# GovOPlaN Postbox Codex Guide

## Documentation Contract

- Treat documentation as part of every behavior change. Update this module's manifest-driven `DocumentationTopic` contributions for affected user and administrator behavior.
- Keep feature content here; `govoplan-docs` projects it without importing Postbox internals.
- Maintain a static user/admin baseline and run `/mnt/DATA/git/govoplan/tools/checks/check-manifest-shapes.py` after behavior or manifest changes.

## Scope

This repository owns the `postbox` module: in-platform postboxes, function-organization-bound access, postbox messages, postbox directory APIs, internal and portal postbox surfaces, campaign postbox integration, postbox-owned migrations, and future `@govoplan/postbox-webui`.

Postboxes are not login-bound mailboxes. They are platform-owned communication and access containers whose visibility is derived primarily from effective identity-to-organization-function assignments, explicit postbox bindings, and capability contracts.

## Local Commands

Install and run through core:

```bash
cd /mnt/DATA/git/govoplan-core
./.venv/bin/python -m pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
```

For combined checks once implementation starts, run:

```bash
cd /mnt/DATA/git/govoplan
tools/checks/check-focused.sh
```

## Working Rules

- Keep postbox behavior in this module, not core.
- Resolve units and functions through Organizations and effective identity-to-function assignments through IDM. Use Core/Access for generic Postbox action authorization; do not turn a function assignment into an RBAC role merely to open its function postbox.
- Do not duplicate identity, organization, assignment, hierarchy, or RBAC logic locally.
- Do not import mail, files, campaign, or portal internals. Use manifests, capabilities, events, API routes, and typed DTOs.
- Treat postbox access changes as auditable security events, especially when access changes because a function assignment, delegation, acting context, or generic Postbox permission changes.
- Keep campaign delivery, file evidence, and portal usage optional behind capability boundaries.