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Six findings from the security-appsec sweep, worked in the order given. Four were real and are fixed. Two were overstated and are answered with the narrower thing that was actually true. Every fix carries a mutation proof; the numbers are at the bottom.


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SN-20 — nothing counted sign-in attempts (major)

The premise checked out in full, and all three legs of it independently:

Claim Verified
The only rate limiter has one consumer createRateLimiter is imported by activation-store.ts:38 and nothing else
Middleware excludes /api/* middleware.ts:90 says so in its own comment
No WAF cloudfront.tf:171 has web_acl_id commented out; no aws_wafv2_* resource exists in the tree

So there was no attempt counter at any layer, and AUTH_DEV_LOGIN=true / ALLOW_DEV_LOGIN_IN_PRODUCTION=true are both still set (ecs.tf:307-308).

Adds lib/auth/signin-rate-limit.ts: 30 failed attempts per client address and 60 per account per 15 minutes, asked before the provider does any work.

Second commit — I got this wrong the first time, and it matters.

The first version charged every attempt. Unit tests were green and it would have been an outage.

Playwright signs in 283 times through dev-login, 72 of them as director@tenure.demo, serially in one process (workers: 1). Against a 60-per-account budget that runs out partway through a run, and every later sign-in as the Director is refused — the specs then time out on "waiting for /dashboard", which is exactly the failure e2e/support/auth.ts warns about in its own comment. The same arithmetic is worse for real users: a university NAT puts hundreds of students behind one address, so an address budget spent by successful sign-ins refuses a whole campus.

Charging only failures is also just the correct construction, and what every account-lockout scheme does: a correct password is not evidence of an attack, so it must not spend the evidence budget. It is strictly more permissive to legitimate use and no more permissive to guessing — guessing is failure by definition.

This required splitting the API (allowSignInAttempt asks, noteSignInFailure charges) and adding a non-charging overBudget to the shared limiter. The address budget went 10 → 30, because that key is a NAT gateway as often as it is a laptop.

I found it by noticing E2E had been running 40+ minutes against a 13–15 minute norm and going to look, rather than waiting for it. In fairness to the evidence: that first run was cancelled by my own push, so I cannot claim it definitively failed — the proof is the arithmetic (72 > 60) and the test that now pins it.

Widened past the finding — and the wider half is the half that outlives this PR.

The finding asked for a limiter inside the dev-login authorize. That would have been a control shaped around the finding rather than around the surface, and it would have been dead code the day it landed: dev-login is scheduled for deletion (PD-005, draft #140).

cognito is a Credentials provider on the same unmetered path, it authenticates with per-account passwords rather than one shared passphrase, and it is the provider that survives #140. It is therefore metered deliberately, not incidentally. Stating that plainly for whoever reads this after dev-login is gone:

When #140 eventually removes dev-login, the sign-in surface stays counted. Nothing in this PR has to be revisited to keep it that way, and the deletion is a clean one — dev-login's whole Credentials({ ... }) block goes, cognito's allowSignInAttempt / noteSignInFailure pair stays exactly where it is.

(#140 is a held draft — it cannot land until Cognito holds 82 confirmed identities, or it locks out ~81 pilot users — so this is forward-looking coverage, not a merge-order dependency. The two PRs do both touch lib/auth.ts; the shape here rebases cheaply, because each provider body stays a closure inside its own Credentials({ ... }) block and neither guard's text-level assumption moves.)

Both providers call it today, and every-credentials-provider-is-metered.test.ts fails if a third arrives that does not, if one asks without charging, if one charges on the success path, or if one checks the budget after its first await.

One deliberate divergence, documented in the module: activation-rate-limit.ts argues at length against keying on the email, because that lets an attacker refuse a victim. That argument is right there because activation has a durable per-invitation counter doing the account-targeted job. Sign-in has no durable counter at all, so the key is charged. Failure-charging shrinks the lockout that argument worries about to almost nothing: reaching the bound takes 60 wrong passwords for one address inside 15 minutes, which a person does not do by accident, and their existing session keeps working throughout.

Two existing guards caught mistakes in the second commit, and both were right. every-provider-is-gated.test.ts went red when I lifted the provider bodies to module-level functions — the gate was still called, just outside the block that guard reads. I moved the bodies back inside as closures rather than loosen it; relaxing someone else's security guard so your refactor fits is how guards die. It then went red again because a comment I had written contained the literal Credentials({, which both guards split on, manufacturing a phantom third provider with no gate and no meter.

SN-34 — the public activation form could write the application log (minor)

Confirmed end to end: normalizeEmail is trim().toLowerCase(), so an interior newline survives; String(formData.get("email") ?? "") is unbounded; ecs.tf:470 uses awslogs with no multiline pattern, so one newline is one CloudWatch event.

Adds lib/log-safe.ts, used at both sinks in activation-store.ts.

A test caught a real design error of mine mid-change. My first version replaced the whole C0 range with U+FFFD. That is lossy — a forged address and an innocent one would log identically, destroying the evidence the function exists to preserve. JSON.stringify already escapes every C0 control reversibly, so the replacement now covers only the three characters it genuinely misses (DEL, U+2028, U+2029). The reasoning is in the module so the next person does not re-make the mistake.

SN-35 — the per-person calendar feed said Cache-Control: public (minor)

One word. Worth noting it was the only public response in the tree — api/attachment/[id], api/templates/budget and lib/stored-object-response.ts all already say private, no-store. max-age is kept: private freshness is a courtesy to polling calendar clients, not an exposure.

Backed by a sweep over every route.ts under app/api, with an explicit (currently empty) PUBLIC_BY_DESIGN list, so a genuinely public endpoint is a visible line in a diff rather than a silent exception.

SN-36 — document save was the one storage write that skipped inspection (minor)

Census: six write paths reach the bucket. Five call inspectUpload. The sixth — this route — called none, and reached storage via storeNextVersion, which is exactly why it was missed.

Adds bytesMatchContentType(bytes, contentType), derived from ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS rather than restated — uploads.ts carries the scar that argues for that (the attachment chip's hand-copied list was missing Word, so every .docx silently downloaded).

Checking against the served type rather than payload.kind makes the kind/type mismatch fall out for free, with no second rule that could disagree with the first.

Two things I checked before believing this was safe to ship:

  1. Outage risk. A hand-rolled 4-byte ZIP header proves nothing — ooxmlKind reads archive entry names. The test builds a real workbook with the exact call the editor makes (DocumentViewerOverlay.tsx:173) and asserts it still sniffs as xlsx. It does.
  2. The false positive. A .txt or .csv whose first character is < is now refused. That is consistent — inspectUpload already refuses the same content on upload, so such a file could never have been uploaded — but the client turned any non-409 failure into a bare "Save failed. Retry", where retry can never succeed. Added a rejected state that shows the server's reason and offers no dead button. (I initially thought this was an infinite retry loop; it is not — dirtyRef is only read on close and on the next edit. Checked rather than assumed.)

ND-4 (partial) — feed tokens had a repository literal for a signing key

secret() ended ?? "tenure-dev-calendar-secret". Under that fallback, anyone who can read this repository can mint a feed for any user id — the id is base64url in the URL — and read 30 days back and 180 forward of that person's calendar with no session.

Not live, and the severity is entirely in that: env.ts:53 requires AUTH_SECRET and env.ts:242-245 rejects placeholders and short values in production. But this module reads process.env directly, so the guarantee lives in another file, and the failure would have been silent and produced valid-looking tokens. Now throws, matching reply-token.ts:128-134. Blank and whitespace count as unset; verify throws too, not just mint — that is the public path.

The revocability half (a calendarFeedKey column plus a reset control) is a migration and a UI, and stays open as filed.


Refuted

ND-3 — "no Origin check on any state-changing route handler"

The first half is true: app/api/** contains no Origin or Sec-Fetch-Site check, and Next's CSRF protection covers Server Actions only. The conclusion does not follow.

@auth/core sets sameSite: "lax" explicitly on the session cookie (lib/utils/cookie.js:52) and this app adds no cookies: override. Chrome's Lax-allowing-unsafe intervention — the exemption that would let a cross-site POST carry a fresh cookie — applies only to cookies with no SameSite attribute, so it does not apply here. An ordinary cross-site attacker is fully blocked.

What is left is same-site, not same-origin: a sibling host under tenurework.com would carry the cookie. That is a host compromise, was not demonstrated, and the six handlers do things like marking your own notifications read. A shared assertSameOrigin was judged not to earn its keep at pilot scale today.

Rather than a comment nobody finds, the decision is recorded in the-session-cookie-is-what-stops-csrf.test.ts, which pins the property the whole argument rests on — read from the installed dependency, not restated — and states the three conditions that should force it to be retaken. Adding sameSite: "none" to our config now fails a test instead of silently unlocking every route handler.

OB-3 — the dangling tracker

Confirmed exactly: SEC-003 appeared in two comments in one file and nowhere else in the repository — no register, no ADR, no issue. The one written record of the gap was findable only by someone already reading the file that caused it.

I did not decide the blocked question — ADR-0008's choice between accepting, narrowing or completing the Cognito cutover is not an engineering call and is explicitly owner-blocked. What shipped is the fragment that needed no decision (counting attempts is not something the three options disagree about), recorded in ADR-0008 under "What has shipped against this since", along with what has not changed: both flags are still set, the provider still proves nothing about address ownership, and there is still no WAF. The stale line numbers in that ADR are corrected too (187-188307-308).


Answering the review

CodeRabbit left four inline comments. All four were real, and two were outages I had introduced. Each was re-checked against the code before anything changed.

  1. application/csv documents could no longer be saved — mine. The SN-36 check validated against safeServedContentType(doc.mimeType), which degrades anything outside the upload allowlist to application/octet-stream. That allowlist holds text/csv but not application/csv — which the editor explicitly treats as CSV and still sends edits for (isCsv, DocumentViewerOverlay.tsx:52). Every such save returned 400, as would every client-chosen mimeType written before uploads were validated.

    Fixed wider than reported, because an alias table would only have patched one symptom: an opaque served type is now exempt, since application/octet-stream makes no claim for the bytes to contradict, no browser renders it, and nosniff stops one guessing. That covers application/csv and every other legacy row at once. The case the finding actually named is untouched — text/plain is allowlisted, so markup posted to a text document is still refused.

  2. flush() re-posted rejected bytes — mine. Closing the overlay or toggling mode called doSave() again with the identical body the server had just refused, defeating the no-retry rendering I had added in the same commit. A rejectedRef now blocks the re-ask until the content changes. dirtyRef deliberately stays true: the work is unsaved and the close confirmation must keep saying so.

  3. The trim could invalidate every live calendar subscription. secret() returned AUTH_SECRET.trim(). If the deployed value carries surrounding whitespace, trimming changes the key, and every feed already subscribed in someone's Outlook starts returning 403 with nothing anywhere to explain it. Now signs with the raw value and treats blank as unset — same security property, no working key rewritten.

  4. Both documentation sites described the superseded design. ADR-0008 and edge-access.tf still said ten per address, every attempt charged. Shipped code is thirty, failures only. A document that confidently states the wrong number is worse than no document.


Not touched

app/api/documents/[id]/save/** was on the hands-off list for #255 — but #255 merged (it is the commit this branch is based on), and no open PR touches the file. I confirmed that against all five other open PRs before working it.

lib/auth.ts is also edited by draft #140 (feat/cognito-only-signin), which deletes dev-login. Not on the hands-off list, so I worked it, but the changes are two guard clauses plus one closure wrapper per provider, with the existing bodies unmoved. Worth knowing before merging both.


Third commit — answering the review

Rebased onto merged main (00e38c5f, #269). DocumentViewerOverlay.tsx changed on both sides; merged clean.

CodeRabbit reported pass with the description "Review rate limited" and still posted four inline comments, three of which were real defects introduced by this PR. Worth knowing that the check bucket and the actual review disagree in both directions — a green CodeRabbit check is not evidence a review happened, and a rate-limited one is not evidence it did not.

1. SN-36 broke saving for every legacy document. The serious one. safeServedContentType degrades any stored mimeType outside the nine-entry upload allowlist to an opaque type, and the editor opens plenty of those — application/csv, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/json, application/xml, every text/*. Requiring the bytes to match the served type refused all of them with a 400 the user could do nothing about. CodeRabbit named application/csv; checking it myself showed the set was much larger.

My first fix was to refuse markup on every row instead of exempting opaque. That is wrong, and it is now a test: an application/xml document legitimately begins with <, so an unconditional markup rule makes every XML document in the library permanently unsaveable. The opaque exemption is what keeps a supported format working — those rows are served application/octet-stream, with nosniff, as a download, so there is no rendering path to protect. The tripwire is in uploads-bytes-match-content-type.test.ts so nobody re-tightens it into an outage.

2. flush() re-posted rejected bytes. Closing the overlay or toggling mode called doSave() again with the identical body the server had just refused — a guaranteed second 400 that defeated the no-retry rendering I had just added. A rejectedRef blocks the re-send and editing clears it; dirtyRef stays true, because the work genuinely is unsaved.

3. secret() trimmed AUTH_SECRET, which changes the key. Any deployment whose secret carries surrounding whitespace would have had every already-subscribed calendar feed silently 403 for ever, with nothing to explain it. Blank still throws; the value returned is now raw, so signing is byte-identical to before. Refusing a blank value costs nothing; rewriting a working one costs every live subscription.

Also: both documentation sites still described the superseded limiter (ten attempts, every attempt charged). Corrected to thirty failed attempts, with why "failed" is the load-bearing word.


Verification

Measured against this branch's actual merge-base (00e38c5f) in a throwaway worktree, not against the stale main I started from. origin/main moved three times during this work and another agent merged it into this branch mid-session, so the baseline I opened with had stopped being the right comparison.

Merge-base 00e38c5f This branch
tsc --noEmit 307 errors 307 — parity
jest suites 3 failed / 355 passed / 358 3 failed / 364 passed / 367
jest tests 5892 passed 5965 passed (+73)

358 + the 9 suites this PR adds = 367, exactly. The three failures are the same three that fail on the base commit. All six CI checks passed on the previous head, including E2E · Playwright in 15m2s — a normal duration for this suite.

The 3 failures are the same three documented suites (connectors/audience, nothing-manufactures-the-member-seat, identity/onboarding-form) failing on Object.values(<PrismaEnum>) against the stale generated client. Nothing new is broken. Lint: warnings only, all pre-existing.

Mutation proofs. Every fix was reverted in place, with an md5 check on both sides confirming the edit actually landed, and the tests re-run:

  • calendar privatepublic: 2 of 4 fail. Then a different route (attachment/[id]) set to public: the sweep catches it too, capital-C spelling included.
  • record() back to bare interpolation: 4 of 6 fail, control still passes.
  • limiter removed from dev-login: 3 fail. From cognito: 3 fail. Moved after the Cognito round trip — present but late: only the ordering test fails, proving that assertion is independently load-bearing.
  • limiter switched back to charging attempts instead of failures: 6 of 13 fail, including both outage tests.
  • a provider that asks the budget but never charges it: caught — asking is half a control, and a limiter that can never fire still passes every test of the limiter itself.
  • save-route check removed: caught. Helper's unknown-type default flipped to true: caught.
  • calendar literal fallback restored: 3 of 6 fail.
  • sameSite: "none" added to our config: caught.

One mutation attempt silently no-oped — Perl interpolates ${...} even inside \Q…\E. The md5 guard caught it and I redid it in Python. Without that guard it would have reported a clean pass and proven nothing.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Security

    • Added sign-in protection against repeated failed attempts by address and account.
    • Improved log sanitization to prevent forged or multiline log entries.
    • Strengthened session-cookie and calendar-token security safeguards.
    • Prevented shared caches from storing personal calendar feeds.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved saving for legacy and unsupported document formats.
    • Rejected document saves now clearly explain the issue without offering ineffective retries.
    • Enhanced spreadsheet editing accessibility with clearer table structure and field labels.
  • Documentation

    • Updated security and sign-in protection documentation.

Six security findings, worked in severity order. Four were real and are
fixed; two were overstated and are answered with the narrower thing that
was actually true.

SN-20 — nothing metered sign-in. Verified: `createRateLimiter` existed
and had exactly one consumer (activation), `middleware.ts` deliberately
excludes `/api/*`, and `cloudfront.tf:171` has `web_acl_id` commented out
with no `aws_wafv2_*` resource in the tree. So no counter existed at any
layer. Adds `auth/signin-rate-limit.ts` — 10 per client address and 60
per account per 15 minutes — charged by BOTH credentials providers before
they do any work, not just the `dev-login` one that prompted the finding.

SN-34 — the public activation form could write the application log.
`normalizeEmail` is `trim().toLowerCase()`, so an interior newline
survives, and the `awslogs` driver (ecs.tf:470, no multiline pattern)
emits one CloudWatch event per line. Adds `lib/log-safe.ts`, used at both
sinks in `activation-store.ts`.

SN-35 — the per-person calendar feed said `Cache-Control: public`. One
word. It was the only `public` response in the tree.

SN-36 — document save was the one write path to object storage that did
not check its bytes. Adds `bytesMatchContentType`, derived from
`ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS` rather than restated, plus a legible refusal in the
viewer so the 400 is not a mystery "Save failed".

ND-4 (partial) — `calendar-sync.ts` signed feed tokens with a repository
literal when `AUTH_SECRET` was unset. Now throws, matching
`reply-token.ts`. The revocability half is a migration and stays open.

ND-3 — refuted as filed. `@auth/core` sets `sameSite: "lax"` explicitly,
so Chrome's Lax-allowing-unsafe exemption does not apply and an ordinary
cross-site attacker is blocked. Pinned by a test instead of a comment.

OB-3 — SEC-003 appeared in two comments in one file and nowhere else.
Re-homed in ADR-0008, which is where the posture is already reviewed.

tsc 307 (parity). jest 360 passed / 3 failed — the same three suites that
fail on pristine main. 65 new tests. Every fix carries a mutation proof.

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The change adds document byte validation, sign-in rate limiting, safe activation logging, strict calendar secret handling, private ICS caching, spreadsheet accessibility updates, and regression tests for these controls.

Changes

Document content validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Content validation and storage
apps/web/src/lib/uploads.ts, apps/web/src/lib/uploads-bytes-match-content-type.test.ts, apps/web/src/app/api/documents/[id]/save/route.ts, apps/web/src/lib/every-write-to-storage-checks-its-bytes.test.ts
Document bytes are checked against recognized served content types before storage. Opaque types bypass format matching. Repository tests verify the storage invariant.
Rejected save feedback
apps/web/src/components/documents/DocumentViewerOverlay.tsx
The viewer preserves rejected content, displays the server reason, and blocks retries until the content changes.
Spreadsheet editor accessibility
apps/web/src/components/documents/DocumentViewerOverlay.tsx
Spreadsheet rendering uses semantic header and body rows. Inputs receive column and row labels, including fallbacks for blank headers.

Sign-in security controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sign-in limiter and behavior tests
apps/web/src/lib/auth/signin-rate-limit.ts, apps/web/src/lib/auth/activation-rate-limit.ts, apps/web/src/lib/auth/signin-rate-limit.test.ts
The limiter applies independent 15-minute failure budgets to client addresses and normalized account identifiers.
Provider integration and security assertions
apps/web/src/lib/auth.ts, apps/web/src/lib/auth/every-credentials-provider-is-metered.test.ts, apps/web/src/lib/auth/the-session-cookie-is-what-stops-csrf.test.ts, docs/decisions/ADR-0008-dev-login-production-posture.md, infrastructure/terraform/edge-access.tf
Cognito and dev-login providers check admission before authentication work and record failed outcomes. Tests inspect provider metering and session-cookie settings. Documentation records the current limits and behavior.

Log safety

Layer / File(s) Summary
Safe log rendering and activation logging
apps/web/src/lib/log-safe.ts, apps/web/src/lib/log-safe.test.ts, apps/web/src/lib/auth/activation-store.ts, apps/web/src/lib/auth/an-activation-log-line-cannot-be-forged.test.ts
forLog bounds and safely encodes values. Activation logs use it for untrusted normalized email values.

Calendar token and cache protection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Calendar secret enforcement
apps/web/src/lib/calendar-sync.ts, apps/web/src/lib/calendar-token-signing.test.ts
Calendar token signing and verification reject missing or blank AUTH_SECRET values while preserving nonblank surrounding whitespace.
Private ICS caching
apps/web/src/app/api/calendar/ics/[token]/route.ts, apps/web/src/app/api/a-per-person-response-is-never-public.test.ts
The ICS response uses private, max-age=1800. A source-sweeping test rejects unauthorized public cache directives.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 08e5f

The PR adds sign-in attempt protection and limits charging to failed authentication, but Cognito transport or configuration failures could still temporarily exhaust a shared address or account budget and refuse legitimate sign-ins for up to 15 minutes. This is a bounded mergeable risk requiring owner awareness.

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  participant Request
  participant auth.ts
  participant signin_rate_limit
  participant Cognito
  participant DevLogin
  Request->>auth.ts: Submit credentials
  auth.ts->>signin_rate_limit: Check sign-in budgets
  signin_rate_limit-->>auth.ts: Allow or refuse
  alt Cognito provider
    auth.ts->>Cognito: Authorize credentials
    Cognito-->>auth.ts: Return authentication result
  else Dev-login provider
    auth.ts->>DevLogin: Validate passphrase and eligibility
    DevLogin-->>auth.ts: Return authentication result
  end
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The limiter I added in the previous commit charged every ATTEMPT. That is
an outage, and unit tests could not see it.

The Playwright suite signs in 283 times through dev-login — 72 of them as
director@tenure.demo — serially in one process (workers: 1). Charging
attempts spent the account budget partway through a run and refused every
later sign-in as the Director, so the specs time out waiting for
/dashboard: exactly the failure e2e/support/auth.ts warns about.

The same arithmetic hits real people harder. A university NAT puts
hundreds of students behind one public address, so an address budget spent
by SUCCESSFUL sign-ins refuses a whole campus at whatever the number is.

Charging only failures is also the correct construction, and what every
account-lockout scheme does: a correct password is not evidence of an
attack, so it must not spend the evidence budget. Strictly more permissive
to legitimate use, no more permissive to guessing — guessing is failure by
definition.

  - adds a non-charging `overBudget` to the shared limiter, so the
    QUESTION can be asked without the CHARGE
  - splits the API: allowSignInAttempt asks, noteSignInFailure charges
  - one charge point per provider, after the attempt, so none of the four
    refusal branches in each can quietly become a free guess
  - raises the address budget 10 -> 30: that key is a NAT gateway as often
    as a laptop, and 10 is a number for one person

Two guards caught mistakes in this commit and both were right:

  1. every-provider-is-gated.test.ts went red when I lifted the provider
     bodies to module functions — the gate was still called, but outside
     the block that guard reads. Rather than loosen it, the bodies moved
     back inside as closures. The guard is right to be textual.
  2. then it went red again because a COMMENT I had written contained the
     literal `Credentials({`, which both guards split on, manufacturing a
     phantom third provider with no gate and no meter.

tsc 307 (parity). jest 360 passed / 3 failed — the same three suites that
fail on pristine main.

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apps/web/src/lib/auth.ts (1)

103-154: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider not charging the budget when Cognito is unavailable.

authenticateWithCognito returns { ok: false, reason: "unavailable" } for network faults, Cognito throttling, and misconfiguration, and "not-configured" when no config exists (apps/web/src/lib/auth/cognito.ts lines 159-238). Those outcomes are not statements about the submitted credentials, but the single charge point at line 153 spends both budgets for them. During a Cognito incident, ordinary retries from one shared egress address can exhaust the 30-failure address budget. Sign-in then stays refused for the remainder of the window after Cognito recovers.

Restricting the charge to credential-bearing refusals keeps the guessing budget intact and removes the outage amplification.

♻️ Proposed change: return the reason and charge selectively
-              const attempt = async () => {
+              let chargeable = true
+              const attempt = async () => {
                 const auth = await authenticateWithCognito(email, password, cognitoConfig)
                 if (!auth.ok) {
+                  // A fault at Cognito is not evidence about these credentials,
+                  // so it must not spend the guessing budget.
+                  chargeable = auth.reason !== "unavailable" && auth.reason !== "not-configured"
                   // Logged, never shown. Every failure is one message at the
                   // surface, or the form tells an attacker which addresses exist
                   // and which merely have the wrong password (§14.2).
                   console.warn(`cognito sign-in refused: ${auth.reason}`)
                   return null
                 }
@@
               const outcome = await attempt()
-              if (!outcome) noteSignInFailure(request, email)
+              if (!outcome && chargeable) noteSignInFailure(request, email)
               return outcome

Note: every-credentials-provider-is-metered.test.ts line 92 requires the literal if (!outcome) inside the 60 characters before noteSignInFailure(. The diff above keeps that substring.

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In `@apps/web/src/lib/auth.ts` around lines 103 - 154, Update the sign-in failure
handling around the attempt function and noteSignInFailure so Cognito
“unavailable” and “not-configured” outcomes do not charge either failure budget,
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/src/app/api/documents/`[id]/save/route.ts:
- Around line 182-188: Update the save validation around safeServedContentType
and bytesMatchContentType so legacy application/csv documents are validated as
CSV rather than application/octet-stream, preserving successful editor saves for
those rows. Keep the existing mismatch response and validation behavior
unchanged for other MIME types.

In `@apps/web/src/components/documents/DocumentViewerOverlay.tsx`:
- Around line 213-221: Update the save state in DocumentViewerOverlay so a 400
rejection records the rejected revision separately while keeping
dirtyRef.current true for unsaved-change warnings. Ensure flush() skips doSave()
when the current content matches that rejected revision, and have scheduleSave()
clear or replace the rejection marker when content changes so the new revision
can be saved.

In `@apps/web/src/lib/calendar-sync.ts`:
- Around line 67-74: Update secret() and token verification to preserve
compatibility with calendar tokens signed using the legacy untrimmed
AUTH_SECRET, either by retaining the legacy key during rotation or migrating
existing subscriptions before relying exclusively on the trimmed value; ensure
verifyCalendarToken continues accepting valid existing tokens while new tokens
use the intended configured secret.

In `@docs/decisions/ADR-0008-dev-login-production-posture.md`:
- Around line 88-92: Update the sign-in rate-limit documentation to match the
shipped behavior: in docs/decisions/ADR-0008-dev-login-production-posture.md
lines 88-92, change the address limit from ten to thirty and state that only
failed attempts are charged; in infrastructure/terraform/edge-access.tf lines
64-68, describe thirty failed attempts per client address and say both
credentials providers check the limiter but charge only on failure.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/web/src/lib/auth.ts`:
- Around line 103-154: Update the sign-in failure handling around the attempt
function and noteSignInFailure so Cognito “unavailable” and “not-configured”
outcomes do not charge either failure budget, while credential-bearing refusals
still do. Preserve the literal if (!outcome) condition immediately before
noteSignInFailure by returning or propagating the refusal reason separately and
adding the selective eligibility check without moving that required substring.
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Comment thread apps/web/src/app/api/documents/[id]/save/route.ts
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claude added 2 commits August 25, 2026 03:36
Rebased onto merged main (00e38c5, #269) — DocumentViewerOverlay.tsx
changed on both sides and merged clean.

Three real defects from CodeRabbit, all mine, all from this PR:

1. SN-36 broke saving for every legacy document. `safeServedContentType`
   degrades any stored mimeType outside the nine-entry upload allowlist to
   an opaque type, and the editor opens plenty of those: `application/csv`,
   `application/vnd.ms-excel`, `application/json`, `application/xml` and
   every `text/*`. Requiring the bytes to match the SERVED type refused all
   of them with a 400 the person could do nothing about. The opaque type is
   now exempt — it makes no claim for the bytes to contradict, no browser
   renders it, and nosniff stops one guessing.

   I first tried to fix this by refusing markup on every row instead. That
   is wrong, and the reason is now a test: an XML document legitimately
   BEGINS WITH `<`, so an unconditional markup rule makes every XML
   document permanently unsaveable. The tripwire is in
   uploads-bytes-match-content-type.test.ts so nobody re-tightens it.

2. `flush()` re-posted rejected bytes. Closing the overlay or toggling mode
   called `doSave()` again with the identical body the server had just
   refused — a guaranteed second 400, defeating the no-retry rendering.
   A `rejectedRef` blocks the re-send; editing clears it. `dirtyRef` stays
   true, because the work genuinely is unsaved.

3. `secret()` trimmed AUTH_SECRET, which CHANGES THE KEY. Any deployment
   whose secret carries surrounding whitespace would have had every
   subscribed calendar feed silently 403 for ever. Blank still throws; the
   value returned is now raw, so signing is byte-identical to before.

Also: both documentation sites still described the superseded limiter
(ten attempts, every attempt charged). They now say thirty FAILED
attempts, and why failures are the load-bearing word.

tsc 307 (parity). jest 364 passed / 3 failed — the same three suites that
fail on pristine main.

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

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apps/web/src/components/documents/DocumentViewerOverlay.tsx (1)

221-232: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Track the rejected revision, not a Boolean.

If a user edits again while this request is pending, scheduleSave() clears the guard for the new bytes. Line 230 then restores the guard when the older request returns HTTP 400. The pending autosave for the newer bytes exits at Line 197, even if those bytes are valid.

Store the revision or payload identity with the request. Apply the rejected state only when that identity still matches the current content.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/documents/DocumentViewerOverlay.tsx` around lines 221
- 232, The rejected state must be tied to the revision or payload submitted by
the failed request, not applied unconditionally. Update the save flow around
scheduleSave() and the HTTP 400 handler so the request captures its content
identity and only sets dirtyRef, rejectedRef, rejection, and rejected status
when that identity still matches the current content; preserve the newer edit’s
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apps/web/src/lib/calendar-token-signing.test.ts (1)

74-82: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Also test blank-secret rejection during verification.

The loop tests only calendarToken. Since verifyCalendarToken also calls secret(), add expect(() => verifyCalendarToken("anything.atall")).toThrow(/AUTH_SECRET/) for each blank value.

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In `@apps/web/src/lib/calendar-token-signing.test.ts` around lines 74 - 82, Add
verification coverage to the existing blank-secret loop in the calendar token
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Duplicate comments:
In `@apps/web/src/components/documents/DocumentViewerOverlay.tsx`:
- Around line 221-232: The rejected state must be tied to the revision or
payload submitted by the failed request, not applied unconditionally. Update the
save flow around scheduleSave() and the HTTP 400 handler so the request captures
its content identity and only sets dirtyRef, rejectedRef, rejection, and
rejected status when that identity still matches the current content; preserve
the newer edit’s pending autosave behavior otherwise.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/web/src/lib/calendar-token-signing.test.ts`:
- Around line 74-82: Add verification coverage to the existing blank-secret loop
in the calendar token tests: for each blank AUTH_SECRET value, assert that
verifyCalendarToken("anything.atall") throws an error matching AUTH_SECRET,
alongside the existing calendarToken assertion.

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edge-access.tf said the limiter was 'charged by both credentials providers
before they do any work'. Two different things happen at two different
times: allowSignInAttempt CHECKS without spending, and noteSignInFailure
CHARGES, only once an attempt has actually failed. Written the old way the
comment describes a limiter that would refuse a whole campus for typing
their passwords correctly, which is the design the code deliberately does
not have.

The counts in both documents were already corrected in c1f4f82 -- they read
thirty FAILED per address and sixty per account, not ten.

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satvikOS merged commit fa20b69 into main Aug 26, 2026
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#277 landed a rejection guard on this same function while this branch was
adding the join loop. Both are right. Their combination was not, and no
test on either branch could have caught it.

A 400 is a verdict on the CONTENT, so `rejectedRef` latches and the same
bytes must not go again. But a rejection deliberately LEAVES `dirtyRef`
true -- the work really is unsaved, and `flush` and the beforeunload guard
have to keep saying so. So a joiner waiting on the save that was rejected
would wake, see dirty, fall through, and POST exactly what the server had
just refused. The guard shipped before the loop existed; the loop was
written against a file that had no guard.

So the loop's exit learned the new condition, and the outright refusal
sits ahead of the loop so an already-latched rejection never reaches it.
Both are asserted.

Also fixed indentation on the fetch that slipped when the payload build
moved inside `p`.

A CONTROL OF MINE WAS FALSE, and deleting the guard is what found it:

    expect(before.indexOf("if (rejectedRef.current) return"))
      .toBeLessThan(before.indexOf("while ("))

`indexOf` answers -1 for something that is not there, and -1 is less than
every real index -- so the ordering assertion PASSED with the guard
deleted. All seven cases stayed green. Both ordering assertions now prove
presence before they compare positions, and the mutation that exposed it
now fails, as does the same deletion of the conflict guard.

Mutation-proved three ways: dropping rejectedRef from the loop exit,
deleting the rejection guard, and deleting the conflict guard each fail
exactly one case.
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