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feat(security)!: enforce book audience at the REST read layer; finish the ADR-0090 D2/D3 cleanup the P1 wave missed - #2774

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Summary

Follow-through on #2732 (book audience { permissionSet } rename). Five threads, all ADR-0090-grounded:

1. The read layer now ENFORCES book audience (ADR-0049)

The gated arm existed but nothing enforced it — an unenforced security property. Now:

  • /meta/book (list + item), /meta/doc (list + item), /meta/book/:name/tree: anonymous callers see only public books/docs; { permissionSet }-gated books require the caller to hold the named set; authenticated non-holders get 403, anonymous get 401.
  • A doc's effective audience is the union over the books that CLAIM it (ADR-0046 §6.7). Unclaimed docs default to org. Deliberate subtlety: the tree renderer's orphan pass ("nothing is ever dropped") does not count as a claim — otherwise any public book would leak every unclaimed doc of its package. Tree entries are additionally filtered per-doc, so an anonymous reader of a public book never sees nav entries that would 401 on fetch.
  • Fail closed (ADR-0049): when permission-set holdings cannot be resolved (security service absent / resolution throws), gated audiences deny.
  • doc/book single-item reads bypass the shared meta cache — a per-caller gate cannot share ETags across viewers.
  • Plumbing: pure helpers in spec (audienceAllows, resolveDocAudiences, docAudienceAllows, resolveBookClaimedDocs) so REST and any future portal shell share ONE semantics; plugin-security's security service gains resolvePermissionSetNames(ctx) — the same resolution as data-plane enforcement (positions expanded, additive baseline), so the docs gate can never drift from it.

2. D2/D3 leftovers — two real regressions found

  • METADATA_FORM_REGISTRY still had dead role/profile keys while the position type had LOST its form layout in the P1 rename → role:position:, profile: deleted.
  • metadata's ARTIFACT_FIELD_TO_TYPE still mapped roles → 'role', which matches nothing since stacks declare positionscompiled positions were silently dropped from artifact ingestionpositions → 'position'.
  • EnvironmentArtifactMetadataSchema: roles/profilespositions (old artifacts still parse via passthrough()).
  • Metadata-form translations (en/zh-CN/ja-JP/es-ES): role/profile groups removed (their copy still taught the pre-D3 hierarchy model), position group added, with a vocabulary regression test in platform-objects.

3. D3 vocabulary ratchet for docs + source fixes

  • New scripts/check-role-word.mjs (wired into lint.yml): \brole\b scan over content/docs + skills with a ratchet baseline — the 45 current files are frozen (many are legitimate: better-auth boundary, ARIA samples, educational "formerly roles"); NEW occurrences fail CI; improvements must ratchet the baseline down.
  • content/docs/ui/role-based-interfaces.mdxaudience-based-interfaces.mdx (content was already audience-vocabulary; the URL wasn't), all inbound links updated.
  • Stale permission-vocabulary copy fixed in 5 docs (incl. a reference to the long-renamed bootstrapDeclaredRoles); identifier/comment cleanup in security-plugin.ts, bootstrap-declared-positions.ts, position.test.ts, audit.zod.ts; RolePosition in the eslint + check-doc-authoring domain lists (defineRole no longer exists).

4. Publish lint learns about books

  • Book name/label join the security-role-word scan (book audience is a permission-model reference now).
  • New advisory rule security-book-audience-unknown-set: a { permissionSet } audience naming a set the stack does not declare. Runtime fails closed — the typo cost is "nobody can read the book" — so surface it at author time; warning because an environment-authored book may legitimately reference an installed package's set.

Verification

spec (full), objectql (808), cli (464), rest (227 + 9 new gating tests), metadata (260), platform-objects (76 incl. new vocabulary guard), plugin-security (261), lint (32 incl. 3 new) — all green. eslint, check:role-word, check:doc-authoring, check:api-surface (regenerated), check:liveness, check:skill-docs, check-changeset-fixed all pass. Changeset included (spec major; rest/plugin-security/lint/metadata minor; platform-objects patch).

Known follow-ups (not in this PR)

  • Ratchet the 45-file role-word baseline down incrementally.
  • AgentSchema.role (AI persona string) → persona — the last substantive source-level exception to the word ban.
  • resolveBookTree's orphan pass is not package-scoped: without a ?package query, other packages' unclaimed docs join any book's Uncategorized group. The audience gate now bounds the blast radius, but nav correctness deserves its own issue.

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… the ADR-0090 D2/D3 cleanup the P1 wave missed
Follow-through on the { permissionSet } book-audience rename (#2732), in
ADR-0049 discipline — the gated arm existed but nothing enforced it:
- rest: /meta/book, /meta/doc, and /meta/book/:name/tree now enforce the
ADR-0046 §6.7 audience model. Anonymous callers see only public
books/docs; { permissionSet }-gated books require holding the named set;
a doc's effective audience is the union over the books that CLAIM it
(unclaimed → org; orphan rendering never inherits public). Fails CLOSED
when holdings cannot be resolved. doc/book item reads bypass the shared
meta cache (per-caller gate vs shared ETag). Nine new route tests.
- spec: pure helpers powering the gate (audienceAllows,
resolveDocAudiences, docAudienceAllows, resolveBookClaimedDocs) with
unit tests; the REST layer and any future portal share ONE semantics.
- plugin-security: security service exposes resolvePermissionSetNames —
the same resolution as data-plane enforcement.
- D2/D3 leftovers: METADATA_FORM_REGISTRY role→position (the position
type had LOST its form layout in the P1 rename) and profile removed;
artifact ingestion maps positions→'position' (stale roles→'role'
matched nothing and silently dropped compiled positions);
EnvironmentArtifactMetadataSchema declares positions; metadata-form
translations regain position and drop role/profile in all four locales
(+ vocabulary regression test); position.test/audit.zod/security-plugin
identifiers and comments de-role'd; eslint + doc-authoring domain lists
Role→Position; content/docs/ui/role-based-interfaces.mdx renamed to
audience-based-interfaces.mdx with stale permission-vocabulary copy
fixed across five docs.
- lint: books join the D3 role-word scan; new advisory rule
security-book-audience-unknown-set flags a gated audience naming a set
the stack does not declare (runtime fails closed — surface the typo at
author time).
- scripts/check-role-word.mjs: ADR-0090 D3 vocabulary RATCHET over
content/docs + skills (baseline freezes the 45 current files; new
occurrences fail CI; improvements ratchet the baseline down). Wired
into the lint workflow.
Verified: spec/objectql(808)/cli(464)/rest(227+9)/metadata(260)/
platform-objects(76)/plugin-security/lint(32) suites green; eslint,
check:role-word, check:doc-authoring, check:api-surface (regenerated),
check:liveness, check:skill-docs, check-changeset-fixed all pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ph4jEAfWDh6taMbZweWhom
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This PR changes 6 package(s): @objectstack/lint, @objectstack/metadata, @objectstack/platform-objects, @objectstack/plugin-security, @objectstack/rest, @objectstack/spec.

97 hand-written doc(s) reference the affected code and may need an implementation-accuracy re-verification:

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Advisory only. To re-verify, run the docs-accuracy-audit workflow scoped to these files:
node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs origin/main → pass the list as args.docs.

…meout
The in-process variant cold-loads sucrase + typescript and took 5.6s on a
loaded CI runner, tripping vitest's default 5s per-test timeout (Test Core
failure on this PR's first run). The test asserts a loading CONTRACT, not
latency — give it an explicit generous timeout like the sibling dist-based
variants effectively have via their spawn overhead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ph4jEAfWDh6taMbZweWhom
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