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The publishability gate caught internal tooling names and developer paths but
nothing site-specific, so roughly sixty leaks reached the wiki: the site name in
ten documents, real fleet hostnames in the collector and GE-Enforce examples, an
internal database name through the whole import guide, imaging-share paths, and
a maintainer's username as the Deciders line of every ADR and inside a generated
curl example.

None of it is a security matter on an air-gapped fleet. It matters because these
pages are read by engineers at other plants, and a document that names one site
throughout reads as that site's notes rather than a product's documentation -
which is exactly what it then gets treated as.

Examples now use neutral hostnames, the site is "the reference site" where the
distinction carries meaning, and ADRs are decided by "ShopDB maintainers". The
gate carries all of these patterns, so the next one fails a build.

Two documents leave docs/ because they were never written for an outside reader.
PROJECT-REVIEW.md is an internal health memo pinned to a commit from July, whose
headline finding (an untracked playbook) has since been fixed - it is history,
and git holds it. PILOT-DEPLOY.md is one site's own cutover runbook, complete
with a "re-measure before publishing" placeholder; it moves next to the loader
it belongs to, in scripts/site_imports/wjf/.

ADR-015 is AMENDED rather than rewritten. Its enforcement section still said
report-only and its backlog still listed hardcodes that are now cleared, which
left the record contradicting itself. The amendment says what changed and why
the report-only period ended; the original text stays, because what the decision
looked like when it was taken is the part worth keeping.

Also corrects llms.txt's response envelope, which had errors at the top level
and pagination at meta.total. Both are nested one deeper, so anything written
against that description read undefined on every error it tried to handle.
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# ADR-012: GE-Enforce manifest ownership in shopdb
- **Status:** ACCEPTED
- **Date:** 2026-07-13
- **Deciders:** ShopDB maintainers
- **Relates to:** ADR-002 (plugin contract versioning), ADR-004 (per-site
deployment), ADR-006 (collector contract), ADR-008 (per-plugin Alembic chains)
## Context
GE-Enforce is a desired-state enforcement system for shopfloor PCs: a PowerShell
engine (`Install-FromManifest.ps1`) reads per-PC-type `manifest.json` files off
an SMB share every logon and installs / self-heals what they declare. Authoring
those manifests today means hand-editing JSON on a file share, and there is no
central view of what each PC actually did.
We want shopdb to own the manifests as data (author, version, publish, roll
back) and to observe fleet compliance, while NOT taking on the GE-Enforce engine
itself (which is the GE-Enforce framework's, maintained separately) and NOT
dictating any site's imaging path (per ADR-004, each site is single-tenant with
its own provisioning - PXE at the reference site, OOBE provisioning packages at
others).
The manifests are an enforcement PROGRAM, not an application inventory: entry
`Type` is not an app/config discriminator and entry `Name` is a manifest label,
not a Windows ARP DisplayName. Any design that treats them as an app catalog is
wrong.
## Decision
Build a bundled `geenforce` plugin that owns the manifest as shopdb data, with a
client kit and a deployment bootstrap. Specifically:
1. **Data model.** One wide `manifestentries` table with an `entrytype`
discriminator and nullable per-type columns (not SQLAlchemy STI, not a JSON
blob - the fleet is ~64 entries, so sparse columns are free and stay
queryable). Scopes are `manifestscopes`, unique on `(scopename, phase)`;
runtime is per-pctype scopes, preinstall is one flat scope. Multi-value gates
(PCTypes / hostnames / machine numbers) and the nested InUseCheck are child
tables. `sortorder` is the execution-order contract. RegValue is stored as a
raw JSON literal so DWord-vs-string typing survives. Per-plugin Alembic chain
(ADR-008).
2. **Published snapshots.** Editing touches a DRAFT only. Publish freezes the
rendered JSON document into an immutable `manifestpublishedversions` row; the
client is ALWAYS served the current published snapshot, never the draft;
rollback flips `iscurrent` to an older version. Freezing the document (not
row-mirroring) makes immutability structural.
3. **Behavioral-parity gate, not byte-identity.** A DB-free harness
(`parity.py`) imports each real manifest and renders it back, then proves
BEHAVIORAL equivalence (same ordered entries with identical detection /
targeting, and the same entries fire across machine-profile fixtures) - never
byte equality, which re-serialization would never satisfy. This gates any
build that touches the model.
4. **Filter mirror; engine is the single source of truth.** `filters.py`
mirrors the engine's four gate functions and alias graph for the "what would
this PC get" simulator and parity. The engine lib stays authoritative;
shopdb mirrors it (never the reverse). PCTypesStrict is honored only for the
preinstall phase, matching the runners.
5. **Payload integrity is separate from detection.** For `http`/`inline`
payloads a dedicated `payloadsha256` is verified before running - independent
of `DetectionMethod` (DetectionValue is a hash only for `Hash` detection).
`smb` payloads keep the share ACL as their trust boundary. Large binaries
stay on SMB; small config/scripts may move to http/inline later.
6. **Observed-state reporting.** Each PC POSTs its enforcement result;
`manifestenforcementreports` (+ results) records the applied version
(received-latest) and per-entry self-heal / failure. Status derives from
explicit self-heal flags only, never the raw installed count (Always/no-
detection scripts install every cycle without being drift corrections).
7. **Service-token auth.** Client endpoints authorize via managed service
tokens scoped `geenforce.fetch` / `geenforce.report`, through a new
`service_token_authorized(scope)` on the `shopdb.api` contract surface
(contract 0.11.0). Admin CRUD uses `geenforce.manage` / `geenforce.publish`.
8. **Client + deployment, engine referenced not vendored.** shopdb ships the
fetch/report kit (`plugins/geenforce/client/`) and a site-neutral bootstrap
(`Install-GEEnforce.ps1`) that provisions a PC's identity
(`C:\Enrollment\pc-type.txt` etc. - what determines the PC type; there is no
auto-detection, the provisioner supplies it), the shopdb registry config, and
the scheduled task. The GE-Enforce ENGINE is referenced (`-EngineSource`),
not carried by shopdb. Deployment is provisioning-path independent (PXE step,
OOBE ppkg, Intune, manual); the runtime task is fail-safe.
9. **Milestone 1 = export to share; staged cutover.** Until a site cuts its
client over to shopdb-sourced manifests, the plugin publishes and EXPORTS the
manifest to the share (with a `_meta/history` backup, atomic write); the
unchanged engine picks it up. Cutover is staged: shadow mode (fetch from
shopdb AND read the share, log diffs, install from share) then read cutover.
10. **No application auto-seeding.** The core Applications catalog already
tracks these apps (from the classic-shopdb migration) with version
histories; auto-creating Applications from manifest labels produced
duplicates and misclassified config drops. Application linkage, if wanted, is
a curated manifest-entry -> existing-Application link, not label scraping.
## Consequences
- **Positive.** Manifests become validated, versioned, publishable data with
one-click rollback and a fleet-compliance view; desired-state and observed-
state live in one system. The parity gate + published snapshots + separate
payload hash make a fleet-wide-SYSTEM system safe to author. The plugin is
provisioning-agnostic, so any GE Aerospace site can adopt it regardless of
imaging path. Validated end to end: parity green against the real manifests,
and the client kit + installer proven on a Windows VM (PS 5.1) and Linux
pwsh 7.
- **Boundaries / risks.** The engine remains the GE-Enforce framework's, so
shopdb's parity mirror must be kept in sync with the lib (guarded by the parity
fixtures; the plugin pins lib >= 2.6 for `_CmmVersion`). Provisioning writes
the PC identity - shopdb cannot set a PC's type at imaging (a PC is unknown
until it enrolls and reports). Manifest-label vs ARP-name mismatch means the
catalog link, when built, needs a curated alias layer.
- **Deferred.** Desired-vs-observed per-entry compliance (needs a collector
installedVersions field); curated manifest-entry -> Application linking; the
live client cutover (a site operational decision); inline payload upload.
See `docs/proposals/ge-enforce-plugin.md` (design + cutover), `docs/GE-ENFORCE.md`
(concepts + imaging timeline), `docs/GE-ENFORCE-CLIENT.md` (fetch/report
contract), and `docs/GE-ENFORCE-DEPLOY.md` (agent deployment).