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Multi-attester, role-aware signatures on warden.lock #23

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Surfaced via a conclave council run (synthesize + adversarial passes), 2026-06-07.

Council verdict: DEFER (not merged into cosign #16). A distinct governance layer — role registry, quorum logic, --require-role enforcement — none of which are natural cosign extensions. Collapsing into #16 risks blocking it or shipping a half-baked role model.

Scope (when unblocked)

  • Lock schema: attestations: [{key_id, role, sig, signed_at}], stored outside overall_digest.
  • pin --approve --role security-review|service-owner appends an attestation without changing overall_digest.
  • check --require-role ... fails closed if required roles are missing.
  • warden attest list <lock> helper.

Effort: M.
Sequencing: after #16 (cosign) and #19 (provenance) — order is 2 → 3 → 4. Docs must steer toward secure key storage or the feature gives false assurance.

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