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identity: session-as-process — create/lookup/expire/revoke + idle timeout (11 tests)
Session is an Erlang process holding {subject, client, status}. lookup/
touch/expire/revoke are messages; expiry is the process's own
`receive ... after Ttl` timeout (RFC-agnostic; no global sweep), which
notifies the owner and tombstones. Tombstoned sessions answer lookups
with an explicit {error, expired|revoked}, never a silent dead mailbox.
Adds the conformance harness + scoreboard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-06 23:45:50 +00:00

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# identity-on-sx: OAuth2, sessions & membership on Erlang
> **DRAFT outline.** The identity core `acl-on-sx` assumes already exists. `acl`
> answers "may X do Y"; identity answers "who is X, and how did they prove it."
> Depends on `persist-on-sx` (grant/audit ledger). Pairs with `acl-on-sx`.
rose-ash's `account` domain is the OAuth2 authorization server every other app is
a client of: silent SSO, per-app first-party cookies, grant verification,
membership. Sessions and grants are **long-lived, concurrent, individually
addressable, and expire on their own** — that is the actor model. Erlang's
processes + mailboxes map cleanly: a session is a process, token issue/refresh/
revoke are messages, expiry is a process timeout, and SSO is one process answering
many apps.
End-state: an Erlang-on-SX layer with the OAuth2 authorization-code + silent
(`prompt=none`) flows as message protocols, a session/grant registry, token
lifecycle (issue/refresh/revoke/introspect), and membership state — all auditable
through the event log, all authorization questions delegated to `acl-on-sx`.
## Status (rolling)
`bash lib/identity/conformance.sh`**11/11** (Phase 1: session)
## Ground rules
- **Scope:** only `lib/identity/**` and `plans/identity-on-sx.md`. May **import**
from `lib/erlang/`, and (once they exist) `lib/persist/` + `lib/acl/`. Do not edit
substrates.
- **Architecture:** a session/grant is a process holding its own state; the
registry routes messages by subject/client id. Tokens are opaque + introspected,
not self-validating (revocation must be real). Authorization decisions are NOT
made here — `identity` proves identity, `acl` decides permission.
- **Security:** revocation is immediate (kill the process / tombstone the grant);
no decision relies on a token that outlived its grant. Negative answers are
explicit, never "absence of a yes."
- **Commits:** one feature per commit. Progress log + tick boxes.
## Architecture sketch
```
Auth request Token / session
(authorize client scope subject) {:access :refresh :expires :grant}
│ ▲
▼ │
lib/identity/oauth.sx lib/identity/token.sx
— authz-code + prompt=none flows — issue / refresh / revoke / introspect
— as Erlang message protocols — opaque tokens, grant-backed
│ ▲
▼ │
lib/identity/session.sx lib/identity/registry.sx
— session = process, expiry=timeout — route by subject/client; SSO fan-out
│ │
▼ ▼
lib/identity/api.sx ── (identity/login) (identity/grant?) (identity/revoke) ──┐
│ │
└──────── grant + audit events → persist ; permission? → acl ──────────┘
```
## Phase 1 — Sessions + tokens
- [x] `session.sx` — session process, create/lookup/expire
- [ ] `token.sx` — issue/introspect/revoke (opaque, grant-backed)
- [ ] `registry.sx` — route by subject/client
- [ ] `api.sx` + tests + scoreboard + conformance.sh
## Phase 2 — OAuth2 flows
- [ ] authorization-code flow as a message protocol
- [ ] refresh + rotation; revocation cascades to issued tokens
- [ ] tests: full code exchange, refresh, revoke-then-use (must fail)
## Phase 3 — Silent SSO + membership
- [ ] `prompt=none` cross-app login (one session, many clients)
- [ ] membership state + per-app grant projection
- [ ] grant verification delegated cache (mirror Redis-cache pattern)
## Phase 4 — Audit + federation
- [ ] every issue/refresh/revoke is a `persist` event; `(identity/audit subject)`
- [ ] federated identity (peer-asserted subject) — advisory, trust-gated stub
- [ ] tests: audit completeness, cross-instance subject mapping
## Progress log
- 2026-06-06 — `session.sx`: session-as-Erlang-process. create/lookup/touch/
explicit-expire/revoke as messages; idle-timeout self-expiry via
`receive ... after Ttl` notifying the owner then tombstoning. Tombstones
answer lookups with `{error, expired|revoked}` — never a silent dead
mailbox. Established the conformance harness (`conformance.sh`, scoreboard,
`tests/session.sx`). 11/11.
## Blockers
(loop fills this in)