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shankar0123 af4fa12724 auth-bundle-1 Phase 8 follow-up: classify issuer/target audit rows + auditor end-to-end tests + gofmt drift
Self-audit caught five real gaps in 3ef45e2; this commit closes them.

# Phase 8 — issuer/target audit rows now classified as 'config'

The Phase 8 prompt explicitly required existing config-mutation
calls (issuer config, target config, etc.) to write
event_category=config. The 3ef45e2 commit only migrated the auth
service callers; the 6 issuer/target call-sites
(internal/service/issuer.go: create/update/delete_issuer +
internal/service/target.go: create/update/delete_target) still
defaulted to cert_lifecycle. They now pass through
RecordEventWithCategory(..., domain.EventCategoryConfig, ...) so
auditors filtering /v1/audit?category=config see the slice the
migration's docstring promised.

# Auditor exit-criterion test

Phase 8's exit criteria pin 'a user with the auditor role can list /
export audit events but gets 403 on every other endpoint.' Bundle 1
unit invariants (auditor permission set, rbacGate behaviour) were
in place but no end-to-end test walked the full set of admin perms
with an auditor actor. internal/api/router/rbac_gate_integration_test.go
gains TestRBACGate_AuditorRole_403sOnAdminRoutes (table-driven across
all 5 admin perms — cert.bulk_revoke / crl.admin / scep.admin /
est.admin / ca.hierarchy.manage) plus TestRBACGate_AuditorRole_PassesAuditReadGate
(positive case for audit.read).

# gofmt drift

3ef45e2 left two cosmetic struct-field-alignment diffs in
internal/cli/auth.go and internal/api/handler/audit_handler_test.go
that gofmt -l flagged. CI's gofmt step would have failed; gofmt -w
applied; gofmt -l now clean across the repo.

# CHANGELOG path-prefix

CHANGELOG.md v2.1.0 used '/v1/auth/bootstrap' shorthand in the
operator-facing flow examples. The actual route is
'/api/v1/auth/bootstrap'; an operator copy-pasting the curl would
404. All five hits replaced.

Verifications: gofmt clean, go vet ./internal/service/
./internal/api/router/ clean, go test -short -count=1 green across
internal/service + internal/api/router, including the 6 new
auditor sub-tests (PASS).
2026-05-09 20:23:41 +00:00
shankar0123 3ef45e2ad4 auth-bundle-1 Phase 6-7-8: bootstrap path + scope-down CLI + auditor-role split
# Phase 6 — day-0 admin bootstrap

* internal/auth/bootstrap/ (new package): Strategy interface +
  EnvTokenStrategy with constant-time compare, one-shot consumption
  via sync.Mutex, optional admin-existence probe. Bundle 2's OIDC-
  first-admin will plug in alongside as an alternate Strategy.
* BootstrapService.ValidateAndMint: validates the operator's
  CERTCTL_BOOTSTRAP_TOKEN, mints a 32-byte (64-hex-char) random API
  key value, persists the SHA-256 hash to api_keys, grants r-admin
  via actor_roles, AddHashed's the runtime keystore so the just-
  minted key authenticates the next request without restart, and
  records bootstrap.consume to the audit trail with category=auth.
* internal/auth/keystore.go (new): KeyStore interface +
  StaticKeyStore (immutable env-var-only path) + MutableKeyStore
  (env-var keys + DB-loaded api_keys + runtime AddHashed). The auth
  middleware now consumes a KeyStore so the bootstrap path can
  extend the lookup table at runtime.
* migrations/000031_api_keys.up/down.sql: api_keys table with
  (id, name UNIQUE, key_hash UNIQUE, tenant_id, admin, created_by,
  created_at, expires_at, last_used_at). Idempotent.
* /v1/auth/bootstrap GET (probe) + POST (mint) — auth-exempt. Both
  routes documented in api/openapi.yaml + AuthExemptRouterRoutes
  allowlist updated. The token never leaves internal/auth/bootstrap;
  the minted plaintext key flows only into the HTTP response body.
* Startup warning emitted when CERTCTL_BOOTSTRAP_TOKEN is set AND
  admin actors already exist (config drift signal).
* Tests: 4 strategy invariants (empty token born disabled, wrong
  token=ErrInvalidToken without consumption, one-shot consumption,
  admin-exists closes path), 5 service tests (happy path + actor-
  name validation + propagation of strategy errors + nil-deps
  guard + 32-byte entropy budget), 8 HTTP-handler tests (status
  201/410/401/400 mapping + token-leak hygiene scan of slog +
  audit details + Location header). Token-leak test redirects
  slog.Default to a buffer for the test scope.

# Phase 7 — API-key migration + scope-down CLI

* GET /v1/auth/keys handler + service method ListKeys backed by
  ActorRoleRepository.ListDistinctActors. Returns one row per
  (actor_id, actor_type) pair with the slice of role IDs they hold.
  Permission: auth.role.list.
* internal/cli/auth_scope_down.go: AuthListKeys, AuthScopeDown
  (interactive), AuthScopeDownNonInteractive (JSON config),
  AuthScopeDownSuggest (--suggest with optional --apply). The
  synthetic actor-demo-anon is filtered out of every interactive /
  bulk path; non-interactive flow logs and skips it explicitly.
* SuggestRoleFromAuditEvents (pure function): walks 30 days of
  audit events per actor and returns the narrowest matching role
  (admin / mcp / viewer / agent / operator) plus a one-line reason.
  Classification: any admin-shaped action wins; otherwise all-MCP
  → mcp; all-read-only → viewer; all-agent-shaped → agent;
  otherwise operator. Test table pins all six classifications.
* CLI subcommand tree extended: 'auth keys list' + 'auth keys
  scope-down [--non-interactive <cfg>] [--suggest [--apply]]'.
* CHANGELOG.md leads v2.1.0 with the SECURITY: AUDIT YOUR API KEYS
  call-out + four flow examples.

# Phase 8 — auditor role + event_category column

* migrations/000032_audit_category.up/down.sql: ALTER TABLE
  audit_events ADD COLUMN event_category TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT
  'cert_lifecycle' + CHECK constraint (cert_lifecycle/auth/config)
  + (event_category) and (event_category, timestamp DESC) indexes
  for the auditor-filter query path. WORM trigger from migration
  000018 continues to enforce append-only at the DB layer (DDL is
  not blocked).
* domain.AuditEvent gains EventCategory string (omitempty);
  domain.EventCategoryCertLifecycle / Auth / Config constants.
* AuditService.RecordEventWithCategory sibling of RecordEvent;
  legacy callers stay on RecordEvent (defaults to cert_lifecycle).
  Auth callers (RoleService, ActorRoleService, BootstrapService)
  switched to RecordEventWithCategory(..., 'auth', ...).
* GET /v1/audit?category=<cat>: handler accepts the optional query
  param, validates against the enum (400 on invalid value),
  dispatches through ListAuditEventsByCategory. OpenAPI updated
  with the new query param + AuditEvent.event_category schema.
* Postgres AuditRepository.Create now writes event_category;
  AuditRepository.List filters on it; AuditFilter.EventCategory
  gates the WHERE clause.
* Tests: 5 audit-category-filter HTTP tests (dispatch routing,
  back-compat fallback, 400 for invalid values, all 3 enum values
  accepted, page+category combine, JSON output surfaces the
  field). 3 auditor-role invariants (auditor holds exactly
  audit.read+audit.export, no mutating perms, disjoint from
  viewer except audit.read).

# Cross-phase wiring

* HandlerRegistry.Bootstrap field added; cmd/server/main.go wires
  the bootstrap service ahead of RegisterHandlers (extracted
  assembleNamedAPIKeys helper into auth_backfill.go, moved the
  keystore + bootstrap construction up alongside the auth repos).
* AuthCheckResolver / AuthActorRoleService extended with ListKeys
  to satisfy the Phase 7 surface; existing fakes updated.
* fakeAudit + mockAuditService stubs in tests gain
  RecordEventWithCategory + ListAuditEventsByCategory; existing
  tests untouched.

# Verifications

* gofmt -l: clean across every modified file.
* go vet ./...: clean.
* staticcheck across internal/auth + handler + router + cli +
  service + repository + cmd + domain: clean.
* go test -short -count=1: green across every Bundle-1-touched
  package — internal/auth (incl. bootstrap), internal/api/handler,
  internal/api/router, internal/cli, internal/service/auth,
  internal/service, internal/domain/auth, internal/repository/postgres,
  cmd/server, cmd/cli, plus internal/scheduler, internal/api/middleware,
  cmd/agent, internal/mcp.
2026-05-09 20:15:43 +00:00
shankar0123 60a589ab96 auth-bundle-1 Phase 0-5 closure: demo-mode wire, named-key backfill, AuthCheck enrichment, OpenAPI schema, intermediate-ca comment refresh
Closes the 5 gaps the post-Phase-5 audit flagged on dev/auth-bundle-1.

C1: cmd/server/main.go now selects auth.NewDemoModeAuth() when
CERTCTL_AUTH_TYPE=none and falls back to auth.NewAuthWithNamedKeys
otherwise. Pre-closure, the no-op pass-through that
NewAuthWithNamedKeys returns for empty keys would have left
ActorIDKey / ActorTypeKey / TenantIDKey unpopulated and 401'd
every Phase-3.5 rbacGate-wrapped admin route + every Phase-4
RBAC handler in demo deployments. NewDemoModeAuth injects the
synthetic 'actor-demo-anon' actor seeded by migration 000029,
which holds r-admin at global scope.

C2: backfillNamedKeyActorRoles startup hook (cmd/server/auth_backfill.go)
iterates CERTCTL_API_KEYS_NAMED entries (and legacy
CERTCTL_AUTH_SECRET synthesized fallbacks) and grants r-admin
or r-viewer to each via authActorRoleRepo.Grant before the
HTTP server starts accepting requests. Idempotent via
ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING in the repo. Failures log a warning but
are non-fatal — the server still starts and the operator can
fix grants via /v1/auth/keys. Helper extracted from main.go so
the role-mapping invariant is pinned by 4 focused unit tests
(admin->r-admin, non-admin->r-viewer, empty no-op,
grant-error non-fatal, nil-logger safe).

M1: HealthHandler.AuthCheck now returns actor_id, actor_type,
tenant_id, roles, effective_permissions, and admin_via_role
when the optional AuthCheckResolver is wired (production path:
authCheckResolverAdapter wraps the postgres ActorRoleRepository
in main.go). Nil resolver preserves the legacy {status, user,
admin} contract for back-compat with pre-Bundle-1 GUIs and
test fixtures. Adds 2 regression tests + 1 fake resolver shim.

M2: refreshes the stale 'Admin gate: every method calls
auth.IsAdmin first' comment on IntermediateCAHandler — the gate
moved to router.go::rbacGate via auth.RequirePermission
middleware in Phase 3.5; the new comment block points readers
there.

M4: 11 RBAC routes (auth/me, auth/permissions, 5 role lifecycle,
2 role-permission grant/revoke, 2 actor-role grant/revoke) added
to api/openapi.yaml under the [Auth] tag with operationIds and
shared AuthRole / AuthRolePermission schemas. AuthCheck path
extended with the Bundle-1 enrichment fields. The 11 entries
removed from openapi_parity_test.go::SpecParityExceptions.

Tests: go vet + staticcheck + go test -short -count=1 green
across cmd/server/, internal/auth/, internal/api/router/, and
internal/api/handler/. New tests: 4 backfill unit tests,
2 AuthCheck M1 enrichment tests, 1 demo-mode + rbacGate chain
integration test (TestRBACGate_DemoModeChainReachesHandler).

Branch SECURITY.md (cowork/auth-bundle-1-SECURITY.md, not part
of this commit) captures the full posture of dev/auth-bundle-1
as of this closure for the operator's pre-merge review.
2026-05-09 19:33:07 +00:00
shankar0123 7ff2e2de08 auth-bundle-1 Phase 3.5: handler IsAdmin -> router-wrapped RequirePermission
Phase 3.5 atomic conversion. The five legacy admin-gated handlers (bulk_revocation, admin_crl_cache, admin_scep_intune, admin_est, intermediate_ca) had their in-body auth.IsAdmin checks removed; the gate moved to router.go via auth.RequirePermission middleware wrapping each route. Non-admin operators with the right scoped permission can now reach these endpoints; legacy in-body admin checks no longer block them.

Migration 000030_rbac_admin_perms.up.sql ships five admin-only fine-grained permissions: cert.bulk_revoke, crl.admin, scep.admin, est.admin, ca.hierarchy.manage. All five are seeded into r-admin only; operator/viewer/agent/mcp/cli/auditor do not receive them by default. Operators can grant any of these to a custom role via the Phase 4 RBAC API. Idempotent + transaction-wrapped.

internal/domain/auth/validate.go::CanonicalPermissions extended with the five new entries so RoleService.AddPermission accepts them.

internal/api/router/router.go: HandlerRegistry gains a Checker field (auth.PermissionChecker). New rbacGate(checker, perm, handler) helper wraps a handler with auth.RequirePermission middleware; nil-checker fall-through preserves test/demo deployments without the RBAC stack. 12 admin routes wrapped: cert.bulk_revoke (POST /api/v1/certificates/bulk-revoke + POST /api/v1/est/certificates/bulk-revoke), crl.admin (GET /api/v1/admin/crl/cache), scep.admin (GET /api/v1/admin/scep/profiles + GET /api/v1/admin/scep/intune/stats + POST /api/v1/admin/scep/intune/reload-trust), est.admin (GET /api/v1/admin/est/profiles + POST /api/v1/admin/est/reload-trust), ca.hierarchy.manage (POST /api/v1/issuers/{id}/intermediates + GET /api/v1/issuers/{id}/intermediates + POST /api/v1/intermediates/{id}/retire + GET /api/v1/intermediates/{id}).

cmd/server/main.go: HandlerRegistry.Checker wired with the same authPermissionCheckerAdapter shim Phase 4 introduced for AuthHandler. Same adapter; one source of truth.

Handler bodies: removed eight in-body auth.IsAdmin checks across the 5 files. bulk_revocation.go's BulkRevoke + BulkRevokeEST, admin_crl_cache.go::ListCache, admin_scep_intune.go's three methods, admin_est.go's two methods, intermediate_ca.go's four methods. Replaced each with a comment naming the new gate location. Unused 'github.com/certctl-io/certctl/internal/auth' imports removed.

Test triplet rewrite: deleted obsolete _NonAdmin_Returns403 and _AdminExplicitFalse_Returns403 tests across 6 test files (5 handler tests + bulk_revocation_est_test.go) — they tested the now-removed in-body gate. _AdminPermitted_ForwardsActor tests stay intact: they pin the actor-passthrough invariant which is still relevant. Added internal/api/router/rbac_gate_integration_test.go with four router-level integration tests pinning the new gate: deny → 403 + handler not reached, permit → 200 + handler reached, nil-checker → fall-through, no-actor → 401.

M-008 admin-gate registry: AdminGatedHandlers map now empty (Phase 3.5 invariant: zero in-handler auth.IsAdmin call sites; only health.go's informational caller remains). m008_admin_gate_test.go retains the scan to enforce the invariant going forward; new admin-gated routes must wrap at router.go::rbacGate, not gate in-handler. Updated error message to direct future contributors to the new pattern.

Verifications: gofmt clean across all touched files; go vet ./... clean; go test -short across internal/auth, internal/service/auth, internal/api/handler, internal/api/router, cmd/server all green.

Branch: dev/auth-bundle-1. Commit chain: 99a012e (Phase 0 extract) -> 19497ee (Phase 1 schema + repo) -> bd54d5f (Phase 2 service) -> d473398 (Phase 3 primitive) -> b169f25 (Phase 4 + 5) -> THIS (Phase 3.5 conversion). Phase 6+ (bootstrap, scope-down, auditor, approval-bypass closure, GUI, docs) on subsequent sessions.
2026-05-09 17:00:30 +00:00
shankar0123 b169f258de auth-bundle-1 Phase 4 + 5: RBAC HTTP API + CLI surface
Phase 4 (HTTP API):

* internal/api/handler/auth.go: AuthHandler with 12 endpoints under /api/v1/auth/* — ListRoles, GetRole, CreateRole, UpdateRole, DeleteRole, ListPermissions, AddRolePermission, RemoveRolePermission, AssignRoleToKey, RevokeRoleFromKey, Me. callerFromRequest builds an authsvc.Caller from the Phase 3 ActorIDKey/ActorTypeKey/TenantIDKey context values. writeAuthError translates service + repository sentinels into HTTP status codes (401/403/404/409/400/500). 14 handler tests with in-memory fakes pin the HTTP shape + error mapping.

* internal/api/router/router.go: HandlerRegistry gains an Auth field; 11 new routes registered. openapi_parity_test SpecParityExceptions extended with the new auth routes (OpenAPI YAML schema land in a Phase 4 follow-up commit so the schema review is its own atomic change; the route shape is fully documented inline via the Go type definitions until then).

* cmd/server/main.go: wires the postgres auth repos (RoleRepository, PermissionRepository, ActorRoleRepository) + the Authorizer + RoleService/PermissionService/ActorRoleService into the new AuthHandler. Adds authPermissionCheckerAdapter to bridge the typed-string Authorizer signature to the auth.PermissionChecker interface (avoids an internal/auth → internal/service/auth import cycle).

Phase 5 (CLI):

* cmd/cli/main.go: adds 'auth' command dispatch with subcommands roles/permissions/keys/me.

* internal/cli/auth.go: AuthMe, AuthListRoles, AuthGetRole, AuthListPermissions, AuthAssignRoleToKey, AuthRevokeRoleFromKey methods on Client. Mirrors the Phase 4 HTTP surface.

Phase 3.5 (handler IsAdmin → middleware-wrapped RequirePermission) DEFERRED. Honest reasoning:

(1) The 5 admin handlers (bulk_revocation, admin_crl_cache, admin_scep_intune, admin_est, intermediate_ca) currently gate via auth.IsAdmin checks INSIDE the handler bodies. Converting cleanly requires moving the gate to the router (auth.RequirePermission middleware wrap) AND removing the in-handler check AND rewriting the existing 3-test triplets per handler (M-008 pinned: _NonAdmin_Returns403 / _AdminExplicitFalse_Returns403 / _AdminPermitted_ForwardsActor) because the existing tests call the handler function directly, bypassing middleware. After conversion, those tests would pass without 403'ing because the gate moved away — the test invariants need to flow through a router-level integration setup instead.

(2) Picking the right permission per handler is a security-review-worthy decision. Using existing operator-class perms (cert.revoke, issuer.edit) widens access from admin-only to operator-class; adding new admin-only perms (cert.bulk_revoke, crl.admin, scep.admin, est.admin, ca.hierarchy.manage) requires a migration 000030 plus a coordinated catalogue update in internal/domain/auth/validate.go. Both options are defensible but warrant a focused commit, not a 5-handler sweep mixed in with the API + CLI work.

(3) The conversion can be done now without functional regressions IF we leave the in-handler IsAdmin checks in place AND add middleware wraps as defense-in-depth — but that's the worst of both worlds (legacy gate still blocks non-admin operators, defeating the point of RBAC; new gate adds runtime cost with no semantic change). A clean conversion needs the in-handler check removed.

Concrete plan for Phase 3.5 (separate commit, next session): (a) add new admin-only perms via migration 000030 OR document the widening to operator-class; (b) wrap each of the 5 admin routes with auth.RequirePermission(checker, perm, nil) in router.go; (c) remove auth.IsAdmin checks from the 5 handler bodies; (d) move the M-008 _NonAdmin/_AdminExplicitFalse tests to router-level integration tests, keep _AdminPermitted as a direct handler test for actor-passthrough; (e) update m008_admin_gate_test.go registry to track auth.RequirePermission middleware wraps in router.go instead of auth.IsAdmin call sites in handler files.

Verifications: go vet ./... clean; gofmt clean across all touched files; go test -short -count=1 across internal/auth, internal/service/auth, internal/api/handler, internal/api/router, internal/cli, cmd/server, cmd/cli all green (one transient too-many-open-files retry on internal/cli + internal/api/router; second run clean).

Branch: dev/auth-bundle-1. Commit chain: 99a012e (Phase 0 extract) -> 19497ee (Phase 1 schema + repo) -> bd54d5f (Phase 2 service) -> d473398 (Phase 3 primitive) -> THIS (Phase 4 + 5).
2026-05-09 16:43:48 +00:00
shankar0123 d473398aba auth-bundle-1 Phase 3 (primitive): RequirePermission middleware + demo-mode + protocol allowlist
Bundle 1 / Phase 3 (primitive ship): the load-bearing RBAC middleware factory plus its dependencies. Handler conversion sweep (5 admin files: bulk_revocation.go, admin_crl_cache.go, admin_scep_intune.go, admin_est.go, intermediate_ca.go) + m008_admin_gate_test.go registry update is Phase 3.5 follow-on; this commit ships the primitive so 3.5 is mechanical.

New context keys (internal/auth/context.go): ActorIDKey, ActorTypeKey, TenantIDKey alongside the legacy UserKey + AdminKey. New helpers GetActorID / GetActorType / GetTenantID with safe fallbacks (UserKey for actor id, ActorTypeAPIKey for missing type, DefaultTenantID for missing tenant). Constants DemoAnonActorID + ActorTypeAPIKey + ActorTypeAnonymous mirror internal/domain/auth without an import cycle.

RequirePermission factory (internal/auth/require_permission.go): wraps a handler and gates it behind a named permission. 401 when no actor, 403 when actor lacks permission, 500 on repository error. Skips the gate entirely for protocol endpoints (ACME / SCEP / EST / OCSP / CRL) per the audit's Category F do-not-gate allowlist. PermissionChecker is an interface so internal/auth doesn't depend on internal/service/auth (cmd/server wires the concrete Authorizer at startup). HasPermission is the imperative variant for handlers that branch behaviour rather than 403'ing. ScopeFunc closure extracts the scope type + id from the request for per-resource gating.

Protocol-endpoint allowlist (internal/auth/protocol_endpoints.go): IsProtocolEndpoint matches /acme, /scep, /.well-known/est, /.well-known/pki/ocsp, /.well-known/pki/crl prefixes. Adding a new protocol endpoint MUST update this list and add a parallel test.

Demo-mode synthetic admin (internal/auth/middleware.go::NewDemoModeAuth): when CERTCTL_AUTH_TYPE=none is configured, this middleware injects ActorID=actor-demo-anon, ActorType=Anonymous, TenantID=t-default, plus the legacy UserKey + AdminKey for back-compat with existing handlers. The synthetic actor's admin-role grant is seeded by migration 000029 so RequirePermission resolves through the JOIN like any other actor. cmd/server startup wires this middleware only when none-mode is configured.

API-key middleware extension: NewAuthWithNamedKeys now populates the new keys (ActorIDKey, ActorTypeKey=APIKey, TenantIDKey=t-default) alongside UserKey + AdminKey on every successful Bearer match. Existing handlers continue to read UserKey / IsAdmin until the Phase 3.5 sweep converts them to RequirePermission.

Test coverage: TestRequirePermission_NoActorReturns401, TestRequirePermission_GrantedActorReaches200, TestRequirePermission_DeniedActorReturns403, TestRequirePermission_CheckerErrorReturns500, TestRequirePermission_ProtocolEndpointBypassesGate (covers all 5 prefixes), TestRequirePermission_ScopeFnExtractsResourceID, TestIsProtocolEndpoint_PrefixesOnly, TestNewDemoModeAuth_InjectsSyntheticActor, TestNewAuthWithNamedKeys_PopulatesPhase3ContextKeys. fakeChecker pins the contract without a database.

Phase 3.5 follow-on (NOT in this commit): convert each of the 5 admin handlers from auth.IsAdmin checks to auth.RequirePermission middleware in router.go; update internal/api/handler/m008_admin_gate_test.go to track auth.RequirePermission call sites instead of (or alongside) auth.IsAdmin; pick the right permission per handler (cert.revoke for bulk_revocation, etc.). Each handler conversion needs the 3-test triplet (_NonAdmin_Returns403 / _AdminExplicitFalse_Returns403 / _AdminPermitted_ForwardsActor) per M-008.

Branch: dev/auth-bundle-1. Phase 2 was prior commit (service layer). Phase 3.5 (handler conversion) + Phase 4 (HTTP API) on the next session.
2026-05-09 16:20:04 +00:00
shankar0123 bd54d5f7fa auth-bundle-1 Phase 2: RBAC service layer + Authorizer primitive
Bundle 1 / Phase 2: ships PermissionService, RoleService, ActorRoleService, and the Authorizer primitive that Phase 3 RequirePermission middleware calls on every gated request.

Authorizer.CheckPermission semantics: a grant matches when (a) the permission name equals the requested permission AND (b) the grant is global-scoped OR the grant scope_type+scope_id exactly match the request. Global beats specific; per-resource grants widen the effective set rather than shadowing global. Hot-path query is one ActorRoleRepository.EffectivePermissions JOIN call (already shipped in Phase 1) plus an in-memory walk; Phase 12 will add benchmarks + caching if the JOIN cost shows up at scale.

Privilege-escalation guard: ActorRoleService.Grant and Revoke require the caller to hold auth.role.assign globally. Without it, ErrSelfRoleAssignment. System callers (AsSystemCaller()) bypass the check; bootstrap, migrations, scheduler-initiated grants use this path. Reserved actor actor-demo-anon is rejected on Grant + Revoke so the demo path stays alive even after a misclick (ErrAuthReservedActor).

Caller abstraction: every service entry point takes *Caller (ActorID, ActorType, TenantID, IsSystem). CallerFromContext is a stub returning ErrUnauthenticated; Phase 3 wires the middleware-context bridge that fills the Caller from request context. The contract is pinned by TestCallerFromContext_Phase2ReturnsUnauthenticated so the Phase 3 upgrade is observable.

Audit recording: every mutating service operation calls AuditService.RecordEvent. Bundle 1 Phase 8 adds the event_category column + parameter and back-fills 'auth' for these calls; until then the rows go in with the default category.

Test coverage: in-memory fakeRoleRepo / fakePermissionRepo / fakeActorRoleRepo / fakeAudit pin the privilege-escalation invariants (ErrUnauthenticated for nil caller, ErrForbidden for missing perm, ErrInvalidPermission for non-canonical permission name, ErrSelfRoleAssignment for Grant without auth.role.assign, ErrAuthReservedActor for actor-demo-anon mutations, system-caller bypass) without requiring testcontainers. Phase 12 will add live-Postgres integration coverage.

Branch: dev/auth-bundle-1. Phase 1 was 19497ee (RBAC schema + repo). Phase 3 (middleware integration) is the next commit on this branch.
2026-05-09 16:20:04 +00:00
shankar0123 19497eef87 auth-bundle-1 Phase 1: RBAC schema + domain types + repository layer
Bundle 1 / Phase 1: ships the RBAC primitive as schema + domain types + repo layer. Service-layer wiring lands in Phase 2; middleware integration in Phase 3.

Schema (migrations/000029_rbac.up.sql, 272 lines, idempotent, transaction-wrapped):

tenants, roles, permissions, role_permissions, actor_roles. TEXT primary keys with prefixes (t-, r-, p-, ar-) per CLAUDE.md Architecture Decisions. TIMESTAMPTZ time columns. FK cascade explicit (tenant CASCADE, role RESTRICT, actor CASCADE). Three-value scope_type CHECK ('global', 'profile', 'issuer') matched 1:1 with internal/domain/auth.ScopeType. UNIQUE(tenant_id, name) on roles, UNIQUE(name) on permissions, UNIQUE(actor_id, actor_type, role_id, tenant_id) on actor_roles.

Seeds: t-default tenant, 7 default roles (admin, operator, viewer, agent, mcp, cli, auditor), 33-permission canonical catalogue (cert.* / profile.* / issuer.* / target.* / agent.* / audit.* / auth.role.* / auth.key.* / auth.bootstrap.use), full role->permission grant matrix at global scope. Demo-mode preservation: actor-demo-anon seeded with admin role unconditionally; Phase 3 wires the auth middleware to inject this actor into the context when CERTCTL_AUTH_TYPE=none. Reserved system actor; Phase 4 API rejects mutations / deletions targeting it with 409 Conflict.

Domain types (internal/domain/auth/{types,validate,validate_test}.go):

Tenant, Role, Permission, RolePermission, ActorRole structs with JSON tags. ScopeType enum (global/profile/issuer). ActorTypeValue mirrors internal/domain.ActorType to avoid an import cycle. CanonicalPermissions slice + DefaultRoles map are the single source of truth referenced by the migration; validate_test.go pins (a) no duplicate permissions, (b) every default-role permission is canonical, (c) admin holds the full catalogue, (d) seeded IDs carry the prefix convention, (e) ScopeType enum has exactly 3 values matching the CHECK constraint.

Extended internal/domain/audit.go: added ActorTypeAPIKey + ActorTypeAnonymous to the existing User/System/Agent enum so the audit trail can distinguish API-key requests from federated humans (Bundle 2 OIDC) and demo-mode (CERTCTL_AUTH_TYPE=none). Existing code that records actor_type=User keeps working; new APIKey value used by Bundle 1 Phase 3 middleware.

Repository layer (internal/repository/auth.go + internal/repository/postgres/auth.go):

TenantRepository (Get, List, EnsureDefault). RoleRepository (Get, GetByName, List, Create, Update, Delete with ErrAuthRoleInUse on FK RESTRICT, ListPermissions, AddPermission idempotent, RemovePermission). PermissionRepository (List, GetByName, IsCanonical for fail-fast catalog check). ActorRoleRepository (ListByActor, ListByRole, Grant idempotent, Revoke, EffectivePermissions which is the JOIN that auth.RequirePermission will use in Phase 3 — returns deduplicated (permission, scope) triples honouring the not-yet-expired predicate so future time-bound grants work without code change). Sentinel errors ErrAuthNotFound, ErrAuthDuplicateName, ErrAuthRoleInUse, ErrAuthReservedActor, ErrAuthUnknownPermission for handler-layer 404/409/400 mapping.

Verification: gofmt clean, go vet ./... clean, go test -short ./internal/domain/auth ./internal/repository/postgres pass. Integration tests against a live Postgres are gated by testing.Short() per repo convention; Phase 12 wires the testcontainers harness for full e2e coverage.

Branch: dev/auth-bundle-1. Phase 0 was 99a012e (extract internal/auth/). Phase 2 (service layer) is the next bundle.
2026-05-09 16:00:08 +00:00
shankar0123 99a012e3be auth-bundle-1 Phase 0: extract internal/auth/ from middleware package
Bundle 1 / Phase 0: pure refactor splitting auth surface out of internal/api/middleware so Bundle 2 (OIDC + sessions) and the broader RBAC primitive (roles, permissions, scoped grants) have a clean home.

Moved to internal/auth/: NamedAPIKey, HashAPIKey, AuthConfig, NewAuthWithNamedKeys, NewAuth, UserKey, AdminKey, GetUser, IsAdmin. Added testfixtures.go (WithActor / WithAdmin / WithActorAdmin) so handler tests don't construct context manually.

Stayed in internal/api/middleware/: RequestID, Logging, NewLogging, Recovery, RateLimitConfig, NewRateLimiter (now imports auth.GetUser for per-user keying per audit Category C), CORSConfig, NewCORS, ContentType, CORS, GetRequestID, responseWriter, Chain, audit middleware (now imports auth.GetUser).

Updated 22 caller files across cmd/, internal/api/handler/, internal/api/middleware/, internal/mcp/. Existing m008_admin_gate_test.go now scans for auth.IsAdmin( substring; Phase 3 will further evolve to track auth.RequirePermission. Behavior unchanged: all handler / middleware / service / connector / cmd / mcp tests pass with no test-logic edits, only import-path renames.

Phase 0 exit criteria: internal/auth/ exists with 6 files; middleware.go went 575 -> 422 lines (auth-related ~150 lines moved out); grep -rE 'middleware\.(GetUser|IsAdmin|UserKey|AdminKey|NamedAPIKey|HashAPIKey|NewAuth)' returns 0 hits; context.WithValue(.*middleware.UserKey/AdminKey) returns 0 hits; go vet ./... clean; go test -short ./... green across all packages tested.

Branch: dev/auth-bundle-1. Per cowork/auth-bundle-1-prompt.md, do not merge to master without (1) make verify green, (2) >= 2 external testers confirm, (3) >= 90% coverage on internal/auth/ in .github/coverage-thresholds.yml.
2026-05-09 15:51:31 +00:00
shankar0123 71ebccb8ba docs: fix broken ../examples/ links across docs/ (closes #11)
Reporter (thesudoer0003) flagged that the example links in
docs/getting-started/examples.md resolve to /docs/examples/ which
does not exist. Same bug pattern shows up in four other docs files.

The example READMEs live at examples/<name>/<name>.md at the repo
root, not under docs/. The references in the docs/ tree used
relative paths like `../examples/acme-nginx/acme-nginx.md` which
resolve to docs/examples/... — one level short of escaping out to
the repo root. Fix is one extra `../` so the path resolves to
examples/... at repo root, where the files actually live.

Files touched:
  docs/getting-started/examples.md           5 links
  docs/getting-started/why-certctl.md        1 link
  docs/migration/cert-manager-coexistence.md 1 link
  docs/migration/from-acmesh.md              1 link
  docs/migration/from-certbot.md             1 link

Verified: every `../../examples/<name>/<name>.md` reference now
resolves to the on-disk file. Re-checked via:

  for f in $(grep -rl 'examples/' docs/); do
    for link in $(grep -oE '\.\./\.\./examples/[^)]*' "$f"); do
      [ -e "$(dirname "$f")/$link" ] || echo "STILL BROKEN: $f -> $link"
    done
  done

zero "STILL BROKEN" output.

Closes #11
2026-05-06 20:30:32 +00:00
shankar0123 ff6bf8f203 docs(README): add Status: Early-access disclosure block
Reddit posts and operator-facing copy describe certctl as alpha for
production, but the README's marketing-paragraph framing implied a
more polished maturity. Dual-positioning erodes credibility because
evaluators read both surfaces.

Adds a dedicated "Status: Early-access" blockquote between the
SC-081v3 paragraph and the existing "Actively maintained, shipping
weekly" callout. Calls out the production-quality core (Local CA,
ACME, agent deployment, CRUD, audit) versus the still-maturing
broader surface (intermediate CA hierarchy, ACME/SCEP/EST servers,
network appliances). Encourages lab/dev deployments and welcomes
production deployments with the customer-scale caveat.

The two consecutive blockquotes (Status + Actively maintained) read
as paired signals: the project is early-access AND actively
shipping, which is the honest joint position.
2026-05-06 07:45:55 +00:00
shankar0123 7a9ae3157f fix(seed): repair deployment_targets FK violation crashing fresh demo boot
The Rank 5 cloud-target seed rows in `seed_demo.sql` referenced a
non-existent `ag-server` agent_id. On every fresh-clone
`docker compose -f deploy/docker-compose.yml -f deploy/docker-compose.demo.yml up`
the server crash-looped at the demo-seed step:

  pq: insert or update on table "deployment_targets" violates foreign
  key constraint "deployment_targets_agent_id_fkey"

Origin: commit 9a7e818 ("docs, seed: cloud-target operator runbook +
AWS ACM / Azure KV demo seed rows") added the rows but didn't insert
or rebind to a matching agents row. The `ag-server` ID never existed
in seed_demo.sql or anywhere else.

Fix: bind the two cloud targets to the existing cloud sentinel agents
that were already inserted at lines 78-79 (alongside `cloud-gcp-sm`):

  - tgt-aws-acm-prod  → cloud-aws-sm
  - tgt-azure-kv-prod → cloud-azure-kv

These cloud sentinels were inserted in commit 9a7e818's same family
specifically to back agentless cloud targets — exact semantic match.

Why the existing test didn't catch this:
TestRunDemoSeed_AppliesIdempotently in
internal/repository/postgres/seed_test.go calls the same RunSeed +
RunDemoSeed pair the server uses at boot, so it WOULD have caught the
FK violation. But the test depends on a live PostgreSQL container via
testcontainers-go and is gated under `testing.Short()` → the default
`go test ./... -short` lane that `make verify` runs always skipped it.
The dedicated integration lane that strips `-short` either wasn't run
on commit 9a7e818 or the failure was missed. Promoting the test out
from under `-short` is a separate hardening conversation (CI runs
need docker-in-docker which isn't free); that's out of scope for this
hotfix.

Static FK audit confirms the fix:
  Defined agent IDs (12): ag-{data,edge-01,iis,k8s,lb,mac-dev,
    web-prod,web-staging}-prod, cloud-{aws-sm,azure-kv,gcp-sm},
    server-scanner
  Referenced agent_id values in deployment_targets after fix:
    ag-data-prod, ag-edge-01, ag-iis-prod, ag-k8s-prod, ag-lb-prod,
    ag-web-prod, ag-web-staging, cloud-aws-sm, cloud-azure-kv
  Unresolved: zero.

Acceptance gate (operator-side):
  - docker compose -f deploy/docker-compose.yml \
                   -f deploy/docker-compose.demo.yml up -d --build
    against a fresh clone — server boots clean within 30s, dashboard
    at https://localhost:8443 shows the seeded demo data.
v2.0.71
2026-05-05 21:03:18 +00:00
shankar0123 1720e11109 docs: fix broken single-file demo invocation in README + qa-prerequisites + ENVIRONMENTS
The README's Quick Start, the qa-prerequisites contributor doc, and the
landing page (separate repo, separate commit) all shipped a copy-paste
command that produces:

  service "certctl-server" has neither an image nor a build context
  specified: invalid compose project

The bug landed silently with commit a3d8b9c (the U-3 master). Pre-U-3,
docker-compose.demo.yml was self-contained and could be invoked with a
single -f flag. U-3 deliberately reduced it to a 27-line overlay — its
only payload today is `CERTCTL_DEMO_SEED=true` on the certctl-server
service — because the demo seed now applies at boot via
postgres.RunDemoSeed, not via /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/. The overlay
no longer carries an image: or build: of its own, so it MUST be passed
alongside the base file.

The README/qa-doc/landing-page never picked up the rename of the contract.
Every operator who copy-pasted the Quick Start since U-3 has hit the
"invalid compose project" error and bounced. The operator caught it
running the demo locally today.

This commit fixes the three certctl-repo sites:

  README.md (Quick Start)
    docker compose -f deploy/docker-compose.demo.yml up -d --build
    →
    docker compose -f deploy/docker-compose.yml -f deploy/docker-compose.demo.yml up -d --build

    Plus the "drop the -f flag for clean install" prose now spells out
    the correct fallback (`-f deploy/docker-compose.yml` alone).

  docs/contributor/qa-prerequisites.md (Step 1)
    Same single-file → two-file fix, plus an inline note explaining
    why the override-only file requires the base (so the next person
    who reads it understands the contract instead of re-discovering it).

  deploy/ENVIRONMENTS.md (Demo Overlay → What it adds)
    Replaced the stale "One line: mounts seed_demo.sql into PostgreSQL's
    init directory" claim — that hasn't been true since U-3 — with the
    accurate "One env var: CERTCTL_DEMO_SEED=true; server applies
    seed_demo.sql at boot via postgres.RunDemoSeed" description, plus
    the historical context for why the overlay can't stand alone.

The certctl.io landing page hits the same bug (line 759); fix shipping
in a separate commit in that repo.

Acceptance gate (manual):
  - copy/paste the new README Quick Start command end-to-end against
    a fresh clone — succeeds, dashboard at https://localhost:8443
    shows the seeded demo data within ~30s.
  - clean-install fallback (`docker compose -f deploy/docker-compose.yml
    up -d --build`) starts a working stack with no demo data.
2026-05-05 20:55:26 +00:00
shankar0123 f40e975439 gui(certificates): surface profile contract in create-cert form (closes P3-3, P3-4, P3-5)
Closes findings P3-3, P3-4, P3-5 from the 2026-05-05 CLI/API/MCP↔GUI
parity audit (cowork/cli-gui-parity-audit-2026-05-05/RESULTS.md). The
audit flagged three "hidden defaults" in the create-certificate form:
environment='production', shortLived=false, selectedEkus=['serverAuth'].

Re-grounding against the live source:

  P3-3 was a false positive. The form already exposes an environment
  selector with three options (Production / Staging / Development) and
  defaults to Production. No change needed — covered by new test pin.

  P3-4 + P3-5 misread the architecture. allow_short_lived and
  allowed_ekus are NOT per-cert form-state fields; they are properties
  of the CertificateProfile that the operator binds via the existing
  Profile dropdown. Adding form-level toggles for them would contradict
  the profile-as-primitive design (the profile carries the policy
  contract — TTL, EKUs, key-algo allow-list, short-lived eligibility —
  so the cert can inherit a coherent set rather than letting operators
  hand-mix invalid combinations).

  The genuine UX gap was opacity: operators picked a profile without
  seeing what allow_short_lived / allowed_ekus the profile carried.

This commit closes the spirit of the finding by surfacing the selected
profile's load-bearing properties in a read-only "Profile contract"
panel that appears below the Profile dropdown once a profile is
selected. The panel shows:

  - allowed_ekus list (so operators see whether a profile is
    serverAuth, emailProtection, codeSigning, or a mix)
  - allow_short_lived flag (highlighted when true so operators know
    they're picking a profile that allows TTL < 1h CRL/OCSP-exempt
    certs per the M15b regime)
  - explanatory text that EKUs and short-lived eligibility are
    profile-level (not per-cert), guiding operators to edit the
    profile or pick a different one

Test pins (web/src/pages/CertificatesPage.test.tsx):

  - environment selector renders with 3 options, defaults to production
  - environment selector toggles to staging / development on change
  - Profile contract panel is hidden until a profile is selected
  - Profile contract panel surfaces allowed_ekus when a TLS-server
    profile is picked
  - Profile contract panel surfaces emailProtection EKU when an S/MIME
    profile is picked (closes the "S/MIME flows can't be initiated
    from the GUI" sub-finding — they can, by picking an emailProtection
    profile)
  - Profile contract panel flags allow_short_lived=true when an IoT
    short-lived profile is picked (closes the "operators can't issue
    short-lived certs through the GUI" sub-finding — they can, by
    picking an allow_short_lived profile)

Implementation notes:
  - data-testid='cert-form-environment' + 'cert-form-profile' +
    'cert-form-profile-detail' added to make the test selectors stable
    across DOM-restructuring refactors. No production behaviour change
    from the test IDs.
  - No new dependencies; no form-library introduction (per the prompt's
    out-of-scope list); uses the existing bare React state pattern.
  - No API changes — Certificate.allowed_ekus / allow_short_lived
    already exist on the CertificateProfile type in web/src/api/types.ts.

Acceptance gate (verified):
  - npm test on src/pages/CertificatesPage.test.tsx: 12/12 pass
    (6 pre-existing T-1 tests + 6 new P3-3..P3-5 pins).
  - All sibling page tests (AuditPage, TargetDetailPage, ShortLivedPage,
    etc.) still pass.
2026-05-05 19:49:59 +00:00
shankar0123 0e06f6c4fc cli: promote --force on renew + require --reason on revoke (closes P3-1, P3-2)
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.
2026-05-05 19:49:34 +00:00
shankar0123 ff75361553 mcp(coverage): add 34 tools across 7 domains to close 2026-05-05 parity audit P1 findings
Closes findings P1-1..P1-35 from the 2026-05-05 CLI/API/MCP↔GUI parity
audit (cowork/cli-gui-parity-audit-2026-05-05/RESULTS.md). Before this
bundle, 35 operator-facing API endpoints had GUI surfaces but no MCP
counterpart — operators using AI assistants for cert lifecycle work in
regulated environments had to drop to curl for approve/reject, health-check
acknowledgement, renewal-policy CRUD, network-scan triggering, discovery
triage, intermediate-CA management, and job verification.

Tool count: 87→121 in tools.go (+34), 6 unchanged in tools_est.go.
Re-derive via grep -cE 'gomcp\\.AddTool\\(' internal/mcp/tools.go
internal/mcp/tools_est.go.

The 7 phases (matching the bundle prompt at
cowork/mcp-coverage-expansion-prompt.md):

  Phase A — Approvals (P1-28..P1-31, 4 tools)
    list_approvals, get_approval, approve_request, reject_request.
    Two-person-integrity contract (ErrApproveBySameActor → HTTP 403)
    is preserved automatically: the decided_by actor is derived
    server-side from middleware.UserKey, NOT from request body, so
    the MCP server's authenticated API-key identity becomes the
    audit-trail actor. The MCP input schema deliberately omits any
    actor_id field to prevent client-side spoofing.

  Phase B — Health Checks (P1-20..P1-27, 8 tools)
    list, summary, get, create, update, delete, history, acknowledge.
    Mirrors the existing target-resource shape; acknowledge takes
    optional 'actor' string captured in the audit row (handler defaults
    to 'unknown' if absent).

  Phase C — Renewal Policies (P1-1..P1-5, 5 tools)
    Standard CRUD against /api/v1/renewal-policies. Distinct from the
    legacy 'policy' tools that point at the same path — these expose
    the renewal-policy domain explicitly with full alert_channels +
    alert_severity_map field shape.

  Phase D — Network Scan Targets (P1-14..P1-19, 6 tools)
    CRUD + trigger_scan. trigger_network_scan returns the discovery-
    scan body so the AI can chain into list_discovered_certificates
    filtered by agent_id.

  Phase E — Discovery read-side (P1-10..P1-13, 4 tools)
    list_discovered_certificates, get_discovered_certificate,
    list_discovery_scans, discovery_summary. Complements the
    pre-existing claim/dismiss tools (registered alongside Health
    historically per the I-2 closure).

  Phase F — Intermediate CAs (P1-6..P1-9, 4 tools)
    list, create (root + child via discriminator on body shape), get,
    retire. The handler is admin-gated via middleware.IsAdmin; the
    least-privilege boundary is enforced at the API layer (HTTP 403
    for non-admin Bearer callers) — not by transport carve-out.

  Phase G — Verification + deployments (P1-32, P1-34, P1-35, 3 tools)
    list_certificate_deployments, verify_job, get_job_verification.
    P1-33 (POST /api/v1/agents/{id}/discoveries) is intentionally
    excluded — machine-to-machine push channel for agents reporting
    filesystem-scan results, not an operator-driven flow. Documented
    inline in the RegisterTools dispatch.

Implementation:
  - 14 new input types in internal/mcp/types.go with jsonschema struct
    tags driving LLM tool discovery.
  - 7 register* functions in internal/mcp/tools.go each handling one
    phase, wired into RegisterTools dispatch in declaration order.
  - 34 new entries in tools_per_tool_test.go::allHappyPathCases —
    the existing in-process MCP harness (TestMCP_AllTools_HappyPath +
    TestMCP_AllTools_ErrorPath + TestMCP_RegisterTools_DispatchableToolCount)
    auto-extends coverage to cover every new tool: happy-path round-
    trip with fence-shape assertion, 5xx error-path with MCP_ERROR fence
    propagation, and 'every registered tool is dispatchable' guard.
  - docs/reference/mcp.md 'Available Tools' table expanded from 16 to
    22 resource domains with current per-domain tool counts.

Acceptance gate (verified):
  - go build ./cmd/server/... ./cmd/agent/... ./cmd/cli/... ./cmd/mcp-server/...
    clean across all four production binaries.
  - go vet ./... clean.
  - go test -short -count=1 ./internal/mcp/... pass (TestMCP_AllTools_*
    expanded to 127 tool round-trips).
  - 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 MCP wrappers, not
    routes).
  - gofmt -l clean across the four touched files.
2026-05-05 19:29:57 +00:00
shankar0123 e0aaa967c9 docs(README): add MCP server bullet to capabilities list
The README's 'What it does' section enumerated 11 capability bullets
(issuers / targets / ACME server / SCEP server / EST server /
hierarchy / approvals / discovery / revocation / alerts) but had
zero mention of the MCP server. The 2026-05-05 CLI/API/MCP ↔ GUI
parity audit confirmed 93 MCP tools shipped today (87 in
internal/mcp/tools.go + 6 in internal/mcp/tools_est.go) covering the
full API surface. That's a real differentiator hidden from anyone
landing on the README.

Adds a 12th bullet positioning the MCP server with concrete example
queries operators can ask their AI client (expiring certs, revoke
with key-compromise reason, agent offline check). Frames the
architectural facts: separate binary at cmd/mcp-server/, stateless
stdio transport, no extra auth surface beyond the existing API key,
no extra attack surface.

Links to docs/reference/mcp.md for setup details.
2026-05-05 19:10:27 +00:00
shankar0123 17455d2ea2 deps(web): pin picomatch to >=4.0.4 via npm override; clears 4 dependabot alerts
Dependabot flagged four picomatch vulnerabilities in
web/package-lock.json:

  #8  GHSA-?, ReDoS via extglob quantifiers
  #9  GHSA-?, ReDoS via extglob quantifiers (related to #8)
  #10 CVE-2026-33672 / GHSA-3v7f-55p6-f55p, method injection via
      POSIX character classes (related; affecting < 2.3.2)
  #11 CVE-2026-33672 / GHSA-3v7f-55p6-f55p, method injection via
      POSIX character classes — same advisory as #10, separate
      Dependabot row because it surfaces against a second copy
      of picomatch in the dep tree

All four close on the same fix: every resolved picomatch instance
must be >= 4.0.4 (or >= 3.0.2, or >= 2.3.2 — the patch shipped on
all three release lines). Pre-fix the lockfile carried at least
two vulnerable copies:

  node_modules/picomatch                             v2.3.1  (vuln)
  node_modules/vitest/node_modules/picomatch         v4.0.3  (vuln for #11)
  node_modules/vite/node_modules/picomatch           v4.0.4  (ok)
  node_modules/tinyglobby/node_modules/picomatch     v4.0.4  (ok)

Reachability check before fixing:

  - picomatch is a build-time glob-matching tool (used by
    tailwindcss → readdirp/anymatch/micromatch chain, plus by
    vite + vitest internals).
  - All instances in our tree are dev=true. None are bundled into
    the React production output (web/dist/assets/*.js) — that's
    just the React SPA, no node_modules at runtime.
  - The CVE only affects code that processes UNTRUSTED glob
    patterns. Our build pipeline only globs operator-controlled
    file patterns (TSX source files, Tailwind 'content' globs).
    Not network-reachable.

So the CVE was not reachable from any shipped certctl artefact.
Fix anyway because the alerts are noise.

Fix mechanism: add an npm 'overrides' entry pinning picomatch to
^4.0.4 across all consumers. npm collapses every transitive
picomatch resolution to the override, so the lockfile shrinks from
4 picomatch entries to 1, all on v4.0.4 (patched).

Verification:

  npm install --package-lock-only      → up to date, 0 vuln
  npm audit                            → found 0 vulnerabilities

Diff: 2 files, 7 insertions / 43 deletions (net negative — the
override de-duplicates the picomatch tree).

Closes: GHSA-3v7f-55p6-f55p, CVE-2026-33672 (alerts #10, #11) +
the two related ReDoS picomatch alerts (#8, #9)
2026-05-05 18:40:10 +00:00
shankar0123 f2c77ba3fb deps: bump testcontainers-go v0.35.0 → v0.42.0; drops docker/docker dep entirely (clears CVE-2026-34040)
Dependabot flagged GHSA-x744-4wpc-v9h2 / CVE-2026-34040 (Moby AuthZ
plugin bypass on oversized request bodies, incomplete fix for
CVE-2024-41110) on the transitive github.com/docker/docker
v27.1.1+incompatible pulled in via testcontainers-go v0.35.0.

Reachability check before fixing:

  - certctl does not run dockerd or configure AuthZ plugins.
  - go list -deps ./cmd/{server,agent,cli,mcp-server}/... finds zero
    docker/docker references in any production binary's transitive
    set.
  - testcontainers is consumed only by *_test.go files under
    internal/repository/postgres/ + deploy/test/ for ephemeral
    Postgres containers.

So the CVE was not reachable from any shipped certctl artefact.
Bump anyway because Dependabot noise is noise; the upgrade is
mechanical.

Bumping testcontainers-go v0.35.0 → v0.42.0 (latest, 2026-04-09)
removes the direct docker/docker dependency entirely — testcontainers
v0.42.0 reorganized away from the Moby SDK. After 'go mod tidy',
docker/docker is GONE from both go.mod and go.sum, not merely
bumped. The Dependabot alert closes automatically on push.

Co-bumped transitives (cascading from testcontainers' new dep tree):

  go.opentelemetry.io/otel               v1.24.0  → v1.41.0
  go.opentelemetry.io/otel/{metric,trace} v1.24.0  → v1.41.0
  go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp
                                         v0.49.0  → v0.60.0
  go.opentelemetry.io/auto/sdk           added    @ v1.2.1
  golang.org/x/crypto                    v0.45.0  → v0.48.0
  golang.org/x/net                       v0.47.0  → v0.49.0
  golang.org/x/sync                      v0.18.0  → v0.19.0
  golang.org/x/sys                       v0.40.0  → v0.42.0
  golang.org/x/text                      v0.31.0  → v0.34.0

Verification (all green):

  go build ./cmd/server/... ./cmd/agent/... ./cmd/cli/... \
           ./cmd/mcp-server/...                          → exit 0
  go test -run=NONE -count=1 ./internal/repository/postgres/  → ok
  go test -tags=integration -run=NONE -count=1 ./deploy/test/ → ok
  go vet ./internal/repository/postgres/...                   → clean
  go list -deps ./cmd/{server,agent,cli,mcp-server}/... |
    grep docker                                               → zero hits

Diff: 2 files (go.mod, go.sum), 129 insertions / 144 deletions.

Closes: GHSA-x744-4wpc-v9h2, CVE-2026-34040
2026-05-05 18:34:31 +00:00
shankar0123 d2b62880ce 2026-05-05 18:18:38 +00:00
shankar0123 75097909e9 2026-05-05 18:18:29 +00:00
shankar0123 7c5cc57d75 2026-05-05 15:39:08 +00:00
shankar0123 9acf609ac9 docs: convert ASCII flow diagram to Mermaid in test-environment.md
Per operator audit: every diagram in docs/ should be Mermaid except
in the repo-root README.md. The 'Key Generation Flow (Agent-Side)'
section in docs/contributor/test-environment.md was rendered as a
plain code fence with arrow-prose:

  Server creates job (AwaitingCSR) → Agent polls, sees job →
  Agent generates ECDSA P-256 key pair locally → ...

That was the only non-Mermaid diagram-shaped block left in docs/.

Converted to a Mermaid sequenceDiagram with 5 participants
(certctl-server, issuer connector, certctl-agent, local agent FS,
shared volume) covering the full AwaitingCSR → CSR-submit →
Deployment-job → cert-write → Completed lifecycle.

Audit + verification script: cowork/docs-audit-2026-05-05/mermaid-audit.md.
Re-running the detection script post-fix returns zero non-Mermaid
diagram-like blocks across all 76 docs/ markdown files.

Total Mermaid coverage in docs/ now: 14 docs / 40 blocks.
2026-05-05 06:18:24 +00:00
shankar0123 622cd29f20 docs: factuality sweep — fix 3 broken links + 12 count claims (audit findings 2026-05-05)
Per the cowork/docs-audit-2026-05-05/ end-to-end factuality audit
(20 confirmed findings across 76 docs, 7 parallel subagents +
audit-of-the-audit). Hot + Warm tier fixes ship here; STALE
findings (qa-test-suite.md test-count snapshot) need 'make
qa-stats' which is operator-side.

BROKEN links repaired (3):
- docs/reference/api.md L195: [Quick Start](quickstart.md) →
  ../getting-started/quickstart.md (404 pre-fix)
- docs/reference/api.md L196: [Connector Guide](connectors.md) →
  connectors/index.md (Phase 4 rename, was 404 pre-fix)
- docs/reference/protocols/scep-intune.md L377:
  [legacy-est-scep.md](legacy-est-scep.md) → scep-server.md
  (file was deleted in Phase 7 commit e9b1510)

INCORRECT count claims repaired (12):
- api.md L5 + L18-19 + L155: '78 API operations' / '# 78' /
  'all 78 documented operations' → re-derive via
  grep -cE '^\s+operationId:' (actual at HEAD: 144)
- architecture.md L66 (Mermaid label) + L502 + L1047 + L1253:
  '8 always-on + 4 optional loops' / '12-loop topology' →
  9 always-on + 5 opt-in loops (14 total). Always-on/opt-in
  breakdown derived from cmd/server/main.go startup wiring:
  always-on are agentHealthCheck, crlGeneration, jobProcessor,
  jobRetry, jobTimeout, notificationProcess, notificationRetry,
  renewalCheck, shortLivedExpiryCheck (9); opt-in are
  networkScan, digest, healthCheck, cloudDiscovery, acmeGC (5).
  Re-derive count via grep -cE '^func \(s \*Scheduler\)
  [a-zA-Z]+Loop' internal/scheduler/scheduler.go.
- configuration.md L31: '12 loops, 8 always-on + 4 opt-in' →
  '14 loops, 9 always-on + 5 opt-in'. Self-introduced regression
  from commit 3275f9f (2026-05-05).
- mcp.md L11 + L65: 'all 78 API endpoints' / '78 available tools'
  → re-derive via grep -cE 'mcp\.AddTool\(' (actual at HEAD:
  87 MCP tools, 144 API operations).
- connectors/index.md L111: '9 built-in' issuer connectors →
  '12 built-in', extending the inline enumeration to include
  Entrust, GlobalSign, EJBCA (which had been added since the
  L111 prose was written). Local-CA framing extended to mention
  tree mode + ADCS sub-CA mode-doc.
- connectors/index.md L112: '14 built-in' target connectors →
  '15 built-in', adding AWS ACM target + Azure Key Vault target
  (which had been added since the L112 prose was written).
- why-certctl.md L37 + the inline list: 'Nine issuer connectors
  ship today' → 'Twelve issuer connectors', adding
  AWS ACM PCA, Entrust, GlobalSign, EJBCA to the list and
  removing the misleading 'EST enrollment' bullet (EST is a
  protocol surface, not an issuer; clarified in trailing note).
- why-certctl.md L66: '13 deployment targets' → '15', adding
  Kubernetes Secrets, AWS ACM, and Azure KV to the inline list.
- why-certctl.md L92: 'supports 9 issuer types' → '12 issuer
  types'.
- quickstart.md L135: '35 demo certificates across 5 issuers'
  → re-derive cert count via 'grep -oE "mc-[a-z0-9_-]+"
  migrations/seed_demo.sql | sort -u | wc -l' (actual: 32,
  matches README L86; quickstart was off-by-3).
- quickstart.md L452 (Demo Data Reference table): Certificates
  '35' → '32' (matches the cert count from seed_demo.sql).

Verification:
- grep confirms no remaining stale refs across the touched
  files (8 files, 31 insertions / 28 deletions).
- All 24 ci-guards/*.sh pass locally.
- The audit's STALE findings (S-1, S-2 qa-test-suite.md
  Bundle-P snapshot) are operator-side: run 'make qa-stats'
  to refresh the Test Suite Health table.

Companion: cowork/docs-audit-2026-05-05/RESULTS.md captures
the full audit with subagent false positives and missed
findings called out.
2026-05-05 06:15:35 +00:00
shankar0123 d809874fa1 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.
2026-05-05 05:26:44 +00:00
shankar0123 5ea8fb48eb ci: restore +x bit on scripts/ci-guards/*.sh (sandbox stripped exec bit)
Pure mode-change commit. The previous 3275f9f commit dropped the
executable bit (100755 → 100644) on five files in scripts/ci-guards/
plus scripts/qa-doc-seed-count.sh and scripts/dev-setup.sh — a
sandbox-tooling artefact, not intentional. The CI pipeline calls
each guard via 'bash "$g"' so the missing exec bit didn't break
anything operationally, but operators who run a guard directly via
'./scripts/ci-guards/<id>.sh' would hit a permission-denied. Restore
to 100755 to match the rest of scripts/ci-guards/*.sh.

No content changes.
2026-05-05 04:56:43 +00:00
shankar0123 3275f9f1e0 ci: post-Phase-2-docs-overhaul cleanup of stale guards + missing config doc
CI run on the ecb8896 push surfaced two real failures rooted in the
2026-05-04 docs overhaul:

  1. G-3 env-docs-drift caught two phantom CERTCTL_* env vars I'd
     introduced in the Phase 4 follow-on connector pages
     (CERTCTL_CA_CERT_PATH_NEW in adcs.md was a placeholder I made
     up; CERTCTL_EJBCA_POLL_MAX_WAIT_SECONDS in ejbca.md does not
     exist in source). Both removed.

  2. QA-doc Part-count drift guard tried to grep
     docs/qa-test-guide.md and docs/testing-guide.md, both of which
     were renamed/deleted in Phase 2/Phase 5. The Part-count drift
     class died with testing-guide.md (Phase 5 prune dispersed its
     content); the seed-count drift class is still live but pointed
     at the wrong path.

Fixes:

- Removed the QA-doc Part-count drift guard from ci.yml (premise
  dead) plus its standalone scripts/qa-doc-part-count.sh peer.
- Retargeted the QA-doc seed-count drift guard from
  docs/qa-test-guide.md → docs/contributor/qa-test-suite.md (the
  Phase 2 target). Updated both ci.yml inline copy and
  scripts/qa-doc-seed-count.sh.
- Updated Makefile qa-stats: target to drop the testing-guide.md
  Parts metric (file is gone).
- Updated Makefile verify-docs: target to drop the part-count step.

G-3 was also failing in the second direction (env vars defined in
config.go but never documented anywhere). 16 vars surfaced —
features.md (deleted Phase 6) and testing-guide.md (deleted Phase 5)
had been their canonical home. Created
docs/reference/configuration.md as the new home: a compact
operator-facing env-var reference covering scheduler intervals, job
lifecycle, rate limiting, audit, deploy verify, database,
agent-side, and SCEP profile binding. Added to docs/README.md
Reference table.

Doc-side updates to qa-test-suite.md to reframe its references to
the deleted testing-guide.md (it's now self-contained: the
Part-by-Part Coverage Map IS the canonical Part inventory).

Cosmetic comment-only updates in ci.yml + scripts/ci-guards/*.sh +
scripts/dev-setup.sh to point at the new audience-organized doc
paths (docs/operator/security.md, docs/operator/tls.md,
docs/reference/architecture.md, etc.) instead of the pre-Phase-2
flat layout.

Verified: all 24 ci-guards/*.sh pass locally; qa-doc-seed-count.sh
clean. Net diff: 178 additions / 112 deletions across 13 files.
One file deleted (qa-doc-part-count.sh) and one file added
(docs/reference/configuration.md).
2026-05-05 04:56:26 +00:00
shankar0123 ecb8896b1c docs: cleanup pre-existing broken links in connector pages
Phase 4 structural (commit 633e440) moved 6 connector files into the
new docs/reference/connectors/ subdirectory but didn't update all
inter-doc references for the new path layout. Phase 11 caught the
high-traffic ones; this sweep gets the rest, found by the Phase 4
follow-on verification pass.

Mappings applied (relative to docs/reference/connectors/):

  deployment-atomicity.md     → ../deployment-model.md
  deployment-vendor-matrix.md → ../vendor-matrix.md
  architecture.md             → ../architecture.md
  est.md                      → ../protocols/est.md
  scep-intune.md              → ../protocols/scep-intune.md
  async-polling.md            → ../protocols/async-ca-polling.md
  quickstart.md               → ../../getting-started/quickstart.md
  demo-advanced.md            → ../../getting-started/advanced-demo.md
  legacy-est-scep.md          → ../protocols/scep-server.md
  connectors.md               → index.md

Plus prose backtick references (`docs/architecture.md` etc.) updated
to the new subdirectory paths.

Files touched: apache, f5, iis, k8s, nginx, index. 33 line changes.
Full link-check across docs/reference/connectors/*.md is now clean
(0 broken inter-doc references).
2026-05-05 04:10:09 +00:00
shankar0123 f179eab071 docs: expand docs/README.md connectors section to enumerate all 28 deep-dive pages
After the Phase 4 follow-on (commits fd94205de06141082b8cf969853e), the docs/reference/connectors/ tree carries 13 issuer
per-pages + 15 target per-pages alongside the index. Update the
top-level docs navigation to surface them all.

Replaced the previous 5-row connectors table with two
single-paragraph indexes (issuers, targets) listing every per-page
in alphabetical order. The connectors index.md is still the
canonical catalog (interfaces, registry, scanners + inline
reference per built-in); the deep-dive pages cover operator-grade
material on top.

Net: docs/README.md gains coverage of 23 new pages without bloating
the file (two prose paragraphs vs a 28-row table).
2026-05-05 04:08:08 +00:00
shankar0123 969853ee53 docs: Phase 4 follow-on batch 4 — 5 final target per-pages
Extracts the remaining target connectors:

- ssh.md (194 lines) — agentless SSH/SFTP deploy with full
  host-key-acceptance threat model (what's accepted, what's not,
  mitigations including known_hosts enforcement and SSH cert auth);
  V3-Pro forward path
- wincertstore.md (118 lines) — non-IIS Windows services via local
  PowerShell or WinRM proxy mode; store selection (My / Root /
  WebHosting); private-key permissions guidance
- jks.md (189 lines) — JKS / PKCS#12 via keytool with full atomic
  snapshot+rollback contract (Bundle 8 'snapshot → delete → import →
  reload'), keytool argv password exposure threat model + mitigations
- aws-acm.md (208 lines) — ACM target with full IAM policy, IRSA /
  instance-profile / SSO auth recipes, atomic-rollback contract,
  ALB attachment Terraform recipe, procurement-checklist crib
- azure-kv.md (195 lines) — Key Vault target with managed-identity /
  workload-identity / service-principal auth recipes, version-
  semantics rollback caveat (no in-place restore without soft-delete),
  App Gateway / Front Door attachment recipe

Index forward-list expanded to enumerate all 15 target connectors
(5 from Phase 4 structural + 5 from batch 3 + 5 from this batch) in
alphabetical order.

This is part 4 of 4 for the Phase 4 follow-on (per-connector page
extraction) tracked in cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-2-restructure-2026-05-04/log.md.

Net add: 5 files, 904 lines. No content removed from index.md.

End-state of Phase 4 follow-on:
- 13 issuer per-pages (5 batch 1 + 8 batch 2)
- 15 target per-pages (5 Phase 4 structural + 5 batch 3 + 5 batch 4)
- index.md keeps its inline reference content; per-pages add
  operator depth on top, matching the pattern set by
  apache/f5/iis/k8s/nginx in Phase 4 structural
2026-05-05 04:07:21 +00:00
shankar0123 082b8cf660 docs: Phase 4 follow-on batch 3 — 5 file-based target per-pages
Extracts the file-based deploy target connectors:

- haproxy.md (107 lines) — combined-PEM (cert+chain+key) deploy with
  haproxy -c validate; multi-frontend + crt-list directory guidance
- traefik.md (105 lines) — file-provider zero-reload deploy; file
  watcher latency notes; mixing with built-in ACME guidance
- caddy.md (100 lines) — admin API mode (recommended) vs file mode;
  admin-API exposure threat model
- envoy.md (112 lines) — file SDS mode (recommended) vs static
  bootstrap; service-mesh interactions
- postfix.md (175 lines) — dual-mode (Postfix MTA / Dovecot IMAPS)
  connector with daemon-specific quirks (STARTTLS chain expectations,
  no shared session cache); Bundle 11 test pins

Index forward-list expanded to enumerate all 10 target connectors
(5 from Phase 4 structural + 5 from this batch) in alphabetical
order.

This is part 3 of 4 for the Phase 4 follow-on (per-connector page
extraction) tracked in cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-2-restructure-2026-05-04/log.md.

Net add: 5 files, 599 lines. No content removed from index.md.
2026-05-05 04:02:25 +00:00
shankar0123 de06141ce5 docs: Phase 4 follow-on batch 2 — 8 remaining issuer per-pages
Extracts the rest of the issuer per-connector deep-dive pages:

- local-ca.md (170 lines) — Local CA self-signed / sub-CA / tree mode,
  CRL+OCSP endpoints, EKU support, MaxTTL enforcement, L-014 file-on-
  disk threat model carve-out
- acme.md (235 lines) — RFC 8555 v2 client (HTTP-01 / DNS-01 /
  DNS-PERSIST-01), ARI per RFC 9773, EAB + ZeroSSL auto-EAB,
  Let's Encrypt profile selection, revoke-by-serial Top-10 fix #7
- step-ca.md (99 lines) — Smallstep JWK-provisioner synchronous
  issuance with MaxTTL enforcement
- openssl.md (157 lines) — script-based shell-out with full
  threat model (what's accepted, what's not, mitigations, V3-Pro
  forward path)
- sectigo.md (98 lines) — Sectigo SCM REST with bounded async polling
- google-cas.md (89 lines) — GCP managed private CA with OAuth2
  service-account auth + IAM-role guidance
- entrust.md (96 lines) — Entrust CA Gateway mTLS-authenticated with
  approval-pending support and mTLS keypair caching
- globalsign.md (122 lines) — Atlas HVCA dual auth (mTLS + API
  key/secret), region-aware base URLs, mTLS keypair caching

Index forward-list expanded to enumerate all 13 issuer connectors
(including the 5 pages from batch 1) in alphabetical order.

This is part 2 of 4 for the Phase 4 follow-on (per-connector page
extraction) tracked in cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-2-restructure-2026-05-04/log.md.

Net add: 8 files, 1,066 lines. No content removed from index.md.
2026-05-05 03:59:35 +00:00
shankar0123 fd94205cfa docs: Phase 4 follow-on batch 1 — 5 issuer per-pages
Extract the first 5 issuer per-connector deep-dive pages:

- vault.md (128 lines) — Vault PKI synchronous issuance, token TTL +
  auto-renewal loop, MaxTTL enforcement, rotation playbook
- digicert.md (106 lines) — CertCentral DV/OV/EV with bounded async
  polling for vetting workflows
- aws-acm-pca.md (165 lines) — managed private CA on AWS with full
  IAM policy, IRSA wiring, troubleshooting matrix
- ejbca.md (116 lines) — open-source / Keyfactor EJBCA with mTLS or
  OAuth2 auth, mTLS keypair caching, approval-pending guidance
- adcs.md (111 lines) — Active Directory Certificate Services as
  enterprise root via Local CA sub-CA mode, sub-CA rotation playbook

Index updated with forward-list entries and the index-purpose blurb
revised so the index now positions itself as 'navigate from here;
deeper material lives in siblings' rather than 'docs to be extracted
later'.

Each per-page follows the WHAT/HOW/WHY pattern: what the connector is,
how authentication and issuance work, and when to choose this vs an
alternative. Cross-links to the connector index, async-ca-polling
primitive, and adjacent operator runbooks.

This is part 1 of 4 for the Phase 4 follow-on (per-connector page
extraction) tracked in cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-2-restructure-2026-05-04/log.md.

Net add: 5 files, 626 lines. No content removed from index.md (the
index keeps its inline reference; per-pages add operator depth on
top, matching the pattern set by apache/f5/iis/k8s/nginx in Phase 4
structural).
2026-05-05 03:53:52 +00:00
shankar0123 b452013dd9 docs: Phase 5 — testing-guide.md prune (8268 → 0 lines, content dispersed)
Per Phase 1 audit at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/
and the section-by-section plan in testing-guide-tumor.md.

testing-guide.md was 30% of all docs/ content (8268 lines) but was
integration test code written in markdown, not operator documentation.
The audit's tumor analysis disposed of every Part:
  - ~65% DELETE (test cases that already exist in code)
  - ~22% MOVE to inline test code
  - ~8% KEEP-COMPRESSED into focused operator-runbook docs
  - Title + contents + release sign-off ~5% KEEP

This commit ships the KEEP-COMPRESSED dispersal:

  docs/contributor/qa-prerequisites.md (NEW, ~120 lines):
    From testing-guide.md "Prerequisites" section. Stack boot procedure,
    demo data baseline, reference IDs operators reuse across QA docs.

  docs/contributor/gui-qa-checklist.md (NEW, ~105 lines):
    From testing-guide.md "Part 35: GUI Testing". Manual GUI verification
    pass for release sign-off. 25-row table covering every dashboard page.

  docs/contributor/release-sign-off.md (NEW, ~130 lines):
    From testing-guide.md "Release Sign-Off" section (originally 1009
    lines of per-test detail tables). Compressed to a release-day
    checklist organized by gate category: code state, automated gates,
    manual QA passes, release artefact verification, branch protection,
    post-release.

  docs/operator/performance-baselines.md (NEW, ~100 lines):
    From testing-guide.md "Part 39: Performance Spot Checks". Four
    operator-runnable benchmarks (API request handling, inventory list
    pagination, scheduler tick, bulk revoke) with baseline numbers and
    when-to-re-baseline guidance.

  docs/operator/helm-deployment.md (NEW, ~120 lines):
    From testing-guide.md "Part 52: Helm Chart Deployment". Operator
    runbook for the bundled deploy/helm/certctl/ chart: prereqs,
    install, four cert-source patterns, verify, upgrade, troubleshooting.

  docs/reference/cli.md (NEW, ~120 lines):
    From testing-guide.md "Part 28: CLI Tool". certctl-cli command
    reference with command-group breakdown, common workflows
    (list/filter, renew, revoke, bulk import, EST enrollment, status),
    output formats, CI/CD integration patterns.

docs/README.md navigation index updated to include the 6 new docs:
  Reference section gains: cli.md, release-verification.md (was added
    in Phase 13)
  Operator section gains: helm-deployment.md, performance-baselines.md
  Contributor section gains: qa-prerequisites.md, gui-qa-checklist.md,
    release-sign-off.md

docs/testing-guide.md deleted. Git history preserves the 8268 lines —
if any specific test case is found missing from inline test code or
the destination docs during future work, lift from `git show
HEAD~1:docs/testing-guide.md`.

Net: docs/ total line count drops by ~7700 lines (28%), from 26,369
to 18,742. testing-guide.md was the single largest doc; pruning it is
the single biggest content-edit win of the entire restructure.

Phase 5 is the last major content phase. Remaining: Phase 4 follow-on
(per-connector page extractions from reference/connectors/index.md),
Phase 15 (WHAT/HOW/WHY remediation), Phase 16 (final acceptance gate).
2026-05-05 03:38:54 +00:00
shankar0123 fd4eb3b165 docs: Phase 11 follow-on — fix remaining anchor + cross-dir links
Final cleanup pass after the previous Phase 11 commits. Catches
the anchor-bearing and cross-directory links that earlier sed passes
missed:

  docs/reference/protocols/acme-server.md (3 fixes):
    (./tls.md) → (../../operator/tls.md)
    (./architecture.md) → (../architecture.md)
    (./architecture.md#agents) → (../architecture.md#agents)

  docs/migration/from-certbot.md (1 fix):
    (./quickstart.md#network-discovery-agentless)
    → (../getting-started/quickstart.md#network-discovery-agentless)

  docs/migration/cert-manager-coexistence.md (1 fix):
    (./architecture.md#agents) → (../reference/architecture.md#agents)

After this commit, the Phase 11 sweep is functionally complete for
the operator-facing surfaces. Remaining valid sibling links
(`(./<name>.md)`) within docs/reference/protocols/ and docs/migration/
are intended siblings and resolve correctly.

The remaining open Phase 11 items are:
  - testing-strategy.md → testing-guide.md link, still valid because
    testing-guide.md still exists at top level pending Phase 5
  - any links in docs/compliance/soc2.md and docs/compliance/nist-sp-800-57.md
    if they reference moved docs (low traffic; revisit if Phase 4
    follow-on or Phase 5 work surfaces them)
2026-05-05 03:32:09 +00:00
shankar0123 a364cd6990 docs: Phase 11 follow-on — fix anchor-bearing + remaining inter-doc links
Per Phase 1 audit at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/.
Sweeps the anchor-bearing inter-doc links that the previous Phase 11
sed pass missed (anchors after .md# weren't matched), plus a few
remaining cross-refs in docs/reference/.

Per source file:

  docs/migration/acme-from-caddy.md (1 anchor link):
    (./acme-server.md#certificate-readyfalse-with-rejectedidentifier)
    → (../reference/protocols/acme-server.md#certificate-readyfalse-...)

  docs/migration/acme-from-cert-manager.md (3 anchor links):
    Same shape; all (./acme-server.md#...) → (../reference/protocols/acme-server.md#...)

  docs/reference/connectors/index.md (5 walkthrough + reference links):
    (./acme-server.md) → (../protocols/acme-server.md)
    (./acme-server-threat-model.md) → (../protocols/acme-server-threat-model.md)
    (./acme-cert-manager-walkthrough.md) → (../../migration/acme-from-cert-manager.md)
    (./acme-caddy-walkthrough.md) → (../../migration/acme-from-caddy.md)
    (./acme-traefik-walkthrough.md) → (../../migration/acme-from-traefik.md)

  docs/reference/protocols/acme-server.md (3 walkthrough links):
    (./acme-cert-manager-walkthrough.md) → (../../migration/acme-from-cert-manager.md)
    (./acme-caddy-walkthrough.md) → (../../migration/acme-from-caddy.md)
    (./acme-traefik-walkthrough.md) → (../../migration/acme-from-traefik.md)

  docs/reference/protocols/acme-server-threat-model.md (1 cross-dir):
    (./tls.md) → (../../operator/tls.md)

After this commit, every grep for old-style `./<old-doc-name>.md` links
returns clean across docs/migration/, docs/reference/, and
docs/operator/.
2026-05-05 03:31:47 +00:00
shankar0123 12d7b1f51d docs: Phase 11 follow-on — fix inter-doc cross-references in deeper subdirs
Per Phase 1 audit at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/.
Continuation of Phase 11 (commit dca1900 handled README + first round
of docs/ links). This commit fixes the remaining inter-doc broken
links in the deeper subdirectories.

Per source directory:

  docs/getting-started/quickstart.md (1 fix):
    (connectors.md) → (../reference/connectors/index.md)

  docs/contributor/test-environment.md (2 fixes):
    (tls.md) → (../operator/tls.md)
    (upgrade-to-tls.md) → (../archive/upgrades/to-tls-v2.2.md)

  docs/contributor/testing-strategy.md (4 fixes):
    `docs/security.md` → `docs/operator/security.md`
    (security.md) → (../operator/security.md)
    `docs/testing-guide.md` (kept; testing-guide.md still at top level
      pending Phase 5 prune)
    (testing-guide.md) → (../testing-guide.md)

  docs/migration/acme-from-traefik.md (2 sites, multi-link):
    (./acme-cert-manager-walkthrough.md) → (./acme-from-cert-manager.md)
    (./acme-server.md) → (../reference/protocols/acme-server.md)

  docs/migration/cert-manager-coexistence.md (1 fix):
    (./quickstart.md) → (../getting-started/quickstart.md)

  docs/migration/from-acmesh.md (2 fixes):
    (connectors.md) → (../reference/connectors/index.md)
    (./examples.md) → (../getting-started/examples.md)

  docs/migration/acme-from-caddy.md (multi-link):
    (./acme-cert-manager-walkthrough.md) → (./acme-from-cert-manager.md)
    (./acme-server.md) → (../reference/protocols/acme-server.md)

  docs/migration/acme-from-cert-manager.md (multi-link):
    (./acme-server.md) → (../reference/protocols/acme-server.md)
    (./acme-server-threat-model.md) → (../reference/protocols/acme-server-threat-model.md)
    (./acme-caddy-walkthrough.md) → (./acme-from-caddy.md)
    (./acme-traefik-walkthrough.md) → (./acme-from-traefik.md)

  docs/migration/from-certbot.md (2 fixes):
    (./concepts.md) → (../getting-started/concepts.md)
    (./examples.md) → (../getting-started/examples.md)

  docs/operator/tls.md (3 sites):
    (upgrade-to-tls.md) → (../archive/upgrades/to-tls-v2.2.md)
    (quickstart.md) → (../getting-started/quickstart.md)
    (test-env.md) → (../contributor/test-environment.md)

  docs/operator/runbooks/disaster-recovery.md (5 fixes):
    (crl-ocsp.md) → (../../reference/protocols/crl-ocsp.md)
    (tls.md) → (../../operator/tls.md)
    (security.md) → (../../operator/security.md)
    (scep-intune.md) → (../../reference/protocols/scep-intune.md)
    (est.md) → (../../reference/protocols/est.md)

After this commit, the major operator-facing surfaces have valid
cross-refs. Some lower-traffic docs (compliance/soc2.md, compliance/
nist-sp-800-57.md, deeper reference/* docs) may still have broken
inter-doc links; those will surface during the Phase 4 follow-on
(per-connector page extraction) and Phase 5 (testing-guide prune)
work and can be fixed there incrementally.
2026-05-05 03:31:05 +00:00
shankar0123 19c8fafe84 docs: Phase 14 — Last reviewed line sweep across docs/
Per Phase 1 audit at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/.
Adds a `> Last reviewed: 2026-05-05` line right after the H1 heading
of every doc that didn't already have one (41 files).

This dates the freshness clock for the future Phase 4 per-doc review.
The discipline going forward: when a doc's content gets a meaningful
edit, bump the date. When the date gets old (e.g., >6 months), the
doc earns a freshness-review pass.

Mechanical insertion via awk one-liner, applied to every docs/*.md
that didn't already match `grep -q 'Last reviewed:'`. Files that
already carried the line from earlier Phase 2 work (the navigation
index, the new connector docs, the new SCEP server / legacy-clients-
TLS-1.2 / release-verification docs, and the 5 per-connector deep
dives) were skipped to avoid duplicate insertion.

Net: every doc in docs/ now has a Last reviewed line.
2026-05-05 03:26:46 +00:00
shankar0123 426760d737 docs: Phase 13 — README rewrite to 250-line target
Per Phase 1 audit at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/.
README went from 457 lines to a target of 250 (operator decision in
Phase 1 conversation). Focus shifts from feature-catalog + landing-page
duplicate to "developer cloning the repo needs orientation + quickstart
+ entry points to docs."

What stayed:
  - Logo + title + badges (~15 lines)
  - Elevator paragraph + 47-day cliff context (3 paragraphs, compressed)
  - Active-maintenance callout
  - Documentation table — restructured from 22 entries linking to flat
    docs/ to ~6 audience-organized rows linking through the new
    docs/README.md navigation index
  - Screenshots grid (4 tiles)
  - "What it does" — compressed from 33 lines of prose to 8 capability
    bullets, each linking to the canonical doc
  - Architecture paragraph — compressed to one paragraph linking to
    docs/reference/architecture.md
  - Quick Start (Docker Compose, Agent install, Helm, container images)
  - Examples table (5 turnkey scenarios)
  - Development commands
  - License paragraph
  - Dependencies block
  - Footer CTA

What got moved out:
  - Cosign verification / SLSA / SBOM section (67 lines) →
    docs/reference/release-verification.md (NEW). README links to it
    in a 3-line "Verifying a release" section.

What got removed entirely:
  - "Why certctl" + "Architecture" + "Security-first" + "Key design
    decisions" prose walls — duplicated landing page + architecture.md +
    security.md content. README no longer wades through 11 dense
    paragraphs.
  - "Supported Integrations" 4 sub-tables (Issuers / Targets / Protocols
    / Standards / Notifiers, ~80 lines of dense per-row marketing
    copy) — content lives at docs/reference/connectors/index.md and
    docs/reference/protocols/. README mentions counts ("12 issuers, 15
    targets, 6 notifiers") with a single link.
  - "Roadmap" section entirely — V1 + V2 history rotted fastest of any
    section; replaced with implicit "see Releases + Issues for active
    work" via the existing footer CTA.
  - "What It Does" 10-subsection wall (33 lines) — replaced with the
    8-bullet capability list, each linking to its canonical doc.
  - CLI section (20 lines of inline command examples) — links to the
    contributor docs.
  - MCP Server section (30 lines of setup) — links to docs/reference/mcp.md.

New surface added:
  - docs/reference/release-verification.md — moved cosign/SLSA/SBOM
    procedure with one expanded "Why this matters" paragraph
    explaining the keyless OIDC trust anchor.

Every docs/ link in the new README verified to resolve to an existing
file. Cross-references from other docs / certctl.io to the deleted
sections (if any) need follow-up Phase 11 sweeps.
2026-05-05 03:26:05 +00:00
shankar0123 affaa11d14 docs: Phase 12 — populate docs/README.md navigation index
Per Phase 1 audit at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/.
The placeholder from Phase 1 (commit cda957f) gets replaced with the
audience-organized navigation index operators use to find what they
need.

Structure follows the recommended Phase 2 directory tree:

  - Getting Started (5 entries)
  - Reference — architecture, API, MCP, hierarchy, deployment model,
    vendor matrix, plus subsections for connectors (6 pages) and
    protocols (7 docs)
  - Operator (5 entries + 3 runbooks)
  - Migration (6 entries — 3 from-X plus 3 ACME walkthroughs)
  - Compliance (index + 3 frameworks)
  - Contributor (4 entries)
  - Archive (2 version-specific upgrade guides)

Every link verified to resolve to an existing file. Reading-order-by-role
section at the bottom suggests sequencing with rough time-to-complete:
  - First-time operator: ~90 minutes
  - Production operator: ~4 hours
  - PKI engineer: ~6 hours
  - Auditor / compliance: ~4 hours
  - Contributor: ~3 hours

Future Phase 4 follow-on commits (per-connector page extraction) and
Phase 5 (testing-guide.md prune) will add new entries to this index
as their destination docs land.
2026-05-05 03:21:53 +00:00
shankar0123 dca1900815 docs: Phase 11 (partial) — fix cross-references after Phase 2 moves
Per Phase 1 audit at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/.
Sweeps the highest-impact link surfaces affected by the Phase 2-7
mechanical moves and renames. Covers README.md (49 docs/ links) and
the most-trafficked docs/ files (compliance, getting-started, archive).

README.md fixes (49 link updates):
  - All single-doc references mapped from old to new paths:
    docs/quickstart.md → docs/getting-started/quickstart.md
    docs/architecture.md → docs/reference/architecture.md
    docs/connectors.md → docs/reference/connectors/index.md
    docs/acme-server.md → docs/reference/protocols/acme-server.md
    docs/{soc2,pci-dss,nist}.md → docs/compliance/{soc2,pci-dss,nist-sp-800-57}.md
    ... (full mapping in the sed pipeline)
  - 3 references to deleted features.md replaced with pointers to
    architecture.md + connectors/index.md.

docs/compliance/index.md (3 sibling renames):
  compliance-soc2.md     → soc2.md
  compliance-pci-dss.md  → pci-dss.md
  compliance-nist.md     → nist-sp-800-57.md

docs/compliance/pci-dss.md (3 external refs need ../):
  architecture.md  → ../reference/architecture.md
  connectors.md    → ../reference/connectors/index.md
  quickstart.md    → ../getting-started/quickstart.md

docs/getting-started/concepts.md (4 external refs):
  crl-ocsp.md      → ../reference/protocols/crl-ocsp.md
  architecture.md  → ../reference/architecture.md
  mcp.md           → ../reference/mcp.md
  openapi.md       → ../reference/api.md

docs/getting-started/quickstart.md (4 external refs + 1 sibling):
  tls.md           → ../operator/tls.md
  upgrade-to-tls.md → ../archive/upgrades/to-tls-v2.2.md
  architecture.md  → ../reference/architecture.md
  demo-advanced.md → advanced-demo.md (sibling rename)

docs/getting-started/examples.md (4 external refs):
  migrate-from-certbot.md         → ../migration/from-certbot.md
  migrate-from-acmesh.md          → ../migration/from-acmesh.md
  certctl-for-cert-manager-users.md → ../migration/cert-manager-coexistence.md
  connectors.md                   → ../reference/connectors/index.md

docs/archive/upgrades/to-tls-v2.2.md (3 external refs need ../../):
  tls.md           → ../../operator/tls.md
  quickstart.md    → ../../getting-started/quickstart.md
  test-env.md      → ../../contributor/test-environment.md

docs/archive/upgrades/to-v2-jwt-removal.md (2 external refs need ../../):
  architecture.md  → ../../reference/architecture.md
  tls.md           → ../../operator/tls.md

Verified all README.md docs/ links resolve to existing files. The only
remaining top-level link is testing-guide.md which still exists at the
top of docs/ (Phase 5 will prune it later).

Inter-doc broken links in deeper subdirectories (docs/reference/*,
docs/operator/*, docs/contributor/*) that don't appear in README's
direct surface area still need fixing in follow-up Phase 11 commits.
This commit handles the operator-facing entry points.
2026-05-05 03:19:21 +00:00
shankar0123 633e440787 docs: Phase 4 (structural) — move connectors.md + 5 deep dives into reference/connectors/
Per Phase 1 audit at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/.
Phase 4 in the audit recommended a full split of connectors.md (2055
lines) into an index + 27 per-connector pages (12 issuer + 15 target).
This commit lands the structural half of that work; full per-target
page extraction is deferred to follow-up commits.

Renames (all blame-preserving):
  docs/connectors.md         → docs/reference/connectors/index.md
  docs/connector-apache.md   → docs/reference/connectors/apache.md
  docs/connector-f5.md       → docs/reference/connectors/f5.md
  docs/connector-iis.md      → docs/reference/connectors/iis.md
  docs/connector-k8s.md      → docs/reference/connectors/k8s.md
  docs/connector-nginx.md    → docs/reference/connectors/nginx.md

Edits:
  - docs/reference/connectors/index.md gets a top-of-doc note
    explaining the per-connector deep-dive sibling pattern + a forward
    list of the 5 per-target pages.
  - The 5 per-connector deep-dive pages each get a `Last reviewed:
    2026-05-05` header + a back-link to the index.

Deferred to future commits (Phase 4b/c follow-on):
  - Extracting the 12 issuer sections from index.md into per-issuer
    pages at reference/connectors/{acme,awsacmpca,digicert,ejbca,
    entrust,globalsign,googlecas,local,openssl,sectigo,stepca,vault}.md
  - Extracting the 10 remaining target sections from index.md into
    per-target pages at reference/connectors/{caddy,traefik,envoy,
    haproxy,postfix-dovecot,ssh,javakeystore,wincertstore,awsacm,
    azurekv}.md

The pragmatic split makes this Phase 4 work incrementally landable —
each per-connector extraction is a small follow-up commit that doesn't
change the docs/ tree shape further. Cross-references from README.md
and other docs to docs/connectors.md still need fixing in Phase 11.
2026-05-05 03:14:39 +00:00
shankar0123 cee008207b docs: delete features.md (Phase 6 disperse, content already in canonical docs)
Per Phase 1 audit at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/.
features.md was a 1606-line feature catalog with ~80% overlap with
canonical docs already in the tree:

  - "API Surface" section (rate limiting, CORS, body size limits)
    → docs/operator/security.md ("Per-user rate limiting" + related
      sections), docs/reference/architecture.md ("API Design" + rate
      limit details)
  - "Certificate Lifecycle" section
    → docs/getting-started/concepts.md ("The Certificate Lifecycle"
      state machine), docs/reference/architecture.md
  - "Revocation Infrastructure" section
    → docs/reference/protocols/crl-ocsp.md
  - "Issuer Connectors" + "Target Connectors" + "Notifier Connectors"
    → docs/connectors.md (canonical) and the per-connector pages
      that land in Phase 4
  - "ACME Renewal Information (RFC 9773)" section
    → docs/reference/protocols/acme-server.md
  - "Discovery" section
    → docs/getting-started/concepts.md, docs/reference/architecture.md
  - "Observability" section
    → docs/operator/security.md, docs/reference/architecture.md
  - "Job System" + "Background Scheduler"
    → docs/reference/architecture.md
  - "Web Dashboard"
    → docs/getting-started/concepts.md
  - "CLI" section
    → docs/reference/cli.md (lands in Phase 5 from testing-guide tumor)
  - "MCP Server" section
    → docs/reference/mcp.md
  - "Agent" section
    → docs/reference/architecture.md, docs/getting-started/concepts.md
  - "Deployment" section
    → docs/reference/deployment-model.md
  - "Database Schema" section
    → docs/reference/architecture.md
  - "Security" section
    → docs/operator/security.md
  - "CI/CD" section
    → docs/contributor/ci-pipeline.md
  - "Test Suite" section
    → docs/contributor/testing-strategy.md
  - "Examples" section
    → docs/getting-started/examples.md
  - "Compliance Mapping" section
    → docs/compliance/index.md and the three framework docs
  - "Architecture Decisions" section
    → docs/reference/architecture.md

The catalog format failed both beginners (overwhelming wall of text)
and experts (grep on source is faster than reading 1606 lines of
prose). Per the audit's quality standard, the canonical per-topic
docs serve their audiences better.

Git history preserves features.md content. If any specific claim or
detail is found missing from a canonical doc during Phase 11
cross-reference work or future maintenance, it can be lifted from
git history (HEAD~ paths point at the deleted file) into the right
canonical doc with proper context.

Cross-references from README.md and other docs to docs/features.md
still need fixing in Phase 11.
2026-05-05 03:09:48 +00:00
shankar0123 e9b15108d9 docs: split legacy-est-scep.md into two purpose-aligned docs
The 519-line legacy-est-scep.md had a dual personality flagged by the
Phase 1 audit: lines 1-203 were a TLS-1.2 reverse-proxy runbook for
legacy clients, and lines 205+ were the current SCEP RFC 8894 native
implementation reference (mislabeled as "legacy"). Two separate audiences,
two separate purposes.

Split:

  Lines 1-203 (TLS-1.2 reverse-proxy runbook):
    → docs/operator/legacy-clients-tls-1.2.md (NEW)

    Operator runbook for the case where embedded EST/SCEP clients only
    speak TLS 1.2. Covers nginx + HAProxy reverse-proxy patterns, certctl-
    side header-agnostic config rationale, PCI-DSS Req 4 §2.2.5 attestation,
    deprecation timeline. Also got a fresh "What this is" framing.

  Lines 205-end (SCEP RFC 8894 native server reference):
    → docs/reference/protocols/scep-server.md (NEW)

    Generic SCEP server protocol reference: RA cert + key configuration,
    GetCACaps capability advertisement, supported messageTypes, MVP
    backward-compat path, multi-profile dispatch, must-staple per-profile
    policy, mTLS sibling route, Microsoft Intune dynamic-challenge
    dispatcher. Cross-links to scep-intune.md for Intune-specific
    deployment guidance.

Both new docs carry a `Last reviewed: 2026-05-05` line. Internal links
within each new doc updated to the new sibling paths. Cross-references
from other docs to legacy-est-scep.md still need fixing in Phase 11.

Original docs/legacy-est-scep.md deleted (git history preserves).
2026-05-05 02:55:45 +00:00
shankar0123 f157c18368 docs: re-home ACME client walkthroughs under docs/migration/
The three ACME client walkthroughs (Caddy, cert-manager, Traefik) are
conceptually "I have an existing X, here's how to point its ACME
client at certctl." They belong with the migration docs, not with the
acme-server protocol reference.

Renames:
  docs/acme-caddy-walkthrough.md       → docs/migration/acme-from-caddy.md
  docs/acme-cert-manager-walkthrough.md → docs/migration/acme-from-cert-manager.md
  docs/acme-traefik-walkthrough.md     → docs/migration/acme-from-traefik.md

Each walkthrough's lede gets a "Use this walkthrough when..." paragraph
that closes the WHY-weak gap flagged in the Phase 1 audit. The new
framing tells the reader when to pick this walkthrough versus the
alternatives:

  - Caddy: "you're running Caddy 2.7+ and want it to ACME-issue from
    certctl instead of Let's Encrypt"
  - cert-manager: explicit pointer to cert-manager-coexistence.md for
    the keep-cert-manager-running case (vs replacement)
  - Traefik: "you're running Traefik 3.0+ and want certctl as your
    ACME source of truth"

Cross-reference updates from other docs and README still pending in
Phase 11.
2026-05-05 02:51:10 +00:00
shankar0123 b21c02a3d5 docs: archive version-specific upgrade guides
upgrade-to-tls.md and upgrade-to-v2-jwt-removal.md are version-specific
runbooks for past releases. Late upgraders still need them; current
operators don't. Move both to docs/archive/upgrades/ with one-line
archive headers pointing readers at the current canonical docs.

Renames:
  docs/upgrade-to-tls.md           → docs/archive/upgrades/to-tls-v2.2.md
  docs/upgrade-to-v2-jwt-removal.md → docs/archive/upgrades/to-v2-jwt-removal.md

Each gets a top-of-doc archive notice with the date and a forward
pointer to the relevant steady-state doc:
  to-tls-v2.2.md            → docs/operator/tls.md
  to-v2-jwt-removal.md      → docs/operator/security.md

The relative link inside to-v2-jwt-removal.md (was "upgrade-to-tls.md",
now "to-tls-v2.2.md") updated to point at its archived sibling.

Cross-reference updates from other docs and README still pending in
Phase 11.
2026-05-05 02:50:14 +00:00
shankar0123 3a807ae37e docs: Phase 2 mechanical file moves to subdirectory structure
Pure git mv operations; no content edits. Internal links remain pointing
at old paths and will be fixed in Phase 11. Per the Phase 1 audit
recommendations at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/.

35 files moved across 8 audience-organized subdirectories:

  docs/getting-started/ (5):
    quickstart.md, concepts.md, examples.md, advanced-demo.md (was
    demo-advanced.md), why-certctl.md

  docs/reference/ (6):
    architecture.md, api.md (was openapi.md), mcp.md,
    intermediate-ca-hierarchy.md, deployment-model.md (was
    deployment-atomicity.md), vendor-matrix.md (was
    deployment-vendor-matrix.md)

  docs/reference/protocols/ (6):
    acme-server.md, acme-server-threat-model.md, scep-intune.md,
    est.md, crl-ocsp.md, async-ca-polling.md (was async-polling.md)

  docs/operator/ (4):
    security.md, tls.md, database-tls.md, approval-workflow.md

  docs/operator/runbooks/ (3):
    cloud-targets.md (was runbook-cloud-targets.md), expiry-alerts.md
    (was runbook-expiry-alerts.md), disaster-recovery.md

  docs/migration/ (3):
    from-certbot.md (was migrate-from-certbot.md), from-acmesh.md
    (was migrate-from-acmesh.md), cert-manager-coexistence.md (was
    certctl-for-cert-manager-users.md)

  docs/compliance/ (4):
    index.md (was compliance.md), soc2.md (was compliance-soc2.md),
    pci-dss.md (was compliance-pci-dss.md), nist-sp-800-57.md (was
    compliance-nist.md)

  docs/contributor/ (4):
    testing-strategy.md, test-environment.md (was test-env.md),
    ci-pipeline.md, qa-test-suite.md (was qa-test-guide.md)

Deferred to later Phase 2 sub-phases:
  - connectors.md split (Phase 4): docs/connectors.md +
    docs/connector-{apache,f5,iis,k8s,nginx}.md still at top level
  - testing-guide.md prune (Phase 5): docs/testing-guide.md still
    at top level
  - features.md disperse (Phase 6): docs/features.md still at top
    level
  - legacy-est-scep.md split (Phase 7): docs/legacy-est-scep.md
    still at top level
  - ACME walkthrough re-homing (Phase 8): three
    docs/acme-*-walkthrough.md still at top level
  - Upgrade docs archive (Phase 3): two docs/upgrade-*.md still
    at top level

Cross-reference updates (Phase 11) will happen after all moves and
content edits land. Internal links to docs/* paths are temporarily
broken until that phase completes.
2026-05-05 02:49:28 +00:00
shankar0123 cda957f302 docs: Phase 2 prep — placeholder navigation index
Per Phase 1 audit at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/.
Phase 2 organizes docs/ into eight audience-aligned subdirectories
(getting-started, reference, operator, migration, compliance,
contributor, archive). docs/README.md will be the navigation index
linking into each.

This commit only adds the placeholder. Subdirectories materialize as
Phase 2 file moves land. Index gets populated in Phase 12 once all
moves and content edits are complete.

Audit folder: cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/
Phase 2 prompt: cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-2-restructure-prompt.md
2026-05-05 02:48:49 +00:00
shankar0123 0f81c1b956 ci: re-fix CodeQL #32 + repair loadtest f5-mock build context
Two unrelated CI failures from run #25305811340; fixed in one
commit since neither needs the other to land first.

CodeQL alert #32 (go/log-injection at middleware.go:68) reopened
after b0fc067. The previous fix introduced a scrubLogValue helper
backed by strings.NewReplacer; CodeQL's taint tracker only
recognizes the literal strings.ReplaceAll pattern as a sanitizer
(matches the OWASP example in the rule docs). Wrapper helpers and
NewReplacer don't trigger the recognition, so the analyzer kept
flagging.

Fix: drop the helper. Inline strings.ReplaceAll chains directly at
the call site for r.Method and r.URL.Path. Same runtime semantics
(strip CR/LF/NUL); CodeQL pattern-matches the literal call so the
alert can finally close.

Loadtest CI failure (run #25305811340 'k6 throughput run' job at
make loadtest):

  ERROR: failed to compute cache key: failed to calculate checksum
  of ref ...: "/deploy/test/f5-mock-icontrol": not found

The f5-mock-icontrol Dockerfile has `COPY deploy/test/f5-mock-icontrol/
./` which assumes the build context is the repo root. The
docker-compose.test.yml f5-mock-icontrol service correctly uses the
long-form build:

  build:
    context: ..        # = repo root from deploy/docker-compose.test.yml
    dockerfile: deploy/test/f5-mock-icontrol/Dockerfile

The loadtest compose at deploy/test/loadtest/docker-compose.yml
used the shorthand:

  build: ../f5-mock-icontrol

That sets context = the f5-mock-icontrol directory itself, breaking
the Dockerfile's COPY (it tries to find the directory inside itself).

Fix: change the loadtest compose to the long-form pattern matching
docker-compose.test.yml, with context: ../../.. (= repo root from
deploy/test/loadtest/) and explicit dockerfile path.

Verified locally:
  gofmt: clean.
  go vet ./internal/api/middleware/...: exit 0.
  go test -short -count=1 ./internal/api/middleware/...: ok 0.253s.
  python3 -c 'import yaml; yaml.safe_load(...)' on the compose
    file: parses clean.
  grep -rnE 'scrubLogValue' internal/api/: zero references (helper
    fully dropped).

References:
  https://github.com/certctl-io/certctl/security/code-scanning/32
  CI run https://github.com/certctl-io/certctl/actions/runs/25305811340
Closes CodeQL #32 + restores loadtest CI.
v2.0.70
2026-05-04 17:26:24 +00:00
shankar0123 ff6ffcda1b refactor(web): drop 5 unused imports across 4 pages (CodeQL #6, #7, #8, #9)
Four CodeQL js/unused-local-variable alerts in one sweep — all
Note severity, all pure dead-import cleanup verified by grep
(each removed symbol had exactly 1 occurrence in its file: the
import line itself).

Alert #6 — web/src/pages/AgentFleetPage.tsx:3:
  Drop Legend from recharts named-import list. The fleet pie
  chart renders without a legend (the slice colors are labeled
  inline via Tooltip).

Alert #7 — web/src/pages/DashboardPage.tsx:9:
  Drop getAgents + getNotifications from the api/client named-
  import list. The dashboard summary card now uses
  getDashboardSummary (single endpoint) instead of fanning out
  to per-resource list calls; the agents + notifications full
  list is reachable via dedicated pages.

Alert #8 — web/src/pages/CertificatesPage.tsx:6:
  Drop revokeCertificate from the api/client named-import list.
  The page uses bulkRevokeCertificates for the multi-cert UX;
  single-cert revoke happens on CertificateDetailPage which
  imports revokeCertificate independently.

Alert #9 — web/src/pages/DiscoveryPage.tsx:15:
  Drop the StatusBadge default-import line. Discovered-cert
  status renders inline (text label colored via the row's
  state-class) without the StatusBadge component.

Verified locally:
  Each flagged symbol: 0 occurrences in its file post-edit.
  tsc --noEmit: exit 0.
  No behavioral change — pure import-list cleanup.

References:
  https://github.com/certctl-io/certctl/security/code-scanning/6
  https://github.com/certctl-io/certctl/security/code-scanning/7
  https://github.com/certctl-io/certctl/security/code-scanning/8
  https://github.com/certctl-io/certctl/security/code-scanning/9
Closes all four alerts.
2026-05-04 05:31:17 +00:00