Finish TEN-WP-0006-T01: specify guardrail model and boundary

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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depends_on:
- TEN-WP-0005
unblocks: []
state_hub_workstream_id: "bddb6699-cb53-472a-9757-a3ed0eb0ce27"
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# TEN-WP-0006 - Guardrail and quota policy
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```task
id: TEN-WP-0006-T01
status: todo
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "b0693ec3-b3a7-48fb-9f4f-baeedb488e9d"
```
Write the guardrail domain contract before any code. Decide and document:
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explicit for every grouping, and the doc states plainly what this service does
*not* do (meter, bill, decide).
Done 2026-08-16: `docs/tenant-guardrail-policy.md`. Decisions worth carrying:
- **Limit kinds:** `spend` (integer minor units + ISO-4217, never floats),
`entity_count`, `action_count`. Rate limiting stays out — it is a gateway
concern with different latency and storage needs, not a free by-product.
- **Registry, not open keys.** A limit key must be registered to resolve; an
unregistered key errors (`unknown_limit_key`) rather than resolving to zero
or unlimited. Zero would break a caller who merely misspelled a key;
unlimited would fail open. Startup validation requires a default for every
grouping, so an unmapped grouping cannot reach production.
- **Precedence, per key:** override → plan → grouping → fail-closed floor. Per
key, not per set, so a plan supplying `spend.monthly` does not wipe out a
grouping-derived `entity.*`. The floor is only reachable if the registry is
internally inconsistent, and reports provenance `fail_closed` so that state
is visible rather than mistaken for policy.
- **`unlimited` is an explicit sentinel**, never a default and never the result
of absence. The rule is "no unset means unlimited" — that bans *inferring* an
open ceiling, not deliberately declaring one.
- **Reserved identifiers** get a `reserved` profile at layer 3 rather than
falling through: spend 0 (infrastructure identities are not billable
spenders), counts explicitly unlimited. Falling through would clamp the
platform's own identity to zero and take the platform down with it.
- **Lifecycle clamp** applies after resolution and may only reduce; `retired`
clamps every limit to the floor while leaving reads working.
- **Consumption does not live in this repo.** tenant-engine is a low-write
policy authority with audit and CAS semantics; consumption is high-frequency
telemetry with opposite needs, and holding it here would drag metering into a
service `SCOPE.md` disowns it from. Reads return limits plus provenance only.
Two things flagged rather than settled: the non-`trial` grouping ceilings are
conservative opening values needing product sign-off (only `trial` = 0 is
canon), and **no repo owns metering** — the same gap `SCOPE.md` records for
payment processing. Until canon names one, `flex-auth` can enforce
ceiling-presence semantics but not consumption-relative ones. A zero budget is
fully enforceable with no meter at all, which is why the ADR-0013 `trial`
default lands immediately.
## T02 - Implement the guardrail domain model
```task
id: TEN-WP-0006-T02
status: todo
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "1b28d836-11d9-4ef3-967b-05bfa74c304a"
```
Add a `guardrail/` module (the namespace `architecture.md` reserves) holding
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id: TEN-WP-0006-T03
status: todo
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "f1c93573-6322-4505-b738-7d66d67e60a8"
```
Extend the `TenantStore` Protocol and both implementations (`InMemoryTenantStore`
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id: TEN-WP-0006-T04
status: todo
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "4a256517-2773-4679-ad57-2909f22ac8a4"
```
Add the API surface, authorized through the existing flex-auth `WriteAuthorizer`
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id: TEN-WP-0006-T05
status: todo
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "92036fa3-9031-4b42-a67e-93196e236e08"
```
Cover: every grouping's default, `trial` resolving to zero spend, precedence