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# Data Custody Contract — Pointer and Consent Schema (D14)
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Status: DRAFT — awaiting ratification (webui-audit S2, contract 7 of 9).
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Authority: PRD D14/D6 (Part I §7) — sensitive profile categories live in
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the **user's own brain ONLY**; PostgreSQL holds structural data, consent
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records, and pointers — never the content; "user data does not leak" is
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enforced by architecture, not policy. The Standalone split is a MAY with
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a recommended-default (kept for conversion forward-compatibility, D3).
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PRD D4 (Part I §6) — profile answers feed `USER.md` and/or the user's
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data store subject to the custody rule; connectors carry granular
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agentic-access consent. PRD D6 — estate brains hold operational records;
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only product-relevant material migrates into repository docs.
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This contract binds the sensitive-category registry (§2), the custody
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placement rule (§3), the pointer schema (§4), the consent schema and its
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evaluation (§5), mode application (§6), and witnesses (§7). It defines
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schemas and placement; wizard step flow stays with contract 3, mode and
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conversion with contract 6 (`mode-conversion.md`), identity with
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`identity-lifecycle.md`, tool mapping with `tool-gateway-mapping.md`.
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## 1. Definitions
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1. **User brain**: the git-tracked per-user data store (in Standalone,
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the user-files region of the single mosaic-brain; in Enterprise, the
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user's own brain repository).
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2. **Sensitive content**: any profile answer or derived text in a §2
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sensitive category.
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3. **Pointer**: a database record referencing sensitive content that
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lives in a user brain, carrying no content (§4).
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4. **Consent record**: a database record granting a named grantee scope
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access to a category of a user's data (§5).
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## 2. Sensitive-category registry
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1. The registry is a closed, versioned list in the platform database;
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entries are added or reclassified by amendment to this contract,
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never ad hoc.
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2. Initial registry, drawn from the D4 profile step and D14's
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"disabilities, family, communication style, and similar":
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| Category key | Covers |
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| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| `disabilities` | disabilities including ADHD/autism/PDA/vision |
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| `family-social` | family, pets, friends |
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| `communication-style` | desired agent communication style, voice-matching interview product |
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| `personal-interests` | hobbies, likes/dislikes |
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| `connector-content` | email and drive content reached through user connectors |
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3. **Fail-closed classification.** A profile category not in the
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registry is treated as sensitive until an amendment classifies it.
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Non-sensitive by classification (not by default) are structural
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fields the platform needs relationally: e.g. professional
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background/education summaries used for agent configuration MAY be
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classified non-sensitive by the ruling below; account identity
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fields (email, name, credentials) are identity-contract data, not
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profile custody data.
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## 3. Custody placement rule
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1. Sensitive content is written to the owning user's brain ONLY.
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PostgreSQL tables MUST NOT store sensitive content in any column —
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not as text, not as excerpts or previews, not as embeddings or
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other derived representations that reconstruct content.
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2. The database MAY hold, about sensitive content: the pointer records
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of §4, the consent records of §5, and the category registry of §2.
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Nothing else.
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3. Every write path for profile answers routes by category: sensitive
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→ brain write + pointer upsert; non-sensitive → its declared
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platform table. The routing decision is made server-side from the
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registry, never by the client.
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4. D6 boundary: operational records stay in estate brains and are
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linked, not migrated. This contract governs user-profile custody
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only and creates no new obligation on estate brains.
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## 4. Pointer schema
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A pointer row carries exactly:
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1. `id`, `user_id` (the owning user), `category_key` (§2 registry FK),
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`brain_ref` (an opaque locator — repository-relative path or key in
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the owning user's brain), `content_hash` (integrity check of the
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referenced content), `created_at`/`updated_at`, and audit linkage.
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2. **Opacity.** `brain_ref` and every other pointer column MUST NOT
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embed content or content-derived text (no titles, snippets, or
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free-text descriptions). A locator is structural (category + path
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discipline), not descriptive.
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3. One pointer per (user, category, brain_ref); pointers are deleted
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when their content is deleted (dangling pointers are repaired
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toward deletion, never toward re-creating content in the DB).
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## 5. Consent schema and evaluation
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1. A consent row carries exactly: `id`, `user_id` (the data subject),
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`grantee_scope` (a typed reference: an enrolled agent, a connector,
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or a platform feature — closed enum of grantee types), `category_key`
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(§2 FK), `state` (`granted` | `revoked`), `granted_at`/`revoked_at`,
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`actor` (who recorded the choice), and audit linkage.
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2. **Default deny.** Absence of a `granted` consent row for (user,
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grantee scope, category) means no access. There are no implicit
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grants, no platform-admin bypass, and no mode in which default-deny
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is suspended.
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3. **Granularity.** Consent is per grantee scope × category (the D4
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"granular agentic-access consent"). A grant to one agent or
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connector confers nothing on another.
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4. **Revocation.** Revocation is effective for every access evaluated
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after the revoking write commits; revoked rows are retained as
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history (state flip, not row deletion).
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5. **Evaluation placement.** Access to sensitive content is mediated by
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the platform (Gateway/tooling) evaluating consent before any brain
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read on behalf of a grantee; the evaluation fails closed
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(`rbac-grant-model.md` §3.5 pattern). The user reading their own
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data is not a grantee and needs no consent row.
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6. Consent records govern agentic/feature access to user data. They are
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distinct from hierarchy grants (contract 2) and confer no
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platform authorization.
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## 6. Mode application
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1. The §3–§5 schemas are mode-independent: Standalone and Enterprise
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use the same tables and the same routing rule.
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2. In Standalone, D14 makes the physical split a MAY. This contract
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keeps it a MAY and binds the recommended default: a fresh v1
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Standalone install routes sensitive content per §3 from the start,
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so the Enterprise conversion precondition (`mode-conversion.md`
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§4.2, brains) is already satisfied. An operator electing not to
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keep the split accepts the resulting conversion-time partitioning
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work; the election is recorded.
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3. In Enterprise, the split is mandatory (D3 table); no-leakage between
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users is enforced by §3 placement plus §5 default-deny — there is
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no cross-user read path to sensitive content through the database,
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because the database has no content to serve.
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## 7. Verification requirements
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Binding on the implementing PRs:
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1. **No-content witness:** a column-allowlist assertion (contract 1
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§6.3 style) that the pointer and consent tables' column sets are
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exactly §4.1/§5.1, and that no platform table outside the declared
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non-sensitive profile tables carries profile answer content.
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2. **Routing witness:** a sensitive-category answer submitted through
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the profile surface results in a brain write plus a pointer row and
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zero content bytes in the database (asserted by content-hash
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presence in the brain and absence of the plaintext in any DB
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column); a non-sensitive answer lands in its declared table.
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3. **Fail-closed classification witness:** an answer in an unregistered
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category routes as sensitive.
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4. **Opacity witness:** pointer rows for seeded sensitive fixtures
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contain no fixture text in any column.
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5. **Default-deny witness:** an agent grantee with no consent row is
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refused; with a `granted` row for category A only, access to
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category B is refused.
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6. **Revocation witness:** after revocation commits, the next access
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evaluation refuses; the revoked row persists as history.
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7. **Self-access witness:** the data subject reads their own content
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without consent rows.
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8. **Deletion witness:** deleting sensitive content removes its
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pointer; no path re-materializes content into the database.
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## Ruling request
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Ratify sections 1–7 as written, with one decision embedded:
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- Decision (§2): the initial sensitive-category registry is the five
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rows of §2.2, with fail-closed classification for anything
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unregistered, and with professional background/education classified
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**non-sensitive** (they exist to configure agents and reporting and
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are stored relationally). Alternative if rejected: classify
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background/education sensitive too — safe, but it moves data the
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platform legitimately queries into pointer-indirected storage and
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that cost should be chosen deliberately, not defaulted into.
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