Severity no longer sets the review interval.
A check that comes back clean climbs one rung — instant, 1h, 8h, 24h,
48h, 96h, 7d, 14d, 1mo, 1q — and anything wrong drops straight back to
instant. A quarter is the ceiling. The operator may defer an instant
finding to a stated date; that is the only other way off the bottom rung.

The rung is the point: it says how stable the estate has been on that
matter, which is information severity does not carry. Volatile things get
attention automatically; quiet things stop consuming it; neither
judgement has to be made by a person who might be busy.

Escalation trigger 5 rebased onto the ladder — fourteen days at the
bottom rung, whether that is failing checks or no checks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-08-20 07:43:51 +02:00

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Register

Generated by tools/register_index.py from findings/. Do not edit by hand. Last built 2026-08-20.

8 live of 9 findings; 3 notes below the floor.

Findings

ID	Finding	System	Severity	Disclosure	Escalation	Fix owner	Status	Cadence	Next check
RISK-F-0009	agent-high-risk-boundary denies 6 of 17 high-risk lanes; the direct bao path is unprotected for the rest	railiance-platform	high	embargoed	none	railiance-platform	open	instant (0)	due
RISK-F-0008	The legal basis for retaining audit facts against an erasure request has been assumed, never established	audit-core	medium	public	required (t2, partially-answered)	risk-nexus	open	instant (0)	due
RISK-F-0007	No consumer's tenant boundary is verified anywhere	estate	high	embargoed	answered (t4, assigned)	per-consumer, on request	accepted	instant (0)	due
RISK-F-0006	apps-pg has no backup configured at all: R0 means no recovery	railiance-platform	high	embargoed	answered (t3, approved)	railiance-platform	open	instant (0)	due
RISK-F-0005	audit-core read path applies no tenant filter; the bound is deployment, not code	audit-core	medium	embargoed	none	audit-core	open	instant (0)	due
RISK-F-0004	tenant-engine events() returns the entire event log unfiltered	tenant-engine	high	embargoed	none	tenant-engine	open	instant (0)	due
RISK-F-0003	ops-warden agent read-boundary does not fire on ungraded catalog lanes	ops-warden	medium	embargoed	none	ops-warden	mitigated	instant (0)	due
RISK-F-0002	ops-warden signs SSH certificates with no authorization decision, and its unblock is now unsafe	ops-warden	medium	embargoed	withdrawn (t6, withdrawn-hazard-window-closed)	ops-warden	open	instant (0)	due
RISK-F-0001	flex-auth /v1/check authenticates no caller	flex-auth	high	public	withdrawn (t1, withdrawn-before-sending)	flex-auth	fixed	instant (0)	due

Constraints

Hazards created by acting in the wrong order. Each binds another finding's remediation.

From	Binds	Severity	Constraint
RISK-F-0002	RISK-F-0001	lifted	LIFTED 2026-08-19 — flex-auth /v1/check now authenticates callers (RISK-F-0001 fixed). Enabling policy.enabled is now an availability question for ops-warden, no longer an attestation hazard.

Embargoes

Held from publication with a stated condition. A hold with no moving condition is a stall.

Finding	Since	Lifts when	Re-decided
RISK-F-0009	2026-08-20	the deny set covers every high-risk lane with a KV path, verified against live OpenBao	—
RISK-F-0007	2026-08-19	a verification exists for at least one consumer boundary	2026-09-18
RISK-F-0006	2026-08-19	a backup exists and a restore has been demonstrated once	2026-09-18
RISK-F-0005	2026-08-19	AUDIT-WP-0008-T04 lands a tenant filter in the read path	2026-11-17
RISK-F-0004	2026-08-19	the read path filters by tenant in code	2026-09-18
RISK-F-0003	2026-08-19	RISK-F-0009 resolved — the OpenBao deny set covers every high-risk lane with a KV path	2026-09-18
RISK-F-0002	2026-08-19	FLEX-WP-0015-T02 shipped and ops-warden policy.enabled true in production	2026-11-17

Notes (below the floor)

Seen, deliberately not findings. Not graded, not reviewed, not published.

ID	Note	Why below the floor
RISK-N-0004	No facility answers which zone a workload is in, or what applies there	missing capability, not a defect — there is nothing to route to a fix owner, and the register does not file undone work
RISK-N-0003	Every defect in this register was found by reading, none by monitoring	no owner and no defect — it is an argument about where to invest detection, and the register cannot route an argument
RISK-N-0001	Noisy-neighbour behaviour is uncharacterised	no decision changes today — no tenant shares a saturating workload, and what is missing is measurement work, not a defect to route

How to read this

Severity is docs/method/severity.md; disclosure docs/method/disclosure.md; escalation docs/method/escalation.md; the check cadence docs/method/review.md. Cadence is the ladder rung and the count of consecutive clean checks — a finding at 1q (9) has held still for a long time; one at instant (0) moved recently. Anything wrong resets it. A constraint may be graded higher than the finding that carries it — read both.

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