feat(intake): act on a signed link from the notification (#224)

Mounted publicly, deliberately not behind requireAdminGate. These are clicked from an inbox by someone who is not signed in, which is the whole point; the signature is what protects them.

GET confirms and changes nothing, POST acts. Mail scanners and corporate link-rewriting gateways issue a GET against every URL in a message before a human sees it, so a GET that discarded a draft would fire itself on delivery — carrying a valid signature, looking entirely legitimate in the log, and nobody would know to go and recover it. That is the case the split exists for and it has its own test.

Forged, replayed, upgraded and expired links are each refused with the same 403. Distinguishing them would tell somebody probing which of those they had achieved. There is no signable publish, and asking for one finds no handler.

The two registry guard tests are updated rather than worked around: they assert the full set of settings and template keys, so adding either is exactly what should trip them.

Backend now 367 unit and 329 integration, all passing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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import request from 'supertest';
import app from '../../src/app';
import { pool } from '../../src/db';
import { resetDb, closeDb } from './setup/testDb';
import { signAction, ACTION_TTL_MS } from '../../src/intake/actionLinks';
import { notifyDraftReady } from '../../src/intake/notifyDraft';
const SECRET = 'integration-intake-secret';
const original = process.env.INTAKE_ACTION_SECRET;
beforeAll(() => {
process.env.INTAKE_ACTION_SECRET = SECRET;
});
afterAll(async () => {
if (original === undefined) delete process.env.INTAKE_ACTION_SECRET;
else process.env.INTAKE_ACTION_SECRET = original;
await pool.end();
await closeDb();
});
beforeEach(async () => {
await resetDb();
});
async function seedDraft(): Promise<number> {
const { rows } = await pool.query<{ id: number }>(
`INSERT INTO items (name, status) VALUES ('Submission', 'pending') RETURNING id`
);
const itemId = rows[0]!.id;
await pool.query(
`INSERT INTO item_drafts (item_id, state, ai_name) VALUES ($1, 'ready', 'Blue vase')`,
[itemId]
);
return itemId;
}
const soon = (): number => Date.now() + ACTION_TTL_MS;
function link(itemId: number, action: 'regenerate' | 'discard', expiresAt: number): string {
const sig = signAction(itemId, action, expiresAt);
return `/api/intake-actions/${itemId}/${action}?expires=${expiresAt}&sig=${sig}`;
}
const stateOf = async (itemId: number): Promise<string | undefined> =>
(await pool.query<{ state: string }>(`SELECT state FROM item_drafts WHERE item_id = $1`, [itemId]))
.rows[0]?.state;
describe('the signed action links', () => {
/**
* The reason GET does not act. Mail scanners and link-rewriting gateways
* issue a GET against every URL in a message before a human sees it, so a GET
* that discarded a draft would fire itself on delivery — with a valid
* signature, looking entirely legitimate in the log, and nobody would know to
* go and recover it.
*/
it('GET confirms without changing anything', async () => {
const itemId = await seedDraft();
const res = await request(app).get(link(itemId, 'discard', soon()));
expect(res.status).toBe(200);
expect(res.body.action).toBe('discard');
expect(await stateOf(itemId)).toBe('ready');
});
it('POST discards and unpublishes the item', async () => {
const itemId = await seedDraft();
const res = await request(app).post(link(itemId, 'discard', soon()));
expect(res.status).toBe(200);
expect(await stateOf(itemId)).toBe('discarded');
const item = await pool.query(`SELECT status FROM items WHERE id = $1`, [itemId]);
expect(item.rows[0]?.status).toBe('pending');
});
// Nothing is deleted, which is what makes a link in an inbox acceptable.
it('POST discard keeps the item and its row', async () => {
const itemId = await seedDraft();
await request(app).post(link(itemId, 'discard', soon()));
const item = await pool.query(`SELECT id FROM items WHERE id = $1`, [itemId]);
expect(item.rows).toHaveLength(1);
});
it('POST regenerates and clears the attempts', async () => {
const itemId = await seedDraft();
await pool.query(`UPDATE item_drafts SET attempts = 3 WHERE item_id = $1`, [itemId]);
await request(app).post(link(itemId, 'regenerate', soon()));
const { rows } = await pool.query(
`SELECT state, attempts FROM item_drafts WHERE item_id = $1`,
[itemId]
);
expect(rows[0]).toMatchObject({ state: 'queued', attempts: 0 });
});
it('refuses a forged signature', async () => {
const itemId = await seedDraft();
const res = await request(app).post(
`/api/intake-actions/${itemId}/discard?expires=${soon()}&sig=forged`
);
expect(res.status).toBe(403);
expect(await stateOf(itemId)).toBe('ready');
});
// The signature names the item, so one link must not act on another.
it('refuses a signature minted for a different item', async () => {
const mine = await seedDraft();
const other = await seedDraft();
const expires = soon();
const sig = signAction(other, 'discard', expires);
const res = await request(app).post(
`/api/intake-actions/${mine}/discard?expires=${expires}&sig=${sig}`
);
expect(res.status).toBe(403);
expect(await stateOf(mine)).toBe('ready');
});
// And it names the action, so a regenerate link cannot be upgraded.
it('refuses a signature minted for a different action', async () => {
const itemId = await seedDraft();
const expires = soon();
const sig = signAction(itemId, 'regenerate', expires);
const res = await request(app).post(
`/api/intake-actions/${itemId}/discard?expires=${expires}&sig=${sig}`
);
expect(res.status).toBe(403);
expect(await stateOf(itemId)).toBe('ready');
});
it('refuses an expired link', async () => {
const itemId = await seedDraft();
const res = await request(app).post(link(itemId, 'discard', Date.now() - 1000));
expect(res.status).toBe(403);
expect(await stateOf(itemId)).toBe('ready');
});
// There is no signable publish, and asking for one must not find a handler.
it('refuses an action it does not recognise', async () => {
const itemId = await seedDraft();
const res = await request(app).post(
`/api/intake-actions/${itemId}/publish?expires=${soon()}&sig=anything`
);
expect(res.status).toBe(404);
});
it('404s for an item with no draft', async () => {
const { rows } = await pool.query<{ id: number }>(
`INSERT INTO items (name) VALUES ('ordinary') RETURNING id`
);
const res = await request(app).post(link(rows[0]!.id, 'discard', soon()));
expect(res.status).toBe(404);
});
});
describe('the notification itself', () => {
// Nowhere to send it is a working configuration, and must not throw into the
// worker and fail a draft that was written correctly.
it('does nothing when no recipient is configured', async () => {
const itemId = await seedDraft();
await expect(notifyDraftReady(itemId)).resolves.toBeUndefined();
});
it('does not throw when the item has no draft', async () => {
const { rows } = await pool.query<{ id: number }>(
`INSERT INTO items (name) VALUES ('ordinary') RETURNING id`
);
await expect(notifyDraftReady(rows[0]!.id)).resolves.toBeUndefined();
});
});