Guard --target local against cross-provisioning, and document the per-property ENV_FILE convention

[JohnRDOrazio]

Closes #34.

--target production and --target staging each name one instance. --target local does not — every property runs its own local Zitadel, so with a single shared .env.local whichever property was configured last wins.

The consequence was silent rather than loud. Provisioning property A while the env file still pointed at property B's instance succeeded: B's PAT is a valid IAM_OWNER there, so every API call went through and A's Project, roles and app landed inside B with completely normal-looking output. Both are "local", so there was no target name to tip anyone off.

Reproduced before the fix, running --target local --provision-litcal with cdcf-website's PAT:

[setup-zitadel] Provisioning LiturgicalCalendar
    ✓ Found LiturgicalCalendar Org: org-1
    ✓ Project already exists: LiturgicalCalendarAPI (proj-1)
    ✓ Added role: admin (System Administrator)
    ✓ Created OIDC API app: LiturgicalCalendarAPI Backend (app-1, ...)
=== LiturgicalCalendar handoff values ===
EXIT=0

All green, exit 0, LitCal provisioned into the wrong instance.

Ask 1 — the convention

ENV_FILE=.env.local.<property>, documented in --help and in a new auth/README.md section with the per-property table, the hazard, and the guard. No code change was needed for ENV_FILE itself — it has always overridden the default. .gitignore's .env.* already covers these files.

Ask 2 — the guard

Local stacks keep their PAT at <property>/.zitadel-data/automation-user.pat, so the owning property is readable from the PAT's own path. The script checks it against the stacks each action may target and exits 17 before writing anything:

[setup-zitadel] PAT file: /home/you/dev/cdcf-website/.zitadel-data/automation-user.pat
[setup-zitadel] Local property: cdcf-website
    ✗ --provision-martyrology belongs in martyrology-api or martyrology-frontend, but the resolved PAT belongs to cdcf-website.
    ⚠   Fix: ENV_FILE=.env.local.martyrology-api ./setup-zitadel.sh --target local --provision-martyrology

This is the issue's option (1), plus option (3)'s louder banner folded in — on local the issuer alone doesn't identify the instance, so the PAT path and inferred property print before anything runs.

Structural inference, not substring matching: basename(dirname(dirname(realpath PAT))). That distinguishes martyrology-api from martyrology-frontend, which a martyrology token would not.

An allow-list, not one property per action

Action	May run against
--provision-cdcf-website	cdcf-website
--provision-martyrology	martyrology-api, martyrology-frontend
--provision-martyrology-frontend	martyrology-frontend

A strict 1:1 mapping was the first thing built here, and checking the real consumers caught it refusing a correct run: martyrology-frontend/scripts/setup-stack.sh:106-109 invokes --provision-martyrology against its own instance, because the frontend authenticates there and needs the Martyrology Project and roles to exist in it. Pinning that action to martyrology-api would have broken that script the moment this merged.

What stays refused is the cross-family case, which is the one #34 actually reported: Martyrology provisioned while the PAT points at cdcf-website.

Both real consumers were run against the built guard and pass:

• martyrology-api/scripts/setup-stack.sh — --create-org Martyrology --provision-martyrology, PAT under martyrology-api/ → passes
• martyrology-frontend/scripts/setup-stack.sh — the same plus --provision-martyrology-frontend, PAT under martyrology-frontend/ → passes

Two more judgement calls worth reviewing

LitCal skips rather than refuses. --provision-litcal was the sharpest edge here — unlike the three *-frontend actions it has no origin list to come up empty, so nothing stopped it on local. But refusing would have broken the skip contract stated at setup-zitadel.sh:124-128 ("a non-zero exit would make --all unusable") and the selftest case pinning it. It now skips like the frontend already does, naming LiturgicalCalendarAPI/scripts/setup-zitadel.sh. Nothing is written either way; --target local --all keeps sweeping.

Instance-wide actions stay exempt. --create-orgs, --create-org, --rename-bootstrap-admin act on the instance, not a property — and --create-orgs is a prerequisite for bringing up a fresh local stack, so guarding it would make every local setup start with an override.

--target local --all is refused, since a sweep spans properties and no single PAT can be right for all of them.

Testing

setup-zitadel.selftest.sh goes 26 → 45 cases; all 45 pass. The 19 new ones cover the refusal (naming both sides), the matching-PAT pass, the allow-list cases in both directions, the frontend's real setup-stack invocation, the bare .env.local inferring nothing, the override, instance-wide exemptions, staging/production being unguarded, the local --all refusal, and the LitCal skip writing nothing.

The existing local cases now select their env file with ENV_FILE=.env.local.<property>, which exercises the documented convention rather than working around the guard. expect and expect_payload gained per-case env support for that.

setup-openfga.selftest.sh (18) and validate-expectations.selftest.sh (21) still pass unchanged.

Follow-ups

#34's Ask 1 also wanted the convention mirrored in each property's README. cdcf-website already has it (CatholicOS/cdcf-website#286); issues filed on martyrology-api and martyrology-frontend rather than keeping #34 open for cross-repo work.

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Walkthrough

The local Zitadel setup now supports property-specific environment files, detects PAT ownership, blocks mismatched local provisioning, skips LitCal locally, and rejects local --all. The self-test covers these rules and the README documents the required conventions.

Changes

Local property isolation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Local configuration contract auth/setup-zitadel.sh, auth/README.md	Documents property-specific ENV_FILE values, PAT ownership, exit code 17, override behavior, exemptions, and action registration requirements.
Local provisioning guard auth/setup-zitadel.sh	Adds PAT property detection, action property mapping, mismatch validation, no-origin skips, local LitCal skipping, and pre-dispatch validation.
Local guard validation auth/setup-zitadel.selftest.sh	Adds property-shaped sandboxes and tests for mismatches, overrides, exemptions, local skips, valid provisioning, update paths, and --all rejection.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e4e61

The change prevents local cross-provisioning in normal use, but an override still allows --target local --all to run with one property's credentials across multiple properties, which can place resources in the wrong instance. Merge should wait until local --all is refused regardless of the override.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant setup-zitadel.sh
  participant guard_local_property
  participant LocalZitadel
  Operator->>setup-zitadel.sh: Run local provisioning with property ENV_FILE
  setup-zitadel.sh->>guard_local_property: Compare PAT owner with action property
  guard_local_property-->>setup-zitadel.sh: Permit, skip, or return exit 17
  setup-zitadel.sh->>LocalZitadel: Execute permitted provisioning action

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In `@auth/setup-zitadel.sh`:
- Around line 301-304: In auth/setup-zitadel.sh around the local --all
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