Exercised the full provider portal as a pilot MSP would and fixed what
made it feel broken:
- The signed-out portal promised "a sign-in link is on the way" even when
the control plane has no email provider (the bundle default), and team
invitations silently sent nothing. The portal bootstrap now carries
email_sign_in_available and provider_hosted_mode; the sign-in page shows
the host command that actually prints a link, and the invite panel says
invitation emails are not sent and how to hand over a link instead.
- New "provider-msp portal-link --email" CLI mints a one-time portal link
for an account member or pending invitee, so teammates can sign in at
all on email-less installs (bootstrap only covers the owner).
- Portal sessions were fixed at 12h; CP_SESSION_TTL now configures them
and provider-hosted MSP mode defaults to 7 days.
- Creating a client past the license cap showed a generic "Failed to
create workspace." toast: the limit error is now a JSON payload with
current/limit, the API client no longer drops non-JSON error bodies
(double body read), and the toast explains the license limit.
- Copy polish: provider-mode sign-in intro (no refunds/privacy register),
least-privilege default invite role, queue tile label matches "Client
onboarding", softer Support tab with a docs/MSP.md pointer, setup.sh
summary now prints the bootstrap next step and day-2 sign-in commands,
.env.example and docs/MSP.md document portal sign-in and sessions.
Contracts updated (cloud-paid, api-contracts, deployment-installability,
security-privacy) with verification pins in tenant_handlers_test,
config_test, magiclink_test, and provider_msp_deploy_test.
Verified live against a dockerless control plane: portal-link for an
invitee redeems, promotes the invitation, and sets a 7-day session;
the at-cap toast shows the license copy; portal vitest suite and
cloudcp/auth/account/installtests Go suites pass.
The variable signs hosted entitlement leases; the trial-activation name is
left over from the retired trial era and reads as trial machinery to an
operator generating their licensing root key. The provider MSP bundle has
no installed base yet, so the canonical rename is free today and frozen
the moment the first design partner installs.
- Control plane reads CP_ENTITLEMENT_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY first and falls
back to CP_TRIAL_ACTIVATION_PRIVATE_KEY, so existing Pulse-hosted cloud
deployments (deploy/cloud, hibernated snapshot) keep working unchanged.
- deploy/provider-msp (.env.example, compose, setup.sh), MSP.md, and the
install-test pins use the canonical name; error messages name it too.
- deploy/cloud intentionally keeps the legacy name: that stack historically
signed hosted trial activations, and its snapshot predates the rename.
- MSP.md now leads with deploy/provider-msp/ (compose stack, setup.sh,
upgrade.sh, run-install-proof.sh), documents the HTTPS requirement
(__Host- portal session cookie) and the pulse.provider-msp.role labels
workspace provisioning requires, and explains the licence/lease chain
including licence-expiry behavior.
- setup.sh derives and prints the lease signing public key the provider
MSP licence must bind (also via --print-lease-signing-public-key), and
the missing-licence error now includes it with request instructions.
- .env.example documents the CP_TRIAL_ACTIVATION_PRIVATE_KEY binding.
Tighten v5-to-v6 upgrade safety, release installability, provider MSP mode handling, AI cost accounting, metrics flushing, and frontend guardrails for the v6.0.0 GA candidate.
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