# RustFS setup for the memory store

The plane's memory store can live in an S3-compatible bucket: `OUSAST_MEMORY=minio://sast-memory`
selects `MinioStore` (`src/openultrasast/plane/memory.py`), which works with RustFS and MinIO. The
maintainer's server is RustFS at `files.because-security.com`, bucket `sast-memory`, store at the
bucket root. What the store keeps there is described on [Memory](memory.md).

**The store never configures its bucket.** An admin sets the bucket up once with admin
credentials. The agent account the store runs as can read the bucket's settings but not change
them, and reads and writes objects freely. Every time the store opens, it checks the setup and
refuses to start if anything is missing.

```mermaid
flowchart LR
    admin["Admin, once: versioning on, runs/ expiry rule"] --> bucket[("Bucket sast-memory")]
    agent["Agent account: read settings, read and write objects and tags"] --> verify{"verify_bucket at startup"}
    bucket --> verify
    verify -- "all present" --> store["MinioStore serves reads and writes"]
    verify -- "anything missing" --> refuse["MemoryStoreError naming each missing piece and its admin command"]
```

## One-time admin steps

Run these with **admin** credentials (not the agent's). Both use the AWS CLI against the RustFS
endpoint.

**1. Turn versioning on.** Provenance cites object version ids.

```bash
aws s3api put-bucket-versioning \
    --endpoint-url https://files.because-security.com \
    --bucket sast-memory \
    --versioning-configuration Status=Enabled
```

**2. Expire raw run outputs under `runs/` after 30 days.** Everything else (`repos/`, `facts/`,
`index.jsonl` and the blobs) is kept, so the rule must be a plain prefix filter on `runs/`.

```bash
aws s3api put-bucket-lifecycle-configuration \
    --endpoint-url https://files.because-security.com \
    --bucket sast-memory \
    --lifecycle-configuration '{"Rules":[{"ID":"ousast-runs-expiry","Status":"Enabled","Filter":{"Prefix":"runs/"},"Expiration":{"Days":30}}]}'
```

`put-bucket-lifecycle-configuration` **replaces every rule on the bucket**. If the bucket already
has rules, merge this one into them first. The rule id `ousast-runs-expiry` and the 30 days are the
store's defaults (`RUNS_RULE_ID`, `RUNS_EXPIRE_DAYS`); the store accepts any enabled, untagged
prefix rule on `runs/` with a number of days.

To read the result back:

```bash
aws s3api get-bucket-versioning --endpoint-url https://files.because-security.com --bucket sast-memory
aws s3api get-bucket-lifecycle-configuration --endpoint-url https://files.because-security.com --bucket sast-memory
```

## The agent policy

Attach this policy to the agent account (the account whose keys go into `.env`). It is the
complete policy: nothing else is needed, and it grants no `Put*` on versioning or lifecycle.

```json
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "BucketSettingsReadOnly",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "s3:ListBucketVersions",
        "s3:GetBucketLocation",
        "s3:GetBucketVersioning",
        "s3:GetLifecycleConfiguration"
      ],
      "Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::sast-memory"]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ObjectsReadWrite",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:GetObjectVersion",
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:DeleteObject",
        "s3:DeleteObjectVersion",
        "s3:GetObjectTagging",
        "s3:PutObjectTagging",
        "s3:GetObjectVersionTagging"
      ],
      "Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::sast-memory/*"]
    }
  ]
}
```

| Statement | Resource | In one line |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `BucketSettingsReadOnly` | `arn:aws:s3:::sast-memory` | The agent can list the bucket and its versions and *read* its location, versioning and lifecycle settings, which is what the startup check needs; it cannot change them. |
| `ObjectsReadWrite` | `arn:aws:s3:::sast-memory/*` | The agent reads, writes and deletes objects and their versions and reads and writes object tags; this covers row objects, blobs, the index, the Select probe, and the `kind` tag the store filters by. |

So the agent writes objects freely but cannot change bucket settings: turning versioning off or
removing the expiry rule needs the admin.

## The `.env` settings

The store reads its endpoint and credentials from `.env` in the working directory or from the
environment (`minio_settings`), never from a manifest, and never prints them.

| Variable | Value for this server | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `OUSAST_MEMORY` | `minio://sast-memory` | `minio://<bucket>[/<prefix>]`; unset means the local `FileStore` |
| `MINIO_ENDPOINT` | `files.because-security.com` | host[:port] without a scheme (the `minio` SDK's endpoint); required |
| `MINIO_ACCESS_KEY` | the agent account's access key | required |
| `MINIO_SECRET_KEY` | the agent account's secret key | required |
| `MINIO_SECURE` | `true` | TLS; `0`, `false`, `no` or `off` turn it off; default `true` |
| `MINIO_REGION` | optional | spares a GetBucketLocation call |

- **Never commit `.env`.** It is gitignored (`.gitignore`: `.env`, `.env.*`, except
  `.env.example`). `.env.example` lists these names with empty values.
- **`.env` never overrides a variable already exported in your shell** (`config.load_dotenv`).
  A stale `export MINIO_SECRET_KEY=...` in your profile silently wins over the file; `unset` it
  when a change in `.env` seems to have no effect.
- The store needs the `minio` extra (`uv sync --extra minio`); without it opening the store fails
  with `OUSAST_MEMORY=minio://... needs the minio SDK: install openultrasast[minio]`. A missing
  variable fails with `OUSAST_MEMORY=minio://... needs MINIO_ENDPOINT, MINIO_ACCESS_KEY,
  MINIO_SECRET_KEY in .env or the environment` (naming only the missing ones).

## What the store verifies at startup

`MinioStore.verify_bucket()` runs once per process for each bucket and prefix. It reads the
versioning status and the lifecycle rules, writes a two-line probe object at
`_probe/select.jsonl` (under the prefix, if any), queries it with S3 Select and reads its tags.
Every missing piece is collected into one error:

```text
memory minio://sast-memory: the bucket is not set up for the store. The store never configures its bucket (an admin sets it once, the store verifies); missing:
  - <one line per missing piece>
```

The lines, exactly as the code writes them for this bucket at the root (`<failure>` is the
server's error code and the first 200 characters of its message):

| Check | Refusal line |
| --- | --- |
| versioning unreadable | `versioning cannot be read (<failure>): the agent needs s3:GetBucketVersioning on arn:aws:s3:::sast-memory, and versioning must be Enabled` |
| versioning off | `versioning is Off, it must be Enabled (provenance cites object versions). Admin: aws s3api put-bucket-versioning --endpoint-url "$MINIO_ENDPOINT" --bucket sast-memory --versioning-configuration Status=Enabled` (the actual status, e.g. `Suspended`, replaces `Off` when set) |
| lifecycle unreadable | `the lifecycle configuration cannot be read (<failure>): the agent needs s3:GetLifecycleConfiguration on arn:aws:s3:::sast-memory, and a rule must expire runs/` |
| a rule expires everything | `lifecycle rule(s) <rule ids> expire the whole store (repos/, facts/ and the index would be deleted); limit them to runs/` |
| no `runs/` rule | `no enabled lifecycle rule expires runs/ after a number of days. Admin (merged with any rules the bucket already has): aws s3api put-bucket-lifecycle-configuration --endpoint-url "$MINIO_ENDPOINT" --bucket sast-memory --lifecycle-configuration '{"Rules":[{"ID":"ousast-runs-expiry","Status":"Enabled","Filter":{"Prefix":"runs/"},"Expiration":{"Days":30}}]}'` |
| tags unreadable | `object tags cannot be read on _probe/select.jsonl (<failure>): the store filters row objects by their kind tag, so the agent needs s3:GetObjectTagging on arn:aws:s3:::sast-memory/*` |
| S3 Select missing | `S3 Select (SelectObjectContent over JSON Lines) does not answer on _probe/select.jsonl (<failure>). The store requires it and has no local fallback: use a server with S3 Select (RustFS has it; some MinIO releases removed it) and let the agent s3:PutObject and s3:GetObject` |

The admin commands inside the messages use `--endpoint-url "$MINIO_ENDPOINT"`; with the
host-only `MINIO_ENDPOINT` above, pass the full URL (`https://files.because-security.com`) as in
the steps on this page.

There is **no fallback**: the store does not start in a degraded mode, does not drop to a local
store, and does not fetch and filter objects itself.

## The RustFS Select limit and the fixed-schema rule

RustFS's S3 Select infers an object's JSON schema from its leading rows. A `where` field that is
absent from those rows is unbound, even if a later row has it: the query fails with
`EvaluatorBindingDoesNotExist` instead of matching (measured 2026-10-02 with the field first
present at row 5000). The store does not read that as "no rows", since that answer could silently
drop matches; it raises:

```text
memory minio://sast-memory: S3 Select on <key> failed (EvaluatorBindingDoesNotExist: ...) (a field of [<fields>] is absent from the object's leading rows, which the server reads as its schema); the store has no local fallback
```

The rule that follows: a field the store filters on must be present in every row of its kind
from the first row on, i.e. each row kind has a fixed set of queryable fields. Enforcing that set
per kind in the store is in progress and not on main as of this page (see
[Memory](memory.md#queryable-fields-per-kind-in-progress)).

## Checks against the real server

The contract tests that talk to a real server run only with `OUSAST_MEMORY_TEST_MINIO=1` (bucket
`OUSAST_MEMORY_TEST_BUCKET`, else `MINIO_BUCKET`). They verify the bucket at its root and write
only under a fresh `contract-<id>/` prefix; they never configure the bucket. More on the host
setup: [ax on this host](ops/ax/README.md).