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Add self-service sign-up and invite links
First half of #7. Until now the only way to get an account was for
somebody who already had one to create it, and the login page told people
to "ask an admin" -- workable for one operator, impossible for a team.

Two modes, chosen by an administrator in the settings table: invite_only,
which is the default, and open. A third domain-restricted mode was
considered and dropped, because with no email in this server there is
nothing to verify an address against and it would only check the domain
of a string somebody typed.

The default is the closed door. An install that gets a public hostname
before anybody has thought about sign-up should not be collecting
accounts from the internet, and the failure mode of a typo in the setting
is invite_only rather than open.

An invite is a link, not an email. Adding SMTP to send one message would
be a subsystem to run, secure and monitor; the person inviting sends the
link however they already talk to the person they are inviting. A link
carries the team and the role, because an account in no team sees an
empty queue and can be paged by nobody -- that is not a state to invite
somebody into. Links are single-use by default, expire after seven days,
and can be revoked before that: a link that works forever is a credential
nobody remembers issuing, sitting in a chat log.

The uses counter is incremented inside the sign-up transaction and
guarded by `uses < max_uses`, so two people redeeming the last use at
once cannot both get in.

GET /api/signup reports the mode and whether a link is usable, so the
form can say "this link has expired" before somebody picks a password
rather than after. It gives one answer for expired, revoked, used up and
never existed: telling a stranger which it was tells them something about
links they do not hold.

Sign-up signs you in. The alternative is a form that says "now go and log
in", which is the same credential typed twice. login and signup now share
startSession rather than each minting a cookie.

Rate-limited per address on its own limiter, not login's: a burst of
sign-ups must not lock somebody out of logging in.

The settings table grew a second shape for this. It held only durations;
signup_mode is a word from a fixed list, so the admin endpoint now
validates everything before writing anything -- a request that sets two
settings and gets one wrong changes neither.

Still to come in #7: the sign-up and invite-redemption pages, the
first-run checklist, and the in-app integration instructions. The schema
carries onboarding_dismissed_at for the checklist already.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RHPj4ggeFdEjKKfm4SHbD7
2026-09-21 09:06:48 +02:00

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-- Self-service sign-up, and the invite links that make it useful.
--
-- Until now the only way to get an account was for somebody who already had one
-- to create it, and the login page told people to "ask an admin". That is a
-- workable arrangement for one operator and an impossible one for a team.
--
-- An invite is a link, not an email: this server has no SMTP and adding it to
-- send one message would be a new subsystem to run, secure and monitor. The
-- person inviting sends the link however they already talk to the person they
-- are inviting.
CREATE TABLE invites (
id BIGINT GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
-- SHA-256 of the raw token, like api_keys, the integration keys and the
-- acknowledgement tokens. A leaked database hands nobody an account.
token_hash TEXT NOT NULL UNIQUE,
-- Which team the invitee lands in, and as what. An invite always names a
-- team: an account in no team sees an empty queue and can be paged by
-- nobody, which is not a state to invite somebody into.
team_id BIGINT NOT NULL REFERENCES teams(id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
role TEXT NOT NULL CHECK (role IN ('owner', 'member')),
created_by BIGINT REFERENCES users(id) ON DELETE SET NULL,
created_at BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT FLOOR(EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM now()))::bigint,
-- Invites expire. A link that works forever is a credential nobody
-- remembers issuing, sitting in a chat log.
expires_at BIGINT NOT NULL,
-- Single-use by default: max_uses 1. A team onboarding six people at once
-- can raise it rather than minting six links.
max_uses BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 1 CHECK (max_uses > 0 AND max_uses <= 100),
uses BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
-- Revoked by hand, separately from expiry, so "this link is no longer
-- wanted" and "this link timed out" stay distinguishable in the listing.
revoked_at BIGINT
);
CREATE INDEX invites_team_idx ON invites(team_id);
-- Who redeemed which invite. Kept after the invite is gone — the answer to "how
-- did this account get here" should outlive the link that made it.
ALTER TABLE users ADD COLUMN invited_via BIGINT REFERENCES invites(id) ON DELETE SET NULL;
-- Where a person is in the first-run checklist, so it can be resumed and
-- dismissed rather than nagging forever. One row per user, created on demand.
ALTER TABLE users ADD COLUMN onboarding_dismissed_at BIGINT;