Coding (Platform)

NestJS: Enforce permission rules for authorization guard access policy

An operational alert points to a contract bug that appears only under mixed production data. The affected area is authorization guard.

Repair the authorization guard access policy implementation so it returns only permitted actions and explicit denial reasons.

Evidence

Affected surface: NestJS / authorization guard.
Observed failure family: enforce permission rules.
Scope policy: region must equal eu-west.

What this task practices

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