3tears-agent-acl

Shared RBAC primitives for the 3tears platform: evaluator, cache, canonical Collections, loader adapters, and NATS invalidation payload models.

Purpose

Single source of truth for "can actor do action on namespace" decisions PLUS the persistence layer that feeds them. The same pure-Python evaluator, canonical Collections, and loader adapters run in every consuming application, so authorization answers are byte-identical across processes and one set of unit tests covers every caller.

The Collections, loaders, and invalidation models are reusable across any 3tears app. The package supersedes per-resource ACL code paths (namespace_grants, workspace-specific checks, tool-access fnmatch lists).

Public API

Exports (see src/threetears/agent/acl/__init__.py):

Evaluation

  • evaluate_decision(ctx, *, cache: AclCache) -> bool -- fast yes/no hot path. The cache is consulted for membership and per-namespace contribution layers on every call, falling back to its loaders only on cache miss; production hit rate against repeated authz checks for the same (actor, namespace) is ~100% within the cache TTL.
  • evaluate_with_trail(ctx, *, cache) -> EvaluationResult -- introspection path returning every (group, assignment, role) -> contributed_actions chain plus limiting_side for user×agent intersection queries. Uses the same cache layers as evaluate_decision; trails are stored alongside the action set so successive decision-mode and trail-mode calls for the same actor + namespace serve from cache.
  • evaluate_file_access(*, namespace, user_id, agent_id, path, direction, cache) -> bool -- workspace path-glob gate; same cache semantics.
  • authorize(*, namespace_collection, namespace_name, action, user_id, agent_id, cache) -> EvaluationResult -- canonical authorization primitive every app's resource-typed wrapper is built on. Looks up the namespace by name, runs evaluate_with_trail through the cache, raises generic AccessDenied on deny / NamespaceNotFound on missing row.
  • authorize_with_trail -- variant returning (result, ns_entity) for wrappers needing the entity.
  • AccessDenied / NamespaceNotFound -- generic + namespace-miss exception classes; per-resource wrappers subclass AccessDenied to carry typed catching at endpoint code (e.g. MemoryAccessDenied, DatasourceAccessDenied).
  • AclCache -- three-layer in-process TTL cache (actor -> [GroupMembership], `(group_id, namespace_id) -> action_set
    • trails, (group_id, namespace_type, customer_id) -> action_set
    • trails) with fine-grained invalidation hooks fired on group-membership / role / assignment change. The ActorMembershipEntry` carries the full memberships tuple so the evaluator's cross-customer + member-type filter runs against cached state.

Persistence

  • GroupCollection, GroupMemberCollection, RoleCollection, RoleAssignmentCollection, NamespaceCollection -- three-tier SchemaBackedCollection subclasses fronting the canonical RBAC tables (groups, group_members, roles, role_assignments, namespaces). Schemas use canonical RBAC names with no deploy-specific schema prefix; the prefix is set on the L3 pool's search_path, not in the schema name on the Collection.
  • GroupEntity, GroupMemberEntity, RoleEntity, RoleAssignmentEntity, NamespaceEntity -- BaseEntity subclasses; four use composite primary keys post-row_scope partitioning ((row_scope, id) for groups / role_assignments / namespaces; (group_id, id) for group_members).
  • CollectionMembershipLoader, CollectionGrantLoader -- concrete loader adapters satisfying the MembershipLoader / GrantLoader Protocols, wired against the canonical Collections.

Invalidation

  • MembershipInvalidatePayload, AssignmentInvalidatePayload, RoleInvalidatePayload -- typed Pydantic models for the three {ns}.acl.*.invalidate NATS subjects. Wire format is single-source: every publisher (admin endpoints, agent self-mutations) and every subscriber (cache subscribers in any consuming app) speaks these models.

Value types & protocols

  • Value types: Group, GroupMembership, Role, RoleAssignment, Namespace, EvaluationContext, EvaluationResult, Trail.
  • Enums: ActorType, MemberType, ScopeType, LimitingSide.
  • I/O protocols: GrantLoader, MembershipLoader -- callers may implement these against any persistence layer; the canonical Collection*Loader adapters above are the reference impls.

Consuming the package from a 3tears app

Each app constructs the canonical Collections against its own L3 pool (direct asyncpg in a server-style deployment, NATS-proxied L3 in each agent pod) and wires the canonical loader adapters + cache. Deployment-specific admin query shapes (dynamic list_by_filter / per-cardinality counts / multi-table discovery JOINs) live on consuming-app subclasses.

from threetears.agent.acl import (
    AclCache,
    CollectionGrantLoader,
    CollectionMembershipLoader,
    EvaluationContext,
    GroupCollection,
    GroupMemberCollection,
    NamespaceCollection,
    RoleAssignmentCollection,
    RoleCollection,
    evaluate_decision,
)

# 1. construct Collections against your registry / L3 pool
group_collection = GroupCollection(registry=registry, config=core_config)
group_member_collection = GroupMemberCollection(registry=registry, config=core_config)
role_collection = RoleCollection(registry=registry, config=core_config)
role_assignment_collection = RoleAssignmentCollection(registry=registry, config=core_config)
namespace_collection = NamespaceCollection(registry=registry, config=core_config)

# 2. wire the canonical loaders
membership_loader = CollectionMembershipLoader(collection=group_member_collection)
grant_loader = CollectionGrantLoader(
    assignment_collection=role_assignment_collection,
    role_collection=role_collection,
    group_collection=group_collection,
)

# 3. build the cache
cache = AclCache(
    membership_loader=membership_loader,
    grant_loader=grant_loader,
    ttl_seconds=60,
)

# 4. evaluate
ctx = EvaluationContext(
    namespace=target_namespace,
    action="read",
    user_id=user_id,
    agent_id=agent_id,
)
allowed = await evaluate_decision(
    ctx,
    membership_loader=membership_loader,
    grant_loader=grant_loader,
)

Implicit ownership: if namespace.owner_agent_id == ctx.agent_id, the agent side short-circuits to full permissions with no group lookup or assignment query. Ownership is a property of the namespace row, never a grant.

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