| name | add-grant |
| description | Add a GCP IAM or IAP user grant to the marin-iac Pulumi stacks, encrypting human principals. Use when someone needs access to a project role, bucket/secret/service account, or an IAP-gated web service (evaldash, grafana), whether requested locally or on a GitHub issue. |
Skill: Add a user grant
Turn an access request into a reviewable Pulumi change. Human principals in the
project-IAM data are KMS-encrypted; IAP viewers on Cloud Run services are
plaintext by design. The change is never applied here — a second person runs the
review-grant skill, merges, and runs pulumi up.
Read first:
infra/pulumi/README.md — the marin-iac stacks, the KMS key, and the
pulumi up prerequisites.
infra/pulumi/src/iac/gcp/iam_data.yaml header — why human user: principals
are encrypted and this file is public.
Two grant surfaces
Decide which one the request needs before editing anything. A single request can
touch both.
-
Project / resource GCP IAM — a role on the hai-gcp-models project, the
KMS key, a Secret Manager secret, a GCS bucket, an Artifact Registry repo, or
a service account (who may impersonate it). Lives in
infra/pulumi/src/iac/gcp/iam_data.yaml, applied by the marin stack in
infra/pulumi. Each human user:<email> principal is KMS-encrypted once in
the principals registry; grants reference its opaque human-NNN ID.
Service accounts, groups, and domains stay plain strings.
-
IAP access to a Cloud Run web service — admitting a person to
evaldash.oa.dev, Grafana, or a similar IAP-gated site. Lives in that
service's infra/<service>/Pulumi.marin-<service>.yaml under viewers (a
plaintext list of emails, *@domain wildcards, or qualified IAM members),
applied by that service's own stack. domain:openathena.ai and the Loom VM
are already admitted to every service; only add a viewers entry for someone
outside the OpenAthena Workspace.
If you are unsure which surface a request means (e.g. "give Alice access to eval
results" could be an IAP viewer on evaldash, a roles/storage.objectViewer
grant on the record bucket, or both), ask before editing.
Collect the request
You need, per grant:
- Principal — an email for a person, or a
serviceAccount:/group:/domain:
member for automation. Only personal emails get encrypted.
- What they need access to — the specific resource, stated as a capability
("read the eval record bucket", "impersonate the ray autoscaler SA") rather
than a raw role when the requester does not know GCP roles.
- Why / for how long — a one-line justification. If the access is temporary,
note it;
GcpIamCondition can scope a grant with a CEL expiry, but prefer a
follow-up removal PR unless the requester asks for an expiry.
Translate a capability into the narrowest role that satisfies it. Reuse a role
already present in iam_data.yaml for the same resource class before reaching for
a broader built-in role. If the request is vague or over-broad, ask for
specifics instead of guessing — an IAM grant is hard to walk back once applied.
Running against a GitHub issue
When invoked to respond to an issue rather than a local prompt:
- Fetch it with
gh issue view <n> --repo marin-community/marin --json title,body,comments.
- If the issue is missing a principal, the target resource, or a justification,
do not guess — post one comment (prefixed
🤖) listing exactly what you
need, and stop. Do not open a half-specified PR.
- If the request is complete, build the change and open a PR (below), then
comment on the issue linking the PR.
Register and grant the principal
For project-level roles, update the principal registry and every requested role
in one command:
uv run --package marin-iac --extra deploy \
python infra/pulumi/iam_principal.py grant alice@openathena.ai \
--project-role roles/logging.viewer \
--project-role roles/monitoring.viewer
The command decrypts existing registry entries locally to find and reuse the
person's opaque ID. It encrypts and registers the email once when the person is
new, then writes deterministic YAML. Encryption and lookup need
roles/cloudkms.cryptoKeyEncrypterDecrypter on the marin-iac key (the same
access pulumi up needs).
For a KMS key, secret, bucket, Artifact Registry repository, or service-account
grant, register the principal first:
uv run --package marin-iac --extra deploy \
python infra/pulumi/iam_principal.py register alice@openathena.ai
The command prints the existing or new human-NNN ID. Add
principal: human-NNN to the requested resource grant. Never write a personal
email in plaintext into iam_data.yaml, a commit message, or the PR body — the
repo is public. IAP viewers emails in Pulumi.<service>.yaml are the
documented exception and stay plaintext.
Make the edit
Project / resource IAM — update iam_data.yaml:
- Find the grant for the target role and resource, or add one. Project
roles go in
project_grants; a bucket/secret/repo/service-account grant goes
under that resource's entry in buckets / secrets /
artifact_repositories / service_accounts (add the resource entry if it is
not there yet).
- Project-role requests are already complete after
iam_principal.py grant.
For other resource grants, add the registered principal: human-NNN
reference. Add a plain member string for service accounts, groups, domains,
workload identities, or other automation.
IAP viewer — add the email to viewers in the service's
infra/<service>/Pulumi.marin-<service>.yaml. Quote a *@domain wildcard (YAML
reads a leading * as an alias).
Verify and open the PR
-
./infra/pre-commit.py --files <edited files> (or --changed-files), fixing
anything it reports. git add a new file before linting so it is scoped in.
-
Do not run pulumi preview/up — a local preview decrypts and prints the
real emails, and applying is the reviewer's step. CI runs a redacted preview on
the PR.
-
Follow the commit skill to commit, push, and open the PR against main. Add
the agent-generated label. Title the PR for the capability, not the person:
[iac] Grant eval-bucket read to a new operator, never the email. The body
states the resource, the role, and the one-line justification — no personal
emails. Note in the body that a reviewer should run review-grant, then
pulumi up on the affected stack(s): marin for iam_data.yaml,
marin-<service> for a viewers change.
-
Assign the PR to the grant approvers so one of them picks up review-grant:
gh pr edit <n> --repo marin-community/marin \
--add-assignee yonromai,ravwojdyla,rjpower