Provenance had no system-level owner: ownership was only per-tree
(TreeMembership), so a self-hosted instance had no operator account and no
instance-admin surface. This adds one, declared by environment per the project's
twelve-factor rule.
- OWNER_EMAIL (comma-separated): the account(s) named here are instance owners.
Derived at request time — no DB column, no migration, can't drift from the env,
survives DB resets. is_instance_owner()/InstanceOwner dependency in api/deps.py.
- Ownership requires a VERIFIED email (independent of REQUIRE_EMAIL_VERIFICATION).
Registration is open, so without this an attacker could seize the role by
registering the owner address first; verification ties it to inbox control.
- GET /api/v1/admin/instance (owner-only): operational status — version, env,
user/tree counts, configured AI providers. Deliberately exposes no tree data
or PII: instance ownership is an operator role, NOT a privacy-engine bypass.
- /users/me reports is_instance_owner; frontend gains an owner-only /admin page
and a conditional sidebar link (server-enforced, not just client-hidden).
Found-and-fixed by an adversarial security review before merge: the
verified-email land-grab (above) and a frontend null-deref where the admin page
crashed on 401/5xx instead of failing closed.
Docs: .env.example + ARCHITECTURE (notes the not-a-privacy-bypass boundary and
the verified-email requirement). Tests: owner matching, the land-grab guard,
/users/me, and owner-only /admin. Suite 96 passing.
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Implements non-negotiable #1: the AI assistant never writes autonomously. Every
assistant/contributor "write" emits a ChangeProposal — a structured diff a human
approves, edits, or rejects. Design: docs/design/change-proposal.md.
Structural guarantee: a proposal's operations reach the DB ONLY via
change_proposal_service.apply(), which requires the actor be an editor and
dispatches each op through the normal editing services (person/name/event/
relationship/source/citation create/update/delete) — so every change passes the
privacy engine and is audited as the approving human. propose() only inserts a
pending row; it performs no domain mutation. Model providers stay read-only, so
no model response can mutate tree data.
- ChangeProposal model + migration (status pending|applied|rejected, origin
assistant|contributor, JSONB operations, reviewer + apply_error).
- Service: propose / list / get / apply (with optional edited ops) / reject /
delete; a dispatcher mapping ops → editing services. v1 applies ops in order,
not cross-op transactional (single-op is atomic; documented).
- API /trees/{id}/proposals + a frontend review page (approve/reject; editor-
gated) and sidebar entry.
Tests: proposal doesn't apply until approved; reject doesn't apply; non-editor
member can see but not apply; multi-op; approve-with-edits; apply-error keeps it
pending. Full suite 87 passed; single alembic head.
Closes#214
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Output of a multi-agent gap analysis comparing Provenance against commercial
(Ancestry/MyHeritage/FamilySearch) and open-source (GRAMPS/Gramps Web/webtrees)
genealogy software: 15 research lenses, 580 raw features deduped into a 17-
category taxonomy, 302 features assessed against the codebase (have/partial/
planned/missing) with statuses verified against the actual code.
Includes an executive summary, per-category backlog with status/importance/
effort/phase, a quick-wins shortlist, and strategic differentiators. Statuses
reflect the repo at analysis time (before tree-visibility phases 1-3); a couple
of flagged items (e.g. the site_members tier) are already closed.
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First step of the public-viewing feature (design: docs/design/tree-visibility.md).
No non-member behavior change yet — this only widens the vocabulary and UI.
- TreeVisibility gains `site_members` (any authenticated user of the instance),
giving the four-level model: public / site_members / unlisted / private.
- Alembic migration adds the enum value via an autocommit block (ALTER TYPE
ADD VALUE can't run in a transaction on older Postgres); downgrade is a no-op
since PG can't drop an enum value.
- Regenerated openapi.json + frontend TS client.
- Trees-list dropdown now offers Private / Public – Members / Unlisted / Public
with an explanatory tooltip.
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Split the registry endpoints like the drawbar containers. Per-component Gitea Actions workflows (build-backend, build-frontend; runs-on docker, path-filtered) push images to the LAN endpoint 192.168.0.2:1234 over plain HTTP (buildx insecure/http) to bypass Cloudflare's request-body limit, then link each package to the repo via the Gitea API. Auth via the REGISTRY_TOKEN Actions secret (the same token drawbar uses). Tag scheme: test-main / test-sha-<long> / version / latest (v* tags).
The deploy compose now PULLS git.jpaul.io/justin/provenance-{backend,frontend}:${IMAGE_TAG:-test-main} (no host build); docker-compose.dev.yml is a local-build override for dev / pre-CI. Replaces the previous single build.yml. Docs + memory updated.
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Signed-off-by: Justin Paul <justin@jpaul.me>
Records the landed frontend scaffold and that Phase 0 (backend, data model, local auth, deploy stack, CI, frontend) is complete and running live; Phase 1 (core tree features) is the new current target.
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Records the auth model (Argon2, opaque sessions, Bearer/cookie, email verify/reset behind AuthProvider/Mailer), supersedes the interim X-User-Id note, and adds integrations/ to the backend layout.
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Records the landed data model and backend layout, the Phase 0 tree-scoping of Place (vs. the eventual shared gazetteer), and the temporary X-User-Id auth shim.
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Documents the scaffolded tree (/backend, /deploy, /.gitea, pending /frontend), the deploy-first sequencing, and the toolchain choices (uv for backend deps, Alembic for migrations), as CLAUDE.md's layout section requires when code lands.
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