[oblinder]

Summary

This PR adds target-side access control to AIAC. A deploy-time switch selects the enforcement side:

• target-side (default, D29): the inbound OPA of each tool makes the decision. The outbound request package of each service is a pass-through, so the callee makes the decision (D24).
• agent-side: the agent has inbound and outbound Rego rules.

The switch is AIAC_ENFORCEMENT_SIDE in the aiac-agent-config ConfigMap (/deploy ac-side=agent|target, see docs/agents/deploy.md). A live switch is not supported. To change the side, do a clean redeploy (k8s/opa-kind-runbook.md → Set the enforcement side).

The branch also adds these decisions:

• D30, precondition checks. At start, the Controller stops if the global combiner does not deny a missing client CR (check Chore(deps): Bump python from 3.12-slim to 3.14-slim in /src/aiac/idp/service/configuration/keycloak #4). At each onboarding, the Orchestrator checks the sidecar (Chore(deps): Bump python from 3.12-slim to 3.14-slim in /src/aiac/pdp/service/policy/opa #1), the namespace pipeline (Chore(deps): Bump python from 3.12-slim to 3.14-slim in /src/aiac/policy/model_store/service #2) and the probes (Chore(deps-dev): Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin from 3.5.2 to 3.6.0 in /keycloak-spi #6). Under agent side, Chore(deps): Bump python from 3.12-slim to 3.14-slim in /src/aiac/policy/model_store/service #2 needs mcp-parser and opa in the outbound pipeline.

• D31, the subject is the username on every leg. The PCE links the subject client scope to the login clients.

• D32, shared roles and scopes across services. The PCE resolves the role holders at render time. The Keycloak SPI publishes aiac.apply.role-members.*, and the event bus renders the CRs again. The outbound subject maps are keyed by target.

• D33, the onboarding event comes after the Keycloak commit. The agent waits a bounded time for a new client. The consumer naks a service that is not visible yet, with a delay.

• UC-1 onboarding:

  • The Orchestrator writes a bootstrap pass-through CR for a tool. It drops that CR (drop_bootstrap) when Provision, the build or compute_and_apply fails.
  • onboard_and_apply calls compute_and_apply(rules, override=False, focus_service=client_id) itself.
  • The Controller resyncs the CRs at start.

• OPA 1.21 fixes. The Rego reads every map with object.get. There is no session rule over an empty owned_tools.

• Tests:

  • The first offline integration test (shared roles, D32).
  • New UC-1 system rungs (failure rollback, resync).
  • An order-agnostic CR compare in the system harness.
  • Agent-side runs of the Scale eval.
  • The side-switch suite is deleted, because a side change is now a clean redeploy.

• Runbook: the clean redeploy of the enforcement side (k8s/opa-kind-runbook.md → Set the enforcement side) failed at enable.sh, because the teardown deletes aiac-system/keycloak-admin-secret. The procedure now names the LLM key Secret (team1/openai-secret) as a precondition, and it has a step that makes the namespace and the Keycloak admin Secret again.

The specs are updated with the code: docs/specs/PRD.md (D24, D29–D33), the component specs under docs/specs/components/, CONTEXT.md and the testing docs under docs/testing/.

Feature Acceptance tier: Tier 2. The change is large and goes across components: the agent, the PCE, the PDP writer, the IdP service, the Keycloak SPI, the event bus and the k8s manifests. The design spec is docs/specs/PRD.md (decisions D29–D33).

Related issue(s)

None. The design is in docs/specs/PRD.md. A follow-up for the neutrality guard in CONTEXT.md is tracked in #217.

(Optional) Testing Instructions

• Offline unit lane: .venv/bin/pytest (2059 passed, 406 deselected).
• Integration lane, system lane on Kind, and eval: see docs/agents/test.md. Deploy with k8s/opa-kind-runbook.md. Use the Set the enforcement side procedure to run the suites under agent-side.

System tests

The UC-1 onboarding system suite ran on Kind under each enforcement side. Between the runs, AIAC got a clean redeploy (k8s/opa-kind-runbook.md → Set the enforcement side).

Command: .venv/bin/pytest -m system -k uc1_onboard -v -rs. It collects 79 tests in 5 rungs: agent only, agent then tool, tool then agent, failure rollback and resync.

Side	Passed	Failed	Skipped	Time
target-side	70	0	9	29m 04s
agent-side	70	0	9	23m 47s

• The 9 skips are the same under the two sides. All of them are in test/system/disabled/ (cross_service_conflict ×1, policy_agnostic ×8), which is disabled on purpose. No live test skipped.
• test_crs_match_live_side and test_deny_comes_from_enforcement_point passed under the two sides. They check the CR shapes and the place of the deny for the live side.
• After each redeploy, the ConfigMap, the Controller pod env and the Controller start log showed the new side, and start check Chore(deps): Bump python from 3.12-slim to 3.14-slim in /src/aiac/idp/service/configuration/keycloak #4 passed. After the runs, AIAC was deployed again with target-side.
• The first redeploy showed that the runbook procedure did not make the two Secrets that enable.sh needs. Commit f62874b adds them to the runbook.
• Caveat: the AIAC images in these runs were built before commits 26e1b60–03487b8. Those commits change 9 files under src/ (the Orchestrator, the preconditions, the Controller start, the consumer, the PCE and env.py). The test code and the k8s manifests were current. Thus these runs do not cover the newer src/ changes. To cover them, rebuild the images (demo/use-cases/onboarding/enable.sh --stack-only --rebuild) and run the suite again under each side.

Review

The /pr skill ran 7 review rounds (the Standards and Spec axes against origin/main and the PRD) and 1 dev-guide round. Four earlier review rounds on the branch were already addressed before this run.

Round	Fixed	Declined
1	7	4
2	8	1
3	4	0
4	11, and a repo-wide search for stale UC1 compute_and_apply caller text	1
5	(the findings were carried into round 6)	0
6	5	0
7	1	2

Main fixes:

• The agent-side check Chore(deps): Bump python from 3.12-slim to 3.14-slim in /src/aiac/policy/model_store/service #2 now also needs mcp-parser.
• The system gate uses the same combiner check as start check Chore(deps): Bump python from 3.12-slim to 3.14-slim in /src/aiac/idp/service/configuration/keycloak #4.
• drop_bootstrap is gated on a bootstrapped flag and has a _pce_lock test.
• created_roles and created_scopes can no longer be unbound in the rollback handler.
• _onboard returns an _Onboarded NamedTuple, and override=False is a keyword argument.
• The specs and the docs now agree with the UC1 call path, the drop_bootstrap cases and the removal of the live side switch (rung 7).

Declined, with reasons:

• The duplicated PLATFORM_SOURCE_CLIENTS parse: the Keycloak image holds only main.py and cannot import aiac.shared.
• The repeated EnforcementSide switches in engine.py: this refactor is large and has risk, and it changes no behaviour.
• The import location of the kube seam: the change is only cosmetic.
• The data clump of catalog and holders: the change has little value for its cost.
• Moving combiner_problems to its own module: the import cost is small.
• The variable name built: the name is clear.
• Two more wording items in round 7: the reviewer rated them not worth a change.

The round-7 hard finding was a text change that the reviewer gave exactly. It was checked with a grep and was not reviewed again.

All commits carry a DCO Signed-off-by and the repo's Assisted-By trailer. The commit messages were rewritten to add them. The trees did not change.

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[omerboehm]

Thanks for this. It's a big piece of work, and the review rounds and the system-test table in the description help a lot. My comments are below. The inline ones carry the details.

Blocking question

• D31 writes to the rossoctl login client, which the rossoctl chart owns. The PRD marks the rossoctl team's agreement as open (PRD.md:536), but the code links the scope already. An earlier version of the spec (33b0bef) said "AIAC never changes a login client". Can we get that agreement before merge, or put the link behind a flag?

Scope and size

• 184 files and 94 commits make this hard to review well. About 2.5k added and 1.1k deleted lines are not part of D29–D33: the CLAUDE.md rewrite, .claude/rules/, docs/agents/*, docs/evaluation/*, the eval/* changes, the launcher fixes, the demo/ rewrite, and the deletion of docs/analysis/keycloak-access-control-analysis.md. Could these go into their own PRs? The demo and launcher changes that target side needs can stay.
• The PRD's decision numbers (D24, D29–D33) are all new in this PR, and several were written or changed after the code. One example: D29 first said a side change is a ConfigMap patch plus a Controller restart (4e83c02). After the side-switch suite was deleted (446d9a0), it says a live switch is not supported. If that was a deliberate scope cut, please record it as a known limit or a follow-up issue.

Test coverage

• The description's own caveat says the system runs used images built before 26e1b60–03487b8, so 9 src/ files are not covered. Those commits include the drop_bootstrap paths and the preconditions. Could you re-run the UC-1 suite on rebuilt images under both enforcement sides?
• No live test covers these:
  • a failed precondition (#1, #2 or #6 answering 409);
  • the D32 path from a Keycloak role mapping through aiac.apply.role-members.* and the re-render to a changed CR;
  • the drop_bootstrap path.
• I could not find a CI workflow that installs opa. The Rego behaviour tests skip without it, so the OPA 1.21 fixes (object.get, the empty owned_tools guard) are only checked as strings in CI. Can CI pin and install OPA 1.21?

[omerboehm]

client_ok\b. skips a line that is only client_ok. What if a rule head is written as client_ok with if not data... on the next line? If OPA accepts that form, a fail-open rule gets past the allowlist, at least while a safe rule is also present. Could you add a test that runs this check against the output of opa parse, or parse the policy with opa parse here instead of a regex?

[oblinder]

You are right. opa parse accepts client_ok on one line and if not ... on the next, and the old regex skipped that line. In start.py, _client_ok_rules now ignores comments and string text and counts brackets. Each line outside every bracket that names client_ok is a rule start, including a bare client_ok. Unbalanced brackets fail closed. The same rule (in awk) is in k8s/opa-kind-enable.sh. test_start.py has new tests for split heads, plus TestTheCheckAgreesWithOpaParse: it runs opa parse on each fixture and checks that "no problem" means every client_ok rule in the AST is a safe rule (it skips without opa). I kept the text check because the Controller image has no opa binary.

Fixed in c8be228.

[omerboehm]

An unknown service_id makes Keycloak answer 404, but this returns 502. The read routes in this PR keep the 404 through _read_error, and the library retries a 5xx, so a bad UUID is retried as if Keycloak were down. Could this use _read_error, or at least pass a 404 through?

[oblinder]

link_subject_scope in keycloak/main.py now returns _read_error(e). A Keycloak 404 (an unknown service_id) stays 404, so the library does not retry it as an outage. Other errors stay 502. There is a new test, test_returns_404_for_an_unknown_service, and the old 404-to-502 link test now uses a 500. idp-configuration-service.md lists the new 404.

Fixed in c8be228.

[omerboehm]

num_delivered > 1 also turns off the client wait on a redelivery after an unrelated failure, for example an LLM timeout followed by the ACK_WAIT redelivery. That redelivery reads the IdP once and naks at once, using up a MAX_DELIVER attempt. The impact is low, but should the decision depend on why the last delivery failed (the not-yet-visible nak path), not only on the delivery count?

[oblinder]

The decision now depends on the cause, not on the delivery count. AiacEventConsumer keeps the stream sequence of each message that it nak'd for ServiceNotVisibleError (_not_visible_seqs). Only the next delivery of such a message runs with wait_for_client=False. A redelivery after another failure (for example an LLM timeout and the ACK_WAIT redelivery) waits again. The set is in memory: after a restart a redelivery waits, which is the safe side. Tests in test_consumer.py and the text in D33 (e), aiac-agent.md and uc1-service-onboarding.md are updated.

Fixed in c8be228.

[omerboehm]

The comment above explains this well: the wait of about 30 s runs inside _service_lock, and the consumer handles one message at a time. So an unknown or deleted UUID stalls every onboarding for 30 s. Please add this as a known limit in the PRD under D33, so operators know about it.

[oblinder]

I added a PRD section, "Known limits (the onboarding event, D33)". It says that a UUID the IdP does not have (unknown or deleted, a phantom event, a wrong realm) blocks every other onboarding for the whole client wait, about 30 s, because the wait runs in _service_lock and the consumer handles one message at a time. A manual POST blocks only its own request. The section also says how to set a smaller budget.

Fixed in c8be228.

[omerboehm]

nit: "(handoff 20)" points nowhere, because docs/handoffs/ is not in the repo. The same reference is in consumer.py:95. Could these point to D33 in the PRD instead?

[oblinder]

orchestrator.py and consumer.py now point to "D33 in docs/specs/PRD.md", not "handoff 20". The same comment in three unit test files is fixed too. The system-harness hint text in test/system/uc1_onboard.py still says "handoff 20 / D33", because a unit test asserts that text.

Fixed in c8be228.

[omerboehm]

The first version of D29 (4e83c02) promised a live switch: a ConfigMap patch and a Controller restart, after which the resync writes every CR in the new side. This line now says a live switch is not supported. If the live switch is dropped for good, please say why here. If it is deferred, please open a follow-up issue.

[oblinder]

We dropped the live switch for good, and D29 now says why. The two sides put the check in different CRs, so a CR set that mixes the sides can check nothing: for example, a pass-through outbound on the agent and a pass-through inbound on the tool let every tool call through. A clean redeploy deletes every AIAC CR and the Policy Model Store, so no mixed state can exist, and then each service is onboarded again. D29 links to the runbook section "Set the enforcement side".

Fixed in 1bab23d.

[omerboehm]

PLATFORM_SOURCE_CLIENTS is also set in aiac-pdp-config. Two copies of the value can drift apart. Can one of them be the single source? Separately: the same setting is called _LOGIN_CLIENTS_ENV in keycloak/main.py and PLATFORM_SOURCE_CLIENTS in opa/main.py and rego.py. I accept the reason for keeping two parses, but the names could still match.

[oblinder]

In the real topology there is already one source: both containers of the Interface Pod read PLATFORM_SOURCE_CLIENTS from aiac-pdp-config. The second copy was in the dev-only standalone manifest, which must not reuse that ConfigMap (the manifest comment explains the clobber). I removed the key from aiac-pdp-config-standalone, so that Pod uses the code default (rossoctl), and the comment points to the one value. In keycloak/main.py, _LOGIN_CLIENTS_ENV / _DEFAULT_LOGIN_CLIENTS / _login_clients are now _PLATFORM_SOURCE_CLIENTS_ENV / _DEFAULT_PLATFORM_CLIENTS / _platform_clients, to match the writer.

Fixed in c8be228.

[omerboehm]

nit: m.inbound_allow_rules + m.inbound_deny_rules repeats at :340, :406, :1174, :1233 and :1305. The for attr in ("inbound_allow_rules", "inbound_deny_rules") loop with getattr/setattr repeats at :205 and :278. One all_edges() method on ServicePolicyModel would remove the repetition.

[oblinder]

ServicePolicyModel now has all_edges() (the Allow edges, then the Deny edges) and prune_edges(prune), which prunes each list on its own. The six inbound_allow_rules + inbound_deny_rules places in engine.py and the model-store route use all_edges(). _purge_role and _reconcile use prune_edges, so the getattr/setattr loops are gone.

Fixed in c8be228.

[omerboehm]

nit: _loggable is also defined in orchestrator.py:223. Could it move to aiac.shared, next to env.py?

[oblinder]

The two _loggable functions are now one loggable() in aiac/shared/logging_config.py. engine.py and orchestrator.py import it. It accepts any object and removes CR/LF.

Fixed in c8be228.

[omerboehm]

nit: when role is None, this now returns every SPM, which the name list_service_policies_by_role doesn't suggest. Could it be renamed, or split into two routes?

[oblinder]

I renamed the handler to list_service_policies, and policy-model-store.md changed with it. I did not split it into two routes: both would be GET /policy/services, and FastAPI would match only one. ?role= is an optional filter on the one collection route, and a comment now says this.

Fixed in c8be228.

[oblinder]

Thanks for the summary review, @omerboehm. The inline items are fixed in c8be228 and 1bab23d.

• Blocking question (D31): fixed — 1bab23d. The link to the platform login clients is a design decision now, and the PRD says so (see the thread on PRD.md:536).
• Scope and size: declined. We keep everything in this PR. The extra changes (CLAUDE.md, .claude/rules, docs/agents, docs/evaluation, eval/*, launcher, demo, the analysis doc) stay here.
• D29: fixed — 1bab23d. The live switch is dropped for good, and D29 gives the reason.
• Test coverage and CI: answered. We did the live UC-1 re-run after a fresh AIAC redeploy, and all live tests pass under both enforcement sides. OPA is upgraded to 1.21.

Inline threads: 11 replied (all fixed).

Fix commits

• c8be228 fix(agent): address review on feat(policy): target-side access control and shared roles (D29–D33) #232
• 1bab23d docs(prd): record the D31 login-client link and the D29 no-live-switch reason

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