Measure uptake of the client-side local move-preview accelerator (§5) so
adoption can be watched before defaulting it on: app cold starts, dictionary
loads by result (fetched / cache_hit / miss) and move previews by path
(local / network — the backend load shed).
A small best-effort client beacon (POST /metrics/local-eval, session-gated)
batches counter deltas and posts them on a 60s timer and when the app is
backgrounded — never on the gameplay path: the in-app counters are plain
in-memory increments, only the periodic flush touches the network and it is
fire-and-forget. The gateway folds each batch into three OTel counters
(local_eval_cold_start_total, local_eval_dict_load_total,
local_eval_preview_total), clamped against a spoofed inflation.
- gateway: counters + recordLocalEval + session-gated /metrics/local-eval handler
- ui: localeval-metrics accumulator/beacon; hooks in the dict loader, in
Game.recompute and in bootstrap (skipped under the mock harness)
- caddy: route /metrics/* to the gateway
- docs: ARCHITECTURE §11; Grafana "Scrabble — Users" dashboard panels
Add a prod-only, in-memory IP ban enforced at the edge, fed by three signals:
sustained rate-limiter rejections (the IP-keyed public/email/admin classes — the
user class stays the backend soft-flag's concern), a honeypot decoy-path hit (the
contour caddy tags decoys with X-Scrabble-Honeypot and routes them to the gateway),
and a honeytoken (a planted bearer, GATEWAY_HONEYTOKEN). A banned IP is refused with
429 by the abuseGuard middleware before any work — covering the Connect edge, the
live stream and the static SPA/landing the per-op limiter never gated.
The ban is off by default: it keys by the real client IP the shared-NAT test contour
does not expose, so a ban there would be self-inflicted; detection still logs in the
contour, only the ban action is gated (GATEWAY_ABUSE_BAN_ENABLED). Rejection bans last
GATEWAY_ABUSE_BAN_DURATION; tripwire/honeytoken hits are near-zero-false-positive and
earn longer fixed bans. Each ban increments gateway_abuse_banned_total{reason}.
Operators see and lift active bans on the admin console's Throttled page; the gateway
syncs its active set to the backend every 30s (POST /api/v1/internal/bans/sync,
backend/internal/banview) and applies the operator unbans the response returns.
PRERELEASE phase AG. Docs baked into ARCHITECTURE / FUNCTIONAL (+ru) / both READMEs.
- GATEWAY_MAX_BODY_BYTES (1 MiB): connect WithReadMaxBytes + http.MaxBytesReader
on the public mux; explicit http2.Server MaxConcurrentStreams/IdleTimeout and
an http.Server ReadHeaderTimeout (R2 report follow-up).
- gateway_rate_limited_total{class} counter, Debug per rejection, a rejection
tracker drained every 30 s into a Warn summary per key and a report POST to
/api/v1/internal/ratelimit/report (feeds the admin view + auto-flag).
- The dead AdminPerMinute/AdminBurst policy now guards the /_gm mount (429),
ahead of its Basic-Auth.
- resolve() logs the cause of infra session-resolve failures at Warn (the
transient unauthenticated dips from the R2 run); unknown tokens stay silent.
- backend + gateway multi-stage distroless Dockerfiles; the gateway embeds and
serves the SPA at / and /telegram/ via go:embed (committed dist placeholder,
real build baked in by the image's node stage)
- deploy/docker-compose.yml: backend + gateway + Postgres + Telegram connector
(VPN sidecar) + OTel Collector + Prometheus (15d) + Tempo (72h) + Grafana,
fronted by a caddy owning a single /_gm Basic-Auth (admin console + Grafana
subpath); inter-service on a private network, only caddy on the edge network
- new metrics: backend accounts_created_total{kind} (robots excluded) and an
in-memory gateway active_users{window=24h,7d} gauge
- CI: single .gitea/workflows/ci.yaml (unit/integration/ui + a gated test-contour
deploy) on the new feature/* -> development -> master branch model; the old
go-unit/integration/ui-test workflows are folded in; the connector-scoped
compose is retired (superseded by deploy/)
- docs: ARCHITECTURE §11/§12/§13, root + gateway READMEs, CLAUDE.md branching,
PLAN.md (stage 16 done + refinements + Stage 17 forward-notes)
Ilia Denisov