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The finding that shaped this

session.deleteMany had zero call sites, so the obvious fix was to add them. That would have changed nothing.

auth.ts sets session: { strategy: "jwt" }. Under that strategy @auth/core never creates, reads or deletes a Session row — handleLoginOrRegister skips the adapter entirely for credentials sign-ins, and a request is resolved purely by decrypting the cookie. The Session table was dead weight carried by PrismaAdapter. Deleting every row in it would have satisfied the grep in the backlog's own evidence line while leaving every session alive.

Two adjacent traps, both read out of the installed @auth/core rather than assumed:

  • jwt.encode calls .setIssuedAt() and .setJti(randomUUID()) on every encode, and session() re-encodes on every read to refresh expiry. token.iat and token.jti therefore move forward on every page load — a revocation watermark compared against either would never fire.
  • auth() inside a server component cannot set cookies, so nothing may be cached in the token.

What was built

The JWT stops being the session and becomes a bearer of one.

  • At sign-in the jwt callback mints a random sid and writes a Session row.
  • On every read it looks the row up and returns null when it is gone or expired.
  • @auth/core treats a null from jwt as no session: response body null, cookie cleared, auth() resolves to null, and the (app) layout redirects to /signin.

Deleting the row is the revocation. Cost: one indexed lookup per session read — the price of §14.2's "server-controlled and revocable". The existing Session model is reused (already PLATFORM_GLOBAL, so no scope juggling and no registry count change); the migration adds only two indexes, because every trigger deletes by person and none knows a session id.

The five triggers

# Trigger Where
1 membership end adminRevokeInstitutionRole, acceptRoleTransfer
2 assignment status change adminRemoveAssignment (both branches), adminTransferSeat, transitionAssignment
3 affiliation end detectedapi/jobs/access-reconciliation
4 identity-link activation auth.ts, Cognito provider, before the new session is minted (§15.1 step 7)
5 provider deactivation detected — same job, via AdminGetUser

3 and 5 have no call site in this repository and one was not invented. Nothing in the product writes RestrictedIdentity (grep: two reads, zero writes), and no SCIM feed or webhook tells this deployment that Cognito disabled an account. A change nobody reports has to be detected, which is what the reconciliation hook in the item's title is. It runs every 15 minutes (scheduler.tf), and that interval is the guarantee for those two — the other three revoke inside the request that causes them.

The pass refuses to revoke on three conditions, all of which a live environment produces routinely and each of which would otherwise sign out the whole tenant: an empty roster (the boundary has decided nothing — the same position decideEligibility takes at sign-in), a failed pool probe (throttling is not a statement about a person), and an address with no pool account (the census found one identity for an 82-person cohort).

Proof, not assertion

e2e/session-revocation.spec.ts creates an officer through the product's own roster form, signs in as them, has a manager end their term, and shows the same browser with the same cookie landing on /signin.

It asserts /signin and explicitly not /access-pending, and that is the whole discriminator: ending the officer's only seat also makes them unentitled, and the entitlement gate has redirected unentitled people to /access-pending since it landed. A run in which revocation does nothing still looks like the officer being turned away.

The negative control ran that exact experiment. With the jwt check disabled and the app rebuilt, the spec failed with:

Expected pattern: /\/signin/
Received string:  "http://localhost:3111/access-pending"

— which is precisely today's behaviour, and precisely the defect.

Measured latency: 373–501 ms across runs, printed by the spec. That is wall-clock from the operator's click to the officer's next request being refused, including a browser navigation and a full server render — an upper bound on revocation, not a measurement of the delete. Trigger 3 was also driven end to end by hand against a real server and database: /api/auth/session returned a user, the roster was populated without them, the pass revoked 7 sessions with trigger affiliation-ended, and the same cookie then got null and a 307 → /signin.

The outbox half is BLOCKED_ARCHITECTURE

The item asks for an outbox event. There is no carrier and a second one was not built.

Identity §21.2 requires an aggregate, a causal decision and an actor identity that Integration §9's canonical envelope has no field for; §9 requires connectionId/integrationId/runId/mapping, which an internal revocation cannot supply, and a payloadRef where §21.2 wants a safe payload. Disjoint, unresolved.

Recorded as ADR-0015 and register row IDENT-003-session-revocation-event-emission. RevocationReceipt.outboxEventEmitted is typed false — in the type, not a comment — so nothing downstream can assume an event went out, and the register's backwards liveViolation predicate watches that field: when an outbox lands and it stops being false, the row goes red and has to be closed.

Negative controls

Each break was applied, the suite run, and the change reverted.

Control Result
A — Prisma store's deleteAllFor returns 0 first run: STILL GREEN. The unit suite runs on an in-memory store, so a revocation that revokes nothing failed nothing. Closed by adding session-revocation-prisma-store.test.ts; re-run: RED
B — session id authorizes whoever presents it RED
C1 — roster guard removed and "not active" treated as ended RED
C2 — same mis-simplification, guard intact GREEN — proves the guard absorbs it rather than decorating it
D — absent pool account read as deprovisioned RED
E — transitionAssignment stops revoking RED (trigger test and ratchet)
F — jwt callback never checks the server-side session RED in jest; RED in the browser, landing on /access-pending
G — outboxEventEmitted stops being false RED — the register's backwards predicate fires
H — a brand-new unwired roleAssignment.updateMany RED — the ratchet catches an unwired call site
I — §15.1 step 7 rotation dropped RED
J — OSE role revocation leaves the session alive RED
L — one unreadable subject aborts the pass RED

One control was a silent no-op — a Python patch whose anchor did not match printed PATTERN MISSING and the suite then reported "STILL GREEN" over unmodified code. It was caught only because every patch asserts its anchor; the control was rewritten with an exact string and came back RED.

Verification

  • npx tsc --noEmit ✅ · npx jest 1644 passed ✅ · npm run build ✅ · next lint 0 errors ✅
  • prisma migrate diff --exit-code — no drift ✅
  • Full Playwright suite: 166/166 against a production build, a real Postgres and a clean seed ✅
  • The job endpoint exercised for real: 401 unauthenticated, 401 on a wrong token, and a report on the right one. With an unreachable Cognito pool it revoked nobody and the signed-in president still loaded /dashboard — the dangerous direction, proven safe.

Consequences worth reading before merge

  1. Everyone signs in once more after deploy. A token minted before this shipped carries no sid, has no row behind it, and is therefore unrevocable — exactly what this item exists to abolish. It is refused rather than grandfathered; the alternative is a thirty-day window in which revocation silently does nothing.

  2. One §13.2 case is deliberately not covered. adminGrantInstitutionRole's upsert can move a Director to Advisor. That is a role change within a continuing membership, not a membership end; §13.2 asks for rotation rather than revocation, and revoking there would also sign out everyone newly granted a role by the same call. Named in session-revocation-is-wired.test.ts and in the backlog rather than left to be discovered.

  3. A database fault signs people out, and nothing revoked them. Added by adversarial verification, and measured rather than reasoned: hide the Session table under a live session and @auth/core cannot distinguish a throwing lookup from a refused one — /api/auth/session answers null and sends Set-Cookie: authjs.session-token=; Max-Age=0, so the browser deletes its cookie. The row survives untouched (161 rows before and after), so nothing was actually revoked, but every browser that polled during the blip must sign in again once the database recovers. The behaviour is correct and is deliberately left alone — a session that cannot be checked must not be honoured — but the symptom (a wave of sign-ins, no revocation in the audit log, every Session row still present) reads like a security incident to whoever is on call. Now named in docs/RUNBOOK.md.

Merge-time hazard: ADR-0015 is contested by three other open PRs — RESOLVED 2026-08-21

This section is kept for the record and is no longer actionable. The collision it predicted happened: main took ADR-0015 for the platform exception object, and this PR is renumbered to ADR-0016 — see the merge note at the bottom. Two details below are also out of date: decision-records.test.ts no longer asserts gaps === [5], it requires the set of gaps to equal the set of reservations the index declares, so a number may be held open deliberately; and #107 landed as ADR-0017/0018 rather than 0015/0016.

Not a code defect, but it will break whoever merges second, so it belongs in the body rather than in a hand-off note. Four open PRs currently introduce ADR-0015:

PR File
#104 (this one) ADR-0015-session-revocation-event-emission.md
#101 ADR-0015-the-platform-exception-object.md
#106 ADR-0015-tenant-configuration-packs.md
#107 ADR-0015-the-billable-seat-unit.md (and ADR-0016-seat-metering-without-an-outbox.md)

Whoever merges second renumbers — and the renumbering is not free-choice. decision-records.test.ts asserts expect(gaps).toEqual([5]), i.e. ADR numbers must be contiguous with 0005 the single reserved gap. So the next PR in must take the next contiguous number, not an arbitrary free one; jumping to 0017 to dodge the clash would fail CI on the gap it leaves. Renumbering this PR means updating the filename, governance/register.ts (adr.id and adr.file), the docs/decisions/README.md index, and the ADR-0015 references in session-revocation.ts, access-reconciliation.ts, PROGRAM-BACKLOG.md and RUNBOOK.md.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added server-controlled session revocation when access, assignments, memberships, or linked identities change.
    • Signing out now immediately invalidates the active session.
    • Added automatic 15-minute access reconciliation to detect provider deactivation and outdated access.
    • Revoked sessions require sign-in again; reactivated access can be restored.
    • Sessions now have a fixed maximum lifetime of 30 days.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on session revocation, reconciliation, safeguards, and deployment effects.

Adversarial verification (this PR's own verifier died before running)

Verified in a dedicated worktree at c5392be, against a production build, a real PostgreSQL 16 and a real seed. Fixes pushed as ca711dc on this branch. Not merged.

The central claim is TRUE, and it is the load-bearing one

Read out of the installed dependency rather than the report. The installed version is @auth/core 0.41.2, not the 0.37 the source comments cite — the claim holds on the version that actually ships:

  • lib/actions/callback/index.js:227 — the provider.type === "credentials" branch calls authorizehandleAuthorizedcallbacks.jwt and never reaches handleLogin/createSession.
  • lib/actions/session.js:21if (sessionStrategy === "jwt") returns at line 63, before getSessionAndUser / deleteSession / updateSession at lines 67–68.
  • lib/actions/signout.js:15 — the jwt branch only decodes and fires the event; adapter.deleteSession is in the else.

So session.deleteMany would indeed have satisfied the backlog's grep and revoked nothing. The design is right.

The contract block in session-revocation-is-wired.test.ts resolves @auth/core through Node and asserts against the installed source, so the stale 0.37 in the prose is a documentation nit only — an upgrade that breaks the contract still fails the build.

Gate, reproduced independently

npx tsc --noEmit ✅ · npx jest 110 suites, 1655 passed, 1 skipped ✅ · npm run build
(The body's "1644" was written two commits early; it was 1649 before my six new tests.)

e2e/session-revocation.spec.ts re-run against a production build + real Postgres: 3/3 passed, [measured] revocation observable after 411ms — inside the author's stated 373–501 ms.

Revocation genuinely works — proven independently of the spec

Signed in with curl, then DELETE FROM "Session", same cookie throughout:

before after
/dashboard /approvals /orgs /settings /notifications /reports 200 307 → /signin
/api/notifications, /api/search 200 401
/api/auth/session user JSON null

Sign-out deletes exactly one row (4 → 3). Two devices, one revoke-by-person: 200/200 → 307/307.

Three defects found and fixed in ca711dc

1. A totally failed reconciliation pass was indistinguishable from an idle one. Measured, not reasoned: renaming RestrictedIdentity under a live pass made every subject's fact read throw, and the endpoint answered HTTP 200 with byte-identical JSON to a healthy run — {"subjectsChecked":1,"skippedWithoutEmail":0,"revoked":[],…}. That body is the only thing outside the process that can see how the pass went. The report now carries factReadFailures and revocationFailures; live: healthy 0, broken 1.

2. serverSessionIsLive failing OPEN passed the entire suite. Replacing the lookup with one that swallows its error and returns true — a revoked session honoured whenever the database is unwell — left 184/184 green. This is the plausible break, not a contrived one: the RUNBOOK now documents that a database blip signs people out, and the obvious "fix" for that complaint is a catch in exactly this function.

3. issueServerSession swallowing a failed row write passed the entire suite too, minting a token whose sid points at nothing.

4. (dec3dc5, caught by CodeRabbit on my own fix above, and it was right.) revokeSessionsOrAlert never throws — it swallows the delete's failure and returns failed: true so the already-committed access change keeps its audit row. reconcileAccess only counted exceptions, and the live deps route through revokeSessionsOrAlert, so revocationFailures was structurally always 0 in production and a subject whose session survived was appended to revoked as though it had been ended — the opposite of what the report exists to say. The deps type now admits the optional failed the live implementation has always returned, and the pass counts it. Worth recording that finding 1's fix was itself half-blind until this landed.

2 and 3 are now pinned by sign, not by mechanism — an answer that could not be obtained is never an answer of yes — plus a test that a pruning failure must still let somebody in, so the pair cannot be satisfied by making everything throw. Each was re-run as an asserted-anchor control after committing: all three now RED.

Answers to the specific attacks

Fail-open vs fail-closed — constructed, both directions. With the Session table renamed away under a live session: /dashboard → 307 /signin; /api/auth/sessionnull and Set-Cookie: authjs.session-token=; Max-Age=0; sign-in during the outage → 302 → /signin?error=Configuration with no cookie set (matches @auth/core/index.js:120-140, type = "Configuration"). Rows unchanged, 3 before and 3 after — nothing was revoked. Fail-closed, correct, and now defended by a test rather than only by a dependency's catch.

Control A, re-run against the Prisma store: RED. deleteAllFor → return 0 fails session-revocation-prisma-store.test.ts. Control F: RED. Every control asserted its anchor (exactly 1 hit), verified the file changed on disk, and restored it byte-exact by SHA.

Performance — no regression, and the first number I measured was wrong. A/B on the same box and database, with the control build proven live (with the lookup removed, deleting the row no longer logs anyone out — 200):

shipped run 1 shipped run 2 control
/dashboard seq p50 35.1 ms 14.2 ms 14.1 ms
/dashboard conc-20 p50 143.9 ms 160.8 ms 142.3 ms

Run 1's 35 ms was machine noise from concurrent agents, and the repeat refutes it — reporting it as the cost would have been a fabricated regression. Real cost is ~2 Session lookups per authenticated page render ((app)/layout.tsx and the page each call auth(), which next-auth v5 does not memoize — 61 call sites), roughly 1–2 queries on top of ~11 table accesses. Worth knowing: production runs connection_limit=5 per task (scripts/entrypoint.sh:33), so this is ~2 extra pool checkouts per page view. Concurrency p50 tripled in both builds, so the pool ceiling is pre-existing rather than introduced here.

The job runs, and is authenticated. scheduler.tf rule + API destination + IAM verified; JOB_SECRET really is wired into the task from Secrets Manager (ecs.tf:305). Endpoint exercised live: unauthenticated 401, wrong token 401, GET 405, correct token 200 + report. With the registry empty it revoked nobody and the signed-in director still loaded /dashboard — the dangerous direction, reconfirmed.

Migration adds no model. Two indexes only. PLATFORM_GLOBAL still 5, schemaModels still 41 — pins untouched, so no dated rationale is owed. Session was already PLATFORM_GLOBAL, so the "no scope juggling" claim holds. ADR status Proposed (2026-08-20). … is legal: decision-records.test.ts forbids a qualifier on Accepted only.

Remaining gaps — genuine, but beyond my reach to fix safely

  1. Nothing alarms on any of this. The EventBridge target has maximum_retry_attempts = 0 and no dead_letter_config, and there is no FailedInvocations alarm on the rule. Worse, and platform-wide rather than this PR's doing: no aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm in this repository has alarm_actions, and there is no SNS topic — every alarm is an unrouted dashboard state. My fix makes a failed pass observable in the response body; it does not make anyone observe it. I did not add an alarm because terraform is not installed in this environment and I could not validate the HCL, and an actionless alarm would be decoration. "The interval IS their guarantee" should be read as: the interval is the bound, provided somebody is watching — and today nobody is.

  2. Triggers 3 and 5 revoke nobody today, and this PR cannot change that. RestrictedIdentity is empty (select count(*)0), so isEligible returns unenforced and every subject resolves to registry-unpopulated — the deliberate refusal. Correct behaviour, but it means the two triggers the reconciliation hook exists to cover are inert until the separate registry-seeder work lands. Verified live, not assumed. The refusals are right; the coverage claim is contingent on a change that has not merged.

  3. Expired rows are only pruned for people who sign in again. deleteExpiredFor has exactly one call site, inside issueServerSession. Somebody who signs in once and never returns leaves a row that expires and is never deleted; there is no scheduled session cleanup. The comment's "keeps the table from growing without bound" holds for returning users only. Minor, and Session_expires_idx already makes the eventual sweep cheap.

  4. The ADR-0015 collision the author flagged is realOne exception object and one operator worklist — and the ADR-0013 fork answered on a new table #101, The institutional policy corpus becomes a signed-digest configuration pack #106 and A seat added on the tenant side is a billable event — and the unit is the person #107 all introduce ADR-0015 (resolved 2026-08-21: main took 0015; this PR is now ADR-0016, the number the index was already reserving. See the merge note at the bottom.)


2026-08-21 — origin/main merged in, and this ADR is renumbered to 0016

Merged, not rebased. Three conflicts, plus one collision git could not see.

The collision: ADR-0015 was taken

main landed ADR-0015 as the platform exception object while this branch was writing ADR-0015 for the session-revocation event. The two files have different names, so nothing conflicted in the files themselves — the merge would have gone through clean and shipped a duplicate ADR number, with one decision unreachable by the number every reference uses.

Renumbered to ADR-0016, which the index was already holding open: "Reserved — claimed by another change in the same merge sequence." This is that change — one of the six that each wrote itself an ADR-0015 before the numbers were arbitrated. Checked against every other open PR: nothing else claims 0016 (#129 took 0020, #106 took 0021), so this is uncontested.

The reservation row is removed, because decision-records.test.ts asserts "a reserved number has no ADR file" — a reservation that outlives its ADR fails as loudly as an undeclared hole. Gaps are now exactly {0005}, which is what the index reserves.

Renumbered with it, so nothing points at a file that no longer exists: governance/register.ts's adr.id and adr.fileblocked-architecture.test.ts asserts that path resolves on disk, which is the gate that proves this — plus RUNBOOK.md, PROGRAM-BACKLOG.md, session-revocation.ts, its test, and access-reconciliation.ts. Left alone: every ADR-0015 reference that belongs to main's exception object.

Counts re-derived, not taken from either side. HEAD said 9 of 14, main said 9 of 17; neither was right. Counted the files: 18 ADRs, 10 Proposed.

The other three conflicts

  • e2e/support/auth.ts — this branch split signInAs(page, email) out of signIn(page, userName) so a spec can sign in as somebody the product created; main replaced the /dashboard wait with "off /signin and past /workspace" and added an access-pending entitlement assertion. Kept both: the split stays, and main's wait and assertion moved inside signInAs, with the diagnostic naming the address it actually holds.
  • orgs/[slug]/members/actions.ts — two unrelated imports on one line. Both kept; both features' call sites verified still present.
  • docs/decisions/README.md — the ADR table and the counts, above.

A clean merge that broke a control

session-revocation-is-wired.test.ts asserts per call site that the action changing an assignment's status also revokes that person's sessions, and it pinned the write as db.roleAssignment.update(. main's seat meter wrapped that write in a db.$transaction so the roster row and the meter row commit together — which renames the client to tx without moving the call. Nothing conflicted; the assertion simply went red for a reason unrelated to what it guards.

Widened to (?:db|tx).roleAssignment.update(. The bound that matters is unchanged — still matched against the block for one action — so an update that disappeared from that action still fails.

Verified by negative control rather than by reading it. Committed first, then renamed both tx.roleAssignment.update( call sites to .upsert( and re-ran: "ending or removing a seat revokes the holder's sessions" and "a club roster transition revokes the person whose status moved" both flipped to failing, read per test, not by suite exit code. Restored by explicit path.

Re-derived even where git reported no conflict

  • Tenancy pins. 25 TENANT_SCOPED + 5 PLATFORM_GLOBAL + 14 UNENFORCEABLE = 44 = grep -c '^model '. This branch adds no model — merge-base 41, branch 41, main 44 — because its migration adds two indexes to the existing Session. So the counts are main's, verified rather than assumed. registry.ts's doc sentence reads "only 25 of 44 models", matching.
  • Migration timestamps. 20260820150000_sessions_are_revocable is unique against main. The only duplicate prefix in the tree is 20260820120000, already duplicated on main; both are applied, so it is left alone.

Gates, from apps/web, each exit code captured before any pipe: prisma generate 0 · tsc --noEmit 0 · jest --ci 0 (137 suites, 2171 passed, 1 skipped, 0 failed) · next build 0.

2026-08-21 (second merge) — a new route met a new registry

main moved twice more while this was being prepared, and the second one
(#96, "Every surface that acts resolves availability, not just the nav")
landed capability-registry/surfaces.ts — a ratchet asserting every API
handler appears in exactly one of two lists, so a NEW endpoint cannot ship
without its author either binding it or writing down that they deferred.

This branch adds /api/jobs/access-reconciliation. The two changes never
touched a common line, so nothing conflicted — the route simply arrived
unaccounted for and surfaces.test.ts went red.

Filed under API_PENDING_BINDING beside /api/jobs/reminders, which is the
same shape: it sweeps every institution at once with no tenant asking, and it
authenticates on the job secret rather than a session, so there is no actor to
resolve a capability for.

Re-gated after both merges: tsc --noEmit 0 · jest --ci 0 (2205
passed, 1 skipped, 0 failed
) · next build 0. Tenancy re-measured and
unchanged at 25/5/14 = 44; ADR index still 10 of 18.

satvikOS and others added 7 commits August 20, 2026 22:26
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Walkthrough

The change adds server-controlled session revocation, access reconciliation, lifecycle-triggered invalidation, seat metering, exception records, protected scheduling, and end-to-end validation.

Changes

Access controls and operational records

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session store and revocation contract
apps/web/src/lib/auth/session-revocation.ts, apps/web/prisma/migrations/..., apps/web/src/lib/auth/session-revocation.test.ts, apps/web/src/lib/auth/session-revocation-prisma-store.test.ts
Server-side sessions now support fixed expiry, liveness checks, individual and bulk revocation, cleanup, and failure receipts.
Authentication lifecycle enforcement
apps/web/src/lib/auth.ts, apps/web/src/lib/auth/cognito.ts, apps/web/src/types/next-auth.d.ts, apps/web/src/lib/auth/*test.ts
JWT callbacks issue and validate sid values. Sign-out and newly linked Cognito identities revoke server sessions.
Access-ending mutation wiring
apps/web/src/app/(app)/admin/actions.ts, apps/web/src/app/(app)/orgs/[slug]/members/actions.ts, apps/web/src/lib/auth/session-revocation-is-wired.test.ts
Membership, assignment, transfer, and roster changes revoke outgoing sessions and record transactional seat events.
Exception and seat-metering data contracts
apps/web/prisma/schema.prisma, apps/web/src/app/(app)/admin/actions.ts
The schema adds exception, seat-meter, registry-seal, provenance, and reply-routing fields. Admin actions add validated exception lifecycle transitions.
Access reconciliation engine
apps/web/src/lib/auth/access-reconciliation.ts, apps/web/src/lib/auth/access-reconciliation-live.ts, apps/web/src/lib/auth/cognito.ts, apps/web/src/lib/auth/access-reconciliation.test.ts
Reconciliation evaluates affiliation and provider state, revokes selected sessions, continues after failures, and reports results.
Reconciliation job delivery
apps/web/src/app/api/jobs/access-reconciliation/route.ts, infrastructure/terraform/edge-access.tf, infrastructure/terraform/scheduler.tf, apps/web/src/lib/__tests__/edge-host-infra.test.ts
A JOB_SECRET-protected route and fifteen-minute EventBridge target run reconciliation through the edge exemption.
End-to-end validation and operational records
apps/web/e2e/session-revocation.spec.ts, apps/web/e2e/support/auth.ts, docs/RUNBOOK.md, docs/PROGRAM-BACKLOG.md, docs/decisions/*, apps/web/src/lib/governance/register.ts
Browser tests cover revocation, session API behavior, bystander access, and reauthentication. Operational and architecture records describe the implementation and blocked outbox emission.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 44563

This PR makes sessions server-revocable and adds automatic revocation for membership, assignment, affiliation, identity-link, and provider changes. Merge readiness is reduced because a failed transition can still leave an audit record stating that the action was allowed, with additional bounded test and operational follow-up remaining.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OfficerBrowser
  participant Auth
  participant SessionStore
  participant Manager
  participant ReconciliationJob
  OfficerBrowser->>Auth: authenticate with JWT sid
  Auth->>SessionStore: validate server session
  Manager->>SessionStore: revoke outgoing user sessions
  OfficerBrowser->>Auth: request with revoked sid
  Auth->>SessionStore: reject inactive session
  Auth-->>OfficerBrowser: redirect to /signin
  ReconciliationJob->>SessionStore: reconcile and revoke affected sessions
``

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apps/web/src/lib/auth/session-revocation.test.ts (1)

120-123: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Assert the exact surviving rows.

expect.arrayContaining passes for any superset, so this assertion would also pass if the prune deleted nothing. Line 123 covers the deleted row, so the gap is cosmetic. An exact comparison states the whole claim in one place.

♻️ Proposed test tightening
-    expect(store.rows.map((r) => r.sid).sort()).toEqual(
-      expect.arrayContaining(["old-theirs"]),
-    )
-    expect(store.rows.some((r) => r.sid === "old-mine")).toBe(false)
+    // The new session plus the other person's expired row; "old-mine" is gone.
+    expect(store.rows.map((r) => r.userId).sort()).toEqual(["user-1", "user-2"])
+    expect(store.rows.some((r) => r.sid === "old-mine")).toBe(false)
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In `@apps/web/src/lib/auth/session-revocation.test.ts` around lines 120 - 123,
Update the surviving-row assertion in the session revocation test to compare the
sorted SID list exactly against the expected surviving rows, replacing the
subset-based expect.arrayContaining check. Remove the separate old-mine absence
assertion if the exact comparison fully covers it, while preserving the intended
old-theirs survivor expectation.
apps/web/prisma/migrations/20260820150000_sessions_are_revocable/migration.sql (1)

19-22: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The expires index does not serve any query this cohort adds. Both files declare a standalone index on Session("expires"), but the only expiry query is the per-user prune { userId, expires: { lte: now } }, which Session_userId_idx already covers. A composite index matches the predicate; a standalone expires index would only help a global cleanup sweep that does not exist yet.

  • apps/web/prisma/migrations/20260820150000_sessions_are_revocable/migration.sql#L19-L22: replace CREATE INDEX "Session_expires_idx" ON "Session"("expires") with a composite index on ("userId", "expires"), or keep it and add the global cleanup job it serves.
  • apps/web/prisma/schema.prisma#L56-L58: change @@index([expires]) to @@index([userId, expires]) so the schema and the migration stay in agreement.
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In
`@apps/web/prisma/migrations/20260820150000_sessions_are_revocable/migration.sql`
around lines 19 - 22, Replace the standalone Session_expires_idx with a
composite index on userId and expires in
apps/web/prisma/migrations/20260820150000_sessions_are_revocable/migration.sql
lines 19-22, and update the Session model’s @@index in
apps/web/prisma/schema.prisma lines 56-58 to use the same fields. Keep both
definitions consistent.
apps/web/src/lib/auth.ts (1)

194-198: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Decide explicitly what a database error means here.

serverSessionIsLive rejects if the database is unreachable. This callback does not catch, so the rejection propagates out of auth(). Protected pages then render a server error instead of redirecting to /signin, and the (app) layout gate never runs. The refusal branch above it returns null for the same class of outcome, so the two failure shapes are inconsistent.

Both choices carry a cost, so state the choice in the code:

  • Let the error propagate, and document that a database outage is an error page rather than a mass sign-out.
  • Or catch, log, and return null, and accept that a database blip signs every user out.

A third option keeps availability and the audit trail: catch, log with the trigger context, and return null only after a bounded retry.

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In `@apps/web/src/lib/auth.ts` around lines 194 - 198, Update the session
validation flow around serverSessionIsLive to explicitly handle database errors
consistently with the refusal branch: catch failures, log them with the relevant
trigger context, and return null after the established bounded retry behavior.
Preserve returning the token for live sessions and null for invalid sessions.
apps/web/src/app/api/jobs/access-reconciliation/route.ts (1)

31-34: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Compare the bearer token with a constant-time comparison.

Line 32 compares the token with !==. String comparison returns early on the first differing byte. The secret is 48 random characters, so a remote timing attack is impractical, but the constant-time form costs one helper and removes the class of attack. Compare lengths first, then use crypto.timingSafeEqual.

If api/jobs/reminders uses the same shape, extract one shared helper and use it in both routes.

🔒 Proposed fix
+import { timingSafeEqual } from "node:crypto"
+
+function tokenMatches(provided: string, expected: string): boolean {
+  const a = Buffer.from(provided)
+  const b = Buffer.from(expected)
+  return a.length === b.length && timingSafeEqual(a, b)
+}
+
 export async function POST(request: Request): Promise<Response> {
   const expected = process.env.JOB_SECRET
   if (!expected) {
     return Response.json({ error: "JOB_SECRET not configured" }, { status: 503 })
   }
 
-  const provided = request.headers.get("authorization")?.replace(/^Bearer\s+/i, "")
-  if (provided !== expected) {
+  const provided = request.headers.get("authorization")?.replace(/^Bearer\s+/i, "") ?? ""
+  if (!tokenMatches(provided, expected)) {
     return Response.json({ error: "unauthorized" }, { status: 401 })
   }
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In `@apps/web/src/app/api/jobs/access-reconciliation/route.ts` around lines 31 -
34, Replace the direct token comparison in the access-reconciliation
authorization check with a constant-time comparison: validate equal lengths
first, then use crypto.timingSafeEqual on equivalent byte representations while
preserving the existing 401 response. If api/jobs/reminders has the same
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apps/web/src/lib/auth/access-reconciliation.ts (1)

190-199: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The provider probe is evaluated unconditionally, and no test pins that behavior. Lines 192-195 of apps/web/src/lib/auth/access-reconciliation.ts await providerStateOf inside the same try block as affiliationOf, even when the affiliation already decides the outcome. That costs one pool call per already-decided subject, and it lets a rejected probe skip a subject whose roster row already ended.

  • apps/web/src/lib/auth/access-reconciliation.ts#L190-L199: read the affiliation first, then call providerStateOf only when the affiliation is "active".
  • apps/web/src/lib/auth/access-reconciliation.test.ts#L173-L197: add a case that rejects providerStateOf for a subject whose affiliation is "ended", and assert that the subject is still revoked.
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In `@apps/web/src/lib/auth/access-reconciliation.ts` around lines 190 - 199, In
access-reconciliation.ts lines 190-199, update the facts flow to read
affiliation first and invoke providerStateOf only when affiliation is "active";
preserve revocation for ended subjects even if the provider probe would reject.
In access-reconciliation.test.ts lines 173-197, add coverage where
providerStateOf rejects for an ended-affiliation subject and assert that the
subject is still revoked.
infrastructure/terraform/scheduler.tf (1)

161-182: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add failure visibility for this rule.

The comment at Lines 143-149 states that the fifteen-minute interval is the guarantee for two revocation triggers. That guarantee holds only while the rule actually delivers. Today a failing rule produces no signal: there is no dead-letter queue on the target and no alarm on the rule.

Two additions make the guarantee observable:

  • Set dead_letter_config on aws_cloudwatch_event_target.access_reconciliation, so exhausted invocations are retained.
  • Add a CloudWatch alarm on the FailedInvocations metric for this rule, and on Invocations falling to zero.

The reminders rule has the same gap, so a shared alarm module would cover both.

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In `@infrastructure/terraform/scheduler.tf` around lines 161 - 182, Add a
dead-letter queue and configure dead_letter_config on
aws_cloudwatch_event_target.access_reconciliation to retain exhausted
invocations. Add shared CloudWatch alarms covering both access_reconciliation
and the reminders rule for FailedInvocations and zero Invocations, using the
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/e2e/session-revocation.spec.ts`:
- Around line 144-171: Make the tests around the session endpoint and re-sign-in
flow independently establish their required state instead of relying on earlier
serial tests. Ensure each test initializes the needed officerContext and
managerContext, and that the endpoint test creates a revoked officer session
before asserting the session response omits user details; preserve the existing
assertions and successful re-sign-in behavior.

In `@apps/web/src/app/`(app)/admin/actions.ts:
- Around line 604-612: Guard every revokeSessions call so failures log a
distinct, alertable message without undoing the committed access change. Apply
this in apps/web/src/app/(app)/admin/actions.ts at lines 604-612, 231-235,
288-292, and 804-808. In apps/web/src/app/(app)/orgs/[slug]/members/actions.ts
at lines 184-188, move auditRoster before revokeSessions, then apply the same
failure guard so the audit event is retained.

In `@apps/web/src/app/api/jobs/access-reconciliation/route.ts`:
- Line 36: Update the POST handler’s reconcileAccess invocation to prevent work
from exceeding EventBridge’s 5-second timeout: either cap the sequential
reconciliation work per request or acknowledge the response immediately and
schedule reconcileAccess via after() from next/server, preserving the existing
dependency setup and reconciliation behavior.

In `@apps/web/src/lib/auth/session-revocation.ts`:
- Around line 61-69: Update the session lifetime handling around
SESSION_MAX_AGE_SECONDS and issueServerSession to explicitly preserve an
absolute 30-day row expiry while Auth refreshes the cookie on reads. Document
this non-sliding row behavior and add tests verifying the row expiry is written
once and is not extended by subsequent live session reads.

In `@docs/decisions/ADR-0015-session-revocation-event-emission.md`:
- Around line 54-56: Update the ADR text to remove the stale claim that grep
outbox apps/web/src returns zero hits. State instead that no outbox
implementation exists, or scope the verification to concrete outbox storage and
publishing symbols.

In `@docs/RUNBOOK.md`:
- Around line 515-517: Update the session-deletion procedure in the runbook to
mark direct SQL execution as break-glass and require an operator audit record,
or replace it with a protected operational path that invokes the revocation
service and preserves application evidence for trigger, call site, count, and
latency.

In `@infrastructure/terraform/edge-access.tf`:
- Around line 104-107: Update the comment above edge_open_paths to describe all
three exact-match exemption paths instead of saying “Both,” while preserving the
existing explanation about preventing path traversal.

---

Nitpick comments:
In
`@apps/web/prisma/migrations/20260820150000_sessions_are_revocable/migration.sql`:
- Around line 19-22: Replace the standalone Session_expires_idx with a composite
index on userId and expires in
apps/web/prisma/migrations/20260820150000_sessions_are_revocable/migration.sql
lines 19-22, and update the Session model’s @@index in
apps/web/prisma/schema.prisma lines 56-58 to use the same fields. Keep both
definitions consistent.

In `@apps/web/src/app/api/jobs/access-reconciliation/route.ts`:
- Around line 31-34: Replace the direct token comparison in the
access-reconciliation authorization check with a constant-time comparison:
validate equal lengths first, then use crypto.timingSafeEqual on equivalent byte
representations while preserving the existing 401 response. If
api/jobs/reminders has the same authorization logic, extract and reuse one
shared helper in both routes.

In `@apps/web/src/lib/auth.ts`:
- Around line 194-198: Update the session validation flow around
serverSessionIsLive to explicitly handle database errors consistently with the
refusal branch: catch failures, log them with the relevant trigger context, and
return null after the established bounded retry behavior. Preserve returning the
token for live sessions and null for invalid sessions.

In `@apps/web/src/lib/auth/access-reconciliation.ts`:
- Around line 190-199: In access-reconciliation.ts lines 190-199, update the
facts flow to read affiliation first and invoke providerStateOf only when
affiliation is "active"; preserve revocation for ended subjects even if the
provider probe would reject. In access-reconciliation.test.ts lines 173-197, add
coverage where providerStateOf rejects for an ended-affiliation subject and
assert that the subject is still revoked.

In `@apps/web/src/lib/auth/session-revocation.test.ts`:
- Around line 120-123: Update the surviving-row assertion in the session
revocation test to compare the sorted SID list exactly against the expected
surviving rows, replacing the subset-based expect.arrayContaining check. Remove
the separate old-mine absence assertion if the exact comparison fully covers it,
while preserving the intended old-theirs survivor expectation.

In `@infrastructure/terraform/scheduler.tf`:
- Around line 161-182: Add a dead-letter queue and configure dead_letter_config
on aws_cloudwatch_event_target.access_reconciliation to retain exhausted
invocations. Add shared CloudWatch alarms covering both access_reconciliation
and the reminders rule for FailedInvocations and zero Invocations, using the
appropriate EventBridge rule dimensions and existing naming conventions.
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Comment on lines +144 to +171
test("the revoked session is refused by the session endpoint too, not just by the page", async () => {
// A page redirect could in principle come from the entitlement gate. This
// asks the thing the gate does not touch: NextAuth's own session endpoint,
// presented with the officer's cookie. It must not describe a user.
const response = await officerContext.request.get("/api/auth/session")
const body = await response.text()

expect(body).not.toContain(officerEmail)
expect(body).not.toContain(officerName)
})

test("signing in again issues a session that works", async () => {
// Revocation must not be a one-way door for somebody who is put back on a
// roster. It also proves the refusal above was about the SESSION and not
// about the person having become unable to authenticate at all.
const manager = await managerContext.newPage()
await manager.goto(CLUB)
const form = addToRoster(manager)
await form.getByLabel("Email").fill(officerEmail)
await form.getByLabel("Role").selectOption({ index: 1 })
await form.getByLabel("Status").selectOption("ACTIVE")
await form.getByRole("button", { name: "Add", exact: true }).click()
await expect(endTermFor(manager)).toBeVisible()

const officer = await officerContext.newPage()
await signInAs(officer, officerEmail)
await expect(officer).toHaveURL(/\/dashboard/)
})

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Make each test independent.

The suite runs serially, so fully parallel execution is not the issue. Playwright retries only the failed test in a new worker. The tests at lines 144 and 155 then have no initialized officerContext or managerContext, and the endpoint test also lacks the revoked session state.

Keep these assertions in the first test, or create the required contexts and state within each test.

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In `@apps/web/e2e/session-revocation.spec.ts` around lines 144 - 171, Make the
tests around the session endpoint and re-sign-in flow independently establish
their required state instead of relying on earlier serial tests. Ensure each
test initializes the needed officerContext and managerContext, and that the
endpoint test creates a revoked officer session before asserting the session
response omits user details; preserve the existing assertions and successful
re-sign-in behavior.

Comment thread apps/web/src/app/(app)/admin/actions.ts
Comment thread apps/web/src/app/api/jobs/access-reconciliation/route.ts
Comment thread apps/web/src/lib/auth/session-revocation.ts
Comment thread docs/decisions/ADR-0015-session-revocation-event-emission.md Outdated
Comment thread docs/RUNBOOK.md
Comment on lines +515 to +517
```sh
psql "$DATABASE_URL" -c 'DELETE FROM "Session" WHERE "userId" = (SELECT id FROM "User" WHERE email = '"'"'someone@simon.rochester.edu'"'"');'
```

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not present direct SQL as an auditable revocation path.

This command deletes Session rows outside the application. It cannot produce the application log evidence described at Lines 551-554, including the trigger, call site, count, and latency.

Mark this procedure as break-glass and require an operator audit record, or provide a protected operational path that calls the revocation service.

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In `@docs/RUNBOOK.md` around lines 515 - 517, Update the session-deletion
procedure in the runbook to mark direct SQL execution as break-glass and require
an operator audit record, or replace it with a protected operational path that
invokes the revocation service and preserves application evidence for trigger,
call site, count, and latency.

Comment thread infrastructure/terraform/edge-access.tf Outdated
… change that caused it

Review found three real defects and I could not argue with any of them.

- transitionAssignment revoked BEFORE writing its audit row, so a failed delete
  discarded the audit event for a transition that had already committed. The
  committed fact would have been the one thing with no record. Audit first now,
  pinned by a test.
- Every call site let a revocation failure propagate, which threw away the audit
  row and the notification that follow it and showed the operator a refusal for
  a change that DID happen. revokeSessionsOrAlert logs one greppable
  [auth][ALERT] line carrying the manual repair and reports "failed". Tolerable
  because entitlement is re-derived from rows on every request, so a surviving
  session degrades to the previous behaviour rather than to access.
- The row's expiry is ABSOLUTE while @auth/core's cookie is rolling, so the
  comment claiming they expire together was false. It is a deliberate 30-day
  cap; now documented and pinned by a test instead of being a surprise.

Also: the e2e block is describe.serial (a CI retry reran a dependent test
against uninitialised contexts), the reconciliation schedule takes no retries
(EventBridge's 5s API-destination timeout would fire overlapping passes at the
one condition that causes it), and two stale comments corrected.

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…is not an incident

Putting the session lookup on the request path gave the system a new failure
mode that the runbook did not name. Measured by hiding the `Session` table
under a live session: `@auth/core` cannot tell a throwing lookup from a
refused one, so `/api/auth/session` answers null AND sends
`Set-Cookie: authjs.session-token=; Max-Age=0` — the browser deletes its
cookie. The row survives, so nothing was revoked, but everyone who polled
during the blip has to sign in again afterwards.

The behaviour is correct and deliberately unchanged: a session that cannot be
checked must not be honoured. What was missing is that the symptom — a wave of
sign-ins, no revocation in the audit log, every `Session` row still present —
reads exactly like a security incident to whoever is on call.

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apps/web/src/lib/auth/access-reconciliation-live.ts (1)

60-69: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Bound the reconciliation pass before the EventBridge timeout.

reconcileAccess awaits both lookups serially for every live subject. listSubjects has no limit, and cognitoAccountState has no per-call timeout. A pass longer than five seconds can leave subjects unchecked because the target has zero retries. Add bounded concurrency with a deadline or alerting path.

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In `@apps/web/src/lib/auth/access-reconciliation-live.ts` around lines 60 - 69,
Update reconcileAccess and its providerStateOf lookup flow to bound work before
the five-second EventBridge timeout: limit concurrent subject processing and
apply a per-call or overall deadline to listSubjects and cognitoAccountState.
Ensure deadline exhaustion is surfaced through the existing alerting/error path
rather than silently leaving subjects unchecked.
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apps/web/src/lib/auth/session-revocation.ts (1)

339-347: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Make the failure receipt use the same userIds normalization as the success path.

revokeSessions filters non-string and empty IDs before deduplication. The catch branch only deduplicates. The two paths therefore return different userIds for the same input. The log line also reports userIds.length from the raw input rather than the normalized set. The receipt is evidence, so this only affects log and receipt fidelity.

♻️ Proposed normalization
   } catch (error) {
+    const unique = [...new Set(userIds.filter((id) => typeof id === "string" && id.length > 0))]
     // One distinct, greppable prefix. The access change is already committed,
     // so this line is the only record that somebody's credential outlived it.
     console.error(
       `[auth][ALERT] session revocation FAILED after the access change committed: ` +
-        `${trigger} (${detail}) for ${userIds.length} user(s) — their sessions are still live. ` +
+        `${trigger} (${detail}) for ${unique.length} user(s) — their sessions are still live. ` +
         `Delete them by hand: DELETE FROM "Session" WHERE "userId" IN (…). Cause: ${String(error)}`,
     )
     return {
       trigger,
       detail,
-      userIds: [...new Set(userIds)],
+      userIds: unique,
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In `@apps/web/src/lib/auth/session-revocation.ts` around lines 339 - 347, Update
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Restore the console.error spy in afterEach.

Jest does not restore mocks automatically in this configuration. If an assertion fails before mockRestore(), the spy remains active for later tests. Add afterEach(() => jest.restoreAllMocks()) to this describe block and remove the per-test restoration. Convert the first test to async/await for consistency.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@apps/web/src/lib/auth/access-reconciliation-live.ts`:
- Around line 60-69: Update reconcileAccess and its providerStateOf lookup flow
to bound work before the five-second EventBridge timeout: limit concurrent
subject processing and apply a per-call or overall deadline to listSubjects and
cognitoAccountState. Ensure deadline exhaustion is surfaced through the existing
alerting/error path rather than silently leaving subjects unchecked.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/web/src/lib/auth/session-revocation.test.ts`:
- Around line 316-347: Add an afterEach hook to the describe block that calls
jest.restoreAllMocks(), remove the per-test error.mockRestore() calls, and
convert the first revokeSessionsOrAlert test to async/await while preserving its
existing assertions.

In `@apps/web/src/lib/auth/session-revocation.ts`:
- Around line 339-347: Update the failure receipt in revokeSessions to normalize
userIds exactly like the success path: retain only non-empty strings, then
deduplicate them before assigning the field. Also use this normalized collection
for the related log’s user count instead of the raw input length, while
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Adversarial verification of PR #104. Three findings, all in the direction a
session control must never fail.

1. The reconciliation report could not distinguish total failure from success.
   Measured, not reasoned: renaming RestrictedIdentity under a live pass made
   every subject's fact read throw, and the endpoint answered 200 with JSON
   byte-identical to a healthy run. That body is the ONLY thing outside the
   process that can see how the pass went — the target has
   maximum_retry_attempts = 0, no dead_letter_config, and no CloudWatch alarm
   on the rule, so a console.error nobody watches was the entire failure
   signal for the two triggers whose only guarantee is this schedule.
   factReadFailures and revocationFailures now say so.

2. serverSessionIsLive failing OPEN passed the whole suite. Replacing the
   lookup with one that swallows its error and returns true — a revoked
   session honoured whenever the database is unwell — left 184/184 green.
   That break is the plausible kind: the RUNBOOK now documents that a database
   blip signs people out, and the obvious "fix" for that complaint is a catch
   in exactly this function.

3. issueServerSession swallowing a failed row write passed the whole suite
   too, which mints a token whose sid points at nothing.

2 and 3 are pinned by sign, not by mechanism: an answer that could not be
obtained is never an answer of yes. The pruning test is the other side of the
same line, so the pair cannot be satisfied by making everything throw.

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Caught by CodeRabbit on the previous commit, verified against the code, and
it was a defect in that commit's own fix.

revokeSessionsOrAlert never throws — it swallows the delete's failure and
returns failed: true, so the access change that already committed keeps its
audit row. reconcileAccess only counted exceptions, and the live deps route
through revokeSessionsOrAlert, so revocationFailures was structurally always
0 in production and a subject whose session SURVIVED was appended to
`revoked` as though it had been ended. That is the opposite of what this
report exists to say.

The deps type now admits the optional `failed` the live implementation has
always returned, and the pass counts it instead of reporting it as success.

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ADR allocation — CORRECTED. This PR takes ADR-0016

My earlier table missed #104, which also adds an ADR-0015. Six open PRs claim that number: #101, #104, #106, #107, #110, #112.

decision-records.test.ts asserts expect(gaps).toEqual([5]) — the reserved Cognito number is the only permitted gap. So numbering must be contiguous as merged, which makes merge order and number order the same thing.

merge order PR number
1 #101 the platform exception object 0015
2 #104 session revocation event emission 0016
3 #107 the billable unit / seat metering 0017 + 0018
4 #110 workspaces are a function of role 0019
5 #112 e2e authentication without a second provider 0020
6 #106 tenant configuration packs 0021

#116 is out of this sequence entirely — it takes no number at all, deferring to ADR-0009, which already exists, is already Proposed, and already owns the same fork (which of RestrictedIdentity / DirectoryPerson / User is canonical), tracked by register row IDENT-002. One record beats two restating one conflict. #115 only edits ADR-0013 and is unconstrained.

#104 is placed second, not last, because it is verified and ready while #106 is blocked on two real defects — a ready PR must not queue behind a stuck one.

Verified the hard way: renaming an ADR to 0021 on a branch whose numbers stop at 0014 yields gaps [5,15,16,17,18,19,20] and CI goes red. Measured, not predicted.

Rename the file and update every cross-reference — the ADR body, the docs/decisions/README.md table, the backlog, code comments, and any test pinning a number. A code comment contradicting the ADR it cites is the one a reader finds first.

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Six open PRs each wrote an ADR-0015, and decision-records.test.ts requires
contiguous numbering — so merge order and number order are the same thing, and
the coordinator's allocation moved the billable-unit ADR from 0016 to 0017 when
#104 was slotted ahead of it. All seven citations updated, in the ADR and in the
integration test's comment.

The dangling-citation section now carries the full allocation table and says
plainly that the number moved once already, so the next person to read a
disagreeing citation knows it is a renumbering rather than a typo, and knows
which side wins: the file that lands, not this line.

Also carries, from an earlier commit on this branch, the caveat that matters for
the word on the invoice: @@unique([institutionId, emailNormalized]) guarantees
one row per ADDRESS, not per human. For this tenant the two readings coincide —
82 was measured as unique addresses and §3.2 restricts it to one Simon domain —
so it is a caveat rather than a defect, but "person" is what an invoice says and
that gap is the kind that becomes a dispute.

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Today nobody in the cohort can sign in. An account created by
provision-cognito-cohort.mjs sits in FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD, cognito.ts refuses
that as `challenge-required`, and there was nothing to challenge them with — so
a perfect 82/82 provisioning run still leaves 82 people outside. This is the
missing half.

THE CONSTRAINT THAT SHAPED IT. SES is in the sandbox: 200 a day, one per
second, verified recipients only, 0 of 9 DKIM records published. Cognito's
invitation mail and ForgotPassword's code are both messages, and neither can
reach a student. The send layer landing in #94 does not change that — the
sandbox is a state of the AWS account, not a gap in the code. So the question
was never which Cognito API; it was how a person proves who they are when no
channel to them exists. PD-007 writes the answer down, and activation.ts opens
with the threat model rather than leaving it implied.

The answer: the Office hands over a one-time code, and that code IS the
account's Cognito temporary password. The trust anchor is the handover, said
plainly. What the code can do is make sure that handover, and only that
handover, becomes an account.

WHY THE CODE IS THE TEMPORARY PASSWORD. cognito.tf grants the task role
AdminInitiateAuth, AdminRespondToAuthChallenge and AdminGetUser, and
deliberately not AdminSetUserPassword. Answering NEW_PASSWORD_REQUIRED is
therefore the only way this application can set a first password, and that
challenge is reachable only with the temporary password. No new IAM grant, no
second secret to exchange. It also means a stolen code cannot produce a session:
AdminInitiateAuth with a temporary password returns a challenge and no tokens.

ENUMERATION. Every refusal about the address, the invitation or the code is one
value with one message — not-on-the-roster, no-invitation, wrong-code,
already-used, expired and rate-limited are indistinguishable. In TIME as well:
every branch pays exactly one scrypt derivation, against a decoy when there is
nothing real to check, and the whole action is padded to a 900 ms floor.
activation-timing.test.ts asserts both — the derivation count structurally, and
the measured spread against a tolerance calibrated to one derivation on the
machine it runs on rather than a millisecond figure that means different things
on a laptop and a runner.

The password answers are the exception, and the ORDER of the checks is what
keeps that safe: "too short" and "they do not match" are decided before the
address is looked at, so they are a function of what the person typed and of
nothing else.

ELIGIBILITY, and one asymmetry that is deliberate. Activation passes
requireRegistry: true, which sign-in does not. An empty or unsealed registry at
sign-in means an unenforced gate for people who already have accounts; here it
would mean anyone holding any code could mint one. This path creates access, so
it fails closed — the direction that costs an outage rather than an intruder.
The three-fact RegistryLookup from #113 is used as-is; nothing here re-reads the
roster by a second path.

SINGLE USE, TWICE AND INDEPENDENTLY. A conditional UPDATE only one caller can
win, and Cognito leaving FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD. Neither depends on the other.
The code is verified BEFORE the invitation is consumed, so a stranger with a
wrong code cannot burn somebody else's invitation — a denial of service
delivered by the replay defence.

RATE LIMITED in two places. A rolling per-invitation counter in one UPDATE with
a CASE, because read-then-write loses attempts under concurrency; and an
in-process per-client limiter that makes a flood cheap to refuse. The in-process
one is keyed on the client address and NOT on the email, on purpose: keying on
the email would let an attacker spend a victim's budget from anywhere and leave
the victim refused on the one page they must use.

PASSWORD POLICY. Stated once, shown live as the person types, checked on the
server, and held to the pool: password-policy.test.ts PARSES cognito.tf and
fails if the two disagree, including the symbol set and the temporary-password
validity that bounds the invitation TTL. A UI that accepts what Cognito rejects
is a dead end at the one moment the person has no second attempt.

SESSIONS. Setting a password revokes. The only sessions a person with no
password can have are dev-login sessions — an address plus a shared passphrase,
with no proof of ownership — and choosing a password is the moment their own
claim to the account begins. The mechanism is a delete from `Session`, the
register #104 makes authoritative, rather than a second watermark of our own;
until #104 lands nothing reads that table, and the code says so. The control
carrying the weight today is that activation issues NO session at all: the
person signs in fresh, through the path everybody else uses.

ISSUING. scripts/activation-invitations.mjs runs under an OPERATOR's
credentials. It does NOT create accounts — #108 owns that — it installs a code
as an existing account's temporary password, then reads the account back and
refuses unless the pool left it in FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD, because RESET_REQUIRED
would send the person to an emailed recovery code that cannot be delivered.
Codes are written to one file at mode 0600 and to nowhere else; stdout goes to
scrollback, to shell transcripts and to build logs. The code is never stored:
the table holds scrypt(code, salt).

The script and the application are two implementations of one format, because
one is .mjs and the other is TypeScript. activation-code-agreement.test.mjs
loads both and fails if they disagree on the alphabet, the hash of the same
input, the password rules or the lifetime — drift there would lock out the whole
cohort, one person at a time.

A FAULT IS A REFUSAL. Every unexpected exception is caught at the boundary and
answered as `refused`, because on this surface a distinguishable failure IS the
vulnerability: the audit write happens only when an invitation exists, so a
database fault would otherwise render as a 500 for an invited address and as the
ordinary refusal page for a stranger — the one question this flow is built to
refuse to answer, given away by a transient fault nobody was watching for. The
fault is logged with the address, server-side, where it can be acted on.

That catch is deliberately unable to lie about a completed activation. The two
steps that run after Cognito accepts — the revocation and the ALLOW audit row —
are individually guarded where they are, so nothing between a successful
setPassword and `activated` can throw. A revocation that failed is written into
the audit reason rather than reported as success; #104's own post-review fix was
that lesson in the other direction.

VERIFIED. tsc, jest (1955), test:isolation against a real PostgreSQL, and next
build. Twenty-two negative controls were run: each break was applied with an
asserted anchor, watched go red, reverted, and watched go green. Three of them
found real gaps and are why the suite is bigger than it was — the sequential
replay was caught by consume alone, so neither replay defence was individually
pinned; the measured timing bound was two derivations wide, which is exactly one
derivation too wide to catch a branch that skips one; and the first version of
the fault guard still let a throwing ALLOW audit write turn a set password into
"that did not work".

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Migration timestamp collision — 3 open PRs share 20260820150000

#98 inbound_webhook_receipts, #104 sessions_are_revocable, and #117 knowledge_moves_between_seats.

Git reports no conflict for this. The directories have different names, so a merge is clean and CI is green on both sides. Prisma treats them as two distinct migrations and applies them in lexical order of the full directory name — deterministic, so nothing breaks today.

It matters for two reasons anyway:

  1. If two of them ever create the same table, the second fails — a broken deploy rather than a red merge. That is exactly what OSE-initiated onboarding: ADR-0013 decided, and an approval that admits #115 and The onboarding chain gets a spine: its own model, and a delegation that cannot defeat it #116 hit (both CREATE TABLE "OnboardingProposal" at 20260821090000), and it was invisible until someone looked.
  2. Ordering becomes a coin-flip on the name suffix rather than on intent, which is the wrong thing for a human to have to reason about later.

Whoever merges second: bump your timestamp to a later value before merging. No code change, just the directory name and any reference to it.

For the record, every collision currently open:

timestamp PRs
20260820140000 #96, #101
20260820150000 #98, #104, #117
20260821090000 #115, #116same table, this one really breaks

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Today nobody in the cohort can sign in. An account created by
provision-cognito-cohort.mjs sits in FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD, cognito.ts refuses
that as `challenge-required`, and there was nothing to challenge them with — so
a perfect 82/82 provisioning run still leaves 82 people outside. This is the
missing half.

THE CONSTRAINT THAT SHAPED IT. SES is in the sandbox: 200 a day, one per
second, verified recipients only, 0 of 9 DKIM records published. Cognito's
invitation mail and ForgotPassword's code are both messages, and neither can
reach a student. The send layer landing in #94 does not change that — the
sandbox is a state of the AWS account, not a gap in the code. So the question
was never which Cognito API; it was how a person proves who they are when no
channel to them exists. PD-007 writes the answer down, and activation.ts opens
with the threat model rather than leaving it implied.

The answer: the Office hands over a one-time code, and that code IS the
account's Cognito temporary password. The trust anchor is the handover, said
plainly. What the code can do is make sure that handover, and only that
handover, becomes an account.

WHY THE CODE IS THE TEMPORARY PASSWORD. cognito.tf grants the task role
AdminInitiateAuth, AdminRespondToAuthChallenge and AdminGetUser, and
deliberately not AdminSetUserPassword. Answering NEW_PASSWORD_REQUIRED is
therefore the only way this application can set a first password, and that
challenge is reachable only with the temporary password. No new IAM grant, no
second secret to exchange. It also means a stolen code cannot produce a session:
AdminInitiateAuth with a temporary password returns a challenge and no tokens.

ENUMERATION. Every refusal about the address, the invitation or the code is one
value with one message — not-on-the-roster, no-invitation, wrong-code,
already-used, expired and rate-limited are indistinguishable. In TIME as well:
every branch pays exactly one scrypt derivation, against a decoy when there is
nothing real to check, and the whole action is padded to a 900 ms floor.
activation-timing.test.ts asserts both — the derivation count structurally, and
the measured spread against a tolerance calibrated to one derivation on the
machine it runs on rather than a millisecond figure that means different things
on a laptop and a runner.

The password answers are the exception, and the ORDER of the checks is what
keeps that safe: "too short" and "they do not match" are decided before the
address is looked at, so they are a function of what the person typed and of
nothing else.

ELIGIBILITY, and one asymmetry that is deliberate. Activation passes
requireRegistry: true, which sign-in does not. An empty or unsealed registry at
sign-in means an unenforced gate for people who already have accounts; here it
would mean anyone holding any code could mint one. This path creates access, so
it fails closed — the direction that costs an outage rather than an intruder.
The three-fact RegistryLookup from #113 is used as-is; nothing here re-reads the
roster by a second path.

SINGLE USE, TWICE AND INDEPENDENTLY. A conditional UPDATE only one caller can
win, and Cognito leaving FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD. Neither depends on the other.
The code is verified BEFORE the invitation is consumed, so a stranger with a
wrong code cannot burn somebody else's invitation — a denial of service
delivered by the replay defence.

RATE LIMITED in two places. A rolling per-invitation counter in one UPDATE with
a CASE, because read-then-write loses attempts under concurrency; and an
in-process per-client limiter that makes a flood cheap to refuse. The in-process
one is keyed on the client address and NOT on the email, on purpose: keying on
the email would let an attacker spend a victim's budget from anywhere and leave
the victim refused on the one page they must use.

PASSWORD POLICY. Stated once, shown live as the person types, checked on the
server, and held to the pool: password-policy.test.ts PARSES cognito.tf and
fails if the two disagree, including the symbol set and the temporary-password
validity that bounds the invitation TTL. A UI that accepts what Cognito rejects
is a dead end at the one moment the person has no second attempt.

SESSIONS. Setting a password revokes. The only sessions a person with no
password can have are dev-login sessions — an address plus a shared passphrase,
with no proof of ownership — and choosing a password is the moment their own
claim to the account begins. The mechanism is a delete from `Session`, the
register #104 makes authoritative, rather than a second watermark of our own;
until #104 lands nothing reads that table, and the code says so. The control
carrying the weight today is that activation issues NO session at all: the
person signs in fresh, through the path everybody else uses.

ISSUING. scripts/activation-invitations.mjs runs under an OPERATOR's
credentials. It does NOT create accounts — #108 owns that — it installs a code
as an existing account's temporary password, then reads the account back and
refuses unless the pool left it in FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD, because RESET_REQUIRED
would send the person to an emailed recovery code that cannot be delivered.
Codes are written to one file at mode 0600 and to nowhere else; stdout goes to
scrollback, to shell transcripts and to build logs. The code is never stored:
the table holds scrypt(code, salt).

The script and the application are two implementations of one format, because
one is .mjs and the other is TypeScript. activation-code-agreement.test.mjs
loads both and fails if they disagree on the alphabet, the hash of the same
input, the password rules or the lifetime — drift there would lock out the whole
cohort, one person at a time.

A FAULT IS A REFUSAL. Every unexpected exception is caught at the boundary and
answered as `refused`, because on this surface a distinguishable failure IS the
vulnerability: the audit write happens only when an invitation exists, so a
database fault would otherwise render as a 500 for an invited address and as the
ordinary refusal page for a stranger — the one question this flow is built to
refuse to answer, given away by a transient fault nobody was watching for. The
fault is logged with the address, server-side, where it can be acted on.

That catch is deliberately unable to lie about a completed activation. The two
steps that run after Cognito accepts — the revocation and the ALLOW audit row —
are individually guarded where they are, so nothing between a successful
setPassword and `activated` can throw. A revocation that failed is written into
the audit reason rather than reported as success; #104's own post-review fix was
that lesson in the other direction.

VERIFIED. tsc, jest (1962), test:isolation against a real PostgreSQL, and next
build. Twenty-two negative controls were run: each break was applied with an
asserted anchor, watched go red, reverted, and watched go green. Three of them
found real gaps and are why the suite is bigger than it was — the sequential
replay was caught by consume alone, so neither replay defence was individually
pinned; the measured timing bound was two derivations wide, which is exactly one
derivation too wide to catch a branch that skips one; and the first version of
the fault guard still let a throwing ALLOW audit write turn a set password into
"that did not work".

REBASED three times while this was in flight — onto #113 (the sealed registry,
whose three-fact RegistryLookup this now uses as-is), #94 (the SES send layer,
which does not change the sandbox this design is shaped by) and #119 (which
renamed the unit and rebuilt the sign-in page, so the "New here?" entry was
re-applied to its new structure rather than merged into the old one). The
naming commit was dropped: #119 landed the same correction first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
satvikOS added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
Today nobody in the cohort can sign in. An account created by
provision-cognito-cohort.mjs sits in FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD, cognito.ts refuses
that as `challenge-required`, and there was nothing to challenge them with — so
a perfect 82/82 provisioning run still leaves 82 people outside. This is the
missing half.

THE CONSTRAINT THAT SHAPED IT. SES is in the sandbox: 200 a day, one per
second, verified recipients only, 0 of 9 DKIM records published. Cognito's
invitation mail and ForgotPassword's code are both messages, and neither can
reach a student. The send layer landing in #94 does not change that — the
sandbox is a state of the AWS account, not a gap in the code. So the question
was never which Cognito API; it was how a person proves who they are when no
channel to them exists. PD-007 writes the answer down, and activation.ts opens
with the threat model rather than leaving it implied.

The answer: the Office hands over a one-time code, and that code IS the
account's Cognito temporary password. The trust anchor is the handover, said
plainly. What the code can do is make sure that handover, and only that
handover, becomes an account.

WHY THE CODE IS THE TEMPORARY PASSWORD. cognito.tf grants the task role
AdminInitiateAuth, AdminRespondToAuthChallenge and AdminGetUser, and
deliberately not AdminSetUserPassword. Answering NEW_PASSWORD_REQUIRED is
therefore the only way this application can set a first password, and that
challenge is reachable only with the temporary password. No new IAM grant, no
second secret to exchange. It also means a stolen code cannot produce a session:
AdminInitiateAuth with a temporary password returns a challenge and no tokens.

ENUMERATION. Every refusal about the address, the invitation or the code is one
value with one message — not-on-the-roster, no-invitation, wrong-code,
already-used, expired and rate-limited are indistinguishable. In TIME as well:
every branch pays exactly one scrypt derivation, against a decoy when there is
nothing real to check, and the whole action is padded to a 900 ms floor.
activation-timing.test.ts asserts both — the derivation count structurally, and
the measured spread against a tolerance calibrated to one derivation on the
machine it runs on rather than a millisecond figure that means different things
on a laptop and a runner.

The password answers are the exception, and the ORDER of the checks is what
keeps that safe: "too short" and "they do not match" are decided before the
address is looked at, so they are a function of what the person typed and of
nothing else.

ELIGIBILITY, and one asymmetry that is deliberate. Activation passes
requireRegistry: true, which sign-in does not. An empty or unsealed registry at
sign-in means an unenforced gate for people who already have accounts; here it
would mean anyone holding any code could mint one. This path creates access, so
it fails closed — the direction that costs an outage rather than an intruder.
The three-fact RegistryLookup from #113 is used as-is; nothing here re-reads the
roster by a second path.

SINGLE USE, TWICE AND INDEPENDENTLY. A conditional UPDATE only one caller can
win, and Cognito leaving FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD. Neither depends on the other.
The code is verified BEFORE the invitation is consumed, so a stranger with a
wrong code cannot burn somebody else's invitation — a denial of service
delivered by the replay defence.

RATE LIMITED in two places. A rolling per-invitation counter in one UPDATE with
a CASE, because read-then-write loses attempts under concurrency; and an
in-process per-client limiter that makes a flood cheap to refuse. The in-process
one is keyed on the client address and NOT on the email, on purpose: keying on
the email would let an attacker spend a victim's budget from anywhere and leave
the victim refused on the one page they must use.

PASSWORD POLICY. Stated once, shown live as the person types, checked on the
server, and held to the pool: password-policy.test.ts PARSES cognito.tf and
fails if the two disagree, including the symbol set and the temporary-password
validity that bounds the invitation TTL. A UI that accepts what Cognito rejects
is a dead end at the one moment the person has no second attempt.

SESSIONS. Setting a password revokes. The only sessions a person with no
password can have are dev-login sessions — an address plus a shared passphrase,
with no proof of ownership — and choosing a password is the moment their own
claim to the account begins. The mechanism is a delete from `Session`, the
register #104 makes authoritative, rather than a second watermark of our own;
until #104 lands nothing reads that table, and the code says so. The control
carrying the weight today is that activation issues NO session at all: the
person signs in fresh, through the path everybody else uses.

ISSUING. scripts/activation-invitations.mjs runs under an OPERATOR's
credentials. It does NOT create accounts — #108 owns that — it installs a code
as an existing account's temporary password, then reads the account back and
refuses unless the pool left it in FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD, because RESET_REQUIRED
would send the person to an emailed recovery code that cannot be delivered.
Codes are written to one file at mode 0600 and to nowhere else; stdout goes to
scrollback, to shell transcripts and to build logs. The code is never stored:
the table holds scrypt(code, salt).

The script and the application are two implementations of one format, because
one is .mjs and the other is TypeScript. activation-code-agreement.test.mjs
loads both and fails if they disagree on the alphabet, the hash of the same
input, the password rules or the lifetime — drift there would lock out the whole
cohort, one person at a time.

A FAULT IS A REFUSAL. Every unexpected exception is caught at the boundary and
answered as `refused`, because on this surface a distinguishable failure IS the
vulnerability: the audit write happens only when an invitation exists, so a
database fault would otherwise render as a 500 for an invited address and as the
ordinary refusal page for a stranger — the one question this flow is built to
refuse to answer, given away by a transient fault nobody was watching for. The
fault is logged with the address, server-side, where it can be acted on.

That catch is deliberately unable to lie about a completed activation. The two
steps that run after Cognito accepts — the revocation and the ALLOW audit row —
are individually guarded where they are, so nothing between a successful
setPassword and `activated` can throw. A revocation that failed is written into
the audit reason rather than reported as success; #104's own post-review fix was
that lesson in the other direction.

VERIFIED. tsc, jest (1962), test:isolation against a real PostgreSQL, and next
build. Twenty-two negative controls were run: each break was applied with an
asserted anchor, watched go red, reverted, and watched go green. Three of them
found real gaps and are why the suite is bigger than it was — the sequential
replay was caught by consume alone, so neither replay defence was individually
pinned; the measured timing bound was two derivations wide, which is exactly one
derivation too wide to catch a branch that skips one; and the first version of
the fault guard still let a throwing ALLOW audit write turn a set password into
"that did not work".

REBASED three times while this was in flight — onto #113 (the sealed registry,
whose three-fact RegistryLookup this now uses as-is), #94 (the SES send layer,
which does not change the sandbox this design is shaped by) and #119 (which
renamed the unit and rebuilt the sign-in page, so the "New here?" entry was
re-applied to its new structure rather than merged into the old one). The
naming commit was dropped: #119 landed the same correction first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
claude added 3 commits August 21, 2026 05:20
Three conflicts, and one collision git could not see.

- e2e/support/auth.ts: this branch split `signInAs(page, email)` out of
  `signIn(page, userName)` so a spec can sign in as somebody the product
  created; main replaced the `/dashboard` wait with "off /signin and past
  /workspace" and added the access-pending entitlement assertion. Kept both:
  the split stays, and main's wait and assertion move inside `signInAs`,
  with the diagnostic naming the address it actually has.

- orgs/[slug]/members/actions.ts: two unrelated imports on the same line.
  Both kept; both features' call sites verified present.

- docs/decisions/README.md, and the collision: ADR-0015 is taken. Main
  landed ADR-0015 as the platform exception object while this branch was
  writing ADR-0015 for the session-revocation event. Nothing conflicted in
  the files themselves — the two ADRs have different filenames — so this
  would have merged clean and shipped a duplicate number.

  Renumbered to ADR-0016, which the index was already holding open for
  "another change in the same merge sequence". This is that change. The
  reservation row is removed, because `a reserved number has no ADR file`
  fails if a reservation outlives its ADR.

  Counts re-derived rather than taken from either side: 18 ADR files, 10
  Proposed. HEAD said 9 of 14 and main said 9 of 17; neither was right.

Renumbered with it: register.ts's `adr.id`/`adr.file` (blocked-architecture
asserts that path exists on disk), RUNBOOK, PROGRAM-BACKLOG,
session-revocation.ts, its test, and access-reconciliation. Left alone: every
ADR-0015 reference that belongs to main's exception object.

Tenancy re-derived from schema.prisma even though it auto-merged clean:
25 TENANT_SCOPED + 5 PLATFORM_GLOBAL + 14 UNENFORCEABLE = 44 = `grep -c
'^model '`. This branch adds no model — its migration adds two indexes to
the existing Session — so the counts are main's, verified rather than
assumed.
…the action

A clean auto-merge that broke a control. `session-revocation-is-wired`
asserts, per call site, that the action which changes an assignment's status
also revokes that person's sessions. It pinned the write as
`db.roleAssignment.update(`.

Main's seat meter wrapped that write in `db.$transaction` so the roster row
and the meter row commit together, which renames the client to `tx` without
moving the call. Nothing conflicted — the two branches touched different
lines — and the assertion went red for a reason that has nothing to do with
what it is guarding.

Widened to `(?:db|tx).roleAssignment.update(`. The bound that matters is
unchanged: it is still matched against the BLOCK for one action, so an update
that disappeared from that action still fails. Verified by negative control
rather than by reading it.

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1200-1237: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Write the transition audit only after the compare-and-swap succeeds.

At Lines 1200-1209, requireCapability writes an ALLOW audit event before the update. If the update at Lines 1224-1230 fails with P2025 or another database error, the action reports no transition but the audit trail records an allowed action.

Separate authorization from the successful-transition audit. Record denied authorization attempts immediately. Write the ALLOW transition audit in the same transaction as db.exception.update.

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In `@apps/web/src/app/`(app)/admin/actions.ts around lines 1200 - 1237, The
exception action currently records the ALLOW audit during requireCapability
before the compare-and-swap update succeeds. Separate authorization auditing so
denied attempts remain immediate, then move the successful-transition ALLOW
audit into the same transaction as db.exception.update, preserving the existing
concurrency refusal behavior.
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1672-1676: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider an occupant index when the meter is read per person.

The doc comment states that ADR-0017 bills the person, aggregated from these rows at read time. No index supports a filter on occupantKind and occupantId. Such a read falls back to (institutionId, effectiveAt) and then filters in memory. Add @@index([institutionId, occupantKind, occupantId, effectiveAt]) once the read path exists.

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In `@apps/web/prisma/schema.prisma` around lines 1672 - 1676, Add a Prisma
composite index for occupant-based meter reads on the relevant model: include
institutionId, occupantKind, occupantId, and effectiveAt in that order. Apply it
once the corresponding per-person read path exists, preserving the existing
indexes and constraints.

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Pin the referential action on the correction self-relation.

correctsId is optional and declares no onDelete, so Prisma generates ON DELETE SET NULL. If a corrected row is ever deleted, the correction row loses its reference and reads as a standalone withdrawal. That contradicts the stated contract that a correction always says which occupancy it is about.

Declare onDelete: Restrict to make the intent explicit in the database.

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In `@apps/web/prisma/schema.prisma` around lines 1660 - 1663, Update the
SeatMeterEvent self-relation named "SeatMeterCorrection" on corrects to
explicitly set onDelete: Restrict, preserving the optional correctsId field and
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In `@apps/web/src/app/`(app)/admin/actions.ts:
- Around line 1200-1237: The exception action currently records the ALLOW audit
during requireCapability before the compare-and-swap update succeeds. Separate
authorization auditing so denied attempts remain immediate, then move the
successful-transition ALLOW audit into the same transaction as
db.exception.update, preserving the existing concurrency refusal behavior.

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In `@apps/web/prisma/schema.prisma`:
- Around line 1672-1676: Add a Prisma composite index for occupant-based meter
reads on the relevant model: include institutionId, occupantKind, occupantId,
and effectiveAt in that order. Apply it once the corresponding per-person read
path exists, preserving the existing indexes and constraints.
- Around line 1660-1663: Update the SeatMeterEvent self-relation named
"SeatMeterCorrection" on corrects to explicitly set onDelete: Restrict,
preserving the optional correctsId field and existing relation fields.

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… added

A clean auto-merge that broke a gate, and the gate working exactly as
intended. This branch adds `/api/jobs/access-reconciliation`; main's #96
landed `capability-registry/surfaces.ts`, a ratchet asserting every API
handler appears in exactly one of two lists so a NEW endpoint cannot ship
without its author either binding it or writing down that they deferred.

The two changes never touched a common line, so nothing conflicted — the
route simply arrived unaccounted for.

Filed under `API_PENDING_BINDING`, beside `/api/jobs/reminders`, which is the
same shape: it sweeps every institution at once with no tenant asking, and it
authenticates on the job secret rather than a session, so there is no actor to
resolve a capability for. The reason is written out rather than pointed at the
neighbour, because the registry refuses wildcards for the reason its own
docblock gives — a reader closing this gap needs the names.

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* A first password, set with a code the Office hands over

Today nobody in the cohort can sign in. An account created by
provision-cognito-cohort.mjs sits in FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD, cognito.ts refuses
that as `challenge-required`, and there was nothing to challenge them with — so
a perfect 82/82 provisioning run still leaves 82 people outside. This is the
missing half.

THE CONSTRAINT THAT SHAPED IT. SES is in the sandbox: 200 a day, one per
second, verified recipients only, 0 of 9 DKIM records published. Cognito's
invitation mail and ForgotPassword's code are both messages, and neither can
reach a student. The send layer landing in #94 does not change that — the
sandbox is a state of the AWS account, not a gap in the code. So the question
was never which Cognito API; it was how a person proves who they are when no
channel to them exists. PD-007 writes the answer down, and activation.ts opens
with the threat model rather than leaving it implied.

The answer: the Office hands over a one-time code, and that code IS the
account's Cognito temporary password. The trust anchor is the handover, said
plainly. What the code can do is make sure that handover, and only that
handover, becomes an account.

WHY THE CODE IS THE TEMPORARY PASSWORD. cognito.tf grants the task role
AdminInitiateAuth, AdminRespondToAuthChallenge and AdminGetUser, and
deliberately not AdminSetUserPassword. Answering NEW_PASSWORD_REQUIRED is
therefore the only way this application can set a first password, and that
challenge is reachable only with the temporary password. No new IAM grant, no
second secret to exchange. It also means a stolen code cannot produce a session:
AdminInitiateAuth with a temporary password returns a challenge and no tokens.

ENUMERATION. Every refusal about the address, the invitation or the code is one
value with one message — not-on-the-roster, no-invitation, wrong-code,
already-used, expired and rate-limited are indistinguishable. In TIME as well:
every branch pays exactly one scrypt derivation, against a decoy when there is
nothing real to check, and the whole action is padded to a 900 ms floor.
activation-timing.test.ts asserts both — the derivation count structurally, and
the measured spread against a tolerance calibrated to one derivation on the
machine it runs on rather than a millisecond figure that means different things
on a laptop and a runner.

The password answers are the exception, and the ORDER of the checks is what
keeps that safe: "too short" and "they do not match" are decided before the
address is looked at, so they are a function of what the person typed and of
nothing else.

ELIGIBILITY, and one asymmetry that is deliberate. Activation passes
requireRegistry: true, which sign-in does not. An empty or unsealed registry at
sign-in means an unenforced gate for people who already have accounts; here it
would mean anyone holding any code could mint one. This path creates access, so
it fails closed — the direction that costs an outage rather than an intruder.
The three-fact RegistryLookup from #113 is used as-is; nothing here re-reads the
roster by a second path.

SINGLE USE, TWICE AND INDEPENDENTLY. A conditional UPDATE only one caller can
win, and Cognito leaving FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD. Neither depends on the other.
The code is verified BEFORE the invitation is consumed, so a stranger with a
wrong code cannot burn somebody else's invitation — a denial of service
delivered by the replay defence.

RATE LIMITED in two places. A rolling per-invitation counter in one UPDATE with
a CASE, because read-then-write loses attempts under concurrency; and an
in-process per-client limiter that makes a flood cheap to refuse. The in-process
one is keyed on the client address and NOT on the email, on purpose: keying on
the email would let an attacker spend a victim's budget from anywhere and leave
the victim refused on the one page they must use.

PASSWORD POLICY. Stated once, shown live as the person types, checked on the
server, and held to the pool: password-policy.test.ts PARSES cognito.tf and
fails if the two disagree, including the symbol set and the temporary-password
validity that bounds the invitation TTL. A UI that accepts what Cognito rejects
is a dead end at the one moment the person has no second attempt.

SESSIONS. Setting a password revokes. The only sessions a person with no
password can have are dev-login sessions — an address plus a shared passphrase,
with no proof of ownership — and choosing a password is the moment their own
claim to the account begins. The mechanism is a delete from `Session`, the
register #104 makes authoritative, rather than a second watermark of our own;
until #104 lands nothing reads that table, and the code says so. The control
carrying the weight today is that activation issues NO session at all: the
person signs in fresh, through the path everybody else uses.

ISSUING. scripts/activation-invitations.mjs runs under an OPERATOR's
credentials. It does NOT create accounts — #108 owns that — it installs a code
as an existing account's temporary password, then reads the account back and
refuses unless the pool left it in FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD, because RESET_REQUIRED
would send the person to an emailed recovery code that cannot be delivered.
Codes are written to one file at mode 0600 and to nowhere else; stdout goes to
scrollback, to shell transcripts and to build logs. The code is never stored:
the table holds scrypt(code, salt).

The script and the application are two implementations of one format, because
one is .mjs and the other is TypeScript. activation-code-agreement.test.mjs
loads both and fails if they disagree on the alphabet, the hash of the same
input, the password rules or the lifetime — drift there would lock out the whole
cohort, one person at a time.

A FAULT IS A REFUSAL. Every unexpected exception is caught at the boundary and
answered as `refused`, because on this surface a distinguishable failure IS the
vulnerability: the audit write happens only when an invitation exists, so a
database fault would otherwise render as a 500 for an invited address and as the
ordinary refusal page for a stranger — the one question this flow is built to
refuse to answer, given away by a transient fault nobody was watching for. The
fault is logged with the address, server-side, where it can be acted on.

That catch is deliberately unable to lie about a completed activation. The two
steps that run after Cognito accepts — the revocation and the ALLOW audit row —
are individually guarded where they are, so nothing between a successful
setPassword and `activated` can throw. A revocation that failed is written into
the audit reason rather than reported as success; #104's own post-review fix was
that lesson in the other direction.

VERIFIED. tsc, jest (1962), test:isolation against a real PostgreSQL, and next
build. Twenty-two negative controls were run: each break was applied with an
asserted anchor, watched go red, reverted, and watched go green. Three of them
found real gaps and are why the suite is bigger than it was — the sequential
replay was caught by consume alone, so neither replay defence was individually
pinned; the measured timing bound was two derivations wide, which is exactly one
derivation too wide to catch a branch that skips one; and the first version of
the fault guard still let a throwing ALLOW audit write turn a set password into
"that did not work".

REBASED three times while this was in flight — onto #113 (the sealed registry,
whose three-fact RegistryLookup this now uses as-is), #94 (the SES send layer,
which does not change the sandbox this design is shaped by) and #119 (which
renamed the unit and rebuilt the sign-in page, so the "New here?" entry was
re-applied to its new structure rather than merged into the old one). The
naming commit was dropped: #119 landed the same correction first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* The rate limiter cannot be flushed by the client it is refusing

Map.set on a key that already exists does not move it, so the front of the
window map is the FIRST-SEEN key rather than the oldest window. Evicting from
the front therefore dropped an exhausted client's own record before any of the
forged addresses that displaced it: twenty attempts, a flood of rotating
X-Forwarded-For values, and a fresh window.

charge() now deletes before re-inserting, so map order really is oldest-window-
first, and eviction skips any window that is at or above the limit. Age is the
tie-break among windows that are refusing nobody, not the criterion. When every
window held is refusing somebody the cap still holds by dropping the oldest --
reaching that state costs the attacker limit x maxKeys requests to buy back one
window.

The suite's 'drops the OLDEST windows when it evicts' case asserted the defect
as intended behaviour; it is replaced by the control that reproduces the attack.

* Pin the Map.set ordering invariant the eviction tie-break rests on

A negative control found the delete-before-set entirely untested: removing it
left all twelve cases green. This is the case that discriminates -- a key seen
first whose window re-opened last must NOT be read as the oldest window.

* The issuing script writes the row before the pool, and opens its file first

Four findings on scripts/activation-invitations.mjs.

The output file was written with writeFileSync(..., {mode: 0o600, flag: 'w'}).
mode is applied by the kernel only on CREATION, so a re-run into the same --out,
or a path an operator touched, put 82 live temporary passwords into whatever
permissions that file already had. It is now opened with 'wx' and fchmod-ed on
the descriptor, and a path that exists is refused rather than replaced.

It was also opened only AFTER the whole loop of pool mutations, so a missing
directory or a read-only volume lost every code that had just been installed
while leaving every account in FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD with a password nobody
knew. It is now opened, proved and given its header before the first
AdminSetUserPassword, and each code is appended and fsync-ed as it is issued.

AdminSetUserPassword ran before the database row was written. A failure in
between discarded the code while the account's temporary password WAS that code
-- and under --rotate the row still held the previous hash, so the old code
verified, consume() spent the invitation, the pool refused, and setPassword
mapped that to 'refused', the one reason that does not restore. Burnt for good.
The row is now written FIRST and already expired, and given its real expiry only
once the pool has confirmed FORCE_CHANGE_PASSWORD; every partial failure now
leaves an invitation nobody can redeem, which a re-run repairs. The catch names
the last step that succeeded and prints the remedy, including the one case where
a live credential is loose.

planInvitations promised 'reissue' for a redeemed invitation under --rotate that
the run always refused as CONFIRMED. The plan now takes each address's Cognito
UserStatus -- read on the dry-run path too -- and can say 'refuse'. It still
plans a rotation for the redeemed-but-never-confirmed case, which is a real
state and the only remedy for it.

The doing half is now issueOneInvitation, behind ports, so the ordering and
every partial failure are asserted rather than described.

* Pin the fchmod: a negative control found it untested

Removing fchmodSync left the suite green, because a default umask of 022 takes
nothing out of 0600. The case that discriminates sets a umask that does.

* The index the redemption read needs, and one query count for everybody

Two lows.

ActivationInvitation had no index that could serve findInvitation's read. It
filters on emailNormalized alone, and both existing indexes lead with
institutionId -- a btree cannot seek on a predicate that names only the second
column. So the redemption path's 'one indexed read', which the constant-time
argument in activation.ts is sized against, was a sequential scan on a table
reached from a public unauthenticated form. Additive migration, one index.

lookupRegistry ran a different NUMBER of queries depending on the address: a
roster member returned after findMany + seal, a stranger additionally paid for a
table-wide count. Slower meant 'not on the list', which is the informative
direction, and only the 900ms response floor hid it -- on the activation form
only, since sign-in has no floor. The count is now an existence probe (LIMIT 1
rather than a tally, so it is cheap enough to run unconditionally) and it joins
the other two reads. Three queries, same shape, whoever is asking.

* Pin the audit trail, and name the caller that fails closed

Two lows an adversarial pass found, neither of which any test could see.

FOUR of the five meaningful columns on the AuditEvent row this flow writes were
unasserted. Replacing `outcome: entry.outcome` with a hard-coded "ALLOW" left
1,988 unit tests and 107 isolation tests green -- a refused attempt would have
been written into an append-only log as a successful one and nothing would have
said so. `reason`, `resourceId` and the address in `metadata` survived the same
treatment. Only the ALLOW row had ever been looked at, so only the ALLOW row was
held, and the refusals are the half an operator actually reads: the response
says nothing on purpose, and the trail is where the real reason is kept.

Two tests now cover the DENY row -- its outcome, action, resource, address and
reason -- and the ALLOW assertions gain the three columns they were missing. All
five mutations go red and restore green. The multi-refusal test compares SORTED
reasons: `occurredAt` comes from one `now()` per attempt, two attempts can share
a millisecond, and an assertion that depends on which of two equal timestamps
the planner returns first is a test that fails once a month for a reason nobody
can reproduce.

And `eligibility.ts` still said "NOTHING PASSES IT TODAY" of `requireRegistry`,
naming first-time activation as the path that would pass it "on another branch".
This is that branch, and it landed -- so the comment claimed a boundary was
unenforced at the one call site where it IS enforced. That is the inverse of the
defect the same paragraph warns about, and it is a comment, so a rule in prose
would recur. `eligibility.test.ts` now scans the tree for call sites that pass
the option -- comments stripped, so a file that merely describes it is not
mistaken for one that passes it -- and fails if the paragraph does not name each
one. Both directions negatively controlled: removing the name goes red, and so
does removing the call, which is what stops the gate passing vacuously.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Re-run CI: the previous push did not fire a pull_request event

3dc56fe was pushed to this branch and GitHub created no check run for it --
zero on /commits/3dc56fe/check-runs, while pull_request CI fired for three
other branches in the same ten minutes. Nothing about that commit explains it:
it touches two test files and one comment, and the same push credential
triggered the run on a7275a2 an hour earlier.

An empty commit is the smallest thing that re-fires `synchronize` without
changing what is being reviewed. If this one runs, the gate is green on content
identical to 3dc56fe.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* The isolation edge comment counted 41 models; the merged schema has 45

The number that matters there is the numerator — 14 UNENFORCEABLE, which is
unchanged — but the denominator had drifted through four model additions and
nothing guards prose in this file the way registry.test.ts guards registry.ts's.
Measured with grep -c '^model ' against the merged schema.prisma.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
# Conflicts:
#	apps/web/src/app/(app)/admin/actions.ts
#	apps/web/src/app/(app)/orgs/[slug]/members/actions.ts
#	apps/web/src/lib/auth/cognito.ts
#	docs/decisions/README.md

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satvikOS merged commit 5f4994d into main Aug 21, 2026
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