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feat: create the initial platform owner from an operator command
A fresh production installation deadlocked. ADR 0034 gave Ekklesia a login
page and ADR 0019 gave it a single-use platform-owner bootstrap, but that
bootstrap grants ownership to a user id that already exists and has no way
to bring one into being. Public signup is disabled by default and
production cannot enable it at all, so a newly deployed instance had a
login page, no account, and no supported way to create one — only hand-
written SQL or briefly opening public registration.

    pnpm identity:create-initial-owner -- --email [email protected]

creates the identity and grants it ownership, in the same shape as the
other operator commands: trusted local tooling, reachable only by someone
who already holds the database credentials, serving no HTTP route. No
/signup, /register, or /setup route is added, no bootstrap endpoint, and
no setup token; public signup stays disabled in every environment and a
test asserts a freshly bootstrapped deployment still refuses
/api/auth/sign-up/email.

The identity is created through Better Auth's own sign-up path, so
hashing, salting, normalization and the 8-128 bound are the identity
system's rather than a second implementation that could drift. Because the
server's instance refuses account creation, the command builds its own
in-process instance; nothing in apps/api imports it and the running
server's posture is untouched.

The sign-up result is verified rather than trusted. Better Auth returns a
fabricated success for an already-registered address — a user object whose
id was never persisted, database unchanged. That is correct enumeration
defence on a public endpoint and a trap here, so the identity is always
read back from the database and that read, not the response, is what the
grant uses.

An existing usable identity is adopted: ownership is granted and its
password left alone, reported as an adoption rather than a creation. This
is the recovery path for the one partial failure possible, since sign-up
commits on Better Auth's connection and the grant is a separate
transaction. A credential-less row is refused instead — making it an owner
would consume the single use on an identity nobody can authenticate as. A
password is never reset and an account is never taken over.

Whole invocations are serialized by an advisory lock on their own key, so
a race cannot leave a stray signable-in account behind; the grant's own
locked single-use transaction is unchanged. There is no --force or reset.

The password is prompted for invisibly or read from stdin, never from
argv (--password is refused with an explanation) and never from an
environment variable, so nothing about it becomes permanent deployment
configuration. The command needs DATABASE_URL and nothing else — verified
that sign-up needs no secret, base URL, or trusted origins, and that the
resulting account signs in through a separately configured server — so the
first owner can be created before TLS or DNS exist. It never migrates.

Proven end to end rather than at the database: a fresh installation is
bootstrapped, signed in through the real browser login transport with
signup disabled, its principal read, and used to open an owner-protected
resource that stays closed to anonymous callers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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# Testing
Ekklesia separates fast code-level evidence from live infrastructure evidence.
## Unit and repository verification
```bash
pnpm test
pnpm verify
```
These commands exercise package tests, repository boundaries, type checking, offline Core and
module migration discovery, identity schema drift detection, formatting, linting, and builds.
Migration-runner unit tests use a narrow database/session port to prove deterministic planning,
approval, transaction orchestration, cleanup, and sanitized errors. They do not claim to prove
PostgreSQL behavior. Identity unit tests cover branded opaque-ID contracts, principal shapes,
configuration validation (secret rules, canonical-origin-only base URL and trusted origins, and the
full loopback/unspecified classifier production rejects — `.localhost`, all of `127.0.0.0/8`,
`0.0.0.0`, `::1` compressed and expanded, `::`, and IPv4-mapped forms), bounded/validated
connection and operation (`query_timeout`/`statement_timeout`) database timeouts, the Core identity
runtime (explicit construction, exact schema mapping, only email/password and rate limiting
enabled, an explicit `advanced.disableCSRFCheck`/`disableOriginCheck: false` pair, an explicit
error-only sanitized logger that strips Better Auth's own message and arguments regardless of what
they contain, pinned 8–128 password-length bounds, sanitized failures, exact whole-name
session-cookie detection that never fires on a prefixed, suffixed, or differently-cased lookalike,
and that a broken session store during principal resolution is never silently reported as anonymous
while an unrelated cookie performs no identity database work at all), the PostgreSQL transport
policy (`core/tests/database-transport.test.ts`: mode validation including every loose or aliased
spelling, production's plaintext refusal with no loopback exception, connection-string
TLS-parameter rejection, and that no configuration path yields `rejectUnauthorized: false` or leaks
CA material into an error), and Core migration discovery (deterministic ordering, the reserved
`core` identity, and collision rejection) — all without a live database. `apps/api`'s own unit tests cover its pure Hono app factory (route shapes, module
route mounting/enforcement/CORS/response sanitization, CORS allow/deny/preflight, deterministic 404
and sanitized error responses), its runtime configuration, its idempotent shutdown lifecycle
(concurrent callers share one server-close-then-module-runtime-stop-then-pool-close promise; a
module-stop failure never prevents pool cleanup; a startup failure after the pool was already
created still closes it, stopping the module runtime first if it had already started;
`SIGINT`/`SIGTERM` wiring is exercised through an injectable exit function rather than the real
`process.exit`), and that importing any of its modules — including the executable server module
without calling its exported `main` — never reads the environment, connects to PostgreSQL, imports
a module entrypoint, or starts a server. Real, working (non-throwing) module fixtures prove
production module-runtime startup/shutdown ordering and cleanup against a mocked pool/Better
Auth/server — see [Authorization](authorization.md#tests).
Phase 7B pass 1 adds browser-authentication evidence
([ADR 0034](../architecture/decisions/0034-host-owned-browser-authentication.md)). API tests pin the
two exact browser-boundary exceptions. Any body-bearing successful `2xx` from
`POST /api/auth/sign-in/email` preserves Better Auth's `Set-Cookie` and status but returns fixed
`{"ok":true}`, with no token/user body. `/api/auth/get-session`, `/api/auth/list-sessions`,
`/api/auth/update-session`, and `/api/auth/change-password` each receive the identical sanitized
`404` without invoking the identity handler; failures and every other supported auth route retain
their native semantics. The live browser transport additionally proves the host-only cookie and
that no token, session, user, or email appears in the sign-in body.
Shell protocol and React tests cover principal-first anonymous/authenticated/failure states; the
labelled email/password form and keyboard submission; autocomplete, pending state, and same-tick
duplicate suppression; password clearing; fixed credential-versus-service errors; no credential or
raw exception logging; fresh principal and navigation resolution after login; sign-out followed by
principal resolution; and retry without a full-page reload.
The same shell suites exercise session transitions under repeated timing: active module cleanup and
realtime teardown on sign-out/verified expiry; stale attempts after unmount; platform bootstrap
`401` mapping directly to unauthenticated; and deduplicated principal revalidation for both module
`401` and `403`. They prove an authenticated recheck preserves the module's original response,
session, and mounted UI; an anonymous recheck unmounts once and shows login; a revalidation failure
is a sanitized host failure; and a response from an already-unmounted frame cannot overwrite a newer
transition. Return/callback input is not part of the browser contract, and tests pin that external,
protocol-relative, backslash-prefixed, and scheme-bearing values cannot become navigation.
Modularity checks keep authentication out of the module UI SDK/context and Dashboard login code out
of the separate display bundle.
`pnpm verify` is intentionally Docker-free. It never plans or applies migrations against a live
database.
## Live PostgreSQL migration evidence
Docker and the Docker Compose plugin are required for the live suite:
```bash
pnpm test:migrations:integration
```
The command first builds the workspace through the repository's Turbo build graph, then starts the
repository's pinned PostgreSQL image in a unique Compose project, waits for bounded health
readiness, runs the production PostgreSQL adapter and migration services, and removes the
container, network, and volume. A build failure occurs before Docker provisioning. Each scenario
also receives a safely named disposable database. Direct host runs use a Docker-assigned random
port bound only to `127.0.0.1`; a containerized Gitea job joins the isolated Compose network and
uses the PostgreSQL service name.
The live suite proves fresh read-only planning, initial and incremental application, genuine
no-op behavior, exact applied checksums and history, edited or corrupt history rejection,
whole-batch DDL rollback, Drizzle breakpoint execution, real advisory-lock concurrency and
timeouts, lock release after failure, exact destructive approvals, and public-error sanitization.
It does not make migrations automatic during Core startup.
A dedicated set of scenarios exercises the committed Core identity migration against real
PostgreSQL: read-only planning on a fresh database, applying it and confirming exactly the four
expected `ekklesia_core_*` tables and their indexes exist, a genuine no-op on a second apply, Core
executing before a fixture module migration in one batch, previously applied module-only history
staying byte-for-byte unchanged once Core is introduced, and a later module migration's failure
rolling back cleanly without damaging the already-committed Core identity migration or leaking the
advisory lock.
A second dedicated suite (`apps/api/tests/api-http.integration.ts`, included in the same
`pnpm test:migrations:integration` run) starts the real `apps/api` HTTP server against a freshly
migrated disposable database and exercises it with real HTTP requests: public sign-up (with no
automatic session, per `autoSignIn: false`), explicit sign-in producing a host-only
`HttpOnly`/`SameSite=Lax`/secure session cookie and fixed `{"ok":true}` body containing no token,
`/api/v1/principal` for both the authenticated and anonymous shapes, sign-out actually invalidating
the session, a malformed or missing cookie
resolving as anonymous, duplicate sign-up creating no second identity row, two distinct accounts
producing identical principal shapes with no elevation and no owner/role/permission data at the
database level, no plaintext password ever stored, the exact 8–128 password-length boundary (7
rejected, 8 accepted, 128 accepted, 129 rejected), CORS never returning an allow-origin header for
an untrusted origin, Better Auth's handler being unreachable outside `/api/auth/*`, a database
outage during principal resolution producing a sanitized `503` rather than a false anonymous `200`,
starting the API against an unmigrated database creating no tables at all, and a clean listener/pool
shutdown.
The browser-authentication chain in that live suite also creates a development identity, invokes
Core's real single-use platform-owner bootstrap for that existing id, signs in through the real HTTP
transport, presents the returned cookie to `/api/v1/principal`, and reaches protected Dashboard
navigation with the owner authority. It proves composition across identity, authorization, and the
Dashboard resource; because production signup is prohibited, it deliberately does **not** claim to
prove a production first-user enrollment path.
A dedicated group within that suite proves session-store readiness against the real database rather
than a mock, since that is the only place a broken store looks exactly like an anonymous request: a
request carrying no cookies and one carrying only an unrelated cookie both resolve as anonymous
while issuing **no** identity database work at all; a request presenting the configured session
cookie against a dropped session table, a dropped column, and a revoked `SELECT` privilege each
produce a sanitized `503 PRINCIPAL_RESOLUTION_FAILED` with no relation name, column name, SQL, or
driver text in the body or the logs; and a genuinely expired or unknown session against a healthy
store still resolves as anonymous.
The same suite also proves Better Auth's own origin/CSRF protection is production-equivalent under
the test runner, not just in a plain Node script: a no-cookie first authentication attempt succeeds
from a trusted browser origin and is rejected (`403`, no permissive CORS header, no leaked detail)
from an untrusted one; a cookie-bearing state-changing request (sign-out) is rejected the same way
from an untrusted origin, and the presented session remains valid afterward, proving the rejected
request never reached sign-out logic. See
[ADR 0012](../architecture/decisions/0012-identity-origin-csrf-protection-under-test.md) for why
this previously could not be reproduced reliably under Vitest (Better Auth's own default silently
skips these checks whenever `isTest()` is true, unless `advanced.disableOriginCheck` is set
explicitly) and how the fix removes that gap entirely. A further scenario forces a real identity
database failure and asserts, against actual `console.error`/`warn`/`log` output, that Better
Auth's own internal error logging — configured explicitly in `core/src/identity/runtime.ts` — never
emits a raw exception, SQL, connection detail, or the rejected request's origin.
A dedicated group in the API suite also drives Pass 3's explicit-grant invariants through a real
authorized grants-management session: a malformed non-UUID revoke returning a sanitized `400` with
no database work, a canonical unknown UUID returning `404`, a scoped create body returning `400`
with nothing written, normalized-impossible/non-canonical/past expirations returning `400`, an
equivalent creation returning a sanitized `409` that names no existing grant, a bounded paginated
list traversed across three pages with relationship grants absent from every one, and one HTTP
revocation clearing every unrevoked legacy equivalent with a per-row audit entry.
A third dedicated suite (`apps/api/tests/module-database.integration.ts`, included in the same
`pnpm test:migrations:integration` run) proves `context.services.database` against a real,
installed test module (`core/tests/fixtures/module-database-integration/db-facade/` — never the
repository's live `modules/` directory, and invisible to normal discovery/Doctor/`modules:validate`
unless a test explicitly points discovery at it): the module's own table does not exist until its
migration is explicitly applied, and constructing the pool or facade never creates it; `start`,
`stop`, and an authorized HTTP handler all receive the identical `ModuleRuntimeServices` object,
proven by reference equality; a real authorized mutation persists and a later read observes it,
gated by the same permission/trusted-Origin enforcement every other module route uses; a real
committed transaction persists and a real rollback (a deliberate unique-constraint violation)
leaves no partial mutation; a module deliberately catching a real PostgreSQL failure returns its
own response untouched, while an uncaught one sanitizes to the existing
`MODULE_HANDLER_FAILED` boundary with no leaked SQL, error text, or path; and a `stop` hook's write
completes and is independently verifiable, through the harness's own administrative connection —
never the API's own pool — before that pool closes. See
[ADR 0016](../architecture/decisions/0016-module-database-access.md).
A fourth dedicated suite (`core/tests/database-tls.integration.ts`, included in the same
`pnpm test:migrations:integration` run) proves the production PostgreSQL transport policy against a
real TLS-enabled PostgreSQL rather than against the shape of an options object: a trusted
certificate whose identity matches the host connects and is confirmed encrypted through
`pg_stat_ssl`; a certificate that does not chain to the configured CA is refused
(`UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE`); the same server reached through an address its certificate does
not cover is refused (`ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALID`); the identical connection *without* the
policy's pinned `checkServerIdentity` succeeds, which is the concrete gap the policy closes; and
`verify-full` cannot be satisfied by a plaintext-only endpoint. Every CA, certificate, and private
key is generated at test runtime into a temporary directory and deleted afterwards — **no private
key material is ever committed to this repository** — and the disposable container is removed in
`afterAll` even when an assertion fails. See
[ADR 0018](../architecture/decisions/0018-identity-session-resolution-and-database-transport.md).
A fifth dedicated suite (`core/tests/module-lifecycle-store.integration.ts`, included in the same
`pnpm test:migrations:integration` run) proves the module enablement store against real PostgreSQL:
that migration `0004` really creates `ekklesia_core_module_state` with exactly the four columns and
the one declared CHECK constraint the schema states — and, load-bearingly, that `enabled` has **no
column default**, so the platform's default for a newly discovered module is genuinely the absence of
a row rather than a materialized decision nobody made; that a decision survives a completely new
connection; that the upsert is idempotent on `module_id` and bumps `updated_at` in place rather than
inserting a second row; that a malformed identifier is rejected before it reaches PostgreSQL and the
empty-string case is refused by the database too; and that a record for a module which is no longer
deployed is retained and simply ignored by resolution, so redeploying restores the decision.
The API suite additionally drives the whole lifecycle end to end against a real database and real
fixture modules: a disabled module's compiled entrypoint is never imported (proven by its
`register`/`start`/`stop` markers staying empty), its routes return the platform's ordinary `404`,
its UI artifact and inventory and navigation entries are all absent, and its neighbours run normally;
a module blocked by a disabled required dependency is explained over HTTP with a structured reason
naming that dependency and no filesystem path anywhere in the payload; a change made through
`PUT /api/v1/module-lifecycle/<id>/enabled` reports `restartRequired: true` while the module
demonstrably keeps serving, and is applied only by the next start; and a disabled module's migrations
are still discovered, because deployed schema ownership is not runtime enabled state. See
[ADR 0028](../architecture/decisions/0028-module-operational-lifecycle.md).
A sixth dedicated suite (`core/tests/module-configuration-store.integration.ts`, included in the same
`pnpm test:migrations:integration` run) proves the module configuration store against real
PostgreSQL: that migration `0005` really creates `ekklesia_core_module_configuration` with the
composite `(module_id, key)` primary key, the declared CHECK constraints, and **no column that could
hold secret material**; that a replace is transactional, whole-document, and scoped to one module so
another module's rows are untouched; that stored values survive a completely new connection; that an
oversized value is refused by the application *and* by the database; that a store error never carries
the offending value; and — the security-relevant one — that a module id or key is only ever data in a
parameterized column, so an injection attempt is a validation error and the table still exists
afterwards.
The API suite additionally proves the configuration boundary end to end: a secret's value never
appears in any response (including when a row for that key is planted directly in storage), a
declared-but-undeclared key, a wrong JSON type, a constraint violation, and a `secret` key each fail
with a distinct sanitized code and store nothing, a reserved property name such as `__proto__` is
rejected without touching `Object.prototype`, and a module blocked by its own configuration is absent
from the mountable UI inventory exactly like a disabled one. See
[ADR 0029](../architecture/decisions/0029-module-configuration-and-secrets.md).
A seventh dedicated suite (`core/tests/module-storage.integration.ts`, included in the same
`pnpm test:migrations:integration` run) proves the object-storage contract against a **real
S3-compatible server** — the SeaweedFS service the repository's Compose file already pins, brought up
alongside PostgreSQL by the same harness, so this adds no new CI infrastructure.
It exists because mocking would have hidden a real divergence: probing the pinned SeaweedFS 4.28 image
directly showed that `CreateBucket` on an existing bucket reports `BucketAlreadyExists`, **not** AWS's
`BucketAlreadyOwnedByYou`. A provider treating only the AWS spelling as success would have failed on
every second boot against this repository's own development storage, and no unit test would have
caught it. The suite pins that idempotency, plus a real round trip with content type and unquoted
ETag preserved, streaming a body without buffering, a Web stream going straight into a `Response`,
prefix listing and real pagination, a missing object mapping to a structured not-found error carrying
no endpoint or XML, two modules declaring the same logical bucket staying genuinely isolated on one
server, the longest bucket name the mapping can produce being accepted, a real connection failure
mapping to `STORAGE_PROVIDER_UNAVAILABLE`, and a bucket surviving the deletion of every object in it.
An eighth suite (`core/tests/module-delivery.integration.ts`, same harness) proves direct browser
delivery against that same live server, because every claim it makes is a property of the agreement
between the signer and the provider rather than of code in this repository
([ADR 0031](../architecture/decisions/0031-direct-object-delivery.md)). It pins: a delivery URL
returning the object with its content type intact to an ordinary credential-free `fetch`; the same
object being refused **without** the URL's authorization, so delivery can never be quietly "fixed" by
making a bucket public; tampered signatures, swapped keys, and swapped buckets all rejected; expiry
actually enforced; a `Range` request answered directly with `206` and a correct `Content-Range`;
repeated calls inside a window returning a byte-identical URL so browser caches and URL-keyed DOM
elements hold; `Cache-Control` never outliving the URL; an optional download filename; and two
modules' identical logical bucket names resolving to different objects.
Its most load-bearing tests concern the **browser delivery origin**. They sign for a public origin and
replay the request against the real backend through `node:http` with an explicit `Host` header —
which `fetch` cannot do, since `Host` is a forbidden header name there and it would silently send the
wrong one and prove nothing. Together they establish that a signature survives a reverse proxy that
preserves `Host` (even across TLS termination, because the scheme is not signed), that it fails when
a proxy rewrites `Host`, and that a URL signed for the internal endpoint cannot be rewritten to the
public one afterwards — which is the entire reason the delivery origin is a signing input rather than
a post-processing step.
An Announcements-shaped fixture in the same file models the real slideshow: it lists its own slides,
filters images, builds a delivery URL for each, and fetches every one directly. It is written to
demonstrate what it *cannot* say — its whole world is a `ModuleStorage` and two names from its own
manifest — and it asserts that the module's durable state holds keys while only the URL carries
host detail. It also proves that forty URLs cost no provider round trips.
Unit suites (`core/tests/module-storage.test.ts`, `core/tests/module-storage-lifecycle.test.ts`) use an
injected in-memory provider and never touch the network. They prove the parts the protocol cannot:
binding determinism and collision-safety, scoping and cross-module isolation, key validation, lazy
provisioning and retry-after-failure, configuration validation and credential redaction, and the
lifecycle integration including dependency propagation. They also own the delivery bounds, which need
no server at all: every out-of-range lifetime refused rather than clamped, every download filename
that could inject a response header refused, and the module-facing surface pinned so a new accessor
cannot appear unnoticed. See
[ADR 0030](../architecture/decisions/0030-host-provided-module-object-storage.md) and
[ADR 0031](../architecture/decisions/0031-direct-object-delivery.md).
Phase 7A pass 5 adds realtime evidence at every boundary
([ADR 0032](../architecture/decisions/0032-native-module-realtime-transport.md)). Contract and Core
unit suites prove channel grammar, module/permission scoping, staged registration, mandatory initial
snapshots, atomic snapshot-plus-subscribe, sequence ordering, payload/container limits, latest-state
coalescing, subscriber limits, exact shutdown behavior, per-module publisher deactivation, sanitized
errors, and that modules declaring no realtime continue unchanged. Browser SDK/shell suites prove
that the public contract has no server dependency or transport vocabulary, descriptors and local
channels are strictly contained, credentials are host-owned, reconnect requires a fresh snapshot,
terminal EventSource failure cleans up listeners, and explicit unmount is idempotent.
`apps/api/tests/module-realtime-routes.test.ts` exercises permission-before-allocation, the
snapshot/update wire envelope, lack of replay ids, stream headers, comment keepalives, forced
five-minute reauthorization through a short test-only override, shutdown closure, sanitized
subscriber failures, and the explicit `HEAD` refusal that prevents an infinite discarded body from
retaining a subscriber. `apps/api/tests/module-realtime-live.test.ts` binds an actual Node
HTTP server on an OS-assigned loopback port and drives an Announcements-shaped module through real
discovery, registration, startup, two live SSE clients, fanout, disconnect cleanup, reconnect with a
fresh latest snapshot, and shutdown. Every bind, fetch, stream read, cancellation, cleanup poll, and
listener close is bounded; the test also pins an opaque signed delivery URL byte-for-byte. It uses no
PostgreSQL or object-store double because neither belongs in realtime transport.
The live PostgreSQL API suite adds lifecycle composition evidence: an enabled module's realtime route
is live while disabled and dependency-blocked modules have no route, just like their HTTP/UI
surfaces. Its real SSE fetch/read/cancel path is bounded and migrations remain independent of runtime
enablement. During realtime development, run the focused live Node suite repeatedly as well as
`pnpm verify` and `pnpm test:migrations:integration`; consecutive runs are specifically intended to
catch retained timers, listeners, subscribers, or loopback servers.
Phase 7A pass 6 adds display evidence across the same boundaries
([ADR 0033](../architecture/decisions/0033-display-kiosk-host-contract.md)). Contract tests prove the
manifest v6 hard cutover, optional role combinations, module-owned non-public display permission,
and collision rejection. Discovery tests prove inert compiled-artifact validation, containment,
symlink collision detection, deterministic diagnostics, and that modules without a display remain
valid. Builder tests prove the exact `src/ui/index.tsx` / `src/display/index.tsx` sources,
deterministic role order, preflight/compile atomicity, no runtime-entrypoint overwrite, and identical
browser/CSS boundaries.
Core/API tests prove independently frozen primary and display publication records, exact anonymous
artifact routing, permission-gated stable page and descriptor routes, eligible/running lifecycle
filtering, sanitized failures, and startup-time frozen host assets. Surface tests prove principal-
first descriptor bootstrap, the role-neutral host context, full-viewport mounting without Dashboard
chrome or static module imports, late-import cleanup, manual retry, realtime reuse, and unmount.
The canonical template builds and mounts both artifacts through `parseModuleUiExport`; contract
fixtures also retain no-display and backend-only cases. These are code-only tests: display hosting
adds no PostgreSQL, object-store, or Docker requirement beyond the existing suites.
A further suite (`apps/api/tests/initial-owner.integration.ts`, same harness) covers the initial
platform-owner bootstrap ([ADR 0035](../architecture/decisions/0035-initial-platform-owner-bootstrap.md)).
It deliberately does not stop at asserting rows: a fresh installation is bootstrapped and the
resulting account is then signed in through the exact browser-facing login transport, its principal
read from `GET /api/v1/principal`, and used to open a platform-owner-protected resource that stays
closed to an anonymous caller. Anything less would prove a user was written, not that an operator can
reach their dashboard.
Every scenario runs with `publicSignupEnabled: false` — the production posture — so nothing can
accidentally depend on the signup route a real deployment does not have, and one scenario asserts
that a freshly bootstrapped deployment still refuses `POST /api/auth/sign-up/email`. The suite also
pins the guard (a second run creates no owner, changes no password, and leaves no stray identity),
the 8–128 password bound and email validation coming from the identity system rather than a
CLI-specific policy, adoption of an existing identity without touching its password, refusal of a
credential-less row *without* consuming the single-use sentinel, a partial failure that stays
recoverable by rerunning, and five racing invocations yielding exactly one owner, one sentinel, and
one user row.
The command itself is exercised as a real child process — success and failure exit codes, the
password arriving on standard input and never in `argv`, `--password` refused, a missing
`DATABASE_URL`, and an unmigrated database refused rather than silently migrated — with assertions
that neither stdout nor stderr contains the password or the connection string.
### Which kind of timing proof lives where
Pass 4 introduced several deadlines, and their tests deliberately differ in kind:
- **Unit deadline tests** (`core/tests/module-runtime.test.ts`) drive module stop and rollback
hooks through a short, test-only `hookTimeoutMs` override with manually controlled
never-settling promises — no real waiting, no sleeps, and an explicit `unhandledRejection` check
proving a hook that rejects after its deadline stays handled.
- **Real raw-HTTP force-close** (`apps/api/tests/api-http.integration.ts`) binds the real listener,
opens a real socket, writes a deliberately incomplete request, and proves shutdown force-closes
it at a short `drainTimeoutMsOverride` and still reaches pool closure.
- **Real TCP connection timeout** (`core/tests/postgres-migration.integration.ts`) binds a loopback
blackhole listener that accepts the socket and never completes PostgreSQL startup, proving the
configured connection deadline; the listener and every accepted socket close in `finally`.
- **Real PostgreSQL operation timeout and SQL batching** (same file) use a bounded server-side
delay only because the deadline itself is what is under test, and disposable databases to prove
that marker bytes inside literals, dollar-quoted bodies, comments, and quoted identifiers execute
intact, and that a failure rolls the whole batch back.
Every one of these uses a short **test-only override**; the production defaults (10 s per module
hook, 30 s HTTP drain, 10 s migration connection/query/statement) are asserted separately as
constants and are never waited out.
CI runs the same command in the dedicated `migration-smoke` job. After this change is merged, add
the following pull-request status context to `main` branch protection:
```text
CI / migration-smoke (pull_request)
```
## Safe troubleshooting
Confirm the prerequisites without printing configuration:
```bash
docker info
docker compose version
```
Then rerun `pnpm test:migrations:integration`. The harness emits fixed failure messages and does
not dump PostgreSQL logs, SQL, container inspection output, or the generated database URL. Do not
enable query logging, print the test environment, run `docker compose config` without redaction,
or paste Docker inspection output into an issue. If the Docker daemon itself stopped during
cleanup, restore it before rerunning so the harness can create a fresh uniquely named project.