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Review: feat(appeals): foundations

  • Gather context (read changed files, docs)
  • Review DB schema & migration
  • Review API routes (config, unappealable users)
  • Review util logic (appealsBans, appealsPresence)
  • Review env / constants / realtime channels
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This is a strong, well-documented foundation. The schema is careful (exhaustive appeals_decision_check with ELSE false, the partial unique index for one open appeal per (guild, user, kind), the silent-only-on-denial check), the env/test-stub wiring is complete across all three stub files, and the probeGuildBan design + tests are excellent. Only one small correctness edge case, plus a few notes.

Correctness

  • updateConfig.ts — empty PATCH body 500s on an already-configured guild. Flagged inline. Every field is optional, so {} validates, skips the first-save guard, and renders an empty ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE SET clause → syntax error. Low severity (dashboard won't send it; modmail/config/updateConfig.ts shares the shape), but a columns.length === 0 short-circuit closes it cleanly.

Notes (non-blocking)

  • appealsBans.ts:96redis.del on every successful probe. One extra round-trip per probe even when no block key exists. Intentional and documented (recovery can precede TTL expiry), and probes aren't a hot path, so fine — noting only for completeness.
  • listUnappealableUsers.ts:45 — unbounded Promise.all over resolveDiscordUser. On a cold user cache a long list fans out one Discord request per row concurrently. Matches modmail/blocks/listBlocks.ts and is cache-backed, so consistent with the codebase; just be aware the ceiling is the list length.
  • appeal_user_state.refresh_token is a Discord OAuth refresh token. The schema comment correctly commits it to encrypt()/decrypt() (same AES-256-GCM path as modmail_instances.token). No writer exists yet in this PR — just make sure the P-later code that populates it actually routes through crypt.ts rather than storing plaintext, since the column type gives no enforcement.

Things I verified

  • All 7 APPEALS_* env vars are present in env.ts and mirrored in .env.public (public values) / .env.private.example (secrets) and in all three test stubs (stubEnv.ts, testEnv.ts, env.test.ts) — so boot-time envSchema.parse and the suites stay green.
  • Bots (bots.tsx) is satisfies Record<BotId, ...>, so the new APPEALS BotId is exhaustively handled; routes are mounted in app.ts and re-exported for contract inference in index.ts.
  • Concurrent first-saves don't double-seed appeal_questions: the INSERT ... ON CONFLICT on appeals_settings serializes the two transactions on guild_id, so the second sees the seeded questions and skips.

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The PR adds the Appeals subsystem foundation. It defines environment contracts and database tables, exposes guild configuration and unappealable-user APIs, adds Discord presence and ban utilities, and registers Appeals branding in the website.

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Appeals foundation

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Appeals contracts and runtime channels
.env.private.example, .env.public, packages/private/backend-core/src/lib/env.ts, packages/private/core/src/lib/constants.ts, packages/private/core/src/lib/realtimeChannels.ts, packages/private/*/src/lib/__tests__/*
Adds required Appeals environment variables, the APPEALS bot identifier, default questions, validation limits, realtime channels, and test environment values.
Appeals persistence model
packages/private/db/migrations/..., packages/private/db/schema/schema.sql, packages/private/db/src/index.ts
Adds Appeals enums, settings, questions, lifecycle records, answers, events, ban checks, restrictions, appellant state, constraints, indexes, and generated type exports.
Guild configuration and restrictions API
services/api/src/routes/appeals/..., services/api/src/app.ts, services/api/src/index.ts, services/api/package.json, services/api/src/__tests__/stubEnv.ts
Adds authenticated configuration and unappealable-user routes with validation, Discord channel checks, transactional upserts, default question seeding, user resolution, deletion, and package exports.
Discord client, presence, and ban checks
services/api/src/util/discordAPI.ts, services/api/src/util/appealsPresence.ts, services/api/src/util/appealsBans.ts, services/api/src/bin.ts, services/api/src/util/__tests__/appealsBans.test.ts
Adds the Appeals Discord client, guild-list polling through a synthetic shard index, ban probing with Redis blocking and database caching, and related tests.
Website branding and roadmap status
apps/website/src/components/icons/SvgAppeals.tsx, apps/website/src/utils/bots.tsx, docs/roadmap/09-appeals.md
Adds the Appeals icon and bot branding, and updates the roadmap with shipped phases and implementation details.

Priority: ➖ Normal — Schedule the Appeals foundation because it introduces configuration, persistence, API routes, Discord integration, and website branding across the product.

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Appeals navigation can lead users to a not-found page, presence can temporarily be stale, and a permitted configuration update can fail. These should be addressed before merge.

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const [settings] = await tx<AppealsSettings[]>`
INSERT INTO appeals_settings ${tx({ guildId, ...data }, 'guildId', ...columns)}
ON CONFLICT (guild_id) DO UPDATE SET ${tx(data, ...columns)}
RETURNING *
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Edge case: an empty PATCH body ({}) on an already-configured guild produces invalid SQL. Every field in updateAppealsConfigBodySchema is optional, so {} passes validation; existing is truthy so the modChannelId-required guard doesn't fire; then columns is [], and the conflict path renders ON CONFLICT (guild_id) DO UPDATE SET (nothing) RETURNING * — a syntax error surfacing as a 500 rather than a clean no-op/400.

The dashboard won't send an empty body in practice, and modmail/config/updateConfig.ts has the same latent shape, so this is low severity. Still worth a short-circuit for a public-facing API:

if (columns.length === 0) {
    // nothing to change; return the current row as-is
}

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In `@apps/website/src/utils/bots.tsx`:
- Line 22: Update the GuildNav handling of Bots.APPEALS so it does not render
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In `@services/api/src/routes/appeals/config/updateConfig.ts`:
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ensure non-empty updates continue building assignments from columns while {}
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MODMAIL: { Icon: SvgModmail, label: 'ModMail' },
SOCIAL: { Icon: SvgSocial, label: 'Social' },
AUTOMODERATOR: { Icon: SvgAutoModerator, label: 'AutoModerator' },
APPEALS: { Icon: SvgAppeals, label: 'Appeals' },

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add the APPEALS dashboard route or exclude it from GuildNav.

When guild.bots contains APPEALS, GuildNav can render /dashboard/${guild.id}/appeals. No corresponding dashboard route exists, so navigation reaches not-found. Keep Bots.APPEALS for branding, and gate this nav item until the route ships.

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In `@apps/website/src/utils/bots.tsx` at line 22, Update the GuildNav handling of
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const columns = Object.keys(data) as (keyof typeof data)[];

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Reject an empty PATCH body.

updateAppealsConfigBodySchema accepts {} because all fields are optional. For an existing guild, the postgres update builder receives no columns and generates no assignments for ON CONFLICT ... DO UPDATE SET, so PostgreSQL rejects the upsert. Add a non-empty-body refinement or handle an empty update before the upsert.

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In `@services/api/src/routes/appeals/config/updateConfig.ts` at line 79, Reject an
empty PATCH body in the updateAppealsConfig flow, using
updateAppealsConfigBodySchema or an equivalent guard before the postgres upsert;
ensure non-empty updates continue building assignments from columns while {}
returns the established validation/error response instead of generating an empty
ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE SET clause.

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logger.error({ err: error }, 'initial Appeals guild list poll failed');
}

pollTimer ??= setInterval(async () => {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Prevent overlapping presence polls.

When a poll runs longer than 30 seconds, setInterval starts another poll before the first one settles. syncShardGuildList removes stale IDs and then adds the supplied IDs without a freshness guard, so an older poll can re-add a guild after a newer poll removes it. Serialize the polls or schedule the next poll only after the current poll settles.

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In `@services/api/src/util/appealsPresence.ts` at line 87, Update the polling
logic around pollTimer and syncShardGuildList to prevent concurrent polls:
replace the fixed setInterval scheduling with serialized execution that
schedules the next poll only after the current poll settles, while preserving
the existing polling cadence and cleanup behavior.

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Review: feat(appeals): foundations

  • Gather context (diff vs origin/main, docs)
  • Review DB schema & migration
  • Review API routes (config, unappealable users)
  • Review util logic (appealsBans) + appeals-bot gateway
  • Review env / constants / realtime / infra wiring
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This synchronize pushed a second commit (refactor(appeals): commit to gateway after all) that replaces the HTTP guild-list poll with a real gateway process (services/appeals-bot) and deletes appealsPresence.ts. That rework is clean: services/appeals-bot/src/bin.ts is a faithful copy of social-bot's boot sequence, banEvents.ts is careful (update-only, never insert, with the mandatory try/catch around the listener that registerFatalErrorHandlers requires), the intents choice is justified and non-privileged, and the compose/Dockerfile/Prometheus/env wiring all follow the existing per-bot pattern exactly. It also resolves CodeRabbit's overlapping-poll finding by construction — appealsPresence.ts no longer exists.

The rest of the foundation remains as strong as the first review found it. My findings this pass:

Correctness / comment accuracy

  • Two comments went stale in the gateway rework — flagged inline. constants.ts still says APPEALS has "no gateway process behind it at all" and cites the deleted appealsPresence.ts; schema.sql says "Nothing here is written by a gateway process", which the new banEvents.ts (UPDATE appeal_ban_checks on every ban event) now directly contradicts. Given CLAUDE.md treats these "why" comments as load-bearing, they're worth correcting in this PR rather than leaving a trail pointing at a design that was abandoned two days later.
  • updateConfig.ts — empty PATCH body still 500s on an already-configured guild. Reaffirmed inline; unchanged since the first review and CodeRabbit both flagged it. Low severity (dashboard never sends {}), one columns.length === 0 short-circuit closes it.

Notes (non-blocking)

  • bots.tsx renders an Appeals nav tab pointing at a route P2 hasn't built (CodeRabbit's point). The author documented this as an accepted, harmless-until-P2 tradeoff in docs/roadmap/09-appeals.md (§P1, "harmless while the bot is in no production guild, and the first thing P2 closes"), driven by the satisfies Record<BotId, ...> compile-order constraint. Reasonable to leave as-is given that rationale; noting so it's a conscious call.
  • Doc drift in docs/roadmap/09-appeals.md — the P1 file manifest (line ~469) still lists appealsPresence.ts "(new)" and line ~465 says "six APPEALS_* vars" when there are now seven (APPEALS_METRICS_PORT came with the gateway). The later "What landed differently" section corrects the poll story well; the manifest and the count just weren't updated to match.
  • banEvents.ts counts a zero-row update as outcome: 'primed' — intentional and fine for the metric's stated purpose (proving the GuildModeration intent delivers at all), just flagging that primed therefore can't distinguish "refreshed a cached row" from "no cached row to refresh". The logger.info on updated > 0 covers that gap.

Things I verified

  • All seven APPEALS_* env vars are present in env.ts and mirrored across .env.public/.env.private.example and all three test stubs (stubEnv.ts, testEnv.ts, env.test.ts), so envSchema.parse at boot and the suites stay green.
  • APIMapping gets its APPEALS entry (required for the Record<BotId, API> to compile), routes are mounted in app.ts and re-exported from index.ts for contract inference, and services/api/package.json exposes ./appeals-schemas for the dashboard.
  • appeals-bot's compose entry, Dockerfile COPY, and Prometheus job (port 7010) all match the established per-bot shape.

I did not run yarn build/lint/test (review-only, no changes made); the above is from reading the diff against origin/main.
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// 'APPEALS' (#232, docs/roadmap/09-appeals.md P1) is the first entry here with no gateway process behind it at
// all -- it is an application id, an interactions endpoint and a bot token `services/api` holds. Its guild list
// is published by a poll rather than by GUILD_CREATE/GUILD_DELETE (`services/api/src/util/appealsPresence.ts`),
// which is what keeps `me.ts` and the dashboard needing no special case for it.

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Stale comment after the gateway rework. The second commit (refactor(appeals): commit to gateway after all) made services/appeals-bot a real gateway process and deleted services/api/src/util/appealsPresence.ts, but this comment still says APPEALS is "the first entry here with no gateway process behind it at all" and that its guild list "is published by a poll ... (services/api/src/util/appealsPresence.ts)". Both are now false, and one of the two references is to a file that no longer exists. Per CLAUDE.md's comment-culture rule these "why" comments are load-bearing, so this actively misleads the next reader.

Suggested rewrite:

// 'APPEALS' (#232, docs/roadmap/09-appeals.md) has a gateway process like every other bot -- see
// `services/appeals-bot`. It holds a gateway connection purely for the two things HTTP cannot give it: a
// correct guild list (so `me.ts` and the dashboard need no special case for it) and ban-list events.

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-- decided from either Discord or the dashboard. Nothing here is written by a gateway process -- the Appeals
-- bot is an application id, an interactions endpoint and a bot token `services/api` holds.

-- Per-guild Appeals configuration. A row here means the guild has finished setup; the Appeals bot merely
-- being present (the `bot:APPEALS` guild list, published by `services/api/src/util/appealsPresence.ts`) is
-- what the dashboard's setup CTA keys off instead. The two are genuinely different states and the CTA has to

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Same stale framing as constants.ts, and here it's directly contradicted by code in this PR. This comment says "Nothing here is written by a gateway process -- the Appeals bot is an application id, an interactions endpoint and a bot token services/api holds" and that presence is "published by services/api/src/util/appealsPresence.ts".

After the gateway rework, services/appeals-bot/src/lib/banEvents.ts runs on the gateway and issues UPDATE appeal_ban_checks ... on every GUILD_BAN_ADD/GUILD_BAN_REMOVE — so a gateway process does write to a table in this schema, and appealsPresence.ts no longer exists. Worth updating both sentences so the schema's authoritative comment matches the shipped design.

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const [settings] = await tx<AppealsSettings[]>`
INSERT INTO appeals_settings ${tx({ guildId, ...data }, 'guildId', ...columns)}
ON CONFLICT (guild_id) DO UPDATE SET ${tx(data, ...columns)}

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Reaffirming the still-open edge case (flagged in the prior review and by CodeRabbit, not yet addressed): an empty PATCH body {} on an already-configured guild reaches here with columns === [], so ${tx(data, ...columns)} renders an ON CONFLICT (guild_id) DO UPDATE SET clause with no assignments → SQL error surfacing as a 500 rather than a clean no-op. Low severity (the dashboard never sends {}), but for a public API a short-circuit closes it cleanly:

if (columns.length === 0) {
    // nothing to change -- return the current settings + questions unchanged
    const [settings] = await db<AppealsSettings[]>`SELECT * FROM appeals_settings WHERE guild_id = ${guildId}`;
    const questions = await db<AppealQuestions[]>`
        SELECT * FROM appeal_questions WHERE guild_id = ${guildId} ORDER BY position ASC, id ASC
    `;
    return { settings: settings!, questions };
}

(or a .refine(...) on updateAppealsConfigBodySchema rejecting an empty object with a 400). modmail/config/updateConfig.ts shares the shape if you want to fix both.

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Review: feat(appeals): foundations

  • Gather context (diff vs origin/main, new chore: review pass commit)
  • Review DB schema & migration
  • Review API routes (config, unappealable users)
  • Review util logic (appealsBans) + appeals-bot gateway
  • Review env / constants / realtime / infra wiring
  • Post review feedback

The chore: review pass commit (7deb9bf) cleanly closed every finding from the two prior rounds: the empty-PATCH-body 500 in updateConfig.ts is now a documented no-op via a columns.length branch that reads the row back (and still seeds the questionnaire, which is a nice touch); the stale constants.ts comment and the schema section header were both rewritten for the gateway design; the metric now splits refreshed from uncached, which genuinely answers a different question than the old primed; and the doc manifest/env-count drift is gone. Good pass.

I found one remaining instance of the same stale-comment class that the pass missed, plus the standing non-blocking notes.

Correctness / comment accuracy

  • schema.sql:1527 still references the deleted appealsPresence.ts — flagged inline. The section-header comment (1521-1524) and constants.ts were both corrected, but the appeals_settings table comment still says presence is "published by services/api/src/util/appealsPresence.ts". That file is deleted in this PR; presence now comes from services/appeals-bot's gateway. Per CLAUDE.md's load-bearing-comment rule this points the next reader at a design abandoned in this very PR, so worth folding into the branch. (docs/roadmap/09-appeals.md:490 names the file too, but deliberately — "no longer exists" — so that one is correct as-is.)

Notes (non-blocking, unchanged from prior rounds)

  • bots.tsx renders an Appeals nav tab ahead of its P2 dashboard route. Documented as an accepted, harmless-until-P2 tradeoff in docs/roadmap/09-appeals.md §P1, forced by the satisfies Record<BotId, ...> compile-order constraint. Conscious call; fine to leave.
  • appeal_user_state.refresh_token is a Discord OAuth refresh token. The schema comment (1741-1745) correctly commits it to encrypt()/decrypt(). No writer exists yet in this PR — just ensure the P-later code that populates it routes through crypt.ts, since TEXT gives no enforcement.
  • listUnappealableUsers.ts:45 fans out resolveDiscordUser over the whole list with an unbounded Promise.all. Cache-backed and consistent with modmail/blocks/listBlocks.ts, so fine; the ceiling is just the list length on a cold cache.

Things I verified

  • services/appeals-bot/src/bin.ts follows the standard bot-core boot sequence (context → shutdown handlers → rest → gateway → client → metrics server before gateway.connect()); intents are Guilds | GuildModeration, both non-privileged, matching the documented rationale.
  • banEvents.ts is update-only (never inserts), wraps the listener in the mandatory try/catch that registerFatalErrorHandlers requires, and clears ban_reason on re-ban with a correct justification.
  • probeGuildBan backs off on 403/404 with a TTL block and writes definite answers through to appeal_ban_checks; the after = userId - 1n + limit=1 trick is sound.
  • Migration vs schema.sql agree (enums, the partial unique index on open appeals, the exhaustive appeals_decision_check with ELSE false, the silent ⇒ DENIED check); realtime channels appealsConfigChannel/appealsUnappealableUsersChannel exist and keep the guild-scoped <domain>:<guildId>:... shape the WS auth path requires.

I did not run yarn build/lint/test (review-only, no changes made); the above is from reading the diff against origin/main.
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-- table's own comment for why it may only ever UPDATE them, never INSERT.

-- Per-guild Appeals configuration. A row here means the guild has finished setup; the Appeals bot merely
-- being present (the `bot:APPEALS` guild list, published by `services/api/src/util/appealsPresence.ts`) is

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One stale reference survived the review pass. The section-header comment above (lines 1521-1524) was correctly rewritten to say the guild list comes from the gateway, and constants.ts was fixed too -- but this appeals_settings comment still says presence is "published by services/api/src/util/appealsPresence.ts", a file this PR deletes. Presence now comes from services/appeals-bot's ordinary GUILD_CREATE/GUILD_DELETE path.

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-- being present (the `bot:APPEALS` guild list, published by `services/api/src/util/appealsPresence.ts`) is
-- being present (the `bot:APPEALS` guild list, published by `services/appeals-bot`'s gateway client) is

(docs/roadmap/09-appeals.md:490 also names the file, but there it's a deliberate historical note -- "util/appealsPresence.ts no longer exists" -- so leave that one.)

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Review: feat(appeals): foundations

  • Gather context (diff vs origin/main, latest commit 1786432)
  • Verify prior findings were addressed
  • Review DB schema & migration
  • Review API routes + util logic + gateway
  • Review env / infra wiring
  • Post review feedback

This synchronize pushed a second chore: review pass (1786432). It closes the last outstanding item from the previous round, and I found no new issues on a fresh read of the diff. This is ready from a correctness standpoint.

Prior findings — all resolved

  • updateConfig.ts empty PATCH body — fixed. columns.length now branches: a non-empty body upserts, an empty body reads the row back (SELECT * ... WHERE guild_id), so ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE SET is never rendered empty. The guard above already rejects the only case where no row exists to read, so settings! is sound, and the questionnaire seeding still runs on the empty path (a genuinely useful "repair missing questions" affordance). Comment at updateConfig.ts:92-97 explains it well.
  • Stale gateway comments (constants.ts, schema.sql section header, and schema.sql:1527) — all corrected. constants.ts no longer claims Appeals has "no gateway process"; the appeals_settings comment now reads "published by services/appeals-bot's gateway connection"; the section header correctly notes appeals-bot refreshes appeal_ban_checks via GUILD_BAN_ADD/REMOVE and points at that table's UPDATE-only comment.
  • Metric primedrefreshed/uncached split and doc manifest/env-count drift — both landed in the prior pass and remain correct.

Things I verified this pass

  • Migration ↔ schema agree. 20260908112543_add_appeals.sql matches schema.sql: the exhaustive appeals_decision_check with ELSE false, the appeals_silent_check (NOT silent OR status = 'DENIED'), the partial unique index appeals_open_per_user_idx on ('PENDING','NEEDS_MORE_INFO'), and all FKs/ON DELETE CASCADE are identical on both sides.
  • banEvents.ts is update-only (never inserts), clears ban_reason on re-ban with a documented justification, and wraps the listener in the mandatory try/catch registerFatalErrorHandlers requires.
  • probeGuildBan returns null for "cannot tell" (never collapsed into "not banned"), backs off on 403/404 with a TTL block, and the after = userId - 1n + limit=1 trick is sound.
  • appeals-bot/bin.ts follows the standard boot sequence (context → shutdown handlers → rest → gateway → client → metrics server before gateway.connect()); intents Guilds | GuildModeration are both non-privileged, matching the documented rationale.
  • Realtime channels appeals:${guildId}:config / appeals:${guildId}:unappealable-users keep the <domain>:<guildId>:... shape the WS guild-manager auth path requires.
  • WiringAPPEALS is in BOTS, APIMapping, all seven APPEALS_* env vars are mirrored across env.ts / .env.public / .env.private.example and the three test stubs; routes mounted in app.ts, re-exported from index.ts, ./appeals-schemas exposed for the dashboard.

Standing non-blocking notes (unchanged, no action expected)

  • bots.tsx renders an Appeals nav tab ahead of its P2 dashboard route — the satisfies Record<BotId, ...> compile-order constraint forces the entry to land with P1; documented as an accepted, harmless-until-P2 tradeoff in docs/roadmap/09-appeals.md §P1. Conscious call.
  • appeal_user_state.refresh_token is a Discord OAuth refresh token; the schema comment (1741-1745) commits it to encrypt()/decrypt(). No writer exists yet in this PR — just ensure the P-later code routes through crypt.ts, since TEXT gives no enforcement.
  • listUnappealableUsers.ts:45 fans out resolveDiscordUser over the whole list with an unbounded Promise.all — cache-backed and consistent with modmail/blocks/listBlocks.ts, so fine; ceiling is just the list length on a cold cache.

I did not run yarn build/lint/test (review-only, no changes made); the above is from reading the diff against origin/main.
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