**Chat log** from Bead: Acequia Authorization · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/9b2fcc1c-8960-49fb-ab6d-28b331a4e179/2026-06-17/chats/2026-06-17-acequia-authorization.md) · session 2026-06-17 · discussion: Talk: Acequia Authorization *Verbatim chat log: immutable provenance. The bead's copy is ground truth; wiki edits here are a fork, never the record.*
**User (verbatim):** "bead-start acequia-authorization to discuss how authorization works on the acequia. one of the patterns is how nephele is doing authorization, authentication and token management. you will get that information from localWebDAV" **Assistant (summary):** Cloned the source (sparse) into the local github.com mirror; inspected it; wrote the findings note; scaffolded + git init.