ubiquitous-invention/plans/Plan-multitenant-saas-hardening/Epic-tenant-lifecycle/Task-rate-limit-and-abuse-guardrails.md
Randall Stillwell 778fe1d321 plans: scaffold daily-driver-finish, saas-hardening, agent-coordination
Three new plan trees that fill in the gaps surfaced during repo review.
Together they map out what remains between the current scaffold-with-stubs
state and a daily-usable, multitenant, agent-coordinated app.

* Plan-daily-driver-finish (P0): turn stubs into real data. Five tasks
  covering the lint/shared-types breakage, hardcoded dashboard mocks,
  AI-page setTimeout placeholder, post-signin landing decision, and a
  cross-browser collab smoke test against the deployed Hocuspocus
  instance.

* Plan-multitenant-saas-hardening (P1): everything multitenant needs
  beyond what Plan-multitenant-cursor-sync already covers. Invites and
  role management, soft-delete + append-only audit log, rate limits on
  the auth + mutation hot paths, and a Vitest + GitHub Actions test
  foundation so PRs can't ship red.

* Plan-agent-coordination (P2): the layer that makes a Task-*.md
  runnable, not just readable. Adds workflow_prompt with task -> epic
  -> plan inheritance, an agent_runs table for auditable sessions, and
  two new MCP tools (claim_task / complete_task) that replace the
  freeform update_object composition agents do today. Includes an
  intentionally-deferred Epic-optional-orchestrator that captures the
  Symphony-shaped runner as a decision point rather than an immediate
  build.

Each task is bead-scale (one focused Cursor session) with explicit
in-scope, out-of-scope, and anti-goal sections so a future agent can
pick up a single Task-*.md and start without scrollback context.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-06-01 23:52:22 -05:00

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---
kind: task
slug: rate-limit-and-abuse-guardrails
title: Rate-limit credentials sign-in and high-impact mutations
plan_slug: multitenant-saas-hardening
epic_slug: tenant-lifecycle
status: ready
priority: P2
tenant_id: global
owner: unassigned
cursor_todo_id: null
updated_at: "2026-06-01"
---
# Task summary
Add per-IP rate limits to credentials sign-in and to a small set of high-impact mutation endpoints (invite, archive, create-workspace). The goal is to cap brute-force and obvious abuse, not to be a full WAF.
## Description
### Storage
Use the existing Redis instance on CT 102 (already used by Hocuspocus for awareness). Add a thin client in `packages/shared/src/rate-limit/` — token-bucket or sliding-window, your choice; the contract is `consume(key: string, opts: { capacity, refillPerSecond }): Promise<{ ok: boolean, remaining: number, retryAfterMs: number }>`.
If you don't want a new shared lib, `@upstash/ratelimit` is a fine drop-in even though we're not on Upstash — it works against any Redis URL. Don't add a new database for this.
### Where to apply
1. **Credentials sign-in** (`apps/web/app/api/auth/[...nextauth]/route.ts`, or the `authorize` callback): key by IP (`x-forwarded-for`, falling back to remote addr). 5 attempts / 60 seconds, then 429.
2. **Invite create**: key by `actor_user_id`. 30 invites / hour. Workspace-scoped is fine too.
3. **Workspace create**: key by `actor_user_id`. 5 workspaces / hour.
4. **Archive/restore**: key by `(workspace_id, actor_user_id)`. 20 / hour. Cheap insurance against a script flipping state in a loop.
### IP extraction
Use the same helper everywhere; don't recompute in every route. Common gotcha: `x-forwarded-for` is a comma-separated list when there are multiple proxies. Take the first entry. If the deployed stack is behind Cloudflare, `cf-connecting-ip` is more reliable — add that as a higher-priority source if present.
### Response
When a limit trips, return `429 Too Many Requests` with a `Retry-After` header in seconds and a tRPC `TOO_MANY_REQUESTS` error code. The client should surface a friendly message ("try again in ~30 seconds"), not a stack trace.
### Audit logging
Every limit trip writes an `audit_log` row (`action: "rate_limit.tripped"`, `metadata: { route, key_kind, retry_after_ms }`). This is how you discover whether anyone's hitting the limits in practice; without it the limits are silent.
### Anti-goals
- Don't add a CAPTCHA. If brute-forcing becomes a real problem, add Cloudflare in front of the deploy.
- Don't write a generic rate-limit middleware that wraps every tRPC procedure. The set of high-value endpoints is short; explicit is better than universal.
## Subtasks
- [ ] Pick the Redis client and rate-limit lib (or hand-roll).
- [ ] Add IP extraction helper.
- [ ] Apply limits to the 4 routes above.
- [ ] Wire `audit_log` writes on limit trips.
- [ ] Verify by scripting 20 credentials sign-in attempts against a dev deploy.
## Owner or assignee
Unassigned
## Status
ready
## Estimation
M
## Acceptance criteria
- [ ] Brute-forcing credentials sign-in trips at attempt 6 within 60 seconds.
- [ ] Invite-spam attempt trips at invite 31 within an hour.
- [ ] Every trip produces an `audit_log` row.
- [ ] No global tRPC middleware — limits are applied per route.
## Links to related Epic / Plan
- Epic: `./Epic-tenant-lifecycle.md`
- Plan: `../Plan-multitenant-saas-hardening.md`