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feat: persist incoming arrival authority (TECH-681 plan 009) - #22
Stacked on #21. This layer stores the facts an incoming migration needs before
anything is created remotely, so a destination account can be created and
activated without data transfer racing cancellation or a stale worker.
Plain-language summary
An arrival is admitted only once, with a unique destination email, an incoming
DID and a selected destination server. Completed arrivals stay as history and
do not block a later arrival for the same DID.
The destination signing key is requested in two steps: intent is saved first,
then the returned public key is stored against the same immutable tuple. A
different key, server or DID is a conflict, never an overwrite.
An arrival code is stored only as a hash and cannot outlast 24 hours. The
ceiling is enforced both by the code and by a database constraint.
Signed PLC operations (the source handoff and the destination move) are
journaled with their exact bytes and CID before dispatch. Repeating the same
operation is idempotent; a different one is a conflict.
Cancellation can release an arrival only if it never recorded an allocation.
Once intent exists, the arrival must be reconciled instead.
What is not claimed
No route, remote write, credential signing or activation ships here. Nothing
is reachable from the application yet.
C4 (source snapshot finality and activation-race closure) remains blocked.
Readiness and public exposure stay gated behind plans 011 and 012.
npm run test:unit -> 304 pass, 17 skipped, 0 fail.
Both-dialect receipts in an owned rootless sandbox: SQLite and PostgreSQL
exit 0 each, with the PostgreSQL-only contention and cancellation-race cases
executing and passing (no skips counted as coverage).
./scripts/changesets.sh status accepts the named minor note.
Related to TECH-681. Does not close the issue.
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New Features
Added persistent support for incoming account arrivals, including time-limited access codes, ownership checks, and tracking through binding and activation.
Added recovery safeguards for uncertain operations and restrictions that prevent cancellation when allocation or remote changes may still be pending.
Added durable records for signed operations and credential-family status.
Documentation
Documented the rules for recording signed operations and handling repeated or conflicting records.
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.changeset/incoming-arrival-authority.md
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.sonarcloud.properties
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src/accounts/types.ts
src/accounts/values.ts
src/database/accounts.port.ts
src/database/drizzle/account-authority.mjs
src/database/drizzle/account-storage.ts
src/database/drizzle/migration-arrival.ts
src/database/migration-journal.port.ts
src/database/schema/postgresql.sql
src/database/schema/postgresql.ts
src/database/schema/sqlite.sql
src/database/schema/sqlite.ts
src/features/external-migration/arrival-types.ts
src/features/external-migration/import-account.ts
src/plc/policy.ts
tests/contracts/account-schema.test.mjs
tests/contracts/account-security.test.mjs
tests/contracts/external-workflow.test.mjs
tests/contracts/incoming-arrival-storage.test.mjs
tests/contracts/plc-policy.test.mjs
tests/support/run-database-contracts.mjs
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The pull request adds durable incoming-arrival storage and lifecycle operations, with PostgreSQL and SQLite schemas, account integration, and contract tests. It also documents arrival constraints and renames the account binding and activation methods.
Changes: Incoming arrival storage
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Summary
Arrival contracts and database schema src/features/external-migration/arrival-types.ts, src/database/migration-journal.port.ts, src/database/schema/*
Arrival types and transactor contracts define lifecycle records and operations. PostgreSQL and SQLite schemas add arrival tables, indexes, and constraints.
Prepare arrivals and manage codes src/database/drizzle/migration-arrival.ts, tests/contracts/incoming-arrival-storage.test.mjs
Storage validates arrival details and authorization expiry, creates arrivals, and supports code consumption and rotation. Tests cover destination claims, ownership, expiry, and code generations.
Record reservations and signed operations src/database/drizzle/migration-arrival.ts, docs/incoming-migration.md, tests/contracts/incoming-arrival-storage.test.mjs
Storage records allocation intents, reservation results, uncertain attempts, replays, and signed PLC operations. Tests cover fencing, recovery outcomes, idempotency, and signed-operation validation.
Storage handles binding, activation, access projection, cancellation, and credential-family records. Account APIs and migration integration use the renamed methods. Contract tests cover these lifecycle operations, and the database runner includes the arrival tests.
hypercerts-org/hypercerts-entryway#2: Adds durable PLC operation history for identity and migration workflows; this PR adds an arrival-specific signed-operation journal.
This layer stores incoming-migration state that later work will rely on. The signed-operation journal cannot hold what it needs for recovery, and replay recording accepts requests it should reject. Fix these before merge. Nothing is reachable from the app yet, so there is no user impact today.
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Store reservation intent, hashed arrival codes, replay bindings and
binding state so destination accounts can be created and activated
without data transfer racing cancellation or stale workers.
Record the source handoff and destination move with their exact bytes and
CID in one fenced transaction, so an accepted operation is durable before
the directory is asked to publish it.
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Review comments at @.changeset/incoming-arrival-authority.md:
- Around line 21-24: Update the operator note to list the actual outcome for
each case: a different saved key requires reconciliation (`saved-key-differs`),
an uncertain response retains `OperationRecoveryRequired`, a changed DID, host,
or endpoint throws `OperationConflict` via `immutableTuple`, and a stale worker
throws `OperationLeaseLost. Preserve the note’s statement that placement is
never silently reallocated or switched.
Review comments at @src/database/drizzle/migration-arrival.ts:
- Around line 523-545: Update carriesPrivateMaterial and the
validateHistoryOperation flow so public PLC signatures are accepted while
private-key fields remain rejected; validate the unsigned operation facts
separately, then retain the signature in the operation used for storage and
compute the CID from the full signed operation. Preserve the existing
InvalidAccount and OperationConflict error behavior.
- Around line 656-679: Update recordArrivalReplay to check prior accepted
records by operationId before inserting: reject changed methods or request
digests with the established OperationConflict behavior, enforcing the
documented rule for whether an operation may accept multiple methods. Exact
replays should resume without advancing the saved version; update the contract
test to expect rejection for changed requests.
- Line 396: Update the already-saved-key branch in consumeArrivalCode so it
retrieves the reservation for owner.operation_id and passes it to arrivalRecord
instead of undefined, preserving the saved record and returning the signing key
to callers.
- Around line 241-264: Add a DID conflict check to the existing validation
inside createArrival’s transaction, using the arrivals table and excluding
ignoreOperationId. When another arrival for the same DID is present, return a
409 DomainError with the OperationPending code instead of allowing the
unique-index error to propagate.
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nl -ba src/database/connection.ts | sed -n '245,330p;355,425p'
nl -ba src/database/executor.ts | sed -n '1,160p'
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Return a stable error for an active DID conflict.
If another verified user prepares the same DID with a different email and handle, createArrival can reach the unique index and propagate a database error. Check the DID inside the transaction and return OperationPending instead.
Suggested fix
if (
handleHolders.some(
({ operation_id, provisioned_at }) =>
operation_id !== ignoreOperationId && provisioned_at === null,
)
)
throw new DomainError(
"HandleNotAvailable",
409,
"Handle is reserved by another arrival",
);
+ const didHolders = await db.read("arrivals", {+ where: eq(table.did_root, did),+ });+ if (didHolders.some(({ operation_id }) => operation_id !== ignoreOperationId))+ throw new DomainError(+ "OperationPending",+ 409,+ "An arrival is already active for this DID",+ );
};
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Review comment at @src/database/drizzle/migration-arrival.ts around lines 241 -
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Add a DID conflict check to the existing validation inside createArrival’s
transaction, using the arrivals table and excluding ignoreOperationId. When
another arrival for the same DID is present, return a 409 DomainError with the
OperationPending code instead of allowing the unique-index error to propagate.
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Fixed in 99776cd (branch fix/stack-autofix-pr22).
assertFreeDestination now checks the DID inside the same transaction, before the insert, and returns OperationPending 409 ("An arrival is already active for this DID"). That converts the arrivals_did_active unique-index failure into a stable error and closes the race, since the read sits inside the transaction that inserts. ignoreOperationId is excluded so a legitimate retry is unaffected.
This also fixed a coverage gap: the test named "admits one active arrival per DID" never actually exercised that rule. tests/contracts/incoming-arrival-storage.test.mjs now asserts the second arrival for the same DID is refused with OperationPending.
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@Ashex I verified that 99776cd contains the DID check and the regression test. The commit is on fix/stack-autofix-pr22, but PR #22 still points to 8fce736, which does not contain the fix.
Please add the commit to the PR and request a recheck. I did not run the tests.
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AGENTS.md: # Working on Entryway
## Product boundaries
Read [architecture](docs/architecture.md), [custody](docs/data-custody.md),
[reuse assessment](docs/reuse-assessment.md), and [testing](docs/testing.md)
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# Data model, identity custody and migration
## 3. Transaction and storage rules
- Do not distribute the existing transaction across unrelated API calls without equivalent consistency guarantees.
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
The signed-operation journal stores an unsigned operation under the wrong CID.
carriesPrivateMaterial rejects any input that has sig. validateHistoryOperation also rejects sig as an unknown key. A PLC signature is public data. The directory requires it on submission.
The adapter also requires input.cid === cidForCbor(facts), where facts is the unsigned operation. The PLC CID that becomes the head and the next prev is computed over the signed operation. The two consequences follow:
After a crash, plan 010 cannot re-dispatch the journaled bytes. They have no signature.
The saved CID never equals the directory head. A dispatcher cannot use the saved CID to check whether the operation was applied.
The PR goal says the journal holds the exact signed bytes and CID before dispatch. This implementation does not meet that goal. The tests use unsigned helpers, so they do not detect the gap.
Accept and store sig. Validate the unsigned facts separately. Compute the CID over the full signed operation. Remove sig/signature from the private-material list and keep privateKey/privateKeys.
- let facts: unknown;+ const { sig, ...unsigned } = input.operation;+ if (typeof sig !== "string" || !sig)+ throw new DomainError("InvalidAccount", 400, "A signed PLC operation is required");+ let facts: Record<string, unknown>;
try {
- facts = validateHistoryOperation(input.operation);+ facts = { ...validateHistoryOperation(unsigned), sig };
The CID check at line 540 then uses the signed facts. The stored operation then holds the dispatchable bytes.
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Update carriesPrivateMaterial and the validateHistoryOperation flow so public
PLC signatures are accepted while private-key fields remain rejected; validate
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Not applied. Your reading of PLC CID semantics is correct and I am not disputing it: src/plc/observations.ts:96 hashes the signed operation to produce a directory head, and src/plc/custody.ts:8 already says "Signed CIDs include the signature, unlike these unsigned public facts".
What I am not doing is reversing the journal contract inside a review fix, because it is deliberate and documented in four places: custody.ts:8-10 ("Their binding is supplied by the concrete signer or validated directory observation, never by hashing this projection"), signing.ts:224-227, migration-arrival.port.ts:99-101, and docs/incoming-migration.md:575-579 ("The CID must match the normalized operation bytes... private key material is rejected"). Several of those explicitly say the signature is not persisted.
So this is a specification question, not an oversight, and it belongs with the maintainers of the C5 contract rather than a silent change here. Two things do follow from your analysis and I have actioned the real one separately:
The mis-keyed head comparison is a genuine bug and is fixed in 6f5804c on fix/stack-autofix-pr23 — see the thread at provision-arrival.ts:214.
Storing unsigned bytes does mean a crashed retry cannot re-dispatch the journaled bytes. If the spec requires recoverable dispatch of the exact signed bytes, the journal, port and doc should change together, and I would rather do that as a deliberate change than bolt it onto this PR.
If you can point me at where C5 requires the signed bytes and signed CID to be retained, I will implement it.
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@Ashex The relevant requirements are at the reviewed commit, 8fce736:
C5, docs/incoming-migration.md, Line 810: M4 says continuation “always replays the saved signed facts.” Line 784 says reconciliation resumes the exact saved facts and never signs a new operation.
Handoff contract, docs/incoming-migration.md, Line 249: Entryway persists the signed operation and CID before directory submission.
C2, docs/incoming-migration.md, Line 568:recordSignedOperation journals a signed public PLC operation and requires the CID to match its normalized operation bytes. src/features/external-migration/arrival-types.ts, Line 104, also says the signed public bytes and their CID stay together.
C5 itself does not explicitly name a stored byte encoding or say “signed CID.” Those details follow from the handoff and C2 contracts and the PLC CID semantics you cited.
You are right that custody.ts describes an unsigned custody projection. I should have distinguished that record from the arrival journal. I agree that resolving the contract requires a coordinated journal, port and documentation change, not an isolated patch.
I could not check the linked Linear acceptance matrix because the native Linear lookup was unavailable. Would you like a follow-up issue to track the contract decision?
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AGENTS.md: # Working on Entryway
## Product boundaries
Read [architecture](docs/architecture.md), [custody](docs/data-custody.md),
[reuse assessment](docs/reuse-assessment.md), and [testing](docs/testing.md)
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# Data model, identity custody and migration
## 4. Custody boundaries
Directory audit observations retain immutable public operations and append-only
publication/nullification events with explicit supporting observation IDs. Immutable
`custody_observations` retain the public evidence and configured directory URL,
even after a newer snapshot supersedes them. Observation retries with changed
directory, owner or evidence conflict. These records commit with history and the
atomically fenced last-observed
snapshot. Signing events never promote authority. The configured PLC directory is
trusted for canonical branch selection, historic timestamps and nullification;
publication provenance is `directory-observed-publication`; nullification provenance
is `directory-asserted-nullification`, not independently verified historic recovery
timing. Both require matching immutable supporting observations. Synthetic fixtures
may record fixture-confirmed publication but cannot assert directory nullification.
Signed events cannot carry directory evidence. Signed operation CIDs include the
signature: unsigned history cannot recompute that CID. The concrete signer or
validated directory observation supplies the binding; storage validates its
canonical DAG-CBOR SHA-256 CID shape. Envelopes, DIDs, recomputed CIDs, supported keys
and predecessor-linked surviving signatures are validated with the pinned library.
An unexplained regression or branch change without explicit nullification of the
previous head preserves the old snapshot and fails. Tombstone is observed state,
not an assertion of irreversible finality. No clock patch or custom recovery
validator is used.
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AGENTS.md: # Working on Entryway
## Product boundaries
Read [architecture](docs/architecture.md), [custody](docs/data-custody.md),
[reuse assessment](docs/reuse-assessment.md), and [testing](docs/testing.md)
before changing cross-domain behaviour.
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# Data model, identity custody and migration
## 4. Custody boundaries
The concrete PLC signer keeps private material in an ECMAScript private field.
Public-update authorization receives only unsigned facts and the candidate CID.
`custody_operations` retains immutable unsigned public facts and `custody_history`
retains signature-release authorization events. Identical event retries are no-ops;
changed event identity or operation facts conflict. These fresh-schema tables do
not implement a historical database upgrade.
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Now applied in 594c203 (branch tech-681/public-handoff-provisioning), after a design decision went your way. You were right on both counts.
carriesPrivateMaterial no longer rejects sig; it keeps signature, privateKey and privateKeys. A PLC signature is public data.
Validation and CID are now split as you proposed. recordSignedOperation destructures const { sig, ...facts } = input.operation, requires a non-empty sig, runs validateHistoryOperation(facts) on the unsigned remainder, then recomputes the CID over the recombined signed object:
constsignedOperation={ ...(validatedasRecord<string,unknown>), sig };if(input.cid!==String(awaitcidForCbor(signedOperation)))
The insert now stores JSON.stringify(signedOperation), not the stripped facts. That detail matters more than it looks: storing unsigned bytes under a signed CID would have reproduced the same defect in a new place, and it would also have broken sameTuple idempotence, because an exact retry compares the stored bytes against the incoming signed operation.
The producer side changed with it. signArrivalMove no longer overrides the shared helper with a stripping callback; it journals and returns the signed operation and the CID from #signAuthorizedUpdate, which already computed cidForCbor(candidate). The two are now consistent, and the stored CID can equal a directory head.
Why I held this back initially: the unsigned-journal behaviour was documented as intentional in four places and looked like a settled contract. It was not — it contradicted signArrivalMove's sibling helpers and the ArrivalSignedOperation doc comment. Your finding surfaced that inconsistency, and the fix brought the code back to the documented intent rather than away from it.
@Ashex Thanks for explaining the contract decision and applying the fix. I verified that 594c203 stores the signed operation and computes its CID from the signed operation.
PR #22’s current head, 99776cd, still rejects sig. The fix is on a different branch, so the finding remains open on this PR. Please request a recheck if the fix is brought into #22.
I did not run tests.
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Learnt from: Ashex
Repo: hypercerts-org/hypercerts-entryway PR: 22
File: src/database/drizzle/migration-arrival.ts:538-560
Timestamp: 2026-11-10T10:43:30.463Z
Learning: Within repository "hypercerts-org/hypercerts-entryway", only for files matching one of ["src/database/drizzle/migration-arrival.ts"]: When reviewing incoming-arrival signed-operation journaling, check that the normalized signed public operation, including `sig`, is stored with the CID computed over that signed operation before dispatch, so recovery can replay it. Do not persist private keys. This requirement does not apply to the separate unsigned custody projections.
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Learnt from: CR
Repo: hypercerts-org/hypercerts-entryway PR: 0
File: docs/data-custody.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-05T10:09:06.649Z
Learning: Applicability reference:
AGENTS.md: # Working on Entryway
## Product boundaries
Read [architecture](docs/architecture.md), [custody](docs/data-custody.md),
[reuse assessment](docs/reuse-assessment.md), and [testing](docs/testing.md)
before changing cross-domain behaviour.
Source excerpt:
# Data model, identity custody and migration
## 4. Custody boundaries
Directory audit observations retain immutable public operations and append-only
publication/nullification events with explicit supporting observation IDs. Immutable
`custody_observations` retain the public evidence and configured directory URL,
even after a newer snapshot supersedes them. Observation retries with changed
directory, owner or evidence conflict. These records commit with history and the
atomically fenced last-observed
snapshot. Signing events never promote authority. The configured PLC directory is
trusted for canonical branch selection, historic timestamps and nullification;
publication provenance is `directory-observed-publication`; nullification provenance
is `directory-asserted-nullification`, not independently verified historic recovery
timing. Both require matching immutable supporting observations. Synthetic fixtures
may record fixture-confirmed publication but cannot assert directory nullification.
Signed events cannot carry directory evidence. Signed operation CIDs include the
signature: unsigned history cannot recompute that CID. The concrete signer or
validated directory observation supplies the binding; storage validates its
canonical DAG-CBOR SHA-256 CID shape. Envelopes, DIDs, recomputed CIDs, supported keys
and predecessor-linked surviving signatures are validated with the pinned library.
An unexplained regression or branch change without explicit nullification of the
previous head preserves the old snapshot and fails. Tombstone is observed state,
not an assertion of irreversible finality. No clock patch or custom recovery
validator is used.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: hypercerts-org/hypercerts-entryway PR: 0
File: docs/data-custody.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-05T10:09:06.649Z
Learning: Applicability reference:
AGENTS.md: # Working on Entryway
## Product boundaries
Read [architecture](docs/architecture.md), [custody](docs/data-custody.md),
[reuse assessment](docs/reuse-assessment.md), and [testing](docs/testing.md)
before changing cross-domain behaviour.
Source excerpt:
# Data model, identity custody and migration
## 4. Custody boundaries
The concrete PLC signer keeps private material in an ECMAScript private field.
Public-update authorization receives only unsigned facts and the candidate CID.
`custody_operations` retains immutable unsigned public facts and `custody_history`
retains signature-release authorization events. Identical event retries are no-ops;
changed event identity or operation facts conflict. These fresh-schema tables do
not implement a historical database upgrade.
If you found this review helpful, would you consider giving us a shout-out on X?
Report each distinct refusal in the operator note instead of collapsing
them into one recovery code, and refuse a second active arrival for a DID
with a stable error rather than letting a unique-index failure surface.
A consumed arrival code now carries its saved reservation key, and a
replayed request whose method or digest differs is a conflict instead of
a new accepted row.
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recordSignedOperation can't journal a real signed PLC operation. carriesPrivateMaterial (line 77) and validateHistoryOperation (plc/policy.ts:50-63) both reject sig, and the CID check at line 555 hashes the unsigned facts, so the stored CID can never match the directory head or the next operation's prev. The signed() test helper builds and hashes an unsigned operation, so the tests pass on that shortcut. #23 fixes this in 594c203. This PR's changeset and docs promise the signed operation and exact CID, so please fold that fix and the signed fixture into this PR so it is correct on its own.
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Addressed in published ce37a9e: the journal accepts a signed operation, recomputes its CID over the signed bytes and rejects private material. Destination dispatch and recovery are in the subsequent #23 head 6e6e268.
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A live arrival doesn't hold anything the other writers check. createArrival inserts only an arrivals row, and reserveHandle, reserveEmail and saveAccount look only at claims and migration_reservations. So another user can register or change to the arrival's handle (or take its email as a primary claim) after prepare, and bind then fails here with HandleNotAvailable/EmailNotAvailable, after the destination account and PLC move can already exist. The docs (stage 1: "email, handle and repository key are reserved") and the changeset promise the reservation holds. Make those three writers treat an active arrivals row for another DID as a reservation, with a test that reserveHandle(sameHandle, otherDid) rejects while an arrival is live.
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Addressed in ce37a9e: arrival admission and competing account, email and handle writers check reciprocal claims, with resource fences serializing competing admissions. The focused storage and account-security contracts cover the exclusion.
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This guard compares input.repositoryKey, a caller-declared field, to the reserved key. The operation's own verificationMethods.atproto is never checked. incoming-arrival-storage.test.mjs:1787-1843 journals a move whose operation carries key X with repositoryKey: k and expects applied. Compare the operation's key with reservation.signing_key (and drop the separate field or check both), make the fixture's move carry k, and add one mismatched-key reject case. Rows are immutable per kind, so a wrongly accepted move can't be replaced.
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Addressed in ce37a9e: the signed move is parsed and its actual verificationMethods.atproto, predecessor, destination and approved rotation keys are checked. The changed-actual-key regression supplies a valid signed operation with the correct DTO key.
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Renaming the whole-server finalizeImportedAccount/activateImportedAccount to bindProvisionedArrival/activateBoundArrival makes them collide with the new ArrivalTransactor.bindProvisionedArrival, which does something different (binds an arrivals row, not a migration_reservations workflow). Nothing in this PR needs the rename, and it touches import-account.ts and two test files. Please revert it, or give the arrival-side methods distinct names.
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Deferred: the similarly named whole-server and arrival binding operations remain at ce37a9e. This is a naming/maintainability concern, not a claim that the two operations are equivalent.
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canonicalFact is the same function as canonical in migration-custody.ts:142-149 (same key sort, same JSON.stringify leaves). Move it to a shared module and import it in both places instead of keeping a second copy. Leave operation-ownership.ts's canonical alone, since it sorts with localeCompare and feeds request digests.
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hasPendingExternalMigration now also returns true for an active arrival, but docs/incoming-migration.md:628-630 still describes it as true only while a migration reservation is incomplete, and cites account-storage.ts:631-641. Please update that paragraph.
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Still open at ce37a9e: the pending-projection documentation still describes only incomplete migration reservations and does not reflect the active-arrival check.
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This doesn't hold the fence: held.resolve() runs inside the callback and nothing awaits held.promise, so the dispatch commits immediately. The cancel is refused only because an allocation intent exists (migration-arrival.ts:863), which the test at line 1182 already covers. Either make the callback await held.promise and assert the cancel blocks until release, or delete this test.
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Neither case here carries private material. Both use an invalid did:key, so they are rejected by validateHistoryOperation and the second just repeats the first. Test an operation with a privateKey field, or drop carriesPrivateMaterial (the key whitelist in plc/policy.ts already rejects unknown keys) and rename the test.
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Still open at ce37a9e: the named signed-operation test still uses invalid key values rather than a signed operation with a privateKey field. A separate preparation test includes such a field, but that does not cover this journal path.
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Updated in 7bd9e1c: the journal test adds privateKey to otherwise valid signed authority, verifies rejection and no writes, then verifies the valid operation is accepted. The reported managed-storage runs covered SQLite and PostgreSQL.
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What this is for
Stacked on #21. This layer stores the facts an incoming migration needs before
anything is created remotely, so a destination account can be created and
activated without data transfer racing cancellation or a stale worker.
Plain-language summary
DID and a selected destination server. Completed arrivals stay as history and
do not block a later arrival for the same DID.
then the returned public key is stored against the same immutable tuple. A
different key, server or DID is a conflict, never an overwrite.
ceiling is enforced both by the code and by a database constraint.
journaled with their exact bytes and CID before dispatch. Repeating the same
operation is idempotent; a different one is a conflict.
Once intent exists, the arrival must be reconciled instead.
What is not claimed
is reachable from the application yet.
Validation
npm run build,typecheck,check,lint,check:architecture,test:architecture,schema:check-> exit 0.node --test tests/contracts/incoming-arrival-storage.test.mjs-> 27 pass,2 PostgreSQL-only skips, 0 fail.
npm run test:unit-> 304 pass, 17 skipped, 0 fail.exit 0 each, with the PostgreSQL-only contention and cancellation-race cases
executing and passing (no skips counted as coverage).
./scripts/changesets.sh statusaccepts the named minor note.Related to TECH-681. Does not close the issue.
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