fix: exclude correlation fields from the flex-auth request digest
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Verified the digest join against flex-auth's T03 replay fixtures and found
request_digest was hashing fields docs/canonical-request-digest.md excludes.
The material is tenant, subject, action, resource, context only: id is
correlation, policy_version lives in provenance, caring_context is hashed
separately. This engine included all three when present.

Because the join adopts the served request id, every real production request
would have carried one, so the computed digest would have matched no issued
decision and failed closed against every correct allow. Same unsatisfiable
shape as the removed AUTHORITY constant.

The old pinned constant was computed with the id inside the material, so it
was wrong and its passing proved nothing. Replaced with fixture-driven tests
over two real envelopes (vendored with provenance) plus a structural test
that correlation fields do not move the digest. Both fixtures are needed:
input_claim_digests.context appears only with a non-empty context.

Also stops computing the native claim digest. The claim's binding.action and
binding.target speak approval-engine's vocabulary while ours speaks the
catalog's, and no mapping is published; flex-auth makes no cross-check and
states the correspondence is ours via pdp_digest. A claim recording no
pdp_digest now fails closed naming the missing mapping rather than comparing
two different languages. That mapping is a prerequisite for destroy.

274 tests pass. Production still fails closed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01M65ovP3eiiPHubibvWs9mD

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@ -144,8 +144,18 @@ def validate_approval_claim(
raise DecisionError("approval claim binding must be an object")
native = str(binding.get("digest", "") or "")
pdp = str(binding.get("pdp_digest", "") or "")
# Prefer the PDP digest when the issuer recorded one at issue time.
if expected_pdp_digest and pdp:
# Prefer the PDP digest: it is expressed in flex-auth's vocabulary, which is
# the one the caller actually proposed. The native digest is over
# approval-engine's own vocabulary and is only comparable when the caller
# supplies a binding built in that vocabulary (see the note in
# resolve_consume_binding about the missing mapping).
if expected_pdp_digest:
if not pdp:
raise DecisionError(
"approval claim records no pdp_digest, and no published mapping "
"exists between approval-engine and secrets-engine action/target "
"vocabularies; the claim cannot be tied to this exact action"
)
if pdp != expected_pdp_digest:
raise DecisionError("approval claim pdp digest does not match the request")
elif expected_binding_digest: