feat: auth gate, rate limiting, and cost attribution

[stackbilt-admin]

Summary

Implements the three security-critical features from issue #18 (AgentRelay reference spec):

• Rate limiting — Sliding window per-tenant rate limiter using RATELIMIT_KV. Tier-based limits: free=20/min, hobby=60, pro=300, enterprise=1000. Returns 429 with standard Retry-After and X-RateLimit-* headers on all responses.

• Cost attribution — Per-tool credit costs with quality multipliers for image_generate. Reserves quota via edge-auth consumeQuota RPC before each tool call, then commits or refunds based on outcome. Zero-cost tools (read-only lookups) skip quota enforcement entirely.

• Scope enforcement — Mutation tools (LOCAL_MUTATION, EXTERNAL_MUTATION, DESTRUCTIVE) require the generate scope. tools/list filters the catalog to only show tools the session has access to. API keys with read-only scopes cannot invoke mutations.

New files

• src/rate-limiter.ts — Fixed-window rate limiter with KV TTL for auto-cleanup
• src/cost-attribution.ts — Tool cost registry, quota reservation/settlement
• test/rate-limiter.test.ts — 8 tests
• test/cost-attribution.test.ts — 17 tests

Modified files

• src/gateway.ts — Wire rate limiting after auth, quota reserve before tool call, scope check on tools/call
• src/types.ts — Add checkQuota, consumeQuota, commitOrRefundQuota to AuthServiceRpc; add RATELIMIT_KV to GatewayEnv
• wrangler.toml — Add RATELIMIT_KV namespace binding
• All test files — Updated mocks to include quota methods and RATELIMIT_KV

Test plan

• 25 new tests pass (rate-limiter: 8, cost-attribution: 17)
• All 116 non-oauth tests pass (0 regressions)
• TypeScript compiles cleanly (tsc --noEmit)
• Pre-existing oauth-handler.test.ts failures are unchanged (6 tests, same on main)
• Integration test: deploy to staging, send 21 requests with free-tier key, verify 429 on 21st
• Integration test: verify X-RateLimit-Remaining header decrements
• Integration test: call image_generate with ultra_plus quality, verify 40-credit cost

Closes #18

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[stackbilt-admin]

Review — blocked on CI + four pre-merge cleanups

Feature scope is sound — per-tenant rate limiting, tool cost registry with quality multipliers for image generation, quota reserve/settle via edge-auth RPC, scope-based tools/list filter and tools/call enforcement. The shape is right.

Concerns (in priority order)

1. No CI has ever run on this PR. Opened 2026-04-04, pre-dating the CI workflow added 2026-04-10. The "All 116 non-oauth tests pass" claim in the PR body is a 13-day-old local assertion. Main has absorbed fix(auth): accept ea_* prefix in isApiKey — unblocks static-bearer path for #28 #31, fix(oauth): route empty-scope initiates through consent screen (closes #28) #32, fix(oauth): rescue legacy grants via grant.scope fallback (closes #29) #33 prep, and fix(gateway): unwrap receipt envelope in flow_* proxy (closes #37) #40 since — this PR has never been validated against current main. Must rebase + push to trigger CI before any merge consideration. Likely needs fixture updates in oauth-handler.test.ts to match fix(oauth): route empty-scope initiates through consent screen (closes #28) #32/fix(gateway): unwrap receipt envelope in flow_* proxy (closes #37) #40 changes.

2. Dead-code branch in reserveQuota (src/cost-attribution.ts). The catch block checks const isReadOnly = cost.baseCost <= 0 — but the function already early-returns when cost.baseCost === 0. By the time execution reaches the catch, baseCost > 0 is guaranteed, so isReadOnly is always false and the if (isReadOnly) return { allowed: true } branch is unreachable. Delete the isReadOnly local and the branch — simpler code, same behavior (fail-closed for all quota-service errors).

3. Misleading comment in src/rate-limiter.ts. Says "Sliding window rate limiter" but the implementation is fixed-window (windowStart = now - (now % windowSeconds)). Either update the comment to "fixed window" or refactor to actual sliding window. Brute-force mitigation works either way — just don't mislead future maintainers.

4. Audit schema for rate-limited requests emits outcome: 'auth_denied' with risk_level: 'UNKNOWN' and tool: 'rate_limit'. Rate limiting isn't auth denial — consider adding a rate_limited outcome to the audit schema if it doesn't exist. Matters for downstream audit analytics, not blocking.

Naming collision heads-up (not a conflict)

PR #27 adds a function named checkRateLimit in src/oauth-handler.ts (throttles login/signup by email+IP, fixed signature kv, key, limit, windowSeconds). This PR adds a different function named checkRateLimit in src/rate-limiter.ts (throttles API by tenant tier, signature kv, key, tier, config?). Different files, different signatures, different use cases — they coexist fine. If the team ever wants to consolidate, this is the doorway to that conversation.

Test plan items still unchecked

• Staging deploy + 21-request 429 verification
• X-RateLimit-Remaining header decrement check
• image_generate with ultra_plus quality = 40-credit cost

This is billing-adjacent — silently wrong quota math costs real money. Exercise the integration tests before merge.

Required actions

• Rebase onto current main, force CI run
• Fix the dead-code branch in reserveQuota
• Fix the "Sliding window" comment
• Decide on rate_limited audit outcome vs keeping auth_denied
• Run the 3 integration tests

Once CI is green and the cleanups land, ship.

[stackbilt-admin]

Pre-merge integration test results

Ran the three integration tests from the PR's test plan against an uploaded preview version (ec2c83c1) over the live worker bindings, with previews enabled temporarily and rolled back after.

Results

Test 1 — Rate-limit 429 on free tier (20/min): PASS
21st request in the same window returned HTTP 429 with Retry-After: 35. Counter persists across multiple sessions on the same tenant via RATELIMIT_KV. Implementation behaves as specified.

Test 2 — X-RateLimit-Remaining decrement: PARTIAL
On the tools/call success path, headers emit and decrement cleanly: 5 sequential image_list_models calls returned X-RateLimit-Remaining: 17, 16, 15, 14, 13 with X-RateLimit-Limit: 20 and X-RateLimit-Reset populated. However, headers are NOT emitted on initialize, notifications/initialized, tools/list, or ping responses — only tools/call success and 429 denials carry them. The PR description ("X-RateLimit-* headers on all responses") doesn't match the code. Pick one: either tighten the description, or extend rateLimitHeaders() to all responses in handlePost.

Test 3 — ultra_plus = 40 credits: UNTESTABLE on free tier
Free-tier accounts hit enforceTierRestriction (src/gateway.ts:186) before quota reserve fires, returning Quality tier "ultra_plus" requires a Pro plan or higher at the gateway layer rather than going through reserveQuota. So the 5×8 multiplier path never executes for non-Pro users. Cost math is correct by inspection (src/cost-attribution.ts:46–52 × image_generate.baseCost: 5), but full end-to-end verification needs a Pro/Enterprise test tenant, which we don't have provisioned.

Out-of-scope findings worth a follow-up issue (not blockers)

• Audit outcome overloaded. gateway.ts:1322 (tier-restriction) and gateway.ts:1350 (quota-exceeded) both emit outcome: 'tier_denied'. Same fix shape as the rate_limited outcome added in cbc7783 — add quota_exceeded to the audit schema and use it on the quota-reserve path. Otherwise downstream analytics can't separate the two reject reasons.

• serverInfo metadata text is stale. The initialize response advertises image_generate as costing "1-20 credits depending on quality tier", but the actual table is 5 / 15 / 25 / 40 (standard / premium / ultra / ultra_plus). Either the text or the table needs updating.

• /api/scaffold REST endpoint bypasses rate-limit AND quota entirely. Predates this PR, but worth flagging because the PR description says "per-tenant rate limiting" — accurate only for /mcp traffic. CLI users hitting the REST endpoint are unmetered.

Recommendation

Ship as-is (CI green, code review cleanups landed). Open follow-ups for the three items above. Test 3's missing end-to-end verification is the only real gap — recommend either provisioning a Pro test tenant for one-time verification, or accepting code-level cost-table review as sufficient sign-off.