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🔗 Linked Issue

Closes #1111


🏷️ PR Type

  • type:bug — Bug fix
  • type:feature — New feature
  • type:docs — Documentation only
  • type:refactor — Code refactoring (no behavior change)
  • type:chore — Maintenance, dependencies, tooling
  • type:breaking-change — Breaking change

📝 Summary

  • Add authenticated HTTP parity for Engram's existing administrative project merge operation.
  • Reuse Store.MergeProjects without duplicating merge or validation logic.
  • Preserve the existing transactional, idempotent, sync, and autosync behavior.

📂 Changes

File Change
internal/server/server.go Register the authenticated POST /projects/merge route and add thin request parsing, validation, error mapping, response serialization, and autosync notification.
internal/store/store.go Add a typed invalid-request sentinel so the HTTP layer can distinguish validation errors from internal failures.
internal/server/project_merge_test.go Cover authentication, explicit confirmation, payload limits, validation, fail-closed behavior, idempotence, error mapping, merge results, and write notification.
internal/server/project_merge_e2e_test.go Verify the authenticated merge flow through the running HTTP server.
DOCS.md Document the endpoint contract, authentication, validation, idempotence, sync effects, autosync notification, and CLI fallback.

🧪 Test Plan

  • Unit tests pass locally: go test ./...
  • E2E tests pass locally: go test -tags e2e ./internal/server/...
  • Lint passes locally: make lint
  • Manually tested the affected functionality

Built and started engram serve with an isolated data directory and configured HTTP token, then verified:

  1. An unauthenticated POST /projects/merge returned 401.
  2. An authenticated, confirmed merge returned 200 and moved the expected observation, session, and prompt.
  3. GET /sessions/{id} exposed the canonical engram project after the merge.
  4. Repeating the same merge returned 200 with zero updated records.

Directed store, server, MCP, and project-merge tests pass. The full server E2E suite, go vet ./..., make deadcode-check, make lint, the 125 plugin/pi tests, and git diff --check also pass.

go test ./... was run, but two unrelated failures reproduce on unmodified upstream/main: TestDetectProjectFull_ChildScanFindsLaterSecondRepository depends on directory enumeration order, and TestInstallPiInstallsPackagesAndWritesConfig observes an additional mise current node call when mise is available on PATH.


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💬 Notes for Reviewers

The endpoint shape is POST /projects/merge with:

{
  "from": ["Legacy Name"],
  "to": "canonical name",
  "confirmed": true
}

This is intentionally treated as an administrative operation:

  • requireConfiguredAuth fails closed when ENGRAM_HTTP_TOKEN is not configured.
  • Explicit confirmed: true is required.
  • Request bodies are limited to 8 KiB.
  • The handler delegates directly to Store.MergeProjects.
  • Invalid merge requests map to HTTP 400 through a typed store sentinel; unexpected store failures map to HTTP 500.
  • Every successful merge calls notifyWrite, including zero-count results, because sync enrollment or pending mutation metadata may still have changed.
  • Repeated valid requests remain idempotent.

This branch was created independently from PR #1109 and does not include its HTTP pin/unpin or topic-key suggestion changes.

The type:feature label should be added when the PR is opened. The unchecked unit-test boxes reflect unrelated failures reproduced on the same upstream/main commit.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an authenticated administrative endpoint for consolidating projects into a canonical project.
    • Supports validated, atomic, repeat-safe merges of project data, including sessions, observations, prompts, enrollment, and pending synchronization updates.
    • Sends autosync notifications after successful merges.
    • Returns clear responses for invalid requests and protects internal error details.
  • Documentation

    • Documented the project merge endpoint, its authentication requirements, and available CLI alternatives.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The server now provides an authenticated POST /projects/merge endpoint. It validates confirmed requests, delegates merging to Store.MergeProjects, reports errors safely, notifies autosync, and documents the API. Tests cover validation, merging, idempotency, synchronization, and failures.

Changes

Project merge HTTP API

Layer / File(s) Summary
Merge validation contract
internal/store/store.go
Adds ErrProjectMergeInvalidRequest and wraps invalid canonical, source, and normalization inputs with this sentinel.
Authenticated merge route
internal/server/server.go, DOCS.md
Registers POST /projects/merge, requires configured bearer authentication, validates the request, delegates to Store.MergeProjects, maps errors, notifies autosync, and documents the endpoint.
Merge behavior validation
internal/server/project_merge_test.go, internal/server/project_merge_e2e_test.go
Tests authentication, validation, atomic updates, sync metadata, idempotency, mixed-source rejection, hidden infrastructure errors, and the end-to-end merge flow.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Server
  participant Store
  participant Autosync
  Client->>Server: POST /projects/merge
  Server->>Store: Validate and merge projects
  Store-->>Server: MergeResult
  Server->>Autosync: notifyWrite()
  Server-->>Client: HTTP 200 and MergeResult
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Suggested reviewers: gentleman-programming, alan-thegentleman, dnlrsls

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 73944

The authenticated project-merge endpoint validates and rejects unsafe requests before mutation, preserves the existing merge behavior, and documents the API contract. No merge-blocking risk remains.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: adding authenticated HTTP support for project merging.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #1111 requires authenticated HTTP project-merge parity. The change adds POST /projects/merge with configured-token authentication, confirmation and 8 KiB limits, strict JSON validation, direct…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The reported changes support Issue #1111. The route, store error classification, tests, and documentation implement or verify the requested HTTP merge contract. The incremental trailing-data validatio…
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- Around line 216-222: Update the closed-store request test around
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Comment thread internal/server/project_merge_test.go
@dnlrsls dnlrsls added the type:feature New feature label Sep 10, 2026
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In `@internal/server/server.go`:
- Line 1488: The request-body parsing in the handler around json.Decoder.Decode
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Thanks for the careful, well-scoped implementation. The HTTP contract and store delegation are aligned with #1111; no route, payload, or status-code redesign is requested.

One blocker remains before this can merge:

  • Enforce the 8 KiB limit across the complete request body and reject all trailing JSON or arbitrary bytes. The current single json.Decoder.Decode stops after the first valid value, so a valid merge object followed by trailing data can still execute, and unread trailing bytes can escape the intended body-size contract. Consume the remainder and require io.EOF, or use an equivalent bounded full-body parse.
  • Add regressions for a valid object followed by a second JSON value and for a valid prefix followed by more than 8 KiB of trailing data. Both must return 400, perform no merge, and emit no autosync notification.

This is specifically about making the destructive admin endpoint fail closed according to its existing documented contract. Everything else in the contract can remain unchanged.

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