- Capabilities declare access (read/write, unknown fails closed as
write), side effects, idempotency, timeout, cost estimate and the trust
of their output (web content is low trust). A capability may derive its
policy target from its parameters; a disagreeing target is refused, and
approvals whose modified parameters change the target are refused.
- The registry is frozen at start-up; registration afterwards panics.
- Invocation.RequireApproval turns ALLOW into ASK for commitments; it can
only tighten, and scoped grants never satisfy it.
- Scoped grants (migration 0025): capability, target and parameter globs,
access, expiry of at most seven days and an optional operation count
consumed atomically; applied only where policy says ASK. A sweep marks
lapsed grants and refreshes the self-model, which now lists live grants.
- Capability requests carry scope, duration, operation cap, reason,
evidence, risk, mitigation, fallback, alternatives and explicit decision
history; they batch per intention, are capped per mind (operator
attention budget) and can be decided only by a named person. Component
names are refused as deciders, for approvals too, and as usernames.
- API routes, OpenAPI entries, scheduler sweeps and approval-centre
sections for requests and temporary grants.
Neither noemad nor the test harness passed ui.Actions.Policy or Decide,
so an operator's Approve, Deny and "add rule" forms dereferenced a nil
function and returned 500. Both handlers now use the shared, audited
server methods like the other study pages, and the unused callbacks are
removed. The observer-escalation test only reached the role check, which
is why this went unnoticed; the new browser test fails without the fix
(policy form → 500) and passes with it.
A statement made to a mind is now three things kept apart: the observation
that it arrived, an append-only assertion (attributed actor, stance,
certainty, modality, negation, reported or quoted speech, hypothetical
status, interpretation confidence and notes), and, only for factual
assertions, one piece of evidence for a proposition belief attributed to
whoever actually stands behind it. Reported speech is attributed to the
person reported and weighed as second-hand; hypotheticals, questions and
imperatives create no belief; expressed doubt counts against; a possibly
sarcastic remark is recorded with low interpretation confidence rather
than guessed at. Interpretation is deterministic code; a model may enrich
the claim list but never sets stance or confidence.
Association no longer treats conversational turns as world events:
hypotheticals, questions, requests and consecutive turns by one speaker
cannot seed causal hypotheses.
Adds internal/epistemics, migration 0018, the assertions API, assertions
on belief pages and in belief detail, a shared end-to-end test harness
(tests/harness), end-to-end tests for eight speech patterns, and updates
the milestone test to the new provenance.
Forged action requests for locked, unknown and ask-only capabilities and a
hostile model emitting tool calls and policy in perception output all end
in denial or an approval request; nothing executes and policy is unchanged.
Non-JSON and wrong-shape model output falls back to the deterministic path.
Drives, goal kinds and the capability registry contain nothing about
self-preservation, replication, permissions or the mind's own lifecycle.
The SQL-injection effect test found that a NUL byte in a query string,
path or JSON body reached PostgreSQL and surfaced as a 500. Requests are
now buffered up to the existing limit and NUL in any form (raw, JSON
escaped, form encoded) is refused with a 400 before a query runs.
TestSQLInjectionHasNoEffect sends metacharacter payloads through every
search, filter and free-text route and asserts effect: users, policies,
sessions and tokens unchanged, seeded content intact, payloads stored
verbatim. TestDynamicSQLIdentifiersAreAllowListed scans for statements
assembled with Sprintf outside the reviewed allow-list.
- TOTP second factor (RFC 6238, secret encrypted under the master key),
ten hashed single-use recovery codes, two-step login with a pending token
bound to the client address, account enrolment/disable, admin reset
- tests/security: prompt-injection corpus never acts or creates evidence-free
beliefs; roles and CSRF on form and API paths; cross-mind isolation
(demo scenario 5); stored-XSS escaping and CSP across pages; secrets never
echoed (API, pages, database, archives); hostile archive import; session
lifecycle and security headers
- OpenAPI 3.1 document generated from the route table, served at
/api/v1/openapi.json and kept complete by a test
- gosec clean (justified #nosec annotations, cookie/redirect hardening,
bounded multipart parsing, UUID packing without narrowing conversions);
govulncheck clean with toolchain pinned to go1.26.8
- THREAT_MODEL verification pointers, SECURITY.md testing section, README,
CHANGELOG 0.1.0, docs/RELEASE_NOTES.md, PLAN status
Andy Dixon