A seat is a real Puter account: it takes a name from the global username pool
and gets a home directory. Nothing charges for one — that is prod's job — so
until it does, the only bound on creation is the request rate limit, which
bounds the rate and not the total.
max_teams_per_user default 1
max_seats_per_team default 50
Ordering is the substance of both checks. The team cap is tested before
the handle, so a capped user is told they are capped rather than that the name
they picked was unusable. The seat cap is tested before any account state
exists, so a refused provision does not burn a global username.
Soft-deleted teams do not count toward the owner's cap, so deleting frees
the slot — which does mean create, provision, delete, repeat still consumes
usernames over time, bounded by the daily rate limit. The caps raise the cost
and make the cycle audited; they do not close it.
Lowering the seat limit blocks new provisioning and disables nobody.
Both limits are published in rate-limits-and-quotas.md, and both keys are
documented in config.template.jsonc and config.default.json.
Closes PUT-1758.
Covers PUT-1708, PUT-1709 and PUT-1743.
Twelve routes, every one setting requireUserActor -- that option is what
installs requireAuthGate, requireVerifiedAccount and requireNonAccessTokenGate,
because server.ts derives `needsAuth` from the route options. Reads need it as
much as writes: without an auth option a route gets no suspension check and
admits access tokens, so a just-disabled member could still read the roster and
a scoped third-party token could read the audit log.
Authority is checked before anything observable. Validating the body first made
POST /members answer 400 before 403, and resolving :username first turned the
member routes into a global username-existence oracle.
Provisioning applies the same username and email rules as signup rather than
its own -- USERNAME_REGEX, USERNAME_MAX_LENGTH, RESERVED_USERNAMES and
validator.isEmail, now exported from AuthController. Without them a workspace
could mint accounts signup would refuse, claim unregistered reserved names, and
mail arbitrary unvalidated addresses.
Handle problems are 400 or 409 rather than a bare Error, which the server turns
into a 500 and a deduped critical alarm -- an uppercase handle should not page
on-call.
Disable drops sessions through SessionStore.removeByUuid rather than a raw
DELETE. The store invalidates every composite cache key; without that a
disabled member kept authenticating from cache for the session TTL, which is
exactly the "takes effect on the next request, not after a cache TTL" property
disable is supposed to have. Revoking also preserves last_ip/last_user_agent,
which the member-facing audit view reads.
Audit writes live in TeamService at the point of each action rather than in the
route, so a caller reaching the service directly cannot skip them, and the SQL
lives in TeamStore. Audit reads map internal user ids to usernames, and remain
readable by the owner after the workspace is soft-deleted -- otherwise the
delete_team entry was written and immediately unreachable.
teams_enabled gates route registration through an optional isEnabled() the
server honours, so with it off the paths do not exist rather than existing and
refusing. It does not gate DDL.
TeamIsolation.http.test.ts asserts the negative the feature rests on: the
workspace manages accounts and cannot read them, including through a
full-access token and after the member is disabled. It asserts outcomes rather
than the absence of an implicator.
Juan Castro