---
id: SECRETS-WP-0013
type: workplan
title: "Design and prove task-scoped protected OpenBao execution"
domain: infotech
repo: secrets-engine
status: proposed
flavor: planning
owner: codex
topic_slug: netkingdom
created: "2026-10-11"
updated: "2026-10-11"
depends_on: []
state_hub_workstream_id: "5e38aecc-85ca-5f55-94c6-9fbb08604819"
---

Execution-contract direction remains proposed; the narrow local readiness guard
is now reviewed, published and verified in the owner checkout. No native
execution authority or general entitlement adoption is inferred.
Existing SECRETS-WP-0008-T06 remains open for actual adoption. CCR38 is an
unchanged identity-only login and is not a protected execution entitlement.

## Define the exact mediated execution contract

```task
id: SECRETS-WP-0013-T01
status: progress
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "b2f0d462-a542-518b-a26b-b7ec07b3c7c1"
```

Design SECRETS-EXEC-20261011-v1 in docs/task-scoped-openbao-execution-contract.md
binds action, target, payload/source digests, initiating identity, exact PDP/CAS,
owner-held ephemeral two-path token, bounded TTL/uses, durable admission and
cleanup. Independent Platform/Secrets Engine/identity/approval/PDP owner returns
are required. No foreign review is written by this draft.

2026-10-11 source-only preparation: typed execution_contract is staged through
all four request builders. The new descriptor is restricted to execute-ccr,
requires prod/platform/human control and binds the catalog fingerprint before
claim. Existing apply/other actions cannot borrow this descriptor. 99 focused
source checks verify propagation, canonical approval/full consume joins,
immutable copies and changed-binding refusals. Detailed schema/limitations are
in the execution-contract document. No source owner assent, initiating-principal
admission, new policy package, ledger/mediator/backend or native acceptance is
claimed. Independent source review remains required. Task statuses are unchanged.

## Prevent consumption without execution readiness

```task
id: SECRETS-WP-0013-T02
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "4ad61917-506d-5c12-a715-3d336e6b95e0"
```

Completed the narrow local implementation and source-verification obligation.
Secrets Engine source commit 97dfa5ea8fbfe998094bf03a3581ee0c5313ac30 was published
through the root's C17 source-publication record. Independent Platform source
acknowledgment is published in 46f5c956b52524d9d8177002bb60020c7e558039 and
`railiance-platform/docs/reviews/2026-10-11-secrets-execution-readiness-v2-platform-review.json`.
The root verified all 36 focused guard/auth/consume/privileged-evidence checks in
the actual owner checkout; Platform's independent source review passed 58 checks.
Current published CLI/auth/test hashes match those accepted exact sources.

Configured auto and explicit service-jwt refuse the ten guarded backend handlers
before claim/PDP/CAS/login/backend work because no task-execution backend exists.
Named bootstrap/env paths retain their existing approval/stance gates; login-self
probes remain available. The unchanged ambient route/readiness surface is outside
this guard's scope and is not service-JWT adoption. Task completion covers only
this local fail-closed guard, its source review/publication and source verification.
T01 remains progress, T03 remains wait with qualified dependencies, WP13 remains
proposed, and SECRETS-WP-0008-T06 remains open for actual protected execution
adoption/native effect, denial/no-fallback and cleanup evidence. No task-scoped
backend entitlement, provider default flip, founder native go or native acceptance
is claimed.

## Implement and prove one native metadata action

```task
id: SECRETS-WP-0013-T03
status: wait
depends_on: [SECRETS-WP-0013-T01, RPF-WP-0035-T12]
wait_reason: "Wait for independent execution-contract acceptance and Platform task-scoped entitlement design/materialization, then exact founder native go."
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "5f8f7c41-5921-543f-a7c6-0b1350ea6d82"
```

After T01 independent owner acceptance, implement the narrow execute-ccr surface,
Platform task-grant mediator, bound policy package and admission ledger. Select
an actual unexecuted approved metadata CCR, exact founder go and attended owner
custody. Prove real protected effect, sibling/body/refusal/replay counterexamples
and confirmed revocation/cleanup. No applied CCR38 replay or broad default flip.
Native metadata proof does not certify provision/exec delivery or all T06 scope.

2026-10-11 source revision v2: qualified T03 dependencies point to the owning design and Platform execution-entitlement task. WP13 owns the missing task-scoped execution seam; WP8-T06 retains production adoption and its full workflow proof. Source publication and fixture checks do not imply native acceptance. Original v1 stage remains unchanged.