Security: the assurance case by arpanghoshal · Pull Request #18 · CTRLRun/ctrlrun-docs

arpanghoshal · 2026-09-13T19:54:53Z

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A new page, docs/security/assurance-case.mdx, in the Security group after the threat model. It argues, with its evidence, why the three guarantees the threat model states can be relied on:

the three requirements (R1 effects, R2 approval, R3 evidence) and what each means for one call;
the trust boundary, and its edge (the kernel does not defend against itself);
Saltzer and Schroeder's principles, each mapped to the architecture decision that carries it and to the verify guarantee or test that would catch a regression;
the implementation weaknesses the kernel counters (replay, hash ambiguity, TOCTOU, lost updates, timing, weak secrets, plaintext transport, token confusion, unsafe deserialization, SQL injection, tampered evidence, vulnerable dependencies, type confusion), each with its counter and its check;
the evidence, and what the argument does not cover (the threat model's out-of-scope list, no external review yet, adapters and gateway deployments).

Nothing on the page is a new claim: every row points at a specification section, a verify guarantee, a test suite or a workflow that already exists. This is the assurance_case criterion of the OpenSSF Best Practices silver level, and the hardening and implement_secure_design rows cite it.

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- Added a security assurance-case page to the Architecture documentation.
- Documents CTRLRun’s security requirements, trust boundaries, design principles, safeguards, evidence sources, testing practices, and known limitations.

One page that argues, with its evidence, why the three guarantees the threat model states can be relied on: the requirements, the trust boundary, Saltzer and Schroeder's principles mapped to the design decisions that carry them, the implementation weaknesses the kernel counters and where a regression in each would be caught, the evidence, and what the argument does not cover. Every row cites the specification, the verify guarantee or the test suite that holds it; nothing on the page is a new claim. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>

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The PR adds a security assurance-case document and links it from the Architecture tab’s Security navigation group. The document defines requirements, trust boundaries, design principles, controls, evidence sources, and coverage limits.

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Security assurance case

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Assurance scope and security model `docs/security/assurance-case.mdx`	Defines the three kernel requirements, trust boundary, design principles, implementation locations, and verification evidence.
Controls, evidence, and limitations `docs/security/assurance-case.mdx`	Documents implementation weaknesses, countermeasures, evidence sources, and explicit coverage limits.
Documentation navigation `docs.json`	Adds `docs/security/assurance-case` to the Architecture tab’s Security group.

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The published assurance case overstates two security guarantees. Correct the receipt-retention and verification-boundary limitations before merge so readers do not rely on unsupported assurance claims.

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- Line 19: Update the R3 integrity requirement and its evidence row to qualify
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- Around line 91-92: Update the ctrlrun verify description in the assurance case
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arpanghoshal · 2026-09-13T20:00:01Z

The red check here is test_the_claims_table_line_numbers_point_at_what_they_name: CLAIMS.md on main is 97 rows stale against the kernel's main after today's v0.10 merges (#174 to #178 there), which any run of this suite against the kernel's main reports, page or no page. This pull request does not touch CLAIMS.md. #19 repoints the table (against CTRLRun/ctrlrun#181's tree); once #181 there and #19 here merge, a rerun of this check is green. lint.py, links.py and snippets.py pass on this branch.

…nd does not exercise Two review findings folded in: R3 and the tampered-evidence row now say the chain detects an edit, a reordering or a deletion within the retained chain and cannot see an erased tail, as the receipt-chain page states; the verify bullet says it runs in a scratch store with fake executors and no network, and the closing section gives adapter behaviour to the conformance kit. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>

…ease branch Main brought #1 (the Pythons CI tests, read rather than typed), #18 (the assurance case) and #21 (the README test and the badge generator). The readiness block conflicted on both sides' regenerations; regenerated once more against the kernel's release/0.10.0 and pasted fresh. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>

`main` has been red since #18, #1 and #21 landed: three push runs failed in a row, all on `docs/security/assurance-case.mdx`. Every branch cut afterwards inherits it, this one included, so the release cannot go green without fixing it. Four are the page's, one is the list's. - **The description was 198 characters**, and the limit is 155 because that is where a search result truncates. Rewritten to say the same thing in one sentence. - **No `## Next`**, which every `.mdx` carries so a reader is never left at the bottom of a page with nowhere to go. Added, with four links. - **No link to Why and none to Get started.** Both are in that section now. - **`SEO.md` had no row.** The file is the plan, one row per page; a page with no row is a page nobody decided what it was for. Query and definitional sentence added beside the other `docs/security/` rows. - **1,816 words against a 900 budget.** `security/assurance-case` joins `LONG_FORM`, where `THREAT_MODEL`, `ARCHITECTURE`, `CLAIMS` and the OWASP pages already are. Cutting an assurance case to 900 words means dropping either a claim or the evidence under one, and a claim without its evidence is what the page exists to refuse. The reason is in the list beside the entry. Readiness regenerated after the merge: **6,066** tests, pasted into both homes.

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The assurance case fits the site's rules: description, SEO row, Next block, long-form #23

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