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# Data Custody Contract — Pointer and Consent Schema (D14)
Status: DRAFT — awaiting ratification (webui-audit S2, contract 7 of 9).
Authority: PRD D14/D6 (Part I §7) — sensitive profile categories live in
the **user's own brain ONLY**; PostgreSQL holds structural data, consent
records, and pointers — never the content; "user data does not leak" is
enforced by architecture, not policy. The Standalone split is a MAY with
a recommended-default (kept for conversion forward-compatibility, D3).
PRD D4 (Part I §6) — profile answers feed `USER.md` and/or the user's
data store subject to the custody rule; connectors carry granular
agentic-access consent. PRD D6 — estate brains hold operational records;
only product-relevant material migrates into repository docs.
Revision 2 (sol r1 findings F1F6): the registry is now a full profile
classifier that can represent non-sensitive rows, with an exact row
shape, versioning, refusal semantics for unknown keys, and transition
rules (F1); the consent model gains a concrete grantee reference model,
an active-row uniqueness constraint, append-only re-grant semantics,
and explicit mutation authority (F2); the pointer schema names its
exact column set, binds the one-pointer rule to a database constraint,
defines the `brain_ref` grammar and owner-bound resolution, replaces
the unkeyed hash with a keyed construction, and bounds orphan repair
(F3); the witnesses import the hierarchy contract's §6.2 column
allowlist and §6.3-style closed route inventories, add negative
controls and a column-type allowlist, and cover every binding rule
(F4); the Standalone physical split, both valid layouts, the election
record, and v1 phase timing are defined consistently with the wizard
and mode-conversion contracts (F5); drafting additions are disclosed in
§8 and the ruling request is one sentence with one decision (F6).
Revision 3 (sol r2 findings F1F9): reclassification gains a
custody-config write fence (shared/exclusive row lock) so no
concurrent writer can commit a stale-version route, a declared
supported-version refusal, and witnesses for both transition
directions (F1). The grantee reference becomes three per-type FK
columns with a generated discriminant, real referent tables for
`connector` and `feature` (contract-owned, empty at v1), the
enrolled-agent binding named to the rank-4 family's table, and
revoked-row immutability enforced by a database trigger (F2). The
content hash is domain-separated per (user, category, locator) with
canonical bytes, an embedded key id, and a rotation rule; the audit FK
referent and the non-sensitive profile table (`profile_answers`) are
named; tree-object resolution prohibits symlink escape (F3). The §7
route witnesses import hierarchy §6.3's full prong set, scan
`plugins/`, extend the no-content probe to every platform table, and
add the missing negatives (F4). `custody_config` is singleton by
constraint (F5). §8 discloses the previously omitted policies (F6).
Mutation authority is split into two disjoint actor predicates —
subject mutations and the precondition-checked system auto-revocation
(F7). Hash mismatch gets a representable pointer state with a defined
terminal outcome (F8). Managed deletion is an ordered git-then-database
protocol with fault-injection witnesses at both interruption points,
replacing the impossible cross-store transaction (F9).
This contract binds the profile-category registry (§2), the custody
placement rule (§3), the pointer schema (§4), the consent schema and its
evaluation (§5), mode application (§6), witnesses (§7), and disclosed
drafting additions (§8). It defines schemas and placement; wizard step
flow stays with contract 3 (`onboarding-wizard.md`), mode and conversion
with contract 6 (`mode-conversion.md`), identity with
`identity-lifecycle.md`, tool mapping with `tool-gateway-mapping.md`.
## 1. Definitions
1. **User brain**: the git-tracked per-user data store. Its two valid
Standalone layouts are defined in §6.2; in Enterprise it is the
user's own brain repository.
2. **Sensitive content**: any profile answer or derived text in a §2
category classified `sensitive`.
3. **Pointer**: a database record referencing sensitive content that
lives in a user brain, carrying no content (§4).
4. **Grantee**: a non-subject principal that may be granted access to a
user's sensitive content: an enrolled agent, a connector, or a
platform feature (§5.2).
5. **Consent record**: a database record granting one grantee access to
one category of one user's data (§5).
6. **Registry version**: the monotonically increasing integer
identifying the active state of the §2 registry.
7. **Physical split** (Standalone): sensitive user content living in a
per-user brain repository separate from the estate mosaic-brain, as
opposed to the unsplit layout where it lives in a dedicated
user-files subtree of the single mosaic-brain (§6.2).
8. **Audit event table**: the single platform table into which the
hierarchy contract (contract 1, `hierarchy-schema.md` §5.2) commits
its semantic audit events. No sibling contract names the physical
table, so this contract binds it by identity, not by name: every
`audit_event_id` column in §3.5, §4.1, §5.1, and §6.3 is a foreign
key to that table, the implementing PR that creates the audit store
binds these FKs to it, and the §7.1 witness asserts that each such
FK references the same physical table the contract-1 audit write
path inserts into.
## 2. Profile-category registry
1. **Model.** The registry is the single classifier for every profile
category, closed and versioned, in the platform database. Table
`profile_category_registry`, columns exactly:
| Column | Type | Constraints |
| ---------------- | ----------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| `category_key` | text | primary key |
| `classification` | text | NOT NULL, CHECK in (`sensitive`, `non-sensitive`) |
| `since_version` | integer | NOT NULL (registry version that introduced this row) |
| `created_at` | timestamptz | NOT NULL |
The current registry version is a single integer held in
`custody_config` (§6.3). Rows are added or reclassified ONLY by
amendment to this contract shipped as a migration that bumps the
registry version; no runtime write path may insert, update, or
delete registry rows.
2. **Initial registry (version 1).** Drawn from the D4 profile step and
D14's "disabilities, family, communication style, and similar":
| Category key | Classification | Covers |
| ------------------------- | -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `disabilities` | sensitive | disabilities including ADHD/autism/PDA/vision |
| `family-social` | sensitive | family, pets, friends |
| `communication-style` | sensitive | desired agent communication style, voice-matching interview product |
| `personal-interests` | sensitive | hobbies, likes/dislikes |
| `connector-content` | sensitive | email and drive content reached through user connectors |
| `professional-background` | non-sensitive (per ruling) | professional background summary used for agent configuration |
| `education` | non-sensitive (per ruling) | education summary used for agent configuration |
The `Covers` column is contract documentation, not a database
column. Account identity fields (email, name, credentials) are
identity-contract data, not profile custody data, and have no
registry row.
3. **Unknown category — refusal.** A profile write naming a
`category_key` with no registry row is REFUSED with an explicit
error. Nothing is stored anywhere, no registry row is auto-added
(§2.1), and no pointer is created (so the §4.1 foreign key is never
asked to reference a missing row). Fail-closed means refusal, not
silent routing.
4. **Reclassification transitions.** A reclassification ships as a
contract amendment plus migration that bumps the registry version.
Non-sensitive → sensitive: the same migration moves every existing
relational value for that category into its owning user's brain,
creates the pointers, and deletes the relational values, all before
the new version activates. Sensitive → non-sensitive: existing
brain content and pointers remain valid and are never automatically
materialized into the database; only writes evaluated after the new
version activates route relationally.
5. **Unreadable registry — refusal.** If the registry or its version
cannot be read at decision time, every routing and consent decision
that depends on it is refused. There is no cached-default or
assume-sensitive fallback that performs a write.
6. **Write fence.** Every profile-write transaction reads the current
registry version by taking a **shared lock** on the `custody_config`
row (`SELECT ... FOR SHARE`) inside the same database transaction
that performs the write, and routes by the version so read. A
reclassification migration takes an **exclusive lock** on that row
(`SELECT ... FOR UPDATE`) before its scan and holds it through the
value moves and the version bump. Consequently a concurrent writer
either commits before the migration's scan begins — its value is
then swept by the scan — or blocks until the migration commits and
then routes by the new version. No interleaving exists in which a
value routed under the old version commits after the migration's
scan (witness §7.6g).
7. **Supported version.** Each release declares the exact registry
version its code implements. If the declared version does not equal
`custody_config.registry_version`, every profile routing and
consent decision is refused — a readable but unsupported registry
is a refusal, never best-effort routing under either version
(witness §7.6h).
## 3. Custody placement rule
1. Sensitive content is written to the owning user's brain ONLY.
PostgreSQL tables MUST NOT store sensitive content in any column —
not as text, not as excerpts or previews, not as encodings, and not
as embeddings or other derived representations that reconstruct
content.
2. The database MAY hold, about sensitive content: the pointer records
of §4, the consent records of §5, the registry of §2, and the
custody configuration of §6.3. Nothing else.
3. Every write path for profile answers routes by the registry:
`sensitive` → brain write + pointer upsert; `non-sensitive` → the
`profile_answers` table (§3.5); unknown → refusal (§2.3). The
routing decision is made server-side from the registry at its
current version, inside the §2.6 write fence; a client-supplied
classification or routing override is ignored.
4. D6 boundary: operational records stay in estate brains and are
linked, not migrated. This contract governs user-profile custody
only and creates no new obligation on estate brains.
5. **Non-sensitive profile table.** Non-sensitive profile answers land
in exactly one declared table, `profile_answers`, columns exactly:
`id` (uuid, primary key), `user_id` (uuid, NOT NULL, FK → users(id)
ON DELETE CASCADE), `category_key` (text, NOT NULL, FK →
profile_category_registry(category_key)), `value` (text, NOT NULL),
`created_at` and `updated_at` (timestamptz, NOT NULL), and
`audit_event_id` (uuid, NOT NULL, FK → the §1.8 audit event table);
plus UNIQUE (`user_id`, `category_key`). A value may sit in this
table ONLY while its category's registry classification is
`non-sensitive` (§2.4 migrates the rows on reclassification). No
other platform table stores profile answer content.
## 4. Pointer schema
1. **Exact columns.** Table `profile_pointers`, columns exactly:
| Column | Type | Constraints |
| ---------------- | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| `id` | uuid | primary key |
| `user_id` | uuid | NOT NULL, FK → users(id) ON DELETE CASCADE |
| `category_key` | text | NOT NULL, FK → profile_category_registry(category_key) |
| `brain_ref` | text | NOT NULL, CHECK against the §4.3 grammar |
| `content_hash` | text | NOT NULL (§4.4 construction) |
| `created_at` | timestamptz | NOT NULL |
| `updated_at` | timestamptz | NOT NULL |
| `mismatch_at` | timestamptz | NULL unless the pointer is in the §4.6 mismatch state |
| `audit_event_id` | uuid | NOT NULL, FK → the §1.8 audit event table |
plus the database constraint UNIQUE (`user_id`, `category_key`,
`brain_ref`) — the one-pointer rule is a constraint, not a
convention.
2. **Opacity.** `brain_ref` and every other pointer column MUST NOT
embed content or content-derived text (no titles, snippets, or
free-text descriptions). A locator is structural, not descriptive.
3. **`brain_ref` grammar and owner binding.** `brain_ref` is a
normalized repository-relative POSIX path: one or more segments
matching `[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]*`, joined by `/`, with no
leading `/`, no empty segment, and no `.` or `..` segment; the
stored form matches
`^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]*(/[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]*)*$`.
Resolution ALWAYS roots at the brain owned by the row's `user_id`
(the resolver takes the owner from the row, never from the
locator); the locator carries no repository, host, or user
component, so a cross-user or traversal reference is
unrepresentable, not merely forbidden. Resolution operates on the
brain repository's committed git tree (tree and blob objects),
never through filesystem path lookup: if any segment of the path
resolves to a symbolic link — or to anything other than a tree
(intermediate segments) or a blob (final segment) — resolution is
refused. A symlink therefore cannot redirect a locator outside the
owner's brain (witness §7.8).
4. **`content_hash` construction.** `content_hash` is
`hmac-sha256:<key id>:<hex>` — HMAC-SHA-256, keyed with a platform
integrity key held in the secrets backend and never stored in the
database or any repository, over the length-prefixed concatenation
of: a fixed domain-separation string naming this contract and the
construction version, the row's `user_id`, the row's
`category_key`, the `brain_ref`, and the canonical content bytes.
The canonical content bytes are the exact bytes of the committed
blob the locator resolves to (§4.3) — no normalization. Because
the input is domain-separated per (user, category, locator), equal
answers from different users or categories store different hashes:
the column is neither an offline dictionary oracle (external key)
nor an equality/correlation oracle across rows (domain
separation). `<key id>` names the key used; rotation introduces a
new key id for new writes, re-verification accepts any
still-registered key id, and a key is retired only when no stored
hash references it. On read, a hash mismatch refuses the read and
puts the pointer into the §4.6 mismatch state.
5. **Bounded orphan repair.** Pointers are deleted when their content
is deleted; dangling pointers are repaired toward deletion, never
toward re-creating content in the database. Reconciliation for a
user's pointers runs on two triggers: every profile write for that
user, and a periodic sweep whose interval the implementing PR
declares (at most daily). A pointer whose content is absent is
deleted by the next triggered reconciliation — an orphan survives
at most one cycle, and repair performs no database content write.
6. **Mismatch state.** A failed §4.4 verification stamps the pointer's
`mismatch_at` and the read is refused; every subsequent read of a
pointer with `mismatch_at` set is refused without re-serving
content. Reconciliation (§4.5 triggers) re-verifies each flagged
pointer: verification success clears `mismatch_at`; content absent
→ the pointer is deleted (§4.5); persistent mismatch → the pointer
is retained flagged with reads refused — the terminal outcome. The
subject's next successful profile write for that category replaces
the content, recomputes the hash, and clears the flag. Mismatch
handling never deletes brain content and never copies content into
the database.
7. **Managed deletion protocol.** A managed deletion of sensitive
content spans two stores and is an ordered protocol, not a single
transaction: step 1 commits the content deletion to the user's
brain repository; step 2, only after step 1 has committed, deletes
the pointer row in its own database transaction. Interruption
before step 1 commits leaves both stores unchanged. Interruption
between the steps leaves a dangling pointer, which §4.5 repairs
toward deletion within one reconciliation cycle. At no point does
any compensation write content into the database (witness §7.10).
## 5. Consent schema and evaluation
1. **Exact columns.** Table `profile_consents`, columns exactly:
| Column | Type | Constraints |
| ---------------- | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `id` | uuid | primary key |
| `user_id` | uuid | NOT NULL, FK → users(id) ON DELETE CASCADE (the data subject) |
| `grantee_type` | text | NOT NULL, CHECK in (`agent`, `connector`, `feature`) |
| `agent_id` | uuid | NULL, FK → the enrolled-agent table (§5.2) |
| `connector_id` | text | NULL, FK → custody_connector_registry(connector_key) (§5.2) |
| `feature_key` | text | NULL, FK → custody_feature_registry(feature_key) (§5.2) |
| `grantee_ref` | text | generated stored: COALESCE(agent_id::text, connector_id, feature_key) |
| `category_key` | text | NOT NULL, FK → profile_category_registry(category_key) |
| `state` | text | NOT NULL, CHECK in (`granted`, `revoked`) |
| `granted_at` | timestamptz | NOT NULL |
| `revoked_at` | timestamptz | CHECK ((state = 'granted') = (revoked_at IS NULL)) |
| `actor` | text | NOT NULL (the authenticated principal that recorded the change) |
| `audit_event_id` | uuid | NOT NULL, FK → the §1.8 audit event table |
plus: the CHECK that exactly one referent column is non-NULL and
matches the discriminant — `(grantee_type = 'agent') = (agent_id
IS NOT NULL)` AND `(grantee_type = 'connector') = (connector_id IS
NOT NULL)` AND `(grantee_type = 'feature') = (feature_key IS NOT
NULL)` — and the partial unique index UNIQUE (`user_id`,
`grantee_type`, `grantee_ref`, `category_key`) WHERE `state =
'granted'` — at most one active grant per (user, concrete grantee,
category), as a database constraint.
2. **Grantee reference model.** A grantee is identified by
(`grantee_type`, the matching referent column); its canonical
display form is `<grantee_type>:<grantee_ref>`. The discriminant
set is closed at the three CHECK values, and every referent is a
real foreign key:
- `agent``agent_id` references the **enrolled-agent table**: the
single platform table in which agent enrollment under
`identity-lifecycle.md` (the contract 5 §3.1 rank-4 command
family) records enrolled agents. No sibling contract names that
physical table, so the binding is by identity: the custody
migration orders after that table's migration, the implementing
PR binds this FK to it, and the §7.11 witness pins the physical
name by asserting the FK's referenced table is the one the
enrollment surface writes.
- `connector``connector_id` references this contract's own
table `custody_connector_registry`, columns exactly:
`connector_key` (text, primary key), `since_version` (integer,
NOT NULL), `created_at` (timestamptz, NOT NULL). Rows are added
ONLY by amendment to this contract (§2.1 pattern); the table is
EMPTY at version 1.
- `feature``feature_key` references this contract's own table
`custody_feature_registry`, with the same three-column shape
(`feature_key` primary key) and the same amendment-only rule;
EMPTY at version 1 (no feature grantee exists until an amendment
names one).
A consent row naming a nonexistent referent violates its FK and is
refused by the database. A grant to one agent confers nothing on
another agent of the same type; the constraint key includes
`grantee_ref`, so two same-type grantees are distinct rows.
3. **Default deny.** Absence of an active `granted` row for (user,
grantee, category) means no access. There are no implicit grants,
no platform-admin bypass, and no mode in which default-deny is
suspended.
4. **Mutation authority — two disjoint predicates.** Every consent
mutation must satisfy exactly one of:
- **Subject mutation**: the authenticated actor IS the row's data
subject — the server asserts `actor` equals the principal of the
row's `user_id` before the mutation commits. This is the only
predicate under which rows are created or granted. A platform
admin has no consent-mutation capability over another user's
rows — an admin self-grant is refused at write time, closing the
write-side route around §5.3.
- **System auto-revocation** (disclosed, §8): the actor is the
single named platform system principal, the mutation is a
granted → revoked flip and nothing else, and the server has
verified the precondition that the row's grantee has ceased to
exist (e.g. agent retirement under `identity-lifecycle.md`). A
system-actor mutation whose precondition does not hold, or that
is anything other than a revocation, is refused.
The predicates are disjoint (the system principal is not a data
subject); §7.12 witnesses both and their refusal complements, and
every §7.3-enumerated consent-mutation route asserts one of them.
5. **Revocation and re-grant.** Revocation flips exactly one active
row to `revoked` and stamps `revoked_at`; it is effective for every
access evaluated after the revoking write commits. Revoked rows are
retained as history and never mutated again — enforced by a
database trigger on `profile_consents` that permits UPDATE only
when it is the granted → revoked transition (the state flip plus
the `revoked_at` stamp, every other column unchanged) and rejects
every other UPDATE and every DELETE, so a revoked row cannot be
flipped back to `granted` by anyone, including through direct SQL
(witness §7.13). A re-grant after
revocation inserts a NEW row (append-only history) — repeated
grant/revoke cycles are represented as successive rows, and the
§5.1 partial unique index guarantees the old revoked rows cannot
keep access live.
6. **Evaluation placement.** Access to sensitive content is mediated by
the platform (Gateway/tooling) evaluating consent before any brain
read on behalf of a grantee; the evaluation fails closed
(`rbac-grant-model.md` §3.5 pattern), including when the consent
state cannot be read (§2.5 pattern). The user reading their own
data is not a grantee and needs no consent row.
7. Consent records govern agentic/feature access to user data. They are
distinct from hierarchy grants (contract 2) and confer no platform
authorization.
## 6. Mode application
1. The §2–§5 schemas are mode-independent: Standalone and Enterprise
use the same tables and the same routing rule.
2. **Standalone layouts.** The D14 physical split remains a MAY. Its
two valid layouts are: **split** — sensitive user content in a
per-user brain repository separate from the estate mosaic-brain
(the recommended default); **unsplit** — sensitive user content in
the dedicated user-files subtree `users/<user id>/` of the single
mosaic-brain. §3 binds the logical user-brain region identically in
both layouts; the layout election changes where the region lives,
never whether routing applies.
3. **Election record.** The election lives in this contract's own
one-row table `custody_config`, columns exactly: `id` (uuid,
primary key), `singleton` (boolean, NOT NULL, DEFAULT true, CHECK
(`singleton`), UNIQUE — the one-row rule as a database constraint:
a second row cannot satisfy the CHECK and the UNIQUE index
simultaneously), `standalone_layout` (text, NOT NULL, CHECK in
(`split`, `unsplit`), default `split`), `registry_version`
(integer, NOT NULL, §2.1), `elected_at` (timestamptz, NOT NULL),
`actor` (text, NOT NULL), `audit_event_id` (uuid, NOT NULL, FK →
the §1.8 audit event table). It is written at bootstrap and
amended only by an explicit operator action; contract 6's exact,
immutable mode record is not touched or extended by this contract.
The row is also the §2.6 fence anchor.
4. **Phase timing.** v1 ships the §2–§6 schemas and the D14 database
boundary, and the wizard collects no sensitive category in v1
(contract 3 §3), so v1 contains no sensitive write surface. §3
binds every sensitive write path from the moment one exists — the
first profile surface that accepts a sensitive category (P2/P3)
activates routing, consistent with contract 6 §5's v1 slice (D14
database boundary only, custody mechanics outside v1).
5. **Conversion precondition.** An operator electing `unsplit` accepts
conversion-time partitioning: `mode-conversion.md` §4.2 requires
the per-user partition to exist before the Enterprise flip, so
conversion from an unsplit install performs the partitioning first.
6. In Enterprise, the split is mandatory (D3 table); no-leakage between
users is enforced by §3 placement plus §5 default-deny — there is
no cross-user read path to sensitive content through the database,
because the database has no content to serve.
## 7. Verification requirements
Binding on the implementing PRs. Every witness below MUST name, in its
implementation, the exact tables, columns, commands, and source roots
it scans; "the custody tables" means `profile_category_registry`,
`profile_pointers`, `profile_consents`, `custody_config`,
`custody_connector_registry`, and `custody_feature_registry`; "the
declared profile table" means `profile_answers` (§3.5).
1. **Column-allowlist witness** (hierarchy contract §6.2 style): the
custody tables' live column sets are exactly
§2.1/§4.1/§5.1/§5.2/§6.3 and `profile_answers` is exactly §3.5;
no platform table outside `profile_answers` carries profile
answer content; and every `audit_event_id` FK (§3.5, §4.1, §5.1,
§6.3) references the same physical table that the contract-1
(hierarchy §5.2) audit write path inserts into (§1.8 binding).
2. **Column-type allowlist witness:** the custody tables and
`profile_answers` use only the column types named in
§2.1/§3.5/§4.1/§5.1/§5.2/§6.3 (uuid, text, integer, timestamptz,
boolean) — no bytea, json/jsonb, array, vector, or tsvector
column exists in them, closing the encoded/derived-representation
routes by type rather than by probe alone.
3. **Closed write-route witness** (hierarchy contract §6.3, full
prong set): a static, re-export-aware inventory over `apps/`,
`packages/`, and `plugins/` (production code, tests excluded)
enumerates every module that writes the custody tables,
`profile_answers`, or profile answers generally, detecting access
through each of hierarchy §6.3's prongs — schema-symbol imports,
SQL string literals naming the tables, raw-execution primitives,
and runtime code construction — with the database client reachable
only through a closed importer allowlist. Every enumerated write
route implements §3.3 registry routing inside the §2.6 fence, and
every enumerated consent-mutation route asserts a §5.4 predicate;
a route outside the enumeration, or a client import outside the
allowlist, fails the assertion.
4. **Closed brain-read witness** (same style): the inventory enumerates
every production route that reads user-brain content on behalf of a
grantee, and every enumerated route calls the §5.6 consent
evaluation; a brain-read route outside the enumeration fails.
5. **Routing witness:** a sensitive-category answer submitted through
the profile surface results in a brain write plus a pointer row and
zero content bytes in the database; a non-sensitive answer lands in
its declared table. The no-content probe is a negative control: the
witness first plants the fixture text in a scratch column of a
throwaway table to prove the probe detects it, then asserts its
absence — as plaintext, base64, hex, and JSON-string encodings —
across every column of every table in the platform database: §3.1
bans sensitive content in every column of every table, so the
probe scope is the entire schema, not only the custody tables.
6. **Registry witnesses:** (a) the version-1 registry state is exactly
the seven §2.2 rows with their classifications; (b) a
`professional-background` answer routes relationally (or per the
ruling's alternative); (c) an unknown `category_key` is refused
with nothing stored (§2.3); (d) with the registry unreadable, the
write is refused (§2.5); (e) a runtime insert/update/delete against
`profile_category_registry` outside a migration is refused (§2.1);
(f) a reclassification migration (non-sensitive → sensitive) on
seeded data moves the values to brains, creates pointers, and
leaves zero relational values (§2.4); (g) fence race: a profile
write transaction opened before a reclassification migration takes
its exclusive lock either commits before the scan (its value is
swept) or blocks and, on commit, routes by the new version — the
witness drives both interleavings and asserts no relational value
for the reclassified category exists after either completes
(§2.6); (h) with `custody_config.registry_version` set to a value
the release does not declare, profile writes and consent decisions
are refused (§2.7); (i) sensitive → non-sensitive: after the
version bump, existing brain content and pointers remain intact
and readable, nothing is materialized into the database, and the
next write for that category lands in `profile_answers` (§2.4).
7. **Server-side classification witness:** a client-supplied
classification or routing override on a profile write is ignored;
the registry decision is applied (§3.3).
8. **Pointer-constraint witnesses:** inserting a second pointer for the
same (user, category, brain_ref) violates the §4.1 unique
constraint; a `brain_ref` failing the §4.3 grammar (leading `/`,
`..` segment, empty segment) is rejected by the CHECK; resolution
of a valid `brain_ref` under user A's row never reads user B's
brain (owner binding, §4.3); with a symlink committed at a
locator's path or as an intermediate segment, resolution is
refused and no content outside the owner's brain is read (§4.3
tree-object rule).
9. **Hash witnesses:** `content_hash` verifies via the keyed §4.4
construction; the database value alone, without the external key,
does not equal any unkeyed digest of the fixture content (oracle
control); the same fixture content stored for two users, and for
two categories of one user, yields different stored hashes
(domain-separation control — no cross-row equality oracle); after
a key rotation, a pointer written under the old key id still
verifies and a new write stores the new key id; a mismatch refuses
the read and stamps `mismatch_at`, subsequent reads stay refused,
reconciliation of a persistently mismatched pointer retains it
flagged without deleting brain content or writing content to the
database, and the subject's re-write clears the flag (§4.4, §4.6).
10. **Orphan and deletion-protocol witnesses:** starting from a
PRE-EXISTING orphan (content already absent, pointer present),
the next triggered reconciliation deletes the pointer and writes
no content anywhere in the database (§4.5). The §4.7 protocol is
fault-injected at both interruption points: killed before the
brain commit, both stores are unchanged; killed between the brain
commit and the pointer delete, the dangling pointer is deleted by
the next reconciliation — and at no point is content written to
the database or restored to the brain.
11. **Default-deny and granularity witnesses:** an agent grantee with
no active row is refused; with a `granted` row for category A
only, category B is refused; with agent X granted, agent Y of the
same type is refused for the same (user, category); `connector`
and `feature` are exercised via their FK refusal paths, since
both registries are empty at version 1 (§5.2); a consent insert
naming a nonexistent agent id violates the `agent_id` FK, and the
witness pins that FK's referenced table as the one the enrollment
surface writes (§5.2 binding); a platform admin requesting
another user's sensitive content through any production read
surface is refused — admins are not a grantee type and
default-deny applies (the access-time complement of §7.12's
write-time refusal); a hierarchy owner or manager grant over the
subject confers no consent access (§5.7); with the consent state
unreadable, evaluation refuses (§5.6).
12. **Mutation-authority witnesses:** a platform admin attempting to
create a grant on another user's data is refused at write time; a
hierarchy owner or manager likewise; the data subject succeeds;
`actor` equals the subject's principal on every subject-mutation
row; retiring an enrolled agent auto-revokes its active rows with
the system principal as `actor` and granted → revoked as the only
change; a system-principal mutation whose grantee still exists,
or that attempts anything other than a revocation, is refused —
the two §5.4 predicates are witnessed as disjoint (§5.4).
13. **Revocation/re-grant witnesses:** after revocation commits, the
next evaluation refuses and the revoked row persists unmutated; a
full grant → revoke → re-grant cycle yields two rows (one
revoked, one active) and access follows only the active row; a
second concurrent grant attempt for the same key violates the
§5.1 partial unique index; a direct SQL UPDATE flipping a revoked
row back to `granted`, an UPDATE altering any other column of a
revoked row, and a DELETE of any row are each rejected by the
§5.5 trigger (§5.5).
14. **Self-access witness:** the data subject reads their own content
without consent rows (§5.6).
15. **Mode witnesses:** the custody-table schemas are byte-identical
under Standalone and Enterprise migrations (§6.1); a fresh
Standalone bootstrap records `standalone_layout = 'split'` by
default, and an explicit opt-out records `unsplit` with actor and
audit linkage (§6.3); conversion from an `unsplit` install refuses
the mode flip until partitioning has produced the per-user region
(§6.5, with contract 6 §4.2); in an Enterprise fixture with two
users, user A's grantee with a grant on user A cannot reach any of
user B's content (§6.6); inserting a second `custody_config` row
violates the §6.3 singleton constraint.
## 8. Drafting additions (PRD §12.1 disclosure)
The following are proposed drafting additions, visible here for
ratification; none is claimed as a PRD mandate, and each is severable:
1. The `feature` grantee type, with a contract-owned registry table
that is empty at version 1 (§5.2).
2. Append-only consent history: re-grants insert new rows; revoked
rows are retained unmutated, enforced by trigger (§5.5).
3. System-actor auto-revocation when a grantee ceases to exist, as a
precondition-checked predicate disjoint from subject mutation
(§5.4).
4. The `custody_config` election record for the Standalone layout,
singleton by constraint (§6.3).
5. The domain-separated keyed `content_hash` construction, its key
rotation rule, and the `mismatch_at` pointer state (§4.4, §4.6).
6. The bounded dangling-pointer reconciliation policy and the ordered
managed-deletion protocol (§4.5, §4.7).
7. The column-type allowlist verification requirement (§7.2).
8. The amendment-only, versioned registry classifier itself, its
unknown-key refusal, and both reclassification transition policies
(§2.1, §2.3, §2.4).
9. The custody-config write fence and the declared supported-version
refusal (§2.6, §2.7).
10. Subject-only consent mutation authority (§5.4, first predicate).
11. The declared non-sensitive profile table `profile_answers` and
its closed schema (§3.5).
12. The typed grantee referent columns, the
`custody_connector_registry` and `custody_feature_registry`
tables, and the audit-table binding by identity (§5.1, §5.2,
§1.8).
13. Shipping all §2–§6 schemas in v1 ahead of any sensitive write
surface (§6.4).
The revision-1 "reporting" rationale for relational
background/education storage is withdrawn; the traced rationale is
agent configuration (PRD D4).
## Ruling request
Ruling requested (one decision): classify `professional-background`
and `education` as **non-sensitive** in the version-1 registry (stored
relationally, used for agent configuration) — or, as the alternative,
classify both **sensitive** (user-brain custody with pointers),
accepting that agent-configuration reads then go through pointer
indirection and consent evaluation?