feat(api-token): add a resource scope to API tokens by javirln · Pull Request #3462 · chainloop-dev/chainloop

javirln · 2026-09-22T08:36:09Z

Teaches api_tokens to record what a token is scoped to, including a resource that does not live in the control plane database, and reports a product scope back through the existing listing surface.

Nothing authorizes differently yet. Every new token records its scope, but only a product scope drives any logic, and Create refuses a product scope until the follow-up PR confines such tokens, so every token this release can mint takes exactly the code path it takes today.

Schema

scope, typed authz.ResourceType, and scope_id, a bare UUID with no foreign key because a product is not an entity here, the same arrangement cas_mappings.product_id uses. A product's name is not stored: it belongs to whoever owns the product.

Every new token records its scope: its organization, its project (workflow-pinned tokens included), the instance, or a product. For all but a product the columns mirror organization_id and project_id, which stay the fields the control plane reads, so they can back a single implementation later. Existing tokens are not backfilled and keep both NULL, which readers treat exactly as before.

Token names move to one namespace per product: the organization-level index now excludes product-scoped tokens, and a new partial unique index covers (name, scope_id) for them. On existing data both predicates select the same rows as before, and organization tokens with and without a recorded scope share one namespace.

Two CHECK constraints keep the columns coherent in the database rather than only in the application, because the rows that carry a product scope are written by the Chainloop platform from outside this module. A scope must agree with the row it is on: an organization or project scope names the token's own organization or project, an instance scope has no id, and a product scope needs an organization and is never combined with a project, whose confinement would otherwise be skipped. scope_id is set exactly when the scope names something. Revocation is unaffected.

Creating

Create takes APITokenWithScope(kind, id), so a caller such as the platform can name the scope itself. The id is optional because an instance scope has none. The scope must agree with the organization and project the token is created for; without the option it is derived from them.

Listings

The global listing was implemented as project_id IS NULL, so a product-scoped token would have listed as an organization-wide one, in the listing whose purpose is to show what a credential reaches. Global now means confined to neither a project nor a product, and a product scope selects the product tokens. The DTO reports a product scope through the existing free-form ScopedEntity, named by its id, so no proto change is needed; organization and project tokens list exactly as before.

Scopes are authz.ResourceType throughout: the listing filter takes a resource kind instead of its own APITokenScope type, with organization standing for what used to be global.

APITokenRepo.Create takes an options struct; it had reached nine positional parameters.

Part 1 of 2 for https://linear.app/chainloop/issue/PFM-7378

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Teaches api_tokens that a token can be confined to a resource that does not live in this database. scope reuses authz.ResourceType, which already contains "product"; scope_id is a bare UUID with no foreign key, since the resource is not an entity here — the same arrangement cas_mappings.product_id uses, and for the same reason; scope_name is display only. Nothing authorizes differently yet. The business layer has no option to set a scope, so every token this release can mint carries scope IS NULL and takes exactly the path it takes today. The confinement that reads these columns is the follow-up. Token names move to one namespace per scoped resource: the organization-level index gains AND scope_id IS NULL and a new partial unique index covers (name, scope_id). Both predicates select the same rows today, since every existing row has scope_id IS NULL. Two CHECK constraints keep the columns coherent in the database rather than only in the application, because the rows that carry them are written from outside this module. The gate functions key on scope_id, so a row with scope set but scope_id NULL would read as unconfined, and one carrying a project_id as well would have its project confinement skipped; clearing scope_id on a live scoped token is refused for the same reason. Revocation is unaffected. They live in their own migration rather than in the one that adds the columns: Atlas skips a version it has already applied, so editing an applied file leaves earlier databases without the constraints while reporting "Migration Status: OK". The column migration is deliberately transactional, unlike this repository's concurrent-index convention for workflow_runs. Replacing a unique index concurrently means dropping the old one separately from building the new one, which leaves a window in which nothing enforces uniqueness on an organization-level token name while the previous replicas still serve writes; and an interrupted concurrent build leaves indisvalid = false, which Atlas cannot retry past because it resumes at the statement that failed. Both new migrations together take ~205ms against 200k rows. APITokenScopeGlobal was implemented as project_id IS NULL, so a scope-confined token would have listed as an organization-wide one. Global now means confined to neither a project nor a scoped resource, and a product scope selects the confined ones. The listing DTO reports the scoped resource through the existing free-form ScopedEntity, so no proto change is needed. APITokenRepo.Create takes an options struct: it had reached nine positional parameters and three more would have made the call site unreadable. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev>

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app/controlplane/pkg/biz/apitoken.go — 3 past fixes, peak high

58ae751 MULTI FIX The commit fixes a real access-control bug where project-scoped API tokens were minted with org-wide registered-integration and robot-account-create privileges. (high, CWE-266)
Any token confined to a project must only receive policies that are safe within that single project; org-wide capabilities and legacy robot-account management must not be exposed through scoped tokens.
The repair spans several commits, so this one is not the whole fix. Sink: /controlplane.v1.IntegrationsService/DescribeRegistration, /controlplane.v1.IntegrationsService/ListRegistrations, /controlplane.v1.IntegrationsService/Register, /controlplane.v1.RobotAccountService/Create.
67a7c03 Project-scoped API tokens were previously enforced only in storage/CRUD, not at runtime, so they could exercise org-wide API-token privileges across other projects until this commit added project-scope checks. (high, CWE-863)
If an API token is bound to a project, that project binding must survive authentication and every project-bound authorization or listing decision must restrict the token to that exact project.
679de80 679de80 fixes a real revoke-by-name scoping bug that could leave active API tokens unrevokable when names collided across tenant/history boundaries. (medium, CWE-284)
Revocation by name must resolve exactly one non-revoked API token in the caller's organization before policies are cleared and revoked_at is set.

↳ Check: Any token confined to a project must only receive policies that are safe within that single project; org-wide capabilities and legacy robot-account management must not be exposed through scoped tokens. The same invariant holds at 8 other entry points. Confirm the guards past fixes added here are still on every path: defaultAuthzPolicies, orgLevelTokenPolicies, slices.Concat.

app/controlplane/pkg/data/apitoken.go — 2 past fixes, peak medium

e9fc9a4 Fixes a pre-existing scope-confusion flaw where a project-scoped API token could collide by name with an organization-scoped token and prevent revoke-by-name from resolving the intended org-scoped token. (medium, CWE-284)
When no project is supplied, token lookup by name must match only non-revoked organization-scoped tokens.
679de80 679de80 fixes a real revoke-by-name scoping bug that could leave active API tokens unrevokable when names collided across tenant/history boundaries. (medium, CWE-284)
Revocation by name must resolve exactly one non-revoked API token in the caller's organization before policies are cleared and revoked_at is set.

↳ Check: Revocation by name must resolve exactly one non-revoked API token in the caller's organization before policies are cleared and revoked_at is set. The same invariant holds at 1 other entry point. Confirm the guards past fixes added here are still on every path: FindByNameInOrg, apitoken.HasOrganizationWith, apitoken.RevokedAtIsNil.

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app/controlplane/pkg/biz/apitoken.go - 3 past fixes, peak severity high
  must hold: Any token confined to a project must only receive policies that are safe within
    that single project; org-wide capabilities and legacy robot-account management must not
    be exposed through scoped tokens.
  also enforced at: 8 other entry points
  grep for: defaultAuthzPolicies, orgLevelTokenPolicies, slices.Concat

app/controlplane/pkg/data/apitoken.go - 2 past fixes, peak severity medium
  must hold: Revocation by name must resolve exactly one non-revoked API token in the
    caller's organization before policies are cleared and revoked_at is set.
  also enforced at: 1 other entry point
  grep for: FindByNameInOrg, apitoken.HasOrganizationWith, apitoken.RevokedAtIsNil
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jiparis · 2026-09-22T17:03:44Z

+		field.UUID("scope_id", uuid.UUID{}).Optional().Nillable(),
+		// Display only: the scoped resource's name, for refusal messages and listings.
+		// Never read for authorization; may be stale after a rename.
+		field.String("scope_name").Optional().Nillable(),


I don't think display name should go into the api token record. As the comment says, "may be stale after a rename".

Automated reply: I'm a bot (Claude Code) posting on behalf of @javirln.

Agreed. 5f4dd4b removes the scope_name column from the schema and the migration. The listing now reports a product scope by its id, and resolving the name is left to whoever owns the product.

jiparis · 2026-09-22T17:03:44Z

+
 type APITokenRepo interface {
-	Create(ctx context.Context, name string, description *string, expiresAt *time.Time, organizationID *uuid.UUID, projectID *uuid.UUID, workflowID *uuid.UUID, policies []*authz.Policy, isSystem bool) (*APIToken, error)
+	Create(ctx context.Context, opts *APITokenCreateOpts) (*APIToken, error)


jiparis · 2026-09-22T17:03:45Z

 	// NOTE: the expiration time is stored just for reference, it's also encoded in the JWT
 	// We store it since Chainloop will not have access to the JWT to check the expiration once created
-	token, err := uc.apiTokenRepo.Create(ctx, name, description, expiresAt, orgUUID, projectID, workflowID, policies, options.isSystem)
+	token, err := uc.apiTokenRepo.Create(ctx, &APITokenCreateOpts{


I think for consistency, future tokens should have all of them the scope and scope_id set, even for project, org and instance scopes. This way we can easily move to a common implementation in the future (although we can always run a migration for old tokens)

The resource a token is scoped to lives outside the control plane, and so does its name. Keeping a copy on the token row made it stale after any rename and put a display concern into the record authorization reads, so the column goes. Listings report the scope by id; resolving it to a name is for whoever owns the resource. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev>

migmartri · 2026-09-23T06:31:12Z

@javirln can you please make sure you send the session please

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javirln · 2026-09-23T06:32:44Z

@migmartri sessions will probably not make it to this PR or the other because of an edge case with trace. I've checked with @jiparis yesterday already

migmartri · 2026-09-23T06:46:35Z

@migmartri sessions will probably not make it to this PR or the other because of an edge case with trace. I've checked with @jiparis yesterday already

Can we create an issue for it, thanks!

The scope columns exist for product-scoped tokens and nothing else: every other token keeps both NULL and takes its pre-change path. A CHECK constraint now holds that in the database, including for the kinds the ent enum accepts, so a scope_id always means a product. The listing reports a scope only for a product instead of guessing one when the kind is missing, and a row the constraints refuse surfaces as a validation error rather than as a name clash. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev>

Every token minted from now on records what it is scoped to: its organization, its project (workflow-pinned tokens included), the instance, or a product. Only a product scope drives any logic for now. For the other kinds the columns mirror project_id and organization_id, which stay the fields the control plane reads, and tokens from before these columns existed keep both NULL: nothing is backfilled. Readers key on the kind rather than on scope_id being set. The global listing and the organization-level name index cover organization tokens from before and after the change alike, and the product name index covers product tokens only. The CHECK constraints now require a scope to agree with the row it is on, which replaces the product-only constraint, and the migrations are back to two. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev>

Create accepts APITokenWithScope(kind, id), so a caller such as the platform can name what a token is scoped to without patching the control plane. The id is optional because an instance scope has none. The scope must agree with the organization and project the token is created for, and without the option it is still derived from them. A product scope is refused for now: nothing yet confines such a token to its memberships, so the rest of the control plane would read it as organization-wide. Scopes are authz.ResourceType throughout. The listing filter takes a resource kind instead of its own APITokenScope type, with organization standing for what used to be "global", so no caller translates between two sets of names. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev>

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The test for "an organization-wide token only lists project tokens" re-implemented the override in its own body, so it passed even with the override removed from the service. It now calls APITokenService.List with a mocked repository and asserts the filters the repository receives: organization tokens are forced to project tokens whatever they ask for, and project tokens and users keep the scope they asked for. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev>

migmartri · 2026-09-28T16:22:28Z

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+-- Modify "api_tokens" table: a scope agrees with the token it is on


what does this do?

This migration adds two database constraints that keep a token's scope consistent with the rest of its row:

apitoken_scope_id_presence: a scope id exists exactly when there's a scope other than instance. Organization, project and product tokens always carry an id; instance tokens never do; old rows have neither.

apitoken_scope_matches_token: when a scope is set, it has to agree with the row:

organization → no project, and the scope id is the token's org;

project → the scope id is the token's project;

instance → no org and no project;

product → an org and no project.

Old rows (scope NULL) pass both, so the migration is safe on existing data.

The testing on the full lab instance upgrades confirmed that twice.

migmartri · 2026-09-28T16:25:27Z

 			Id:   in.ProjectID.String(),
 			Name: *in.ProjectName,
 		}
+	} else if in.Scope != nil && *in.Scope == authz.ResourceTypeProduct && in.ScopeID != nil {


why do we have product references in the service layer?

They shouldn't be there. Removed in 5b2dfc2: the listing in this PR renders only a token's project, exactly as before the scope columns, since nothing here can create a product token yet.

In #3463, where product tokens start being honoured, the service layer no longer names the kind either (d2980a8). The token exposes the resource it is confined to through a generic accessor, ResourceScope(), which returns the kind and id, and both the listing and Revoke consume that. So the control plane authorizes and renders the scope without knowing which kinds live outside its database.

A product-scoped token cannot be created by this change yet, so the listing needs no branch for it. The follow-up that confines scoped tokens renders any resource scope without naming its kind in the service layer. Assisted-by: Claude Code Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev> Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: 9f11d7f0-7bde-4cda-84d4-102c5ecf87d3

javirln · 2026-09-29T17:51:15Z

Superseded by #3493, which records the projects a product token reaches on the token itself.

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