---
id: capability.identity.user-engine
name: User lifecycle and account journeys
summary: Accounts, identity links, membership, MFA and recovery portal, advisory catalog.
owner: user-engine
status: draft
domain: communication
tags:
- identity
- user-management
- multi-tenant
- security
- netkingdom
- framework-reuse
maturity:
  discovery:
    current: D4
    target: D5
    confidence: high
    rationale: 'Unusually large documentation set for its size: docs/development.md,
      configuration.md, contracts.md, canon-mapping.md, canon-interface-card.yaml,
      family-dataspace-onboarding.md, registration-identity-and-factor-model.md, prepared-accounts-and-entitlement-claims.md,
      hats-realms-services-assets-access-profiles.md, onboarding-journeys-and-welcome-protocols.md,
      and more — scope and contracts are thoroughly documented.'
  availability:
    current: A4
    target: A4
    confidence: medium
    rationale: 'Source interface assessed 2026-10-14: Accounts, identity links, membership,
      MFA and recovery portal, advisory catalog. Availability describes the delivery
      form, not production acceptance. Application readback is advisory; applications
      must enforce their own authorization.'
external_evidence:
  completeness:
    level: C2
    confidence: low
    basis: scope_vs_intent_and_consumer_expectations
    satisfied_expectations:
    - registration/identity/factor model documented
    - entitlement claims and access-profile model (hats/realms/services/assets) documented
    - canon mapping and interface card present
    broken_expectations: []
    out_of_scope_expectations: []
  reliability:
    level: R0
    confidence: low
    basis: consumer_quality_signals
    known_reliability_risks:
    - breadth of documented scope not independently verified against implementation
      completeness in this sweep
discovery:
  intent: Accounts, identity links, membership, MFA and recovery portal, advisory
    catalog
  includes:
  - Accounts, identity links, membership, MFA and recovery portal, advisory catalog
  excludes:
  - Application readback is advisory; applications must enforce their own authorization
  assumptions: []
  use_cases:
  - 'U02: Human signs in with MFA and manages account or factor recovery'
  - 'U03: Application combines identity, tenant and resource facts and enforces a
    bound decision'
  - 'U10: Operator recovers identity, custody or data with independently held recovery
    material'
  research_memos: []
availability:
  current_level: A4
  target_level: A4
  current_artifacts:
  - SCOPE.md
  - README.md
  target_artifacts: []
  consumption_modes:
  - HTTP API
  - source
relations:
  depends_on: []
  supports: []
  related_to:
  - capability.iam.key-cape
  - capability.identity.tenant-facts
  - capability.authorization.policy-evaluate
  - capability.audit.event-retain
evidence:
  documentation:
  - SCOPE.md
  - README.md
  tests:
  - tests/
  consumer_feedback: []
  bug_reports: []
  incidents: []
consumer_guidance:
  recommended_for:
  - Human signs in with MFA and manages account or factor recovery
  - Application combines identity, tenant and resource facts and enforces a bound
    decision
  - Operator recovers identity, custody or data with independently held recovery material
  not_recommended_for:
  - Application readback is advisory; applications must enforce their own authorization
  known_limitations:
  - Application readback is advisory; applications must enforce their own authorization
  - 2026-10-14 architecture review estimates operational maturity separately; a registry
    entry does not authorize execution or establish deployment.
promotion_history:
- date: '2026-10-14'
  dimension: availability
  from: A1
  to: A4
  rationale: Interface-form reassessment from current owner sources; no completeness/reliability
    promotion.
  author: codex
---

# User lifecycle and account journeys

Accounts, identity links, membership, MFA and recovery portal, advisory catalog.

## Reuse boundary

Application readback is advisory; applications must enforce their own authorization.

## Supported use cases

- U02: Human signs in with MFA and manages account or factor recovery
- U03: Application combines identity, tenant and resource facts and enforces a bound decision
- U10: Operator recovers identity, custody or data with independently held recovery material

## Evidence and integration

- [SCOPE.md](../../SCOPE.md)
- [README.md](../../README.md)

Assessment: CUST-WP-0081, 2026-10-14. Relations identify interfaces to compose; they do not certify native integration. Existing external evidence levels are retained where present. New entries use conservative C1/R0 until consumer assessment exists.