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cgalo5758 23d5bad024 Add integration delivery core: provider connections, desired-state
records, outbox, lifecycle requests, relay, push, read-back, and FedWiki
lifecycle workflows

- Add core.provider_connections table and unique provider connection per
  provider
- Add core.target_mappings table linking connections to resource keys
  and targets
- Add core.desired_state_records table storing desired entitlements per
  connection and recipient with generation and content hash
- Add core.observed_projections table for application-reported state per
  connection and recipient
- Add core.lifecycle_requests table recording lifecycle requests by
  instance and generation
- Add core.person_cut_offs table and setter function to record persons
  cut off everywhere
- Add core.desired_state_outbox table with triggers on entitlement,
  membership, organization, connection, mapping, and cut-off tables to
  write change notices
- Enforce constraints on recipients, generations, and statuses across
  tables
- Implement desired_state_content SQL function computing record content
  per recipient rules
- Implement relay workflow to claim outbox rows, expand to records,
  recompute records, and dispatch pushes
- Implement push workflow to push records, handle transport answers, and
  record push results
- Implement read-back workflow to page through application state, update
  projections, and raise records as needed
- Add lifecycle request writers with idempotent recording, finishing,
  and acknowledgment
- Add FedWiki integration lifecycle workflows for create, set status,
  swap, delete, and reconcile
- Add FedWiki web handlers and forms for lifecycle requests, including
  create form with instance and generation
- Add tests for schema, triggers, relay, push, read-back, lifecycle
  requests, FedWiki workflows, and operator pages
- Add documentation updates for provider integration, entitlements,
  identity, organizations, lifecycle, and FedWiki integration
- Add benchmarks for delivery and push workflows
- Ensure schema-per-provider for in-tree integrations; connector state
  lives in generic core tables keyed by connection
- Secure functions and triggers with SECURITY DEFINER and restrict
  core_writer role privileges accordingly
- Handle Temporal client integration for workflow execution and
  scheduling
- Provide a recording transport for integration tests
- Close Issues 32 and 33 by implementing provider connections and
  desired-state records with lifecycle requests and relay mechanisms
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Domain Model Cards
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One card per domain model: purpose, invariants, dimensions, drift traps, and open questions, each claim cited to the migration, file, or decision that enforces it.

Domain Model Cards

Each card in this directory describes one domain model as it is actually built, so a maintainer can modify that model without re-deriving its rules from migrations, specs, and decision documents. The cards are the descriptive home for the as-built models; the normative record — the designed schema, the decision log, the numbered design documents, and the glossary — lives in the synced design/ directory (Decision 141, design/documents/doc-43-schema-topology-and-documentation-division.md). Migrations are the ground truth for as-built claims.

The catalog was motivated by a 2026-07 inventory of the console's domain models, which traced the majority of a 56-finding UX audit to model-attributable causes: rules that lived only in prose, invariants enforced nowhere, and dimensions that were easy to conflate because no single page named them side by side.

The cards

  • Product / catalog — how capabilities are packaged, priced, and sold; the dissolved kind taxonomy and the shape views that replaced it.
  • Payments and Billing — billing accounts, subscriptions, invoices and payments projected from Stripe, scheduled changes as intent, and the reconciler.
  • Plan Ladders and Transitions — ranked tiers, who occupies which rung, the append-only audit, and the conferral functions as sole writers.
  • Entitlements — resource keys, sets and rules, grants as decrees, provisions as delivery, and the materializer.
  • Resource Pools — the per-organization container: workspace assignments, the two resolution directions, and pool-grain usage.
  • Providers and Integrations — the registry and its connections, boot-time manifests, resource-key ownership, desired-state delivery, and the shared substrate.
  • Domains Registry — claims as subtree ownership, placements as the only thing that serves, and the anti-abuse ledger.
  • Identity, Organizations, and Workspaces — users vs persons, the containment ladder, org types as policy, and first-login provisioning.

A new domain model is not considered documented until its card exists and is listed here.

Card anatomy

Every card has four sections in this order:

  • Purpose — what the model owns and why it exists, in plain present tense.
  • Where this lives — a map of the model's pieces: each table, view, function, and code file, with one line saying what it is. Locations live here, not scattered through the body.
  • Invariants — the rules the model guarantees, one per numbered entry so reviews can cite "invariant 3". Each entry carries an enforcement tag matching the actual mechanism: [db] means the database schema rejects violations outright; [db-code] means the database functions are written to uphold the rule, so reviews must protect it when they change; [app] means only application code upholds the rule, so new code paths must uphold it too.
  • Dimensions — the orthogonal axes a maintainer must hold simultaneously, each defined where it is named.

Cards describe the model as it is today, for a reader who knows nothing yet. That means: no history, no decision numbers, no change narrative in the body — a card introduces every table, column, view, and concept before or where it first uses it. Drift between design and code, open questions, and other bookkeeping live on the forge tracker, not in the cards.

Style contract

Card prose follows these rules, and edits are reviewed against them:

  • Write for someone with zero context: never assume the reader knows a term, a table, or an internal codename you haven't introduced.
  • Name the agent: state what acted and what it acted on.
  • Give each verb its own object; do not let one object serve two verbs.
  • Connect clauses with explicit causal or temporal words (because, so, when, after) — never with a bare comma.
  • Replace every metaphor or compressed phrase with the literal claim it stands for.
  • Give every count or statistic its denominator.

A change that alters an invariant, dimension, or map entry recorded on a card must update that card in the same change (see openspec/specs/model-catalog/spec.md once this change archives).