docs(website): event triggers, audiences and the ceiling lattice (engagement Phase 2) #181

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58c0797fc2 docs(website): event triggers, audiences and the ceiling lattice (engagement Phase 2)
MODULE_API.md gets a real 1.7.0 — and §1.1's "1.6.0 has only ever been on
`edge`" paragraphs are now marked historical rather than current, which is the
correction §0.5 asked for: 1.6.0 reached `main` with the Teams cutover, so the
in-place-amendment rule those paragraphs invoke no longer applies and every
addition from here takes a version of its own.

§2.3 gains `ctx.events.emit` and `ctx.inbox.push` (present and throwing until
Phase 7, with the reason stated). §2.4 gains `registerEventTriggers` and
`registerAudiences`. A new §6.8 carries the forward-compat note ENGAGEMENT.md
§7.3 asked this document to hold: a rule, a template and an audience outlive
the module that declared them, so `trigger_id` is a plain VARCHAR with no
cascade and an unregistered id shows DORMANT rather than erroring or being
auto-deleted. The failure that prevents is specific — an id that stops
resolving must never silently become a send to a different set of people.

ENGAGEMENT.md records Phase 2 as built, and three things it did not previously
say:

§5.1a now DEFINES the ceiling lattice. The document named "narrowest" and
"tightest" throughout and never said what narrower meant, and the obvious
reading is a security defect: under a flat total order a `staff`-ceilinged
trigger permits an `owner` audience, i.e. a rule that mails cheat detection to
the player it detected. It is containment, not size, and incomparable ceilings
have no bound at all.

§7.2 is answered — ONE namespace, against the recommendation in its own text —
with the two knock-on effects that only appeared once it was built (a relaxed
id grammar, a shared legacy allowlist) and the risk that did not materialise
(the push catalog is untouched, so the shipped app sees no change).

§7.1 Q6 is answered: declare `kind: 'scheduled'` now, build the evaluator after
Phase 9.

§4.3 is kept true to what shipped: `audience` and `ceiling` are two fields
rather than one, `'computed'` is gone from the audience vocabulary, and
`example` is enforced rather than encouraged.

§6.0b's Phase 2 row is corrected. Its two "other repos" cells are cutover-window
work, not this window: the integration kit pins a website `main` sha and
runicgateway.com FETCHES its facts from `main`, so doing either now would turn a
green repo red for the whole edge period — for the kit, against the explicit
rule in its own pin ("written against what shipped, never what is in flight").

BACKEND_DESIGN.md gains the two admin routes, the router-tree entry and the
adminOnly line; api-route-inventory.json regenerated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 06:40:48 -05:00