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chore: initial commit of Go API gateway
Baseline for the Kong replacement on api.riotpiao.com. Brings the working
tree under version control for the first time: gateway source, the task
board that drives the agent runs, test fixtures, and K8s manifests.

Anchor the gateway ignore rule to the repo root. Unanchored, "gateway"
also matched the cmd/gateway/ source directory, so the program entrypoint
was excluded from every commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-08-19 20:54:34 -07:00

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# 3.5 — Capability authorization (RED)
Phase: 3 — Authentication
Stage: RED
Depends on: [3.2](3.2-bearer-validation.md), [3.4](3.4-flag-gated-rollout.md)
- [ ] Beyond proving who the caller is, the gateway checks the token is permitted to invoke the capability being called
- [ ] Each capability prefix — `/v1/*` for the model surface, and the future `/sqs/*`, `/workflow/*`, `/cluster/*`, `/db/*` — maps to a required grant, and the mapping is configuration
- [ ] A token carrying a queue grant but no model grant is rejected on `POST /v1/chat/completions` with 403, not 401 — it authenticated fine, it is not permitted
- [ ] A token with no recognised grant at all is rejected on every protected route
- [ ] Rejections are RFC 9457 `application/problem+json` and state which capability was denied, without echoing the token or its claims verbatim
- [ ] Denials are logged with the caller identity and the capability, and counted as a distinct rejection reason
- [ ] A route with no required grant configured while auth is on fails startup rather than defaulting to allow-all
Write the failing tests first: a queue token must not invoke a GPU. The default on an
unconfigured route is deny, because a fail-open authorization layer is worse than none
— it reads as protection while granting everything.
## Verify
```bash
curl -s -i localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions -H "authorization: Bearer $QUEUE_ONLY_TOKEN" \
-H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"model":"reasoning","messages":[]}'
# expected: 403, application/problem+json naming the denied capability, no upstream stub hit
curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions \
-H "authorization: Bearer $MODEL_TOKEN" -H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{"model":"reasoning","messages":[]}'
# expected: 200
./gateway --config testdata/auth-on-route-without-grant.yaml; echo "exit=$?"
# expected: non-zero exit, stderr names the route missing a required grant
```