feat(a2a): OpenBao B3 token-provider issuance (lr-890fae)

[clagentic-builder]

Summary

Implements the A2A token provider for gatekeeper: OpenBao issues and signs a short-lived, peer-facing JWT via the B3 attest-and-route mechanism settled at lr-890fae comment #4, live-provisioned per openbao lr-fbbf32 (comment #12, CLOSED 2026-08-14 on LXC 107). Builds to lr-890fae comment #5's CORRECTED acceptance criteria, not the task description's original ACs.

Mechanism (B3)

1. Gatekeeper resolves the attested A2A caller identity (attestation.DomainA2A, per-spawn required, fail-closed) and checks role/audience entitlement (internal/a2apolicy, a2a_mapping) - BEFORE any OpenBao call.
2. On permit, gatekeeper signs a short-lived JWT ASSERTION with its OWN key (sub = attested caller). This assertion key is a bearer of attestation, rotatable, never conflated with OpenBao's OIDC signing key.
3. The assertion is exchanged at OpenBao's dedicated JWT auth mount. OpenBao independently verifies the signature and resolves sub via bound_subject to a pre-registered entity-alias - a value gatekeeper cannot dictate.
4. Gatekeeper reads the identity/oidc token endpoint with the resulting client token. OpenBao signs the returned peer-facing token; gatekeeper never signs it and holds no OpenBao signing key.

Corrected claim set (per lr-890fae comment #5)

The peer-facing token carries a native sub claim (caller entity UUID) and a TTL bound - nothing else. The upstream provisioning dropped the brokered_by/caller_role/aud_peer/parent_session claims from the live role template (unresolved Vault/OpenBao parser bug, tracked as openbao lr-1e7c97, not gating). No side channel was built to carry the dropped claims - deliberate, per seq 5: this is a public repo with multiple consumers, and the wire format stays a vanilla OIDC token any standard validator handles. Gatekeeper's own audit record (not the wire token) carries caller identity, resolved role, requested audience, and parent session id for every mint decision, permitted or refused.

What changed

• internal/a2atoken (new): B3 issuance mechanics - sign assertion, exchange at the JWT auth mount, read the oidc token. I/O leaf, mirrors internal/githubapp's shape. No new dependencies - stdlib RS256 signing, same pattern as githubapp.go.
• internal/a2amint (new): orchestration - attestation -> a2apolicy -> a2atoken.Issue, fail-closed at every gate before any broker read or OpenBao call. Every decision (permit or refuse) reported to an injected AuditFunc.
• internal/config: adds the optional a2a_provider stanza (endpoint, assertion key path, issuer, auth mount, per-role auth_role/oidc_role mapping). Absent/partial stanza is treated as not-enabled.
• cmd/gatekeeper: new mint-a2a command (--audience, --config, --json). Audit lines go to stderr so they never contaminate token/JSON output on stdout.
• Docs (AC7, same PR): config.example.yaml gets a fully annotated a2a_provider stanza; docs/SETUP.md gets a new A2A token flow section (sidecar attestation -> gatekeeper PDP -> OpenBao issuance -> wire JWT -> peer validation) plus a claim-set explanation; docs/DESIGN.md documents the two new packages and updated dependency direction; README documents the mint-a2a command.

Roster-agnostic

No real crew/agent/org names anywhere in code, config examples, tests, or docs. Caller -> entity resolution is entirely config/attestation-driven (a2a_mapping plus the sidecar's attested identity) - no compiled-in roster table.

Additive / off by default

A deployment with no a2a_provider configured gets a clear config error from mint-a2a and byte-identical behavior on the existing gatekeeper mint (GitHub-domain) path - proven by TestRunMintA2A_NoProviderConfigured plus the untouched main_test.go suite.

Tests

Both negative controls proven live in the openbao probe are reproduced:

• assertion signed with an untrusted key fails signature validation (TestIssueUntrustedKeyRejected)
• unregistered/bogus sub refused by bound_subject (TestIssueBogusSubjectRejected)

Also covers: fail-closed refusal before any broker read/OpenBao call (attestation MISS, entitlement denial, incomplete role mapping), the no-aud-claim invariant (present with no bound_audiences is a hard OpenBao failure), config wiring (a2a_provider parse and Enabled()), and full CLI wiring (mint-a2a happy path with a stub OpenBao server, json and default output shapes).

go build, go vet, and go test all pass, no new dependencies (go.mod/go.sum untouched).

TASK: lr-890fae

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 noreply@anthropic.com

[clagentic-security]

BOBBIE security audit of PR #30 (A2A token provider, OpenBao B3 issuance, lr-890fae).

Scope: base 4de101e..head 24e9956. 12 files changed: internal/a2atoken (issuance mechanics), internal/a2amint (orchestration), config.A2AProviderConfig, cmd/gatekeeper mint-a2a, tests, docs (README/DESIGN/SETUP), config.example.yaml.

Verified against the B3 design (gatekeeper signs a short-lived assertion with its own key, exchanges at OpenBao auth/a2a-jwt/login, reads identity/oidc/token/ -- OpenBao alone signs the peer-facing token):

• Fail-closed: a2amint.Service.Mint gates in order (attestation resolve -> a2apolicy entitlement -> AuthRole/OIDCRole config completeness -> broker key read -> a2atoken.Issue), each refusal path returns zero token material and audits before returning. Tests assert IssueFunc/broker are never invoked on a refusal, and CLI-level tests assert no network reachability on the attestation-miss and not-entitled paths (no connection-refused/no-such-host, proving the refusal fires before any dial).
• Assertion TTL: a2atoken.Issue defaults AssertionTTL to 5m when unset/non-positive; no path bypasses the bound. Distinct from the OpenBao-controlled peer-facing token TTL.
• No aud claim: signAssertion (internal/a2atoken/a2atoken.go) never sets aud; TestIssueNoAudienceClaim decodes the signed JWT and asserts its absence.
• Key handling: no PEM literal committed anywhere in the diff; test keys are generated at runtime via rsa.GenerateKey; parse-failure error paths are tested to never leak PEM content; the RSA key is zeroed (zeroKey) immediately after signing; the key is read from the broker only, never logged.
• Audit completeness: every Mint outcome (permit and every refusal branch) calls the injected AuditFunc before returning; cmd/gatekeeper wires this to stderr only, keeping stdout (the token/json output contract) clean.
• Additive/off-by-default: A2AProviderConfig.Enabled() requires endpoint + assertion_private_key_path + auth_mount together; a partial or absent stanza is treated as disabled. internal/mint and internal/githubapp (the GitHub-domain path) are untouched by this diff.
• mint-a2a --json output is {token, expires_at, subject} only -- subject is the caller entity id the token itself already carries on the wire, not additional secret material.
• Roster-agnostic: all identifiers across code, tests, config.example.yaml, and docs are generic placeholders (peer-agent-alpha, peer-builder, peer-project-x, testorg, bao.example.com) -- no real crew/agent/org identifiers found.

Scanners: gitleaks flagged cmd/gatekeeper/main_a2a_test.go:93,143 (generic-api-key rule) -- reviewed in context: this is the env-var NAME GATEKEEPER_TEST_A2A_KEY_LR890FAE used as a broker path placeholder in a test fixture (assertion_private_key_path: ), whose actual value is a freshly-generated RSA key set via t.Setenv at test time. Not a secret literal -- false positive, no finding raised. semgrep (p/golang, p/secrets, p/security-audit) against the changed packages: clean, zero hits. go.mod/go.sum are untouched by this diff (verified via git diff --stat) so osv-scanner findings against the repo's declared Go stdlib version are pre-existing and out of scope for this review.

No findings. review.status: clean.

scanners_run: gitleaks (detect, base..head range) status=ran findings=1 reviewed-false-positive; semgrep (p/golang+p/secrets+p/security-audit) status=ran findings=0; osv-scanner status=ran findings=0-in-scope (go.mod/go.sum unchanged by this diff).

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[clagentic-reviewer]

PEACHES — clean (0 blocking findings)

Reviewed against task lr-890fae AC1–AC7 and structural requirements:

• Gate sequence (AC2): attestation → entitlement → role-mapping → broker → issuance. Each gate fails closed before next.
• Assertion key scope (AC3): gatekeeper RSA key only for assertions; peer-facing token signed exclusively by OpenBao.
• Audit coverage (AC4): all outcomes recorded with identity, role, audience, parent-session-id. Wire token carries native sub + TTL only.
• Wire token claims (AC6): deliberately omits aud (OpenBao hard-validation-failure); no custom claims; no side channels.
• Additive, off-by-default (AC5): config-error if a2a_provider unconfigured; GitHub mint byte-identical. TestRunMintA2A_NoProviderConfigured covers regression.
• Roster-agnosticism: no hardcoded crew/agent names in code/config/tests/docs. Role mapping config-driven. Fixture values marked invented.
• Negative controls: TestIssueUntrustedKeyRejected and TestIssueBogusSubjectRejected present, reproduced from openbao live probe.
• Docs (AC7): config.example.yaml a2a_provider stanza complete; SETUP.md A2A token flow section; DESIGN.md module boundaries; README updated.

All B3 mechanism requirements satisfied. No signing-key confusion, no custom claims, fail-closed gates enforced, audit record complete. Build-ready.

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[clagentic-merger]

Merged via clagentic-loadout v0.2.0

Field	Value
Gated HEAD SHA	24e9956e48e1ce1e4cc1b0fa6cddcfbd3fa7e55f
Merged SHA	24e9956e48e1ce1e4cc1b0fa6cddcfbd3fa7e55f
Reviews	clagentic-reviewer[bot], clagentic-security[bot]
CI status	no-runner-by-design (0 commit-status entries at HEAD)
task_id	lr-890fae

[clagentic-reviewer]

PEACHES — blocking: 2 major, 2 nits. Codex found critical issues after manual verification. BLOCKING: (1) internal/a2atoken/a2atoken.go lines 219, 265 — OpenBao error response bodies leak bearer material (assertion JWT, client token) into error messages, then audited to stderr. Redact response bodies or limit errors to status codes only. amos.code-craft.10 (secrets in error paths). (2) cmd/gatekeeper/main.go line 316 — ResolveSidecars() prepends legacy attestation.sidecar to sidecars array. If config has both, mint-a2a treats session sidecar as per-spawn. Per-spawn MISS must fail closed (AC2); can resolve via session fallback instead, breaking DomainA2A semantics. Tests only mix legacy+new. Gate ordering broken. amos.path-choice.3 (real fix + test for fail-closed). NITS: (3) cmd/gatekeeper/main.go lines 263, 392 — a2aMintResult includes unverified subject in --json output, violating AC6 (vanilla OIDC, no side channels). Remove subject or document consumer must ignore it. amos.path-choice.4 (silent band-aid). (4) docs/SETUP.md line 322 — Still states No A2A mint command exists after PR adds gatekeeper mint-a2a. Update. project.docs-accuracy.

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