Identity events and state transitions

Flow baseline

Incoming API events progress through decode, validation, mapping, policy checks, connector execution, and final audit emission. Each stage should complete with deterministic outputs.

Flow phases

Ingress -> AuthN/AuthZ -> Schema Validation -> Idempotency Check

Mapper -> Policy Engine -> Entitlement Gate -> Connectors

Operational invariants

• No stage may mutate source intent silently.
• Policy failures must include stable error IDs and retry recommendations.
• All side effects are logged with immutable correlation keys.

Failure branching

Retries follow explicit classification: transport failures can retry, validation failures should not replay without operator correction, and mapping failures should create a remediation task with input diff.

Flow visibility

Request -> Validator -> Attribute Mapper -> Policy Engine -> Connector Adapter -> Audit Sink

Filtering and pagination edge behavior

Request with opaque cursor -> Filter validation -> Sorted index query -> Deterministic limit -> Auditable page token

• Reject filters with mixed operators that cannot be normalized to server index plans.
• Return explicit next-page tokens and keep request order stable across retries.