feat(cli): edit caller profile through the public API

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Change

WS-CLI-001-02 — Public human self-profile editing.

Goal

Let humans and agent-driven terminals set or clear caller-owned profile fields
without another identity, authorization, or product implementation.

Intent And Planning Context

Bounded change
owns the scope, design, acceptance criteria and remaining risks. This is the
next user-authorized slice after #471, not a backend profile API change.

What Changed

• workstream profile update calls only public PATCH /api/v1/actors/me.
• Set or clear display_name / contact_email; omission stays absent and clear
  sends null. No actor or authority-field selector.
• Reuse the credential-safe transport, strict profile decoder and text/JSON
  renderer. Requests are bounded to 8 KiB; text validation remains server-owned.
• Report uncertain write outcomes explicitly without automatic retries or an
  invented replay/version contract.
• Extend executable HTTP and real API/PostgreSQL proof; reconcile the existing
  CLI guide, roadmap and initiative next boundary in this same PR.

Scope Control

Allowed files: CLI API/command/tests/README, root README, affected roadmap and
existing CLI Commitrail records/index. None outside the record's boundary.
No backend, MCP, workflow, dependency, migration, permission or product policy
change. No unit-test layer, test deletion, skip or percentage gate.

Product Behavior

• No Workstream product behavior changed. The CLI exposes an existing
  public human self-profile operation; Workstream owns authentication,
  requested-field authorization, lifecycle and persisted writes.

Evidence

Clean candidate: 276b9e302b4493bb3a12515f4813133444fbf09b.
Base: bcd0bd4987e4a17d058170adefe0f1abdfbd71d7.

Go 1.27.1 verify/tidy-diff/vet/build/gofmt, Ruff, links, stale wording,
Commitrail and the existing 16 workflow-integrity checks pass.
The frozen CGO-disabled executable reports the exact candidate revision and
vcs.modified=false. Full CLI process/API selection passed: 16 tests in 47.21s,
with no skipped tests. Isolated migrated PostgreSQL metadata records the same
head and verified database cleanup. The current-base workflow suite passed all
16 guards. Main's MCP changes are retained; shared ledger conflicts are resolved.

Acceptance Criteria Proof And Test Delta

Four new HTTP process tests independently cover:

• exact method/path/bearer/Content-Type, selected fields only, null versus omit,
  raw JSON and safe human output;
• no-input/conflict/unsupported-authority flags, invalid UTF-8 and request-size
  errors with zero network calls;
• lost response after body receipt, malformed/truncated/oversize success and
  5xx uncertainty, definite 4xx denials, exactly one request and safe text;
• redirect refusal with neither body nor bearer reaching the second origin.

The retained real API test additionally reads persisted normalized edits,
checks 200/320-character limits and invalid values, verifies omitted/null fields,
binds the caller profile, preserves another stored actor and denies a suspended
caller without persisting the proposed edit. Existing read regressions remain.

The initial new invalid-flag fixture expected a trailing output flag to be read
after parsing had already failed. It now selects JSON before the invalid flag;
the CLI guide documents that parser boundary. No denial or no-network assertion
was removed. Review also found that a complete 422 whose public error code
equals invalid_api_response was incorrectly marked uncertain. Classification
now follows transport/read/decode provenance, not public code text. The new
regression fails at the intended assertion on the previous candidate binary.
CodeRabbit additionally found a plain gateway 4xx misclassified as a definite
API denial. Classification now requires a parseable nonempty error.code
envelope for a known 4xx, independently of metadata spelling/redaction. The
gateway regression fails the predecessor at the intended 408 assertion.
Focused review also reproduced permissive case-folded/duplicate error members.
The existing strict JSON decoder now handles errors too; the predecessor fails
the new regression at the missing uncertainty marker. No parsing subsystem added.

Impact-Routed Reviewer Results

Advisory summaries for exact head 276b9e302b4493bb3a12515f4813133444fbf09b:

Track	Result	Open findings
Security	PASS AFTER FIXES	None
QA / test delta	PASS AFTER FIXES	None
Architecture	PASS AFTER FIXES	None
Documentation	PASS AFTER FIXES	None

Runs: security-ws-cli-001-02-envelope-276b9e30,
/root/cli_qa:ws-cli-001-02-final-envelope-replay,
architecture-ws-cli-001-02-276b9e30,
documentation-ws-cli-001-02-276b9e30.
These are mirrors of session reviews, not receipt custody or merge authority.
Plan inspection alone was not treated as implementation proof.

Proof quality: controlled built-process HTTP execution proves the transport
and output contract; real public API/PostgreSQL execution and stored caller /
foreign-actor reads prove persistence and isolation. Those proof boundaries are
compatible with the claims. Reviewers inspected shared artifacts and independently
checked relevant owners. The new collision regression fails the prior defective
binary and passes the repaired one. Production Flow deployment, concurrency
ordering and binary distribution are not certified by this evidence.

External Review

All hosted checks passed for 276b9e302b4493bb3a12515f4813133444fbf09b:

• Backend:
  nine lanes, auth preflight, CLI contract and required aggregate test passed.
• Agent Gates: passed.
• MCP Foundation: passed.
• Hosted CLI process/API proof:
  16 passed in 29.23s.

CodeRabbit: not fresh on the current head (review rate limited). Its earlier
substantive finding is fixed, replied to and resolved. Current exact-head internal
reviews cover the repairs; a green rate-limit status is not reviewer approval.
There are no unresolved review threads. Human approval remains required.

CI And Gate Integrity

• No workflows, lanes, required fan-in, dependencies or runner configuration changed.
• No tests removed, skipped or weakened; existing complete-suite proof remains required.
• No coverage-percentage gate or package-script weakening introduced.

Remaining Risks And Human Review Focus

Inspect omission/null and uncertain execution: a failed PATCH response is not
proof of rollback. No automatic retry, preflight GET, idempotency key or version
guard is invented. Inspect whoami before manually retrying; a later read does
not establish global ordering against concurrent edits. Contact text is not
the caller's Flow login. This does not enable service-actor editing or publish
release binaries; deployed Flow and distribution proof remain separate.
The error envelope is a contract signal, not cryptographic proof of its producer;
the CLI relies on the explicitly configured trusted API origin and TLS.

Human Merge Ownership

• I can explain what changed and why.
• I know what could break and accept the remaining risks.
• The user explicitly approved this specific PR for merge.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The CLI adds profile update to set or clear the caller’s display name and contact email through the public PATCH API. It validates update selections, renders successful profile responses as text or JSON, and reports uncertain write outcomes without retrying.

Changes

Self-profile editing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
PATCH contract and outcome handling cli/internal/api/client.go, .commitrail/initiatives/WS-CLI-001/WS-CLI-001-02.md, cli/tests/integration/test_http_boundary.py	The API client sends selected profile fields, supports explicit clearing, and enforces input and request-size checks. PATCH transport, response, and status handling distinguishes uncertain outcomes from complete 4xx denials. Boundary tests check request bodies, errors, redirects, and no-retry behavior.
CLI command, integration proof, and delivery records cli/internal/command/command.go, cli/tests/integration/test_public_self_service.py, cli/README.md, README.md, .commitrail/initiatives/WS-CLI-001/OVERVIEW.md, .commitrail/INDEX.md, docs/roadmap_status.md	The CLI adds profile-update flags and uses shared profile rendering. Integration tests cover persisted updates, field limits, clearing fields, caller isolation, and suspended-actor denial. Documentation and initiative records describe the delivered command and remaining boundaries.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor Caller
  participant Command as profile update command
  participant Client as api.Client
  participant API as Public REST API
  Caller->>Command: Provide set or clear flags
  Command->>Client: UpdateProfile with selected fields
  Client->>API: PATCH /api/v1/actors/me
  API-->>Client: Profile response or error response
  Client-->>Command: Decoded profile or Failure
  Command-->>Caller: Text or JSON output

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 334c8

The new profile update command works as described. In a narrow case, a 4xx reply from an intermediary could be reported as a definite failure when the write outcome is actually unclear. This is a bounded edge case and does not block merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 334c8

The new command preserves caller-only profile permissions and does not automatically repeat writes whose outcome is uncertain. No introduced security issue was established. Some interruption and recovery behavior remains supported by source inspection rather than operational proof.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The new command's supported mutation scope is the authenticated human's own display name and contact email. It supplies no actor selector or authority-field selector, and the backend derives and checks the target identity. The inspected path does not grant cross-actor or role-management authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The bearer credential crosses the CLI-to-API boundary through a validated HTTPS origin or loopback HTTP origin. Credential-bearing origins are rejected, proxying is disabled, and redirects are refused. Backend identity resolution binds the verified token to the actor and identity link before self-update authorization.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Profile row locking and the request transaction contain partial field writes, while request-scoped session lifetime is managed by an AsyncSession context manager. Concurrent writes remain last-writer-wins rather than version-checked. Reading the profile after an uncertain outcome shows current state but cannot establish which concurrent write produced it.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 5.88% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 17 functions across 4 files. (6 skipped: 6…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: adding caller profile editing to the CLI through the public API.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the change, intent, scope, behavior, evidence, acceptance proof, tests, review results, risks, and human merge ownership. It omits some template headings, including “Why It Ch…

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 5.88% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 17 functions across 4 files. (6 skipped: 6 unsupported.)

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📥 Commits

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• .commitrail/INDEX.md
• .commitrail/initiatives/WS-CLI-001/OVERVIEW.md
• .commitrail/initiatives/WS-CLI-001/WS-CLI-001-02.md
• README.md
• cli/README.md
• cli/internal/api/client.go
• cli/internal/command/command.go
• cli/tests/integration/test_http_boundary.py
• cli/tests/integration/test_public_self_service.py
• docs/roadmap_status.md

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