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feat(api-token): add a resource scope and a project list to API tokens - #3493

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Teaches api_tokens to record what a token is scoped to, and the projects a product-scoped token reaches. It prepares for tokens confined to a product, a resource that does not live in the control plane database.

Nothing authorizes differently yet. Every new token records its scope, but Create still refuses a product scope. The follow-up PR enables it together with the confinement, so every token this release can mint takes exactly the code path it takes today.

Schema

  • scope and scope_id. scope is an authz.ResourceType, and scope_id names that resource. scope_id is a bare UUID with no foreign key when it names a product, because a product is not an entity here.
  • What every new token records. Its organization, its project, 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. Existing tokens are not backfilled and keep both columns NULL, which readers treat exactly as before.
  • project_ids. A jsonb list of the projects a product-scoped token reaches. It is set on product tokens only, always as an array, and an empty list reaches nothing. Every id must be a live project of the token's organization, and the list is stored deduplicated and sorted.
  • Coherence rules. The repository checks every write: a scope must agree with the row it is on, and project_ids exists exactly when the scope is a product. The platform writes these rows only through this code, so the rules hold for every writer.
  • Name uniqueness. Product-scoped token names are unique within their product. A partial index on scope_id serves lookups of a product's tokens.
  • Deprecation. project_id is marked deprecated. Project tokens keep using it for now.

API

  • Create takes APITokenWithScope(kind, id) and APITokenWithProjectIDs(ids).
  • Listings filter by resource kind, with organization standing for what used to be global. The previous scope names remain as deprecated aliases.

Part 1 of 2 for https://linear.app/chainloop/issue/PFM-7378. Supersedes #3462.

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Adds scope and scope_id to API tokens. Every new token records its kind (organization, project, instance or product) and the resource it names. Product-scoped token names are unique within their product, and CHECK constraints keep a scope coherent with the organization and project on the row.

Assisted-by: Claude Code
Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev>

Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: 9f11d7f0-7bde-4cda-84d4-102c5ecf87d3
Adds the predicates that tell a token confined to a resource outside the control plane apart from an organization-wide one, and the classification of organization-level policies.

Assisted-by: Claude Code
Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev>

Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: 9f11d7f0-7bde-4cda-84d4-102c5ecf87d3
project_ids is set on product tokens only and is always a JSON array; an empty list reaches nothing. A partial index on scope_id serves the lookups of a product's tokens. project_id is marked deprecated.

Assisted-by: Claude Code
Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev>

Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: 9f11d7f0-7bde-4cda-84d4-102c5ecf87d3
The repository stores the list deduplicated and sorted, and only when every id is a live project of the token's organization. The use case refuses a list on any token that is not product-scoped.

Assisted-by: Claude Code
Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev>

Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: 9f11d7f0-7bde-4cda-84d4-102c5ecf87d3
e823afa removed biz.APITokenScope and its constants, breaking the
Chainloop platform's main branch, which still builds tokens with
chainloopbiz.WithAPITokenScope(chainloopbiz.APITokenScopeInstance).
Restore them as deprecated aliases of authz.ResourceType so old
callers keep compiling and listing the same tokens, and reword the
stale "confined to its memberships" comment on the product case of
validateTokenScope to say project list, which a later change enforces.

Assisted-by: Claude Code
Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev>

Chainloop-Trace-Sessions: 9f11d7f0-7bde-4cda-84d4-102c5ecf87d3
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security-context — 2 files, 5 past fixes

These files have a recorded security-fix history. They are pointers to what past fixes established, not findings in this diff, and they never fail the check.

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
END CONTEXT

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All reported issues were addressed across 21 files

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…stings

A project-scoped token created without an organization was written with no
organization and signed as an instance-level token; Create now refuses it.
Listing organization tokens across organizations also returned instance
tokens; the organization kind now requires an organization.

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Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev>
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LGTM, see some comments

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…n CHECK constraints

The scope and project-list rules for API tokens move from database CHECK
constraints into ValidateTokenShape, which the repository runs before
every write. The platform creates and updates these rows only through the
control plane's own code, so the rules still hold for every writer. The
unmerged migrations no longer add the constraints.

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All reported issues were addressed across 10 files (changes from recent commits).

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javirln deleted the javier/pfm-7378-api-token-project-ids branch September 30, 2026 10:59
javirln added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 30, 2026
main now carries #3493 as one squashed commit; this branch keeps its own
version of the token files, which already hold that change.

Assisted-by: Claude Code
Signed-off-by: Javier Rodriguez <javier@chainloop.dev>
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