Add staff player directory, sessions and activity from CoreProtect

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Summary

Backend for a staff Players directory: every Minecraft player, their sessions and their recent CoreProtect actions. The frontend is the stacked PR on staff-players-ui.

• New view_players capability (mod and above), rechecked on every request.
• GET /admin/players: the union of CoreProtect's co_user, discord_links and character_roster, keyed by UUID. Search covers Minecraft names (including past names), Discord names, character names, UUIDs and Discord ids. Sort by last seen, Minecraft name or Discord name, 50 per page.
• GET /admin/players/{uuid}: name history, first and last seen, Discord link, website role and characters.
• GET /admin/players/{uuid}/sessions: rebuilt from login, logout and ping rows. A crash with no logout ends at the last ping ("last observed"), not at a made-up logout.
• GET /admin/players/{uuid}/activity: blocks, clicks, kills (PvP victims linked), spawns, containers, items, entities, signs, skills, commands and logins, merged across tables. 20 per page by default, with kind filters and a cursor.

Reading the live CoreProtect database safely

Main's CoreProtect database is a 7.4 GB SQLite file that the server writes to continuously (rollback journal). backend/src/coreprotect/reader.py and its README describe the guards:

• autocommit, read-only access;
• one reader per process;
• a 1.5 s budget per request, which includes lock waits;
• every statement fully fetched before the next;
• each activity table examines at most 2,000 rows per page. A same-second burst is seeked through the index, not scanned.

immutable=1 is never used: on Main it produced torn reads ("database disk image is malformed") while CoreProtect was writing.

Privacy

• Moderators: chat is never read and commands are cut to their first word inside SQL.
• Admins and the owner (view_player_messages): they also get a chat kind and full commands, each cut to 512 characters.
  • Every page that shows any of this is recorded in admin_audit as player.messages.view before it is returned. The record holds the player, server, filters and which rows were shown, never the text.
  • If that record can't be written, the page is refused with audit_unavailable.
  • No reason is asked for, as the owner requested.
• Sign text, item metadata and NBT are never selected.

Deployment gate

backend/benchmarks/coreprotect_reader.py (results in the README):

• Live Main: p99 8.6 ms and max 18.5 ms per request.
• 6.5 GB synthetic Main, one reader: writer p99 up 10 ms, no failures.

Deploying needs a read-only mount of the CoreProtect directory and COREPROTECT_* settings in the host's docker-compose.override.yml; the README has the snippet. Without them, the directory lists linked players and characters and says CoreProtect is unavailable.

Tests

• 174 tests in src/auth and src/coreprotect pass. They use the fork's real schema.
• The rest of the backend suite passes too, apart from test_deletion_survives_more_than_999_present_factions, which needs Python 3.11's sqlite3.setlimit. It fails on main for the same reason.

The design and code were reviewed over several rounds with a second agent (Astra). It confirmed the session state machine, cursor correctness across tables and tied timestamps, and the lock reasoning.

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• backend/benchmarks/coreprotect_reader.py
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• backend/src/auth/players.py
• backend/src/auth/roles.py
• backend/src/auth/test_players.py
• backend/src/coreprotect/README.md
• backend/src/coreprotect/activity.py
• backend/src/coreprotect/cursors.py
• backend/src/coreprotect/test_activity.py
• backend/src/coreprotect/test_reader.py

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Staff can browse and search a player directory, sort and page through results, and view linked accounts and character details.
  • Player profiles include session history and activity, with options to filter and page through results.
  • Moderators can view player information and activity summaries; chat and full command text are limited to admins and above.
  • Viewing chat or full command text is audited.

Walkthrough

This change adds bounded, read-only CoreProtect access and staff routes for player directory, profile, session, and activity data. It combines CoreProtect records with application data and adds role-based activity visibility and auditing. It also adds test fixtures, regression tests, operational documentation, and benchmarks.

Changes

Staff player data

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bounded CoreProtect reader and test database backend/src/coreprotect/reader.py, backend/src/coreprotect/maps.py, backend/src/coreprotect/cursors.py, backend/src/coreprotect/testdata/schema.sql, backend/src/coreprotect/testing.py, backend/src/coreprotect/test_reader.py, backend/conftest.py	Adds read-only SQLite access with a shared request budget and reader gate. Adds cached lookup maps, scoped cursors, test database support, and reader tests.
Session and activity retrieval backend/src/coreprotect/sessions.py, backend/src/coreprotect/activity.py, backend/src/coreprotect/test_sessions.py, backend/src/coreprotect/test_activity.py	Adds session reconstruction and pagination, plus filtered activity reads across available tables with bounded scans and cursors. Tests cover session states, activity ordering, cursor validation, scan limits, and rollback labels.
Player directory and staff routes backend/src/auth/players.py, backend/src/api/admin_routes.py, backend/src/auth/roles.py, backend/src/auth/test_admin.py, backend/src/auth/test_players.py	Adds directory aggregation, search, sorting, and profiles using CoreProtect, Discord, and character records. Adds staff routes with capability checks and role-dependent activity visibility. Full-text activity results are audited before return.
Reader benchmarks and operational notes backend/benchmarks/coreprotect_reader.py, backend/src/coreprotect/README.md, backend/src/coreprotect/__init__.py	Adds synthetic database generation and commands to measure read latency and writer contention. Documents settings, routes, data handling, reader constraints, and benchmark results.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant StaffClient
  participant AdminRoutes
  participant PlayerService
  participant Reader
  participant CoreProtectSQLite
  participant SiteDatabase
  StaffClient->>AdminRoutes: Request player data
  AdminRoutes->>PlayerService: Call authorised operation
  PlayerService->>SiteDatabase: Read Discord links and character records
  PlayerService->>Reader: Read CoreProtect records
  Reader->>CoreProtectSQLite: Execute bounded read-only queries
  CoreProtectSQLite-->>Reader: Return query rows
  Reader-->>PlayerService: Return CoreProtect data
  PlayerService-->>AdminRoutes: Return combined result
  AdminRoutes-->>StaffClient: Return response

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 2bbf7

The documented access controls and audit-failure behavior are consistent with the implementation; no issue identified here needs resolution before merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2bbf7

The new access is protected by current staff permissions, sensitive text requires higher privileges, and message responses are refused when auditing fails. Read-only access and bounded queries reduce impact on the live server. Deployment configuration and exact audit-detail requirements still need confirmation.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — An authorized moderator can enumerate the configured server's player directory and associated website, Discord, character, and non-message history data. An admin or owner can additionally retrieve stored chat and command arguments, potentially including private messages or command secrets. The examined integration grants reads, not CoreProtect modification authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The viewer comes from a valid session joined to the current users.role, not a request-supplied role or player identity. All four routes enforce view_players; the service separately derives full-text permission. UUIDs, filters, and pagination boundaries cannot enable full-text projections without that capability.
• observed — Privileged message disclosure records authenticated actor identity, player UUID, server, selected kinds, message count, and newest/oldest row identifiers before return, without copying message contents into the audit. Intermediate disclosed identifiers are not individually persisted, so the record is page-boundary metadata rather than an exact row manifest.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Live-database failure containment uses read-only autocommit connections, one reader per process, a shared 1.5-second cooperative budget, fully fetched and closed statements, and cleanup on exceptions. Activity scans are capped per source and player ID. A stalled disk read remains outside the progress handler's interruption guarantee.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Confirm the production read-only mount and single-process reader assumption before enabling live access. Avoid exposing unrelated configuration credentials where practical, and introduce cross-process admission control before scaling readers.
• proposed — Clarify whether disclosure auditing requires exact row identifiers or only page-boundary metadata. If exact reconstruction is required, persist the bounded identifier list without message contents and validate commit failure, interruption, and repeated concurrent disclosure paths.

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backend/benchmarks/coreprotect_reader.py (1)

83-85: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the redundant second sqlite_master query.

The loop at Line 84 repeats the query from Line 83. It extracts only name, and the f-string DROP INDEX {name} is unquoted. An index name with special characters would break the statement. The schema is trusted, so the risk is low. Quote the name, or build the drop list from one query.

♻️ Proposed change

-    indexes = [row[0] for row in conn.execute("SELECT sql FROM sqlite_master WHERE type = 'index' AND sql IS NOT NULL")]
-    for (name,) in conn.execute("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type = 'index' AND sql IS NOT NULL").fetchall():
-        conn.execute(f"DROP INDEX {name}")
+    found = conn.execute("SELECT name, sql FROM sqlite_master WHERE type = 'index' AND sql IS NOT NULL").fetchall()
+    indexes = [sql for _, sql in found]
+    for name, _ in found:
+        conn.execute('DROP INDEX "{}"'.format(name.replace('"', '""')))

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Review comment at @backend/benchmarks/coreprotect_reader.py around lines 83 -
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Update the index collection and removal logic to use a single `sqlite_master`
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @backend/src/coreprotect/cursors.py:
- Around line 29-30: Update the value validation in decode so each cursor value
must be an integer within SQLite’s signed 64-bit range, from -2^63 through
2^63-1; keep malformed tokens raising BadCursor("bad_cursor").

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- Around line 121-125: Update test_unreadable_or_corrupt_files_are_unavailable
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Review comments at @backend/benchmarks/coreprotect_reader.py:
- Around line 83-85: Update the index collection and removal logic to use a
single `sqlite_master` query, retaining both each index name and its SQL for the
existing `indexes` data. In the loop, safely quote and escape each name in the
`DROP INDEX` statement.

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• backend/benchmarks/coreprotect_reader.py
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• backend/src/auth/players.py
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• backend/src/auth/test_admin.py
• backend/src/auth/test_players.py
• backend/src/coreprotect/README.md
• backend/src/coreprotect/__init__.py
• backend/src/coreprotect/activity.py
• backend/src/coreprotect/cursors.py
• backend/src/coreprotect/maps.py
• backend/src/coreprotect/reader.py
• backend/src/coreprotect/sessions.py
• backend/src/coreprotect/test_activity.py
• backend/src/coreprotect/test_reader.py
• backend/src/coreprotect/test_sessions.py
• backend/src/coreprotect/testdata/schema.sql
• backend/src/coreprotect/testing.py

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