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ClintchizandClaude Opus 5 cd82bec414 fix(authz): fix perf, doc, and fail-open gaps found in second review
Re-review of Task 6's fix round 1 (plan amendment d6a2d054) found three
items in that diff plus one adjacent pre-existing issue that C1 made
reachable:

- Important (perf): permissionsFor() rebuilt the deny Set on every
  entry in the granted set (O(grants x denies) allocations on a
  per-request path). Hoisted to build the Set once. Measured
  4000x4000: 665.92ms before, 3.90ms after.
- Important (contract accuracy): permissionsFor() only half-agrees
  with decide() — a narrow deny under a broad grant (e.g. role editor's
  "post:*" plus a deny on "post:delete") can't be represented in a flat
  Set, so the set still contains "post:*" while decide() correctly
  refuses "post:delete". Documented as NOT authoritative on the
  AuthzResolver interface, and pinned with a regression test asserting
  the divergence is deliberate.
- Minor: subject.id === "" was audited as subjectId: "" instead of
  omitted, so consoleAuditSink printed a blank subject= rather than
  subject=anonymous. Reused the same non-empty-string guard as the
  decide() path.
- Important (adjacent, advanced.ts): owner() compared subject[key] to
  resource[key] with Object.is without checking either side was
  present, so two absent ids (Object.is(undefined, undefined) ===
  true) satisfied ownership. Unreachable before this task, but C1 now
  runs bound policies for anonymous/empty subjects, putting this on a
  live path. Fixed to deny whenever either side is undefined or null.

Every fix's regression test was verified by reverting the fix and
confirming the test fails against the pre-fix code before restoring.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 18:15:34 +05:30
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