security-canon/docs/emergent-knowledge-021-review.md

SecurityCanon vocabulary review — Emergent knowledge 0.2.1

Disposition: no blocking vocabulary conflict in the orientation profile's mode/scope mapping. No runtime wire attribute, ordinal privilege mapping or new canonical concept is approved. The adoption decision remains human-owned.

Reviewed artifact and limits

Knowledge 0.2.1; digest d8ef41bacd2c6551ae3b87628004a5df6943928be1c93eb01e09efc6ad782767; emergent-security commit f9cba6fb35425f74e34401b1baf09f6057ace493.

Reviewed by the Codex repository worker, 2026-10-03, under the user's EMERGENT-WP-0002 owner-review delegation. This is an owner-scoped documentary review by an agent, not human assent, adoption, independent whitehat evidence, or a runtime grant. The existing adoption decision d20a9750-2b29-534e-8227-fb866581a6ca remains open.

Read the artifact's adoption-review, closure-attempt, integration-profile decision, operational contracts, integration map, source matrix, all 14 cards, unsigned exact-release adoption draft, knowledge-maintenance, and T02/T08/T09. Retrieval with --repositories /home/worsch reported 0.2.1 and the digest above; all 24 owners were verified-files, live_state_verified: false. File verification is distinct from live readiness. No inventoried source content was changed.

The unsigned memo asks only whether this exact non-normative orientation boundary is accepted. Its knowledge-profile class and net-kingdom-admins group are proposals requiring informed-decision's real submission/admission route. A synthetic validation grant proves format only. Do not sign, seal, bind, answer, or infer approval from this review or silence.

Sources and mappings

Reviewed security-canon@bbd44332543e1cc40b2ebed10ec06123b9c798ea: INTENT/SCOPE, SEC-ADR-001/002, SECURITY-DEC-2026-001/-002/-003, SECURITY-WP-0001, concept-placement, federation interface, vocabulary card/disambiguation, auth modes/dimensions catalogs and Mode-of-Authority-to-InfoTechCanon mapping.

Mapping	Disposition
MODE @ SCOPE	Seven non-ordered kinds of authority. Emergent L0-L4 are decision scopes, not these modes or a permission ladder. Identity/root cards preserve this.
SOVEREIGN	Relative to a named authority realm; substrate dominance does not make it universally sovereign. SOVEREIGN at a tenant/database is not platform-root.
BREAK_GLASS	Activation orthogonal to AuthMode, never an eighth mode or grant.
Actor/principal/runtime identity	Gate House's request vocabulary is preserved in its owner context. SecurityCanon AuthorityContext names authority drawn on; it does not rename InfoTechCanon Subject, which is the access-control view of an actor. No wire-level field equivalence follows.
Role/plane/mode	CARING Operator role is not OPERATE; Build Plane is not CONSTRUCT; Policy Plane is not GOVERN. Build mode and environment are independent from all three.
Scope/tenant/environment/zone/temperature	Separate questions with named owners and authoritative evidence. No ordinal or automatic conversion.
EvidenceBoundary	Actor independence/custody is distinct from Audit Plane, source completeness, hash checks and live signature validation. The evidence card correctly preserves the distinctions.

Documentary corrections and remaining limitation

Corrected uninventoried INTENT/SCOPE owner labels: access-engine is the current repository coordinate, credential lifecycle belongs to secrets-engine over OpenBao custody with ops-warden routing/SSH, and bootstrap-only SCOPE prose is historical now that SECURITY-WP-0001 is finished and the vocabulary is published as draft 0.2.0 artifacts. No imported definition or reviewed source was changed.

Source-owner finding for a future reviewed source revision: vocabulary-card describes principal_type as imported, while dimensions.yaml says SecurityCanon owns the classification of the imported InfoTechCanon Principal. The reviewed Emergent cards do not adopt that classification or encode principal type into AuthMode; the current non-normative mapping is unaffected. Do not expand the profile to that field until the vocabulary owner corrects the card and the publisher reseals affected guidance. This is not a new runtime claim schema.

SecurityCanon's ongoing responsibility is terminology and cross-canon mappings, not maintaining the estate orientation bundle or granting consumer adoption. The artifact's AuthMode machine-readable operational-consumption question stays open with the owners; this review does not settle it. Any future executable mapping requires an owner-reviewed profile with explicit provenance, blanks and compatibility, rather than mapping by name or ordinal value.

Approval-ready question: accept the exact non-normative orientation boundary, return it, or decline, using the existing human decision route. Publication requires NetKingdom/Gate House disposition; this vocabulary review is evidence, not an authenticated human answer or canonical promotion.

Review work record: SECURITY-WP-ADHOC-2026-10-03-T01. The documentary review is complete. Adoption and rollout remain existing EMERGENT-WP-0002 work; no foreign tasks were copied and no stranded cross-owner wait was opened.

Subsequent corrected-release condition

The coordinating worker reports a planned 0.2.2 remediation for post-load card tamper/lifecycle invalidation and serving the bytes that were verified. This review retains its original 0.2.1 version/digest and does not certify the fix. Before adopting a replacement, record its exact digest/commit, check the changed content/source and unsigned memo freshness, repeat affected retrieval/scenario checks, and obtain independent whitehat close-out. Unchanged vocabulary/doctrine findings may be carried forward explicitly; changed content requires review. The proposed publication filename must follow the release actually accepted.

The principal_type documentary correction is tracked as live intake SECURITY-IN-0001 (origin: residual, origin_ref: SECURITY-WP-ADHOC-2026-10-03).