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Let remote curators feature Groups in their collections (FEP-7aa9) - #183
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Expose discoverable + interactionPolicy.canFeature on Group actors, answer FeatureRequest with Accept (or Reject for locked groups when the curator is not a follower), and serve the FeatureAuthorization stamp statelessly by encoding the collection URI in its path. No table is needed until we want to list or revoke individual collections. Mastodon's FeatureRequest carries no actor (the FEP example omits it; Pixelfed accepts it the same way), which Fedify rejects before any listener runs. Until Fedify falls back to the HTTP-signature owner upstream, a pnpm patch adds that fallback for FeatureRequest only. Co-authored-by: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com> Assisted-By: Claude Code(claude-fable-5-1)
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds FEP-7aa9 feature policies and authorization for Groups, plus inbox handling that accepts or rejects feature requests. A pnpm patch updates Fedify middleware to infer an actor for eligible actorless requests. ChangesGroup Feature Requests
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant FediversePeer
participant FedifyMiddleware
participant FederationInbox
participant GroupLookup
participant FollowLookup
FediversePeer->>FedifyMiddleware: Send FeatureRequest
FedifyMiddleware->>FederationInbox: Deliver request with inferred actor when eligible
FederationInbox->>GroupLookup: Resolve target local Group
FederationInbox->>FollowLookup: Check curator follow for locked Group
FederationInbox->>FediversePeer: Send Accept with authorization or Reject
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Locked Groups can be featured in a remote curator's collection by non-followers, because the authorization URL can be constructed without sending a FeatureRequest. The feature otherwise works. Decide whether to enforce the follower-only policy at the stamp endpoint or accept this limitation before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Review comments at @src/server/fediverse/federation.ts:
- Around line 535-565: Update the FeatureAuthorization object dispatcher to
enforce the Group’s locked-group policy: for Groups requiring follower approval,
return a stamp only when the collection’s attributed actor has an accepted
follow to that Group, otherwise return null. Preserve the current behavior for
unlocked Groups, and use the collection and follow-resolution symbols available
in the surrounding federation code.
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| // --- FeatureAuthorization object dispatcher (FEP-7aa9 approval stamp) --- | ||
| // Stateless: the collection URI is encoded in the path, so the stamp is | ||
| // valid as long as the Group exists. Remote servers verify a FeaturedItem by | ||
| // fetching this and comparing interactingObject / interactionTarget. | ||
| federation.setObjectDispatcher( | ||
| FeatureAuthorization, | ||
| "/ap/feature-authorizations/{identifier}/{collection}", | ||
| async (ctx, { identifier, collection }) => { | ||
| const collectionUri = decodeCollectionUri(collection); | ||
| if (!collectionUri) return null; | ||
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| const [actor] = await db | ||
| .select({ id: actors.id }) | ||
| .from(actors) | ||
| .where( | ||
| and( | ||
| eq(actors.handle, identifier), | ||
| eq(actors.isLocal, true), | ||
| eq(actors.type, "Group"), | ||
| ), | ||
| ) | ||
| .limit(1); | ||
| if (!actor) return null; | ||
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| return new FeatureAuthorization({ | ||
| id: ctx.getObjectUri(FeatureAuthorization, { identifier, collection }), | ||
| interactingObject: collectionUri, | ||
| interactionTarget: ctx.getActorUri(identifier), | ||
| }); | ||
| }, | ||
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
The stateless FeatureAuthorization dispatcher bypasses the locked-group policy.
The dispatcher checks only that the local Group exists. It does not check manuallyApprovesFollowers, and it does not check who owns the collection. Any party can build /ap/feature-authorizations/{group}/{base64url(any collection)} without sending a FeatureRequest. The server then returns a valid stamp, and its interactingObject and interactionTarget match.
A remote curator who does not follow a locked Group can therefore publish a FeaturedItem that points to this URL. Remote verifiers will accept the item. The inbox Reject at Lines 904-919 does not prevent this. The file header also says a stamp is valid only while "its policy still allows the curator". The code does not enforce that condition.
Choose one of these fixes for locked Groups:
- Fetch the collection in the dispatcher. Resolve its
attributedTo, and return the stamp only when that actor has anacceptedfollow to the Group. Returnnullin all other cases. - Persist the approved collection URIs in the inbox handler, and serve stamps only for those URIs.
For unlocked Groups, the current behavior matches the PUBLIC_COLLECTION policy.
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Review comment at @src/server/fediverse/federation.ts around lines 535 - 565:
Update the FeatureAuthorization object dispatcher to enforce the Group’s
locked-group policy: for Groups requiring follower approval, return a stamp only
when the collection’s attributed actor has an accepted follow to that Group,
otherwise return null. Preserve the current behavior for unlocked Groups, and
use the collection and follow-resolution symbols available in the surrounding
federation code.
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Summary
Mastodon 4.6+ "Collections" (FEP-7aa9 Featured Collections, the fediverse answer to Bluesky starter packs) let a curator add remote accounts to a shareable list, but only if the remote actor advertises consent and answers a
FeatureRequest. This makes Moim Group actors featurable: they advertiseinteractionPolicy.canFeature, acceptFeatureRequests, and serve theFeatureAuthorizationstamp that other servers verify. No new table: the stamp URL encodes the collection URI, so it is valid exactly as long as the Group exists and its policy allows the curator.Why
Groupactors as accounts, so nothing else is needed on their side.FeatureRequesthas noactor(the FEP example omits it, and Pixelfed explicitly treats it as optional, falling back to the HTTP-signature owner). Fedify answers400 Missing actorafter verifying the signatures, so the inbox listener is never reached. Apnpm patchadds the same fallback inside Fedify's inbox handler, scoped toFeatureRequest, until it lands upstream; seepatches/@fedify__fedify@2.4.2.patch. Fedify skips HTTP-signature verification once an LD Signature has verified the body, so the patch runsverifyRequestDetaileditself when needed.Before and After
Missing actorand returns 400Acceptwith aresultstamp; the item becomes accepted and other instances can verify it by fetching/ap/feature-authorizations/{group}/{collection}Commit History
FeatureRequestlistener, statelessFeatureAuthorizationdispatcher, Fedify patchTest Plan
tsc --noEmit,oxlintdiscoverable: trueandinteractionPolicy.canFeature.automaticApproval(as:Public, or the followers collection for locked groups) with thegotosocial.org/nsandfep/7aa9contextsGET /ap/feature-authorizations/foss4all/<base64url(collection)>returns aFeatureAuthorizationwhoseinteractingObject/interactionTargetmatchFeatureRequestaccepted with the signature-owner fallback,Acceptdelivered ("Successfully sent"), item leaves pendingUpdateor when a full handle is searched after >1 day, so existing groups may need that nudge before they become addableAssisted-By: Claude Code(claude-fable-5-1)
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