Foundation

Auth / roles

Who may act

must specify or deferProduct intent & architecture
ContractAuth / roles
Job
Who may act
Requirement
must specify or defer
States / rules
Who can sign in; role list; owner-only controls. May defer with reason
Specified means
Roles named even if login is later
Hardest context
Prototype Sign out with no session
Example

Defer: no login; roles named

Counter-example

Fake login screen

How this lives in Building Blocks

Representation: Product-local decision contract.

Building Blocks can provide role/access documentation structure. The product owns sign-in reality, role names, and owner-only controls.

Do not specify the easy case only.

The source checklist’s hardest-context test is part of what “specified” means: Prototype Sign out with no session.

On-spec signal

Defer: no login; roles named

Failure signal

Fake login screen

Catalog connection

The product-local Catalog should show this row’s actual state for that product using the Catalog contract. Building Blocks documentation can define the baseline, but it does not make a product’s row Specified, Designed, or In code by itself.

See the Catalog contract →