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Adds docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md, the target status model for the Org lens EasyCLA module once the Corporate CLA Console moves into LFX Self Serve (M3). It follows the structure and stance of the shipped M2 matrix docs/MY_CLAS_STATUS_MATRIX.md, which gains a one-line companion link back.

This document describes the target model, not what any build currently renders — it states the statuses the Org lens should show. Implementation gets compared against it, not the other way round; where the two differ today, the gaps table records it. Written against the M3 UI prototype and the backend as it stands on dev. Every status names the field or computation it reads, so the prototype statuses that have no backend basis yet are visible rather than implied.

What it covers

Two surfaces carry a status:

• CLA entry (one signing entity × CLA group) — Signed / Revoked / Not started
• Employee acknowledgment row — Authorized / Not Authorized / Invalidated

Plus a cross-lens naming map (Me lens ↔ today's console ↔ Org lens), the copy rules carried over from M2, and a gaps table.

Findings worth a reviewer's attention

These came out of tracing the backend rather than from the prototype. Each is recorded as a gap, and the likely bugs are marked as such.

The acknowledgment half of the Org lens rests on invalidation logic that does not do what the prototype assumes:

• "Not Authorized" is unreachable, not merely rare. Removing an approval criterion invalidates matching acknowledgments immediately (invalidateSignatures), so the row lands in Invalidated. The conditions Not Authorized is meant to name — GitLab-group removals, org-membership drift, records the sweep skipped — leave coverage stale and produce no status change at all, so the row keeps reading Authorized. The status needs a live coverage verdict from the backend before it can render. The prototype's "add the user back to the approval list" recovery hint is untruthful for the common case; this is an open product decision, not a copy fix.
• GitLab-org removal iterates the wrong acknowledgment set (likely bug, GitLab-org only). UpdateApprovalList mutates one shared ApprovalList. The GitHub-org removal branch now loads its own removed-org ECLAs and assigns .ECLAs explicitly before invalidating, so a standalone GitHub-org removal sweeps correctly. The GitLab-org branch still never assigns .ECLAs, so a standalone GitLab-org removal sweeps nothing, and combined with a domain removal in the same request it sweeps the domain-derived set under the GitLab-org criterion instead.
• GitLab group removals invalidate nothing. verifyUserApprovals has no GitlabOrgCriteria branch. Carried over from M2 unchanged.

On listing and sanctions:

• Unsigned acknowledgments are not filtered server-side, and the count disagrees with the page. The CCLA list query filters on signature_signed AND signature_approved, but the employee-signature page query keys only on company + project — while its totalCount query does filter signed+approved. Unsigned rows are returned and consume page slots and cursors while being excluded from the reported total, so dropping them client-side yields short pages and a mismatched count. A frontend-only fix is not sufficient.
• "Not started" is not listable. The list API returns only signed+approved CCLAs, so the status can only be shown by the Sign CLA preview, backed by GET /v4/cla-group/search — now documented in M3_ORG_LENS_API.md, though it still carries no sanctioned field.
• CCLA signing is already blocked when sanctioned. Both gates in v2/sign/service.go route through checkCompanyCompliance — once before the DocuSign envelope, once in the completion callback before signature_signed is set. The M3 self-serve endpoint inherits both. That said, the check is not simply "re-screen live": four paths fall back to the stored flag, and with cla-sss-enabled=false the "not sanctioned" return sits above any consultation of a stored SSS-origin flag — so with screening disabled an SSS-blocked company can sign, while manual/admin blocks still refuse.
• The DocuSign-completion signing refusal is not machine-readable. The initial sign-request endpoint already maps a sanctions block to the typed 403 company_sanctioned body, but the DocuSign completion callback still returns a plain error — so the Org lens would have to string-match on that one path, the same fragility as the console's existing TODO(#5078). A small backend fix worth doing before the frontend builds against it.

One naming divergence, flagged deliberately: the shipped Self Serve build labels the sanctions state Sanctioned. The document keeps Revoked, matching the Me lens, and records the mismatch as a gap rather than adopting the shipped label.

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Walkthrough

The PR clarifies M3 Org Lens sanctions behavior, acknowledgment query selection, and organization-removal requirements. It also links the M3 Org Lens status matrix from the CLA status matrix.

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M3 Org Lens status documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Sanctions and acknowledgment selection rules docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md	The matrix documents sanctions-check ordering, five-minute service-scoped caching, fallback behavior, screening exceptions, and consistent signed-row selection for page and count queries.
Organization removal and cross-lens documentation docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md, docs/MY_CLAS_STATUS_MATRIX.md	The matrix expands organization-removal requirements. The CLA status matrix adds a link to the M3 Org Lens matrix and naming map.

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Documentation gives conflicting signing behavior when SSS screening is disabled. Align the companion API contract before merge to avoid incorrect implementation guidance.

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Documentation-only PR defining the M3 Org lens status model and backend gaps.

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docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:58

• checkCompanyCompliance caches a live result for five minutes (complianceCacheTTL), and both gates call the same cached function. If SSS flags the company after initiation but before the callback while that cache is valid, the callback can reuse the earlier clean result and finalize signature_signed; the text currently overstates the guarantee.

  `v2/sign/service.go`, both via `checkCompanyCompliance`, which re-screens against the
  Sanctions Screening Service rather than trusting the stored flag: once **before** the
  DocuSign envelope is created, and again in the **completion callback** before
  `signature_signed` is set — so a company that becomes blocked mid-signing does not get
  a finalized CCLA. Manual/admin blocks short-circuit without an SSS call; SSS-origin

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:159

• Today's console cannot map “Acknowledged, not covered by criteria” to Not Authorized when it runs no coverage check and only receives the two signature booleans. The same document says membership drift is never re-evaluated and that the console's Not Authorized is the collapsed invalidated state; this cell should be “not determined” (or explicitly hypothetical), not a current mapping.

  invalidating what cannot be re-checked would be destructive), and each acknowledgment is

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:191

• Client-side dropping is not enough for a paginated endpoint: the DynamoDB query applies Limit before filtering and the count query/TotalCount counts unsigned rows too. A frontend that simply removes them will produce short pages and inflated counts, so this gap needs to specify server-side filtering or a fetch-until-full-page/recount contract.

  The sanction is a company-level fact in both cases — only the object carrying the label

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:118

• This says unsigned rows are filtered client-side today, but the document itself says the current API returns them and today's console labels them Not set up (lines 98–104 and 179). Only the proposed Org-lens target hides the row; please distinguish target behavior from shipped behavior.

| Not acknowledged | `signatureSigned = false` | *row is not shown* (filtered client-side today) |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:139

• EvaluateUserApproval re-checks public GitHub-organization membership in the My CLAs flow (cla-backend-go/signatures/service.go:1694-1733), while GitLab-group membership remains unevaluable. The statement that membership drift is “never re-evaluated” is only true for the Org-lens contributor endpoint; qualify it so the cross-lens documentation does not claim this is true throughout the backend.

|---|---|---|
| Email, GitHub username, GitLab username | Invalidates | `userStillApproved` — full re-check across emails, domain patterns, and both username lists |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:53

• This is too absolute: checkCompanyCompliance lets an SSS-origin sanction fall through and a clean result clear the stored block (cla-backend-go/v2/sign/service.go:3212-3231), which this section also notes on line 59. A previously Revoked signed entry can therefore return to Signed after the sanction is cleared; scope this statement to signing while the sanction remains.

- **Signing a CCLA is blocked while the signing entity is sanctioned**, so a **Revoked**
  entry can never become **Signed** and *Sign CLA* must be unavailable from a **Not
  started** preview for a sanctioned entity. The backend enforces this at two points in

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docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:65

• GetCompanyClaGroups does not preserve the absence of a signing date: v2/company/service.go:1370-1372 replaces an empty SignedOn with SignatureCreated. Legacy CCLAs can therefore be rendered with their creation time as Signed on {date}, so this rule is not true against the current API; please document the fallback as a gap or change the API before asserting that only real dates are shown.

- **A date is shown only when a real one was recorded.** `signedBy` is omitted when the
  CCLA carries no `SignatoryName`, and there is no CLA-manager fallback — the line then
  degrades to *Signed on {date}* rather than naming the wrong person.

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:54

• Revoked is not a terminal status: checkCompanyCompliance clears an SSS-origin sanction on a clean result (v2/sign/service.go:3317-3343), and the list maps the persisted flag directly (v2/company/service.go:1360-1363), so an existing signed CCLA can later be returned as Signed. Scope “can never become” to finalizing a new signing while sanctioned, or document this transition.

- **Signing a CCLA is blocked while the signing entity is sanctioned**, so a **Revoked**
  entry can never become **Signed** and *Sign CLA* must be unavailable from a **Not
  started** preview for a sanctioned entity. The backend enforces this at two points in
  `v2/sign/service.go`, both via `checkCompanyCompliance`, which re-screens against the

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:147

• With the current code, these cases do not produce Not Authorized: the row remains signatureApproved=true and the matrix maps that to Authorized (lines 120-121). They are only potential sources after a live coverage verdict is added; as written, this list contradicts the “none today” basis and also omits the standalone GitHub-org removal no-op.

So a genuine **Not Authorized** can only arise from:

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:216

• This gap is mischaracterized: the normal standalone GitHub-org removal path does not populate acknowledgments or ICLAs before calling invalidateSignatures, so no row is invalidated. Only combined updates with pre-populated slices can reach the narrower, over-invalidating branch described here.

| **GitHub-org removal over-invalidates** | The `GitHubOrgCriteria` branch checks only the email and GitHub-username approval lists before invalidating, instead of the full `userStillApproved` re-check its sibling branches use — and it compares with exact, case-sensitive `StringInSlice` against a single `getBestEmail(user)`, where `userStillApproved` folds case across *all* the user's emails. A contributor still covered by a domain rule, a GitLab username, a differently-cased entry, or a secondary email is invalidated anyway, landing in **Invalidated** while genuinely still approved. | needs filing — a backend bug, not a display gap |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:53

• The backend does not enforce this unconditionally. When sssEnabled is false, checkCompanyCompliance returns (false, nil) before considering an SSS-origin persisted sanction (cla-backend-go/v2/sign/service.go:3219-3222), and the behavior is covered by TestCheckCompanyComplianceDisabledSkipsSSS (v2/sign/service_sss_test.go:331-347). Thus both CCLA gates can allow signing in this supported kill-switch mode; qualify this rule with sanctions enforcement being enabled and document the exception.

- **Signing a CCLA is blocked while the signing entity is sanctioned**, so a **Revoked**
  entry can never become **Signed** and *Sign CLA* must be unavailable from a **Not
  started** preview for a sanctioned entity. The backend enforces this at two points in

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:30

• The statement that Revoked is only system-set conflicts with the supported manual/admin origin: UpdateCompanySanctionStatus removes the origin for manual/admin updates (cla-backend-go/company/repository.go:1318-1325), and checkCompanyCompliance explicitly treats such blocks as authoritative (v2/sign/service.go:3212-3216). If these updates are operational rather than an end-user action, say that explicitly instead of implying the status can never be set by an administrator.

| **Revoked** | The signing entity is under a sanctions block, so the agreement cannot be relied on and every write is refused. Set by the system, never by a person in the product. | `sanctioned = true` on the list entry | no — see [Not yet implemented](#not-yet-implemented) |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:118

• The parenthetical says unsigned rows are filtered client-side today, but the document also correctly says this is only the target behavior and that the current employee-signature query returns unsigned records. Today's console uses those records for Not set up (!approved && !signed), so this row should distinguish the target's hidden state from the current console behavior rather than implying it is already hidden.

| Not acknowledged | `signatureSigned = false` | *row is not shown* (filtered client-side today) |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:219

• The linked tracker does not support this claim: lfx-self-serve#2051 is the open “M3 Decisions and Architecture” umbrella and currently lists only #2044 about the ICLA-required-for-ECLA model. It does not track invalidating existing ECLAs when sanctions begin, so this link will route implementation/support work to the wrong ticket; please replace it with the sanctions-invalidation ticket or remove the reference.

| **Invalidating existing ECLAs on sanction is blocked** | A newly sanctioned company keeps **Authorized** acknowledgment rows while every write is refused. | blocked pending [lfx-self-serve#2051](https://github.com/linuxfoundation/lfx-self-serve/issues/2051) |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:94

• The “not recoverable by re-adding” contract does not match the current implementation: when autoCreateECLA is enabled, an approval-list update calls ValidateProjectRecord for an existing signatureApproved=false ECLA and sets it back to true. Separately, ProcessEmployeeSignature authorizes from the current approval-list result without checking the employee record's SignatureApproved flag. If invalidation must require a fresh acknowledgment, this target model needs to record the backend gap and require durable invalidation plus an authorization-path fix.

| **Invalidated** | The acknowledgment itself was made void — deliberately by a CLA manager, or as a side effect of an approval-criterion removal. **Not recoverable** by re-adding the contributor; they must acknowledge again. | `signatureApproved = false` | yes — *Invalidated · date* (field not exposed on this row today) |

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103-104: ⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 Major

Require a coverage verdict for Authorized.

The table accepts signatureApproved = true as sufficient, although membership drift and skipped sweeps can leave both booleans true without current coverage. A consumer following this mapping can show Authorized for an uncovered contributor. Require a coverage verdict for the target status and mark the boolean-only mapping as provisional until that verdict exists.

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docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:76

• GetCompanyClaGroups backfills an empty SignedOn with SignatureCreated (cla-backend-go/v2/company/service.go:1370-1372), so the current API can expose creation time as the displayed signing date. This rule should describe or label that legacy fallback instead of implying the date is always a real signing timestamp.

- **A date is shown only when a real one was recorded.** `signedBy` is omitted when the
  CCLA carries no `SignatoryName`, and there is no CLA-manager fallback — the line then
  degrades to *Signed on {date}* rather than naming the wrong person.

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:35

• “No agreement exists ... yet” is stronger than this flow can know: invalidated CCLAs are omitted from the list, while the search result carries no signature state. A historical/invalidated agreement is therefore indistinguishable from one that was never signed (as the later gap notes); define this as no current signed+approved agreement, or document the ambiguity.

| **Not started** | No agreement exists for this CLA group yet. | none — **not a listable state**, see below | no |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:68

• A cached result is not a fallback to the stored flag: on a cache hit checkCompanyCompliance returns cached.sanctioned and applies that value to the model (cla-backend-go/v2/sign/service.go:3224-3231). Please separate cached decisions from the cases that actually return company.IsSanctioned, since this affects how a stale persisted flag is interpreted.

  `checkCompanyCompliance` prefers a live Sanctions Screening Service result over the
  stored flag, but falls back to the stored flag in four cases: a manual/admin block
  (`sanction_origin != "sss"`) short-circuits without an SSS call, a cached result inside
  the request is reused, an unconfigured SSS client in optional mode returns
  `is_sanctioned`, and an unreachable SSS does the same. SSS-origin blocks do fall through

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:68

• The “four cases” list is incomplete: optional compliance also honors the stored flag when there is no external ID/domain, the organization-service lookup is unavailable, or SSS returns an unavailable/ambiguous result (cla-backend-go/v2/sign/service.go:3244-3269,3295-3300,3368-3377). Please describe this as “when no live result is available” rather than enumerating only four cases.

  `checkCompanyCompliance` prefers a live Sanctions Screening Service result over the
  stored flag, but falls back to the stored flag in four cases: a manual/admin block
  (`sanction_origin != "sss"`) short-circuits without an SSS call, a cached result inside
  the request is reused, an unconfigured SSS client in optional mode returns
  `is_sanctioned`, and an unreachable SSS does the same. SSS-origin blocks do fall through

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:105

• The matrix treats signatureApproved=false as a void acknowledgment that cannot authorize the contributor, but ProcessEmployeeSignature never checks employeeSignature.SignatureApproved; it loads the ECLA and recomputes only current approval-list coverage (cla-backend-go/signatures/service.go:1570-1599). An invalidated row can therefore still pass PR authorization, so this needs to be recorded as a backend gap or the “must acknowledge again” claim should wait for a fix.

| **Invalidated** | The acknowledgment itself was made void — deliberately by a CLA manager, or as a side effect of an approval-criterion removal. **Not recoverable** by re-adding the contributor; they must acknowledge again. | `signatureApproved = false` | yes — *Invalidated · date* (field not exposed on this row today) |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:247

• This gap stops at client-side dropping, but the endpoint also has a server-side count/page mismatch: totalCount filters signature_signed=true AND signature_approved=true, while the page query filters only company and counts all returned rows toward pageSize (cla-backend-go/signatures/repository.go:5117-5129,5141-5174,5195-5275). If only invalidated rows exist, totalCount is zero and no rows are returned; mixed unsigned/invalidated rows can truncate valid pages. Add this gap or fix the query/pagination contract.

| **Unsigned acknowledgments are not filtered server-side** | Rows with `signatureSigned = false` come back from the API, so the Org lens must drop them itself or it will show statusless rows. The CCLA list query filters on signed+approved; the employee signature query filters only on company and project. | needs filing — either filter in the query or confirm the frontend owns it |

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• Date rule corrected — Signed on {date} is not guaranteed to be a signing date. GetCompanyClaGroups substitutes sig.SignatureCreated when SignedOn is empty (cla-backend-go/v2/company/service.go:1368-1370), with no flag distinguishing the two. The bullet now covers signedBy only, and states the date does not yet meet the same standard. (flagged by copilot[bot])
• Sanctions guarantee qualified — "a Revoked entry can never become Signed" holds only while screening is enabled. In checkCompanyCompliance (cla-backend-go/v2/sign/service.go:3213-3222) the !s.sssEnabled early return sits above any consultation of a stored SSS-origin flag, so with cla-sss-enabled=false an SSS-blocked company can sign; manual/admin blocks still refuse because they short-circuit higher. (flagged by copilot[bot])
• Invalidated finality qualified — on a CCLA with AutoCreateECLA, CreateOrUpdateEmployeeSignature runs ValidateProjectRecord over acknowledgments where signature_approved or signature_signed is false (signatures/service.go:904-908), and that sets signature_approved = true (signatures/repository.go:2224-2262). A deliberately invalidated row returns to Authorized on the next unrelated approval-list edit. The target model keeps Invalidated final and files this as a likely backend bug. (flagged by copilot[bot])
• Pagination gap added — the page query filters on company only (signatures/repository.go:5141) while totalCount also filters signed+approved (:5313), so unsigned rows consume page slots while being excluded from the total. The gap row now states that a frontend-only fix is not sufficient. (flagged by copilot[bot])
• Internal contradiction resolved — the "Why Not Authorized is nearly unreachable today" lead-in claimed the three cases produce a genuine Not Authorized while every bullet said the row keeps reading Authorized. Reframed as stale coverage: the conditions Not Authorized is meant to name, which today produce no status change at all. (flagged by coderabbitai)
• Capitalization fixed — Approval list mid-sentence lowercased. (flagged by coderabbitai)

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• Approved List title-casing throughout — the CLAUDE.md convention replaces "whitelist", which does not appear in this file; it is not a mandate to title-case every mention of an approval list. This is contributor-facing prose, so lowercase reads as English rather than as an API field name. The one genuinely wrong instance was fixed. (flagged by coderabbitai)

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docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:48

• The v4 route is /v4/cla-group/search (the Swagger operation is under /cla-group/search beneath the v4 base at cla-backend-go/swagger/cla.v2.yaml:3045). Using /cla-group/search here names a path that is not callable as written; please include /v4. The same shortened path is repeated in the gap row at line 275.

  signing one. That search is backed by `GET /cla-group/search` (`searchClaGroups`), which

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:46

• The search result is broader than the set that can start a CCLA: the Self Serve BFF treats an option as signable only when it has both a projectSfid and cclaEnabled === true. As written, “any CLA group” implies ICLA-only or non-project-backed results can become a Not started CCLA preview. Qualify this as a signable CCLA result.

  the search in the Org lens that lets an admin look up any CLA group in the LF project

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:103

• regardless conflicts with the operational exception documented above: when cla-sss-enabled=false, an SSS-origin persisted sanction is ignored by checkCompanyCompliance, so the self-serve signing call can proceed. The status-table phrase “every write” has the same problem; qualify both statements to screening-enabled CCLA signing, while keeping manual/admin blocks unconditional.

that does not exist — and because signing is gated server-side regardless, an admin who
gets that far is refused at the API rather than silently creating an envelope.

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:146

• This says unsigned rows are already filtered client-side, but the document later says the contributor endpoint returns them and that the M3 acknowledgment UI is still unbuilt. That is not current filtering behavior; describe it as a client-side requirement/target until the API filters them.

| Not acknowledged | `signatureSigned = false` | *row is not shown* (filtered client-side today) |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:131

• CreateOrUpdateEmployeeSignature does not visit every false acknowledgment: createOrGetEmployeeModels constructs its user list only from email, GitHub-username, and GitLab-username approvals; domain/org-only users are not passed to ValidateProjectRecord. Narrow this statement, and the duplicate gap row at line 269, to existing rows for those materialized users.

  approval-list update calls `CreateOrUpdateEmployeeSignature`, which runs
  `ValidateProjectRecord` against every acknowledgment where `signature_approved` or
  `signature_signed` is false — and that sets `signature_approved = true`. So an

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:275

• GET /cla-group/search is already documented in docs/MY_CLAS_API.md:34-41 and in the Swagger contract, so calling it undocumented and saying it has no documented contract is inaccurate. This is a missing M3 cross-link, not an undocumented endpoint; please label it accordingly or link the existing contract.

| **The Sign CLA search endpoint is undocumented** | `GET /cla-group/search` backs the **Not started** preview but has no section in [M3_ORG_LENS_API.md](M3_ORG_LENS_API.md), so the one status that depends on it has no documented contract. | needs filing — document the endpoint |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:35

• The search result has no signature state, while the list omits unsigned and invalidated CCLAs, so the Org lens cannot know that no agreement has ever existed. A previously unsigned or invalidated agreement can therefore appear as Not started in search; define this as no active signed+approved entry (and update the related preview wording) or explicitly document the ambiguity.

| **Not started** | No agreement exists for this CLA group yet. | none — **not a listable state**, see below | no |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:149

• This decision table drops the required signed condition that is stated in the status definition above. If an unsigned record has signatureApproved=true, this row would classify it as Authorized despite the preceding rule that unsigned acknowledgments are hidden; include both booleans here.

| Acknowledgment intact and covered | `signatureApproved = true` | **Authorized** |

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• Sanctions fallback was overstated, and omitted fail-closed behavior. The compliance cache is service-scoped with a five-minute TTL (v2/sign/service.go:65,131), not per-request as written — a clean decision can be reused across requests. And required SSS mode does not fall back to the stored flag at all: complianceUnavailable:3372, handleSSSError's allowWhenOptional, and the nil-client branch at :3236 each return an error when sssRequired, so required mode blocks signing. The rule now separates the manual/admin short-circuit, the cached decision (scope and TTL stated), and the no-live-result case with the optional/required divergence made explicit. (flagged by copilot[bot])
• The org-removal remedy was incomplete. The GitHub-org block (signatures/repository.go:3755-3783) populates ApprovalList and GitHubUsernames from org membership but never assigns ECLAs — only the domain block does (:3601). So per-block isolation alone would trade a wrong-set sweep for no sweep at all. The gap row now states both halves of the fix: isolate per-block state and load the acknowledgment set the removed org selects. (flagged by copilot[bot])
• The pagination remedy contradicted the status mapping. This document renders signed-but-unapproved rows as Invalidated, so they must stay visible; "filter in both queries" placed after a predicate including signature_approved would have led an implementer to hide exactly those rows. The remedy now requires signature_signed = true in both queries while explicitly keeping signed rows with signature_approved = false. (flagged by coderabbitai)

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docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:48

• This endpoint is served as /v4/cla-group/search; the Swagger route and docs/MY_CLAS_API.md both include the /v4 prefix. Leaving the version out here gives implementers an invalid URL for the Sign CLA flow.

  signing one. That search is backed by `GET /cla-group/search` (`searchClaGroups`), which

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:42

• The list service calls GetCompanySignatures without Approved or Signed parameters, and the repository adds those filters only when SignatureQueryDefault is active; the SSM loader's fallback is all. Therefore signed+approved is not an unconditional backend invariant. If dev is guaranteed to set active, document that deployment dependency; otherwise mark this as a gap or make the query explicit.

  reads its signatures through a query that filters on `signature_signed = true` **and**
  `signature_approved = true`, so an unsigned or invalidated corporate agreement produces
  no entry at all. This mirrors M2's rule that unsigned agreements are never shown. A

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:110

• This contradicts the exception documented at lines 77–82. With cla-sss-enabled=false, checkCompanyCompliance returns not-sanctioned before consulting an SSS-origin persisted sanction, so an unsigned sanctioned company is not necessarily refused at this API. Please qualify this statement to screening-enabled mode or change the backend behavior before treating the gate as unconditional.

therefore apply the sanctions check itself rather than inheriting it from a list entry
that does not exist — and because signing is gated server-side regardless, an admin who
gets that far is refused at the API rather than silently creating an envelope.

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:81

• The preceding bullet says an enabled live SSS check can clear an SSS-origin block, so screening being enabled does not by itself guarantee that a Revoked entry can never become Signed. checkCompanyCompliance conditionally clears an SSS-origin sanction after a clean live result (cla-backend-go/v2/sign/service.go:3317-3342); qualify this sentence by the sanction remaining in force, while keeping manual/admin blocks fail-closed.

  still refuse, because they short-circuit above that check. So "a Revoked entry can never
  become Signed" holds only while screening is enabled. The M3 self-serve endpoint

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:282

• cla.v2.yaml already documents /cla-group/search and its cla-search-list/result schemas, and M3_ORG_LENS_API.md points to that Swagger as the exact request/response contract. This is an omission from the M3 guide, not an undocumented endpoint; please avoid telling implementers that no contract exists.

| **The Sign CLA search endpoint is undocumented** | `GET /cla-group/search` backs the **Not started** preview but has no section in [M3_ORG_LENS_API.md](M3_ORG_LENS_API.md), so the one status that depends on it has no documented contract. | needs filing — document the endpoint |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:138

• CreateOrUpdateEmployeeSignature does not enumerate every acknowledgment: createOrGetEmployeeModels builds its user list only from the email, GitHub-username, and GitLab-username approval lists (cla-backend-go/signatures/service.go:641-664). ECLAs for users covered only by a domain or organization rule are not passed to ValidateProjectRecord; scope this finding (and its repeated gap-row wording) to the records actually selected by those lists.

  approval-list update calls `CreateOrUpdateEmployeeSignature`, which runs
  `ValidateProjectRecord` against every acknowledgment where `signature_approved` or
  `signature_signed` is false — and that sets `signature_approved = true`. So an

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:68

• This says every SSS-origin block falls through to a live call, but checkCompanyCompliance checks the service-scoped cache before invoking SSS. A cached flagged result therefore does not perform a live re-screen, and only a cache miss/expiry reaches the live call that can clear the block. Please describe that ordering so the status model does not promise fresh screening on every request.

      an SSS call, in either mode. SSS-origin blocks fall through to a live call, so a
      now-clean result can clear them.

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:35

• The list query filters out invalidated CCLAs, as stated below, so a previously invalidated agreement has no entry and is indistinguishable from a never-signed group in the Sign CLA preview. In that case an agreement did exist, making “No agreement exists ... yet” inaccurate; define this as no active signed+approved agreement, or explicitly document the historical-invalidation ambiguity.

| **Not started** | No agreement exists for this CLA group yet. | none — **not a listable state**, see below | no |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:275

• The page query is not keyed by company alone: GetProjectCompanyEmployeeSignatures uses both company and project as its key condition; the missing filters are signature_signed/signature_approved. Please say “company and project only” so this gap accurately identifies the pagination bug.

| **Unsigned acknowledgments are not filtered server-side, and the count disagrees with the page** | Rows with `signatureSigned = false` come back from the API, so the Org lens must drop them itself or it will show statusless rows. Worse, the two queries disagree: the page query filters on company only, while `totalCount` also filters `signature_approved` and `signature_signed`. Unsigned and invalidated records therefore consume page slots and cursors while being excluded from the reported total, so client-side dropping yields short pages and a count that does not match the rows. Dropping them in the frontend cannot fix the pagination. | needs filing — both queries must select the **same displayed-row set**: require `signature_signed = true` in each, and **keep** signed rows with `signature_approved = false`, since those are exactly the **Invalidated** rows the lens must show. Filtering `signature_approved` in the page query would hide them. A frontend-only fix is not sufficient |

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#5212 is merged. Remaining items/hand-offs from my earlier list:

• [bug, medium/big] GitLab-group removal still needs native GitLab lookups + acknowledgment sweep/GitlabOrgCriteria handling; the GitHub side is fixed.
• [feature, big; decision needed] Live per-row coverage / Not Authorized vs changing removal-driven auto-invalidation.
• [BFF/FE only; no BE work] Sanctioned + never-signed preview: resolve company sanctions via the existing company lookup; search stays company-agnostic.
• [feature, blocked] Sanction-triggered acknowledgment invalidation: pending the product decision under STORY: M3 Decisions and Architecture lfx-self-serve#2051.

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docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:222

• The signing refusal is now machine-readable. The v4 and Self Serve signing handlers both unwrap *utils.SanctionedCompanyError and return CompanySanctionedResponder, which emits the typed 403 code: "company_sanctioned" (cla-backend-go/v2/sign/handlers.go:130-135; v2/self_serve_sign/handlers.go:108-114). Please mark this gap as done or remove it.

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:124

• The “today” behavior described here is stale in the current backend. GetClaGroupCorporateContributors applies signature_signed = true to both the page and count queries, while retaining signed rows with signature_approved = false for Invalidated (cla-backend-go/signatures/repository.go:5375-5579). Please remove the claim that unsigned rows are returned and dropped client-side; the same outdated premise is also repeated in the status table and gap row below.

- **Unsigned acknowledgments should never be shown** — a row should exist only once
  `signatureSigned = true`, aligning with M2's filter and retiring today's console state
  **"Not set up"** (`!approved && !signed`). **This is a proposal, not current behavior**:
  unlike the CCLA query, the employee signature query filters only on company and project, so
  unsigned records *are* returned today. See [Not yet implemented](#not-yet-implemented).

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:218

• This gap is no longer present in the current backend. The auto-create path skips employeeModel.Invalidated and calls ValidateProjectRecordUnlessInvalidated, whose repository implementation also skips records carrying invalidation evidence (cla-backend-go/signatures/service.go:902-914; signatures/repository.go:2251-2273). Please remove or mark this row as fixed, and update the earlier “one exception today” wording accordingly.

| **`autoCreateECLA` resurrects invalidated acknowledgments** | The target model treats **Invalidated** as final; it is not. A deliberately invalidated row returns to **Authorized** on the next unrelated approval-list edit, with only a `note` recording it. | needs filing — likely backend bug; auto-create should not re-approve invalidated records |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:219

• The Org-lens list no longer has this fallback. buildCompanyClaGroup reads storedSignedOn, which returns an empty value when signed_on is absent (cla-backend-go/v2/company/service.go:1479-1489,1542-1551), and the API schema explicitly says there is no creation-date substitute. This row now describes the legacy console converter rather than the M3 endpoint; please remove or reclassify it.

| **`signedOn` may be a creation date** | The list service substitutes `signature_created` when the signature has no `SignedOn`, and nothing flags the difference — breaking M2's "a wrong date is worse than none". | needs filing — omit the field when no signing timestamp exists, or mark it approximate |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:223

• The list entry already exposes the stored sanctions date. buildCompanyClaGroup populates SanctionedAt from company.SanctionedDate, and the schema documents sanctionedAt (cla-backend-go/v2/company/service.go:1487-1489; swagger/common/company-cla-group.yaml:65-73). The remaining question is whether the target UI renders it, not whether the backend exposes it; please rewrite this row accordingly.

| **Revoked has no date** | The entry shows the status alone; the list entry carries only the boolean `sanctioned`, and the M3 prototype shows no date either. The Me lens model dates it from `flaggedAt` — the company's stored `sanctioned_date`, stamped when EasyCLA first detected the block and re-stamped if a cleared entity is flagged again, so it is EasyCLA's detection date and not the sanctioning authority's listing date. | needs filing — expose the stored date on the list entry |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:224

• This endpoint is already documented in docs/M3_ORG_LENS_API.md under GET /v4/cla-group/search (line 128), including its request parameters, result shape, auth, caching, and the company-agnostic sanctions limitation. Please remove this gap or change it to a different unresolved contract issue.

| **The Sign CLA search endpoint is undocumented** | `GET /cla-group/search` backs the **Not started** preview but has no section in [M3_ORG_LENS_API.md](M3_ORG_LENS_API.md). | needs filing — document the endpoint |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:226

• This description is now only true for the GitLab-org path. The GitHub-org path loads the selected acknowledgments into removedOrgECLAs, isolates them, and re-checks remaining coverage. The GitLab-org branch still reuses the shared ApprovalList without loading/clearing ECLAs, so a standalone removal sweeps nothing and a combined domain + GitLab-org update can sweep the domain set.

| **Org removals iterate the wrong acknowledgment set** | `UpdateApprovalList` mutates one shared `ApprovalList`; only the domain block assigns `ECLAs` and neither org block clears it. An org removal alone sweeps nothing; combined with a domain removal in the same request it sweeps the domain-derived set under the org criterion — the only way the GitHub-org branch runs at all. | needs filing — backend bug; the fix has two halves. Isolating per-block state stops the wrong-set sweep but **alone makes a standalone org removal invalidate nothing**, since the org blocks never load acknowledgments. They must also load the set the removed org selects before calling `invalidateSignatures` |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:227

• The current GitHub-org removal path no longer over-invalidates in the way described. verifyUserApprovals uses stillCovered, which checks all user emails, email domains, GitHub and GitLab usernames, and remaining approved GitHub-org coverage; matching is case-folded (cla-backend-go/signatures/repository.go:4609-4623,4655-4743). Please remove or mark this gap as fixed.

| **GitHub-org removal over-invalidates** | When it runs, the `GitHubOrgCriteria` branch checks only the email and GitHub-username lists instead of the full `userStillApproved` re-check, comparing case-sensitively against a single `getBestEmail(user)`. A contributor still covered by a domain rule, a GitLab username, a differently-cased entry or a secondary email is invalidated anyway. | needs filing — backend bug, not a display gap |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:141

• “Carry nothing at all” overstates the legacy-record behavior. The API echoes the legacy free-text note for pre-M2 invalidations even when structured attribution fields are absent (docs/M3_ORG_LENS_API.md:103-106). Please say that older records lack structured attribution rather than implying they have no invalidation metadata whatsoever.

  not the status cell. Older records carry nothing at all, so attribution is per-record and
  never assumed — the same constraint as M2.

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:86

• The copy rule does not cover the case where one or both optional fields are absent. The M3 list omits signedBy when SignatoryName is empty and omits signedOn when no stored signing date exists, so the fallback cannot always be “Signed on {date}”; it should specify the status-only rendering when no optional field is available.

- **A name is shown only when a real one was recorded.** `signedBy` is omitted when the CCLA
  carries no `SignatoryName` — no CLA-manager fallback — so the line degrades to *Signed on
  {date}* rather than naming the wrong person. **The date does not yet hold to that standard**:

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:116

• signatureApproved = false is not by itself evidence that an acknowledgment was invalidated. The current repository has signed, unapproved records without invalidation metadata or a legacy invalidation note, and signatureInvalidated explicitly distinguishes those records; this table would mislabel them as Invalidated. Define their target state or require invalidation evidence in the predicate.

| **Invalidated** | The acknowledgment itself was made void — deliberately by a CLA manager, or as a side effect of an approval-criterion removal. **Not recoverable** by re-adding the contributor; they must acknowledge again. One exception today: `autoCreateECLA`, below. | `signatureApproved = false` | yes — *Invalidated · date*, from `invalidatedAt` |

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docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:217

• This gap is stale for the current M3 route. GetClaGroupCorporateContributors applies signature_signed = true in both the page and count filters, retains signed rows with signature_approved = false for Invalidated, and has row/count parity tests. The open-gap wording contradicts docs/M3_ORG_LENS_API.md:93-110; mark this as resolved or narrow it to a different legacy endpoint.

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• line 218
• line 222
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docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:218

• This gap is stale: the current automatic path calls ValidateProjectRecordUnlessInvalidated, and the repository skips records carrying invalidation evidence. An approval-list edit therefore no longer resurrects an Invalidated acknowledgment; update this row and the repeated rule above instead of filing it as an open backend bug.

| **`autoCreateECLA` resurrects invalidated acknowledgments** | The target model treats **Invalidated** as final; it is not. A deliberately invalidated row returns to **Authorized** on the next unrelated approval-list edit, with only a `note` recording it. | needs filing — likely backend bug; auto-create should not re-approve invalidated records |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:219

• The current Org-lens implementation does not make this substitution. GetCompanyClaGroups reads the stored signed_on through storedSignedOn, and its tests assert that signedOn is empty when no stored value exists. This gap, and the narrative claim at lines 87-89, should be removed or marked resolved.

| **`signedOn` may be a creation date** | The list service substitutes `signature_created` when the signature has no `SignedOn`, and nothing flags the difference — breaking M2's "a wrong date is worse than none". | needs filing — omit the field when no signing timestamp exists, or mark it approximate |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:222

• The two signing paths are not both plain. The initial request returns SanctionedCompanyError and both request handlers map it to a typed 403 with code: "company_sanctioned"; only the DocuSign completion callback still returns a plain trade-compliance error. Please distinguish the typed request-path contract from the non-HTTP callback behavior.

| **The signing refusal is not machine-readable** | Both CCLA signing gates return a plain error, not the typed `403 company_sanctioned` body the write ops return, so the Org lens would have to string-match — the same fragility as `TODO(#5078)`. | needs filing — return the typed sanctions error from the signing path |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:223

• This gap is already implemented in the current backend. CompanyClaGroup includes sanctionedAt, and buildCompanyClaGroup populates it from the stored sanctioned date when the company is sanctioned; the API contract also documents the conditional field. The row should not say the list carries only a boolean.

| **Revoked has no date** | The entry shows the status alone; the list entry carries only the boolean `sanctioned`, and the M3 prototype shows no date either. The Me lens model dates it from `flaggedAt` — the company's stored `sanctioned_date`, stamped when EasyCLA first detected the block and re-stamped if a cleared entity is flagged again, so it is EasyCLA's detection date and not the sanctioning authority's listing date. | needs filing — expose the stored date on the list entry |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:224

• The linked API document already contains a dedicated GET /v4/cla-group/search section with validation, matching, response fields and authentication. This is not an undocumented endpoint in the current repository, so the gap should be marked resolved or removed.

| **The Sign CLA search endpoint is undocumented** | `GET /cla-group/search` backs the **Not started** preview but has no section in [M3_ORG_LENS_API.md](M3_ORG_LENS_API.md). | needs filing — document the endpoint |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:226

• The broad current-state claim is no longer accurate for GitHub-org removals: the path now preloads the company's approved acknowledgments and assigns them before invalidation. The remaining defect is narrower—GitLab-group removal leaves approvalList.ECLAs empty and verifyUserApprovals still has no GitlabOrgCriteria branch—so split or rewrite this row to avoid filing the fixed GitHub behavior.

| **Org removals iterate the wrong acknowledgment set** | `UpdateApprovalList` mutates one shared `ApprovalList`; only the domain block assigns `ECLAs` and neither org block clears it. An org removal alone sweeps nothing; combined with a domain removal in the same request it sweeps the domain-derived set under the org criterion — the only way the GitHub-org branch runs at all. | needs filing — backend bug; the fix has two halves. Isolating per-block state stops the wrong-set sweep but **alone makes a standalone org removal invalidate nothing**, since the org blocks never load acknowledgments. They must also load the set the removed org selects before calling `invalidateSignatures` |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:227

• This GitHub-org over-invalidation gap is also fixed in the current code. The removal path uses stillCovered, which rechecks remaining email/domain/GitHub-username/GitLab-username coverage and remaining GitHub-org membership with case-insensitive matching before invalidating. Mark this row resolved rather than describing the old branch as current.

| **GitHub-org removal over-invalidates** | When it runs, the `GitHubOrgCriteria` branch checks only the email and GitHub-username lists instead of the full `userStillApproved` re-check, comparing case-sensitively against a single `getBestEmail(user)`. A contributor still covered by a domain rule, a GitLab username, a differently-cased entry or a secondary email is invalidated anyway. | needs filing — backend bug, not a display gap |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:42

• The definition says every write is refused, but the matrix later states that cla-sss-enabled=false lets an SSS-origin sanctioned company sign (lines 77-80). Please qualify this as the normal M3 write-gate/screening-enabled behavior so the status definition does not contradict its own exception.

| **Revoked** | The signing entity is under a sanctions block, so the agreement cannot be relied on and every write is refused. Set by the system, never by a person in the product. | `sanctioned = true` on the list entry | no — see [Not yet implemented](#not-yet-implemented) |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:141

• Older records do not necessarily carry “nothing at all”: the M3 API contract says pre-M2 invalidations may retain the legacy note even when structured attribution is absent (docs/M3_ORG_LENS_API.md:103-106), and the repository maps that field (cla-backend-go/signatures/repository.go:5532-5536). Please say older records may lack structured attribution rather than implying the record has no information.

  not the status cell. Older records carry nothing at all, so attribution is per-record and
  never assumed — the same constraint as M2.

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:220

• The response does lack a per-row coverage field, but the statement that no equivalent computation exists is too broad: EvaluateUserApproval already computes the current approval-list verdict (cla-backend-go/signatures/service.go:1626-1709) and M2 uses it (cla-backend-go/v2/my_clas/service.go:1378-1383). Describe this as not exposed or invoked for the Org-lens row instead.

| **No coverage verdict on an acknowledgment row** | **Not Authorized** cannot be rendered. `corporate-contributor` carries the two signature flags and the invalidation attributes, but nothing stating whether the approval criteria still cover the contributor — no equivalent of the M2 coverage check exists. | needs filing — a per-row coverage verdict, or a documented decision that removal stops auto-invalidating |

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Review Feedback Addressed

Commit: f7d7eda

All 6 unresolved threads were from copilot-pull-request-reviewer[bot], flagging places where the doc's backend-behavior claims had gone stale. Each was verified against the current code before acting — all 6 were confirmed correct.

Changes Made

• docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md: corrected the signedOn claim — the Org-lens list service now reads the stored SignedOn directly and returns no date when absent, rather than falling back to signature_created (per copilot-pull-request-reviewer[bot])
• docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md: corrected the autoCreateECLA claim — processEmployeeSignatures now checks Invalidated first and leaves invalidated records alone instead of re-approving them (per copilot-pull-request-reviewer[bot])
• docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md: narrowed the signing-refusal gap to the DocuSign completion callback only — the initial sign-request endpoint already returns the typed 403 company_sanctioned body (per copilot-pull-request-reviewer[bot])
• docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md: dropped the "search endpoint undocumented" gap and added a cross-link — GET /v4/cla-group/search already has a full section in M3_ORG_LENS_API.md (per copilot-pull-request-reviewer[bot])
• docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md: narrowed the "org removals iterate the wrong acknowledgment set" gap to the GitLab-org branch — the GitHub-org branch now loads and assigns its own removed-org ECLAs before invalidating (per copilot-pull-request-reviewer[bot])
• docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md: dropped the "GitHub-org removal over-invalidates" gap — it now uses stillCovered with case-insensitive checks across email, domain, GitHub username, GitLab username, and remaining org coverage (per copilot-pull-request-reviewer[bot])

PR description updated to match — dropped the now-fixed autoCreateECLA/signedOn bullets and narrowed the org-removal/signing-refusal bullets to the branches still affected.

Threads Resolved

6 of 6 unresolved threads addressed in this iteration.

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🔵 Needs a closer look

Several documented behavior and backend-gap descriptions need correction before approval.

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docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:125

• This rule is stale for the M3 corporate-contributors endpoint. GetClaGroupCorporateContributors uses corporateContributorFilter, which always requires signature_signed = true, and passes approvedOnly=false to the count; signed invalidated rows remain while unsigned rows are excluded (cla-backend-go/signatures/repository.go:5375-5377,5573-5579). Please describe the current server-side behavior rather than the old company/project-only query.

- **Unsigned acknowledgments should never be shown** — a row should exist only once
  `signatureSigned = true`, aligning with M2's filter and retiring today's console state
  **"Not set up"** (`!approved && !signed`). **This is a proposal, not current behavior**:
  unlike the CCLA query, the employee signature query filters only on company and project, so
  unsigned records *are* returned today. See [Not yet implemented](#not-yet-implemented).

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:221

• sanctionedAt is already exposed by this endpoint: buildCompanyClaGroup copies comp.SanctionedDate, and the company-cla-group schema/API documentation describes it. This gap is therefore not a missing backend field; if the prototype intentionally omits the date, classify it as a frontend rendering gap and state that the backend field is done.

| **Revoked has no date** | The entry shows the status alone; the list entry carries only the boolean `sanctioned`, and the M3 prototype shows no date either. The Me lens model dates it from `flaggedAt` — the company's stored `sanctioned_date`, stamped when EasyCLA first detected the block and re-stamped if a cleared entity is flagged again, so it is EasyCLA's detection date and not the sanctioning authority's listing date. | needs filing — expose the stored date on the list entry |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:238

• The linked lfx-self-serve#2051 is currently titled “STORY: M3 Decisions and Architecture” and its body describes the ICLA-required-for-ECLA decision; it does not identify sanction-triggered acknowledgment invalidation. Please link the specific tracking issue for this gap, or describe #2051 as an umbrella decision story in both references.

- [lfx-self-serve#2051](https://github.com/linuxfoundation/lfx-self-serve/issues/2051) — invalidating existing acknowledgments when a company becomes sanctioned

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:222

• Please scope this statement to the Org-lens acknowledgment coverage path. EasyCLA's GitLab activity gate does evaluate GitLab group approval entries via checkGitLabGroupApproval and can grant that path when the per-group token is available (cla-backend-go/v2/gitlab-activity/service.go:631-705); it is EvaluateUserApproval and verifyUserApprovals that lack live group handling. As written, “neither direction” and “grants nothing” are false for other EasyCLA flows.

| **GitLab group criteria are stored but never evaluated, so they are out of scope for M3** | Group membership cannot be read without a per-group installed OAuth token, so EasyCLA evaluates a GitLab group entry in neither direction: `EvaluateUserApproval` has no group check when granting coverage, and `verifyUserApprovals` has no `GitlabOrgCriteria` branch when removing it. The entry is stored and listed, but grants nothing and, on removal, invalidates nothing. This is long-standing backend behavior ([easycla#3081](https://github.com/linuxfoundation/easycla/pull/3081) added the lists), not new — the Corporate Console has always offered the criterion on the same terms, and the Self Serve approval list ([lfx-self-serve#2257](https://github.com/linuxfoundation/lfx-self-serve/pull/2257)) inherits it by exposing the same producer field. Carried over from M2, which recorded the same limitation. | needs filing against the backend — a group entry must either be evaluated or be rejected at the API. Until then the Org lens should not offer **GitLab group**, since a stored-but-inert criterion reads as working coverage. GitLab *username* is unaffected and stays supported |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:116

• “Approved org or group” is ambiguous and conflicts with the later M3 scope statement: GitLab group membership is not live-evaluated for acknowledgment coverage and is explicitly out of scope. The only membership-drift case described as a future Org-lens verdict here is an approved GitHub organization, so name that criterion explicitly rather than implying GitLab groups can produce Not Authorized.

| **Not Authorized** | The acknowledgment is intact, but the contributor is no longer covered by the approval criteria. Nobody revoked access deliberately — a criterion they matched was removed, or their membership of an approved org or group changed. **Recoverable**: adding them back restores them. | **none today** — no coverage verdict is computed, see [Not yet implemented](#not-yet-implemented) | no |

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:50

• These filters are not actually guaranteed by the implementation: GetCompanyClaGroups calls GetCompanySignatures with Approved/Signed nil, and repository.go adds signature_approved=true/signature_signed=true only when SignatureQueryDefault is active; config/ssm.go defaults it to all. With that default, invalidated or unsigned CCLAs enter newestSigs, so this rule and the signed invariant are false. Pass explicit true filters (or document and enforce the required runtime setting) before treating this as an endpoint guarantee.

- **Only signed agreements are listed.** `GET /v4/company/external/{companySFID}/cla-groups`
  filters on `signature_signed = true` **and** `signature_approved = true`, so an unsigned or
  invalidated corporate agreement produces no entry at all — mirroring M2's rule that unsigned
  agreements are never shown. Consequently `signed` is always `true` on a returned entry: a

docs/M3_ORG_LENS_STATUS_MATRIX.md:223

• The combined-request behavior is inaccurate. The GitLab-org branch never assigns .ECLAs, so a standalone removal sweeps nothing; if a domain removal earlier in the same request populated the shared slice, verifyUserApprovals still has no GitlabOrgCriteria branch (cla-backend-go/signatures/repository.go:4021-4090,4535-4635), so the GitLab-org call also invalidates nothing rather than sweeping the domain-derived set under that criterion.

| **GitLab-org removal iterates the wrong acknowledgment set** | `UpdateApprovalList` mutates one shared `ApprovalList`. The GitHub-org removal branch now loads its own removed-org ECLAs and assigns `.ECLAs` explicitly before invalidating, so a standalone GitHub-org removal sweeps correctly. The GitLab-org branch still never assigns `.ECLAs`, so a standalone GitLab-org removal sweeps nothing; combined with a domain removal in the same request it sweeps the domain-derived set under the GitLab-org criterion instead. | needs filing — backend bug scoped to the GitLab-org branch; it must load the acknowledgment set the removed GitLab org selects before calling `invalidateSignatures`, matching the GitHub-org branch's fix |

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