Consider giving grantee a read access to the Authorization

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Feature
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Needs clarification
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Research direction

Read the authorization and grant behavior described in this issue, then review the denial and revocation work in #278 and #293. Compare what a grantee can infer from scopes and observed changes to auto-generated grants, and identify what information authorization access could disclose. Done means a documented decision and rationale on whether grantees should receive read access.

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Description

Currently, we assume that the grantee can only access the grant but not the authorization, this leads to re-stating the same information in the authorization and the grant. We should re-consider what exactly are we trying to prevent from being disclosed and document reasoning whichever way it lands.

Scopes

While grantees will not explicitly know if they were granted All or AllFromAgent scope in the authorization, they still should be able to make informed guess based on observed changes to auto-generated grants.

Granted / Denied

In #278 and #293, we have some ongoing work on denying and revoking access. I don't think there is any information in the authorization that would not be available in the grant. Still, we should double-check.

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