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A background refetch could close the React editor. The screen re-checked access and mobiledoc conversion on every read, not only on the one that opened the post.

  • A Contributor whose draft is published elsewhere, or a writer removed from its authors, stays in the editor with their unsaved text instead of landing on the list.
  • Their next save shows the server's refusal and keeps the content.
  • A version saved elsewhere as mobiledoc no longer swaps in the conversion spinner.

Verification: new acceptance specs for each case fail without the fix. Admin unit and acceptance suites pass.

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EditorLoader retains the record that opened the editor and uses it for access and mobiledoc conversion decisions. Later refetches do not replace that record. Acceptance tests cover access changes that cause the next save to return a permission error, and mobiledoc-only refetches that leave the editor open without a conversion write. The session documentation describes these behaviors.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ad420

A writer whose access has been restored may still be sent away from the editor when reopening the post. Gate the opening access decision on the settled read before merging.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to ad420

The change preserves unsaved work without granting new server privileges. Permission refusal and conflicting-save behavior are covered by acceptance tests, but complete authorization enforcement and all reopening transitions were not verified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The directly supported exposure is the browser editing session for an opened post or page. The acceptance scenarios exercise Authors and Contributors on one post. Retaining that session permits further requests to existing APIs, but the inspected change adds no credentials, endpoint or server authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The post/page endpoints declare permission controls independently of the editor. The production post model evaluates Contributor edit permission against the stored draft status and rejects insufficient permission. These controls counter an unconditional write-bypass interpretation, but complete authorship enforcement was not traced.
  • observed — The permission-loss tests perform a fresh background read, then reject the next write using the current stored record. Their GET double does not enforce authorization, so these scenarios prove the intended client refusal handling rather than production read authorization.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Same-record and held-token guards contain late or concurrent refetches without adopting another writer's collision token. Normal route identity keys the loader, and session disposal rejects subsequent record adoption. Direct cross-record navigation with late responses was not demonstrated by the supplied acceptance scenarios.
  • inferred — A stale cached denial can navigate away before an opening refetch restores permission, because navigation is not gated on fetch settlement. The merge base has the same ordering, so this is a pre-existing limitation rather than an introduced concern.
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345-345: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Wait for the opening refetch before redirecting.

The new session contract says that a stale cached copy remains visible while its opening refetch runs, and that refetch decides access. EditorLoader still uses the cached loaded record for returnToList while openedWith is unset. The navigation effect does not check query.isFetching, so a cached denial can redirect before a refetch that grants access returns. openedWith is latched only after fetching stops.

Keep opening unset while the opening read is fetching or has failed. This also prevents conversion decisions from using stale data.

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Update the opening selection in EditorLoader so `opening` stays unset while the
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no ref

The editor screen judged every read of the post, not only the one that
opened it. A refetch that found a Contributor's draft published elsewhere,
or the writer dropped from its authors, swapped the editor for a spinner
and returned to the list with no leave prompt, losing anything typed since
the last save. A refetch that brought a version stored only as mobiledoc
swapped in the conversion spinner the same way.

Access and conversion are now decided on the read that opens the editor.
Later reads belong to the session, so the next save reports the server's
refusal or the collision while the writer keeps their content.
…er edit

no ref

Post reads go stale whenever any post is saved, and a cached copy stays
for ten minutes. A post reopened from such a copy latched it before its
refetch landed, so an Author removed from the post while away stayed in
the editor, where every save was refused, instead of returning to the list.

The editor now latches the post once its read has settled; until then the
refetch in flight still decides access and conversion. The load error is
cleared once the editor is open, whatever later reads return.
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shows that copy while its refetch runs, and the refetch decides. Once that read
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Wait for the opening refetch before denying access.

If a cached post excludes the Author, EditorLoader sets returnToList and navigates before the refetch settles. The writer cannot reopen the post even if the fresh record lists them as an author. The existing reopen test covers the opposite transition: access is present in the cache and removed by the refetch. Gate the opening access decision on the settled read, and test this reverse transition.

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350:
Update EditorLoader so its opening access decision waits for the initial refetch
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