Phase 0 of the ClusterClient→gRPC migration
(docs/plans/2026-07-22-clusterclient-to-grpc-plan.md). Standalone hardening: it
closes a gap that exists today and is a precondition for moving command/control
onto gRPC in later phases.
T0.1 — delete the ManagementActor ClusterClientReceptionist registration.
It was built for an out-of-cluster CLI that was never written: the shipped CLI
speaks HTTP Basic to /management, which asks the actor in-process through
ManagementActorHolder. Nothing in the repo ever sent to /user/management. The
actor still runs there; only the cross-boundary advertisement is gone. Six
documents claimed the CLI used ClusterClient — including the CLI's own README
"Architecture Notes" — and are corrected here rather than left to rot.
T0.2 — record, do not port, the dead integration-routing path.
IntegrationCallRequest is unwired at BOTH ends: RouteIntegrationCallAsync has
zero callers anywhere, and RegisterLocalHandler(Integration, …) appears only in
a test, so production always answers "Integration handler not available". It is
excluded from the gRPC contract (28 of 29 commands migrate) rather than
enshrined on an additive-only wire format, and deleting it during a
transport migration would mix a behavioural change into a change whose whole
value is that behaviour is identical. See
docs/known-issues/2026-07-22-integration-call-routing-is-dead-code.md.
T0.3 — preshared-key authentication on SiteStreamService.
The service shipped with no auth at all: plaintext h2c, no interceptor, so
anything that could reach a site node's :8083 could open a live data stream or
read audit rows back via PullAuditEvents/PullSiteCalls. ControlPlaneAuthInterceptor
now gates /sitestream.SiteStreamService/ — modeled on LocalDbSyncAuthInterceptor
(constant-time compare, fail-closed, PermissionDenied) but gating a SET of
service prefixes so phases 1A/1B add services rather than interceptors. LocalDb
sync keeps its own separate key: it authenticates the pair partner, not central,
and collapsing the two would make a site's central-facing key also admit writes
into its database.
Keys are per site (SB-GRPC-PSK-<siteId>), never fleet-wide, so a compromised
site yields only its own. Central attaches them through ControlPlaneCredentials,
which binds CallCredentials to the channel — covering unary and streaming
uniformly, and letting the key resolve asynchronously, which a client
interceptor could not do without blocking. All three central→site channel
creation sites go through it (SiteStreamGrpcClient and both audit pull invokers);
the pull invokers' channel caches are re-keyed by (site, endpoint) because
credentials are per-site and bound to the channel.
Two decisions beyond the plan:
* StartupValidator now requires GrpcPsk on Site nodes. The plan specified only
the runtime gate, but fail-closed with no boot check produces a node that
joins, answers heartbeats and reports healthy while refusing every stream,
audit pull and telemetry ingest — silent and total. Same reasoning as the
existing inbound API-key pepper rule.
* Added Communication:SitePsks as a central-side key map. The plan assumed
central would read the store, seeded via a dev KEK; the docker rig
deliberately boots with no master key, so store-only resolution would leave
it unable to dial its own sites. The store stays primary — it is the only
source that can serve a site added at runtime — with the map covering
key-less hosts and one-off pins. Neither source falling back to
"unauthenticated" is the invariant.
T0.4 — dev keys on both rigs and tests.
34 tests. The seven that matter most exercise a real in-process gRPC stack over
TestServer: the unit tests on either side of the wire would both stay green if
the halves disagreed, and gRPC refuses call credentials on a plaintext channel
by default — the UnsafeUseInsecureChannelCallCredentials opt-in is only provable
by making a real call. They confirm correct key passes on unary AND streaming,
wrong key and no-credentials both get PermissionDenied, and an unresolvable key
fails the call with nothing reaching the service.
OPERATIONAL: a site node upgraded to this build without a key will not boot.
That includes the gitignored deploy/wonder-app-vd03/ overlay.
Closes the operator parity gap the deferred-work register tracked as #12: native
alarm source overrides could only be set one-at-a-time, while attribute overrides
had a CSV bulk path. Adds an all-or-nothing CSV import for native sources.
- Commons: extract the RFC-4180 line splitter into a shared CsvLineSplitter
(refactor OverrideCsvParser onto it — no behavior change, pinned by its tests);
new NativeAlarmSourceOverrideCsvParser (header SourceName,Connection,
SourceReference,Filter; blank = inherited).
- Commons: NativeAlarmSourceOverrideEntry + bulk SetInstanceNativeAlarmSource-
OverridesCommand (auto-registered via the reflection command registry).
- ManagementService: Deployer-gated handler — flattens once, validates every
source resolves + is unlocked + no duplicates up front, then upserts the whole
batch under a single SaveChanges (true all-or-nothing txn). Added to the frozen
authorization matrix; dispatch-coverage guard passes.
- CLI: `instance native-alarm-source import --instance-id --file` (parity with
`instance import-overrides`) + README.
- Tests: native parser (Commons), CLI parse/entry mapping, 3 bulk-handler tests
(happy path single-commit, locked-source reject, unresolved-source reject).
Also corrects a stale XML-doc line in ScriptRuntimeContext (WaitForAttribute
quality-gated mode is shipped, not "planned") and updates the deferred-work
register: marks #7/#13/#15/#16/#20 verified-resolved, #12 as CLI/API-shipped with
only the Central UI upload affordance still pending.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MtdgwpEeCUn6cUA5f1LMPj
Made CommunicationService.TrustServerCertAsync/RemoveServerCertAsync/ListServerCertsAsync virtual to support the test seam (mirrors existing virtual WriteTagAsync).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MtdgwpEeCUn6cUA5f1LMPj
Made CommunicationService.BrowseNodeAsync/SearchAddressSpaceAsync/VerifyEndpointAsync virtual to support the test seam (mirrors existing virtual WriteTagAsync).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MtdgwpEeCUn6cUA5f1LMPj
Additive UpdateSmtpConfigCommand params (OAuth2Authority/OAuth2Scope),
preserve-on-null handler application, CLI --oauth2-authority/--oauth2-scope
on smtp update, Central UI text inputs shown only for the OAuth2 auth type,
and the Component-NotificationService doc paragraph with M365 defaults.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MtdgwpEeCUn6cUA5f1LMPj
Add IsLocked to ResolvedNativeAlarmSource; FlatteningService skips overrides on a
locked source (mirrors attribute/alarm lock rules); ManagementActor SetInstanceNativeAlarmSourceOverride
flattens the instance and rejects an override on a locked source (and rejects a
canonical name that does not resolve, preventing dangling overrides).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MtdgwpEeCUn6cUA5f1LMPj
CompileAndRegister only swaps the cached handler on a successful compile, so a
management (or DB) save of a non-compiling inbound script silently kept the
previously-registered handler serving — stale results, still HTTP 200 — while
UpdateApiMethod reported success. A broken save thus looked like a no-op, with
the real Roslyn error only in the central log.
Surface the diagnostics instead: a new CompileAndRegister(method, out errors)
overload reports the compile/trust-model errors (the bool overload is kept for
existing callers), and HandleCreate/UpdateApiMethod return them as a top-level
compileWarning on the management result (null when the script compiled). The
save still persists and the previously registered version keeps serving — the
warning just stops a non-compiling save from looking like a success.
- InboundScriptExecutor: Compile returns its diagnostics alongside the handler.
- ManagementActor: TryCompileAndDescribe + flat ApiMethodResult projection so
compileWarning rides at the top level without polluting the ApiMethod POCO.
- Component-InboundAPI.md: document the non-fatal-but-surfaced contract.
- Tests: executor diagnostics + non-compiling-update-keeps-previous-handler,
plus an end-to-end ManagementActor test asserting compileWarning is returned.
Derived templates store IsInherited placeholder rows mirroring inherited
members, but a base member added/changed/removed AFTER a child was derived
never reached the child — leaving the editor's editable tabs incomplete (#1)
and stored rows drifted from the resolved set (#2).
Fix (one order-independent reconcile, two entry points):
- Auto-propagation: every attribute/alarm/script add/update/delete now
reconciles the template's derived subtree (TemplateService.ReconcileDescendantsAsync),
hooked into all member-mutating paths incl. native-alarm-source CRUD in the
ManagementActor.
- Resync: ResyncInheritedMembersAsync repairs a template + its subtree on
demand — materialize missing placeholders, re-sync drifted ones, remove
orphans, across attributes/alarms/scripts/native sources. Exposed as
management ResyncInheritedMembersCommand (Designer-gated, audited) → CLI
`template resync-members` → a Resync button on the editor's staleness banner.
Reconcile drives off TemplateInheritanceResolver (same precedence + HiLo merge
as deploy), only ever touches IsInherited placeholders (never an authored
override), and matches the staleness comparison keys so the banner clears.
BuildDerivedTemplate now also materializes native-source placeholders at
compose time (previously omitted → any inherited native source was perpetually
stale).
Tests: +8 TemplateServiceTests (materialize / drift-update / orphan-remove /
override-untouched / base-cascade / multi-type / direct-propagate / end-to-end
add) + 1 ManagementService test fix (native-source add resolves TemplateService).
Affected suites green: TemplateEngine 446, ManagementService 230, CentralUI 866,
CLI 333, Transport 127, ConfigurationDatabase 307; full solution builds 0/0.
Docs: Component-TemplateEngine.md "Inherited-Member Propagation & Resync";
CLI README `template resync-members`; known-issues tracker #1/#2 resolved.
Code-review finding UI-Med-2: the design doc + delivery adapter treat FromNumber and
MessagingServiceSid as either-or, but the entity ctor, EF schema, UI and CLI all hard-
required FromNumber — so a Messaging-Service-only Twilio config (a normal production
setup) could not be created. Bring the implementation into line with the spec:
- Commons: SmsConfiguration.FromNumber -> string? (ctor fromNumber optional);
UpdateSmsConfigCommand.FromNumber -> string?.
- ConfigurationDatabase: FromNumber.IsRequired(false) + migration SmsFromNumberOptional
(ALTER COLUMN nullable, idempotent; Down backfills '' — harmless, MsgSid keeps it
deliverable) + regenerated model snapshot.
- Transport: SmsConfigDto.FromNumber -> string? (round-trips a Messaging-Service-only config).
- CentralUI: form validation requires AccountSid + at-least-one-of(FromNumber, MsgSid);
nullable create/edit paths; From-number help text.
- CLI: --from-number no longer Required; BuildUpdateSmsConfigCommand validates the either-or.
- Adapter: From branch null-forgiving (guarded by the existing incomplete-config check).
Tests: ManagementActor MsgSid-only persists null FromNumber; CLI MsgSid-only builds +
neither-throws + contract (--from-number not Required); CentralUI MsgSid-only save.
Joseph Doherty