Fix RLS policies on base knowledge

[raphael-arce]

What changed:

Created /workspace/apps/backend/supabase/migrations/20260828000001_fix_document_chunk_summary_policies.sql.

The root cause was that both document_chunks and document_summaries had a single FOR ALL policy. PostgreSQL only uses the USING clause for DELETE operations, and that clause permitted owned_by_user_id IS NULL — making every base-knowledge row deletable (and mutable via UPDATE) by any authenticated user.

The fix drops those policies and replaces each with four explicit per-operation policies:

Operation	USING	WITH CHECK
SELECT	own rows + public rows	—
INSERT	—	own rows + admin for public
UPDATE	own rows only	own rows + admin for public
DELETE	own rows only	—

UPDATE and DELETE now exclude owned_by_user_id IS NULL rows entirely, so base-knowledge content can no longer be deleted or poisoned by regular authenticated users. The documents table was not affected — it already had separate per-operation policies with correct ownership checks.

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🤖 Opened by cl-agent from an Asana comment.
Origin: Asana task: Security: Any authenticated user can delete or poison the shared base-knowledge chunks and summaries

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved access controls for document chunks and summaries.
  • Users can view public or personally owned content.
  • Users can edit or delete only their own content.
  • Administrators can add, edit, and delete shared knowledge content.
  • Prevented banned users from accessing these records.
  • Protected shared knowledge content from unauthorized changes.

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Walkthrough

The migration replaces broad policies on document_chunks and document_summaries with separate command-specific policies. The policies cover ownership, public base knowledge, administrator actions, and banned-user access. Integration tests verify the resulting behavior.

Changes

Document policy controls

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Operation-specific document policies apps/backend/supabase/migrations/20260828000001_fix_document_chunk_summary_policies.sql	The migration adds separate SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE policies for document chunks and document summaries. Users can read public or owned rows and insert owned rows. Administrators can create, update, and delete base-knowledge rows. All operations exclude banned users.
RLS policy integration coverage apps/backend/src/integration/base-knowledge.integration.test.ts	Parameterized tests verify public and owned-row visibility, blocked base-knowledge mutations by regular users, administrator mutations, owner mutations, ownership takeover protection, and banned-user visibility.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~30 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 05619

The migration may allow a banned administrator with an existing session to modify or delete shared base-knowledge rows. Confirm the administrator helper’s ban behavior and add banned-user write coverage before merging.

Poem

A rabbit checks each policy gate
Public rows shine, owned rows wait
Admins tend the knowledge bright
Banned tokens see no rows in sight
Tests watch each change take flight

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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Inline comments:
In
`@apps/backend/supabase/migrations/20260828000001_fix_document_chunk_summary_policies.sql`:
- Around line 31-37: Add an administrator-and-NULL ownership branch to the
document_chunks_update USING predicate so admins can select existing
base-knowledge rows; apply the equivalent change to document_summaries_update
USING. Update
apps/backend/supabase/migrations/20260828000001_fix_document_chunk_summary_policies.sql
lines 31-37 and 71-77, respectively, while preserving the existing
user-owned-row conditions and WITH CHECK logic.
- Line 1: Run the repository’s configured Prettier formatter against the
migration containing the document_chunks and document_summaries policy changes,
then retain and commit only the formatter’s output without altering the
migration logic.

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apps/backend/src/integration/base-knowledge.integration.test.ts (1)

988-997: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for banned-user writes.

The banned-user test only asserts read visibility. The migration also adds NOT public.is_current_user_banned() to the owner branch of INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE. No test exercises that gate. Add a case inside withTestUserBanned that calls updateRowAsUser(table, personalRowId, ...) and deleteRowAsUser(table, personalRowId) and asserts both return [].

A banned-administrator case would also pin down the interaction that the administrator branch does not gate on ban status.

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In `@apps/backend/src/integration/base-knowledge.integration.test.ts` around lines
988 - 997, Extend the banned-user test around withTestUserBanned to call
updateRowAsUser and deleteRowAsUser for personalRowId, asserting both return
empty arrays; also add a banned-administrator case that verifies administrator
writes remain allowed despite the ban.

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In `@apps/backend/src/integration/base-knowledge.integration.test.ts`:
- Around line 988-997: Extend the banned-user test around withTestUserBanned to
call updateRowAsUser and deleteRowAsUser for personalRowId, asserting both
return empty arrays; also add a banned-administrator case that verifies
administrator writes remain allowed despite the ban.

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[raphael-arce]

@nlspnsgen thanks for continuing this PR! It was just a test for asana<->agentic work. I was waiting for the introduce db schema to be merged to continue on this, so it would be easier to review.