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Stacked on #79, which adds the context field this verifier reads. The first commit shown here belongs to that PR and will drop out of this diff once it merges. Review only the last commit.

Adds a subject_access_review verifier so a task can assert what a subject is and is not allowed to do, rather than inferring authorization indirectly from RBAC objects.

The verifier supports two modes:

  • point: check a single subject/verb/resource triple against the cluster's authorization stack.
  • sweep: check a set of triples in one entry, so a task can assert a whole permission surface at once.

Both modes go through the cluster's own SubjectAccessReview API, so the answer reflects what the API server will actually do, including bindings the task did not create.

This is a peer to the http_probe, external_http_probe, and git_repo_sync verifiers, and follows the same registration and result-shape conventions.

Unit tests cover both modes plus the failure and error paths.

geojaz added 2 commits August 7, 2026 09:06
… broken pass with the judge

Two defects that together let a run whose verification never executed report a
perfect score.

First, verifiers carried no cluster identity. BaseVerifier.kubeconfig defaulted
to None and nothing ever set it, so every check inherited the ambient
kubeconfig's current-context, which is a mutable global that any run can
rewrite. A run was observed getting an authoritative "namespace not found" for a
namespace the agent had just written to, because the check queried a different
cluster. ClusterInfo now carries the resolved context (kind-<cluster> for kind,
the existing gke_<project>_<location>_<cluster> for GCP) and the harness pins
both kubeconfig and context onto every verifier leaf, recursing through compound
nodes, before either the chaos scenario or the post-run pass runs. kubectl gains
a --context passthrough.

Second, an all-errored pass was scored by the LLM judge. rollup drops error
entries from both numerator and denominator, so when every objective errors the
correctness signal is never emitted, and the composite's preference chain fell
through to the judged OutcomeValidity. Two runs reported c=1.000 that way with
all 11 entries errored. The composite is now withheld when deterministic
verification was declared but produced no correctness, leaving outcomeScore null
and VerificationCoverage as the diagnostic. The judged fallback still applies
unchanged to tasks that declare no verification_spec, which is what it was for.

Signed-off-by: Eric Hole <ehole@onixnet.com>
Adds kubectl auth can-i-backed verifiers for the subject_access_review and
subject_access_review_sweep check types the factory's T-023 and T-029
blueprints demand. The point verifier checks one (subject, verb, resource)
against an expected allowed/denied outcome; the sweep verifier checks a
whole matrix of pairs and requires an exact match in both directions, so
an unexpected allow fails a negative sweep just as a missing allow fails a
positive one. A real command error (bad flags, unreachable API) reports as
verification status error rather than a pass/fail outcome, since can-i
itself exits non-zero on an ordinary denied check.

Signed-off-by: Eric Hole <ehole@onixnet.com>
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