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Define explicit authorization for releasing confidential data and derived outputs

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Since Oct 20, 2026.

Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
python

Research direction

Start by reading #657 for the existing sink ceilings, #568 for principal and delegation semantics, and the referenced confinement work. Define the generic release-authorization contract before implementing a policy adapter. Done means the acceptance criteria are specified and tests cover substitution, replay, policy changes, prompt injection, and privacy-preserving audit evidence.

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Description

Parent tracker: https://github.com/agentrust-io/.github/issues/41

Problem and scope

A tool or ordinary API outside the approved confidential boundary may require a deliberate disclosure. Current sink ceilings in merged #657 conservatively propagate known labels; they do not decide whether a model-generated summary is safe to declassify.

Define a generic release-authorization contract before implementing one policy adapter. Model judgment is not an authorization source.

Acceptance criteria

  • Bind authorization to a principal with release authority, the recipient/audience, data or derivation scope, purpose where enforced, validity and policy version.
  • Distinguish unchanged confidentiality, authorized disclosure and unavailable evidence. Unknown labels or missing authorization cannot silently become a release.
  • Specify how derived outputs retain restrictions and what independently authorized transformation, if any, may lower them.
  • Bind approval to the actual released bytes or a precisely defined transformation contract; test output/recipient substitution, replay and policy changes.
  • Test prompt-injection attempts that ask the model to relabel or summarize secrets for an unapproved sink.
  • Record the boundary change without leaking the protected contents into audit evidence, and state that disclosure cannot be undone.

Relationships

Builds on #657 and depends on confinement for a deployment-wide claim. Reuse existing principal/delegation semantics from #568 and existing human-approval mechanisms where applicable. This issue does not authorize any disclosure itself.

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Python
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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