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CARD TITLE (intent, not commit subject): notifications: validate level on POST /api/notifications (bot finding #2320/F11)

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Docs-Reviewed: notifications route is not documented in agent-coordination.md, no doc change needed

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changelog.d/tsk-rwnjqs-notification-level-validation.md | 2 ++
tests/test_routes_notifications.py | 12 ++++++++++++
tinyagentos/routes/notifications.py | 9 ++++++++-
3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Notification creation now rejects unsupported notification levels with a clear HTTP 400 error.
    • Accepted levels are limited to info, warning, and error.
  • Documentation

    • Added a changelog entry describing the notification level validation.

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Docs-Reviewed: notifications route is not documented in agent-coordination.md, no doc change needed
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The notification creation endpoint now validates level against info, warning, and error. Unsupported values return HTTP 400 before storage. A route test and changelog entry document this behavior.

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Notification level validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Route validation
tinyagentos/routes/notifications.py
The route defines valid notification levels and rejects unsupported values with HTTP 400 before storage.
Validation coverage
tests/test_routes_notifications.py, changelog.d/tsk-rwnjqs-notification-level-validation.md
The test verifies rejection of an unknown level. The changelog records the validation behavior and permitted values.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 95d4a

The endpoint now rejects unsupported notification levels, but the regression test does not verify that rejected requests are absent from storage, and the allowed-level list is duplicated, creating a bounded consistency risk if values change. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up.

Possibly related PRs

  • jaylfc/taOS#2280: Introduced the notification creation endpoint and its tests that this change extends.
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16-17: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use one source for notification levels.

tinyagentos/tools/notify_tools.py already validates against VALID_LEVELS. This route defines a second whitelist with the same values. If either list changes, the notification producers can accept different levels. Move the set to a shared module and import it from both paths.

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In `@tinyagentos/routes/notifications.py` around lines 16 - 17, Move the
notification-level whitelist into a shared module, then update the route and the
validation in notify_tools.py to import and use that single VALID_LEVELS symbol.
Remove the duplicate _VALID_LEVELS definition while preserving validation of
info, warning, and error levels.
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Inline comments:
In `@tests/test_routes_notifications.py`:
- Around line 125-135: Extend test_admin_create_rejects_invalid_level to verify
that the rejected “bad level” notification is absent from persistent storage
after the request, using the test’s existing notification query or repository
access. Keep the existing 400 status assertion and ensure the check targets the
submitted title or equivalent unique fields.

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In `@tinyagentos/routes/notifications.py`:
- Around line 16-17: Move the notification-level whitelist into a shared module,
then update the route and the validation in notify_tools.py to import and use
that single VALID_LEVELS symbol. Remove the duplicate _VALID_LEVELS definition
while preserving validation of info, warning, and error levels.
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VERDICT: LGTM
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ok, err = _require_admin(request)
if not ok:
return err
if body.level not in _VALID_LEVELS:

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WARNING: Level validation is only enforced at the HTTP route level. NotificationStore.add() and emit_event() do not validate level, so internal callers can bypass this check and persist notifications with invalid levels. Consider moving the validation into the store to ensure data integrity regardless of the caller.


Reply with @kilocode-bot fix it to have Kilo Code address this issue.

"level": "bogus",
},
)
assert resp.status_code == 400

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SUGGESTION: The test only asserts resp.status_code == 400 but does not verify the notification was not persisted. Adding an assertion that no notification with the "bad level" title exists in the store would make the test more robust against future regressions.


Reply with @kilocode-bot fix it to have Kilo Code address this issue.

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Status: 1 Issue Found | Recommendation: Address before merge

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tests/test_routes_notifications.py 151 Test only asserts status code; does not verify the notification was persisted
Files Reviewed (5 files)
  • changelog.d/tsk-rwnjqs-notification-level-validation.md
  • tests/test_routes_notifications.py - 1 issue
  • tinyagentos/notifications.py
  • tinyagentos/routes/notifications.py
  • tinyagentos/tools/notify_tools.py

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…ncl. 'success'

The route's own frozenset {info,warning,error} omitted 'success', which the
notify_user tool schema advertises and store_install/toast UI already use —
POST /api/notifications would 400 a legitimate level. Single source of truth
now lives in tinyagentos/notifications.py; the tool and the route both import
it. Red-proven: test_admin_create_accepts_success_level fails 400==200 on the
previous head. Also asserts the rejected notification is not persisted.
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Reviewed + fixed forward (fdd3a9a). The core fix was correct and followed the card, but the card itself specified too narrow a whitelist — my error, not the lane's: {"info","warning","error"} was derived from the legacy HTML icon map, while the canonical vocabulary includes success (notify_user tool schema enum in tinyagentos/tools/notify_tools.py, store_install.py:305 emits it, NotificationToast/NotificationArchiveApp render it). As merged, the route would 400 a legitimate level and create a second copy of the level set — one limit, two copies, one lie.

Fix-forward: VALID_LEVELS now lives once in tinyagentos/notifications.py; the tool and the route both import it. Red-proven on the previous head 95d4aa5:

tests/test_routes_notifications.py:151: AssertionError
E       assert 400 == 200
E        +  where 400 = <Response [400 Bad Request]>.status_code
FAILED tests/test_routes_notifications.py::TestNotificationCreateRoutes::test_admin_create_accepts_success_level
1 failed, 1 passed

Green on fdd3a9a: 14 passed across test_routes_notifications.py + test_notify_tools.py (rc=0).

Kilo dispositions:

  • WARNING (route-level only, internal callers bypass store.add()): declined with sweep evidence. All internal add(level=...) callers pass literals (cluster.py, store_install.py, agents.py, broker.py, decisions.py, etc.); the one dynamic caller — the notify_user tool — validates against the now-shared canonical set. Store-level raising would turn an internal programming bug into a runtime notification failure in best-effort paths; the two-vocabulary half of the warning is fixed by the unification.
  • SUGGESTION (assert non-persistence): adopted — the 400 test now asserts the rejected notification is absent from the list.

Contract note for the lane: the card required the pre-fix FAILED run fenced in the PR body; it was missing. My measured runs above stand in this time — future PRs on red-first cards must carry their own.

"level": "success",
},
)
assert resp.status_code == 200

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SUGGESTION: Test only asserts status code; does not verify the notification was persisted

The test only asserts resp.status_code == 200 but does not verify the notification was actually stored. A regression that returns 200 without persisting the notification would pass this test. Consider adding a listing assertion similar to test_admin_create_appears_in_list.


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Declined with measured reasoning: the route has no level-specific persist branch — create_notification validates body.level not in VALID_LEVELS (400) and then calls the single shared store.add(...) for every level (routes/notifications.py:71-77). A success-only 200-without-persist regression therefore has no mechanism this assert could catch that the existing coverage misses: store-layer persistence is asserted by test_emit_event_stores_notification, the happy-path create test asserts the created object, and the invalid-level test asserts NON-persistence via listing. This test's job is only the boundary decision (success ∉ rejected set). Adopting would re-burn full CI on a green approved PR for an assert that cannot fail distinguishably.

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