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The #955 rite-calendar rollout is complete on the dev/staging vhost. This records the cutover date the runbook asks for, and corrects two instructions that don't match how that deployment actually works — both found by running the rollout.

Rollout state (dev/staging vhost)

Step Status
1 — model uploaded, OPENFGA_MODEL_ID re-pinned done — 01M1FHYEDWG8E1CKD4VAKCYZ9V (cdcf-infra #42, #43)
2 — API deployed done, 2026-09-01T20:23Z
3 — tuples migrated done — 1 candidate, 1 copied, 0 skipped, exit 0
4 — Doctrine migration done, 2026-09-01T20:23:37Z, applied by the deploy
5 — frontend separate repo
6 — prune deferred

The copied tuple was verified by reading it back from the store rather than trusting the script's own report:

user:378257854701764610 admin rite_calendar:roman/decrees

Correction 1 — Step 4 runs itself on a deployed vhost

composer db:migrate cannot run there: bin/doctrine-migrations is excluded from the rsync payload precisely because migrations are applied in-process, and deploy.yaml POSTs /_ops/migrate after every rsync. Following the runbook as written gives Could not open input file: bin/doctrine-migrations. The step now documents the /_ops/migrate/status check and keeps composer db:migrate for checkouts.

This also inverts the documented Step 3 → Step 4 order, unavoidably — the deploy migrates, so Step 4 completes at Step 2 time. That widens the Step 2 window the runbook already describes rather than adding a hazard: change-request rows named rite_calendar while their tuples were still legacy, so those requests queued for a reviewer instead of auto-approving, and resumed when Step 3 ran. Nothing corrupted.

Correction 2 — Step 1's re-pin command is for a checkout, not the vhost

./scripts/setup-openfga.sh --update-env run from a local clone resolves whatever store that clone points at — a local dev store, not production — and writes those values. The deployed pin against the production store is one file: api/dev/.env.staging, the only .env* that deployment has.

The safe edit shape is now spelled out because getting it wrong took the API down for ~2 minutes: a shell redirect truncates its destination before the command on its left runs, so cat "$tmp" > .env.staging — where $tmp was a mktemp file owned by ubuntu, mode 600 and unreadable to the user the write ran as — emptied the live file and then failed to refill it. phpdotenv reads per request, so a zero-byte .env.staging is an instant outage. cp opens its source before truncating its destination, and the pipeline must run as the file's owner. Restored from backup; endpoint returned 200 immediately.

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  • Documentation
    • Updated the production calendar migration runbook with safer instructions for changing deployment configuration while preserving file ownership.
    • Documented automatic database migration during deployment and status verification, including safeguards for missing deployment credentials.
    • Clarified deployment sequencing, including the migration occurring before subsequent deployment steps.
    • Recorded the staging cutover timestamp, automated deployment operator, and associated pull request reference.

…ctions (#955)

The rite-calendar rollout is complete on the dev/staging vhost. Running it
surfaced two places where the runbook's instructions do not match how that
deployment actually works; both are corrected here alongside the cutover
date the runbook asks for.

**Step 4 runs itself on a deployed vhost.** `bin/doctrine-migrations` is
excluded from the rsync payload precisely because migrations are applied
in-process, and `deploy.yaml` POSTs `/_ops/migrate` after every rsync — so
`composer db:migrate` cannot run there at all; it fails with
`Could not open input file: bin/doctrine-migrations`. The migration landed
at deploy time: `Version20260901130000` executed 2026-09-01T20:23:37Z, in
the same deploy that shipped #965, which is what the Staging row now
records.

That also inverts the documented Step 3 → Step 4 order, and the sequence
cannot be rearranged, so the runbook now says so rather than leaving an
operator to discover it. The effect is to widen the Step 2 window the
runbook already describes, not to add a hazard: change-request rows named
`rite_calendar` while their tuples were still legacy, so those requests
queued for a reviewer instead of auto-approving, and resumed when Step 3
ran. Nothing was corrupted.

**Step 1's re-pin command is for a checkout, not the vhost.**
`./scripts/setup-openfga.sh --update-env` run from a local clone resolves
whatever store that clone points at — a local dev store, not production —
and writes those values. The deployed pin against the production store is
one file, `api/dev/.env.staging`, the only `.env*` that deployment has.

The re-pin shape is documented because getting it wrong took the API down
for ~2 minutes on 2026-09-01: a shell redirect truncates its destination
BEFORE the command on its left runs, so `cat "$tmp" > .env.staging` where
`$tmp` was a `mktemp` file owned by `ubuntu` (mode 600, unreadable to the
user the write ran as) emptied the live file and then failed to refill it.
phpdotenv reads per request, so a zero-byte `.env.staging` is an immediate
outage. `cp` opens its source before truncating its destination and is the
right primitive; the whole pipeline must run as the file's owner.

Verified end to end against production: model `01M1FHYEDWG8E1CKD4VAKCYZ9V`
carries `rite_calendar`, the pin is updated, the tuple migration copied 1
of 1 candidate with 0 skipped, and the copied tuple was confirmed by
reading it back from the store rather than trusting the script's report.

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The runbook documents safe production OPENFGA_MODEL_ID updates, automatic Doctrine migration during deployment, migration ordering, approval behaviour, the deployed build, and the staging cutover timestamp.

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Rite calendar migration runbook

Layer / File(s) Summary
Production model update procedure
docs/ops/rite-calendar-migration-runbook.md
Documents an owner-preserving temporary-file workflow for updating .env.staging on the VPS. It includes grep -q validation and atomic replacement with mv.
Migration execution and cutover record
docs/ops/rite-calendar-migration-runbook.md
Identifies the deployed build as PR #965. Documents automatic Doctrine migration through /_ops/migrate, token validation, migration ordering, reviewer approval behaviour, and the staging cutover timestamp.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/ops/rite-calendar-migration-runbook.md`:
- Line 106: Update the ownership sentence in the runbook to replace “unreadable
to the owner the write runs as” with “unreadable to the user performing the
write”.
- Line 113: Update the .env.staging deployment step to create and validate the
temporary file within the deploy directory, including its contents and metadata;
preserve the existing file’s owner, group, and mode on the replacement, then
atomically replace .env.staging with mv and clean up the temporary file.
- Line 237: Update the Step 2 deployment command to prevent DEPLOY_TOKEN from
being expanded in curl arguments; pass it through a protected curl configuration
or file descriptor instead, and remove any temporary secret material after use.
- Line 237: Update Step 2 of the migration runbook to document how DEPLOY_TOKEN
must be loaded before deployment, either with a safe temporary loading method or
an explicit requirement that it be exported in the operator’s shell; ensure the
deploy command sends the configured token and does not rely on an unset
variable.
- Line 237: Update the deployment instructions around VPS_APP_BASE_URL and BASE
to require an HTTPS URL before sending X-Deploy-Token, and verify the effective
URL for every vhost rather than relying on route-level HTTPS rejection.
- Around line 254-255: Update the migration runbook’s Step 3 outcome description
to state that new submissions can auto-approve after a successful tuple copy,
while existing queued requests remain unresolved and require explicit reviewer
approval; retain the dry-run and --apply behavior details.
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All six findings were valid; each is verified below rather than taken on
faith.

**Auto-approval does not resume retroactively.** The claim that queued
change requests "resume the moment Step 3 runs" was wrong.
`ChangeRequestSourceDataWriter` calls `ChangeRequestReview::administers()`
at submit time and records the batch as `submitted` when it is false;
nothing re-evaluates it afterwards. So a request that queued during the
window stays queued and needs an explicit reviewer approval — only new
submissions auto-approve again. The same error was already in the Step 2
text ("queued requests are approved normally once the tuples are
migrated"), which was not part of this PR's changes; fixed there too rather
than leaving a known-false statement two sections above the corrected one.
Reviewer-queue visibility, by contrast, IS evaluated per query and does
return on its own — the two are now distinguished.

**The env edit is now atomic.** `cp` onto the live file is not: it
truncates and rewrites in place, so a request landing mid-write reads a
partial `.env`. The block now seeds a temp in the SAME directory with
`cp -p` (carrying owner/group/mode), redirects into that temp rather than
the live file, greps it for the expected new value, and `mv`s it into place
— a rename within one directory, so no reader ever sees a half-written
file — with `|| rm -f` cleanup. Tested both paths: the success path
preserves mode 640 and leaves no temp; the failure path leaves the live
file byte-intact and still cleans up.

**The deploy token no longer goes in argv.** `-H "X-Deploy-Token: $TOKEN"`
puts a shared secret in the process argument list, readable by any other
user on the VPS via `ps`. It now goes through a curl config on stdin
(`-K -`), verified against a local server: the header arrives intact and
the value never appears in argv. `--proto '=https'` is added so curl
refuses to send it over cleartext rather than trusting a route-level
redirect — verified: `curl: (1) Protocol "http" not supported or disabled`.

**The token is loaded rather than assumed.** The snippet referenced
`$DEPLOY_TOKEN` without saying where it comes from; unset, the request goes
out with an empty header and `DeployTokenMiddleware` fails closed. It now
extracts it from the host's env file and unsets it afterwards. Checked
against the real file: the value is unquoted, so the `sed` form is correct
there.

Also reworded the ownership sentence to "unreadable to the user performing
the write".

Docs only. `composer lint:md` clean.

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298-298: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Identify the deployed build separately from issue #955. The Background identifies #955 as the issue, while Step 2 calls it a build and the Staging record states that the migration ran at deploy #965. Name the deployed build and retain #955 only as the issue reference, or correct the staging record. Otherwise, an operator may use the wrong release for the cutover.

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In `@docs/ops/rite-calendar-migration-runbook.md` at line 298, Update the
migration runbook so issue `#955` is not presented as the deployed build: identify
the actual build associated with deploy `#965`, while retaining `#955` only as the
issue reference, and ensure the Background, Step 2, and Staging record
consistently describe the same release.
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In `@docs/ops/rite-calendar-migration-runbook.md`:
- Around line 261-264: Update the token-loading block before the status curl to
read DEPLOY_TOKEN from the deployed .env.staging using the explicit deploy path
and owner access, then validate that the token is non-empty and terminate before
invoking curl when validation fails. Preserve the existing header generation and
cleanup flow for valid tokens.

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In `@docs/ops/rite-calendar-migration-runbook.md`:
- Line 298: Update the migration runbook so issue `#955` is not presented as the
deployed build: identify the actual build associated with deploy `#965`, while
retaining `#955` only as the issue reference, and ensure the Background, Step 2,
and Staging record consistently describe the same release.
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**Token read.** The status snippet read `.env.staging` relative to whatever
the current directory happened to be, and did not check the result. A wrong
path yields an EMPTY token, and the request then goes out with an empty
header and returns a fail-closed 401/403 that reads like a token problem
rather than a path problem. It now reads by absolute path and guards on
non-empty before calling curl. Verified both paths against a local server:
a valid token arrives as the header, and a wrong path prints the diagnostic
and skips curl.

The guard is an `if`/`else`, not an `exit` — a runbook snippet is pasted
into an interactive shell, where `exit 1` logs the operator out. `sudo` is
deliberately not added for this read either: `.env.staging` is mode 640,
group `psacln`, and the operator account is in that group, so the plain
read is what actually works there.

**PR number.** `#965` appeared exactly once, in the Staging cutover row,
while the rest of the document refers to `#955` throughout — so the one
number a reader cannot resolve was the one naming the deployed build. Step
2 now names the PR alongside the issue once, which anchors it, rather than
rewriting the four other "#955" references that read correctly as the issue.

Docs only. `composer lint:md` clean.

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