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RFC 0048 — Graph operational surfaces (spec-only, specified). The follow-up to RFC 0047's implementation retrospective (#705#710): the four surfaces the slices had to decide on their own, promoted to contract with acceptance criteria — or replaced where the slice's choice was a workaround.

  1. One tenant id grammar at every boundary (visible ASCII, 1–128 B, no : # / whitespace) — selector, querier/MCP, token config, OIDC claim, graph object. Removes RFC 0047's percent-encoding of the tenant segment (a smell that said the grammar belonged upstream). Amends RFC 0046 §3.1; pre-production !.
  2. Identity keys as configuration (visibility.identities.user_columns / agent_columns, defaults = today's semconv keys) next to the already-explicit conversation column.
  3. Erasure front door: ourios-server graph erase / graph erasures over the RFC 0047 store marker (the only channel), no HTTP/MCP surface; completion observable via marker, audit kind 9, metric, and one structured event.
  4. Backfill: ourios-server graph backfill --tenant T feeds the graph from data stored before the graph was configured (idempotent, never rewrites Parquet).
  5. Rejects the request-carried contextual-tuple bridge (RFC 0047 §3.3(b) / RFC0047.5 arm) and names the only trusted carrier (IdP group claim). Closes RFC 0047 §7's item.
  6. Makes the list_timeout_ms / server-deadline assumption loud at startup.

Eight criteria (RFC0048.1–.8); the RFC 0047 container harness carries the integration arms. Nothing here changes the model or the two-step.

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RFC 0046, RFC 0047 (#704#710).

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  • mdbook build clean
  • RFC linked (SUMMARY.md)

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  • Documentation
    • Added RFC 0048, documenting graph operational surfaces including tenant naming, identity configuration, erasure commands, resumable backfills, trusted contextual tuples, and OpenFGA deadline visibility.
    • Updated the RFC index to link to the new document.
    • Clarified RFC 0047 acceptance criteria and deferred behavior in relation to RFC 0048.

The operational surfaces the RFC 0047 implementation had to choose on
its own, promoted to contract with criteria: one tenant id grammar at
every boundary (removing the graph's percent-encoding), the graph's
identity keys as configuration with the semconv keys as defaults, an
operator front door for erasure over the RFC 0047 store marker (CLI
verbs), a backfill pass for pre-existing data, formal rejection of the
request-carried contextual-tuple bridge, and a loud startup event for
the list-timeout / server-deadline coupling. RFC 0047 §7 item closed by
reference.

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Added RFC 0048 for graph operational surfaces. It defines tenant validation, identity configuration, CLI erasure, resumable backfill, contextual-tuple restrictions, deadline logging, acceptance criteria, and related RFC documentation updates.

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Graph operational surfaces RFC

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RFC scope and decisions
docs/rfcs/0048-graph-operational-surfaces.md
Defines tenant grammar, graph object naming, identity configuration, contextual-tuple restrictions, deadline logging, rejected alternatives, open questions, references, and follow-on work.
Operational erasure and backfill commands
docs/rfcs/0048-graph-operational-surfaces.md
Specifies CLI erasure commands and resumable backfill with storage markers, batch limits, progress events, tenant partitioning, and locking against concurrent erasure processing.
Acceptance criteria and RFC integration
docs/rfcs/0048-graph-operational-surfaces.md, docs/rfcs/0047-rebac-resolver-and-graph-visibility.md, docs/SUMMARY.md
Adds acceptance and test scenarios, marks the related RFC 0047 checklist item complete, and links RFC 0048 from the RFC index.

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The RFC defines graph identity, erasure, and backfill behavior, but the current text still contains conflicting conversation-ID rules, incomplete request-field semantics, configuration-name mismatches, and backfill/erasure coordination gaps that could lead to rejected valid identifiers, recreated deleted data, or blocked erasure processing. Merge should wait for these contract details to be corrected or explicitly accepted.

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Pull request overview

Adds RFC 0048 (specified) to formalize operational contracts that RFC 0047’s implementation slices had to decide ad hoc—standardizing tenant ID grammar across boundaries, making identity keys configurable, and defining explicit CLI surfaces for erasure and backfill (while rejecting request-carried contextual tuples).

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  • Adds RFC 0048 spec covering tenant-id grammar, identity-key configuration, erasure/backfill CLI surfaces, and deadline coupling observability.
  • Links RFC 0048 into the mdBook SUMMARY.
  • Updates RFC 0047 open questions to record that the request-carried contextual tuple bridge is rejected by RFC 0048.

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docs/rfcs/0048-graph-operational-surfaces.md New specified RFC defining operational surfaces and acceptance criteria for graph usage.
docs/rfcs/0047-rebac-resolver-and-graph-visibility.md Records RFC 0048’s decision to reject request-carried contextual tuples and to take over related operational details.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/rfcs/0048-graph-operational-surfaces.md`:
- Around line 139-142: Add a console or text language identifier to the opening
fences for both command-example blocks in the graph operational surfaces
documentation, including the blocks containing the graph erase/erasures commands
and the later command example.
- Around line 163-169: Update the backfill flow described in the graph
operational surfaces RFC to coordinate with erasure using a store-backed
exclusion, lock, or generation fence, preventing tuples for an erased
conversation from being recreated when backfill writes after erasure. Add an
acceptance scenario covering concurrent backfill and erasure, and preserve
resumable idempotent batching for unaffected data.
- Around line 160-164: Update the graph backfill documentation around the
`--from` option to define its boundary semantics: specify whether the date is
inclusive or exclusive, identify the partition timestamp used for filtering, and
state the timezone used to map timestamps to dates. Express the resulting
interval explicitly, including whether it is half-open, so backfill behavior is
reproducible.
- Around line 99-105: Define the conversation-ID grammar explicitly in the RFC,
choosing whether it reuses the object-ID grammar or a separate CLI grammar, and
apply that choice consistently across the emitter, planner, erasure path, and
CLI. Correct the documented byte budget to 127 bytes for the ID with a 128-byte
tenant, or 114 bytes only when the 256-byte cap includes the conversation:
prefix.
- Around line 173-179: Remove arbitrary contextual-tuple inputs from
ListObjectsRequest::contextual_tuples and OpenFgaClient::check, and stop
forwarding caller-supplied tuples to OpenFGA. Build tuples only from verified
OIDC groups using TupleKey with the principal as user, “member” as relation, and
“team:<group>” as object after validating each group as an OpenFGA object ID.
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docs/rfcs/0048-graph-operational-surfaces.md:250

  • RFC0048.4 acceptance criteria says “Given an id outside the grammar…”, but the grammar defined in §3.1 is for tenant ids specifically. To keep the criterion precise/testable, it should name the tenant id (or define a conversation-id grammar separately).
> conversation, rows dropped and tuples deleted; And Given an id outside
> the grammar, Then the verb refuses it before touching the store.

docs/rfcs/0048-graph-operational-surfaces.md:179

  • This sentence says contextual tuples reach the graph from “exactly two carriers”, but only lists the OIDC group claim and then says “nothing else in v1”. That’s a contradiction; either list both carriers or change this to “exactly one carrier”.
graph from exactly two carriers, both trusted by construction: the OIDC
group claim (`team:<group>#member@<principal>`, minted by the identity
provider — RFC 0047 §3.1) and nothing else in v1. Freshness for a

docs/rfcs/0048-graph-operational-surfaces.md:128

  • The defaults are described as “OpenTelemetry semantic-convention keys”, but attr.user.hash is an Ourios-specific promoted key (not part of the ourios-semconv crate). This reads as incorrect provenance; better to describe them as “today’s emitter defaults” and list the actual column names.
binding, exactly as RFC 0047 §3.3). Defaults are today's constants — the
OpenTelemetry semantic-convention keys — so a deployment that says nothing

docs/rfcs/0048-graph-operational-surfaces.md:289

  • Open questions: “needs .-free” doesn’t match the grammar discussion (the grammar doesn’t single out . at all, and loosening later would be about allowing currently-excluded characters or longer length). This looks like a mistaken character in the text.
      needs `.`-free or longer ids? (Defaults to tight; loosening later is

docs/rfcs/0048-graph-operational-surfaces.md:149

  • §3.3 says both CLI verbs refuse a “tenant or conversation id outside the §3.1 grammar”, but §3.1 only defines the tenant-id grammar. As written, this is internally inconsistent and could be read as applying tenant constraints to conversation ids without ever specifying a conversation-id grammar.

This issue also appears on line 249 of the same file.

S3 stores alike, and both refuse a tenant or conversation id outside the
§3.1 grammar. `erase` is idempotent (create-if-absent, RFC 0047 §3.6). No

…asure fence, typed tuples

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  • The acceptance criteria define RFC0048.1 through RFC0048.8 (8 criteria), but the PR description states there are seven (RFC0048.1–.7). To avoid confusion when tracking scenarios, align the stated criteria count (and update the PR description accordingly).
Scenario ids `RFC0048.<n>`.

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docs/rfcs/0048-graph-operational-surfaces.md:190

  • Backfill lock marker naming is inconsistent with the existing convention that object-store tenant path segments are percent-encoded (RFC 0005 §3.4) and with RFC 0047’s erasure marker (erasure/tenant_id=<enc>/…). Since the tenant grammar still allows bytes like %, the lock marker should also use the same <enc> encoding to avoid ambiguous/unportable object keys.
by creating (create-if-absent) a **lock marker** `backfill/tenant_id=<T>`

docs/rfcs/0048-graph-operational-surfaces.md:245

  • The PR description states there are seven acceptance criteria (RFC0048.1–.7), but this RFC includes RFC0048.8 as well. To avoid confusion for readers and test planning, the acceptance-criteria intro should explicitly reflect the full criterion range used in the document (or the criteria should be renumbered/merged to match the stated count).
Scenario ids `RFC0048.<n>`.

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264-272: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the exact promoted-column identifiers in RFC0048.3.

The design defines attr.user.hash and attr.gen_ai.agent.id. The acceptance criterion shortens them to user.hash and gen_ai.agent.id. Keep the attr. prefix so the acceptance test names the same columns as the configuration contract.

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In `@docs/rfcs/0048-graph-operational-surfaces.md` around lines 264 - 272, Update
RFC0048.3 to use the exact promoted-column identifiers attr.user.hash and
attr.gen_ai.agent.id in the acceptance criterion, preserving the attr. prefix
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Apply separate validation grammars to --tenant and --conversation.

Lines [115-116] state that --tenant uses the tenant grammar and --conversation uses the object-id grammar. Lines [157-158] instead say both values use the §3.1 grammar. This conflicts with the allowed / in conversation IDs and the separate 256-byte object limit. Update §3.3 and RFC0048.4 to name both rules explicitly.

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In `@docs/rfcs/0048-graph-operational-surfaces.md` around lines 155 - 158, Update
the RFC 0048 documentation, including §3.3 and RFC0048.4, to state explicitly
that --tenant uses the tenant grammar while --conversation uses the object-id
grammar, including conversation IDs’ allowed slash characters and separate
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- Around line 186-197: Update the RFC 0048 backfill startup refusal flow so it
removes the newly created backfill lock marker before returning when pending
erasure markers are detected. Amend the corresponding RFC0048.8 assertions to
require this cleanup, while preserving lock removal on normal completion and via
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In `@docs/rfcs/0048-graph-operational-surfaces.md`:
- Around line 264-272: Update RFC0048.3 to use the exact promoted-column
identifiers attr.user.hash and attr.gen_ai.agent.id in the acceptance criterion,
preserving the attr. prefix consistently with the configuration contract.
- Around line 155-158: Update the RFC 0048 documentation, including §3.3 and
RFC0048.4, to state explicitly that --tenant uses the tenant grammar while
--conversation uses the object-id grammar, including conversation IDs’ allowed
slash characters and separate 256-byte limit; remove wording that implies both
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