link/v3.md

@@ -115,9 +115,13 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS shard_feature_visibility (
 ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4;
 ```
 
-Seeded on boot in `server.js`, one row per feature. **All ten shard features are covered — the four
-new ones and the six that already ship — and every default reproduces today's behavior, so the
-retrofit is a no-op until an admin changes something.**
+**Not** seeded on boot (this changed during implementation): an **absent row means "use the compiled
+default"**, so the table starts empty and only ever holds rows an admin has actually touched. The
+defaults live in one place — `FEATURES` in `shardVisibility.js` — instead of being duplicated into a
+seeder that could drift from it, and a DB blip degrades to those same defaults rather than to
+"everything is public". **All ten shard features are covered — the four new ones and the six that
+already ship — and every default reproduces today's behavior, so the retrofit is a no-op until an
+admin changes something.**
 
 | Feature | Default audience | Sensitive fields (default rung) |
 |---|---|---|
@@ -156,10 +160,42 @@ Applied at:
 3. **Nav** — `GET /api/v1/public/shard/features` returns only the features the calling viewer can
    see, so the SPA hides nav entries rather than rendering links that 403.
 
+### 3.6.1 What the first implementation missed (found by the §11 smoke test, fixed)
+
+Part A shipped enforcement on the SSE path and on `/guilds` + `/governors`, but the **remaining public
+REST reads never called into it** — so the same event was projected live and served verbatim from
+history. Recorded because each miss is a shape the next phase can repeat:
+
+- **`/public/shard/feed` returned the stored payload as-is.** `actor.acct` / `actor.webId` were
+  readable *anonymously* for every logged kind (`player.death`, `mob.killed`, `skill.gain`,
+  `guild.join`, …) — broader than the §3.1 leak, which was limited to board holders.
+- **`/public/shard/idoc` returned `ownerAcct`.** Rule 1 keyed on the exact strings `acct`/`webId`,
+  but `shapeHouse` flattens the actor into `ownerAcct` / `ownerName` / `ownerSerial`. The lock is now
+  on the field's **meaning** — a key that is or ends in `acct`/`webId`, case-insensitively — so
+  flattened spellings are covered and unwritten shapes fail closed.
+- **The `houses` field rules were dead config.** Neither `getIdoc` nor `getHouses` projected, so the
+  panel offered toggles that did nothing. **Every feature's declared fields must name the keys the
+  read model actually emits**, not just the wire frame's.
+- **`/feed` filtered on `PUBLIC_KINDS`**, a module-load constant derived from the compiled defaults,
+  so live audience changes never reached it. `visibleKinds(level, config)` resolves the readable set
+  from live config; it deliberately ignores the `stream` flag, which governs SSE fan-out only (market
+  history stays readable with its firehose off).
+- **`shardEvents.db.list` treated an empty `kinds` array as "no filter"** and fell through to an
+  unfiltered `SELECT`. A fully-gated config would have dumped the whole event log, staff audit
+  included. An empty allowlist now serves nothing.
+- **`projectValue` recursed into every object**, so a `Date` column came back as `{}`. It walks
+  arrays and plain objects only. The unit tests used JSON fixtures and could not have caught this —
+  the live read did, which is the argument for §11's smoke test over tests alone.
+
+**The rule this leaves behind:** *a read path that returns shard data and does not call
+`projectFeature` is a bug.* Every new surface in Parts B and C — `/ruleset`, `/points`, `/market`,
+`/atlas` — must project, and must gate its kind set on live config rather than on `PUBLIC_KINDS`.
+
 ### 3.7 Admin surface
 
 `GET` / `PUT /api/v1/admin/shard/visibility` (admin-only). Validate feature names against the known
-set and rungs against the ladder; reject any attempt to set `acct`/`webId` below `admin`. Writes an
+set and rungs against the ladder; reject any attempt to set a locked field below `admin` — including
+its flattened spellings (`ownerAcct`, `leaderWebId`), see §3.6.1. Writes an
 `admin.audit`-style row so visibility changes are traceable. New client panel
 `routes/admin/ShardVisibility.jsx` at `/admin/shard-visibility`, linked from `ShardAdmin.jsx`.
 

website/BACKEND_DESIGN.md

@@ -711,6 +711,10 @@ rather than silently ignore:
 1. **`acct` and `webId` are admin-only, always.** They are not exposed as configurable fields, and a
    stored row attempting to loosen them is discarded on read as well as rejected on write. A character
    name is visible in game; the account behind it and the website user it links to are not.
+   The lock is on the field's **meaning, not one spelling**: `isLockedField(key)` matches a key that
+   *is* or *ends in* `acct`/`webId`, case-insensitively, so the flattened forms the read models emit
+   (`shapeHouse` → `ownerAcct`, `shapeGuild` → `leaderWebId`) are covered too. An exact-key check was
+   the original implementation and it let `GET /public/shard/idoc` serve `ownerAcct` anonymously.
 2. **A kind absent from `KIND_FEATURE` is never broadcast below `admin`.** Fail closed. This is what
    keeps the kind map a security boundary rather than a convenience filter, and it means a shard that
    starts emitting an unknown event degrades to staff-only, never to public.
@@ -731,14 +735,31 @@ it picks, it fails open on one side.)
 | Nav | `GET /public/shard/features` returns only what the caller may reach, so the SPA never renders a link that would 403. Presentation only. |
 
 Config reads are cached ~5s, so admin changes take effect within seconds **including on already-open
-streams**. `PUBLIC_KINDS` still exists and is still exported (`/feed` filtering, `notificationStreams.js`)
-but is now **derived** from the kind map rather than hand-maintained, so the two cannot drift.
+streams**. `PUBLIC_KINDS` still exists and is still exported (`notificationStreams.js`) but is now
+**derived** from the kind map rather than hand-maintained, so the two cannot drift.
+
+**`PUBLIC_KINDS` is a module-load constant and must not be used to answer "may this caller read this
+kind?"** — it is computed from the compiled *defaults*, so it cannot see an admin's changes. Use
+`visibleKinds(level, config)`, which resolves against the live config. `/feed` uses it; it originally
+used `PUBLIC_KINDS` and consequently kept serving `guild.join` to anonymous callers after an admin had
+moved `guilds` to `staff`. `visibleKinds` deliberately ignores the `stream` flag: that governs SSE
+fan-out only, so a feature whose live firehose ships off (market) stays readable from stored history.
+
+**Every read path that returns shard data must call `projectFeature`.** The stored-history endpoints
+are not exempt — `/feed` returns the same events the stream does, and returning them unprojected
+reopens on the REST side exactly what the stream closes. Relatedly, `shardEvents.db.list` treats an
+**empty** `kinds` array as "serve nothing", never "no filter"; the fall-through it used to take would
+have turned a fully-gated config into a dump of the entire event log.
+
+`projectFeature` walks **arrays and plain objects only**. A `Date`, `Buffer` or other class instance
+is passed through as a value — rebuilding one key-by-key yields `{}`, which is the difference between
+the pure-JSON wire frames and the DB-backed read models whose rows carry real `Date` columns.
 
 **Defaults reproduce pre-3.0 behavior exactly**, so installing the framework is a no-op until an admin
-changes something — with one deliberate exception, which is the leak it was written to close:
-`/public/shard/guilds` and `/public/shard/governors` previously returned the raw stored payload, whose
-`leader` / `governor` actors carry `acct` and `webId`. Those fields are now stripped for every caller
-below admin.
+changes something — with deliberate exceptions, which are the leaks it was written to close.
+`/public/shard/guilds`, `/public/shard/governors` and `/public/shard/feed` previously returned the raw
+stored payload, whose actors carry `acct` and `webId`; `/public/shard/idoc` returned the flattened
+`ownerAcct`. All are now stripped for every caller below admin.
 
 ---
 

website/SHARD_VISIBILITY.md

@@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ game to anyone standing next to them; the **account** behind it is not, and neit
 user it's linked to. Publishing those would disclose something the shard itself doesn't, and would
 tie a player's in-game identity to their forum identity without their consent.
 
+This rule matches the *meaning* of a field, not one spelling of it. Some responses nest the player
+who owns a record (`leader.acct`); others flatten it into the row (`ownerAcct`, `leaderWebId`,
+`governorAcct`). Every one of those is locked, and the admin API refuses to configure any of them —
+so a new response shape can't quietly reopen the hole by naming the field differently.
+
 **2. Unknown event kinds are never broadcast below admin.**
 The live stream maps each event kind to a feature. A kind with no mapping — a new event from a shard
 plugin the site doesn't know yet, say — goes to admins only. It fails closed. This is what keeps the
@@ -99,6 +104,15 @@ Three places, one config:
 - **Navigation** hides links a viewer can't follow, so they don't hit a wall. This is presentation
   only — the gate is server-side either way.
 
+**Stored history answers the same way the live stream does.** The activity feed reads from the event
+log rather than the live stream, but it resolves the *same* question against the *same* config: which
+kinds you may read, and which fields survive. So moving a feature up a rung hides it from the history
+as well as the stream — there is no back door where yesterday's copy of an event is more revealing
+than today's.
+
+One deliberate asymmetry: turning **live updates** off for a feature stops the push, not the reading.
+The marketplace ships this way — its history and its pages are public, only the firehose is off.
+
 Changes take effect within about five seconds, **including on streams that are already open**. You
 don't need to restart anything.