Edge nodes are deployed to arbitrary locations by arbitrary people, so the
broker has to be reachable from the internet and secured on its own merits
rather than by a VPN.
Three defects made that impossible. The broker only had a plaintext 1883
listener; every node shared one drb-node password; and the ACL pattern used
%c, the client-supplied client id, so any holder of that shared password
could set client_id to another node and take over its namespace. The comment
claiming this cryptographically prevented cross-node access was wrong and is
gone.
Authentication now uses mosquitto 2.x's built-in dynamic-security plugin on
the stock eclipse-mosquitto image. c2-core administers it over the control
topic, creating each node's client on approval with username=<node_id> and
password=<its node_keys api_key>, attached to a role whose ACL is nodes/%u/#
against the authenticated username. One credential, one revocation point.
An HTTP-callback plugin was implemented first and rejected: that project is
archived upstream, which is not an acceptable dependency on an
internet-facing broker.
Because dynsec state is a second source of truth alongside Firestore,
approve/reissue/delete now write to the broker first and surface a 502
rather than drifting, and c2-core reconciles every approved node into dynsec
on startup.
Adds node self-enrollment (POST /nodes/enroll, GET /nodes/{id}/credentials)
so a new node can obtain its key over HTTPS without an operator handling
secrets by hand. Enrolling an already-approved node_id is refused on the
fleet token alone — otherwise a leaked token plus a guessable id would let
an attacker steal a live node's key before the real node asked for it.
Pickup secrets are stored hashed and returned once, and the endpoint is rate
limited per source IP.
Infrastructure: an 8883 TLS listener fed by Caddy's certificate via a
systemd path unit, a firewall rule for it, and Caddy now 404s /internal/*
so the api vhost cannot proxy internal routes.
Also fixes CORS, which allowed https://app.<domain> while the frontend is
served on the bare domain — every call from the portal would have failed —
and widens the vault gitignore to a glob, since ansible-vault leaves
backup siblings that the exact-name rule left committable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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
Correlator
- Raise fast-path idle gate 30 → 90 min (tg_fast_path_idle_minutes)
- Fix disambiguate always-commits bug: run _call_fits_incident on winner
before committing; fall through to new-incident creation if it fails
- Add unit-continuity path (path 1.5): matches all_active by shared unit
IDs with a reassignment guard, bridges calls past the idle gate
- Add tag-based incident_type inference (_TAG_TYPE_HINTS) as GPT fallback,
rescuing tagged calls that would have been dropped (616 observed orphans)
- Add master/child incident model: _create_master_incident, _demote_to_child,
_add_child_to_master; new incidents stamped incident_type="master"
- Add cross-system parent detection (_find_cross_system_parent): two-signal
scoring (road overlap=0.4, embedding≥0.78=0.3, proximity=0.3, threshold=0.5)
wired into create-if-new path; creates master shell on first cross-system match
- Add maybe_resolve_parent: auto-resolves master when all children close;
called from upload pipeline (LLM closure) and summarizer stale sweep
- Add signal-based auto-resolve via units_active/units_cleared tracking:
GPT now extracts cleared_units per scene; _update_incident moves units
between active/cleared lists and resolves the incident when active empties;
stored on call doc for re-correlation sweep reuse
- Add _create_incident initialization of units_active/units_cleared fields
Re-correlation sweep
- Add corr_sweep_count + MAX_SWEEP_ATTEMPTS=3: orphans get 3 attempts
then are tombstoned as corr_path="unlinked", ending the re-sweep loop
(previously hammering each orphan 29-31 times per shift)
Intelligence extraction
- Add cleared_units to GPT prompt schema and rules
- Extract and propagate cleared_units per scene; merge across scenes;
store on call doc for re-correlation sweep
Token management
- Fix token release bug: remove release_token call on discord_connected=False
in MQTT checkin (transient Discord drops were orphaning bots mid-shift)
- Add PUT /tokens/{id}/prefer/{system_id} endpoint: lock a bot token to a
system; pass _none as system_id to clear; stored bidirectionally on both
token and system documents
- discord_join handler resolves preferred_token_id from system doc and passes
system_name in MQTT payload
Logan CusanoandClaude Opus 5