The dzinesco SP9 seed had `paths.inbound` and `paths.outbound` mapped to
the wrong Gainwell MFT directories:
- paths.outbound was FromHPE/ (HPE sends files FROM here TO us — inbound)
- paths.inbound was ToHPE/ (we send files TO here — outbound)
So `/api/clearhouse/submit` was writing 837P claims to FromHPE (where
HPE puts acks/835s) and the SP16 scheduler was polling ToHPE (where our
claims go). 999 / TA1 / 835 files in the real FromHPE inbox were
unreachable.
Semantics per operator (2026-06-24):
- FromHPE = HPE/Gainwell → us = 999, TA1, 835 (inbound)
- ToHPE = us → HPE/Gainwell = 837P claims (outbound)
**Runtime code (the actual fix):**
- backend/src/cyclone/store.py — SP9 seed paths flipped
- backend/src/cyclone/edi/filenames.py — docstring corrected
**Test fixtures + assertions (would otherwise fail on the new seed):**
- backend/tests/test_clearhouse_api.py
- backend/tests/test_providers_seed.py
- backend/tests/test_sftp_stub.py — incl. inbound dir paths
- backend/tests/test_sftp_paramiko.py
- backend/tests/test_store_update_clearhouse.py
- backend/tests/test_api_clearhouse_patch.py
- backend/tests/test_scheduler.py
- backend/tests/test_api_scheduler.py
**Docs (text-only — keeps the codebase self-consistent):**
- README.md
- docs/reference/co-medicaid.md
- docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-20-cyclone-multi-payer-npi-sftp-design.md
**Operator action required after merge:** the existing clearhouse row in
`~/.local/share/cyclone/cyclone.db` was seeded with the old wrong
paths. Easiest recovery:
1. `rm ~/.local/share/cyclone/cyclone.db` and let `ensure_clearhouse_seeded` re-run on next boot, OR
2. PATCH /api/clearhouse with the new `paths` block (the SP25
reconfigure hook picks it up live, including by the running scheduler).
**Verification:**
- 82 tests in the affected files pass (test_clearhouse_api, test_providers_seed,
test_sftp_stub, test_sftp_paramiko, test_store_update_clearhouse,
test_api_clearhouse_patch, test_scheduler, test_api_scheduler, test_filenames).
- Full backend suite: 1029 pass + 36 pre-existing order-dependent flakes
unrelated to this change (verified by running the same tests in isolation).
After the 8-commit SP23 implementation landed, kicking the tires on
`docker compose build && docker compose up -d` (the gated DOCKER_TESTS=1
live test) surfaced five real bugs that don't show up in unit tests:
1. Backend wheel was built from the stub `__init__.py`, not the real
source. The Dockerfile's 'stub __init__, wheel, copy src, wheel
again' pattern silently kept the first wheel's contents — only
`__init__.py` got re-stubbed. The installed package had an empty
`__init__.py`, so `from cyclone import __version__` failed at import
time and the backend kept crashing in a restart loop.
Fix: single `COPY src/` + single `pip wheel`. Comment explains
why the stub trick is gone for good.
2. Backend binds to 127.0.0.1 (intentional — local-only by design,
see CLAUDE.md). But that means the frontend container can't reach
it over the compose bridge network — nginx got 'Connection refused'.
Fix: `CYCLONE_HOST` env var, defaults to 127.0.0.1 (preserves local
posture for non-Docker runs), set to 0.0.0.0 by the docker-compose
backend service. Network isolation is provided by the compose bridge
network (only `cyclone-frontend` joins).
3. Healthcheck probed `/api/healthz` (404 — the route is `/api/health`).
Same in: backend Dockerfile HEALTHCHECK, docker-compose healthcheck,
nginx.conf doesn't have one (frontend proxies through), RUNBOOK.md,
scripts/post-deploy.sh, scripts/smoke.sh.
Fix: `/api/healthz` → `/api/health` everywhere SP23 owns.
4. The auth matrix in `cyclone.auth.permissions` had
`("GET", "/api/healthz"): set()` — which is the WRONG path (the
route is `/api/health`). So even after fixing the healthcheck URL,
the public auth bypass wouldn't have applied to `/api/health` and
it would have been DENY-by-default (fail-closed).
Fix: matrix entry updated to `/api/health`.
5. nginx upstream pointed at `cyclone-backend` (the project+service
name), but compose v2 only resolves the bare service name (`backend`)
over the bridge network. nginx crashed at config-load with 'host not
found in upstream cyclone-backend'.
Fix: `cyclone-backend:8000` → `backend:8000` in nginx.conf + spec
+ plan.
6. Frontend HEALTHCHECK used `http://localhost:8080/`. nginx in the
alpine image listens on IPv6 (per the entrypoint's IPv6-by-default
script), so `localhost` (which prefers IPv6 `::1` in musl) connects,
but the resolved flow inside wget is unreliable. `127.0.0.1` works.
Fix: HEALTHCHECK uses `http://127.0.0.1:8080/`.
Also moves `frontend/Dockerfile` → `Dockerfile.frontend` and
`frontend/nginx.conf` → `nginx.conf` at repo root (because the
frontend lives at the repo root, not in `frontend/`, and compose's
`build.context: .` needs them at the same root as compose.yml).
The frontend's pre-existing `.dockerignore` was empty/unused, so it's
dropped — the root `.dockerignore` covers it.
Adds `docker-compose.override.yml` for local bring-up testing on a
host without sudo. Production uses `/etc/cyclone/secrets/` directly.
Verified end-to-end on this dev host with `DOCKER_TESTS=1`:
- Both containers `(healthy)` within ~60s
- `curl http://localhost:8080/api/health` → 200 with valid JSON
- Login as admin → 200, /api/auth/me → 200
- `POST /api/parse-837` with docs/goodclaim.x12 → 200, batch created
- Full backend test suite: 1014 passed, 9 skipped (prodfiles gitignored)
Auth landed in main on 2026-06-23 (migrations 0013/0014, cyclone.auth package, bcrypt + matrix_gate, Login.tsx + AuthProvider + RoleGate, CYCLONE_AUTH_DISABLED escape hatch). The original draft was written 2026-06-22 and proposed argon2id, admin/operator/viewer roles, a fresh migration 0012, and an inline require_role dependency. All of that is already in main. Add a 1.1 Delta vs. main section and switch role names from operator to user to match cyclone.auth.permissions.Role.
Replaces every stale 'no auth' / 'no authentication' / 'no second party to
authenticate' claim in the three top-level docs with the v1 posture: the
auth boundary is HTTP (bcrypt + HttpOnly session cookie; first admin
bootstrapped from CYCLONE_ADMIN_USERNAME + CYCLONE_ADMIN_PASSWORD env
vars); the file-system posture (SQLCipher at rest, macOS Keychain) is
unchanged; the threat model is still a stolen/imaged drive.
Closes requirements §11 R-1 (was Open; now Closed by SP24 — auth shipped
via the origin/main merge on 2026-06-23, SP24 reconciled the docs).
Also:
- backend/src/cyclone/__main__.py — emit WARNING when AUTH_DISABLED is
True at boot so a misconfigured production deploy fails loudly
- §6.1 migrations table in ARCHITECTURE.md — list 0013 (auth_users_and_
sessions) and 0014 (audit_log_user_id) with the renumbering note
- §4.2 module map — add the cyclone.auth.* package
- Three skills addenda: cyclone-tests (AUTH_DISABLED conftest bypass is
mandatory context), cyclone-api-router (every router needs
Depends(matrix_gate)), cyclone-spec (spec template threat-model is now
auth-aware)
This also tracks CLAUDE.md in git for the first time (was previously
untracked; the SP24 doc updates are in scope for the increment).
Spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-23-cyclone-auth-posture-alignment-design.md
Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-06-23-cyclone-auth-posture-alignment.md
The auth-merge that landed on 2026-06-23 (14 commits, a25504b..39ae988)
adds real auth: User/Session models, bcrypt, matrix_gate, AUTH_DISABLED,
a login router, RBAC on every existing endpoint, and a RequireAuth
guard on the React shell. But CLAUDE.md, docs/REQUIREMENTS.md, and
docs/ARCHITECTURE.md (all added/updated on the css-reduction branch)
still describe the pre-auth "no auth, local-only, single operator,
single host" posture. The doc/code divergence is real and would
confuse anyone reading the docs.
This is the spec for SP24 — the alignment. It is intentionally a
docs/skills-only SP: no schema, no role, no gate changes. The plan
section enumerates the doc lines to update; the implementation step
sweeps the markdown for residual "no auth" claims.
Draft, awaiting user sign-off per the SP-N spec flow.
The implementer caught that claims.id is a single-column PK, which
prevents the same CLM01 from existing in multiple batches. That
makes the spec's pre-flight 409 workflow unreachable and resubmits
impossible. Migration 0014 relaxes the PKs to composite (batch_id,
id) on both claims and remittances, and updates all FKs that
referenced the old single-column PK. Task 1.3 in the plan is now
the migration; the previous Task 1.3 (helper tightening) is
renumbered to Task 1.4 and will run after 0014 lands.
Adds pure local validators for the 10-digit NPI Luhn checksum (CMS-
published algorithm with the '80840' NPPES prefix) and 9-digit EIN
format (rejects reserved prefixes 00/07/80-89). No NPPES round-trip,
no IRS e-file lookup — catches the 99% typo case at parse time.
Surface:
- cyclone.npi.is_valid_npi / is_valid_tax_id / normalize_tax_id
- CLI: 'cyclone validate-npi <npi>' and 'cyclone validate-tax-id <ein>'
- API: GET /api/admin/validate-provider?npi=&tax_id=
- Parser validator: new R021_npi_checksum rule (warning, not error,
to keep test fixtures with placeholder NPIs ingestible)
- minimal_837p.txt fixture NPI updated from '1234567890' to the
Luhn-valid '1993999998' so strict-mode CLI parses still pass
Tests:
- test_npi.py — 27 cases (Luhn math, valid/invalid NPIs, EIN cases,
normalize_tax_id edge cases)
- test_api_validate_provider.py — 4 cases (both valid, both invalid,
omitted NPI, omitted tax_id)
- test_cli_validate.py — 8 cases (valid/invalid for both subcommands,
exit codes, malformed inputs)
- test_validator.py — 4 new R021 cases (valid Luhn silent, bad Luhn
warning, skipped when format bad, skipped when NPI missing)
Total: 923 tests pass.
Step 4 of the file-split refactor series. Targets backend/src/cyclone/store.py
(2,412 lines) which sits on the hot path of parse-999, parse-277ca,
reconciliation, and inbox match/unmatch.
Decisions locked:
- Public surface: cyclone/store/ subpackage + thin facade (__init__.py
re-exports every currently-importable name).
- Class shape: module functions for bodies, CycloneStore keeps its current
method signatures as 1-line delegations.
- Helper distribution: dedicated utility modules (records, orm_builders,
ui, exceptions).
13 target modules total; largest is write.py at ~210 lines. Zero public API
changes, zero test changes. Single atomic commit migration; rollback is a
single git revert.
Three pure-ASGI middlewares close completeness-review gaps §3.1.4
(no body/rate limits) and §3.1.25 (no security headers):
- BodySizeLimitMiddleware — rejects oversized uploads (50 MB
default, CYCLONE_MAX_BODY_BYTES override). 413 on over-cap
Content-Length and on chunked reads that cross the cap.
- RateLimitMiddleware — sliding-window per-IP limiter (300/min
default, CYCLONE_RATE_LIMIT_PER_MIN override). 429 over the
window. /api/health is exempt.
- SecurityHeadersMiddleware — stamps X-Content-Type-Options,
X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, and a
strict Content-Security-Policy on every response.
Every 413/429 also writes a tamper-evident api.request_rejected
event into the SP11 audit chain so an operator can correlate
rejections with the SP18 JSON logs.
GET /api/health is rewritten to return a subsystem snapshot:
DB connectivity (SELECT 1), MFT scheduler state, backup scheduler
state, live pubsub subscriber counts, last batch id + timestamp.
Returns status='degraded' if any subsystem is unhappy; per-subsystem
errors surfaced in the respective dict.
Cyclone.pubsub.EventBus.stats() — new method for live subscriber
counts.
13 new tests (test_security.py) + 1 updated (test_api.py health
endpoint). All 883 backend tests pass.
Cyclone previously emitted stdlib default-formatted log lines that
operators couldn't parse with anything beyond grep. SP18 replaces
that with:
- JsonFormatter: newline-delimited JSON, ISO-8601 ms timestamps,
structured "extra" dict, exception tracebacks serialized as a
single string.
- CycloneDevFormatter: tabular format for tail -f in dev.
- PiiScrubber: logging.Filter that redacts NPIs, SSNs, DOBs,
patient names — both inline in the message ("npi 1881068062")
and via PHI-keyed extras ({"dob": "1980-04-12"}).
- setup_logging(): idempotent entry point used by the API lifespan
and CLI main; respects CYCLONE_LOG_LEVEL/FILE/JSON/NO_PII_SCRUB.
- CLI --log-format=json|dev + --log-file=… flags.
- Migrate 9 highest-value log sites in scheduler/backup_scheduler/
backup_service to use extra={...} (input_filename, claims, parser,
backup_id, db_fingerprint, etc.).
34 new tests (test_logging_formatter + test_logging_scrubber +
test_logging_setup). All 867 backend tests pass.
Adds automated encrypted backups of the live SQLite file. Closes the
'no backup automation' gap called out in the completeness review
(docs/reviews/2026-06-20-cyclone-completeness-review.md §3.1 #3) and
gives the SP16 MFT scheduler a recovery path when the MFT pipeline
loses days of inbound 999/277CA work in a single crash.
Architecture
------------
- AES-256-GCM with PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 (200,000 iters, 16-byte salt)
- Online backups via SQLite's .backup() API — no app downtime
- Salt + passphrase persisted to macOS Keychain (separate accounts
backup.passphrase + backup.salt) so the key is reproducible across
processes
- Two-step restore (initiate → confirm) with a one-shot 64-char hex
token; the second call disposes + rebuilds the engine only if the
token matches within a 5-minute TTL
- Tamper-evident audit chain (SP11) — db.backup_created,
db.backup_failed, db.backup_pruned, db.backup_restored,
db.backup_passphrase_set
- BackupService + BackupScheduler + module-level singletons
- 8 admin endpoints + 6 CLI subcommands
- Auto-start opt-in via CYCLONE_BACKUP_AUTOSTART=true; default
interval 24h, default retention 30 days
- Fallback posture: if no separate passphrase is set and SQLCipher
is enabled, the key is derived from the SQLCipher DB key with a
fixed salt + WARNING log (degraded but never plaintext)
New modules
-----------
- cyclone.backup — PBKDF2, AES-GCM, sidecar format
- cyclone.backup_service — create_now / list / verify / restore / prune / status
- cyclone.backup_scheduler — async tick loop with audit hooks
New surface
-----------
- 8 admin endpoints under /api/admin/backup/*
- 6 CLI subcommands under cyclone backup (init-passphrase, create,
list, verify, restore, prune, status)
- Migration 0012_backups.sql + DbBackup ORM
- store.add_backup_pending()
Tests
-----
- 14 unit tests in test_backup_crypto.py (key derivation, encrypt/
decrypt round-trip, tampered ciphertext, wrong passphrase, sidecar
round-trip, filename format)
- 19 tests in test_backup_service.py (create/list/verify/restore/
prune/status, error handling, fallback key, module singleton)
- 14 API tests in test_api_backup.py (all 8 endpoints + scheduler
endpoints, two-step restore, error responses)
- 10 tests in test_backup_scheduler.py (tick / start / stop /
audit / coalescing / module singleton)
- 5 CLI tests in test_cli_backup.py (create / list / verify /
restore confirm prompt / prune confirm prompt /
init-passphrase minimum-length check)
Total new tests: 62. All pass. Full backend suite: 833 passed,
9 skipped (gitignored prodfiles), 1 warning.
Design doc: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-06-21-cyclone-encrypted-backup-design.md
README: new 'Encrypted Backups (SP17)' section, SP17 entry in
Roadmap, retention default documented in §Project layout.
Sub-project 7 adds serialize_837.py so a parsed ClaimOutput can be
regenerated as a complete X12 837P file (the shape of
docs/prodfiles/claims/). Unblocks the SP6 resubmit lane end-to-end
and adds a 'Download 837' affordance on the claim drawer.
Approach: hybrid (fresh envelope + selective body rebuild). Stable
segments (provider/subscriber/payer hierarchies) pass through from
claim.raw_segments; editable segments (CLM, REF*G1, HI, SV1, DTP*472)
are rebuilt from canonical ClaimOutput fields so post-parse edits
propagate to the output.
Out of scope: 997 ACK, claim <-> TA1/999 linking, in-app claim
editing UI, multi-CLM envelope batching, Inbox/drawer redesign.
Replaces the in-memory store with SQLite via SQLAlchemy 2.0; adds
automatic 837P ↔ 835 reconciliation on every 835 parse; ships a
manual /reconciliation page; extends the claim lifecycle to a
7-state model with reversal handling.
Key decisions (locked from brainstorming):
- SQLite at ~/.local/share/cyclone/cyclone.db, overridable via
CYCLONE_DB_URL (Postgres escape hatch)
- SQLAlchemy 2.0 sync ORM; PRAGMA user_version migration runner
- Strict auto-match on patient_control_number (CLM01 == CLP01)
within +/-7 days of service_date
- 7-state claim model with reversal that sets Claim.state=REVERSED
and preserves prior state on Match.prior_claim_state
- Reconciliation triggered inside store.add() after ERA persist;
fail-soft (logged + activity event, never blocks parse)
- 3 new API endpoints; new /reconciliation page; same palette
and aesthetic voice as sub-project 1
Spec is approved-section-by-section and self-reviewed.
- Approved design for the Python 837P parser module under backend/
- Pydantic v2, click CLI, structural + CO Medicaid validation
- One JSON file per claim, summary.json, continue-on-failure
- Includes .gitignore for the Python + Node stack
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