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WalkthroughThe change adds production deployment paths for AWS and self-managed environments. It introduces stage-aware runtime defaults, file-backed secrets, ACK key generation, configurable account signature schemes, related API contracts, Terraform wiring, and deployment validation scripts. ChangesProduction runtime defaults
Account registration policy
Secrets and deployment tooling
Production deployment assets
Supporting configuration and documentation
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes Change: Feature Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The production deployment change still leaves secret handling and operational guidance defects that can expose sensitive configuration, hinder recovery from key-write failures, or mislead no-AWS operators. Resolve these before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@docs/guides/aws-signers/.env.example`:
- Around line 34-36: Reword the cursor signing key note in the .env.example
guidance so it does not claim the prod stage itself refuses to start; the
enforcement happens through Compose variable expansion in the docker-compose
setup. Update the comment near the pagination cursor secret description to match
this behavior, keeping the requirement for a 32-byte hex key but removing any
runtime-startup wording tied to prod.
In `@docs/guides/aws-signers/README.md`:
- Around line 65-67: The README wording for GUARDIAN_DASHBOARD_CURSOR_SECRET
should be updated because the current phrasing incorrectly implies the server
itself enforces the startup failure. Rephrase the explanation in the aws-signers
guide to make it clear that the immediate check happens in the Compose
required-variable validation driven by GUARDIAN_ENV=prod, and that this is what
blocks startup when the secret is missing.
In `@docs/guides/production/docker-compose.yml`:
- Line 24: The docker-compose service is publishing the metrics port externally
via the 9464 mapping, which exposes the endpoint on all interfaces by default.
Update the compose configuration for the affected service entries to bind
metrics to loopback only or remove the published port entirely, and keep the
change consistent across all referenced instances in the docker-compose file.
- Around line 19-20: The production docker compose service is defaulting to an
unstable image tag via the image field that references GUARDIAN_VERSION with a
latest fallback, which can cause non-reproducible deployments. Update the
compose configuration to require an explicit version tag for the guardian image
and remove the latest default from the image reference in the docker-compose
setup, keeping the change localized to the service definition that uses
pull_policy.
In `@docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-24-production-guide-design.md`:
- Around line 17-25: The spec currently states an AWS-only scope and explicitly
says there is no committed Compose track, which conflicts with the new Docker
Compose deliverables. Update the scope/non-goals text in the production guide
spec to match the implemented `docs/guides/production/docker-compose.yml` and
related README content, using the existing “Scope” section and any references to
`PRODUCTION.md`/Compose so acceptance criteria are consistent.
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Pull request overview
Adds a new end-to-end “Production deployment” guide under docs/guides/production/, and wires it into the docs entry points so operators can follow a single step-by-step walkthrough from docs/PRODUCTION.md / docs/guides/README.md.
Changes:
- Add
docs/guides/production/README.mdplus a companion Compose stack and.env.example. - Link the new guide from
docs/PRODUCTION.mdand list it indocs/guides/README.md. - Update the existing
aws-signersguide’s Compose setup to include the dashboard cursor secret.
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| docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-24-production-guide-design.md | Design/spec notes for the production guide deliverable and scope. |
| docs/PRODUCTION.md | Adds prominent link to the new production deployment guide and includes it in the “Where details live” table. |
| docs/guides/README.md | Adds the new Production deployment guide to the guides index and explains its artifacts. |
| docs/guides/production/README.md | New step-by-step production walkthrough (AWS ECS/Fargate + optional Compose track). |
| docs/guides/production/docker-compose.yml | New Compose stack for a self-hosted, single-replica run using AWS-managed secrets. |
| docs/guides/production/.env.example | Example environment file for the new production Compose track. |
| docs/guides/aws-signers/README.md | Documents the new required env var for the aws-signers Compose setup and points readers to the production guide. |
| docs/guides/aws-signers/docker-compose.yml | Adds GUARDIAN_DASHBOARD_CURSOR_SECRET to the aws-signers Compose environment. |
| docs/guides/aws-signers/.env.example | Adds GUARDIAN_DASHBOARD_CURSOR_SECRET to the aws-signers example env file. |
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- Attribute cursor-secret enforcement to the Compose ${VAR:?} expansion rather
than a server-side prod guard (the server cursor secret is optional on main;
the hard requirement lands with #301).
- Production compose: require an explicit GUARDIAN_VERSION (drop the :latest
default) and bind the metrics port to loopback (127.0.0.1:9464).
- Track B smoke: drop the unconfirmed "storage encryption" log grep; rely on
ECDSA-signer-ready + clean startup.
- Remove the design-spec artifact from the PR (brainstorming doc, not repo
content).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Copilot findings re: missing features (storage encryption envs/commands, |
The allowlist section now states there is no operator-key bootstrap (the server only holds operator public keys) and points at DASHBOARD.md "Enrolling an operator" for how an operator generates their own Falcon keypair. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Show both allowlist options: Terraform-managed from a public-key JSON list (dashboard:read only) vs. an externally-managed Secrets Manager secret via GUARDIAN_OPERATOR_PUBLIC_KEYS_SECRET_ARN (runtime _SECRET_ID), which is the only path that can grant accounts:pause via object entries. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ACK key write failures can leave partial identities, and several documented smoke/setup commands do not work as written.
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253-254: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winMake the recovery warning cover both storage-encryption key sources.
The storage-encryption key document is part of the recovery set whether Guardian loads it from Secrets Manager or
GUARDIAN_STORAGE_ENCRYPTION_KEY_FILE. Without that document, restored ciphertext cannot be decrypted. The production guide already tells self-managed operators to keep a copy with database backups, so the issue is limited to the narrower warning indocs/PRODUCTION.md.Proposed fix
- The Secrets Manager encryption key is part of the recovery set: losing - it makes every restored payload unrecoverable. Keep an out-of-band copy. + The storage-encryption key document is part of the recovery set, whether it + comes from Secrets Manager or a file. Losing it makes every restored payload + unrecoverable. Keep a protected out-of-band copy.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/server/src/bin/ack-keygen.rs`:
- Around line 73-74: Update the file-writing flow around write_all in create_new
so any write failure removes the newly created output file before returning the
existing error. Preserve the current error message and successful-write
behavior.
In `@crates/server/src/builder/storage.rs`:
- Line 202: Update StorageKeySource variants and their constructors to store
direct and related encryption keys as SecretString immediately, using the secret
wrapper from src/secret/ and reading-and-wrapping in one expression. Keep
plaintext exposure limited to from_dev_key when parsing the value, and adjust
load() and all affected match arms to access the wrapped secret only where
required.
In `@docs/CONFIGURATION.md`:
- Line 104: Update the AWS_REGION configuration entry to scope its requirement
to AWS-backed providers or features, explicitly including the default AWS ACK
provider in prod while stating that file-backed ACK or storage sources do not
require it.
In `@docs/runbooks/secrets.md`:
- Around line 389-392: Update docs/runbooks/secrets.md lines 389-392 to state
that Compose file secrets are bind-mounted, then instruct operators to update
the storage key document and run docker compose restart server instead of
forcing container recreation. Update docs/guides/production/README.md lines
421-426 similarly: describe the secret files as bind-mounted and require
restarting the server after the update.
In `@packages/guardian-client/src/http.ts`:
- Around line 126-129: Update the allowedSchemes conversion in the rawMeta
parsing logic to validate that every element of rawMeta.allowed_schemes is a
string before assigning it. Reject the malformed array rather than filtering out
non-string values, while preserving the existing assignment for fully valid
arrays.
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In `@docs/PRODUCTION.md`:
- Around line 253-254: Update the recovery warning near the Secrets Manager
encryption-key guidance to cover both supported storage-encryption key sources:
Secrets Manager and GUARDIAN_STORAGE_ENCRYPTION_KEY_FILE. State that the key
document must be retained out of band because restored ciphertext cannot be
decrypted without it, while preserving the existing backup guidance.
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LGTM, minor comments:
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smoke.shcan't run against a locally built image.docker-compose.ymlpinspull_policy: always, soupaborts withmanifest unknownfor any tag not on GHCR. Since the guides README calls this script the CI-job candidate, it should accept a pull-policy override (e.g.SMOKE_PULL_POLICY=missingapplied to the scratch copy). -
Every client defaults to Falcon, so A4/B6's "run the SDK smoke path" fails against the templates'
ecdsa-only gate. The demo,smoke-web, andexamples/rustall default to Falcon, andexamples/rusthas no ECDSA option at all. Add a line to A4 and B6 to select ECDSA, and file a follow-up for an ECDSA path inexamples/rust.
Closes #299.
Two things ship together here: the end-to-end production guide, and the server changes that make its no-AWS track simple enough to follow by hand.
Production guide (
docs/guides/production/)Three tracks to the same hardened shape, each with committed, runnable artifacts:
scripts/aws-deploy.sh+ Terraform.env.aws-ecs.exampledocker-compose.yml,.env.example,operators.example.json,smoke.shdocker-compose.aws-no-ecs.yml,.env.aws-no-ecs.exampleTrack A, the reference deployment, is the recommendation. Track C is for operators who cannot run ECS at all: it keeps secret custody in Secrets Manager and KMS on any Docker host, because Guardian's custody, hosted ECDSA signer, and runbooks are built around AWS today.
smoke.shruns track B end to end with no AWS credentials and no Rust toolchain (identity comes from the image), asserts the prod-stage guards, the prod runtime defaults, metrics gating, and identity stability across restart, and tears down. Track B was also followed by hand from the README, B1 through B6, against a locally built image.PRODUCTION.md,CONFIGURATION.md,TROUBLESHOOTING.md,runbooks/secrets.md,SERVER_AWS_DEPLOY.md,infra/README.md, andspec/api.mdare updated to match.Server changes
ack-keygenships in the image (/app/ack-keygen) and gains--out-dir: writes both ACK key files as0600, refuses to overwrite an existing identity, cleans up if the second write fails. Stdout JSON mode is unchanged (used byaws-deploy.sh).GUARDIAN_ENV=prodapplies the production runtime defaults inside the server viaconfig::stage::Stage: rate limits 200/5000, DB pools 32, canonicalization concurrency 50,jsonlogs. Explicit variables always win;GUARDIAN_MAX_REPLICASis deliberately excluded (topology, not stage). Terraform still injects every value explicitly, so ECS stacks are unaffected. Deployments that setGUARDIAN_ENV=prodwithout those variables (for example the aws-signers guide) pick the new values up on upgrade; upgrade notes added.GUARDIAN_STORAGE_ENCRYPTION_KEY_FILE: the same{active, keys}key document Secrets Manager holds, read from an owner-only file, so self-managed deployments get multi-key rotation. Exactly one key source may be configured.GUARDIAN_ALLOWED_ACCOUNT_SCHEMES(falcon,ecdsa; unset or blank = both): a registration-only gate inconfigure_account. Accounts already in this Guardian's metadata are never affected. Recommendedecdsaon the AWS tracks because only ECDSA has a hosted signer (KMS); the Falcon ACK key stays required at startup either way. Terraform variableguardian_allowed_account_schemes,aws-deploy.shpassthrough, startup banner fieldaccount_schemes.max_concurrent_accounts.Wire contract change
New stable error code
signature_scheme_not_allowed(HTTP 403, gRPCPERMISSION_DENIED, not retryable) withmeta.schemeandmeta.allowed_schemes.ApiErrorMetaand the/configureannotation updated;docs/openapi*.jsonregenerated with--features evmandgen-openapi --checkpasses.@openzeppelin/guardian-clientadds the code to its typed vocabulary and parses the two meta fields (drift-guard test passes). The Rust client reads codes and meta generically and needed no change.Release pin (read before merging)
v0.17.0is already published and has none of these server changes. An older image does not reject the new variables: it boots, stores payloads in plaintext, accepts every scheme, and runs the development rate limits. The templates therefore leaveGUARDIAN_VERSIONblank so Compose refuses to start until a tag is chosen,smoke.shrequires one, and the guide says "later than v0.17.0" and names the banner tell (account_schemeson theack signersline). Once the release containing this PR is tagged, set that tag in.env.example,.env.aws-no-ecs.example, and the README's<version>placeholders.Not in scope
Making the Falcon ACK signer optional, and the dashboard's Falcon-only operator login. Both are separate decisions.
Verification
cargo test -p guardian-server --features postgres --lib: 975 passed, plus 4ack-keygenbinary tests.cargo clippy -D warningsonpostgresandpostgres,evm;cargo fmt --check.cargo run --features evm --bin gen-openapi -- --check docspasses.packages/guardian-client: typecheck and 61 tests.bash -n scripts/aws-deploy.sh docs/guides/production/smoke.sh;terraform fmt -check infra/.smoke.shpassed all assertions against a locally built image of this branch; track B followed by hand from the README.