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- TASKS.md: mark FED-M1-12 done with PR/issue/tag references - MISSION-MANIFEST.md: phase=M1 complete, progress 1/7, M1 row done with PR range #470-#481, session log appended - scratchpad: Session 19 entry covering M1-09 → M1-12 with PR ledger and M1 retrospective learnings Refs #460
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Mission Manifest — Federation v1
Persistent document tracking full mission scope, status, and session history. Updated by the orchestrator at each phase transition and milestone completion.
Mission
ID: federation-v1-20260419
Statement: Jarvis operates across 3–4 workstations in two physical locations (home, USC). The user currently reaches back to a single jarvis-brain checkout from every session; a prior OpenBrain attempt caused cache, latency, and opacity pain. This mission builds asymmetric federation between Mosaic Stack gateways so that a session on a user's home gateway can query their work gateway in real time without data ever persisting across the boundary, with full multi-tenant isolation and standard-PKI (X.509 / Step-CA) trust management.
Phase: M1 complete — federated tier infrastructure ready for testing
Current Milestone: FED-M2 (next; deferred to mission planning)
Progress: 1 / 7 milestones
Status: active
Last Updated: 2026-04-19 (M1 complete; tag fed-v0.1.0-m1)
Parent Mission: None — new mission
Context
Federation is the solution to what originally drove OpenBrain. The prior attempt coupled every agent session to a remote service, introduced cache/latency/opacity pain, and created a hard dependency that punished offline use. This redesign:
- Makes federation gateway-to-gateway, not agent-to-service
- Keeps each user's home instance as source of truth for their data
- Exposes scoped, read-only data on demand without persisting across the boundary
- Uses X.509 mTLS via Step-CA so rotation/revocation/CRL/OCSP are standard
- Supports multi-tenant serving sides (employees on uscllc.com each federating back to their own home gateway) with no cross-user leakage
- Requires federation-tier instances on both sides (PG + pgvector + Valkey) — local/standalone tiers cannot federate
- Works over public HTTPS (no VPN required); Tailscale is an optional overlay
Key design references:
docs/federation/PRD.md— 16-section product requirementsdocs/federation/MILESTONES.md— 7-milestone decomposition with per-milestone acceptance testsdocs/federation/TASKS.md— per-task breakdown (M1 populated; M2-M7 deferred to mission planning)docs/research/mempalace-evaluation/(in jarvis-brain) — why we didn't adopt MemPalace
Success Criteria
- AC-1: Two Mosaic Stack gateways on different hosts can establish a federation grant via CLI-driven onboarding
- AC-2: Server A can query Server B for
tasks,notes,memoryrespecting scope filters - AC-3: User on B with no grant cannot be queried by A, even if A has a valid grant for another user (cross-user isolation)
- AC-4: Revoking a grant on B causes A's next request to fail with a clear error within one request cycle
- AC-5: Cert rotation happens automatically at T-7 days; in-progress session survives rotation without user action
- AC-6: Rate-limit enforcement returns 429 with
Retry-After; client backs off - AC-7: With B unreachable, a session on A completes using local data and surfaces "federation offline for
<peer>" once per session - AC-8: Every federated request appears in B's
federation_audit_logwithin 1 second - AC-9: Scope excluding
credentialsmeans credentials are never returned — even viasearchwith matching keywords - AC-10:
mosaic federation statusshows cert expiry, grant status, last success/failure per peer - AC-11: Full 3-employee multi-tenant scenario passes with no cross-user leakage
- AC-12: Two-gateway production deployment (woltje.com ↔ uscllc.com) operational ≥7 days without incident
- AC-13: All 7 milestones ship as merged PRs with green CI and closed issues
Milestones
| # | ID | Name | Status | Branch | Issue | Started | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FED-M1 | Federated tier infrastructure | done | (12 PRs #470-#481) | #460 | 2026-04-19 | 2026-04-19 |
| 2 | FED-M2 | Step-CA + grant schema + admin CLI | not-started | — | #461 | — | — |
| 3 | FED-M3 | mTLS handshake + list/get + scope enforcement | not-started | — | #462 | — | — |
| 4 | FED-M4 | search verb + audit log + rate limit | not-started | — | #463 | — | — |
| 5 | FED-M5 | Cache + offline degradation + OTEL | not-started | — | #464 | — | — |
| 6 | FED-M6 | Revocation + auto-renewal + CRL | not-started | — | #465 | — | — |
| 7 | FED-M7 | Multi-user RBAC hardening + acceptance suite | not-started | — | #466 | — | — |
Budget
| Milestone | Est. tokens | Parallelizable? |
|---|---|---|
| FED-M1 | 20K | No (foundation) |
| FED-M2 | 30K | No (needs M1) |
| FED-M3 | 40K | No (needs M2) |
| FED-M4 | 20K | No (needs M3) |
| FED-M5 | 20K | Yes (with M6 after M4) |
| FED-M6 | 20K | Yes (with M5 after M3) |
| FED-M7 | 25K | No (needs all) |
| Total | ~175K |
Session History
| Session | Date | Runtime | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 2026-04-19 | claude | PRD authored, MILESTONES decomposed, 7 issues filed |
| S2-S4 | 2026-04-19 | claude | FED-M1 complete: 12 tasks (PRs #470-#481) merged; tag fed-v0.1.0-m1 |
Next Step
FED-M1 complete (12 PRs #470-#481, tag fed-v0.1.0-m1). Federated tier infrastructure is testable end-to-end: see docs/federation/SETUP.md and docs/guides/migrate-tier.md.
Begin FED-M2 (Step-CA + grant schema + admin CLI) when planning is greenlit. Issue #461 tracks scope; orchestrator decomposes M2 into per-task rows in docs/federation/TASKS.md at the start of M2.