diff --git a/policies/auth/oidc/admin.yaml b/policies/auth/oidc/admin.yaml
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+# Allow full administration of the OIDC auth backend (mount config and login
+# roles), mirroring policies/auth/ldap/admin.yaml. sys/auth/* already covers
+# enabling the mount itself; this covers writing auth/oidc/config and
+# auth/oidc/role/*.
+---
+rules:
+  - path: "auth/oidc/*"
+    capabilities:
+      - create
+      - update
+      - read
+      - delete
+      - list
+
+auth:
+  approle:
+    - tf_vault
+  k8s/au/syd1:
+    - woodpecker_terraform_vault
diff --git a/policies/identity/group/admin.yaml b/policies/identity/group/admin.yaml
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+# Allow the deployer to manage external identity groups and their aliases, which
+# is how OIDC group membership (the ak_groups claim) maps onto Vault policies.
+# Both the collection endpoints and the per-id endpoints are needed: create posts
+# to identity/group, subsequent reads and updates address identity/group/id/<id>.
+---
+rules:
+  - path: "identity/group"
+    capabilities:
+      - create
+      - update
+  - path: "identity/group/*"
+    capabilities:
+      - create
+      - update
+      - read
+      - delete
+      - list
+  - path: "identity/group-alias"
+    capabilities:
+      - create
+      - update
+  - path: "identity/group-alias/*"
+    capabilities:
+      - create
+      - update
+      - read
+      - delete
+      - list
+  - path: "identity/lookup/group"
+    capabilities:
+      - create
+      - update
+
+auth:
+  approle:
+    - tf_vault
+  k8s/au/syd1:
+    - woodpecker_terraform_vault
diff --git a/policies/kv/service/authentik/oidc-vault/read.yaml b/policies/kv/service/authentik/oidc-vault/read.yaml
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+# Let the terraform-vault deployer read the OpenBao OIDC client credentials that
+# Authentik's provider module generates and writes here (terraform_authentik owns
+# kv/service/authentik/* — see policies/kv/service/authentik/write.yaml). The
+# deployer consumes client_id/client_secret to configure the auth/oidc backend.
+#
+# OIDC becomes the default human auth path; approle and k8s (CI and agents) plus
+# the break-glass root path are unchanged.
+#
+# AppRole capabilities are fixed at login, so this grant must be applied before
+# the PR that adds the auth/oidc modules.
+---
+rules:
+  - path: "kv/data/service/authentik/oidc-vault"
+    capabilities:
+      - read
+
+auth:
+  approle:
+    - tf_vault
+  k8s/au/syd1:
+    - woodpecker_terraform_vault