Strategic naming cleanup. Earlier doc-comments + commit messages framed Rank
4 / Rank 5 / Rank 7 work as 'Rank N of the 2026-05-03 Infisical deep-research
deliverable' — the 'Infisical' qualifier was a holdover from the original
deep-research framing where Infisical (a competing secrets-management
platform) was the comparator. Keeping the comparator's name in our source
adds noise without value; an external reader sees 'Infisical' and assumes a
dependency or shared lineage rather than reading it as the competitive
context it was.
Mechanical sed across 34 files (32 source / docs + 2 follow-up Python passes
to collapse 'deep-research deep-research' duplicates that emerged where the
original phrase wrapped across lines):
s|Infisical deep-research|deep-research|g
s|infisical-deep-research-results|deep-research-results-2026-05-03|g
s|infisical-deep-research-prompt|deep-research-prompt-2026-05-03|g
s|infisical-deep-research|deep-research|g
s|Infisical|deep-research|g
s|deep-research deep-research|deep-research|g # collapse-pass
Net diff: 63 insertions / 64 deletions across cmd/, docs/, internal/,
migrations/. Pure text substitution; zero behavior change. Code path
unchanged — go vet clean, tests for TestApproval pass on both
internal/service and internal/api/handler packages.
Workspace docs (cowork/) carry the same references and will be swept
separately — they're not under certctl/ git control. The two filename
references (cowork/infisical-deep-research-results.md +
cowork/infisical-deep-research-prompt.md) get renamed alongside that sweep
to deep-research-results-2026-05-03.md /
deep-research-prompt-2026-05-03.md so cross-references in the certctl
repo doc-comments resolve cleanly.
Mechanical sed across the main go.mod's module declaration, the f5-mock-icontrol
sub-module's go.mod, every Go file's import path (361 files), and a rebuild of
the checked-in f5-mock-icontrol binary so its embedded build-info reflects the
new module path. No behavior change.
Choice B from cowork/transfer-certctl-to-org.md, executed 2026-05-04. Choice A
(keep module path declared as github.com/shankar0123/certctl regardless of
repo URL) shipped on the day of the org transfer (2026-05-03) since we had no
external Go consumers; this commit closes that deferral.
Backward-compat: GitHub HTTP redirects continue to forward
github.com/shankar0123/certctl → github.com/certctl-io/certctl at the URL
level, but Go's module proxy uses the path declared in go.mod as the
canonical name. Pre-fix, anyone trying `go get github.com/certctl-io/certctl/...`
hit a "module path mismatch" error because go.mod said
github.com/shankar0123/certctl and the URL they fetched it from said
certctl-io/certctl. Post-fix, the canonical name and the URL agree, so
go get / go install / external Go consumers / Go-tooling integrations
work cleanly via either the new path (preferred) or the old path (which
redirects and Go follows the redirect for source fetch).
Anyone still importing the old path inside their own code keeps working
provided they update their go.mod's `require` line to match — the module
path declared in their consumer's go.sum / go.mod is the authoritative
import name, so a mass sed across their import statements is the migration
on the consumer side. No external consumers exist today.
Diff shape:
361 *.go files — import path replacement only
2 go.mod — module declaration replacement only
1 binary — deploy/test/f5-mock-icontrol/f5-mock-icontrol rebuilt
so embedded build-info reflects the new path (8618965 vs
8618933 bytes; 32-byte diff is the build-info change)
Total: 364 files, 730 insertions / 730 deletions, net-zero size, pure
mechanical substitution.
Verification:
gofmt: 17 files needed re-alignment after sed (the new path is one char
shorter than the old, so column-aligned import groups drifted). Applied
`gofmt -w` to fix.
go mod tidy: clean exit on both modules.
go vet ./...: clean exit.
go build ./...: clean exit.
go test -short -count=1 on representative packages: all green
(internal/domain, internal/validation, internal/crypto, internal/crypto/signer,
cmd/agent). Test output now reads `ok github.com/certctl-io/certctl/...`
confirming the module path resolves correctly.
binary: f5-mock-icontrol rebuilt; `strings | grep shankar0123` returns
nothing; `strings | grep certctl-io/certctl` shows the new module path
embedded in build-info.
Files intentionally NOT touched in this commit:
README.md / CHANGELOG.md / docs/ / etc. — already swept to certctl-io
URLs in commit 0729ee4 (the post-transfer URL refresh). This commit is
purely the Go-tooling layer.
Scarf pixels (`shankar0123.docker.scarf.sh/...`) — Scarf-account
namespace, not a Go import or GitHub repo URL. Stays.
This is a non-blocking, non-customer-impacting change. Operators pulling
container images, running `make verify`, hitting the API, or installing the
agent see no functional difference. Only Go-tooling consumers (none today)
are affected, and they're enabled — not broken — by this commit.
Closes Rank 4 of the 2026-05-03 Infisical deep-research deliverable
(see cowork/infisical-deep-research-results.md Part 5). Pre-fix,
RenewalService.CheckExpiringCertificates already ran daily,
RenewalPolicy.AlertThresholdsDays drove per-cert thresholds, and
NotificationService.SendThresholdAlert deduped per (cert, threshold)
— but the channel was hardcoded to Email
(internal/service/notification.go:118 pre-fix). Operators who
configured PagerDuty / Slack / Teams / OpsGenie via
CERTCTL_PAGERDUTY_ROUTING_KEY etc. got nothing at any threshold
unless SMTP was also wired. Their first signal of an expired cert
was a 3 AM outage.
This commit lands the routing matrix on top of the existing
infrastructure:
1. RenewalPolicy gains AlertChannels (per-tier channel list) +
AlertSeverityMap (per-threshold tier assignment) +
EffectiveAlertChannels / EffectiveAlertSeverity accessors.
Default*() helpers preserve the back-compat Email-only
behaviour for operators who haven't touched their policies
post-upgrade. Migration 000026 adds the JSONB columns
idempotently.
2. NotificationService.SendThresholdAlertOnChannel — the new
per-channel dispatch helper. Old SendThresholdAlert stays as
an Email-only alias so non-policy callers (admin "send test
alert" surfaces) keep working byte-for-byte.
3. NotificationService.HasThresholdNotificationOnChannel — per-
(cert, threshold, channel) deduplication so a transient
PagerDuty 5xx today does NOT suppress today's Slack alert and
tomorrow's PagerDuty retry will still fire.
4. RenewalService.sendThresholdAlerts walks the resolved channel
set per threshold tier, fans out to every configured channel,
handles per-channel failures independently, defensively drops
off-enum channels with an audit row trail, and records a per-
channel audit event with metadata.channel + metadata.severity_tier.
5. service.ExpiryAlertMetrics — atomic counter table mirrored on
the VaultRenewalMetrics shape from the 2026-05-03 audit fix#5
(commit 0792271). Three labels: channel × threshold × result
(success / failure / deduped). Cardinality bound: 6 × 4 × 3 =
72 series for the standard 4-threshold matrix.
6. handler.MetricsHandler.SetExpiryAlerts wires the Prometheus
exposer for certctl_expiry_alerts_total{channel,threshold,result}.
Pre-sorted snapshot for byte-stable emission.
7. cmd/server/main.go threads ONE service.ExpiryAlertMetrics
instance through both the recording side (notificationService.
SetExpiryAlertMetrics) and the exposing side
(metricsHandler.SetExpiryAlerts).
Dispatch flow (post-fix, per renewal-loop tick):
cert ages past T-30 → daily renewal-loop fires
→ policy lookup
→ for each crossed threshold:
- resolve severity tier (informational/
warning/critical) via AlertSeverityMap
- look up channel set in AlertChannels[tier]
- for each channel: dedup → SendThresholdAlertOnChannel
→ notifierRegistry[channel] → audit row →
Prometheus counter increment
Tests (internal/service/renewal_expiry_alerts_test.go):
TestExpiryAlerts_DefaultMatrix_EmailOnly
TestExpiryAlerts_PerTierFanOut
TestExpiryAlerts_PerChannelDedup
TestExpiryAlerts_OneChannelFails_OthersStillFire
TestExpiryAlerts_OffEnumChannelDropped
TestExpiryAlerts_MetricCounterIncrements
TestExpiryAlerts_NilPolicy_FallsToDefault
TestExpiryAlerts_OperatorOptOutOfTier
The PerTierFanOut test wires 6 mock notifiers, drives a cert at 0
days through the canonical 4 thresholds with the matrix
{informational:[Slack], warning:[Slack,Email],
critical:[PagerDuty,OpsGenie,Email]}, and asserts the exact
recipient counts: Slack=3, Email=3, PagerDuty=1, OpsGenie=1, no
Teams, no Webhook. The OneChannelFails test pins that PagerDuty
returning a 503 does NOT skip Slack/Email at the same threshold.
Drive-by fix (internal/service/testutil_test.go): the existing
mockNotifRepo.List ignored its filter and returned all rows, which
let legacy tests pass on dedup-via-substring even though the
postgres repo actually applied the filter. Updated the mock to
honour CertificateID / Type / Status / Channel / MessageLike
filters in the same shape as the postgres implementation
(internal/repository/postgres/notification.go). All pre-existing
service tests still pass — the legacy test suite happened to be
robust to the mock filter doing nothing.
Documentation:
- docs/connectors.md Notifier section gains "Routing expiry
alerts across channels" — operator-facing, JSON example,
procurement playbook ("How do I make sure PagerDuty pages on
the T-1 alert?"), debug recipe via SQL on audit_events +
notification_events + Prometheus.
- docs/runbook-expiry-alerts.md — sysadmin-grade flowchart,
per-policy channel-matrix configuration recipes, "did the on-
call team get paged?" SQL queries, cardinality budget, V3-Pro
forward path.
- cowork/WORKSPACE-ROADMAP.md gains "Multi-channel expiry
alerts: per-owner routing" V3-Pro entry under Adapter
hardening.
Out of scope (intentional, flagged in V3-Pro forward path):
- Per-owner / per-team / per-tenant channel routing (matrix is
per-policy today, not per-owner).
- Calendar-aware suppression (no T-30 alerts on weekends).
- Escalation chains (T-1 unanswered for 30m → escalate).
- Per-channel rate limiting (downstream of I-005 retry+DLQ).
CHANGELOG.md is intentionally not hand-edited per CHANGELOG.md
itself ("no longer maintains a hand-edited per-version changelog;
per-release notes are auto-generated from commit messages between
consecutive tags").
Verified locally:
- gofmt clean.
- go vet ./internal/domain/... ./internal/service/...
./internal/api/handler/... ./cmd/server/... clean.
(./internal/repository/postgres/... vet failed on transitive
testcontainers/docker module download — sandbox disk pressure,
not a code issue; postgres-repo build succeeds and tests pass.)
- go test -short -count=1 ./internal/domain/...
./internal/service/... ./internal/api/handler/... green.
- go test -race -count=10 -run 'TestExpiryAlerts'
./internal/service/... green (per-channel dedup race-free).
Reference: cowork/infisical-deep-research-results.md Part 5 Rank 4.
Acquisition prompt: cowork/rank-4-multichannel-expiry-alerts-prompt.md.
Critical alerts can no longer be silently dropped by a transient
notifier failure. Failed notification attempts now ride an exponential
backoff retry loop, with a 5-attempt budget before promotion to the
dead-letter queue for operator intervention.
Schema (migration 000016, idempotent):
- retry_count INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
- next_retry_at TIMESTAMPTZ
- last_error TEXT
- idx_notification_events_retry_sweep partial index
(next_retry_at) WHERE status='failed' AND next_retry_at IS NOT NULL
Dead rows clear next_retry_at so the index stops matching them.
Service contract:
- NotificationService.RetryFailedNotifications drives 2^n-minute
exponential backoff capped at 1h (notifRetryBackoffCap) with
5-attempt budget (notifRetryMaxAttempts).
- Exhaustion (RetryCount >= notifRetryMaxAttempts-1) promotes to
status='dead' via MarkAsDead.
- Non-terminal failures record via RecordFailedAttempt.
- Success path promotes to 'sent' without touching retry_count
(audit preserves "delivered on attempt N").
- Missing-notifier branch defensively promotes to 'sent' to avoid
wedging a row on a deleted channel.
- RequeueNotification operator escape hatch atomically resets
retry_count -> 0, next_retry_at -> NULL, last_error -> NULL,
status -> pending via notifRepo.Requeue.
Scheduler:
- New always-on notificationRetryLoop wired into the base loop set at
CERTCTL_NOTIFICATION_RETRY_INTERVAL (default 2m).
- sync/atomic.Bool idempotency guard.
- sync.WaitGroup shutdown drain via WaitForCompletion.
StatsService:
- SetNotifRepo setter pattern preserves 9 pre-existing
NewStatsService call sites (main.go + stats_test.go + 8 digest
tests) without touching the constructor signature.
- DashboardSummary.NotificationsDead populated via
notifRepo.CountByStatus(ctx, "dead") — nil-safe when unwired
(reports zero on systems without a notification repository).
- CountByStatus error is non-fatal (dashboard summary is
best-effort for this field).
- Prometheus certctl_notification_dead_total counter emitted from
the same snapshot.
Handler:
- New POST /api/v1/notifications/{id}/requeue endpoint.
- dead status surfaces to MCP + CLI.
Frontend:
- NotificationsPage gains two-tab toolbar ("All" / "Dead letter")
with queryKey: ['notifications', activeTab] so switching tabs
doesn't serve stale data until the 30s refetch.
- Dead rows surface "Retry {n}/5" + truncated last_error with
full-text title tooltip.
- Requeue mutation wrapped as
mutationFn: (id: string) => requeueNotification(id)
to prevent react-query v5's positional context argument from
leaking into the API client — pinned against future refactors
by strict-match toHaveBeenCalledWith('notif-dead-001') in
NotificationsPage.test.tsx:181.
Closes I-005.
Collapse CancelJobWithContext into CancelJob; eliminate 10 context.Background()
hits across the Job+Notification+Audit service cluster by threading ctx
through their handler-facing service interfaces.
Services (ctx-first):
- service/job.go: ListJobs, GetJob, CancelJob, ApproveJob, RejectJob now
accept ctx; the CancelJobWithContext wrapper is removed (handler callers
continue to invoke CancelJob, now ctx-aware).
- service/notification.go: ListNotifications, GetNotification, MarkAsRead
accept ctx.
- service/audit.go: ListAuditEvents, GetAuditEvent accept ctx.
Handlers (interface + callsites):
- handler/jobs.go, handler/notifications.go, handler/audit.go: local
service interfaces updated, r.Context() threaded at every callsite.
Tests:
- Mock services updated to match the new interfaces (ctx accepted and
ignored via '_ context.Context' first parameter; Fn closure fields
unchanged).
- job_test.go / notification_test.go callsites thread context.Background()
to match production shape.
Verification:
go build ./... ok
go vet ./... ok
go test -short ./... ok
go test -race -short ./... ok
golangci-lint run ./... 0 issues
Locked decisions from the M-2 plan:
D-1 ctx-only signatures (no dual forms)
D-4 preserve handler method names facing the router
D-5 domain types stay ctx-free
Audit complete. Commit: 1f6cf0eafa. Sections: 12. Findings: 2/7/10/4/6.
Implements core revocation infrastructure: POST /api/v1/certificates/{id}/revoke
with all 8 RFC 5280 reason codes, JSON-formatted CRL at GET /api/v1/crl, webhook
and email revocation notifications, best-effort issuer notification, and immutable
revocation audit trail. Includes 48 new tests across service, handler, integration,
and domain layers (600+ total). Fixes 3 pre-existing test bugs (team_test error
matching, agent_group delete status code, team handler per_page validation).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All 10 service files now use slog.Error for failure logging instead of
fmt.Printf. Audit event recording errors are checked and logged rather
than silently discarded. Adds consistent structured context (resource IDs,
operation names) to all error log statements.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes Go Report Card gofmt score from 52% to 100%.
Pure formatting changes — no logic modifications.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Runtime fixes:
- Fix env var mismatch (CERTCTL_DB_URL → CERTCTL_DATABASE_URL)
- Fix table name mismatches (certificates → managed_certificates, notifications → notification_events)
- Add renewal_policy_id to certificate queries
- Remove non-existent created_at from notification queries
- Add env var fallback for agent CLI flags
- Graceful degradation for missing notifiers/issuers in demo mode
- Copy web/ directory in Dockerfile for dashboard serving
Service layer:
- Implement handler-service interface pattern across all services
- Wire up certificate, agent, job, policy, team, owner, audit, notification services
Documentation:
- Add concepts.md: beginner-friendly guide to TLS, CAs, private keys
- Rewrite quickstart.md with accurate API examples matching actual handlers
- Add demo-advanced.md: interactive demo with cert issuance and automated script
- Update architecture.md with correct table names and connector interfaces
- Update connectors.md to match actual Go interface signatures
- Update demo-guide.md with cross-references to new docs
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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