docs: SLSA provenance is declined for a source-only project, not deferred

[DavidCozens]

Purpose

The pre-0.1.0 issue audit reviewed E32 (#642, supply-chain security and
assurance) and declined its remaining candidate, signed SLSA provenance
attestation. docs/security/sbom.md still listed it under ## Deferred,
so a published page told a procurement evaluator we intended work we have
decided against. It would have shipped inside 0.1.0.

Referencing #642 as the decision record; the epic is closed separately.

Change Description

The SLSA bullet becomes a decision with its reasoning, matching the shape of
the binary-artefact bullet below it. It states what an attestation would claim
("produced by this workflow from these inputs") against what the signature
claims ("signed by this workflow"), notes that the gap matters for a binary the
consumer cannot inspect, and declines on the grounds that this project is
source-only and its content-tree hash is reproducible from any clone, so the
integrator checks the source itself.

The bullet deliberately does not argue that the signature and the content-tree
hash already supply provenance. They do not: the signature authenticates the
signed document and the hash binds it to the scoped source, while neither
asserts that the workflow produced one from the other.

With both bullets now decisions rather than deferrals, the heading is renamed
## Deferred to ## Out of scope. Nothing links to the old anchor: #deferred
appears nowhere under docs/, and no file in the repository links into
sbom.md by anchor at all.

Nothing else in sbom.md is touched; the rest of the page was audited under
S23.22 and is current.

Test Evidence

Documentation only, no production source, so no clang-format reflow and no
scripts/misra_renumber.py.

markdownlint-cli2 v0.22.1 over the changed file, per docs/local-checks.md:

markdownlint-cli2 v0.22.1 (markdownlint v0.40.0)
Linting: 1 file(s)
Summary: 0 error(s)

The docs-build lane runs mkdocs build --strict in CI.

Areas Affected

docs/security/sbom.md only. No code, no build files, no impact on derived
projects.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Renamed the “Deferred” security documentation section to “Out of scope”.
  • Clarified SLSA provenance, including the distinction between attestations and signatures.
  • Explained verification using the reproducible source content-tree hash.
  • Kept binary-artefact signing documented separately.

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Walkthrough

The SBOM security documentation renames the Deferred section to Out of scope. It distinguishes SLSA provenance attestations from signatures and describes source verification using the reproducible content-tree hash. Binary-artefact signing remains separate.

Changes

SBOM documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Clarify provenance scope docs/security/sbom.md	The SLSA provenance section now distinguishes workflow provenance attestations from signatures. It describes source verification using the reproducible content-tree hash.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to bed3c

This documentation-only change clarifies that SLSA provenance is out of scope for the source-only project and updates the section heading; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/security/sbom.md`:
- Around line 325-326: Reword the sentence near the content-tree hash discussion
to explicitly distinguish SBOM signature/content binding from provenance: state
that the signature authenticates the signed SBOM and the hash binds it to the
scoped inputs, while neither proves the workflow generated it from those inputs.
Keep the revised claim in this canonical documentation location without adding
unsupported provenance assertions.

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