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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
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+.pytest_cache/
+.ruff_cache/
+.venv/
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+# The working report of a change, kept beside the tree and never published.
+.sdd-quiet-gaps-report.md

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+sayfirst control plane
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sayfirst_boundary-0.3.0/PKG-INFO

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+Metadata-Version: 2.5
+Name: sayfirst-boundary
+Version: 0.3.0
+Summary: The in-process boundary that holds a grant and asks before an effect
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/fredaime/sayfirst-control-plane
+Project-URL: Documentation, https://github.com/fredaime/sayfirst-control-plane/blob/main/packages/boundary/README.md
+Project-URL: Changelog, https://github.com/fredaime/sayfirst-control-plane/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
+Author-email: fredaime <frederic.aime@gmail.com>
+License-Expression: Apache-2.0
+Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14
+Requires-Python: <3.15,>=3.12
+Requires-Dist: sayfirst-contract==0.3.0
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+
+<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 -->
+# sayfirst-boundary
+
+The in-process boundary. A governed program opens `Boundary.request(...)` around
+an effect; the decision lands before the body runs, or the body does not run.
+
+This distribution holds no policy and decides nothing. It asks the control plane
+over a socket whose peer it verified, caches an `allow` as a grant for exactly
+the question it answers, and stops honouring that grant the moment any of four
+things happens: the connection carrying it ends, its lifetime runs out, the
+policy version it was issued under changes, or the control plane goes silent for
+a lifetime. Built with `hold_grants=False`, it holds nothing and asks for every
+act — what a verifier needs, whose proof is one recorded decision for each
+effect, while a grant hit records none.
+
+It publishes no exit codes. Outcomes leave as exceptions, and a caller that runs
+a process decides what to exit with.

sayfirst_boundary-0.3.0/README.md

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+<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 -->
+# sayfirst-boundary
+
+The in-process boundary. A governed program opens `Boundary.request(...)` around
+an effect; the decision lands before the body runs, or the body does not run.
+
+This distribution holds no policy and decides nothing. It asks the control plane
+over a socket whose peer it verified, caches an `allow` as a grant for exactly
+the question it answers, and stops honouring that grant the moment any of four
+things happens: the connection carrying it ends, its lifetime runs out, the
+policy version it was issued under changes, or the control plane goes silent for
+a lifetime. Built with `hold_grants=False`, it holds nothing and asks for every
+act — what a verifier needs, whose proof is one recorded decision for each
+effect, while a grant hit records none.
+
+It publishes no exit codes. Outcomes leave as exceptions, and a caller that runs
+a process decides what to exit with.

sayfirst_boundary-0.3.0/hatch_build.py

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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+"""Reproduce repository notices in the wheel."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any
+
+from hatchling.builders.hooks.plugin.interface import BuildHookInterface
+
+
+class CustomBuildHook(BuildHookInterface):
+    """Include the repository licence and notice as wheel metadata."""
+
+    def initialize(self, version: str, build_data: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
+        # In the workspace the notices live at the repository root and have to
+        # be carried in by hand. In an unpacked source distribution they
+        # travel beside the package, where the backend's own licence globs
+        # already find them, so carrying them again would add the same file
+        # twice.
+        root = Path(self.root)
+        if not (root / "LICENSE").is_file():
+            metadata_directory = (
+                f"{self.metadata.core.name.replace('-', '_')}-{self.metadata.version}.dist-info"
+            )
+            repository = root.parents[1]
+            build_data["force_include"].update(
+                {
+                    str(repository / "LICENSE"): f"{metadata_directory}/licenses/LICENSE",
+                    str(repository / "NOTICE"): f"{metadata_directory}/licenses/NOTICE",
+                }
+            )

sayfirst_boundary-0.3.0/pyproject.toml

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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+[project]
+name = "sayfirst-boundary"
+version = "0.3.0"
+description = "The in-process boundary that holds a grant and asks before an effect"
+readme = "README.md"
+requires-python = ">=3.12,<3.15"
+dependencies = ["sayfirst-contract==0.3.0"]
+license = "Apache-2.0"
+
+authors = [{ name = "fredaime", email = "frederic.aime@gmail.com" }]
+classifiers = [
+  "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14",
+]
+
+# The public repository this distribution sends a reader to. It was created
+# fresh, as article 0 asks, in the act that published it on 2026-09-17, under
+# the name the operator chose. `tests/test_pointers_survive_publication.py`
+# holds these URLs, so a rename lands in every project file and in the guard
+# together or not at all. No licence classifier: the licence is declared as an
+# expression above, and an index refuses a distribution that carries both.
+[project.urls]
+Repository = "https://github.com/fredaime/sayfirst-control-plane"
+Documentation = "https://github.com/fredaime/sayfirst-control-plane/blob/main/packages/boundary/README.md"
+Changelog = "https://github.com/fredaime/sayfirst-control-plane/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md"
+
+[build-system]
+requires = ["hatchling==1.32.0"]
+build-backend = "hatchling.build"
+
+[tool.uv.sources]
+sayfirst-contract = { workspace = true }
+
+[tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]
+packages = ["src/sayfirst_boundary"]
+
+[tool.hatch.build.targets.sdist.force-include]
+"../../LICENSE" = "LICENSE"
+"../../NOTICE" = "NOTICE"
+
+[tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel.hooks.custom]
+path = "hatch_build.py"

sayfirst_boundary-0.3.0/src/sayfirst_boundary/__init__.py

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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+"""The in-process boundary: ask before the effect, or do not act."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from .boundary import Boundary, GrantHandle
+from .errors import AskRefused, BoundaryError, CouldNotAsk, Denied, Suspended
+from .evidence import OutcomeLog, Record
+
+__all__ = [
+    "AskRefused",
+    "Boundary",
+    "BoundaryError",
+    "CouldNotAsk",
+    "Denied",
+    "GrantHandle",
+    "OutcomeLog",
+    "Record",
+    "Suspended",
+]

sayfirst_boundary-0.3.0/src/sayfirst_boundary/boundary.py

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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+"""The one shape a governed program uses, and the only way into the body.
+
+    with boundary.request(capability, arguments) as grant:
+        result = do_the_effect(**arguments)
+        grant.record_outcome(digest(result))
+
+There is no path into that body that skips the ask, which is the whole design:
+the decision is not a check the body could forget to make, it is the thing that
+opens the body at all. A hit on a held grant does not ask; a miss asks; anything
+other than an allow raises before the body, and `could not ask` raises too,
+because the absence of a refusal is not permission (doctrine D4).
+
+Only an allow is cached, and only an allow that arrived with a grant. The
+control plane mints a grant for exactly one question, and an allow served
+without one is an allow that is not to be reused.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from collections.abc import Callable, Iterator, Mapping
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import UTC, datetime
+from typing import Protocol
+
+from sayfirst_contract.client import Answered, Refused
+from sayfirst_contract.client import CouldNotAsk as CouldNotAskResult
+from sayfirst_contract.decisions import Decision, DecisionAsk, Outcome
+
+from .cache import GrantStore
+from .digest import arguments_digest
+from .errors import AskRefused, CouldNotAsk, Denied, Suspended
+from .evidence import OutcomeLog
+from .signals import SignalReader
+
+
+class _Client(Protocol):
+    def hold_decision(self, ask: DecisionAsk) -> tuple[object, object]: ...
+
+
+@dataclass
+class GrantHandle:
+    """What the body may say about what it did."""
+
+    decision_ref: str
+    capability: str
+    _log: OutcomeLog
+    recorded: bool = False
+
+    def record_outcome(self, digest: str) -> None:
+        self._log.record(
+            capability=self.capability,
+            decision_ref=self.decision_ref,
+            outcome_digest=digest,
+        )
+        self.recorded = True
+
+
+class Boundary:
+    """Ask the control plane before an effect, and hold what it grants."""
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        *,
+        client: _Client,
+        principal_reference: str,
+        correlation: str | None = None,
+        log: OutcomeLog | None = None,
+        clock: Callable[[], datetime] | None = None,
+        hold_grants: bool = True,
+    ) -> None:
+        self._client = client
+        self._principal = principal_reference
+        # Article 10's cache: an allow minted a grant, and an identical later act
+        # is answered by it without a round trip. A boundary that holds none asks
+        # for every act instead — what a verifier needs, since its proof is one
+        # recorded decision for each effect it saw and a grant hit records
+        # nothing. Asking more often is always allowed; never asking less is the
+        # rule the cache itself keeps.
+        self._hold_grants = hold_grants
+        # One boundary is one execution, so a correlation set here is stamped on
+        # every ask this boundary puts, and the plane records it on the effect
+        # (`correlation_source: boundary_supplied`). It is how a later reader —
+        # the verifier above all — tells THIS run's records from another
+        # execution's of the same principal, without trusting the boundary for a
+        # connection identity. It is not part of a grant's key (a grant matches
+        # on scope, principal, capability and digest), so a constant correlation
+        # across a run leaves the cache exactly as it was.
+        self._correlation = correlation
+        self._clock = clock or (lambda: datetime.now(UTC))
+        self._store = GrantStore()
+        self._log = log or OutcomeLog(capacity=1024, sink=lambda record: None, clock=self._clock)
+
+    @contextmanager
+    def request(
+        self,
+        capability: str,
+        arguments: Mapping[str, object],
+        *,
+        scope: str = "local",
+    ) -> Iterator[GrantHandle]:
+        try:
+            digest = arguments_digest(arguments)
+        except (TypeError, ValueError, RecursionError) as error:
+            # UnicodeEncodeError is a ValueError: a path that is not UTF-8, which
+            # `os.fsdecode` leaves as a lone surrogate. The digest is how the
+            # question is put, so arguments it cannot describe are a question
+            # that was not asked — one of this boundary's four outcomes, and the
+            # body does not run.
+            raise CouldNotAsk(
+                detail=f"the effect's arguments cannot be described to the control plane: {error}",
+                retryable=False,
+            ) from error
+        ask = DecisionAsk(
+            capability=capability,
+            scope=scope,
+            arguments_digest=digest,
+            correlation=self._correlation,
+        )
+        now = self._clock()
+        held = self._store.take(ask, self._principal, now=now) if self._hold_grants else None
+        decision_ref = held.held().grant.decision_ref if held is not None else self._ask(ask)
+        handle = GrantHandle(decision_ref=decision_ref, capability=capability, _log=self._log)
+        try:
+            yield handle
+        finally:
+            if not handle.recorded:
+                self._log.record(
+                    capability=capability,
+                    decision_ref=decision_ref,
+                    outcome_digest=None,
+                )
+
+    def _ask(self, ask: DecisionAsk) -> str:
+        """Put the question, raise anything that is not an allow, cache what is."""
+        result, stream = self._client.hold_decision(ask)
+        if isinstance(result, Refused):
+            raise AskRefused(
+                problem_code=str(result.problem.code),
+                detail=str(result.problem.message),
+            )
+        if isinstance(result, CouldNotAskResult):
+            # The contract already says whether asking again could help, so the
+            # boundary reports that rather than deciding for itself.
+            raise CouldNotAsk(
+                detail=str(result.problem.message),
+                retryable=result.problem.retryable,
+            )
+        if not isinstance(result, Answered):
+            raise CouldNotAsk(detail="the answer could not be read", retryable=False)
+        decision: Decision = result.value
+        if decision.outcome is Outcome.DENY:
+            self._close(stream)
+            raise Denied(
+                decision_ref=decision.decision_ref,
+                capability=decision.capability,
+                reason=str(decision.reason),
+            )
+        if decision.outcome is Outcome.SUSPEND:
+            self._close(stream)
+            raise Suspended(
+                approval_ref=str(decision.approval_ref),
+                decision_ref=decision.decision_ref,
+                capability=decision.capability,
+            )
+        if self._hold_grants and stream is not None and getattr(stream, "grant", None) is not None:
+            try:
+                reader = SignalReader(stream, clock=self._clock)
+            except Exception:
+                # The allow was answered and recorded, and this act runs on it.
+                # A grant that cannot be held only means the next identical act
+                # asks again; keeping the connection with nothing reading it
+                # would be the leak.
+                self._close(stream)
+            else:
+                self._store.put(reader)
+        else:
+            self._close(stream)
+        return decision.decision_ref
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _close(stream: object) -> None:
+        closer = getattr(stream, "close", None)
+        if callable(closer):
+            closer()
+
+    def flush(self) -> None:
+        """Hand held records to the sink. Called by a caller, never on the hot path."""
+        self._log.flush()
+
+    def close(self) -> None:
+        """Give up every held grant and flush what is recorded."""
+        self._store.close()
+        self._log.flush()

sayfirst_boundary-0.3.0/src/sayfirst_boundary/cache.py

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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+"""The held grants, keyed on exactly the questions they answer.
+
+A grant's conditions ARE its key: scope, capability, principal and the pinned
+arguments digest are what the control plane minted it for, and asking anything
+else is asking a different question. So there is no matching to write here — the
+conditions are compared as a whole, and a near miss is a miss.
+
+`take` returns a grant that may be used, or nothing. It never returns one for
+the caller to test: a store that handed out stale grants would be relying on
+every caller to apply the freshness rule, which is as many chances to forget as
+there are callers. An ended grant is discarded and its channel closed on the way
+out, because the channel is what was holding it.
+
+## Why there is a lock
+
+A boundary is used from more than one thread, and two threads missing the cache
+on the same question at the same moment each come back with a grant. That is
+correct: two asks, two grants, and the daemon admits both. What must not happen
+is what the first version of `put` allowed — read `None`, be overtaken by the
+other thread's store, then store over it: the overtaken reader was never closed,
+so its channel and its thread stayed alive for the daemon's whole grant lifetime,
+invisible to the store and to `close()`. The e2e case
+`test_racing_puts_do_not_orphan_a_reader` forces that interleaving and is the
+regression test for this lock. Nothing under the lock touches the network: a
+reader's `close` is a socket close, and `ending` is arithmetic.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from datetime import datetime
+from threading import Lock
+
+from sayfirst_contract.decisions import DecisionAsk
+from sayfirst_contract.grants import GrantConditions
+
+from .freshness import Ending, ending
+from .signals import SignalReader
+
+
+class GrantStore:
+    """Every grant this boundary holds, at most one per question."""
+
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self._held: dict[GrantConditions, SignalReader] = {}
+        self._lock = Lock()
+
+    def put(self, reader: SignalReader) -> None:
+        """Hold this reader for its question, closing whichever one it displaces."""
+        conditions = reader.held().grant.conditions
+        with self._lock:
+            existing = self._held.get(conditions)
+            if existing is not None and existing is not reader:
+                existing.close()
+            self._held[conditions] = reader
+
+    def take(
+        self,
+        ask: DecisionAsk,
+        principal_reference: str,
+        *,
+        now: datetime,
+    ) -> SignalReader | None:
+        """A reader whose grant covers this ask, or nothing at all."""
+        key = GrantConditions(
+            scope=ask.scope,
+            capability=ask.capability,
+            principal_reference=principal_reference,
+            arguments_digest=ask.arguments_digest,
+        )
+        with self._lock:
+            reader = self._held.get(key)
+            if reader is None:
+                return None
+            if ending(reader.held(), ask, principal_reference, now=now) is Ending.LIVE:
+                return reader
+            del self._held[key]
+            reader.close()
+            return None
+
+    def close(self) -> None:
+        """Give up every channel, and with it every grant."""
+        with self._lock:
+            readers = tuple(self._held.values())
+            self._held.clear()
+        for reader in readers:
+            reader.close()