feat(cli): reverse migration (stash decrypt) for moving columns back to plaintext by calvinbrewer · Pull Request #1193 · cipherstash/stack

calvinbrewer · 2026-10-13T17:33:45Z

Summary

We tell buyers that leaving CipherStash is easy: decryption is never charged, decrypt your data and go. Until now the CLI only moved data one way. This adds stash decrypt status|plan|backfill|drop, the encrypt lifecycle run in reverse, with the same safety rails, on the same engine.

decrypt plan      add a nullable plaintext twin per EQL v3 column (type mapped back from its domain)
  → deploy dual-writes (app writes the encrypted column AND its plaintext twin)
decrypt backfill  decrypt every row into the twin: resumable, one ZeroKMS request per chunk
  → switch reads to the plaintext column and deploy
decrypt drop      generate the migration that drops the encrypted column and its EQL indexes
decrypt status    where each column stands

Command reference

stash decrypt status
stash decrypt plan                                       # read-only overview of every EQL v3 column
stash decrypt plan --table users [--column email_encrypted] [--plaintext-column email] [--migrations-dir db/migrations] [--dry-run]
stash decrypt backfill --table users --column email_encrypted [--plaintext-column email] [--chunk-size 500] \
  [--pk-column id] [--confirm-dual-writes-deployed] [--force | --confirm-plaintext-current] [--continue-on-undecryptable]
stash decrypt drop --table users --column email_encrypted [--plaintext-column email] [--migrations-dir …] [--uninstall-eql]

--column always names the column being migrated away from, which here is the encrypted one. --plaintext-column is the twin; it defaults to the pairing a previous reverse run recorded, then the original name in .cipherstash/migrations.json, then the name without _encrypted, then <column>_plaintext. A flag that contradicts a recorded pairing is refused.
Flags, prompts, non-interactive behaviour, SIGINT handling, output and error handling match encrypt backfill/encrypt drop: --confirm-dual-writes-deployed, --pk-column, --migrations-dir, generic error text for anything not author-controlled.
--force overwrites plaintext already in the twin from the ciphertext; --confirm-plaintext-current keeps it. One of them is required on the first run when the twin already holds values (see "Existing plaintext" below). --chunk-size is a whole number from 1 to 32767: each row binds two parameters in the chunk's write, and Postgres allows 65535 per statement.

Example (from the live run below):

◇  Reverse plan
│    + users.email_encrypted (eql_v3_text_search) → email text: add the plaintext twin — npx stash decrypt plan --table users --column email_encrypted
│    + users.age_encrypted (eql_v3_integer_ord) → age integer: …
│    + users.profile_encrypted (eql_v3_json_search) → profile jsonb: …

Design decisions

Shape. stash decrypt … rather than encrypt backfill --reverse, as the issue preferred. There is no cutover command because the forward EQL v3 lifecycle has none either (it was removed with v2): the application switches reads by name, and both decrypt backfill's closing note and decrypt drop's note say what to change for Drizzle, Prisma Next and plain SQL.

decrypt plan writes, encrypt plan does not. The issue asks plan to add the twins, so with --table it generates them; with no flags it is the read-only overview encrypt plan is. For Drizzle it prints the schema lines (email: text('email'),, bigint(…, { mode: 'bigint' }), timestamp(…, { withTimezone: true })) for drizzle-kit generate and writes no file, on purpose: a --custom ADD COLUMN never reaches drizzle-kit's snapshot, so the next generate would emit it again and fail with "column already exists" (the trap the eql repair docs describe). Elsewhere it writes a reviewed ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS migration through the same writer encrypt drop uses; Prisma Next gets the contract change to make.

Shared code, not a second implementation. The forward keyset loop is extracted into runChunkedMigration in @cipherstash/migrate; runBackfill now runs on it with identical SQL, events and event details (the existing forward integration suite passes unchanged), and runDecryptBackfill runs on it too. Batch sizing, cursoring, checkpoint-in-the-same-transaction, resume after interruption, signal handling and the target IS NULL idempotency guard are therefore literally the same code. The keyset page and pending-count queries are one function with source and target swapped. In the CLI, the migration-file writer, table renderer and PK detection moved to encrypt/lib and are used by both families.

State. Reverse events (decrypt_dual_writing, decrypt_started, decrypt_checkpoint, decrypted, encrypted_dropped; phases decrypt-dual-writing → decrypting → decrypted → encrypted-dropped) are recorded in cs_migrations against the encrypted column, so they never share a timeline or a resume cursor with the forward history under the plaintext name. Every reverse event carries details.plaintextColumn, which is how decrypt drop knows which column the backfill actually filled.

Existing plaintext and forced passes. The backfill only fills rows where the twin is NULL, so values already in the twin would survive, the column would be marked decrypted, and decrypt drop would remove the only current copy. Two rules close that:

A forward encryption still in progress cannot be reversed. If the twin is the source column of a forward encryption that never reached dropped, decrypt backfill refuses whatever flags are passed, and decrypt plan warns that it will. Only one migration may be open on a pair of columns. Abandoning a forward encryption in progress is a separate operation, tracked in stash encrypt: no way to abandon a column migration that is still in progress #1221.
A twin that already holds values is refused on the first run until the operator chooses --force (overwrite) or --confirm-plaintext-current (keep). The choice is recorded on decrypt_dual_writing.

A forced pass is an obligation on the migration, not an option on one run. It opens when --force is chosen for a stale twin, or when any forced pass starts, and it closes only when a forced pass completes. While it is open, runDecryptBackfill forces every run, whatever the caller passes. The rule lives in @cipherstash/migrate, not the CLI, so workers that call it directly get it too, and an interrupted overwrite is always finished as one, even if it failed before its first commit.

Dual-writes last until the drop is applied. Unlike the forward lifecycle, the application keeps writing both columns after reads move to the plaintext column, until the decrypt drop migration has run. --force and the drop's coverage check both assume the two columns stay in step. decrypt backfill, decrypt plan, decrypt drop and the skills say so.

Resume and errors. A run resumes from its last checkpoint, and also after a failed run: the error event records the last committed cursor, so fixing the cause and re-running does not start from the first row. A failed chunk write throws PlaintextWriteError, which carries the SQLSTATE, column and type but never the database's message. Postgres puts the offending input in cast errors, and here that input is decrypted plaintext, which would otherwise be stored in the error event.

Batches and ZeroKMS. Each chunk is one bulkDecrypt call, so one ZeroKMS request; default 500 rows (--chunk-size). bulkDecrypt (not bulkDecryptModels) because it reports failures per row instead of failing the batch.

Lock contexts: documented limitation, no bypass. A value encrypted with an end-user lock context can only be decrypted as that user. With workspace credentials it fails on its own row; the backfill skips it, counts it (per error code), leaves the twin NULL, and reports it in the backfill output, in cs_migrations and in decrypt status (UNDECRYPTABLE column). Because those rows still have ciphertext and no plaintext, decrypt drop refuses while any remain, and says why. The remedy (decrypt those rows in the application on each user's behalf, then re-run) is in the output and docs. No admin bypass was added. If the first chunk of a run decrypts nothing, the command stops before writing anything: that is almost always credentials for the wrong workspace/keyset, and carrying on would spend a ZeroKMS request per chunk across the whole table to decrypt nothing. --continue-on-undecryptable opts out for the genuine case.

Proxy-only deployments. The backfill loads the encryption client exactly as encrypt backfill does (the project's client file, or the Prisma Next contract), so it decrypts with the same credentials and keyset the application resolves. A proxy-only deployment with no SDK client in the project cannot run encrypt backfill today, so it cannot run decrypt backfill either. Not addressed here.

Type mapping. The inverse of the forward ladder, keyed by domain family (suffixes like _eq/_ord/_search only add query terms): text* → text; integer*, smallint*, bigint*, numeric*, real* → same; double* → double precision; boolean → boolean; date* → date; timestamp* → timestamptz (EQL's catalog says the family encrypts a UTC instant); json and json_search (searchable JSON) → jsonb. json_entry (a SteVec element, never a column type) and unknown domains return null and are refused rather than guessed. A unit test parses the shipped @cipherstash/eql install bundle and asserts every public.eql_v3_* column domain maps. The backfill casts each value to the twin's declared type (format_type), so a hand-chosen varchar(255) works too. Note: the forward encrypt plan does not do type mapping (it only diffs the manifest), so this mapping is new rather than an inversion of existing code; it mirrors eql-domains.

Indexes. decrypt drop lists every index that depends on the encrypted column via pg_depend (so EQL functional indexes like eql_v3.eq_term(col) are found, not just plain column indexes), drops them explicitly inside the migration, and names them in the output.

Drop safety. Gated on the decrypted phase, on the RECORDED pairing (a different, fully populated column would make the coverage check pass vacuously, the #772 failure mode in reverse), and on live coverage. The generated migration re-checks coverage at apply time under ACCESS EXCLUSIVE, inside one DO block with every DDL via EXECUTE, so a failed check drops nothing even under plain psql -f. Generating the drop does not edit .cipherstash/migrations.json: the file has not run yet, and its apply-time check can still abort it. Meanwhile encrypt status shows the entry as reversed instead of as drift, and the drop's closing note tells the user to remove the entry once the migration is applied.

--uninstall-eql. Allowed only when this is the last EQL v3 column in the whole database, checked when generating and again at apply time (the uninstall cascades). It runs @cipherstash/eql's own uninstall script, then drops the public.eql_v3_* column domains, which that script deliberately leaves behind (they live outside the disposable schemas so upgrades never touch columns). cipherstash.cs_migrations is kept as the audit trail.

Test evidence

Re-run locally at 57b94b031, the head of this branch:

Check	Result
`@cipherstash/migrate` tests with `PG_TEST_URL` (local docker `postgres:17`)	9 files, 128 passed. `decrypt.integration.test.ts` adds resume after a failed run, safe write errors, the 32767-row chunk, and the forced-pass obligation: opened by a started pass, opened by a `--force` acknowledgement, closed by a completed pass
`stash` unit project	97 files passed, 8 skipped; 1644 passed, 51 skipped
`stash` `tsc --noEmit`, decrypt files	clean
Biome on the touched packages	0 errors

From the first push (bca02b6a5), not re-run since review:

Check	Result
`stash` tests incl. live suites (`STASH_TEST_DATABASE_URL`, fresh DB)	100 files passed, 2 skipped; 1632 passed, 7 skipped. Includes `decrypt-sql.live.test.ts`, which executes the generated plan/drop SQL with hostile identifiers and proves the apply-time aborts drop nothing
`stash` e2e (`test:e2e`, built CLI in a pty)	20 files, 115 passed
`stash` `tsc --noEmit`	27 errors, the identical set to `main` (all pre-existing; none in touched code)
Root `lint:*` gates, `test:scripts`	pass; 75 files / 1353 tests
Build (`tsup`)	`@cipherstash/migrate` and `stash` build

Live round trip with real ZeroKMS (from the first push; local docker Postgres, the dev ~/.cipherstash profile, 30 rows, outside the repo): eql install → encrypt backfill ×3 (text_search, integer_ord, json_search) → encrypt drop ×3, applied → decrypt plan → decrypt backfill ×3 (chunk 7) → table dumped and diffed byte-identical to the original (including a NULL row) → decrypt drop (dropped the EQL eq_term index; --uninstall-eql correctly refused while 2 columns remained) → last drop with --uninstall-eql, applied → plaintext table intact, 0 EQL types and no eql_v3* schemas left. Lock-context skipping was not exercised live (needs an end-user JWT); it is covered by the stub-client integration tests.

languages/typescript/packages/cli/scripts/e2e-encrypt.sh (manual, needs credentials) now continues into the reverse leg and checks the decrypted plaintext matches the original values. I did not run that script itself (it assumes a local superuser Postgres on the default socket); the live run above follows the same steps.

Known limitations

Lock-context-bound values cannot be decrypted by the CLI (see above). decrypt drop blocks until they are resolved in the application.
Proxy-only deployments without an SDK client in the project are not supported, same as encrypt backfill.
Composite primary keys are not supported (same as forward; --pk-column workaround).
numeric values come back through the SDK's JS number representation, as they went in through the forward backfill's coercion; precision beyond float64 was already gone.
For Drizzle, decrypt drop scaffolds a --custom migration exactly as encrypt drop does; when the user then deletes the encrypted column from schema.ts, the next drizzle-kit generate emits a DROP COLUMN that must be deleted. The command says so.
decrypt status/plan cover the current schema only, as encrypt status does.

Spotted, not changed: encrypt backfill --chunk-size abc passes NaN through (no validation); decrypt backfill validates its own. #1194 adds parseChunkSize for encrypt; the two should be reconciled once both land.

Changes since the first review

Plaintext in errors: a failed write no longer stores the database's message, which can contain decrypted plaintext (PlaintextWriteError).
Resume: a run resumes from its last committed cursor after a failed run, and a resumed run counts its total once.
Stale twins: a twin that already holds values is refused on the first run, until the operator passes --force or --confirm-plaintext-current.
Dual-writes: they last until the drop is applied, and the guidance in commands and skills says so.
Twin naming: decrypt status derives the twin name with the same rules as decrypt plan.
Drop and the manifest: generating a drop leaves the manifest entry in place, and encrypt status shows it as reversed.
Forced passes: a forced pass is an obligation enforced in @cipherstash/migrate, which fixes the case where a --force pass failed before its first commit. ForcedPassIncompleteError is removed; it was never released.
Open forward encryptions: reversing one is refused instead of acknowledged.

The longer-term restructuring the review pointed to is in #1217, with the glossary and decision record in #1220, abort in #1221 and shared direction logic in #1222.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added stash decrypt commands to check migration status, plan plaintext columns, backfill data in resumable chunks, and generate migrations to remove encrypted columns.
- Backfills skip and report values that cannot be decrypted. Encrypted columns cannot be removed until plaintext coverage is complete.
- Added an option to uninstall EQL when no other EQL v3 columns remain.
Improvements
- Decryption backfills support resuming after interruption and require dual-writing before the first run.
- Updated CLI help and documentation with the reverse-migration workflow, safeguards for existing plaintext data, and guidance for lock-bound values.

Extract the forward backfill's keyset loop into runChunkedMigration and run runBackfill on it unchanged (same SQL, same cs_migrations events and details). The same engine now drives runDecryptBackfill, the reverse direction: - one bulkDecrypt (one ZeroKMS request) per chunk, default 500 rows; - per-row decrypt failures (typically lock-context-bound values) are skipped, counted and left NULL, so countUndecrypted keeps counting them; - a first chunk that decrypts nothing throws UndecryptableBatchError before writing (credentials for the wrong keyset), unless opted out; - values are cast to the plaintext column's declared type (columnSqlType); - reverse leak guard: an EQL envelope is never written as plaintext. Reverse events/phases are recorded against the ENCRYPTED column, so the two directions never share a resume cursor. Also adds plaintextTypeForEqlDomain (the inverse type mapping), listColumnIndexes, countEqlColumnsInDatabase and removeManifestColumn, and keeps the CLI's exhaustive phase switches total. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ction Move the Drizzle-scaffold-or-timestamped-SQL migration writer and the stem sanitiser out of `encrypt drop`, the aligned-table renderer out of `encrypt status`, and `detectPkColumn` out of `encrypt backfill`, into encrypt/lib so the reverse (`stash decrypt`) commands reuse them instead of copying them. No behaviour change: the forward tests pass unmodified. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…gration Mirror the encrypt lifecycle back to plaintext (CIP-4165): - decrypt plan: read-only overview, or with --table the nullable plaintext twins with the type mapped back from each EQL domain (Drizzle schema lines for drizzle-kit generate; a reviewed SQL migration elsewhere). - decrypt backfill: same flags and engine as encrypt backfill; one bulkDecrypt per chunk; lock-context-bound values are skipped, counted and reported. - decrypt drop: gated on the `decrypted` phase, the RECORDED twin and live coverage; the migration re-checks coverage at apply time, drops the EQL-term indexes explicitly, drops the column, and with --uninstall-eql removes EQL v3 when it was the last encrypted column. - decrypt status: per-column reverse phase, progress and undecryptable count. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…nd trip README and stash-cli skill: the reverse lifecycle, type mapping, the lock-context limitation, credentials, and --uninstall-eql. The manual scripts/e2e-encrypt.sh now decrypts the encrypted column back and checks the plaintext matches the original values. Changeset for stash and @cipherstash/migrate (minor). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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📝 Walkthrough

Adds a reverse EQL v3 migration lifecycle. The CLI plans plaintext twins, runs resumable decrypt backfills, reports lifecycle status, and generates guarded migrations to remove encrypted columns. The migration package adds decryption and shared chunk-processing support.

Changes: Reverse encryption migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Migration contracts and database inspection `languages/typescript/packages/migrate/src/state.ts`, `plaintext-type.ts`, `manifest.ts`, `version.ts`, `index.ts`, `src/__tests__/*`	Adds reverse-migration events and phases, EQL-domain plaintext type mappings, manifest-column removal, and PostgreSQL helpers for column types, indexes, and EQL v3 column counts.
Shared chunk engine and paging `languages/typescript/packages/migrate/src/engine.ts`, `cursor.ts`, `backfill.ts`	Adds resumable chunk processing and shared keyset paging. Routes the existing forward backfill through the engine.
Decrypt backfill implementation `languages/typescript/packages/migrate/src/decrypt.ts`, `src/__tests__/decrypt.integration.test.ts`	Adds chunked decryption, typed plaintext writes, skip tracking, and checkpoint-based resumption.
CLI pairing, planning, and status `languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/lib/*`, `plan.ts`, `status.ts`, `commands/encrypt/status.ts`	Adds encrypted/plaintext pair resolution, plaintext-column planning, Drizzle schema hints, and reverse-lifecycle status output.
CLI backfill and command wiring `languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/backfill.ts`, `src/bin/main.ts`, `src/cli/registry.ts`, `tests/e2e/*`	Adds decrypt backfill safeguards, dual-write confirmation, progress and skipped-row reporting, and CLI dispatch and help coverage.
Encrypted-column drop and migration output `languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/drop.ts`, `commands/encrypt/drop.ts`, `commands/encrypt/lib/migration-file.ts`, `commands/decrypt/__tests__/*`	Adds guarded migration generation with coverage checks and apply-time rechecks. The migration drops indexes before the encrypted column and can optionally uninstall EQL v3.
Lifecycle reporting and documentation `languages/typescript/packages/cli/scripts/e2e-encrypt.sh`, `README.md`, `skills/`, `.changeset/`	Adds an encrypt/decrypt round-trip check and documents the reverse lifecycle. Rollout classification and encryption status now account for reverse-migration phases.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor Operator
  participant StashCLI
  participant runDecryptBackfill
  participant DecryptionClientLike
  participant PostgreSQL
  Operator->>StashCLI: start decrypt backfill
  StashCLI->>runDecryptBackfill: pass encrypted and plaintext columns
  runDecryptBackfill->>PostgreSQL: fetch pending keyset chunk
  runDecryptBackfill->>DecryptionClientLike: bulkDecrypt ciphertext chunk
  DecryptionClientLike-->>runDecryptBackfill: return plaintext or row failures
  runDecryptBackfill->>PostgreSQL: write plaintext and checkpoint

Suggested reviewers: freshtonic

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b5656

The reverse migration is guarded against concurrent overwrites and stale plaintext. Two follow-ups remain. A forced re-run silently clears plaintext that the application restored for lock-context rows, and the documentation does not warn about it. The final cleanup step also tells users to edit CLI-owned state by hand. Both are recoverable and the merge risk is low, but the guidance should be fixed.

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b5656

The reverse migration includes substantial safeguards against incomplete decryption and concurrent application writes. However, overlapping forced and ordinary backfills can make encrypted-column removal eligible before the forced repair has finished, potentially destroying the only current copy of some values. This requires authorized migration access; no new unauthenticated attack path was established.

Retained concerns

Medium · reliability · inferred: The new reverse lifecycle can authorize irreversible removal while a forced repair remains incomplete. An ordinary run can snapshot force=false before another run starts a forced pass. If the forced pass stops partway through, the older ordinary run can subsequently append decrypted without closing or checking that obligation. Drop accepts this latest phase and checks only for NULL plaintext. Stale, non-NULL values in the unfinished portion pass both generation-time and apply-time coverage checks, allowing destruction of their current ciphertext. Atomic chunk checkpoints and ciphertext comparison protect individual writes, but do not establish exclusive lifecycle ownership or forced-pass completion across overlapping runs.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

inferred — Successful migration intentionally persists plaintext within the configured database, making its confidentiality depend on access to the plaintext column rather than subsequent decryption authorization. Backfill targets a selected column pair; optional EQL uninstall has database-wide destructive scope and therefore checks for remaining EQL columns at generation and application time.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

inferred — The retained architecture concern is a privileged-operation failure path: overlapping migration runs can publish completion despite an unfinished forced repair, after which removal can destroy current ciphertext. The inspected entrypoints do not establish an unauthenticated or cross-tenant route to that outcome.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — Decryption failures remain per-row failures or skipped rows; the reverse runner does not substitute another identity for lock-context-bound values. Forced skips clear the plaintext target, keeping those rows visible to removal coverage checks. SQL row values are parameterized, while the public API relies on trusted provenance for its interpolated SQL type.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

observed — The safe state readers now tolerate only missing-table or missing-schema SQLSTATEs and propagate permission failures. Compared with the base's message-text matching, this avoids treating denied access to migration history as an empty lifecycle.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Give each column-pair lifecycle exclusive execution ownership across mode selection, backfill, and removal eligibility. Make an outstanding forced-pass obligation authoritative at the irreversible transition, rather than relying only on the latest phase and NULL coverage.

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@languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/status.ts:
- Around line 80-85: Update the shared twin-name helper used by
`resolveDecryptPair` and the status plaintext fallback so both commands derive
the same name, including treating a column exactly `_encrypted` as
`_encrypted_plaintext` rather than an empty name. Reuse `plan`’s
`detectColumnEqlVersion` refusal in the shared resolution path so status and
plan handle EQL-version columns consistently.

Review comments at @languages/typescript/packages/migrate/src/decrypt.ts:
- Around line 434-442: Wrap the UPDATE query in writeDecryptedChunk with error
sanitization, since PostgreSQL cast errors may include decrypted plaintext in
their messages. Rethrow an error containing only the PostgreSQL error code and
the plaintext column and type names; never propagate the raw database error to
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languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/cli/registry.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/__tests__/decrypt-backfill.test.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/__tests__/decrypt-drop-plan.test.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/__tests__/decrypt-sql.live.test.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/__tests__/domain-mapping.test.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/__tests__/resolve-pair.test.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/backfill.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/drop.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/lib/orm-hints.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/lib/resolve-pair.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/plan.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/status.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/encrypt/backfill.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/encrypt/drop.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/encrypt/lib/db-readers.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/encrypt/lib/migration-file.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/encrypt/lib/table-format.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/encrypt/status.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/init/lib/rollout-state.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/status/quest.ts
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/messages.ts
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languages/typescript/packages/cli/tests/e2e/smoke.e2e.test.ts
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Review of the reverse lifecycle. The shared engine refactor is faithful: I compared runBackfill before and after, and the SQL, events and details are the same. Test coverage is good. CI is green. Two data-safety defects block merge. They are both about stale plaintext. Neither one is in the earlier review comments.

Blocking

1. A twin that already holds data is trusted without a check. This can lose data.
resolveDecryptPair selects the original plaintext name from .cipherstash/migrations.json first. In a forward rollout that has not run encrypt drop yet, that column still exists and is full. Then:

decrypt plan prints "already exists — nothing to add" (plan.ts:120).
decrypt backfill selects only rows where the twin is NULL. Thus it writes almost nothing and records decrypted.
decrypt drop finds zero uncovered rows and drops the ciphertext.

The forward guidance tells users to remove the dual-write code when reads move to the encrypted column (skills/stash-encryption/SKILL.md:966). After that, the plaintext column is stale for every row updated since the switch. The reverse flow keeps the stale values and drops the only current copy. Nothing warns the user, and --force is the only fix. The user must know to use it.

Fix: on the first reverse run, if the twin already contains non-NULL values, refuse unless the operator passes --force or an explicit acknowledgement. Alternatively, read the forward state for (table, twin), and refuse when the twin is the forward source column and that column is not dropped. Add a test for this case.

2. The cutover guidance breaks the invariants that backfill --force and drop rely on.
backfill.ts:323 tells Drizzle users to "stop writing the encrypted column once reads are switched". After that step:

A user who clears a value writes plaintext NULL, but the old ciphertext stays. decrypt drop then refuses, and its message tells the user to re-run the backfill. The backfill writes the old value back into the row. Cleared data (for example, an erasure request) comes back.
--force overwrites newer plaintext with the old decrypted value. backfill.ts:152, decrypt.ts:106-108 and skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md:687 all say that --force is "not destructive". That is only true while dual-writes continue.

Fix: tell users to keep dual-writing both columns until the drop migration is applied. Change the "not destructive" text to state that condition. This change is in customer-facing skill text, so it ships in the tarball.

Earlier point still open

CodeRabbit's cast-error point at decrypt.ts:434 (plaintext in the error event details.message) has no reply yet.

Suggested follow-up PR

These do not block.

engine.ts:142: on resume, pending also counts the rows that were skipped before the cursor, so rowsTotal counts them two times. A resumed run with skips ends below 100%, and the final progress line at backfill.ts:184 does not print.
decrypt.ts:59-61: the docstring says the cursor stays "untouched". But UndecryptableBatchError writes an error event, which hides the last checkpoint (engine.ts:135). The next run starts again from the first primary key. Correct the text, or keep the checkpoint as the resume point.
backfill.ts:265: the dual-write gate passes for any reverse state, including encrypted-dropped from an earlier lifecycle. If a user encrypts the same column again and then reverses it again, the gate does not ask. Pass the gate only for decrypt-dual-writing and decrypting.
drop.ts:175-201: the command writes encrypted_dropped and removes the manifest entry when it generates the file, not when the file is applied. If the apply-time check aborts, the manifest entry is gone.
--chunk-size: decrypt validates it, which is better than the gap that #1194 fixes for encrypt. But Number() accepts 1e3 and 0x10, and there is no upper limit. The write binds two parameters for each row (decrypt.ts:419-425), so a chunk size above 32767 exceeds the Postgres limit of 65535 parameters. This failure occurs after the ZeroKMS call. When #1194 merges, use its parseChunkSize here too, and add a maximum.
decrypt.ts:257-259: a NULL_PLAINTEXT skip blocks drop permanently. The skipped-rows text gives the lock-context remedy, which does not apply to this code.
Skills: AGENTS.md maps @cipherstash/migrate lifecycle changes to skills/stash-encryption too. That skill has no reference to the reverse path. Add a short pointer to stash-cli's Decrypt section. Also add the lock-context limitation to skills/stash-auth, which is the canonical lock-context skill.
registry.ts:94: the --plaintext-column help text does not mention the <column>_plaintext fallback, but the skill does.

I could not run the tests locally because the @cipherstash/auth native binding was not built in my worktree. I used the CI results. The registry flags agree with skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md. I compared them in the source because stash manifest --json needs the same binding.

… after a failed run A failed chunk write now throws PlaintextWriteError with only the SQLSTATE, constraint, column and type names. Postgres echoes the input of a failed cast, and on the reverse path that input is decrypted plaintext; the engine stored the database's message in the cs_migrations error event. The reverse backfill also: - resumes from an error event, which records the last committed cursor, so a failed run no longer restarts from the first primary key (the engine now advances its counters only after COMMIT, so that cursor is trustworthy); - counts rowsTotal only past the resume cursor, so rows skipped before it are not counted twice and a resumed run reaches 100%; - refuses a chunk size outside 1..32767 before any request: each row binds two parameters and Postgres caps a statement at 65535; - reports the primary keys of rows whose ciphertext decrypts to null. The forward backfill keeps its resume behaviour and event details. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ntil the drop decrypt backfill only fills rows whose plaintext twin is NULL. When the twin was the source column of a forward encryption that never ran `encrypt drop`, it still holds the plaintext from before the read switch, stale for every row updated since. The reverse flow kept those values, recorded `decrypted`, and `decrypt drop` then dropped the only current copy. The first reverse run now checks the twin before recording anything. It refuses when the twin is the forward source column and that lifecycle is not `dropped`, or when the twin already holds values, unless the operator passes --force (overwrite every row from the ciphertext) or the new --confirm-plaintext-current (keep them). The choice is recorded on the decrypt_dual_writing event. `decrypt plan` warns with the same text, and its overview marks those columns. Only the reverse lifecycle in progress passes the dual-write gate and binds the recorded pairing. An `encrypted-dropped` event followed by forward events on the twin (the column was encrypted again) starts over. The cutover guidance now says to keep writing both columns until the drop migration is applied, and --force says it is safe only while dual-writes are live. Stopping writes to the encrypted column early leaves a cleared value's old ciphertext behind, which a re-run would write back; the drop refusal now names that case. Also: - `decrypt drop` no longer removes the manifest entry when it generates the migration, since the apply-time check can still abort it. `encrypt status` shows the entry as `reversed` until the user removes it after applying. - --chunk-size is parsed strictly (no 1e3, 0x10) and capped at 32767, before any database or ZeroKMS work. - PlaintextWriteError prints verbatim; NULL_PLAINTEXT rows are reported apart from lock-context failures, with their primary keys. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

`decrypt status` derived the plaintext twin name itself, without the length guard `resolveDecryptPair` has, so a column named exactly `_encrypted` showed an empty twin name in status and `_encrypted_plaintext` in plan. It now uses the shared derivePlaintextName and the same lifecycle rule for the recorded pairing, and flags a twin name taken by an EQL column (which plan and backfill refuse) as `plaintext-col-is-eql`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ocument stale twins stash-cli's Decrypt section now says to keep writing both columns until the drop migration is applied, states that --force is safe only while dual-writes are live, and documents the first-run refusal of a twin that already holds values, --confirm-plaintext-current, the chunk-size ceiling, resume after a failed run, NULL_PLAINTEXT rows, and the manifest entry the user removes after applying the drop. stash-encryption gets a pointer to it from the forward cutover (which removes dual-write code, the source of the stale twin), and stash-auth documents that bulk tooling cannot decrypt lock-context values. The CLI and migrate READMEs and the changeset follow. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The first-run refusal offers --force to overwrite a stale plaintext twin. If that pass was interrupted, a plain re-run (what every message says to do) resumed from the cursor without --force and kept the stale values in every row after it, then recorded `decrypted`. `force` is now recorded on every reverse event. Resuming a forced pass without it throws ForcedPassIncompleteError before anything is recorded, and a forced run over an unforced pass starts from the first row instead of the cursor. The engine gains a `canResume` hook for this; the forward backfill does not use it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

calvinbrewer · 2026-10-14T17:33:57Z

Review follow-up. Five commits pushed: 1001ff7, 7bfc234, c332f23, 23a157e, 106ea90. No rebase, no merge of main.

Blocking

1. Twin that already holds data. Fixed (7bfc234). On the first reverse run, before anything is recorded, decrypt backfill reads the forward state recorded under the twin's name. It refuses when the twin is the forward source column and that lifecycle is not dropped, and refuses when the twin already holds values. There are two ways past: --force overwrites every row from the ciphertext, and the new --confirm-plaintext-current keeps the values. The choice is recorded on the decrypt_dual_writing event. decrypt plan warns with the same text and shows the flag still to choose. Its overview marks the column with !. The check runs before the --force prompt and the gate, so a cancelled prompt records nothing. While testing I found that an interrupted --force pass resumed by a plain re-run would skip stale rows past the cursor. 106ea90 refuses that (ForcedPassIncompleteError), and a forced run over an unforced pass starts from the first row.

2. Cutover guidance and "not destructive". Fixed (7bfc234, 23a157e). Every reverse surface now says to keep writing both columns until the drop migration is applied: the backfill cutover note, plan's notes, drop's Next note, the skill, the README and the registry help. --force text says "safe only while dual-writes are live" in the CLI warning, docstrings, help and skill. The drop's coverage refusal now lists the cleared-value case and says not to re-run the backfill for it.

CodeRabbit

Cast error leaks plaintext (decrypt.ts). Fixed (1001ff7). Write failures throw PlaintextWriteError with the SQLSTATE, constraint, column and type only, and no cause. A live test checks that the value is absent from the exception and from cs_migrations. The SQL-injection flags are identifiers from the catalog, already quoted; the comment now says so.
Status twin name. Fixed (c332f23). One derivePlaintextName helper is shared with resolveDecryptPair. Status flags plaintext-col-is-eql.

Follow-ups

engine.ts rowsTotal double count. Fixed (1001ff7). The pending count is taken past the resume cursor. The CLI also prints a closing count line.
decrypt.ts:59-61 docstring and cursor. Fixed by keeping the checkpoint (1001ff7). The reverse run now resumes from an error event, which carries the last committed cursor. The engine also advances its counters only after COMMIT, so that cursor is trustworthy. The forward backfill's resume behaviour is unchanged.
Dual-write gate passes any reverse state. Fixed (7bfc234). The gate passes only for a lifecycle in progress. One deviation: it also passes for decrypted, because drop's refusal tells the user to re-run the backfill there. It also passes for an encrypted-dropped with no forward events after it, which is a drop that was generated but not applied or that aborted. An encrypted-dropped followed by forward events on the twin (re-encrypted) starts over: it asks again, and the old pairing no longer binds.
drop.ts manifest removal at generation. Fixed (7bfc234). The manifest entry is no longer removed. Drop's Next note tells the user to remove it after applying, and encrypt status shows the entry as reversed rather than encrypted-col-missing meanwhile. The encrypted_dropped event is still written at generation, mirroring encrypt drop, because it stops a second drop migration from being generated.
--chunk-size. Fixed (1001ff7, 7bfc234). fix(cli): reject a non-numeric or non-positive --chunk-size before encrypt backfill starts #1194 is still open, so decrypt/lib/chunk-size.ts uses the same digits-only rule as its parseChunkSize, plus a ceiling of MAX_DECRYPT_CHUNK_SIZE = 32767 (two bound parameters per row, 65535 per statement). It runs at argv before any DB or ZeroKMS work, and again in runDecryptBackfill (RangeError). Once fix(cli): reject a non-numeric or non-positive --chunk-size before encrypt backfill starts #1194 lands it can delegate the shape check. A live test writes a 32767-row chunk in one statement.
NULL_PLAINTEXT. Fixed (1001ff7, 7bfc234). These rows are reported apart from lock-context failures, with up to 20 primary keys. The remedy is to confirm the values are empty, then null the ciphertext and generate the drop. The lock-context text no longer covers them.
Skills. Done (23a157e). stash-encryption points from the forward cutover to stash-cli's Decrypt section. stash-auth documents that bulk tooling cannot decrypt lock-context values.
registry.ts --plaintext-column help. Fixed (7bfc234). It names the <column>_plaintext fallback.

Checks (local)

@cipherstash/migrate: tsc --noEmit clean. Tests with PG_TEST_URL: 9 files, 125 passed.
stash unit: 97 files passed, 8 skipped; 1643 passed, 51 skipped.
stash with STASH_TEST_DATABASE_URL (fresh DB): 103 files passed, 2 skipped; 1687 passed, 7 skipped.
stash e2e: 20 files, 116 passed.
stash tsc --noEmit: 27 errors, the same pre-existing count as before; none in touched files.
Biome (root code:check): 0 errors; no warnings in touched files. lint:*: all pass. test:scripts: 75 files, 1353 passed.
Every flag in stash-cli's Decrypt section resolves against stash manifest --json.

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freshtonic

Re-review of bca02b6a5..106ea9082 (five commits, no rebase). CI is green. The fixes are thorough. One new gap in the fix for blocker 1 can still lose data, so I request changes again.

Earlier blockers

Twin that already holds data: partly resolved. assessExistingTwin (lib/resolve-pair.ts:302-320) runs before anything is recorded and refuses both a forward-source twin and a twin with values. decrypt plan warns with the same text. The tests cover both cases. The gap is below.
Cutover guidance and "not destructive": resolved. The backfill cutover note, plan, drop's Next note, the registry help, the README and skills/stash-cli all say to keep dual-writing until the drop is applied. No "not destructive" text remains on the decrypt path. The drop refusal now names the cleared-value case and says not to re-run the backfill for it.
CodeRabbit cast-error leak: resolved. PlaintextWriteError keeps only the SQLSTATE, the constraint, the column and the type, with no cause. The integration test checks the exception and cs_migrations.

The follow-ups from my last review (rowsTotal, error-event cursor, gate on old lifecycles, manifest removal, chunk-size bounds, NULL_PLAINTEXT report, skills, help text) are all done.

Blocking

The --force choice for a stale twin is lost when the forced pass fails before its first commit.

The hazard check runs only while no reverse lifecycle is active (resolve-pair.ts:306). The first --force run records decrypt_dual_writing (backfill.ts:209), so every later run skips the check. After that, only canResume (decrypt.ts:308) keeps the pass in force mode. But the engine calls canResume only for a checkpoint, or for an error event with a non-NULL cursor (engine.ts:155-161). A pass that fails in its first chunk records an error event with cursorValue NULL. A pass that is killed before its first commit leaves only decrypt_started. In both cases the next run is not a resume. It starts a fresh unforced pass, and no check stops it.

Example:

The twin is the forward source column with stale values. The operator runs decrypt backfill --force.
The credentials resolve to the wrong workspace. The first chunk throws UndecryptableBatchError. Its message says "export the CS_* values ... and re-run" (decrypt.ts:66-72). It does not say "with --force".
The operator fixes the credentials and runs decrypt backfill. The run fills only the NULL rows, keeps all the stale values, and records decrypted.
decrypt drop finds full coverage and drops the only current copy.

A first-chunk PlaintextWriteError (the operator widens the column and re-runs) or a network error gives the same result. acknowledgedWith is written to the event, but nothing reads it.

skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md:683 says "a plain re-run refuses". That is true only after at least one chunk has committed.

Fix: make the refusal depend on the recorded choice, not on the presence of a cursor. For example, while the lifecycle's decrypt_dual_writing event carries acknowledgedWith: 'force' and no forced pass has recorded decrypted, refuse a run without --force. Or call canResume (or a separate mode check) for every latest event in the running phase that carries force: true, including decrypt_started and an error with a NULL cursor. Add an integration test where the first forced chunk throws and a plain re-run follows.

Suggested follow-up PR

--confirm-plaintext-current is documented as "First run only" (skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md, flag table), but a later run accepts it silently. Warn that it has no effect there.
decrypt_dual_writing.details.acknowledgedWith is write-only. If the fix above does not read it, decrypt status could show it, so the operator can see which choice was made.

A forced pass that failed before its first commit left no checkpoint and no cursor. The engine only resumes from one of those, so `canResume` never ran, the next plain run started a fresh unforced pass, and the stale plaintext the forced pass was started to replace survived until the drop removed the only current copy. Mode is now decided from the history rather than from the resume point: `forceObligationOpen` reports a forced pass started and not completed, and while it is open every run is forced. That makes `ForcedPassIncompleteError` unreachable, so it is removed (it has not been released). Refs #1217

… stale twin `acknowledgedWith` was written on `decrypt_dual_writing` and read by nothing. If the run after that confirmation failed before recording `decrypt_started`, the next plain run went unforced: the CLI skips the stale-twin check once the column migration is active, and no forced pass had started to open the obligation. The acknowledgement now opens the obligation itself, so it is owed from the moment the operator chose to overwrite, and each `decrypt_dual_writing` starts the obligation afresh for a new column migration. Refs #1217

Without this, an obligation that never closed would force every later run and write older ciphertext values back over plaintext the app wrote to the plaintext column alone. Checked by inverting the closing branch, which fails this test. Refs #1217

`decrypt backfill` treated the source column of a still-open forward encryption as a twin hazard the operator could acknowledge with `--force` or `--confirm-plaintext-current`. That started a reverse migration on a pair that already had one open, which is what made "is this lifecycle the one in progress" need a join across two state keys. Only one migration may now be open on a pair of columns. The backfill refuses such a twin outright, whatever flags are passed, and `decrypt plan` warns that it will. `forward-source` is no longer a hazard kind, and `twinHazardMessage` loses the parameter it no longer branches on. Abandoning a forward encryption in progress is tracked in #1221. The skill, help text, README and changeset now describe the refusal and the forced-pass obligation from the previous commits. Refs #1217

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🟠 Major · Protect forced writes against concurrent dual-writes. · decrypt.ts:566-568

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Protect forced writes against concurrent dual-writes.

If the application updates both columns after fetchUndecryptedPage reads a row, a forced pass can decrypt the old ciphertext and then overwrite the application's newer plaintext. The forced WHERE clause checks only the primary key. A later coverage check sees populated plaintext, so it cannot detect the stale value before the encrypted column is dropped. Match the ciphertext read for each row at write time, or use another concurrency control that retries changed rows. This also applies when forceObligationOpen makes a resumed call forced without an explicit force option.
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Review comment at @languages/typescript/packages/migrate/src/decrypt.ts around
lines 566 - 568:
Update the forced-write condition in the decrypt flow around
`fetchUndecryptedPage` to match each row’s ciphertext snapshot in the `WHERE`
clause before writing decrypted plaintext, and retry rows whose ciphertext
changed. Apply this protection to calls forced through `forceObligationOpen` as
well as explicit `opts.force` calls.

🟠 Major · Keep failed forced decryptions out of the drop-safe set. · decrypt.ts:373-375

languages/typescript/packages/migrate/src/decrypt.ts:373-375
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Keep failed forced decryptions out of the drop-safe set.

A forced pass selects every row with ciphertext, including rows whose plaintext twin is already populated. If decryption fails, this branch skips the write and leaves the stale plaintext unchanged. The backfill still records the skipped row and can complete.

stash decrypt drop checks only for ciphertext rows with NULL plaintext. It does not check the recorded skipped-row count. The drop can therefore accept the stale value and remove the ciphertext.

Preserve a drop-blocking record for skipped rows, or require their resolution before allowing the drop.
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Update the item.error branch in the decrypt backfill to preserve a drop-blocking
record for failed forced decryptions, even when plaintext is already populated,
or ensure the recorded skipped-row count blocks stash decrypt drop until those
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Review comments at @languages/typescript/packages/migrate/src/decrypt.ts:
- Around line 566-568: Update the forced-write condition in the decrypt flow
around `fetchUndecryptedPage` to match each row’s ciphertext snapshot in the
`WHERE` clause before writing decrypted plaintext, and retry rows whose
ciphertext changed. Apply this protection to calls forced through
`forceObligationOpen` as well as explicit `opts.force` calls.
- Around line 373-375: Update the item.error branch in the decrypt backfill to
preserve a drop-blocking record for failed forced decryptions, even when
plaintext is already populated, or ensure the recorded skipped-row count blocks
stash decrypt drop until those rows are resolved.

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tobyhede · 2026-10-15T22:57:32Z

Pushed four commits (5429a3983..57b94b031) for the open blocker from the last review and one rule that came out of a design pass over the review churn. The design is in #1217, and the glossary and decision record are in #1220.

1. A forced pass is now an obligation, enforced in @cipherstash/migrate (5429a3983, c1fc1b92d, d0b4ac91f)

It opens when --force is chosen for a stale twin (acknowledgedWith: 'force' on decrypt_dual_writing, which nothing used to read), or when any forced pass starts.
It closes only when a forced pass completes.
While it is open, runDecryptBackfill forces every run, whatever the caller passes. The check reads the recorded history, not the resume cursor, so a --force pass that fails before its first commit is now finished by the next plain run. That was the blocker.
Workers that call runDecryptBackfill directly get the same rule.
ForcedPassIncompleteError could no longer be thrown and is removed. It was never released.

2. Reversing a forward encryption that was never dropped is refused, not acknowledged (57b94b031)

decrypt backfill refuses a twin that is the source of a forward encryption not yet at dropped, whatever flags are passed, and decrypt plan warns that it will.
Only one migration may be open on a pair of columns. The message tells the user to finish the forward one with encrypt drop or abandon it. Abandon is tracked in stash encrypt: no way to abandon a column migration that is still in progress #1221.
forward-source is no longer a TwinHazard kind.

Skill (including SKILL.md:683), help text, README and changeset are updated to match, and the PR description is refreshed.

Where to look first:

forceObligationOpen in migrate/src/decrypt.ts
the three new obligation tests in decrypt.integration.test.ts
openForwardMigrationMessage in cli/src/commands/decrypt/lib/resolve-pair.ts

Verified locally at 57b94b031:

@cipherstash/migrate: 128 tests pass against Postgres.
stash unit project: 1644 tests pass.
Biome is clean.

I didn't re-run the live CLI suites or e2e.

Everything else from #1217 (a ColumnMigration module, moving the engine's option flags into the engine, moving forward onto it, safe error details) is follow-up, not more changes here.

A forced pass matched rows on primary key only, so plaintext decrypted from ciphertext read before the bulkDecrypt round trip could overwrite a newer value the application dual-wrote in the meantime. Every write now requires the row's ciphertext to still be the one that was decrypted. The first-chunk UndecryptableBatchError no longer fires when every row decrypted to null (NULL_PLAINTEXT), which blamed the wrong credentials. forceObligationOpen reads one row in SQL instead of replaying the column's whole cs_migrations history in JS. Refs #1217

…stash When the plaintext column was dropped by an ORM migration rather than `stash encrypt drop`, its forward lifecycle stayed open and `decrypt backfill` refused forever. `decrypt plan` is the only step that can see the column missing, so it now records that forward migration as dropped, marked as observed (`--dry-run` only reports it). Also from review of #1193: - detectPkColumn resolves the table through search_path (new `primaryKeyColumns` in @cipherstash/migrate), so same-named tables in other schemas no longer read as a composite primary key. - The skipped-rows report blames credentials only for failures this run saw; skips from an earlier run are reported neutrally. - --chunk-size is parsed once, in main.ts. - One shared `progressSafe` helper replaces three copies of the missing cs_migrations check. - stash-encryption no longer promises --force / --confirm-plaintext-current get past an open forward migration; skills and changeset describe the new plan behaviour. Refs #1217

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🟡 Minor · Do not print sampled primary-key values in this warning. · backfill.ts:435

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Do not print sampled primary-key values in this warning. This command supports arbitrary tables, and a primary key can be a plaintext user identifier such as an email address. Keep the warning limited to the count and SQL template, or provide a query that operators can run in an authorized database session.
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@languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/backfill.ts at line 435:
Update the warning built around nullThisRun so it does not include sampled
primary-key values from sample; keep the count and SQL template, or provide a
query operators can run in an authorized database session.

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- Line 43: Update the error message in parseDecryptChunkSize to omit the
rejected input value, preventing raw CLI text from appearing in logs. Update the
corresponding test assertions to expect the value-free message while preserving
checks for the valid range and Postgres parameter limit.

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- Line 51: Update isMissingMigrationsTable so it identifies a missing migration
table by PostgreSQL’s missing-relation error code rather than matching the table
name in the error message. Keep progressSafe returning null only for that
missing-table error, and rethrow permission and other query errors so
forwardState and reverseState do not treat unreadable migration history as
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- Line 435: Update the warning built around nullThisRun so it does not include
sampled primary-key values from sample; keep the count and SQL template, or
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+    value > MAX_DECRYPT_CHUNK_SIZE
+  ) {
+    throw new InvalidDecryptChunkSizeError(
+      `--chunk-size must be a whole number of rows from 1 to ${MAX_DECRYPT_CHUNK_SIZE} (got ${JSON.stringify(input)}). Each row binds two parameters in the write, and Postgres allows 65535 per statement.`,


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Do not include rejected --chunk-size argv text in the error.

The parser receives raw CLI text and main.ts logs error.message. A mistakenly supplied token can therefore appear in terminal or CI logs. The repository guideline for TypeScript package source requires flagging error messages that could carry plaintext, keys, or tokens.

The chunk-size test explicitly requires the rejected value, so update that assertion with the implementation.

Remove the rejected value and update its test

- `--chunk-size must be a whole number of rows from 1 to ${MAX_DECRYPT_CHUNK_SIZE} (got ${JSON.stringify(input)}). Each row binds two parameters in the write, and Postgres allows 65535 per statement.`, + `--chunk-size must be a whole number of rows from 1 to ${MAX_DECRYPT_CHUNK_SIZE}. Each row binds two parameters in the write, and Postgres allows 65535 per statement.`,

- it('quotes what was typed and says why there is a ceiling', () => { + it('says why there is a ceiling', () => { expect(() => parseDecryptChunkSize('1e3')).toThrow( - '--chunk-size must be a whole number of rows from 1 to 32767 (got "1e3").', + '--chunk-size must be a whole number of rows from 1 to 32767.', ) expect(() => parseDecryptChunkSize('32768')).toThrow( - 'from 1 to 32767 (got "32768"). Each row binds two parameters in the write, and Postgres allows 65535 per statement.', + 'from 1 to 32767. Each row binds two parameters in the write, and Postgres allows 65535 per statement.', ) })

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Re-review of 106ea90..3ff6002 (six commits). CI is green. I ran decrypt.integration.test.ts at 3ff6002 against Postgres 17: all 38 tests pass.

Earlier blocker

The --force choice is lost when a forced pass fails before its first commit: resolved. forceObligationOpen reads the recorded history, not the cursor, so the next plain run is forced. The test "a plain run after a forced pass failed before its first commit still overwrites every row" covers my example. The refusal of a twin with an open forward migration also removes the forward-source path. The ciphertext guard in writeDecryptedChunk closes CodeRabbit's concurrent dual-write point.

Blocking

A forced pass over a stale twin keeps the stale value in every row it skips. Then it closes the obligation, and decrypt drop accepts the result.

CodeRabbit's outside-diff finding at decrypt.ts:373-375 (22:40Z) is still open and has no reply. I confirmed it at 3ff6002, and the same defect has two more parts:

A NULL_PLAINTEXT row has the same result. The ciphertext decrypts to an empty value, and the row is skipped, so the stale value stays in the twin.
The forced pass records decrypted with force: true. This closes the obligation, so no later run is forced. An unforced run selects only NULL twins, so no later run reaches these rows.

Probe: 300 rows, the twin set to 'stale@example.com', every tenth row locked, and row 1 set to envelope(null). Then run({ force: true }):

{"completed":true,"skipped":31,"codes":{"NULL_PLAINTEXT":1,"UNKNOWN":30},
 "stale":"31","uncovered":"0","obligationOpen":false}

The pass completes. 31 rows keep the stale value, and zero rows match decrypt drop's coverage query (ciphertext IS NOT NULL AND plaintext IS NULL). So drop and its apply-time check both pass, and they drop the only current copy of those 31 values.

The text that the operator reads also says the opposite:

skippedReport (backfill.ts) says the skipped rows "were left with <twin> NULL" and that "stash decrypt drop refuses while any of them remain".
skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md:689 says "leaves the twin NULL" and "decrypt drop refuses while any remain". :691 says the same for NULL_PLAINTEXT. These lines ship to customers.

Fix: in a forced pass, set the twin to NULL for every row that is skipped (failed or NULL_PLAINTEXT). The existing coverage check then blocks drop, and the existing remedies apply. Use the same ciphertext guard as the write. Alternatively, do not record decrypted (and keep the obligation open) while a forced pass has skipped rows. Add an integration test with a stale twin, a locked row and a NULL_PLAINTEXT row.

Suggested follow-up PR

CI does not run the @cipherstash/migrate integration suites. They skip unless PG_TEST_URL is set, and no workflow sets it. All of the obligation tests and the concurrency test pass only on a developer machine. Add a job with a Postgres service that sets PG_TEST_URL.
The PR comment says that the tests were verified at 57b94b0. 597089b and 3ff6002 came after that. My run above covers them.

The ADR described enforcement that is not implemented yet. #1193 enforces it for the reverse direction only; the forward direction, the waiver and the obligation events arrive with #1217. Say so, and correct the event claim to what is recorded today. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MUUZYHewafFdgbmD7TVAZW

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tobyhede · 2026-10-19T21:47:39Z

@coderabbitai Re the outside-diff finding on decrypt/backfill.ts:435 (sampled primary keys in the NULL_PLAINTEXT warning): keeping these, deliberately.

The keys are the remedy, not a side effect. Rows whose ciphertext decrypts to an empty value are left with the plaintext column NULL, and decrypt drop refuses while they hold ciphertext. The operator unblocks it by nulling those rows' ciphertext, and the warning's UPDATE ... AND <primary key> IN (...) needs their keys.

There is no safe key-free alternative. ciphertext IS NOT NULL AND plaintext IS NULL also matches rows that failed because of a lock context and rows not decrypted yet. Nulling their ciphertext would destroy the only copy of those values. Only decryption can tell the empty rows apart, so the keys have to come from the backfill.

The exposure is bounded. The sample is capped at 20 keys, it is printed to the operator who is running a migration with database access to those rows, and most primary keys are surrogate ids.

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@tobyhede Thanks for the clarification. I checked skippedReport and the sample collection. The sample contains only NULL_PLAINTEXT primary keys and is capped at 20.

The keys make the remedy specific to confirmed empty decryptions. A predicate based only on ciphertext being present and plaintext being NULL could also select lock-context failures or rows not yet decrypted. Clearing those rows could destroy their only copy.

I withdraw the finding. Keep the sampled primary keys and the application-confirmation step.

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freshtonic

The head is still 3ff6002. My review of 2026-10-16 applies, and the blocker in it is still open.

A new comment from 2026-10-19 (the reply to CodeRabbit about the sampled NULL_PLAINTEXT keys) says: "Rows whose ciphertext decrypts to an empty value are left with the plaintext column NULL, and decrypt drop refuses while they hold ciphertext." That is correct for an unforced pass only. It is not correct for a --force pass over a stale twin:

The drop check is drop.ts:343-344: <encrypted> IS NOT NULL AND <plaintext> IS NULL.
On a stale twin the plaintext column already holds a value. A forced pass that skips a row (lock context, NULL_PLAINTEXT or another code) does not write to it, so the stale value stays there, and the row is not NULL.
The drop check does not count that row. The forced pass records decrypted and closes the obligation, so no later run goes back to the row.
Result: decrypt drop removes the ciphertext, which is the only current copy, and keeps the stale plaintext. The skipped-rows report and skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md:689,691 tell the operator the opposite.

The comment also says that ciphertext IS NOT NULL AND plaintext IS NULL can include lock-context and not-yet-decrypted rows. This is the same problem from the other direction: on a forced pass, these rows do not match the predicate, so nothing stops the drop.

Possible fixes (one is sufficient):

In a forced pass, write NULL to the plaintext column of each skipped row. The existing drop check and the NULL_PLAINTEXT remedy then apply as they are written.
Do not close the force obligation when the forced pass skipped rows. Record the skipped keys, and make decrypt drop refuse while any remain.

Then add an integration test: a stale twin, a forced pass with one locked row, and an assertion that decrypt drop refuses. Update the report text and the skill lines to agree with the fix.

A forced decrypt pass skipped rows that failed to decrypt or decrypted to an empty value, but left their stale plaintext in place. Those rows then did not match the drop's coverage check (ciphertext set, plaintext NULL), and the completed forced pass closed the obligation, so `decrypt drop` could destroy the only current copy. A forced pass now writes NULL to a skipped row's plaintext column, still guarded on the row's ciphertext being unchanged. Also: - Read "no cs_migrations table yet" from the SQLSTATE (42P01, 3F000) rather than the message, so a permission error on the table is no longer read as "no history". - Warn when --confirm-plaintext-current is passed on a run where it has no effect, instead of ignoring it silently. - Bring the stash-cli skill in line with both. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018TacM4u97tr5yPAFynxYXW

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🟡 Minor · Keep manifest cleanup CLI-owned. · SKILL.md:717

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Keep manifest cleanup CLI-owned.

After the generated migration is applied, line 717 instructs users to remove an entry from .cipherstash/migrations.json manually. This violates the mandatory skill rule that the CLI owns .cipherstash/ state and that users must not hand-edit it.

No production CLI command currently invokes removeManifestColumn. Add a post-application CLI operation and direct users to it. Do not remove the entry during decrypt drop generation because the generated migration can still abort.
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Review comment at @skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md at line 717:
Update the post-application workflow around removeManifestColumn so the CLI
removes the column entry from .cipherstash/migrations.json after the generated
migration succeeds. Add or invoke a CLI operation that performs this cleanup,
and revise the decrypt drop instructions to direct users to that operation
instead of editing the manifest manually; keep cleanup out of migration
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Review comments at @languages/typescript/packages/migrate/src/decrypt.ts:
- Around line 401-404: Update the force documentation, the --force warning, and
the lock-context paragraph in skippedReport to state that every forced pass
clears plaintext for rows it cannot decrypt, including passes forced by
forceObligationOpen. Instruct operators to perform application-side decryption
only after the final forced pass, then run subsequent passes without --force.

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Review comments at @skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md:
- Line 717: Update the post-application workflow around removeManifestColumn so
the CLI removes the column entry from .cipherstash/migrations.json after the
generated migration succeeds. Add or invoke a CLI operation that performs this
cleanup, and revise the decrypt drop instructions to direct users to that
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…le rows A forced pass sets the plaintext of every row it cannot decrypt to NULL, including a value the application wrote after decrypting the row as its user. The --force warning, the skipped-rows report, the decrypt docstring and the stash-cli skill now say to do per-user remediation only after the last forced pass has completed, then re-run without --force. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018TacM4u97tr5yPAFynxYXW

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Re-review of b56561f. The data-loss blocker from my last two reviews is fixed. One text defect in a skill that ships to customers is still open, so I request changes for that only.

Fixed: a forced pass left stale values in skipped rows

A forced pass now writes NULL to the plaintext column of each row it skips (decrypt.ts:401-404). The write keeps the ciphertext guard. The drop check (<encrypted> IS NOT NULL AND <plaintext> IS NULL) therefore counts these rows again, and decrypt drop refuses while they remain. The skipped counter is now separate from writes.length, so rowsDecrypted stays correct when the write list contains NULL writes.

What I did to verify it, at b56561f, against Postgres 17:

decrypt.integration.test.ts: 39 of 39 tests pass. This includes the new forced-pass test.
I removed the NULL write from skip() and ran the test again. The new test failed, and the other 38 passed. The test therefore detects the defect.
@cipherstash/migrate, all tests: 78 pass, and 54 are skipped (the live suites that need credentials).
stash unit tests in commands/decrypt and commands/encrypt/lib: 160 of 160 pass. These include the new SQLSTATE tests for isMissingMigrationsTable.

The changes to SKILL.md:689 and the --confirm-plaintext-current row now agree with the code.

Blocking: `skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md:717` tells the agent to edit `.cipherstash/` by hand

CodeRabbit found this already; I agree that it blocks, and I give a fix below. Line 717 says: "After applying it, remove the column's entry from that file". Line 12 of the same skill says: "don't hand-edit .cipherstash/. The CLI owns that state; hand-edits desync it." An agent in a customer repository gets two instructions that contradict each other, and no CLI command can do the removal. Because this skill ships in the stash tarball, I block on it, as for incorrect code.

Possible fixes (one is sufficient):

Change the sentence: keep the entry, and say that encrypt status shows it as reversed, which is the correct final state. Do not tell the agent to edit the file.
Make decrypt drop (or a later decrypt status, after it sees that the column is gone) remove the entry through removeManifestColumn. Then change line 717 to name that command.

Suggested follow-up PR

CI still does not run the @cipherstash/migrate integration suites, because no workflow sets PG_TEST_URL. Only a local run tests the obligation, concurrency and forced-pass behaviour, including the new test. A job with a Postgres service container and no credentials would cover them.

After `decrypt drop`, the skill, the drop's next steps and `encrypt status` told the user to remove the column's entry from .cipherstash/migrations.json by hand. The same skill says the CLI owns .cipherstash/ and hand-edits desync it, and no command performs the removal. The entry now stays: `encrypt status` shows it as `reversed`, which is its final state. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018TacM4u97tr5yPAFynxYXW

freshtonic

Approved at eb8194b.

The last blocker is fixed

skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md:717 no longer tells the agent to edit .cipherstash/migrations.json. The entry stays, and encrypt status shows reversed as its final state. The code agrees with the skill:

decrypt drop no longer prints the instruction to remove the entry.
The encrypt status flag is now reversed, not reversed (remove from migrations.json).
Both tests now assert that the output does not contain migrations.json.

I searched languages/, skills/ and docs/, and found no other instruction to edit that file. manifestPlaintextFor is still used by resolve-pair.ts and decrypt/status.ts, so removing its import from drop.ts leaves no dead export.

The remediation point from CodeRabbit is now documented in the --force warning, the skipped-rows report, the TSDoc and SKILL.md:689: do per-user remediation only after the last forced pass completes. This agrees with the behaviour of b56561f.

What I checked

stash unit tests in commands/decrypt and commands/encrypt: 186 of 186 pass.
Biome on the changed CLI and migrate sources: no errors.
CI: all checks pass.
decrypt.ts changed in its comments only, so my Postgres 17 integration run at b56561f (39 of 39, with the mutation check) still applies.

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fix(cli): reject a non-numeric or non-positive --chunk-size before encrypt backfill starts #1194

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fix(ci): score a PR from the commit it merges onto, and label misread function spans #1223

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feat(migrate): ColumnMigration owns the rules of a column migration #1276

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docs(migrate): credit #1193 with the reverse-direction waiver

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ci: run the @cipherstash/migrate database suites in CI #1295

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tobyhede merged commit 214d24d into main Oct 20, 2026
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tobyhede deleted the cj/cip-4165-stash-cli-reverse-migration-decrypt-backfill-for-moving branch October 20, 2026 01:05

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calvinbrewer commented Oct 13, 2026 •

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Blocking: `skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md:717` tells the agent to edit `.cipherstash/` by hand