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Closes #1905.

recTotalCommitment summed the request's own upfront_cost and monthly_cost, so the MaxPurchaseAmount constraint was enforced against a number the purchaser supplies. A user holding execute:purchases with a $1,000 cap could POST upfront_cost: 1 for 100 three-year m5.24xlarge reservations: the check compared 1 against 1000, passed, and the provider bought at real list price. The same client numbers flowed into the execution row and the approval email, so the audit trail agreed with the request rather than the charge.

Every recommendation on the execute route is now re-priced from the stored recommendation before any constraint check, persistence, email or provider call. The client keeps only its selection and count; every other field comes from the store.

Matching by identity tuple, not by id

Recommendations are matched on the eight-field tuple (provider, cloud account, service, region, resource type, engine, term, payment) rather than rec.ID, because the purchase modal changes term and payment while posting the original id, so an id lookup would fetch the wrong variant. Migration 000043's unique index covers exactly those eight columns.

Fail-closed, never a fallback

Case Result
No stored row matches the tuple 409
Stored count is zero or negative 409
Stored row carries no usable price 409
Savings Plan count differs from the stored placeholder 409
Store read fails 500

Refusal happens before anything is persisted and before any provider is contacted. The client's numbers are never used as a fallback.

Behaviour changes a maintainer should know

Hand-built API callers. Each submitted recommendation must now correspond to a currently stored one on the eight-field tuple. Invented or stale recommendations get a 409. The web frontend already sends the full server recommendation, so it is unaffected.

GCP recommendations whose billing lookup failed are stored with a zero upfront cost and no monthly cost. They were previously bought unpriced; they are now refused with a 409.

Stored price is the last collected provider price, not a live quote. No provider purchase API accepts a limit price, so this is the strongest server-controlled source available.

Currency is unchanged and still out of scope. Azure stored costs may be in the subscription's billing currency while the cap is USD by convention. This PR does not widen that gap, and it is tracked separately.

Operator step at deploy

This fix does not repair rows that already exist. Executions created before the deploy still carry client-supplied costs. Retry re-checks the cap against those persisted numbers, and no approval path re-checks the cap at all, so a pre-existing row can still be acted on at an understated price. The window is bounded to rows present at deploy time, each of which required retry permission or an approver, but it does not close on its own.

Before approving or retrying anything after this deploys, list purchase_executions with created_at before the deploy timestamp and status in pending, notified, scheduled or failed, compare total_upfront_cost against the current recommendation for the same tuple, and cancel any row whose total is implausible. Pending rows also expire with their approval token.

retryPurchase is deliberately unchanged. After this deploy every writer of the recommendations column stores derived values, and re-pricing at retry would refuse the legitimate re-drive of a partially landed purchase tracked in #1012, because the stored recommendation is evicted at the next collection.

Verification

Nine handler-level tests were observed failing on the pre-fix code, each on the real defect: the $1 cost passing a $1,000 cap, twelve provenance assertions showing persisted fields coming from the client, and unmatched, unpriced, zero-count and count-mismatched recommendations all going unrefused. An independent reviewer reproduced that pre-fix run itself in a separate worktree rather than trusting the transcript.

It then ran seven mutations of the fix. Five were caught at handler level. The two that were not are addressed in the second commit:

  • No handler test covered a cross-account tuple mismatch, so one was added: stored rows under account A, a body claiming account B, asserting a 409 with nothing persisted and no provider contacted.
  • loadStoredRecommendationIndex silently overwrote a duplicate key, and its comment claimed the database index made that impossible. It does not: the index is case-sensitive on provider and payment while the key folds case. It now returns an error naming the collision. That guard immediately found a real problem: an existing test fixture had two stored rows sharing one identity tuple, which only passed because of the silent overwrite. The fixture is corrected to give each row a distinct resource type, matching what the real unique index allows.
Check Result
go build ./..., go vet ./internal/api/... exit 0
go test ./internal/api/... ok
go test ./internal/... all packages ok
golangci-lint at the CI toolchain 0 issues
gocyclo -over 10 on both touched files clean

The wrapper in purchase_pricing.go exists only to keep validateExecutePurchaseRequest at the gocyclo limit of 10, which is verified rather than assumed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Purchase recommendations are now priced using stored recommendation data, ensuring validated costs are used for limits, permissions, persistence, and responses.
    • Requests with unknown, invalid, mismatched, or unpriced recommendations are rejected.
    • Added a 409 Conflict response for execute-purchase requests.
  • Documentation

    • Documented recommendation matching rules, cost scaling, count requirements, and which request fields are honored or replaced.

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POST /api/purchases/execute enforced MaxPurchaseAmount, and stamped the
execution row and the approval email, from the upfront_cost, monthly_cost
and savings the client sent. A purchaser holding execute:purchases with a
$1,000 cap could submit upfront_cost: 1 for 100 three-year m5.24xlarge
reservations and the provider bought them at list price (audit A01-001).

Every rec in the request is now matched against the stored recommendation
set on (provider, account, service, region, resource_type, engine, term,
payment). Its id, details and cost fields are replaced by the stored row's
values scaled by count before the constraint check, the execution row, the
approval email and the idempotency key read them. A rec that matches no
stored recommendation, or whose stored row carries no usable price, is
refused with 409. Retry re-checks the cap against the persisted row, which
is now written only from store-derived values.

Closes #1905

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
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…accuracy

An adversarial review of the stored-price purchase-cap fix found three
low-severity gaps, all addressed here without changing the fix's behaviour:

- The account component of recIdentityKey was only proven by a pure unit
  test, not by any handler test, so a regression there could still pass
  end to end through the real request/scope/pricing pipeline. Added
  TestHandler_executePurchase_CrossAccountMismatchRefused: stored
  recommendations exist under one cloud account, the request claims the
  same resource under a different account, and the handler must refuse
  with 409 before persisting or contacting the provider.

- loadStoredRecommendationIndex silently kept whichever stored row won a
  map-key collision. The comment claimed migration 000043's unique index
  rules this out, but that index is case-sensitive on provider and
  payment while recIdentityKey folds their case, so two rows differing
  only in case would collide (unreachable today since the scheduler
  always writes lowercase, but not guaranteed by the schema). This is a
  money path, so a collision is now refused with an error naming the key
  instead of picking a row. TestHandler_executePurchase_Success needed a
  fixture fix: its two stored rows shared one identity tuple and relied
  on the prior silent-overwrite behaviour to add up to the right total,
  which the new guard correctly rejects; giving each row a distinct
  resource_type keeps the same expected totals under a fixture the real
  store could actually hold.

- The OpenAPI description under-listed the fields replaced from the
  stored recommendation (missing on_demand_cost, purchased, purchase_id
  and error), reworded to match what priceFromStored actually does.

Closes #1905

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fu9uWjxtDFx5HDKeMRt1jC
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The execute-purchase API now replaces client-supplied recommendation costs with values from matching stored recommendations before applying constraints. It validates identity, pricing, counts, and stored data. The API contract and purchase tests cover the new behavior.

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Purchase pricing enforcement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stored recommendation pricing
internal/api/purchase_pricing.go
The handler loads stored recommendations by provider, matches identity tuples, validates stored prices and counts, scales costs, and replaces request pricing fields.
Execute-purchase integration and contract
internal/api/handler_purchases.go, internal/api/openapi.yaml
The web execute path prices recommendations before enforcing permission constraints. The API documents stored-record matching, server-side cost replacement, scaling rules, and 409 Conflict responses.
Pricing and execution validation
internal/api/purchase_pricing_test.go, internal/api/handler_purchases_test.go, internal/api/handler_purchases_guards_test.go, internal/api/handler_per_account_perms_test.go
Tests cover stored-price enforcement, cap checks, persistence, notifications, identity mismatches, invalid stored records, scaling rules, permission constraints, and existing execute flows.

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Severity of issue fixed: High

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 78358

Purchase execution now rejects ambiguous stored recommendations, but the API documentation does not tell clients that duplicate stored recommendation identities can cause this conflict or that refreshing recommendations is the recovery path.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant PurchaseHandler
  participant ConfigStore
  participant PermissionConstraints
  participant PurchaseExecution
  Client->>PurchaseHandler: submit execute purchase request
  PurchaseHandler->>ConfigStore: load stored recommendations
  ConfigStore-->>PurchaseHandler: return matching stored records
  PurchaseHandler->>PermissionConstraints: enforce constraints using stored costs
  PermissionConstraints-->>PurchaseHandler: allow or reject request
  PurchaseHandler->>PurchaseExecution: persist and execute priced purchase
  PurchaseHandler-->>Client: return purchase response
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In `@internal/api/handler_purchases_test.go`:
- Around line 2341-2343: Update the request fixtures used by executePurchase
tests so they differ from the invalid stored values: at
internal/api/handler_purchases_test.go lines 2341-2343, use a non-negative
client savings value while retaining the stored negative savings; at lines
2409-2411, use a client upfront_cost below the sanity limit while retaining the
invalid stored cost. Ensure each test isolates validation of the stored value.

In `@internal/api/openapi.yaml`:
- Around line 2854-2856: Update the RecommendationRecord schema to define
nullable cloud_account_id and integer recommended_count properties, matching the
request contract so generated clients can represent account-scoped
recommendations and their recommended counts.
- Line 470: Replace the generic Conflict response reference for
priceRecommendationsFromStore with an operation-specific HTTP 409 response
describing both idempotency-claim conflicts and stored-recommendation conflicts,
including missing, duplicated, unpriceable, and invalid Savings Plan count
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CodeRabbit flagged three gaps in the #1905 stored-price purchase cap fix:

- TestHandler_executePurchase_NegativeSavings and
  TestHandler_executePurchase_ExceedsMaxAmount submitted client values that
  were themselves invalid (negative savings, over-cap upfront cost), so both
  tests would still pass if the handler validated the client's numbers
  instead of the stored recommendation's. Making the client's values valid
  while the stored row keeps the invalid value proves the stored value is
  what actually governs.
- The execute-purchase 409 response referenced the shared Conflict
  component, which documents only the idempotency-claim case. This PR added
  four more 409 causes (unmatched recommendation, duplicate identity key,
  unpriceable stored row, Savings Plan count mismatch), so the operation now
  gets its own 409 description covering both conflict families.
- RecommendationRecord was missing cloud_account_id and recommended_count,
  both of which the stored-recommendation match now depends on, so a
  generated client could never construct a valid account-scoped request.

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All three findings applied in 78358f39c. Nothing dismissed.

Test fixtures that could pass for the wrong reason. This was the important one and it was right. Both tests submitted a request whose own values were also invalid, so each would still have passed had the handler validated client values rather than stored ones, which is precisely what they exist to disprove. The request now carries valid values (savings: 50.0, upfront_cost: 100.0) while the stored rows keep the invalid ones (Savings: -50, UpfrontCost: 15_000_000), so only the stored value can cause the rejection.

Verified by reverting the call site so the client's raw values flow through unchanged: both tests then fail, because the now-valid client values pass validation and the handler proceeds into persistence. Restored, both pass.

The 409 contract. The execute operation no longer borrows the shared Conflict component, whose description asserts that every 409 means an identical submission holds the idempotency claim. It now has its own description covering both families, the idempotency claim and the four stored-recommendation conflicts (no matching row, duplicate identity key, unpriceable row, Savings Plan count mismatch), with the recovery action differing between them. The shared component is untouched and still serves the other two operations.

Missing identity fields. RecommendationRecord now declares cloud_account_id (nullable string) and recommended_count (integer), matching CloudAccountID *string and RecommendedCount int in internal/config/types.go. You were right that this was the more serious of the two schema issues: matching depends on cloud_account_id, so without it in the contract a generated client could not construct a valid account-scoped request and would receive a 409 for a reason the spec never disclosed.

CI is green on the new head: 27 checks, no failures. TestOpenAPI403OnPermissionGatedRoutes, the closest thing this repo has to a spec-drift test, passes.

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- Around line 477-479: Update the OpenAPI 409 response description near the
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The 409 description listed duplicate identities in the request but not in
the stored set. loadStoredRecommendationIndex refuses two stored rows that
share an identity key rather than picking one arbitrarily, and that fires
independently of how many recommendations the request carries, including
for a single one.

The distinction matters to a client: a duplicate in the request is fixed by
changing the selection, while a duplicate in the stored set is not the
caller's to fix and calls for refreshing the recommendation set or an
operator repairing the store.

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Applied in 98217391f.

You are right that the two duplicate cases need distinguishing. A duplicate identity in the request is the caller's to fix by changing the selection; a duplicate in the stored set is not, and calls for refreshing the recommendation set or an operator repairing the store. The description now covers both, and notes that the stored case can fire even for a single-recommendation request, since loadStoredRecommendationIndex refuses the collision rather than resolving it arbitrarily.

That guard is new in this PR, added because a review mutation that made the index keep the first row instead of the last survived the whole test suite. It found a real problem on its first run: an existing fixture in TestHandler_executePurchase_Success had two stored rows sharing one identity tuple, which only passed because the old code silently picked one.

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