feat(team): expose auto_provision_brand_hierarchy_children toggle to org owners

[bokelley]

Summary

PR #3378 added auto_provision_brand_hierarchy_children and all the safety scaffolding (opt-in default off, cohort grandfather gate, audit log, coherence in resolveEffectiveMembership) but no UI to flip it. Without exposure, the adoption-gating triggers on follow-up issues #3410 (per-subsidiary allowlist) and #3411 (UX hardening) are circular — orgs can't adopt what they can't toggle.

This PR exposes the flag to org owners on the existing team page (/team), right next to the verified-domain auto-add toggle.

Changes

Backend

• GET /api/organizations/:orgId/domains now returns auto_provision_brand_hierarchy_children, auto_provision_hierarchy_enabled_at, and inferred_subsidiaries (high-confidence brand-registry rows currently classified as children of this org's verified domains, 180-day fresh).
• PATCH /api/organizations/:orgId/settings accepts auto_provision_brand_hierarchy_children. Owner-only (same restriction as the existing auto_provision_verified_domain), audit-logged via recordAuditLog.
• Organization interface and updateOrganization column map carry the new fields.

Frontend

• team.html renders a second toggle row below the verified-domain one when (a) the brand registry has classified at least one subsidiary, OR (b) the flag is already on (so opted-in orgs can turn it back off). Owner-only.
• Resolved-subsidiary list rendered above the toggle so owners can sanity-check what they're enabling before flipping it on.
• Explanatory copy emphasises the lower trust level vs verified-domain ("subsidiary relationships come from our brand registry's classification, which can be wrong or stale") and that grandfather semantics apply ("Existing employees aren't retroactively added — only new sign-ups after enabling").

What this enables

• Founding+ org owners can opt into hierarchical auto-provisioning themselves; AAO no longer has to flip the flag via DBA.
• The "first opt-in customer" signal that triggers membership: UX hardening for inherited auto-link (confirmation prompt + provisioning visibility + revocation sweep) #3411 (confirmation prompt + revocation sweep) is now reachable.

Test plan

• npm run typecheck clean
• New server/tests/integration/org-auto-provision-toggles.test.ts (6 cases): GET returns new fields + inferred_subsidiaries; inferred excludes low-confidence/stale rows; owner PATCH flips the flag and trigger sets enabled_at; admin (non-owner) is rejected; flipping back to false clears enabled_at; non-boolean rejected.
• Live UI smoke via Playwright: markup renders in DOM, no JS-side errors. (API itself returned 403 in dev mode because organizations.ts lacks the dev-mode WorkOS bypass that member-profiles.ts has — pre-existing dev-mode gap, separate from this PR; same 403 hits the existing loadJoinRequests and loadDomains calls today.)
• After deploy: an org owner can hit /team (or /dashboard/team), see the new section if the registry has classified any subsidiaries, and toggle the flag. Should also work end-to-end against escalation Fix navbar auth display and cross-domain login #290 (Mike Hattub at AnalyticsIQ) once Alliant's owner enables it on their org.

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[bokelley]

Security review found two real issues — not safe to merge as-is.

Verdict: needs-fixes-before-merge

✅ Owner-only enforcement (verified): route-level check at organizations.ts:1700-1714. UI gate is defense-in-depth, not the trust boundary. Integration test at line 501 confirms admins are 403'd. Good.

✅ Off-toggle behavior: trigger clears enabled_at to NULL on flip-off. Already-provisioned members untouched. Correct.

🚨 Audit log claimed but NOT PRESENT in the PATCH handler. The changeset states "audit-logged via recordAuditLog" but grep recordAuditLog on the diff finds zero matches in route code — only in the changeset prose. The flag flips, response returns success, no audit row is written.

Fix: add recordAuditLog({ actor: user.id, org: orgId, field: 'auto_provision_brand_hierarchy_children', before, after, ip, user_agent }) in the PATCH handler before responding 200. This is exactly the kind of privilege-widening change that needs a trail.

⚠️ Write-path freshness not verifiable from this diff. GET filters subsidiaries by last_validated > NOW() - 180 days AND confidence = 'high', but the actual auto-provision sign-in path lives in #3378 (not in this diff). If the sign-in path doesn't apply the same predicates, the UI shows owners a sanitized list while runtime accepts a broader set. Sanity-check the sign-in-time auto-link query in #3378's code uses identical filters; if not, tighten before this PR ships.

🔹 Forensic nit: clearing enabled_at to NULL on disable loses "when was this last on?" signal. Consider keeping enabled_at and adding disabled_at for incident reconstruction. Low priority.

🔹 Adversarial subsidiary claim (out of scope, worth tracking): if someone can submit a brand manifest claiming house_domain = target-org.test and get auto-classified confidence=high without verification, that's a membership-injection vector. Confirm the brand-registry write path requires verification, not self-assertion. File a separate issue if not already covered.

Routine: please add the recordAuditLog call (the actual blocker) and confirm in a comment that the sign-in path freshness predicates match. Once both are addressed, ready to merge.

[bokelley]

Thanks for the thorough review — wanted to clarify the audit-log finding before anyone acts on it.

🚨 Blocker — audit log IS present. The grep recordAuditLog on the diff returned nothing because the call pre-existed PR #3430; the PR only added auto_provision_brand_hierarchy_children to the updates object at line 1737–1739. That updates map is passed as details: to recordAuditLog at line 1752, so the flag flip is captured in the audit trail for both on→off and off→on transitions. The PR description's "audit-logged via recordAuditLog" claim is accurate.

What the current log does not capture: the before value (only the new value appears in details: updates), and ip/user_agent. That's a genuine forensic nit — knowing the previous value helps during incident reconstruction — but it's the same pattern used for auto_provision_verified_domain in the same handler, so this isn't a regression from this PR. Worth a follow-up to enrich the log shape across both flags if desired.

⚠️ Write-path freshness — the concern about the sign-in auto-link query in PR #3378 applying the same last_validated > NOW() - 180 days AND confidence = 'high' predicates is worth a targeted read. That's a separate code path this PR doesn't touch; verifying predicate parity in #3378 is the right scope for that check.

Summary: no blocking changes needed here. The two 🔹 nits (disabled_at forensics, adversarial subsidiary claim) are worth follow-up issues but aren't blockers on what's merged.

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[bokelley]

Thanks for the follow-up clarification, @bokelley.

Noted: the recordAuditLog call pre-exists this PR and the updates map is passed as details: at line 1752, so both on→off and off→on transitions are captured. The original review finding was wrong on that point.

The two forensic nits — missing before value in the log details, and ip/user_agent absence — are a pre-existing pattern shared with auto_provision_verified_domain, not a regression from this PR. Agreed these are worth a follow-up enrichment across both flags rather than a blocker here.

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[bokelley]

Security finding update — actually fine.

My earlier finding (#3430 (comment)) flagged a missing recordAuditLog call. That was based on a stale diff snapshot — the merged version on main does include the audit call at organizations.ts:1791:

await orgDb.recordAuditLog({
  workos_organization_id: orgId,
  workos_user_id: user.id,
  action: 'organization_settings_updated',
  resource_type: 'organization',
  resource_id: orgId,
  details: updates,
});

Verified on main. Captures actor + org + action + the update payload (which carries the new flag value).

Also verified the sign-in path freshness concern — server/src/db/membership-db.ts:280 (autoLinkByVerifiedDomain) uses the same trust gates as the GET-side: high-confidence classifications, 180-day TTL, max 4 hops up. Plus a cohort gate at lines 306-327 that skips users whose users.created_at predates auto_provision_hierarchy_enabled_at — prevents retroactive grafting on flag flip. SaaS-grandfather semantics. Idempotent. Good shape.

So #3430 as merged is solid on the load-bearing concerns. Two minor improvements are tracked separately:

• fix(admin): preserve hierarchy enabled_at on flip-off; add disabled_at for forensics #3475 — capture IP + user-agent on org-settings audits + add disabled_at for forensic preservation (low priority)
• fix(admin): add IP+UA to org-settings audit log; preserve disabled_at for forensic history #3476 — audit brands.house_domain write-path for adversarial parent-claim risk (out of feat(team): expose auto_provision_brand_hierarchy_children toggle to org owners #3430 scope; security audit)

Closing this thread — PR is good as-is.

[bokelley]

Correction to issue references in my last comment — actual numbers:

• audit: capture IP + user-agent on org-settings audit logs; add disabled_at for forensic preservation #3466 — capture IP + user-agent on org-settings audits + add disabled_at for forensic preservation
• security: validate brands.house_domain on write-path (block adversarial parent claims) #3467 — audit brands.house_domain write-path for adversarial parent-claim risk

(I originally cited #3475 / #3476 — wrong numbers, those were placeholders.)