docs(policy): document signing identity configuration

[joejstuart]

Summary

Documents the signing_identities rule-data schema and configuration workflow for Conforma policy users.

Jira: https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/EC-2078

Changes

• Adds a navigable signing identities reference page with field/schema details.
• Documents key-based and keyless verification requirements.
• Adds EnterpriseContractPolicy examples for both methods.
• Documents migration from deprecated allowed_registry_prefixes, including evaluation order.
• Links base-image and SBOM rule documentation to the shared reference.
• Regenerates annotation-derived policy pages.

Verification

• make TEST=validate test — PASS
• make TEST=base_image_registries test — PASS
• make TEST=signature_verification test — PASS
• make ci — policy tests PASS (1138/1138); acceptance stopped on two existing fixture/data failures unrelated to this change
• make opa-check — PASS
• make conventions-check — PASS
• make fmt-check — PASS
• make lint — PASS
• make regal-test — PASS
• Local Antora build — PASS; new page and cross-references resolve. Existing user-guide xref warnings remain.

Jira: https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/EC-2078

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds signing_identities configuration documentation and updates navigation, package guidance, policy metadata, and example links to use the new documentation path and anchor.

Changes

Signing identities documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration documentation antora/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/signing_identities.adoc	Documents identity fields, verification methods, configuration precedence, examples, and migration behavior.
Navigation and cross-reference updates antora/docs/modules/ROOT/nav.adoc, antora/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/packages/*, example/data/rule_data.yml, policy/release/*	Updates links and anchors to use signing_identities.adoc and the signing_identities anchor.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: dheerajodha, st3penta

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to da035

Users receive conflicting guidance about base-image permission precedence. This is mergeable with owner awareness, but the intended order should be defined and aligned across the policy, tests, and documentation.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: documenting signing identity configuration.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the change, provides context, links the Jira ticket, and includes verification results. It is mostly complete despite not using the template headings exactly.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Risk Assessment: low (1/5)

Details

Documentation-focused PR (5 of 7 files are .adoc, 2 rego files have comment-only METADATA edits) with no protected paths, no security-sensitive files, no dependency or CI changes, low git churn on the touched paths, human non-first-time author, and a trivially revertible additive change.

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Review

Docs-only PR adding a new signing_identities.adoc reference page and repointing existing xrefs to it. All technical claims in the new page were verified against policy/lib/sigstore/sigstore.rego (field list, unknown-field rejection, key/keyless requirement gates, selection rule) and policy/lib/rule_data/rule_data.rego (precedence order); the migration section's evaluation order matches _image_ref_permitted and the deprecation warning wording matches _rule_data_errors in base_image_registries.rego. No factual defects. The findings below are a nav-placement observation the fix agent can address, plus a few asciidoc-convention nits.

Findings

Low

• [docs-structure] antora/docs/modules/ROOT/nav.adoc:2 — The new xref:signing_identities.adoc[Signing identities] entry is inserted between index.adoc and the package-nav include::partial$... lines, whereas the other cross-cutting root pages (trusted_tasks.adoc, trusting_tasks.adoc, policy_bundles.adoc, authoring.adoc, tasks.adoc) are grouped together after the package includes. The chosen placement breaks that grouping.
  Remediation: If elevated nav prominence is not intentional, move the xref:signing_identities.adoc[Signing identities] line down to the trailing block with the other cross-cutting pages to keep nav grouping consistent.

• [style] antora/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/signing_identities.adoc:3 — Most other top-level pages under antora/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/ declare :numbered: immediately after the title (e.g., index.adoc, authoring.adoc, policy_bundles.adoc, trusted_tasks.adoc, task_policy.adoc, pipeline_policy.adoc, release_policy.adoc, stepaction_policy.adoc, build_task_policy.adoc, tasks.adoc). The new page omits it, so rendered section numbering will differ from those peers.
  Remediation: Add :numbered: on its own line after the = Signing identities title if numbered section headings are the intended convention.

• [style] antora/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/signing_identities.adoc:22 — The Structure table uses [%header,cols="1,1,3"] with an explicit header row. Other tables in the same module (build_task_policy.adoc, pipeline_policy.adoc, task_policy.adoc, stepaction_policy.adoc, release_policy.adoc) use [cols="X,Y"] with a bold pseudo-header row (|*Field*|...). Both render, but the style is inconsistent with the established module pattern.
  Remediation: Either align with the existing [cols="..."] + bold pseudo-header pattern, or intentionally adopt [%header,...] and reuse it as the new module convention going forward.

• [style] antora/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/signing_identities.adoc:16 — The explicit anchors [#_signing_identities_structure], [#_verification_methods], [#_configuration_examples], and [#_migration] reproduce exactly what Asciidoctor auto-generates from the section titles (leading underscore + snake_case), so they are technically redundant. Note that xrefs added elsewhere in this PR (in the two packages/release_*.adoc files, both .rego metadata blocks, and example/data/rule_data.yml) all target #_signing_identities_structure, so treating them as intentional stable anchors is a valid resolution — the finding is only that the choice is currently implicit.
  Remediation: Either drop the explicit [#_...] anchors and rely on the auto-generated IDs, or add a brief comment noting they are kept as stable anchors that xrefs depend on.

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Findings

High

• [documentation-correctness] antora/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/signing-identities.adoc:25 — The page says "The data is supplied under rule_data_custom in an EnterpriseContractPolicy source," and both YAML examples nest rule_data_custom: inside the ECP ruleData: field. This conflates two distinct rule-data origins. Per policy/lib/rule_data/rule_data.rego (lookup priority documented in design/rule-data-merge-pattern.md and THREAT_MODEL.md): ECP sources[].ruleData populates data.rule_data__configuration__ (priority 1), while data.rule_data_custom (priority 2) is populated only by separate custom user data sources. The existing test at policy/release/sbom/sbom_test.rego:542 confirms the expected shape: with data.rule_data__configuration__ as {"signing_identities": {"sbom": ...}} — signing_identities sits at the top level of ECP ruleData. Nesting rule_data_custom: inside ruleData: yields data.rule_data__configuration__.rule_data_custom.signing_identities, which rule_data.get("signing_identities") does not traverse into. A user following the examples verbatim would silently get no configured identity, and for rh-release the migration warning in base_image_registries.rego would fire even though the user believed the identity was configured.
  Remediation: Either (a) drop the rule_data_custom: wrapper in the ECP examples so signing_identities: sits directly under ruleData:, matching the data.rule_data__configuration__ lookup and the test pattern; or (b) move the rule_data_custom: example out of the ECP source and show it as a top-level key in a separate custom data-source YAML, describing how the source is referenced. Also rework the introductory sentence to distinguish ECP ruleData (priority 1, data.rule_data__configuration__) from user custom data sources (priority 2, data.rule_data_custom).

Low

• [documentation-precision] antora/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/signing-identities.adoc:194 — The migration section says: "If allowed_registry_prefixes is configured without signing_identities, the policy emits a migration warning." The warning-emitting rule in policy/release/base_image_registries/base_image_registries.rego fires on not _signing_identity, where _signing_identity := sigstore.named_identity("rh-release"). It therefore fires whenever the rh-release identity is missing — including when signing_identities is present but does not contain the rh-release key.
  Remediation: Reword to "If allowed_registry_prefixes is configured without a valid signing_identities.rh-release entry, the policy emits a migration warning."

• [naming-convention] antora/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/signing-identities.adoc — The new page uses a hyphenated filename (signing-identities.adoc), which is the only hyphenated .adoc file under antora/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/ and pages/packages/. Every existing top-level page (index.adoc, authoring.adoc, trusted_tasks.adoc, trusting_tasks.adoc, policy_bundles.adoc, tasks.adoc) and every package page (release_base_image_registries.adoc, release_sbom.adoc, ...) uses underscores or a single word. The section anchors inside the file already use underscores (_signing_identities_structure, _verification_methods, _configuration_examples, _migration).
  Remediation: Rename to signing_identities.adoc and update the six xref sites that reference it: nav.adoc, release_base_image_registries.adoc, release_sbom.adoc, the URL comment in example/data/rule_data.yml, and the METADATA solution: blocks in base_image_registries.rego and sbom.rego.

• [documentation-header-convention] antora/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/signing-identities.adoc:1 — The new page opens with a 15-line Apache 2.0 license header using // AsciiDoc comment syntax. No other .adoc file under antora/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/ carries a license header — sibling top-level pages (index.adoc, authoring.adoc, trusted_tasks.adoc, ...) start directly with the = Title heading.
  Remediation: Remove lines 1–15 so the file begins with = Signing identities, matching the established convention. Licensing for the docs tree is handled at the repository level.

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🟡 Minor · Define and align the base-image permission order. · antora/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/signing_identities.adoc:164-166

164-166: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Define and align the base-image permission order.

_image_ref_permitted uses chained else if branches in registry-prefix, snapshot-digest, then signature order. The tests cover these methods separately, but do not establish precedence when methods overlap. The Rego metadata and package page describe signature verification as preferred, while signing_identities.adoc follows the executable order. The evidence shows conflicting guidance, not a demonstrated data-integrity failure. Choose the intended order, then align the implementation, metadata, both documentation pages, and precedence tests if this order is contractual.

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In `@antora/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/signing_identities.adoc` around lines 164 -
166, Choose and document the canonical precedence for base-image permission
checks, then align _image_ref_permitted, its Rego metadata,
signing_identities.adoc, the package page, and overlapping-method precedence
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their chained evaluation order consistent everywhere if precedence is
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In `@antora/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/signing_identities.adoc`:
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base-image permission checks, then align _image_ref_permitted, its Rego
metadata, signing_identities.adoc, the package page, and overlapping-method
precedence tests with that order. Preserve the existing individual checks while
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Retro on PR #1848

Disposition: Merged. Human-authored docs PR (codex/EC-2078-signing-identities, not an agent branch), so only the review + retro agents ran.

What went well

• The review agent caught a real documentation-correctness bug on the initial commit: the signing_identities example was nested under rule_data_custom: inside ECP ruleData:, which would silently produce no configured identity. The agent verified the correct shape against sbom_test.rego:542 and flagged it as High severity. The author fixed it in the follow-up commit.
• Two review passes (opus/high, run 34906961552 and run 34909004648) verified technical claims against policy/lib/sigstore/sigstore.rego, rule_data.rego, and base_image_registries.rego — grounded, not speculative.
• Human reviewers (robnester-rh, jsmid1) approved without surfacing anything the agent missed.

Signals worth tracking (no new proposals filed — all covered by existing issues)

1. Review verdict stayed CHANGES_REQUESTED on re-review despite only Low-severity style nits remaining (nav placement, :numbered: attr, [%header] vs [cols=...] convention, redundant [#_...] anchors). Humans overrode with LGTMs. Evidence for the verdict-calibration cluster: fullsend-ai/agents#1141 (APPROVE when all findings are Low style), #1208 (raise severity threshold on re-review), #1294 (detect non-converging loops), #1216 (reclassify cosmetic nits as info), #1110, #1105.
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3. Autonomy readiness (docs class): agent found a real bug that would have shipped, humans added zero new findings across two review cycles, and the remaining disagreements were purely stylistic conventions. This is a clean data point for fullsend-ai/agents#427 (track docs-only autonomy evidence).

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• One out-of-diff maintainability concern from CodeRabbit (base-image permission precedence ordering) was not surfaced by fullsend or humans and merged unaddressed. Not filed as a proposal — the finding was outside the review agent's scoped diff.