secrets-engine/intakes/intakes.md

Intake records

SECRETS-IN-0001 — Declaration requested: state this repository's layer in INTENT.md (security layer model §11)

id: SECRETS-IN-0001
kind: intake
title: 'Declaration requested: state this repository''s layer in INTENT.md (security
  layer model §11)'
status: closed
origin: cross-repo
origin_ref: net-kingdom security-layer-model_v0.7 §11
priority: low
owner: secrets-engine
requested_by: gate-house
proposed_layer: Engine
resolution: >-
  Declared Engine / Lifecycle in INTENT.md frontmatter and layer.yaml on
  2026-08-29 against accepted v0.7. Layer not contested. Catalog cell
  "custody" is a finding: OpenBao owns custody; this engine owns the
  lifecycle API over it. SSH-CA signing accepted as a proposed engine API
  and declined as a Staff lane. Secret-use evidence accepted as proposed.
  Review: history/2026-08-29-layer-model-scope-intent-review.md.
  Workplan: SECRETS-WP-0008.
description: 'A conformance sweep on 2026-08-28 found this repository has no layer
  declaration of its own. It carries a layering review note gate-house wrote into
  the top of its INTENT.md on 2026-08-24, and that note names a layer — but the words
  are gate-house''s, sitting above a line admitting the body is unadapted. Section
  11 has since been amended to say so explicitly: a layer stated about a repository
  by another repository is not a declaration; only the repository''s own file, in
  its own voice, conforms. Seven of fifteen estate-authored repositories have declared;
  this is one of the eight that have not, and the standard does not claim adoption
  on the basis of notes gate-house wrote. REQUESTED: state the layer in INTENT.md
  in your own voice, or contest it. PROPOSED LAYER: Engine. Credential abstraction,
  custody, lifecycle. Two boundaries worth stating in your words: the decision that
  authority exists is access-engine''s, and the doctrine governing when authority
  may be materialized is gate-house''s. Also relevant: ops-warden has declared its
  SSH-CA signing write to OpenBao as an engine gap with intended owner secrets-engine,
  blocked on ''no engine exposes an SSH-CA surface''. You may want to contest or accept
  that intended ownership. Contesting is a real option and costs nothing — the three
  repositories that reviewed this model each returned a correction, two of which changed
  the standard. If the proposed layer is wrong for what this repository actually does,
  that is more useful to us than a label added to close a checkbox. Standard: net-kingdom/canon/standards/security-layer-model_v0.4.md.'
created: '2026-08-28T21:02:14.320087Z'
updated: '2026-08-28T21:02:14.320087Z'
state_hub_intake_id: "01a04cf6-dcd7-7bd4-82e4-ef434b15fe46"