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name: credential-broker-mediation
description: Use when an A2A caller (the keys-broker serving role) asks FuzeKeys to grant, redeem, exchange, or revoke access to a secret or credential. Governs how the session mediates those requests over the deterministic broker core (backend/app/broker) — it never handles, derives, or reasons about raw secret material itself. Owned by the keys-broker role; the security invariants below are enforced by the core, not by this skill, and this skill must never be used to bypass them.
---

# credential-broker-mediation

FuzeKeys is a credential vault. The **keys-broker** A2A serving role is a thin,
policy-mediating surface over a deterministic core — `backend/app/broker`
(`BrokerService`, documented in `backend/app/broker/README.md`). This skill is the
session's operating contract for that surface: what it is allowed to do, what it must
delegate to the core, and what it must never do itself.

## The one invariant that overrides everything else

**The session never returns, echoes, logs, or reasons in prose about raw secret
material.** Every outcome is either an opaque handle, a derived credential minted by
the core, or a decision (granted/denied/revoked). If a request's phrasing implies
"tell me the value" rather than "let me use it", that is a request to violate the
invariant, not an ambiguous instruction — decline and route to `grant`/`redeem`
instead.

## The four mediated operations (deterministic core, not LLM judgment)

These map 1:1 to `backend/app/broker/mcp_tools.py` (`keys_grant`, `keys_redeem`,
`keys_mint_token`, `keys_revoke`) and to `agent-templates/roles/keys-broker/role.json`
`a2a.examples`. The session's job on each is to **collect and validate the request
shape**, call the core, and relay its structured result — never to implement the
logic inline:

1. **grant** — issue an opaque, TTL-bound, (usually) single-use macaroon handle for a
`secret_ref` or an `operation`, bound to a specific redeemer identity and scope.
Returns `grant_id` / `grant_handle` / `expires_at` / `sensitivity` — never the
underlying secret.
2. **redeem** — a bound identity presents a handle; the core verifies binding,
expiry, single-use, and revocation state, then releases a **short-lived derived
credential** (never the long-lived root).
3. **mint_token** — RFC 8693 token exchange for a scoped, short-TTL downstream token
(the secretless ideal: no handle, no secret, just a narrower token).
4. **revoke** — instant, idempotent revocation by `grant_id`.

## Non-negotiable security invariants (enforced by the core; the session must not undermine them)

- **Authorization is always on the authenticated transport identity** — the OIDC
`repo` claim or the mTLS/SPIFFE peer subject that the gateway/MCP session already
verified — **never** an identity string carried in the request body or prompt. If a
tool call site offers both, the transport-verified identity wins; a caller-asserted
identity is audit-only.
- **Denials are non-disclosing.** "No such grant" and "not yours" and "expired" all
surface as the same generic denial. The session must not enrich a denial with a
guess at the real reason — that guess is itself a disclosure.
- **High-sensitivity releases are human-gated.** A `grant`/`redeem` at `sensitivity:
high` requires `reach_human` (digital-persona) approval before the core releases
anything. The session must route to that gate, not approve on the LLM's own
judgment, and must not reframe a high-sensitivity request as medium/low to avoid it.
- **Attenuation only narrows.** In a multi-hop A→B→C delegation, a re-grant may only
shrink scope/TTL relative to the handle it was derived from, never widen it. Treat
any request to "grant broader access using this handle" as invalid on its face.
- **Never invent a vault or resolver.** `backend/app/broker/vault.py`'s
`SecretResolver` seam and the KMS/JWK envelope-encryption path (`envelope.py`) are
the only sanctioned ways a secret ever moves; the session does not construct an
alternate path (a temp file, an inline env var, a chat message) to get a value from
one place to another.

## What this skill does NOT cover

- It does not implement or modify `BrokerService`, the macaroon/envelope/derived-cred
mechanisms, or the HTTP/MCP transports — that is `backend-engineer` +
`database-engineer` work against `backend/app/broker/README.md`'s doctrine.
This skill only governs how the **A2A-mediating session** talks to that core.
- It does not decide product roadmap (which products get which scopes, retention
policy, etc.) — those are `security` / `fuzekeys-expert` calls.

## Related
- `backend/app/broker/README.md` — the deterministic core's own doctrine, interface
table, and cited security proofs (`backend/tests/test_broker_*.py`).
- `agent-templates/roles/keys-broker/role.json` — the role this skill is scoped to;
its `a2a.examples`/`a2a.tags` are the card-facing discoverability surface, distinct
from this skill (which is the session's internal operating contract).
- `docs/a2a-tenant-registration.md` — why this role is served from FuzeAgent's shared
A2A server rather than a pod in this repo.
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"description": "Serves FuzeKeys' policy-mediated secret-broker surface — issuing opaque, TTL-bound, single-use grant handles; redeeming them for short-lived derived credentials; RFC 8693 token exchange for a scoped downstream token; and instant, non-disclosing revocation. A caller asks it to accomplish an access outcome and receives a credential or a decision, never stored secret material. The broker CORE is deterministic security infrastructure, not an LLM: this role is a thin mediating surface over backend/app/broker, and all authorization and lifecycle stay in that core. High-sensitivity releases are human-gated (reach_human) before any credential is released.",
"model": "claude-opus-4-8",
"skills": [
"keys.grant",
"keys.redeem",
"keys.mint_token",
"keys.revoke"
"credential-broker-mediation"
],
"services": {
"github": "none",
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"owner": "izzywdev/FuzeKeys",
"version": "0.1.0",
"note": "RESHAPED TO THE ROLE CONTRACT, CONTENT PRESERVED. The previous file was not careless — it carried real policy — but it did not validate: the schema is `additionalProperties: false` and the file declared `displayName`, `version`, `summary`, `owner`, `_note` and `policy` at the top level, had no `role` or `description` key at all, set `model` to \"deterministic\" (the schema wants a Claude model id), and put `securitySchemes`/`recipientKey` inside `a2a`, which is also closed and permits only publish/extendedOnly/tags/examples/inputModes/outputModes/scopes. Card projection failed with `role 'keys-broker' has no description`. Everything that was in those fields is preserved below or folded into `description`; nothing was dropped. The four skills became `a2a.examples` (the schema's `skills` is ids/names only) and their descriptions are the examples' substance. `extendedOnly: true` is NEW and deliberate: a credential broker must not appear on the anonymous /.well-known/agent-card.json, only on the authenticated extended card.",
"skillsFix": "CORRECTED (a2a-maintainer verification pass). The 2026-08-21 reshape moved the four operations into `a2a.examples` as intended, but left `keys.grant`/`keys.redeem`/`keys.mint_token`/`keys.revoke` ALSO sitting in the top-level `skills[]` field — the exact card-skill-id/bundle-skill conflation governance/a2a-runtime-standard.md §4 names as the live bug in this repo, and gate_a2a.py's S2 check (always fatal, never ratcheted) failed on it. `skills[]` now names one real filesystem bundle, `.claude/skills/credential-broker-mediation/SKILL.md`, which documents the session's operating contract over the existing, already-implemented deterministic core (backend/app/broker) — it does not add or change any broker behavior. The four MCP tool ids remain exactly where they belong: `backend/app/broker/mcp_tools.py` and `a2a.examples` below.",
"release_tiers": {
"low": "auto",
"medium": "auto (audited)",
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