Promise get on the vault's seat, so the Go vault can serve it (issue 674)
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The vault hands a secret only on request and reply, sealed to the asker's key
(hq ADR 0349 §11). The seat set is the controller's, so the verb is promised
here; optional until the vault that runs serves it (design 33 §7).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-10-14 00:51:59 +00:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent bfc79c64d9
commit 661918f4e4
2 changed files with 44 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -128,7 +128,19 @@ var defaultSeats = append([]Seat{
// The vault: the controller seals every minted credential with what it provides, which is the
// test for a seat of the mesh's own (novox/hq ADR 0161) — a second provider of `secret` is a
// second claimant, refused by name, rather than a candidate for a pin.
{Name: "mesh-vault", Scope: ScopeMesh, Delivers: "secret", Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0161"},
//
// Its one verb, `get`, hands a secret on request and reply, sealed to the key the asker sends and only
// to an asker the vault allows (novox/hq ADR 0349 §11, issue 674). Optional until the vault that runs
// serves it (design 33 §7).
{Name: "mesh-vault", Scope: ScopeMesh, Delivers: "secret", Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0161",
Serves: []Verb{
{Name: "get", Optional: true, Description: "One secret, sealed to the public key the asker sends (the " +
"sealed box of ADR 0206), with its generation; answered only to an asker the vault allows, as the " +
"bus proved it. Never the value in the clear, and never to a private key.",
Input: schema(map[string]string{"name": "the secret's name",
"public_key": "the asker's X25519 public key as SPKI PEM — never a private key"},
[]string{"name", "public_key"})},
}},
// Named for its scope since 2026-09-30 (novox/hq ADR 0156); `the-artifact-store` resolves to it as
// an alias on a mesh that predates the rename. It serves artifacts of every kind a build makes —
// images and archives, by digest — which is why the provision is the artifact store and not an
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@@ -23,3 +23,34 @@ func TestTheVaultsSeatDeliversSecret(t *testing.T) {
t.Fatal("a provider of secret that does not claim the seat was allowed to hold it")
}
}
// The vault answers `get` on request and reply (novox/hq ADR 0349 §11, issue 674): the seat promises the
// verb, so a holder serving it is accepted — and, optional while the vault that runs is the TypeScript one,
// so is a holder that does not yet.
func TestTheVaultsSeatPromisesGet(t *testing.T) {
seat, _ := SeatNamed("mesh-vault")
var get *Verb
for i := range seat.Serves {
if seat.Serves[i].Name == "get" {
get = &seat.Serves[i]
}
}
if get == nil {
t.Fatal("the vault's seat does not promise get")
}
for _, arg := range []string{"name", "public_key"} {
if props, _ := get.Input["properties"].(map[string]any); props[arg] == nil {
t.Errorf("get takes no %s", arg)
}
}
serving := Manifest{Module: "mesh-vault", Provides: []Offer{{Name: "secret", Scope: ScopeMesh}},
Claims: []Claim{{Name: "mesh-vault", Scope: ScopeMesh, Serves: []string{"get"}}}}
if err := CanHold(serving, seat); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("the vault serving get was refused: %v", err)
}
notYet := Manifest{Module: "mesh-vault", Provides: []Offer{{Name: "secret", Scope: ScopeMesh}},
Claims: []Claim{{Name: "mesh-vault", Scope: ScopeMesh}}}
if err := CanHold(notYet, seat); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("the vault that does not serve get yet was refused: %v", err)
}
}