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Brad Seiler 64d12e2975 BUZZ-511: Honor relay mode for community NIP-FI enforcement (#8988)
## Summary

Apply relay mode consistently across protected HTTP, root/audio
WebSocket, Git, media and V1 admission. Off requires no NIP-FI,
including for stored required communities. Shadow enforces only stored
community requirements and observes other communities. Enforce requires
NIP-FI for every community. Durable requirements survive all mode
changes.

Off retains ordinary tenant routing and authentication. It skips FI
policy/dependency reads for admission, uses cached WebSocket tenant
routing, and loads no FI binding snapshot at startup. Discovery reports
`requires_nip_fi=false` and no FI capability in Off. Evaluating modes
retain same-row WebSocket binding and immutable HTTP policy tenants,
including host remaps, pending deletion and unarchive races. Global
Enforce discovery retains its existing compatibility behavior.

Host-specific root NIP-11 and `/info` expose the additive
`requires_nip_fi` field with no-store. In evaluating modes, an
unavailable policy returns 503 and an unknown or non-serving host
returns 404. Off uses ordinary routing; a discovery lookup failure
returns 404. Stored requirements in Shadow require usable FI
dependencies.

Admission does not establish activation. BUZZ-512 owns existing-session
application, drain and mode-aware readback; its separate revision must
report stored requirements as suspended in Off. Production baseline
verification and human acceptance remain open.

Community status now shares the bounded host cache: 10,000 entries,
one-second leases measured before checkout, coalesced fills, and no
cached misses or errors. Git reuses one request policy. Root/audio
retain the final primary binding check: two reads on a cold successful
upgrade, one on a cache hit. Off creates no verifier or JWKS source and
reads no FI policy. Proof metrics count stored-required Shadow
enforcement.

Acceptance locks and validates the community row, takes the matching
host advisory lock, and drains optional leases for 1.1 seconds before
commit. Reads begun after commit see required across participating relay
instances, even without Redis invalidation. The row lock closes single
and double remap races. Admissions already in flight remain subject to
BUZZ-512 activation fencing.

### Related issue


[BUZZ-511](https://linear.app/squareup/issue/BUZZ-511/relay-enforce-per-community-nip-fi-policy-and-publish-compatible).
[BUZZ-510 / #8985](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8985) is merged;
this PR now targets main.

The restack retains main’s #8974 denial telemetry and artifact
capabilities. Related work includes #8526 tenant lookup errors and #8444
media authorization.

### Rollout and containment

Keep `BUZZ_NIP_FI_UPGRADES_ENABLED=false`. [The rollout
plan](docs/community-auth-upgrades.md#staging-and-containment) starts in
staging with zero required rows and a 30-minute before/after traffic
comparison. Initial abort limits include any policy timeout/503,
policy-read p99 above 50 ms, writer acquisition p99 above 20 ms or twice
baseline, and a five-minute 503 increase above 0.1 percentage point.
These are initial limits to validate against measured staging results,
not production capacity claims.

Verify signed/unsigned free controls, real required root/audio upgrades,
dependency failures, restart behavior and discovery before expansion.
Also watch binding timeouts/errors and their current generic 404
responses on known serving hosts alongside writer-pool pressure;
evaluating root/audio binding has a 500 ms budget; Off uses ordinary
cached routing. In Shadow, a pre-511 rollback loses enforcement of
accepted community requirements. Stop new upgrade calls, retain accepted
policy and receipts, and repair with an enforcing binary or
operator-approved containment. Never clear durable policy to restore
access. Off deliberately suspends FI enforcement and must be an explicit
operator mode choice. No production activation is claimed.

All acceptance paths must implement the lease protocol before upgrades
are enabled. Keep upgrades disabled through a mixed-version rollout. For
rollback, disable new acceptance before removing the protocol while
caching pods remain. A cold policy fill uses a six-statement transaction
and a 400 ms server timeout within the 500 ms lookup budget. A contended
policy fill returns 503. During the drain, archive, deletion, ownership,
issuer-binding and competing acceptance writers for that community may
wait; ordinary serving reads and writes retain their existing behavior.
Host-binding changes retain the existing one-second routing bound. Local
and Redis invalidation accelerate refresh; safety does not depend on
delivery. Deploy the verified Shadow revocation behavior from #8991
before accepting required communities in Shadow.

### Testing

Published review-fix head: `39dfe79b1fc04f10ee3eb94d6ea42cf686bafe1e`,
tree `1e2e8d3abd39ee1d6821defe8c8d34de73726e08`. McKeon cleared this
cache delta. Full affected auth (291), DB (192), pubsub (31) and relay
(1,682) package tests passed, including integration binaries. Two
previously documented hardcoded-Redis audit tests remained excluded.
All-target clippy, all 1,297 native PostgreSQL tests and the full pubsub
Redis suite passed. The full ACP package and `just ci` passed after
rebuilding cached test executables that embedded a removed checkout
path. No ACP source changed. Tauri's generated lockfile delta was
archived and restored; it is excluded from this candidate.

Both positive lease regressions passed. Four deliberately broken
variants failed at the intended assertions: removing the drain left an
optional lease alive after 202.935667 ms; skipping the fill lock failed
contention refusal; moving the timestamp after the read failed the
anchor check; taking the host lock before the row failed the
remap-blocking check. Exact source was restored after each mutation.
These are local validation results, not a deployed-fleet acceptance
claim. All applicable normal push hooks passed. GitHub reports the exact
tested head and tree; the published code has no delta from the reviewed
candidate.

Earlier mode-correction evidence follows for context.

Current mode-correction head:
`aa9abf07284b56a88eb78a2014e590f39d705288`, on main
`af54258f19ac32667c027f889652bdeb479c8e13`. Its code equals reviewed
`f1e7da5fc5`, plus the independently reviewed operator documentation
follow-up; all 19 earlier remote patches are preserved. McKeon verified
the correction and its mapping to the tested candidate.

The mode-correction candidate passed full auth (291) and relay (1,679)
package tests, clippy, and four explicit native PostgreSQL policy
workflows. There were 623 ignored relay tests and two excluded Redis
tests. Real PostgreSQL checks cover an ordinary unsigned caller on a
stored-required host in Off with no FI token or dependencies, discovery
false, durable policy retained, root/audio upgrades, host remaps and the
unarchive race in evaluating modes. The `STORED_OFF` mutation fails the
enum truth table only; `OFF_PRIMARY` fails cached upgrade routing.
Restored source hashes match. Earlier failed compile/fixture attempts
remain recorded.

The first normal push hook attempt passed Tauri checks but failed the
gateway startup verifier test (82/83 gateway tests passed). The remote
remained unchanged. The retry rebuilt gateway artifacts with separate
root and Tauri caches, then passed every normal push hook and published
this head. No gateway source changes or hook bypasses were needed.
Current-head hosted CI is tracked separately. Human acceptance and the
staging binding-timeout/404 workflow remain open. The following retained
validation and controls are historical and describe behavior before the
mode correction; their Off-enforcement statements are superseded by the
Summary above.


Published head: `9a717fa89725f9430ff4a8bb78cd600affb8836d`, on main
`1055f79d048ef22c878d02a7afb04f49c753564f`. CI, three schema checks,
2,136 ordinary tests, all 291 auth tests, 12 Redis tests, all 1,300
native PostgreSQL tests and discovery passed. The required wrapper
passed units, then exited 1 at unavailable Docker bootstrap. BUZZ-510 is
complete at `95c8d31c835d6f7ff6e432fb1ed248771d4f06dd`: CI, three schema
checks, 2,127 ordinary tests, 12 Redis tests, all 1,295 native Postgres
tests and discovery passed; its wrapper passed units and failed at
unavailable Docker bootstrap.

The first native run at historical BUZZ-510 `5380cb72` passed 1,291
tests and failed two event-follow-up queue assertions and the scale-sync
case. All three passed serially, then the full 1,294-test run passed
with normal concurrency. The original cause remains unresolved; failed
runs and resource samples are retained.

Standalone BUZZ-511 checks exposed access-slot callers, a Clippy warning
and early HTTP 503 attribution that had remained in the child. All are
now corrected in the parent. The unchanged real-router refusal
regression passed before the latest commit. BUZZ-512's final tree is
unchanged by moving these parent prerequisites. The remaining 46-file
child delta was audited; no additional parent prerequisite was found.
Earlier compile and native failures remain archived.

The following earlier-head results and controls are historical; the
current-head validation is reported above.

At `48388834f99b8d045e243b619904cb3e27b47146`, based on BUZZ-510
`130f14a675edd7cbe6a69d1c9d7818bd1a51f46c` and reconciled main
`152441ae0a56b204b42b6faa56a36ad2b98218b1`:

- `just ci`: passed.
- Four-package ordinary suite: 2,069 passed; full `buzz-auth` package:
291 passed.
- Native Redis: 12 passed. Native PostgreSQL: 1,261 passed. PostgreSQL
discovery checks passed.
- Required `just test`: units passed, then exited 1 because Docker
service bootstrap was unavailable. Native service results above are
separate.
- Real-router remap checks reject an A-only member under B policy, avoid
A data after B admission, and advertise B in discovery despite a stale A
cache. Removing each tenant pin separately fails its intended witness;
restored source passes. An unmapped host cannot reuse a cached tenant.
- Deadline witnesses advance their clock during real HTTP signature
verification and retain socket primary-lookup barriers. Removing either
final enforced or shadow HTTP deadline check separately fails its
intended witness; restored source passes both deadlines and the
single-resolution control.
- Telemetry regression: unsigned dev proofs now expect the earlier
NIP-98 `missing` denial; signed mismatched-key proofs retain pairing
denial and signer attribution. Removing unsigned-proof rejection fails
the exact two-counter assertion. Restored full relay package: 1,654
passed.
- Preserved failed runs: two prior bottom-layer desktop gates failed an
immediate inventory assertion, repaired with a bounded wait for the same
observable arrays and verified with delayed-notification and
frozen-provider controls. An earlier BUZZ-511 native run passed 1,242
tests and failed two deadline fixtures that relied on the tenant lookup
removed by the policy pin; the test-only adaptation above replaces that
seam. These failures remain archived. The first native run on
bottom-layer `130f14a6` passed 1,255 tests and failed partition
contention; its focused original test and fresh full 1,256-test run
passed without source changes. The cause remains unresolved. The first
CI run at `d8d88433` failed the old telemetry expectation; the test-only
correction above preserves exact denial counts and attribution.

Earlier evidence at `dddf05d8be8195d567db0f989f70825b1246a6c1`
(historical head):

- `cargo nextest run -p buzz-auth -p buzz-db -p buzz-relay --lib
--tests`: 2,139/2,139 passed.
- `scripts/postgres-test-run.sh -p buzz-db -p buzz-relay --lib --tests
--success-output final`: 1,236/1,236 passed with native PostgreSQL 16
and Redis. Docker's legacy `just test` wrapper was unavailable.
- `just ci`: passed, including repository checks, tests and client
builds.
- **Pre-correction behavior (superseded):** Real ES256 assertions
through TCP root/audio upgrades: valid evidence upgrades; missing
evidence denies in Off/Shadow, including submitted/inventoried/approved
deletion stages. Restoring the old query makes the regression fail on an
assertion-less Off/submitted/root HTTP 101.
- **Pre-correction behavior (superseded):** Deterministic unarchive
race: Notify barriers pause an actual archived-host policy miss; the
same required row becomes serving before binding. Both root/audio deny
missing assertions and admit valid ES256 assertions in Off/Shadow.
Ignoring bound-row policy makes this test fail on an assertion-less HTTP
101.
- The full rerun exposed an existing cancellation fixture whose
synthetic five-second replica fence expired between probes. Refreshing
that test fence per operation preserves its timeout assertions; the full
suite now passes.
- Local probe: 100 serial uncached primary policy reads took 12.33 ms.
Production latency is unmeasured.

No packaged-app, human or deployed-fleet acceptance run. Live activation
awaits BUZZ-512 and the staging verification tickets.

Published with the three-layer stack in one atomic push through normal
hooks. The published stack includes main
`1055f79d048ef22c878d02a7afb04f49c753564f`, including access logging,
storage reporting and mobile read-state changes. Access-slot integration
and early HTTP refusal attribution belong to BUZZ-511; activation
callback refusal close owners belong to BUZZ-512. Every changed layer
requires review at its published head and new-head CI. Fresh trunk,
remote membership, queue and immutable-lease guards passed before
publication. All nine normal pre-push hook lanes passed; no hooks were
bypassed. Remote heads, chained bases, membership, ready/draft states
and native tracking were verified after publication.

Trunk’s merged 0081 is unchanged. The parent upgrade expansion is 0082
and activation is 0083, with contiguous migrator versions, updated
documentation and a populated-upgrade fixture starting at 81. Trunk’s
storage-test repair supersedes our earlier local repair.

Before publication, main advanced three commits from
`1055f79d048ef22c878d02a7afb04f49c753564f` to `ba7d7825ea` (desktop
deep-link settling and mobile pairing/sign-in). The normal branch-skew
guard passed. Those later trunk commits are outside this validated
published head; current-trunk CI and delta review remain required before
merge.

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Signed-off-by: Brad Seiler <seiler@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Honor <e0bf479eeebe47dde1e35705212a4df70616a7bc834d907ddfb18cf0405f8b1b@seiler-test.communities.public.builderlabstaging.xyz>
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