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BIAC-101 · Parse plan authority

Normalize infrastructure resource actions for review

Practice briefTaskFoundational

Review summaries collapse updates and replacements into one change count.

Focused work estimate
1h + prerequisites
Priority in the scenario
Medium
Engineering practice
Infrastructure analysis

Estimated field mix

  • Cloud infrastructure70%
  • Developer tooling30%

Field percentages are editorial estimates of the ticket's engineering focus. They total 100%; they are not measured time, proficiency scores, or ownership evidence.

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Project context

A fictional application team manages a small database, cache, and object store. Reviewers struggle to distinguish harmless configuration changes from destructive replacements.

Setup prerequisites

  • Author synthetic infrastructure plans and state snapshots; use local files only and no cloud credentials.

Preceding work

No earlier ticket is required. Complete the project setup above.

Acceptance criteria

  • Separate create, update, replace, and delete actions.
  • Preserve resource addresses and dependencies.
  • Represent unknown values explicitly.

Implementation constraints

  • Treat plan JSON as untrusted data.

Verification to include

  • Parse a valid mixed-action plan.
  • Reject malformed action combinations.

Deliverables

  • Plan action model.

Rollout and recovery

Adopt read-only summaries before any execution integration.

Value of the work

For the engineer: Practice infrastructure risk analysis, plan integrity, and least-privilege change workflows.

For the team: Give infrastructure reviewers concrete change scope and recovery consequences.

Evidence boundaries

Outcome Evidence: Tests, patches, and runbooks are requested deliverables. They become Outcome Evidence only through a qualified Mission and immutable Evidence IDs.

Ownership Evidence: Independent adaptation must be observed under a declared verification policy and cite immutable Evidence IDs. Completing a planning ticket establishes no Ownership Evidence.