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Build-list item 1 of v0.8, docs/SPEC-v0.8.md §7. Tests T272 to T280.

ctrlrun revoke takes one id, and authority.md says the ids are in the events file. During an incident the operation an operator reaches for is everything this principal issued or everything under this grant, and until now that was a script over the events file, written under pressure.

What it is

  • --created-by AGENT or --created-by AGENT/USER, splitting on the first / exactly as ctrlrun delegate --as does.
  • --under ID, reaching the subtree at every depth, and strictly beneath: it leaves the id it names alone, because an operator who wants that row as well already has ctrlrun revoke <id>.
  • Both are queries over rows that already exist. No new StateStore method: delegations(include_revoked=True) and revoke_delegation are what they read and call, and the filter is twenty lines above the store.
  • Each match is revoked exactly as one id is, one at a time through the same Control.revoke. No bulk statement and no transaction over the set, so a run that stops halfway leaves the rows it reached revoked and the rest untouched, and a second run finishes.
  • A selector matching nothing exits non-zero and names what it searched for (§7.5).
  • Still no unrevoke, in any costume.

--by is unchanged. The roadmap called the new selector --by <principal>, which is the opposite meaning on an option that already exists and records who performed the revocation. The selector is --created-by, and every script written against 0.7.0 keeps working (T279).

Mutation table

Nine mutations, each run with PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 and src/**/__pycache__ cleared, against the named tests.

Mutation Tests Result
M1 --created-by ignores the user T273 RED (caught)
M2 --under stops at the direct parent T274 RED (caught)
M3 --under includes the row itself T274 RED (caught)
M4 an empty selector is not an error T277 RED (caught)
M5 the selectors are not mutually exclusive T278 RED (caught)
M6 a positional id beside a selector is allowed T278 RED (caught)
M7 --created-by accepts two separators T278 RED (caught) after the test was fixed
M8 --by is ignored on a selector run T279 RED (caught)
M9 an already-revoked row is revoked again T275 RED (caught) after the test was fixed

M7 and M9 were green on the first pass, and both were subsumed guards (CONTRIBUTING.md's first shape of a false green), so the tests changed rather than the code:

  • With the --created-by a/b/c refusal deleted, a/b/c parses as the agent a and the user b/c, matches nothing, and exits non-zero through §7.5's empty-selector error instead. The test asserted an exit code where it had to assert a message.
  • With the skip over already-revoked rows deleted, Control.revoke is idempotent and appends no second event, so the event count was unchanged. What the skip is actually for is the terminal: without it a rerun prints revoked <id> for every row it did not revoke. The test now asserts that line's absence.

What building it settled (SPEC-v0.8.md §14.1)

A killed run can leave a revoked row with no event, and that is v0.3 behaviour rather than anything the selector adds. Control.revoke writes the row and then appends the event: two writes, no transaction over the pair, and StateStore is frozen (v0.6 §9.2). A SIGKILL between them leaves the delegation revoked, correctly and durably, with nothing in the log. A selector run does not create the window; it makes it easy to land in, because it takes the same two writes two hundred times instead of once.

T276's first draft asserted equality between events and revoked rows, which is stricter than the code has ever promised. It now asserts the bound that is true: at most one row may be mid-write. Closing the window needs the row and the event in one store call, which is a store method, which is the maintainer's call and not an item's.

Polling the store to trigger the kill made T276 pass for the wrong reason. Opening a StateStore per poll costs more than the two hundred revocations it is watching, so the kill landed after the child had finished and the test asserted a window it had not opened. It polls the JSONL event file instead, which the command is already appending to.

Verification

  • Local gate with CTRLRUN_TEST_POSTGRES exported: 3572 passed, all checks passed (ruff format, ruff check, mypy --strict, pytest). Baseline at dc37895 is 3543, and the 29 new are T272 to T280 across both backends.
  • Without Postgres: the 14 Postgres parameters skip, as every store-backed test file does.
  • T276 runs a real command in its own process, killed on its first recorded revocation, on both backends, and was run five times while developing to confirm the window opens every time.
  • Docs generators: cli drifts, which is expected for two new options; the other six are clean. Item 8 regenerates it in ctrlrun-docs.

No independent review required for this item: it touches no authorization decision, adds no store method, and changes no evaluation. Its reviewer, if one is wanted, confirms that a selector revokes exactly the rows one id would have revoked, one at a time.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added selector-based delegation revocation using --created-by and --under.
    • Revocation can target multiple matching delegations, supports descendant selection, and remains idempotent for already-revoked entries.
    • Commands now report an error when selectors match nothing or are combined with incompatible options.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance on selector matching, compatibility, interruption behavior, and command outcomes.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage across supported database backends, including selector semantics, validation, recovery, attribution, and event recording.

… grant

ctrlrun revoke takes one id, and the ids are in the events file. During an
incident the operation an operator reaches for is everything this principal
issued or everything under this grant, and until now that was a script over the
events file written under pressure.

--created-by PRINCIPAL and --under ID are queries over rows that already exist.
No new StateStore method: delegations(include_revoked=True) and
revoke_delegation are what they read and call, and the filter sits above the
store. Each match is revoked exactly as one id is, one at a time, through the
same Control.revoke, so a run that stops halfway leaves the rows it reached
revoked and the rest untouched, and a second run finishes.

--by is unchanged. The roadmap called the new selector --by <principal>, which
is the opposite meaning on an option that already exists and records who
performed the revocation, so the selector is --created-by and every script
written against 0.7.0 keeps working.

An empty selector exits non-zero and names what it searched for: during an
incident a mistyped name that exits 0 reads as a finished job. --under is
strictly beneath, so it leaves the id it names alone; an operator who wants
that row as well already has ctrlrun revoke <id>. Still no unrevoke.

T272 to T280, on both backends, and the killed run is a real command in its own
process killed on its first recorded revocation. Two things building it
settled, in SPEC-v0.8 §14.1: a kill between the row write and the event append
leaves a revoked row with no event, which is v0.3 behaviour rather than
anything the selector adds and which T276 bounds rather than assumes; and two
guards were green under mutation because a later guard fired with the same exit
code, so the tests now assert which one ran.

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The ctrlrun revoke command now supports --created-by and --under selectors. It validates selector combinations, revokes matching delegations individually, reports no-match errors, and preserves single-ID behavior. Tests cover SQLite, PostgreSQL, events, interruption recovery, and attribution.

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Selector-based revocation

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Selector command and revocation flow
src/ctrlrun/cli/main.py, CHANGELOG.md, docs/SPEC-v0.8.md
The command accepts creator and descendant selectors. It validates ambiguous or missing inputs, matches delegation records, revokes each matching row, reports already-revoked rows, and documents selector semantics and interruption behavior.
Selector behavior and backend validation
tests/test_revoke_selector.py
Tests cover creator matching, descendant traversal, event creation, idempotent reruns, interruption recovery, no-match errors, option validation, attribution, and SQLite/PostgreSQL backend wiring.

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  participant CLI as ctrlrun revoke
  participant Selector as _revoke_selected
  participant Control as control.revoke
  CLI->>Selector: pass --created-by or --under selector
  Selector->>Selector: match delegation records
  Selector->>Control: revoke each non-revoked match
  Control-->>Selector: return revocation result
  Selector-->>CLI: report counts or no-match error
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Two findings, both real.

--created-by "human-cfo/" set the separator and left the user empty, which the
filter read as "the user is the empty string", matched nothing, and reported
§7.5's no-match error. A typed-and-lost user is not "every user", and the
widest reading of an ambiguous command is the wrong default during an incident,
so it is a usage error that names the two forms. The message is asserted, not
the exit code, because without the guard the command exits non-zero anyway
through the no-match error: the same subsumed shape the mutation table caught
twice in this item already. M9a covers it.

And the worse one, in the test rather than the code. The Postgres fixture built
its store URL with an f-string, so a CTRLRUN_TEST_POSTGRES carrying
"?sslmode=require" produced a second "?", _peel_schema read ctrlrun_schema as
part of the sslmode value, and the schema fell back to public: the test would
have passed while the command wrote outside its scratch schema, into the
database every other test shares. The URL is now built with urllib.parse, and
_Workspace keeps the base URL and the schema apart rather than re-parsing them
out of the CLI's own argument, since a test that reads a different schema from
the one the command wrote to asserts nothing.

Ten mutations now, all caught.

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Both CodeRabbit findings were real, and the second one was worse than minor

4880df5.

1. --created-by human-cfo/ was read as a user rather than refused. The trailing separator set separator and left user empty, so the filter looked for rows whose created_by_user is the empty string, matched nothing, and reported §7.5's no-match error. A typed-and-lost user is not "every user", and the widest reading of an ambiguous command is the wrong default during an incident. It is now a usage error naming both forms.

The test asserts the message, not the exit code, because without the guard the command exits non-zero anyway through the no-match error. That is the third time in this item that a guard was subsumed by a later one with the same exit code, which is why every refusal here asserts which guard fired.

2. The Postgres fixture could have written outside its scratch schema. It built the store URL with an f-string, so a CTRLRUN_TEST_POSTGRES carrying ?sslmode=require produced a second ?; _peel_schema then read ctrlrun_schema as part of the sslmode value and fell back to public. The test would have passed while the command wrote into the database every other test shares. My own URL has no query parameters, so nothing here caught it.

The URL is now built with urllib.parse, and _Workspace keeps the base URL and the schema apart rather than re-parsing them out of the CLI's own argument: a test that reads a different schema from the one the command wrote to asserts nothing.

Mutation table, now ten

Mutation Tests Result
M1 --created-by ignores the user T273 RED (caught)
M2 --under stops at the direct parent T274 RED (caught)
M3 --under includes the row itself T274 RED (caught)
M4 an empty selector is not an error T277 RED (caught)
M5 the selectors are not mutually exclusive T278 RED (caught)
M6 a positional id beside a selector is allowed T278 RED (caught)
M7 --created-by accepts two separators T278 RED (caught)
M8 --by is ignored on a selector run T279 RED (caught)
M9a --created-by accepts a trailing separator T278 RED (caught)
M9 an already-revoked row is revoked again T275 RED (caught)

30 tests in the file now, both backends. Re-running the full local gate; its counts go in a comment.

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Local gate on 4880df5 with CTRLRUN_TEST_POSTGRES exported: 3574 passed in 11m10s, all checks passed (ruff format, ruff check, mypy --strict, pytest). Baseline at dc37895 is 3543; the 31 new are T272 to T280 across both backends, including the trailing-separator case CodeRabbit found.

Docs generators: cli drifts, as two new options should make it; the other six are clean.

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