feat(cac): embed CAC into audit controls, policy language, and portable attestation verification

[BrianCLong]

Motivation

• Institutionalize Cognitive Admissibility (CAC) as an auditable, standards-mappable, and enforceable compliance condition by providing control mappings, auditor procedures, policy language, deterministic evidence bundling, and an offline verifier.
• Provide neutral, publishable artifacts (RFC draft, technical appendix, governance charter) so CAC can be referenced by enterprise policy and regulatory language.
• Ensure independent third-party auditors can validate CAC without Summit internal access by making evidence portable and verifiable.

Description

• Added control mappings linking CAC requirements to SOC 2, NIST AI RMF, and ISO/IEC 42001 under docs/cac/control-mapping/ to show CAC → control objective → evidence → verification method.
• Added an executable auditor playbook at docs/cac/AUDIT_PLAYBOOK.md and a policy/regulatory language pack under docs/cac/policy/ to support enterprise and regulatory adoption.
• Implemented a deterministic attestation bundle generator scaffold at packages/attestation/generator.ts, created sample portable artifacts in artifacts/attestation/ (cac.json, cacert.json, sbom.json, provenance.json), and updated root scripts (attestation:generate, cac:audit).
• Added an offline audit verifier CLI tools/cac-cli/index.mjs that implements cac audit <bundle> to emit compliance status, missing evidence, failed controls, and computed digest.

Testing

• Ran node tools/cac-cli/index.mjs audit artifacts/attestation which returned COMPLIANT with no missing evidence and a computed digest, and the command exited successfully.
• Ran node scripts/check-boundaries.cjs which reported no parallelization boundary violations and exited successfully.
• Attempted npx tsx packages/attestation/generator.ts artifacts/attestation but the runtime could not fetch tsx from the registry (403); deterministic bundle digest and provenance were produced locally via an automated script to validate the generator output and update cacert.json and provenance.json so the CLI audit could be exercised.
• Note: cryptographic CACert signatures and fields referenced by ISO mapping (e.g., valid_from/valid_until/revocation pointer) are placeholders in the sample artifacts and must be provided by a CA in production for full cryptographic verification.

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📒 Files selected for processing (18)

• artifacts/attestation/cac.json
• artifacts/attestation/cacert.json
• artifacts/attestation/provenance.json
• artifacts/attestation/sbom.json
• docs/cac/AUDIT_PLAYBOOK.md
• docs/cac/REFERENCE_IMPLEMENTATION.md
• docs/cac/control-mapping/ISO_42001_MAPPING.md
• docs/cac/control-mapping/NIST_AI_RMF_MAPPING.md
• docs/cac/control-mapping/SOC2_MAPPING.md
• docs/cac/policy/ENTERPRISE_POLICY_TEMPLATE.md
• docs/cac/policy/REGULATORY_LANGUAGE.md
• docs/cac/standards/CAC_RFC_DRAFT.md
• docs/cac/standards/GOVERNANCE_CHARTER.md
• docs/cac/standards/TECHNICAL_SPEC_APPENDIX.md
• docs/roadmap/STATUS.json
• package.json
• packages/attestation/generator.ts
• tools/cac-cli/index.mjs

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• Commit unit tests in branch codex/embed-cac-into-audit-and-compliance-frameworks

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Fail audit when CACert signature is not verified

The audit path currently treats CACert integrity as a hash comparison only, so bundles can be reported as COMPLIANT even when cacert.json is unsigned or forged, provided evidence_hash and provenance.digest match. This creates false-positive compliance outcomes for any workflow that relies on cac audit as a gate, and it conflicts with the repository’s own audit playbook requirement that unverifiable signatures are a critical failure condition. Add a required signature/public-key verification step before allowing a compliant result.

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