| name | vault |
| description | Set up and verify the CONFIDE THREE LOCKS for storing RED (real, identifiable) session data at rest — device FileVault, a dedicated encrypted store, and per-file sops/age encryption. Use when the user says "set up confide vault", "encrypt my session data", "three locks", "secure store for transcripts", "sops/age for RED data", or asks how to store real therapy/coaching transcripts safely. NON-DESTRUCTIVE: it CHECKS each lock's status and prints the EXACT command to fix any gap; it never moves, deletes, or encrypts data, and never runs `fdesetup enable`/`hdiutil`/`age-keygen` without an explicit flag and your confirmation. Probes are read-only (`fdesetup status`, which sops/age, key path). |
confide:vault — the THREE LOCKS for storing RED data
Operationalizes the defense-in-depth storage posture in
confide/docs/THREE-LOCKS.md: real (RED) transcripts rest behind three independent
locks, so compromising one does not expose a client. To read a real transcript an
attacker needs the device password AND the encrypted-store password AND the
age key — three separate secrets, ideally held in different places.
| Lock | What | Protects against |
|---|
| 1 — Device | FileVault full-disk encryption + strong login password + short auto-lock | a lost/stolen/USB-booted machine |
| 2 — Store | RED in a dedicated ENCRYPTED store (encrypted APFS volume / AES-256 .dmg), NOT in Documents and NEVER in iCloud/Dropbox | other apps, other users, silent cloud sync |
| 3 — Per-file | each RED file sops/age-encrypted at rest, age key stored SEPARATELY; processing in a no-network VM/container | files individually sealed; key not beside the data |
NON-DESTRUCTIVE — read before running
--check (the default) runs only read-only probes: fdesetup status,
shutil.which(sops/age), and os.path.exists(...). It never moves, deletes, or
encrypts data and never runs fdesetup enable, hdiutil, age-keygen, or rm.
- It reports each lock ✓/✗ and prints the exact command to fix every ✗ — for the user
to review and run themselves.
--init-age generates an age key only with that explicit flag, and never
overwrites an existing key.
--init-store PATH only prints the encrypted-store creation command; it does not
execute disk-image creation. Refuses cloud-synced paths.
- Never move, encrypt, or delete the user's RED data on their behalf without explicit
confirmation. There is no destructive default.
Run it
python3 skills/vault/scripts/vault.py --check
python3 skills/vault/scripts/vault.py --json
python3 skills/vault/scripts/vault.py --store-path ~/CONFIDE-RED.dmg
python3 skills/vault/scripts/vault.py --init-age
python3 skills/vault/scripts/vault.py --init-store ~/CONFIDE-RED.dmg
lock_status() is importable and returns:
{
"device": {"filevault": bool},
"store": {"present": bool, "path": str|None, "cloud_synced": bool, "safe": bool},
"perfile": {"sops": bool, "age": bool, "key": bool, "key_path": str|None}
}
How to help the user
- Run
--check and read back the ✓/✗ checklist.
- For each ✗, show the printed fix command (e.g.
sudo fdesetup enable,
age-keygen -o ~/.config/confide/age.key,
hdiutil create -encryption AES-256 … ~/CONFIDE-RED.dmg) and let the user run it.
- Confirm the RED store is not inside iCloud/Dropbox (
store.safe).
- Show the sops/age encrypt+decrypt recipe (printed in the checklist) so RED stays
ciphertext at rest and is decrypted only in-memory inside the isolated pipeline
(
confide/docs/ISOLATION.md). Only GREEN (redacted) output ever leaves the machine.
See confide/docs/THREE-LOCKS.md (the model + checklist) and confide/docs/ISOLATION.md
(red/green flow, no-network VM/container).