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design · c136activestarted Nov 9Auto draft — not yet reviewed

Mechanic Access

Waiting to be picked uplast activity Nov 10· waiting on c134 D2 (the plane's identity model) and Tyler's say on where grants live

Next: Phase 0, prior art, can run now; Phase 1, the model as data, once the plane's identity model is ruled.

Why we did this

Partners will run Qpoint on their own servers, and when we need to get in to fix something, there has to be a safer way than sharing a password or a screen.

What happened

A partner opens a time-limited door for a stated reason, picks how much we may touch, sees everything we do, and the door closes on its own.

New in this cycleLetting us in becomes one record with a reason, a limit and a clock, and everyone can see where it stands.
At a glance
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conversations
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decisions
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outside helpers

What changed

The change that matters most, in plain words. Open any one to see it.

  1. 1

    Letting us in becomes one record with a reason, a limit and a clock, and everyone can see where it stands.

    A grant and its five states · came from Mark Parsonopen →

Also in this cycle
  • The partner picks from four reasons and three amounts of access, each explained in one plain sentence. In words

How we got here

Each change, traced back to the conversation it came from. A solid mark means the record names the source; a dashed one was matched by the draft and waits for review.

Someone said

From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.

We decided

c136-D1 Grants live on the plane (c134). They are plane objects; the native app only reads them. — Mark Parson

c136-D5 One access.grant.* event family (opened, action, revoked, closed) in the same stream as everything else; each action carries the grant id. — Mark Parson

c136-D7 The native app's surface is read-only: the Status line and the audit entries. The grant flow itself belongs to the web app. — Mark Parson

So now

Letting us in becomes one record with a reason, a limit and a clock, and everyone can see where it stands.

Thanks to

People outside Qpoint first. Every thank-you points at something they said or made.

MP
Mark Parson
Qpoint team

Framed the grant and confirmed its seven defaults

Named mechanic access in the c130 walk ("three days to fix this documented problem"), asked for the categories to be specified now so partners grant with confidence, chose a cycle of its own and confirmed D1–D7 on 2026-11-09.

All images

Every picture from this cycle. Click any one to step through them all.

The pairs

A grant and its five statesNew in this cycle

Everything captured · 1

The full record 7 decisions · 3 key-change entries · 835 words · 1 captures

The record stays as written, for agents and for audit: Key Changes, every decision, the artifacts and the visual record.

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