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docs: retire compliance subtree + sweep framework name-drops from prose
Per operator decision the framework-mapping docs are gone. They
were aspirational (no audit, no certification, no validated
mapping); keeping them around was misleading.
Files deleted (1,883 lines):
- docs/compliance/index.md
- docs/compliance/soc2.md
- docs/compliance/pci-dss.md
- docs/compliance/nist-sp-800-57.md
Hyperlinks removed:
- README.md: 'Auditor / compliance' row in the doc table; the
'(compliance mapping included)' parenthetical in the
positioning paragraph
- docs/README.md: the '## Compliance' section table; the
'Auditor / compliance team' reading-order-by-role row
Prose name-drops swept across 24 files:
- README.md: 'FedRAMP boundary CAs / financial-services policy
CAs' → '4-level boundary CAs / 3-level policy CAs';
'Compliance-grade for PCI-DSS Level 1, FedRAMP Moderate / High,
SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA' → cut entirely
- getting-started/{quickstart,concepts,examples,why-certctl,
advanced-demo}.md: 'compliance' → 'audit' / 'policy';
'PCI-DSS / SOC 2 / NIST SP 800-57' framework lists cut;
''pci': 'true'' tag example → ''environment': 'production''
- migration/cert-manager-coexistence.md: 'compliance rules' →
'policy rules'
- operator/approval-workflow.md: 'Compliance customers (PCI-DSS
Level 1, FedRAMP Moderate / High, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA)' →
'Operators'; entire 'Compliance control mapping' table
(PCI-DSS §6.4.5 / NIST SP 800-53 SA-15 / SOC 2 Type II CC6.1
/ HIPAA §164.308(a)(4)) deleted; 'compliance contract' →
'two-person-integrity contract'; 'compliance auditors' →
'reviewers'
- operator/legacy-clients-tls-1.2.md: 'PCI-DSS v4.0 Req 4 §2.2.5'
audit-reference → CWE-326 (kept); 'PCI-DSS Req 4 §2.2.5
attestation' section retitled to 'TLS posture summary' and
rewritten without framework framing; 'PCI-DSS, NIST, and
major browsers will eventually deprecate TLS 1.2' →
'Major browsers and OS vendors will eventually deprecate
TLS 1.2'
- operator/database-tls.md: PCI-DSS Req 4 §2.2.5 audit-ref →
CWE-319 only; 'PCI-DSS scope' → 'sensitive data'; PCI-DSS
Req 4 v4.0 prose footing → cut
- operator/runbooks/disaster-recovery.md: 'SOC 2 / PCI
procurement-team deliverable' → 'on-call deliverable';
'compliance auditors' → 'reviewers'
- reference/connectors/{acme,aws-acm,azure-kv,globalsign,
local-ca,openssl,ssh,index}.md: 'compliance reporting
(PCI-DSS §3.6, HIPAA §164.312)' → 'audit reporting';
'Compliance environments (PCI-DSS Level 1, FedRAMP High,
HIPAA)' → 'Regulated environments'; 'compliance audits' →
'audit'; 'FedRAMP boundary CA' pattern names →
'4-level boundary CA' (technically descriptive)
- reference/protocols/est.md: 'compliance-hook seam' →
'device-state hook seam'; 'compliance gating' → 'device-state
gating'; 'est_compliance_failed' → 'est_device_state_failed'
- reference/protocols/scep-intune.md: 'Optional compliance
check' → 'Optional device-state check'; failure-counter
'compliance_failed' → 'device_state_failed'; 'Conditional
Access compliance gating' → 'Conditional Access
device-state gating'
- reference/intermediate-ca-hierarchy.md: 'FedRAMP boundary-CA
deployments where the regulator requires...' →
'Boundary-CA deployments where you want separation of policy
and issuing authorities'; pattern A retitled '4-level FedRAMP
boundary CA' → '4-level boundary CA'
- reference/architecture.md: broken Related-docs link to
compliance.md removed; the rest of that block had stale
pre-Phase-2 paths (quickstart.md, demo-advanced.md,
connectors.md, openapi.md, testing-guide.md, test-env.md) —
retargeted to current locations
- reference/deployment-model.md: 'SOC 2 evidence-report
generator' → 'Audit-evidence report generator'
- reference/vendor-matrix.md: 'SOC 2 / PCI auditors paste this
into evidence packs' → 'reviewers paste this into
vendor-evaluation packs'
- contributor/qa-test-suite.md: 'compliance exist' coverage
description cut; 'Compliance (PCI / SOC2 / HIPAA-relevant)'
risk-class label → 'Audit-relevant'
What was kept:
- CWE references (legitimate technical pointers)
- Microsoft API/feature names that happen to use 'compliance'
literally ('Microsoft Graph compliance API',
'device-compliance validators' — these are MS product names,
not framework name-drops)
- 'NIST PQC' on the landing page (Post-Quantum Cryptography is
the actual NIST standard family, not a compliance framework)
Verified: zero hyperlinks into docs/compliance/ remain. All 24
ci-guards/*.sh pass locally. qa-doc-seed-count.sh clean.
Net diff: 26 files / -1,883 deletions in compliance/ + -32 net
across the prose sweep.
Companion edits in cowork/ (CLAUDE.md doc-tree summary +
WORKSPACE-CHANGELOG.md retirement note) land separately.
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@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ At no point does the private key leave the agent. This is a fundamental security
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Agents also report **metadata** about themselves — their operating system, CPU architecture, IP address, hostname, and version — with every heartbeat. This gives ops teams fleet-wide visibility (e.g., "how many agents are running on ARM?", "which agents are still on v1.0.0?") and powers **agent groups** — dynamic device grouping where policies can be scoped to specific agent criteria like OS type, architecture, or network subnet.
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**Retiring an agent.** When you decommission a server, the certctl record for its agent needs to be retired, not deleted. certctl uses a **soft-delete** model: `DELETE /api/v1/agents/{id}` stamps the row with a retired-at timestamp and a reason, instead of removing it. This is deliberate — an audit trail of "who owned this certificate, on which host, for which team" stays intact forever, and the downstream deployment_targets, certificates, and jobs keep valid foreign keys. Retired agents are filtered out of default list views and the dashboard's agent counter, but remain visible through a separate retired-agents view for compliance reconciliation. If the agent still has active deployment targets, deployed certificates, or pending jobs, retirement is blocked by default so you don't silently orphan those rows; the API responds with the exact counts so you can retire or reassign each dependency explicitly. A force-retire escape hatch (`?force=true&reason=...`) is available for true decommission scenarios — it transactionally retires the downstream targets, cancels pending jobs, and records the cascade in the audit trail with the reason you provided. Four internal sentinel agents that back the network scanner and the cloud secret-manager discovery sources cannot be retired at all, even with force, because retiring them would orphan their subsystems. Once retired, an agent that still attempts to heartbeat receives `410 Gone` — the agent process reads that as "you've been retired, shut down" and exits cleanly.
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**Retiring an agent.** When you decommission a server, the certctl record for its agent needs to be retired, not deleted. certctl uses a **soft-delete** model: `DELETE /api/v1/agents/{id}` stamps the row with a retired-at timestamp and a reason, instead of removing it. This is deliberate — an audit trail of "who owned this certificate, on which host, for which team" stays intact forever, and the downstream deployment_targets, certificates, and jobs keep valid foreign keys. Retired agents are filtered out of default list views and the dashboard's agent counter, but remain visible through a separate retired-agents view for audit reconciliation. If the agent still has active deployment targets, deployed certificates, or pending jobs, retirement is blocked by default so you don't silently orphan those rows; the API responds with the exact counts so you can retire or reassign each dependency explicitly. A force-retire escape hatch (`?force=true&reason=...`) is available for true decommission scenarios — it transactionally retires the downstream targets, cancels pending jobs, and records the cascade in the audit trail with the reason you provided. Four internal sentinel agents that back the network scanner and the cloud secret-manager discovery sources cannot be retired at all, even with force, because retiring them would orphan their subsystems. Once retired, an agent that still attempts to heartbeat receives `410 Gone` — the agent process reads that as "you've been retired, shut down" and exits cleanly.
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### Deployment Targets
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@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ Every action in certctl — issuing a certificate, renewing one, deploying to a
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### Audit Trail
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Every action is logged: who did it, what changed, when, and why. This is essential for compliance (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001) and for debugging. You can trace a certificate's entire history from creation through every renewal and deployment.
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Every action is logged: who did it, what changed, when, and why. This is essential for audit and for debugging. You can trace a certificate's entire history from creation through every renewal and deployment.
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### Notifications
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@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ This gives you a three-step triage workflow:
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Network scan targets are managed from the **Network Scans** dashboard page — create CIDR ranges and ports to probe, enable/disable targets, trigger on-demand scans, and view results. Discovered certificates from network scans appear in the same Discovery triage page alongside filesystem discoveries.
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This is a prerequisite for multi-CA migration, compliance audits, and building confidence that you've found all the certificates that matter.
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This is a prerequisite for multi-CA migration, audit reviews, and building confidence that you've found all the certificates that matter.
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### Observability
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