ubiquitous-invention/plans/Plan-multitenant-saas-hardening/Epic-tenant-lifecycle/Task-audit-instrument-rate-limit-trips.md
Randall Stillwell 336a5890a8 feat(audit): append-only audit_log, workspace archive cascade + restore, audit view
Soft-delete cascade was the missing half of archive: stamping
workspaces.archived_at alone left objects visible to anyone with a
direct id. The cascade runs in one transaction so the partial state
isn't reachable, and restore inverts it for any archived row in the
workspace — provenance-blind on purpose until we have a use case
that needs to distinguish per-workspace from per-object archives.

audit_log keeps the keyset index on (workspace_id, created_at) and
the actor_user_id FK with onDelete set null. recordAudit() refuses
to write a null actor without a metadata.system_actor label so the
audit view always has something to render. workspaces and invites
mutations call recordAudit on success; objects-router instrumentation
and the markdown importer's system-actor flow are filed as P2
follow-ups because each needs a thoughtful "what's audit-worthy?"
pass, not mechanical wiring.

Settings → Audit log lives at /<slug>/settings/audit, owner-gated,
keyset-paginated. ACTION_LABELS is small on purpose; new actions
fall back to their raw key so missing a label degrades gracefully.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-06-02 15:35:16 -05:00

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kind slug title plan_slug epic_slug status priority tenant_id owner cursor_todo_id updated_at
task audit-instrument-rate-limit-trips Write audit-log rows on every rate-limit trip multitenant-saas-hardening tenant-lifecycle draft P2 global unassigned null 2026-06-02

Task summary

Rate-limit trips currently only go to stdout (console.warn). The parent task spec called for an audit_log row on every trip so we can:

  1. See in the audit view whether anyone's actually hitting the limits in practice.
  2. Build abuse-signal dashboards on top of audit_log instead of scraping logs.

This is a small follow-up because we kept Task-rate-limit-and-abuse-guardrails scoped to "the wire-ins ship cleanly" and didn't want to churn auth.ts and invites.ts a second time inside the same task.

Subtasks

  • At every if (!rl.allowed) { ... } site, call recordAudit(...) before the rejection. For the Credentials path, the workspace context isn't known (the user isn't even authenticated yet), so we need a different write path:
    • Option A: skip audit for sign-in trips and only log to stdout (current behavior).
    • Option B: add a system_audit_log table for non-workspace events (sign-in attempts, rate-limit trips on unauthenticated routes).
    • Option C: stamp workspace_id = '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000' as a sentinel "system" workspace.
    • Recommended: A for v1 (no schema change), revisit when we have a real need for cross-workspace audit. For workspace-scoped trips (invite-create), use the regular recordAudit() flow.
  • Wire recordAudit into the invites.create rate-limit branch. Action: rate_limit.tripped. Metadata: { key, retry_after_ms, limit, window_ms }.
  • Add the rate_limit.tripped action to the audit page's ACTION_LABELS map.

Acceptance criteria

  • Triggering the invites.create rate-limit produces a rate_limit.tripped row in the audit view.
  • Sign-in trips remain logged to stdout (decision A above) until a system_audit_log table is justified.
  • Parent: ./Task-rate-limit-and-abuse-guardrails.md
  • Epic: ./Epic-tenant-lifecycle.md