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What changed

The admin surface kept a hand-made map of its own routes: 111 entries across
four tables, naming a path, a role, an area, a section, and a read or write
intent that the real route tables and handler guards named again. Nothing tied
the two together except a test and care.

An area now declares its routes once, in
src/shared/admin-surface/areas.ts. The route map, the segments each area
serves, and the navigation all derive from that declaration. A new check then
asks every page who it lets in, and compares the answer with what the surface
says.

The value, and the caller that gets it

Two facts stop being repeated:

  • The role. It was written on every route an area owns, 121 times. It is
    now written 43 times, once per area, and a route names a role only when it
    differs from the rest of its area.
  • The segments an area serves. They were a second 43-entry map beside the
    loader map. They now come from the patterns the area declares, leaving
    segments only for a route with no page of its own, such as a POST endpoint.

The production callers are /admin/* dispatch (src/features/admin/index.ts),
the admin navigation and links (src/shared/admin-pages.ts,
src/shared/admin-surface.ts), and the read-only gate
(readOnlyGetRoutePatterns).

The fault it found

deliveries declared STAFF_ADMIN_LEVELS. But GET /admin/deliveries is
gated by deliveryPage, which admits agents, and its own comment calls the run
sheet "their only page". An agent could open the page while the surface said
they could not, so adminDestinationAllowed gave the wrong answer for every
link to it.

The declaration now says DELIVERY_ADMIN_LEVELS, matching what the handler has
always enforced. No access changed — only the answer the surface gives
about it. This overrules the plan's "stricter side wins" default on purpose:
the strict reading would take the run sheet away from the agents it was built
for. Reverting that one line fails the new check with
deliveries (/admin/deliveries) served agent.

Two things differ from the approved plan

  • Sections own their navigation order. The plan grouped routes by area but
    did not say what happens to order, which used to be the position of an entry
    in a 383-line file. Grouping by area destroys that, because one section draws
    its links from up to sixteen areas. Each section now names its links in
    order.
  • A route no longer carries a section. All 111 declared one; only the 42
    with a navigation link ever read it.

Trusted and observed facts

The declaration is now the single expected map. The route tables and handler
guards remain the observed authority for what exists and what is enforced, and
the tests below compare the two rather than assuming they agree.

Old path deleted

admin-surface/nav-routes.ts, admin-surface/write-routes-a-m.ts,
admin-surface/write-routes-n-z.ts, and the hand-written
ADMIN_SURFACE_AREAS map. No compatibility layer remains.

Tests

  • The migration was proved faithful once, by comparing every derived route,
    segment list, and navigation order against the deleted tables: 111 routes, 43
    segment lists, and 12 navigation orders, all identical.
  • test/integration/admin-role-matrix.test.ts — the backwards check. Every
    parameter-free page, asked as all four roles: a role outside the audience is
    never served the page, a role inside it is never forbidden. Written about
    being served (200) and forbidden (403) rather than one exact status, because
    a page whose feature is off answers 404 to everybody, which is still a
    refusal.
  • test/shared/admin-surface/definitions.test.ts — the fold: area default
    audience, per-route override, intent by group, segments derived from
    patterns, extra segments, an area with no routes, and a table that declares
    one route twice.
  • test/shared/admin-surface/areas.test.ts and sections.test.ts
    the declaration's own rules, including that every label names a message the
    English catalog defines, and that every add or import link points at a write
    form, which is what read-only mode hides a link by.
  • test/shared/admin-pages.test.ts and test/features/admin/index.test.ts
    are new mirrors, so each is mutation-tested against the file it covers. They
    pin two rules that were written in comments and checked by nothing: only
    staff get the footer exposing the query log, and the scanner's check-in
    endpoint answers JSON rather than the sign-in redirect every other page gets.

One safety rule was added while closing the gaps: the fold refuses a table
that declares one route id twice, which would have left the loser unreachable
with every link pointing at the winner.

Counts

  • Source: 798 added, 1,097 removed (net −299).
  • Total: 1,923 added, 1,284 removed.
  • Database and provider calls: unchanged. The declaration is module-load data,
    and the eager path still imports no handler module.

Gates run

  • deno task precommit — passes.
  • deno task precommit:mutation595 mutants, all detected, 4 suppressed
    as known-equivalent. Two of those four are recorded here: the fallbacks in
    groupDestinations and declaredSegments take an object or an array, which
    is always truthy, so only undefined ever reaches them.

What remains

ADMIN_SURFACE_PLAN.md is updated to point at the built code rather than
describe it, and carries the measurements for the rest:

  • Slice 2, the path as one fact — 14 base paths in
    crudRoutes/entityTabRoutes across nine files, plus about twelve in
    basePath, navActive, and listPath. One route resists it: listings uses
    /admin/listing, which no destination declares.
  • Slice 3's remaining half — deriving handler policies from the
    declaration. The role matrix now proves the two agree, so this became a
    simplification rather than a safety fix.

Three open questions for you are listed at the end of the plan.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Improved admin navigation with clearer sections, links, landing pages, and context-sensitive visibility.
    • Added consistent role-based access controls, including read-only restrictions and staff-only details.
    • Preserved delivery access for agents, managers, and owners.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of unauthorized, signed-out, unknown, and scanner-related admin requests.
    • Removed redundant navigation links and hidden empty sections.
  • Documentation

    • Added planning notes and follow-up documentation for admin navigation and payment-link handling.

Five sweeps looked for shape-level repetition across the codebase.
The admin surface keeps a hand-made map of its own routes in six
places, with no check that ties the role in the map to the role at
the handler. The plan makes each fact one declaration and derives
every consumer from it. TODO.md gains one verified finding from the
survey: Square reports a malformed payment link as an unconfigured
provider.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019DqY181KZ5hBa6gEUKvFYJ
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The PR consolidates admin route and audience declarations into ADMIN_AREAS, derives destinations and segments, adds typed navigation sections, updates admin consumers, and adds contract, dispatch, and role-matrix tests.

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Admin surface unification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Declarative surface and folding
src/shared/admin-surface/areas.ts, src/shared/admin-surface/definitions.ts, src/shared/admin-surface/ids.ts, src/shared/admin-surface.ts
ADMIN_AREAS defines admin areas, routes, audiences, and segments. foldAdminAreas derives destination and segment maps and rejects duplicate destination IDs.
Navigation and route integration
src/shared/admin-surface/sections.ts, src/shared/admin-pages.ts, src/features/admin/...
Typed navigation sections replace destination-based navigation metadata. Shared path parsing and destination lookup replace local route definitions.
Surface and navigation contract tests
test/shared/admin-surface/*, test/shared/admin-pages.test.ts, test/ui/templates/admin/nav.test.tsx
Tests cover route inheritance, audiences, segments, navigation order, visibility, detail paths, read-only behavior, and create links.
Dispatch and role validation
test/features/admin/index.test.ts, test/integration/admin-*.test, scripts/mutation/equivalent-mutants/*
Tests cover request dispatch, session gating, scanner responses, undeclared segments, and access for each admin role. Equivalent-mutant records are updated.
Plan and follow-up records
ADMIN_SURFACE_PLAN.md, TODO.md
The plan records the completed slice and migration decisions. TODO records malformed Square payment-link handling.

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claude added 7 commits August 18, 2026 19:39
The admin surface kept a hand-made map of its own routes in four
tables. An area now declares its routes once, with the role that
reaches them stated once for the area. The destination map, the
segments each area serves, and the navigation all derive from that
declaration.

Two facts stop being repeated. An area's audience was written on
every route it owns, 121 times across the tables; it is now written
43 times, once per area. The segments an area serves were a second
43-entry map beside the loader map; they now come from the patterns
the area declares, with 'segments' left only for a route that has no
page of its own.

The section a route sits in was declared on all 111 destinations,
but only the 42 with navigation ever read it. Sections now name
their own routes in the order a reader sees them, so the order is
explicit instead of implicit in the position of an entry in a
383-line file.

Proved faithful by comparing the derived destinations, segments, and
per-section navigation against the old tables: all 111 routes, 43
segment lists, and 12 navigation orders are identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019DqY181KZ5hBa6gEUKvFYJ
The surface says which roles reach each page, and each handler
enforces its own policy. Nothing checked that the two agree.

A new check walks every page whose pattern takes no parameter and
asks it as all four roles. A role outside the audience must never be
served the page. A role inside it must never be forbidden. It is
written about being served and being forbidden, not one exact
status, because a page whose feature is off answers 404 to everyone,
which is still a refusal.

It found one disagreement. The deliveries run sheet declared staff
only, but GET /admin/deliveries is gated by deliveryPage, which
admits agents, and its comment calls the run sheet an agent's only
page. So adminDestinationAllowed gave the wrong answer for every
link to it. The declaration now says DELIVERY_ADMIN_LEVELS, which
matches what the handler has always enforced. No access changed.
Reverting that one line fails the check with 'deliveries served
agent'.

Three test files move to mirror the source they cover, so each is
mutation-tested against its own file, and the fold gains direct unit
tests of its own.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The replace callback took a plain string and cast the parameters to
a loose record. Naming the key type keeps the same check the rest of
the module relies on, with no cast.

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The fold wrote each route into a map keyed by id. Two areas using
one id left the loser unreachable, with every link to it pointing at
the winner. The fold now names both areas and stops.

The areas table also gains its own tests: every route sits under
/admin, names roles that exist, and can be reached by at least one
of them; every route belongs to a declared area; and the paths other
modules type by hand keep their values.

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Every link names a route from the areas table, so the checks that
matter are about that tie: each link points at a route that exists,
each section opens with its own landing link, only that link is the
landing kind, and each route is linked from one section only.

One rule guards read-only mode. It hides a link by the intent of the
route behind it, so an add or import link pointing at a view route
would stay clickable with writing switched off.

The two section tests move here from the surface test, next to the
table they are about.

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The gate mutates every changed file, and 42 mutants lived through the
first run. Each is now covered by a test about the behaviour it
breaks:

- The navigation words: every section and every link names a message
  the English catalog defines, so an empty or misspelt key fails.
- The record pages: only listings and groups have one, both keep it
  to staff, and both keep the exact path entityReturnPath rewrites.
- The navigation model: a section holding one link shows no
  sub-navigation, an add link disappears while the site is read only
  without taking its siblings with it, and a link the viewer's role
  cannot reach stays hidden.
- Admin dispatch: a signed-out visitor is sent back to /admin but
  still reaches the login pages, a signed-in one gets the page, and
  the footer that exposes the query log opens for staff and stays
  shut for an editor. That last rule was written in a comment and
  checked by nothing.

Two survivors are equivalent and recorded: the fallbacks in
groupDestinations and declaredSegments both take an object or an
array, which is always truthy, so only undefined ever reaches them.

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Every other signed-out admin page is sent back to /admin. The check-in
endpoint must not be: the scanner reads the answer as JSON, so a
redirect would reach it as a page it cannot parse.

Nothing covered that branch, because a signed-out page redirects
whether the dispatcher refuses it or the route's own guard does. The
check-in path is where the two differ.

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@stefan-burke stefan-burke changed the title Plan: declare each admin route's facts once, and derive the rest Declare each admin route once, and check every page lets in who it says Aug 18, 2026

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In `@ADMIN_SURFACE_PLAN.md`:
- Around line 178-181: Update the paragraph describing declared audiences and
handler policies so it reflects the current implementation: use future wording
such as “After Slice 3” for policy derivation, or explicitly describe the
existing role-matrix check instead. Keep the navigation/link safety conclusion
intact without implying handler policy builders are already implemented.

In `@test/features/admin/index.test.ts`:
- Around line 30-35: Update the “a repeat hit on a settings segment succeeds
twice” test to establish an authenticated session before requesting the route,
then assert that both requests to “/admin/settings” return 200. Preserve the two
sequential requests so the test exercises repeated segmentRouter.load() usage
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Comment thread test/features/admin/index.test.ts
The test asked for a settings page twice while signed out. Dispatch
refuses a signed-out visitor before it ever builds the segment's
router, so both hits answered 302 whether or not a segment can reuse
the router it built the first time. Both hits are now signed in and
answer 200, which is the reuse the test is named for.

The plan also said the declared audience already builds each
handler's gate. It does not yet; Slice 3 does that. What is true
today is that the role matrix proves the two agree.

Both found by CodeRabbit on #2113.

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- Around line 179-183: Update the role-matrix claims in ADMIN_SURFACE_PLAN.md to
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Comment thread ADMIN_SURFACE_PLAN.md Outdated
The security note claimed the matrix proves the declared audience
and the handler's gate agree, without saying for which pages. It
covers the 48 whose pattern takes no parameter. The other 63 answer
about one record, and a missing record answers 404 whatever the role
is, so each needs a fixture before it can be checked.

The test now states that split itself, so the document cannot claim
wider cover than the suite has.

Found by CodeRabbit on #2113.

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All three findings are fixed and their threads are resolved. The changes-requested review still standing is from b1e1974; the head is now b9a22b8. Re-reviewing should clear it.

For the record, the earlier "Critical: duplicate type declaration prevents the project from compiling" was not reproducible: deno task typecheck exits 0 with no diagnostics, and the CI checks job (which runs it) is green on every commit of this branch. No inline comment ever named the declaration. That claim is gone from the current summary.


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@stefan-burke I will review the current head, b9a22b8. I will evaluate the updated changes independently. The earlier duplicate-type claim has no reported reproducible evidence.


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