fix: preserve restricted management policies

[patrickleet]

Summary

• derive child management policies from the parent GitopsStack
• preserve the repository no-delete default without expanding observe-only authority
• restrict the Zitadel client-secret patcher to parent-authorized Observe and Update operations

Validation

• up project build
• focused observe-only composition render: Repository => Observe,LateInitialize
• regression assertion added for the protected repository path

Context

Fixes the live self-management migration blocker recorded in [[incidents/inc-008-stack-observe-policy-leak]].

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Management policies are now applied consistently based on the selected configuration.
  • Observe-only repository configurations no longer gain unintended permissions.
  • Client-secret resources now correctly honor applicable Observe and Update policies.

• Tests

  • Added coverage verifying that restricted repository management policies are preserved.

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• functions/render/000-state-init.yaml.gotmpl
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The rendering state now derives management-policy subsets. GitHub Repository and Zitadel client-secret resources use these subsets instead of hardcoded policies. A test verifies that observe-only repository policies remain restricted.

Changes

Management policy rendering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Derive management-policy state functions/render/000-state-init.yaml.gotmpl	The state initialization derives non-deleting and observe/update policy lists. It handles wildcard policies and excludes Delete.
Render policy subsets and validate output functions/render/210-github-repository.yaml.gotmpl, functions/render/440-zitadel-client-secret.yaml.gotmpl, tests/test-render/main.k	The GitHub Repository and Zitadel client-secret templates use the derived policy lists. The composition test verifies that observe-only repository policies are preserved.

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

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to bd918

An explicitly empty managementPolicies setting can unexpectedly grant wildcard authority to composed resources, allowing operations the caller did not authorize. This security risk should be fixed before merging.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: preserving restricted management policies derived from the parent configuration.
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…
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Published Crossplane Package

The following Crossplane package was published as part of this PR:

Package: ghcr.io/hops-ops/gitops-stack:pr-41-3e7045253e59e00c462eebb70bfd788a4c8a3ae8

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Inline comments:
In `@functions/render/000-state-init.yaml.gotmpl`:
- Around line 17-32: Update the managementPolicies initialization in the state
template so an explicitly provided empty list is preserved instead of being
replaced by the wildcard default. Default to ["*"] only when the field is
absent, add a render case covering managementPolicies: [], and assert that both
nonDeletingManagementPolicies and observeUpdateManagementPolicies remain empty.

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