Add soft archive support for resources and policies

[Lakes41]

Difficulty: Advanced

Type: Feature

Summary

Introduce archive states for resources and policies so admins can retire access rules without deleting historical records.

Current Behaviour

Policies and resource-like concepts are either active or absent. Deleting records directly would make audit trails and historical access decisions harder to explain.

Expected Behaviour

Resources and policies should support archived states, and access checks should ignore archived policies unless explicitly querying history.

Suggested Implementation

Add archivedAt or state fields to resource and policy models. Update service queries to exclude archived records by default. Add admin routes for archiving and restoring where appropriate.

Files or Areas Likely Affected

• apps/access-api/prisma/schema.prisma
• apps/access-api/src/services/policyService.ts
• apps/access-api/src/services/resourceService.ts
• apps/access-api/src/services/memberService.ts
• packages/shared-types/src/index.ts

Acceptance Criteria

• Policies can be archived without deletion
• Resources can be archived without deletion
• Access checks ignore archived policies by default
• Audit events preserve historical resource and policy references
• Admin listing endpoints can include or exclude archived records
• Tests cover archive, restore, and access-check behaviour

Additional Notes

Assumption: preserving history matters for auditability and operational support.

[isaacCodes1]

Hello, I’ve gone through the requirements and I’m confident I can implement a proper solution that matches the acceptance criteria. Kindly assign this issue to me.

[Ajuwonlo]

Good morning, Chief Maintainer,

I am an experienced software developer with a background in open-source contributions. I would like to work on this issue and contribute a clean, well-structured, and maintainable solution.

If possible, I would appreciate the opportunity to take it on. I’m ready to follow any contribution guidelines and provide timely updates.

Thank you for your consideration.