Replaces the legacy GATEWAY_SECRET shared-token gate with an IAM-backed
identity and authorisation model. The gateway no longer has an
"allow-all" or "no auth" mode; every request is authenticated via the
IAM service, authorised against a capability model that encodes both
the operation and the workspace it targets, and rejected with a
deliberately-uninformative 401 / 403 on any failure.
IAM service (trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/iam, trustgraph-base/schema/iam)
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* New backend service (iam-svc) owning users, workspaces, API keys,
passwords and JWT signing keys in Cassandra. Reached over the
standard pub/sub request/response pattern; gateway is the only
caller.
* Operations: bootstrap, resolve-api-key, login, get-signing-key-public,
rotate-signing-key, create/list/get/update/disable/delete/enable-user,
change-password, reset-password, create/list/get/update/disable-
workspace, create/list/revoke-api-key.
* Ed25519 JWT signing (alg=EdDSA). Key rotation writes a new kid and
retires the previous one; validation is grace-period friendly.
* Passwords: PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA-256, 600k iterations, per-user salt.
* API keys: 128-bit random, SHA-256 hashed. Plaintext returned once.
* Bootstrap is explicit: --bootstrap-mode {token,bootstrap} is a
required startup argument with no permissive default. Masked
"auth failure" errors hide whether a refused bootstrap request was
due to mode, state, or authorisation.
Gateway authentication (trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/gateway/auth.py)
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* IamAuth replaces the legacy Authenticator. Distinguishes JWTs
(three-segment dotted) from API keys by shape; verifies JWTs
locally using the cached IAM public key; resolves API keys via
IAM with a short-TTL hash-keyed cache. Every failure path
surfaces the same 401 body ("auth failure") so callers cannot
enumerate credential state.
* Public key is fetched at gateway startup with a bounded retry loop;
traffic does not begin flowing until auth has started.
Capability model (trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/gateway/capabilities.py)
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* Roles have two dimensions: a capability set and a workspace scope.
OSS ships reader / writer / admin; the first two are workspace-
assigned, admin is cross-workspace ("*"). No "cross-workspace"
pseudo-capability — workspace permission is a property of the role.
* check(identity, capability, target_workspace=None) is the single
authorisation test: some role must grant the capability *and* be
active in the target workspace.
* enforce_workspace validates a request-body workspace against the
caller's role scopes and injects the resolved value. Cross-
workspace admin is permitted by role scope, not by a bypass.
* Gateway endpoints declare a required capability explicitly — no
permissive default. Construction fails fast if omitted. Enterprise
editions can replace the role table without changing the wire
protocol.
WebSocket first-frame auth (dispatch/mux.py, endpoint/socket.py)
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* /api/v1/socket handshake unconditionally accepts; authentication
runs on the first WebSocket frame ({"type":"auth","token":"..."})
with {"type":"auth-ok","workspace":"..."} / {"type":"auth-failed"}.
The socket stays open on failure so the client can re-authenticate
— browsers treat a handshake-time 401 as terminal, breaking
reconnection.
* Mux.receive rejects every non-auth frame before auth succeeds,
enforces the caller's workspace (envelope + inner payload) using
the role-scope resolver, and supports mid-session re-auth.
* Flow import/export streaming endpoints keep the legacy ?token=
handshake (URL-scoped short-lived transfers; no re-auth need).
Auth surface
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* POST /api/v1/auth/login — public, returns a JWT.
* POST /api/v1/auth/bootstrap — public; forwards to IAM's bootstrap
op which itself enforces mode + tables-empty.
* POST /api/v1/auth/change-password — any authenticated user.
* POST /api/v1/iam — admin-only generic forwarder for the rest of
the IAM API (per-op REST endpoints to follow in a later change).
Removed / breaking
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* GATEWAY_SECRET / --api-token / default_api_token and the legacy
Authenticator.permitted contract. The gateway cannot run without
IAM.
* ?token= on /api/v1/socket.
* DispatcherManager and Mux both raise on auth=None — no silent
downgrade path.
CLI tools (trustgraph-cli)
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tg-bootstrap-iam, tg-login, tg-create-user, tg-list-users,
tg-disable-user, tg-enable-user, tg-delete-user, tg-change-password,
tg-reset-password, tg-create-api-key, tg-list-api-keys,
tg-revoke-api-key, tg-create-workspace, tg-list-workspaces. Passwords
read via getpass; tokens / one-time secrets written to stdout with
operator context on stderr so shell composition works cleanly.
AsyncSocketClient / SocketClient updated to the first-frame auth
protocol.
Specifications
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* docs/tech-specs/iam.md updated with the error policy, workspace
resolver extension point, and OSS role-scope model.
* docs/tech-specs/iam-protocol.md (new) — transport, dataclasses,
operation table, error taxonomy, bootstrap modes.
* docs/tech-specs/capabilities.md (new) — capability vocabulary, OSS
role bundles, agent-as-composition note, enforcement-boundary
policy, enterprise extensibility.
Tests
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* test_auth.py (rewritten) — IamAuth + JWT round-trip with real
Ed25519 keypairs + API-key cache behaviour.
* test_capabilities.py (new) — role table sanity, check across
role x workspace combinations, enforce_workspace paths,
unknown-cap / unknown-role fail-closed.
* Every endpoint test construction now names its capability
explicitly (no permissive defaults relied upon). New tests pin
the fail-closed invariants: DispatcherManager / Mux refuse
auth=None; i18n path-traversal defense is exercised.
* test_socket_graceful_shutdown rewritten against IamAuth.
Introduces `workspace` as the isolation boundary for config, flows,
library, and knowledge data. Removes `user` as a schema-level field
throughout the code, API specs, and tests; workspace provides the
same separation more cleanly at the trusted flow.workspace layer
rather than through client-supplied message fields.
Design
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- IAM tech spec (docs/tech-specs/iam.md) documents current state,
proposed auth/access model, and migration direction.
- Data ownership model (docs/tech-specs/data-ownership-model.md)
captures the workspace/collection/flow hierarchy.
Schema + messaging
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- Drop `user` field from AgentRequest/Step, GraphRagQuery,
DocumentRagQuery, Triples/Graph/Document/Row EmbeddingsRequest,
Sparql/Rows/Structured QueryRequest, ToolServiceRequest.
- Keep collection/workspace routing via flow.workspace at the
service layer.
- Translators updated to not serialise/deserialise user.
API specs
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- OpenAPI schemas and path examples cleaned of user fields.
- Websocket async-api messages updated.
- Removed the unused parameters/User.yaml.
Services + base
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- Librarian, collection manager, knowledge, config: all operations
scoped by workspace. Config client API takes workspace as first
positional arg.
- `flow.workspace` set at flow start time by the infrastructure;
no longer pass-through from clients.
- Tool service drops user-personalisation passthrough.
CLI + SDK
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- tg-init-workspace and workspace-aware import/export.
- All tg-* commands drop user args; accept --workspace.
- Python API/SDK (flow, socket_client, async_*, explainability,
library) drop user kwargs from every method signature.
MCP server
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- All tool endpoints drop user parameters; socket_manager no longer
keyed per user.
Flow service
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- Closure-based topic cleanup on flow stop: only delete topics
whose blueprint template was parameterised AND no remaining
live flow (across all workspaces) still resolves to that topic.
Three scopes fall out naturally from template analysis:
* {id} -> per-flow, deleted on stop
* {blueprint} -> per-blueprint, kept while any flow of the
same blueprint exists
* {workspace} -> per-workspace, kept while any flow in the
workspace exists
* literal -> global, never deleted (e.g. tg.request.librarian)
Fixes a bug where stopping a flow silently destroyed the global
librarian exchange, wedging all library operations until manual
restart.
RabbitMQ backend
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- heartbeat=60, blocked_connection_timeout=300. Catches silently
dead connections (broker restart, orphaned channels, network
partitions) within ~2 heartbeat windows, so the consumer
reconnects and re-binds its queue rather than sitting forever
on a zombie connection.
Tests
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- Full test refresh: unit, integration, contract, provenance.
- Dropped user-field assertions and constructor kwargs across
~100 test files.
- Renamed user-collection isolation tests to workspace-collection.
feat: separate flow service from config service with explicit queue
lifecycle management
The flow service is now an independent service that owns the lifecycle
of flow and blueprint queues. System services own their own queues.
Consumers never create queues.
Flow service separation:
- New service at trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/flow/service/
- Uses async ConfigClient (RequestResponse pattern) to talk to config
service
- Config service stripped of all flow handling
Queue lifecycle management:
- PubSubBackend protocol gains create_queue, delete_queue,
queue_exists, ensure_queue — all async
- RabbitMQ: implements via pika with asyncio.to_thread internally
- Pulsar: stubs for future admin REST API implementation
- Consumer _connect() no longer creates queues (passive=True for named
queues)
- System services call ensure_queue on startup
- Flow service creates queues on flow start, deletes on flow stop
- Flow service ensures queues for pre-existing flows on startup
Two-phase flow stop:
- Phase 1: set flow status to "stopping", delete processor config
entries
- Phase 2: retry queue deletion, then delete flow record
Config restructure:
- active-flow config replaced with processor:{name} types
- Each processor has its own config type, each flow variant is a key
- Flow start/stop use batch put/delete — single config push per
operation
- FlowProcessor subscribes to its own type only
Blueprint format:
- Processor entries split into topics and parameters dicts
- Flow interfaces use {"flow": "topic"} instead of bare strings
- Specs (ConsumerSpec, ProducerSpec, etc.) read from
definition["topics"]
Tests updated
* fix: prevent duplicate dispatcher creation race condition in invoke_global_service
Concurrent coroutines could all pass the `if key in self.dispatchers` check
before any of them wrote the result back, because `await dispatcher.start()`
yields to the event loop. This caused multiple Pulsar consumers to be created
on the same shared subscription, distributing responses round-robin and
dropping ~2/3 of them — manifesting as a permanent spinner in the Workbench UI.
Apply a double-checked asyncio.Lock in both `invoke_global_service` and
`invoke_flow_service` so only one dispatcher is ever created per service key.
* test: add concurrent-dispatch tests for race condition fix
Add asyncio.gather-based tests that verify invoke_global_service and
invoke_flow_service create exactly one dispatcher under concurrent calls,
preventing the duplicate Pulsar consumer bug.