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Harden production authorization and service auth
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# secrets-engine
Headless, multi-application, multi-tenant secrets workflow and automation layer
for approved secret custody, delivery, and lifecycle work across build, test,
and production stages.
OpenBao remains the custody and enforcement backend. `secrets-engine` owns the
operator and agent interaction model: catalog, decision checks, plan/apply,
guarded provisioning, verification, delivery, evidence, lifecycle metadata, and
native-access deactivation. Local evidence can be inspected through an
allowlisted per-lane `audit` summary without exposing record detail.
## Start Here
- [INTENT.md](INTENT.md) - why this repository exists.
- [ProductRequirementsDocument.md](ProductRequirementsDocument.md) - product
requirements and MVP scope.
- [NetKingdom security infrastructure boundary pointer](docs/netkingdom-security-infrastructure.md)
- points to the canonical document in `net-kingdom/docs/`, covering
responsibilities and interactions with OpenBao, flex-auth, user-engine,
ops-warden, ops-bridge, info-tech-canon, State Hub, and agents.
- [Bootstrap MVP workplan](workplans/SECRETS-WP-0002-bootstrap.md) - first
implementation plan after State Hub bootstrap.
## Core Direction
The MVP proves the `whynot-design-npm-publish` lane end to end:
1. describe the lane in a non-secret catalog (`catalog/`);
2. verify an approved decision (State Hub or local fixture);
3. apply OpenBao policy/auth metadata through a stage-aware role;
4. provision and verify the value without printing it;
5. run a workload command through safe exec-time delivery.
Target command shape:
```bash
secrets-engine exec --catalog whynot-design-npm-publish -- npm publish
```
## Quickstart
```bash
uv venv && uv pip install -e ".[dev]"
source .venv/bin/activate
secrets-engine catalog list
# Run the whole pilot chain live against a throwaway OpenBao dev server:
SECRETS_ENGINE_HUB_URL="" bash scripts/demo-e2e.sh
```
- CLI reference: [docs/cli.md](docs/cli.md)
- Publication-scope policy (maturity → token scope): [docs/publication-scope-policy.md](docs/publication-scope-policy.md)
- Stage roles & bootstrap tokens: [docs/openbao-stage-roles.md](docs/openbao-stage-roles.md)
- warden-sign auth-capability lane: [docs/warden-sign-auth-capability.md](docs/warden-sign-auth-capability.md)
- whynot-design real publish closeout: [docs/whynot-design-real-publish-closeout.md](docs/whynot-design-real-publish-closeout.md)
- ops-warden routing contract: [docs/ops-warden-routing-contract.md](docs/ops-warden-routing-contract.md)
- Hardening backlog (exit bootstrap mode): [docs/hardening-backlog.md](docs/hardening-backlog.md)
- Existing-lane catalog admission: [docs/catalog-admission.md](docs/catalog-admission.md)
- KeyCape service-auth consumer boundary: [docs/service-auth.md](docs/service-auth.md)
The implementation is a Python package (`src/secrets_engine/`). OpenBao is
reached only through the `bao` CLI adapter (`openbao.py`); the rest of the code
speaks in lanes and guarded plans.
## Security Rules
- Do not put raw secret values in Git, State Hub, chat, prompts, issue comments,
workplans, or normal logs.
- OpenBao is the backend custody and audit authority.
- Build, test, and production have separate policy boundaries.
- Production live actions fail closed until the durable State Hub
action-authorization endpoint is available; local approval mirrors are
throwaway-demo material only.
- Temporary bootstrap OpenBao credentials must live outside repos, use mode
0600, be revocable, and be removed after narrower auth is working.