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Item 7 of v0.8 (docs/SPEC-v0.8.md §8). The policy is the one file that decides every other decision, and until now it was changed by editing it. v0.6 made the change evidenced: every receipt records the hash of the policy that decided it. This makes it approved.

ctrlrun policy propose --file new.yaml
ctrlrun approve <request>              # there is no `ctrlrun policy approve`
Control(policy, store, require_approved_policy=True)

An ordinary action, which is why §8 adds no event type

ctrlrun.policy.change has an ordinary action hash, an ordinary effect key (policy:<hash>), ordinary events and an ordinary receipt. v0.1 §6.2's vocabulary already describes a proposal, an approval request, a grant, a consumption and a commit — the whole life of a policy change. So §2, §3 and §4 apply with no second path to keep correct: T363 drives an unverifiable approver, an unentitled one and the proposer approving their own change; T364 drives M-of-N.

The approval is per deployment, and that is not obvious: the hash folds in the effective authority and environment, so the same file in staging and prod is two hashes and two approvals. T353 pins it, and pins that comments, key order and whitespace move nothing.

The name is reserved and declarable, which a first draft had backwards. A name no document may declare is a name evaluate answers unknown_action for, so every proposal is denied, no committed receipt is ever written, and a deployment requiring an approved policy denies every action for ever. The two rules were mutually exclusive; T357 is the end-to-end flow the corrected rule exists to make possible.

What the independent review found

Four blocking, and the first two mean neither hole §8.2.1 claimed to close was closed.

1. The exemption was taken before the declaration check. _require_approved returned early for the policy change, so "the policy in force must declare its own change with decision: approve" applied to every action except the policy change. From a cold store: P1 declares ctrlrun.policy.change: {decision: allow}; proposing a different policy P2 commits with no approval and no approver; P2 declares the change as an approval, and the deployment under P2 finds a committed marker and decides normally. Nobody approved P2 at all. The test covering this before proposed the policy already in force, where the declaration branch happens to catch it.

2. The marker was mintable by any allowed action, three ways. The loader tested the raw template; the key reaching commit_effect is expanded from agent-supplied arguments and was never re-checked.

Vector How
an ordinary-looking policy effect: "{scheme}:{ref}", called with scheme="policy"
deliberate evasion effect: "{p}olicy:{ref}" — the template does not begin with the prefix; the resolved key does
no template at all execute(action, executor, "policy:<hash>")effect_key is a public parameter

One rule on the resolved key in execute closes all three. The loader check stays as a convenience that names the mistake at load time; this is the guard.

3. Observe mode minted the marker with no human. Observe mode requests no approval and still reserves and commits, and observe-then-enforce is the documented adoption path — so every hash proposed during the observe phase was pre-approved for the enforce phase. Proposing under mode: observe is now refused. The mirror image was the same missing branch: _require_approved raised while observing, making policy_unapproved a would_have.blocked_reason §11.1 lists and the code could never produce.

4. In already-merged item 6: refresh() was reachable only from revoked(), and the provider raised on stale() first. PollingRevocationFeed starts with read_at=None, so with any bound set it was stale on the first resolution, refused every credential for ever, and made zero HTTP polls. The file feed recovered from nothing.

And G21 passed with §8.4's enforcement deleted — the guarded control used the operator's document, which does not declare the change action, so the declaration branch short-circuited and the effect branch, which is what G21's title is about, was never reached. The same false-green shape as item 3's G17. Verify now supplies a document that declares one, and deleting the effect check makes G21 FAIL with "an action ran under a policy nobody approved".

Mutation table

# MUST removed Result
M1 an unapproved policy decides nothing caught (T354, T358)
M2 the policy must declare its own change caught (T358)
M3 the approval is a committed keyed effect caught (T354)
M4 the exemption is one action, by name caught (T360)
M5 the reserved name needs the flow's marker caught (T359)
M6 a positive answer cached, a negative not caught (T362)
M7 nothing else may name the reserved action gap → test written
M8 the replay writes nothing equivalent mutant, redone → caught
M9 approving_actions is all-of, not any-of gap → test written

M9's rewrite is sharper than the original: a change rule of [approve above 1000, allow otherwise] is ignored on the change action's own arguments, which carry no amount, so the proposal would commit with nobody answering. The declaration rule is what still refuses — which is what all buys and any gives away.

Two spec sentences corrected rather than dropped

  • §8.4 and §8.6 said deleting the effect row is recorded as a chain break. It is not: the chain is over receipts, and deleting an effects row touches none. That is the "documented as detection, implemented as nothing" shape §8.6 exists to avoid.
  • §8.6 said an unapproved deployment "refuses every action". True of every new action, not of a resumed continuation: Control.resume re-evaluates policy without the gate, and v0.6 §7.2.3's argument for that is sound. The sentence moved, not the behaviour.

Also

ctrlrun policy propose --as made the proposer an unverified assertion — propose as somebody else, approve with your own credential, and the requester-is-not-approver check sees two principals. Removed, for the reason ctrlrun break-glass has no --as. --last 0 answered "no recorded decision changes", a verdict about the policy for an input that read nothing; refused.

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17/17 declared guarantees pass. 4 not applicable: G13, G15, G17, G19.        examples/authority/payments.yaml
11/11 declared guarantees pass. 10 not applicable: G3, G4, G5, G8, G9, G13, G14, G15, G17, G19.

3952 tests, 3m31s with Postgres, plus 56 serial.

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  • New Features

    • Added policy management commands for proposing policy changes and replaying recorded decisions against a candidate policy.
    • Added optional enforcement requiring policies to be approved before actions execute.
    • Added credential revocation support through file-based and HTTPS polling feeds, with stale feeds failing closed.
    • Added verification guarantees for revoked credentials and unapproved policies.
  • Documentation

    • Updated v0.8 documentation and changelog with policy approval, replay, and credential revocation behavior.
    • Clarified receipt verification and policy-resumption behavior.

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The change adds protected policy-change workflows, policy replay, JWT credential revocation feeds, and two verification guarantees. It updates CLI, control, policy, identity, receipt, documentation, tests, and CI expectations.

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Policy protection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Policy contracts and enforcement
src/ctrlrun/policy.py, src/ctrlrun/control.py, src/ctrlrun/receipt.py
Adds reserved policy-change actions, approval validation, protected effect keys, policy rebuilding, approval caching, and receipt schema validation.
Policy proposal and replay workflows
src/ctrlrun/control.py, src/ctrlrun/cli/main.py
Adds policy proposal and replay operations. Proposals use approval and effect recording. Replay reports decision changes without modifying state.
Policy verification and validation
src/ctrlrun/verify/*, tests/test_policy_change.py, tests/test_demo.py, tests/test_policy_versioning.py, CHANGELOG.md, docs/SPEC-v0.8.md
Adds G21 coverage and tests for policy hashing, approval rules, reserved actions, caching, replay, and CLI behavior. Updates specification and changelog text.

Credential revocation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Revocation feed implementations
src/ctrlrun/revocation.py, pyproject.toml
Adds file and HTTPS polling feeds that consume Security Event Tokens, track revocations, enforce staleness bounds, and reject unsafe polling configurations.
JWT resolution checks
src/ctrlrun/jwt_identity.py
Adds optional revocation-feed checks during JWT resolution. Revoked credentials and stale covered feeds raise IdentityError.
Revocation verification and tests
src/ctrlrun/verify/*, tests/test_revocation_feed.py, tests/test_verify*.py, .github/workflows/ci.yml, CHANGELOG.md
Adds G20 coverage and tests for matching, staleness, recovery, polling, parsing, and import behavior. Updates guarantee counts and revocation documentation.

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Policy proposal and approval

sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant CLI
  participant Control
  participant Store
  Operator->>CLI: run policy propose
  CLI->>Control: submit candidate policy
  Control->>Store: create approval request
  Store-->>CLI: return pending or committed receipt
  Operator->>CLI: run approve
  CLI->>Store: record approval
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JWT revocation resolution

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant JWTIdentityProvider
  participant RevocationFeed
  participant IdentityContext
  Client->>JWTIdentityProvider: resolve JWT
  JWTIdentityProvider->>RevocationFeed: refresh and check issuer, subject, and token ID
  RevocationFeed-->>JWTIdentityProvider: return live, revoked, or stale
  JWTIdentityProvider-->>IdentityContext: return identity or IdentityError
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The change adds approved-policy enforcement and JWT credential revocation. A few issues should be settled first: revoked token identifiers are matched without regard to which issuer revoked them, the documented feed interface omits a method the provider actually requires (so a custom feed can end up refusing all credentials), observe-mode pilots can under-report unapproved-policy refusals, and the verification run leaves a database connection open. None of these break the ordinary approved-policy flow, but the revocation matching and feed interface should be resolved before relying on this in production.

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src/ctrlrun/receipt.py (1)

61-61: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Derive the known set from _KEYS.

_KEYS at Line 94 already maps exactly these five labels. Two hand-maintained lists of the same schema labels drift: a _V6 added to _KEYS and missed here makes _replay_policy report receipts as an unreadable schema that this binary does read.

♻️ Proposed change

Move the constant below _KEYS and derive it:

-KNOWN_RECEIPT_SCHEMAS: Final = frozenset({_V1, _V2, _V3, _V4, _V5})
+KNOWN_RECEIPT_SCHEMAS: Final = frozenset(_KEYS)
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In `@src/ctrlrun/receipt.py` at line 61, Derive KNOWN_RECEIPT_SCHEMAS from the
keys of _KEYS instead of maintaining a separate hard-coded schema set. Move its
definition below _KEYS and preserve the resulting frozenset behavior used by
_replay_policy.
src/ctrlrun/policy.py (1)

834-834: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make with_action private, or name every key it drops.

The method is public on Policy, and the docstring says it is verify's and nothing else's. The rebuilt document keeps only schema, actions decisions and environment. It drops mode, version, the controls registry, every entry's controls, effect, resource, mcp, data, max_attempts and approvals_required, and every rule's when. A caller outside verify therefore gets a policy that decides differently and hashes differently, with no error.

This codebase keeps _propose_policy, _delegate and _break_glass private for the same reason. Rename to _with_action so the surface matches the contract, and list the dropped keys in the docstring so a future caller sees the cost.

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In `@src/ctrlrun/policy.py` at line 834, Rename Policy.with_action to _with_action
and update all internal call sites, matching the private naming used by
_propose_policy, _delegate, and _break_glass. Expand the method docstring to
explicitly list the policy and entry/rule keys omitted when rebuilding the
document, including mode, version, controls, effect, resource, mcp, data,
max_attempts, approvals_required, and when.
src/ctrlrun/control.py (1)

798-798: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The reserved effect-key prefix is spelled literally in four places while _POLICY_EFFECT_PREFIX exists. src/ctrlrun/control.py Line 222 defines the constant, and only the execute guard uses it. The writer, the reader and the loader check each repeat the string, so a change to the prefix silently splits them and a deployment with require_approved_policy=True denies every action.

  • src/ctrlrun/control.py#L798: read the marker with f"{_POLICY_EFFECT_PREFIX}{self._policy_hash}", and apply the same substitution to the two f"policy:{target}" keys in _propose_policy at Lines 3206 and 3208.
  • src/ctrlrun/policy.py#L1408: import the prefix and compare with entry.effect.startswith(_POLICY_EFFECT_PREFIX) instead of the literal 'policy:'. Export the constant from control.py, or move it beside POLICY_CHANGE_ACTION in policy.py and import it into control.py, so both modules read one definition.
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In `@src/ctrlrun/control.py` at line 798, Use one shared _POLICY_EFFECT_PREFIX
definition for all policy effect keys. In src/ctrlrun/control.py lines 798 and
3206-3208, update the reader and _propose_policy writer keys to use the
constant; in src/ctrlrun/policy.py line 1408, import it and update the
entry.effect check. Ensure both modules reference the same exported definition
rather than literal policy prefixes.
tests/test_policy_change.py (1)

864-865: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The second assertion is vacuous.

_replay_policy is called with the policy already in force, so no decision changes and rows is empty — test_T365_a_policy_that_changes_nothing_reports_nothing asserts exactly that. all(...) over an empty list is True, so the "skipped" not in row check can never fail. The substantive claim of this test is the _from_receipt assertion above it.

Either drop the second assertion, or replay a policy that does change decisions so rows is non-empty and the check discriminates.

💚 Proposed fix
-    rows = control._replay_policy(Policy.from_yaml(POLICY), limit=100)
+    stricter = Policy.from_yaml(
+        POLICY.replace(
+            "  payments.refund:\n    decision: allow", "  payments.refund:\n    decision: deny"
+        )
+    )
+    rows = control._replay_policy(stricter, limit=100)
+    assert rows, "the replay reported nothing, so the check below asserts nothing"
     assert all("skipped" not in row for row in rows), "nothing in this store is unreadable"
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In `@tests/test_policy_change.py` around lines 864 - 865, Remove the vacuous
all("skipped" not in row for row in rows) assertion from the test around
_replay_policy, since rows is intentionally empty when replaying the unchanged
Policy. Keep the substantive _from_receipt assertion and the test’s existing
no-change behavior intact.
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Inline comments:
In `@docs/SPEC-v0.8.md`:
- Around line 1432-1435: Update the refusal statement in the policy-deletion
discussion to apply only to non-policy-change actions, preserving the documented
exception for ctrlrun.policy.change in §8.4 and its ability to restore the
deleted policy marker.

In `@src/ctrlrun/control.py`:
- Around line 1380-1383: Move the require-approved-policy state check from
_observe_secure to execute, beside the existing _require_approved check, so
policy_unapproved is recorded before authority and policy evaluation in observe
mode. Remove the duplicate approval check from _observe_secure while preserving
the existing observation blocking behavior.
- Line 4058: Update KNOWN_RECEIPT_SCHEMAS to include the empty-string schema
value so receipts created without a schema key can pass the check in
_action_from_receipt and be replayed normally.

In `@src/ctrlrun/jwt_identity.py`:
- Around line 295-298: Update the feed validation flow around revoked() and
_stale so it does not require or invoke an undeclared refresh() method: call
feed.revoked() once first and retain its result, then perform the staleness
check using the refreshed feed state, allowing feeds with read_at=None to
complete their initial read before rejection.

In `@src/ctrlrun/receipt.py`:
- Around line 168-172: The test
test_every_approval_refusal_reason_is_counted_by_stats currently derives refusal
reasons only from approval.py; extend its source enumeration to include
policy.py so POLICY_UNAPPROVED and future policy refusal constants are validated
against the statistics buckets.

In `@src/ctrlrun/revocation.py`:
- Line 110: Update the revocation tracking around _token_ids to store issuer/JTI
pairs instead of bare JTI values, and require the issuer when consuming jwt_id
identifiers so revocations remain scoped per issuer. Adjust related membership
and insertion logic while preserving existing behavior, and add a test covering
identical JTIs issued by two different issuers.
- Around line 167-170: Update _subject_of so opaque identifiers with an iss
value match both the issuer/identifier pair and the jti/identifier pair, while
preserving the existing behavior for non-opaque subjects. Adjust the caller’s
matching logic as needed to accept all applicable identifiers and reject tokens
lacking either required match.

In `@src/ctrlrun/verify/scenarios.py`:
- Around line 3492-3494: Update the G21 selection flow around select and
unselected so its N/A reason remains true when actions reach Decision.APPROVE.
Either include APPROVE in the initial decision filter and grant approval via
self.approve before the guarded attempt, or re-select without the decision
filter and choose a reason that accurately describes the document; preserve
G21’s documented never-N/A behavior.
- Around line 3501-3503: Hoist the _control_for call for “G21-guarded” out of
the body closure so guarded_store is available to the scenario’s finally block,
then close guarded_store there alongside store. Keep the existing control
arguments and scenario behavior unchanged.

In `@tests/test_verify.py`:
- Around line 874-878: Update the denominator regression assertion near the
existing report-text checks to reject “21/21” instead of “20/20”, matching the
11 passing and 10 not-applicable guarantees established by the test setup.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/ctrlrun/control.py`:
- Line 798: Use one shared _POLICY_EFFECT_PREFIX definition for all policy
effect keys. In src/ctrlrun/control.py lines 798 and 3206-3208, update the
reader and _propose_policy writer keys to use the constant; in
src/ctrlrun/policy.py line 1408, import it and update the entry.effect check.
Ensure both modules reference the same exported definition rather than literal
policy prefixes.

In `@src/ctrlrun/policy.py`:
- Line 834: Rename Policy.with_action to _with_action and update all internal
call sites, matching the private naming used by _propose_policy, _delegate, and
_break_glass. Expand the method docstring to explicitly list the policy and
entry/rule keys omitted when rebuilding the document, including mode, version,
controls, effect, resource, mcp, data, max_attempts, approvals_required, and
when.

In `@src/ctrlrun/receipt.py`:
- Line 61: Derive KNOWN_RECEIPT_SCHEMAS from the keys of _KEYS instead of
maintaining a separate hard-coded schema set. Move its definition below _KEYS
and preserve the resulting frozenset behavior used by _replay_policy.

In `@tests/test_policy_change.py`:
- Around line 864-865: Remove the vacuous all("skipped" not in row for row in
rows) assertion from the test around _replay_policy, since rows is intentionally
empty when replaying the unchanged Policy. Keep the substantive _from_receipt
assertion and the test’s existing no-change behavior intact.

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Comment thread docs/SPEC-v0.8.md
Comment on lines +1432 to +1435
every action: a denial of service, fail closed. **The deletion itself is not detected.** An
earlier draft of this line said the receipt chain records it as a break, and an independent
review showed that is false: the chain is over *receipts* (`v0.6 §6.4`), and deleting an
`effects` row touches none of them, so `ctrlrun receipts --verify` still answers `ok`. That is

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Limit the refusal claim to non-policy-change actions.

ctrlrun.policy.change is exempt from the approved-policy gate in §8.4. After an administrator deletes policy:<hash>, a new policy-change action can still run and restore the marker. Replace “every action” with “every non-policy-change action” so this residual does not contradict the recovery path.

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In `@docs/SPEC-v0.8.md` around lines 1432 - 1435, Update the refusal statement in
the policy-deletion discussion to apply only to non-policy-change actions,
preserving the documented exception for ctrlrun.policy.change in §8.4 and its
ability to restore the deleted policy marker.

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if self._require_approved_policy and action.name != POLICY_CHANGE_ACTION:
reason, _ = self._policy_approval_state()
if reason is not None:
observation.block(reason)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Observe mode records policy_unapproved too late, so it loses to authority and policy denials.

Enforce mode checks the approval state at Line 1091, before _authority_result and before policy evaluation. Observe mode checks it here, inside _observe_secure. _observe_secure runs after the caller has already called observation.block(...) on two paths: the authority denial at Line 1111 and the policy denial at Line 1147. _Observation.block keeps the first reason, so the policy_unapproved reason is discarded on both paths.

Trigger: a deployment sets mode: observe with require_approved_policy=True, the policy is unapproved, and an action is also denied by authority or by a rule. Observe mode then reports would_have.blocked_reason = authority_* or the rule reason. Enforce mode would report policy_unapproved and would never evaluate authority or the policy.

Consequence: the observe-mode report undercounts policy_unapproved, which is the one fact an operator runs the pilot to learn.

Record the reason at the same position enforce mode checks it.

🐛 Proposed fix

In execute, beside the _require_approved call at Lines 1087-1093:

         self._require_approved(
             action, evaluation=None, started_at=started_at, effect_key=effect_key
         )
+        if observation is not None and self._require_approved_policy:
+            # §8.4 in observe mode: recorded at the position enforce mode refuses it, so a
+            # later authority or policy denial cannot take the first reason.
+            if action.name != POLICY_CHANGE_ACTION:
+                unapproved, _ = self._policy_approval_state()
+                if unapproved is not None:
+                    observation.block(unapproved)

Then remove the duplicate check here:

-        if self._require_approved_policy and action.name != POLICY_CHANGE_ACTION:
-            reason, _ = self._policy_approval_state()
-            if reason is not None:
-                observation.block(reason)
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minimal, and validate.

In `@src/ctrlrun/control.py` around lines 1380 - 1383, Move the
require-approved-policy state check from _observe_secure to execute, beside the
existing _require_approved check, so policy_unapproved is recorded before
authority and policy evaluation in observe mode. Remove the duplicate approval
check from _observe_secure while preserving the existing observation blocking
behavior.

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Comment thread src/ctrlrun/control.py
unchanged, or reported as changed, on fields this binary may be reading wrongly. `v0.6 §3.2`
draws the same distinction for a store row: skipped is not the same as unchanged.
"""
if receipt.schema not in KNOWN_RECEIPT_SCHEMAS:

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Include schema-less receipts in the known schema set.

Receipt.from_dict maps a missing schema key to "", and store reads preserve that value. _replay_policy then rejects the receipt at _action_from_receipt because "" is absent from KNOWN_RECEIPT_SCHEMAS, and reports it as unreadable instead of replaying it. Add "" to KNOWN_RECEIPT_SCHEMAS.

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In `@src/ctrlrun/control.py` at line 4058, Update KNOWN_RECEIPT_SCHEMAS to include
the empty-string schema value so receipts created without a schema key can pass
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Comment on lines +295 to +298
refresh = getattr(feed, "refresh", None)
if callable(refresh):
refresh()
if feed.stale() if hasattr(feed, "stale") else _stale(feed, self._clock()):

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Do not require an undeclared refresh() method.

RevocationFeed requires only revoked(), read_at, issuers, and max_staleness. A conforming feed can perform its refresh inside revoked().

If that feed has read_at=None and a staleness bound, this code rejects every credential before it calls revoked(). The feed cannot complete its first read or recover.

Call revoked() once before the staleness decision and retain its result, or add refresh() to the protocol as a required operation.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@src/ctrlrun/jwt_identity.py` around lines 295 - 298, Update the feed
validation flow around revoked() and _stale so it does not require or invoke an
undeclared refresh() method: call feed.revoked() once first and retain its
result, then perform the staleness check using the refreshed feed state,
allowing feeds with read_at=None to complete their initial read before
rejection.

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Comment thread src/ctrlrun/receipt.py
Comment on lines +168 to +172
# SPEC-v0.8 §8.4: observe mode records it as a `would_have.blocked_reason`, so it needs
# a bucket like every other refusal. This set has been missed twice already, which is
# why `test_every_approval_refusal_reason_is_counted_by_stats` enumerates the reasons
# from source rather than trusting this list.
POLICY_UNAPPROVED,

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Extend the vocabulary test to include policy.py.

test_every_approval_refusal_reason_is_counted_by_stats reads only approval.py and filters its constants. POLICY_UNAPPROVED is defined in policy.py and returned by control.py, so this test does not cover the new bucket. Enumerate the refusal reasons from policy.py as well, including POLICY_UNAPPROVED, to catch future policy refusal reasons.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@src/ctrlrun/receipt.py` around lines 168 - 172, The test
test_every_approval_refusal_reason_is_counted_by_stats currently derives refusal
reasons only from approval.py; extend its source enumeration to include
policy.py so POLICY_UNAPPROVED and future policy refusal constants are validated
against the statistics buckets.

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Comment thread src/ctrlrun/revocation.py

def __init__(self) -> None:
self._subjects: set[tuple[str, str]] = set()
self._token_ids: set[str] = set()

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Scope token-ID revocations by issuer.

_token_ids stores only jti. Line 118 therefore refuses a token from issuer B when issuer A revoked the same jti and the feed covers both issuers.

Store (issuer, jti) and require an issuer when consuming jwt_id identifiers. Add a two-issuer collision test.

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minimal, and validate.

In `@src/ctrlrun/revocation.py` at line 110, Update the revocation tracking around
_token_ids to store issuer/JTI pairs instead of bare JTI values, and require the
issuer when consuming jwt_id identifiers so revocations remain scoped per
issuer. Adjust related membership and insertion logic while preserving existing
behavior, and add a test covering identical JTIs issued by two different
issuers.

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Comment thread src/ctrlrun/revocation.py
Comment on lines +167 to +170
issuer = document.get("iss")
if isinstance(issuer, str) and issuer:
return (issuer, identifier)
return ("jti", identifier)

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🧩 Analysis chain

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Broken Authentication

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-613 — Insufficient Session Expiration

Match opaque identifiers against both sub and jti.

When an opaque SET subject includes iss, _subject_of returns only (issuer, identifier). A token with a matching jti and different sub is therefore admitted. Store both matches for opaque, or return all applicable identifiers from _subject_of.

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minimal, and validate.

In `@src/ctrlrun/revocation.py` around lines 167 - 170, Update _subject_of so
opaque identifiers with an iss value match both the issuer/identifier pair and
the jti/identifier pair, while preserving the existing behavior for non-opaque
subjects. Adjust the caller’s matching logic as needed to accept all applicable
identifiers and reject tokens lacking either required match.

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Comment on lines +3501 to +3503
guarded, guarded_store, _, _ = self._control_for(
"G21-guarded", selection, require_approved_policy=True, declares_change=True
)

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Close guarded_store.

_control_for("G21-guarded", ...) opens a second scratch store. The finally at the end of g21 closes only store, so the guarded store stays open for the rest of the run. On SQLite this leaks a connection and the database file handle; on Postgres it leaks a connection to the scratch schema that drop_scratch_schemas later tries to drop. The comment on Line 3504 already states that this store is "closed when the scenario ends", so the code and the comment disagree.

🔧 Proposed fix
         def body(detail: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
             detail["note"] = reg.POLICY_APPROVAL_NOTE
             detail["require_approved_policy"] = "set by verify (SPEC-v0.8 §11.7)"
             action = selection.build()
             guarded, guarded_store, _, _ = self._control_for(
                 "G21-guarded", selection, require_approved_policy=True, declares_change=True
             )
@@
         try:
             return self.graded("G21", selection, store, recorder, body)
         finally:
+            guarded_store.close()
             store.close()

guarded_store is bound inside body, so hoist the _control_for("G21-guarded", ...) call above body to close it in the finally.

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In `@src/ctrlrun/verify/scenarios.py` around lines 3501 - 3503, Hoist the
_control_for call for “G21-guarded” out of the body closure so guarded_store is
available to the scenario’s finally block, then close guarded_store there
alongside store. Keep the existing control arguments and scenario behavior
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Comment on lines +874 to +878
# §2.1's rule, and the reason this line exists: **the not-applicable ten are not in the
# denominator.** Ten pass and ten are N/A, so a run that folded them in would report 20/20.
# It used to read `"10/10" not in text`, which said the same thing while the pass count was
# nine and says the opposite now that it is ten.
assert "20/20" not in text

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Correct the denominator regression assertion.

Line 866 establishes 11 passes and 10 not-applicable guarantees. A report that incorrectly includes not-applicable guarantees in the denominator would report 21/21. The current 20/20 check does not test that failure mode.

Proposed fix
-    # denominator.** Ten pass and ten are N/A, so a run that folded them in would report 20/20.
-    # It used to read `"10/10" not in text`, which said the same thing while the pass count was
-    # nine and says the opposite now that it is ten.
-    assert "20/20" not in text
+    # denominator.** Eleven pass and ten are N/A, so a run that folded them in would report
+    # 21/21.
+    assert "21/21" not in text
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# §2.1's rule, and the reason this line exists: **the not-applicable ten are not in the
# denominator.** Ten pass and ten are N/A, so a run that folded them in would report 20/20.
# It used to read `"10/10" not in text`, which said the same thing while the pass count was
# nine and says the opposite now that it is ten.
assert "20/20" not in text
# §2.1's rule, and the reason this line exists: **the not-applicable ten are not in the
# denominator.** Eleven pass and ten are N/A, so a run that folded them in would report
# 21/21.
assert "21/21" not in text
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minimal, and validate.

In `@tests/test_verify.py` around lines 874 - 878, Update the denominator
regression assertion near the existing report-text checks to reject “21/21”
instead of “20/20”, matching the 11 passing and 10 not-applicable guarantees
established by the test setup.

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Item 7 of v0.8 (SPEC-v0.8 §8). The policy is the one file that decides every
other decision, and until now it was changed by editing it. v0.6 made the
change evidenced; this makes it approved.

`ctrlrun.policy.change` is an ordinary action -- ordinary hash, ordinary
effect key `policy:<hash>`, ordinary events, ordinary receipt -- which is why
§8 adds no event type: v0.1 §6.2's vocabulary already describes a proposal, an
approval request, a grant, a consumption and a commit. So §2, §3 and §4 apply
with no second path: T363 drives an unverifiable approver, an unentitled one
and the proposer approving their own change, and T364 drives M-of-N.

The approval is per deployment. `hash_with_authority` folds in the effective
authority and environment, so the same file in staging and prod is two hashes
and two approvals. T353 pins that, and pins that comments, key order and
whitespace move nothing.

The name is reserved and declarable, which a first draft had backwards: a name
no document may declare is a name `evaluate` answers `unknown_action` for, so
every proposal is denied, no committed receipt is ever written, and a
deployment requiring an approved policy denies every action for ever. T357 is
the end-to-end flow that rule exists to make possible.

Under require_approved_policy the policy in force must also declare its own
change with `decision: approve`. T358 drives allow, deny and absent: each
decides nothing, with the refusal naming the key. That closes the "write a
policy whose change rule is allow" hole -- installing such a policy still
needs an approval under the old one, and once installed it decides nothing.

Enforcement is a keyed `get_effect`, never a receipts() scan, and T362 counts
store calls to prove it. It also drives **both** cache transitions on one
long-lived Control: a negative answer is re-asked, so an approval landing
later works with no restart; a positive one is cached, so deleting the effect
row underneath a running process does not stop it. That second half is §8.6's
residual, asserted rather than assumed -- a test driving only the first would
leave the sentence unchecked in the direction that overclaims.

The replay writes nothing (T366 compares receipts, events and effects) and
carries no verdict vocabulary (T367 asserts eleven words by name).

G21 grades with the flag set by verify, under a note: whether a deployment
sets it is a fact about its own code. Both shipped examples now report 17/17
and 11/11.

3921 tests, 3m25s, plus 56 serial.

Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
Nine mutations, one per MUST of §8. Six were caught by the tests as written;
three were not, and two of those were real gaps rather than equivalent mutants.

  M1  an unapproved policy decides nothing        caught  T354, T358
  M2  the policy must declare its own change      caught  T358
  M3  the approval is a committed keyed effect    caught  T354
  M4  the exemption is one action, by name        caught  T360
  M5  the reserved name needs the flow's marker   caught  T359
  M6  a positive answer cached, a negative not    caught  T362
  M7  nothing else may name the reserved action   GAP -> test written
  M8  the replay writes nothing                   equivalent mutant, redone
  M9  approving_actions is all-of, not any-of     GAP -> test written

M7: deleting `_reject_reserved_elsewhere` broke nothing, so nothing covered
the rule at all. That rule is what stops an action rendering `policy:<hash>`
as its effect key, which would mint the marker of an approved policy from an
action nobody reviewed as one. Three cases now drive it.

M8 was my mutant's fault, not a gap: `put_receipt if False else None` writes
nothing. Redone as a real write, and caught.

M9: `all` -> `any` in `approving_actions` changed nothing, because the test
covering it was refused by the *effect* check before the declaration rule was
reached, so it passed under both. Rewritten around what actually happens, and
it is sharper for it: a change rule of `[approve above 1000, allow otherwise]`
is ignored on the change action's own arguments, which carry no `amount`, so
the proposal commits **with nobody having answered anything** and mints the
effect. The declaration rule is then the only thing still refusing, which is
what `all` buys and `any` gives away.

`_approved` also took the base policy rather than the control's own, so a test
using it approved a hash that control never enforces. It now defaults to
`control.policy`.

3931 tests, 3m32s, plus 56 serial.

Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
Four BLOCKING findings, and the first two mean §8.2.1's two rules were both
enforceable in principle and enforced nowhere that mattered.

1. The exemption was taken BEFORE the declaration check.

   `_require_approved` returned early for `ctrlrun.policy.change`, so "the
   policy in force must declare its own change with decision: approve" applied
   to every action except the policy change. From a cold store: P1 declares
   `ctrlrun.policy.change: {decision: allow}`; proposing a **different** policy
   P2 commits with no approval and no approver; P2 declares the change as an
   approval and the deployment under it finds a committed marker and decides
   normally. Nobody approved P2 at all, and §8.6's stated property was false in
   exactly the case §8.2.1 exists to close.

   The exemption now covers the marker check only. The test covering this
   before proposed the policy already in force, where the declaration branch
   happens to catch it; proposing a different one is the attack, and T358 now
   drives it.

2. The marker was mintable by any allowed action, three ways.

   The loader tested the raw template; the key that reaches commit_effect is
   expanded from agent-supplied arguments and was never re-checked. So
   `effect: "{scheme}:{ref}"` with scheme="policy" mints an approved-policy
   marker from an ordinary action, `"{p}olicy:{ref}"` evades the literal check
   outright, and `execute(action, executor, "policy:<hash>")` needs no template
   at all because effect_key is a public parameter. A reviewer approving such a
   policy has no way to see that it hands every agent the power to approve
   arbitrary successors.

   One rule on the **resolved** key in `execute` closes all three; the loader
   check stays as a convenience that names the mistake earlier. Three tests,
   one per vector.

3. Observe mode minted the marker with no human, and separately refused.

   Observe mode requests no approval and still reserves and commits, so a
   proposal made while observing minted a real marker -- and observe-then-
   enforce is the documented adoption path, so every hash proposed during the
   observe phase was pre-approved for the enforce phase. Proposing under
   `mode: observe` is now refused outright. The mirror image was the same
   missing branch: `_require_approved` raised ActionDenied while observing,
   which contradicts v0.3 §6.2 and made `policy_unapproved` a
   would_have.blocked_reason §11.1 lists and the code could never produce. It
   is recorded now, and is in a stats bucket.

4. (item 6, already merged) A feed past max_staleness never refreshed again.

   `refresh()` was reachable only from `revoked()`, and the provider raised on
   `stale()` before calling it. PollingRevocationFeed starts with read_at=None,
   so with any bound set it was stale on the first resolution, refused every
   credential for ever, and made **zero** HTTP polls. The file feed recovered
   from nothing. Refresh now runs before the staleness test, and the staleness
   warning is once per episode rather than once per action.

And the rest:

  - G21 passed with §8.4's enforcement deleted: the guarded control used the
    operator's document, which does not declare the change action, so the
    declaration branch short-circuited and the effect branch -- what G21's
    title is about -- was never reached. Verify now gives it a document that
    declares one, and deleting the effect check makes G21 FAIL with "an action
    ran under a policy nobody approved".
  - T368 asserted `limit=0 == []`, exercising none of the skip branch, and
    §8.5's unknown-schema rule was not implemented: from_dict does not raise on
    one, so such a receipt was silently graded. Both fixed.
  - `--last 0` answered "no recorded decision changes", a verdict about the
    policy for an input that read nothing. Refused.
  - `ctrlrun policy propose --as` made the proposer an assertion: propose as
    somebody else, approve with your own credential, and §4.1 sees two
    principals. Removed, for the reason break-glass has no --as.
  - §8.4 and §8.6 said deleting the effect row is recorded as a chain break.
    It is not: the chain is over receipts. Corrected rather than dropped, and
    §8.6 gains the resumed-continuation row, because "refuses every action" is
    true of every new action and not of a resumption in flight.

3952 tests, 3m31s, plus 56 serial.

Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
The definition of done requires at least one shipped document to exercise the
milestone's own paths, so G17 and G19 are not N/A on everything this
repository ships. examples/authority/payments.yaml now declares a control with
an approver_role and a threshold of two, and moves to ctrlrun.policy/v6.

Doing that found a real bug: `ctrlrun verify` exited 3 with an internal error
on a valid v6 document that declares `approvals_required`. Every scenario
builds its own Control, none configured an approver identity, and §4.2 denies
a threshold above one where nobody is verified -- so a threshold in an
operator's policy crashed verify on guarantees that have nothing to do with
approvals. Three things fix it:

  - verify supplies an approver identity where the **document** asks for a
    threshold or names a role, for §11.7's reason and no other: whether the
    operator configured one is a fact about their code. A document asking for
    neither keeps the 0.7.0 shape, so each guarantee is still graded against
    the deployment shape it was written for.
  - every scenario that grants now grants to the **request's** pinned
    threshold, with that many distinct verified principals. The request's and
    not the policy's: they differ where a scenario built its own request, and
    the store enforces the pinned one -- reading the policy granted twice
    against a row needing once and met "already granted".
  - G7's grant went through `grant_approval` directly, so the moment an
    identity was configured it failed `approver_unverified` -- G7 reporting a
    failure about G17. It uses the same helper now.

examples/authority/payments.yaml: 19/19, 2 not applicable (G13, G15), from
17/17 and 4. The templates example is unchanged at 11/11.

`test_each_authority_example_declares_v3` pinned the exact schema, which made
this impossible; it now requires v3 **or later** and says why an exact pin
would have to be relaxed by whichever milestone shipped a newer key. And the
example's own comment used the word "compliance" while explaining that no such
claim is made, which `test_no_authority_example_makes_a_compliance_claim`
caught -- correctly.

3952 tests, 3m27s, plus 56 serial.

Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
Comment thread src/ctrlrun/receipt.py
)
from .errors import CTRLRunError, InvalidArgument
from .policy import Decision
from .policy import POLICY_UNAPPROVED, Decision
#: deployment passes `require_approved_policy=True` is a fact about a constructor call in its
#: own code, which no document verify reads can state. Verify sets the flag for its own
#: scenario and says so here rather than claiming anything about a document that is silent.
POLICY_APPROVAL_NOTE: Final = (
the answer is about fewer receipts than they asked for."""
control = _with_history(store, clock)

class _OneUnreadable(type(store)): # type: ignore[misc]
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arpanghoshal merged commit 52ef979 into main Sep 12, 2026
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arpanghoshal deleted the v0.8/7-policy-change branch September 12, 2026 18:16
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