Drift (specs aligned to shipped code): - social-follows: locked-account access rule for /users/:u/followers and /users/:u/following (owner + accepted-follower see; non-followers of private get 404). Adds the follow→notification lifecycle requirement. Fills the placeholder Purpose. - public-profiles: counts degrade to plain text (not anchors) for viewers who can't see the lists. Cross-references social-follows. Fills the placeholder Purpose. - journal-auth slimmed to cookie session + Terms gate. Auth methods moved out (see authentication-methods). Splits: - account-settings (14-line stub) deleted, content split into: - profile-settings (display name, bio, profile_visibility) - account-management (email change with verification, account deletion) - connected-services (Wahoo + future external integrations) - authentication-methods split out of journal-auth: passkeys (register/login/add/delete), magic links, 6-digit codes (login + register), method toggle on register/login forms, dev-console fallback. New specs: - sse-broker: /api/events, in-process broker, useUnreadNotifications hook, Caddy passthrough, multi-process forward-compat contract. Archived: notifications change → openspec/changes/archive/2026-04-26-notifications. Promoted the four delta spec files into top-level specs: - specs/notifications/ (new capability) - specs/activity-feed/ (added: public activity fan-out) - specs/journal-landing/ (added: Notifications navbar entry) - specs/social-follows/ (added: follow→notification lifecycle) Added openspec/CAPABILITIES.md grouped index covering all 40 specs with a Conventions section explaining cross-references, naming, and the catch-up-vs-change rule. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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journal-auth Specification
Purpose
Session management and the terms-of-service consent gate for the Journal app. The credentials a user authenticates with (passkeys, magic links, magic codes) and the registration UX live in authentication-methods; OAuth tokens for third-party services (Wahoo etc.) live in connected-services. This spec is the cross-cutting layer: cookie sessions, the Terms-version gate that wraps every authenticated request, and the rules for safely returning users to where they came from.
Requirements
Requirement: Cookie session for signed-in users
The Journal SHALL identify signed-in users via a server-set HTTP cookie (__session) that carries a serialized JSON payload containing userId. The cookie SHALL be HttpOnly, SameSite=Lax, signed with the server secret, and have a finite max-age. Anonymous browsers SHALL render the public surface (anonymous home, public profiles, public routes/activities) without a session cookie present.
Scenario: Set cookie on successful authentication
- WHEN any authentication path (passkey finish, magic-link verify, code verify) succeeds
- THEN the response carries a
Set-Cookie: __session=...header binding the resultinguserIdto the browser
Scenario: Anonymous request renders public surface
- WHEN a request arrives without
__session(or with one that fails to verify) - THEN loaders treat the request as anonymous; routes that require auth either redirect to
/auth/loginor render the public layout per their own spec
Requirement: Terms acknowledgement at signup
The registration form SHALL require explicit acknowledgement of the Terms of Service before an account can be created.
Scenario: Checkbox required
- WHEN a user views the registration form
- THEN they see a required checkbox labeled "I have read and agree to the Terms of Service, including that trails.cool is in alpha and my data may be reset"
- AND the checkbox label links to the Terms page
Scenario: Cannot submit without acknowledgement
- WHEN a user attempts to register without checking the acknowledgement box
- THEN the form blocks submission and shows a validation message
Scenario: Acknowledgement recorded
- WHEN a user successfully registers
- THEN the current timestamp is stored in
users.terms_accepted_at - AND the version identifier of the Terms the user saw is stored in
users.terms_version
Scenario: Missing version rejected
- WHEN a registration request arrives without a non-empty
termsVersionfield - THEN the server responds with HTTP 400 and does not create a user
Requirement: Re-accept updated Terms on next visit
Logged-in users whose stored terms_version does not match the currently-published version SHALL be prompted to accept the current Terms before accessing any non-allow-listed page.
Scenario: Stale version redirects to accept-terms page
- WHEN a logged-in user whose
users.terms_versionis NULL or differs from the currentTERMS_VERSIONrequests any page outside the allow-list (/auth/accept-terms,/auth/logout,/legal/*) - THEN the server redirects them to
/auth/accept-terms?returnTo=<original path>
Scenario: Allow-list keeps Terms and logout reachable
- WHEN the same user requests
/legal/terms,/legal/privacy,/legal/imprint,/auth/accept-terms, or/auth/logout - THEN the request is served normally without being redirected
Scenario: Successful re-acceptance updates both fields
- WHEN a user submits the acceptance form with the required checkbox ticked
- THEN the server updates
users.terms_versionto the current version andusers.terms_accepted_atto the current timestamp, then redirects to thereturnTopath (or/)
Scenario: Re-acceptance rejects missing consent
- WHEN the form is submitted without the checkbox ticked
- THEN the server responds with HTTP 400 and does not update the user row
Scenario: returnTo is restricted to same-origin paths
- WHEN a
returnTovalue is not a same-origin absolute path (missing leading/, or starting with//) - THEN the server redirects to
/instead, preventing open-redirect abuse