A membership is a case in the built-in portal_memberships bucket: invited by a desk, a grants, the seed or the responsible pass; active from the person's first sign-in, when the provider's subject, phone number or address matches the record; removed by a desk, and invited again after that. One record per group and person however it was keyed, and at sign-in every record that matched learns what the provider verified. The active memberships join the groups claim, so Cedar sees the same parents as before. PEOPLE_BACKEND picks Kanidm or memberships; unset, a KANIDM_API_TOKEN means Kanidm. The NATS access service looks a person's groups up when a question names them by sub, phone or email and lists none. The sign-in asks for the phoneNumber scope and reads it from userinfo. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT37Z1Xtfd9pUuQtMTg6Yt
portal
A content-driven question engine: one Rust binary that turns a Git repo of YAML into a live site — pages, forms, review desks and state machines, with a durable event-sourced record of every answer underneath.
The engine special-cases nothing. Everything a site serves is declared in its content repo, content pushes hot-reload every running instance, and the same build serves any number of sites: instances differ only by environment variables. uhhm.no and redoal.com are two faces of the same binary from the same release artifact.
It composes with the surrounding stack rather than bundling it. Gitea hosts the content, NATS JetStream stores the events and projections, Kanidm provides identity, and anything downstream — automations, newsletters, onboarding — subscribes to the answer stream.
Documentation
Everything is under docs/:
- Architecture — what the engine is made of.
- Content reference — every key a content repo may write.
- State machines —
aggregates.yaml. - Access — the policy compiled from content.
- Operations — releasing, deploying, adding a site.
Development
cargo leptos build # server + wasm
cargo test --features ssr # tests/jetstream.rs needs PORTAL_TEST_NATS_URL
Content is linted by iris, which depends on this crate and carries the same version, so a content repo can check itself against the exact portal its instance runs:
iris check --path questions
Releasing
cargo release patch tags and pushes; CI builds the tarball and
attaches it to the Gitea release. A site takes it by bumping
PORTAL_RELEASE in its own content repo. See
operations.