Two unrelated-looking problems with the same shape: a dangerous state that
looked fine from the outside.
DEPLOY (server-26#21). The Deploy job failed on fifteen consecutive pushes
between 2026-08-18 and 08-20 and nobody noticed for two days, because the
build job was green and a red run is only visible to someone who opens Gitea.
Production served 08-18 code the whole time -- including the entire frontend
redesign, chunks 2 through 8. Three changes:
* The health check now asserts WHICH build answered, not just that something
did. CI bakes the commit into the image (Dockerfile ARG/ENV GIT_SHA) and
/health reports it, so a deploy that "succeeds" while the previous
container keeps running now fails. Liveness alone could never have caught
this.
* The image pull retries once after a prune. The actual failure was
containerd unable to extract a layer -- "failed to Lchown ... no such file
or directory" -- a corrupted entry in the snapshot store, which a prune
clears. A second failure after pruning is a real problem (check the VM's
disk) and still stops the deploy.
* A notify-failure job POSTs to DEPLOY_ALERT_WEBHOOK when anything in the
workflow fails. Unset means skip quietly, not fail.
CORS (server-26#20). allow_origins=["*"] with allow_credentials=True is not
the permissive-but-harmless setting it reads as. Starlette does not reject the
pair -- it reflects the caller's Origin back and still sends
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true, so the effective policy is "any
origin, WITH credentials", the opposite of what a wildcard normally means.
Rather than trust every deployment to remember CORS_ORIGINS, the pair is now
unrepresentable: a wildcard forces allow_credentials off and logs an ERROR
naming the variable to set. Correctly configured deployments that name their
origins are unaffected and keep credentialed requests.
Severity honestly: low today. c2-core is bearer-auth, and browsers do not
attach bearer tokens cross-origin the way they attach cookies. This is a
misconfiguration waiting for the day something starts trusting a cookie.
Also adds firebase_admin.auth.UserRecord and the list/update/create/delete_user
names to the conftest stub. routers/users.py annotates with UserRecord at
import time, so without it importing app.main failed at collection -- which is
why nothing had ever tested anything wired at app level, CORS included.
Tests: 5 new in test_cors_policy.py, covering the pure policy function, the
middleware actually mounted on the app (so re-hardcoding allow_credentials=True
fails here), and the presence of the build stamp.
Closeslogan/server-26#20Closeslogan/server-26#21
auth.py
secrets.compare_digest replaces == for service key comparison (timing-safe)
Added require_service_key — bot-only endpoints (trip/event join/leave)
Added require_service_key_or_admin — node commands/config (bot via service key OR dashboard admin via Firebase)
Added _RateLimiter with three shared instances: trip_chat_limiter (20/5min per user), summarize_limiter (5/10min per incident), bootstrap_limiter (2/hr per system)
nodes.py
send_command and assign_system now require require_service_key_or_admin — the Discord bot can still call them via service key, but regular Firebase users are blocked
tokens.py
add_token, flush_tokens, set_preferred_system, delete_token all require require_admin_token
Token masking changed from token[:10] + "…" + token[-4:] to "•••" + token[-4:]
systems.py
All write endpoints (create, update, delete, ai-flags, ten-codes, vocabulary writes, bootstrap) now require require_admin_token
bootstrap_vocabulary also calls bootstrap_limiter.check(system_id)
incidents.py
POST /incidents/summarize (bulk) now requires require_admin_token
POST /incidents/{id}/summarize now calls summarize_limiter.check(incident_id)
trips.py
join_trip, leave_trip, join_event, leave_event require require_service_key — only the Discord bot can set Discord attendee identity
delete_trip, delete_event require require_service_key_or_admin
trip_chat rate-limited per caller UID, history stripped to user/assistant roles only, user message truncated to 2000 chars, Maps query strings capped at 200 chars
upload.py
Rejects files larger than settings.upload_max_bytes (default 100MB) with 413
storage.py
_safe_audio_filename() derives GCS object name from call_id + allowlisted extension, completely ignoring the client-supplied filename
config.py
Added upload_max_bytes: int = 100 * 1024 * 1024
Both Dockerfiles — python:3.14-slim → python:3.12-slim
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