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acl: Phase 4 federation (trust-gated delegation, revocation) + 31 tests
federation.sx adds peer/trust/delegate/level_covers facts and one engine
rule: delegated grants apply only when local trust covers the action,
re-checked every query (non-transitive, fail-safe). Local/inherited deny
overrides federated grants; delegation composes with group and resource
inheritance. acl-revoke!/acl-fed-assert! propagate retraction/assertion;
mock fed-sx transport for tests. Federated proofs reconstruct via the
existing explainer. Roadmap complete: 120/120.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-06 16:54:34 +00:00

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;; lib/acl/engine.sx — ACL ruleset + decision reducer over lib/datalog/.
;;
;; The engine is a thin layer: it owns the permit ruleset (SX data rules) and
;; reduces a (subject, action, resource) decision to a Datalog query against a
;; db built from EDB facts. The rule engine itself is Datalog's.
;;
;; Policy — inheritance + federation with deny-overrides:
;;
;; eff_grant(S,A,R) :- grant(S,A,R). ; direct
;; eff_grant(S,A,R) :- member_of(S,G), eff_grant(G,A,R). ; group/role chain
;; eff_grant(S,A,R) :- child_of(R,P), eff_grant(S,A,P). ; resource tree
;; eff_grant(S,A,R) :- member_of(S,Role), role_grant(Role,A,R). ; role expansion
;; eff_grant(S,A,R) :- delegate(Peer,S,A,R), ; federated grant
;; trust(Peer,L), level_covers(L,A).
;;
;; eff_deny(S,A,R) :- deny(S,A,R). ; direct
;; eff_deny(S,A,R) :- member_of(S,G), eff_deny(G,A,R). ; group chain
;; eff_deny(S,A,R) :- child_of(R,P), eff_deny(S,A,P). ; resource tree
;;
;; permit(S,A,R) :- eff_grant(S,A,R), not eff_deny(S,A,R).
;;
;; DENY-OVERRIDES: an effective deny anywhere in the inheritance closure of
;; (S,A,R) defeats any effective grant — including federated grants. Deny
;; inherits through the *same* group and resource chains as grant, so a
;; group-level or ancestor-resource deny is authoritative for members/
;; descendants. This is the principled, fail-safe reading of "deny wins".
;;
;; FEDERATION — non-transitive trust: a peer's `delegate` fact only grants if a
;; *local* `trust(Peer, L)` exists AND that level `level_covers` the action.
;; Trust is re-checked on every query (it is a body literal), never baked in at
;; fact-ingestion time, so revoking trust or narrowing a level takes effect
;; immediately on the next decision.
;;
;; Termination & stratification:
;; - eff_grant/eff_deny recurse only over member_of and child_of, which are
;; EDB relations with no function symbols, so the closure is finite (cyclic
;; membership/containment just reaches a fixpoint, never loops). The
;; federation rule is non-recursive.
;; - permit negates eff_deny; neither eff_grant nor eff_deny depends on
;; permit, so the program is stratifiable (permit sits in a higher stratum).
(define
acl-rules
(quote
((eff_grant S A R <- (grant S A R))
(eff_grant S A R <- (member_of S G) (eff_grant G A R))
(eff_grant S A R <- (child_of R P) (eff_grant S A P))
(eff_grant S A R <- (member_of S Role) (role_grant Role A R))
(eff_grant
S
A
R
<-
(delegate Peer S A R)
(trust Peer L)
(level_covers L A))
(eff_deny S A R <- (deny S A R))
(eff_deny S A R <- (member_of S G) (eff_deny G A R))
(eff_deny S A R <- (child_of R P) (eff_deny S A P))
(permit S A R <- (eff_grant S A R) {:neg (eff_deny S A R)}))))
;; Build a Datalog db from a list of EDB facts under the ACL ruleset.
(define acl-build-db (fn (facts) (dl-program-data facts acl-rules)))
;; Core decision: does the db permit subject S to perform action A on
;; resource R? Reduces to a ground Datalog query on the derived `permit`
;; relation — non-empty result means permitted.
(define
acl-permit?
(fn
(db subj act res)
(> (len (dl-query db (list (quote permit) subj act res))) 0)))