[tracking] Full ward-kdl read/write/admin tier migration: every area, context-selected (read=CI, write=warded, admin=native) #339
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The migration
Move the whole
ward-kdlops surface to permission tiers -ward-kdl-read ⊂ ward-kdl-write ⊂ ward-kdl-admin, one standalone binary per tier carrying every area - and load the right tier by context:ward-kdl-readin CI / docker containers (read-only now, likely finely-scoped write later).ward-kdl-writeinwardedfeature containers (the broker already shells this, ward#329).ward-kdl-adminnative, for Kai.Today only forgejo is tiered (ward#240), as three binaries that each carry forgejo alone. This epic extends the chain to every area and wires the context selection.
The posture (decided 2026-06-25, Kai)
read is the least-privileged base. Build UP. Fail-closed. Each higher tier
inherits the one below and adds grants; a forgotten grant stays denied. "admin as root, derive down" is rejected - one missed subtraction silently hands a read-tier child an admin verb (fail-open), which is catastrophic for a credentialed agent surface. Escalation is always conscious and upward, never implicit and downward.neverdenials are authored where their verb family lives and inherit upward. Where a higher tier must escalate past a broad base denial, it does so by name via the cli-guardoverridekeyword (cli-guard#169) - never by restating or loosening silently.Exec-dialect areas tier too (docker, aws, kubectl, git, agent launchers, brew), mapped read-only / +safe-mutation / full per area judgement against this rubric.
Engine dependency
nevermust propagate upward throughinherit, and anoverridekeyword must lift one inherited denial by name (fail-closed). This is the prerequisite for every area that needs selective escalation past a broad base denial (forgejo: allowdelete repo, keepnever delete issue). Areas with no such escalation (e.g. signoz, CRU-only) do not need it. Security-sensitive - recommend it lands with review, not fire-and-forget.Sequence: foundation first, then fan out
Foundation (dispatched)
build-ward-kdl-tiers, and prove the additive read-base build-up on a second area, signoz (CRU-only, so admin == write, no override needed). Proves the structural goal: multiple areas' guardfiles in one tier subdir merge into one tier binary. Phase-1 boundary - monolith andward opsuntouched.never,oppin, fixed-body toggle, and compound action) into the three forgejo tiers, build-up, denials per tier. Already filed,interactive(human reviews the tier diff). Consumes cli-guard#169 for its selective-escalation denials. This is the other half of the schema - signoz proves the simple additive case, forgejo proves the curated-denial-with-escalation case.Fan out (after the foundation schema lands)
One run per remaining area, each factoring that area's curated guardfile into read/write/admin, build-up, fail-closed, denials inheriting upward, escalation via
overridewhere needed:ward git, ward-kdl-in-ward.md)ward pkg brew)Phase 2: context selection (Kai-owned)
ward-kdl-adminnative binary across every area; retire or aliasward's embedded per-area surface onto it. Resolves ward#278's open "what doesward ops forgejobecome" - the answer generalizes to every area.ward-kdl-readinto the CI / docker image entrypoint (the read context).ward-kdl-writein warded containers - the broker (ward#329) already shells it; confirm it carries the all-area write surface once the fan-out lands, not forgejo alone.References
ward#240 (the chain), ward#278 (forgejo port), ward#246 (build+install the tier binaries), ward#338 (this epic's foundation run), ward#329 (the broker shelling write), ward#241 (signoz CRU-only), cli-guard#169 (the
overrideengine capability), cli-guard#159/#160 (wildcard grants,inherit), ward-kdl-in-ward.md (exec auto-mount, theward git/pkg brewcollisions the exec fan-out must reconcile).Schema note from the foundation run (ward#338): "adding an area is three guardfiles" is NOT literally true for vendored-spec areas. A vendored spec (signoz, and likely glitchtip/trello/tailscale/glama/skillsmp) must sit in EACH tier dir, because inheriting write/admin members resolve the spec relative to their own dir and go:embed cannot reach a sibling. The generalized build vendors the spec per tier via a copy-before-lock keyed off the read guardfile spec line, copies gitignored so the base file stays the single source of truth. Remote-spec areas (forgejo) do not need this. The fan-out for vendored-spec areas must account for it. Follow-ups filed from the run: ward#340 (pre-existing failing test on main, unrelated), ward#341 (signoz write-tier needs an env-auth override for the in-container broker - a Phase-2 dependency).
Posture correction (Kai, cli-guard#169): "everything inherits upwards, automatically." Drop the override-keyword line above - it is overbuilt. The model: every rule (can, never, restrict, singletons) auto-inherits up with no per-tier re-declaration (supersedes cli-guard#160 child-local restrict); tiering is additive can placement; never is an absolute carve-out that rides up; and the one engine rule to pin is precedence - an inherited never always beats a can, so wildcard grants stay safe. No re-allow construct. cli-guard#169 now carries this.
Posture settled (Kai), supersedes my previous correction: override is BACK IN, with the direction deny-low / override-high. The least-privileged base (read) explicitly declares never on dangerous actions; those nevers inherit upward; and the most-privileged tier (admin) uses override can to re-grant specific denied actions BY NAME. An inherited never beats a plain can; the only thing that crosses a never is a named override. Non-overridden siblings stay denied (read never delete *, admin override can delete repo => delete issue still refused). The forgejo curated surface = base-nevers + admin-overrides. cli-guard#169 carries the settled model.
Phase-2 deploy + UX captured in ward#342 (decisions settled with Kai): the tier is ambient (always ward ops ), ward shells the context tier binary so privilege = which binary is present (run-time mirror of the cli-guard#169 absence engine), context = broker-socket-then-explicit-WARD_TIER-profile (dev-base=read, native=admin), and a native ward ops --tier read|write downshift. It is the capstone - gated on cli-guard#169 -> release/REF bump -> ward#278 -> the per-area fan-out, since there is no tier binary to shell until the contents exist. ward#342 also answers ward#278 Phase-2 open question (what ward ops becomes): shell the admin tier binary. Unit 1 (publish read/admin release assets, symmetric with publish-kdl-write) is the only parallel-safe slice before the fan-out.
Dispatched two parallel-safe mechanical runs (gate lifted - Kai: building a shell around empty binaries is fine): ward#343 generalizes the release publish job into publish-kdl-{read,write,admin} so all three tiers ship as per-arch assets (Unit 1 of ward#342), and ward#344 scaffolds the remaining spec areas (trello, tailscale, glitchtip, glama, skillsmp) into the per-tier folders with placeholders + vendored specs, no keyword tiering yet. Both independent of cli-guard#169.
Stays consult: tracking umbrella for the tier migration - children (#278 onward) carry the dispatchable work. Recorded by Claude Code (Fable) during the 2026-07-01 ward launch triage session with Kai.