fix(security): harden credential trust, publication, and request limits

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Summary

Closes every actionable finding from the white-box security audit of the repository and the production deployment. The audit found no realized breach. These changes harden the trust chain, publication path, and request limits.

Changes

• Issuer pinning (F1, high): parseCredential and parsePublicCredential accept a pinned issuer key and API origin. The CLI and the runtime client fetch /.well-known/secret-effects over HTTPS and pin both values before parsing. A self-signed credential or recipient descriptor with a foreign issuer key now fails. The API also rejects bundles whose recipients are not active Project or matching Environment credentials.
• Global rotation (F2): A Global credential can revoke any credential, including itself. Rotation is revoke, then bootstrap with the admin token. docs/OPERATIONS.md documents the procedure.
• Bootstrap rate limit and timing (F3, F8): A D1 fixed-window limiter allows five bootstrap attempts per minute (migration 0003). The admin token comparison hashes both sides first, so token length no longer leaks.
• Request limits (F3): readBody streams and cancels oversized bodies instead of buffering up to 5 MB before authentication.
• Publication integrity (F4): Bundle content and envelope versions must be 64-hex digests. The publisher rejects a content version that was already published to that environment, refuses an object key that matches the live pointer, and deletes orphaned or superseded objects. Schema manifests cap at 100 per project.
• Replay window (F5): Nonces are retained for twice the signature window, and requests may not carry timestamps more than 30 seconds in the future.
• Expiration validation (F6): expiresAt must be a finite number, so 1e999 no longer produces a never-expiring credential.
• Audit accuracy (F7): Credential audit events append after the credential insert commits, and Durable Object environment creation propagates failures instead of ignoring them.

Test plan

• pnpm check passes: format, lint, typecheck, 18 tests (two new issuer-pinning regression tests).
• pnpm semark:check passes.
• wrangler deploy --dry-run builds the Worker bundle.
• pnpm audit --prod --audit-level high reports no advisories.
• Local CodeRabbit review findings addressed or justified per comment.

Security

• Pin credential issuers through HTTPS well-known metadata.
• Validate bundle recipients on the server.
• Allow Global credentials to revoke themselves for rotation.
• Limit bootstrap requests to five attempts per minute.
• Compare admin tokens with constant-length values.
• Limit request bodies during streaming.
• Retain nonces longer to reduce replay risk.
• Reject future timestamps and non-finite expiration values.

Publication integrity

• Reject reused bundle versions in the same environment.
• Validate bundle versions and object keys before upload.
• Remove orphaned objects after publication conflicts and replacements.
• Limit schema manifest size.
• Record audit events after successful persistence.
• Report Durable Object environment creation failures.

Client updates

• Validate issuer metadata in the CLI and client package.
• Reuse issuer trust checks for bundle credentials.
• Add tests for untrusted issuers and pinned credentials.

Documentation and validation

• Document Global credential rotation.
• Document bootstrap rate limits.
• Add the rate-limit database migration.
• Pass formatting, linting, type checking, 18 tests, Semark checks, Worker dry-run deployment, and the production dependency audit.

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The PR adds issuer trust pinning, stricter protocol validation, bootstrap rate limiting, bounded request-body reads, authentication timing changes, schema and recipient limits, and safer bundle publication cleanup. It also documents Global credential rotation and bootstrap controls.

Changes

Security and integrity controls

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Protocol validation contracts packages/protocol/src/index.ts	Adds finite timestamp validation and fixed-format hexadecimal validation for bundle versions.
Issuer trust validation packages/crypto/src/index.ts, packages/crypto/src/index.test.ts	Adds optional issuer-key and API-origin pinning for credential parsing. Tests cover trusted, untrusted, and unpinned parsing.
Well-known trust wiring apps/cli/src/bin.ts, packages/client/src/index.ts	Fetches, validates, caches, and applies service well-known issuer metadata.
API request and authorization controls apps/api/src/index.ts, migrations/0003_rate_limits.sql	Adds bootstrap rate limiting, timestamp and nonce-window changes, post-persistence audit logging, Global revocation, schema limits, bounded body reads, and fixed-length authentication comparison.
Bundle recipient and publication state apps/api/src/index.ts, apps/api/src/project-state.ts	Validates recipients, reports reused versions, rejects duplicate environments, and removes orphaned or superseded objects.
Credential rotation and rate-limit procedures docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, docs/OPERATIONS.md	Documents Global credential creation and revocation, credential rotation, and bootstrap limits.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 39f77

Although this PR strengthens several security controls, unauthenticated callers can still exhaust global bootstrap capacity, and credential issuance can persist successfully while reporting failure, leading to retries and missing audit records. Trust discovery and publication quota enforcement also retain bounded security and correctness weaknesses, so the PR is not merge-ready until the high-impact issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant WellKnownEndpoint
  participant CredentialParser
  Client->>WellKnownEndpoint: Request HTTPS well-known record
  WellKnownEndpoint-->>Client: Return issuer key and API origin
  Client->>CredentialParser: Parse credential with pinned trust
  CredentialParser-->>Client: Accept or reject credential

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Actionable comments posted: 6

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apps/cli/src/bin.ts (1)

615-623: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Other (CWE-345)

Reachability: Internal · Exploitability: Difficult

Use an out-of-band credential trust anchor. Both callers derive issuerPublicKey and apiOrigin from the credential's claimed API origin. The origin check is therefore tautological, and discovery does not establish an independent trust anchor.

Pass a configured issuer key or expected API origin through the CLI and LoadEnvOptions. Add coverage for the apiOrigin mismatch branch in packages/crypto/src/index.test.ts.

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In `@apps/cli/src/bin.ts` around lines 615 - 623, Update configuredCredential and
the corresponding credential-loading flow in packages/client/src/index.ts to
obtain issuerPublicKey or expected apiOrigin from trusted CLI configuration and
pass it through LoadEnvOptions, rather than deriving both from
candidate.payload.api. Preserve validation against that out-of-band trust
anchor, and add coverage in packages/crypto/src/index.test.ts for the apiOrigin
mismatch branch.

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/api/src/index.ts`:
- Around line 945-956: Make schema quota enforcement atomic in the schema
registration flow around the schema manifest count query and subsequent insert:
replace the separate count-then-insert sequence with a transaction-safe guarded
insert or database-enforced counter that cannot exceed MAX_SCHEMAS_PER_PROJECT
under concurrent registrations, while preserving the existing
schema_limit_reached ApiError behavior. Add a concurrent boundary test verifying
registrations cannot push a project beyond the quota.
- Line 357: Update enforceBootstrapRateLimit and its call site in the bootstrap
flow so pre-authentication rate-limit counters are partitioned by a trusted
unauthenticated client identifier rather than shared across all callers; retain
any required global circuit breaker separately. Add coverage proving five
invalid requests from one client do not cause a valid administrator bootstrap
request from another client to receive 429.
- Around line 761-767: Update persistIssuedCredential around the credentials
insert and appendAudit call so audit delivery is handled through a transactional
outbox or durable retry mechanism; once credential persistence succeeds,
preserve the successful issuance response regardless of immediate audit failure,
while ensuring the audit event is eventually recorded.

In `@apps/api/src/project-state.ts`:
- Around line 220-233: The serialized replay branch in publish must delete the
request’s uploaded object before returning the existing result. In the
reused-version path identified by the reused query and version_reused return,
call deleteOrphan with input.objectKey and the current live bundle before
returning, matching the cleanup used by the preceding conflict path.

In `@apps/cli/src/bin.ts`:
- Around line 632-641: Update fetchWellKnown to validate the parsed origin URL’s
protocol is exactly “https:” before any fetch or cache use, rejecting non-HTTPS
schemes with the existing CliError behavior and preserving the current cache
handling for valid HTTPS origins.

In `@docs/OPERATIONS.md`:
- Around line 79-83: Update the Global credential rotation instructions so they
describe revoking the current credential first, rerunning bootstrap with the
global admin token second, and storing the replacement afterward; adjust the
introductory sentence and numbered steps consistently.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/cli/src/bin.ts`:
- Around line 615-623: Update configuredCredential and the corresponding
credential-loading flow in packages/client/src/index.ts to obtain
issuerPublicKey or expected apiOrigin from trusted CLI configuration and pass it
through LoadEnvOptions, rather than deriving both from candidate.payload.api.
Preserve validation against that out-of-band trust anchor, and add coverage in
packages/crypto/src/index.test.ts for the apiOrigin mismatch branch.

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#AI-Automation

Automated fixes in response to the CodeRabbit review on this pull request:

• apps/api/src/index.ts — Moved the bootstrap rate limiter to the rejected-token path so invalid attempts cannot block a valid administrator, and made the limiter fail open on catalog errors. (CodeRabbit, CWE-770, major)
• apps/api/src/index.ts — persistIssuedCredential now keeps the successful issuance response when the audit append fails and reports the failure to Sentry. (CodeRabbit, data integrity, major)
• apps/api/src/index.ts — Replaced the schema manifest count-then-insert sequence with one guarded INSERT ... SELECT so the quota is atomic under concurrent registration. (CodeRabbit, CWE-770, minor)
• apps/cli/src/bin.ts — configuredCredential rejects any non-HTTPS payload API protocol before the well-known request, and fetchWellKnown revalidates the protocol. (CodeRabbit, security, minor)
• docs/OPERATIONS.md — Corrected the rotation procedure to revoke first, bootstrap second, store third, and clarified that the bootstrap limit counts rejected attempts. (CodeRabbit, functional correctness, minor)

Resolved without code changes:

• apps/api/src/project-state.ts replay-branch cleanup — the version_reused path already deletes the orphaned object; deleting in the replay branch would destroy the live bundle because a replayed request reuses the live object key.
• Migrations 0002 finding — pre-existing file outside this diff; the migration chain starts from an empty credentials table, and production already applied the index.
• Semark checker diff-aware validation and skill discovery-order findings — pre-existing tooling and skill files outside this change.

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#AI-Automation

The final Blacksmith CI job passed after the conflict resolution.

Conflict and review changes:

• Rebased PR fix(security): harden credential trust, publication, and request limits #5 onto the current master commit.
• Integrated issuer pinning into the unified public client.
• Added client tests for the well-known endpoint and issuer mismatch.
• Preserved typed errors, runtime source checks, request deadlines, and T3 validation.
• Removed uploaded bundle orphans from the serialized replay path.
• Resolved every CodeRabbit review thread.
• Set all workspace package versions to 0.2.1.
• Corrected the npm publish command that failed in the v0.2.0 release.

Automated checks:

• pnpm check
• pnpm semark:check
• pnpm build
• Wrangler deployment dry run
• Clean npm consumer import test
• npm publication dry run
• Actionlint with the documented Blacksmith and GitHub queue-schema exemptions