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Let a sponsor govern its descendants permits and keys - #282
A sponsor wallet funds agent wallets through parent_wallet_id but had no authority over what those descendants hold. This change lets a strict ancestor wallet list and revoke a descendant's permits and API keys, emergency-revoke the descendant wallet, and read its rotation logs, at any depth. Everything else stays on exact-wallet access. This does not touch permit issuance and adds no self-issuance limits.
New gateway/app/services/wallet_hierarchy.py: one walk over the parent_wallet_id chain (depth cap 32, cycle guard). AgentMoney.is_wallet_or_descendant now delegates to it with unchanged behavior, so permit creation is not altered. The new strict rule, wallet_strictly_governs, is stricter than the creation rule: it denies equal ids, the reverse direction, siblings, unrelated wallets, a missing wallet, a cycle, and an over-deep chain, and it requires the whole chain to reach a root.
New require_governing_wallet_access in gateway/app/core/wallet_resolution.py. It calls require_wallet_access first; only if that denies does it try strict ancestry, and it re-raises the original 403 otherwise. Only a context with its own wallet_id can pass by ancestry.
PermitService.revoke_permit gains allow_ancestor (default False). Only the revoke route sets it, and the service re-checks the hierarchy itself, so a caller of the service never gains ancestry by accident.
Routes changed: GET /v1/permits?wallet_id=, POST /v1/permits/{id}/revoke, GET /v1/api-keys/{wallet_id}, DELETE /v1/api-keys/{wallet_id}/{key_id}, POST /v1/api-keys/emergency-revoke, GET /v1/api-keys/{wallet_id}/logs.
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Spec changes
This PR does not change normative spec behavior.
If it changes normative spec behavior, I opened or linked an RFC issue.
Authority model
"Ancestor" means a strict ancestor of the target wallet. Every denial is the same 403 wallet_access_denied an unrelated tenant already receives at an exact-wallet route.
Caller against the target wallet
List permits, list keys, rotation logs
Revoke permit (issuer is the target)
Revoke key
Emergency revoke
Bootstrap admin
allowed (unchanged)
allowed (unchanged)
allowed (unchanged)
allowed (unchanged)
Exact wallet
allowed (unchanged)
allowed (unchanged)
allowed (unchanged)
allowed (unchanged)
Strict ancestor, any depth
allowed (new)
allowed (new)
allowed (new)
allowed (new), no replacement key is minted
Descendant reaching up
403
403
403
403
Sibling
403
403
403
403
Unrelated tenant
403
403
403
403
Missing wallet, cyclic or over-deep chain
403
403
403
403
Revoked sponsor key
rejected at authentication
rejected
rejected
rejected
Permit revoke authority follows the permit's issuer wallet, as before. A strict ancestor of the issuer may revoke; an ancestor of only the subject may not.
parent_wallet_id is written in exactly two places, both at wallet creation, and is never updated afterwards (no assignment or UPDATE exists in gateway/app):
WalletEngine._create_agent_wallet_in sets it to the sponsor. The route requires the caller to own the sponsor wallet (_require_wallet_access), and the wallet must be a sponsor wallet.
WalletEngine.create_child_wallet sets it to the parent. The service calls require_wallet_owner(caller, parent_wallet_id) first. The /v1/billing/wallets/child route is a dormant surface (mounted only with proof surfaces).
So no non-admin caller can create a wallet under a parent it does not control, and nobody can re-parent an existing wallet. A bootstrap admin can name any parent at creation, but a bootstrap admin already holds all authority, so the ancestor rule hands the named parent nothing it did not already have to trust the operator for. The wallet id is a fresh uuid, so a new wallet cannot close a cycle. The walk still fails closed on a cycle (tested by tampering rows directly) and the database foreign key rejects a dangling parent.
Audit
No permit or key revoke route records an actor today: an owner revoke leaves the changed row (status/revoked_at for permits, status/revoked_at/revoke_reason for keys, the rotation log row for emergency revoke) plus, for keys, a service log line. An ancestor revoke goes through the same service calls and leaves the same rows. In addition, each ancestor-driven revoke logs a warning naming the actor: the sponsor's wallet id and key id (never the secret) and the descendant wallet or issuer. The test asserts the sponsor key id is in the log and that its secret is not. Adding an actor column would need a migration and is left out of scope.
Emergency revoke by an ancestor: the replacement-key bounding rule takes its bounds from the caller's own key, which is not a key of the descendant, so create_new_key is silently forced off and new_key is null. The sponsor can stop a hijacked agent but cannot mint a credential for it. Rotation logs expose key ids and reasons, the same class of data as the masked key list, no secrets, so I judged them safe to include.
Validation
Step 0, reproduction on main at bb3d74d (new tests run against unchanged app code): the sponsor key got 403 wallet_access_denied on GET /v1/permits?wallet_id=A, POST /v1/permits/{id}/revoke (issuer A), GET /v1/api-keys/A, DELETE /v1/api-keys/A/{key}, POST /v1/api-keys/emergency-revoke for A, and GET /v1/api-keys/A/logs. 7 of the 13 new tests failed, the 6 negative tests passed (they pin the existing behavior).
Production-like leg: the same runner with TRUST_MODE_ENABLED=true ALLOW_LEGACY_UNPERMITTED_MCP=false ENABLE_PROOF_SURFACES=false and -m production_trust gave 12 passed.
ruff check . and ruff format --check . (pinned version, from gateway/): clean.
mypy==2.4.0 mypy app/: no issues in 213 files.
python scripts/export_openapi.py --check: gateway/docs/openapi.json matches. No schema change, so nothing regenerated.
tests/test_route_auth_inventory.py passes unchanged. No existing test was edited.
Mutation check: with wallet_strictly_governs changed to ignore direction, test_descendant_gets_403_against_its_ancestor_on_every_route and the hierarchy unit test failed. With siblings treated as allowed, test_sibling_gets_403_on_every_route, the issuer-authority test, the service-layer test and the hierarchy unit test failed. The helper was restored and all 13 pass.
New tests (gateway/tests/test_sponsor_downward_governance.py) cover: list and revoke of a self-issued descendant permit; list, revoke and emergency-revoke of a descendant's keys with the sponsor's own keys left active; grandparent over grandchild on every route; equal wallet and bootstrap admin unchanged; descendant, sibling and unrelated tenant 403 on every route (including two levels up, and foreign vs missing wallet answering identically); a revoked sponsor key gains nothing; the service refuses ancestry without the route opt-in; cycle, missing wallet, empty id and depth cap fail closed.
Risk and compatibility
No migration, no schema or OpenAPI change, no new route.
Security implication: a sponsor key can now revoke a descendant's permits and keys and emergency-revoke it. That is the intended grant. The risk is granting too much, so the rule is exact: strict ancestor only, no reverse, no sibling, no tenant crossing, the whole chain must be sound, and the service re-checks permit revokes.
A JWT or DB key reaches descendants only because its own wallet is an ancestor; the context must already hold wallet_id, and the walk never consults tenant or scopes, matching how exact access works today. Demo-route confinement still applies before the route runs.
Tenant: descendants inherit the sponsor's tenant at creation. The ancestor rule does not add a separate tenant comparison; I did not add one because exact access has none either. Say so if you want a tenant equality guard on top.
Remaining gap, deliberately out of scope: an ancestor cannot yet read ledgers, author wallet policy, or freeze a descendant.
Contributor checklist
I added or updated tests for behavior changes, or explained why tests are not applicable.
I updated relevant documentation and examples (docstrings only; no operator docs describe these routes' authority).
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High Risk
Expands who can revoke API keys and permits to strict ancestor wallets; mistakes in hierarchy or route opt-in could grant or deny too much authority in security-sensitive paths.
Overview Sponsor wallets can now intervene on funded descendants without changing permit issuance or key create/rotate rules. A wallet key whose wallet_id is a strict ancestor of the target (sponsor → agent → child) may list/revoke descendant permits, list/revoke keys, emergency-revoke, and read rotation logs; everyone else still gets the same exact-wallet or 403 behavior.
The PR adds wallet_hierarchy.py (shared parent_wallet_id walk, depth cap, cycle guard) and wallet_strictly_governs, which is stricter than the existing permit-creation descent check because the full chain must reach a root. require_governing_wallet_access tries normal wallet access first, then ancestry via AgentMoney.wallet_strictly_governs.
Only six route surfaces opt in (permits list/revoke, API key list/revoke/emergency/logs). PermitService.revoke_permit accepts allow_ancestor and re-checks hierarchy in the service layer. Ancestor-driven revokes emit warning logs (wallet/key ids, not secrets); ancestor emergency revoke does not mint a replacement key for the descendant. Docs in api-key-rotation.md and a large test_sponsor_downward_governance.py suite cover positive/negative cases and malformed chains.
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A strict ancestor wallet can now list and revoke the permits and API keys
of a wallet below it, emergency-revoke it, and read its rotation logs.
Every other route keeps exact-wallet access. Descendants, siblings and
unrelated tenants gain nothing.
The hierarchy walk moves to services/wallet_hierarchy.py and is shared by
the permit-creation rule (unchanged behaviour) and the new strict rule,
which also fails closed on cycles and over-deep chains.
Closes#281
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The change adds bounded wallet-ancestry checks and strict ancestor authorization. Permit and API-key routes use these checks for descendant listing, revocation, emergency revocation, and rotation-log access. Ancestor-initiated revocations are logged. Tests cover allowed and denied access, including malformed and depth-limited wallet chains.
Resolve the deep-chain and JWT emergency-revocation gaps before merging. Permit creation also incurs unnecessary database queries.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 67ef2
Sponsor credentials gain deliberate authority to inspect and revoke descendant credentials and permits. The implementation limits that authority to validated ancestry and does not grant descendant credential issuance. Governance has an explicit depth limit, and emergency recovery has credential-specific restrictions. No introduced unauthorized-access path was established, but production concurrency and operational recovery remain incompletely verified.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — Compromise of an authenticated ancestor credential now permits inspection of selected descendant metadata and revocation of descendant keys and issuer-owned permits throughout its eligible subtree. This is the intended authority expansion; siblings, unrelated wallets, reverse ancestry, and incomplete chains do not receive that access.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The ancestry fallback operates after credential authentication and exact-wallet authorization. Credential and demo-tenant rejection occur before route execution, rather than being converted into ancestry access. JWT and refresh-token consumers also check their originating key, so revoking that key invalidates its derived credentials on subsequent authentication.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Emergency revocation targets one wallet's selected credentials, not an entire descendant subtree or a persistent wallet-disable state. Credential creation and revocation retain their pre-existing separate transactions. Concurrent insertion behavior remains unverified under production isolation; this is a recovery limitation, not an established PR-introduced vulnerability.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — If recovery requires durable actor attribution, persist the authenticated ancestor wallet and key with the revocation transaction. Current ancestor attribution is emitted by route logging after the service returns, while the emergency rotation record identifies emergency_system.
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Review comments at @gateway/tests/test_sponsor_downward_governance.py:
- Around line 263-265: Update the emergency-revocation test using _emergency to
assert the agent’s call returns the expected empty revoked_keys list after the
sponsor already revoked the grandchild’s keys. After both revocations, fetch the
sponsor’s keys and assert they remain active; replace the truthiness check on
sponsor headers with this state check.
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gateway/app/core/wallet_resolution.py
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Replaces a truthiness check on the sponsor headers with a check of the
sponsor's key state, and pins the agent's repeat revoke to an empty list.
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CI result, Python 3.11 to 3.14 gateway legs, Postgres legs, License result, gitleaks, CodeQL, lint: all success on this head.
Review threads: 1 (CodeRabbit, minor, a vacuous assert in my own test). Fixed in this head, thread resolved. CodeRabbit's review of this head: no actionable comments. Codex review did not run (usage limit), no findings.
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Files in this PR: gateway/app/services/wallet_hierarchy.py (new), gateway/app/core/wallet_resolution.py, gateway/app/routers/api_keys.py, gateway/app/routers/permits.py, gateway/app/services/agent_money.py, gateway/app/services/permits.py, gateway/tests/test_sponsor_downward_governance.py (new).
Local: 196 related tests pass, production_trust leg 12 passed, ruff, mypy and export_openapi.py --check clean. Repro before the change: sponsor key got 403 on all six routes; after: success for the sponsor only. Mutation check (ignore direction, allow siblings) fails the negative tests. Details are in the PR body.
Independent review of 7fafed6 by the coordinating session (five review agents with probes and mutants run in scratch worktrees; nothing was committed or pushed). This is not a QA verdict.
Result: no blocking defect.
Authorization probes (18, over real HTTP routes, standard and production-like legs)
Descendant to ancestor, grandchild to sponsor, sibling both ways, unrelated agent, unrelated sponsor, sponsor to an unrelated tree: 15 caller and target pairs on 9 routes each (list permits, revoke permit, list keys, rotation logs, revoke key, emergency revoke with create_new_key true and false, rotate, create key). Every denial was the same 403 body per route; database state before and after was identical; a missing wallet and a foreign wallet answered byte for byte the same.
Cycle, self-parent, dangling parent, deleted intermediate wallet: all 403. A chain of 32 wallets is governed, the 33rd is denied.
Emergency revoke by an ancestor mints no key in any variant (default body, explicit true, bounded and allowlisted sponsor keys, grandparent to grandchild); a JWT ancestor with create_new_key true gets 403 before any revocation. The sponsor's own keys, JWT and refresh token stay valid.
Permit revoke follows the issuer wallet: a permit issued by the sponsor to an agent cannot be revoked by the agent, a sibling, the grandchild or an unrelated wallet; the sponsor can. PermitService.revoke_permit(allow_ancestor=True) re-checks the hierarchy and denies caller wallet None, an empty string, a sibling and an unrelated wallet.
Query tampering (case, whitespace, NUL, unicode lookalikes, comma lists, wildcards, duplicate wallet_id): never let a request through that should be denied.
parent_wallet_id is written only at wallet construction (wallet_engine.py), each creator requires the caller to own the parent, and no route or migration changes it. Confirms the PR's re-parenting claim.
Responses exposed to an ancestor are JSON identical to what the owner sees (masked key prefix only, no hash, no secret).
Refactor of is_wallet_or_descendant: fuzzed against the old loop over 1,815,000 cases (random parent maps with cycles, missing rows, None and empty parents, five depth caps): 0 mismatches. Permit creation is unchanged.
Regression: 417 + 325 + 334 related tests passed, production_trust leg 12 passed, ruff, ruff format, mypy and the OpenAPI check clean. One latency-budget test (test_acp_checkout_end_to_end_latency_budget) failed in the review environment; it is a timing test that also fails there on unmodified code.
Mutation testing: 26 mutants plus 3 variants of the helper and the wiring. The gates are well pinned (ignoring direction, equal ids, siblings, trusting allow_ancestor without the service check all fail tests). Six survivors; none is the only gate for a reachable attack, but four are worth closing because they leave the security rules unpinned:
The revoke route authorizing on the subject wallet instead of the issuer passes all tests, because every test permit has issuer == subject. Please add a case with issuer S and subject A (and G): revoke as A expects 403, as the sibling 403, as S 200.
The cycle test re-points A away from S, so the sponsor falls out of the chain and the test passes for the wrong reason. Put the sponsor inside the cycle (S.parent = G), and add a sponsor row whose parent points at a missing row; assert wallet_strictly_governs is False while is_wallet_or_descendant stays True for the same chain (this also pins the permit-creation rule "stops at the first match").
The default depth cap (32) is not pinned; assert False at hop 33 and True at hop 32 with default arguments.
No test uses a JWT, a demo key or an enterprise bearer as the ancestor caller. The probes show they behave as at exact-wallet access, but nothing pins it.
Docs: gateway/docs/api-key-rotation.md (around lines 86 to 95 and 144) still says a database key may act only on its own wallet; four routes now also admit a strict ancestor. Please update the "who may call" text (rotate and create stay exact-wallet; an ancestor's emergency revoke mints no replacement key).
Nits: after the sibling and unrelated sweeps, assert the target's keys are still active; an ancestor's emergency revoke with create_new_key true (the default) answers 200 with new_key null and no signal; consider saying so in the response or the docs.
Design points for the maintainer, not blockers of this PR
The ancestor path ignores credential restrictions (JWT scopes, key allowed_tools, budgets), exactly as exact access does on main, because no wallet-management route enforces them. The set of operations is unchanged for a narrowly scoped sponsor credential, but its reach is now the whole subtree. This belongs with the JWT scopes question (AUTH-1).
No durable actor record for revokes (a log line only); adding one needs a migration.
Tests only plus one doc, no production change:
- revoke follows the issuer wallet, not the subject (issuer != subject)
- a cycle that contains the sponsor and a missing row above the match fail
closed for the strict rule while the permit-creation rule is unchanged
- default depth cap pinned for both rules
- JWT, enterprise bearer rider and demo key behave as at exact access
- denied sweeps assert the target's keys stay active
api-key-rotation.md now says who may call the wallet key routes.
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Review comments at @gateway/docs/api-key-rotation.md:
- Around line 96-106: Update the ancestor-access description to remove “at any
depth” and state that the target must reach its root within 31 parent hops; make
the depth-denial wording consistent with that limit while preserving the
missing-chain and cyclic-chain cases.
Review comments at @gateway/tests/test_sponsor_downward_governance.py:
- Around line 762-764: In the demo permit-list comparison, assert that the
own-wallet request returns the route’s expected successful status (200), then
assert that the descendant request matches it; keep both calls and their
existing wallet parameters unchanged.
- Around line 438-442: Update _set_parent so foreign-key enforcement is restored
in a finally block whenever foreign_keys=False. End any active transaction
before setting PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON, and use an autocommit connection so
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- State the real depth rule in api-key-rotation.md (root within 31 parent
hops) instead of "any depth"
- Restore PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON after the tamper helper suspends it
- Assert a concrete 200 for the demo key permit list comparison
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Minor · Document the JWT exception to emergency revocation. · api-key-rotation.md:116
gateway/docs/api-key-rotation.md:116 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Document the JWT exception to emergency revocation.
When an authorized strict-ancestor JWT caller omits create_new_key, the default is true. The route returns 403 jwt_cannot_mint_api_key before it calls the revocation service. The caller must set create_new_key: false to revoke the descendant's keys without creating a replacement.
Suggested documentation fix
-- An ancestor's emergency revoke ignores `create_new_key`: it mints no- replacement key for the descendant (`new_key` is null). Each ancestor- revoke is logged with the ancestor's wallet and key id.+- An ancestor using a database key ignores `create_new_key`: it mints no+ replacement key for the descendant (`new_key` is null). Each ancestor+ revoke is logged with the ancestor's wallet and key id. An authorized JWT+ ancestor must set `create_new_key: false`; the default `true` returns+ `403` `jwt_cannot_mint_api_key` before revocation.
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Review comment at @gateway/docs/api-key-rotation.md at line 116:
Update the emergency-revocation documentation near the ancestor behavior
description to distinguish database-key callers from JWT callers. State that an
authorized strict-ancestor JWT caller must set create_new_key to false to revoke
without a replacement; omitting it defaults to true and returns 403
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- Line 116: Update the emergency-revocation documentation near the ancestor
behavior description to distinguish database-key callers from JWT callers. State
that an authorized strict-ancestor JWT caller must set create_new_key to false
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The delta since 7fafed6 is tests and one doc only. No production file changed:
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gateway/docs/api-key-rotation.md (who may call the wallet key routes)
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Mutation check: authorizing revoke on the subject wallet in both route and service fails the new issuer != subject test; the earlier direction and sibling mutants still fail the negative tests.
Depth cap pinned with default arguments. The creation rule keeps main behaviour (hop 32 True, hop 33 False). The strict rule also needs the chain to reach its root inside the cap, so it is one hop shallower (root at hop 31 passes, root at hop 32 denied); the doc now says "within 31 parent hops".
Docs tests listed in the brief pass locally (test_proof_matrix_doc.py does not exist in this repo).
Sponsor downward governance for permits + key revoke/list/emergency/rotation-logs via wallet_strictly_governs / require_governing_wallet_access. Create/rotate stay exact-wallet (resolve_wallet_id).
Findings (non-blocking)
Strict ancestry only (wallet_hierarchy.py): sibling/upward/unrelated/cross-tenant → 403; foreign vs missing wallet identical error (no existence oracle).
Dual gate: router require_governing_wallet_access + service allow_ancestor (default False) so service cannot be called alone for ancestor revoke.
Emergency revoke via ancestry forces bounding_key_id=None — ancestor cannot mint on a descendant (api_keys.py emergency path).
JWT + create_new_key=True refuses before revoke (jwt_cannot_mint_api_key); fail-closed; revoke-without-mint still available with create_new_key=false.
Cycle / depth (>16) fail closed; Alembic single head + downgrade present.
Negatives in test_sponsor_downward_governance.py cover sibling, upward, unrelated, issuer-not-subject, service opt-in, revoked key, cycle/depth.
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Follow-up Comments
Stop the permit-creation walk at the matching issuer.
57-72: Minor · Performance & Scalability · Quick win
Stop the permit-creation walk at the matching issuer.
POST /v1/permits calls this check for every non-bootstrap issuance. The new predicate fetches the full chain before checking the result. For a direct child, it performs two wallet lookups instead of the base implementation's one. Deeper chains add one lookup per ancestor, up to 32, although the creation contract only requires the first match.
Suggested fix
async def wallet_is_or_descends_from(
session: AsyncSession,
wallet_id: str,
ancestor_wallet_id: str,
*,
max_depth: int = MAX_WALLET_HIERARCHY_DEPTH,
) -> bool:
@@
if wallet_id == ancestor_wallet_id:
return True
- ancestry = await walk_wallet_ancestry(session, wallet_id, max_depth=max_depth)- return ancestor_wallet_id in ancestry.ancestors+ current = wallet_id+ seen: set[str] = set()+ for _ in range(max_depth):+ if current in seen:+ return False+ seen.add(current)+ wallet = await session.get(WalletModel, current)+ if wallet is None or not wallet.parent_wallet_id:+ return False+ if wallet.parent_wallet_id == ancestor_wallet_id:+ return True+ current = wallet.parent_wallet_id+ return False
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Review comment at @gateway/app/services/wallet_hierarchy.py around lines 57 -
72:
Update wallet_is_or_descends_from to traverse wallet ancestry incrementally and
return as soon as ancestor_wallet_id matches, rather than calling
walk_wallet_ancestry to load the full chain. Preserve the existing self-match
behavior and ensure the incremental walk retains the established missing-wallet,
cycle-detection, and max_depth safeguards.
Remove the default depth cap from strict governance walks.
75-92: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Remove the default depth cap from strict governance walks.
POST /v1/billing/wallets/child allows a child wallet to create another child wallet. The creation path has no hierarchy-depth limit, so a valid rooted chain can contain 32 or more parent hops.
For a 32-hop chain, walk_wallet_ancestry appends the root ID but does not visit the root within its 32 iterations. It returns complete=False, and wallet_strictly_governs denies access even to the descendant’s direct parent. The affected permit and API-key list, revoke, emergency-revoke, and rotation-log routes therefore deny valid deep chains. Keep the cycle and missing-parent checks, but let strict governance walk to the root at any supported depth.
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Review comment at @gateway/app/services/wallet_hierarchy.py around lines 75 -
92:
Update wallet_strictly_governs so its default ancestry walk can reach the root
of any supported wallet chain, rather than stopping at
MAX_WALLET_HIERARCHY_DEPTH. Preserve the cycle and missing-parent checks, and
continue granting governance only when the walk is complete and the ancestor is
present.
Apply the JWT minting guard only to replacement-key requests.
485-492: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Apply the JWT minting guard only to replacement-key requests.
create_new_key defaults to true. A JWT ancestor request therefore reaches _refuse_jwt_minter and fails before descendant keys are revoked. The service already prevents an ancestor from receiving a replacement key.
Suggested fix
- if request.create_new_key:+ if request.create_new_key and not via_ancestry:
_refuse_jwt_minter(auth)
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Review comment at @gateway/app/routers/api_keys.py around lines 485 - 492:
Update the JWT minting guard in create_new_key to run only when
request.create_new_key is true and via_ancestry is false. Preserve the existing
ancestry access check and descendant-key revocation behavior.
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gateway/app/routers/api_keys.py
gateway/app/routers/permits.py
gateway/app/services/agent_money.py
gateway/app/services/permits.py
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CodeRabbit paused after reviewing this head and added two minor outside-diff findings with no threads (restore first-match stop in the permit-creation walk; remove the strict walk's depth cap). Neither was applied: the coordinator is folding the first into a follow-up, and the depth cap stays (issue Govern downward: a sponsor can list and revoke descendant permits and keys #281 asks for it, and the engine already treats a 32+ hop chain as expired).
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Summary
A sponsor wallet funds agent wallets through
parent_wallet_idbut had no authority over what those descendants hold. This change lets a strict ancestor wallet list and revoke a descendant's permits and API keys, emergency-revoke the descendant wallet, and read its rotation logs, at any depth. Everything else stays on exact-wallet access. This does not touch permit issuance and adds no self-issuance limits.gateway/app/services/wallet_hierarchy.py: one walk over theparent_wallet_idchain (depth cap 32, cycle guard).AgentMoney.is_wallet_or_descendantnow delegates to it with unchanged behavior, so permit creation is not altered. The new strict rule,wallet_strictly_governs, is stricter than the creation rule: it denies equal ids, the reverse direction, siblings, unrelated wallets, a missing wallet, a cycle, and an over-deep chain, and it requires the whole chain to reach a root.require_governing_wallet_accessingateway/app/core/wallet_resolution.py. It callsrequire_wallet_accessfirst; only if that denies does it try strict ancestry, and it re-raises the original 403 otherwise. Only a context with its ownwallet_idcan pass by ancestry.PermitService.revoke_permitgainsallow_ancestor(default False). Only the revoke route sets it, and the service re-checks the hierarchy itself, so a caller of the service never gains ancestry by accident.Routes changed:
GET /v1/permits?wallet_id=,POST /v1/permits/{id}/revoke,GET /v1/api-keys/{wallet_id},DELETE /v1/api-keys/{wallet_id}/{key_id},POST /v1/api-keys/emergency-revoke,GET /v1/api-keys/{wallet_id}/logs.Related issues
Closes #281
Area and license
spec/,verifier/,sdk/python/,sdk/typescript/,integrations/, andexamples/are Apache-2.0.gateway/contributions are under FSL-1.1-ALv2 (Fair Source).Spec changes
Authority model
"Ancestor" means a strict ancestor of the target wallet. Every denial is the same 403
wallet_access_deniedan unrelated tenant already receives at an exact-wallet route.Permit revoke authority follows the permit's issuer wallet, as before. A strict ancestor of the issuer may revoke; an ancestor of only the subject may not.
Not changed: ledger reads, wallet policy authoring, freeze, permit creation, key creation, key rotation, wallet transfers.
Re-parenting and who can set a parent
parent_wallet_idis written in exactly two places, both at wallet creation, and is never updated afterwards (no assignment or UPDATE exists ingateway/app):WalletEngine._create_agent_wallet_insets it to the sponsor. The route requires the caller to own the sponsor wallet (_require_wallet_access), and the wallet must be a sponsor wallet.WalletEngine.create_child_walletsets it to the parent. The service callsrequire_wallet_owner(caller, parent_wallet_id)first. The/v1/billing/wallets/childroute is a dormant surface (mounted only with proof surfaces).So no non-admin caller can create a wallet under a parent it does not control, and nobody can re-parent an existing wallet. A bootstrap admin can name any parent at creation, but a bootstrap admin already holds all authority, so the ancestor rule hands the named parent nothing it did not already have to trust the operator for. The wallet id is a fresh uuid, so a new wallet cannot close a cycle. The walk still fails closed on a cycle (tested by tampering rows directly) and the database foreign key rejects a dangling parent.
Audit
No permit or key revoke route records an actor today: an owner revoke leaves the changed row (
status/revoked_atfor permits,status/revoked_at/revoke_reasonfor keys, the rotation log row for emergency revoke) plus, for keys, a service log line. An ancestor revoke goes through the same service calls and leaves the same rows. In addition, each ancestor-driven revoke logs a warning naming the actor: the sponsor's wallet id and key id (never the secret) and the descendant wallet or issuer. The test asserts the sponsor key id is in the log and that its secret is not. Adding an actor column would need a migration and is left out of scope.Emergency revoke by an ancestor: the replacement-key bounding rule takes its bounds from the caller's own key, which is not a key of the descendant, so
create_new_keyis silently forced off andnew_keyis null. The sponsor can stop a hijacked agent but cannot mint a credential for it. Rotation logs expose key ids and reasons, the same class of data as the masked key list, no secrets, so I judged them safe to include.Validation
Step 0, reproduction on main at bb3d74d (new tests run against unchanged app code): the sponsor key got 403
wallet_access_deniedonGET /v1/permits?wallet_id=A,POST /v1/permits/{id}/revoke(issuer A),GET /v1/api-keys/A,DELETE /v1/api-keys/A/{key},POST /v1/api-keys/emergency-revokefor A, andGET /v1/api-keys/A/logs. 7 of the 13 new tests failed, the 6 negative tests passed (they pin the existing behavior).After: all 13 pass.
Commands (repo root, serial,
python -m pytest):uv run --directory gateway --no-project --isolated --python 3.12 --with-requirements requirements.txt --with-editable '../sdk/python[verify]' python -m pytest tests/test_sponsor_downward_governance.py tests/test_api_keys.py tests/test_rotate_api_keys.py tests/test_permits.py tests/test_owner_enforcement.py tests/test_permit_break_it.py tests/test_route_auth_inventory.py tests/test_permit_request_flow.py -q -rs --tb=shortgave 196 passed.TRUST_MODE_ENABLED=true ALLOW_LEGACY_UNPERMITTED_MCP=false ENABLE_PROOF_SURFACES=falseand-m production_trustgave 12 passed.ruff check .andruff format --check .(pinned version, fromgateway/): clean.mypy==2.4.0 mypy app/: no issues in 213 files.python scripts/export_openapi.py --check:gateway/docs/openapi.jsonmatches. No schema change, so nothing regenerated.tests/test_route_auth_inventory.pypasses unchanged. No existing test was edited.Mutation check: with
wallet_strictly_governschanged to ignore direction,test_descendant_gets_403_against_its_ancestor_on_every_routeand the hierarchy unit test failed. With siblings treated as allowed,test_sibling_gets_403_on_every_route, the issuer-authority test, the service-layer test and the hierarchy unit test failed. The helper was restored and all 13 pass.New tests (
gateway/tests/test_sponsor_downward_governance.py) cover: list and revoke of a self-issued descendant permit; list, revoke and emergency-revoke of a descendant's keys with the sponsor's own keys left active; grandparent over grandchild on every route; equal wallet and bootstrap admin unchanged; descendant, sibling and unrelated tenant 403 on every route (including two levels up, and foreign vs missing wallet answering identically); a revoked sponsor key gains nothing; the service refuses ancestry without the route opt-in; cycle, missing wallet, empty id and depth cap fail closed.Risk and compatibility
wallet_id, and the walk never consults tenant or scopes, matching how exact access works today. Demo-route confinement still applies before the route runs.Contributor checklist
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High Risk
Expands who can revoke API keys and permits to strict ancestor wallets; mistakes in hierarchy or route opt-in could grant or deny too much authority in security-sensitive paths.
Overview
Sponsor wallets can now intervene on funded descendants without changing permit issuance or key create/rotate rules. A wallet key whose
wallet_idis a strict ancestor of the target (sponsor → agent → child) may list/revoke descendant permits, list/revoke keys, emergency-revoke, and read rotation logs; everyone else still gets the same exact-wallet or403behavior.The PR adds
wallet_hierarchy.py(sharedparent_wallet_idwalk, depth cap, cycle guard) andwallet_strictly_governs, which is stricter than the existing permit-creation descent check because the full chain must reach a root.require_governing_wallet_accesstries normal wallet access first, then ancestry viaAgentMoney.wallet_strictly_governs.Only six route surfaces opt in (permits list/revoke, API key list/revoke/emergency/logs).
PermitService.revoke_permitacceptsallow_ancestorand re-checks hierarchy in the service layer. Ancestor-driven revokes emit warning logs (wallet/key ids, not secrets); ancestor emergency revoke does not mint a replacement key for the descendant. Docs inapi-key-rotation.mdand a largetest_sponsor_downward_governance.pysuite cover positive/negative cases and malformed chains.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 67ef29e. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.