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ekklesiaandClaude Opus 5 5c589d8fec fix: enforce explicit grant invariants
Explicit-grant management could produce states an operator could not reason
about, and pushed request-shaped problems into the database.

Two identical createGrant calls produced two grants; five concurrent identical
calls produced five. Revoking one returned success while the equivalent kept
authorizing the same user — an operator could believe they had removed access
that was still live. Two issuances are now the same authorization source when
user_id, permission_id, scope, source_kind, and source_ref are all equal, with
NULL equal only to NULL; expiry, creation metadata, actor, and grant id do not
distinguish them. Creating one while an equivalent is currently effective fails
with AUTHORIZATION_GRANT_ALREADY_EXISTS (HTTP 409, no-store) naming nothing about
the grant that already exists, and writing no grant and no audit row. A revoked
or expired equivalent does not block a fresh issuance. Conflict rather than
idempotent return: the caller asked to record a new authorization with their own
actor and expiry, and answering "done" while recording neither would hide that
nothing happened.

Enforcement is database-backed, since nothing constrains the number of API
processes: every create and revoke touching one equivalence tuple takes a
transaction-scoped advisory lock keyed by a hash of that tuple, encoded as a JSON
array so NULL stays distinct from the empty string and a crafted scope cannot
forge a separator. A collision can only make unrelated tuples serialize, never
hide a conflict, because the decision is always an exact SQL predicate. Its
single-key lock space is verified disjoint from the two-key space the migration
runner and bootstrap use. A time-dependent partial unique index was rejected:
now() is not immutable and cannot be indexed.

One revocation now clears every unrevoked equivalent — including expired-but-
unrevoked legacy rows, so the history is left in one state — with one audit row
per grant actually revoked, each carrying its own id, in one transaction.
Differently scoped or sourced grants are untouched. Historical duplicates are not
silently revoked by migration; the store prevents new effective equivalents and
an operator's explicit revocation resolves the class.

The request boundary no longer leaks into PostgreSQL. GrantId accepts exactly the
canonical lowercase hyphenated UUID the database emits, with no trimming and no
case folding, so a malformed path parameter is a 400 decided after authorization
but before any store call instead of reaching the UUID comparison and returning
an indistinguishable 503; a canonical unknown id still returns 404. expiresAt
accepts exactly YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ, byte-for-byte equal to the parsed
date's own toISOString, and must be strictly future — bare new Date silently
rewrote 2026-02-31 to March 3rd and accepted locale, date-only, offset, and
millisecond-free forms, and a past expiry was stored as a grant dead on arrival.
The store validates the same thing before any SQL so trusted internal callers get
the guarantee too.

The generic HTTP surface now rejects a scope field in every form, including null.
No route middleware supplies a scope to the evaluator, so a scope accepted here
produced a grant that persisted, listed, and authorized nothing. Core's scope
semantics are unchanged for internal callers; no resolver was added.

Listing was unbounded and returned a user's entire history. It is now keyset
pagination over created_at DESC, id DESC with a strict boundary on both values,
so rows sharing a timestamp are neither skipped nor repeated, at most limit + 1
rows read, explicit-source filtering server-side on every page, and an opaque
unsigned position cursor that is strictly decoded and reveals nothing on
rejection. Core's list method requires a validated finite bound with no
unbounded fallback anywhere.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-07-26 21:56:32 -05:00
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
ekklesia 72e082ff2f feat: add core authorization foundation 2026-07-23 10:29:01 -05:00