built 2026-07-31, switched off 2026-08-13 when it was slated to become a
plugin alongside memos and photos. those two were extracted; this one never
was, so it spent six days mounted nowhere with its schema commented out and
no pm2 entry — complete code that nothing could reach.
core rather than a plugin because the producers are the platform's own: the
job queue, an agent turn ending, mail arriving. a notifier the owner can
uninstall is one those producers cannot rely on.
- hono.ts mounts /api/notify again; verified 401 unauthenticated, so the
permission gate covers it and assertPermissionTotality accepts the mount
- push_devices exported from the core schema and pushed: 10 columns,
uq_push_devices_token_bundle, idx_push_devices_user
- officer-notify added to CORE_PROCESSES, so gen:ecosystem writes it
- credentials read OFFICERDEV_X ?? X, the convention it predates
safe as core because it boots with nothing configured: every channel reports
isConfigured() false and dispatch resolves empty. verified by importing it
with the env stripped — "channels: none configured", no throw. an install
with no apns key runs it as a no-op rather than crash-looping.
APNS_ENV is dropped from the doc's credential table. it was never read: the
host comes from each device's `environment` column, so one server pushes to a
testflight build and a release build at once.
doc status corrected. the app side is not started — there is no officer-suite
repo, no PUSH_NOTIFICATIONS_APP.md, and apps/chat actively strips the ios push
entitlement. recorded there rather than here.
Design in docs/push-notifications.md. The short version: Apple and Google are unavoidable —
iOS suspends apps so only APNs can wake one, and Android only accepts pushes from FCM — but
Expo is not. Its push service is a relay in front of both and does not remove either
credential, so we talk to Apple and Google ourselves.
Both protocols were verified in Bun before designing around them: node:http2 works as a
client (APNs is HTTP/2-only), and ES256 signing produces the raw 64-byte r||s form Apple
requires rather than Node's default DER, which is silently rejected. No push library is
needed for either channel.
The load-bearing decision is the payload: a push is a doorbell, not a message. Apple and
Google see metadata regardless, so they must not also see content — a notification carries a
category and an id, never a subject, sender or error, and the app composes the visible text
locally and fetches the real thing over the tailnet on tap.
This commit is the registry: push_devices, holding native APNs/FCM tokens. environment is a
column because APNs sandbox and production are different hosts AND different token
namespaces — a debug-build token fails against production with a silent BadDeviceToken, so
guessing is not an option. Registration upserts on (token, bundle_id) because tokens rotate
and the app re-registers every launch. Failure counting prunes dead tokens; a hard rejection
deletes at once.
Nothing sensitive lands here: a token is useless without the APNs key or FCM service
account, both of which stay in the sidecar's env.
NOTE: `bun db:push` will fail until the telegram/whatsapp/discord rows are deleted from
server_integrations — the CHECK constraint added earlier refuses while they exist. That is
the enforcement working, not a problem to route around.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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