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Closes #122.

registryGrantFor said what an approval AUTHORISES and nothing performed it. #116's own code said so — onboarding-proposals.ts carried the comment "Nothing writes RestrictedIdentity on this path yet". So on the landed code an OSE Director could open the console built by #121, approve an admission, watch it succeed, and the person still could not sign in. It read as working, which is worse than visibly missing.

What now writes the row, and on which path

admitToRegistry(tx, grant) in lib/identity/onboarding-proposals.ts, called from actOnProposal — the one path submit, approve, reject and withdraw all go through, and the one the console's decideAdmissionAction calls. Any future surface, script or cron job gets the admission for free; there is no second writer to keep in step.

It takes a branded RegistryGrant and nothing else. registryGrantFor is the only thing that can mint one, so the write is unreachable without a proposal a Director actually approved — R4 enforced by the type system rather than by a convention about call order. The grant is computed from the post-swap view, so it is APPROVED, the decider and the decision's instant that authorise it, not the action's name.

Atomic with the transition. The compare-and-swap, the event row, the admission and the link-back are one db.$transaction. Splitting them would reintroduce exactly the #122 state on any failure between the two — an APPROVED proposal that admitted nobody, which reads as working. A failed admission now takes the approval down with it and the Director is told. The refusal audits stay outside the transaction: a row recording that a write was refused must not be rolled back by the refusal it records.

Provenance is not hygiene. source, sourceVersion, addedBy and addedVia are written from the grant in the same statement as the row. sealRefusals refuses to seal a registry holding any ACTIVE row with missing provenance, and the seal is the only thing that makes the gate enforce — so one null here means the boundary can never be re-armed, and a missing seal admits every authenticated address. The failure would be silent in the dangerous direction. addedBy is the decider, not the proposer: it answers "under whose authority is this person on the boundary", and the proposer could not have admitted anyone.

The seal is untouched, deliberately. An admission is not a verification run. A seal is evidence about a named authority with a digest over exactly the addresses that authority listed, and rewriting it to cover an address nobody verified would make the evidence attest to something never checked. lookupRegistry reads the seal for existence only, so the boundary keeps enforcing throughout and there is no window in which this weakens it. Three tests, one of them a mocked seal client that throws on any operation.

A row another path already admitted is left exactly as it is. The gap between propose-time and approve-time is days, and an operator can run seed-restricted-registry.mjs --add inside it. Restamping would rewrite the record of how the row actually got there — the one question provenance exists to answer. The approval links to it and stops.

The re-admission invariant — at BOTH layers it lives at

The brief named one. Building it found a second, one layer up, refusing the same person for the same reason.

1. admittedIdentityId is NOT @unique. Unique reads as "one proposal per registry row" and is the wrong invariant: admit → revoke on graduation → re-admit as a returning advisor is two proposals, one row. As a unique index the second approval collides and the whole transaction rolls back uncaught (the P2002 handler exists only on createProposal), so a returning officer cannot be re-admitted at all. A plain index, with the reasoning in the migration and on the column.

2. reservesTheSubject no longer holds the open-proposal slot on APPROVED. This is the one the port surfaced. #116 held the slot on APPROVED so an approved person could not be approved twice — and its own docstring said why that was a stand-in: the real guard is createProposal's already-on-the-access-registry check, which "cannot yet reach, because no registry row is written until ADR-0009 says what an approval creates".

An approval now writes the row, so the real guard fires. But a hold that never expires had become the thing that refused the returning officer at createProposal, before the index was ever reached — "That person has already been approved for admission at this institution", for ever, whether or not they still held access. Nothing rewrites an APPROVED proposal when somebody's access ends, so a proposal's status can never express "they used to hold access". The ACTIVE registry row holds the address instead, for exactly as long as it should.

Nothing is double-admitted or double-charged by the change: RestrictedIdentity is unique on (institutionId, emailNormalized), so a second approval reuses the row rather than adding one, and the billable population is counted by reading the registry.

Both bugs fail closed, which is why either reads as correctness rather than as a hole — and why the path they close is the one the feature exists to serve.

The control, and it lives in the suite

onboarding-admission.itest.ts raises the exact unique index on a real PostgreSQL, walks the lifecycle, and asserts it breaks — then drops it in finally and again in beforeEach. So the reason admittedIdentityId is not unique is a thing the tests know, not a comment somebody may delete. It also proves the rollback: after the refused re-approval the second proposal is still PENDING_DIRECTOR, the row is still REVOKED, and the gate still refuses them — which is why the bug was invisible.

Controlled by name: making that index non-unique turns CONTROL: with a unique index on admittedIdentityId the re-admission is refused red and nothing else (1 red / 11 green).

Schema and migration

20260821190000_approval_admits_to_the_registry — a NEW migration that ALTERs #116's landed table. 20260821090000_ose_initiated_onboarding_proposals is applied and checksummed, so it is untouched. Migration directory names were surveyed across every remote ref (all branches and all refs/pull/*/head), not just main: the latest was 20260821170000, and both 20260821090000_onboarding_proposal (#115) and 20260821090000_ose_initiated_onboarding_proposals (#116) exist, which is the collision this repo has already paid for.

ALTER TABLE "OnboardingProposal" ADD COLUMN "admittedIdentityId" TEXT;
CREATE INDEX "OnboardingProposal_admittedIdentityId_idx" ON "OnboardingProposal"("admittedIdentityId");   -- PLAIN, never unique
ALTER TABLE "OnboardingProposal" ADD CONSTRAINT "OnboardingProposal_admittedIdentityId_fkey"
  FOREIGN KEY ("admittedIdentityId") REFERENCES "RestrictedIdentity"("id") ON DELETE RESTRICT ON UPDATE CASCADE;
ALTER TABLE "OnboardingProposal" ADD CONSTRAINT "OnboardingProposal_admits_only_when_approved"
  CHECK ("admittedIdentityId" IS NULL OR "status" = 'APPROVED');

RESTRICT, not SET NULL: the registry's rows are REVOKED, never DELETEd, and SET NULL would leave an APPROVED proposal with a null admittedIdentityId while the CHECK permits null — so nothing would report the loss, and "which registry row did this approval produce" is exactly the question asked after an incident. The CHECK is R4 as a property of the ROW, for the writer that does not call the rules module; an integration test writes the forbidden row through a raw client and asserts the refusal by constraint name, with a lawful row accepted after it so the control is not vacuous.

Three of the four columns were already there under other names

The port brief lists admittedIdentityId, justification, decisionNote and subjectEmailAsEntered. Only the first is genuinely absent. Adding the others would be two columns answering one question:

#115 already on the landed model
subjectEmail (normalised) subjectEmailNormalized
subjectEmailAsEntered subjectEmail — kept as typed, for display
decisionNote decisionReason — and OnboardingProposal_decline_states_a_reason is already written against it
justification the SUBMITTED event's reason on OnboardingProposalEvent, which is where proposeAdmissionAction already puts the proposer's words

Recorded in the migration so the next reader does not re-derive it.

Re-derived model counts — MEASURED, not incremented

$ grep -c '^model ' apps/web/prisma/schema.prisma
53
$ node -e '…count blocks matching /^\s*institutionId\s/m…'
models: 53   withInstitutionId: 34

TENANT_SCOPED 34 + PLATFORM_GLOBAL 5 + Object.keys(UNENFORCEABLE) 14 = 53, which closes against the model count. Unchanged, and correct on both sides — this change adds columns and one back-relation to existing models, and no new model. registry.ts's header sentence already reads "34 of 53" and registry.test.ts's four pins already read 34/5/14/53, so neither needed editing. Both were checked against the schema rather than trusted.

Reconciled with #133 — measured, not asserted

#133 is open (state: OPEN, mergedAt: null) and changes the gate to pair the row with the seal so they must belong to the same institution. Zero file overlap with this branch.

The row is written at the proposal's institution — the one the deciding Director holds onboarding.decide at — so it pairs with that institution's seal and with no other. Rather than assert that, #133's restricted-registry.ts was checked out over this branch and the admission suite run against it: tsc --noEmit 0, 12/12 pass, including keeps the gate enforcing throughout, and admits the new person, which seals the institution and admits into it. The file was restored bit-identically (diff -q → IDENTICAL). Nothing here works against #133 and nothing needs to change when it lands.

Also pinned by a test that the Director at a neighbouring institution cannot cause a row at this one, and that the approval writes into no other tenant.

Four itests were pinning the bug

They asserted, correctly, that an approval writes nothing into RestrictedIdentity. Each was updated to assert the corrected behaviour while keeping the property it exists to guard:

  • an approval grants NO role: no membership, no seat, no registry rowan approval ADMITS, and grants no membership, no seat and no role. The escalation property is unchanged and still the point: being admitted to the boundary is not being given authority over anything behind it. Exactly one row, so "write a row per proposal" fails here too.
  • an APPROVED proposal writes nothing into RestrictedIdentity and touches no seal…writes ONE RestrictedIdentity row and touches no seal. The seal half is untouched.
  • an approved proposal creates NO membership, role or seat of any kind…— only an access-registry row.
  • REFUSES a second proposal for an address that has already been approved — the refusal now comes from the access registry, and its database half had to move: with APPROVED releasing the slot, the partial unique index no longer refuses that raw insert. It now asserts what the database does still refuse — a second registry row for one address — plus two open proposals for one address, plus a new case walking the returning officer end to end.

Both attack suites also leaked registry rows between tests, because nothing wrote that table when they were written. Their cleanup now clears RestrictedIdentity after the proposals (the FK is RESTRICT) and filtered by institution, which is why it needs no ownership guard — an unfiltered clear of that table, or of RestrictedRegistrySeal beside it, is how a suite deletes the seal that makes the gate enforce.

RestrictedIdentity has a writer now, and the ratchet had to answer it

session-revocation-is-wired.test.ts asserted that no file mutates RestrictedIdentity, so trigger 3 (affiliation end) could only be detected. That claim was true and this makes it false, so the test fired exactly as designed.

It is not relaxed to a wider pattern. It now asserts the writer list is exactly ["lib/identity/onboarding-proposals.ts"] — a second writer still turns it red — plus the question that actually matters: the one writer can only ADMIT. Asserted on the status the write sets rather than on the function's name, because a deactivation added to admitToRegistry later would keep the name and change the meaning. A write that can only move a row TO ACTIVE cannot end anybody's affiliation, so it needs no revocation beside it.

Console copy

The Approve button already read "Approve and admit" for a path that admitted nobody. Both places that explained an approval now say what it does and what it still does not: the person is on the access registry straight away, and creating their institution account and first password remain separate steps this application does not perform.

Not done, and stated rather than left to be discovered

  • justification, decisionNote and subjectEmailAsEntered were not added as columns. See the table above — the landed model answers all three, and duplicating them would be two answers to one question.
  • A failed admission raises rather than repairing. The transaction rolls back, so the proposal is not APPROVED and the Director sees a real error and can retry. There is no sweep for an APPROVED proposal with a null admittedIdentityId, because atomicity means that state is now unreachable through this path; a backfill or a psql prompt could still create one, and the CHECK constraint does not forbid it (it cannot — the column is written a statement after the status, inside the transaction).
  • e2e/ was not run. No browser test covers this path.

Gates

npm ci from the worktree root: exit 0, read from npm's own exit code. npx run from apps/web, so Prisma resolves the pinned 6.x. Migrations applied to a scratch database (tenure_itest_122) created and dropped for this work — never the shared Postgres.

gate exit
npx prisma generate 0
npx tsc --noEmit (TypeScript 5.9.3) 0
npx jest --ci 0 — 175 suites, 2942 passed, 1 skipped
npm run test:isolation 0 — 18 suites, 336 passed
npx prisma migrate diff --from-migrations --to-schema-datamodel --exit-code 0No difference detected
npx next build 0
npx next lint 0

test:isolation and migrate diff were run locally because *.itest.ts run only in CI, and that gap has already let a green-locally PR break two tests on main.

Negative controls — every guard broken, read PER TEST, restored

Each mutation applied to the subject, the suite read from jest --json rather than from an exit code, then the file restored and verified IDENTICAL by diff -q. All twelve bit.

# mutation red / green the tests it turns red
1 the admission write removed entirely 22 / 250 every admission test, both attack suites, and the audit-shape test
2 reservesTheSubject holds APPROVED again 7 / 241 can be re-admitted by a SECOND proposal, but a REVOKED person can be proposed and admitted again, APPROVED releases it too…, +4
3 provenance written null 2 / 246 carries every provenance field, because an unaccountable row disarms the seal (unit + itest)
4 the admission deletes the seal 12 / 236 does not forge, alter or delete the seal, never touches the seal, +10
5 an already-ACTIVE row is restamped 2 / 246 keeps the provenance of the path that actually admitted it, leaves an address another path already admitted exactly as it is
6 the admission sets status: "REVOKED" 1 / 23 trigger 3 — affiliation end › and the one writer can only ADMIT — it never ends an affiliation
7 the control's index made NON-unique 1 / 11 CONTROL: with a unique index on admittedIdentityId the re-admission is refused — the control is not vacuous
9 the proposal never records which row it admitted 11 / 237 links the row back to the proposal…, refuses admittedIdentityId on a proposal that is not APPROVED, by name, +9
10 the link-back drops institutionId from its predicate 1 / 247 links the row back to the proposal, and only while the proposal is APPROVED
11 the AS-TYPED address written to the boundary 7 / 241 and the person can actually sign in, read through the real gate, +6 — a row that looks perfectly correct and admits nobody
12 R4 asked of a fabricated APPROVED view 4 / 244 admits NOBODY on a decline (unit + itest), a DECLINED person can still be proposed again, a settled proposal cannot be reversed into another outcome

Not merged — the merge queue owns that.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Approving an onboarding proposal now adds or reactivates the person in the access registry.
    • Approved proposals retain registry identity and provenance, with support for re-admission after revocation.
    • Approval and registry admission occur together to prevent partial updates.
    • Registry entries are restricted to the correct institution and approved proposals.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Approved proposals no longer block subsequent onboarding proposals.
    • Clarified that registry admission does not create an account, password, or immediate sign-in access.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for admissions, authorization, data integrity, and registry protections.

Approving an onboarding proposal moved a status and did nothing else.
`registryGrantFor` said what an approval AUTHORISED and nothing performed it —
`onboarding-proposals.ts` said so in its own words, "Nothing writes
`RestrictedIdentity` on this path yet". So an OSE Director could open the
console, approve an admission, watch it succeed, and the person still could not
sign in. It read as working, which is worse than visibly missing.

`admitToRegistry` now writes the row inside the same transaction as the
transition, so a failed admission takes the approval down with it rather than
leaving an APPROVED proposal that admitted nobody. It takes a branded
`RegistryGrant` and nothing else, so the write is unreachable without a proposal
a Director actually approved. Every provenance field is written from the grant:
an ACTIVE row with a null `addedBy`/`addedVia`/`sourceVersion` makes the registry
unsealable, and an unsealed registry admits every authenticated address.

The re-admission invariant, at BOTH layers it lives at:

  · `admittedIdentityId` is NOT unique. Unique reads as "one proposal per
    registry row" and is the wrong invariant — admit, revoke on graduation,
    re-admit as a returning advisor is TWO proposals and ONE row. A plain index.

  · `reservesTheSubject` no longer holds the open-proposal slot on APPROVED.
    That hold was a stand-in for a registry check that could not fire because
    nothing wrote the registry, and it said so; as a hold that never expires it
    refused the returning officer at `createProposal`, one layer above the index.
    The ACTIVE registry row holds the address instead, for exactly as long as the
    person has access.

Both refuse the same case and both fail CLOSED, which is why either reads as
correctness. A control in the suite raises the exact unique index and proves the
lifecycle breaks under it, so the reason is a thing the tests know rather than a
comment somebody may delete.

Reconciled with #133 (open): the row carries the PROPOSAL's institution, so it
pairs with that institution's seal. Measured by running the admission suite
against #133's `restricted-registry.ts` — 12/12.

Not ported, because the landed model already answers them under other names:
#115's `subjectEmailAsEntered` is `subjectEmail`, its `decisionNote` is
`decisionReason`, and its `justification` is the SUBMITTED event's `reason`.

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Approved onboarding proposals now admit or reactivate RestrictedIdentity records atomically. Proposals store the resulting registry identity. Approved proposals no longer reserve subjects, enabling re-admission after revocation. Tests cover constraints, provenance, authorization, seals, and lifecycle behavior.

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Onboarding registry admission

Layer / File(s) Summary
Registry admission data contract
apps/web/prisma/migrations/.../migration.sql, apps/web/prisma/schema.prisma
Adds nullable admittedIdentityId, institution-scoped foreign-key enforcement, a non-unique lookup index, and an approval-only database constraint. Prisma models expose the relation.
Atomic approval and registry admission
apps/web/src/lib/identity/onboarding-proposals.ts
Approval, event creation, registry admission, and proposal linkage run in one transaction. Existing active identities retain provenance. Revoked identities are reactivated.
Re-admission flow and approval messaging
apps/web/src/lib/identity/onboarding-chain.ts, apps/web/src/lib/identity/onboarding-chain.test.ts, apps/web/src/app/(app)/admin/onboarding/page.tsx, apps/web/src/components/admin/OnboardingDecision.tsx
Approved proposals release subject reservations. Administrative messages distinguish registry admission from account and password setup.
Admission behavior validation
apps/web/src/lib/identity/*.test.ts, apps/web/src/lib/identity/*.itest.ts, apps/web/src/lib/auth/session-revocation-is-wired.test.ts, apps/web/e2e/admin-onboarding.spec.ts
Tests cover creation, reactivation, provenance, institution scoping, authorization, transaction rollback, seal integrity, database constraints, cleanup, and the single registry writer.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9dc5f

The approval now creates or reuses an access-registry row, but concurrent admissions may still fail and roll back a valid approval, while tenant-link enforcement and uniqueness tests leave bounded correctness gaps. These risks require explicit owner follow-up before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Director
  participant OnboardingProposal
  participant RestrictedIdentity
  participant AuditLog
  Director->>OnboardingProposal: approve proposal
  OnboardingProposal->>RestrictedIdentity: create or reactivate ACTIVE identity
  OnboardingProposal->>OnboardingProposal: store admittedIdentityId
  OnboardingProposal->>AuditLog: record admission
  OnboardingProposal-->>Director: show registry admission and sign-in restriction
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…dmission

The sharpest claim this change makes was the one nothing ran. `admitToRegistry`
writes an attributable delta and deliberately does not seal, and that is only
safe if the seeder behaves two ways: it must not reconcile the admitted person
back out of the table, and it must not refuse to seal because of them. Both were
established by reading `seed-restricted-registry.mjs` — the kind of claim that is
true on the day it is written.

The test now asks the seeder's own functions, against rows Postgres actually
holds: `planRegistrySeed` puts the admitted address in `extra` and nothing in
`create`, `reactivate` or `backfillProvenance`; `isNoop` is true; `verifyRegistry`
reports nothing unaccountable and nothing unnormalised; and `sealRefusals`
returns an empty list.

Control: writing the row with a null `addedBy`/`addedVia` turns exactly two tests
red, and this is the sharper of them, because it fails through `sealRefusals`
rather than through an assertion about a column.

`verifyRegistry` takes `activeRows`, not `rows`. The first version handed it
`rows` and got `undefined` — a control that passes by not running.

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Follow-up commit: the re-seal claim is now RUN, not read

admitToRegistry writes an attributable delta and deliberately does not seal. That is only safe if the next run of seed-restricted-registry.mjs behaves two ways — it must not reconcile the admitted person back out of the table, and it must not refuse to seal because of them. Both were established by reading the seeder, which is the kind of claim that is true on the day it is written.

an admitted row and the next seeding run › is extra, is not revoked, and does not refuse a re-seal now asks the seeder's own functions against rows PostgreSQL actually holds: planRegistrySeed puts the admitted address in extra with nothing in create/reactivate/backfillProvenance, isNoop is true, verifyRegistry reports nothing unaccountable and nothing unnormalised, and sealRefusals returns [].

It matters because the direction of that failure is the dangerous one: a registry that cannot be re-sealed is a gate that cannot be re-armed, and an unsealed gate admits every authenticated address while logging that it is not enforcing.

Control 13 — writing the row with a null addedBy/addedVia — turns exactly two tests red, and this is the sharper of the two because it fails through sealRefusals rather than through an assertion about a column:

RED 2 / GREEN 11
  RED: carries every provenance field, because an unaccountable row disarms the seal
  RED: an admitted row and the next seeding run is `extra`, is not revoked, and does not refuse a re-seal

One thing worth recording: verifyRegistry takes activeRows, not rows. The first version of this test handed it rows, which destructured to undefined — a control that passes by not running. It threw rather than passing here only because the function immediately calls .map on it.

Gates re-run on the final tree

gate exit
npx prisma generate 0
npx tsc --noEmit (TypeScript 5.9.3) 0
npx jest --ci 0 — 175 suites, 2942 passed, 1 skipped
npm run test:isolation 0 — 18 suites, 337 passed
npx prisma migrate diff --exit-code 0No difference detected
npx next build 0
npx next lint 0

Scratch database created and dropped for this work; never the shared Postgres. Still not merged — the merge queue owns that.

…both halves

`admin-onboarding.spec.ts` asserted the approval dialog reads "does not let them
sign in yet". The copy now leads with what the approval does — it puts the person
on the access registry straight away — so that assertion would have failed in CI,
which runs the Playwright suite. Caught by reading the spec against the copy, not
by the run.

Both halves are pinned now, because they fail in opposite directions. An approval
that reads as "done" is how a student is told they are all set and then cannot
sign in. An approval that says only "this grants nothing yet" is how issue #122
hid: the console under-described a write that was not happening, so the missing
write looked like the copy being careful.

The settled row is asserted too — "On the access registry" and "not yet able to
sign in" — where it previously read "Decided, and not yet able to sign in", which
was accurate about a status change that admitted nobody.

Verified against a real browser, a production build and a scratch PostgreSQL
(never the shared one), on a port of its own rather than reusing a peer's server:
admin-onboarding 7/7, plus admin-console 9/9. The run left a real ACTIVE
RestrictedIdentity row, written through the console by the Director, carrying all
four provenance fields and linked from the APPROVED proposal — which is the whole
of #122, proved end to end.

Control: reverting both pieces of copy turns exactly test 5 red and leaves the
other six green. Restored bit-identically, rebuilt, re-run green.

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…with its seal

#133 makes `lookupRegistry` require the registry row and the seal to belong to
the SAME institution — previously `(a row ANYWHERE) AND (a seal ANYWHERE)`. It
landed as 16c92d7 while this branch was being written.

Nothing here works against it. `admitToRegistry` writes the row at the
PROPOSAL's institution — the one the deciding Director holds `onboarding.decide`
at — so it pairs with that institution's seal and with no other. That was checked
by running this branch's admission suite against #133's `restricted-registry.ts`
before the merge (12/12), and it is checked again after it.

No conflicts. Zero file overlap: #133 touches the sign-in read path and the
preview seeder; this touches the onboarding store, the chain and the schema.

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2331-2339: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add institutionId to the admittedIdentity foreign key. RestrictedIdentity already has @@unique([id, institutionId]); update the relation and migration to reference [id, institutionId]. The current id-only foreign key permits cross-institution links from backfills or manual writes.

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In `@apps/web/prisma/schema.prisma` around lines 2331 - 2339, Update the
admittedIdentity relation for admittedIdentityId to include institutionId in its
relation fields and references, matching RestrictedIdentity’s composite unique
key [id, institutionId]. Update the corresponding migration foreign key to
enforce both columns and prevent cross-institution links.
apps/web/src/lib/identity/onboarding-attacks.itest.ts (1)

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Derive normalized keys and assert P2002

Import normalizeEmail from @/lib/auth/eligibility. Use it for RestrictedIdentity.emailNormalized, subjectEmailNormalized, and openSubjectKey. Replace both bare rejects.toThrow() assertions with rejects.toMatchObject({ code: "P2002" }). The unique keys are (institutionId, emailNormalized) and (institutionId, openSubjectKey).

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416, Update the onboarding attack test to import and use normalizeEmail for
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In `@apps/web/src/lib/identity/onboarding-proposals.ts`:
- Around line 974-997: In the existing ACTIVE branch of the onboarding proposal
flow, select provenance fields source, sourceVersion, addedBy, and addedVia
alongside the existing fields, then backfill only those values that are missing
before returning existing.id. Preserve any already-populated provenance and keep
the existing audit event behavior unchanged.

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In `@apps/web/prisma/schema.prisma`:
- Around line 2331-2339: Update the admittedIdentity relation for
admittedIdentityId to include institutionId in its relation fields and
references, matching RestrictedIdentity’s composite unique key [id,
institutionId]. Update the corresponding migration foreign key to enforce both
columns and prevent cross-institution links.

In `@apps/web/src/lib/identity/onboarding-attacks.itest.ts`:
- Around line 388-416: Update the onboarding attack test to import and use
normalizeEmail for RestrictedIdentity.emailNormalized,
onboardingProposal.subjectEmailNormalized, and openSubjectKey, while preserving
the institution-scoped key values. Replace both generic rejection assertions
around restrictedIdentity.create and onboardingProposal.create with checks
matching Prisma error code P2002.
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#133 landed mid-flight, so this branch merged it and re-verified against it

The brief asked me to check whether #133 had landed and reconcile with it rather than against it. When I started it was state: OPEN; it merged as 16c92d74 while this was being written. origin/main is merged in (db893703) — no conflicts, zero file overlap: #133 touches the sign-in read path and the preview seeder, this touches the onboarding store, the chain and the schema.

The reconciliation is a property of where the row is written. #133 changes the gate from (a row ANYWHERE) AND (a seal ANYWHERE) to (a row AND a seal in the SAME institution). admitToRegistry writes the row at the proposal's institution — the one the deciding Director holds onboarding.decide at — so it pairs with that institution's seal and with no other.

Checked twice, both times by running rather than reading:

  1. Before the merge, with The sign-in gate pairs the row with the seal: one institution, not any two #133's restricted-registry.ts checked out over this branch: tsc --noEmit 0, admission suite 12/12, file restored bit-identically.
  2. After the merge, through a real browser against the merged build — the row the console wrote carries the same institutionId as the proposal that produced it:
            emailNormalized             | status |      addedVia       | same_institution
-----------------------------------------+--------+---------------------+------------------
 e2e.admitpath.…@simon.rochester.edu    | ACTIVE | onboarding-proposal | t

E2E — run locally, and it caught a break the unit gates could not

admin-onboarding.spec.ts pinned the approval dialog's copy as "does not let them sign in yet". The copy now leads with what the approval does, so that assertion would have failed in CI's Playwright job while everything else was green. Found by reading the spec against the copy.

Both halves are pinned now, because they fail in opposite directions — an approval that reads as "done" is how a student is told they are all set and then cannot sign in, and an approval that says only "this grants nothing yet" is how #122 hid: the console under-described a write that was not happening, so the missing write looked like the copy being careful.

Control: reverting both pieces of copy, rebuilding and re-running turns exactly test 5 red and leaves the other six green. Restored bit-identically, rebuilt, re-run green.

Run against a production build, a scratch PostgreSQL (tenure_e2e_122, created and dropped — never the shared one), on port 3177 of its own rather than reusing the server already on 3000, which belongs to somebody else and points at a different database.

  • admin-onboarding.spec.ts 7/7, admin-console.spec.ts 9/9
  • full suite: 196 passed before the merge, and 196 passed again after it

The approval run left a real ACTIVE RestrictedIdentity row, written through the console by the Director, carrying all four provenance fields and linked from the APPROVED proposal — #122 proved end to end, not by a mock.

Re-derived counts, MEASURED again after the merge

$ grep -c '^model ' apps/web/prisma/schema.prisma
53
$ node -e '…count blocks matching /^\s*institutionId\s/m…'
models: 53   withInstitutionId: 34

34 + 5 + 14 = 53. Unchanged and correct on both sides — #133 added no model and this adds none. registry.ts already reads "34 of 53" and registry.test.ts's pins already read 34/5/14/53.

Migration directory names re-surveyed after the merge: 20260821190000_approval_admits_to_the_registry is still the latest and still unique.

Gates, re-run on the merged tree

gate exit
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npx prisma generate 0
npx tsc --noEmit (TypeScript 5.9.3) 0
npx jest --ci 0 — 176 suites, 2957 passed, 1 skipped
npm run test:isolation 0 — 18 suites, 342 passed
npx prisma migrate diff --exit-code 0No difference detected
npx next build 0
npx next lint 0
npx playwright test (full suite) 0196 passed

All scratch databases dropped. Still not merged — the merge queue owns that.

Found by CodeRabbit on this PR, and it is real.

`admitToRegistry` returned an already-ACTIVE row untouched, on the rule that an
existing value records how the row actually arrived and must not be restamped.
That rule is right and is unchanged. "Leave it exactly as it is" was too strong,
and it fails in the direction nobody notices.

The provenance columns are nullable so the migration that introduced them could
not fail on a table that already held rows, so a LEGACY ACTIVE row with nulls is
a real class — `seed-restricted-registry.mjs` has a whole `backfillProvenance`
pass for exactly it. An approval attaching itself to such a row and leaving it
unaccountable means `sealRefusals` can never seal the registry again, and an
unsealed registry admits EVERY authenticated address while logging that it is
not enforcing. Wiping the registry locks people out and is noticed in minutes.

Filling a gap is not restamping. Only the fields that are missing are written,
never one that is present, using the seeder's own falsy test so an empty string
counts as a gap in both. The audit row names which gaps were filled, so "why does
this row cite a proposal it did not come from" is answerable later; the field
names are not the subject, so nothing confidential reaches `audit.view`.

Controlled in BOTH directions, read per test:

  · backfill removed  → 2 red (the itest and the unit test), 249 green
  · backfill overwrites present values → 4 red, 247 green — the two
    "provenance is kept" controls turn red as well, so the rule cannot be
    widened into restamping without saying so

The unit mock had no `restrictedIdentity.updateMany`, so the first version of
this threw rather than passing quietly. Added, with the assertion that a row
which is already accountable is not written to at all.

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CodeRabbit found a real one, and it is fixed

Backfill missing provenance before returning an existing ACTIVE row. This branch can leave a legacy row unaccountable, so sealRefusals rejects the registry and the missing seal admits every authenticated address.

Correct, and it is the direction nobody notices.

admitToRegistry returned an already-ACTIVE row untouched, on the rule that an existing value records how the row actually arrived and must not be restamped. That rule is right and is unchanged — an operator can run seed-restricted-registry.mjs --add in the days between propose-time and approve-time, and overwriting their provenance with this proposal's would rewrite the record of how the row got there.

"Leave it exactly as it is" was too strong. The provenance columns are nullable so the migration that introduced them could not fail on a table that already held rows, so a legacy ACTIVE row with nulls is a real class — the seeder has a whole backfillProvenance pass for exactly it. An approval attaching to such a row and leaving it unaccountable means sealRefusals can never seal the registry again, and an unsealed registry admits every authenticated address while logging that it is not enforcing.

Filling a gap is not restamping. Only missing fields are written, never one that is present, using the seeder's own falsy test so an empty string counts as a gap in both places. seed-restricted-registry.mjs takes exactly this position in exactly this case — "Provenance is filled only where it is MISSING. An existing value records how the row arrived and must not be restamped" — so this is the same rule in a second writer rather than a new one.

The audit row names which gaps were filled, so "why does this row cite a proposal it did not come from" is answerable later. Field names are not the subject, so nothing confidential reaches audit.view.

Controlled in BOTH directions, read per test

mutation red / green the tests it turns red
the backfill removed 2 / 249 fills the GAPS in a legacy row's provenance… (itest), but FILLS the gaps in a legacy row… (unit)
the backfill overwrites present values too 4 / 247 the two above plus keeps the provenance of the path that actually admitted it and leaves an address another path already admitted exactly as it is

The second control is the one that matters: the rule cannot be widened into restamping without a test saying so.

The unit mock had no restrictedIdentity.updateMany, so the first version of this threw rather than passing quietly. Added — with the assertion that a row which is already accountable is not written to at all.

Gates re-run

gate exit
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npx tsc --noEmit (TypeScript 5.9.3) 0
npx jest --ci 0 — 176 suites, 2958 passed, 1 skipped
npm run test:isolation 0 — 18 suites, 343 passed
npx prisma migrate diff --exit-code 0No difference detected
npx next build 0
npx next lint 0

Not merged — the merge queue owns that.

…ntrols stop lying

Both from CodeRabbit on this PR. Both valid.

1. The foreign key on `admittedIdentityId` was id-only, so a proposal at one
institution could name ANOTHER institution's registry row. `admitToRegistry`
writes at the proposal's institution and cannot do this, but the constraint has
to hold against the writers that are not it — a backfill, a repair script, a psql
prompt — which is the same argument the CHECK beside it is justified by.

It is COMPOSITE now: `(admittedIdentityId, institutionId)` against
`RestrictedIdentity(id, institutionId)`. That is the shape `Role`,
`RoleAssignment`, `SeatHolding`, `OnboardingProposalEvent` and this model's own
`organization` relation already use, for exactly this reason. Postgres applies
MATCH SIMPLE, so it is enforced when `admittedIdentityId` is present and simply
absent when it is null — which is what every non-APPROVED proposal has.

It also matters for #133, which landed this morning: the gate now requires the
registry row and the seal to belong to the same institution, and this stops the
proposal's link to that row drifting away from it through the database.

CodeRabbit said `RestrictedIdentity` already had `@@unique([id, institutionId])`.
It did not — it has to exist for a composite key to reference, so it is added
here. `id` is the primary key, so it states no new rule about the data.

Control: reverting the constraint to id-only in a live database turns exactly
`refuses a link to ANOTHER institution's registry row` red (1 red / 14 green),
and the lawful link in that same test is still accepted, so it refuses the
INSTITUTION rather than the column.

2. Two controls asserted `rejects.toThrow()`. A NOT NULL violation, a foreign key
or a typo in a column name all satisfy "it threw" — a control that can pass for
the wrong reason proves nothing about the constraint it names. They assert
`P2002` and `P2003` by code now, and the duplicate-proposal fixture normalises
its address through `normalizeEmail` rather than assuming lower case, so the
fixture and the index cannot come to disagree about what an address is.

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In `@apps/web/src/lib/identity/onboarding-proposals.ts`:
- Around line 974-1015: Serialize restricted-identity writes in the ACTIVE-row
handling around the existing lookup and provenance backfill: lock or
conditionally update the row so stale provenance from the unlocked snapshot
cannot overwrite newer seeder values, preserving every existing ACTIVE
provenance value. Also update the upsert conflict branch at
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Both remaining CodeRabbit findings, addressed

1. The admission link now carries its institution

Add institutionId to the admittedIdentity foreign key. The current id-only foreign key permits cross-institution links from backfills or manual writes.

Correct. admitToRegistry writes at the proposal's institution and cannot do this — but a constraint has to hold against the writers that are not it, which is the same argument the CHECK beside it is justified by.

It is composite now: (admittedIdentityId, institutionId)RestrictedIdentity(id, institutionId). That is the shape Role, RoleAssignment, SeatHolding, OnboardingProposalEvent and this model's own organization relation already use. Postgres applies MATCH SIMPLE, so it is enforced when admittedIdentityId is present and simply absent when it is null — which is what every non-APPROVED proposal has.

It matters more after #133, which landed this morning: the gate now requires the registry row and the seal to share an institution, and this stops the proposal's link to that row drifting away from it through the database.

One correction to the finding: RestrictedIdentity did not already have @@unique([id, institutionId]). A composite key needs a unique constraint on exactly the columns it references, so it is added here. id is the primary key, so it states no new rule about the data — the same role OnboardingProposal @@unique([id, institutionId]) plays for its own event table.

Control — the constraint reverted to id-only in a live database:

RED 1 / GREEN 14
  RED: the database refuses an admission without an approval › refuses a link to ANOTHER institution's registry row

The lawful link in that same test is still accepted, so it refuses the institution, not the column.

2. Two controls were asserting toThrow() and could pass for the wrong reason

Replace both bare rejects.toThrow() assertions with rejects.toMatchObject({ code: "P2002" }).

Right, and it is the failure mode this repo has already paid for. A NOT NULL violation, a foreign key, or a typo in a column name all satisfy "it threw". They assert P2002 and P2003 by code now, and the new cross-institution test asserts P2003 for the same reason rather than being written the loose way.

The duplicate-proposal fixture also normalises its address through normalizeEmail instead of assuming lower case, so the fixture and the index cannot come to disagree about what an address is.

Gates, re-run on the final tree

Counts re-derived by measuring, unchanged: grep -c '^model ' = 53, blocks declaring institutionId = 34, and 34 + 5 + 14 = 53. This adds an index and a foreign key, no model.

gate exit
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npx prisma migrate diff --exit-code 0No difference detected, against a database rebuilt from zero
npx next build 0
npx next lint 0
npx playwright test (full suite) 0196 passed

The e2e run was repeated after the schema change, against a database migrated from zero, and the row the console wrote still pairs with its proposal's institution:

 status |      addedVia       | paired
--------+---------------------+--------
 ACTIVE | onboarding-proposal | t

All scratch databases dropped. Not merged — the merge queue owns that.

Found by CodeRabbit on this PR. The read that preceded the writes was a SNAPSHOT,
and the seeder is a second writer this transaction cannot see — which is the whole
reason the row was upserted rather than read and written. Having reasoned that
way, deciding what to WRITE from the snapshot alone was inconsistent, and it had
two live consequences.

The upsert's UPDATE branch carried provenance and status. It fires whenever the
row is already there, including when `seed-restricted-registry.mjs --add` created
it a millisecond earlier — so a concurrently created ACTIVE row was restamped,
which is exactly the rule the branch above it exists to keep. And the gap-fill
wrote the fields the snapshot had seen as empty, so a value the seeder filled in
between was overwritten.

Three conditional writes now, and the database decides what happens:

  1. `upsert` with `update: {}`. Existence only; it cannot restamp anything.
  2. the reactivation, predicated on `status: { not: "ACTIVE" }`. This is the only
     write that rewrites provenance, and it is the re-admission — the authority
     for the row being ACTIVE now is this Director's decision. `status` is NOT
     NULL, so the predicate has no three-valued-logic hole. Zero rows means it
     was already ACTIVE, which is the same answer either way: leave it alone.
  3. one gap-fill per field, each predicated on that field still being empty.

What a gap IS differs by column, and Prisma is the reason that is not cosmetic:
`source` is NOT NULL, so `source: null` is refused outright and its only possible
gap is the empty string. The other three are nullable and can be either. Both
count, because the test that matters is `sealRefusals`' and its test is falsiness.

The admitted id now comes from the upsert rather than from the snapshot, which is
the same correction in the return value.

Controls, read per test — all three predicates are load-bearing:

  · the update branch restamps again  → 4 red, 249 green
  · the reactivation loses `not ACTIVE` → 7 red, 246 green
  · the gap-fills lose `is still empty` → 4 red, 249 green

The unit mock answered "one row matched" to every write, which would have made
these tests describe a database in which the reactivation fired on an ACTIVE row
and every gap-fill overwrote a value already there. It is a small faithful fake
now, keyed on the fixture row.

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The concurrency finding was right, and it was inconsistency rather than an oversight

Serialize registry writes before updating provenance. The ACTIVE-row updateMany uses provenance from an unlocked snapshot and can overwrite a seeder's newer values. The upsert conflict branch also unconditionally replaces provenance when a seeder creates the row concurrently.

The read that preceded these writes is a snapshot, and the seeder is a second writer this transaction cannot see — which is the whole reason the row was upserted rather than read and written. Having reasoned that way and then decided what to write from the snapshot alone was inconsistent, and it had two live consequences:

  • the upsert's UPDATE branch carried provenance and status, and it fires whenever the row is already there — including when seed-restricted-registry.mjs --add created it a millisecond earlier, so a concurrently created ACTIVE row was restamped, which is precisely the rule the branch above it exists to keep;
  • the gap-fill wrote the fields the snapshot had seen as empty, so a value the seeder filled in between was overwritten.

Three conditional writes; the database decides what happens

# write predicate what it can and cannot touch
1 upsert update: {}. Existence only. It cannot restamp anything, whoever created the row.
2 reactivation status: { not: "ACTIVE" } the only write that rewrites provenance, and it is the re-admission: the authority for the row being ACTIVE now is this Director's decision. Zero rows means it was already ACTIVE — same answer either way, leave it alone.
3 gap-fill, one per field that field is still empty fills what is still missing; a row already accountable matches none of them.

status is NOT NULL, so predicate 2 has no three-valued-logic hole — unlike NOT (x IN (…)), which silently drops nulls and has already cost this repo a guard that went quiet.

What a gap IS differs by column, and Prisma is the reason that is not cosmetic: source is NOT NULL, so source: null is refused outright and its only possible gap is the empty string. The other three are nullable and can be either. Both count, because the test that matters is sealRefusals' and its test is falsiness. That is how this was found — the first version threw rather than passing quietly.

The admitted id now comes from the upsert rather than from the snapshot, which is the same correction applied to the return value.

Controls — all three predicates are load-bearing

mutation red / green
the upsert's update branch restamps again 4 / 249
the reactivation loses status: { not: "ACTIVE" } 7 / 246
the gap-fills lose "is still empty" 4 / 249

cannot restamp a row a CONCURRENT writer made ACTIVE — every write is predicated goes red under the first two and is the test that names the property.

The unit mock answered "one row matched" to every write. That would have made these tests describe a database in which the reactivation fired on an ACTIVE row and every gap-fill overwrote a value already there — the two things they exist to refute. It is a small faithful fake now, keyed on the fixture row, and it is why source is correctly reported as not filled in the audit line.

What is NOT claimed

There is no row lock and no retry. The writes are conditional, not serialised: a losing writer's statement matches zero rows and stops, rather than waiting and re-reading. That is enough for every rule this function states — nothing restamps an ACTIVE row, nothing reactivates a row that is already ACTIVE, and nothing overwrites a provenance value that is present — and it needs no error caught inside a transaction, which Postgres would abort anyway.

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gate exit
npx prisma generate 0
npx tsc --noEmit (TypeScript 5.9.3) 0
npx jest --ci 0 — 176 suites, 2959 passed, 1 skipped
npm run test:isolation 0 — 18 suites, 344 passed
npx prisma migrate diff --exit-code 0No difference detected
npx next build 0
npx next lint 0
npx playwright test (full suite) 0196 passed

The e2e run was repeated against a database migrated from zero, and the row the console wrote is still ACTIVE, attributable, and paired with its proposal's institution:

 status |      addedVia       | has_by | paired
--------+---------------------+--------+--------
 ACTIVE | onboarding-proposal | t      | t

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997-1015: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make the upsert native and conflict-safe.

Prisma 6 falls back to read-then-create when update: {} is empty. A concurrent insert can raise P2002 and roll back the approval transaction. Use update: { emailNormalized: grant.emailNormalized }, or retry the entire transaction after P2002.

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In `@apps/web/src/lib/identity/onboarding-proposals.ts` around lines 997 - 1015,
Update the restrictedIdentity.upsert call in the approval transaction to use a
non-empty update branch, such as assigning emailNormalized to
grant.emailNormalized, so Prisma emits a native conflict-safe upsert. Preserve
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Assert the audit reason for the fully accountable ACTIVE row.

This test proves the four gap-fills are attempted and predicated. It does not prove the outcome the operator reads. With this fixture every predicate matches zero rows, so filled stays empty and the reason must end with "unchanged" rather than naming any field. Add that assertion so a regression that reports a fill which never happened fails here.

♻️ Suggested addition
     for (const w of gapFills()) {
       expect(w.where).toMatchObject({ id: "ri_seeded", institutionId: INST })
       const [field] = Object.keys(w.data)
       expect(w.where[field] ?? w.where.OR).toBeDefined()
     }
+    // Nothing matched, so the audit row names no filled field.
+    const admission = auditCalls().find(
+      (c) => c.action === "RestrictedIdentity.AlreadyAdmitted",
+    )
+    expect(admission!.reason).toContain("unchanged")
+    expect(admission!.reason).not.toContain("except for")
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In `@apps/web/src/lib/identity/onboarding-proposals.test.ts` around lines 959 -
973, Extend the fully accountable ACTIVE-row test to assert the audit reason
ends with “unchanged,” using the existing audit/reason result symbol. Keep the
current upsert, reactivation, and gap-fill assertions unchanged; verify that no
field name is reported when all predicates match zero rows.
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Outside diff comments:
In `@apps/web/src/lib/identity/onboarding-proposals.ts`:
- Around line 997-1015: Update the restrictedIdentity.upsert call in the
approval transaction to use a non-empty update branch, such as assigning
emailNormalized to grant.emailNormalized, so Prisma emits a native conflict-safe
upsert. Preserve the existing where, create, and select behavior.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/web/src/lib/identity/onboarding-proposals.test.ts`:
- Around line 959-973: Extend the fully accountable ACTIVE-row test to assert
the audit reason ends with “unchanged,” using the existing audit/reason result
symbol. Keep the current upsert, reactivation, and gap-fill assertions
unchanged; verify that no field name is reported when all predicates match zero
rows.

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satvikOS merged commit 0a01bea into main Aug 21, 2026
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satvikOS deleted the fix/122-approval-admits-to-registry branch August 21, 2026 15:45
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