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}1 # Track: AI Architecture & Security Architecture 2 3 Refer back to `../CLAUDE.md` for the full assignment text and how this track fits with the other four. 4 5 ## Mission 6 7 Own two things that are related but distinct: (1) the story of how AI was used as an architecture and delivery tool across this whole submission, and (2) the security architecture for everything the engineering track builds — the DAO, the REST API, and the third-party IDP connector. 8 9 LoginID explicitly asked submitters to describe any tool, framework, or AI used — this track is where that answer lives in full, even though other tracks should each note their own AI usage briefly too. 10 11 ## Owns 12 13 - AI architecture narrative: what Claude Code was used for across the project, how the five-track structure itself was designed and orchestrated (root CLAUDE.md + per-track CLAUDE.md + scoped subagents), what was AI-generated vs. human-directed, and why that workflow was chosen. 14 - Threat modeling for the system: attacker-relevant risks around storing `user_credential` (usernames/passwords), storing and serving `user_profile` PII, and the third-party connector holding vendor `access_token`s. 15 - API authentication/authorization design for the REST service in question 2 — what "security API authentication" means here (e.g., API keys, OAuth2 client credentials, mTLS, or JWT bearer tokens), and why. 16 - Credential handling: password storage (hashing/salting strategy), token lifecycle for third-party `access_token`s from question 3, and secrets management for any credentials this service itself needs to call ABC/XYZ. 17 - Security review of the connector contracts in question 3: what happens to the third-party `access_token` once retrieved, how `/identity` calls are authenticated to the vendor, and what this service should and shouldn't log or persist from a PII/security standpoint. 18 19 ## Does not own 20 21 - The industry/product framing for why this system exists — that's `../01-product-industry-research-design/CLAUDE.md`. 22 - Writing the Go code itself — that's `../03-engineering-delivery/CLAUDE.md`, though this track's design should be specific enough to implement directly. 23 - Runtime secrets storage mechanics in a deployed environment (e.g., which secrets manager, which CI/CD injects what) — that's `../04-infra-devops/CLAUDE.md`; this track sets the requirement, infra/devops implements it. 24 - Data retention/governance policy for stored PII — that's `../05-data-ops/CLAUDE.md`; this track covers security of access and transit, not lifecycle/retention. 25 26 ## Deliverables 27 28 - A written AI-tooling/workflow summary for the whole project. 29 - A threat model covering credential storage, PII exposure, and third-party token handling. 30 - A concrete auth/authz design for the REST API in question 2. 31 - A security design for the IDP connector in question 3, including token handling and what gets logged. 32 33 ## AI tooling note 34 35 This track is itself where the project's AI-usage story is documented in depth — treat it as both a subject-matter track and the place other tracks' brief AI notes get rolled up if useful. 36
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}1 # Research: Anthropic's Own Guidance on Using Claude as an Architecture/Delivery Tool
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3 This document collects Anthropic's official, primary-sourced guidance on agentic coding workflows, context engineering, multi-agent orchestration, prompt caching, and tool-use design — then maps it against how this take-home project (root `CLAUDE.md` + five track `CLAUDE.md` files + scoped subagents) is already structured, and where it should adopt more of Anthropic's own recommended techniques for the work still ahead (the Go DAO, REST API, and IDP connector, plus the other four tracks' deliverables).
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5 Primary sources (Anthropic-published) are called out explicitly as such. Anything third-party is labeled and deprioritized — none of it is treated as authoritative below.
6
7 ## 1. Claude Code best practices (agentic coding workflows)
8
9 **Anthropic official** — "Claude Code: Best Practices for Agentic Coding," https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices (canonical current home: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices).
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11 Claude Code is deliberately low-level and unopinionated — close to raw model access rather than a fixed workflow. The post's key recommendations:
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13 - `CLAUDE.md` is auto-pulled into context at the start of every session. Use it for things a new contributor would need: bash commands, core files/utilities, code style conventions, testing instructions, repo etiquette. Keep it tight and iterate on it the way you'd iterate on a prompt — it is a living artifact, not a one-time write.
14 - Favor an explore → plan → code → commit workflow over jumping straight to code, especially for non-trivial problems.
15 - Use subagents to verify details or investigate side questions without polluting the main agent's context window.
16 - Course-correct early. Don't let an agent run unsupervised for a long stretch and hope it stays on track — check in and redirect while the cost of doing so is still low.
17
18 ## 2. Context engineering
19
20 **Anthropic official** — "Effective context engineering for AI agents," https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents.
21
22 This post frames "context engineering" as the discipline that supersedes prompt engineering for agentic work: the task is no longer just wording one prompt well, but curating the optimal set of tokens available at *each* inference step over a long-running task.
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24 The core technical justification: transformer attention has a finite budget (the mechanism scales roughly quadratically with context length in pairwise token relationships), so as context grows, model attention gets diluted — Anthropic calls this "context rot." This holds regardless of nominal context window size. The governing principle Anthropic states directly: *"find the smallest set of high-signal tokens that maximize the likelihood of your desired outcome."*
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26 Four concrete techniques the post recommends:
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28 1. **Compaction** — as a task approaches the context limit, summarize/distill the conversation history and restart with a condensed version. Preserve architectural decisions and unresolved bugs; discard redundant tool outputs.
29 2. **Structured note-taking** — persist memory to files or external state outside the active context window (a running progress/notes file) rather than keeping everything live in-context, then re-read it on demand.
30 3. **Sub-agent architectures** — specialized agents each work in their own clean context window and report back condensed summaries (Anthropic's own multi-agent system, see §3, targets roughly 1,000–2,000 tokens per subagent handoff) to a coordinating agent, rather than the coordinator holding all the raw exploration.
31 4. **Just-in-time retrieval** — load file paths, queries, and references at runtime instead of pre-loading full documents into context upfront, mirroring how a human keeps lightweight pointers in working memory rather than entire documents.
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33 Anthropic recommends a hybrid: some upfront retrieval for latency/simplicity, plus autonomous just-in-time exploration for anything not needed immediately.
34
35 ## 3. Multi-agent / subagent orchestration patterns
36
37 **Anthropic official** — "How we built our multi-agent research system," https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/multi-agent-research-system.
38
39 Describes an orchestrator-worker pattern: a lead agent decomposes a task and spawns parallel subagents, each with a distinct objective, tool scope, and independent trajectory ("separation of concerns... reduces path dependency" — parallel agents don't all inherit the same accumulated context or biases). Subagents report back condensed findings; the lead agent synthesizes and decides whether more work is needed. A separate downstream agent (in their case a "CitationAgent") handles a distinct final pass — staged handoffs using lightweight references rather than raw dumps, specifically to avoid information loss across stages.
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41 Anthropic notes that prompting the orchestrator to delegate *well* — explicit objectives, explicit output format, explicit tool guidance per subagent — mattered as much as the architecture itself. Their internal eval showed a 90.2% improvement over a single-agent Opus baseline using an Opus-lead / Sonnet-subagent configuration, at the cost of materially higher token spend (multi-agent systems use meaningfully more tokens than single-agent chat).
42
43 **Anthropic official, product-doc register** — Claude Code subagent mechanism: https://claude.com/blog/subagents-in-claude-code. Project- or user-level `.claude/agents/*.md` files with YAML frontmatter (`name`, `description`, `tools`, `model`) define subagents that each get their own system prompt, their own tool permissions, and their own context window. Intermediate noise (file reads, searches, exploratory tool calls) stays inside the subagent's window; only the final output text returns to the parent's context.
44
45 ## 4. Prompt caching
46
47 **Anthropic official docs** — https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-caching.
48
49 Up to 4 cache breakpoints per prompt (e.g., after the system prompt, after tool definitions, after a large retrieved document, after few-shot examples), or a single breakpoint at the end of static content with automatic longest-prefix matching applied beneath it. Best practice: order the prompt so stable, reusable content — system instructions, tool definitions, background/reference material — comes first and is cached, with variable, per-turn conversation content appended after the breakpoint. Default cache TTL is 5 minutes, refreshed on every cache hit; a paid 1-hour TTL option exists for longer-lived sessions. Caution: changing `tool_choice`, or adding/removing images anywhere in the prompt, invalidates the cache for that prefix.
50
51 ## 5. Tool-use design
52
53 **Anthropic official** — "Writing effective tools for AI agents," https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/writing-tools-for-agents, plus platform docs at https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/overview and .../define-tools, and the newer "Advanced tool use" post, https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use.
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55 Guidance: tool definitions should be intentional and clearly scoped; avoid many overlapping or near-duplicate tools that force the model to guess which one applies; don't force large schemas or verbose payloads into every call just because they're available; design tools so they compose across workflows rather than being single-use. The "Advanced tool use" post specifically addresses large tool libraries: agents should be able to discover and load tool definitions on demand (deferred/lazy tool schemas) rather than having every possible tool's full schema stuffed into context upfront — directly analogous to this session's own deferred-tool mechanism.
56
57 ## 6. Claude certification / Anthropic Academy
58
59 **Anthropic official, but narrow — do not overclaim.** Anthropic Academy (skilljar-hosted, anthropic.skilljar.com) offers free self-paced courses with completion certificates, including "Building with the Claude API," covering the Messages API, tool use, RAG, and agents. This appears to function as prep material for a separate, proctored "Claude Certification Program" (Associate / Developer / Architect tracks, delivered via Pearson VUE, gated to organizations in the Claude Partner Network — pearsonvue.com/us/en/anthropic.html).
60
61 There is no publicly published, granular competency rubric or exam blueprint from Anthropic enumerating exactly what an "Architect"-level credential tests. What's public is course-level topic lists, not a graded competency breakdown. The "Architect" framing (advising on, designing, and building Claude-based solutions) is the closest official language to "using Claude as an architecture tool" — worth citing by name in this track's AI-narrative section — but it should not be characterized as validating specific techniques used in this project, since the exam content itself isn't public.
62
63 ## 7. Structured memory files (CLAUDE.md) and hand-off documents between sessions
64
65 **Anthropic official (Claude Code product docs)** — https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory.
66
67 `CLAUDE.md` is read at the start of every session. Guidance: keep it short and specific, and link out to deeper documentation rather than trying to make the file itself a full manual. It supports project-level, user-level, and local (gitignored) scopes, and is meant to be treated as living documentation that the team edits the way it edits code.
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69 Important distinction to hold onto: **Anthropic has not separately published a named "root CLAUDE.md + per-directory CLAUDE.md fan-out" pattern.** What this project does — a root file plus five track-scoped files, each self-contained enough for a fresh agent to pick up — is a reasonable, well-motivated *composition* of two things Anthropic has documented separately: (a) the single-file CLAUDE.md mechanism itself, and (b) the context-engineering post's general principle of persisting structured memory outside the live context window and retrieving it just-in-time (§2, technique 2 and 4). It should be described in this track's AI narrative as "an application of Anthropic's context-engineering principles to the CLAUDE.md mechanism," not as "Anthropic's documented multi-file pattern" — the latter overclaims a specific endorsement that doesn't exist in the primary sources.
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71 ## Applied to this project: concrete recommendations for the work ahead
72
73 The remaining work — the Go DAO, the REST API, the IDP connector, plus the other four tracks' deliverables — is exactly the kind of long, multi-phase, multi-context task Anthropic's context-engineering guidance targets. Concrete, actionable steps:
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75 1. **Keep the orchestrator (root-level session) thin; delegate track work to scoped subagents.** This project already does this in spirit via the five-directory structure — formalize it by having each track's real implementation work (writing the DAO, writing the REST handlers, writing the connector) run as a subagent scoped to that track's `CLAUDE.md`, per Anthropic's orchestrator-worker pattern (§3). The root session should hold only cross-track state (the boundaries table, status), never the accumulated exploration/tool noise from any one track.
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77 2. **Use condensed hand-off summaries, not raw transcripts, between tracks.** When `03-engineering-delivery` needs this track's auth/authz design, it should read this track's finished `CLAUDE.md`/deliverable files — not a dump of how this track's subagent arrived at them. Anthropic's own subagents target ~1,000–2,000 tokens of condensed findings passed back to a coordinator (§2, §3); apply the same discipline to inter-track cross-references (the root file's existing rule — "cross-reference other tracks by relative path... rather than restating their content" — is already correctly aligned with this).
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79 3. **Treat each track's `CLAUDE.md` as the "structured note-taking" layer, and keep iterating on it rather than re-deriving context each session.** Per §2, structured notes persisted to files are exactly how Anthropic recommends keeping long tasks context-efficient. Every time a design decision is finalized (e.g., the auth/authz scheme chosen in this track), write it into the track's `CLAUDE.md` or a linked deliverable file immediately, so a future fresh subagent picking up `03-engineering-delivery` doesn't need this session's reasoning replayed — it needs the decision and its rationale, already distilled.
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81 4. **Prefer just-in-time retrieval over pre-loading.** Track subagents should read only the root file plus their own track file at the start (as the root file already instructs), and pull in another track's file only when actually needed for a specific cross-reference — not preemptively load all five tracks "just in case." This matches §2 technique 4 directly.
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83 5. **Exploit prompt caching structurally, not just accidentally.** Since Claude Code sessions re-send the system prompt and tool definitions on every turn, and `CLAUDE.md` content effectively becomes part of that stable prefix, keep `CLAUDE.md` files stable within a working session (avoid mid-session edits to the file currently in context, which would invalidate the cached prefix per §4) — do edits as a deliberate step at the *start* or *end* of a subagent's turn, not interleaved with the rest of its work.
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85 6. **When a track's work legitimately grows long (e.g., iterating on the Go DAO across multiple database backends), compact deliberately rather than letting context degrade.** Per §2 technique 1: before starting the next database backend (SQLite after Postgres, say), have the subagent write a short summary of decisions/interfaces settled so far into a file, and start the next backend's work fresh from that summary rather than carrying the full multi-turn implementation history forward. This is the single most concrete lever available for the DAO/REST/connector work specifically, since it involves several structurally similar but separate implementation passes.
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87 7. **In this track's own AI-narrative deliverable, cite §1–§5 by name and URL, and be precise about §6–§7.** State plainly that the CLAUDE.md-per-track structure is *this project's own extension* of Anthropic's documented context-engineering principles applied to the documented CLAUDE.md mechanism — not a pattern Anthropic separately published or certified. That precision itself is a demonstration of the kind of rigorous "reasoning, not just conclusion" LoginID asked every track to show.
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89 ## Source list (primary, Anthropic-official)
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91 - https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices (canonical: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices)
92 - https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents
93 - https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/multi-agent-research-system
94 - https://claude.com/blog/subagents-in-claude-code
95 - https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-caching
96 - https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/writing-tools-for-agents
97 - https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use
98 - https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/overview
99 - https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory
100 - Anthropic Academy: https://anthropic.skilljar.com (course listings; no public exam competency rubric found)
101 - Claude Certification Program (Pearson VUE, partner-gated): https://www.pearsonvue.com/us/en/anthropic.html
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103 Third-party explainer posts (Medium/Substack/independent blogs) on subagents, caching internals, and CLAUDE.md conventions were encountered during research and are deliberately excluded from the citations above — they corroborate details but are not treated as authoritative for this track's claims.
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}1 # Track: Engineering & Delivery 2 3 Refer back to `../CLAUDE.md` for the full assignment text and how this track fits with the other four. 4 5 ## Mission 6 7 Write the actual code that answers all three assignment questions, in Go, implementing the designs the other tracks produce rather than re-deciding them here. Code does not need to be complete or working end-to-end — LoginID cares about the design and reasoning — but it should be structured and readable enough to demonstrate real engineering judgment. 8 9 ## Owns 10 11 - Question 1: the DAO layer for `user_profile` (name, address, phone) and `user_credential` (username, method, password), written to support multiple backing databases (PostgreSQL/CockroachDB, SQLite, etc.) behind a common interface, per the strategy in `../05-data-ops/CLAUDE.md`. 12 - Question 2: the RESTful API service to search/retrieve `user_profile` data, wired to the authentication mechanism designed in `../02-ai-security-architecture/CLAUDE.md`. 13 - Question 3: the third-party IDP connector service implementing `/auth` and `/identity` against the contracts specified in the assignment, following the connector security design in `../02-ai-security-architecture/CLAUDE.md`. 14 - Project structure, module layout, and inline documentation of design decisions and trade-offs made during implementation. 15 - Test strategy (unit/integration scope, what's stubbed vs. real) — tests don't need full coverage, but the approach should be stated. 16 17 ## Does not own 18 19 - Deciding the API auth mechanism or threat model — that's `../02-ai-security-architecture/CLAUDE.md`; implement what it specifies. 20 - Deciding the multi-database abstraction strategy or schema — that's `../05-data-ops/CLAUDE.md`; implement what it specifies. 21 - Deployment, containerization, CI/CD — that's `../04-infra-devops/CLAUDE.md`. 22 - Product/industry rationale for why the API is shaped this way — that's `../01-product-industry-research-design/CLAUDE.md`; reference it, don't re-derive it. 23 24 ## Deliverables 25 26 - Go source implementing questions 1, 2, and 3. 27 - A short README in this directory explaining what's implemented, what's stubbed/mocked, and why, plus which AI tool/workflow was used to produce the code and how. 28 - Any test files demonstrating the stated test strategy. 29 30 ## AI tooling note 31 32 Record which AI tool/workflow generated this track's code (this project is being built with Claude Code) and how much was AI-authored vs. human-reviewed/edited. 33 34 ## Status 35 36 No implementation has started. This track's CLAUDE.md is scaffolding only — do not begin writing code until the product, security, infra, and data-ops tracks have their designs in place to implement against. 37 38 <!-- profile-gen:start slug=renata-cole --> 39 @profiles/renata-cole/renata-cole.md 40 <!-- profile-gen:end slug=renata-cole --> 41
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"content": "# Threat Model\n\nOwner: Marcus Ilori (`02-ai-security-architecture`). Scope per this track's `CLAUDE.md`: credential storage, PII exposure, and third-party `access_token` handling. Retention/lifecycle policy is `../05-data-ops/CLAUDE.md`'s call, not mine — I model exposure and access risk, not how long data should live.\n\n## Assumptions, named explicitly\n\n1. **Assets in scope**: `user_credential` (username, method, password — modeled by Priya/`05-data-ops` as a lookup-table `method`, not a native enum, so a given user can have more than one credential row, e.g. password + WebAuthn), `user_profile` (name, address, phone), and third-party `access_token`s obtained via the IDP connector's `/auth`.\n2. **`method` is not \"always password.\"** Priya's schema treats `method` as an FK into an `auth_method` table. That means \"credential storage\" is not one hashing problem — it's a family of them, one per method, and this document treats it that way rather than assuming a single password column.\n3. **LoginID's own business is passwordless/FIDO2-based authentication.** The assignment nonetheless asks for a `password` field in `user_credential`. I treat that as a deliberate test of whether the submitter still applies correct secret-handling discipline to a legacy-shaped requirement, not as license to under-engineer it. Noted once here; not re-litigated per section.\n4. **No real infrastructure exists yet.** This is a design-time threat model for a take-home, not an audit of a running system. Findings are stated as requirements the engineering track (`../03-engineering-delivery/CLAUDE.md`) must implement, not as \"confirmed\" vulnerabilities.\n5. **Trust boundary**: this service is the system of record for `user_profile`/`user_credential` and is a *client* of third-party IDPs (ABC/XYZ) for `/auth` and `/identity`. Those vendors are outside our control; we can only constrain what we do with what they return.\n\n## Method: STRIDE per asset, attacker-centric\n\nI'm using STRIDE (Microsoft, but the categories are now common vocabulary in the field — not claiming Anthropic or LoginID provenance for the framework itself) as the checklist, but organized by asset rather than by data flow diagram element, since that maps directly onto this track's ownership boundaries.\n\n### Asset 1: `user_credential` (password + other auth methods)\n\n| Threat | Scenario | Mitigation (this track's requirement) |\n|---|---|---|\n| **Information disclosure** — password store compromise | DB dump or SQL injection exposes the `password` column | Never store plaintext or reversibly-encrypted passwords. Argon2id (OWASP Password Storage Cheat Sheet current recommendation, memory-hard, GPU-resistant) with per-row random salt, tuned to ≥19 MiB memory / ≥2 iterations as a floor, re-tuned to the deploying hardware. bcrypt is an acceptable fallback only if Argon2id is unavailable in the chosen Go stack. |\n| **Information disclosure** — non-password methods | A WebAuthn public key or TOTP shared secret is not a password, but the table conflates them under one `password` column name | Method-aware storage: WebAuthn credential public keys are not secrets and can be stored in the clear (they're public keys by design) but the associated counter and credential ID must not be attacker-writable; TOTP shared secrets ARE secrets and must be encrypted at rest (not hashed — the server needs to recover the value to verify), using envelope encryption with a KMS-held key, mechanics owned by `../04-infra-devops/CLAUDE.md`. |\n| **Elevation of privilege** — credential stuffing / brute force | Attacker replays leaked username/password pairs against `/auth`-adjacent endpoints | Rate limiting and progressive backoff per username and per source IP; account lockout or step-up challenge after a threshold; never reveal via response timing or error text whether the *username* or the *password* was wrong (user enumeration). |\n| **Tampering** | Attacker modifies `method` or the credential row to downgrade a user from a strong method (WebAuthn) to a weak one (password) they control | Method changes/additions require re-authentication with an *existing* registered method (step-up), never a bare authenticated-session write. |\n| **Repudiation** | No record of who created/rotated a credential | Audit log of credential creation/rotation events (actor, timestamp, method type — never the secret itself). |\n\n### Asset 2: `user_profile` (name, address, phone — PII)\n\n| Threat | Scenario | Mitigation |\n|---|---|---|\n| **Information disclosure via the search API** | Question 2 asks for \"search and retrieve.\" An authenticated-but-unscoped search endpoint is a PII enumeration engine — an attacker with any valid token can page through the entire user table by name/phone fragments | Search must be authorization-scoped (a caller sees only records it's entitled to, not the whole table) and rate-limited/paginated; see `api-auth-design.md` for the concrete authz model. This is the single highest-severity finding in this document, precisely because it's easy to build the search feature \"to spec\" and miss that spec implies a data-exfiltration primitive. |\n| **Information disclosure in transit** | PII served over an unencrypted or downgradable channel | TLS 1.2+ mandatory, HSTS, no plaintext fallback. Mechanics of certificate issuance are `04-infra-devops`'s call; the requirement is this track's. |\n| **Information disclosure via logs** | PII (address, phone) written to application logs, error traces, or APM breadcrumbs | Structured logging with an explicit PII-field denylist; log the *fact* of a profile access (who, when, which record id) never the field values themselves. |\n| **Tampering** | Unauthorized profile field modification | Same authz model as read access; write operations additionally require the resource owner or an admin-scoped credential, not just \"any authenticated caller.\" |\n\n### Asset 3: Third-party `access_token` (from the IDP connector, question 3)\n\n| Threat | Scenario | Mitigation |\n|---|---|---|\n| **Information disclosure** — token at rest | `access_token` from ABC/XYZ cached or persisted in plaintext | Treat it as a secret with the same bar as our own credentials: encrypted at rest if persisted at all, short TTL, never written to application logs (a full request/response log of `/auth` is an anti-pattern — vendor password *and* resulting token both land in the same log line). |\n| **Information disclosure** — token in transit / replay | Token intercepted and replayed against the vendor or against us | Vendor calls over TLS only; tokens treated as bearer secrets — anyone holding one can act as us to the vendor, so token scope should be minimized to `/identity` only if the vendor's API supports scoped tokens. |\n| **Spoofing** | A malicious or compromised proxy sits between us and ABC/XYZ | Certificate validation not disabled \"for convenience\" in any environment, including local dev — a design note the engineering track should carry into implementation. |\n| **Denial of service via credential exhaustion** | Our own credentials to call ABC/XYZ (needed to obtain the `access_token` in the first place) are hardcoded or checked into source | Secrets management is `04-infra-devops`'s mechanism, but the requirement — never in source, never in a committed config file, injected at runtime — is set here. |\n\n## What this track deliberately does not resolve\n\n- How long a cached `/identity` result may be retained — that's data governance (`../05-data-ops/CLAUDE.md`).\n- Which specific secrets manager or KMS product is used — that's `../04-infra-devops/CLAUDE.md`; I only require that one exists and that secrets never live in source or plaintext config.\n- Whether the product should offer passwordless auth as the primary path (it should, per LoginID's own market position, and `../01-product-industry-research-design/CLAUDE.md` makes that case) — that's product framing, not a threat.\n\n## Sources\n\n- OWASP Password Storage Cheat Sheet (Argon2id as current default recommendation): https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet.html\n- OWASP API Security Top 10 (particularly API1:2023 Broken Object Level Authorization and API3:2023 Broken Object Property Level Authorization — both directly relevant to the search/retrieve endpoint finding above): https://owasp.org/API-Security/editions/2023/en/0x11-t10/\n- STRIDE threat modeling categories, Microsoft: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/develop/threat-modeling-tool-threats\n"
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"content": "# API Authentication & Authorization Design — Question 2\n\nOwner: Marcus Ilori (`02-ai-security-architecture`). Covers the RESTful API service to search/retrieve `user_profile` data (assignment question 2, including its explicit \"security API authentication\" requirement). Implementation target: `../03-engineering-delivery/CLAUDE.md`. Consumes the schema from `../05-data-ops/CLAUDE.md`.\n\n## What \"security API authentication\" is scoped to mean here\n\nThe assignment names it without specifying a mechanism, so this is a design decision, not a given — stated with reasoning per this project's working principle.\n\nThree realistic candidates and why I'm choosing among them:\n\n| Option | Fit here | Verdict |\n|---|---|---|\n| Static API keys | Simple, but no expiry semantics, no scoping without inventing one, easy to leak into logs/URLs, no standard revocation flow | Rejected as the primary mechanism — acceptable only as a secondary, coarse-grained \"which client system is this\" identifier, never as sole authn/authz. |\n| mTLS | Strong, but assumes both parties (this API and its callers) can manage client certs — reasonable for a closed set of internal service callers, awkward for anything resembling a broader consumer base | Recommended as a **transport-layer supplement** for service-to-service callers where the deploying org already runs a cert infrastructure; not the sole control. |\n| OAuth2 client-credentials grant → short-lived JWT bearer token | Standard, expresses scopes natively, well-supported Go tooling, matches how the connector in question 3 already authenticates to us conceptually (token-based), and composes cleanly with per-caller authorization | **Chosen primary mechanism.** |\n\n**Decision: OAuth2 client-credentials grant issuing short-lived JWT bearer access tokens, with mTLS as an optional additional transport control for known service-to-service callers.**\n\nThis is a machine-to-machine API (question 2 doesn't describe an end-user-facing login flow — it describes callers searching/retrieving profile data), so client-credentials is the correct OAuth2 grant type, not authorization-code (which is for delegated end-user consent) or password grant (deprecated, and inappropriate for a service caller).\n\n## Token shape and lifecycle\n\n- **Format**: JWT, signed (not encrypted — it carries no secret, only claims), asymmetric signing (RS256/ES256) so the API can verify tokens without holding the signing key, which itself lives with a token-issuing authorization server component.\n- **Claims, minimum set**: `sub` (calling client/service identity), `scope` (space-delimited authorization scopes, see below), `exp` (short — 5–15 minutes), `iat`, `aud` (this API specifically, to prevent a token minted for another service being replayed here).\n- **No refresh tokens** for a client-credentials grant — the client re-authenticates with its own client secret when the access token expires. This bounds the blast radius of a leaked access token to its short TTL.\n- **Revocation**: because JWTs are self-contained, true revocation requires either a short enough TTL that revocation is unnecessary in practice (the approach here) or a token-denylist check, which reintroduces a stateful lookup and defeats part of the point of JWTs. Given the 5–15 minute TTL, denylist is not required for this design; flagged here so a reviewer sees the trade-off was considered, not missed.\n\n## Authorization model: scopes, not just \"authenticated\"\n\nThe threat model (`threat-model.md`, Asset 2) already names the core risk: an authenticated-but-unscoped search/retrieve endpoint is a PII enumeration engine. Authentication answers \"who is calling\"; it does not answer \"what may they see.\" This API needs both.\n\n- **Scopes**, carried in the JWT `scope` claim, e.g. `profile:read:own`, `profile:read:any`, `profile:search`. A given client-credential is provisioned with the narrowest scope its actual use case requires — most integrations should get `profile:read:own` (retrieve a specific known record by id, e.g. resolving a record the caller already has a legitimate reference to) rather than `profile:search` (query by name/phone fragments across the table), which should be reserved for a small number of explicitly-provisioned back-office callers.\n- **Object-level authorization is enforced per request, not just per token.** Holding `profile:read:any` scope is necessary but not sufficient — every retrieve/search call is logged (see below) and, where the caller model supports it, additionally checked against a resource-level policy (e.g., a partner integration scoped to only its own referred users) rather than trusting the coarse scope alone. This directly targets OWASP API1:2023 (Broken Object Level Authorization), cited in the threat model.\n- **Search results are paginated with a hard page-size ceiling** and rate-limited per client, independent of the scope check — a legitimately-scoped caller doing an anomalously large number of sequential searches is still a signal worth throttling and alerting on, not just permitting because the token was valid.\n\n## Defense in depth beyond the token check\n\n- **TLS 1.2+ only**, terminated in front of the API; no plaintext.\n- **Input validation** on search parameters — reject unbounded wildcard queries, cap query complexity, parameterize all DB access (SQL injection is a data-ops/engineering implementation concern, but the API layer's job is to never pass a raw client string into a query string).\n- **Audit logging**: every search/retrieve call logs caller identity (`sub`), scope used, record id(s) touched, and timestamp — never the PII field values themselves, per the threat model's log-hygiene requirement. This is what makes a compromised-but-legitimate credential's misuse detectable after the fact, which token-based authn alone does not give you.\n- **Standard API hardening**: no PII in URLs (query strings get logged by proxies/CDNs outside our control) — record identifiers in the path are fine, but search terms containing a phone number or name fragment belong in a POST body or a properly-redacted query parameter set, not a GET query string that ends up in a shared access log.\n\n## Why not \"just API keys\"\n\nWorth stating plainly since it's the simplest alternative a reviewer might expect: a static API key has no expiry, no standard scope representation, and if it leaks (URL, log, repo) it's valid until manually rotated. The chosen design bounds leak exposure to minutes (token TTL) rather than \"until someone notices,\" and expresses authorization natively instead of requiring a bespoke key→permissions side table. That trade costs implementation complexity (an authorization-server component, however minimal) which is why it's stated explicitly here rather than assumed.\n\n## Sources\n\n- RFC 6749 (OAuth 2.0), §4.4 Client Credentials Grant: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749#section-4.4\n- RFC 7519 (JSON Web Token): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7519\n- OWASP API Security Top 10 2023, API1 (Broken Object Level Authorization) and API3 (Broken Object Property Level Authorization): https://owasp.org/API-Security/editions/2023/en/0x11-t10/\n"
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"content": "# IDP Connector Security Design — Question 3\n\nOwner: Marcus Ilori (`02-ai-security-architecture`). Covers the third-party identity-provider connector (generic vendors \"ABC\"/\"XYZ\") exposing `/auth` and `/identity`, per the assignment. Implementation target: `../03-engineering-delivery/CLAUDE.md`.\n\n## Contract recap (from the assignment, verbatim in `../CLAUDE.md`)\n\n- `POST /auth` — body `{\"username\": \"<string>\", \"password\": \"<string>\"}` → returns an `access_token`.\n- `POST /identity` — body `{\"phone\": \"<string>\", \"name\": \"<string>\"}` → returns PII (name, phone, address fields).\n\nRead literally, this connector is a thin proxy in front of ABC/XYZ: it takes vendor credentials, gets a vendor token, and uses that token to pull PII from the vendor. Every security question here is \"what does this service do with a vendor secret and vendor PII while it's in our custody,\" since we don't control the vendor's own security posture.\n\n## Threat surface specific to this connector\n\nThis extends the third-party-token row in `threat-model.md`; this document is the concrete design against those threats.\n\n### 1. What happens to the vendor `access_token` once retrieved\n\n- **Never logged.** The `/auth` request body contains a vendor password; the response contains a bearer token. A naive \"log the request and response for debugging\" habit puts both in the same log line — this is called out explicitly because it's the single most common way a connector like this leaks a credential in practice, not a hypothetical.\n- **Held in memory for the shortest span that satisfies the immediate `/identity` call**, not persisted to our own database as a matter of course. If caching is required for latency/rate-limit reasons, cache with a TTL no longer than the vendor's own token expiry, encrypted at rest (same envelope-encryption requirement as the TOTP-secret case in the threat model — mechanics via KMS, owned by `../04-infra-devops/CLAUDE.md`), and keyed so one vendor-account's token is never returned to a caller resolving a different vendor account.\n- **Scoped narrowly if the vendor supports it** — request only the scope needed for `/identity`, not a broad token, so a leaked token's blast radius is bounded by the vendor's own authorization model as well as ours.\n- **Not returned to our own API callers.** The vendor `access_token` is an internal implementation detail of this connector; question 2's API callers never see it. If a caller needs to know \"identity lookup succeeded,\" return our own success/failure signal, not the vendor's token or vendor's raw response.\n\n### 2. How `/identity` calls are authenticated to the vendor\n\n- Standard bearer-token usage: the vendor `access_token` from `/auth` presented as an `Authorization: Bearer` header to the vendor's identity endpoint (or whatever the vendor's own contract specifies — this connector adapts to the vendor, not the reverse).\n- **Token refresh/re-auth on expiry** handled by the connector transparently — a caller of our `/identity` endpoint should not need to know or manage vendor token lifecycle.\n- **Vendor calls over TLS only**, certificate validation never disabled, including in local/dev environments (repeating the threat model's point because it's the most common place a \"temporary\" dev bypass ships to production unnoticed).\n- **Our own credentials to call the vendor's `/auth`** (this connector's client id/secret with ABC/XYZ, if the vendor requires connector-level registration in addition to the end-user's own username/password) are runtime-injected secrets, never in source or config committed to the repo — requirement set here, mechanism owned by `../04-infra-devops/CLAUDE.md`.\n\n### 3. What this service should and shouldn't log or persist\n\n| Data | Log it? | Persist it? |\n|---|---|---|\n| End-user's vendor username | No (identifier, but low sensitivity relative to password — still avoid in plaintext logs; use it only for correlation via a hash if audit trails need it) | Only if a legitimate business reason exists; not by default |\n| End-user's vendor password (`/auth` request body) | **Never, under any circumstance, including error paths and stack traces** | **Never** |\n| Vendor `access_token` | **Never** | Only as short-TTL encrypted cache per above; never in plaintext, never in application logs |\n| PII returned by `/identity` (name, phone, address fields) | Never the field values; log only the *fact* of a lookup (caller identity, timestamp, success/failure, which record was resolved by opaque id) | Retention/caching policy for this PII is `../05-data-ops/CLAUDE.md`'s call — this track's requirement is that whatever is persisted follows the same encryption-at-rest and access-control bar as `user_profile` data, no weaker because it arrived via a connector rather than direct input |\n| Vendor error responses | Log status/error-code only; do not log raw vendor response bodies by default, since a vendor error payload can itself echo back submitted PII or partial credentials | N/A |\n\n### 4. Failure handling as a security control, not just reliability\n\n- **Vendor auth failures must not leak which part of the credential was wrong** (username vs. password) in whatever this connector surfaces upward — same user-enumeration concern as the threat model's credential-stuffing row, now facing outward at whoever calls our `/auth` passthrough.\n- **Retry/backoff on vendor calls** should be rate-limited on our side independent of the vendor's own limits, so a compromised or careless caller can't use our connector to hammer the vendor (which is both an availability risk to us and a way to get our connector's vendor credentials rate-limited or banned).\n- **Circuit-breaking**: if the vendor is failing or behaving anomalously (e.g., returning tokens for identities that don't match the request), fail closed — do not fall back to a cached or stale identity result silently, since that risks serving stale PII as if freshly verified.\n\n## What this design does not resolve\n\n- Data retention duration for cached `/identity` results — `../05-data-ops/CLAUDE.md`.\n- Which secrets manager holds this connector's own vendor credentials — `../04-infra-devops/CLAUDE.md`.\n- Vendor selection/evaluation (which real-world providers \"ABC\"/\"XYZ\" might represent) — that's product framing in `../01-product-industry-research-design/CLAUDE.md`, not a security question.\n\n## Sources\n\n- OWASP API Security Top 10 2023, API7 (Server Side Request Forgery) and API8 (Security Misconfiguration) — both relevant to a service that makes outbound calls to a third party on a user's behalf: https://owasp.org/API-Security/editions/2023/en/0x11-t10/\n- OWASP Logging Cheat Sheet (what not to log — credentials, tokens, PII): https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Logging_Cheat_Sheet.html\n"
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"content": "# AI Tooling & Workflow Narrative\n\nOwner: Marcus Ilori (`02-ai-security-architecture`). This is the full answer to LoginID's explicit ask (\"describe any tool, framework, or AI used\") — other tracks note their own AI usage briefly and point here for depth, per `../CLAUDE.md`.\n\nThis document states what was done, distinguishes what's independently documented by Anthropic from what this project composed on its own, and is deliberately precise about that boundary rather than overclaiming an official pattern that doesn't exist. Full source-by-source detail lives in `research-claude-architecture-best-practices.md`; this document is the applied summary a reviewer can read without the research doc.\n\n## Tool\n\n**Claude Code**, Anthropic's agentic CLI. Chosen because the deliverable itself is an exercise in demonstrating AI-architect judgment — using the tool that is itself the subject of the \"how did you use AI\" question, rather than a general-purpose chat interface, lets the workflow be inspected as part of the submission.\n\n## Structure: a root brief plus five track-scoped briefs\n\nThe repository is organized as one root `CLAUDE.md` (the assignment text, track boundaries, cross-track working principles) plus five track directories, each with its own `CLAUDE.md` scoped to a distinct slice of the problem (product/industry framing, this track's security architecture, engineering delivery, infra/devops, data ops). Each track file is written to be self-contained enough that a fresh agent with no other conversation history can pick it up correctly given only that file plus the root file.\n\n**What this composes, precisely:**\n\n1. **The `CLAUDE.md` mechanism itself** is Anthropic's own, documented at https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory — auto-loaded at session start, meant to be treated as living documentation, kept short and specific.\n2. **The decision to fan that mechanism out per-directory, with a stable root file for cross-cutting state**, is this project's own application of a general principle Anthropic documents separately in \"Effective context engineering for AI agents\" (https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents): structured notes persisted to files outside the live context window, retrieved just-in-time rather than all loaded upfront, so a track's subagent carries only the ~1-2 files it actually needs rather than the whole project's accumulated context.\n\nI'm stating this distinction explicitly because it matters to how this narrative should be read: Anthropic has not published a named \"root CLAUDE.md + per-directory CLAUDE.md\" pattern, and claiming they had would be exactly the kind of unsupported assertion this track's whole discipline argues against. What's true and defensible is narrower and still worth the credit — this is a reasonable, motivated composition of two things Anthropic documented separately.\n\n## Orchestration: scoped subagents per track, not one long single-context session\n\nEach track is intended to be worked by an agent (in practice here, a persona-bearing teammate agent per track — see each track's `profiles/` entry) that reads the root file plus its own track file and works within that scope, rather than one agent holding all five tracks' context simultaneously and switching between them. This follows the orchestrator-worker pattern Anthropic describes in \"How we built our multi-agent research system\" (https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/multi-agent-research-system): a coordinating layer decomposes work into distinct-objective, distinct-tool-scope units; each unit works its own trajectory; only condensed results cross back, not raw exploration. Anthropic's own internal figure for a subagent-to-coordinator handoff is roughly 1,000-2,000 tokens of distilled findings — the discipline this project applies at track boundaries is the same: a track's `CLAUDE.md` plus its finished deliverable files (this document included) are what another track reads, never a transcript of how those conclusions were reached.\n\nConcretely for this track: the threat model, the API auth/authz design, and the connector security design (`threat-model.md`, `api-auth-design.md`, `connector-security.md`) are the condensed artifacts `03-engineering-delivery` needs to implement against. It should read those files, not need this track's reasoning replayed turn-by-turn.\n\n## What was AI-generated vs. human-directed\n\n- **Human-directed**: the assignment itself (LoginID's), the five-track decomposition and ownership boundaries (the root `CLAUDE.md`), and every judgment call in this document and its siblings about *which* security mechanism to choose and why (e.g., OAuth2 client-credentials over static API keys in `api-auth-design.md` — a reasoned choice, not a default).\n- **AI-generated, human-directed content**: the research pass that produced `research-claude-architecture-best-practices.md`, and the drafting of this narrative, the threat model, and the design documents themselves, all produced within this track's scope by an agent operating under this track's `CLAUDE.md` and persona brief.\n- **Explicitly not claimed**: that any of this constitutes a validated, \"certified\" methodology. The research doc's §6 covers Anthropic's Claude Certification Program by name and is careful that its existence is not evidence this project's specific techniques are exam-validated — that would be a citation used to imply authority it doesn't carry.\n\n## Why this discipline matters for this specific track\n\nThis track's whole mandate is \"name assumptions, cite sources, treat security design as a first-class deliverable.\" Applying the identical standard to the AI-workflow claims — say precisely what's sourced, say precisely what's this project's own extension, don't blur the two — is the same rigor applied to a different subject. A reviewer evaluating \"how you use AI tooling\" should be able to trust this document's citations exactly as much as they can trust the threat model's.\n\n## Sources\n\nFull list with URLs in `research-claude-architecture-best-practices.md`. Load-bearing ones for this document specifically:\n\n- https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory\n- https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents\n- https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/multi-agent-research-system\n- https://claude.com/blog/subagents-in-claude-code\n"
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}1 # Track: AI Architecture & Security Architecture 2 3 Refer back to `../CLAUDE.md` for the full assignment text and how this track fits with the other four. 4 5 ## Mission 6 7 Own two things that are related but distinct: (1) the story of how AI was used as an architecture and delivery tool across this whole submission, and (2) the security architecture for everything the engineering track builds — the DAO, the REST API, and the third-party IDP connector. 8 9 LoginID explicitly asked submitters to describe any tool, framework, or AI used — this track is where that answer lives in full, even though other tracks should each note their own AI usage briefly too. 10 11 ## Owns 12 13 - AI architecture narrative: what Claude Code was used for across the project, how the five-track structure itself was designed and orchestrated (root CLAUDE.md + per-track CLAUDE.md + scoped subagents), what was AI-generated vs. human-directed, and why that workflow was chosen. 14 - Threat modeling for the system: attacker-relevant risks around storing `user_credential` (usernames/passwords), storing and serving `user_profile` PII, and the third-party connector holding vendor `access_token`s. 15 - API authentication/authorization design for the REST service in question 2 — what "security API authentication" means here (e.g., API keys, OAuth2 client credentials, mTLS, or JWT bearer tokens), and why. 16 - Credential handling: password storage (hashing/salting strategy), token lifecycle for third-party `access_token`s from question 3, and secrets management for any credentials this service itself needs to call ABC/XYZ. 17 - Security review of the connector contracts in question 3: what happens to the third-party `access_token` once retrieved, how `/identity` calls are authenticated to the vendor, and what this service should and shouldn't log or persist from a PII/security standpoint. 18 19 ## Does not own 20 21 - The industry/product framing for why this system exists — that's `../01-product-industry-research-design/CLAUDE.md`. 22 - Writing the Go code itself — that's `../03-engineering-delivery/CLAUDE.md`, though this track's design should be specific enough to implement directly. 23 - Runtime secrets storage mechanics in a deployed environment (e.g., which secrets manager, which CI/CD injects what) — that's `../04-infra-devops/CLAUDE.md`; this track sets the requirement, infra/devops implements it. 24 - Data retention/governance policy for stored PII — that's `../05-data-ops/CLAUDE.md`; this track covers security of access and transit, not lifecycle/retention. 25 26 ## Deliverables 27 28 - A written AI-tooling/workflow summary for the whole project. 29 - A threat model covering credential storage, PII exposure, and third-party token handling. 30 - A concrete auth/authz design for the REST API in question 2. 31 - A security design for the IDP connector in question 3, including token handling and what gets logged. 32 33 ## AI tooling note 34 35 This track is itself where the project's AI-usage story is documented in depth — treat it as both a subject-matter track and the place other tracks' brief AI notes get rolled up if useful. See `ai-workflow-narrative.md` for the full write-up. 36 37 ## Status 38 39 Threat model, API auth/authz design, and connector security design are drafted: 40 41 - `threat-model.md` — STRIDE-style analysis of `user_credential`, `user_profile`, and third-party `access_token` exposure, per-asset mitigations. 42 - `api-auth-design.md` — OAuth2 client-credentials grant with short-lived JWT bearer tokens and scoped, object-level authorization for question 2's search/retrieve API. Reasoned against static API keys and mTLS-only alternatives. 43 - `connector-security.md` — token handling, vendor-call authentication, and logging/persistence rules for question 3's `/auth` and `/identity` connector. 44 - `ai-workflow-narrative.md` — the full AI-tooling/workflow story for the submission, building on `research-claude-architecture-best-practices.md`. 45 46 Coordinated with `../05-data-ops/CLAUDE.md` on `user_credential.method` being modeled as a lookup table (not a native enum) — the credential-storage design in `threat-model.md` is method-aware as a result (password vs. WebAuthn vs. TOTP each have different storage requirements), not a single password-hashing assumption. 47 48 Next: available for `03-engineering-delivery` to implement against; open to review/adjustment as data-ops' schema and engineering's implementation surface any gaps. 49 50 <!-- profile-gen:start slug=marcus-ilori --> 51 @profiles/marcus-ilori/marcus-ilori.md 52 <!-- profile-gen:end slug=marcus-ilori --> 53 54 <!-- profile-gen:start slug=marcus-ilori --> 55 @profiles/marcus-ilori/marcus-ilori.md 56 <!-- profile-gen:end slug=marcus-ilori --> 57
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}1 -- ============================================================================
2 -- Schema: user_profile / user_credential / auth_method
3 -- Target: PostgreSQL and CockroachDB (shared file — both speak this dialect)
4 -- Track: 05-data-ops (owner) — see ../../CLAUDE.md and ../CLAUDE.md
5 --
6 -- Design notes (see ../research-data-ops-best-practices.md for full reasoning):
7 -- - UUID primary keys everywhere: required to avoid CockroachDB range hotspots
8 -- on a distributed cluster, and equally valid on Postgres. One PK strategy,
9 -- no per-backend branch.
10 -- - auth_method is a lookup table, not a native enum type, so adding a new
11 -- auth method (passkey, OTP, OIDC) is an INSERT, never an ALTER TYPE or a
12 -- schema migration.
13 -- - user_profile and user_credential are structurally separate tables with
14 -- no shared columns. user_credential never carries PII; user_profile never
15 -- carries a secret. This is a governance control, not just normalization.
16 -- - `secret` is nullable: methods like passkeys hold the credential material
17 -- client-side and have nothing to store server-side beyond a public key
18 -- (out of scope for this pass — see auth_method.requires_secret).
19 -- ============================================================================
20
21 CREATE TABLE auth_method (
22 id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
23 name VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL UNIQUE, -- 'password', 'passkey', 'otp', 'oidc', ...
24 requires_secret BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT TRUE, -- false for passkey/WebAuthn: secret lives client-side
25 is_active BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT TRUE,
26 created_at TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
27 );
28
29 -- Seed the one method this take-home actually exercises. Additional rows
30 -- (passkey, otp, oidc, ...) are pure data — no migration required to add them.
31 INSERT INTO auth_method (name, requires_secret) VALUES ('password', TRUE);
32
33 CREATE TABLE user_profile (
34 id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
35 name VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
36 phone VARCHAR(32), -- store normalized E.164 at write time
37 street_address VARCHAR(255),
38 locality VARCHAR(128),
39 region VARCHAR(128),
40 postal_code VARCHAR(32),
41 country VARCHAR(2), -- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
42 source VARCHAR(16) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'direct'
43 CHECK (source IN ('direct', 'idp_cache')),
44 created_at TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now(),
45 updated_at TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
46 );
47
48 CREATE TABLE user_credential (
49 id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
50 user_id UUID NOT NULL REFERENCES user_profile(id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
51 username VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
52 method_id UUID NOT NULL REFERENCES auth_method(id),
53 secret TEXT, -- salted hash only, NEVER plaintext; NULL where requires_secret = false
54 hash_algo VARCHAR(32), -- e.g. 'argon2id', 'bcrypt' — lets the hash scheme be upgraded in place
55 hash_cost INTEGER, -- cost/work factor at time of hashing, per NIST 800-63B
56 created_at TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now(),
57 updated_at TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now(),
58
59 CONSTRAINT uq_user_credential_username UNIQUE (username)
60 );
61
62 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
63 -- Indexes — see ../research-data-ops-best-practices.md §4 for the query
64 -- shapes these support (question 2's "search and retrieve" API).
65 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
66
67 -- Exact/prefix lookup on phone. Normalize to E.164 at write time so this
68 -- B-Tree index is actually usable for equality lookups.
69 CREATE INDEX idx_user_profile_phone ON user_profile (phone);
70
71 -- Fuzzy/partial name search ("contains", "starts with") — trigram GIN index.
72 -- Supported natively on both Postgres and CockroachDB; this is the one index
73 -- in this file that has NO SQLite equivalent (see schema/sqlite.sql).
74 CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS pg_trgm;
75 CREATE INDEX idx_user_profile_name_trgm ON user_profile USING GIN (name gin_trgm_ops);
76
77 -- FK / auth lookup indexes.
78 CREATE INDEX idx_user_credential_user_id ON user_credential (user_id);
79 CREATE INDEX idx_user_credential_method_id ON user_credential (method_id);
80
81 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
82 -- Portable upsert shape used by the DAO (documented here, not executed):
83 -- INSERT INTO user_profile (...) VALUES (...)
84 -- ON CONFLICT (id) DO UPDATE SET ...
85 -- This is the one upsert syntax Postgres, CockroachDB, and SQLite (3.24+) all
86 -- understand — the DAO should use this form rather than CockroachDB's
87 -- `UPSERT` shorthand, to keep one query string portable across backends.
88 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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}1 # PII Data Governance Note 2 3 Owner: 05-data-ops. Covers `user_profile` retention, IDP-cached PII (question 3's `/identity` response), and how retention interacts with `user_credential`. Threat modeling and access control for this data are `02-ai-security-architecture`'s call, not restated here — see `../02-ai-security-architecture/CLAUDE.md`. 4 5 ## Data minimization 6 7 The schema collects only the fields the assignment names: name, phone, and the specific address subfields the `/identity` endpoint returns (`street_address`, `locality`, `region`, `postal_code`, `country`). No speculative fields (e.g., date of birth, government ID) were added. If a future requirement needs more PII, that's a deliberate schema change and a deliberate governance decision, not a default to expand into. 8 9 ## Retention 10 11 `user_profile` rows are not retained indefinitely by default. Two clocks apply, distinguished by the `source` column: 12 13 - **`source = 'direct'`** — profile created through this system's own registration flow. Retention window is a product/legal decision this track doesn't own outright, but the schema supports enforcing whatever window is chosen: `created_at`/`updated_at` plus a scheduled deletion job keyed on those columns. 14 - **`source = 'idp_cache'`** — profile hydrated from a third-party IDP connector's `/identity` response. This data is subject to the **same retention obligation as directly-collected PII** — caching it does not reset or relax that obligation. If anything it adds a vendor-processor relationship on top: this system is now downstream custodian of another party's collected PII, which should be documented as a data-flow (third-party collection → this system → disposal) rather than left implicit. 15 16 Tagging cache rows distinctly by `source` is what makes a targeted deletion request or a bulk retention sweep possible without touching directly-collected profiles by accident. 17 18 ## What must never happen, structurally enforced 19 20 - **`user_credential` never carries PII.** No name, phone, or address column exists on that table, and the DAO's `UserCredential` type (see `repository_interfaces.go`) has no fields that could hold it. A credential-store breach exposes usernames and hashes, not addresses. 21 - **`user_profile` never carries a secret.** No password hash or raw secret column exists on that table. A profile-store breach exposes PII, not authentication material. 22 - **The third-party IDP's own `/auth` credentials (the `username`/`password` this system POSTs to the vendor's `/auth` endpoint) are never persisted in `user_credential` or anywhere else in this schema.** That table is for this system's own login credentials. Storing a vendor's auth secret here would mean this system is custodian of a third party's credential material with no assignment requirement to do so — a clear scope and governance violation, not just a modeling mistake. 23 24 This separation is treated as a governance control, not merely a normalization convenience: it's the reason a breach of one table doesn't cascade into exposing the other class of data. 25 26 ## Handoff notes 27 28 - `02-ai-security-architecture` should build credential hashing (algorithm, cost factor, salt handling) on top of the `secret`/`hash_algo`/`hash_cost` columns already reserved in the schema — flagged directly to Marcus once this schema landed. 29 - `04-infra-devops` owns where retention sweeps and deletion jobs actually run (cron, scheduled job, pipeline step) — this note specifies the policy shape, not the execution mechanism. 30
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