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Permission model

Workspace-scoped access and policy enforcement for users and agents.

Permissions are enforced at the pod and workspace layers.

Access layers

  • User session access: human users authenticate and operate with workspace membership context.
  • Workspace authorization: actions are constrained by workspace-level role and membership.
  • Agent/API-key access: external and automated actors use scoped keys rather than full user sessions.

Enforcement model

Permission checks are not only UI checks. They are applied at backend procedure/route level and again across event-driven execution paths.

  • reads require valid identity + scope
  • writes require identity + action-level permission
  • sensitive or policy-gated writes can be converted to proposals

Why this exists

  • prevents accidental cross-workspace data access
  • keeps external integrations least-privilege by default
  • ensures AI/automation writes are governable, not silent side effects

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