Verified against gate-house's committed ruling (decisions/decisions.md,
GH-DEC-2026-017) and amendments A9-A13, then ops-warden's reference change set
(a70f559, wiki/playbooks/netkingdom-layer-declaration.md). They agree.
layer.yaml: standard_version removed; derived: true and derived_from:
INTENT.md added; declared_by kept. INTENT.md frontmatter never carried
standard_version, but its standard: value was a version-pinned path; it is
de-versioned as the reference instance did. No layer value is re-spelled:
INTENT.md still says Engine and layer.yaml still says engine.
The checker changes in the same commit because it listed standard_version as
a required key: removing the field alone would have made a conforming
declaration exit 2 MALFORMED. It now reads INTENT.md as the governing form,
requires the derived marking, rejects a returning standard_version in either
form, checks both layer values against the closed four-token vocabulary
(Taxonomy included) after an ASCII fold, and reports a post-fold disagreement
between the forms as a finding rather than resolving it by precedence.
Tests assert the fold, not per-file spelling, and cover fold agreement, a
real disagreement, the closed vocabulary and a returning version. Full suite
430 passed.
role:, pep-stance.yaml and schema_version are untouched (not ruled). Still
open: where the removed version lives in a derived conformance record; asked
of gate-house by ops-warden (4220413a), followed rather than chosen here.
Closes the SECRETS-WP-0008 note that waited on the reference form.
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ops-warden and railiance-platform asked, independently, which OpenBao location
`secrets-engine exec --catalog whynot-design-npm-publish` reads. Answered from
this repository's own code and catalog with no OpenBao read and no value.
It reads `secret/coulomb/whynot-design/npm/publish` — the legacy, ungoverned
duplicate. `_fetch_value` concatenates the catalog's `mount` and `path` with no
override or fallback, so the proven pilot published from the duplicate and the
lowercase `npm_token` field is the field there. ops-warden's front door names
this repository as exec_owner, so it currently routes callers at a path no CCR
covers.
Recorded in SECRETS-WP-0006 with what a move to the governed lane requires, and
flagged that the duplicate must not be destroyed until the lane moves. Whether
the two locations hold the same value is a value comparison and is not answered
here.
Also records GH-DEC-2026-017 against SECRETS-WP-0008: INTENT.md governs, the
sidecar is derived, the vocabulary is case-insensitive so nothing is re-spelled,
and standard_version comes out of layer.yaml once ops-warden updates the
reference form this repository copied.
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Set flavor on open workplans from origin/prose/status. Copy existing
depends_on aliases only. Do not promote residuals.
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SECRETS-WP-0008-T02 still said access-engine Check was unreachable. That is
no longer true and the note read as current, so it is corrected rather than
left to mislead: Check is reachable through the owner-documented access
path and step 2 is proved against decision:0f9c98f14545c42d, a real v2
allow. Two defects that only a real request could expose -- the missing
tenant and the unsatisfiable digest join -- are fixed, so the task's own
acceptance line about failing closed on wrong digest and expired lifetime is
now exercised against a genuine envelope rather than a fixture.
What remains for that task is step 1 alone: approval-engine must serve the
claim endpoint, and APPROVAL-WP-0002-T03 is still wait with no deployed base
URL. One external dependency, not the two previously named.
SECRETS-WP-0006-T06: asked railiance-platform which KV location backs the
whynot-design npm publish lane (hub message 546403e4). The question is
narrowed to the path, since the endpoint agrees and ops-warden's
NPM_AUTH_TOKEN claim resolved here as a category error -- that is the
resolved injection env var, not a KV field name. Catalog left unchanged:
rewriting a proven production lane pointer from an inbox claim is the
unverified custody mutation this task exists to prevent.
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resolve_consume_binding was a `return None` stub, so protocol step 1 of
docs/approval-consumption.md (GET /v1/approvals/{id}/claim) and the
validation join never existed. validate_action_authorization had no caller
in src/ at all - it was reachable only from tests. Production fail-closed
was correct, but for an undocumented second reason, and WP-0007-T04's
"what remains is not local engine work" was wrong.
The join now reproduces the exact CheckRequest via build_action_request,
fetches the durable ActionAuthorization, and validates request binding,
digest, validity, authority, policy pin, and distinct-approver threshold
before offering a consume binding. _require_lane_approval threads the exact
field set for provision/rotate/verify/exec so the digest covers the real
proposed action.
Deliberate choices:
- The approval-engine object id is never inferred from a State Hub decision
UUID; flex-auth stated GET /decisions/{uuid} is not the durable object.
- No default policy pin. flex-auth stated secrets-engine.lifecycle/v1 is
example vocabulary, not a published package.
- A half-configured join raises rather than returning None, so a partial
deployment cannot be mistaken for an unconfigured one.
Behavior is unchanged today: every new input is absent by default, so
production still fails closed and plan/--dry-run still work. 234 tests pass.
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Add secrets-engine secret-use snapshot: catalog plus local evidence only,
contracted non-secret fields, declared 1d heartbeat cadence. Never contacts
OpenBao. Completeness is not claimed. owner_status stays proposed until
kings-guard admits the snapshot as an observation input.
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Select service-jwt, bootstrap, or env exclusively: JWT login uses a JSON
file, self-revokes, and never falls back to bootstrap or BAO_TOKEN. The
platform JWT mount/role is still unpublished, so auto keeps named
bootstrap/env providers.
session revoke --accessor-file revokes an already-issued token with
fingerprint-only evidence. Production remains fail-closed.
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Every live privileged production handler CAS-consumes through
approval-engine before OpenBao. Conflict, unavailability, or a missing
binding fail closed. Live production remains disabled until the durable
decision record is served.
Record kings-guard assent on the secret-use evidence contract.
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Load pep-stance.yaml as the live unreachable-engine gate and record named
stance fields on privileged evidence. Classify evidence, queue load-bearing
records in a local outbox, and add heartbeat/drain commands that never sit
on a mutation path. Publish proposed SSH-CA and secret-use evidence
contracts without adding an OpenBao SSH-CA write.
T02 (access-engine decision records) and T06 (no standing credential) stay
wait on external endpoints.
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Replace the gate-house review note with this repository's own declaration:
INTENT.md frontmatter, layer.yaml, and a published PEP stance map. SCOPE.md
and agent boundary docs now match that layer. The review under history/
identifies the implementation remainder; SECRETS-WP-0008 is the follow-on
workplan. SECRETS-IN-0001 is closed.
The layer is not contested. Catalog "custody" is a finding: OpenBao owns
custody, this engine owns the lifecycle API over it. SSH-CA signing is
accepted as a proposed engine API and declined as a Staff lane.
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