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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.