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ekklesiaandClaude Opus 5 532ce3803b fix: preserve authorization security history
Two security records did not survive user deletion, because both hung off a
cascading foreign key to the live Better Auth user row.

Deleting a user with authorization history deleted that history. A subject with
a create and a revoke audit row had zero rows afterwards: the record of what
they had been granted, by whom, and when it was revoked disappeared at exactly
the moment it mattered most. `ekklesia_core_authorization_audit.subject_user_id`
is now a retained, non-null historical snapshot with no foreign key — a plain
identifier that may name a user row which no longer exists. No name, email, or
other profile data is copied into authorization tables. The Drizzle relation to
the user table is dropped too, because modelling a retained snapshot as a live
relation misdescribes the data. Live rows still cascade, as intended: deleting a
user removes their grants and platform-owner row, so nothing continues
authorizing a principal that no longer exists.

Platform-owner bootstrap's single use was equally fragile. "Already consumed"
meant "a row exists in ekklesia_core_platform_owner", and that table cascades
too — so deleting the bootstrapped owner's user row removed the owner row, its
audit evidence, and with them the only thing preventing the operation that
establishes a platform's first administrator from being run again. A dedicated
`ekklesia_core_platform_owner_bootstrap` singleton now carries that authority.
Its id is pinned by a check constraint to the literal 'singleton', so the
primary key makes a second row structurally impossible rather than merely
unwritten by convention; it has no user foreign key, and Core never deletes from
it. Bootstrap claims that record inside the same transaction as the owner row
and its audit entry, so consumption is tied to success: a missing target user or
any other failure rolls the sentinel back and leaves the one legitimate first
use available. The existing transaction-scoped advisory lock still serializes
concurrent first attempts to exactly one success.

The operational consequence is deliberate and permanent: deleting the last
platform owner does not reactivate bootstrap, and neither does revoking one.

Core migration 0002_authorization_integrity creates the singleton table, drops
the cascading audit-subject constraint, and backfills consumed state for any
installation that already holds a platform-owner row — active or revoked — so an
existing deployment cannot gain a fresh first use by upgrading. It records no
subject, because a backfill cannot know which of several historical owner rows
the original use targeted and guessing would fabricate history. A never-owned
installation is untouched and keeps its one first use.

One upgrade limitation is irrecoverable and is documented rather than papered
over: if an operator manually deleted the bootstrapped owner's user row before
this migration, the old cascade already erased the owner row and its audit
evidence, so nothing remains to detect. At this checkpoint no supported Better
Auth or API user-deletion path can produce that state; it requires direct
database access.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-07-26 21:54:51 -05:00
ekklesiaandClaude Opus 5 6b6b77c105 fix: enforce production transport policy
Every PostgreSQL connection this repository opened was plaintext, in every
environment: no connection site set `ssl` at all, so credentials, session
tokens, and row data crossed the network in the clear and nothing in
configuration, startup, or `pnpm doctor` said so. The public identity URL
boundary was also looser than it appeared.

`core/src/database/transport.ts` is now the one typed policy. It has exactly two
modes: `verify-full` (TLS required, certificate chain verified, and server
identity verified against the configured host — the production default) and
`disable` (the development/test default, refused outright in production). There
is deliberately no encryption-only `require` mode, no chain-only `verify-ca`,
and no `rejectUnauthorized: false` escape hatch anywhere in the configuration
surface; every loose or aliased spelling is rejected in both environments, so a
typo never quietly becomes a weaker mode. Production has no plaintext exception
at all, not even for a loopback database — a connection string cannot prove the
database is process-local.

Verification is certificate *and* hostname. The policy supplies an explicit
`checkServerIdentity` pinned to the host parsed from DATABASE_URL, because the
pinned driver sets TLS `servername` only for non-IP hosts and Node performs no
identity check when it is unset — so `rejectUnauthorized: true` alone accepts a
certificate from any host the trusted CA ever signed when connecting by IP.
Both halves are proven against a real TLS-enabled PostgreSQL, including that the
same connection without the pinned callback succeeds. Every CA, certificate, and
key is generated at test runtime and deleted afterwards.

A DATABASE_URL may no longer carry its own TLS parameters. The pinned driver
merges parsed connection-string values over explicitly passed options, so a
`?sslmode=disable` in the URL would silently replace the policy's verified `ssl`
object; that now fails with a stable code, reported by both `pnpm doctor` and
the migration CLIs rather than as "failed unexpectedly".

One shared environment reader keeps `process.env` out of Core's reusable
constructors, and every executable that opens a connection resolves the policy
identically: the API (validated before any pool, Better Auth instance, module
runtime, or listener exists), both migration commands, the bootstrap CLI, and
Doctor's own connection. Doctor reports it as a blocking failure, never a
warning, naming only the effective mode.

Separately, the identity base URL and every trusted origin must now be exactly
one canonical origin — the WHATWG origin serialization must equal the supplied
string — so a path, trailing slash, credentials, explicit default port, or
non-canonical case is rejected rather than normalized into something that no
longer matches what a browser sends. Production's loopback rejection now
classifies the address instead of comparing against three literals, covering
`.localhost`, all of 127.0.0.0/8, 0.0.0.0, `::`, expanded and IPv4-mapped
forms. This is a configuration-shape guarantee only: it does not resolve DNS or
prove reachability, and TLS protects the connection, not the exposure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-07-26 17:03:52 -05:00
ekklesia c38b572778 docs: document module database access
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Add ADR 0016 recording the accepted module database access design (ModuleDatabase, the frozen
ModuleRuntimeServices boundary, one pool/one facade/one services-object identity, explicit
migrations, and the trust model), with narrow cross-reference corrections to ADR 0006 and ADR 0015
where their original text is now inaccurate. Sweep docs/development/api.md,
docs/development/authorization.md, docs/module-development/README.md, docs/development/testing.md,
and docs/development/identity.md for the new database boundary and remaining Phase 4C staleness;
correct the stale "Phase 4C is next" roadmap paragraph in platform-architecture.md and the matching
gap in README's current-status narrative. Extend the module template with a permissioned
GET /records route reading through context.services.database, using the canonical
createModuleTable helper, with matching template tests.
2026-07-25 21:50:03 -05:00
ekklesiaandClaude Sonnet 5 dfaf324a65 feat: mount module HTTP routes
Phase 5B, pass 2: production API mounting, authorization enforcement,
and module-runtime lifecycle integration.

apps/api now discovers the installed module inventory exactly once
(prepareStartupModuleInventory), composes the platform permission
registry from it, starts the module runtime from that same discovered
list (startDiscoveredModuleRuntime, never rediscovering), and mounts
StartedModuleRuntime's published routes under
/api/v1/modules/<module-id> via a new apps/api-owned Hono adapter
(module-http-routes.ts). Every module route is protected by the
existing requirePermission middleware against the composed registry,
state-changing methods additionally require a trusted Origin, OPTIONS
remains entirely platform-owned, and a handler that throws, rejects,
or returns a non-Response becomes a fixed, sanitized
500 MODULE_HANDLER_FAILED. Module-supplied CORS headers are stripped
and every module response is forced to Cache-Control: no-store with
Vary: Origin, Cookie. RunningApi shutdown now stops the module runtime
between draining the HTTP server and closing the shared pool, and
every startup failure path stops the runtime and/or closes the pool
before propagating, without masking the original failure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
2026-07-24 19:16:20 -05:00
ekklesia 9fa051be61 docs: record module authorization architecture
Adds ADR 0014 recording the durable architecture Phase 5A established
across both passes: the shared contracts-layer PermissionDeclaration,
manifest version 3 replacing version 2's bare permission strings, the
reserved core.* namespace and the structural guarantee that a
module-vs-Core collision always surfaces as
ModulePermissionCompositionError rather than the generic
PermissionRegistryError duplicate path, deterministic registry
composition, startup ordering, repository-root/package-version
resolution, registry injection into apps/api's enforcement and
explicit-grant HTTP API, the static-snapshot/historical-record
preservation guarantees, and Doctor/modules:validate integration.
Indexes it in the ADR README, cross-references it from ADR 0006 (only
its manifestVersion 2 / permission-string decision is superseded; the
rest of ADR 0006 remains accepted, and its historical text is left
untouched) and ADR 0013 (module permission registration, deferred
there, is what ADR 0014 implements), and links it from the relevant
development documentation.

Corrects two comments discovered during a direct source audit that
overstated where a module-vs-Core permission collision is actually
caught (core/src/modules/permissions.ts,
apps/api/src/platform-permissions.ts) — comment-only, no behavior
change, already covered by existing tests. Also corrects a
documentation claim in docs/development/authorization.md that
incorrectly implied removing a module blocks explicit revocation of
its historical grants; grants-routes.ts's revoke handler never
consults the permission registry, so revocation remains unaffected.
2026-07-24 17:49:42 -05:00
ekklesia edd7148aa8 feat: integrate module authorization
Wires composePlatformPermissionRegistry into apps/api's production
startup: startApi() discovers every installed module, composes the one
immutable platform permission registry (Core's own declarations plus
every module's), and only then constructs the shared PostgreSQL pool,
Better Auth, and the HTTP server. A discovery or composition failure —
an invalid manifest, a reserved core.* namespace claim, or a duplicate
declaration — propagates before anything exists to close; there is no
Core-only registry fallback. apps/api/src/platform-permissions.ts
resolves the repository root from its own file location, never
process.cwd(), so package-scoped test runs discover the right modules/
directory.

createApiApp/createGrantsRoutes now require the composed registry as
an injected authorization option, replacing the previous hard-coded
CORE_PERMISSION_REGISTRY; requirePermission continues to work
identically for Core-owned and module-owned permissions, since it has
no concept of the distinction.

Extends pnpm doctor with a modules.permissions check (reusing the
already-discovered module list, distinguishing reserved-namespace from
generic-duplicate failures, never re-discovering modules) and pnpm
modules:validate to compose the same registry before a module is
considered installable.

Adds focused coverage: startup-ordering and failure-isolation tests in
apps/api/tests/lifecycle.test.ts, module-owned-declaration enforcement
tests in apps/api/tests/authorization-middleware.test.ts, Doctor
composition tests in core/tests/doctor.test.ts, and a live PostgreSQL
end-to-end scenario proving a real installed module's permission is
discoverable, grantable, and deniable once the module is absent again
after a restart, without ever executing its server entrypoint.
2026-07-24 14:24:50 -05:00
ekklesia d9dd409aa3 feat: declare module permissions
Establishes the one canonical PermissionDeclaration contract
(packages/contracts/src/authorization.ts) — id/baseline/description,
strict, unknown-property-rejecting — consumed by both Core's
authorization registry and module manifests, replacing Core's
previously separate interface.

Bumps the canonical module manifest to manifestVersion 3: permissions
become complete declarations instead of bare identifier strings, with
manifest-owned namespace and duplicate-id enforcement. Version 2 and
bare string-array permissions are rejected outright; there is no
compatibility adapter.

Adds composePlatformPermissionRegistry (core/src/modules/permissions.ts),
a pure, synchronous composer that builds one platform permission
registry from Core's own declarations plus every already-discovered
module's, in deterministic order, reusing createPermissionRegistry
and rejecting any module-contributed permission in the reserved
core.* namespace. core/src/authorization remains independent of
core/src/modules; only the module integration layer depends on
authorization.

Updates the module template, module-development docs, authorization
docs, and existing manifest fixtures for manifestVersion 3. Does not
wire the combined registry into apps/api — that is pass 2.
2026-07-24 12:25:00 -05:00
ekklesia df2af0a3e0 fix: enforce registered authorization permissions
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Two related fail-closed gaps let a well-formed but never-declared
permission id slip through:

- POST /api/v1/grants created explicit grants for any well-formed
  PermissionId without checking the injected permission registry,
  allowing dormant grants for invented identifiers that could become
  effective the moment those identifiers were registered later.
- createAuthorizationEvaluator validated the permission id only inside
  the restricted-baseline branch, so a malformed permission combined
  with the public or authenticated baseline could still return allowed.

Both now fail closed: the grants route checks the target permission
against the trusted registry before calling store.createGrant (sanitized
403, no store or audit write), and the evaluator validates permission
shape before any baseline is allowed to return an allowed decision,
without adding a registry dependency to the evaluator itself.

The live integration lifecycle test switched from an unregistered
calendar.events.read to the registered core.authorization.grants.manage
permission, since module permission registration does not exist yet.
2026-07-23 11:44:45 -05:00
ekklesia 967c275027 docs: record core authorization architecture
Adds ADR 0013 documenting the durable Phase 4C decisions (permission
registry, evaluator baselines, grant/scope semantics, platform-owner
bootstrap, shared database pool, Origin enforcement, and what remains
deferred), cross-links it from the authorization/README docs, and
refreshes the pnpm doctor no-DATABASE_URL example output in README.md
and repository-workflow.md to include the authorization migration.
2026-07-23 11:26:47 -05:00
ekklesia 1363608552 feat: add authorization bootstrap and HTTP enforcement
Wires Core's identity and authorization domains into apps/api over one
shared, validated PostgreSQL pool; adds an explicit, single-use,
concurrency-safe platform-owner bootstrap CLI; adds a smallest-possible
immutable permission registry with one Core-owned restricted permission
(core.authorization.grants.manage); and adds reusable Hono authorization
enforcement plus a narrowly scoped /api/v1/grants HTTP API for managing
explicit grants only, gated by an exact trusted Origin on every mutation.
2026-07-23 11:16:32 -05:00