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ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-3952/bring-limit-service-onto-the-package-golden-path

Second of the stack, on top of #30777. This is the one with a decision in it.

Problem

A limit is stored under one name, and the spelling a host happens to use is reconciled with it when the limits are loaded. That reconciling read the host's settings under the name it had just normalised rather than the key the host actually wrote, so a limit spelled another way was built with no settings at all: it reported itself as limited and refused nothing. Checking one then reached for the unnormalised name again and raised a type error.

Separately, a limit could be asked about by any name whatsoever. Asking about one nobody had declared answered that the site was not limited, which is exactly the answer a typo gets, and nothing told them apart.

Solution

Read the host's settings under the key they arrived under, and let every check take the name the package knows the limit by. Tolerating spelling is a loading concern, so it stops at the boundary instead of being repeated at each lookup.

Then take the names from the manifest that already acts as the allowlist, so asking about a limit nobody declared does not compile. Ghost's route guard and Admin's limiter take the same set, and Admin names the limit a private feature depends on rather than describing it as text. A type test holds the guarantee: a plausible but undeclared name is asserted not to be a limit name, so the manifest cannot quietly loosen.

The decision

Checking a limit by a name spelled another way stops working.

Ghost has accepted both spellings since the compatibility was added, with a note at the time that supporting both was easy and would stop anyone tripping on this later. That path has never been exercised. Every limit name on every billing product in production is spelled one way, the type upstream declares only that spelling, the service that hands limits to Ghost passes the name through untouched, and every caller in Ghost and Admin already uses it. The mechanism built to prevent the trip contained the fault.

Loading still accepts either spelling, so nothing a host sends is refused. What changes is that the API stops pretending to be bilingual.

How to read it

The fault, and then the narrowing. Where a test recorded the old behaviour it now records the new, and says what it used to say. One of those tests is in Ghost's own limits suite rather than the package's, because that is where the case-mismatch fault was pinned, so a reviewer reading only the package will not see it.

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The limit service derives LimitName from the configuration manifest and exports it through the package and admin framework. Limit-related APIs use this type instead of unrestricted strings. Runtime lookup validates manifest names and loads host settings under canonical names. Tests cover canonical and alternative spellings, type restrictions, and enforcement of a disabled known limit.

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Conflicting host limit spellings can select the wrong configuration for a limit. Define deterministic precedence or reject the conflict before merging.

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🟠 Major · Reset service when initialization fails. · ghost/core/core/server/services/limits.ts:28-28

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Reset service when initialization fails.

If init() succeeds once and a later call has invalid options, new LimitService() throws before assignment. The catch block logs the error but retains the previous limits. Set service = noLimits in this branch so the site uses the documented unlimited fallback.

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packages/limit-service/src/limit-service.ts (1)

45-45: Existing host limit validation finding remains.

This merge still passes the host-provided value into LimitConfig without runtime validation. The existing review comment on Line 45 already covers this issue.

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🟠 Major · Reset service after a rejected re-initialisation. · ghost/core/core/server/services/limits.ts:27-33

27-33: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reset service after a rejected re-initialisation.

If a prior init() succeeded and a later call throws IncorrectUsageError, this catch block preserves the prior service. The documented fallback says the site runs unlimited. Stale limits can continue to deny a feature after the new configuration is rejected. Reset service to LimitService.unlimited(errors) before logging.

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   if (!(error instanceof errors.IncorrectUsageError)) {
     throw error;
   }

+  service = LimitService.unlimited(errors);
   logging.warn(error);
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In `@ghost/core/core/server/services/limits.ts` around lines 27 - 33, In the
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packages/limit-service/src/limit-service.ts-54-54 (1)

54-54: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject conflicting spellings for one limit.

LoadLimitsOptions.limits accepts arbitrary string keys. Object.keys(limits) preserves insertion order for these keys, and the constructor camelCases each key before assigning a new limit to this.limits[name]. Therefore, customThemes and custom_themes can both map to customThemes, with the later entry silently determining the active configuration. Reject the collision or define an explicit precedence rule.

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In `@packages/limit-service/src/limit-service.ts` at line 54, Update the
limit-loading constructor to detect when distinct keys in
LoadLimitsOptions.limits normalize to the same camelCase name before assigning
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In `@ghost/core/core/server/services/limits.ts`:
- Around line 27-33: In the IncorrectUsageError branch of the initialization
catch block, reset the existing service to LimitService.unlimited(errors) before
calling logging.warn(error), ensuring rejected re-initialization falls back to
unlimited limits instead of retaining stale limits.

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In `@packages/limit-service/src/limit-service.ts`:
- Line 54: Update the limit-loading constructor to detect when distinct keys in
LoadLimitsOptions.limits normalize to the same camelCase name before assigning
this.limits[name]. Reject conflicting spellings such as customThemes and
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54-54: Validate host limit values before the merge.

This remains the unvalidated host-settings path identified in the prior review. limits[rawName] can still reach a limit constructor without a runtime parser.

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51-55: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject duplicate normalized host-limit keys or preserve canonical precedence.

custom_themes is an accepted host spelling, and the loader stores it as customThemes. When both spellings are present, limits[rawName] assigns this.limits.customThemes twice, so property order selects which configuration controls enforcement. The previous limits[name] lookup kept the canonical customThemes entry authoritative. Reject collisions or restore deterministic canonical precedence before loading.

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In `@packages/limit-service/src/limit-service.ts` around lines 51 - 55, Update the
limit-loading logic around isLimitName and limitConfig so an accepted host alias
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reject duplicate normalized keys or ensure the canonical customThemes
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55-55: Keep runtime validation for host limit settings.

limits[rawName] still reaches the limit constructors without visible runtime validation. The prior finding at this location remains applicable. Alternate spellings now make the same invalid values reachable through additional host keys.

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A limit is stored under one name, and the spelling a host happens to use is
reconciled with it once, when the limits are loaded. That reconciling was reading
the host's settings under the name it had just normalised rather than the key the
host actually wrote, so a limit spelled another way was built with no settings
and quietly refused nothing, while still reporting itself as limited. Checking
one then reached for the unnormalised name again and raised a type error.

Loading now reads the settings under the key they arrived under, and every check
takes the name the package knows the limit by. Tolerating spelling is a loading
concern, so it stops at the boundary rather than being repeated at each lookup.
A host that spells a limit differently to us therefore gets the limit it asked
for, where before it got a limit in name only.
The manifest was already the allowlist the loader applies, but only at runtime:
a caller could ask about any name at all, and asking about one nobody had
declared quietly answered that the site was not limited. That is the same shape
as a typo, and nothing told them apart.

The names are now taken from the manifest itself, so asking about a limit that
has not been declared does not compile. The loader narrows the host's spelling
onto that set, which is the one place a name arrives as text and the only place
it needs checking at runtime. Ghost's own route guard and Admin's limiter take
the same set, and Admin names the limit a private feature depends on rather than
describing it as a string.
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Closing unmerged. The compliance goal this stack followed on from already shipped in #30637, and the faults fixed here could not be shown to reach production: the limits they depend on are set on none of the billing products, and one of them fixes a method with no caller in Ghost at all. That left preventive value against risk in the path that decides whether a customer can publish.

The branch stays on the remote. Findings from the production check, including the Daisy and Zuul transform chain and what was never verified, are recorded on BER-3952: https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-3952/bring-limit-service-onto-the-package-golden-path

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