Tablet 45: the courtyard gate checks the key, not the shape of the header

/courtyard/* and /chatzer/* admitted any `Authorization: Bearer <x>`.
Every test sent `Bearer test-token`; none sent a wrong one. Every
admitted request spends the day's manna.

VavPipeline.BigdeiKodesh.Gate: keys are a file (Construction §4.6 —
never env, never config, never git), one `tier key` per line, tiers
courtyard < chatzer (the inner ring opens the outer). Constant-time
compare against every line; no file / empty / unreadable → nobody
passes, GATE_NO_KEYS in the log, the caller told only "missing or
invalid". 403 FORBIDDEN for an outer key at an inner gate. Read on
every request so a rotated key is live in ~1 min without a rollout.

Deploy: Secret shorashim-api-keys projected at
/etc/shorashim/secrets/api_keys (vav-pipeline only, 0440),
API_KEYS_FILE in the configmap, template + issue/rotate recipe in
secrets.yaml and KOHEN.md "Issuing a key". Spec: tamid §1.1 (gate,
403), vayakhel §4.6. Doorpost 91d09d8d… → 42b38626….
Tests: tablet45_gate_test (parse, tiers, wrong/near/empty/no key, no
file) — Elixir 527/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

deploy/k8s/configmap.yaml

@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ data:
   # shared tmp-shorashim volume. Pod-internal; never on the network.
   KORBAN_SOCKET_PATH: "/tmp/shorashim/korban.sock"
 
+  # Courtyard / chatzer keys — a FILE (Construction §4.6), projected from
+  # the shorashim-api-keys Secret (secrets.yaml). The path is config; the
+  # keys never are.
+  API_KEYS_FILE: "/etc/shorashim/secrets/api_keys"
+
   # Shoresh Engine binary — staged onto the shared shoresh-bin volume
   # by the shoresh-engine-install init container (see deployment.yaml).
   # vav_pipeline spawns it as an Erlang Port, i.e. as a child process of

deploy/k8s/deployment.yaml

@@ -76,6 +76,13 @@ spec:
         # vav-pipeline, which spawns it as an Erlang Port.
         - name: shoresh-bin
           emptyDir: {}
+        # The courtyard keys, as a file (Construction §4.6). Only
+        # vav-pipeline mounts it. Absent → the pod waits at
+        # ContainerCreating, loudly; there is no "open gate" fallback.
+        - name: api-keys
+          secret:
+            secretName: shorashim-api-keys
+            defaultMode: 0440
 
       # --- POD SECURITY CONTEXT ---
       # Every image runs as the non-root user `shorashim` (uid/gid
@@ -221,6 +228,9 @@ spec:
             # directory both live under it.
             - name: tmp-shorashim
               mountPath: /tmp
+            - name: api-keys
+              mountPath: /etc/shorashim/secrets
+              readOnly: true
             - name: shoresh-bin
               mountPath: /opt/shoresh
               readOnly: true

deploy/k8s/secrets.yaml

@@ -88,3 +88,38 @@ type: Opaque
 stringData:
   # ecto://avnadmin:PASSWORD@host:port/database?sslmode=require
   DATABASE_URL: "REPLACE_WITH_AVNADMIN_DATABASE_URL"
+
+---
+# ============================================================
+# shorashim-api-keys — who may enter the courtyard
+# ============================================================
+#
+# Mounted as the file /etc/shorashim/secrets/api_keys in vav-pipeline
+# (Construction §4.6: a secret is a file). One key per line:
+#
+#   courtyard <key>     offerings and bedikot (/courtyard/*)
+#   chatzer   <key>     also the Sanhedrin (/chatzer/*); opens the courtyard too
+#
+# Issue a key (KOHEN.md "Issuing a key"):
+#
+#   umask 077; TMP=$(mktemp)
+#   printf 'courtyard %s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" >> "$TMP"
+#   kubectl create secret generic shorashim-api-keys -n shorashim \
+#     --from-file=api_keys="$TMP"
+#   # rotate: kubectl create ... --dry-run=client -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -
+#   rm -f "$TMP"
+#
+# The kubelet refreshes a projected Secret within about a minute; the
+# gate reads the file on every request, so a rotated key takes effect
+# without a rollout. No file, no keys → nobody passes (GATE_NO_KEYS in
+# the log).
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Secret
+metadata:
+  name: shorashim-api-keys
+  namespace: shorashim
+type: Opaque
+stringData:
+  api_keys: |
+    # tier  key
+    courtyard REPLACE_WITH_openssl_rand_hex_32