docs: RBAC grant model contract revision 2 (GLM review findings 1-10)
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- name the two shipped platform-admin bypass paths (command-authorization hasScope short-circuit, MCP tenant-admin scope derivation) as non-conformant; 7.4 retires them explicitly - suspend team grant subjects pending a team contract; command surface refuses team-subject grants; evaluation semantics pre-specified - no-self-escalation restated with future-decoupling rationale; observable is an audit invariant, not an unconstructible refusal test - bootstrap seeding scoped to top-level company creation; child nodes inherit via down-the-chain, resolving the 7.7/4.3 contradiction - exact A1 quote (not a bypass of workspace authorization) - subject/role audit fields attributed as this contract's addition - principal-position consequence named (1.3) with matrix cell - added observables: zero membership rows, fail-closed fault injection, no existence oracle - role-string namespacing rule (4.5) - ruling request names the PRD-admins interpretive resolution
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@@ -12,13 +12,25 @@ the meaning of "authority" here; the identity contract
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(`docs/requirements/identity-lifecycle.md` §1.4) pins that account creation
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grants nothing.
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Revision 2 (independent review, GLM 5.3): §1.1 consequence analysis
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completed — the two existing platform-admin bypass code paths are named as
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non-conformant and §7.4 retires them; team grant subjects suspended pending
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a team contract (§1.4, §3.3–3.4, §7.5); no-self-escalation restated with
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its true rationale and a constructible observable (§4.2, §7.7);
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node-creation seeding scoped to the bootstrap path, resolving the §7.7/§4.3
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contradiction; A1 quotation corrected; audit-field provenance corrected;
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principal-position consequence named (§1.3); membership-row,
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fail-closed-fault, and existence-oracle observables added (§7);
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role-string namespacing rule added (§4.5); ruling request now names the
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interpretive resolution of PRD "admins".
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Scope: the roles that can appear in `hierarchy_grants.role`, what a grant at
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each hierarchy level confers, how grants evaluate down the chain, how
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revocation propagates, and who may manage grants. Out of scope: the hierarchy
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tables themselves (contract 1), workspace-internal membership and its
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role/capability vocabulary (native-kanban SOT REQ-ID-001 and its implementing
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schema), roll-up projection semantics (contract 8), wizard seeding
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(contract 3).
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(contract 3), the team model (suspended here; see §1.4).
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## 1. Three authority layers, none substitutable
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@@ -27,9 +39,20 @@ schema), roll-up projection semantics (contract 8), wizard seeding
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configuration. It is not tenancy authority: holding platform `admin`
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confers **no implicit hierarchy grant and no workspace authorization**.
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An operator who should see tenant content holds an explicit, audited
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grant like anyone else. (This is the deny-by-default consequence of A1
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§8.1.3's "never a bypass" rule; today's `AdminGuard` checks
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`role === 'admin'` for admin endpoints and that stays its only meaning.)
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grant like anyone else. This is the deny-by-default consequence of A1
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§8.1.3 ("not a bypass of workspace authorization"). `AdminGuard`'s
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`role === 'admin'` check on admin endpoints stays the platform role's
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only meaning. **Two shipped code paths violate this rule today and are
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implementation defects this contract makes non-conformant:** (a) the
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command authorization service short-circuits every command scope to
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allowed for platform admins
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(`apps/gateway/src/commands/command-authorization.service.ts`,
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`hasScope` returning true when `role === 'admin'`), and (b) the MCP
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scope derivation maps platform `admin` to tenant-admin MCP scopes
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including task create/update
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(`apps/gateway/src/mcp/mcp.service.ts`,
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`deriveMcpToolScopesForUser`). Ratifying this contract revokes both;
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§7.4 names them as the surfaces the deny-by-default test retires.
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2. **Hierarchy grants** (`hierarchy_grants`, contract 1 §3) declare tenancy
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authority at company, estate, or platform-project scope and evaluate down
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the chain to workspace-scoped authorization (§3 below).
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@@ -38,6 +61,24 @@ schema), roll-up projection semantics (contract 8), wizard seeding
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it does not create membership rows, and row-level principal positions
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(task owner, proposer, decision actor) still require ACTIVE workspace
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membership exactly as REQ-TEN-001/REQ-ID-001 acceptance states.
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Consequence, stated so implementing PRs do not weaken REQ-TEN-001 to
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remove the friction: a chain-granted actor who is not a workspace member
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may issue the write commands their role implies but cannot occupy a
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principal position — any command taking a principal argument must name
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an ACTIVE member of the target workspace (§7.2 enumerates this cell).
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4. **Team grant subjects are suspended.** Contract 1 §3.1 reserves a
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`team_id` attachment point, but no ratified contract yet defines the
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team it would bind: the only existing `teams` table is the legacy global
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Brain table (own authority columns, no workspace binding, not
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repurposed per contract 1 §1.3), while the SOT's teams are
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workspace-bound (REQ-ID-001) — and a workspace-bound team holding a
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company-level grant would be a cross-workspace authority group nothing
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has ratified. Until a team contract defines the subject (which table,
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which membership rows, and its relation to D2/REQ-ID-001), creating a
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grant with a team subject MUST be refused at the command surface (the
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schema column remains, per contract 1). §3's evaluation semantics for
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team-conferred grants are specified now so the team contract activates
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them without amending this one.
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## 2. Role vocabulary
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entire descendant subtree. Nothing evaluates upward or sideways: a grant
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on an estate says nothing about the parent company or sibling estates.
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3. **Effective role = maximum.** A subject's effective role at any node is
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the highest role among: grants held directly by the subject's user on
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that node or any ancestor, and grants held by any team the user is a
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member of on that node or any ancestor. Roles never subtract — there is
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no negative/deny grant in this model; revocation is deletion (§6).
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4. **Team grants follow live membership.** A team grant confers its role on
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the team's current members, evaluated at decision time. Leaving the team
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is loss of the grant with §6's propagation bound.
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the highest role among grants held directly by the subject's user on
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that node or any ancestor — and, once the team contract activates team
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subjects (§1.4), grants held by any team the user is a member of on that
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node or any ancestor. Roles never subtract — there is no negative/deny
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grant in this model; revocation is deletion (§6).
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4. **Team grants follow live membership** (specified now, active only per
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§1.4). A team grant confers its role on the team's current members,
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evaluated at decision time. Leaving the team is loss of the grant with
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§6's propagation bound.
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5. **Live evaluation, fail closed.** Authorization decisions derive from the
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live grant and team-membership rows (or from a cache that is invalidated
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in the same transaction as any grant/membership/hierarchy mutation). A
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@@ -87,23 +130,41 @@ contract amendment, not an implementation decision.
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6. **Tenant context stays derived from authenticated authority**
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(REQ-TEN-001). The chain adds where grants can be declared; a workspace
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request is still authorized against that workspace, with the chain
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contributing the effective role — never a bypass of workspace-scoped
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checks.
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contributing the effective role — never letting the chain become what A1
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§8.1.3 forbids: "a bypass of workspace authorization".
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## 4. Grant management
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1. Creating, changing, or revoking a grant on a node requires effective
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`owner` on that node (directly or via any ancestor).
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2. **No self-escalation.** A grant manager cannot create a grant with a role
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higher than their own effective role on the target node. (With the §2
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vocabulary this only bites managers acting through team-conferred
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`owner`: the rule is stated so it survives vocabulary amendments.)
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3. Creating a hierarchy node confers no automatic grant. Bootstrap of
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authority is explicit: the creating command names the initial `owner`
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grant in the same audited operation, and the wizard (contract 3) seeds
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the first company's initial `owner` the same way.
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4. Every grant mutation is a semantic audit event per contract 1 §5.2
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(actor, verb, subject, target, role).
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higher than their own effective role on the target node. Under the §2
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vocabulary this rule is currently implied by §4.1 (managers are `owner`,
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the top role — no constructible grant exceeds it); it is stated
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explicitly so it survives any future amendment that decouples
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grant-management authority from role height. Its observable is the §7.7
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audit invariant, not a refusal test.
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3. **Bootstrap of authority is explicit; inheritance covers the rest.**
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Creating the first company (the wizard path, contract 3) and any
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top-level company creation MUST name the initial `owner` grant in the
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same audited operation — a top-level node has no ancestor to inherit
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from, so without this the node would be unownable. Creating a child node
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(estate, platform-project, workspace) requires effective `owner` on the
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parent (§2.3) and confers no automatic grant; the creator's authority
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over the new node already follows from §3.2 down-the-chain evaluation.
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The creating command MAY additionally name an explicit initial grant for
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a child node; it is not required to.
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4. Every grant mutation is a semantic audit event under contract 1 §5.2's
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guarantees, extended by this contract with two further fields: the event
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carries actor, verb, target, **subject, and role** (subject and role are
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this contract's addition; contract 1 §5.2 does not enumerate them).
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5. **Role strings are namespaced.** `viewer`/`member` exist at hierarchy
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level, `member`/`admin` on `users.role`, and the current command layer
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uses a third `viewer|member|admin` vocabulary — same strings, different
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meanings. Any serialized role string (audit events per §4.4, API
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responses, logs) MUST identify its layer (e.g. `hierarchy:owner`,
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`platform:admin`); a bare role string in a serialized artifact is
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non-conformant.
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## 5. Transfer authority (completes contract 1 §4.2)
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## 6. Revocation propagation
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1. Revoking a grant (deleting the row), removing a user from a team that
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carries a grant, or deleting an ancestor node's grant during node
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deletion (contract 1 §3.3) all propagate identically: the authority
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derived from that grant is gone for every descendant workspace.
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carries a grant (once team subjects activate, §1.4), or the cascade
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deletion of a node's grants during node deletion (contract 1 §3.3) all
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propagate identically: the authority derived from that grant is gone for
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every descendant workspace.
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2. **Bound:** the next authorization decision on any affected transport
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decides against the revoked grant. Concretely: no new HTTP/MCP command
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authorized by the revoked grant after the revoking transaction commits;
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## 7. Verification requirements
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Binding on the implementing PRs (extends A1 §8.3 acceptance 2–3 and
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contract 1 §6.4):
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contract 1 §6):
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1. Vocabulary: the role CHECK constraint rejects any value outside
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`viewer|member|owner` (real-PostgreSQL witness, `ci-postgres` service in
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@@ -140,30 +202,58 @@ contract 1 §6.4):
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2. Per-level conferral: for each of the three levels × three roles, a grant
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yields exactly the implied workspace authorization in a descendant
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workspace and nothing in a non-descendant workspace (the A1 §8.3
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"exactly the permissions the chain implies" matrix, enumerated).
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"exactly the permissions the chain implies" matrix, enumerated). The
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matrix includes: a chain grant creates zero workspace-membership rows
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(assert row counts); a chain-granted non-member is refused as the
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principal argument of any principal-taking command while their
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non-principal writes succeed (§1.3); structure reads leak no existence
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of nodes the reader holds no grant on (no cross-tenant existence
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oracle, A1 §8.3 acceptance 3).
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3. Ordering: `owner` ⊇ `member` ⊇ `viewer` behaviorally — each higher role
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passes every lower role's positive cases.
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4. Deny-by-default: platform `admin` with no grant reaches no tenant
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content; workspace member with no chain grant gains nothing outside SOT
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content — asserted against the two §1.1 non-conformant surfaces after
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their retirement: the command-authorization admin short-circuit and the
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MCP tenant-admin scope derivation both gone (a platform admin with no
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grant is refused workspace commands and receives no tenant MCP scopes);
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workspace member with no chain grant gains nothing outside SOT
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membership semantics; fresh account reaches nothing (identity contract
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§1.4 cross-check).
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5. Max-rule and teams: user-direct and team-conferred grants combine to the
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maximum; team-leave drops authority within the §6.2 bound; decision-time
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evaluation witnessed (grant added → next decision allows; no restart or
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re-login required).
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5. Team subjects: while suspended (§1.4), creating a team-subject grant is
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refused at the command surface. On activation by the team contract:
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user-direct and team-conferred grants combine to the maximum; team-leave
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drops authority within the §6.2 bound; decision-time evaluation
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witnessed (grant added → next decision allows; no restart or re-login
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required).
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6. Revocation: each revocation path in §6.1 denies the next command on
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every transport; the socket bound is measured; a cached-authorization
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implementation proves transactional invalidation (grant revoked and
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decision made on two distinct physical connections).
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7. Grant management: non-`owner` cannot mutate grants; self-escalation
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attempt refused; node creation without the explicit initial grant
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refused; every mutation produces its audit event.
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decision made on two distinct physical connections). Fail-closed fault
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witness for §3.5: with grant state unreadable (fault injection), the
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decision denies.
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7. Grant management: non-`owner` cannot mutate grants; top-level company
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creation without the named initial `owner` grant is refused, while child
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node creation under ancestor authority succeeds without one (§4.3 both
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directions); every mutation produces its audit event with the §4.4
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fields. Self-escalation observable: over the audit event stream, every
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grant-create/change event's role is ≤ the acting user's effective role
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on the target at event time (reconstructable invariant, not a refusal
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test — see §4.2).
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8. Transfer: both-sides `owner` accepted, each single-side case refused
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(completing contract 1 §6.2).
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(completing contract 1 §6.5).
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## Ruling request
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Ratify sections 1–7 as written, with one decision embedded: platform `admin`
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confers no implicit tenant access — operators see tenant content only
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through explicit, audited grants (§1.1) — say "agreed" or name the implicit
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access you want platform admins to have.
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Ratify sections 1–7 as written, with one decision embedded and one
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interpretive resolution named:
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- Decision: platform `admin` confers no implicit tenant access — operators
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see tenant content only through explicit, audited grants (§1.1), which
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retires the two existing admin bypass paths named there. Say "agreed" or
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name the implicit access you want platform admins to keep.
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- Interpretive resolution (for visibility, not a separate question): PRD
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Part I §4 says "admins restrict access per company, estate, and project";
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this contract resolves "admins" as hierarchy `owner`s (§4.1), not
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platform admins. A1 §8.1.3 does not attribute grant declaration to
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platform admins, and the §1.1 decision above is what makes this reading
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binding.
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