feat(provisioning): FO-2-backend — Enterprise Provisioning Service

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Summary

Implements the Enterprise Provisioning Service (FO-2-backend, Decision 31).

• New module cq_server/provisioning/ with 6-phase async state machine
• POST /api/v1/enterprises — anonymous, IP rate-limited (10 req/hr)
• GET /api/v1/enterprises/jobs/{job_id} — anonymous, ULID unguessable, 24h expiry post-COMPLETED
• Alembic migration 0021 (provisioning_jobs table)
• CORSMiddleware added: https://signup.8th-layer.ai allowed
• 45 unit + route + integration tests (all green)

closes #224 — relates to OneZero1ai/8th-layer-core#61 (Decision 31)

6-Phase State Machine

Phase	Status	What happens
1	KEY_MINT_IN_PROGRESS	Ed25519 key pair; private key stored via KMS generate-data-key (SSM SecureString fallback if /8th-layer/provisioning/kms-key-id absent)
2	DIRECTORY_REGISTER_IN_PROGRESS	In-process directory registration (structured log event; HTTP call TODO when directory is a separate service)
3	DNS_PROVISION_IN_PROGRESS	Cloudflare CNAME <slug>.8th-layer.ai + ACM cert request (fire-and-continue, no wait for issuance)
4	L2_STANDUP_IN_PROGRESS	sts:AssumeRole into marketplace_deploy_role_arn → CFN create-stack → poll until CREATE_COMPLETE
5	ADMIN_INVITE_SENT	Magic-link invite email via SES (reuses cq_server.email_sender.EmailSender)
6	COMPLETED	Persist result JSON (l2_admin_url, etc.)

New Files

server/backend/
  alembic/versions/0021_provisioning_jobs.py
  src/cq_server/provisioning/
    __init__.py      — package + router export
    ids.py           — prov_<ULID> job ID generator (no extra dep)
    models.py        — Pydantic shapes (Decision 31 contract)
    db.py            — SQLAlchemy Core helpers for provisioning_jobs
    routes.py        — FastAPI router
    worker.py        — asyncio background task state machine
  tests/test_provisioning.py  — 45 tests

Modified Files

• app.py — import + api_router.include_router(provisioning_router) + CORSMiddleware
• migrations.py — HEAD_REVISION bumped to 0021a_provisioning_partial_unique
• 3 test files — HEAD_REVISION assertion updated (previously pinned to 0020_l2_brand)

SSM Params Required

Param	Notes
/8th-layer/provisioning/kms-key-id	KMS CMK for key wrapping; optional (falls back to SSM SecureString if absent)
/8th-layer/provisioning/marketplace-template-url	S3 URL for the CFN stack template
/8th-layer/provisioning/cf-zone-id	Cloudflare zone ID (default ef41eeeee3086adb2f78716f3356704f)

Deploy Notes (infra — not in this PR)

• New Cloudflare CNAME: provision.8th-layer.ai → existing cq-directory ALB
• ALB path routing: /api/v1/enterprises* → cq-directory target group
• New cross-account IAM: cq-directory task role needs sts:AssumeRole permission

CFN snippet — customers run this in their AWS account to create the assumable role:

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09"
Description: "8th-Layer L2 Provisioner role"
Resources:
  EighthLayerL2ProvisionerRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      RoleName: 8thLayerL2Provisioner
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument:
        Version: "2012-10-17"
        Statement:
          - Effect: Allow
            Principal:
              AWS: "arn:aws:iam::EIGHTHLAYER_ACCOUNT_ID:root"
            Action: sts:AssumeRole
            Condition:
              StringEquals:
                sts:ExternalId: !Ref ProvisionerExternalId
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSCloudFormationFullAccess
      Policies:
        - PolicyName: L2DeployPermissions
          PolicyDocument:
            Version: "2012-10-17"
            Statement:
              - Effect: Allow
                Action: [iam:CreateRole, iam:AttachRolePolicy, iam:PassRole, ecs:*, elasticloadbalancing:*]
                Resource: "*"
Parameters:
  ProvisionerExternalId:
    Type: String
    MinLength: 22
    NoEcho: true
    Description: >
      Unguessable ExternalId (UUID, ULID, or base64-encoded 16+ random bytes).
      MUST be at least 22 chars. Submit this same value in the signup wizard's
      "ExternalId" field. Confused-deputy protection — a weak value (e.g. your
      company name) makes this role trivially assumable by attackers.
Outputs:
  RoleArn:
    Value: !GetAtt EighthLayerL2ProvisionerRole.Arn

ExternalId — customer-set, single POST. Generate a UUID/ULID locally (e.g. uuidgen), pass it as ProvisionerExternalId when deploying this stack, then paste the same value into the signup wizard's assume_role_external_id field. Minimum length is enforced at 22 chars to defeat enumeration.

New Dependencies

None — uses existing boto3, cryptography, fastapi.

Parallel Work Note

AS-1 (#200) takes migration 0022_persona_assignments and adds 0023_persona_assignment_audit. HEAD_REVISION is 0021a_provisioning_partial_unique in this PR; AS-1's PR chains 0022 → 0023 on top. AS-1 (PR #229) must merge after this one.

Test Plan

• uv run pytest tests/test_provisioning.py -q — 45 passed
• uv run pytest tests/ -q — full suite green (890 passed, 5 skipped)
• Staging smoke: POST /api/v1/enterprises with valid body + mock role → returns job_id
• Staging smoke: GET /api/v1/enterprises/jobs/{job_id} → status: PROVISIONING
• Missing env: CF_API_TOKEN, KMS/SSM params (all documented above)

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8l-reviewer findings — security-sensitive surface audit

This PR ships an anonymous endpoint, cross-account sts:AssumeRole, and Ed25519 root-key minting — squarely in the security-sensitive review remit. Findings grouped by severity. HIGH must block merge.

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HIGH

1. sts:AssumeRole lacks ExternalId (confused-deputy attack)

server/backend/src/cq_server/provisioning/routes.py:851-859 and worker.py:1194-1199

Both assume_role calls pass only RoleArn, RoleSessionName, DurationSeconds. No ExternalId. Without one, any AWS account in the world can submit a role ARN with a trust policy that says "trust 8th-layer's task role" and we'll assume it. Textbook confused-deputy pattern.

Fix: mint a per-enterprise unguessable external_id at job creation, require it in the customer's trust policy, pass ExternalId=external_id on every AssumeRole. Return the external_id in CreateEnterpriseResponse so the wizard surfaces it for inclusion in the customer's trust template.

2. Phase 2 "directory register" is a no-op log line; jobs complete without registering anything

server/backend/src/cq_server/provisioning/worker.py:1072-1098

The function body is log.info(...) then a TODO. No write to any directory store, no HTTP call, no row insert. But the job nevertheless advances to COMPLETED with a fabricated directory_record_url: https://directory.8th-layer.ai/enterprises/{slug} in the result.

Every "successful" provisioning produces a result URL that 404s. Phase 5 sends a magic-link invite to an enterprise that doesn't exist in the directory.

Fix: implement the directory write against the local enterprises table now, OR fail Phase 2 explicitly until the integration is wired. Returning a fabricated URL for a non-existent record is the worst option.

3. Anonymous slug-uniqueness check enables enumeration of all customer slugs

server/backend/src/cq_server/provisioning/routes.py:725-730 + db.py:369-375 (is_slug_taken)

POST is anonymous, rate-limited 10/hr/IP. Attacker with N IPs probes acme, chorus, orion, etc. → enumerates the full customer roster. Worse, the error body echoes the slug: "The enterprise slug 'acme' is already taken."

Fix: return a generic VALIDATION error with no slug echo OR require a CAPTCHA/PoW before the uniqueness check leaks. At minimum strip the slug from the response body.

4. Slug-uniqueness check is TOCTOU race; concurrent POSTs both succeed

server/backend/src/cq_server/provisioning/routes.py:713-754 + migration 0021_provisioning_jobs.py:84-104

Flow is: conn → check → close → AssumeRole → conn → insert. No DB UNIQUE constraint on enterprise_id — the migration explicitly removes it ("want the application to return SLUG_TAKEN 409 rather than a constraint error"). Two parallel POSTs of the same slug pass the check and both insert. Phase 4 races to create two CFN stacks with the same name.

Fix: add UNIQUE constraint on provisioning_jobs.enterprise_id, catch IntegrityError in insert_job, translate to SLUG_TAKEN there. The clean UI message goal is met via exception translation, not by removing the constraint.

5. X-Forwarded-For trusted unconditionally; rate limit trivially bypassed

server/backend/src/cq_server/provisioning/routes.py:660-668 (_ip_hash)

Reads request.headers.get("X-Forwarded-For", "").split(",")[0] with no validation that the request arrived via the trusted ALB. From a direct connection the client controls the header → rotate per request → unlimited KMS keys, CFN stacks, ACM certs, SES emails.

Fix: read trusted forwarder ranges from config; only honor XFF when request.client.host is in that set. Otherwise use request.client.host directly. Or use Starlette's ProxyHeadersMiddleware with explicit trusted_hosts.

6. BackgroundTasks orphans jobs on ECS task restart

server/backend/src/cq_server/provisioning/routes.py:757-767 + worker.py:1314-1407

FastAPI's BackgroundTasks runs after the response, in the same worker process. Job runs ~30 min (Phase 4 CFN poll is 120 × 15s). Any ECS task replacement, autoscaling, or unhandled exception leaves the row stuck. No startup-time re-driver scans WHERE status NOT IN ('COMPLETED','FAILED'). Wizard shows "phase 4" forever.

Fix: at minimum, on app startup scan in-flight jobs older than N minutes and mark FAILED with error="worker_lost". Proper fix is SQS/Step Functions. Interim: per-phase heartbeat column + reaper.

7. No idempotency on POST; client retry burns KMS + ACM + CFN resources

server/backend/src/cq_server/provisioning/routes.py:696-781

Wizard retries POST (network hiccup, page reload) → second job, second AssumeRole, second CFN create-stack → CFN errors with "stack already exists" but only after we've minted a second Ed25519 key, written a second SSM param, requested a second ACM cert. Each retry is real $.

Fix: SELECT 1 FROM provisioning_jobs WHERE enterprise_id = :slug AND status NOT IN ('FAILED','COMPLETED') before insert; if found return the existing job_id. Accept Idempotency-Key header from the wizard.

8. try/except Exception/pass silently advances past phase 3 (DNS) and ACM failures

server/backend/src/cq_server/provisioning/worker.py:1145-1170 (_phase3_dns_provision, _request_acm_cert_fire_and_forget)

Both catch all errors as log.warning(...) then return successfully. Misconfigured CF token, CF zone-not-found, ACM quota exhaustion → job marks phase 3 done. Customer gets "subdomain provisioned" success while the CNAME never landed.

Fix: raise on CF 4xx/5xx and non-success bodies. ACM request failure should set a dns_warning in result, not be swallowed. "Fire-and-continue" is about not waiting for ACM issuance, not ignoring the request failing.

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MEDIUM

9. _validate_assume_role lacks session policy — full role privileges in effect

routes.py:851-859 + worker.py:1195-1199. Spec calls for capping privileges we exercise inside customer accounts. Both AssumeRole calls omit Policy and PolicyArns. If the customer makes the role administratively broad (easy mistake), we get admin in their account. Fix: inline session policy scoping to cloudformation:CreateStack/DescribeStacks on the specific stack name + the actions the marketplace template needs.

10. Phase 1 mints Ed25519 in app memory, ships bytes to KMS for wrapping (spec calls for KMS asymmetric SIGN_VERIFY)

worker.py:967-1009. Private key is generated by cryptography lib, held as priv_bytes in process memory, AES-GCM-encrypted with a KMS data key, stored in SSM. This is envelope encryption of a software-generated key, not a KMS-managed key. Decision 31 should be re-read to confirm; the code does not match the strict reading ("KMS holds the private key, you call kms.Sign(...)"). Fix: either update Decision 31 with documented envelope-encryption tradeoff, or switch to kms.create_key(KeyUsage='SIGN_VERIFY', KeySpec='ECC_NIST_P256') per enterprise.

11. SSM put_parameter uses Overwrite=True with no alias-collision check

worker.py:1044-1050. Combined with TOCTOU on slug uniqueness (HIGH #4), two concurrent same-slug jobs → one overwrites the other's key → directory verifies against a public key whose private key is gone. Fix: Overwrite=False, catch ParameterAlreadyExists, fail clearly. Or scope param name with job_id.

12. EMAIL_TAKEN is in the Decision 31 contract but not implemented

routes.py:696-781 — no check on admin_email against existing enterprises. Fix: either implement (with same enumeration mitigation as SLUG_TAKEN), or amend Decision 31 to drop the code.

13. PII in logs at INFO

worker.py:1091-1096, worker.py:1292. admin_email and (lower sensitivity) marketplace_deploy_role_arn logged at INFO. CloudWatch retention is long, log aggregation fans out. Fix: log sha256(admin_email)[:12] + slug. Mask account portion of role ARN or omit.

14. time.sleep(15) inside Phase 4 blocks executor thread for up to 30 min

worker.py:1232-1248. Default ThreadPoolExecutor has min(32, os.cpu_count() + 4) workers. Each in-flight provision parks one. Handful of concurrent provisions starves every other run_in_executor call. Fix: async version with asyncio.sleep(15), boto3 calls in executor per-iteration.

15. phase=0/phase_label=null in initial response window

routes.py:809-832. Between POST returning and Phase 1 kicking off, GET returns {phase: null, phase_label: null, progress_pct: 0}. Contract says phase_label is always a human string while in-flight. Fix: insert with phase=1, status="KEY_MINT_IN_PROGRESS" or seed phase_label="Queued...".

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Out of scope

• Did not audit unrelated diff portions (persona_routes import etc.)
• Decision 31 itself should be amended to document External-ID requirement before merging — keep spec + code aligned.

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Verdict: block merge until the 8 HIGHs are addressed. HIGH #2 (no-op directory register) and HIGH #1 (no ExternalId) are the most urgent — the others can mostly be addressed via the patterns above. Happy to discuss any finding on the PR thread.

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Pushed 6d603e3 — surgical revert of cross-PR persona_routes.py + app.py wiring leak. Those surfaces belong to #229 (AS-1). Two PRs are now cleanly separated. cq-fanboy's 8-HIGH fixes are untouched.

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8l-reviewer re-review on PR #228 (post-fix cycle)

Verified fix commit 8e989fd + revert 6d603e3. Four HIGHs land clean; two land partial; two land with new follow-on issues. One brand-new HIGH introduced by the recovery design.

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Verified clean

HIGH #1 (ExternalId on AssumeRole) — code side only

• provisioning/models.py:86-93 — required field, min_length=8.
• provisioning/routes.py:311-316 — forwarded to pre-flight validate.
• provisioning/worker.py:387 — forwarded to phase 4 AssumeRole.
• alembic/versions/0021_provisioning_jobs.py:104-106 — persisted column.
• Tests at test_provisioning.py:647-678 cover missing/short/forwarded cases. Server side is correct.

HIGH #3 (no slug echo in 409)

• provisioning/routes.py:198-202 — "This slug is not available.", no slug interpolation. Clean.

HIGH #5 (XFF trusted-proxy fix)

• provisioning/routes.py:54-79 — XFF only honored when request.client.host is in PROVISIONING_TRUSTED_PROXY_IPS. Default empty → falls back to transport IP. Correct shape; prod just needs the ALB source IPs set in env.

HIGH #8 (CF/ACM raises on error)

• provisioning/worker.py:282-326 — missing CF_API_TOKEN and CF API failure both raise RuntimeError. ACM stays fire-and-continue (per docstring rationale at L334-341, defensible). Error message is internal-only (goes into provisioning_jobs.error column, which the polling endpoint returns to the customer at routes.py:280 — note this is admin-equivalent context since they triggered the job, acceptable).

persona_routes revert (commit 6d603e3)

• Confirmed grep persona_router server/backend/src/cq_server/app.py returns zero hits. Both the import (L47 old) and the include_router (L432 old) are removed. Clean.

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Still showing gaps

HIGH #2 — directory register POSTs UNSIGNED envelope to a signed-envelope endpoint

provisioning/worker.py:204-260 POSTs a raw JSON payload to /api/v1/directory/announce. But directory_client.py:174 shows the canonical client wraps the same payload in sign_envelope(privkey, payload) before POSTing — the directory-v1 spec at crypto.py:85 (sign_envelope) is a signed-envelope contract.

Either:

• The directory will 400/422 every provisioning request → every signup will fail phase 2 in prod.
• OR the directory accepts both, in which case the enterprise lands in the directory with no signature audit trail — which contradicts decisions/13 (reputation log signing model) and the whole point of directory-v1.

The freshly-minted private key from phase 1 needs to sign this envelope. Suggested fix:

from ..crypto import sign_envelope
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ed25519 import Ed25519PrivateKey
# Reconstruct privkey from KMS-unwrapped bytes (which means phase 1 needs to
# pass priv_bytes through, or _phase2 needs to fetch+unwrap from SSM).
envelope = sign_envelope(privkey, payload)
req = urllib.request.Request(url, method="POST", data=json.dumps(envelope).encode(), ...)

This is the design break the original HIGH #2 was trying to fix — going from "no-op" to "POST unsigned" is half a fix. File: provisioning/worker.py:185-260. Re-flag HIGH.

HIGH #4 — UNIQUE constraint is non-partial, permanently blocks slug after a FAILED job

alembic/versions/0021_provisioning_jobs.py:90 — unique=True on enterprise_id with no WHERE status NOT IN ('FAILED', 'COMPLETED') partial index. Effect:

1. Customer submits "acme" → phase 3 fails (e.g. bad CF token).
2. Job row stays with status='FAILED', enterprise_id='acme'.
3. Customer fixes config, re-submits "acme".
4. Idempotency check at routes.py:138 (get_active_job_for_slug correctly excludes FAILED) → passes.
5. INSERT at routes.py:179 → IntegrityError → 409 SLUG_TAKEN.
6. Customer is permanently locked out of their own slug. Operator must manually DELETE the FAILED row.

Original review explicitly called out partial-index-or-document. The fix kept full UNIQUE without documenting the lockout. The PR body does not warn about it. Two acceptable fixes:

-- Option A: SQLite partial unique index (replace UNIQUE column constraint)
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX idx_provisioning_jobs_enterprise_id_active
  ON provisioning_jobs (enterprise_id)
  WHERE status NOT IN ('FAILED');

Or pre-INSERT delete FAILED rows for same slug inside the same txn. Re-flag HIGH.

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New issues introduced by the fix cycle

NEW HIGH — Recovery re-queues from phase 1, will FAIL at phase 3 on duplicate CNAME

provisioning/recovery.py:19-25 docstring claims phase 3 is safe to re-run because "Cloudflare returns success on existing CNAME." This is incorrect. Cloudflare's POST /zones/{id}/dns_records returns HTTP 400 with code 81057 (Record already exists) when the record is a duplicate — it does not idempotently succeed. So:

1. Job orphaned mid-phase-4 (the realistic case — phase 4 is the 30-minute one).
2. ECS restart → recovery picks it up at the >5-min threshold.
3. Re-queue restarts at phase 1: phase 1 OK (SSM Overwrite), phase 2 maybe OK if signed (see HIGH #2), phase 3 → CF 400 → RuntimeError → FAILED.
4. Customer's original L2 CFN stack is still mid-creation in their account, now unowned by any tracked job row.
5. The newly-failed job row UNIQUE-locks the slug (see HIGH #4 above) so the customer can't re-submit either.

Net effect: recovery as designed makes the orphan situation worse, not better. Either:

• Resume-from-phase (track which phases completed, skip them on re-queue), OR
• Detect-and-no-op in each phase (phase 3 checks if CNAME exists before POSTing; phase 4 checks if stack exists before create_stack), OR
• Mark recovered rows as "needs manual review" instead of auto-re-queue.

Files: provisioning/recovery.py:18-25, provisioning/worker.py:268-331. No test covers the recovery path — grep -n "recover_stuck_jobs" tests/test_provisioning.py returns zero. Flag HIGH.

NEW MEDIUM — ExternalId min_length=8 is too short; CFN snippet doesn't reference it

provisioning/models.py:87 — min_length=8. AWS's own STS docs recommend ExternalId be unguessable (effectively a shared secret). 8 chars of human-typed text (e.g. customer types "acme1234") is well within brute-force range for an attacker who knows the role ARN. Should be min_length=22 (ULID-tier) at minimum, or require the customer to use a 8l- prefixed ULID we hand them on the wizard.

Additionally, the PR body's CFN snippet (lines starting AssumeRolePolicyDocument:) has no Condition: StringEquals: sts:ExternalId clause. Customers copy-pasting the snippet will create a role with no ExternalId enforcement — meaning our defense (sending it) is purely cosmetic from the customer-account perspective. Update CFN snippet to:

AssumeRolePolicyDocument:
  Version: "2012-10-17"
  Statement:
    - Effect: Allow
      Principal:
        AWS: "arn:aws:iam::EIGHTHAYER_ACCOUNT_ID:root"
      Action: sts:AssumeRole
      Condition:
        StringEquals:
          sts:ExternalId: "<customer-pastes-the-id-from-wizard>"

Flag MEDIUM; the HIGH #1 server-side code is correct but the customer-side documentation has not been updated to match.

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Bonus MEDIUM resolutions

None from the previously-listed MEDIUMs. Specifically:

• Session policy on AssumeRole — worker.py:383-388 still no Policy=/PolicyArns= scoping; 1-hour wide-open creds from a AWSCloudFormationFullAccess role. Unchanged.
• KMS envelope-encryption flow — worker.py:118-157 looks correctly implemented (generate-data-key → AES-GCM wrap → SSM as String), but no test covers it.

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Summary

HIGH from first review	Verdict
#1 ExternalId	clean (server) / partial (docs)
#2 Directory register	still broken — unsigned POST to signed endpoint
#3 No slug echo	clean
#4 UNIQUE + 409	clean on IntegrityError mapping; still broken on FAILED-locks-slug
#5 XFF trusted-proxy	clean
#6 Recovery	clean wiring; new HIGH on phase 1 re-queue semantics
#7 Idempotency	clean (dedupes on enterprise_slug for active jobs)
#8 CF/ACM raises	clean

Net: 5 clean, 2 unresolved HIGH, 1 new HIGH, 1 new MEDIUM, 1 docs gap. PR is closer but not yet shippable — HIGH #2 (signed envelope), HIGH #4 (partial unique), and the new recovery-design HIGH each have customer-visible failure modes in production.

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Second-round fixes pushed (6a90c78)

Addressing the 2 unresolved HIGHs + 1 new HIGH from the re-review:

Finding	Fix	File
HIGH #2 directory_register POSTs unsigned	Thread Ed25519 privkey through phase 1→2; call sign_envelope before POST	provisioning/worker.py
HIGH #4 FAILED jobs lock slug permanently	New migration 0021a replaces full UNIQUE with partial unique index WHERE status NOT IN ('FAILED', 'COMPLETED')	new file + migrations.py HEAD_REVISION bump + 3 test assertion updates
NEW HIGH recovery → 400 on duplicate CNAME	_cf_upsert_cname helper does GET-first, then PATCH on drift, POST on absence (actually idempotent now)	provisioning/worker.py

Still deferred (NOT addressed in this commit)

• MEDIUM (docs gap on HIGH [server] Propose-time content quality guards #1) — CFN snippet in the PR body should include the sts:ExternalId Condition clause + min_length should be ~22, not 8. The Decision 31 amendment (core#61) documents the two-phase flow; the PR body still needs the matching CFN example update. Could the original author push that? It's a small body-only edit.
• MEDIUM session policy on AssumeRole (from first review) — still absent. Defense-in-depth concern, not a HIGH for v1.
• MEDIUM KMS vs envelope-encryption spec drift — phase 1 still mints in app memory + ships to KMS for envelope encryption, not asymmetric SIGN_VERIFY. Decision 31 implies KMS-mint; needs spec/code alignment in a follow-up.

Verification

Syntax check passed for worker.py + new migration. Local pytest not run (env not set up here); CI will exercise. Recommend another 8l-reviewer pass once the docs gap is resolved.

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8l-reviewer third-pass on PR #228 (HEAD 30a25a0)

HIGHs verified clean (this round)

• HIGH [server] Admin DELETE /review/{ku_id} for hard-removing approved KUs + test cleanup #2 — sign_envelope on phase 2. _phase2_directory_register now reconstructs Ed25519PrivateKey.from_private_bytes(priv_bytes) and calls sign_envelope(privkey, payload) before POST. Compared field-by-field against directory_client._post_announce (server/backend/src/cq_server/directory_client.py:153-195) — payload shape matches: enterprise_id, display_name, visibility, root_pubkey, l2_endpoints, discoverable_topics, contact_email, announce_ts. root_pubkey format is consistent (raw bytes → urlsafe_b64 no-pad, identical to public_key_b64u). Timestamp formatting matches exactly: datetime.now(UTC).strftime(\"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ\") inlined in worker.py:243 is byte-identical to now_iso() (directory_client.py:144-145) — no drift. Private-key lifetime: meta dict only flows phase 1 → phase 2; the COMPLETED result payload at worker.py:712-718 keeps directory_record_url, l2_admin_url, and invite_meta — private_key_b64 is not persisted (key_meta is a local var in run_provisioning_job and falls out of scope after phase 5). Good.

• HIGH (new last round) — idempotent CNAME upsert. _cf_upsert_cname (worker.py:327-450) implements GET-first/PATCH-on-drift/POST-on-absence correctly. The three branches:

  • existing.content == target → log no-op + return (worker.py:380-384)
  • existing.content != target → PATCH with {content: target, proxied: True} (worker.py:386-416)
  • empty result → POST fresh record (worker.py:419-450)

  All three propagate urllib.error.HTTPError as RuntimeError; all three check body.get(\"success\") for the Cloudflare API's wrapped-error case. Recovery path can now safely re-run from phase 1.

• 30a25a0 min_length 8→22. Verified: \"acme-external-id-8chars-min\" is 27 chars (passes); \"short\" is 5 chars (still 422s). CFN snippet's MinLength: 22 matches the Pydantic model. Condition.StringEquals.sts:ExternalId: !Ref ProvisionerExternalId is syntactically correct and references the declared Parameters.ProvisionerExternalId. NoEcho: true set. Clean.

HIGHs still showing gaps (this round)

• HIGH [security] JWT secret + API key pepper stored in plaintext ECS task def env #4 — partial UNIQUE migration is broken. I ran the migration sequence end-to-end against a fresh in-memory SQLite (sqlalchemy 2.0.49 + alembic 1.18.4, same versions you have) and verified empirically:

  • Post-migration table DDL still contains UNIQUE (enterprise_id) at the table level (reflected from the original column-level unique=True as an unnamed table-level constraint — Inspector.get_unique_constraints() returns [{'name': None, 'column_names': ['enterprise_id']}]).
  • Result: after a job lands in FAILED, re-POSTing the same slug still raises IntegrityError: UNIQUE constraint failed: provisioning_jobs.enterprise_id. The migration does not actually fix what HIGH [security] JWT secret + API key pepper stored in plaintext ECS task def env #4 was supposed to fix.

  Root cause: batch_op.alter_column(\"enterprise_id\", existing_type=sa.Text(), unique=False) is a no-op for constraint manipulation in Alembic batch mode — unique is hint metadata for new column definitions, not a directive that drops an existing reflected unique constraint. The batch table-rebuild faithfully reproduces the reflected unnamed UNIQUE.

  Fixes that actually work (pick one):

  1. Inside the batch block, explicitly drop the unnamed constraint via batch_op.drop_constraint(None, type_=\"unique\") — fragile because the name is None.
  2. Pass table_args=[] to batch_alter_table(...) to override reflected constraints, then redeclare the table args without UNIQUE.
  3. Cleanest: use op.execute(...) with raw SQL to CREATE TABLE provisioning_jobs_new (...) without the inline UNIQUE, INSERT INTO ... SELECT *, DROP TABLE old, ALTER TABLE new RENAME TO old. SQLite's standard table-swap pattern, no Alembic reflection in the loop.

  The existing test suite does not catch this — no test inserts a FAILED row then attempts a same-slug re-POST. Suggest adding test_failed_slug_can_be_retaken that does exactly that; it will fail against the current migration and pass after the fix.

New issues introduced

• Stale helper is_slug_taken (db.py:156-162). Returns True for any row including FAILED, which contradicts the partial-unique semantics now in place. The route path uses get_active_job_for_slug for idempotency + relies on IntegrityError for the active-dup race, so this helper is dead from production code — but it's still exported and tested at db.py:277-291. Footgun for the next caller. MEDIUM — either delete it or update it to filter status NOT IN ('FAILED', 'COMPLETED') so the semantics match the partial index.

• Stale test for HIGH local-demo: shapes A/B/C + 3 AIGRP fixes from real validation #8 Cloudflare-error path (tests/test_provisioning.py:834-856). test_cloudflare_http_error_raises patches urllib.request.urlopen to raise on the first call — which is now the GET (list), not the POST. It still passes (match=\"Cloudflare\" covers "Cloudflare CNAME list failed") but the test no longer exercises what its name claims. LOW — relabel to _list_failed_raises and add coverage for the PATCH and POST failure paths, since _cf_upsert_cname's three branches currently have zero test coverage.

• PR body doc drift — ## Modified Files says HEAD_REVISION bumped to 0021_provisioning_jobs but the actual HEAD_REVISION in migrations.py is 0021a_provisioning_partial_unique. Cosmetic, but worth a one-line edit so reviewers don't trip on it. LOW.

Bonus MEDIUM resolutions (carry-over)

• Session policy on AssumeRole — unchanged. routes.py:290-318 (validate) and worker.py:483-507 (standup) still call assume_role without a Policy= session-policy attenuation. Tracked, not re-raised.
• KMS asymmetric SIGN_VERIFY vs envelope encryption — unchanged. worker.py:127-166 still uses kms.generate_data_key + AES-GCM envelope. Tracked, not re-raised. Worth noting the code comment at worker.py:117-119 explicitly acknowledges this as a follow-up — good.

Net verdict

Needs another round. One HIGH (the partial-unique migration) is still broken at the DB level — I confirmed by running the migration in an isolated environment. The fix is a ~10-line raw-SQL table-swap or an Alembic batch incantation that drops the reflected unnamed constraint explicitly. Plus a regression test (test_failed_slug_can_be_retaken) that would have caught this and the next time someone touches this migration. The other two HIGHs (sign_envelope, idempotent CF) are clean. Author has gotten 7 of 8 HIGHs right across two rounds — close, but the one that's left is the central durability fix.

[dwinter3]

Third-round fixes pushed (`11edc93`)

Addressing the one remaining unresolved HIGH from the third-pass review:

Verified clean (now)

• HIGH [security] JWT secret + API key pepper stored in plaintext ECS task def env #4 partial UNIQUE — replaced the batch-mode `alter_column(unique=False)` (a no-op for reflected unnamed unique constraints, as the reviewer empirically verified) with a raw-SQL table swap: rename old → CREATE TABLE fresh without inline UNIQUE → copy rows → drop old → recreate indexes → add the partial unique index. Verified empirically against `sqlite3` directly:
  • Post-migration DDL has no inline `UNIQUE (enterprise_id)` ✅
  • Customer can retry FAILED slug ✅
  • Duplicate in-flight slug still blocked ✅
• Added two new tests (`test_failed_slug_can_be_retried_post_0021a`, `test_duplicate_active_slug_still_blocked`) — the gap the reviewer flagged.
• Deleted dead `is_slug_taken` helper + its two stale tests (semantically inconsistent with the partial-unique design).
• PR body "Modified Files" section corrected to reflect actual `HEAD_REVISION = 0021a_provisioning_partial_unique`.

Still open (carried over, deferred for separate work)

• MEDIUM session policy on AssumeRole — defense-in-depth privilege cap; tracked as a follow-up.
• MEDIUM KMS asymmetric SIGN_VERIFY vs envelope encryption — Decision 31 doesn't explicitly require asymmetric; tracked for spec/code alignment.
• LOW `_cf_upsert_cname` lacks direct branch coverage; HIGH local-demo: shapes A/B/C + 3 AIGRP fixes from real validation #8 test exercises GET path not POST.

These are tracked; no fix in this commit since the reviewer flagged them as deferrable.

Net

Re-review welcome — but verdict from this side: all 3 functional HIGHs cited in the third pass are closed. Recommend merging once another verification pass agrees.

[dwinter3]

Round-4: carry-over MEDIUMs addressed (`fd8354e`)

Closed

• MEDIUM session policy on AssumeRole — new helper `_assume_role_session_policy(slug)` returns a JSON policy that allows ONLY `cloudformation:` on the specific stack ARN `arn:aws:cloudformation:::stack/8th-layer-l2-/`, plus `ListStacks` on `*` for existence checks. Both AssumeRole call sites (`_validate_assume_role` + `_phase4_l2_standup`) attach it via the `Policy=` parameter. CFN itself still creates EC2/IAM/ECS under the customer role's broader permissions — we just don't widen our session beyond the stack.

• MEDIUM `_cf_upsert_cname` branch coverage — new `TestCfUpsertCnameBranches` exercises:

  • `test_noop_when_existing_cname_matches` (GET 1 record with matching content)
  • `test_patch_when_existing_cname_drifts` (GET 1 record different content → PATCH)
  • `test_post_when_no_existing_cname` (GET empty → POST)
  • `test_list_error_propagates` (GET non-success → RuntimeError)

• MEDIUM KMS asymmetric SIGN_VERIFY vs envelope encryption — ratified in Decision 31 (commit aad6ad2). AWS KMS doesn't support Ed25519 as a KeySpec, and switching the root signing key to ECDSA P256 would break compatibility with every other Ed25519-using component (AIGRP runtime, directory envelopes, xgroup co-sign). Envelope-encryption with AES-GCM under a KMS data key is therefore the intentional design, not drift. Spec + code now aligned.

Net

All HIGHs + all MEDIUMs raised across three review rounds are now either fixed or explicitly ratified in Decision 31. PR ready for final-pass review + merge.

[dwinter3]

8l-reviewer final-pass on PR #228 (head fd8354e)

Reviewing the items requested in the round-5 sign-off brief.

Clean (this round)

• HIGH [security] JWT secret + API key pepper stored in plaintext ECS task def env #4 — partial UNIQUE, third attempt. 0021a_provisioning_partial_unique.py resolved. Empirically verified by replaying the migration sequence against SQLite:

  • Post-upgrade DDL contains NO inline UNIQUE on enterprise_id (the sqlite_autoindex_provisioning_jobs_1 that survives is the PRIMARY KEY index on job_id, not enterprise_id — confirmed by index name suffix _1 matching column ordinal).
  • A new PROVISIONING row for slug acme succeeds after a previous FAILED row for the same slug (the customer-retry case the original HIGH was about).
  • A second concurrent PROVISIONING row for the same slug is still correctly rejected by idx_provisioning_jobs_active_slug.
  • Downgrade roundtrips cleanly — table renamed → recreated with inline UNIQUE → rows copied → indexes restored. Verified.
  • Raw-SQL table swap is the right tool here; the previous batch-mode attempts genuinely couldn't drop the reflected unnamed inline UNIQUE. Migration commentary in the file accurately describes why.

• HIGH Phase 2: POST /aigrp/lookup automatic-trigger endpoint #6 regression check — recovery path. recovery.py re-queues from phase 1 and now phase 3's _cf_upsert_cname is idempotent (no-op / PATCH / POST branches), so a recovered job no longer 400s on the duplicate CNAME. Coverage adequate.

• MEDIUM session policy on AssumeRole. Both call sites do this correctly:

  • routes.py:315–321 (_validate_assume_role) — passes Policy=_assume_role_session_policy(enterprise_slug).
  • worker.py:505–512 (_phase4_l2_standup) — same.
  • Stack ARN pattern arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/8th-layer-l2-<slug>/* matches the stack name actually used by cfn.create_stack (worker.py:527).
  • Actions granted (CreateStack, DescribeStacks, DescribeStackEvents, DescribeStackResources, GetTemplate, DeleteStack, UpdateStack) are a superset of what the worker actually calls (create_stack, describe_stacks). No missing actions.
  • ListStacks on * is correct — IAM action cloudformation:ListStacks does NOT accept resource-level ARNs (AWS API constraint), so * is the only legal scoping. Documented in code comment.

• MEDIUM _cf_upsert_cname branch coverage. TestCfUpsertCnameBranches (test_provisioning.py:903–1031) patches urllib.request.urlopen directly (the actual module path used in the worker) with a context-manager fake. Exercises four branches:

  • test_noop_when_existing_cname_matches — GET returns matching content → returns without further calls.
  • test_patch_when_existing_cname_drifts — GET returns drift → PATCH succeeds. Both urlopen calls consumed.
  • test_post_when_no_existing_cname — empty GET → POST. Both calls consumed.
  • test_list_error_propagates — success: false → RuntimeError.
  • Tests genuinely exercise the function (no over-mocking that bypasses it).

• Cross-PR cleanliness. Confirmed. No persona_routes.py in the branch, no persona_router symbol in app.py. Revert 6d603e3 did its job. The 15 files in the PR are all in provisioning/ + the 2 alembic migrations + app.py wiring + tests + 3 unrelated migration-tests files (no functional changes from this PR).

• Decision 31 / core#61 spec alignment (current head aad6ad2):

  • Customer-set ExternalId, single POST — matches routes.py request handler.
  • min_length=22 for assume_role_external_id — models.py:91, matches spec.
  • Session policy with stack ARN pattern documented in spec, matches implementation exactly.
  • Envelope encryption (Ed25519 + kms:GenerateDataKey + SSM ciphertext) ratified in spec as intentional, with the Ed25519-not-in-KMS-KeySpec rationale spelled out. KMS-asymmetric MEDIUM from earlier rounds is now resolved-by-decision.

• Test count delta. 60 test functions across 14 classes; one regression class per prior HIGH (TestHigh1ExternalId, TestHigh3SlugTakenResponse, TestHigh5RateLimitTrustedProxy, TestHigh7Idempotency, TestHigh4UniqueConstraint, TestHigh8Phase3ErrorPropagation) plus the new TestCfUpsertCnameBranches. Coverage shape looks healthy.

Still showing gaps (this round)

None at HIGH or MEDIUM confidence.

Net verdict

Shippable. LGTM. All previously-flagged HIGHs are resolved (empirically re-verified for HIGH #4), MEDIUMs are addressed or ratified by Decision 31, and the test surface is proportionate to the change. Merge when ready.