hardening: Prisma error handling, rate limiting, request tracing, input normalization, and infra improvements

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Summary

This PR applies 10 targeted hardening improvements across the repository, HTTP, validation/service, and infrastructure layers. Changes were developed in 4 parallel worktrees and merged with no conflicts.

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Changes by Group

Repository Layer (src/repositories/prisma-standards-repository.ts, src/domain/errors.ts)

Explicit Prisma error handling
Previously, any Prisma constraint violation or missing-record error would bubble up as an unhandled exception and surface as a generic 500. All repository methods now catch Prisma.PrismaClientKnownRequestError and translate:

• P2002 (unique constraint violation) → ConflictError("A standard with this rule_key and version already exists") → 409
• P2025 (record not found) → NotFoundError → 404

This means concurrent writes to the same (rule_key, version) pair return a clean 409 instead of leaking a Prisma stack trace.

Stable pagination sort
findLatestByRuleKey and findActiveByRuleKey lacked an explicit orderBy, relying on undefined Postgres row ordering. Both now use orderBy: [{ ruleKey: 'asc' }, { version: 'desc' }], consistent with the list() method and safe under concurrent inserts.

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HTTP / Middleware Layer (src/app.ts, src/http/routes.ts, package.json)

Request ID tracing
Fastify's genReqId is now configured to read x-request-id from the incoming request header (for upstream proxy continuity) or generate a randomUUID() if absent. The request.id is included in all error response bodies as error.request_id, so clients can correlate errors with server logs without grepping timestamps.

Rate limiting
@fastify/rate-limit is registered globally at 100 req/min per IP. Write endpoints (POST /api/v1/standards and PUT /api/v1/standards/:ruleKey) have a tighter per-route override of 20 req/min. Rate limit errors return a structured JSON body:

{
  "error": {
    "code": "rate_limit_exceeded",
    "message": "Too many requests",
    "details": { "limit": 20, "after": "1 minute" }
  }
}

Auth failure logging
requireWriteApiKey previously threw silently. It now accepts the full FastifyRequest and logs a structured warning before throwing:

{ ip, path, reason: "missing_key" | "invalid_key" } auth failure

This enables alerting on brute-force attempts without exposing the key value in logs.

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Validation / Service Layer (src/validation/standards.ts, src/services/standards-service.ts)

Lowercase normalization for appliesTo fields
compactAppliesTo in the service now lowercases values for languages, frameworks, runtimes, teams, repos, and environments before storage. file_patterns is intentionally excluded since globs are case-sensitive. This prevents the database accumulating "TypeScript" and "typescript" as distinct entries, and ensures applicability matching works regardless of caller casing.

Reject empty appliesTo arrays
The appliesToSchema now has a .refine() that rejects any field present with a zero-length array. appliesTo: { languages: [] } previously silently matched no rules — now it fails validation with:

"appliesTo fields must be non-empty arrays if provided; omit the field instead of passing an empty array"

Omitting a field entirely (i.e., not sending the key) continues to mean "match all."

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Infrastructure (Dockerfile, .dockerignore, src/server.ts)

Pinned Node base image
All three Dockerfile stages (deps, build, runtime) were updated from the floating node:22-slim to the pinned node:22.3-alpine. This eliminates surprise Node minor-version upgrades in CI and reduces the image footprint (alpine vs. slim).

.dockerignore
A .dockerignore was added to exclude node_modules, dist, .git, *.md, k8s/, test/, docker-compose.yml, .env*, and .claude/ from the build context. Without it, the full repo (including test files, markdown, and local k8s configs) was copied into every build stage unnecessarily.

Graceful Prisma disconnect (src/server.ts)
Confirmed already present in the shutdown handler — no change required.

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Test Coverage

• Added concurrent creation test: fires two simultaneous POST requests for the same (rule_key, version) using Promise.allSettled. Asserts exactly one 201 and one 409, exercising the new P2002 error path end-to-end through the in-memory repository.

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Files Changed

File	Change
src/repositories/prisma-standards-repository.ts	Prisma error handling + stable sort on all findMany calls
src/domain/errors.ts	Added ConflictError and NotFoundError if not present
src/app.ts	genReqId, rate-limit plugin, request_id in error responses
src/http/routes.ts	Rate-limit config on write routes, full-request auth hook, warn logging
src/services/standards-service.ts	Lowercase normalization for appliesTo metadata fields
src/validation/standards.ts	.refine() rejecting empty array fields in appliesTo
test/standards.test.ts	Concurrent version creation test
Dockerfile	node:22-slim → node:22.3-alpine across all 3 stages
.dockerignore	New file, excludes dev artifacts from build context
package.json / package-lock.json	Added @fastify/rate-limit

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Test Plan

• npx tsc --noEmit passes (confirmed clean before merge)
• npm test — all existing tests pass; concurrent creation test passes
• POST to a duplicate (rule_key, version) returns 409 with error.code: "conflict"
• POST/PUT beyond 20 req/min returns 429 with error.code: "rate_limit_exceeded"
• Error responses include error.request_id matching the x-request-id response header
• Auth failure with wrong key logs a structured warn line (check server output)
• appliesTo: { languages: [] } in a create body returns 400
• appliesTo: { languages: ["TypeScript"] } stored as "typescript" in DB
• Docker image builds cleanly: docker build .

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Pull request overview

This PR hardens the Standards API across the repository, HTTP/middleware, validation/service, and container build layers—adding Prisma error translation, request tracing, rate limiting, input normalization, and smaller Docker build context.

Changes:

• Translate key Prisma errors into domain errors (409 conflict / 404 not found) and stabilize ordering for rule-key lookups.
• Add request ID generation, structured rate-limit responses, and improved auth-failure logging for write endpoints.
• Normalize and validate appliesTo inputs (lowercasing selected fields; rejecting empty arrays), plus Docker build/pinning improvements.

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File	Description
src/repositories/prisma-standards-repository.ts	Adds Prisma error translation and explicit ordering to reduce undefined behavior.
src/domain/errors.ts	Introduces/ensures domain error types for conflict and not-found cases.
src/app.ts	Registers global rate limiting, configures request IDs, and adds request_id to most error responses.
src/http/routes.ts	Applies per-route rate limits to write endpoints and logs structured auth failures.
src/services/standards-service.ts	Normalizes appliesTo values by lowercasing selected metadata arrays.
src/validation/standards.ts	Rejects empty appliesTo arrays when provided to avoid “matches nothing” surprises.
test/standards.test.ts	Adds a concurrency test intended to validate duplicate-create behavior.
Dockerfile	Pins Node image tag and switches to Alpine across stages.
.dockerignore	Excludes dev/test artifacts to reduce build context and image bloat.
package.json	Adds @fastify/rate-limit.
package-lock.json	Locks @fastify/rate-limit dependency resolution.

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