A hive reads its agents' credentials with its own certificate, and nothing
said which paths that certificate may read, so the read half of a delivery
answered 403.
The grant is wide on purpose. An agent's path does not name the hive
hosting it -- agents move -- so a per-hive grant has to be an enumeration
the controller re-emits whenever the roster changes, and an enumeration
that can drift or land out of order advertises a boundary it does not
hold. A wide grant that says what it is beats a narrow one that only looks
narrow. mara's call, on the PR: rather a too-lax scope than one that
pretends to be strict.
What that buys, beyond honesty: the document is identical for every hive
and depends on nothing, so it is written once at startup beside the rest of
a hive's provisioning instead of on every declaration. No derived state, no
re-emission, and the ordering hazard that came with one stops existing.
What still holds is read-only. A hive cannot write an agent's credential,
so it cannot hand itself an agent's identity, and the grant reaches nothing
in the store outside the agent-credential prefix.
The fact is documented where someone meets the boundary rather than only in
this message, and the two ways to narrow it later -- scope per hive, or
give agents their own store identity -- are tracked.
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