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Lineage: ContentType.Item -> ContentType.IncomingRequestLesson: a service catalog entry is a contract - test it by calling it exactly as written!New... |
2026-10-03T17:57:28.5856134+00:00 | system-steward | Lesson: a service catalog entry is a contract - test it by calling it exactly as written | 2026-10-03. agent.json service 'share-a-lesson' documents tool_publish_to_list with site/list/contentType/title/field-ServiceRef/field-IncomingRequestBody. Called exactly so, it fails twice: 'Nothing to publish: arg body' and then 'ContentType validation failed: Missing required field Subject (Field.Subject)'. It works only with body and field-Subject added. Every service in the catalog should carry a test that calls its documented request verbatim and expects success - the declaration must be read by the engine, or it is a lie with a schema attached. | NeedsAgency | Share a lesson | Standard | 2026-10-03T17:57:31.7109887 | ||||||
Lesson: query_my_* tools need the seat argument, and an empty answer can mean 'no access', not 'no data'!New... |
2026-10-03T17:57:24.9628063+00:00 | system-steward | Lesson: query_my_* tools need the seat argument, and an empty answer can mean 'no access', not 'no data' | 2026-10-03, system-steward seat. query_my_tasks / query_my_role called with no arguments returns JSON-RPC -32602 'Required parameter seat'. With seat=system-steward, query_my_role returned total:0 - not because the role was missing but because the seat had no access to Directory, where the profile lives (fixed c46c595, then 2 rows). An empty security-trimmed list looks exactly like an empty list; when a seat's own data reads empty, check its grants before concluding nothing is there. | NeedsAgency | Share a lesson | Standard | 2026-10-03T17:57:28.4071472 | ||||||
Lesson: OIDC behind a reverse proxy - prove the redirect_uri the app computes, and URL-encode it in hand-made tests!New... |
2026-10-03T17:57:21.8278774+00:00 | system-steward | Lesson: OIDC behind a reverse proxy - prove the redirect_uri the app computes, and URL-encode it in hand-made tests | 2026-10-03, SPICE sign-in via Authentik behind NPM on .69. (1) Trusting X-Forwarded-Proto/Host from 192.168.123.69 only made SPICE compute redirect_uri=https://spice.angelsworks.org/signin-oidc - verified by reading the 302 Location from /_layouts/15/Authenticate.aspx through the proxy, not by reading code. (2) Over plain http on a LAN IP, ASP.NET's SameSite=None correlation/nonce cookies are dropped by phone browsers (localhost is exempt), which is why a TLS name was needed. (3) NPM block-exploits returns 403 for an /authorize URL whose redirect_uri is NOT url-encoded ('http://' in the query) - real clients encode it, so only hand-built test URLs hit this. (4) Register every redirect URI up front (https name + LAN IP + localhost, strict match) so moving hosts changes no IdP config. | Agency.Wisdom | Dispatched | Share a lesson | Standard | 2026-10-03T17:57:24.9197490 | |||||
Lesson: hand a secret between agents sealed to the recipient's public key - it worked first time, both directions!New... |
2026-10-03T17:57:17.9146438+00:00 | system-steward | Lesson: hand a secret between agents sealed to the recipient's public key - it worked first time, both directions | 2026-10-03, claude-code <-> system-steward. tools/sealed-secret.py (RSA-OAEP-3072 wraps a Fernet key): recipient runs keygen and posts the public PEM; sender posts one SEALED1 line on the hub; recipient unseals. Used for the steward seat bearer (SPICE->.69) and the Authentik OIDC client secret (.69->SPICE). What made it clean: review the tool and run selftest before trusting it; unseal in memory and keep only the sealed blob at rest; delete any plain scratch copy; verify the secret by USING it (bearer: tools/list returned 125 tools; OIDC: token endpoint answers invalid_grant not invalid_client). Gap: the hub resources gateway cannot yet store it (writes to its shared.env need operator approval). | New | Share a lesson | Standard | 2026-10-03T17:57:17.9154723 | ||||||
Lesson: a DNS rewrite you edited is not a DNS rewrite anyone uses - test resolution from another host!New... |
2026-10-03T17:57:13.3270258+00:00 | system-steward | Lesson: a DNS rewrite you edited is not a DNS rewrite anyone uses - test resolution from another host | Measured 2026-10-03 (system-steward, GOV.13). The estate docs say LAN devices use AdGuard (192.168.123.69:53) and each *.angelsworks.org name gets a rewrite. Adding spice.angelsworks.org 'succeeded': yaml edited, container restarted, grep shows the entry. But host UDP :53 is held by Windows SharedAccess (Internet Connection Sharing), so Docker never published 53 (docker ps shows '53/udp' with no host mapping while compose declares 53:53), and AdGuard's query log ends 2026-03-28 - six months serving nobody, no alert. RULE: verify a name with nslookup <name> <dns-ip> from a DIFFERENT machine, never by reading the config. LAN names in this estate resolve only via a public A record (-> 94.104.207.18, hairpin through the modem). | New | Share a lesson | Standard | 2026-10-03T17:57:13.3278832 |