fix(authz): freeze catalog values after boot; correct compile-time-check claims

frozenMap only blocked the Map's own mutators, so
catalog.roles.get("editor").push("*") escalated a role to a full wildcard
past an error string claiming the catalog is frozen after boot; the same
applied to permission/attribute metadata objects and binding arrays.
mergeCatalogs now stores frozen copies of each, so the original declaring
module's objects are never mutated either.

Also corrects two docstrings (codegen.ts, the design doc) that claimed
`wrnexus authz generate`'s output makes a permission typo a type error —
can(), guardPermission(), and decideFor() all take a bare string and nothing
consumes the generated union automatically. Documents what it actually is:
a Permission/Role union to type your own helpers/constants against. Also
adds a README note on the subject.id contract (must be a non-empty string;
owner() compares with Object.is).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 3867e7c183
commit 41b6e2ed2b
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@@ -71,6 +71,64 @@ describe("mergeCatalogs", () => {
expect(() => (catalog.permissions as Map<string, never>).set("x:y", {} as never)).toThrow();
});
test("a role's granted-entries array cannot be mutated to escalate it after boot", () => {
// frozenMap only blocks the Map's own mutators (set/delete/clear) — the
// VALUES it holds are a separate concern. Without freezing them too,
// catalog.roles.get("editor").push("*") would succeed and silently
// escalate "editor" to a full wildcard past an error string that claims
// the catalog is frozen after boot.
const catalog = mergeCatalogs([
{ source: "a.ts", module: defineAuthz({ roles: { editor: ["post:write"] } }) },
]);
const editorRole = catalog.roles.get("editor")!;
expect(() => (editorRole as string[]).push("*")).toThrow();
expect(catalog.roles.get("editor")).toEqual(["post:write"]);
});
test("a permission's metadata object cannot be mutated after boot", () => {
const catalog = mergeCatalogs([
{
source: "a.ts",
module: defineAuthz({ permissions: { "post:delete": { risk: "low" } } }),
},
]);
const meta = catalog.permissions.get("post:delete")!;
expect(() => {
(meta as { risk?: string }).risk = "high";
}).toThrow();
expect(catalog.permissions.get("post:delete")!.risk).toBe("low");
});
test("an attribute's metadata object cannot be mutated after boot", () => {
const catalog = mergeCatalogs([
{
source: "a.ts",
module: defineAuthz({ attributes: { department: { description: "org unit" } } }),
},
]);
const meta = catalog.attributes.get("department")!;
expect(() => {
(meta as { description?: string }).description = "tampered";
}).toThrow();
expect(catalog.attributes.get("department")!.description).toBe("org unit");
});
test("a binding's policy-name array cannot be mutated after boot", () => {
const catalog = mergeCatalogs([
{
source: "a.ts",
module: defineAuthz({
permissions: { "post:write": {} },
policies: { ownsPost: async () => ({ allowed: true }) },
bindings: { "post:write": ["ownsPost"] },
}),
},
]);
const names = catalog.bindings.get("post:write")!;
expect(() => (names as string[]).push("injectedPolicy")).toThrow();
expect(catalog.bindings.get("post:write")).toEqual(["ownsPost"]);
});
test("emptyCatalog has no entries", () => {
expect(emptyCatalog().permissions.size).toBe(0);
});