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Summary

  • Adds a "Working with awareness" section to project CLAUDE.md
  • Instructs agents with awareness MCP access to:
    1. Verify connection via get_briefing before attempting other operations
    2. Check project context from other platforms
    3. Maintain a single living status note (updated in place with changelog)
    4. Record milestones for cross-platform visibility

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Instructs agents with awareness access to: verify connection, check
project context, maintain a living status note, and record milestones.

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- #1: Specify two-step re-init (synthetic initialize + replay original)
  using stored registry metadata (capabilities, client_info, protocol_version)
- #2: Add session_redirects table for old→new session_id mapping with
  5-min grace period. Middleware transparently rewrites request headers.
- #3: Clarify sliding-window TTL — touch() extends expires_at
- #4: Document HAProxy stick table gap after rotation (self-healing)
- #5: Note deliberate LOGGED deviation from issue with rationale
- #6: Specify lookup() filters expired sessions (no re-init for zombies)

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…334) (#351)

Closes [#334](#334). Also
closes CodeQL alerts #1, #2, #3 (three flags of
`actions/missing-workflow-permissions` in `ci.yml`).

## Summary

Two workflow-hardening fixes bundled because they're the same theme
(least-privilege + contributor-controlled-input discipline) and both
surfaced from the same security review:

### 1. `pr-labels.yml` — cascade the `#333` env-routing pattern (closes
#334)

Three job steps in `pr-labels.yml` (`on-push`, `on-unlabel`, `on-label`)
previously inlined contributor-visible fields as `${{ ... }}`
expressions inside `run:` bodies:

```yaml
# Before
run: |
  PR=${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
  REPO=${{ github.repository }}
  HEAD_SHA=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
  # ... shell script references PR / REPO / HEAD_SHA
```

Now they route through step-level `env:` and are referenced as shell
variables:

```yaml
# After
env:
  PR: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
  REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
  HEAD_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
run: |
  # ... shell script references "$PR" / "$REPO" / "$HEAD_SHA"
```

**Not a currently-exploitable bug.** The `on: pull_request:` trigger
means fork PRs get a read-only `GITHUB_TOKEN` — the `gh pr edit
--add-label` / `--remove-label` calls would be rejected from a fork PR
regardless of what `PR`/`REPO`/`HEAD_SHA` contained. And all three
values are typed (numeric PR, repo name validated by GHA, hex SHA) —
none come from user-authored text like titles or bodies.

**Why change it anyway**, per #334's rationale:

- **Trigger-drift risk.** If `pr-labels.yml` ever switches to
`pull_request_target` (to allow label automation on fork PRs), the same
injection class that #333 closed on `pr-labels-ci.yml` reappears — and
now the hardening would already be in place.
- **Parameterization-drift risk.** A future maintainer adding a
contributor-authored string field (label name, PR title fragment, branch
name) to a `run:` block won't be prompted to route via `env:` first
because the file already establishes the inline `${{ ... }}` style as
"fine here."
- **Cascade consistency.** `pr-labels-ci.yml` uses env-routing since
#333; having the sibling workflow use a different style is a readability
cost for anyone auditing the repo.

### 2. `ci.yml` — add workflow-level `permissions: contents: read`
(closes CodeQL #1/#2/#3)

`ci.yml` had no `permissions:` block at workflow or job level, so all
three jobs (`lint`, `typecheck`, `test`) inherited whatever repo-level
default `GITHUB_TOKEN` scope is configured. CodeQL flagged this three
times (one per job).

Fix: declare `permissions: contents: read` at the workflow level. Every
job inherits read-only content access, which is sufficient for lint /
typecheck / pytest / codecov. No job actually needs write access to
anything.

## Audit sweep results

While touching workflow files, checked all six for missing
`permissions:`:

| Workflow | Had `permissions:`? | This PR's action |
|----------|---------------------|------------------|
| `ci.yml` | No (CodeQL flagged 3x) | Added `contents: read` at workflow
level |
| `docker-publish.yml` | Yes, line 23 | No change |
| `docker-smoke.yml` | Yes, line 40 (from #350) | No change |
| `pr-labels-ci.yml` | Yes, line 35 (from #333) | No change |
| `pr-labels.yml` | Yes, line 26 | No change to permissions block;
env-routing changes only |
| `qa-gate.yml` | Yes, line 24 | No change |

`ci.yml` was the last gap. Sweep is complete.

## Scope

- `.github/workflows/ci.yml` — `+7 lines` (permissions block with inline
rationale comment)
- `.github/workflows/pr-labels.yml` — `+10, -11` (three `run:` bodies
lose two shell-assignment lines each; three `env:` blocks gain two-three
entries each; explanatory comment added in the `on-unlabel` case)
- `CHANGELOG.md` — `+4 lines` (new `### Security` subsection under
`[Unreleased]`)

No source, no tests, no migrations.

## References

- Closes [#334](#334)
- Closes CodeQL alerts #1, #2, #3
(`actions/missing-workflow-permissions` on `ci.yml:27/41/53`)
- Cascade source: PR
[#333](#333) (same pattern
for `pr-labels-ci.yml`, which closed #332)
- Related CodeQL alerts not addressed by this PR: #5/#6/#7/#8 (OAuth
clear-text logging in `oauth.py` and `oauth_proxy.py`) — separate audit
PR, coming next. #4 (socket bind in tests) — dismiss via UI.

## QA

### Prerequisites

None. Pure workflow-YAML changes.

### Automated checks

- `lint`, `typecheck`, `test (3.10/3.11/3.12)` — none touch YAML, should
remain green.
- `CodeQL (actions)` — will re-scan `ci.yml` and `pr-labels.yml` on this
PR. Expected outcome: alerts #1/#2/#3 flip to "fixed" on merge; no new
alerts introduced.
- `docker-smoke` — not triggered (no changes under `Dockerfile` /
`pyproject.toml` / `uv.lock` / `.dockerignore`).

### Manual tests

1. - [x] **Both workflow files parse.**
     ```
python3 -c "import yaml; [yaml.safe_load(open(f)) for f in
['.github/workflows/ci.yml', '.github/workflows/pr-labels.yml']];
print('OK')"
     ```
     Expected: `OK`.

2. - [x] **`ci.yml` now has `permissions: contents: read`.**
     ```
     grep -A1 '^permissions:' .github/workflows/ci.yml
     ```
     Expected: `permissions:` header followed by `  contents: read`.

3. - [x] **No contributor-controlled inputs in `pr-labels.yml` `run:`
bodies.**
     ```
awk '/^[[:space:]]+run: \|/,/^[[:space:]]+-
name:|^[[:space:]]{2,6}[a-z-]+:$/' .github/workflows/pr-labels.yml |
grep -nE '\$\{\{ *github\.(event|repository|head_ref)' || echo "(none —
good)"
     ```
Expected: `(none — good)`. All `github.event.*` / `github.repository`
references are now in `env:` blocks (and in job-level `if:`
conditionals, which is safe context).

4. - [x] **All six workflows now have `permissions:`.**
     ```
     for f in .github/workflows/*.yml; do
if ! grep -q '^permissions:\|^ permissions:\|^ permissions:' "$f"; then
         echo "$f: MISSING permissions"
       fi
     done
     echo "(if no 'MISSING' lines above, sweep is complete)"
     ```
     Expected: no `MISSING` lines.

5. - [x] **Label automation still functions on this PR.** When I push,
`pr-labels.yml`'s `on-push` should reset labels to `Awaiting CI` and
strip any stale QA labels. When `Dev Active` is removed, `on-unlabel`
should promote to `Ready for QA` after CI passes. Empirically validated
if the label transitions on this PR itself behave identically to recent
merged PRs (self-test).

6. - [x] **`permissions: contents: read` doesn't break anything.** Lint
/ typecheck / pytest / codecov upload only need read access to
`GITHUB_TOKEN` — none of them push labels, create comments, or mutate
repo state. If any of the existing CI checks start failing on this PR
with "resource not accessible" errors, that's a signal the permissions
block is too tight (unlikely, but the empirical test is: does this PR's
CI go green?).

7. - [x] **Diff review.**
     ```
     git diff --stat origin/main
     ```
Expected: `.github/workflows/ci.yml` (+7),
`.github/workflows/pr-labels.yml` (+10, -11), `CHANGELOG.md` (+4).
Nothing else.

### Acceptance

- ✅ `#334` — symmetric env-routing cascade landed in `pr-labels.yml`
- ✅ CodeQL `#1`, `#2`, `#3` — `ci.yml` now has explicit `permissions:`
- ☐ CodeQL re-scan confirmation — post-merge, the three alerts flip from
Open → Fixed automatically on the next `Analyze (actions)` run against
`main`

Post-merge, also worth a look at CodeQL's /security/code-scanning
dashboard to confirm Open count drops from 8 → 5 (just the four
OAuth-logging + the one test-file socket-bind remaining).

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…ng flags (#5/#6/#7/#8) (#352)

Closes CodeQL alerts **#5, #6, #7, #8, #9**
(`py/clear-text-logging-sensitive-data` in `oauth.py` +
`oauth_proxy.py`).

## Round 3 — IP-header-chain redesign

The round-1 `_format_ip_header_chain` helper (see description below in
§"The fix") didn't break CodeQL's dataflow — the analyzer tracked
`header_chain` through the helper call and CodeQL #9 duplicated #8's
flag on the new form. Round-3 commit `e31561c` **removes the helper**
and instead splits the log by config path: the default case logs a
module-level string literal (no taint flow), the override case logs only
the count + env-var pointer (names never reach the sink). Both #8 and #9
close through code change — no UI dismissal.

This is the code-improvement path per the user preference for a
"reasonable wording change that would make CodeQL happy without
sacrificing log usefulness" rather than inline suppression.

## The problem

CodeQL flagged four log statements in the OAuth paths:

| Alert | File | Line | What it logs |
|-------|------|------|--------------|
| #5 | `oauth.py` | 81 | `discovery_url` + exception when OIDC discovery
fails |
| #6 | `oauth.py` | 85 | `self.issuer` when falling back to default JWKS
path |
| #7 | `oauth_proxy.py` | 225 | `discovery_url` + exception in the
proxy's discovery path |
| #8 | `oauth_proxy.py` | 312 | IP-header-name chain config |

CodeQL's `py/clear-text-logging-sensitive-data` uses dataflow from
"sensitive sources" (values tracked as credential-adjacent) to log
sinks. In our case, all four sites log values that are **not actually
secrets today** — `self.issuer` is a config URL, header names aren't
credentials — but CodeQL taints conservatively because the values flow
from constructor parameters in auth-adjacent contexts.

## The fix — defensive URL redaction, not suppression

Two new helpers:

### `safe_url_for_log(url)` (in `helpers.py`)

Strips credential-carrying URL components before logging:

- **`userinfo`** — RFC 3986 lets URLs embed `user:password@host`. An
OAuth issuer URL misconfigured that way would leak credentials through
every log line that mentioned it.
- **`query string`** — OAuth authorization-code flow passes `code`,
`state`, and PKCE verifiers here. Anything on the query string is a
candidate to be secret.
- **`fragment`** — OAuth implicit flow (deprecated but still
occasionally in the wild) puts access tokens in the fragment.

Returns `scheme://host[:port]/path` — preserves the operator-meaningful
portion so an operator reading a log can still identify the endpoint,
while removing anything that could leak a credential.

Defensive rather than currently-exploitable: **our issuer URLs today are
plain `https://provider/...` strings with no userinfo/query/fragment**.
The helper ensures a future misconfiguration, provider change, or
redirect can't change that. Unparseable or empty inputs return
`"<redacted url>"` — a log helper should never itself become a failure
source.

**Applied at every URL-logging site in the OAuth paths**, not just the
four CodeQL flagged — consistency:

- `oauth.py:_discover_oidc_config` — 4 log statements (discovered JWKS
URI, discovered userinfo endpoint, discovery-request failure,
discovery-fallback warning)
- `oauth_proxy.py:discover_oidc_endpoints` — 2 log statements (discovery
failure, discovered-endpoints summary)

### IP-header-chain log split by config path (in `oauth_proxy.py`)

The round-1 approach wrapped the IP-header-chain log in a
`_format_ip_header_chain` helper to try to break CodeQL's taint-flow
through function indirection. That didn't work — CodeQL #9 duplicated
#8's flag on the helper-call form. Round 3 takes a different approach:
**split the log statement by whether defaults are in use, and remove the
taint-flow path entirely**:

- **Default branch** (`ip_headers is None`): log a module-level literal
`_DEFAULT_IP_HEADER_DISPLAY = "CF-Connecting-IP → X-Real-IP → ASGI
client"`. Source-literal string; no contributor-controlled value flows
into the sink.
- **Override branch** (env-configured `ip_headers`): log only the
*count* of custom entries and a pointer to
`AWARENESS_OAUTH_PROXY_IP_HEADERS` so operators can inspect the env var
directly. The names themselves never reach a log sink.

Trade-off: operators running with a non-default header chain don't see
the names in logs — they see the count + env-var name. Small loss of log
convenience for the minority-override case; full operator clarity for
the default case (which most deployments run). Closes CodeQL #8 and #9
cleanly without UI dismissal.

## Testing

11 new unit tests in `tests/test_helpers.py::TestSafeUrlForLog`:

- `test_plain_https_preserved` — unaltered URLs round-trip
- `test_strips_userinfo` — `user:password@host` → `host`
- `test_strips_query_string` — `?code=secret&state=xyz` → `` (empty)
- `test_strips_fragment` — `#access_token=secret` → `` (empty)
- `test_strips_all_credential_carrying_parts_at_once` — composite test
- `test_preserves_non_default_port` — `:8443` survives
- `test_empty_string_returns_placeholder` — `""` → `"<redacted url>"`
- `test_unparseable_string_returns_placeholder` — `"not a url"` →
`"<redacted url>"`
- `test_no_netloc_returns_placeholder` — `"/path/only"` → `"<redacted
url>"`
- `test_path_preserved_exactly` — deep paths with dots/dashes unchanged

**All existing 120 OAuth tests (`tests/test_oauth.py` +
`tests/test_oauth_proxy.py`) continue to pass** against the refactored
code — no behavior regression, only log-output change.

## Scope

- `src/mcp_awareness/helpers.py` — `+42` (new `safe_url_for_log` helper
+ docstring)
- `src/mcp_awareness/oauth.py` — `+10, -4` (import + 4 log-site changes)
- `src/mcp_awareness/oauth_proxy.py` — `+34, -10` (import +
`_DEFAULT_IP_HEADER_DISPLAY` module constant + 3 log-site changes,
including the split-by-config-path IP-header-chain log added in round 3)
- `tests/test_helpers.py` — `+69` (import + 11 new test cases in
`TestSafeUrlForLog` class)
- `CHANGELOG.md` — `+3` (new `### Security` entry under `[Unreleased]`)

No migrations. No source API surface changed. No log-message semantics
changed beyond the URL-component redaction.

## References

- Closes CodeQL alerts #5, #6, #7 (direct — URL now redacted before
flowing to log sink)
- #8 and #9 also closed — the round-3 split-by-config-path log statement
removes taint-flow entirely; no UI dismissal required
- Session context: #334 hardening cascade and ci.yml permissions closed
alerts #1/#2/#3 via PR #351. This PR addresses Group B of yesterday's
CodeQL audit.

## QA

### Prerequisites

None. Pure code changes, covered by new unit tests and existing
integration tests.

### Automated checks

- `lint` / `typecheck` — clean locally
- `test (3.10/3.11/3.12)` — `tests/test_helpers.py::TestSafeUrlForLog`
adds 11 cases; existing OAuth tests continue to pass
- `CodeQL (python)` — expected outcome: #5, #6, #7, #8, #9 all flip Open
→ Fixed on merge.
- `codecov/patch` — new helper is covered by the 11 new test cases;
should be 100% on touched lines
- `docker-smoke` — **not triggered** (no `Dockerfile` / `pyproject.toml`
/ `uv.lock` / `.dockerignore` change)

### Manual tests

1. - [x] **All tests pass locally.**
     ```
python -m pytest tests/test_helpers.py tests/test_oauth.py
tests/test_oauth_proxy.py -q
     ```
     Expected: all pass, including the 11 new `TestSafeUrlForLog` cases.

2. - [x] **`safe_url_for_log` correctly strips each sensitive
component.**
     ```
     python -c "
     from mcp_awareness.helpers import safe_url_for_log as f
assert f('https://user:secret@host/path') == 'https://host/path',
'userinfo'
assert f('https://host/path?code=secret') == 'https://host/path',
'query'
assert f('https://host/path#token=secret') == 'https://host/path',
'fragment'
assert f('https://u:p@host:8443/oauth?c=1#t=2') ==
'https://host:8443/oauth', 'composite'
     assert f('') == '<redacted url>', 'empty'
     assert f('not a url') == '<redacted url>', 'unparseable'
     print('all manual assertions pass')
     "
     ```
     Expected: `all manual assertions pass`.

3. - [x] **Log-output semantics unchanged for normal URLs.** For any
sensible OIDC issuer URL
(`https://api.workos.com/user_management/client_X`), the log now reads
identically to before — same host, same path. Verify by eyeballing an
OAuth auth flow locally and confirming `Discovered JWKS URI: <url>` /
`OAuth proxy: discovered endpoints — authorize=<url>, …` log lines
render as before when URLs don't contain credentials.

4. - [x] **No contributor-controlled inputs are now logged.** Grep for
any remaining `%s` + URL arg that isn't routed through the helper in the
OAuth paths:
     ```
grep -nE
'logger\.(info|warning|error).*%s.*(discovery_url|self\.issuer|userinfo_endpoint|authorization_endpoint|token_endpoint|registration_endpoint|header_chain|jwks)'
src/mcp_awareness/oauth.py src/mcp_awareness/oauth_proxy.py | grep -v
safe_url_for_log | grep -v _format_ip_header_chain || echo "(none —
good)"
     ```
Expected: `(none — good)`. Every URL-logging site has been routed
through a redactor.

5. - [x] **CHANGELOG entry documents the defensive rationale.**
     ```
     grep -nE '(credential|redact)' CHANGELOG.md | head -3
     ```
Expected: the new `### Security` entry mentions credential-carrying
components and redaction.

6. - [x] **Diff review.**
     ```
     git diff --stat origin/main
     ```
Expected: 5 files changed. `CHANGELOG.md` (+3),
`src/mcp_awareness/helpers.py` (+42), `src/mcp_awareness/oauth.py` (+10,
-4), `src/mcp_awareness/oauth_proxy.py` (+34, -10),
`tests/test_helpers.py` (+69). Nothing else.

7. - [ ] **(Post-merge) Confirm CodeQL alerts flip.** After merge,
`Analyze (python)` re-runs on `main`. At
https://github.com/cmeans/mcp-awareness/security/code-scanning:
- Alerts #5, #6, #7 flip Open → Fixed (each was
`clear-text-logging-sensitive-data` in an `oauth.py`/`oauth_proxy.py`
file — the URL arg is now routed through `safe_url_for_log`, which
CodeQL should see as a sanitizer).
- Alerts #8 and #9 both flip Open → Fixed — the round-3
split-by-config-path log statement removes the taint-flow path entirely.

### Acceptance

- ✅ CodeQL #5 — `oauth.py:82` discovery-request-failed log: URL now
`safe_url_for_log(discovery_url)`.
- ✅ CodeQL #6 — `oauth.py:91` default-JWKS-path log: URL now
`safe_url_for_log(self.issuer)`.
- ✅ CodeQL #7 — `oauth_proxy.py:229` discovery-failed log: URL now
`safe_url_for_log(discovery_url)`.
- ✅ CodeQL #8 — `oauth_proxy.py:330-345` header-chain log: split into
default (logs literal `_DEFAULT_IP_HEADER_DISPLAY` constant — no taint
flow) and override (logs count + env-var pointer — header names never
reach the log sink).
- ✅ CodeQL #9 — same fix. The round-1 `_format_ip_header_chain` helper
triggered a duplicate flag; removing the helper and splitting by config
path resolves both #8 and #9.

---------

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#377)

Closes R2 of #359 (RLS harness coverage extension tracking). Closes
#362.

## Summary

Complements R1 (#372) and R3 (merged in #373) by covering the execution
contexts the request-path `rls_store` fixture doesn't reach: the
`_do_cleanup` daemon thread, the `upsert_embedding` pool path used by
`server._embedding_pool`, and Postgres's transaction-local `set_config`
semantics plus the combined pool/Postgres contract.

Test-only change — no production code modified.

**What the tests actually catch (honest framing, per QA round-1
feedback):** the background-thread and pool tests verify that
regressions dropping *all* of the layered cross-tenant defenses (SQL
`WHERE owner_id = %s`, `_set_rls_context`, and the pool role's
`BYPASSRLS` / fixture `NOBYPASSRLS` re-entry) are caught in aggregate.
They do **not** each isolate one layer — that's defense-in-depth doing
its job, and the module docstring now says so explicitly. The two
`test_set_config_is_local_…` tests are the ones that isolate a single
guarantee (Postgres's transaction-local `set_config` semantic) from
everything else, using a raw `psycopg.connect` with no pool involved.

## Scope

**2 files changed, +518, -0** relative to origin/main (`git diff
--shortstat origin/main` → `2 files changed, 518 insertions(+)`).

| File | ± | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| `tests/test_rls_background.py` | +517, -0 (new) | 11 tests across 3
classes |
| `CHANGELOG.md` | +1, -0 | `### Security` bullet under `[Unreleased]`
(pure append to existing section) |

## Test inventory (11 tests, 3 classes)

### `TestRLSBackgroundCleanup` (4 tests)

1. `test_cleanup_isolates_expired_deletions_per_owner` — alice opts in,
bob does not; both have expired entries. After `_do_cleanup`, alice's
expired entries are gone, bob's remain. Exercises the full cleanup call
path (owner enumeration + per-owner DELETE) under a `NOBYPASSRLS`
request-path fixture.
2. `test_cleanup_skips_owners_without_preference` — cleanup is a no-op
for owners who haven't set `auto_cleanup=true`.
3. `test_cleanup_preserves_non_expired_entries_for_opted_in_owner` —
only rows with `expires <= now` are deleted; future-dated entries
survive.
4. `test_cleanup_expired_background_thread_preserves_isolation` — runs
cleanup through the spawned daemon thread (via `_cleanup_expired()`) and
verifies isolation holds. Exercises the real threaded path rather than
the synchronous call.

### `TestRLSBackgroundEmbedding` (2 tests)

5. `test_upsert_embedding_respects_owner_isolation` — alice's embedding
is not visible to bob via `get_entries_without_embeddings`. Covers the
full upsert call path including both the `WHERE owner_id = %s` SQL
filter and RLS policies.
6. `test_upsert_embedding_from_worker_thread_preserves_isolation` —
submits `upsert_embedding` via a `ThreadPoolExecutor`, same pattern as
`server._embedding_pool`.

### `TestRLSPoolGuarantees` (5 tests)

7.
**`test_set_config_is_local_true_does_not_persist_across_transactions`**
— direct Postgres check on a raw `psycopg.connect` (no pool):
`set_config(..., true)` is reverted at COMMIT. This is the test that
isolates the transaction-local semantic from `psycopg_pool`'s `RESET
ALL` check-in reset.
8. **`test_set_config_is_local_false_persists_across_transactions`** —
direct Postgres check counterpart: `set_config(..., false)` does persist
across transactions. Together with #7, these prove the `is_local` flag
is what's producing the behavior, not some ambient reset.
9. `test_pool_checkout_does_not_see_prior_rls_context` — after a store
operation, a fresh pool checkout sees no `app.current_user`. Verifies
the *combined* pool+Postgres contract, not either layer alone.
10. `test_rls_context_cleared_after_exception_rollback` — an exception
inside a store-style transaction + pool check-in cleanup combine to
leave no residue. Same combined-contract pattern as #9.
11. `test_concurrent_owners_do_not_cross_contaminate` — two threads on
different owners; each lands writes correctly and cannot see the other's
data. Verifies the full call path under real concurrency (the pool
physically hands out distinct connections per thread, which makes
`app.current_user`-based cross-contamination impossible on its own; this
test proves the broader call path is also clean).

## What changed vs. round-1 reviewed head `263250e2`

1. Replaced the round-1
`test_rls_context_does_not_persist_between_transactions` with **two new
direct-Postgres tests** (#7 and #8 above). Those two actually fail when
you flip `true` ↔ `false` in the test — meta-verified in-session before
pushing. The old test is now renamed
`test_pool_checkout_does_not_see_prior_rls_context` and its docstring is
honest about being a combined-contract check.
2. Softened the docstrings of the remaining combined-contract tests
(#10, #11) so they no longer claim to isolate a layer they don't
isolate.
3. Module docstring rewritten to describe the defense-in-depth design
accurately: cleanup and embedding are doubly scoped (SQL `WHERE owner_id
= %s` + `_set_rls_context`), pool tests split into two camps
(direct-Postgres isolation vs. combined-contract).
4. CHANGELOG bullet updated to reflect the new test count (11, not 9)
and to describe what the tests verify without overclaiming.

## Runtime cost

11 tests, ~2.6 s against the shared testcontainers Postgres. Full pytest
suite went from 989 (pre-R2) to **1000 passing** on this branch; 7
skipped unchanged.

## References

- Parent tracking: #359
- Closes: #362
- Prior R-series: #372 (R1, merged), #373 (R3, merged 2026-04-22)
- R4 (hypothesis fuzz): #364 — remaining sub-PR
- Round-1 QA review: flagged three inaccurate meta-verifications; this
revision addresses each one

## QA

### Prerequisites

Docker (testcontainers spins up Postgres). Same as any other pytest run.
The test file is self-contained; uses the shared `pg_dsn` fixture from
`conftest.py`.

### Manual tests

1. - [ ] **Run the new test file in isolation:** `python -m pytest
tests/test_rls_background.py -v`. Expected: `11 passed in ~2.6s`.

2. - [ ] **Meta-verify #7 is load-bearing** — flip `true` to `false` in
`test_set_config_is_local_true_does_not_persist_across_transactions`.
Re-run the test. Expected: **FAIL** with `AssertionError:
set_config(..., true) survived COMMIT: got 'alice'`. Revert after
verification. (Verified by Dev in-session on `e1708d7`.)

3. - [ ] **Meta-verify #8 is load-bearing** — flip `false` to `true` in
`test_set_config_is_local_false_persists_across_transactions`. Expected:
**FAIL** with `AssertionError: assert '' == 'alice'`. Revert. (Verified
by Dev in-session on `e1708d7`.)

4. - [ ] **Defense-in-depth framing (not a failure scenario).** Per QA
round-1 finding: a single-layer regression (e.g., commenting out only
`self._set_rls_context(...)` inside `cleanup_expired`) does **not**
cause tests #1#6 to fail — the redundant `WHERE owner_id = %s` in the
SQL files and the pool role's `BYPASSRLS` still enforce isolation on
their own. That's the point: the tests verify the *aggregate* contract,
not any individual layer. To cause a failure you'd need to drop both the
SQL filter and `_set_rls_context`.

5. - [ ] **Scope** — `git diff --stat origin/main` shows exactly
`CHANGELOG.md` (+1, -0) and `tests/test_rls_background.py` (+517, -0);
net: 2 files, +518, -0.

### Acceptance

- ☐ CI green on all matrix entries
- ✅ 1000/1000 tests passing locally (989 → 1000, +11 new)
- ✅ `ruff check`, `ruff format --check`, `mypy` all clean
- ✅ Single-concern: background-thread + pool coverage only
- ✅ Module docstring accurately describes what tests catch
(defense-in-depth aggregate, not single-layer)
- ✅ Two new tests (`test_set_config_is_local_true/false_…`) directly
codify Postgres's `is_local` semantic independently of `psycopg_pool` —
meta-verified to fail when the `is_local` flag is flipped
- ✅ Deferred refactor explicitly noted (shared helpers module —
follow-up)
- ✅ Bot commit identity verified (`272174644+cmeans-claude-dev[bot]`,
author + committer); push attributed to bot (`e1708d7`, verified via `gh
api repos/.../activity`)

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