Tracking: ADR-0105 — group tenancy posture; organization scope as a first-class authorization dimension #3541

Tracking issue for ADR-0105 (proposed via #3499).

Status: Phase 0, Phase 1, and Phase 2 D8+D9 COMPLETE (re-evaluated 2026-07-30 against ADR-0108/0111/0112/0113 — see the re-evaluation comment). Engine landed in #3559 (activation corrected in #3570, ADR amended in #3603; driver union scope fixed in #3631); console affordances in objectstack-ai/objectui#2858; acceptance met by the three-plants-one-group dogfood (objectstack-ai/cloud#882 + objectstack-ai/cloud#883 — 9/9 assertions passing in BOTH entitlement states). D8 complete end-to-end (#3645 → #3663 → #3674 → #3695 → #3722 → #3767; the membership-role channel its placement replaces is closed by ADR-0108/#3802); D9 landed (#3824 + #3873). Remaining: D10 (blocked on its follow-up ADR), D13, "all my organizations" affordances, Phase 3. ADR status line updated in #4028.

Summary

Group-shaped customers (multi-plant manufacturing, multi-branch retail, holding structures) need one shared database, organization as the membership boundary, group-wide visibility, and cross-org workflows — a middle posture between today's single and multi. The ADR adds a group tenancy posture with MOAC-style union semantics (organization_id IN accessible_org_ids), engine-enforced, preserving ADR-0095 W1/W2 invariants.

Plan evaluation (2026-07-27)

Findings verified against main: F1 (security-plugin.ts substring strip — #3539), F2 (organization_admin wildcard VAMA + auto-org-admin-grant.ts — #3540), F3 (PermissionSet.contextVariables, ExecutionContext.rlsMembership, territory.zod.ts — all consumer-less), F4 (ADR-0092 whitelist has one entry). The technical premises held.

Design assessment: sound, and it survived implementation. D2 widened the existing Layer 0 predicate from equality to set membership; computeTenantLayer0Filter was already a pure function with the PLATFORM_ADMIN-rung exemption and a fail-closed empty-org path, so the delta stayed contained.

Two corrections to the ADR's own line references, found during implementation:

• PermissionSet.contextVariables was at permission.zod.ts:308, not :282.
• The approval org-scoping seam is approval-node.ts:147 (and substantively approval-service.ts:748-768 / :967), not :118.

One ADR claim not confirmed: the "existing 60s cache staleness envelope" the Consequences section attributes to the resolver does not exist there — resolveAuthzContext re-runs per request with no TTL. The 60s window belongs to the better-auth session snapshot cache (auth-manager.ts). D2's resolver therefore adds a per-request read, not a cached one; if that cost matters at scale it needs its own decision.

One implementation finding beyond the ADR: the #2937 write post-image check required a non-array payload, so a BULK insert could carry a forged organization_id per row — the same defect one call site down. Closed as part of D5.

Dogfood findings (the acceptance run paid for itself): #3623 (driver-level native tenant scoping collapsed group union reads to active-org equality — fixed in #3631), #3624 (org creation over HTTP 500s with teams enabled: better-auth 1.7 memberCount vs sys_team — CLOSED by #3647, see the 07-27 comment for the full sweep it triggered), cloud#881 (per-org seed replay primary path never engaged — fixed in cloud#884).

Repo split (per cloud ADR-0016 iron rule 强制免费、治理收费, cloud ADR-0081)

This repo (open, framework): all enforcement primitives (code) — shipped in #3559 + #3631; posture activation is entitled (#3570). Scoped-invitation and delegated-admin console UX live open in objectui's app-shell (correction recorded in the 07-27 D8 comment — cloud sells the runtime that entitles the posture, not the console screens).

cloud repo (commercial, @objectstack/organizations): org lifecycle management, grouping/registry UI, cross-org approval templates, master-data distribution management, per-org seed/config replay, org analytics, D13 promotion tooling. Cloud-side tracking issue: objectstack-ai/cloud#874; acceptance/regression harness: objectstack-ai/cloud#880 (apps/ee-group-showcase, DONE).

D12 line — corrected (#3570; ADR amended in #3603): the open-activation reading shipped in #3559 was reviewed by the founder and ruled wrong — it made the stronger multi-org posture free while isolated stayed entitled, inverting ADR-0081 D2, and it opened a silent-degradation hole (OS_TENANCY_POSTURE=group skipped both the enterprise package load and the ADR-0093 D5 fail-fast). #3570 made group an entitlement again: it probes org-scoping exactly like isolated; without the enterprise runtime the posture resolves to single + degraded, and an os serve boot configured for group refuses to start instead of silently running single-org. Iron-rule safety is satisfied by refusing to run an unwalled group boot, not by free activation — open code is not free activation. Both multi-org postures are @objectstack/organizations capability, and the runtime declares WHICH shapes it entitles (supportedPostures, cloud#875) with the open core failing closed on anything undeclared.

Phases

Phase 0 — correctness (open, immediate, independent of D1) — ✅ landed in #3559

• P0: collectRLSPolicies silently strips authored org-scoped RLS policies when org-scoping is inactive (ADR-0105 F1 → D3) #3539 — D3: strip only the platform's own tenant policies (provenance, not substring)
• P0: organization_admin wildcard VAMA is contained only by the tenant wall — wall-less postures yield env-wide superusers (ADR-0105 F2 → D4) #3540 — D4: VAMA bounded by org scope in every posture
• D11: remove PermissionSet.contextVariables from spec
• D11: remove spec/src/security/territory.zod.ts
• D7: collision guard for extension fields on better-auth-managed objects (derives better-auth's real surface from getAuthTables())
• Conformance-matrix rows: wall-less-VAMA, authored-policy-survival (+3 more)

Phase 1 — group posture MVP — ✅ COMPLETE

• D1: single | group | isolated in the tenancy service (OS_TENANCY_POSTURE; existing multi → isolated)
• D2: core-resolved ExecutionContext.accessible_org_ids; group Layer 0 filter organization_id IN accessible_org_ids; empty/absent ⇒ RLS_DENY_FILTER. Driver-level union scope (DriverOptions.tenantIds) fixed in fix(authz): widen the driver's native tenant scope to the group membership union — ADR-0105 D2 reaches the wire (#3623) #3631 after the dogfood caught the equality collapse (group posture: SQL driver's native tenant scoping collapses union reads to active-org equality (ADR-0105 D2 never reaches the wire) #3623)
• D5: engine stamping + write validation in group/isolated (incl. the bulk-insert hole)
• D6: org grouping metadata fields + red-line lints (validateOrgAxisRedLines, wired into os lint/compile/validate)
• D7: whitelist entries for org/member extension fields
• D11: productize rlsMembership — IRlsMembershipResolver under rls-membership-resolver
• Group-mode default permission sets (organization_admin_no_bypass, derived)
• UI: org switcher as write context; "all my orgs" read views — landed in feat(console): group tenancy posture affordances — org switcher as write context + org attribution (ADR-0105 Phase 1) objectui#2858 (features.tenancyPosture-keyed; non-group renders unchanged)
• Acceptance: three-plants-one-group dogfood — objectstack-ai/cloud#880 / objectstack-ai/cloud#882 / objectstack-ai/cloud#883: plant admins mutually invisible, group member reads all plants via union, active-org switch moves the write target only, forged cross-org organization_id never lands in the victim org, zero custom security code; PLUS the unentitled-state boundary regression (degrade to single+degraded; per-posture entitlement narrowing via supportedPostures)

Phase 2 — group product depth

• D8: scoped invitations — ✅ COMPLETE: feat(auth): onInvitationAccepted host seam — afterAcceptInvitation forwarded to the host (ADR-0105 D8 prerequisite) #3645 (host seam) → feat(authz): scoped invitations — placement intent gated by the issuer's adminScope, applied on acceptance (ADR-0105 D8) #3663 (placement engine: sys_invitation placement fields via the ADR-0092 whitelist, beforeCreateInvitation issuance gate, idempotent accept-time application) → feat(authz): expose the caller's delegable scope — the read half of the delegated-admin gate (ADR-0090 D12 / ADR-0105 D8) #3674 (GET /security/my-delegable-scope) → fix(security): resolve the issuer's real grants when authorizing invitation placement (ADR-0105 D8) #3695 (issuance resolves the ISSUER's real grants) → feat(auth): give ADR-0105 D8's scope-bounded issuance a caller — delegated_admin, capped (#3697) #3722 (delegated_admin org role + invitation role cap — closes ADR-0105 D8: the scope-bounded issuance path has no caller — every principal who may invite is already a tenant admin #3697's no-caller gap AND its escalation chain) → fix(security): govern sys_member writes — membership is not a delegable capability (#3697 follow-up) #3767 (sys_member joins GOVERNED_OBJECTS); console feat(console): scoped-invitation placement — invite straight into a unit and positions (framework ADR-0105 D8) objectui#2868 + feat(console): make delegated_admin reachable and narrow both role pickers (framework#3697) objectui#2891; e2e objectstack-ai/cloud#886. The membership-role capability channel placement replaces is closed by ADR-0108 (feat(auth)!: membership grade is not a capability channel — close the sys_member.role vocabulary (ADR-0108, #3723) #3802)
• D9: cross-org approval targeting — ✅ landed in feat(approvals): cross-organization approver targeting (ADR-0105 D9) #3824 (per-approver organization: $root/$parent symbols + slug over D6's tree; legality = shares a parent_organization_id root, independent of the submitter; non-group postures refuse at runtime; ADR text amended in-PR) + fix(approvals): refuse cross-org targeting on directory-less approver types (ADR-0105 D9) #3873 (directory-less approver types user/field/manager refuse instead of staying silently inert — found by the cloud dogfood, not review). Cloud e2e confirmed the two links unit tests structurally can't: union-wall reads by the cross-org approver, and decide() by a foreign-org actor
• D10: layered master data — blocked on its follow-up ADR (the ADR reserves the concept only; none of ADR-0106…0113 is it — this is the one remaining framework-side design item in Phase 2)
• D13: BU-subtree → organization promotion tool (+ verification harness) — not started; repo split places the tooling cloud-side (cloud#874)
• "All my organizations" console affordances — read views landed with feat(console): group tenancy posture affordances — org switcher as write context + org attribution (ADR-0105 Phase 1) objectui#2858 (Phase 1); remaining scope (deeper console/registry affordances) undefined, cloud-side pieces in cloud#874

Phase 3 — governance (commercial, cloud repo)

• SoD constraints, certification campaigns (ADR-0091 data), deny/muting layer (ADR-0066 ⑦⑧), generalized dimension security (territory's successor — ADR-0111 has since reserved the per-verb capability-mask direction for it)

Refs: ADR-0093, ADR-0095, ADR-0090, ADR-0091, ADR-0092, ADR-0049, ADR-0108, ADR-0111; cloud ADR-0016, cloud ADR-0081.