---
id: TEN-WP-0002
type: workplan
title: "Service skeleton, domain model, and the three boundary-contract APIs"
domain: infotech
repo: tenant-engine
status: ready
owner: codex
topic_slug: netkingdom
created: "2026-07-23"
updated: "2026-07-23"
---

# Service skeleton, domain model, and the three boundary-contract APIs

First real implementation workplan. Builds the tenant-engine skeleton
against `net-kingdom/canon/standards/tenant-engine-boundary-contract_v0.1.md`:
tenant/grouping/capability-role/plan-grant domain model, an audited grant
trail, and the three API surfaces the contract defines — cache-read
(`key-cape`), live-lookup (`flex-auth`), and write (grant/revoke/plan
mutation). Guardrail/quota policy stays a reserved, unimplemented namespace
per ADR-0014 — not in scope here.

**Depends on:** `net-kingdom` canon — `iam-profile_v0.3.md`,
`tenant-engine-boundary-contract_v0.1.md`, `ADR-0013`, `ADR-0014` (all
ratified). **Non-goals:** payment processing, pricing-model definitions
(`adaptive-pricing`'s job), real `flex-auth` integration (the write/live
APIs get a policy-hook interface, not a working `flex-auth` client — that's
a follow-up once `flex-auth` has a reachable endpoint), guardrail/quota
enforcement.

## Task: Service skeleton

```task
id: TEN-WP-0002-T01
status: todo
priority: high
```

Python 3.12 + FastAPI, matching `qonto-assistant`'s layout convention:
`pyproject.toml`, `Makefile` (`install-dev`, `test`, `lint`, `run`), package
layout separating `domain/` (pure), `store/` (persistence), `api/` (FastAPI
routers), from day one — not refactored in later.

Done when: `make test` runs an empty/smoke suite; `make run` starts a bare
FastAPI app with a `/health` endpoint.

## Task: Domain model — tenant, grouping, capability role, plan grant

```task
id: TEN-WP-0002-T02
status: todo
priority: high
```

Pure domain types, no framework dependency:

- `Tenant`: id, identifier (`tenant:<grouping>:<name>` or reserved
  `tenant:platform`/`tenant:coulomb`), grouping (ADR-0013 enum, nullable for
  the two reserved identifiers).
- `CapabilityRole`: enum `PLTF`/`IAM`/`VEN`/`CUS`.
- `RoleGrant`: tenant_id, role, grant_reason (`plan_assignment` /
  `manual_grant` / `platform_default`), plan_id (nullable), granted_by,
  granted_at, revoked_at (nullable), correlation_id — the audited record
  shape from the boundary contract's Tenant Role & Plan Grant Contract.
- `PlanAssignment`: tenant_id, plan_id (references an `adaptive-pricing`
  plan id — stored as an opaque string, never resolved or duplicated
  locally), assigned_at.

Validation rules encoded as domain invariants, not just API-layer checks:

- grouping must be one of ADR-0013's twelve values, or the tenant identifier
  must be exactly `tenant:platform`/`tenant:coulomb` (grouping-less);
- a `trial`-grouped tenant may hold any role with `grant_reason:
  platform_default` and no `plan_id` (ADR-0014) — this must be
  representable, not blocked by a plan-required constraint;
- non-`trial` roles other than `platform_default` require a `plan_id` when
  `grant_reason: plan_assignment`;
- revoking a grant sets `revoked_at`, never deletes the record (audit trail).

Done when: unit tests cover valid/invalid grouping values, the trial/
no-plan-required exception, and grant/revoke as append-only operations.

## Task: Storage layer

```task
id: TEN-WP-0002-T03
status: todo
priority: high
```

In-memory store behind a `TenantStore` protocol/interface (mirrors
`qonto_client.QontoClientProtocol`'s pattern in `qonto-assistant`), so a
real backend can be swapped in later without touching `domain/` or `api/`.
Every mutation emits a domain event (tenant created, role granted, role
revoked, plan assigned) per the boundary contract's Audit Correlation
Contract — the event bus itself can be a simple in-process list for now.

Done when: unit tests cover create/read/grant/revoke/assign-plan through the
store interface, plus event emission for each mutation.

## Task: Cache-read API (for key-cape)

```task
id: TEN-WP-0002-T04
status: todo
priority: high
```

`GET /tenants/{tenant_id}/roles` — returns current, non-revoked capability
roles for a tenant. This is the endpoint `key-cape` calls at token-issuance
time to source the cached `tenant_roles` claim (IAM Profile v0.3). No
authorization gate of its own beyond service-to-service auth (out of scope
here — see Non-Goals); this endpoint's whole purpose is to be cheap and
fast, per the boundary contract's performance model.

Done when: integration test hits the endpoint against the in-memory store
and returns the expected role set for a seeded tenant.

## Task: Live-lookup API (for flex-auth) — fail closed

```task
id: TEN-WP-0002-T05
status: todo
priority: high
```

`GET /tenants/{tenant_id}/roles/live` — same data as the cache-read
endpoint, but explicitly documented and tested as the path `flex-auth` must
call before authorizing `aal2`-class actions. The distinction from T04 is
operational intent (freshness guarantee, called synchronously on a
privileged-decision path), not payload shape.

Per the boundary contract's performance model: **fail closed, never open**.
If the store is unavailable, this endpoint must return an error response
that a policy caller would treat as "deny", not a default-allow or an empty
role list indistinguishable from "no roles granted".

Done when: a test simulates store unavailability and asserts the endpoint
signals failure distinctly from "zero roles", not silently as 200 + `[]`.

## Task: Write API — grant, revoke, assign-plan

```task
id: TEN-WP-0002-T06
status: todo
priority: medium
```

`POST /tenants` (create), `POST /tenants/{id}/roles/grant`,
`POST /tenants/{id}/roles/revoke`, `POST /tenants/{id}/plan` — all mutating
endpoints from the boundary contract's Write API. Per the contract,
`tenant-engine` does not self-authorize these writes; `flex-auth` is meant
to gate them. Since a reachable `flex-auth` integration is explicitly a
non-goal here, implement a `WriteAuthorizer` protocol/interface point (one
class, default-deny stub) so every mutation already flows through a single
seam — swapping in a real `flex-auth` client later touches one file, not
every endpoint.

Done when: unit tests confirm every write endpoint calls the
`WriteAuthorizer` seam and is denied by the default-deny stub; a
test-only authorizer override proves the seam actually gates the mutation
when swapped.

## Task: Closure review

```task
id: TEN-WP-0002-T07
status: todo
priority: low
```

Confirm T01–T06 done; run `make test`/`make lint`; verify the three API
surfaces match the boundary contract's Ownership Model and Source-of-Truth
Matrix with no drift. Note follow-ups: real `flex-auth` `WriteAuthorizer`
integration, `key-cape` wiring to actually call the cache-read endpoint at
issuance, guardrail/quota policy design (ADR-0014's reserved item), and
Binky Hedgehog GmbH as the first real tenant record once `key-cape`'s
`KEY-WP-0004` reaches that point. Run `statehub fix-consistency`.