Ratifies the Mosaic Stack PRD rev1 (Jason Woltje, 2026-09-01) as project source of truth and installs the GOV.1 lifecycle model: - docs/PRD.md becomes a permanent shim (kind: shim, current_rev -> docs/PRDs/2026-08-31_PRD_rev1/). Its path never changes again. - docs/PRDs/2026-08-26_PRD_rev0/PRD.md archives the 2026-08-26 North Star verbatim (sha256 60cc2f98...36afdf unchanged). Archive, never delete. - docs/PRDs/2026-08-31_PRD_rev1/ is the frozen rev1 bundle: 18 sectioned documents (VIS, DATA, AUTHN, AUTHZ, SEAT, ROLE, HARN, PROV, SESS, UI, CLI, GOV.1-5) consolidating rev0 D1-D15, the fleet north star, the agent-runtime L1/L2 contracts and the control-plane-surfaces lane findings, with a single decision map (GOV.3) and a closed open-questions frontier (GOV.5, grill rounds 1-8). Drafting inputs (_source-* snapshots) are not shipped. Consequences of the ratified rulings carried in the same change: - Q-T1 (ruling B, "shipped but frozen"): D3 amended in GOV.3/VIS.1; federation M1-M3 acknowledged as shipped behind tier === 'federated', excluded from the v1 bar and frozen, with a security re-audit gate before any resumption. docs/MISSION-MANIFEST.md, docs/federation/MISSION-MANIFEST.md and docs/scratchpads/mvp-20260312.md get status: superseded + banners (content preserved verbatim); docs/guides/deployment.md gains a "Relationship to the PRD (D15)" section. NORTH_STAR.yaml adds dormant workstream M (projects no goals by design); NORTH_STAR.md regenerated. - Q-G2 (distinct registry prefixes): every citation of the operator DECISION-REGISTER in the bundle reads OD-nn; the stack registry stays D1-D15; L1-Dnn/L2-Dnn untouched. Prefix rule recorded in GOV.1. Follow-ups (not in this PR): CI parity drift-gate witness (Q-C1); brain-side DECISION-REGISTER rename to OD- with redirect table on its next touch.
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| ROLE.1 | ratified | 2026-09-01 (Jason Woltje; PRD rev1 ratification PR) |
ROLE.1 — Role governance and configuration
What a role is
A role is the reviewed, Git-owned capability ceiling for a class of seats:
Role Definition → immutable, digested Role Revisions → the active revision
projects mosaic-core.manifest.json and role-scoped settings. Authority table:
DATA.1-record-authority. Enforcement: AUTHZ.1-capability-authority.
The separation rule (Jason, 2026-08-31 — closes gap G6)
- The seat configuration surface NEVER directly modifies role config.
- The role configuration surface NEVER directly modifies seat config.
- A seat page writes at most a per-seat overlay, never the role file.
The original role-harness-config/DESIGN.md sentence constrained a surface it
never named — both readings were faithful, and reviewer context decided the
meaning. The staged amendment names the surface explicitly.
Role configuration surface (WebUI page + CLI)
| Control | Notes |
|---|---|
| manifest editing | capability grants against the C1–C8 (later open) registry; schema-validated before commit |
| revision management | create revision, diff against active, activate, roll back — every revision immutable and digested |
| role links | which seats bind this role (read-only here; binding happens on the seat surface — see SEAT.1-seat-profile) |
| projection status | whether each bound seat's on-disk projection matches the active revision (role check class) |
All writes go through the one canonical role-management API (L2-D14) shared with the CLI — the WebUI holds no separate role logic. Role management is principal-only (L2-D13): no agent identity may ever invoke these operations, and the API enforces that, not the page.
Manifest invariants (must survive any surface)
- Committed, non-symlink, trusted-path —
mosaic-core's loader refuses violations; no surface may "fix" that by writing a symlink. - Nothing env-overridable, nothing cwd-relative.
tools[]equals exactly the bound bindings of granted capabilities.- Role cross-checked against path at load.
Specialization model (pulled 2026-08-31 from SPECIALIZATION-MODEL draft)
Four layers: Role (decision ownership and prohibited actions — few, stable) → Seat (durable identity performing the role) → Specialization (recurring domain/tools/behavior — open-ended, composable, never changes authority) → Task (current activity). Rules:
- A seat has exactly one role at a time; never activate a second role
inside a session. If authority changes,
mosaic configreconfigures the seat and the coordinator starts a clean session — seat identity, history, and authorship survive; the old lease is revoked and a new incarnation starts. (Independent confirmation of register OD-02/OD-03 and the SESS.1-session-continuity two-operations rule.) - Promotion to a new role only when decision ownership or prohibited actions materially differ; otherwise a formal specialization profile. Promotion triggers: different authority/external side effects, distinct credential/identity/data boundaries, added compliance controls, stable machine-readable I/O contract, required independence, deterministic gate behavior, repeated cross-seat use.
- Ad-hoc task-scoped specialization is valid only inside existing authority, with no new credential/safety/independence boundary; it dies with the task unless intentionally promoted.
- Anti-patterns: per-topic role explosion; role-subtype hierarchies no workflow consumes; model IDs or harness syntax inside specialization definitions; using specialization to bypass role authority or gates.
E2 inputs (triage 2026-08-31; see GOV.2-docs-inventory)
Canonical ground truth: fleet/reference/role-classes.md,
fleet/concepts/role-authority-and-leases.md, fleet/how-to/customize-roles.md
(baseline + roles.local resolver), fleet/migration/legacy-class-aliases.md,
ADMIN-GUIDE/security/discord-ingress.md (viewer/operator/admin precedent).
Pending pulls: brain docs/guides/proposed/SPECIALIZATION-MODEL.md
(Role/Seat/Specialization/Task layering — the conceptual basis of this
section's separation rule); plans/2026-08-29-agent-enrollment-command-design.md
(enrollment authority composed across three contracts — fragility to fix or document).
Naming hazard: "Tess"/"Ultron" are roster-class display aliases in fleet
how-tos and named product identities elsewhere (defect N6) — qualify every use.