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+# RFC 0001: Hardening and developer-experience roadmap
+
+**Status:** Draft
+**Date:** 2026-08-28
+**Author:** Matthew Demidoff
+
+## Summary
+
+A prioritized roadmap for the next round of work: make the data durable,
+give the worker and queue path real CI coverage, pay down the largest
+code-health debts, and finish or cull the half-built features. Nothing
+here changes product behavior; each item is an independent workstream
+that can land as its own PR.
+
+## Motivation
+
+The service is in production and other applications depend on it for
+sign-in. The code-level discipline (migrations, tests, CI gates) is
+ahead of the operational story: everything runs on a single host, the
+queue worker is the least-tested component, and a few features exist
+only as schema plus read paths. This RFC exists to agree on the order
+of work before any of it starts.
+
+## Proposal
+
+Ordered by risk reduction per unit of effort.
+
+### 1. Automated offsite database backups plus a restore drill
+
+The postgres volume is the only copy of every account. Add a scheduled
+dump (or WAL archiving) shipped to offsite object storage, with
+retention, and a documented, rehearsed restore path in runbooks/.
+No other item on this list matters if this one is missing.
+
+### 2. Queue coverage in CI
+
+The verify job has no Redis service, so the bullmq path is only ever
+compile-checked; the recent bullmq 6 major went out with a manual local
+smoke as the sole runtime proof. Add a Redis service to CI and an
+integration test that does an enqueue -> worker -> completed/failed
+round trip against the real queue.
+
+### 3. Worker hardening
+
+worker.js is ~800 lines of untyped JS shipped alone into its own image
+with a hand-maintained env contract. Move it to type-checked TS (or
+checkJs), share the config validation with the app where the contracts
+overlap, and add a test that asserts the worker boots with exactly the
+env the compose file provides.
+
+### 4. Typed server-action results
+
+Actions currently throw Error and the UI renders err.message. Production
+builds mask thrown action messages, so real deployments degrade to
+generic errors. Migrate mutating actions to typed { ok } | { error }
+returns; the forms already have the state handling to render them.
+
+### 5. Split lib/server/services/oauth.ts
+
+At ~1400 lines it now covers authorize, token, client auth, metadata,
+and userinfo. Split by responsibility (behavior-preserving, its own PR,
+no logic changes) so future security-sensitive diffs stay reviewable.
+
+### 6. Finish or cull half-built features
+
+- subscriptions: read, enforce, and revoke exist but nothing creates a
+  row. Decide: admin grant UI as the origination path, or drop the tab
+  until billing exists.
+- TERMS_VERSION: stored on acceptance but never re-checked. Add the
+  re-acceptance flow or remove the version gate.
+- ioredis exact pin: bullmq 6 made ioredis an optional peer dependency,
+  so the historical reason for the exact 5.11.1 pin is gone; relax to a
+  caret range in a routine dependency PR.
+
+### 7. Security review backlog
+
+Findings from the private security review remain triaged outside this
+repository and are intentionally not enumerated here. Schedule them as
+their own hardening pass after items 1 and 2.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+- Track all of this as issues instead: scatters the ordering discussion
+  and loses the single reviewable artifact.
+- A larger infra migration (managed Postgres, split hosts): more
+  durable long-term, but item 1 delivers most of the risk reduction now
+  and does not preclude it.
+
+## Open questions
+
+- Backup target and tooling: plain pg_dump on a schedule vs WAL-G, and
+  which object store.
+- Is a staging environment worth running on the current footprint, or
+  is the scratch-database dev flow enough for now?
+
+## Addendum: expansion vectors
+
+Candidates that surfaced while scoping items 1-7. None are committed;
+each is a one-line pointer so the ordering discussion stays in this
+document. Within each group, ordered by risk reduction per unit of
+effort, as above. Items marked (landed) merged while this RFC was in
+review.
+
+### Top picks
+
+1. Capture unhandled errors structurally: onRequestError, error
+   boundaries, pool and process 'error' handlers, stacks in log lines.
+   (landed)
+2. Add an external uptime probe and a dead-man's switch so a dead host,
+   tunnel, worker, or bot is noticed from outside the host.
+3. Rewrite host secret handling: env file outside the checkout, tunnel
+   token via environment, a per-secret rotation matrix that names each
+   secret's consumers, restart set, and overlap procedure.
+4. Add a release-age cooldown to Dependabot updates. (open PR)
+5. Add an authorization-matrix regression test over every route handler
+   and server action, with an explicit allowlist for public endpoints.
+6. Boot the production runner image in CI and run Playwright against it
+   instead of the dev server; requires the Redis service from item 2.
+7. Encrypt offsite backups and escrow what a dump does not contain: the
+   signing key and the env file, without which a restore cannot issue
+   tokens.
+8. Generalize operator alerting beyond webhook events and send a daily
+   digest, so a dead alert channel is itself visible.
+
+### Further vectors
+
+Observability:
+- Bound and instrument outbound vendor calls (Telegram, Resend,
+  Turnstile) with one timeout-carrying helper.
+- Carry the request id into security events and emit one completion line
+  per API request.
+- Harden the bot loop: backoff, timeouts, structured logs, and a
+  healthcheck.
+- Extend runbooks/oncall.md to the bot, a stuck worker, vendor outages,
+  Redis, disk, and key rotation.
+- Define SLIs and threshold alerts from data the service already
+  records.
+- Turn on Postgres query observability and per-process application_name.
+- Add runtime kill switches: pause registration, pause issuance, revoke
+  all sessions.
+
+Testing and CI:
+- Add an authenticated end-to-end journey to the Playwright suite.
+- Run the published SDK against the real server as a CI contract test.
+- Integration-test the login and registration policy in
+  services/auth.ts.
+- Unit-test the security-boundary helpers that have no tests.
+- Assert schema equivalence between the fresh-migration and schema.sql
+  upgrade paths.
+- Add a lint gate to CI.
+- Run the OpenID conformance suite against an ephemeral stack before the
+  oauth.ts split, as its behavior oracle.
+- Bring bot/ and scripts/ under CI.
+
+Supply chain and deploy:
+- SHA-pin actions; add CodeQL and secret scanning; use a least-privilege
+  token.
+- Track container base images with Dependabot and pin by digest.
+- Build and publish images from CI; deploy by tag instead of rebuilding
+  on the host.
+- Codify the deploy as pre-flight, migrate, health gate, roll back on
+  failure.
+- Lint the environment contract across code, compose, and .env.example;
+  extend boot-time validation from presence to shape.
+- Fence production from the dev tooling that shares its host.
+- Harden the migration runner: advisory lock, statement timeouts, no
+  crash loop on failure.
+
+Secrets and resilience:
+- OIDC signing-key rotation tooling, age tracking, and a documented
+  overlap procedure.
+- Define and test the Redis-unavailable behavior of every auth-critical
+  path; add command and connect timeouts to the app Redis client.
+- Cache discovery and JWKS responses; memoize session resolution per
+  render and throttle the last_seen_at write.
+- Compose hardening: file-backed secrets, network segmentation, Redis
+  auth and maxmemory, uniform container flags.
+- Account for the proxy's own pg pool in the connection budget; bound
+  webhook delivery concurrency in the worker.
+
+Sign-in hardening:
+- Issue one-time recovery codes as an offline second-factor fallback.
+- Centralize rate-limit policy and cover the remaining unauthenticated
+  OAuth and WebAuthn entry points; key OAuth limits per client_id.
+- Bound request body size in requestBody().
+- Raise the scrypt work factor to the current floor and rehash on login.
+- Treat a denied sign-in prompt as a compromise signal; cap outstanding
+  prompts per account.
+- Show device and location context in approval prompts and the session
+  list.
+- Bring the Telegram Login Widget sign-in path to parity or remove it.
+- Require user verification for passkey sign-in; persist backup flags.
+- Add CSP violation reporting; tighten response headers and the session
+  cookie.
+- Put every one-time-code check behind one hardened helper.
+
+OAuth protocol and integrator contract:
+- Reconcile the activation status, list, and webhook payload contract.
+- Webhook self-service for app owners: delivery log, redeliver, test
+  event, re-enable; retire callbackUrl.
+- Make public clients usable: CORS on token/userinfo/jwks,
+  WWW-Authenticate, userinfo POST.
+- Standardize 429 and error envelopes across OAuth and activation
+  endpoints; cursor pagination and strict idempotency on the activation
+  API.
+- Give dynamically registered clients an owner and a management surface
+  (RFC 7592).
+- Add ID-token verification, discovery, and a webhook parser to the SDK.
+- Emit or remove the four reserved webhook event types; emit
+  grant-revocation events for user, owner, and admin revocations.
+- Skip consent for already-granted scopes; make prompt=none silent.
+- Let app owners choose client type and token-endpoint auth method with
+  least-privilege defaults.
+- Define the resource-server story: document access-token claims and
+  allow a registered resource server to introspect.
+- Publisher identity on the consent screen: client metadata and a
+  verified tier.
+- Implement OIDC back-channel logout with a sid claim.
+- Support loopback redirects with a variable port (RFC 8252) and
+  private-use schemes.
+- Publish a server API changelog and a deprecation policy.
+
+Account lifecycle and privacy:
+- Add a transaction helper and wrap multi-statement writes.
+- Add retention sweeps for the tables the hourly hygiene loop skips.
+- Complete the account data export and remove the 100-event cap.
+- Extend user notifications beyond four Telegram-only events; add an
+  email fallback; notify support thread participants on replies.
+- Show app status and last use on the Connected apps page.
+- Make the user activity trail readable, complete, and paginated.
+
+UI and accessibility:
+- Add mobile navigation to the account and admin shells.
+- Replace the three hand-rolled overlays with one focus-managed dialog.
+- Require confirmation for secret rotation and webhook disable/delete.
+- Make the shared Row grid and dense list rows responsive.
+- Route-level error boundaries inside the app shell. (landed)
+- Automate the accessibility bar: axe in e2e, a mobile viewport project.
+- Extend the Field primitive to textarea, select, and checkbox.
+- Mark the current page, add a skip link, name icon-only controls.
+
+Documentation:
+- Document shipped contract features missing from the integrator docs.
+- Fix the public docs index and remove references to ignored paths.
+- Document the worker's sweep loops and the data-retention contract.
+- Publish security.txt and complete the disclosure policy in
+  SECURITY.md.
+- Replace the design-era stack docs with a current architecture
+  overview.
+- Make docs/ the single source for developer docs.
+- Add CONTRIBUTING.md with a real local-dev path.
+
+### Private security backlog
+
+Findings from the private security review are tracked outside this
+repository and are intentionally not enumerated here (see item 7).
+Everything in this addendum is limited to work that is safe to discuss
+in public.