Task-bound authority: one more dimension, and the two paths that must not evaluate it - #160
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… not evaluate it SPEC-v0.9 §6. A grant carries `tasks`, attenuated by the same child-subset rule as actions, resources and environments, and `Control.execute(task=)` and `@protect(task=)` are how a caller names the unit of work. Four decisions the spec left to the item, each with what was measured rather than reasoned. The separator is ":", segment-bounded like a resource. Probed: with one, `invoice-run-*` matches `invoice-run-7` and does not reach a nested `invoice-run-7:step-2`; without one it reaches both. The fail-closed reading is the one where a pattern written for a run does not silently acquire that run's sub-tasks. A task mismatch gets its own reason, `authority_task`, rather than folding into `matches_shape`. The `environments` precedent would put it there, where a task-bound grant simply stops matching and the operator reads `no_authority`, which is what they would also read having written no grant at all. SPEC-v0.8 §5.2 records what an unnamed dimension costs. It sits above `authority_constraint` in the precedence on that section's own rule: a task is a property of the run, a constraint of one call's arguments, and changing the arguments leaves the task still wrong. `@protect(task=)` is a template over the call's arguments, like `effect` and `resource`; `Control.execute(task=)` takes the resolved id, like `effect_key`. A decorator whose task could only be a literal is unusable for the thing a task is. `resume` and a lease extension do not evaluate the dimension. Both rehydrate an action that carries none, and §6.3.2's probe showed that v0.3 §5.6.1's evaluated-and-recorded would still put AUTHORITY_DENIED on what control.py calls the only receipt an MCP multi round-trip ever gets. Three things the change surfaced that the spec predicted: grant_to_json/grant_from_json had to carry the dimension or every delegation reads back unbound and §5.6's re-check refuses it authority_escalation on tasks forever. The round trip IS the containment. DIMENSIONS grew to seven, and §8.0 named both failure modes: G9's `_narrowed` must copy the field or its own guard raises before any widening, and two acceptance tests consume the tuple by exact list equality and by parametrize. Both updated, both derived rather than counted. Once the shipped example's grant names a task, every other guarantee needs one: verify supplies the selection's task, G4's payload carries it across the process boundary, and G6's control leg passes it to evaluate. Without that the control legs fail and twenty guarantees report a defect that is the document working as written. ctrlrun.policy/v7, ctrlrun.receipt/v6 and ctrlrun.guarantees/v5 each move once, here, with the later items filling their fields under the version already in place. The v6 key tuple grows as each item lands rather than all at once: a key listed before something writes it is a KeyError on every receipt, which is a stub row at field level. G24 grades PASS on the shipped example with a positive control, and the authority badge moves 19/19 to 20/20. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughTask-bound authority is added across grants, control APIs, receipts, policy schemas, and verification. Task patterns participate in delegation containment and policy hashing. Resumed actions skip task evaluation. Verification and compatibility tests cover the new behavior. ChangesTask-bound authority
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Task-bound protected actions can fail after approval or lose denied-attempt audit evidence when task-template resolution fails. These task-authority regressions should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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The verify job pins both shipped examples' shapes, and G24 is N/A for a document whose grants name no task. The authority example binds one, so its passing total moved 19 to 20; the templates example does not, so its N/A count moved 10 to 11. The local suite asserts the workflow's own strings, and it had the first pin and not the second. These are the numbers CONTRIBUTING.md keeps literal on purpose: they exist to fail when a shape changes, and this is the shape changing. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
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4031-4039: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRetry path drops the task binding after
wait=Trueresumes.The first
resolved.execute(...)call passestask=bound_task(line 4020). The retry call insideexcept ApprovalRequired as pending:does not. Its own comment says the retry "re-presents the same proposal," butControl.executere-runs the full authority check on every call (§4.3.1). For a task-bound grant, the retry omits the task and getsAuthorityDenied(reason="authority_task")even though the original call passed the authority check with the task supplied.This breaks
wait=Truefor any@protect(..., task=...)function whose policy binds the grant to a task: approval succeeds, then the retry is denied for a reason the caller never sees coming.🐛 Proposed fix
resolved.approvals.wait(pending.request_id, None) with with_approval(pending.request_id): resolved.execute( action, executor, effect_key, lease=held, reconcile=reconcile, reconcile_eagerly=reconcile_eagerly, preconditions=provider, + task=bound_task, )🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/ctrlrun/control.py`:
- Around line 3989-3995: Update the task-template resolution in the control
execution flow around resolve_effect_key and _resolve_effect so EffectKeyError
failures are handled by the same recording path as effect-template failures.
Ensure unresolved bound tasks record the appropriate action event and denied
receipt before re-raising, while preserving normal resolution behavior.
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In `@src/ctrlrun/control.py`:
- Around line 4031-4039: Update the retry call to resolved.execute in the
ApprovalRequired handling path to pass the same bound task used by the initial
execution, preserving task-bound authority checks when wait=True resumes. Locate
and reuse the existing bound_task value from the first execute call; do not
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…corder @Protect(task="{run_id}") with no such argument raised EffectKeyError outside any recording path: no ACTION_PROPOSED, no ACTION_DENIED, no denied receipt, and the caller handed a template error about an action nothing recorded. Probed rather than reasoned about: 0 events and 0 receipts before, ACTION_PROPOSED + ACTION_DENIED and one denied receipt after. That is the shape control.py's own round-two comment records finding once before, on a store refusal that escaped _secure's except clauses. _resolve_effect's body becomes _resolve_template over either template, so the effect template and the task template cannot drift into recording different things for the same class of mistake. T387a pins it. CodeQL's "NO_TASKS is unused" is a false positive: scenarios.py reads it as reg.NO_TASKS, which its cross-module analysis does not follow. Left as is rather than worked around. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
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Item 1 of v0.9.
SPEC-v0.9.md§6. G24. Carries thectrlrun.policy/v7,ctrlrun.receipt/v6andctrlrun.guarantees/v5bumps, each once, which is why it lands first.What it adds
A grant may carry
tasks:.Control.execute(task=)andControl.evaluate(task=)take theresolved id;
@protect(task=)takes a template over the call's arguments, likeeffect=andresource=, because a decorator whose task could only be a literal is unusable for the thing atask is: a run id that changes per call.
A grant naming no task authorises any task, so every existing grant upgrades untouched.
Four decisions the spec left to the item, each probed
The separator is
:. Probed rather than assumed: with a separator,invoice-run-*matchesinvoice-run-7and does not reach a nestedinvoice-run-7:step-2; without one it reachesboth. Fail-closed is the reading where a pattern written for a run does not silently acquire that
run's sub-tasks.
A task mismatch gets its own reason,
authority_task. Theenvironmentsprecedent would foldit into
matches_shape, where a task-bound grant simply stops matching and the operator readsno_authority— which is also what they read having written no grant at all.SPEC-v0.8 §5.2records what an unnamed dimension costs. It sits above
authority_constraintin theprecedence, on that section's own rule that the reason should name what will still be wrong after
the caller changes the request: a task is a property of the run, a constraint of one call's
arguments.
resumeand a lease extension do not evaluate the dimension. §6.3.2's third mode, and theprobe is why it is not
v0.3 §5.6.1's evaluated-and-recorded: that section's next sentence saysthe resumed leg appends
AUTHORITY_RESOLVEDorAUTHORITY_DENIEDto whatcontrol.pycallsthe only receipt an MCP multi round-trip ever gets. A resumed leg is therefore unbound by task,
stated in §6.3.2 rather than hidden.
The task never enters the action hash. A field on
Actionwould move every hash in existenceand invalidate every stored approval.
Three things the change surfaced, all of which the spec predicted
grant_to_jsonhad to carry it. A delegation is stored as JSON and read back on everyevaluation, so a dimension missing there reads back
Noneandv0.3 §5.6's re-check thenrefuses the child
authority_escalationontasksforever. The round trip is thecontainment.
DIMENSIONSgrew to seven, and §8.0 named both failure modes. G9's_narrowedmust copythe field or its own guard raises before any widening; and two acceptance tests consume the
tuple, one by exact list equality and one by
parametrize. Both updated and both now derivedfrom
DIMENSIONSrather than counted.verifysupplies theselection's task, G4's payload carries it across the process boundary, and G6's control leg
passes it to
evaluate. Without that the control legs fail and twenty guarantees report adefect that is the document working exactly as written.
Mutation table
Six rows, the cap for an item outside the required-review set. Each removes a MUST that adds a
new guard; every row goes red.
evaluate: the task dimension is never checkedtask_holds: a grant naming tasks accepts a caller who named none (§6.4)task_holds: a grant naming no task stops authorising any (§6.5, the upgrade rule)tasksrow never firesChecked against
CONTRIBUTING.md's four patterns. M1 and M2/M3 are not subsumed: M1 removesthe call site, M2 and M3 invert opposite halves of the predicate, and every refusal test asserts
authority_taskby value rather than by exception type. M3 is the row that proves the positivepath is exercised rather than merely present.
Checks
ruff format,ruff check,mypy --strict srcclean.ctrlrun verifyon the shipped examples: 20/20, G24PASSwith its positive control, G9now
7 of 7 dimensions. The authority badge pin moves19/19→20/20in CI and in the testthat asserts CI's own shapes.
resume. Parametrised over in-memory, SQLite and Postgres.capabilities,cli,schemas,apiwill drift (a new public name and twoschema bumps). Item 7 regenerates; not edited here.
One process note
A mutation run reverted
authority.pywholesale viagit checkout --, which is the hazardCONTRIBUTING.mdwarns about. Recovered, and the run was redone after committing. The lessonis already the documented rule; this is a note that it earns its place.
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