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INV-ARC-002: No Implicit Global Access

INV-ARC-002: No Implicit Global Access

Reference Number Version Effective Date Supersedes Authority Level
INV-ARC-002 1.1 2026-10-14 1.0 Constitutional

Important

v1.1 (2026-10-14), developer-documentation modernization pass. Corrected a mislabeled Authority Level: this is a Tier 1 (INV-ARC) document and must read Constitutional, not Foundational – “Foundational” is reserved for INV-CORE (Tier 0). No substantive rule in this document changed.

I. Purpose

Prevent global or unscoped data access from becoming execution truth.

II. Scope

Applies to all domain and feature logic.

III. Authority Level

Constitutional within INV-ARC. Derived from INV-CORE-000 Section III.1, `class_id` Centric Isolation, and governed within the hierarchy described by INV-CORE-001.

IV. Dependencies

  • docs/INVARIANT/CORE/INV-CORE-000_CORE_INVARIANTS.md
  • docs/INVARIANT/CORE/INV-CORE-001_CAPABILITY_BASED_ARCHITECTURE_AND_AUTHORITY_MODEL.md
  • INV-ARC-001_SCOPED_REQUEST_CONTEXT.md

V. Core Rule

No domain or feature logic may access global or unscoped data.

All data access MUST be explicitly scoped using class_id, or by a join_code that has already been resolved to class_id at the boundary ingress.

VI. Rebuild Intent

This rule exists to eliminate teacher-global shortcuts, unscoped balance use, and other mixed-scope execution paths identified in the v2 rebuild audit.

VII. Downstream Consequence

DOM and FEAT must treat any unscoped read used for runtime truth as invalid, even if the underlying field or helper still exists in the repository.

VIII. Amendment

Revisions must preserve explicit scoping requirements.

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Last updated: 2026-10-14