fix(api): add opt-in keyset pagination to GET /api/recommendations

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Summary

GET /api/recommendations returned the whole filtered recommendations cache in one body. The store read has no ORDER BY/LIMIT/cursor, and the handler sent every row back, so once a tenant has a few thousand cached rows the response goes over the 6 MB Lambda synchronous payload cap and the page fails with 502.

What was already fixed: #775 (merged, said "Refs #723") gzips large JSON responses on Lambda. That raises the ceiling several-fold, but the response still grows with the tenant. The maintainer's comment on #723 says the issue stays open until bounded pagination lands (tracked as #777). This PR adds the backend half of that bound.

Fix (backend only, backward compatible)

• New opt-in query params on GET /api/recommendations:
  • limit: integer 1-1000, the maximum rows per page. Out-of-range, non-numeric or fractional values return 400 (they are not clamped).
  • cursor: the opaque next_cursor from the previous page (base64url of the last row ID, at most 1024 chars). Malformed or oversized cursors return 400. Sending a cursor with no limit uses a default page size of 500.
  • Legacy mode is selected only when neither parameter is present. A present but empty ?limit= or ?cursor= (including whitespace only) returns 400 rather than falling back to the unbounded response.
• Serialized-byte budget per page. Each page is also capped by bytes, because Details makes row size data-dependent. Rows are added until the page would pass 4 MiB (4,194,304 B):
  • What counts: each row is measured as it appears inside the Lambda invoke response. The handler's JSON body is re-encoded as a JSON string in the Lambda envelope, so quotes and backslashes count twice. The fixed overhead (summary, regions, keys) and the length of the next cursor also count.
  • Why 4 MiB: the Lambda cap is 6 MiB (6,291,456 B) for the whole invoke response. The budget is checked on uncompressed bytes because the fix(server): gzip large JSON API responses on Lambda #775 gzip only runs when the client accepts gzip. 4 MiB leaves about 2 MiB for the envelope and headers, which are a few hundred bytes.
  • At least one row per page, so the cursor walk cannot stall. A row that alone is over the budget is returned on its own page with a logged warning, not an error. An error would block every later row permanently. Alone, the row still succeeds if it is under the hard cap, and a row over 6 MiB by itself cannot be served by any page size.
  • No production measurements: none were taken, because we have no access to production data or a deployed Lambda. The budget does not depend on a row-size estimate.
• When either param is sent, rows come back in ascending id order (the cache table's primary key, so the order is total), one page at a time, and the response includes next_cursor until the last page. Paging is keyset-based: a row deleted between requests does not shift or repeat later pages, and a cursor past the end gives an empty page.
• summary (total_count, totals, avg payback) and regions are still computed over the full filtered set on every page, so headline numbers do not shrink to the page size.
• No limit and no cursor → the response is byte-for-byte the old shape (same rows, same order, no next_cursor key). The current frontend sorts, groups and totals the full set client-side (see feat(recommendations): bound GET /api/recommendations with pagination and slimmer rows #777), so it keeps working unchanged.
• Small win on both paths: compute capacity (stampComputeCapacity, a Details JSON decode) now runs only for the rows actually returned.
• openapi.yaml: documents limit/cursor/next_cursor and corrects the RecommendationsResponse schema. It listed total_savings/count, which the handler has not returned; the real fields are summary, regions and recommendations.

Files:

• internal/api/handler_recommendations_page.go (new): param parsing, cursor encoding, keyset paginator, response builder
• internal/api/handler_recommendations.go: wires pagination in; buildRecommendationsResponse now delegates to summarizeRecommendations(all, rows)
• internal/api/types.go: NextCursor string \json:"next_cursor,omitempty"``
• internal/api/handler_recommendations_page_test.go (new)
• internal/api/openapi.yaml

Why no frontend change

The maintainer is working on the UI right now, and paging the recommendations page properly needs server-side grouping/sorting/totals plus a change to samePurchaseVariantIdentity, which reads details from list rows (all scoped in #777). So I kept this PR to the backend contract and left frontend/ alone.

Important for whoever triages the close: until the frontend sends limit, the dashboard still calls the unpaginated path, so a very large tenant can still hit the cap (now behind gzip). If you would rather keep #723 open until the frontend adopts pagination, swap Closes for Refs below.

Frontend follow-up (for #777): request ?limit=1000 and follow next_cursor until it is absent, concatenating the rows. That keeps the existing client-side grouping and sorting working unchanged with no server-side summary work. Or move to true per-page rendering once server-side sorting/grouping exists. Use summary from any page for the totals.

Closes #723
Refs #777

Verification

All evidence below is unit tests with mock schedulers and synthetic fixtures. Nothing ran against a real Lambda, real Postgres or a real cloud account. Tests were run with AWS_CONFIG_FILE=/dev/null AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE=/dev/null because the local ~/.aws/config on the dev machine is broken.

Fail-before. I removed the fix from the tree, then ran a minimal regression probe on current main: 8,000 synthetic rows of about 1 KB each, requested with limit=1000.

--- FAIL: TestFailBefore723 (0.02s)
    zz_failbefore_test.go:28: limit=1000 ignored: 8000 rows, 9008137 bytes (cap 6291456)

Pass-after: TestGetRecommendations_PaginationBoundsResponse uses the same 8,000-row fixture. The fixture's unpaginated JSON is checked to be over 6 MB. The test walks the cursor with limit=1000 and asserts that every page's marshaled body is under 6 MB, that every row is returned exactly once in strictly increasing ID order, and that summary/regions reflect the full set on every page. The other new tests:

• TestGetRecommendations_UnpaginatedShapeUnchanged: the legacy path returns every row in scheduler order with no next_cursor key in the JSON.
• TestGetRecommendations_PaginationPages: first page, last page, an exact-fit page with no cursor, a cursor naming a deleted row, and a cursor past the end.
• TestGetRecommendations_CursorWithoutLimitUsesDefaultPageSize
• TestGetRecommendations_PaginationRejectsBadParams: 400 for each bad input, checked before any store read.
• TestGetRecommendations_PaginationMaxLimitAccepted
• TestGetRecommendations_PageCutByByteBudget: 1500 rows with quote-heavy Details, about 10 KB each in the envelope and over 12 MiB in total. Walked with limit=1000: pages are cut by bytes at 416 rows, the largest page body in the envelope is 4,186,443 B, and the largest full Lambda payload is 4,186,556 B. Every row comes back exactly once, in order, with unchanged totals on every page.
• TestBuildBudgetedPage_OversizedRowAlone: the oversized row is alone on its page, the walk continues, and the small rows around it still share pages.
• TestBuildBudgetedPage_TightBudgetSweep: steps the budget from 1500 B to 7000 B one byte at a time. Every multi-row page fits, and every page is maximal to within the paginator's 2-byte conservative overcount.
• Empty or whitespace limit/cursor cases added to TestGetRecommendations_PaginationRejectsBadParams.

Mutation probes. Each mutation was applied on its own to handler_recommendations_page.go, and the new tests failed for every one:

• > changed to >= in the cursor search (repeats a row)
• sort comparator replaced with false
• summary computed over the page only
• end < len changed to end <= len (cursor on the last page)
• max-limit check removed
• cursor length cap removed. The first version of the test missed this because its cursor was not valid base64; the test now uses a valid base64 cursor that only the length cap rejects.
• default page size inflated
• Round 2 (09d9b29): each of these mutations makes the new tests fail:
  • the legacy gate reverted to the trimmed-emptiness check (?limit= becomes unbounded)
  • raw JSON length used instead of envelope length
  • fixed overhead ignored
  • cursor reserve ignored
  • separator comma ignored
  • budget check removed
  • budget loosened by 3 B
  • the at-least-one-row guarantee dropped
  • the 4 MiB budget replaced by an unbounded one

AWS_CONFIG_FILE=/dev/null AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE=/dev/null go build ./...
AWS_CONFIG_FILE=/dev/null AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE=/dev/null go vet ./...
AWS_CONFIG_FILE=/dev/null AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE=/dev/null go test ./internal/api/ -count=1          # ok (head 09d9b29c)
AWS_CONFIG_FILE=/dev/null AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE=/dev/null go test -short -race ./internal/api/ -count=1   # ok
golangci-lint (v2.10.1) run --allow-parallel-runners ./internal/api/...   # 0 issues
gocyclo -over 10 $(git ls-files '*.go' | grep -v _test.go)                # silent
bash scripts/gofmt-hook.sh internal/api/*.go; make tidy-check             # ok
git secrets --register-aws (temp global config) && git secrets --scan     # ok
bash scripts/test-git-secrets-allowlist.sh                                # 42 PASS, 0 FAIL
python3 -c "import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open('internal/api/openapi.yaml'))"  # ok

gosec is not installed locally, so CI's gosec hook was not run here.

Real-environment gaps: I took no production row-size measurements and did not test against a deployed Lambda, since neither is accessible. The byte budget is enforced from the serialized size, so it does not rely on an estimate. It was exercised only with synthetic fixtures.

Out of scope (noted, not changed)

• Store-side pagination and aggregate totals (CodeRabbit finding, deferred to perf(api): push recommendations keyset pagination into the store read #981 by the maintainer). Memory: the handler still loads the full filtered set to compute the summary and apply the account-scope and enabled-provider post-filters, so per-request memory still grows with the tenant (chore(config/db): medium/low findings from the 2026-07-28 full review #120). Pushing the keyset into SQL needs those post-filters moved into the query first.
• Dropping details from list rows or returning it on demand (feat(recommendations): bound GET /api/recommendations with pagination and slimmer rows #777): the frontend reads it today.
• internal/api/types.go was already over 500 lines (975); this adds 3.

Maintainer: please mirror the issue's triage labels onto this PR: priority/p1, severity/high, urgency/this-sprint, impact/all-users, effort/m, type/bug, triaged.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Recommendations can be fetched in pages using optional limit and cursor parameters. Pages are ordered consistently, and responses include a cursor when another page is available.
  • Page sizes are limited to 1,000 recommendations and may also be bounded by response size.
  • Summary totals and region breakdowns cover all filtered recommendations, even when results are paginated.
  • Requests without pagination parameters retain the existing all-results behavior; invalid pagination values return an error.

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The recommendations endpoint now supports optional limit-and-cursor pagination. Paginated responses use ascending ID order and include a next cursor when more rows remain. Summary totals and regions cover the full filtered set. Requests without pagination parameters retain the legacy response.

Changes: Recommendations endpoint pagination

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse and select recommendation pages internal/api/handler_recommendations.go, internal/api/handler_recommendations_page.go, internal/api/openapi.yaml, internal/api/handler_recommendations_page_test.go	The endpoint accepts optional limit and cursor parameters. The page size defaults to 500 and has a maximum of 1,000. Cursors use URL-safe Base64 encoding, and rows are selected after the cursor in ascending ID order. Pages are bounded by row count and serialized size. Tests cover parameter validation, cursor traversal, page boundaries, and response-size bounds.
Build paginated response and full-set summary internal/api/handler_recommendations.go, internal/api/handler_recommendations_page.go, internal/api/types.go, internal/api/openapi.yaml, internal/api/handler_recommendations_page_test.go	Responses include selected rows and an optional next cursor. Summary totals and regions use the full filtered set. The API schema documents these fields, and tests check summary values and legacy unpaginated response compatibility.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant getRecommendations
  participant parseRecommendationsPage
  participant buildBudgetedRecommendationsResponse
  Client->>getRecommendations: Send limit and cursor parameters
  getRecommendations->>parseRecommendationsPage: Validate and decode pagination parameters
  parseRecommendationsPage-->>getRecommendations: Return page settings
  getRecommendations->>buildBudgetedRecommendationsResponse: Pass filtered recommendations and page settings
  buildBudgetedRecommendationsResponse-->>getRecommendations: Return page rows and response summary
  getRecommendations-->>Client: Return response and next cursor

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0a6aa

Pagination bounds response size, but each page request still loads and sorts all matching recommendations on the server. Very large tenants may see added latency, and the frontend still uses the unpaginated path. The change is otherwise mergeable, with store-side pagination tracked as a follow-up in #981.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0a6aa

This is an opt-in API extension that preserves the existing access checks. No new authorization bypass was identified in the reviewed paths. Pagination limits response size rather than database work, and legacy requests remain unbounded.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The reviewed change affects recommendation data returned to authenticated readers within their current account and provider filters. Full-set summaries do not aggregate outside that filtered result, and cursor input grants no additional identity or account authority.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A caller can forge or replay the unsigned base64 cursor, but it only changes the strict ID seek within the result authorized for the current request. This path does not establish a newly introduced cross-account disclosure or permission bypass.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The new parameters remain untrusted response-selection inputs, not credentials or database query fragments. Validation rejects malformed requests before the recommendation read, and successful requests retain the pre-existing authentication and resource-permission boundary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Store reads materialize fresh records, so sorting and capacity stamping modify request-local data. Continuation has no persisted cursor state: errors or interrupted responses do not advance shared traversal state, and each subsequent request repeats authorization. Final and past-end pages omit the continuation cursor.
• inferred — Traversal is over live data, not a snapshot bound to the cursor. Concurrent cache changes can alter later pages and their summaries. A single row exceeding the Lambda hard cap can still fail delivery; that size exposure predates this PR rather than constituting a newly introduced security condition.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		#723 remains unmet for the normal request path. parseRecommendationsPage enables pagination only when limit or cursor is present. buildRecommendationsPageResponse returns all filtered rows whe…	Bound normal recommendations requests. Enable pagination by default, or update the active frontend and other callers to send limit and follow next_cursor. Add a regression test for the normal request path that verifies the response rema…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 75.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 24 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding opt-in keyset pagination to GET /api/recommendations.
Out of Scope Changes check		The handler changes, keyset cursor logic, serialized-byte budget, response field, OpenAPI updates, and tests support #723. The capacity optimization applies to returned rows and supports paged respons…

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Explanation

The handler changes, keyset cursor logic, serialized-byte budget, response field, OpenAPI updates, and tests support #723. The capacity optimization applies to returned rows and supports paged response processing. No unrelated implementation change is demonstrated.

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Explanation

#723 remains unmet for the normal request path. parseRecommendationsPage enables pagination only when limit or cursor is present. buildRecommendationsPageResponse returns all filtered rows when neither parameter is present. The active frontend still uses this legacy path, so a large tenant can still exceed the Lambda payload limit. TestGetRecommendations_UnpaginatedShapeUnchanged confirms that the legacy path returns every row. Closed issue #775 is historical context and does not change this result.

Resolution

Bound normal recommendations requests. Enable pagination by default, or update the active frontend and other callers to send limit and follow next_cursor. Add a regression test for the normal request path that verifies the response remains bounded.

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Independent review verdict: CLEAN at f630a58

Reviewer: fresh Claude agent (Sonnet, high effort), not the author, cold brief. The PR body was treated as a claim. Coordinator: claude-cc-reviewer.

Blocking findings: none.

Non-blocking notes:

1. The id is not the table's primary key. The comment at internal/api/handler_recommendations_page.go:93-96 (and the PR body) says the id is "the cache table's primary key". The table's PK is a UUID column (migrations/000030_recommendations_cache.up.sql:7). rec.ID is the composite string built by recommendationID in the scheduler (provider|account|service|region|resource_type|engine|term|payment[...]). It is unique in practice, and Go string order is total, so keyset paging still holds. Only the comment and claim need correcting.
2. Empty id: a legacy row with an empty id (:99-111) would encode to an empty cursor. next_cursor would then be omitted and the client would stop early. Only malformed legacy rows can hit this.
3. Null vs empty list: paging past the end with a nil slice returns "recommendations": null, as the legacy empty case already does, rather than []. This is cosmetic.
4. Memory: the full filtered set is still loaded server-side, since there is no SQL LIMIT. That is acceptable, because #723's failure is the response size, and each page plus the fixed-size summary/regions stays far below 6 MB.

What was attacked and how (local macOS, unit tests):

• Unpaginated path unchanged: with neither param, summarizeRecommendations(recs, recs) keeps the same rows, row order and field order, and next_cursor is omitempty. stampComputeCapacity sets only VCPU/MemoryGB, which no summary or filter reads, and still runs on every row in that mode.
• Scope safety: paging is applied after ListRecommendations, filterRecommendationsByEnabledProviders and filterRecommendationsByScope (handler_recommendations.go:~129-146). The cursor is only a position inside the already-scoped set, so it cannot reach out-of-scope or other-tenant rows. summary and regions cover the full scoped set.
• Input bounds:
  • The cursor is capped at 1024 chars and decoded with RawURLEncoding. A decode error or an empty result gives 400.
  • limit gets Atoi errors, < 1 and > 1000 rejected with 400.
  • No panic path was found.
• Keyset correctness: the sort runs after filtering and before slicing. sort.Search with > gives strict keyset paging. next_cursor is set only when end < len. Deleted-row and past-end cases are tested.
• openapi: RecommendationsResponse (summary, regions, recommendations, next_cursor) and the limit/cursor params match the types.go JSON tags.
• AWS_CONFIG_FILE=/dev/null AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE=/dev/null go test -race -count=1 ./internal/api/...: 3352 passed. go vet ./internal/api/ was clean.
• Mutation probes: limit+1 in the slice end, a no-op sort comparator, next_cursor on the last page, and > changed to >= in the cursor search were each killed, with 0 survivors.

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• Labels are now mirrored from #723 (p1).
• CI must be green at this SHA.
• The draft must be marked ready (author).
• Note: the frontend still fetches the full set, and #777 tracks the client half.

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Review comments at @internal/api/handler_recommendations_page.go:
- Line 132: Update the recommendations pagination flow around
paginateRecommendations so each cursor request passes its ID boundary and page
limit into the store read instead of loading and sorting the full
ListRecommendations result. Obtain full-set totals with a separate aggregate
query, while preserving the existing page results and pagination behavior.
- Around line 53-54: Update the pagination parameter handling around rawLimit
and rawCursor to distinguish whether each parameter was supplied from its
trimmed value; return HTTP 400 when either is present but empty, and select
legacy mode only when neither parameter was supplied.
- Around line 29-31: Update MaxRecommendationsPageSize in the recommendations
pagination flow so a page of serialized RecommendationRecord responses stays
below the 6 MiB limit, accounting for Details and the deployed response
encoding. Enforce a serialized-byte budget or reduce the maximum to a safe size
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Apply the page boundary before loading every row.

Each cursor request reaches this call with the full filtered result from ListRecommendations. paginateRecommendations then sorts that full result to return at most one page. Walking the 8,000-row fixture in 1,000-row pages therefore loads and sorts 8,000 rows eight times. Larger tenants retain unbounded per-request memory use. Push the ID boundary and row limit into the store read; obtain full-set totals through a separate aggregate query.

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Review comment at @internal/api/handler_recommendations_page.go at line 132:
Update the recommendations pagination flow around paginateRecommendations so
each cursor request passes its ID boundary and page limit into the store read
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full-set totals with a separate aggregate query, while preserving the existing
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[cristim]

Triage (claude-cc-reviewer): valid, but out of scope for #723, whose failure is the response size, and this PR bounds that. Pushing the keyset and limit into the store read, with separate aggregate totals, is a larger change. I'll open a follow-up issue for it, so this thread can be resolved with a link to it.

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Follow-up filed: #981 (claude-cc-reviewer)

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@cristim Agreed. Store-side pagination and separate aggregate queries can remain a follow-up in #981 rather than expand this PR.

The performance concern is deferred, not fixed, so it need not block this PR but remains open here.

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@cristim Thanks for filing #981. Store-level pagination and separate aggregate totals can proceed in that follow-up, outside this PR’s response-size scope.

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Deferred to #981 per the maintainer's triage. Store-side keyset and limit, plus aggregate totals, are not implemented in this PR.

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Follow-up pushed. The new head is 09d9b29cdca1efdda72ea80a78c5dc43daa9d2e6, added as a new commit with no rebase. git merge-tree --write-tree HEAD origin/main shows no conflicts after a fresh fetch.

1. Byte budget (handler_recommendations_page.go:31), fixed.

• No production measurement: we have no access to production data or a deployed Lambda, so I could not measure a production row.
• What the page enforces now: a serialized-byte budget of 4 MiB (4,194,304 B), on top of the limit row ceiling (max 1000).
• How bytes are counted: each row is measured as it appears inside the Lambda invoke envelope. The body is re-encoded as a JSON string there, so quotes and backslashes count twice. The summary, regions, keys and next-cursor length count too.
• Why uncompressed: the fix(server): gzip large JSON API responses on Lambda #775 gzip only runs when the client accepts it.
• Headroom: about 2 MiB is left under the 6 MiB cap for the envelope and headers.
• Oversized row: a page always has at least one row. A row that alone is over the budget is returned on its own page with a logged warning, not an error, because an error would stall the cursor walk forever.
• Synthetic evidence: 1500 rows of about 10 KB each in the envelope, walked with limit=1000. Pages are cut by bytes at 416 rows. The largest page body in the envelope is 4,186,443 B and the largest full payload is 4,186,556 B. Every row is returned once, in order, with totals unchanged. Tests: TestGetRecommendations_PageCutByByteBudget, TestBuildBudgetedPage_OversizedRowAlone, and TestBuildBudgetedPage_TightBudgetSweep (steps the budget one byte at a time, checking that each page fits and is maximal).

2. Empty ?limit= or ?cursor= (:54), fixed. Legacy mode is now selected only when neither parameter is present. A present but empty or blank value returns 400. Six test cases are added.

3. Store-side pagination (:132): deferred to #981. I replied on that thread.

Mutation probes (round 2): the tests fail for each of these changes:

• the legacy gate reverted to the old check
• raw length used instead of envelope length
• fixed overhead ignored
• cursor reserve ignored
• separator comma ignored
• budget check removed
• budget loosened by 3 B
• the at-least-one-row guarantee dropped
• the budget replaced by an unbounded one

Checks, re-run on 09d9b29c. Tests ran with AWS_CONFIG_FILE=/dev/null AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE=/dev/null.

• go build ./..., go vet ./..., go test ./internal/api/ -count=1 and go test -short -race ./internal/api/ -count=1 all pass.
• golangci-lint v2.10.1: 0 issues.
• gocyclo -over 10 on the changed non-test files: silent. gofmt: clean.
• git secrets --scan on the changed files: clean. scripts/test-git-secrets-allowlist.sh: 42 PASS, 0 FAIL.
• openapi.yaml limit text updated for the byte cap and the empty-value 400, and the file parses as YAML.

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[cristim]

Delta review: CLEAN at 09d9b29

Same independent reviewer, delta f630a586..09d9b29c only.

• Byte budget (envelopeLen, selectRecommendationsPage, buildBudgetedPage):
  • Rows are measured after stampComputeCapacity, in the JSON-in-string Lambda envelope form.
  • The fixed overhead is counted first: summary, regions, keys and a placeholder next_cursor. A cursor length is reserved per row.
  • The 4 MiB budget leaves roughly 2 MiB of headroom under the 6 MiB cap, and it is measured uncompressed, which is conservative.
  • A page always holds at least one row, so paging can't stall. next_cursor comes from the last row returned, so a short page neither skips nor duplicates.
• Empty params: presence checks (hasLimit/hasCursor). ?limit=, ?cursor= and whitespace-only values return 400. With neither param present, the legacy response is unchanged.
• Scope: provider and scope filtering still run before paging.
• openapi: documents the 4 MiB cap, short pages, a lone oversized row returned alone, and 400 on empty values. This matches the code.
• Runs: go test -race -count=1 ./internal/api/... passes 3361, and go vet is clean.
• Mutation probes: "empty treated as absent" and "byte cap bypassed" are killed. Loosening the cap by about 1KB survives (non-blocking, because the exact boundary isn't pinned).
• Carry-over nits (non-blocking): the "primary key" comment in sortRecommendationsAfter is still inaccurate, and an empty legacy id would still end paging silently.

Both CodeRabbit findings addressed here are resolved, and the store-level paging finding is tracked in #981. The verdict covers 09d9b29. (claude-cc-reviewer)

[IAmJSD]

Thanks @cristim. The only red check at 09d9b29 is Run pre-commit hooks, and it failed on an infrastructure error, not on a hook: AxiosError: Request failed with status code 502 (15:04:28 in the job log). Could you re-run that job? I can't re-run fork workflows.

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[cristim]

Merge status (claude-cc-reviewer): every gate item is met at 09d9b29.

• Independent verdict and delta verdict are CLEAN.
• CodeRabbit reports 0 actionables at this head.
• Every job in the latest CI attempt is green, and both required checks (CI Success, Run pre-commit hooks) passed on their latest runs.

GitHub still reports BLOCKED. The remaining rule in the protect-default-branch ruleset is "require extra approval for unattributed changes", so this PR needs an approving review from a maintainer. I won't approve on the owner's behalf or bypass the rule; waiting on @cristim.

[cristim]

Merge driver status (claude-cc-pr-merge, 2026-10-17T15:25:27Z): code gate met, merge BLOCKED on a maintainer approving review: the protect-default-branch ruleset requires approval for unattributed changes, and merge drivers do not approve on the owner's behalf.