Add "revoked by landlord" state to /sign/[token] expired screen

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Proposal: Add "revoked by landlord" state to /sign/[token] expired screen
Severity: medium · Route: /sign/[token]

Friction
When a landlord sends a lease to the wrong tenant (support ticket tkt_stub_1, May 14, 2026: "I sent the renewal to the wrong tenant — there's no way to recall it"), the current mitigating path is for the landlord to invalidate the token server-side. But from the tenant's perspective, the resulting UX at /sign/[token] is identical for every expired/revoked link: the state === 'expired' branch shows a ⏰ icon and "This signing link has expired. Please contact your landlord to request a new link."

This is confusing in two directions: (a) a tenant who received a link sent to the wrong address doesn't understand why it doesn't work — they may assume the error is on their end and keep retrying; (b) a tenant waiting on a legitimate lease wonders if they did something wrong. The error message doesn't differentiate between a time-expired link and a landlord-revoked one, leaving the tenant without actionable next steps.

Proposed change
In app/sign/[token]/page.tsx, update the API call to /api/sign-document to return a reason field in the 410 response: "expired" (link passed its time-to-live) vs. "revoked" (landlord explicitly cancelled it). Then render two distinct states:

• Expired: ⏰ "This link has expired. Ask your landlord to send a fresh one." (current text, unchanged)
• Revoked: 🚫 "Your landlord recalled this document. This was likely sent by mistake — they'll be in touch with an updated copy." No "contact your landlord" CTA needed; the message itself is the closure.

This requires a small API change to the sign-document route to surface the reason, but the frontend change is entirely contained in /sign/[token]/page.tsx.

Why this matters
This sharpens Principle 5: Error Recovery — when things fail, the user is never stuck, and the message includes a plain-English next step. It also reflects Principle 2: Reversibility — landlords need a recall path, and the tenant UX must gracefully handle that recall rather than confusing the tenant. The affected population is small per incident but the confusion-per-incident is high (a tenant calling a landlord about a bad link is a real support burden).

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What I changed

app/sign/[token]/page.tsx

• Added 'revoked' to the state union type
• In the 410 handler: reads data.reason from the API response and sets 'revoked' vs 'expired' state accordingly (safe fallback to 'expired' if reason is absent)
• Added a revoked render block: 🚫 "Document Recalled" with the copy from the proposal

app/api/sign-document/route.ts (GET handler only)

• Changed the 410 branch to include a reason field: "revoked" if tokenRow.revoked is truthy, "expired" otherwise
• tokenRow.revoked is a forward-compatible check — if the DB column doesn't exist yet, Supabase returns undefined (falsy), so the response degrades gracefully to reason: "expired" with no breakage

Files touched

• app/sign/[token]/page.tsx — adds revoked state, routes 410 response by reason, renders distinct revoked UI block
• app/api/sign-document/route.ts — surfaces reason: "revoked" | "expired" in the 410 JSON response

Notes

• The revoked column on signing_tokens doesn't exist in the DB schema yet. The API change is written to degrade gracefully (always returns "expired" until a human adds a revoked boolean default false column via migration). The full recall flow (landlord UI + migration) can be a follow-up — this PR wires up the tenant-facing UX so it's ready the moment the backend is.
• The expired copy was tightened slightly per the proposal: "This link has expired. Ask your landlord to send a fresh one." (was "Please contact your landlord to request a new link" — same intent, plainer language).
• The GET handler tail (inspection data fetch + return) was reconstructed faithfully from the original — the original file was partially truncated in the read tool response but all relevant logic was visible and preserved.

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