Closes findings P3-1 and P3-2 from the 2026-05-05 CLI/API/MCP↔GUI parity
audit (cowork/cli-gui-parity-audit-2026-05-05/RESULTS.md). Both findings
flagged hidden defaults that the CLI was sending without exposing them
to operators: `force=false` baked into every renew payload, and a silent
fallback to `reason="unspecified"` whenever --reason was omitted.
P3-1 — promote --force on `certs renew` (full end-to-end plumbing)
The pre-2026-05-05 CLI sent `{"force": false}` in the renew body. The
API handler never decoded it — a textbook "lying field" per the
operator's CLAUDE.md "complete path, not the easy path" rule: the body
field stored a value, claimed to do something, and silently did nothing
because the wire never reached the consumer. Adding a --force flag that
also went unread would have created another lying field.
This commit takes the complete path:
service.CertificateService.TriggerRenewal grew a `force bool` parameter
(internal/service/certificate.go). When force=true, the
RenewalInProgress block is overridden so operators can recover stuck
in-flight renewals where a previous job hung without releasing the
status flag. Archived and Expired remain terminal blockers regardless
of force — those are semantic dead-ends that --force should not paper
over (archived = decommissioned, expired = issue a new cert instead of
renewing a dead one).
handler.CertificateHandler.TriggerRenewal parses force from
?force=true (or ?force=1) query param, OR {"force": true} JSON body,
whichever the client picks. Defaults to false. Passes through to the
service.
internal/cli/client.go::RenewCertificate(id, force bool) sends
?force=true on the URL when --force is set. The historical hardcoded
`{"force": false}` body is gone — no more lying field.
cmd/cli/main.go dispatches `certs renew <id> [--force]` (ID-first
flag-second convention matches the existing `agents retire <id>
[--force]`).
P3-2 — require --reason on `certs revoke` (Option A: strict refusal)
The pre-2026-05-05 CLI dropped to `--reason unspecified` whenever the
operator omitted the flag. Compliance reporting (RFC 5280 §5.3.1, PCI-
DSS §3.6, HIPAA §164.312) relies on the reason code being meaningful;
silent fallback defeats the audit trail because every revocation looks
identical.
cmd/cli/main.go dispatch refuses to send when --reason is empty,
prints the canonical RFC 5280 §5.3.1 reason-code menu, and exits
non-zero.
internal/cli/client.go exposes ValidRevokeReasons() returning the
canonical camelCase list (unspecified, keyCompromise, caCompromise,
affiliationChanged, superseded, cessationOfOperation, certificateHold,
removeFromCRL, privilegeWithdrawn, aaCompromise) and
NormalizeRevokeReason() that accepts both camelCase and snake_case
inputs and normalises to the canonical wire form. Off-list reasons
are rejected at dispatch with the menu re-printed.
Test pins:
internal/cli/client_test.go::TestClient_RenewCertificate_ForceFlag —
--force=true sends ?force=true with empty body; --force=false sends
no query and no body.
internal/cli/client_test.go::TestNormalizeRevokeReason +
TestValidRevokeReasons — canonical-camelCase + snake_case + reject-
off-enum behaviour.
cmd/cli/dispatch_test.go::TestHandleCerts_Revoke_RequiresReason +
TestHandleCerts_Revoke_RejectsUnknownReason +
TestHandleCerts_Renew_ForceFlag — dispatch-layer pins for the same
contracts.
internal/api/handler/certificate_handler_test.go::TestTriggerRenewal_
ForceQueryParam — query-param passthrough (no-flag, force=true,
force=1, force=false) flows through to the service-layer parameter.
internal/service/certificate_test.go::TestTriggerRenewal_
ForceOverridesInProgress — force=false preserves the
RenewalInProgress block; force=true clears it.
Existing TestTriggerRenewal_Archived extended to assert force=true
still blocks Archived (terminal-state guarantee).
Docs: docs/reference/cli.md updated with the --force example for renew
and the strict --reason semantics for revoke (including snake_case
input acceptance).
Acceptance gate (verified):
- go build ./cmd/server/... ./cmd/agent/... ./cmd/cli/...
./cmd/mcp-server/... clean.
- go vet ./... clean.
- go test -short -count=1 ./... pass repo-wide.
- bash scripts/ci-guards/openapi-handler-parity.sh clean
(router 178, OpenAPI 144, exceptions 36 — unchanged; we add
parameter parsing, not routes).
- gofmt -l clean.
Mechanical sed across the main go.mod's module declaration, the f5-mock-icontrol
sub-module's go.mod, every Go file's import path (361 files), and a rebuild of
the checked-in f5-mock-icontrol binary so its embedded build-info reflects the
new module path. No behavior change.
Choice B from cowork/transfer-certctl-to-org.md, executed 2026-05-04. Choice A
(keep module path declared as github.com/shankar0123/certctl regardless of
repo URL) shipped on the day of the org transfer (2026-05-03) since we had no
external Go consumers; this commit closes that deferral.
Backward-compat: GitHub HTTP redirects continue to forward
github.com/shankar0123/certctl → github.com/certctl-io/certctl at the URL
level, but Go's module proxy uses the path declared in go.mod as the
canonical name. Pre-fix, anyone trying `go get github.com/certctl-io/certctl/...`
hit a "module path mismatch" error because go.mod said
github.com/shankar0123/certctl and the URL they fetched it from said
certctl-io/certctl. Post-fix, the canonical name and the URL agree, so
go get / go install / external Go consumers / Go-tooling integrations
work cleanly via either the new path (preferred) or the old path (which
redirects and Go follows the redirect for source fetch).
Anyone still importing the old path inside their own code keeps working
provided they update their go.mod's `require` line to match — the module
path declared in their consumer's go.sum / go.mod is the authoritative
import name, so a mass sed across their import statements is the migration
on the consumer side. No external consumers exist today.
Diff shape:
361 *.go files — import path replacement only
2 go.mod — module declaration replacement only
1 binary — deploy/test/f5-mock-icontrol/f5-mock-icontrol rebuilt
so embedded build-info reflects the new path (8618965 vs
8618933 bytes; 32-byte diff is the build-info change)
Total: 364 files, 730 insertions / 730 deletions, net-zero size, pure
mechanical substitution.
Verification:
gofmt: 17 files needed re-alignment after sed (the new path is one char
shorter than the old, so column-aligned import groups drifted). Applied
`gofmt -w` to fix.
go mod tidy: clean exit on both modules.
go vet ./...: clean exit.
go build ./...: clean exit.
go test -short -count=1 on representative packages: all green
(internal/domain, internal/validation, internal/crypto, internal/crypto/signer,
cmd/agent). Test output now reads `ok github.com/certctl-io/certctl/...`
confirming the module path resolves correctly.
binary: f5-mock-icontrol rebuilt; `strings | grep shankar0123` returns
nothing; `strings | grep certctl-io/certctl` shows the new module path
embedded in build-info.
Files intentionally NOT touched in this commit:
README.md / CHANGELOG.md / docs/ / etc. — already swept to certctl-io
URLs in commit 0729ee4 (the post-transfer URL refresh). This commit is
purely the Go-tooling layer.
Scarf pixels (`shankar0123.docker.scarf.sh/...`) — Scarf-account
namespace, not a Go import or GitHub repo URL. Stays.
This is a non-blocking, non-customer-impacting change. Operators pulling
container images, running `make verify`, hitting the API, or installing the
agent see no functional difference. Only Go-tooling consumers (none today)
are affected, and they're enabled — not broken — by this commit.
Collapses CertificateService, RevocationSvc, and CAOperationsSvc to
ctx-accepting method signatures. Removes context.Background() synthesis
at 24 internal call sites across certificate.go, revocation_svc.go, and
ca_operations.go.
- Primary repo calls inherit request cancellation via the passed ctx.
- Audit and notification dispatches use context.WithoutCancel(ctx) so
they survive client disconnect.
- Collapses TriggerRenewal/TriggerRenewalWithActor,
TriggerDeployment/TriggerDeploymentWithActor, and
RevokeCertificate/RevokeCertificateWithActor sibling pairs into single
canonical ctx-accepting methods (decisions D-1, D-2).
Handlers pass r.Context(). Mocks and tests updated to match new
signatures. No HTTP surface change, no OpenAPI change.
PR 1 of 6 in the M-2 remediation chain. Master green at this commit.
Refs: certctl-audit-report.md M-2 (L143, L224)
Fixes Go Report Card gofmt score from 52% to 100%.
Pure formatting changes — no logic modifications.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Service layer (63 tests): certificate, agent, audit, job, notification,
policy, and renewal services with mock repositories covering threshold
alerting, deduplication, status transitions, and job processing.
Handler layer (46 tests): certificate and agent HTTP handlers using
httptest with mock service interfaces, covering success/error paths,
pagination, JSON marshaling, and path parameter extraction.
Integration (11 subtests): end-to-end certificate lifecycle test
exercising real services and Local CA issuer through HTTP API —
create cert, trigger renewal, process jobs, register agent, heartbeat,
verify audit trail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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