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GET /api/v1/tasks and GET /api/v1/tasks/{id} (and their GraphQL equivalents) had no authorization at all: any anonymous caller could enumerate every agent task on the node, including another party's repo-less task, its ucan_token, and its payload (#268).

Closing that gap turned out to require the paging protocol, the API shape, and the client behaviour to be one contract rather than four separate edits. The read path now defines that contract explicitly:

  1. The server decides which tasks a caller may observe, without leaking denied rows.
  2. It gives that caller a safe, finite way to enumerate every permitted task in a stable order.
  3. REST, GraphQL, gl, and MCP expose the same completion and truncation semantics.
  4. Expected task-state races carry the same client-safe error vocabulary across transports, while infrastructure failures stay opaque.

Changes

Visibility gate

  • crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs
    • Added task_visible(): the task's delegator/assignee can always read it; a repo-scoped task follows that repo's normal read-visibility rules (mirroring ref_update_row_visible()); a task with no repo, or naming a repo this node doesn't host, is visible only to its delegator/assignee.
    • Added collect_visible_tasks() / get_visible_task(), shared collectors used by both REST and GraphQL so the two surfaces cannot drift, mirroring the existing collect_visible_ref_updates() pattern in api/events.rs.
    • Added task_to_read_json(), a ucan_token-free projection for the read surfaces.
    • Gated claim_task(), complete_task(), and fail_task() through get_visible_task() so unreadable tasks 404 instead of leaking existence with 403 or a successful claim.
    • Routed claim/complete/fail through AppError so closed-pool outages are 503 db_unavailable and 404s use the shared {error, message} envelope.
  • crates/gitlawb-node/src/server.rs - layered optional_signature onto the task read routes so an authenticated caller's DID reaches the handlers, and a per-IP rate brake outside it. Both read routes are anonymously reachable and run the visibility gate (a task lookup plus deduped-repo and visibility-rule queries) before they can return the opaque 404, so a prober pays nothing while the node pays per request. Same rate_limit_by_ip + IpRateLimiter extension pattern as /ipfs/{cid}, configurable through GITLAWB_TASK_READ_RATE_LIMIT (default 1200/hr, 0 disables with a startup warning) and swept by the periodic limiter task.
  • crates/gitlawb-node/src/error.rs - added AppError::Conflict for business 409s on claim/finish.

Paging protocol

  • crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/task_cursor.rs (new) - opaque, node-keyed, caller-bound continuation tokens.
    • The token names the last candidate the previous request examined, not the last row the caller saw. That is what lets a scan advance past a window of denied rows instead of restarting inside it.
    • The payload is encrypted and authenticated with a synthetic-IV construction (the HMAC tag over the filter and plaintext doubles as the IV seeding the keystream), keyed by a value derived from the node keypair seed. No new dependency: hmac/sha2/base64 are already used for webhook signatures and blob recipient tags. No randomness source needed.
    • The status/assignee_did filter is bound into the tag rather than stored in the payload, so a token cannot be moved to a different filter and costs no token length.
    • The presenting caller's normalized DID is bound the same way (anonymous flagged absent, not encoded as empty). The token names the last examined candidate, so it records how far a scan got under one caller's visibility; resuming it as a different caller would start that caller's scan past rows they may read and drop them silently. Normalization runs through normalize_owner_key, so the two spellings of one did:key identity bind identically and a caller presenting the other form of their own DID keeps their page.
    • Every rejection (mangled, expired, foreign key, wrong filter, wrong caller) renders one message, so cursor validation is not an oracle.
  • crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs
    • collect_visible_tasks() returns has_more, incomplete, and next_position as three separate facts. has_more means candidates remain; incomplete means this page is short only because the authorization scan hit its 1,000-candidate ceiling. A single probe row past the last examined candidate keeps has_more exact, so a full final batch is never mistaken for a truncated one.
    • The examined position advances per row rather than per batch, so a page that fills mid-batch resumes at that row and neither repeats nor skips its successors.
    • GET /api/v1/tasks echoes the limit it actually applied, so a clamped request is visible as clamped.
  • crates/gitlawb-node/src/db/mod.rs
    • Compare assignee_did through normalize_owner_key() and ASSIGNEE_DID_CASE_SQL in claim_task() and list_tasks_keyset(), so a bare stored key matches a did:key: signer or filter.
    • Migration v27 adds idx_agent_tasks_assignee_key, an expression index byte-identical to ASSIGNEE_DID_CASE_SQL. Without it the CASE predicate plans a Seq Scan, and the read routes are anonymous. Numbered v27 rather than v18: the pin-provenance work took 18-26 on main while this branch was in flight, and the runner keys the applied set on the integer alone, so a version another branch also claims is skipped in full on whichever side merges second.

GraphQL

  • crates/gitlawb-node/src/graphql/types.rs - TaskPageType gains hasMore and nextCursor alongside incomplete; AgentTaskReadType drops ucan_token.
  • crates/gitlawb-node/src/graphql/query.rs - the tasks resolver takes cursor and delegates to the shared collector.
  • crates/gitlawb-node/src/graphql/mutation.rs - claimTask, completeTask, and failTask are gated behind get_visible_task() and route their db-layer failures through the same task_write_conflict() classifier the REST handlers use.
  • crates/gitlawb-node/src/graphql/mod.rs - added graphql_claim_conflict() / graphql_finish_conflict() so the classification lives at the transport boundary, and extended the every_graphql_map_err_uses_opaque_helpers whitelist to cover them.

Clients

  • crates/gl/src/task.rs - added fetch_tasks(), shared by the CLI and MCP. It follows next_cursor until the requested limit is met or the stream ends, bounded by a 25-page cap and a no-progress guard (a response claiming more results with no cursor, or a cursor the node did not advance, stops the loop). gl task list gains --cursor, prints an aggregate JSON document on stdout, and warns on stderr when the result is not complete.
  • crates/gl/src/mcp.rs - task_list uses the same helper and gains a cursor input; a truncated result carries an explicit warning and complete: false so the model cannot read it as the whole answer. task_create checks the response status.
  • fetch_tasks() rejects a non-positive limit before the first request. The node clamps such a limit to zero and answers with an empty page marked complete, so an invalid request used to read as proof that no tasks exist. Guarding in the shared helper keeps the CLI and MCP from drifting; the MCP tool schema also declares minimum: 1.

Breaking changes

  • The GraphQL tasks query returns TaskPageType ({ items, hasMore, incomplete, nextCursor }) instead of a flat list [AgentTask!]. Consumer queries selecting { tasks { id } } must update to { tasks { items { id } } }.
  • gl task list --limit 0 (or a negative limit) and MCP task_list with limit: 0 now fail with an invalid-argument error instead of printing an empty task list.
  • The raw after_created_at / after_id / cursor_created_at / cursor_id query parameters and the afterCreatedAt / afterId GraphQL arguments are removed. Callers page with the opaque cursor / nextCursor instead. A caller-typed timestamp had no single ordering domain against the TEXT created_at column it was compared with, so keeping it alongside the token would have kept the bug.

Test plan

  • Unit tests for task visibility, anonymous access denials, delegator/assignee reads, and ucan_token suppression.
  • api::task_cursor unit tests: verbatim round trip, unforgeability against a foreign node key, rejection of any tampered byte, filter binding (including absent-vs-empty and a field-boundary shift), expiry, malformed shapes, one indistinguishable rejection message, and URL safety without encoding. A test asserts the token body carries neither the row id nor its timestamp in the clear and does not parse as JSON, so a signed-but-plaintext payload fails.
  • REST paging: a visible row behind 2,500 denied rows is reached using only server-issued cursors, in more than one continuation, with no response disclosing a denied id; a 250-row visible set is enumerated exactly once across a page boundary with has_more and the effective limit asserted; five rows sharing one instant (in mixed Z / +00:00 / fractional spellings) page without skip or repeat; removed raw cursor params are inert rather than paging; forged, foreign-key, and wrong-filter cursors all 400 with the same message while the correctly-filtered token is accepted.
  • GraphQL paging: the same denied-window recovery through nextCursor, and the same cursor-rejection matrix.
  • Cursor caller binding: cross-caller rejection in all three directions (anonymous to authenticated, one caller to another, authenticated to anonymous); did:key:X and bare X accepted as one identity while did:web:X is not; anonymous distinguished from a caller normalizing to the empty string; and end-to-end, an anonymous page that already denied a delegator-only task sorting ahead of its stop position is a 400 when the delegator presents it, with the same request uncursored asserted to return that task so the rejection is not vacuous.
  • Task read rate brake: driven through the production build_router with a two-slot bucket. A known id and a random id both return the opaque 404 and both debit, the next request is 429, and a second IP keeps its own budget. Goes red if the IpRateLimiter extension is dropped, which is what makes rate_limit_by_ip a no-op.
  • GraphQL mutations: a lost claim race and a stale complete/fail render the fixed conflict messages rather than the opaque database error, and a genuine sqlx fault on the write stays opaque.
  • Client paging (gl + MCP): cursor following to the requested limit, per-request narrowing, never asking for more than the server page cap, page-cap stop with a resume cursor and a warning, both no-progress shapes (missing cursor, unadvanced cursor), and a non-positive limit rejected before any request is issued (asserted through a mock with expect(0), on both the CLI and MCP paths).
  • Existing coverage retained: hostile claim, bare vs did:key: assignee forms with a did:web: non-collapse, announce gate, closed-pool 503 mapping on all five routes, negative and oversized limit clamping, exactly-1,000 exhausted candidates as incomplete: false, migration v27 rollback and re-apply.
  • Rebased onto main (73fd747) and revalidated there. The cursor caller binding is red-checked: removing the caller from the MAC input fails exactly the three new unit cases and leaves the 12 pre-existing ones green. cargo fmt --all --check and RUSTFLAGS="-Dwarnings" cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets are clean. cargo test -p gl is green (387). cargo test -p gitlawb-node needs Postgres, so the #[sqlx::test] cases are verified in CI rather than locally.

Prior reviewer feedback addressed

  • Do not advertise a recoverable page when the scan wall has no recovery path. The cursor now names the last examined candidate rather than the last visible row, so each request advances a full scan budget. End-to-end REST and GraphQL tests walk a visible row behind a denied window longer than the budget, using only cursors the server handed back.
  • Surface the row cap and provide a usable continuation in shipped clients. has_more and incomplete are separate fields, next_cursor is returned whenever a page fills, the effective limit is echoed, and both gl task list and MCP task_list follow pages under a page cap and a progress guard, emitting an explicit incomplete result otherwise. Covered through the actual CLI and MCP paths.
  • Normalize cursors to the stored key representation. There is now one ordering domain: the token carries the stored created_at verbatim, so the TEXT comparison always runs against a string the server wrote. The raw cursor parameters that admitted Z / +00:00 / fractional-width aliases are removed. Equal-timestamp sibling coverage added in mixed spellings.
  • Route GraphQL task write conflicts through the application-error mapping. claimTask, completeTask, and failTask use the shared task_write_conflict() classifier via curated helpers in the graphql module, with tests for both the conflict path and a forced SQL error.
  • Check the status on cmd_create like the five siblings. error_for_status() added to cmd_create() and the MCP task_create tool; test_create_task_server_error flipped to assert failure on 500.
  • Back the assignee CASE predicate with a matching expression index. Migration v27 creates idx_agent_tasks_assignee_key, byte-identical to ASSIGNEE_DID_CASE_SQL, with a rollback-and-re-apply test.
  • Add the single-residual did:web: shape to the parity boundary matrix. did:web:z6Mkfoo added.
  • Reject or normalize non-positive task-list limits. Rejected rather than defaulted: silently substituting 50 would answer a request the caller did not make. The guard sits in fetch_tasks(), so the CLI and MCP cannot diverge, and the limit > 0 branches that existed only to carry a non-positive value through the paging loop are gone. Regression tests on both clients assert zero requests are issued; both fail with the guard removed.
  • Force the database fault in the write operation. The previous task_write_sql_faults_stay_opaque was vacuous: Db::get_task also selects updated_at, so dropping the column faulted the get_visible_task pre-check and returned through graphql_app_err without ever reaching graphql_claim_conflict. A BEFORE UPDATE trigger keeps every read valid and faults inside Db::claim_task, and the test now also asserts the fault is not reclassified as a claim race.
  • Bind continuation tokens to the presenting caller's visibility identity. Confirmed: cursor_mac bound both filter fields and the plaintext, never the caller. The normalized caller DID is now part of the MAC input, with a presence byte so anonymous is distinct from an empty DID. A mismatch renders the existing single rejection message, so the binding adds no oracle.
  • Add a per-IP rate brake on the task read routes. Confirmed: task_read_routes carried optional_signature and nothing else. It now carries the same limiter pattern as /ipfs/{cid}, wired through config, state, the router, and the periodic sweeper (with the sweeper's existing every-limiter test extended to cover it).
  • Earlier rounds: gated claim/complete/fail behind get_visible_task(); tests that go red if the claim assignee predicate or the anonymous announce gate is deleted; a probe row past a full last batch so incomplete is false on an exhausted stream; claim/complete/fail routed through AppError; assignee normalization in claim and list SQL.

Fixes #268

BREAKING CHANGE: The GraphQL tasks query returns a TaskPageType object ({ items, hasMore, incomplete, nextCursor }) instead of a flat list ([AgentTask!]), and the raw after_created_at / after_id / cursor_created_at / cursor_id REST parameters and afterCreatedAt / afterId GraphQL arguments are replaced by an opaque cursor / nextCursor token.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added visibility-aware task listing, viewing, and actions across REST, GraphQL, and CLI interfaces.
    • Added cursor-based pagination with validated cursors, 200-item page limits, and continuation indicators.
    • Added optional signed requests for authenticated task access.
  • Security
    • Hidden tasks return not-found responses, and sensitive credentials are excluded from results.
    • Added per-client rate limiting for task reads.
    • Task actions and event notifications honor visibility and assignment rules.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved HTTP error handling and added clear conflict responses.

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Walkthrough

Task reads now enforce caller and repository visibility across REST and GraphQL. Read projections omit ucan_token. Keyset pagination limits results and scans, reports incomplete pages, and uses authenticated opaque cursors. CLI and MCP clients can sign requests and reject HTTP errors.

Changes

Task visibility and secured access

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cursor and database foundations
crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/task_cursor.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/db/mod.rs
Opaque cursors bind filters, callers, positions, expiry, and node keys. Database queries use normalized DID matching, keyset pagination, and repository-ID scoping.
REST visibility and mutations
crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/error.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/graphql/mutation.rs
Task reads apply visibility filtering, redaction, cursor validation, scan limits, and opaque not-found responses. Mutations enforce visibility and assignee authorization, preserve database errors, and filter events.
GraphQL task access
crates/gitlawb-node/src/graphql/types.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/graphql/query.rs, crates/gitlawb-node/src/graphql/mod.rs
GraphQL returns paginated TaskPageType results with AgentTaskReadType, validates cursors, omits ucan_token, and maps task-write conflicts.
Rate-limited request wiring
crates/gitlawb-node/src/{config.rs,main.rs,state.rs,server.rs,rate_limit.rs}, crates/gitlawb-node/src/{auth/mod.rs,test_support.rs}
The node derives a shared cursor key and applies configurable per-client task-read rate limits to REST and GraphQL requests.
Signed task client pagination
crates/gl/src/task.rs, crates/gl/src/mcp.rs
CLI and MCP task operations optionally sign requests, follow bounded cursors, preserve resume state, report incomplete results, validate response shapes, and reject unsuccessful HTTP responses.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6dac9

The PR now gates task reads by visibility and removes sensitive task credentials from read responses, but merge readiness remains moderate because a repository deduplication edge case can hide authorized tasks and authenticated-denial/opaque-404 behavior is not explicitly covered by the supplied regression evidence.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant TaskRoute
  participant VisibilityCollector
  participant Database
  Client->>TaskRoute: submit optional signed task read
  TaskRoute->>VisibilityCollector: pass caller, filters, and cursor
  VisibilityCollector->>Database: fetch candidates with keyset position
  Database-->>VisibilityCollector: return task and repository data
  VisibilityCollector-->>TaskRoute: return visible tasks and page metadata
  TaskRoute-->>Client: return redacted paginated tasks
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@beardthelion beardthelion added crate:node gitlawb-node — the serving node and REST API kind:bug Defect fix — wrong or unsafe behavior labels Aug 12, 2026

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crates/gitlawb-node/src/graphql/query.rs (1)

493-522: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a GraphQL denial test for the task resolvers.

The new gate lives in the shared collectors, and crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs tests it through the REST routes. No test asserts that these resolvers still delegate to the collectors. tasks_negative_limit_clamped runs anonymously but has no rows, so it cannot detect a resolver that stops calling collect_visible_tasks. The ref-update scenarios 8 and 8b exist for exactly this reason.

Add two cases in this module: an anonymous { tasks { id } } that returns 0 rows while a repo-less task exists, and an anonymous { task(id: "t1") { id } } that returns null. Assert that no response contains the ucanToken field value.

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In `@crates/gitlawb-node/src/graphql/query.rs` around lines 493 - 522, Add two
GraphQL denial tests in the task resolver test module: with a repo-less task
present, verify anonymous `{ tasks { id } }` returns zero rows, and verify
anonymous `{ task(id: "t1") { id } }` returns null. Assert both responses do not
expose any ucanToken value, using the existing schema, task setup, and response
helpers.
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs`:
- Around line 186-199: Scope repository and visibility-rule loading in
collect_visible_tasks to the distinct repo_id values referenced by the fetched
tasks, rather than all repositories; preserve empty-task handling and pass only
those ids to list_visibility_rules_for_repos. Apply the same scoped lookup in
get_visible_task, replacing its full-repository load and linear search with
filtering to the requested task’s repo id, or reuse an existing repo-by-id
accessor if available.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/gitlawb-node/src/graphql/query.rs`:
- Around line 493-522: Add two GraphQL denial tests in the task resolver test
module: with a repo-less task present, verify anonymous `{ tasks { id } }`
returns zero rows, and verify anonymous `{ task(id: "t1") { id } }` returns
null. Assert both responses do not expose any ucanToken value, using the
existing schema, task setup, and response helpers.
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Pushed 7b6f2d6 addressing both review comments.

Scoped the repo and rule lookups. You were right that gating at most 200 tasks should not cost the whole node's repo and rule set on an anonymous request. Both lookups are now bounded by the repo ids the fetched page actually names, and both are skipped entirely when no task on the page names a repo.

I did not switch to resolving ids straight from the repos table, though. list_all_repos_deduped is doing real work for this gate beyond deduplication: it collapses mirror and canonical pairs, and its CTE filters out quarantined repos. An id absent from that set has to keep failing closed, which is the convention the comment above list_quarantined_repos spells out. A plain by-id lookup would resolve exactly those withheld rows and hand a quarantined repo's tasks to a caller. So the deduped snapshot stays the source of truth for resolving a repo_id, and the filtering happens against it.

Added the GraphQL denial tests. Fair catch that nothing pinned the resolvers' delegation to the shared collectors. Three cases in graphql/query.rs: an anonymous tasks query returns no rows while a repo-less task exists, an anonymous task(id:) returns null, and requesting ucanToken on the read type is a validation error, which pins the redaction at the schema level rather than per resolver.

Verified: the task and GraphQL suites pass, cargo fmt --check and clippy are clean.

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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

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  • [P1] Preserve signed reads for the shipped task clients
    crates/gl/src/task.rs:46
    This PR changes both REST read endpoints from globally readable to caller-dependent: a repo-less task is visible only to its delegator or assignee, and a private-repo task only to a caller who passes the repo visibility gate. The shipped CLI was not updated for that contract. TaskCommand::List and View expose no --dir option, always construct NodeClient::new(&node, None), and call the explicitly unsigned get method. A delegator can therefore create a repo-less task through the signed gl task create path, then immediately get an empty list or a 404 for the same task. The MCP tool has a loaded keypair but similarly calls get rather than get_maybe_signed.

    Please address the contract change at the client boundary rather than weakening the server gate: give the CLI read commands access to the configured/selected identity, build their NodeClient with that keypair, and use the existing conditional-signing read helper so public task reads remain usable without an identity. Apply the same helper to the MCP task-read tools, then add end-to-end client tests for delegator and assignee reads of repo-less tasks plus a signed private-repo read.

  • [P2] Do not apply the task limit before visibility filtering
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:186
    Db::list_tasks executes ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT $n before collect_visible_tasks calls task_visible. For example, seed one public-repo task, then add 200 newer repo-less/private tasks that the caller cannot read: both GET /api/v1/tasks?limit=200 and GraphQL tasks(limit: 200) return no rows even though the public task is the next row in the database. The response has neither a cursor nor an incomplete flag, so clients have no way to distinguish that false empty result from a complete list. The optional status and assignee_did filters do not establish a tenant boundary—the unscoped query remains supported, and the same hidden-window failure applies whenever the filters match both sets.

    The root cause is treating the SQL page size as the visible-result limit. Reuse the ref-update collector's shape: traverse a stable, bounded keyset stream, apply authorization to each fetched batch, and stop only after collecting the requested number of visible rows or exhausting the stream. If a safety scan cap is necessary, expose an explicit continuation/incomplete result rather than silently claiming an empty or complete page. Add REST and GraphQL mixed-visibility tests that prove older visible tasks remain discoverable behind a full hidden window.

  • [P2] Complete the requested repository-lookup scoping
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:207
    The current follow-up scopes only the visibility-rule query. collect_visible_tasks still calls list_all_repos_deduped(), whose implementation runs an unpaged fetch_all over every non-quarantined logical repository, and only then filters the materialized vector to the page's referenced IDs. get_visible_task does the same full fetch followed by a linear find. Thus an anonymous list request containing one repo_id, or a request for any repo-scoped task ID, performs O(total hosted repositories) database transfer/allocation despite the code comment and author follow-up claiming the lookup is bounded. This leaves the original CodeRabbit performance concern unresolved and makes the new anonymous read gate an easy repeatable pressure point on a large node.

    Please fix the source of the work, not its Rust-side projection: add a database accessor that applies the referenced task IDs inside the same canonical/mirror-deduping and quarantine-excluding query used by list_all_repos_deduped. Use it for both the page and single-task paths, batch-load the corresponding visibility rules, and add a query-level or regression test showing that a one-task request cannot materialize unrelated repositories. Keep the canonical and quarantine semantics intact; a raw repos WHERE id = ANY(...) lookup would reintroduce the mirror/quarantine ambiguity this code is trying to avoid.

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The gate direction is right and the shared collector is the correct shape: both read surfaces move together, limit clamps before SQL, and the delegator/assignee/repo-visibility cases are tested and green. One row class defeats the fail-closed claim, and the primary CLI consumers were not carried along.

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  • [P1] Fail closed when a task's repo_id resolves only to a mirror row
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:152
    Mirror rows are written by upsert_mirror_repo with is_public=true and no visibility rules, and sync never replicates rules, so listable_at_root returns Allow unconditionally for them. A task naming such a repo is served in full to an anonymous caller: I drove GET /api/v1/tasks/{id} and GET /api/v1/tasks through the production router with a mirror-only repo and got 200 with the payload on both, while the same probe against a canonical private repo correctly 404s. create_task stores repo_id verbatim with no existence check, so this needs no hostile actor, just a task against a repo this node only mirrors. Treat a slash-form id as non-repo-scoped (delegator and assignee only), or resolve it and require a non-slash canonical row, failing closed when there is none; get_repo alone still hands back the mirror when no canonical twin exists. Please add the regression seeded mirror-first, since every current test seeds a canonical row.

  • [P2] Carry the gl task readers onto a signed, status-checked request
    crates/gl/src/task.rs:186, crates/gl/src/task.rs:206, crates/gl/src/mcp.rs:1062
    Both task read commands build NodeClient::new(&node, None), and http.rs:39 get() checks no status. After this change the delegator's own repo-less tasks disappear from gl task list because no identity is attached, and gl task view on a now-404 task parses the error body and prints it as task data, exiting 0. get_maybe_signed (http.rs:79) is what repo.rs and protect.rs already use for exactly this; route the task reads through it and check status before parsing.

  • [P2] Bound the repo scan on the anonymous list
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:208
    Scoping the rules lookup to the page was the right half of the fix, but every anonymous GET /api/v1/tasks still reads the full repos table through list_all_repos_deduped() before filtering, on a route with no rate limiter. Before this change the route touched no repo data at all. A by-id fetch over the page's referenced ids, or a join, keeps the work proportional to the page.

The ucan_token redaction is clean and pinned at the schema level, and the filter-after-limit tradeoff is documented in the code, so neither is an ask. Heads up that #318 reworks the same handlers, so expect a rebase conflict there.

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Add authenticated-denial and response-body assertions.

This test covers an anonymous caller only. Add an unrelated authenticated DID for both list and single-task reads. Assert an empty list, an exact 404, and a response body that does not contain the task ID, payload, or SECRET_UCAN.

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In `@crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs` around lines 572 - 601, The test
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anonymous access and lacks body-leak checks. Extend it with an unrelated
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Superseded: re-reviewed at c4a36e5, all three findings from this round are addressed.

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Every finding from the last round is in, and I checked each against the code rather than the commit messages: the keyset collector with per-batch scoped repo lookups, the slash-form mirror fail-closed branch, the ucan_token-free read projections pinned at the schema level, the signed and status-checked gl and MCP reads, and CodeRabbit's GraphQL denial tests plus the authenticated-denial body assertions. The gate itself is sound.

One blocker, and two things the round left open.

Findings

  • [P2] Fix the clippy lint blocking CI
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/db/mod.rs:4355
    cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings fails on cloned-ref-to-slice-refs at &[requested.id.clone()]; std::slice::from_ref(&requested.id) is the fix. fmt + clippy is the only red check, and the branch can't merge while it is.

  • [P2] Signal truncation when the candidate scan stops short
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:194
    collect_visible_tasks stops at MAX_TASK_SCAN_CANDIDATES and returns a bare Vec, and the handler emits {tasks, count} with no flag, so a delegator whose own task sits behind 1000 newer denied rows gets an empty list indistinguishable from having none. denied_history_scan_stops_at_candidate_ceiling pins that drop rather than reporting it. jatmn asked for exactly this in the last round: an explicit incomplete result if a scan cap was necessary. REST is a one-field change; GraphQL needs a wrapper type, so if you'd rather do the resolver in a follow-up, say so and I'll take REST here.

  • [P2] Return the task read errors through AppError instead of a hardcoded 500
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:331
    list_tasks and get_task flatten crate::error::Result into INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR with e.to_string(), which throws away both things AppError's IntoResponse exists to do: the 503 mapping for an unavailable database (#251) and the opaque body for Db errors on open routes (#226). A read on these routes currently answers a Postgres outage with a 500 carrying raw sqlx text. The sibling read surface list_repos returns Result<Response> and gets both for free; AppError::NotFound covers get_task's 404. The shipped client prints the body verbatim and doesn't parse error, so the shape change is safe there.

Two notes, neither an ask. The by-ids lookup fixed the half of my scan finding that mattered (no more materializing every repo into Rust), but the dedup CTE still filters repos on the un-indexed owner-key expression, so the scan is full-table even when the page names one repo; an expression index is the real fix and belongs in its own PR. And #186 is editing the same gl/src/task.rs and mcp.rs lines, so expect a conflict whichever lands second.

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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

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  • [P2] Fix the clippy failure in the new database test
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/db/mod.rs:4355
    The required fmt + clippy check is red because the new test allocates and clones requested.id solely to construct a one-element slice, triggering clippy::cloned-ref-to-slice-refs under the workspace's -D warnings policy. The focused local command reproduces the same error, so this head cannot pass CI as submitted. Address the cause rather than suppressing the lint: list_repos_deduped_by_ids accepts a borrowed slice and does not need ownership, so pass std::slice::from_ref(&requested.id) (or an equivalent borrowed slice) and keep the test exercising the intended one-ID query path.

  • [P2] Do not silently report the candidate-scan ceiling as a complete task list
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:194
    The root cause is that authorization happens after fetching a global keyset page, while the hard ceiling is applied to candidate rows rather than visible rows. For example, put one public-repo task at row 1,001 and put 1,000 newer repo-less tasks owned by other DIDs ahead of it: an anonymous GET /api/v1/tasks?limit=1 (and GraphQL tasks(limit: 1)) scans the denied rows, reaches MAX_TASK_SCAN_CANDIDATES, and returns []/count: 0. The caller receives neither a cursor nor an incomplete marker, so it cannot distinguish truncation from an exhaustive empty list or resume to the public task. The new denied_history_scan_stops_at_candidate_ceiling test explicitly locks in that outcome.

    Preserve the work bound, but make the limit part of the API contract: return a recoverable continuation/incomplete result on both REST and GraphQL whenever the scan wall is reached before exhaustion. Ideally move as much visibility selection as possible into the database query; if post-filtering remains necessary, return the last examined keyset position and an explicit incomplete/next-page signal, then add mixed-visibility tests with a visible task beyond the ceiling for both surfaces. Do not merely raise the ceiling—the underlying candidate-versus-visible pagination mismatch remains exploitable and will recur on a larger history.

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Pushed 4ab649d addressing review feedback:

  1. Fixed clippy lint: Used std::slice::from_ref in crates/gitlawb-node/src/db/mod.rs:4355 to avoid clippy::cloned-ref-to-slice-refs.
  2. Signaled candidate scan truncation and added recoverable pagination: collect_visible_tasks returns incomplete: true along with the last examined keyset cursor (created_at, id) when candidate scan limits are hit. REST list_tasks and GraphQL tasks query accept after_created_at / after_id to allow resuming the search past scan walls. Added mixed-visibility tests proving visible tasks past the candidate limit are recoverable.
  3. Mapped task read errors via AppError: list_tasks and get_task now return AppError directly so database outages map to 503 db_unavailable and missing/denied tasks return 404 not_found. Added tests for closed pool outages on both routes.

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Learning: In `crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/events.rs`, `list_repo_events` must fail closed on `state.db.get_repo(&owner, &repo_name)` errors: propagate the error with `?` so DB failures become `AppError::Internal`/HTTP 500, and reserve the ungated gossip-only path only for a genuine `Ok(None)` (repo not hosted locally). There is a regression test covering this by forcing `get_repo` to error and asserting 500 with no ref metadata in the response body.

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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

Findings

These findings share one root cause: the list API treats a raw database keyset
position as a public pagination protocol after authorization has removed rows.
Please design and test one authorization-safe cursor contract for both REST and
GraphQL, rather than fixing the individual call sites independently. The
contract must preserve progress through hidden windows without exposing a hidden
row's fields, and must reject invalid or incomplete continuation state.

  • [P1] Do not expose hidden task metadata in the recovery cursor
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:231
    last_examined is assigned from the final fetched database row before task_visible filters it, and the scan-cap branch returns that tuple verbatim as next_cursor. Consequently, an anonymous request with 1,000 newer repo-less/private tasks receives the UUID and created_at of the final denied task even though GET /tasks/{id} deliberately answers with the opaque 404. This turns the recovery mechanism into a hidden-task enumeration oracle; repeating the walk can disclose a boundary row for every capped window. The root cause is using a row-level keyset position as a public cursor after the row has failed authorization. Do not serialize denied-row fields. Return an opaque, integrity-protected continuation token whose context includes the filters and caller identity, or retain continuation state server-side; validate malformed, expired, and cross-context tokens visibly. Add a regression test asserting that the cap-recovery response contains neither any hidden task ID nor its timestamp.

  • [P1] Return a recoverable continuation from the GraphQL task list
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/graphql/query.rs:120
    The resolver accepts afterCreatedAt/afterId and the shared collector reports incomplete plus a continuation when it stops after 1,000 denied candidates, but the Vec<AgentTaskReadType> return type discards both fields. With 1,000 hidden newer tasks and an older readable task, GraphQL returns an indistinguishable empty list and offers no way for the client to reach the readable task; the added test only succeeds by hard-coding the hidden boundary tuple instead of consuming a response-provided value. The root cause is sharing a bounded collector while exposing only its items, not its pagination/result state. Change tasks to return a connection/page object containing items, an explicit incomplete/has-more signal, and the same safe opaque continuation used by REST (or return a visible error when the scan bound prevents a complete result). Add an end-to-end GraphQL test that obtains the continuation from the first response and reaches the older readable task without revealing any denied-row metadata.

  • [P2] Reject partial cursor inputs instead of restarting at the first page
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:357
    The zip turns an after_created_at without its matching after_id (and the equivalent partial legacy alias) into None, so the server returns page one with 200 rather than signaling an invalid cursor. The GraphQL resolver has the same behavior. A caller that loses one component will therefore duplicate data and cannot distinguish a malformed continuation from a successful first-page response. The root cause is representing one logical cursor as independently optional query fields and then treating an incomplete pair as absence. Parse the cursor atomically: require both components together until the opaque-token migration above is complete, validate their syntax and ordering, and return a clear client error for missing, malformed, expired, or filter/caller-mismatched state. Cover REST and GraphQL with tests for each partial and invalid-cursor shape.

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Superseded: every finding from this round landed in 4ab649d. Re-reviewing the current head.

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The three asks from my last round are in and I checked each against the code rather than the commit message: std::slice::from_ref at the clippy site, incomplete plus a continuation on the REST list, and both read handlers back on AppError with the 503 and 404 cases tested. jatmn's three findings on this head are all real. I reproduced the first rather than reasoning about it, and it is worse than a metadata leak.

Findings

  • [P1] Derive the continuation cursor from an emitted row, never a scanned one
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:267
    last_examined is stamped from tasks.last() before task_visible runs, so the cap branch hands back the keyset position of a denied row. I added assert!(!body.to_string().contains("hidden-")) to denied_history_scan_stops_at_candidate_ceiling_and_signals_incomplete and it fails on {"count":0,"incomplete":true,"next_cursor":{"created_at":"2026-01-02T00:00:00Z","id":"hidden-0000"}}: an anonymous caller receives the id and creation time of a task whose GET /tasks/{id} deliberately 404s. That id is not inert. claim_task (db/mod.rs:2918) updates by id alone and returns the row's ucan_token and payload, and by #275's own description a NULL-assignee task stays open to the first claimer even after that lands, which is the row class this PR exists to hide. We hit this same shape on list_pins, and four remedies are already known not to work: base64 of the tuple (transport, not confidentiality), HMAC-signed plaintext (the plaintext still travels), omitting the cursor (starves a visible row sitting past a hidden stretch), and server-side scan state (unbounded growth on an unrated route, plus a restart silently restarting pagination at page one). An AEAD-sealed position with an expiry satisfies both halves. If you would rather not build that here, drop next_cursor, keep incomplete, and I will open the follow-up, because the anonymous exposure this PR closes is worth landing without it.

  • [P1] Return the collector's pagination state from the GraphQL resolver
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/graphql/query.rs:118
    Last round I offered to take the REST half and leave the resolver for a follow-up. Accepting afterCreatedAt/afterId here closes that option: the resolver now takes cursor input while Vec<AgentTaskReadType> discards incomplete and next_cursor, so a caller behind a hidden window gets an empty list with no way forward and no signal that anything was withheld. query.rs:686 shows the cost, since the test can only reach the older task by hard-coding afterId: "hidden-0999", a value no client can obtain. Return a page object carrying the items plus whatever safe continuation REST settles on.

  • [P2] Reject a half-supplied cursor instead of serving page one
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:357
    The zip over after_created_at/after_id (and the cursor_* aliases, and the same line in the resolver) turns a cursor missing one component into None, so a client that loses half its state gets a 200 with the first page and reprocesses rows it already saw. Parse the pair atomically and return a client error on a partial one.

Nothing else this round is an ask. gl task list prints the response verbatim so incomplete does reach the operator, the AppError conversion picks up the 503 and the opaque body for free, and the mirror fail-closed branch and token-free projections are unchanged and still correct. Heads up that #186 and #193 are editing the same gl/src/task.rs lines and #261, #262 and #196 the same server.rs block, so expect a rebase conflict whichever lands second.

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Pushed bce8de8 addressing both CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews on 4ab649d.

Stopped disclosing the denied row behind the scan wall. next_cursor was being stamped from the last examined candidate before task_visible ran, so a capped scan handed an anonymous caller the id/created_at of a task it was denied, the same id claim_task accepts by itself. Rather than build the AEAD-sealed continuation token this would need to stay resumable across a >1000-row hidden window (key management, expiry, context binding), I took the interim path beardthelion offered: next_cursor is gone from both REST and GraphQL responses. incomplete: true still tells the caller a page was truncated by the scan wall, but the only way to push past it is after_created_at/after_id set to a row the caller already legitimately received. Added a regression asserting the response body never contains a denied row's id, and left a comment on VisibleTasks explaining why no cursor is carried. A follow-up issue for the sealed continuation token is the next step if resuming past a wall in one request still matters.

Gave the GraphQL tasks resolver the same pagination state as REST. It accepted afterCreatedAt/afterId but discarded incomplete entirely, so a caller behind a hidden window got an indistinguishable empty list. tasks now returns TaskPageType { items, incomplete } instead of a bare list. Updated the resolver's existing tests to the new response shape and added assertions on incomplete in the ceiling and older-visible-row tests.

Rejected a half-supplied cursor pair on both surfaces. after_created_at without after_id (or the legacy cursor_* aliases) was zipping to None and silently restarting the caller at page one. Both REST and GraphQL now share one parse_after_cursor helper that requires the pair together and returns a 400 (AppError::BadRequest) / GraphQL error otherwise. Added a rejection test on each surface.

Verified: cargo build, cargo fmt --check, and the full CI matrix (fmt + clippy, test (stable), test (beta), test (windows, non-blocking), build --release, MSRV, cargo audit, Docker smoke test) are green on bce8de8.

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@euxaristia Full review complete. I found no blocking issues in bce8de8.

The shared collector now gates REST and GraphQL task reads consistently. The scan-wall response does not expose a denied task cursor. TaskPageType.incomplete is present on GraphQL. Partial cursor pairs return errors. The scoped repository lookup retains canonical selection and quarantine filtering. Read projections exclude ucan_token.

I also verified the REST tests use injected AuthenticatedDid values. The tests cover anonymous and authenticated unrelated callers, opaque 404 single-task denial, and non-leaking response bodies. This uses the repository API denial guidance provided for the review.

I performed static source review only. The sandbox does not permit build or test execution. Your reported CI results cover runtime verification.

[approve]


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File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-08-10T13:43:28.999Z
Learning: Applies to crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/**/*.rs : New gated handlers must test unauthorized authenticated callers and applicable anonymous callers, asserting exact denial statuses and non-leaking response bodies.

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Repo: Gitlawb/node PR: 0
File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-08-10T13:43:28.999Z
Learning: Applies to crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/**/*.rs : Unauthorized read surfaces must return the same 404 as a missing repository or withheld subtree, never a 403; do not apply this read behavior change to owner-gated mutations.

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beardthelion dismissed their stale review August 15, 2026 13:20

Superseded: re-reviewed at bce8de8.

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The cursor leak is closed and I confirmed it rather than taking the commit message for it: next_cursor is gone from both the REST body and the collector, incomplete now rides on the GraphQL page type as well, and the leak-closure assertions fail against the old response shape, so they are load-bearing. Two things I ran against bce8de8 still block.

Findings

  • [P1] Make the documented resume path work, or stop documenting it
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:189
    The doc comment promises a caller can keep paging with after_created_at/after_id set to the last row they received. I seeded a public task, then 1000 denied tasks, then an older public task, and paged as an anonymous caller: page one returns newer-visible, and page two anchored on that row returns count=0, incomplete=true. Every subsequent request re-walks the same 1000-row denied window and stops at the ceiling, so the older visible task is unreachable for good, not just expensive to reach. The two continuation tests hide this because they anchor on after_id=hidden-0999, a denied row's id no caller can ever obtain. Dropping the cursor was the right call and I am not asking for it back; either derive a continuation that discloses nothing (echoing the caller's own anchor plus a scan offset would do it) or say plainly in the comment that a caller behind a full denied window cannot advance.

  • [P2] Canonicalize after_created_at before it reaches the keyset compare
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:359
    created_at is written by Utc::now().to_rfc3339(), which renders the offset as +00:00 and never Z, and axum decodes + in a query string as a space. Since created_at is a text column compared as a tuple, the space sorts below the real value and the comparison silently drops rows sharing that timestamp. I seeded two tasks at 2026-01-02T00:00:00.000000+00:00: echoing the returned created_at verbatim into the anchor returned 0, while the same anchor percent-encoded returned 1. That is the encoding, not the tie-break. This is the path the P1 comment tells callers to use, and the suite cannot see it because every test seeds a Z-suffixed literal the server never produces. Parse and re-render the value with the insert-side writer and reject what will not parse, then add a pagination test that echoes a production-format timestamp.

  • [P3] Mark the release breaking
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/graphql/query.rs:120
    main's resolver returns Vec<AgentTaskType> and this one returns TaskPageType, so an existing { tasks { id } } selection stops parsing, and the item type dropped ucanToken on the way. That is the right call and I am not asking you to reshape it, but the PR ships as a plain fix(node): while the sibling breaking work is marked (#330 fix(node)!:, #331 feat(node)!:). Release automation is configured with bump-minor-pre-major, so the marker is the difference between a patch bump with a silent changelog and a minor bump that tells GraphQL consumers their query needs editing. Add the ! and a short BREAKING CHANGE note naming the new selection shape.

One note that is not an ask: the base is 11 commits behind main, and db/mod.rs is touched on both sides. Main's side is only the two certificate LIKE-escape fixes and it carries no task keyset code, so nothing here is a stale-base false alarm, but the rebase is worth doing before merge so the resolution does not land blind.

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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.

The cursor-leak fix on bce8de8 is real: next_cursor is gone from REST and the collector, TaskPageType.incomplete is on GraphQL, and partial cursor pairs return 400 on both surfaces. Those items from my earlier review are addressed on this head. beardthelion's three open items on the same commit are also still open — I verified each against the code, not the commit message.

On a second pass against main at merge-base 50d3cbbe, adjacent pre-existing gaps (ungated claim_task, ungated task_events) were removed from this review. What remains is PR-owned pagination and read-gate consistency work.


Why this PR keeps cycling through review (and how to stop)

This is not six unrelated bugs discovered one round at a time. It is one security-sensitive list API that was shipped in layers without ever locking the client-visible pagination contract. Each round fixed a real symptom; the next round exposed the next symptom of the same unresolved design fork. That is why feedback feels endless — reviewers are not inventing new scope, they are filling in holes around a contract that was never declared finished.

What this PR is actually trying to do (two hard problems at once)

  1. Authorization after fetchtask_visible runs on keyset pages, not in SQL. Correct for mirror/quarantine/dedup semantics, but it means the database row order and the visible row order diverge.

  2. A public pagination protocol — REST after_* / GraphQL afterCreatedAt/afterId, plus incomplete, on an endpoint that used to be a single LIMIT query with no continuation story.

Those two goals collide: any continuation derived from scan position risks leaking denied-row metadata (jatmn P1 on 4ab649d, beardthelion confirmation on bce8de8). Removing next_cursor fixed the leak but did not replace it with a safe continuation — only with incomplete and a doc line saying callers can page using the last row they received. That replacement path does not work for a full 1000-row denied prefix, which is exactly the threat model this gate was written for (dense repo-less history ahead of legitimate visible rows).

Until you explicitly choose and implement one continuation contract, every patch tends to:

  • fix the last reviewer’s scenario,
  • leave docs/tests claiming a stronger guarantee,
  • and fail on the next geometry (1000-row wall vs 200-row wall, production +00:00 vs test Z, exhaustive table vs truncated scan, read 404 vs complete 403).

That is the drip pattern. It will continue if the next push is another local fix without a contract decision.

What prior rounds already settled (do not re-litigate)

These are done on bce8de8 — further commits should preserve them, not reopen them:

Area Status
Anonymous/stranger cannot list/read repo-less or private tasks Gated; body-leak tests
ucan_token redacted on read surfaces REST + GraphQL schema
Shared collect_visible_tasks / get_visible_task for REST + GraphQL In place
Scoped list_repos_deduped_by_ids per batch In place
Mirror slash repo_id fail-closed for anon Tested
gl / MCP task list/view signed + error_for_status In place
incomplete flag on REST + GraphQL page type In place
Partial cursor pair → 400 In place
next_cursor / denied-row id in response Removed; assertions load-bearing
AppError / 503 on list/get In place

The remaining open items are not “the gate is wrong.” They are “the list pagination story was added alongside the gate but never brought to the same level of completeness as the gate itself.”

The unresolved fork (this is the real blocker)

You are choosing between two valid products. The project has been trying to ship both at once in prose (recoverable pagination + no denied-row leakage), which is impossible with raw keyset tuples.

Option A — Bounded, honest list Option B — Safe continuation
Promise “Within one request we scan up to 1000 candidates; you get what we can see; incomplete means we hit the wall and more may exist.” “You can resume past hidden windows without learning denied-row ids.”
Past full denied window Not supported with only visible-row anchors. Say that plainly. Supported via opaque token (anchor + scan offset + caller/filters + expiry).
Effort Docs + incomplete semantics + test rewrites + release-note honesty. ~small. Token encode/decode + validation + REST/GraphQL field + tests. ~larger; beardthelion offered follow-up issue if interim is A.
Sibling pattern collect_visible_ref_updates — internal cursor, no client continuation across withheld rows Pin/list cursor work elsewhere on the node if you have a sealed-token pattern to reuse

Merge-blocking requirement: pick A or B, implement it once in collect_visible_tasks, and make REST, GraphQL, comments, tests, and release notes all say the same thing. Half of A and half of B is what produces round after round of findings.

Why the current tests amplify drip

Several tests prove SQL keyset mechanics by supplying hidden-0999 — a denied-row id the API deliberately withholds. That made sense while validating “we can reach past-ceiling if we know an internal boundary.” It does not prove the documented client contract (“page with the last row you received”). CI stays green while the product contract in comments and PR text remains false for the 1000-row geometry beardthelion ran.

Similarly, pagination tests use Z-suffix timestamps the server never writes on create_task, so encoding/canonicalization bugs in the actual resume path stay invisible until a human echoes production JSON into a query string.

Guidance: when you fix pagination, replace these tests with ones that only use response-provided visible coordinates (or your new opaque token). Delete or rewrite tests that require denied-row ids as pagination input — they encode the wrong contract and train future reviewers to think the API is fine.

Secondary cluster: gate rolled out to reads only

Gating get_task without gating the existence signal on complete_task / fail_task introduced a new 403-vs-404 oracle. That did not exist on main when reads were open. This is a small, mechanical fix (route through get_visible_task before assignee checks) but it keeps appearing because it is part of the same theme: apply one visibility decision everywhere a caller learns whether a task id exists.

I am not asking you to gate claim_task or task_events in this PR — those were pre-existing; expanding scope there is how drip becomes scope creep. Fix the asymmetry this PR created on complete/fail.

What a “last review round” should look like

To avoid another CHANGES_REQUESTED cycle, treat the next push as a contract completion commit, not a bugfix grab bag:

  1. Write the contract — 10–15 lines at the top of collect_visible_tasks (or a short docs/ note linked from the module): what list guarantees, what incomplete means, whether cross-request resume exists, and what happens behind a full denied window.

  2. Implement the contract in one functioncollect_visible_tasks returns everything REST/GraphQL need (items, incomplete, and continuation only if Option B). No duplicate cursor logic in handlers.

  3. Centralize cursor parsing — one helper: canonical RFC3339, atomic pairs, reject mixed alias families, shared by REST and GraphQL.

  4. Fix incomplete semanticstrue only when the last batch was full and the ceiling was hit; false when the keyset stream is exhausted.

  5. Symmetrize mutationscomplete_task / fail_task use the same opaque not-found as get_task for invisible tasks.

  6. Rewrite tests to match the contract — include beardthelion’s 1000-row stuck scenario for Option A (expect stuck) or success path for Option B; production-format timestamp echo test; mixed-alias 400 test; stranger complete → 404 test.

  7. Release markerfix(node)!: + BREAKING CHANGE for GraphQL tasks shape and read-side ucanToken removal.

  8. Update PR description — remove “recoverable cursors” / “continuation indicators” language if you ship Option A; point to the contract paragraph instead.

If you do steps 1–8 together, the findings below collapse into one design decision plus mechanical follow-through. If you ship another partial fix (e.g. only timestamp parsing) without steps 1–2, expect another round on the remaining contract gap.

Optional scope split (if you want merge velocity)

If Option B token work is too large for this PR’s appetite:

  • Land Option A now with explicit “cannot cross full denied window” documentation and honest incomplete, plus the small fixes (timestamp, mixed aliases, complete/fail 404, breaking marker).
  • Open a tracked issue for sealed continuation (beardthelion already offered this on bce8de8) and reference it in the contract comment so reviewers do not re-ask for B in this PR.

Either path is mergeable. Undocumented limbo between A and B is not.


Root cause and implementation guidance

This PR correctly recognizes that a raw database keyset position is not a safe public pagination protocol after authorization removes rows. That is why next_cursor was removed.

Finish that decision in one place:

  1. One continuation contract in collect_visible_tasks, exposed identically from REST and GraphQL.

  2. Option A or B (table above) — implement fully; do not document the other.

  3. Shared cursor helper — canonical timestamps, reject mixed after_* / cursor_* families.

  4. Read gate on complete/fail — same opaque 404 as get_task.

  5. fix(node)!: — GraphQL list shape + read ucanToken removal.

api/events.rs collect_visible_ref_updates pages with an internal pre-filter cursor and does not expose client continuation across withheld rows. Task list either matches that honesty (Option A) or adds a token (Option B) — you already added client after_* params, so silence is not an option.


Findings

The items below are manifestations of the unresolved contract unless marked otherwise. Address them as a set per the “last review round” checklist above.

  • [P1] Make the documented resume path work, or stop documenting it
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:189
    collect_visible_tasks (~200–275), VisibleTasks doc (~183–191)

    What goes wrong. The doc says callers can keep paging with after_created_at/after_id set to the last row they received. That works when the denied prefix is shorter than one scan budget (your older_visible_task_is_not_hidden_by_newer_denied_window test uses only 200 hidden rows). It fails when a full MAX_TASK_SCAN_CANDIDATES (1000) denied window sits between two visible rows.

    Reproduction. As an anonymous caller: seed (1) a newer task on a public repo, (2) 1000 newer repo-less tasks owned by other parties, (3) an older task on the same public repo. GET /api/v1/tasks?limit=1 returns the newer task. Page two with after_created_at and after_id from that response: count=0, incomplete=true. Every repeat with the same anchor re-scans the same 1000 denied rows and stops at the ceiling; the older public task is never listable. Signed delegators hit the same geometry when 1000+ newer repo-less tasks from others precede their own rows in keyset order — list returns empty/incomplete while GET /tasks/{id} for their task still returns 200.

    Why. Each request spends up to 1000 candidate scans starting at the caller’s anchor, then stops. There is no scan offset carried across requests and no safe cursor. Anchoring on a visible row does not skip the denied stretch within the next request’s budget when that stretch is 1000 rows long.

    Why tests miss it. denied_history_scan_stops_at_candidate_ceiling_and_signals_incomplete and tasks_continuation_past_candidate_ceiling resume using hidden-0999 / hidden-{MAX-1} — ids no client can obtain after you removed next_cursor. They validate SQL keyset math, not the documented client contract.

    What to do. Pick Option A or B in the section above and implement the full checklist. Minimum for Option A: rewrite docs/comments/release notes; fix incomplete semantics (finding below); add visible_row_resume_stuck_behind_1000_denied_window that pages twice using only prior visible row coordinates and asserts the documented behavior. main had no keyset list pagination; this contract is new and currently wrong for the ≥1000-row denied-prefix layout.

  • [P2] Canonicalize after_created_at before it reaches the keyset compare
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:385
    parse_after_cursor (~385–395), list_tasks_keyset in db/mod.rs (~2904)

    What goes wrong. parse_after_cursor forwards raw query strings into (created_at, id) < ($3, $4) on a text column. Creates use Utc::now().to_rfc3339() → offsets like +00:00, never Z. Clients echoing created_at into a query string without encoding + as %2B get a space (Axum/form decoding). Lexicographic tuple compare then drops rows that share that timestamp.

    Reproduction. Seed two tasks with created_at = 2026-01-02T00:00:00.000000+00:00. List as delegator; echo returned created_at verbatim into after_created_at → 0 rows on the next page; same value with %2B encoded → expected rows.

    Why tests miss it. Pagination tests seed Z-suffix literals (2026-01-01T00:00:00Z) that production never writes on create.

    What to do. Part of the shared cursor helper (checklist §3): parse with chrono, reject unparseable values with AppError::BadRequest, re-render to canonical stored form before SQL. Test: create via create_task, list, page using returned created_at without manual encoding. Same helper for GraphQL.

  • [P2] Reject mixed REST cursor alias families
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:359
    list_tasks (~359–364), ListTasksQuery (~56–59)

    What goes wrong. list_tasks builds the cursor as after_created_at.or(cursor_created_at) paired with after_id.or(cursor_id). A client can send after_created_at from one page and cursor_id from another; parse_after_cursor accepts any (Some, Some) pair.

    Impact. Wrong keyset position → skipped visible rows, duplicates, or empty pages without error.

    What to do. Part of the shared cursor helper (checklist §3): one family per request; 400 on cross-family mix. Test: ?after_created_at=…&cursor_id=… → 400.

  • [P2] Do not report incomplete: true when the candidate stream is exhausted
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:270
    collect_visible_tasks (~264–270)

    What goes wrong. incomplete is visible.len() < limit && scanned >= MAX_TASK_SCAN_CANDIDATES with no check that the final SQL batch was partial. If the table has exactly 1000 matching rows, the last batch is full, and none are visible to the caller, you still set incomplete: true even though row 1001 does not exist.

    Impact. Clients retry forever on an exhaustive empty result — contradicts Option A’s “honest bounded scan” even if you document the denied-window limit.

    What to do. Checklist §4: set incomplete only when ceiling hit and last batch full. Test: exactly 1000 anonymous-invisible tasks → incomplete: false.

  • [P2] Return opaque not-found from complete_task and fail_task for unauthorized callers
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/api/tasks.rs:452
    complete_task (~452–472), fail_task (~505–525); graphql/mutation.rs mirrors

    What goes wrong. get_task uses get_visible_task (invisible → opaque 404). complete_task / fail_task use raw db.get_task: missing id → 404, non-assignee → 403. Signed stranger learns existence.

    Why PR-owned. On main, reads were open; this asymmetry is new.

    What to do. Checklist §5: visibility check before assignee logic; invisible → same AppError::NotFound as get_task. Test: stranger → GET 404 and POST complete 404, not 403.

  • [P3] Mark the GraphQL list shape change as breaking in the release
    crates/gitlawb-node/src/graphql/query.rs:120
    graphql/types.rs (TaskPageType, AgentTaskReadType)

    What changed. main: tasksVec<AgentTaskType> with ucanToken. This head: TaskPageType { items, incomplete } / AgentTaskReadType without ucanToken.

    What to do. Checklist §7: fix(node)!: + BREAKING CHANGE per #330 / #331 and bump-minor-pre-major.

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109-121: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Make task authorization atomic with task completion or failure.

get_visible_task reads repository visibility, but finish_task only updates rows matching the task ID and status='claimed'. If access is revoked between these operations, the caller can still complete or fail the task. Enforce the visibility and assignee checks in the same serialized database operation as the state transition.

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In `@crates/gitlawb-node/src/graphql/mutation.rs` around lines 109 - 121, Make the
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atomic: move the visibility and assignee validation into the same serialized
database operation that performs finish_task, ensuring a revoked caller cannot
complete or fail the task between the read and transition. Reuse the existing
did_matches semantics and preserve the current not-found and unauthorized
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Addressed the review findings in 6dfbc26:

  1. Timestamp canonicalization: parse_after_cursor normalizes URL-decoded spaces in ISO timestamps back to + and parses via chrono before SQL keyset comparison, returning 400 on invalid formats.
  2. Alias validation: Cross-family mixing between after_* and cursor_* parameter aliases is rejected with 400 Bad Request.
  3. Mutation read gates: complete_task and fail_task (REST and GraphQL) now verify task visibility via get_visible_task, returning 404 for unreadable tasks so existence is not leaked to strangers.
  4. Scan ceiling incomplete flag: incomplete: true is now only reported when the candidate ceiling is reached and the last SQL batch was full.
  5. Contract clarity: Documented the bounded 1,000-candidate scan contract on collect_visible_tasks and VisibleTasks.

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@coderabbitai full review

euxaristia and others added 27 commits August 25, 2026 18:55
…repo data

list_tasks and get_task had no authorization at all: any anonymous caller
could enumerate every task on the node, including another party's
repo-less task, its ucan_token, and its payload (Gitlawb#268). Add task_visible,
mirroring the repo read-visibility gate already used by the ref-updates
feed: the delegator and assignee can always read their own task, a
repo-scoped task follows that repo's normal visibility rules, and a task
naming no repo (or a repo this node doesn't host) is visible only to its
delegator/assignee. Both REST and GraphQL now route through the same
collect_visible_tasks/get_visible_task collectors so the two surfaces
cannot drift, and neither read path echoes ucan_token back, since the
holder already received it via the create/claim response.

Fixes Gitlawb#268
tasks_limit_ceiling_clamped_to_200 seeded 201 repo-less tasks and read
them back anonymously, expecting all 200. That read is exactly the
enumeration Gitlawb#268 closes, so the new visibility gate correctly returns
none of them and the test went red. The clamp ceiling is what this test
pins, not the gate, so query as the tasks' delegator, who can legitimately
see all 201 rows.

Refs Gitlawb#268
collect_visible_tasks loaded every repo on the node and every visibility
rule in order to gate at most 200 tasks, so an anonymous request paid for
the whole node's repo and rule set. Narrow both lookups to the repo ids the
fetched page actually names, and skip them when no task names a repo.

The deduped repo snapshot stays the source of truth for resolving a
repo_id: it collapses mirror and canonical pairs and omits quarantined
repos, and an id missing from it has to keep failing closed. Resolving ids
straight from the repos table would surface exactly those withheld rows.

Add GraphQL denial tests as well. Nothing pinned that the task resolvers
delegate to the shared collectors, so a resolver that queried the database
directly would not have gone red.

Refs Gitlawb#268
Canonicalize RFC 3339 timestamps in parse_after_cursor to handle URL-decoded spaces, reject mixed cursor alias families, gate complete_task and fail_task behind get_visible_task so unreadable tasks 404 instead of leaking existence with 403, and only flag incomplete when hitting candidate ceilings on full SQL batches.

Refs Gitlawb#268
Gate REST and GraphQL claim behind the same visibility check as complete and fail, refuse claim when another assignee already holds the task, and only broadcast publicly visible task events. Treat a full list page as incomplete when more candidates remain. Surface HTTP errors from CLI and MCP claim and complete helpers.

Refs Gitlawb#327

Co-Authored-By: cairn-code <cairn-code@users.noreply.github.com>
A full visible page was flagged incomplete whenever the SQL batch was full, so the first page of any list with more than 200 candidates looked stalled. Align the GraphQL claim test with the visibility gate's not-found message.

Refs Gitlawb#268
Review required tests that go red if the pre-assigned claim predicate or
the anonymous announce gate is deleted, and incomplete must not stay
true when the candidate stream is exhausted at the scan ceiling. Route
claim, complete, and fail through AppError so closed-pool outages stay
503 and 404s match the read envelope.

Refs Gitlawb#268
create_task stores the supplied assignee unchanged, so a raw SQL
equality check drops a designated assignee who presents the other
did:key form. Compare the normalized key so claim and filtered list
agree with did_matches.

Refs Gitlawb#268
- Add error_for_status() to cmd_create and task_create MCP tool
- Update test_create_task_server_error to assert failure on 500
- Add migration v18 creating expression index idx_agent_tasks_assignee_key matching ASSIGNEE_DID_CASE_SQL
- Add did:web:z6Mkfoo single-residual shape to parity boundary matrix

Refs Gitlawb#327
The task read path treated visibility, pagination, and error vocabulary as
separate edits, so each one broke where they met. Rework them as one contract.

A raw (created_at, id) cursor forced a choice between two broken options: it
could name the last visible row, and then a denied window longer than the
1,000-candidate scan budget was unpageable forever; or it could name the last
examined row, and then a denied read leaked the id and timestamp of a task
GET /tasks/{id} otherwise 404s. Continuation tokens remove the choice. They
carry the last examined candidate, so paging always advances a full scan budget
per request, and they are encrypted and authenticated under a node-derived key,
so the caller learns nothing from one and cannot forge one naming a row of
their choosing. Encryption is a synthetic-IV construction over the hmac/sha2
pair already used for webhook signatures, so it adds no dependency and needs no
randomness source.

Making the token the only accepted cursor also gives the ordering key one
domain. agent_tasks.created_at is TEXT and compared as TEXT, so a caller-typed
'...Z' and '...+00:00' denote one instant but sort differently, and a client
could silently skip or repeat same-time rows. The token carries the stored
string verbatim, so the value compared is always one the server wrote. The raw
after_*/cursor_* pairs are removed rather than kept alongside it, since a second
domain is the bug.

Separate the two facts the old single incomplete flag conflated: has_more says
candidates remain, incomplete says this page is short only because the
authorization scan hit its ceiling. Both REST and GraphQL now return has_more,
incomplete, and next_cursor from the shared collector, and REST echoes the limit
it actually applied so a clamped request is visible as clamped.

Have gl task list and MCP task_list follow next_cursor instead of issuing one
request: --limit 500 returned a successful but silently truncated 200 rows.
Following is bounded by a page cap and a no-progress guard, and a run stopped by
either reports an explicit incomplete result with a resume cursor.

Route claimTask, completeTask, and failTask through the same task_write_conflict
classifier the REST handlers use, via curated helpers in the graphql module so
the map_err source guard still holds. A claim race or stale finish reached
GraphQL clients as a generic database error while REST clients got an actionable
conflict; genuine sqlx faults stay opaque on both.

Refs Gitlawb#327
A short SQL batch means no rows exist past it, not that every row in it was
examined. When the page filled mid-batch the collector treated the two as the
same, marked the stream ended, and suppressed the continuation, so every row
after the one that filled the page was unreachable. The equal-timestamp paging
tests caught it: three rows with a limit of one returned only the first.

Track how much of each batch was consumed and end the stream only when the
whole of a short batch has been examined. Otherwise leave `has_more` to the
probe row, which resumes from the last examined candidate.

Refs Gitlawb#327
…der test

A `--limit 0` reached the node, which clamped it to zero and answered with
an empty page marked complete, so an invalid request read as proof that no
tasks exist. Reject a non-positive limit in `fetch_tasks()`, the helper the
CLI and MCP share, so the guard cannot drift between the two surfaces.

`task_write_sql_faults_stay_opaque` did not exercise what it named. Dropping
`updated_at` also broke the SELECT in `get_task()`, so the fault surfaced
from the `get_visible_task()` pre-check through `graphql_app_err` and never
reached `graphql_claim_conflict`. A `BEFORE UPDATE` trigger keeps every read
valid and faults only inside `Db::claim_task`, and the test now also asserts
that a write-time fault is not reclassified as a claim race.

Refs Gitlawb#268
…utes

A continuation token names the last candidate a scan examined, not the last
row it returned, so it encodes how far that scan got under one caller's
visibility. The MAC bound the page filter but not the presenting identity,
so resuming a token as a different caller started the scan past rows that
caller was entitled to read and dropped them from the answer with nothing
to signal the loss. Bind the caller's normalized DID into the MAC, with
anonymous flagged absent rather than encoded as empty. Normalization goes
through normalize_owner_key so the two spellings of one did:key identity
bind identically, matching did_matches on the read path: a caller who
presents the other form of their own DID keeps their own page. A mismatched
token renders the existing single rejection message, so this adds no oracle.

GET /api/v1/tasks and GET /api/v1/tasks/{id} are anonymously reachable, and
the visibility gate costs a task lookup plus deduped-repo and
visibility-rule queries before it can return the opaque 404. An
unauthenticated prober therefore pays nothing while the node pays per
request, whether or not the id exists. Attach the per-IP limiter already
used on /ipfs/{cid}, configurable through GITLAWB_TASK_READ_RATE_LIMIT and
swept by the periodic task like every other per-key limiter.

Refs Gitlawb#268
The per-IP brake added for the task read routes covered only
/api/v1/tasks*, so an anonymous caller reached the same
collect_visible_tasks and get_visible_task gate over /graphql with no
bucket at all. The fence had an open lane beside it.

Carry the brake as GraphQL request data and debit it in the tasks and
task resolvers rather than layering rate_limit_by_ip onto the GraphQL
router: /graphql is one endpoint for every operation, so a router layer
would charge unrelated queries and every mutation against the task-read
bucket. Debiting per resolved field also prices an aliased query
honestly, since ten aliased tasks fields run the gate ten times.

Extract RATE_LIMIT_MESSAGE so the GraphQL surface, which cannot return a
429 status inside a 200 envelope, refuses with the same text the REST
routes use.

/graphql/ws serves the query root as well and stays unbraked; closing it
needs a WebSocketUpgrade handler and is left for a follow-up.

Refs Gitlawb#268
Refs Gitlawb#327
…more from visible rows

- Cap aliased GraphQL task read fields per request using an atomic counter
  on TaskReadBrake (MAX_GRAPHQL_TASK_READS_PER_REQUEST = 5).
- Derive has_more in collect_visible_tasks by scanning for bounded_limit + 1
  visible rows, eliminating the un-gated keyset probe that could leak the
  presence of trailing denied tasks.
- Add regression tests covering aliased GraphQL capping and trailing denied
  task has_more privacy.

Refs Gitlawb#327
… batch boundary

When candidate scanning reaches MAX_TASK_SCAN_CANDIDATES without finding
a target_visible row and the final batch was full, probe the database for
rows beyond the scan position so an exhausted candidate stream is not
erroneously marked incomplete.

Refs Gitlawb#327
The scan-ceiling branch of collect_visible_tasks settles has_more with an
un-gated LIMIT 1 probe, so a caller can learn whether any row - readable
or not - trails the position the scan stopped at. Withholding the probe
does not remove that bit: enumeration past a denied window longer than
one scan budget requires handing back a continuation, and following that
continuation returns the same terminal page one round trip later.

State what the probe discloses (one bit, only at server-chosen positions
a full scan budget apart, reachable only through a MAC'd cursor, never a
denied row's id, payload or ucan_token) and pin it end to end. Also
correct the comment above the branch, which claimed has_more never comes
from an un-gated probe while the code below it did exactly that.

Refs Gitlawb#327
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Rebased onto main (73fd747) — conflict-free now. All 27 commits preserved; only
the two that conflicted changed content:

  • The migration renumbered v18 → v27 (main took 18-26 for pin-provenance while
    this was in flight). DDL unchanged; the rollback test moved with it.
  • main moved the limiter sweeper onto AppState::sweep_rate_limiters(), so the
    free fn here is gone and task_read_rate_limiter.cleanup() joins the method.

CI here will be red on crates/gl/src/whoami.rs — that is #380, not this branch,
and #381 fixes it. Rebased onto #381's head locally to check: clean fmt/clippy,
cargo test -p gl 387/387, cursor units 15/15. No file overlap between the two.
Should go green on a re-run once #381 lands, with no further push.

@jatmn @beardthelion — approvals were dismissed by the push; the diff since your
review is the two bullets above.

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please rebase on main an resolve failing ci

ran ci tests manually before this request and they still are failing.

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