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Collapses the two-entry-point policy design into one: /apply becomes the sole
policy entry point, and the rich conflict diagnostic (previously the read-only
/policy/check route) is folded directly into the apply path. Implements the
#2499 feature — tasks #2500–#2504 — as one stacked series.

Conflicts are surfaced, never reconciled (ADR 0001 identify-never-reconcile):
no precedence, no "deny wins," no merge/dedupe.

What's in it (bottom → top)

  • #2500 — Retire /policy/check, re-home the diagnostic as a library. Removes
    the standalone route + PolicyCheckRequest; moves the survey orchestrator into
    policy_rules_builder/diagnostic_survey.py next to the per-entity engine so the
    later apply-path work can reuse it. (Reverses handoff-07's "delete the engine"
    step — the engine is preserved and re-homed.)
  • #2501 — Door B: user-role-focal deny-only pass. A kind=User-focal pass
    emits the DENY rules that a user's exclusivity ("Testers may access only
    issues") implies; the scope-focal pass remains the sole grant authority.
  • #2502 — Inline structural conflict detection with atomic raise. Pure,
    deterministic (role.id, scope.id) ALLOW∩DENY set-intersection (no LLM),
    raised before compute_and_apply so a conflicting apply commits nothing.
  • #2503 — Rich all-at-once ConflictReport on /apply + unified 422. On a
    detected structural conflict, an LLM explain/quote pass runs only then to
    enrich every conflicting pair at once with verbatim substring-validated quotes
    (or quotes_verified=false fallback) and kind. Both PolicyConflictError
    (structural) and PolicyContradictionError (LLM auditor) return a 422 whose
    body is one structured ConflictReport
    . Clean applies stay LLM-free.
  • #2504 — Cross-service conflict detection.
    Extends detection to overlaps that collide only in the persisted store, using
    the same ConflictReport shape (reads other services' already-applied rules,
    read-only, atomicity preserved). Machinery is covered by the deterministic
    unit/regression suite (test/agent/uc/onboarding/policy_builder/test_cross_service.py
    et al.). A live -m integration OPA-loop test is included but currently
    xfail/being revised
    — see Testing below.

Also carries f4203be5 (a signed-off follow-up to the original #154 /
PR #809 diagnostic work — surfacing unjoinable auditor contradictions instead
of dropping them). It was committed to the fork branch minutes after #809
merged and never reached upstream on its own; it belongs beneath this series.

Docs

  • ADR docs/adr/0001-identify-never-reconcile.md gains a #2503 addendum
    recording the handoff-07 Q15/Q16 reversal (verbatim-quoted reports on /apply,
    LLM gated behind a detected conflict).
  • Adds aiac/CONTEXT.md — the AIAC domain glossary the ADR references.

Testing

  • Deterministic suite pytest test/ -m "not integration": 684 passed
    this is the coverage of record for #2500–#2504, including the cross-service
    machinery (store-read + union + detector + 422 mapping, with the store patched).
  • #2503 live-LLM case (-m llm): 1 passed on the configured model (not upsized).
  • #2504 -m integration OPA-loop test: run live and found to exercise an
    invalid scenario.
    The test as written engineers a user-role cross-service
    collision (DENY(tester → github-tool.source) vs a supposed agent-onboarding
    ALLOW(tester → github-tool.source)), but the builder never grants a user
    (subject) role a rule on another service's scope — subject roles are granted
    only over the focus service's own scopes, and only the agent's own agent
    roles cross services (pass 3). So no shared (role.id, scope.id) forms and the
    second onboarding correctly returns 200, not 422. The #2504 code is correct;
    the live scenario is the defect. A valid live collision must land on an
    agent role (the only role that crosses services) — e.g. the tool's
    scope-focal exclusivity pass deny-complements source_operations from source
    while the agent grants it. The live test is being revised to that shape (or
    removed in favor of the deterministic suite); it is deselected by
    -m "not integration" and never gates the routine run.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Policy application now detects conflicting allow and deny rules, including conflicts with previously applied policies.
    • Conflicts return structured HTTP 422 reports with explanations and verified policy excerpts when available.
    • Added deny-only handling for user-role policies.
    • Policy application remains unchanged when no conflicts are found.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Auditor-reported contradictions and unjoinable candidates are now surfaced instead of silently omitted.
  • Breaking Changes

    • Removed the standalone policy conflict-check endpoint; use policy application instead.

Address review feedback on #154 (PR rossoctl#809).

Correctness (was: silent drop -> clean masquerade): _explain joined the
auditor's free-form Contradiction.candidate_name against this run's typed
candidate set, and on a miss it 'continue'd silently. precheck filters the
PROPOSER's name lists, not the auditor's candidate_name, so a confirmed
contradiction against an unjoinable name was dropped with no trace -- and if it
was the only one for the entity, the survey classified the entity clean and the
report could reach no_conflict while a contradiction was confirmed. Now mark the
focal entity Unevaluated(reason=unjoinable_candidate) so its presence forces
status to incomplete (never no_conflict). New UnevaluatedReason enum member +
regression test; existing enum-values test updated.

Docs: declare POST /policy/check final in the sub-PRD (remove the settled
/policy/check vs /policy/conflicts open item) -- the route shipped as
/policy/check and PRD/component specs already say so.

Docs (route): document that an empty policy_text is a well-formed request that
surveys to no_conflict/incomplete (never conflicts_found), not a 422 -- AC#4
only requires a *missing* field to be non-2xx.

Not changed (by design): quotes_verified=True with one empty quote side is
intended per US#18 (description-derived grants carry no citation); a quoting
FAILURE is what sets quotes_verified=False (US#19). The double get_services()
fetch is tracked separately in rossoctl/rossoctl#2476.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Koyfman <anatoly@il.ibm.com>
…gnostics

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Koyfman <anatoly@il.ibm.com>
…#2500)

Unify the two policy entry points into one: /apply is now the sole policy
route. The read-only /policy/check route and its PolicyCheckRequest model are
removed from the controller.

The rich conflict-diagnostic engine is preserved and re-homed as an internal
library (not deleted, reversing handoff 07 step 4 per issue #2500):

  - Move the survey orchestrator check_policy_conflicts from the route-tied
    uc/policy_check/check.py into policy_rules_builder/diagnostic_survey.py,
    next to the per-entity engine; dissolve the orphaned uc/policy_check/ pkg.
  - diagnostic.py, diagnostic_models.py, prompts.py already lived in the
    library; drop the last textual tie to the removed route from the
    diagnostic_models docstring.

Tests mirror src: delete the route-level test, move + retarget the survey and
live-LLM tests to policy_rules_builder/, and move the /apply contradiction
regression guard (no symbol change). The live /apply proposer/auditor graph is
byte-for-byte unchanged.

Verification: unit suite 652 passed (no --ignore); llm suite 8 passed;
integration errors are pre-existing LLM auditor non-convergence in the live
/apply onboarding path, unrelated to this route retirement.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Koyfman <anatoly@il.ibm.com>
Add a user-role-focal DENY-only pass to the service policy build. It fans
the kind=User subset of candidate roles over the focus service's own scopes
and emits DENY rules only, expressing a user role's exclusivity ("Testers
may access only issues") as the exclusivity-complement prohibition the
scope-focal pass structurally cannot produce. The scope-focal pass remains
the single grant authority; Door B never emits an ALLOW.

- graph.py: build_role_graph gains a deny_only variant whose build node keeps
  only DENY effects; new build_role_denies() entry point runs it. A permissive
  policy (no exclusivity, no explicit prohibition) yields [] -- a structural
  no-op, reusing the existing role-focal proposer/auditor prompt unchanged
  (no new LLM reasoning, no model upsize).
- builder.py: run the pass at the focus's own-scope onboarding alongside the
  scope-focal pass, fanning each kind=User candidate role over own scopes.
  Order-independent (own scopes always exist at the service's own onboarding).
- Tests: deny-only graph slices (exclusivity complement, permissive no-op,
  explicit prohibition); builder fan-out (per user role over own scopes, agent
  roles skipped, consistent-denyworld agreement with no conflict, order
  independence); one live-LLM exclusivity-complement case (-m llm).

Conflict detection over the assembled rules is out of scope here (#2502/#2503):
this pass only produces denies.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Koyfman <anatoly@il.ibm.com>
Detect allow/deny conflicts inline in the service build and make apply
atomic. After all passes (scope-focal grants + Door B denies) are assembled
into one rule list, ServicePolicyBuilder.build runs a pure, deterministic
detect_conflicts -- the (role.id, scope.id) set-intersection of the ALLOW and
DENY rule sets, no LLM. On overlap it raises a ConflictReport-carrying
PolicyConflictError BEFORE the Orchestrator/Controller reach compute_and_apply,
so a conflict leaves persisted state untouched (atomic-by-construction). Per
ADR 0001 the detector surfaces, never reconciles.

The raised report is the structural form: real ids, kind=DIRECT, focal on the
SCOPE side, synthesized explanation, no quotes (quotes_verified=False).
Verbatim-quote enrichment and the 422-body wiring are deferred to #2503; the
existing PolicyContradictionError->422 handler (the disjoint LLM-auditor
mechanism) is left intact.

Tests: pure detect_conflicts unit suite (clean/overlap/order-independence/
id-vs-name/multi/empty) plus the repurposed apply-conflict regression seed,
whose atomic-proof drives the real onboarding path and asserts compute_and_apply
is never called on conflict (and is reached on a clean build).

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Koyfman <anatoly@il.ibm.com>
Fold the re-homed diagnostic explain/quote engine into /apply's conflict
path. When the deterministic detect_conflicts (#2502) finds a structural
allow∩deny overlap -- and ONLY then -- ServicePolicyBuilder.build() runs an
LLM explain pass (conflict_enrichment.enrich_report) over exactly those pairs,
classifying each kind (direct/coarse_scope) and extracting verbatim,
substring-validated quotes from the candidate policy text. A clean apply stays
fully deterministic and LLM-free (the explain seam never fires).

Unify the 422 boundary on one ConflictReport shape (Q15): PolicyConflictError
carries the enriched report directly; PolicyContradictionError is re-shaped by
report_from_contradictions (no LLM, lower-fidelity: no ids, quotes_verified=
false). Both handlers return 422 whose body is the structured report JSON.

On any quote-validation failure the conflict is kept with quotes_verified=false
and a description fallback -- surface, never reconcile (ADR 0001). Adds an ADR
addendum recording the reversal of handoff-07 Q15/Q16 (quote-less / no-LLM).

Tests: enrichment + verbatim/fallback + clean-apply-never-calls-explain-seam
(deterministic), a route test asserting the ConflictReport 422 body for both
exceptions, and one live-LLM case (-m integration -m llm) asserting containment
plus substring-validity only.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Koyfman <anatoly@il.ibm.com>
…st (#2504)

Extend the inline structural conflict detector (#2502) to see across
services. Today detect_conflicts only sees the rules one build() assembles,
so an ALLOW derived by one service's build and a DENY another service has
already applied for the SAME (role.id, scope.id) go unseen. Add a use-case
layer gatherer, applied_rules_for_scopes, that reads the already-applied
inbound rules (allow AND deny) of the services owning the scopes a build
touches, from the Policy Store. ServicePolicyBuilder.build now unions those
with its own rules and runs the SAME #2502 intersection over the combined
(about-to-be-persisted) state, and the SAME #2503 enrichment over the union
only on a hit. No new report shape: cross-service overlaps surface as the
same ConflictReport/Conflict (real ids, FocalRef, kind, verbatim quotes).

Identify-never-reconcile (ADR 0001) is preserved: the gatherer only widens
the detector's input, never merges/dedupes/picks a winner, and is read-only,
so build() still raises PolicyConflictError before compute_and_apply
(atomic-by-construction). The LLM enrichment stays gated behind a detected
conflict, so a clean multi-service apply is fully deterministic and LLM-free.

The gatherer lives in the onboarding use-case layer (next to builder.py),
NOT the PRB package, keeping the PRB store-free (test_isolation).

Tests:
- Unit: applied_rules_for_scopes reads both inbound lists of each distinct
  scope owner once, tolerates a brand-new empty SPM, skips owner-less scopes.
- Detection: the #2502 core surfaces an allow-deny overlap spanning the two
  sides (combined input), clean when disjoint, order-independent.
- Regression: build() raises on a cross-service overlap read from the store
  (enrichment fires, PCE never reached) and a clean cross-service apply
  reaches the PCE with the LLM seam untouched; store seam patched to [] in
  the within-service cases so they are unchanged.
- Integration (-m integration + llm, deselected by -m "not integration"):
  drive two colliding onboardings through the real in-cluster Controller and
  assert the second POST /apply/service returns 422 with a ConflictReport;
  skips cleanly when the pipeline/env is absent.

Deterministic suite: 684 passed, 161 deselected.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Koyfman <anatoly@il.ibm.com>
Adds the AIAC feature glossary referenced by docs/adr/0001-identify-never-reconcile.md:
fixes the vocabulary for focal entities, the scope-focal grant authority, Door B
denies, contradiction (intra-pass) vs conflict (cross-pass), within-batch vs
cross-service conflicts, and the identify-never-reconcile principle.

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Koyfman <anatoly@il.ibm.com>
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The change adds a deny-only role pass, deterministic Allow/Deny conflict detection, LLM report enrichment, cross-service policy checks, structured HTTP 422 responses, and regression and integration coverage.

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Conflict terminology and error API
aiac/CONTEXT.md, aiac/docs/adr/..., aiac/docs/specs/..., aiac/src/aiac/agent/controller/routes.py, aiac/src/aiac/agent/policy_rules_builder/diagnostic_models.py, diagnostic_survey.py
The documentation defines policy-pass terminology and the identify-never-reconcile rule. Conflict exceptions now return structured ConflictReport responses. The standalone POST /policy/check route is removed.
Structural detection and diagnostic reporting
aiac/src/aiac/agent/policy_rules_builder/conflict_detection.py, conflict_enrichment.py, diagnostic.py, aiac/test/agent/controller/test_routes.py, aiac/test/agent/policy_rules_builder/*
The builder detects Allow/Deny overlaps by role and scope, enriches structural conflicts with validated quotes, and preserves unjoinable auditor contradictions as unevaluated results.
Door B deny-only role pass
aiac/src/aiac/agent/policy_rules_builder/graph.py, aiac/src/aiac/agent/uc/onboarding/policy_builder/builder.py, aiac/test/agent/policy_rules_builder/test_graph*.py, aiac/test/agent/uc/onboarding/policy_builder/test_builder.py
Role processing now supports DENY-only output. The onboarding builder runs it for user roles across the focus service's scopes.
Cross-service apply guard
aiac/src/aiac/agent/uc/onboarding/policy_builder/cross_service.py, aiac/test/agent/uc/onboarding/policy_builder/test_cross_service.py, aiac/test/agent/policy_rules_builder/test_apply_conflict_regression.py, aiac/test/integration/test_uc1_onboard_cross_service_conflict.py
The builder reads inbound rules from owning service policies, joins them with current rules for detection, and rejects conflicts before persistence. Tests cover atomicity, clean applies, enrichment, and a two-service integration flow.

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The PR moves policy-conflict detection into /apply and adds cross-service checks, but concurrent applies can still bypass the snapshot-only check and persist contradictory rules; merge should wait for transaction or lock protection, or explicit owner acceptance of this bounded correctness risk.

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  participant ServicePolicyBuilder
  participant PolicyStore
  participant conflict_detection
  participant conflict_enrichment
  participant compute_and_apply
  ServicePolicyBuilder->>PolicyStore: Read applied rules for touched scopes
  ServicePolicyBuilder->>conflict_detection: Detect Allow/Deny overlaps
  conflict_detection-->>ServicePolicyBuilder: Return ConflictReport
  ServicePolicyBuilder->>conflict_enrichment: Enrich detected conflicts
  conflict_enrichment-->>ServicePolicyBuilder: Return enriched ConflictReport
  ServicePolicyBuilder-->>ServicePolicyBuilder: Raise PolicyConflictError
  ServicePolicyBuilder-->>compute_and_apply: Invoke only when no conflicts exist
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Replace assigned lambdas to satisfy Ruff E731.

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Inline comments:
In `@aiac/CONTEXT.md`:
- Line 50: Update the example text in CONTEXT.md to replace “scope-focal deny”
with “scope-focal grant,” preserving the surrounding wording so it accurately
describes the Allow/Deny conflict between the scope-focal pass and Door B.

In `@aiac/docs/adr/0001-identify-never-reconcile.md`:
- Around line 24-26: Update the cross-service conflict statement in ADR 0001 to
reflect that the apply guard reads persisted rules for touched scopes and
rejects conflicting rules before persistence, rather than describing
cross-service conflicts as an unreconciled follow-up gap.

In `@aiac/docs/specs/components/aiac-agent/policy-conflict-check.md`:
- Line 26: Remove the retired POST /policy/check contract from the specification
and update the relevant policy entry-point section to describe /apply as the
sole supported route, keeping the documentation consistent with the controller
routes.

In `@aiac/src/aiac/agent/policy_rules_builder/conflict_enrichment.py`:
- Line 58: Update the verification logic in the conflict enrichment flow to
require every granting and prohibiting quote to contain non-whitespace text
before calling _verify_quote. Preserve the existing policy-text verification and
ensure any empty or whitespace-only quote makes verified false.

In `@aiac/src/aiac/agent/uc/onboarding/policy_builder/builder.py`:
- Line 97: Update ServicePolicyBuilder.build so enrichment failures from
get_policy_source().fetch() or enrich_report do not replace the structural
conflict report: preserve the report produced by detect_conflicts and raise
PolicyConflictError with it, allowing the controller to return the required
ConflictReport response.
- Line 86: The policy conflict detection and persistence flow spanning the
builder and compute_and_apply path must be atomic: keep the read,
detect_conflicts evaluation, and Policy Store write in one transaction, or
re-read and revalidate conflicts immediately during commit before persisting.
Ensure concurrent applies cannot both commit based on the same clean snapshot,
and add a regression test covering opposing concurrent applies.

In `@aiac/test/integration/test_uc1_onboard_cross_service_conflict.py`:
- Line 168: Move the try/finally cleanup guard in the onboarding conflict test
to before the first shared-state mutation, including Agent CR deletion, Keycloak
cleanup, Policy Store clearing, and provisioning. Update the finally teardown to
call uc1.clear_policy_store() after both phases so persisted rules are removed.

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aiac/test/agent/policy_rules_builder/test_conflict_detection.py at lines 72-72
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# conflict leaves persisted state untouched (atomic-by-construction; the store read above is
# side-effect-free). Detection is order-independent (keyed on ids), so tool-first vs
# agent-first onboarding yields the identical outcome.
combined = rules + applied_rules_for_scopes(rules)

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Make detection and persistence atomic.

builder.py:86 reads the Policy Store, but routes.py:97 calls compute_and_apply later. The PCE then performs a separate read-modify-write. Concurrent applies can pass detect_conflicts from the same clean snapshot; the later PCE write can append the opposite effect without another conflict check. Keep detection and persistence in one transaction or recheck during commit. Add a concurrent-apply regression test.

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In `@aiac/src/aiac/agent/uc/onboarding/policy_builder/builder.py` at line 86, The
policy conflict detection and persistence flow spanning the builder and
compute_and_apply path must be atomic: keep the read, detect_conflicts
evaluation, and Policy Store write in one transaction, or re-read and revalidate
conflicts immediately during commit before persisting. Ensure concurrent applies
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…empty-quote guard, docs)

Applies the actionable CodeRabbit findings from PR rossoctl#842:

- builder.py: enrichment (policy fetch + LLM explain/quote) is now best-effort
  on the conflict path. A fetch/enrich failure was escaping past the
  PolicyConflictError raise and returning 500 instead of the required 422
  ConflictReport; it now falls back to the structural report (ADR 0001:
  surface, never drop).
- conflict_enrichment.py + diagnostic.py: a blank/whitespace-only quote no
  longer verifies (guard q.strip() before _verify_quote, which is trivially
  true for the empty string), so an empty quote can no longer set
  quotes_verified=True with no evidence.
- CONTEXT.md: within-batch example said 'scope-focal deny'; the scope-focal
  pass emits grants -> 'scope-focal grant'.
- ADR 0001: add a #2504 addendum recording that cross-service conflicts are
  now detected pre-persistence (closing the Q13 follow-up gap, still
  identify-never-reconcile).
- policy-conflict-check.md: mark the spec retired/superseded by /apply (the
  standalone POST /policy/check route was removed in #2500).
- test_uc1_onboard_cross_service_conflict.py: open the cleanup guard before
  the first shared-state mutation and clear the Policy Store in teardown.
- test_conflict_detection.py: lambda-assignment -> local def key(...).

Deferred: the concurrent-apply TOCTOU (builder.py detect/persist atomicity) is
pre-existing and needs Policy Store CAS; tracked as a follow-up.

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Thanks — triaged all eight. Pushed the fixes in 52db817.

Fixed:

  • conflict_enrichment.py — empty/whitespace-only quotes now fail verification (q.strip() and _verify_quote(...)). Applied the same guard to the twin check in diagnostic.py (same _verify_quote("", ...)-is-trivially-true bug).
  • builder.py (enrichment failure) — real bug: a fetch/enrich failure was escaping past the PolicyConflictError raise and returning 500 instead of the required 422 ConflictReport. Enrichment is now best-effort and falls back to the structural report (ADR 0001: surface, never drop).
  • CONTEXT.mdscope-focal denyscope-focal grant (the scope-focal pass emits grants; Door B emits denies).
  • ADR 0001 — added a #2504 addendum: cross-service conflicts are now detected pre-persistence (closing the Q13 follow-up gap, still identify-never-reconcile). Left the original Q13 text as the historical decision.
  • policy-conflict-check.md — marked the spec retired/superseded by /apply (the standalone POST /policy/check route was removed in #2500).
  • integration test — moved the cleanup guard above the first shared-state mutation and added clear_policy_store() to teardown.
  • nitpick — lambda-assignments → local def key(...).

Deterministic suite still green (pytest -m "not integration": 684 passed); integration test collects.

Deferring — builder.py detect/persist atomicity: the concurrent-/apply TOCTOU is real but pre-existing — the "atomic-by-construction" guarantee is single-writer (side-effect-free read, raise before compute_and_apply). Cross-apply transactional safety needs Policy Store CAS/locking that does not exist yet, which is a larger change than this "surface, never reconcile" series. Tracking it as a separate follow-up rather than expanding scope here.

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Follow-up for the deferred atomicity item is tracked as rossoctl/rossoctl#2509 (nested under the parent feature rossoctl/rossoctl#2499, alongside the other #2500–#2504 tasks).

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Solid, well-structured series. The identify-never-reconcile discipline is consistent end-to-end, the cross-service detection reuses the pure #2502 core cleanly, and the test coverage (684 deterministic, 1 live-LLM) is thorough.

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state: RoleRulesState = {
"role": role,
"scopes": scopes,
"policy_text": "",

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policy_text initialized to "" — the proposer node reads state["policy_text"] to build the LLM prompt, so build_role_denies will feed an empty string to the LLM. build_role_rules uses the same initialization pattern, so if this is intentional (policy text is fetched inside propose via get_policy_source() rather than from state), a short comment would prevent a future reader from adding a redundant fetch here.

# ConflictReport.
try:
report = enrich_report(report, combined, get_policy_source().fetch())
except Exception:

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Bare except Exception: pass silently swallows enrichment errors — including unexpected ones like TypeError or AttributeError from a bug in enrich_report. The intent (best-effort enrichment) is sound per ADR 0001, but with no logging, "enrich unavailable" and "enrich is broken" are indistinguishable in production. Consider logging.warning("enrichment failed, falling back to structural report", exc_info=True) at minimum.

for c in contradictions:
candidate = EntityRef(name=c.candidate_name, id="")
focal_entity = EntityRef(name=focal_name, id="")
role, scope = (focal_entity, candidate) if focal_type is FocalType.ROLE else (candidate, focal_entity)

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Line length nit: this ternary assignment exceeds 100 chars. Minor if a formatter is enforced, but worth flagging for consistency.

…s, doc policy_text init)

- builder.py: the best-effort enrichment fallback no longer swallows errors
  silently. It now logs at WARNING with exc_info so a genuine enrich_report bug
  (TypeError/AttributeError) is distinguishable from an expected
  "policy source unavailable" in production. Still raises the structural report
  (ADR 0001: surface, never drop).
- graph.py: document that the "policy_text": "" state init is a placeholder the
  graph's fetch node (START -> fetch -> propose) populates via get_policy_source()
  before propose reads it, so a future reader does not add a redundant fetch.

The line-length nit on conflict_detection.py:97 is a non-issue: ruff is enforced
at line-length=120 and the line is 110 chars.

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Thanks @clawgenti — addressed in `94c97d98`.

Fixed:

  • builder.py (bare `except`) — the best-effort enrichment fallback no longer swallows errors silently. It now logs at `WARNING` with `exc_info=True`, so a genuine bug in `enrich_report` (`TypeError`/`AttributeError`) is distinguishable in production from an expected "policy source unavailable". Still raises the structural report (ADR 0001: surface, never drop).
  • graph.py (`policy_text=""`) — your read is exactly right: the value is fetched by the graph itself, not from state. Added a comment on the init noting the `fetch` node (`START -> fetch -> propose`) populates it via `get_policy_source()` before `propose` reads it, so a future reader won't add a redundant fetch. (Applied to all three build-state inits for consistency.)

Not a change — conflict_detection.py:97 (line length): ruff is enforced here at `line-length = 120` (`pyproject.toml`) and the line is 110 chars, so it passes the enforced formatter — noting it since you conditioned the flag on "if a formatter is enforced."

Deterministic suite still green (policy_builder + policy_rules_builder: 117 passed).

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The two follow-up commits address all prior findings cleanly: enrichment failures now log at WARNING with exc_info=True before raising the structural report, the empty-quote guard (q.strip()) is applied consistently in both diagnostic.py and conflict_enrichment.py, the integration test cleanup guard is correctly placed before the first shared-state mutation with clear_policy_store() in teardown, and the policy_text: "" placeholder is documented at all three init sites. All CI checks pass, all 10 commits are signed off.

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- Around line 5-7: Update the `/apply` HTTP 422 description in the policy
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The retired-route banner said the ConflictReport 422 fires 'only when a
structural conflict is detected', which excludes the auditor path. Both
PolicyConflictError (structural) and PolicyContradictionError (intra-pass
LLM auditor) map to HTTP 422 with the same ConflictReport shape
(routes.py:59-67). Reword to cover both.

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Thanks — addressed in eca35eda.

Fixed — policy-conflict-check.md banner: valid finding. The retired-route banner claimed the 422 ConflictReport fires "only when a structural conflict is detected", which wrongly excludes the auditor path. Both mechanisms map to HTTP 422 with the same ConflictReport shape (routes.py:59-67):

  • PolicyConflictError — cross-pass structural detector (quote-enriched)
  • PolicyContradictionError — intra-pass LLM auditor (re-shaped into the same report via report_from_contradictions)

Reworded the banner to cover both, keeping the shared response shape explicit (and consistent with line 15, which already documents the PolicyContradictionError → 422 path).

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This is a well-structured, well-motivated PR that collapses the two-entry-point design into a clean single /apply path with layered conflict detection. The commit narrative (ADR, glossary, task numbering) is unusually thorough, and the deterministic-vs-LLM split is sound.

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[F1] Duplicate _build_llm import in test_graph.py (lines 22–23)
The diff shows line 22 retaining _build_llm as context while line 23 replaces a second _build_llm occurrence with build_role_denies. The first _build_llm on line 22 appears to be unused (there is no test in the file that references it after this change). Worth removing to avoid a dead import the linter will flag.

[F2] report_from_contradictions focal-string parsing is brittle
conflict_detection.py parses focal strings with hardcoded "role name=" / "scope name=" prefix slices tied to an undocumented contract with graph._role_focal / _scope_focal. If that format changes, the parser silently falls into the SCOPE fallback. A shared constant or co-located format comment would make the coupling explicit and prevent a silent mismatch from producing a misleading conflict shape.

[F3] Blank-quote guard is defensive but the upstream model has no validation
diagnostic.py and conflict_enrichment.py now guard with q.strip() and _verify_quote(...). Correct, but the ExplainResult model has no field-level validation rejecting blank strings before they arrive here, so a blank quote from the LLM ends up in granting_quotes/prohibiting_quotes with quotes_verified=False. This is acceptable per ADR 0001, but worth a note in the model docstring so it's not surprising in production logs.

[F4] applied_rules_for_scopes store exceptions bypass the 500-guard
In cross_service.py, a get_service_policy exception propagates upward and is NOT caught by the except Exception in builder.py (which wraps only enrich_report). It will surface as a 500 rather than a graceful fallback. If the intent is best-effort, wrap the get_service_policy call here; if it should be fatal, document it so the controller handler can be extended.

[F5] Integration test missing xfail guard if live scenario is still under revision
The PR description notes the original integration scenario was found defective and is being revised. The revised test file does not carry @pytest.mark.xfail. If the revised agent-role scenario has been confirmed live, a comment closing the loop from the PR description would help. If it has not yet been confirmed, an xfail(strict=False) guard prevents a false-green on a cluster where the LLM unexpectedly does not produce the expected grant.


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RoleSelection,
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[F1] _build_llm on this line appears to be a dead import after the replacement on line 23. The diff retains this occurrence as context, but if no test in this file still calls _build_llm, the import should be removed to keep the import block clean and avoid a linter warning.

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F1 — leaving as-is: _build_llm is not dead here. It is still exercised by the transport-retry tests (patch(... _build_llm ...) at lines 220 and 263) and the request-timeout tests (test_build_llm_sets_request_timeout_from_env / ..._defaults_timeout_on_bad_env, which call _build_llm() directly). Removing the import would break those.

if focal.startswith("role name="):
focal_type = FocalType.ROLE
focal_name = focal[len("role name=") :].split(":", 1)[0].strip()
elif focal.startswith("scope name="):

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[F2] Brittle focal-string parsing tied to an undocumented contract. The "role name=" / "scope name=" prefix slices here must stay in sync with graph._role_focal / _scope_focal's format string. If that format ever changes, this falls into the SCOPE fallback with the entire focal string as the name — a silent, hard-to-diagnose mismatch. Consider a shared ROLE_FOCAL_PREFIX / SCOPE_FOCAL_PREFIX constant in graph.py (or a # format: 'role name=<name>: ...' comment co-located with _role_focal) imported here to make the coupling explicit.

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F2 — fixed in 5907ea8a. The role name=/scope name= prefixes are now single-sourced as ROLE_FOCAL_PREFIX/SCOPE_FOCAL_PREFIX constants in graph.py (used by _role_focal/_scope_focal, the producers) and imported here by the parser. A format change now flows to both sides from one place, so the parse can no longer silently drift into the SCOPE fallback. Verified no circular import (graph does not import conflict_detection).

404), contributing nothing. Order-independent and side-effect-free (reads only) — it never
mutates the store, preserving the build's atomic-before-``compute_and_apply`` guarantee."""
owners = sorted({rule.scope.serviceId for rule in rules if rule.scope.serviceId})
applied: list[PolicyRule] = []

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[F4] Store exception propagates as unhandled 500. A get_service_policy failure here (network error, auth) is not caught by the except Exception in builder.py — that guard wraps only enrich_report. The exception will escape as a 500. If the intent is best-effort (treat a failing store read as "no other services applied"), wrap the get_service_policy call with a logged except here and return the partial applied list. If it must be fatal, add an explicit comment and extend the controller handler.

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F4 — fixed in 5907ea8a, chosen as fail-closed (your first option, made explicit). A get_service_policy failure is no longer swallowed and no longer escapes as a 500: a store-read failure means we are blind to that owner’s already-applied rules, and silently treating it as “no other services applied” would suppress cross-service detection and let a real overlap persist — the opposite of #2504’s intent. So we abort. It surfaces as 502 (an unreachable Policy Store is a dependency fault, mirroring the IdP boundary in resolve_focal_entities), not the 422 reserved for genuine conflicts. A true 404 is still absorbed as a fresh empty SPM inside get_service_policy, unchanged.


# ``integration`` so ``-m "not integration"`` deselects it (no external services in the routine run);
# ``llm`` because phase 2 drives the real PRB LLM end-to-end, so it can also be selected on its own.
pytestmark = [pytest.mark.integration, pytest.mark.llm]

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[F5] No xfail marker — consider adding one if the revised scenario hasn't been confirmed live. The PR description says the original scenario was found defective and is being revised. If the agent-role scenario here has been confirmed to fire the 422 on a live cluster, a brief comment closing the loop would be helpful. If not yet confirmed, @pytest.mark.xfail(strict=False, reason="revised live scenario pending confirmation") prevents a false-green where the LLM doesn't produce the expected grant.

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F5 — agreed, and not yet confirmed live. The agent-role scenario is mid-revision (the #2511 scope-exclusivity vs role-exclusivity work), so a @pytest.mark.xfail(strict=False, reason="revised agent-role cross-service scenario pending live confirmation") guard is being added with that revision — non-strict so a live run cannot false-green if the PRB LLM does not land the expected ALLOW(source_operations -> source-*), and it reports XPASS the moment it does (the signal to drop the marker). It stays deselected from the routine -m "not integration" run either way.

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Update: committed the guard standalone in 9ab13349 (independent of the scenario revision) — @pytest.mark.xfail(strict=False, reason="live cross-service scenario under revision; not yet confirmed to fire 422"). Non-strict so a live run cannot false-green while the scenario is validated, and it reports XPASS the moment it fires (the signal to drop the marker). Still deselected from the routine -m "not integration" run.

…ng, F4 fail-closed store read)

- F2 (conflict_detection.py focal parsing): the role name=/scope name= prefixes
  are now single-sourced as ROLE_FOCAL_PREFIX/SCOPE_FOCAL_PREFIX constants in
  graph.py (the producer, via _role_focal/_scope_focal) and imported by the
  parser, so a format change can no longer silently drift the parse into its
  SCOPE fallback.
- F4 (cross_service.py store read): a get_service_policy failure (network/auth/
  malformed row) no longer escapes as an unhandled 500. It is now fail-closed --
  a store-read failure means we are blind to another service's applied rules, so
  aborting is correct (best-effort would suppress cross-service detection and let
  a real overlap persist). Surfaced as 502 (dependency fault, mirrors the IdP
  boundary in resolve_focal_entities), not the 422 reserved for genuine conflicts.

F1 (test_graph.py _build_llm import) skipped: not dead -- still used by the
transport-retry and request-timeout tests.

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Addresses review finding F5. The live cross-service OPA-loop scenario is under
revision and not yet confirmed to fire the 422 on a live cluster (per the PR
description), and it drives the real PRB LLM, so the derived rule is
model-dependent. Marks it @pytest.mark.xfail(strict=False) so a live run cannot
false-green while the scenario is validated, and reports XPASS the moment it
fires (the signal to drop the marker). Deselected from the routine
-m "not integration" run regardless.

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Clean design: detect_conflicts is deterministic and correct, Door B separation of grant vs deny authority is principled, and the atomic-raise-before-compute_and_apply guarantee holds throughout. All CI passes, all 13 commits signed-off.

One suggestion on the enrichment module's public/private boundary.


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from .diagnostic import ExplainResult, _verify_quote
from .diagnostic_models import Conflict, ConflictReport
from .graph import _role_focal, _scope_focal, _structured_call

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suggestion: _role_focal, _scope_focal, and _structured_call are private by convention. Importing them here creates a coupling to graph.py's internals — a refactor inside graph that renames or moves these three would silently break enrichment rather than failing at a public API boundary. Consider either exporting them (drop the underscore) or adding a thin public explain_pair(...) function in graph.py that enrichment calls. The intent is clear and the test correctly patches _structured_call in the enrichment path, so this is not blocking.

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Acknowledged (non-blocking). I looked at inverting or de-privatizing this coupling and it's load-bearing rather than accidental, so I'm keeping it deliberately:

  • _structured_call is the shared LLM transport-retry seam. It's patched by that exact name (graph._structured_call) across ~20 tests — it's the single point where behaviour tests intercept the LLM. A rename wouldn't drift silently; it would fail loudly across the whole suite on the first run. Enrichment imports it precisely so the explain/quote pass gets identical transient-failure retry to propose/audit, rather than reimplementing that policy.
  • Moving explain_pair into graph.py would create an import cycle. diagnostic.py already does from . import graph, and _explain_pair needs ExplainResult (defined in diagnostic.py), so graph → diagnostic is circular. The consumer therefore has to live outside graph.
  • The focal-string format contract is already public. The prefixes were promoted to ROLE_FOCAL_PREFIX/SCOPE_FOCAL_PREFIX and are imported by conflict_detection too, pinning the one part that genuinely could drift silently (the parse in report_from_contradictions).

So the remaining underscore imports are an intentional reuse of graph's LLM plumbing, guarded by test coverage, not a fragile internal reach. Happy to promote _role_focal/_scope_focal to public formatters as a follow-up if you'd prefer the convention cleaned up, but it doesn't remove the _structured_call dependency, which is the substantive one.

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In `@aiac/src/aiac/agent/uc/onboarding/policy_builder/cross_service.py`:
- Around line 67-68: Update the cross-service policy read error handling to log
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The #2504 cross-service read fails closed with a 502 when the Policy
Store is unreachable, but the client-facing detail echoed the raw
exception (and the owner id). A store error can carry an internal URL,
host, or credential fragment, so surfacing it in the HTTP body is an
information-disclosure leak (CWE-209).

Log the exception (and owner) server-side with exc_info=True, and
return a stable, generic detail with no exc/owner text. 'from exc'
keeps the cause in the server-side traceback. Adds a regression test
asserting the sensitive text is absent from the response but present
in the server log.

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The two latest commits close both open findings cleanly. The CWE-209 fix (cross_service.py) is correctly structured — exc_info=True logging preserves the full traceback server-side, the 502 detail is a stable, opaque string with no owner id or exception text, and from exc keeps the cause chain intact. The regression test (test_store_read_failure_aborts_502_without_leaking_exception) pins all four invariants: status 502, secret absent from the HTTP body, secret present in the log, and cause chained via __cause__. The xfail(strict=False) marker on the integration scenario is correctly placed and sufficient — XPASS fires the moment the live scenario is confirmed. All 14 commits signed off, all CI passes.

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Review round: CWE-209 fix + coupling rationale (6216baef)

Addressed the two latest review findings.

1. CWE-209 — information disclosure in the cross-service 502 (coderabbit) — fixed

applied_rules_for_scopes (#2504) correctly fails closed with a 502 when the Policy Store is unreachable, but the client-facing detail echoed the raw exception (and the owner id). A store error can carry an internal URL, host, or credential fragment, so surfacing it in the HTTP body was an information-disclosure leak.

  • Log the exception + owner server-side with exc_info=True.
  • Return a stable, generic detail — "policy store unreachable while resolving cross-service rules" — with no exc/owner text.
  • from exc keeps the cause in the server-side traceback.
  • Regression test asserts the sensitive text is absent from the response body but present in the server log; 502 status + fail-closed behaviour preserved.

2. conflict_enrichment.pygraph.py internal coupling (clawgenti, non-blocking) — kept by design, replied inline

The private imports are load-bearing, not accidental:

  • _structured_call is the shared LLM transport-retry seam, patched by that exact name across ~20 tests — a rename fails loudly, not silently. Enrichment reuses it so the explain/quote pass gets identical retry to propose/audit.
  • Moving explain_pair into graph.py would create a graph → diagnostic import cycle (diagnostic already imports graph; explain_pair needs ExplainResult from diagnostic).
  • The one part that could drift silently — the focal-string format — is already the public ROLE_FOCAL_PREFIX/SCOPE_FOCAL_PREFIX constants, imported by conflict_detection too.

Validation

  • ruff check clean.
  • Deterministic suite: 685 passed (684 baseline + 1 new test), 162 deselected.

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