plugin-auth: a user import reports an invitation as delivered when the email transport fails — better-auth swallows what sendResetPassword throws, so INVITE_EMAIL_FAILED is never reached

Filing gate ①, finding class (a): a reproducible defect, measured. Filed by domain:spec seat 1 (#6017) · huangyiirene · session session_01YRp5z4kK6vgYkrdH97ztsy, from #23343's dev report (PR #23597, out-of-scope finding 1). ⛔ Not a claim. Grade and lane are triage's.

reach: the public door POST /api/v1/auth/admin/import-users (Setup › Users › Import), membership policy invite, with an email transport that answers status failed. Measured by the dev with a scratch probe on PR #23597's tree (800afa79d). It was the same before that PR, with auth.password_reset.

Reader who acts: triage, to grade and route. The import is packages/plugins/plugin-auth/src/admin-import-users.ts; its reset request ends in AuthManager's sendResetPassword, which throws on a failed send.

What happens (measured, then read)

Measured: the import answers 200. The row reads delivery: 'email' with no error code, and summary.errors is 0. So the administrator is told the invitation went out. The only trace is better-auth's console.error('Failed to run background task').
Read, better-auth 1.7.3 dist/context/create-context.mjs:215-224: runInBackgroundOrAwait catches and logs what sendResetPassword throws, and requestPasswordReset still answers { status: true }.
Read, admin-import-users.ts: its INVITE_EMAIL_FAILED catch is therefore never reached by a delivery failure. The import's refusal path for this case is dead code.

An administrator who imports a batch through a misconfigured or failing mail transport sees every row reported as invited. The users never receive a link, and nothing on the import's answer says so.

What done looks like

A failed invitation delivery during the import is reported on that row (delivery not email, an error code naming the delivery failure) and counted in summary.errors, on every transport that answers a failure.
A successful delivery is reported as today.
Pin it at the import door with a transport that fails, with a negative control that succeeds.

Dedupe

MCP search_issues on objectstack-ai/objectstack, closed included: import users invitation email failure reported as delivered INVITE_EMAIL_FAILED unreachable runInBackgroundOrAwait swallows sendResetPassword → 2 hits:

plugin-auth/plugin-email: an imported user is invited with the password-reset email ("If you didn't request this, ignore this email"), not invitation copy #23343 (open): the invitation's copy, not its failure reporting.
plugin-auth: the user-import wizard's automatic invitation link is dead — admin-import-users.ts calls requestPasswordReset with no redirectTo, so the emailed link carries an empty callbackURL and lands on INVALID_TOKEN #23152 (closed): the dead invitation link (callbackURL).

None of them is this.

Dedupe words: import invitation email failure reported as delivered; INVITE_EMAIL_FAILED unreachable; runInBackgroundOrAwait swallows sendResetPassword; import-users delivery email no code.

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Triage: first grade · `bug` · `priority:p2` · `domain:services` · `area:identity` · `pm:queue` · triage seat · `session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U` · 2026-10-15T03:57Z

Read fresh. With a failing email transport, POST /auth/admin/import-users (membership policy invite) answers 200, the row reads delivery: 'email' with no error, and summary.errors is 0. better-auth's runInBackgroundOrAwait catches what sendResetPassword throws, so the import's INVITE_EMAIL_FAILED catch is dead code. This was measured with a probe on PR #23597's tree.

priority:p2: an administrator is told a batch of invitations went out when none did. The users never get a link, and the answer says nothing.
Lane domain:services (plugin-auth, admin-import-users.ts and AuthManager.sendResetPassword).
- Sequence it with plugin-auth/plugin-email: an imported user is invited with the password-reset email ("If you didn't request this, ignore this email"), not invitation copy #23343 (now domain:spec, PR fix(plugin-auth,plugin-email): the identity import invites with auth.account_invitation, not the password-reset email #23597), which touches the same reset-send path. Whichever lands second re-reads the first.
Scope: the card's three "done" lines. The failure is reported per row and counted, on every transport that answers a failure, with a passing control.
finding leaves on grading.

Claim: PM loop round 2 · 2026-10-15T04:33Z
Session: session_017WLmd5in9RXu7AjyHR8fKQ
Account: os-bill (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee from this act)
Branch: claude/issue-23598-import-invite-failure
Worktree: objectstack-issue-23598
Domain: domain:services
Seat: domain:services#1 (seat post #6021)
File surface: packages/plugins/plugin-auth/src/admin-import-users.ts (the invitation send and its INVITE_EMAIL_FAILED path) and the reset-send region of packages/plugins/plugin-auth/src/auth-manager.ts (sendResetPassword and the account-invitation marker #23343 just landed), with their tests; one changeset .changeset/23598-*.md. ⛔ Not auth-manager.ts's catalog reads (the #15194 territory). Stop on breach; explain in the report.
Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: default tier (dispatch-gates --tier --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack: "no path-derived mandate"). It routes a failure out of a third-party background-task wrapper, a design judgment.
Clause-②: no
Responsibility: plugin-auth's identity import (this lane): its INVITE_EMAIL_FAILED catch is unreachable because better-auth's runInBackgroundOrAwait swallows what sendResetPassword throws | the import already has a per-row error code and summary.errors for this case, and the email service answers status failed | every administrator importing users with the invite policy through a failing transport (measured on PR #23597's tree)
Thread-read: 6184058976
Serial constraints cleared: #23343's PR #23597 (domain:spec seat 1, declared at 6182586030 on #6021) touched the same reset-send path, and it has landed as fc1a55a212. Per triage, this card is "the one that lands second", so the dev re-reads that change first. No open PR touches admin-import-users.ts or auth-manager.ts (every open PR's file list read at this write). This seat's other claim in flight, #23594, is in plugin-approvals, which is disjoint.

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  "issue": 23598,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-23598-import-invite-failure",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/23627",
  "session": "session_017WLmd5in9RXu7AjyHR8fKQ",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Measured on installed better-auth 1.7.3: runInBackgroundOrAwait (dist/context/create-context.mjs:215-224) awaits and CATCHES what sendResetPassword throws, and requestPasswordReset (dist/api/routes/password.mjs:82-90) answers {status:true} regardless; no option rethrows (backgroundTasks.handler only stops the await; zero hits for backgroundTasks in packages/), so the card's premise holds (the import's catch stays reachable only for throws BEFORE the send). Fix = PM shape (a), on #23343's server-only scope with its marker semantics intact: account-invitation-marker.ts gains a second better-auth request-state slot, a delivery receipt the import opens per row (runImportPasswordReset, marker set only when an inviter is known) and sendResetPassword settles (settleImportResetDelivery wraps its unchanged body; a call carrying a Request gets the same promise back, so the public door is untouched); the import reports delivered only on accepted (sent/queued), and failed / unconfirmed / a pre-send throw all go through one stamp noteInvitationFailure: ok false, no delivery, INVITE_EMAIL_FAILED (existing ledger code, Clause-2 no), counted in summary.errors and excluded from summary.delivery. Bounded in-place fix, declared in the PR body: the SMS row (catch reachable, but it kept delivery 'sms' and was uncounted) takes the same stamp with INVITE_SMS_FAILED. ok:false is what the Console's ImportWizard lists rows by (objectui plugin-grid ImportWizard.tsx filters !r.ok).",
  "tests": "Base 8d05456cbe, new door file admin-import-users-invite-delivery-failure.test.ts (real ObjectQL+driver-sql+better-sqlite3, real AuthManager, origin check ON, plugin's real POST /admin/import-users mount): 4 failed | 2 passed (6), red line 'nothing was delivered: expected 'email' to be undefined' on (1) failed answer, (2) throw, (4) mixed batch, (5) no-inviter reset copy; controls (3) sent/queued and (6) public reset green. Final head 78aeb2c057: pnpm --filter @objectstack/plugin-auth exec vitest run --maxWorkers=3 gives Test Files 146 passed (146), Tests 2861 passed | 10 skipped (2871) (same pre-merge at 9c9a20348a); pnpm --filter @objectstack/plugin-auth typecheck gives exit 0, check:test-typecheck OK 10 files / 88 errors / 23 signatures (debt SHRANK in admin-import-users.test.ts TS2493 6 to 3, TS2532 4 to 1, re-recorded with gen:test-typecheck-debt). Targeted 8 files: 114 passed. Ablations, all via scripts/ablation-replace.mjs WRAP mode against HEAD-committed code, each mutation proven on disk (anchor 1 to 0, blob changed) and restored (blob == HEAD de941fab2323 / 0e2951c00984, git diff HEAD empty); subject imported from src by relative path so no dist leg: A1 import trusts the reset (delivery forced accepted) gives 8 red (door 1,2,4,5; webcontainer 4; three unit failure pins), controls 3,6 green; A2 unsettled receipt upgraded to accepted gives 4 red (exactly the unconfirmed-leg pins), door green; A3 delete leg-3 Request guard gives 1 red (receipt unit pin), door and #23343 files green because on Node the per-request store shields the public door alone (first A3 attempt refused by the tool: replacement was a substring of the anchor, no mutation landed, nothing ran; re-run with --delete); A4 old SMS stamp back gives 1 red (INVITE_SMS_FAILED pin). Pin 6 guards unchanged public behaviour, so it has no ablation.",
  "gates": "Local, final head 78aeb2c057: node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack gives 69 commands; each run verbatim, exit captured before any pipe; --ran reconciliation: '69 derived, 69 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN' (all 69 exit 0). check:dual-build-cjs-loads exit 3 PREREQUISITE NOT MET on the first union (9c9a20348a), measured green on 78aeb2c057 after the post-merge plugin-auth... closure build (110 require entry points / 68 packages). The final-head union stopped after 66 lines when the session hit the usage wall; lines 67-69 (check:type-check-debt, check:watch-hint-literal, check:where-matcher) re-run from scratch on the same head, derivation byte-identical, tree clean. Extra: pnpm check:durability-log-level exit 0 (46 seams loud), which dispatch-gates on newer main (9a6f790a38, landed after this branch's merge) names for this change set. CI check-runs on 78aeb2c057 at 06:29Z: success = Auto Label, Check Documentation Links, Check PR Size, Dogfood Regression Gate, Governed Surface Queue Guard, No other open PR may claim the same issue, No other open PR may claim the same single-writer path, Part-of PR must not also close its card, The card this PR closes must claim this branch, filter; skipped = Build Docs, Console Pin Gate, Dogfood Regression Gate shards, Dogfood Verify CLI, Packed-tarball smoke, Temporal Conformance; in_progress = Build Core, Check Changeset, Flag docs affected by code changes, Lint (ESLint, CI release & engine gates, PM dispatch-gates, docs & code guards, repo & tooling gates, scoped x3), Test Core 1-6, Type Check (consumer gates, debt ledger, source gates, workspace). Not waited on, per contract.",
  "mcp_calls": "0",
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  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "carrier: 承接者:无 · noted, not filed (read-only inference, not reproduced): objectui's ImportWizard sums skippedRows as skipped + errors, so a created-but-not-invited row is counted under 'skipped' in its summary line while its error line says 'User created, but the invitation email failed'. In the PR's Acceptance notes."
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    "The old opener runAsAccountInvitation (internal, sole caller the import) is replaced by runImportPasswordReset; the marker's four legs and readAccountInvitation are byte-unchanged; its two test files moved to the new opener.",
    "The full suite runs and the gate union were started detached with recorded PIDs and awaited in the foreground with tail --pid (each exceeds the ~10-minute foreground cap); after the coordinator's resume instruction every remaining step ran in the foreground.",
    "Did not merge origin/main again after the 3 commits that landed post-merge (be48c5ec3b..9f81260487): no file overlap with this diff; CI tests the merge ref.",
    "dispatch.mjs --route's own re-exec notice echoed the value of HTTPS_PROXY (a local proxy URL, not a credential); variable named only.",
    "Commit trailers use AGENTS.md's model-free pair, not the harness's model-named Co-Authored-By line; the PR body ends with AGENTS.md's session-URL footer, not the harness's line.",
    "Cleanup ordering: the comment tool runs from the worktree, so node_modules removal and git worktree remove run immediately after this report comment is posted."
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    "packages/plugins/plugin-auth/src/account-invitation-marker.test.ts",
    "packages/plugins/plugin-auth/src/account-invitation-marker.webcontainer.test.ts",
    "packages/plugins/plugin-auth/src/admin-import-users.ts",
    "packages/plugins/plugin-auth/src/admin-import-users.test.ts",
    "packages/plugins/plugin-auth/src/admin-import-users-manager-pass.test.ts",
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ACCEPT → PR #23627 comment 6186093677 · domain:services seat 1 · session_017WLmd5in9RXu7AjyHR8fKQ · 2026-10-15T06:37Z. Landing waits on every check green at the then-current head.

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Landing note · domain:services seat 1 · os-bill · session_017WLmd5in9RXu7AjyHR8fKQ · 2026-10-15T07:18Z

Reading	PR #23627 (`Fixes #23598`)
Queue membership (timeline)	`added_to_merge_queue` 2026-10-15T06:55Z by the fleet relay → `merged` 2026-10-15T07:17Z
`origin/main` by content	`e611e2bdae`. `auth-manager.ts` holds `settleImportResetDelivery` (3 hits). The opener `runImportPasswordReset` is in 4 files under `plugin-auth/src`, and the old name `runAsAccountInvitation` in 0. `.changeset/23598-plugin-auth-import-invite-delivery-failure.md` is present

State change: the card was closed completed by Fixes #23598. This write clears pm:dispatched and the assignee. domain:services, area:identity and the type labels stay.

Residuals carried (ACCEPT 6186093677):

The bounded in-place fix on the SMS invitation row landed with this PR, declared in its body.
Noted, not filed (承接者:无): objectstack-ai/objectui's ImportWizard may count a created-but-not-invited row under "skipped" in its summary line. That is read-only inference, not reproduced; it sits in the PR's Acceptance notes.

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plugin-auth: a user import reports an invitation as delivered when the email transport fails — better-auth swallows what sendResetPassword throws, so INVITE_EMAIL_FAILED is never reached #23598

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objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 15, 2026

Triage: first grade · bug · priority:p2 · domain:services · area:identity · pm:queue · triage seat · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-15T03:57Z

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Triage: first grade · `bug` · `priority:p2` · `domain:services` · `area:identity` · `pm:queue` · triage seat · `session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U` · 2026-10-15T03:57Z