Add a front-end browser check, so the pages are testable and not just readable

server/smoketest.py proves the API works; nothing proved the PAGES work. That gap
is why users.js, wp-sidenav.js and the extracted console.css shipped unexecuted and
had to be written up as a known issue instead of verified. This closes the gap with
a tool rather than a one-off, so the next front-end change is cheap to check.

  tests/cdp.py           a minimal DevTools Protocol client — hand-rolled stdlib
                         WebSocket (handshake, masked frames), browser discovery for
                         Edge/Chrome across platforms, and process teardown.
  tests/browser_check.py the fixture and 71 assertions.

Stdlib only, matching smoketest.py's rule: these have to run on a plain Python
install on whatever machine is to hand. No pip, no Selenium, no node.

Self-contained — it builds a throwaway database, seeds a fixture, starts its own
uvicorn on a free port, drives the browser, and tears everything down. The real
database is never touched. Sessions come from minting a token with the app's own
auth.create_token() rather than scripting the login form.

What it asserts, beyond "no JavaScript errors on boot" (the thing that actually
went unverified): the three role-dependent renderings of the directory, one-line
rows and no sideways scroll, the roles each caller may grant, the project-access
dialog opening and closing, the drawer's open/Escape/scrim/focus/aria behaviour and
its role gating, ?project= carried only onto project-scoped links, and — the reason
this matters most — that admin.html still has its tokens, cards, headings and dense
sticky tables after console.css was lifted out of its inline <style>.

Three things the build had to get right, each learned the hard way:

  - Teardown kills the browser's whole process tree AND sweeps anything still
    holding the unique temp profile, matched on that path so a browser window the
    user has open is never touched. proc.kill() alone left 98 strays.
  - Launching retries with a fresh profile and port: a browser can hand off to
    another instance and exit rc=0 without ever binding the debugging port.
  - Cleanup waits for the server to exit and disposes the harness's own SQLAlchemy
    engine before removing the temp directory, or the open SQLite file blocks the
    delete and ignore_errors hides it.

The fixture includes an account on a project the super user cannot see, without
which the admin and the super user would see the same number of rows and the
scoping assertion would prove nothing.

Documented in DEPLOYMENT.md next to the smoke test. 71/71 across repeated runs,
leaving no stray processes or temp directories.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

DEPLOY-runbook-2026-08-04.md

@@ -0,0 +1,290 @@
+# Deploy runbook — WP Suite
+
+**For:** IT / whoever administers the Docker host and Portainer
+**From:** n.siegfried@prime-controls.com
+**Revised:** 2026-08-05 — **this replaces the 2026-08-04 version.** Same procedure,
+but the deploy now carries a second database migration and a new admin screen. If
+you already have the earlier copy, work from this one instead.
+**Expected duration:** 10–15 minutes, including the backup
+**Expected downtime:** under a minute, while containers are recreated
+
+---
+
+## Fill these in before handing this over
+
+| Thing | Value |
+|---|---|
+| Docker host (SSH target) | `________________` |
+| Stack name in Portainer | `________________` |
+| Site URL | `https://________________` |
+| Stack directory on the host (holds `docker-compose.yml` / `backups/`) | `________________` |
+
+Container names are fixed by the compose file and are the same on every host:
+`nginx_webserver`, `wp_api`, `wp_db`, `wp_db_backup`.
+
+---
+
+## What this deploy changes
+
+Front-end and nginx changes, a new admin screen, plus pending database migrations
+that run automatically. Three things make it more than a routine restart:
+
+1. **The nginx config and the entire `html/` directory are baked into the
+   container image at build time.** A plain restart deploys nothing — the stack
+   must be re-pulled and re-built.
+2. **A pending migration rewrites existing rows** in the `users.role` column
+   (`b41c7ae90d52`, values `user` → `project_user`). That is why step 1 is a backup
+   and not optional. If a previous deploy already applied it, it will not run again —
+   step 0 tells you which of these you are actually about to run.
+3. **A second migration adds new columns** (`a7c31f9e5b02`: an archive timestamp on
+   projects, and two default-membership fields on users). This one is additive and
+   has database defaults for existing rows, so it does not rewrite anything.
+
+For the people using the app, the visible changes are: projects can now be
+**archived** from the Admin Console (they disappear from the pickers and go
+read-only, and can be brought back), certain users can be set to join **every new
+project automatically**, and the Admin Console has been rebuilt so the user table
+fits on screen.
+
+Migrations run themselves when the `wp_api` container starts. There is nothing
+to type and **no new environment variables** — do not change the stack's
+environment variables.
+
+---
+
+## Step 0 — Record the current state (needed for rollback)
+
+SSH to the Docker host and run:
+
+```bash
+docker exec wp_api alembic -c server/alembic.ini current
+docker inspect nginx_webserver --format 'nginx image: {{.Image}}'
+docker inspect wp_api          --format 'api image:   {{.Image}}'
+```
+
+**Copy the output into your ticket.** Also note the Git commit the Portainer
+stack is currently on (Portainer → the stack → the Git reference / last-updated
+commit). Without these, rollback is guesswork.
+
+The first command prints the migration the database is currently on. Use it to see
+which migrations this deploy will actually run:
+
+| `alembic current` shows | What will run | What that means |
+|---|---|---|
+| `c93f2b1d7e04` or earlier | both migrations | The `users.role` rewrite is included — the backup in step 1 matters most in this case. |
+| `d15b8c4ef207` | only `a7c31f9e5b02` | The `users.role` rewrite already happened on an earlier deploy. This one is additive only. |
+| `a7c31f9e5b02` | nothing | The database is already up to date; this is a code-only deploy. |
+
+Take the backup either way.
+
+---
+
+## Step 1 — Back up the database
+
+On the Docker host:
+
+```bash
+docker exec wp_db_backup /scripts/db-backup.sh
+```
+
+This triggers the stack's existing backup sidecar once, on demand. Expected
+output ends with a line like:
+
+```
+[db-backup] wrote 1.4M /backups/wpsuite-20260804-141233Z.sql.gz.enc
+```
+
+Confirm the file is on the host (substitute the stack directory):
+
+```bash
+ls -lt <stack-dir>/backups | head -3
+```
+
+**Record that filename.** Do not continue until you have seen the `wrote …`
+line and the file in that listing.
+
+- A `.sql.gz.enc` extension means backups are encrypted — expected and correct.
+- A `.sql.gz` extension plus a `WARNING: BACKUP_ENC_PASSPHRASE not set` line
+  means backups are unencrypted. Not a blocker for this deploy; report it back.
+- **No SSH access?** Portainer → **Containers** → `wp_db_backup` → **Console** →
+  connect with `/bin/sh`, then run `/scripts/db-backup.sh`. Same result: the
+  dump lands on the host, because `/backups` is a bind mount.
+
+---
+
+## Step 2 — Redeploy the stack in Portainer
+
+1. Portainer → **Stacks** → select the stack.
+2. **Pull and redeploy** — with re-pull / re-build **enabled**.
+3. Wait for it to report success.
+
+A plain "restart" or "stop/start" will **not** deploy this change. See "What
+this deploy changes" above.
+
+---
+
+## Step 3 — Confirm the containers came up
+
+```bash
+docker ps --filter name=nginx_webserver --filter name=wp_api --filter name=wp_db
+```
+
+All three must be `Up`, and `wp_db` should show `(healthy)`. Then check the API
+applied its migrations cleanly:
+
+```bash
+docker logs wp_api --tail 40
+```
+
+You are looking for Alembic `Running upgrade …` lines followed by gunicorn
+starting up, and **no** traceback. The last one should end at `a7c31f9e5b02`. The
+API deliberately refuses to start if a migration fails, so a restarting `wp_api`
+container means the migration failed — go to Rollback.
+
+Confirm the database landed on the new revision:
+
+```bash
+docker exec wp_api alembic -c server/alembic.ini current
+```
+
+Expected: `a7c31f9e5b02 (head)`.
+
+Then verify nginx's own view of its config:
+
+```bash
+docker exec nginx_webserver nginx -t
+```
+
+Expected: `syntax is ok` / `test is successful`.
+
+---
+
+## Step 4 — Confirm the response headers
+
+```bash
+curl -sI https://<site-url>/work-package-suite.html | grep -Ei 'cache-control|content-security-policy'
+```
+
+Add `-k` if the site uses an internal or self-signed certificate.
+
+**Both lines must come back.** Expected, approximately:
+
+```
+cache-control: no-cache, must-revalidate
+content-security-policy: default-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; ...
+```
+
+If the `content-security-policy` line is **missing** while `cache-control` is
+present, the deploy is bad — go to Rollback and send me the nginx log. (This is
+the specific regression this deploy fixes; the two headers must coexist.)
+
+Also confirm the API is reachable through the proxy:
+
+```bash
+curl -s https://<site-url>/api/health      # → {"ok": true}
+```
+
+---
+
+## Step 5 — Hard-reload once in a browser
+
+Open the site and press **Ctrl+Shift+R** (Cmd+Shift+R on macOS) once. The app
+uses a service worker; a normal reload can serve the previous version and make a
+good deploy look broken.
+
+Sanity checks — all four should take under a minute:
+
+1. Log in. The home page offers to select or create a project.
+2. Open **User Directory** (the `Users` link in the top-right menu, or the tile on the
+   home page). The table should read as **one line per user** — if rows are three lines
+   tall and the table spills outside its white card, you are still on the old cached
+   files: hard-reload again.
+
+   > Changed since this runbook was written: user accounts moved out of the Admin
+   > Console into `users.html` when the **Project Super User** role was added, so that
+   > a project admin can create accounts on their own job. If you are deploying a build
+   > from before that change, read this step as "Admin Console → the user table".
+3. Open **Admin Console** (admin account required). Two new cards are present and
+   load: **Projects**, and **Default members on new projects**. Both should list rows,
+   not an error.
+4. In the **Projects** card, click **Archive** on a project you don't mind hiding
+   (a `DEMO-` one if there is one), confirm the prompt, then tick **Show archived** —
+   it should reappear marked `archived`. Click **Unarchive** to put it back. That
+   round trip proves the new migration and the new endpoint are both live.
+
+**Deploy complete.** Please report back: the step 0 output (including which
+migrations ran), the backup filename, and the two header lines from step 4.
+
+---
+
+## Rollback
+
+Pick the case that matches.
+
+### Case A — nginx won't start, or the CSP header is missing
+
+The database is untouched by this, so this is a code-only rollback. In Portainer,
+redeploy the stack pinned to the **previous Git commit** recorded in step 0
+(Portainer → the stack → change the Git reference to that commit → Pull and
+redeploy). Then re-run step 3 and step 4.
+
+**Before you do:** grab the log, because it is what I need to fix this.
+
+```bash
+docker logs nginx_webserver --tail 100
+```
+
+Send me that output. If the container is in a restart loop the log still works.
+
+### Case B — `wp_api` is restarting / a migration failed
+
+```bash
+docker logs wp_api --tail 100
+```
+
+Send me that output. **Do not restore the database and do not roll the API back
+without contacting me first.** Which migration got as far as committing decides what
+is safe, and they are not the same:
+
+- **`a7c31f9e5b02`** (the new columns) is additive. If only this one ran, rolling
+  the API back to the previous image is safe on its own — the old code simply
+  ignores the extra columns. Nothing needs converting.
+- **`b41c7ae90d52`** (the `users.role` rewrite) is not. If that one committed,
+  rolling the API back without converting those values back **will break logins**.
+  That conversion is a one-line command, but it has to match what actually ran.
+
+The `alembic current` output from step 0, plus the `Running upgrade …` lines in the
+log above, are exactly what tells us which case you are in — please include both.
+
+Reach me at n.siegfried@prime-controls.com.
+
+### Case C — restoring the backup (only if I ask for it)
+
+Destructive: this drops and recreates the current schema and data. For an
+encrypted dump, on the Docker host, in the `backups` directory:
+
+```bash
+export BACKUP_ENC_PASSPHRASE='<the passphrase — from the stack env vars>'
+openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -pbkdf2 -pass env:BACKUP_ENC_PASSPHRASE \
+  -in wpsuite-<timestamp>.sql.gz.enc \
+  | gunzip \
+  | docker exec -i wp_db psql -U wpsuite -d wpsuite
+unset BACKUP_ENC_PASSPHRASE
+```
+
+For an unencrypted dump, drop the `openssl` stage and pipe `gunzip` straight
+into `psql`. Substitute the real values if `POSTGRES_USER` / `POSTGRES_DB` are
+not `wpsuite`.
+
+---
+
+## Notes
+
+- Do not add or change environment variables for this deploy.
+- Do not run `docker compose down -v` — the `-v` flag deletes the `pgdata`
+  volume and with it the entire database.
+- `docker compose …` commands are avoided throughout this runbook on purpose:
+  for a Portainer-managed Git stack the compose project lives under Portainer's
+  own data directory, so `docker compose` from an SSH session usually can't find
+  it. The `docker exec <container-name>` form used here works from any directory.
+- Full background documentation: `DEPLOYMENT.md` in the repository.

DEPLOYMENT.md

@@ -146,20 +146,64 @@ docker compose exec db psql -U wpsuite -d wpsuite -c "select id, name from proje
 
 ### Automated smoke test
 
-`server/smoketest.py` exercises the whole stack end-to-end (health → project →
+`server/smoketest.py` exercises the whole stack end-to-end (health → sign-in →
-SOP → Work Package → the AWP issue gate → status → metrics → comments → cascade
+project → SOP → Work Package → the AWP issue gate → status → metrics → comments →
-cleanup). Stdlib only — no pip/jq.
+archive round trip → cascade cleanup → sign-out). Stdlib only — no pip/jq.
+
+It **signs in first**, because every `/api/` route except `/api/health` requires a
+session. Credentials come from the environment so a password stays out of shell
+history, and the account must be an **admin**: the run creates a project and deletes
+it again, and archiving or deleting one takes Project Admin on it. The script checks
+the signed-in role up front and warns if it is too low rather than letting you find
+out in the cleanup step.
 
 ```bash
+export WP_SMOKE_USER=<admin-account>
+export WP_SMOKE_PASSWORD='…'
+
 # Through the proxy (use --insecure for a self-signed internal cert):
 python3 server/smoketest.py https://wp-suite.company.local --insecure
 
-# Or from inside the api container (hits FastAPI directly):
+# Or from inside the api container (hits FastAPI directly). Pass the vars through:
-docker compose exec api python /app/server/smoketest.py http://localhost:8000
+docker compose exec -e WP_SMOKE_USER -e WP_SMOKE_PASSWORD api \
+    python /app/server/smoketest.py http://localhost:8000
 
 # Add --keep to leave a demo project in the DB so you can open it in the UI.
+# --user / --password override the environment if you'd rather be explicit.
 ```
 
+Exit codes: **0** all checks passed · **1** one or more checks failed · **2** the run
+could not start (host unreachable, or credentials missing or rejected). The last is
+kept separate on purpose — "I could not test this" is a different answer from "this is
+broken", and automation should not treat them alike.
+
+### Front-end browser check
+
+`tests/browser_check.py` is the other half: the smoke test proves the API works, this
+proves the **pages** work. It runs them in headless Edge (or Chrome) over the DevTools
+Protocol and asserts what only a browser can settle — that each page boots without a
+JavaScript error, that the role-dependent renderings are right, and that the layout
+rules the console pages depend on are actually in effect.
+
+Self-contained: it creates a throwaway SQLite database, seeds a fixture (two projects,
+an admin, a Project Super User, a plain member, and accounts positioned to exercise
+in-scope / out-of-scope / invisible), starts its own server on a free port, and tears
+all of it down. **Your real database is never touched.** Stdlib only.
+
+```bash
+python tests/browser_check.py                 # everything, ~71 checks
+python tests/browser_check.py --keep-server   # leave it up to poke at by hand
+WP_BROWSER=/path/to/chrome python tests/browser_check.py
+```
+
+Same exit codes as the smoke test, including **2** for "no browser found" — a missing
+browser is not a failing app.
+
+Run this after any change to `html/users.js`, `html/wp-sidenav.js`, `html/console.css`
+or `html/admin.js`. It is the check that would have caught a rule lost while
+`console.css` was being extracted out of `admin.html`, which is a silent, whole-page
+regression that no server-side test can see.
+
 Exit code 0 and "ALL PASS" means the API, the Python logic, and SQL are all
 working. It cleans up after itself (the test project and its SOP/WPs are
 deleted via cascade); a single tagged test comment remains (there's no comment
@@ -209,11 +253,11 @@ users on the same project see the same server-stored SOP and Work Packages.
 
 | Table | Holds | Key columns |
 |-------|-------|-------------|
-| `projects` | top-level construction projects | `name`, `number`, `client`, `division`, `site`, `sample`, `data` |
+| `projects` | top-level construction projects | `name`, `number`, `client`, `division`, `site`, `sample`, `archived_at`, `data` |
 | `sops` | project SOP baselines | `project_id` → projects, `name`, `number`, `complete`, `data` (full SOP JSON) |
 | `work_packages` | individual IWPs | `project_id` → projects, `sop_id` → sops, `parent_id` (split instances), `number`, `subject`, `type`, `status`, `assignee_id` (owner), `issued_at`, `archived_at`, `data` (full WP JSON) |
 | `comments` | feedback from any page | `source`, `sop_id`, `wp_id`, `step`, `author`, `text`, `extra` |
-| `users` | login accounts | `username`, `password_hash` (bcrypt), `role`, `full_name`, `email`, `is_active`, login-lockout + `token_version` fields |
+| `users` | login accounts | `username`, `password_hash` (bcrypt), `role`, `full_name`, `email`, `is_active`, `auto_add_projects` + `auto_add_role` (default membership on new projects), login-lockout + `token_version` fields |
 | `project_members` | per-project access control | `user_id` → users, `project_id` → projects |
 | `audit_log` | append-only activity trail | `actor`, `action`, `entity_type`, `entity_id`, `project_id`, `summary`, `detail` |
 | `notifications` | in-app record + email outbox | `user_id`, `kind`, `wp_id`, `subject`, `status` (pending / sent / failed / skipped) |
@@ -224,18 +268,23 @@ column; frequently-listed fields are promoted to real columns for filtering.
 
 ### Endpoints (summary)
 
-Projects `GET/POST /api/projects`, `GET/DELETE /api/projects/{id}` ·
+Projects `GET/POST /api/projects`, `GET/DELETE /api/projects/{id}`,
+`POST /api/projects/{id}/archive` ·
 SOPs `GET/POST /api/sops`, `GET /api/sops/latest`, `GET/DELETE /api/sops/{id}` ·
 Work Packages `GET/POST /api/wps`, `GET/DELETE /api/wps/{id}`,
 `POST /api/wps/{id}/issue`, `POST /api/wps/{id}/status`, `POST /api/wps/{id}/archive`,
 `GET /api/wps/metrics` ·
 Comments `POST /api/comments` (and `/api/feedback`), `GET /api/comments` ·
 Auth `POST /api/auth/login` / `logout`, `GET /api/auth/me`, admin user management
-under `/api/auth/users` · Admin-only `GET/PUT /api/settings`,
+under `/api/auth/users` (including `POST /api/auth/users/{id}/auto-add`) ·
+Admin-only `GET/PUT /api/settings`,
 `POST /api/settings/test-email`, `GET /api/notifications`,
 `GET /api/projects/{id}/members`.
-List/latest/metrics accept a `project_id` (and `sop_id`) filter. Full reference
+List/latest/metrics accept a `project_id` (and `sop_id`) filter. `GET /api/projects`
-and request shapes: `/api/docs` and [`server/README.md`](server/README.md).
+and `GET /api/wps` both take `archived=exclude|only|all` and **default to
+`exclude`** — anything that needs to see archived rows (the admin console, the demo
+cleanup) must ask for them. Full reference and request shapes: `/api/docs` and
+[`server/README.md`](server/README.md).
 
 ---
 
@@ -327,18 +376,45 @@ console's **Reset password** button).
 
 `User.role` is the **permissions** role; `User.project_role` is the person's **job
 function** on the project (Project Manager, Superintendent, …) and grants nothing.
-Both are set in the Admin console's user table.
+Both are set on the **User Directory** page (`users.html`) — not the Admin Console,
+which no longer manages accounts.
 
 | Role | May do |
 |---|---|
-| `admin` | User administration, app settings, and every project |
+| `admin` | User administration everywhere, app settings, and every project |
+| `project_super_user` | Everything `project_admin` may do, **plus user administration on the projects they hold the role on**: create accounts, reset passwords, set permissions, grant project access |
 | `project_admin` | On assigned projects: delete work packages, change a **completed** SOP, delete the project |
 | `project_user` | Create/edit work packages, author a SOP up to completion; may archive a WP but not delete one |
 
 Enforced server-side by `require_project_admin` in `server/app.py`; the front end
-only hides controls to avoid dead-end clicks. Accounts created before this change
+only hides controls to avoid dead-end clicks. Accounts created before roles existed
 carried the role `user`, which the migration rewrites to `project_user`.
 
+### Project Super User — what bounds it
+
+The role exists so a project admin can staff their own job without an app admin.
+Its limits are what make it safe to hand out, and all of them are server-side
+(`managed_project_ids`, `manage_user_problem`, `grantable_roles` in `server/app.py`):
+
+* **Scope comes from projects, not the job title.** A super user administers the users
+  of the projects they hold the role on — via their account role, or via
+  `ProjectMember.role` for a super user on one job only. No projects, no authority.
+* **Account changes need EXCLUSIVE scope.** Resetting a password, disabling, renaming,
+  changing permissions or deleting are global acts, so they are refused when the
+  target is also on a project the caller does not administer. The directory shows
+  those rows read-only with the reason. An app admin has to make the change.
+* **No admin or super-user targets, and none granted.** A super user may hand out
+  `project_admin` / `project_user` only, and may not touch an admin's or another
+  super user's account — so the role cannot become a route to app-wide control.
+* **Saving project access never reaches outside scope.** `PUT
+  /api/auth/users/{id}/projects` rebuilds only the caller's own slice; memberships on
+  projects they don't administer are left untouched.
+* **App settings, feature flags and the default-member rule stay admin-only.**
+
+No migration is needed for the new role — `users.role` is already `String(20)` and
+`project_super_user` fits. Grant it from the User Directory (Permissions column), or
+per project from **Project access → Project Super User here**.
+
 ## Feature flags
 
 **Admin console → Features.** `bim_enabled` is **OFF by default**: the SOP creator
@@ -416,8 +492,9 @@ not get a second bar.
 - Switching project reloads the current page with `?project=<id>`; every page
   already resolves its project from that parameter.
 - Search calls `GET /api/search?q=`, which is **scoped to the caller's projects**
-  (`scope_to_access`) and hides archived work packages. LIKE wildcards in the query
+  (`scope_to_access`) and hides archived work packages, archived projects, and
-  are escaped, so searching `100%` matches a literal `100%`. Two-character minimum.
+  anything belonging to an archived project. LIKE wildcards in the query are escaped,
+  so searching `100%` matches a literal `100%`. Two-character minimum.
 - Ctrl/Cmd-K focuses the field from anywhere.
 
 ## Schema migrations (Alembic)
@@ -470,6 +547,53 @@ the project's members plus app admins, each with their effective role on that
 project. A project with nobody assigned shows only the admins, which is why
 assigning people is the first step on a new job.
 
+### Default members on new projects
+
+Memberships are also created automatically. **Admin console → Default members on
+new projects** flags accounts (`users.auto_add_projects`) that belong on every job —
+the PM who runs them all, the QC lead — with the role they should hold there
+(`users.auto_add_role`, sharing `project_members.role`'s value space, `''` =
+inherit the account's own).
+
+- It applies **only to projects created after the flag is set**. Nothing is
+  back-filled onto existing jobs; use **Project access** for those.
+- App admins are skipped (they already reach every project) and the flag is cleared
+  if an account is promoted to admin. Inactive accounts are skipped.
+- Runs in `add_default_members()` on the `is_new` branch of `upsert_project`, so it
+  covers every route into project creation — the home page, the sample project, the
+  demo seeder. An update never re-runs it.
+- If the creator is themselves a flagged member, the membership created for them as
+  creator carries their `auto_add_role`, so they aren't silently downgraded on the
+  one job they started.
+- Audit-logged once per project as `project_access_granted` with
+  `detail.reason = "auto_add_projects"`.
+
+## Archiving a project
+
+A finished job is archived rather than deleted: `projects.archived_at`, set from
+**Admin console → Projects** (or `POST /api/projects/{id}/archive`, which needs
+Project Admin **on that project**, same bar as deleting it).
+
+An archived project is **hidden and frozen**:
+
+- It leaves the home picker, the app-bar switcher and global search, because
+  `GET /api/projects` defaults to `archived=exclude`.
+- It is still readable by id, so a deep link renders it — with a read-only banner
+  from `wp-chrome.js` — and the admin console still lists it under
+  `?archived=all`.
+- Every write that lands on it is refused with **409** by
+  `require_project_writable()`: saving a project, SOP or work package, deleting
+  either, issuing, status changes, WP archiving, and comments on its WPs/SOPs.
+  Moving a work package *into* or *out of* an archived project is refused too.
+  409 rather than 403 is deliberate — nobody lacks a permission, the project's state
+  is the objection, and the browser outbox (`html/project-data.js`) retires 4xx ops
+  instead of retrying them forever.
+- Unarchiving and **deleting** stay allowed: unarchive is the one write an archived
+  project must accept, and archive-then-delete is a normal sequence.
+
+Nothing is removed, and unarchiving restores all of it. `server/smoketest.py`
+asserts the whole round trip.
+
 ## Asset freshness (why the app can't run half-updated)
 
 A page must never run against a stylesheet or script from a previous deploy. Three

KNOWN-ISSUES.md

@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+# Known issues — Work Package Suite
+
+Defects and limitations we know about and have decided not to fix yet. An entry
+here is a commitment to a decision, not a bug tracker: it says what is wrong, what
+it costs, why it is still open, and what closing it takes.
+
+Anything genuinely urgent does not belong here — it belongs in the next deploy.
+
+Close an entry by deleting it in the same commit that fixes it.
+
+| # | Issue | Severity | Raised | Status |
+|---|-------|----------|--------|--------|
+| 1 | XSS via SOP discipline names in the WP creator | Medium (internal), High if externally reachable | 2026-08-05 | Open |
+| 2 | Archived projects: the two big apps don't grey out their own controls | Low | 2026-08-05 | Open |
+
+---
+
+## 1. XSS via SOP discipline names in the WP creator
+
+**Files:** `html/wp-creation-app.js` lines 684, 723, 727, 729 · escaping helper at
+line 63
+**Predates:** the 2026-08-05 archive/admin-console work. Not introduced by it.
+
+### What is wrong
+
+Discipline names are rendered into inline event handlers escaped with `esc()`,
+which maps `'` to `'`. That is correct for text and wrong here. The browser
+decodes entities in an attribute value **before** the JavaScript parser sees it, so
+`'` becomes a bare `'` inside the handler's string literal and closes it early.
+
+```js
+// html/wp-creation-app.js:684 — esc() is not sufficient for a handler argument
+onchange="toggleDiscipline('${esc(d)}',this.checked)"
+```
+
+Escaping for an inline handler has to happen in this order: **backslash, then
+quote** (for the JS string literal), **then HTML** (for the attribute carrying it).
+`esc()` only does the last part.
+
+### How it is reached
+
+1. `gov_disciplines` (`html/work-package-suite.html:219`) is a free-text field. Its
+   value is comma-split with no validation at `work-package-suite-app.js:1224`.
+2. It is saved into `sops.data` and syncs to the server via `ProjectData.pushSOP`.
+3. Every other member of that project pulls it with `pullProject()` and renders it
+   in the WP creator — so this is **stored** and **cross-user**, and it fires on
+   page load rather than needing the victim to click anything.
+
+Any **project_user** on the job can set it while the SOP is a draft (after the SOP
+is marked complete it takes project_admin). The victim is anyone who opens the WP
+creator for that project, which includes administrators.
+
+### What it costs
+
+**The likely cost is a broken screen, not an attack.** A discipline named
+`Owner's Equipment` — an ordinary thing to type — produces a syntax error in the
+handler, so the discipline pill and its scope-step buttons silently stop
+responding. No error message, nothing a field user can diagnose.
+
+**The security ceiling is project_user → admin.** The session cookie is HttpOnly so
+the token cannot be read, but the injected code does not need it: it runs in the
+victim's page and can call any API the victim can, including
+`POST /api/auth/users/{id}/role`.
+
+**The `project_super_user` role (added 2026-08-05) widens the set of victims whose
+session is worth stealing, without raising the ceiling.** Previously only an app
+admin's session could create accounts or change permissions; now a super user's can
+too, within the projects they administer. The ceiling is unchanged — it was already
+`admin` — but the odds of landing on a session that can mint an account go up, and a
+super user is likelier than an admin to be reading a WP creator on a live job. It is
+one more reason the accidental-breakage case is not the only one that matters.
+
+Two controls that look like they would contain this do not:
+
+- **CSP does not mitigate it.** `nginx-wp-suite.conf:58` serves
+  `script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'`, and `'unsafe-inline'` is what permits inline
+  event handlers in the first place.
+- **The CSRF gate does not mitigate it.** `_csrf_ok` (`server/app.py:67`) only
+  requires a same-origin `Origin`, and code running inside our own page is
+  same-origin.
+
+### Why it is still open
+
+The suite is internal, behind a login, on the corporate network, with a small set
+of named employee accounts and no anonymous input path. Exploiting it means an
+employee deliberately attacking colleagues, and the audit log carries their name on
+the SOP edit. The accidental-breakage case is far more likely to be met than the
+malicious one.
+
+**Re-rate this as High and fix it immediately if any of these become true:** the
+suite is exposed outside the corporate network, accounts are issued to
+subcontractors or clients, or self-registration is added.
+
+Note that the second of those got easier to reach without anyone deciding to: a
+Project Super User can now issue accounts on their own job without an app admin
+involved, so "accounts are issued to subcontractors" can become true by ordinary
+delegated use rather than by a policy change. Worth checking the directory
+occasionally against who is actually on staff.
+
+### What closing it takes
+
+Small — roughly half an hour. The helper already exists; it was added to the SOP
+builder on 2026-08-05 for the same bug in custom constraint names:
+
+```js
+// html/work-package-suite-app.js:1120
+function escHandlerArg(v){ return escAttr(String(v==null?'':v).replace(/\\/g,'\\\\').replace(/'/g,"\\'")); }
+```
+
+1. Add the same helper to `html/wp-creation-app.js` alongside `esc()`.
+2. Use it at lines 684, 723, 727 and 729 in place of `esc(d)`.
+3. Sweep the other inline handlers in that file for the same pattern. The remaining
+   ones interpolate server-generated ids that `check_id()` already constrains to a
+   safe charset, or hardcoded enum values, so they are not currently reachable —
+   converting them anyway keeps the pattern from coming back.
+4. Confirm with a discipline named `Owner's Equipment`: the pill must respond to
+   clicks and the name must display intact.
+
+The equivalent fix on the admin side is `jsq()` in `html/console-util.js` (it moved
+out of `html/admin.js` on 2026-08-05 when the User Directory started needing it) —
+same ordering, same reasoning, worth reading before starting.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Archived projects: the two big apps don't grey out their own controls
+
+**Files:** `html/wp-creation-app.js`, `html/work-package-suite-app.js`
+**Raised:** 2026-08-05, with the project-archiving work.
+
+### What is wrong
+
+Archiving a project freezes it server-side — every write returns 409 (see
+`require_project_writable` in `server/app.py`, and the *Archiving a project*
+section of `DEPLOYMENT.md`). The front end tells the user, but does not stop them:
+`wp-chrome.js` shows a read-only banner and sets `data-wp-archived="1"` on the
+document element, and nothing reads that attribute yet. So on an archived project
+the WP creator and the SOP builder still present working Save and Issue buttons.
+
+### What it costs
+
+Low, and it fails safe — the server refuses the write, so nothing is corrupted and
+no data is lost. The cost is wasted effort and a confusing moment: someone deep-
+linked to an archived job can fill in a form and only learn it was refused when the
+sync indicator reports the change did not save.
+
+Reaching an archived project at all takes a deep link or a stale tab, since it is
+gone from every picker, switcher and search — which is why this is a rough edge
+rather than a defect.
+
+### Why it is still open
+
+Gating every control in two large single-page apps is materially bigger than the
+archive feature itself, and the server is the real enforcement boundary either way.
+The banner plus the sync indicator were judged enough for a first release.
+
+### What closing it takes
+
+`data-wp-archived` is already on the document element for exactly this purpose.
+Either add `[data-wp-archived]` rules in `wp-chrome.css` that disable and dim the
+save/issue controls, or add a boot check in each app that disables them and shows a
+read-only notice inline. Decide separately how the embedded creator
+(`wp-creation-index.html`) surfaces it, since it runs in an iframe where the shared
+app bar — and therefore the banner — is deliberately skipped.

docker-compose.yml

@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ services:
     volumes:
       - ./scripts:/scripts:ro
       - ./backups:/backups
-    entrypoint: ["/bin/sh", "/scripts/backup-cron.sh"]
     restart: unless-stopped
     depends_on:
       db:

html/admin.html

@@ -13,59 +13,46 @@
 <meta name="theme-color" content="#161616">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="theme-light.css">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-chrome.css">
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="console.css">
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-sidenav.css">
 <style>
-  :root{ --bg:#f4f4f4; --surface:#fff; --border:#e0e0e0; --border-strong:#8d8d8d; --text:#161616;
+  /* Page-specific only — the tokens, cards, controls, tables, banners and modal
-    --muted:#525252; --dim:#8d8d8d; --accent:#0f62fe; --green:#198038; --green-bg:#defbe6;
+     live in console.css, shared with the User Directory. What stays here is what
-    --red:#da1e28; --red-bg:#fff1f1; --amber:#8e6a00; --amber-bg:#fdf6dd; --mono:'IBM Plex Mono','Cascadia Mono',Consolas,monospace; }
+     only this page has: the per-card scroll boxes admin.js paints tables into, the
-  *{ box-sizing:border-box; }
+     column exceptions for those tables, and the admins-only notice.
-  body{ margin:0; font-family:'IBM Plex Sans',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,sans-serif; background:var(--bg); color:var(--text); }
+
-  .wrap{ max-width:860px; margin:0 auto; padding:28px 20px 80px; }
+     These are addressed by ID because admin.js emits the tables without per-cell
-  h1{ font-size:20px; margin:0 0 2px; }
+     classes. */
-  .sub{ color:var(--muted); font-size:13px; margin-bottom:18px; }
+
-  .card{ background:var(--surface); border:1px solid var(--border); border-radius:0; padding:18px 20px; margin-bottom:16px; }
+  /* These start life as empty divs that admin.js fills on demand, so they only earn
-  .card h2{ font-size:14px; margin:0 0 12px; text-transform:uppercase; letter-spacing:.03em; color:var(--accent); }
+     their gap once they are actually saying something. */
-  button{ font:inherit; font-size:13px; font-weight:600; border-radius:0; padding:8px 14px; cursor:pointer;
+  #projects-banner:not(:empty), #defmem-banner:not(:empty){ margin-bottom:var(--s3); }
-    border:1px solid var(--border-strong); background:#fff; color:var(--text); }
+
-  button:hover{ border-color:var(--accent); color:var(--accent); }
+  /* Every container admin.js paints a table into is a scrollport of its own, so a
-  button.primary{ background:var(--accent); border-color:var(--accent); color:#fff; }
+     sticky header always has something to stick to rather than sliding up behind
-  button.primary:hover{ background:#1e54bb; color:#fff; }
+     the app bar. Same rule as console.css's .tscroll. */
-  button.danger{ border-color:var(--red); color:var(--red); }
+  #comments-admin, #audit-admin, #notif-box, #usage-admin, #projects-table, #defmem-table{
-  button.danger:hover{ background:var(--red-bg); }
+    overflow:auto; max-height:min(70vh,640px); overscroll-behavior:contain; }
-  .row{ display:flex; gap:10px; flex-wrap:wrap; align-items:center; }
+  /* If admin.js wraps its table in its own .tscroll, the outer box steps aside so
-  .banner{ padding:10px 14px; border-radius:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:600; margin-top:10px; border:1px solid var(--border); background:var(--surface); }
+     one table never ends up with two scrollbars. */
-  .banner.ok{ background:var(--green-bg); color:var(--green); border-color:var(--green); }
+  #comments-admin:has(.tscroll), #audit-admin:has(.tscroll), #notif-box:has(.tscroll),
-  .banner.bad{ background:var(--red-bg); color:var(--red); border-color:var(--red); }
+  #usage-admin:has(.tscroll), #projects-table:has(.tscroll), #defmem-table:has(.tscroll){
-  pre.out{ background:#0f1525; color:#d7e0f5; border-radius:0; padding:12px 14px; font-family:var(--mono);
+    overflow:visible; max-height:none; }
-    font-size:12px; line-height:1.55; white-space:pre-wrap; max-height:340px; overflow:auto; margin:12px 0 0; }
+
-  pre.out .p{ color:#56d364; font-weight:700; } pre.out .f{ color:#ff7b72; font-weight:700; }
+  /* Comment text and audit detail are the two columns you are actually here to
-  table.kv{ border-collapse:collapse; font-size:13px; margin-top:8px; }
+     read, so they wrap inside a sane width instead of truncating. */
-  table.kv th{ text-align:left; padding:5px 18px 5px 0; color:var(--muted); font-weight:600; }
+  #comments-admin table td:nth-child(5){ white-space:normal; min-width:260px; max-width:640px; }
-  table.kv td{ padding:5px 0; font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums; font-weight:700; }
+  #audit-admin table td:nth-child(6){ white-space:normal; max-width:420px; }
-  .note{ font-size:12px; color:var(--dim); margin-top:10px; }
+
-  .gate-overlay{ position:fixed; inset:0; background:var(--bg); display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center; padding:20px; }
+  /* The denial notice is a sentence, not a table — don't stretch it to 1240px. */
-  .gate-box{ background:var(--surface); border:1px solid var(--border); border-radius:0; padding:28px; max-width:380px; width:100%; box-shadow:0 8px 30px rgba(20,30,50,.12); }
+  #admin-denied .card{ max-width:560px; }
-  .gate-box h2{ margin:0 0 4px; font-size:17px; }
+  .gate-box input{ width:100%; height:var(--ctl); padding:0 var(--s3); font:inherit; font-size:14px;
-  .gate-box p{ color:var(--muted); font-size:13px; margin:0 0 16px; }
+    border:1px solid var(--border-strong); border-radius:0; margin-bottom:var(--s3); }
-  .gate-box input{ width:100%; padding:10px 12px; font-size:14px; border:1px solid var(--border-strong); border-radius:0; margin-bottom:12px; }
+
-  .gate-msg{ color:var(--red); font-size:12px; min-height:16px; margin-bottom:8px; }
+  @media (max-width:900px){
-  .secwarn{ background:var(--amber-bg); color:var(--amber); border:1px solid var(--amber); border-radius:0; padding:9px 13px; font-size:12px; margin-bottom:16px; }
+    #comments-admin, #audit-admin, #notif-box, #usage-admin, #projects-table, #defmem-table{
-  a.home{ color:var(--accent); font-size:13px; text-decoration:none; }
+      max-height:none; }
-  .urow{ display:flex; gap:8px; flex-wrap:wrap; align-items:center; }
+  }
-  .urow input, .urow select{ padding:8px 10px; font:inherit; font-size:13px; border:1px solid var(--border-strong);
-    border-radius:0; background:#fff; color:var(--text); }
-  .urow input{ flex:1; min-width:130px; }
-  table.users{ border-collapse:collapse; width:100%; font-size:13px; }
-  table.users th{ text-align:left; padding:7px 10px; color:var(--muted); font-weight:600; border-bottom:1px solid var(--border); white-space:nowrap; }
-  table.users td{ padding:7px 10px; border-bottom:1px solid var(--border); vertical-align:middle; }
-  table.users tr:last-child td{ border-bottom:none; }
-  .tag{ display:inline-block; padding:1px 9px; border-radius:11px; font-size:11px; font-weight:700; }
-  .tag.admin{ background:#edf5ff; color:#0f62fe; } .tag.user{ background:#e8e8e8; color:#525252; }
-  .tag.on{ background:var(--green-bg); color:var(--green); } .tag.off{ background:var(--red-bg); color:var(--red); }
-  button.mini{ padding:4px 9px; font-size:12px; }
-  .me-tag{ font-size:11px; color:var(--dim); margin-left:6px; }
-  select.role-select{ padding:4px 8px; font:inherit; font-size:12px; border:1px solid var(--border-strong); border-radius:0; background:#fff; color:var(--text); cursor:pointer; }
-  select.role-select:hover{ border-color:var(--accent); }
-  select.role-select.is-admin{ color:var(--accent); border-color:var(--accent); font-weight:700; }
 </style>
 </head>
 <body>
@@ -82,61 +69,75 @@
 <div class="wrap" id="admin-denied" style="display:none">
   <div class="card">
     <h2>Admins only</h2>
-    <p class="sub" style="margin:0 0 12px">Your account doesn’t have admin access. Sign in with an admin account, or ask an administrator to grant you the admin role.</p>
+    <p class="sub">Your account doesn’t have admin access. Sign in with an admin account, or ask an administrator to grant you the admin role.</p>
     <div class="row"><a class="home" href="index.html">← Back to site</a> <button onclick="wpLogout()">Sign out</button></div>
   </div>
 </div>
 
 <!-- CONSOLE -->
 <div class="wrap" id="admin-main" style="display:none">
-  <div class="row" style="justify-content:space-between">
+  <div class="row" style="justify-content:space-between; margin-bottom:var(--s5)">
-    <div><h1>Admin Console</h1><div class="sub">Stack diagnostics &amp; tests · talks to <code>/api</code> on this host</div></div>
+    <div><h1>Admin Console</h1><div class="sub" style="margin:0">Stack diagnostics &amp; tests · talks to <code>/api</code> on this host</div></div>
     <div class="row"><a class="home" href="index.html">← Site</a></div>
   </div>
 
   <!-- CONNECTIVITY -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>API connectivity</h2>
-    <div class="row"><button class="primary" onclick="checkHealth()">Check /api/health</button></div>
+    <div class="toolbar"><button class="primary" onclick="checkHealth()">Check /api/health</button></div>
     <div class="banner" id="health-banner">—</div>
   </div>
 
-  <!-- USER ADMINISTRATION -->
+  <!-- USER ADMINISTRATION — moved out to its own page -->
   <div class="card">
-    <h2>User administration</h2>
+    <h2>User accounts</h2>
-    <div class="sub" style="margin-bottom:10px">Login accounts for the portal. Requires an <strong>admin</strong> role on your own account.</div>
+    <div class="sub">Login accounts, permissions and project access now live on the
-    <div class="row"><button onclick="loadUsers()">Refresh users</button></div>
+      <strong>User Directory</strong> page. They moved because user administration is no longer
-    <div id="users-banner"></div>
+      admin-only: a <strong>Project Super User</strong> creates and manages the accounts on the
-    <div id="users-table" style="margin-top:12px"></div>
+      projects they administer, and they must never be sent through this console to do it.</div>
-
+    <div class="toolbar"><a class="home" href="users.html"><button class="primary">Open the User Directory →</button></a></div>
-    <h2 style="margin-top:22px">Add a user</h2>
-    <div class="urow">
-      <input id="nu-username" placeholder="Username *" autocomplete="off">
-      <input id="nu-fullname" placeholder="Full name" autocomplete="off">
-      <input id="nu-email" placeholder="Email" autocomplete="off">
-      <select id="nu-role" title="Permissions — what this account may do">
-        <option value="project_user">Project User</option>
-        <option value="project_admin">Project Admin</option>
-        <option value="admin">Administrator</option>
-      </select>
-      <select id="nu-project-role" title="Job function on the project"></select>
-      <input id="nu-password" type="password" placeholder="Password (min 12)" autocomplete="new-password">
-      <button class="primary" onclick="createUser()">Create user</button>
   </div>
-    <div id="users-create-msg" class="note"></div>
+
+  <!-- PROJECTS (ARCHIVE / UNARCHIVE) -->
+  <div class="card">
+    <h2>Projects</h2>
+    <div class="sub">Archiving a project hides it from every picker, switcher and search, and freezes it
+      read-only — nothing is deleted and every work package, SOP and comment is kept exactly as it is.
+      Unarchive here to bring it back; the project returns unchanged.</div>
+    <div class="toolbar">
+      <button onclick="loadProjects()">Refresh projects</button>
+      <label class="chk"><input type="checkbox" id="proj-show-archived" onchange="renderProjects()"> Show archived</label>
+      <input id="proj-search" placeholder="Search name / number / client…" oninput="renderProjects()">
+    </div>
+    <div id="projects-banner"></div>
+    <div id="projects-table"><div class="note">Click “Refresh projects” to load.</div></div>
+  </div>
+
+  <!-- DEFAULT MEMBERS ON NEW PROJECTS -->
+  <div class="card">
+    <h2>Default members on new projects</h2>
+    <div class="sub">Everyone flagged here is added automatically to every project created from now on,
+      with the role chosen here. It does not touch projects that already exist — for those, use
+      <strong>Project access</strong> on the <a class="home" href="users.html">User Directory</a>.
+      Administrators are listed with nothing to set: they already reach every project. This card stays
+      in the console because it is a rule about <em>every</em> future project, including the ones a
+      Project Super User has no part in — so only an admin sets it.</div>
+    <div class="toolbar"><button onclick="loadDefaultMembers()">Refresh</button></div>
+    <div id="defmem-banner"></div>
+    <div id="defmem-table"><div class="note">Click “Refresh” to load.</div></div>
   </div>
 
   <!-- FEATURE FLAGS -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>Features</h2>
-    <div class="sub" style="margin-bottom:10px">Switches that change what the suite offers on every project.</div>
+    <div class="sub">Switches that change what the suite offers on every project.</div>
     <div id="features-box" class="note">Loading…</div>
   </div>
 
   <!-- NOTIFICATIONS / EMAIL -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>Notifications &amp; email</h2>
-    <div class="sub" style="margin-bottom:10px">Email notifications for work-package assignments, and self-service password resets. <strong>Off by default</strong> — turn this on only once SMTP is configured. The SMTP <strong>password</strong> is read from the <code>SMTP_PASSWORD</code> environment variable and is never stored here.</div>
+    <div class="sub">Email notifications for work-package assignments, and self-service password resets. <strong>Off by default</strong> — turn this on only once SMTP is configured. The SMTP <strong>password</strong> is read from the <code>SMTP_PASSWORD</code> environment variable and is never stored here.</div>
     <div id="settings-box" class="note">Loading…</div>
     <div id="notif-box" class="note" style="margin-top:14px"></div>
   </div>
@@ -144,20 +145,20 @@
   <!-- ALL FEEDBACK / COMMENTS -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>All feedback &amp; comments</h2>
-    <div class="sub" style="margin-bottom:10px">Every comment submitted across the suite — who wrote it, what they said, and where they were (page &amp; step) when they commented.</div>
+    <div class="sub">Every comment submitted across the suite — who wrote it, what they said, and where they were (page &amp; step) when they commented.</div>
-    <div class="row">
+    <div class="toolbar">
       <button onclick="loadComments()">Refresh comments</button>
       <select id="cmt-filter" onchange="renderComments()"><option value="">All sources</option></select>
-      <input id="cmt-search" placeholder="Search text / author…" oninput="renderComments()" style="flex:1;min-width:160px;padding:8px 10px;font:inherit;font-size:13px;border:1px solid var(--border-strong);border-radius:0;">
+      <input id="cmt-search" placeholder="Search text / author…" oninput="renderComments()">
     </div>
-    <div id="comments-admin" class="note" style="margin-top:12px">Click refresh to load.</div>
+    <div id="comments-admin" class="note">Click refresh to load.</div>
   </div>
 
   <!-- ACTIVITY LOG (AUDIT TRAIL) -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>Activity log</h2>
-    <div class="sub" style="margin-bottom:10px">Who changed what, and when — across projects, SOPs, work packages, and user accounts. Stored server-side in the shared database.</div>
+    <div class="sub">Who changed what, and when — across projects, SOPs, work packages, and user accounts. Stored server-side in the shared database.</div>
-    <div class="row">
+    <div class="toolbar">
       <button onclick="loadAudit()">Refresh</button>
       <select id="audit-type" onchange="renderAudit()">
         <option value="">All types</option>
@@ -166,42 +167,42 @@
         <option value="project">Projects</option>
         <option value="user">User accounts</option>
       </select>
-      <input id="audit-search" placeholder="Search actor / action / item…" oninput="renderAudit()" style="flex:1;min-width:160px;padding:8px 10px;font:inherit;font-size:13px;border:1px solid var(--border-strong);border-radius:0;">
+      <input id="audit-search" placeholder="Search actor / action / item…" oninput="renderAudit()">
     </div>
-    <div id="audit-admin" class="note" style="margin-top:12px">Click refresh to load.</div>
+    <div id="audit-admin" class="note">Click refresh to load.</div>
   </div>
 
   <!-- USAGE LOGS -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>Usage logs</h2>
-    <div class="sub" style="margin-bottom:10px">Engagement recorded by the suite — sessions, step views, and actions. Note: stored locally per browser, so this reflects activity on <strong>this</strong> machine.</div>
+    <div class="sub">Engagement recorded by the suite — sessions, step views, and actions. Note: stored locally per browser, so this reflects activity on <strong>this</strong> machine.</div>
-    <div class="row">
+    <div class="toolbar">
       <button onclick="loadUsage()">Refresh</button>
       <button onclick="downloadUsage()">Download JSON</button>
     </div>
-    <div id="usage-admin" class="note" style="margin-top:12px">Click refresh to load.</div>
+    <div id="usage-admin" class="note">Click refresh to load.</div>
   </div>
 
   <!-- DB SNAPSHOT -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>Database snapshot</h2>
-    <div class="row"><button onclick="snapshot()">Refresh counts</button></div>
+    <div class="toolbar"><button onclick="snapshot()">Refresh counts</button></div>
     <div id="snapshot-out" class="note">Click refresh to read row counts from SQL via the API.</div>
   </div>
 
   <!-- SMOKE TEST -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>End-to-end smoke test</h2>
-    <div class="sub" style="margin-bottom:8px">Creates a throwaway project, exercises the issue gate / status / metrics / comments, then deletes it (cascade). Mirrors <code>server/smoketest.py</code>.</div>
+    <div class="sub">Creates a throwaway project, exercises the issue gate / status / metrics / comments, then deletes it (cascade). Mirrors <code>server/smoketest.py</code>.</div>
-    <div class="row"><button class="primary" onclick="runSmokeTest()">Run smoke test</button></div>
+    <div class="toolbar"><button class="primary" onclick="runSmokeTest()">Run smoke test</button></div>
     <pre class="out" id="smoke-out">Ready.</pre>
   </div>
 
   <!-- DEMO DATA -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>Demo data</h2>
-    <div class="sub" style="margin-bottom:8px">Seed a realistic <code>DEMO</code> project (SOP + a spread of Work Packages) into SQL, or remove all <code>DEMO-</code>/<code>SMOKE-</code> projects.</div>
+    <div class="sub">Seed a realistic <code>DEMO</code> project (SOP + a spread of Work Packages) into SQL, or remove all <code>DEMO-</code>/<code>SMOKE-</code> projects.</div>
-    <div class="row">
+    <div class="toolbar">
       <button class="primary" onclick="seedDemo()">Seed demo project</button>
       <button class="danger" onclick="cleanDemo()">Clean DEMO / SMOKE projects</button>
     </div>
@@ -210,7 +211,9 @@
   </div>
 </div>
 
+<script src="console-util.js"></script>
 <script src="admin.js"></script>
 <script src="wp-chrome.js"></script>
+<script src="wp-sidenav.js"></script>
 </body>
 </html>

html/admin.js

@@ -4,14 +4,22 @@
    ACCESS: the console is gated on the signed-in user's ROLE. auth-guard.js
    already requires a login (redirecting to login.html otherwise) and publishes
    window.WP_USER; here we show the console only when that user is an admin, and
-   show an "Admins only" notice otherwise. Every user-management API is also
+   show an "Admins only" notice otherwise. Every API this page calls is also
-   enforced as admin-only server-side, so this is a real gate, not obfuscation. */
+   enforced as admin-only server-side, so this is a real gate, not obfuscation.
+
+   USER ACCOUNTS LIVE ON users.html, not here. They moved when the Project Super
+   User role arrived: administering users is no longer an admin-only act, so the
+   page that does it can't be behind an admins-only gate. What stays here is what
+   genuinely is app-wide and admin-only — settings, feature flags, diagnostics,
+   project archiving, and the default-member rule for future projects.
+
+   Shared helpers (api, uesc, jsq, the role vocabulary) come from console-util.js. */
 
 function reveal(){
   document.getElementById('admin-main').style.display='';
-  fillProjectRoleOptions();
   checkHealth();
-  loadUsers();
+  loadProjects();
+  loadDefaultMembers();
   loadSettings();
   loadNotifications();
   loadComments();
@@ -22,18 +30,6 @@ function showDenied(){
   document.getElementById('admin-denied').style.display='';
 }
 
-// ── api helper ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-async function api(method, path, body){
-  const opt = { method, headers:{ 'Accept':'application/json' } };
-  if(body !== undefined){ opt.headers['Content-Type']='application/json'; opt.body=JSON.stringify(body); }
-  try {
-    const r = await fetch(path, opt);
-    const t = await r.text();
-    let json; try { json = t ? JSON.parse(t) : null; } catch(_){ json = t; }
-    return { status:r.status, json };
-  } catch(e){ return { status:0, json:String(e) }; }
-}
-
 // ── connectivity ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 async function checkHealth(){
   const b = document.getElementById('health-banner');
@@ -53,15 +49,18 @@ async function checkHealth(){
 // ── db snapshot ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 async function snapshot(){
   const out = document.getElementById('snapshot-out'); out.textContent='Loading…';
+  // archived=all: /api/projects now hides archived projects by default, and a row
+  // count that silently drops them is not a snapshot of the database.
   const [p,s,w,c] = await Promise.all([
-    api('GET','/api/projects'), api('GET','/api/sops'),
+    api('GET','/api/projects?archived=all'), api('GET','/api/sops'),
     api('GET','/api/wps'), api('GET','/api/comments')]);
   if(p.status!==200){
     out.innerHTML = `<div class="banner bad">API not reachable (HTTP ${p.status}). Fix /api/ routing first.</div>`; return;
   }
   const n = r => Array.isArray(r.json) ? r.json.length : ('err '+r.status);
+  const archived = Array.isArray(p.json) ? p.json.filter(x => x && x.archived).length : 0;
   out.innerHTML = `<table class="kv">
-    <tr><th>Projects</th><td>${n(p)}</td></tr>
+    <tr><th>Projects</th><td>${n(p)}${archived ? ` <span class="note">(${archived} archived)</span>` : ''}</td></tr>
     <tr><th>SOPs</th><td>${n(s)}</td></tr>
     <tr><th>Work Packages</th><td>${n(w)}</td></tr>
     <tr><th>Comments</th><td>${n(c)}</td></tr></table>`;
@@ -95,6 +94,14 @@ async function runSmokeTest(){
     r = await api('GET','/api/wps/metrics?project_id='+pid); chk('metrics aggregate', r.status===200 && r.json && r.json.total>=1, JSON.stringify(r.json));
     r = await api('POST','/api/feedback',{type:'wp_review_comment',name:'admin-console',wp_id:wid,text:'SMOKE TEST comment — safe to delete'}); chk('post comment', r.status===200 && !!(r.json && r.json.id));
     r = await api('GET','/api/wps?project_id='+pid); chk('list WPs by project', r.status===200 && r.json.some(w=>w.id===wid));
+    // Archive round-trip: out of the default list, still there with archived=all,
+    // frozen against writes, and all three undone by unarchiving.
+    r = await api('POST','/api/projects/'+pid+'/archive',{archived:true}); chk('archive project', r.status===200 && r.json.archived===true, 'status '+r.status);
+    r = await api('GET','/api/projects'); chk('archived project leaves the default list', r.status===200 && !r.json.some(p=>p.id===pid));
+    r = await api('GET','/api/projects?archived=all'); chk('archived project visible with archived=all', r.status===200 && r.json.some(p=>p.id===pid));
+    r = await api('POST','/api/wps',{id:wid,project_id:pid,sop_id:sid,number:'WP01-SMOKE',subject:'edited while archived',type:'Conduit Install',status:'Scheduled',data:{disciplines:['Electrical'],hours:'40'}});
+    chk('write to an archived project refused (409)', r.status===409, 'status '+r.status);
+    r = await api('POST','/api/projects/'+pid+'/archive',{archived:false}); chk('unarchive project', r.status===200 && r.json.archived===false, 'status '+r.status);
   } catch(e){ chk('unexpected error', false, String(e)); }
   finally {
     if(pid){ const r=await api('DELETE','/api/projects/'+pid); chk('cleanup — delete project (cascades SOP+WPs)', r.status===200, 'status '+r.status); }
@@ -141,7 +148,9 @@ async function seedDemo(){
 async function cleanDemo(){
   if(!confirm('Delete ALL projects whose number starts with DEMO- or SMOKE- (and their SOPs/WPs via cascade)?')) return;
   const o=document.getElementById('demo-out'); o.innerHTML='';
-  const r = await api('GET','/api/projects');
+  // archived=all, or an archived DEMO-/SMOKE- project becomes unreachable from
+  // this button — the default list hides it and nothing else here can delete it.
+  const r = await api('GET','/api/projects?archived=all');
   if(r.status!==200){ demoLog('❌ API unreachable (HTTP '+r.status+').'); return; }
   const targets=(r.json||[]).filter(p=>/^(DEMO-|SMOKE-)/.test(String(p.number||'')));
   if(!targets.length){ demoLog('Nothing to remove.'); return; }
@@ -150,23 +159,132 @@ async function cleanDemo(){
   snapshot();
 }
 
-// ── user administration ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// ── projects: archive / unarchive ───────────────────────────────────────────────
-function uesc(v){ return v==null ? '' : String(v).replace(/&/g,'&amp;').replace(/</g,'&lt;').replace(/>/g,'&gt;').replace(/"/g,'&quot;'); }
+// Archiving is the answer to "this job is over but I can't throw the data away".
+// An archived project disappears from every picker, switcher and search in the
+// suite and is frozen read-only; nothing is deleted. That makes this card the ONLY
+// place an archived project is still visible, so it asks for archived=all and does
+// the hiding itself — otherwise an admin could never find one to unarchive.
+let _adminProjects = [];
 
-async function currentUserId(){
+async function loadProjects(){
-  if(window.WP_USER && window.WP_USER.id) return window.WP_USER.id;
+  const banner=document.getElementById('projects-banner');
-  const { status, json } = await api('GET','/api/auth/me');
+  const wrap=document.getElementById('projects-table');
-  return (status===200 && json && json.user) ? json.user.id : null;
+  if(!banner || !wrap) return;
+  banner.className='banner'; banner.textContent='Loading…'; banner.style.display='';
+  const { status, json } = await api('GET','/api/projects?archived=all');
+  if(status===403){
+    banner.className='banner bad';
+    banner.textContent='❌ Your account is not an admin, so you can’t archive or delete projects here.';
+    wrap.innerHTML=''; return;
+  }
+  if(status===401){
+    banner.className='banner bad'; banner.textContent='❌ Not signed in. Reload and log in again.'; wrap.innerHTML=''; return;
+  }
+  if(status!==200 || !Array.isArray(json)){
+    banner.className='banner bad'; banner.textContent='❌ Could not load projects (HTTP '+status+').'; wrap.innerHTML=''; return;
+  }
+  banner.style.display='none';
+  _adminProjects = json;
+  renderProjects();
 }
 
-async function loadUsers(){
+function renderProjects(){
-  const banner=document.getElementById('users-banner');
+  const wrap=document.getElementById('projects-table');
-  const wrap=document.getElementById('users-table');
+  if(!wrap) return;
+  const showArchived = !!(document.getElementById('proj-show-archived')||{}).checked;
+  const q = (((document.getElementById('proj-search')||{}).value)||'').trim().toLowerCase();
+  const total = _adminProjects.length;
+  if(!total){ wrap.innerHTML='<div class="note">No projects yet.</div>'; return; }
+  const list = _adminProjects.filter(p => {
+    if(!showArchived && p.archived) return false;
+    if(!q) return true;
+    return ((p.name||'')+' '+(p.number||'')+' '+(p.client||'')+' '+(p.site||'')).toLowerCase().indexOf(q) >= 0;
+  });
+  const count = '<div class="note">'+list.length+' of '+total+' project'+(total===1?'':'s')+
+    (showArchived ? '' : ' <span title="Tick “Show archived” to include them">· archived hidden</span>')+'</div>';
+  if(!list.length){
+    wrap.innerHTML = count + '<div class="note">Nothing matches'+
+      (showArchived ? '' : ' — archived projects are hidden. Tick “Show archived” to include them')+'.</div>';
+    return;
+  }
+  const fmt = s => s ? wpFormatDateTime(s) : '—';
+  const rows = list.map(p => {
+    // Project names are free text written by whoever created the job — jsq(), not
+    // uesc(), is what makes them safe to bind into the handlers below.
+    const pid = jsq(p.id);
+    const pname = jsq(p.name||'(unnamed)');
+    const arch = !!p.archived;
+    return '<tr>'+
+      '<td><strong>'+uesc(p.name||'(unnamed)')+'</strong>'+
+        (p.number ? ' <span class="note">'+uesc(p.number)+'</span>' : '')+'</td>'+
+      '<td class="ell" title="'+uesc(p.client||'')+'"><span>'+uesc(p.client||'—')+'</span></td>'+
+      '<td class="ell" title="'+uesc(p.site||'')+'"><span>'+uesc(p.site||'—')+'</span></td>'+
+      '<td style="white-space:nowrap;color:var(--muted)">'+fmt(p.created_at)+'</td>'+
+      '<td>'+(arch
+        ? '<span class="tag archived" title="Hidden everywhere and read-only until unarchived">archived</span>'
+        : '<span class="tag on">active</span>')+'</td>'+
+      '<td><div class="cellactions">'+
+        '<button class="mini" onclick="archiveProject(\''+pid+'\',\''+pname+'\','+(arch?'false':'true')+')">'+
+          (arch?'Unarchive':'Archive')+'</button>'+
+        '<button class="mini danger" onclick="deleteProjectAdmin(\''+pid+'\',\''+pname+'\')">Delete</button>'+
+      '</div></td>'+
+    '</tr>';
+  }).join('');
+  wrap.innerHTML = count +
+    '<div class="tscroll"><table class="grid"><thead><tr>'+
+      '<th>Project</th><th>Client</th><th>Site</th><th>Created</th><th>Status</th><th>Actions</th>'+
+    '</tr></thead><tbody>'+rows+'</tbody></table></div>'+
+    '<div class="note"><strong>Delete</strong> is not archive: it removes the project, its SOP and every '+
+    'work package on it for good. Archive first if there is any doubt.</div>';
+}
+
+// Both directions are explained in full before anything happens: archiving makes a
+// project vanish for everyone else in the company, and there is no undo prompt on
+// the other side of that.
+async function archiveProject(id, name, archived){
+  const ask = archived
+    ? 'Archive “'+name+'”?\n\n'+
+      '• It disappears from every project picker, switcher and search across the suite.\n'+
+      '• It becomes read-only — nobody can add or change its SOP or work packages.\n'+
+      '• Nothing is deleted. Unarchive here at any time to bring it back.'
+    : 'Unarchive “'+name+'”?\n\n'+
+      'It becomes visible in the pickers again and can be edited as normal.';
+  if(!confirm(ask)) return;
+  const { status, json } = await api('POST','/api/projects/'+id+'/archive',{archived:!!archived});
+  if(status===200) loadProjects();
+  else alert('Could not '+(archived?'archive':'unarchive')+' '+name+': '+((json && json.detail)||('HTTP '+status)));
+}
+
+// Named deleteProjectAdmin, not deleteProject: every function in this file is a
+// global shared with the other scripts the page loads, and "deleteProject" is broad
+// enough to collide with one of them later. The -Admin suffix also says which of the
+// two project deletions this is — the console's, not a project member's.
+async function deleteProjectAdmin(id, name){
+  if(!confirm('DELETE “'+name+'” permanently?\n\n'+
+    'Its SOP, EVERY work package on it and every access assignment are deleted with it '+
+    '(database cascade). This cannot be undone.\n\n'+
+    'If you only want it out of the way, cancel and use Archive instead.')) return;
+  const { status, json } = await api('DELETE','/api/projects/'+id);
+  if(status===200) loadProjects();
+  else alert('Could not delete '+name+': '+((json && json.detail)||('HTTP '+status)));
+}
+
+// ── default members on new projects ─────────────────────────────────────────────
+// A rule about the FUTURE: flagged users are auto-added to every project created
+// from now on. It is not a bulk assignment — existing projects are untouched, which
+// is what the note under the table is there to say.
+let _defMemUsers = [];
+
+async function loadDefaultMembers(){
+  const banner=document.getElementById('defmem-banner');
+  const wrap=document.getElementById('defmem-table');
+  if(!banner || !wrap) return;
   banner.className='banner'; banner.textContent='Loading…'; banner.style.display='';
   const { status, json } = await api('GET','/api/auth/users');
   if(status===403){
     banner.className='banner bad';
-    banner.textContent='❌ Your account is not an admin, so you can’t manage users. Ask an admin, or use the CLI: python -m server.manage_users';
+    banner.textContent='❌ Your account is not an admin, so you can’t change who is added to new projects.';
     wrap.innerHTML=''; return;
   }
   if(status===401){
@@ -176,265 +294,90 @@ async function loadUsers(){
     banner.className='banner bad'; banner.textContent='❌ Could not load users (HTTP '+status+').'; wrap.innerHTML=''; return;
   }
   banner.style.display='none';
-  const meId = await currentUserId();
+  _defMemUsers = json;
-  renderUsers(json, meId);
+  renderDefaultMembers();
-  // Fill in the project-access counts, then repaint that column.
-  await loadProjectCounts(json);
-  renderUsers(json, meId);
 }
 
-// Permissions roles (what an account may do) — mirrors auth.ROLES on the server.
+// The role only matters while the tick is on. The select sits in a sibling <td>, so
-const PERM_ROLES = ['admin','project_admin','project_user'];
+// the lookup is scoped to the row.
-const PERM_LABELS = { admin:'Administrator', project_admin:'Project Admin', project_user:'Project User' };
+function defMemToggled(cb){
-// Job functions on a project. Descriptive only — no permissions attached.
+  const row = cb.closest('tr');
-const PROJECT_ROLES = ['Project Manager','Assistant Project Manager','Construction Manager',
-  'Quality Manager','Superintendent','General Foreman','Foreman','Planner / Scheduler',
-  'BIM / VDC Coordinator','Engineer','Safety (HSE)','Warehouse / Materials','Commissioning',
-  'Field Technician'];
-// Accounts created before permissions roles existed carry the legacy value 'user'.
-function normRole(r){ return r==='user' ? 'project_user' : (PERM_ROLES.indexOf(r)>=0 ? r : 'project_user'); }
-
-function fillProjectRoleOptions(){
-  const sel=document.getElementById('nu-project-role'); if(!sel) return;
-  sel.innerHTML='<option value="">Project role…</option>'+
-    PROJECT_ROLES.map(r=>'<option value="'+uesc(r)+'">'+uesc(r)+'</option>').join('');
-}
-
-// Per-user project access gets its own column: it was buried among the action
-// buttons, which is exactly where you'd fail to find "which projects can this
-// person see, and what may they do there".
-let _userProjectCounts = {};      // user id -> number of assigned projects
-
-function projAccessCell(u){
-  const uname = uesc(u.username).replace(/'/g, "\\'");
-  if(normRole(u.role) === 'admin'){
-    return '<span class="tag admin" title="Admins can access every project">all projects</span>';
-  }
-  const n = _userProjectCounts[u.id];
-  const label = (n === undefined) ? 'Projects…'
-              : (n === 0 ? 'No projects yet' : n + ' project' + (n === 1 ? '' : 's'));
-  return '<button class="mini' + (n === 0 ? ' danger' : '') +
-         '" onclick="manageProjects(\'' + u.id + '\',\'' + uname + '\')"' +
-         ' title="Choose which projects this user can access, and their role on each">' +
-         label + '</button>';
-}
-
-// A project's role dropdown only matters while that project is ticked.
-function projRowToggled(cb){
-  const row = cb.closest('div');
   const sel = row && row.querySelector('select');
   if(sel) sel.disabled = !cb.checked;
 }
 
-// Counts for that column. One call per user, but only for non-admins and only on a
+function renderDefaultMembers(){
-// refresh — the admin console is not a hot path.
+  const wrap=document.getElementById('defmem-table');
-async function loadProjectCounts(list){
+  if(!wrap) return;
-  const targets = (list || []).filter(u => normRole(u.role) !== 'admin');
+  if(!_defMemUsers.length){ wrap.innerHTML='<div class="note">No users yet.</div>'; return; }
-  await Promise.all(targets.map(async u => {
+  const rows = _defMemUsers.map(u => {
-    const { status, json } = await api('GET','/api/auth/users/'+u.id+'/projects');
+    const uid = jsq(u.id);
-    if(status === 200 && json) _userProjectCounts[u.id] = (json.assigned || []).length;
+    const uname = jsq(u.username);
-  }));
-}
-
-function renderUsers(list, meId){
-  const wrap=document.getElementById('users-table');
-  if(!list.length){ wrap.innerHTML='<div class="note">No users yet.</div>'; return; }
-  const fmt = s => s ? wpFormatDateTime(s) : '—';
-  let rows = list.map(u=>{
-    const me = u.id===meId;
-    const active = u.is_active;
-    const disableBtn = me
-      ? '<button class="mini" disabled title="You can’t disable yourself">—</button>'
-      : '<button class="mini" onclick="toggleActive(\''+u.id+'\','+(!active)+')">'+(active?'Disable':'Enable')+'</button>';
-    const delBtn = me
-      ? ''
-      : '<button class="mini danger" onclick="deleteUser(\''+u.id+'\',\''+uesc(u.username).replace(/'/g,"\\'")+'\')">Delete</button>';
-    // Role can be changed at any time via an inline dropdown. Your own row is
-    // locked (a shown-as-tag) so an admin can't accidentally demote themselves.
-    const escUname = uesc(u.username).replace(/'/g,"\\'");
-    // PERMISSIONS role — what the account may do. Your own row is locked (shown as
-    // a tag) so an admin can't accidentally demote themselves.
     const role = normRole(u.role);
-    const roleCell = me
+    const who = '<td><strong>'+uesc(u.username)+'</strong>'+
-      ? '<span class="tag '+(role==='admin'?'admin':'user')+'">'+uesc(PERM_LABELS[role]||role)+'</span><span class="me-tag">locked</span>'
+        (u.full_name ? ' <span class="note">'+uesc(u.full_name)+'</span>' : '')+'</td>'+
-      : '<select class="role-select'+(role==='admin'?' is-admin':'')+'" title="Change what this account may do" onchange="changeRole(\''+u.id+'\',this.value,\''+escUname+'\')">'+
+      '<td class="ell" title="'+uesc(u.email||'')+'"><span>'+uesc(u.email||'—')+'</span></td>';
-          PERM_ROLES.map(function(r){
+    // Admins reach every project already, so there is nothing to add them to.
-            return '<option value="'+r+'"'+(role===r?' selected':'')+'>'+uesc(PERM_LABELS[r])+'</option>';
+    if(role === 'admin'){
-          }).join('')+
+      return '<tr>'+who+
-        '</select>';
+        '<td><span class="tag admin">'+uesc(PERM_LABELS.admin)+'</span></td>'+
-    // PROJECT role — the person's job function. Descriptive only; grants nothing.
+        '<td colspan="2"><span class="tag admin" title="Admins can access every project">all projects</span>'+
-    const pr = u.project_role || '';
+          ' <span class="note">Administrators already reach every project.</span></td>'+
-    const projRoleCell =
+      '</tr>';
-      '<select class="role-select" title="Job function on the project" onchange="changeProjectRole(\''+u.id+'\',this.value,\''+escUname+'\')">'+
+    }
-        '<option value=""'+(pr?'':' selected')+'>— none —</option>'+
+    const on = !!u.auto_add_projects;
-        PROJECT_ROLES.map(function(r){
+    const cur = u.auto_add_role || '';
-          return '<option value="'+uesc(r)+'"'+(pr===r?' selected':'')+'>'+uesc(r)+'</option>';
+    // Every project-scoped role is offered, super user included: this card is
-        }).join('')+
+    // admin-only, and "the QA lead runs the users on every new job" is exactly the
-        // Keep a title that isn't on the list (set via the API or an older record).
+    // sort of standing rule it exists to express.
-        (pr && PROJECT_ROLES.indexOf(pr)<0 ? '<option value="'+uesc(pr)+'" selected>'+uesc(pr)+'</option>' : '')+
+    const opts = ['<option value=""'+(cur===''?' selected':'')+'>Same as account ('+
-      '</select>';
+        uesc(PERM_LABELS[role]||role)+')</option>']
-    return '<tr>'+
+      .concat(PROJECT_SCOPED_ROLES.map(r =>
-      '<td><strong>'+uesc(u.username)+'</strong>'+(me?'<span class="me-tag">you</span>':'')+'</td>'+
+        '<option value="'+r+'"'+(cur===r?' selected':'')+'>'+uesc(PERM_LABELS[r])+' here</option>'));
-      '<td>'+uesc(u.full_name||'')+'</td>'+
+    return '<tr>'+who+
-      '<td>'+uesc(u.email||'')+'</td>'+
+      '<td><span class="tag '+roleTagClass(role)+'">'+uesc(PERM_LABELS[role]||role)+'</span></td>'+
-      '<td>'+roleCell+'</td>'+
+      '<td><label class="chk">'+
-      '<td>'+projRoleCell+'</td>'+
+        '<input type="checkbox" id="defmem-cb-'+uesc(u.id)+'"'+(on?' checked':'')+
-      '<td>'+projAccessCell(u)+'</td>'+
+          ' title="Add this user to every project created from now on"'+
-      '<td><span class="tag '+(active?'on':'off')+'">'+(active?'active':'disabled')+'</span></td>'+
+          ' onchange="defMemToggled(this);setAutoAdd(\''+uid+'\',\''+uname+'\')"> Add automatically'+
-      '<td style="white-space:nowrap;color:var(--muted)">'+fmt(u.last_login_at)+'</td>'+
+      '</label></td>'+
-      '<td style="white-space:nowrap"><div class="row" style="gap:6px">'+
+      '<td><select class="role-select" id="defmem-role-'+uesc(u.id)+'"'+(on?'':' disabled')+
-        '<button class="mini" onclick="resetPw(\''+u.id+'\',\''+uesc(u.username).replace(/'/g,"\\'")+'\')">Reset password</button>'+
+        ' title="The role this user gets on those projects"'+
-        disableBtn+delBtn+
+        ' onchange="setAutoAdd(\''+uid+'\',\''+uname+'\')">'+opts.join('')+'</select></td>'+
-      '</div></td>'+
     '</tr>';
   }).join('');
-  wrap.innerHTML='<table class="users"><thead><tr>'+
+  wrap.innerHTML =
-    '<th>Username</th><th>Name</th><th>Email</th>'+
+    '<div class="tscroll"><table class="grid"><thead><tr>'+
-    '<th title="What this account may do in the app">Permissions</th>'+
+      '<th>User</th><th>Email</th>'+
-    '<th title="Job function on the project — descriptive only">Project role</th>'+
+      '<th title="What this account may do in the app">Account permissions</th>'+
-    '<th title="Which projects this user can access, and their role on each">Project access</th>'+
+      '<th title="Add this user to every project created from now on">Add to new projects</th>'+
-    '<th>Status</th><th>Last login</th><th>Actions</th>'+
+      '<th title="Their role on those projects">Role on those projects</th>'+
-    '</tr></thead><tbody>'+rows+'</tbody></table>'+
+    '</tr></thead><tbody>'+rows+'</tbody></table></div>'+
-    '<div class="note" style="margin-top:10px"><strong>Permissions</strong> — '+
+    '<div class="note">This only affects projects created <strong>from now on</strong> — existing projects '+
-    '<em>Administrator</em>: manages users, settings and every project. '+
+    'are untouched. Use <strong>Project access</strong> on the <a class="home" href="users.html">User '+
-    '<em>Project Admin</em>: on their assigned projects, may delete work packages, '+
+    'Directory</a> to add someone to a project that already exists.</div>';
-    'change a completed SOP, and delete the project. '+
-    '<em>Project User</em>: creates and edits work packages and authors the SOP, '+
-    'but cannot delete WPs or change the SOP once it\'s complete. '+
-    '<strong>Project role</strong> is the person\'s job function — it feeds the SOP '+
-    'team pickers and notification routing, and grants nothing on its own.</div>';
 }
 
-async function createUser(){
+// Saves on every tick and every dropdown change — there is no Save button, so a
-  const msg=document.getElementById('users-create-msg');
+// failure must not leave a control showing something the server never accepted.
-  const username=document.getElementById('nu-username').value.trim();
+// On success we swap in the row the server returned (it clears the role whenever
-  const full_name=document.getElementById('nu-fullname').value.trim();
+// the flag is off); on failure we reload so the controls snap back to the truth.
-  const email=document.getElementById('nu-email').value.trim();
+async function setAutoAdd(id, username){
-  const role=document.getElementById('nu-role').value;
+  const cb = document.getElementById('defmem-cb-'+id);
-  const project_role=(document.getElementById('nu-project-role')||{}).value||'';
+  if(!cb) return;
-  const password=document.getElementById('nu-password').value;
+  const sel = document.getElementById('defmem-role-'+id);
-  if(!username){ msg.style.color='var(--red)'; msg.textContent='Username is required.'; return; }
+  const auto_add = !!cb.checked;
-  if(password.length<12){ msg.style.color='var(--red)'; msg.textContent='Password must be at least 12 characters.'; return; }
+  const { status, json } = await api('POST','/api/auth/users/'+id+'/auto-add',
-  msg.style.color='var(--muted)'; msg.textContent='Creating…';
+    { auto_add, role: auto_add ? ((sel && sel.value) || '') : '' });
-  const { status, json } = await api('POST','/api/auth/users',{username,full_name,email,role,project_role,password});
+  if(status===200 && json && json.id){
-  if(status===200){
+    _defMemUsers = _defMemUsers.map(u => u.id===json.id ? json : u);
-    msg.style.color='var(--green)'; msg.textContent='✅ Created '+username+'.';
+    renderDefaultMembers();
-    ['nu-username','nu-fullname','nu-email','nu-password'].forEach(id=>document.getElementById(id).value='');
-    loadUsers();
   } else {
-    msg.style.color='var(--red)';
+    alert('Could not change the new-project default for '+username+': '+((json && json.detail)||('HTTP '+status)));
-    msg.textContent='❌ '+((json && json.detail) ? json.detail : ('Failed (HTTP '+status+').'));
+    loadDefaultMembers();
   }
 }
 
-async function resetPw(id, username){
-  const pw=prompt('New password for "'+username+'" (min 8 characters):');
-  if(pw===null) return;
-  if(pw.length<8){ alert('Password must be at least 8 characters.'); return; }
-  const { status, json } = await api('POST','/api/auth/users/'+id+'/password',{new_password:pw});
-  if(status===200) alert('Password reset for '+username+'.');
-  else alert('Failed: '+((json && json.detail)||('HTTP '+status)));
-}
-
-async function toggleActive(id, makeActive){
-  const { status, json } = await api('POST','/api/auth/users/'+id+'/active',{is_active:makeActive});
-  if(status===200) loadUsers();
-  else alert('Failed: '+((json && json.detail)||('HTTP '+status)));
-}
-
-// Change a user's role (user ↔ admin) at any time. The server enforces the same
-// admin-only rule as every other user-management call, and refuses to remove the
-// last admin. On any failure we reload so the dropdown snaps back to the truth.
-async function changeRole(id, role, username){
-  const { status, json } = await api('POST','/api/auth/users/'+id+'/role',{role});
-  if(status===200){ loadUsers(); }
-  else {
-    alert('Could not change permissions for '+username+': '+((json && json.detail)||('HTTP '+status)));
-    loadUsers();
-  }
-}
-async function changeProjectRole(id, project_role, username){
-  const { status, json } = await api('POST','/api/auth/users/'+id+'/project-role',{project_role});
-  if(status===200){ loadUsers(); }
-  else {
-    alert('Could not set the project role for '+username+': '+((json && json.detail)||('HTTP '+status)));
-    loadUsers();
-  }
-}
-
-async function deleteUser(id, username){
-  if(!confirm('Delete user "'+username+'"? This cannot be undone.')) return;
-  const { status, json } = await api('DELETE','/api/auth/users/'+id);
-  if(status===200) loadUsers();
-  else alert('Failed: '+((json && json.detail)||('HTTP '+status)));
-}
-
-// ── project access assignment ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
-async function manageProjects(id, username){
-  const { status, json } = await api('GET','/api/auth/users/'+id+'/projects');
-  if(status!==200 || !json){ alert('Could not load projects (HTTP '+status+').'); return; }
-  openProjectModal(id, username, json.projects||[], new Set(json.assigned||[]), json.user, json.roles||{});
-}
-function closeProjectModal(){ const m=document.getElementById('proj-modal'); if(m) m.remove(); }
-function openProjectModal(userId, username, projects, assigned, userObj, roles){
-  closeProjectModal();
-  const isAdmin = userObj && normRole(userObj.role)==='admin';
-  const acctRole = userObj ? normRole(userObj.role) : 'project_user';
-  roles = roles || {};
-  // Each project row: access tick + the role ON THAT project. "Same as account"
-  // inherits the account's Permissions, so the common case needs no thought.
-  const items = projects.length ? projects.map(p => {
-    const on = assigned.has(p.id);
-    const cur = roles[p.id] || '';
-    const sel = '<select data-role-for="'+uesc(p.id)+'"'+(isAdmin||!on?' disabled':'')+
-      ' style="padding:3px 6px;font-size:12px;border:1px solid var(--border-strong);background:#fff;">'+
-      '<option value=""'+(cur===''?' selected':'')+'>Same as account ('+uesc(PERM_LABELS[acctRole]||acctRole)+')</option>'+
-      '<option value="project_admin"'+(cur==='project_admin'?' selected':'')+'>Project Admin here</option>'+
-      '<option value="project_user"'+(cur==='project_user'?' selected':'')+'>Project User here</option>'+
-      '</select>';
-    return '<div style="display:flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;padding:8px 4px;border-bottom:1px solid var(--border);font-size:13px;">'+
-      '<label style="display:flex;align-items:center;gap:8px;flex:1;min-width:0;cursor:pointer;">'+
-        '<input type="checkbox" value="'+uesc(p.id)+'"'+(on?' checked':'')+(isAdmin?' disabled':'')+
-        ' onchange="projRowToggled(this)">'+
-        '<span style="overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;"><strong>'+uesc(p.name||'(unnamed)')+'</strong>'+
-        (p.number?' <span style="color:var(--muted)">'+uesc(p.number)+'</span>':'')+'</span>'+
-      '</label>'+ sel +
-    '</div>';
-  }).join('') : '<div class="note">No projects exist yet.</div>';
-  const modal = document.createElement('div');
-  modal.id = 'proj-modal';
-  modal.style.cssText = 'position:fixed;inset:0;background:rgba(20,30,50,.5);display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:center;z-index:10002;padding:20px;';
-  modal.innerHTML =
-    '<div style="background:#fff;border-radius:10px;max-width:660px;width:100%;max-height:82vh;display:flex;flex-direction:column;overflow:hidden;box-shadow:0 12px 40px rgba(20,30,50,.3);">'+
-      '<div style="padding:14px 18px;border-bottom:1px solid var(--border);font-weight:700;">Project access &amp; permissions — '+uesc(username)+'</div>'+
-      '<div style="padding:14px 18px;overflow:auto;">'+
-        (isAdmin ? '<div class="banner" style="margin:0 0 10px">This user is an <strong>Administrator</strong> and can access every project regardless of assignment.</div>'
-                 : '<div class="note" style="margin:0 0 10px">Tick the projects this user may access, and set their role on each. '+
-                   '<strong>Project Admin</strong> can delete work packages, change a completed SOP and delete that project; '+
-                   '<strong>Project User</strong> cannot. Leave it on <em>Same as account</em> to use their Permissions setting.</div>')+
-        '<div id="proj-list">'+items+'</div>'+
-      '</div>'+
-      '<div style="padding:12px 18px;border-top:1px solid var(--border);display:flex;gap:8px;justify-content:flex-end;">'+
-        '<button onclick="closeProjectModal()">Cancel</button>'+
-        (isAdmin ? '' : '<button class="primary" id="proj-save">Save</button>')+
-      '</div>'+
-    '</div>';
-  modal.addEventListener('click', e => { if(e.target===modal) closeProjectModal(); });
-  document.body.appendChild(modal);
-  const saveBtn = document.getElementById('proj-save');
-  if(saveBtn) saveBtn.onclick = async () => {
-    const ids = [...modal.querySelectorAll('#proj-list input[type=checkbox]:checked')].map(c=>c.value);
-    const roleMap = {};
-    ids.forEach(pid => {
-      const sel = modal.querySelector('#proj-list select[data-role-for="'+pid+'"]');
-      if(sel && sel.value) roleMap[pid] = sel.value;
-    });
-    const { status } = await api('PUT','/api/auth/users/'+userId+'/projects',{project_ids:ids, roles:roleMap});
-    if(status===200){ closeProjectModal(); loadUsers(); }
-    else alert('Save failed (HTTP '+status+').');
-  };
-}
-
 // ── all feedback / comments ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 let _comments = [];
 async function loadComments(){

html/auth-guard.js

@@ -124,14 +124,24 @@
     return r === 'user' ? 'project_user' : r;
   };
   window.wpIsAdmin = function () { return window.wpRole() === 'admin'; };
+  // A Project Super User is a Project Admin with user administration on top, so it
+  // counts here too (server: auth.is_project_admin).
   window.wpIsProjectAdmin = function () {
     var r = window.wpRole();
-    return r === 'admin' || r === 'project_admin';
+    return r === 'admin' || r === 'project_super_user' || r === 'project_admin';
   };
   // Deleting a work package, deleting a project, and editing a completed SOP are
   // all Project Admin actions (see server require_project_admin).
   window.wpCanDeleteWP = window.wpIsProjectAdmin;
   window.wpCanEditCompletedSOP = window.wpIsProjectAdmin;
+  // Whether this account can administer USER accounts. The account role is only half
+  // the answer — the role can also be held on a single project — so anything that
+  // needs the real verdict asks GET /api/auth/user-scope (users.js does). This is the
+  // cheap hint used to decide whether to bother offering a control.
+  window.wpMayManageUsers = function () {
+    var r = window.wpRole();
+    return r === 'admin' || r === 'project_super_user';
+  };
 
   // ── app feature flags ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   // Cached per page load. Pages that must know before rendering should await
@@ -185,6 +195,11 @@
     wrap.appendChild(who);
     var onAdmin = /(^|\/)admin\.html$/.test(location.pathname);
     if (window.wpIsAdmin() && !onAdmin) { wrap.appendChild(sep()); wrap.appendChild(link('Admin', null, 'admin.html')); }
+    // The directory is readable by everyone — it's how you find who is on your job —
+    // so it is offered to everyone, not just the people who can edit accounts.
+    if (!/(^|\/)users\.html$/.test(location.pathname)) {
+      wrap.appendChild(sep()); wrap.appendChild(link('Users', null, 'users.html'));
+    }
     // Always offered; wp-format.js may still be parsing when the menu is built, so
     // the check happens at click time rather than once, up front.
     wrap.appendChild(sep());

html/console-util.js

@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+/* Shared helpers for the suite's admin pages (Admin Console, User Directory).
+
+   These used to live in admin.js. They are here because the User Directory needs
+   the same escaping and the same role vocabulary, and a second copy of either is a
+   liability: a divergent jsq() is an XSS, and a divergent role list quietly offers
+   a permission the server will refuse.
+
+   Loaded as plain globals (no modules) to match the rest of the suite. */
+
+// ── api ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Never throws: returns {status, json} with status 0 when the request itself
+// failed, so every caller can branch on one shape.
+async function api(method, path, body){
+  const opt = { method, headers:{ 'Accept':'application/json' } };
+  if(body !== undefined){ opt.headers['Content-Type']='application/json'; opt.body=JSON.stringify(body); }
+  try {
+    const r = await fetch(path, opt);
+    const t = await r.text();
+    let json; try { json = t ? JSON.parse(t) : null; } catch(_){ json = t; }
+    return { status:r.status, json };
+  } catch(e){ return { status:0, json:String(e) }; }
+}
+
+// The message to show for a failed call, preferring the server's own words.
+function apiError(status, json, fallback){
+  if(json && json.detail) return json.detail;
+  if(status === 0) return 'Could not reach the server.';
+  if(status === 401) return 'Not signed in. Reload and log in again.';
+  return (fallback || 'Request failed') + ' (HTTP ' + status + ').';
+}
+
+// ── escaping ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+function uesc(v){ return v==null ? '' : String(v).replace(/&/g,'&amp;').replace(/</g,'&lt;').replace(/>/g,'&gt;').replace(/"/g,'&quot;'); }
+
+// A value bound into an inline handler — onclick="fn('…')" — is escaped TWICE: once
+// for the JS string literal it lands in, and again for the HTML attribute carrying
+// it. The order is the whole point. Escape the backslashes FIRST, then the quotes,
+// then hand the result to uesc: uesc leaves \ and ' alone, so the JS escaping
+// survives, and the browser decodes the entities before the JS parser runs.
+//
+// Doing it the other way round — uesc(v).replace(/'/g,"\\'") — silently fails on a
+// value containing a backslash: the \ we add is itself escaped by the stored one,
+// the quote closes the literal, and everything after it runs as code. Project names,
+// full names and usernames are free text that a signed-in user can write, so that is
+// a real path from a project_user to whatever an admin's session can do. Use jsq()
+// for EVERY value that lands inside an inline handler.
+function jsq(v){
+  return uesc(String(v==null ? '' : v).replace(/\\/g,'\\\\').replace(/'/g,"\\'"));
+}
+
+// ── role vocabulary (mirrors server/auth.py) ─────────────────────────────────
+// Permissions roles: what an account may DO. Ordered most- to least-privileged,
+// same as auth.ROLES, because that is the order the dropdowns render in.
+const PERM_ROLES = ['admin','project_super_user','project_admin','project_user'];
+const PERM_LABELS = {
+  admin:'Administrator',
+  project_super_user:'Project Super User',
+  project_admin:'Project Admin',
+  project_user:'Project User',
+};
+// One-line description of each, used in the legends and dropdown titles.
+const PERM_HELP = {
+  admin:'Manages users, app settings and every project.',
+  project_super_user:'On their assigned projects: everything a Project Admin can do, '+
+    'plus creating and managing that project\'s user accounts.',
+  project_admin:'On their assigned projects: may delete work packages, change a completed SOP, '+
+    'and delete the project.',
+  project_user:'Creates and edits work packages and authors the SOP, but cannot delete WPs '+
+    'or change the SOP once it is complete.',
+};
+// Roles that can be held on a SINGLE project (ProjectMember.role); '' inherits the
+// account's own. 'admin' is app-wide by definition and never appears here.
+const PROJECT_SCOPED_ROLES = ['project_super_user','project_admin','project_user'];
+// Job functions on a project. Descriptive only — no permissions attached.
+const PROJECT_ROLES = ['Project Manager','Assistant Project Manager','Construction Manager',
+  'Quality Manager','Superintendent','General Foreman','Foreman','Planner / Scheduler',
+  'BIM / VDC Coordinator','Engineer','Safety (HSE)','Warehouse / Materials','Commissioning',
+  'Field Technician'];
+
+// Accounts created before permissions roles existed carry the legacy value 'user'.
+function normRole(r){ return r==='user' ? 'project_user' : (PERM_ROLES.indexOf(r)>=0 ? r : 'project_user'); }
+function roleLabel(r){ const n = normRole(r); return PERM_LABELS[n] || n; }
+// Which pill a role wears. Admin and super user each get their own colour because
+// "can reach every project" and "can create users here" are the two facts you scan
+// this column for.
+function roleTagClass(r){
+  const n = normRole(r);
+  return n==='admin' ? 'admin' : n==='project_super_user' ? 'super' : 'user';
+}

html/console.css

@@ -0,0 +1,191 @@
+/* Shared styling for the suite's dense admin pages — the Admin Console and the
+   User Directory. Both are mostly tables and toolbars, which is a different job
+   from the wizard pages, so they carry this sheet instead of theme-light.css's
+   form-heavy one. The palette, the square corners and the type are still Carbon's,
+   so the pages read as one product with the rest of the suite.
+
+   Two scales do all the spacing and all the control sizing; nothing that uses this
+   sheet should invent its own. Page-specific rules (per-ID scroll boxes, column
+   exceptions) stay in the page that owns them.
+
+   ══ TOKENS ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ */
+:root{ --bg:#f4f4f4; --surface:#fff; --border:#e0e0e0; --border-strong:#8d8d8d; --text:#161616;
+  --muted:#525252; --dim:#8d8d8d; --accent:#0f62fe; --accent-hover:#0353e9; --accent-soft:#edf5ff;
+  --green:#198038; --green-bg:#defbe6;
+  --red:#da1e28; --red-bg:#fff1f1; --amber:#8e6a00; --amber-bg:#fdf6dd;
+  --head-bg:#f4f4f4; --zebra:#fafafa; --row-hover:#eef0f2;
+  --mono:'IBM Plex Mono','Cascadia Mono',Consolas,monospace;
+  --s1:4px; --s2:8px; --s3:12px; --s4:16px; --s5:20px; --s6:28px;
+  --ctl:32px;        /* every button / input / select that sits in a form row */
+  --ctl-sm:26px; }   /* every control that sits inside a table cell */
+*{ box-sizing:border-box; }
+body{ margin:0; font-family:'IBM Plex Sans',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,sans-serif; background:var(--bg); color:var(--text); }
+
+/* ══ PAGE ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+   1240px, not 860: the user table is nine columns wide and at 860 it spilled
+   straight out of its own white card. Wide enough for that table, still a
+   readable measure for the prose, which is capped separately. */
+.wrap{ max-width:1240px; margin:0 auto; padding:var(--s6) var(--s5) 80px; }
+h1{ font-size:20px; line-height:1.2; margin:0 0 2px; }
+.sub{ color:var(--muted); font-size:13px; line-height:1.5; margin:0 0 var(--s3); max-width:96ch; }
+a.home{ color:var(--accent); font-size:13px; text-decoration:none; white-space:nowrap; }
+a.home:hover{ text-decoration:underline; }
+
+/* ══ CARDS ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ */
+.card{ background:var(--surface); border:1px solid var(--border); border-radius:0;
+  padding:var(--s4) var(--s5) var(--s5); margin-bottom:var(--s4); }
+/* One card header everywhere: small uppercase accent label on a hairline. The
+   scripts also emit h2 for sub-sections inside a card with an inline margin-top —
+   the same treatment reads correctly as a divider there, so both get it. */
+.card h2{ font-size:12px; font-weight:600; letter-spacing:.08em; text-transform:uppercase;
+  color:var(--accent); margin:0 0 var(--s3); padding-bottom:var(--s2); border-bottom:1px solid var(--border); }
+.wrap code{ font-family:var(--mono); font-size:.92em; background:var(--bg); padding:1px 4px; }
+
+/* ══ CONTROLS ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+   Every button, input and select in a form row is exactly --ctl tall, so a
+   toolbar is one clean band instead of a ragged one. */
+button{ font:inherit; font-size:13px; font-weight:600; line-height:1; white-space:nowrap;
+  height:var(--ctl); padding:0 var(--s3); border-radius:0; cursor:pointer;
+  border:1px solid var(--border-strong); background:#fff; color:var(--text); }
+button:hover{ border-color:var(--accent); color:var(--accent); }
+button:focus-visible{ outline:2px solid var(--accent); outline-offset:-3px; }
+button:disabled, button:disabled:hover{ color:var(--dim); border-color:var(--border); background:#fff; cursor:default; }
+button.primary{ background:var(--accent); border-color:var(--accent); color:#fff; }
+button.primary:hover{ background:var(--accent-hover); border-color:var(--accent-hover); color:#fff; }
+button.danger{ border-color:var(--red); color:var(--red); }
+button.danger:hover{ background:var(--red-bg); border-color:var(--red); color:var(--red); }
+.row{ display:flex; gap:var(--s2); flex-wrap:wrap; align-items:center; }
+/* The filter / search / button strip at the top of a card. */
+.toolbar{ display:flex; gap:var(--s2); flex-wrap:wrap; align-items:center; margin:0 0 var(--s3); }
+.toolbar + .banner{ margin-top:0; }
+.urow{ display:flex; gap:var(--s2); flex-wrap:wrap; align-items:center; }
+/* Checkboxes are excluded: they are drawn by the platform and want none of a
+   text field's height, padding or border. */
+.toolbar input:not([type=checkbox]), .toolbar select,
+.urow input:not([type=checkbox]), .urow select{
+  height:var(--ctl); padding:0 var(--s2); font:inherit; font-size:13px; line-height:normal;
+  border:1px solid var(--border-strong); border-radius:0; background:#fff; color:var(--text); }
+.toolbar select, .urow select{ cursor:pointer; padding-right:var(--s1); }
+.toolbar input:focus-visible, .toolbar select:focus-visible,
+.urow input:focus-visible, .urow select:focus-visible{ outline:2px solid var(--accent); outline-offset:-2px; }
+.toolbar > input{ flex:1 1 240px; min-width:150px; }
+.urow input:not([type=checkbox]){ flex:1 1 140px; min-width:0; }
+/* Inline checkbox + label, sized to sit on the same line as the buttons. */
+.chk{ display:inline-flex; align-items:center; gap:var(--s2); height:var(--ctl); padding:0 var(--s1);
+  font-size:13px; color:var(--muted); white-space:nowrap; cursor:pointer; }
+.chk input{ width:16px; height:16px; margin:0; accent-color:var(--accent); cursor:pointer; }
+
+/* ══ FEEDBACK: banners, notes, console output, key/value ════════════════════════ */
+.banner{ margin:var(--s3) 0 0; padding:9px var(--s3); border-radius:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:600;
+  line-height:1.4; border:1px solid var(--border); border-left:3px solid var(--border-strong);
+  background:var(--surface); color:var(--text); }
+.banner.ok{ background:var(--green-bg); color:var(--green); border-color:#a7f0ba; border-left-color:var(--green); }
+.banner.bad{ background:var(--red-bg); color:var(--red); border-color:#ffd7d9; border-left-color:var(--red); }
+.banner.warn{ background:var(--amber-bg); color:var(--amber); border-color:#fddc69; border-left-color:var(--amber); }
+/* --muted, not --dim: #8d8d8d on white is 3.3:1, under the 4.5:1 floor at 12px,
+   and the boxes the scripts fill are themselves .note — their primary toggle
+   labels inherit this colour. */
+.note{ font-size:12px; line-height:1.55; color:var(--muted); margin-top:var(--s2); }
+.note strong, .note em{ color:var(--text); }
+pre.out{ background:#0f1525; color:#d7e0f5; border-radius:0; padding:var(--s3) var(--s4); font-family:var(--mono);
+  font-size:12px; line-height:1.55; white-space:pre-wrap; max-height:340px; overflow:auto; margin:var(--s3) 0 0; }
+pre.out .p{ color:#56d364; font-weight:700; } pre.out .f{ color:#ff7b72; font-weight:700; }
+table.kv{ border-collapse:collapse; font-size:13px; margin-top:var(--s2); }
+table.kv th{ text-align:left; padding:var(--s1) var(--s5) var(--s1) 0; color:var(--muted); font-weight:600; white-space:nowrap; }
+table.kv td{ padding:var(--s1) 0; font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums; font-weight:700; color:var(--text); }
+
+/* ══ DATA TABLES ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+   table.users is the name admin.js already emits; table.grid is the same object
+   under the shared name. One rule set serves both, so existing markup picks up the
+   dense styling without being rewritten. border-collapse is separate rather than
+   collapse because a collapsed border does not travel with a sticky header. */
+table.grid, table.users{ width:100%; border-collapse:separate; border-spacing:0;
+  font-size:13px; color:var(--text); background:var(--surface); }
+table.grid th, table.users th{ position:sticky; top:0; z-index:2; background:var(--head-bg);
+  text-align:left; padding:var(--s2) var(--s3); white-space:nowrap;
+  font-size:11px; font-weight:600; letter-spacing:.04em; text-transform:uppercase; color:var(--muted);
+  box-shadow:inset 0 -1px 0 var(--border); }
+/* Cells never wrap: a wrapped cell turns one user into a 100px tall band and the
+   table stops reading as rows. Anything genuinely long truncates (.ell) or is
+   exempted by name in the page that owns the table. */
+table.grid td, table.users td{ padding:var(--s1) var(--s3); border-bottom:1px solid var(--border);
+  vertical-align:middle; white-space:nowrap; }
+table.grid tbody tr:last-child td, table.users tbody tr:last-child td{ border-bottom:none; }
+table.grid tbody tr:nth-child(even) td, table.users tbody tr:nth-child(even) td{ background:var(--zebra); }
+/* A neutral hover, not --accent-soft: that is .tag.admin's fill, and an "all
+   projects" pill sitting on its own colour disappears the moment you hover it. */
+table.grid tbody tr:hover td, table.users tbody tr:hover td{ background:var(--row-hover); }
+/* A row for an account this caller may see but not change. Dimmed as a whole so
+   the disabled controls aren't the only clue. */
+table.grid tbody tr.is-locked td, table.users tbody tr.is-locked td{ color:var(--muted); }
+/* Truncation has to hang off a block INSIDE the cell. max-width on a <td> is
+   advisory under table-layout:auto — the cell just grows to fit and the ellipsis
+   never appears, which is the usual reason this trick looks like it works in the
+   stylesheet and doesn't on the page. The scripts emit <td class="ell"><span>. */
+.ell{ max-width:240px; }
+.ell > span{ display:block; max-width:240px; overflow:hidden; text-overflow:ellipsis;
+  white-space:nowrap; }
+/* Every action cell the scripts render is a .cellactions, and it must not wrap:
+   unwrapped, the three buttons stack and the row grows fourfold. */
+.cellactions{ display:flex; flex-wrap:nowrap; align-items:center; gap:var(--s1); white-space:nowrap; }
+/* Controls that live in a cell are one step smaller, which is what keeps a row at
+   ~34px instead of ~100px. .chk is form-row sized by default, so it needs saying
+   again here or checkbox rows stand 6px taller than the rest. */
+button.mini{ height:var(--ctl-sm); padding:0 var(--s2); font-size:12px; }
+table.grid td .chk, table.users td .chk{ height:var(--ctl-sm); }
+select.role-select{ height:var(--ctl-sm); max-width:170px; padding:0 var(--s1) 0 var(--s2);
+  font:inherit; font-size:12px; border:1px solid var(--border-strong); border-radius:0;
+  background:#fff; color:var(--text); cursor:pointer; }
+select.role-select:hover{ border-color:var(--accent); }
+select.role-select.is-admin{ color:var(--accent); border-color:var(--accent); font-weight:600; }
+select.role-select:disabled{ color:var(--dim); border-color:var(--border); background:var(--bg); cursor:default; }
+.tag{ display:inline-block; padding:1px 8px; border-radius:11px; font-size:11px; font-weight:600;
+  line-height:1.55; white-space:nowrap; vertical-align:middle; }
+.tag.admin{ background:var(--accent-soft); color:var(--accent); }
+.tag.super{ background:#e8daff; color:#6929c4; }
+.tag.user{ background:#e8e8e8; color:var(--muted); }
+.tag.on{ background:var(--green-bg); color:var(--green); }
+.tag.off{ background:var(--red-bg); color:var(--red); }
+.tag.archived{ background:var(--amber-bg); color:var(--amber); }
+.me-tag{ font-size:11px; color:var(--dim); margin-left:6px; white-space:nowrap; }
+
+/* A wide table scrolls inside its own box so the page never scrolls sideways, and
+   the capped height is what gives the sticky header something to do. */
+.tscroll{ overflow:auto; max-height:min(70vh,640px); overscroll-behavior:contain; }
+
+/* ══ MODALS ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+   The project-access dialog, shared by both pages. */
+.modal-ov{ position:fixed; inset:0; background:rgba(20,30,50,.5); display:flex; align-items:center;
+  justify-content:center; z-index:10002; padding:var(--s5); }
+.modal-box{ background:var(--surface); border-radius:0; max-width:660px; width:100%; max-height:82vh;
+  display:flex; flex-direction:column; overflow:hidden; box-shadow:0 12px 40px rgba(20,30,50,.3); }
+.modal-head{ padding:var(--s3) var(--s4); border-bottom:1px solid var(--border); font-weight:700; }
+.modal-body{ padding:var(--s3) var(--s4); overflow:auto; }
+.modal-foot{ padding:var(--s3) var(--s4); border-top:1px solid var(--border);
+  display:flex; gap:var(--s2); justify-content:flex-end; }
+.pickrow{ display:flex; align-items:center; gap:var(--s3); padding:var(--s2) var(--s1);
+  border-bottom:1px solid var(--border); font-size:13px; }
+.pickrow:last-child{ border-bottom:none; }
+.pickrow > label{ display:flex; align-items:center; gap:var(--s2); flex:1; min-width:0; cursor:pointer; }
+.pickrow > label > span{ overflow:hidden; text-overflow:ellipsis; }
+
+/* ══ GATES & WARNINGS ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ */
+.gate-overlay{ position:fixed; inset:0; background:var(--bg); display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center; padding:var(--s5); z-index:9999; }
+.gate-box{ background:var(--surface); border:1px solid var(--border); border-radius:0; padding:var(--s6); max-width:380px; width:100%; box-shadow:0 8px 30px rgba(20,30,50,.12); }
+.gate-box h2{ margin:0 0 var(--s1); padding:0; border:0; font-size:17px; text-transform:none; letter-spacing:0; color:var(--text); }
+.gate-box p{ color:var(--muted); font-size:13px; margin:0 0 var(--s4); }
+.gate-msg{ color:var(--red); font-size:12px; min-height:16px; margin-bottom:var(--s2); }
+.secwarn{ background:var(--amber-bg); color:var(--amber); border:1px solid var(--amber); border-radius:0; padding:9px 13px; font-size:12px; margin-bottom:var(--s4); }
+
+/* ══ NARROW SCREENS ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+   The page itself must never scroll sideways; the wide tables scroll inside their
+   own box instead, and there they get the full page height to do it. */
+@media (max-width:900px){
+  .wrap{ padding:var(--s4) var(--s3) 60px; }
+  .card{ padding:var(--s3) var(--s4) var(--s4); }
+  .toolbar > input{ flex:1 1 100%; }
+  .tscroll{ max-height:none; }
+}
+@media (max-width:620px){
+  .urow input, .urow select, .urow button{ flex:1 1 100%; }
+}

html/field.html

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
   <meta name="theme-color" content="#161616">
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="theme-light.css">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-chrome.css">
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-sidenav.css">
   <style>
     * { box-sizing: border-box; }
     body { -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; }
@@ -87,5 +88,6 @@
   <script src="help.js"></script>
   <script src="field.js"></script>
 <script src="wp-chrome.js"></script>
+<script src="wp-sidenav.js"></script>
 </body>
 </html>

html/index.html

@@ -292,6 +292,10 @@
       padding: 1.25rem; }
     .proj-empty p { margin: 0 0 0.9rem; color: var(--cds-text-secondary); }
     .proj-actions { display: flex; gap: 0.75rem; flex-wrap: wrap; }
+    /* Shown once when the project someone had open turns out to have been archived
+       rather than deleted — otherwise the picker just silently resets on them. */
+    .proj-archived-note { background: #fdf6dd; border: 1px solid #f1c21b; color: #8e6a00;
+      padding: 0.7rem 0.9rem; margin-bottom: 0.9rem; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; }
     .proj-form { margin-top: 1rem; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid var(--cds-ui-03, #e0e0e0); background: var(--cds-ui-01, #fff); }
     .proj-form-grid { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(220px, 1fr)); gap: 0.75rem; margin-bottom: 0.9rem; }
     .proj-form-grid label { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 0.3rem; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; color: var(--cds-text-secondary); }
@@ -369,6 +373,13 @@
         <button class="card-button" id="card-field-btn">Open Field View</button>
       </a>
 
+      <!-- USER DIRECTORY -->
+      <a href="users.html" class="card" id="card-users">
+        <h3>User Directory</h3>
+        <p>Who is on this project — names, job functions and how to reach them. Administrators and Project Super Users also create accounts, set permissions and grant project access from here.</p>
+        <button class="card-button" id="card-users-btn">Open Directory</button>
+      </a>
+
     </div>
 
     <!-- COMMENTS SECTION -->
@@ -414,12 +425,34 @@
         _projects = list || [];
         // Reconcile the active project against the list; clear if it's gone.
         const active = ProjectData.getActive();
-        if(active && !_projects.some(p => p.id === active.id)) ProjectData.setActive(null);
+        const dropped = (active && !_projects.some(p => p.id === active.id)) ? active : null;
+        if(dropped) ProjectData.setActive(null);
         renderProjectPicker();
         applyActiveProject();
+        // "No longer in the list" used to mean one thing — deleted. Now it also
+        // means archived, and resetting someone to "Select a project" with no word
+        // about it sends them hunting for a job that is merely finished.
+        if(dropped) explainDroppedProject(dropped);
       });
     }
 
+    function explainDroppedProject(p){
+      // The project is still readable when it's archived; a delete (or access being
+      // taken away) fails here, and that case genuinely has nothing to say.
+      ProjectData.get(p.id).then(full => {
+        if(!full || !full.archived) return;
+        const box = document.getElementById('project-picker');
+        if(!box || document.getElementById('proj-archived-note')) return;
+        const note = document.createElement('div');
+        note.id = 'proj-archived-note';
+        note.className = 'proj-archived-note';
+        note.innerHTML = `<strong>${esc(p.name || 'The project you had open')}</strong> has been
+          archived — it is read-only and no longer listed here. An administrator can unarchive it
+          from the Admin Console.`;
+        box.insertBefore(note, box.firstChild);
+      }).catch(() => {});
+    }
+
     function createFormHtml(){
       return `<div class="proj-form" id="proj-form" style="display:none">
         <div class="proj-form-grid">

html/project-data.js

@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@
         });
     },
 
+    // Archiving a project lives in the admin console (html/admin.js), which doesn't
+    // load this file — deliberately not mirrored here, so there's only one
+    // implementation of it rather than two that can disagree.
+
     // ── active project context ────────────────────────────────────────────────
     getActiveId: function () { try { return localStorage.getItem(LS_ACTIVE) || ''; } catch (e) { return ''; } },
     getActive: function () { try { return JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(LS_ACTIVE_OBJ) || 'null'); } catch (e) { return null; } },
@@ -208,7 +212,8 @@
     qWrite(q);
   }
   // Permanently-failed op (a 4xx client error) — keep it for visibility but stop
-  // retrying, so a rejected write can't loop forever.
+  // retrying, so a rejected write can't loop forever. `err` is the server's own
+  // explanation when it sent one; it is what the sync badge shows the user.
   function markDead(opId, err) {
     var q = qRead();
     for (var i = 0; i < q.length; i++) { if (q[i].opId === opId) { q[i].dead = true; q[i].lastErr = err; break; } }
@@ -229,7 +234,16 @@
           var status = r ? r.status : 0;
           var done = r && (r.ok || (op.kind === 'wp-del' && status === 404));  // 404 on delete = already gone
           if (done) { qWrite(qRead().filter(function (o) { return o.opId !== op.opId; })); }
-          else if (status >= 400 && status < 500 && status !== 429) { markDead(op.opId, 'HTTP ' + status); }
+          else if (status >= 400 && status < 500 && status !== 429) {
+            // Refused once, refused forever — so the only useful thing left is the
+            // reason. A 409 here is the archived-project gate, whose detail tells
+            // the user the project is read-only and how to get it unarchived; a
+            // bare "HTTP 409" would leave them staring at a change that vanished.
+            return r.json().catch(function () { return null; }).then(function (j) {
+              var why = (j && typeof j.detail === 'string' && j.detail) || ('HTTP ' + status);
+              markDead(op.opId, why);
+            });
+          }
           else { anyFail = true; bumpTries(op.opId, 'HTTP ' + status); }
         }).catch(function (e) { anyFail = true; bumpTries(op.opId, String(e)); });
       });
@@ -250,12 +264,17 @@
   }
 
   // ── sync status (drives the indicator + any listeners) ──────────────────────
+  // `failed` stays the total not-getting-through count (what listeners already
+  // read); `dead` splits out the ops the server has permanently refused, with the
+  // first reason it gave, because those two states need different words.
   function syncCounts() {
-    var q = qRead(), pending = 0, failed = 0;
+    var q = qRead(), pending = 0, failed = 0, dead = 0, reason = '';
     for (var i = 0; i < q.length; i++) {
-      if (q[i].dead || (q[i].tries || 0) >= 3) failed++; else pending++;
+      if (q[i].dead) { dead++; if (!reason && q[i].lastErr) reason = String(q[i].lastErr); }
+      else if ((q[i].tries || 0) >= 3) failed++;
+      else pending++;
     }
-    return { pending: pending, failed: failed, syncing: _flushing };
+    return { pending: pending, failed: failed + dead, dead: dead, reason: reason, syncing: _flushing };
   }
   ProjectData.syncStatus = syncCounts;
   function notifySync() {
@@ -281,7 +300,17 @@
       document.body.appendChild(el);
     }
     if (_badgeHideTimer) { clearTimeout(_badgeHideTimer); _badgeHideTimer = null; }
-    if (c.failed) {
+    // A dead op is a refusal, not a hiccup — "retrying" would be a lie, and the
+    // reason is the only thing that tells the user what to do (e.g. the project is
+    // archived). Stack it under the headline; the badge never hides in this state.
+    el.style.flexDirection = c.dead ? 'column' : 'row';
+    el.style.alignItems = c.dead ? 'flex-start' : 'center';
+    el.style.maxWidth = c.dead ? 'min(340px, calc(100vw - 32px))' : 'none';
+    if (c.dead) {
+      el.innerHTML = '<span>✕ ' + c.dead + ' change' + (c.dead === 1 ? '' : 's') + ' rejected — not saved</span>' +
+        (c.reason ? '<span style="font-weight:400">' + esc(c.reason) + '</span>' : '');
+      el.style.color = '#a2191f'; el.style.borderColor = '#ffd7d9'; el.style.background = '#fff1f1'; el.style.display = 'inline-flex';
+    } else if (c.failed) {
       el.textContent = '⚠ ' + c.failed + ' change' + (c.failed === 1 ? '' : 's') + ' not saved — retrying';
       el.style.color = '#8a6d00'; el.style.borderColor = '#f1c21b'; el.style.background = '#fdf6dd'; el.style.display = 'inline-flex';
     } else if (c.pending) {

html/sw.js

@@ -14,15 +14,16 @@
 'use strict';
 // Bumped when the shell file list changes, so clients fetch the new assets
 // instead of serving a half-old shell from the previous cache.
-const CACHE = 'wp-suite-shell-v5';
+const CACHE = 'wp-suite-shell-v6';
 const SHELL = [
   '/', '/index.html', '/work-package-suite.html', '/wp-creation-index.html',
-  '/field.html', '/login.html', '/admin.html',
+  '/field.html', '/login.html', '/admin.html', '/users.html',
   '/theme-light.css', '/work-package-suite-styles.css', '/wp-creation-styles.css',
-  '/wp-chrome.css',
+  '/wp-chrome.css', '/console.css', '/wp-sidenav.css',
   '/auth-guard.js', '/project-data.js', '/feedback-config.js', '/help.js',
   '/work-package-suite-app.js', '/wp-creation-app.js', '/field.js',
-  '/wp-chrome.js', '/wp-format.js', '/login.js', '/admin.js',
+  '/wp-chrome.js', '/wp-sidenav.js', '/wp-format.js', '/login.js',
+  '/console-util.js', '/admin.js', '/users.js',
   '/prime-controls-logo.jpg', '/favicon.ico',
   '/manifest.webmanifest', '/icon-192.png', '/icon-512.png',
 ];

html/users.html

@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+<meta charset="UTF-8">
+<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
+<title>User Directory — Work Package Suite</title>
+<script src="auth-guard.js"></script>
+<!-- Date/number formatting. Must parse BEFORE the app scripts: they format
+     timestamps during their own boot. -->
+<script src="wp-format.js"></script>
+<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" sizes="any">
+<link rel="manifest" href="manifest.webmanifest">
+<meta name="theme-color" content="#161616">
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="theme-light.css">
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-chrome.css">
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="console.css">
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-sidenav.css">
+<style>
+  /* Page-specific only — everything structural is in console.css.
+
+     The directory is one wide table, so the column exceptions live here: email is
+     the one cell long enough to stretch a row, and the two role dropdowns need
+     room for "Assistant Project Manager" without pushing Actions off screen. */
+  #users-table table td:nth-child(3){ max-width:230px; overflow:hidden; text-overflow:ellipsis; }
+  #users-banner:not(:empty), #scope-banner:not(:empty){ margin-bottom:var(--s3); }
+  /* The create form is a lot of fields; give the password one room to breathe and
+     let the project picker take a full row of its own. */
+  #nu-password{ flex:1 1 200px; }
+  #nu-projects{ margin-top:var(--s2); }
+  #nu-projects .pickrow{ padding:var(--s1) var(--s1); }
+  /* A manager with one project doesn't need a scrolling picker; a manager with
+     thirty does, and it must not push the Create button below the fold. */
+  #nu-project-list{ max-height:200px; overflow:auto; border:1px solid var(--border); }
+  .whoami-chip{ font-size:12px; color:var(--muted); }
+  .whoami-chip strong{ color:var(--text); }
+</style>
+</head>
+<body>
+
+<!-- SHARED DARK APP BAR -->
+<header class="wp-appbar">
+  <a href="index.html" class="wp-appbar-brand" title="Back to site">
+    <span class="wp-logo-chip"><img src="prime-controls-logo.jpg" alt="Prime Controls"></span>
+    <span class="wp-appbar-title">Work Package Suite <span class="wp-appbar-sub">| User Directory</span></span>
+  </a>
+</header>
+
+<div class="wrap" id="users-main" style="display:none">
+  <div class="row" style="justify-content:space-between; margin-bottom:var(--s5)">
+    <div>
+      <h1>User Directory</h1>
+      <div class="sub" style="margin:0" id="dir-sub">The people on your projects — who they are, and how to reach them.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="row"><a class="home" href="index.html">← Site</a></div>
+  </div>
+
+  <!-- WHAT YOU MAY DO HERE (rendered from GET /api/auth/user-scope) -->
+  <div id="scope-banner"></div>
+
+  <!-- THE DIRECTORY -->
+  <div class="card">
+    <h2>People</h2>
+    <div class="sub" id="people-sub"></div>
+    <div class="toolbar">
+      <button onclick="loadUsers()">Refresh</button>
+      <input id="user-search" placeholder="Search name / username / email / job function…" oninput="renderUsers()">
+      <select id="user-filter" onchange="renderUsers()">
+        <option value="">Everyone</option>
+        <option value="active">Active only</option>
+        <option value="disabled">Disabled only</option>
+        <option value="mine">Accounts I manage</option>
+      </select>
+    </div>
+    <div id="users-banner"></div>
+    <div id="users-table"><div class="note">Loading…</div></div>
+  </div>
+
+  <!-- ADD A USER (managers only; hidden otherwise) -->
+  <div class="card" id="create-card" style="display:none">
+    <h2>Add a user</h2>
+    <div class="sub" id="create-sub"></div>
+    <div class="urow">
+      <input id="nu-username" placeholder="Username *" autocomplete="off">
+      <input id="nu-fullname" placeholder="Full name" autocomplete="off">
+      <input id="nu-email" placeholder="Email" autocomplete="off">
+      <select id="nu-role" title="Permissions — what this account may do"></select>
+      <select id="nu-project-role" title="Job function on the project"></select>
+      <input id="nu-password" type="password" placeholder="Password (min 12)" autocomplete="new-password">
+    </div>
+    <div id="nu-projects">
+      <div class="note" id="nu-projects-label" style="margin-bottom:var(--s1)"></div>
+      <div id="nu-project-list"></div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="row" style="margin-top:var(--s3)">
+      <button class="primary" onclick="createUser()">Create user</button>
+      <span id="users-create-msg" class="note" style="margin:0"></span>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<script src="console-util.js"></script>
+<script src="users.js"></script>
+<script src="wp-chrome.js"></script>
+<script src="wp-sidenav.js"></script>
+</body>
+</html>

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+/* User Directory for the Work Package Suite.
+
+   Moved out of the Admin Console because user administration is no longer
+   admin-only: a PROJECT SUPER USER creates and manages the accounts on the projects
+   they administer, which means the page has to be reachable by people who must never
+   see the console's settings, diagnostics or app-wide switches.
+
+   ACCESS — three audiences on one page, decided by GET /api/auth/user-scope:
+     • App admin            every account, every control.
+     • Project super user   the accounts on the projects they administer. Controls
+                            appear per row: an account that is also on a job they
+                            don't administer is read-only, and the row says why.
+     • Everyone else        a read-only directory of the people on their own
+                            projects. No controls at all.
+
+   The server enforces every one of those rules (server/app.py: require_user_manager,
+   require_manage_user, visible_user_ids). Nothing here is a security boundary — it is
+   here so nobody is shown a button that would only 403, and so the reason is on the
+   page instead of in an alert.
+
+   Shared helpers (api, uesc, jsq, the role vocabulary) come from console-util.js. */
+
+let _users = [];        // the directory as the server scoped it
+let _scope = null;      // GET /api/auth/user-scope
+let _meId = null;
+
+// ── boot ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+async function boot(){
+  document.getElementById('users-main').style.display = '';
+  _meId = (window.WP_USER && window.WP_USER.id) || null;
+  const { status, json } = await api('GET','/api/auth/user-scope');
+  // A failed scope call must not leave the page pretending to be read-only-with-no-
+  // reason: fall back to the least-privileged rendering and say so.
+  _scope = (status === 200 && json) ? json : { can_manage_users:false, scope:'projects',
+    grantable_roles:[], grantable_project_roles:[], managed_projects:[], project_roles:PROJECT_ROLES };
+  if(status !== 200){
+    banner('scope-banner','bad','❌ '+apiError(status, json, 'Could not work out what you may do here')+
+      ' Showing the directory read-only.');
+  } else {
+    renderScope();
+  }
+  renderCreateForm();
+  loadUsers();
+}
+
+function banner(id, kind, text){
+  const el = document.getElementById(id);
+  if(!el) return;
+  if(!text){ el.innerHTML=''; return; }
+  el.className = 'banner' + (kind ? ' '+kind : '');
+  el.textContent = text;
+}
+
+// What this account may do here, stated once at the top rather than implied by which
+// buttons happen to be missing.
+function renderScope(){
+  const el = document.getElementById('scope-banner');
+  const sub = document.getElementById('dir-sub');
+  if(!_scope.can_manage_users){
+    el.innerHTML = '';
+    if(sub) sub.textContent = 'The people on your projects — who they are, and how to reach them. '+
+      'Only an administrator or a Project Super User can change accounts.';
+    return;
+  }
+  if(_scope.scope === 'all'){
+    el.className = 'banner';
+    el.innerHTML = 'You are an <strong>Administrator</strong>: you manage every account in the suite. '+
+      'App settings, diagnostics and the default-member rules live in the '+
+      '<a class="home" href="admin.html">Admin Console</a>.';
+    if(sub) sub.textContent = 'Every login account in the suite.';
+    return;
+  }
+  const names = (_scope.managed_projects||[]).map(p => p.name || p.number || p.id);
+  el.className = 'banner';
+  el.innerHTML = 'You are a <strong>Project Super User</strong> on '+
+    (names.length === 1 ? uesc(names[0]) : names.length+' projects')+
+    ' — you create and manage the accounts on '+(names.length === 1 ? 'that project' : 'those projects')+
+    (names.length > 1 ? ': <strong>'+names.map(uesc).join('</strong>, <strong>')+'</strong>' : '')+'. '+
+    'An account that is also on a project you don’t administer is read-only here.';
+  if(sub) sub.textContent = 'The people on your projects, and the accounts you administer.';
+}
+
+// ── the table ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+async function loadUsers(){
+  const wrap = document.getElementById('users-table');
+  const { status, json } = await api('GET','/api/auth/users');
+  if(status !== 200 || !Array.isArray(json)){
+    banner('users-banner','bad','❌ '+apiError(status, json, 'Could not load the directory'));
+    wrap.innerHTML = ''; return;
+  }
+  banner('users-banner','', '');
+  _users = json;
+  renderUsers();
+}
+
+function manages(){ return !!(_scope && _scope.can_manage_users); }
+
+function renderUsers(){
+  const wrap = document.getElementById('users-table');
+  const q = ((document.getElementById('user-search')||{}).value||'').trim().toLowerCase();
+  const f = ((document.getElementById('user-filter')||{}).value||'');
+  const total = _users.length;
+  const sub = document.getElementById('people-sub');
+  if(sub){
+    sub.textContent = manages()
+      ? 'Login accounts you can see. The ones you administer carry controls; the rest are listed for reference.'
+      : 'Everyone on the projects you can access, plus the administrators.';
+  }
+  if(!total){ wrap.innerHTML = '<div class="note">Nobody to show yet.</div>'; return; }
+  const list = _users.filter(u => {
+    if(f === 'active' && !u.is_active) return false;
+    if(f === 'disabled' && u.is_active) return false;
+    if(f === 'mine' && !u.manageable) return false;
+    if(!q) return true;
+    return ((u.username||'')+' '+(u.full_name||'')+' '+(u.email||'')+' '+
+            (u.project_role||'')+' '+roleLabel(u.role)).toLowerCase().indexOf(q) >= 0;
+  });
+  const count = '<div class="note">'+list.length+' of '+total+' '+(total===1?'person':'people')+'</div>';
+  if(!list.length){ wrap.innerHTML = count+'<div class="note">Nothing matches.</div>'; return; }
+
+  const head = manages()
+    ? ['Username','Name','Email',
+       ['Permissions','What this account may do in the app'],
+       ['Project role','Job function on the project — descriptive only'],
+       ['Project access','Which projects this user can access, and their role on each'],
+       'Status','Last login','Actions']
+    : ['Name','Username','Email',
+       ['Permissions','What this account may do in the app'],
+       ['Project role','Job function on the project — descriptive only'],
+       'Status'];
+  const ths = head.map(h => Array.isArray(h)
+    ? '<th title="'+uesc(h[1])+'">'+uesc(h[0])+'</th>' : '<th>'+uesc(h)+'</th>').join('');
+  const rows = list.map(manages() ? managerRow : readonlyRow).join('');
+  wrap.innerHTML = count+'<div class="tscroll"><table class="grid"><thead><tr>'+ths+
+    '</tr></thead><tbody>'+rows+'</tbody></table></div>'+legend();
+}
+
+function legend(){
+  if(!manages()){
+    return '<div class="note" style="margin-top:10px"><strong>Project role</strong> is the person’s job '+
+      'function — it feeds the SOP team pickers and notification routing, and grants nothing on its own.</div>';
+  }
+  return '<div class="note" style="margin-top:10px"><strong>Permissions</strong> — '+
+    PERM_ROLES.map(r => '<em>'+uesc(PERM_LABELS[r])+'</em>: '+uesc(PERM_HELP[r])).join(' ')+
+    ' <strong>Project role</strong> is the person’s job function — it feeds the SOP team pickers '+
+    'and notification routing, and grants nothing on its own.</div>';
+}
+
+// The read-only card: name, contact, role. No ids are bound into handlers because
+// there are no handlers — that is the point of this rendering.
+function readonlyRow(u){
+  return '<tr>'+
+    '<td><strong>'+uesc(u.full_name || u.username)+'</strong>'+(u.id===_meId?'<span class="me-tag">you</span>':'')+'</td>'+
+    '<td>'+uesc(u.username)+'</td>'+
+    '<td class="ell" title="'+uesc(u.email||'')+'"><span>'+
+      (u.email ? '<a class="home" href="mailto:'+uesc(u.email)+'">'+uesc(u.email)+'</a>' : '—')+'</span></td>'+
+    '<td><span class="tag '+roleTagClass(u.role)+'">'+uesc(roleLabel(u.role))+'</span></td>'+
+    '<td>'+uesc(u.project_role || '—')+'</td>'+
+    '<td><span class="tag '+(u.is_active?'on':'off')+'">'+(u.is_active?'active':'disabled')+'</span></td>'+
+  '</tr>';
+}
+
+function managerRow(u){
+  const me = u.id === _meId;
+  const uid = jsq(u.id), uname = jsq(u.username);
+  const can = !!u.manageable;
+  const why = u.manage_blocked_reason || '';
+  const fmt = s => s ? wpFormatDateTime(s) : '—';
+  const role = normRole(u.role);
+
+  // Your own row never offers the controls that could lock you out of the app.
+  const roleCell = me
+    ? '<span class="tag '+roleTagClass(role)+'">'+uesc(roleLabel(role))+'</span><span class="me-tag">locked</span>'
+    : !can
+      ? '<span class="tag '+roleTagClass(role)+'" title="'+uesc(why)+'">'+uesc(roleLabel(role))+'</span>'
+      : roleSelect(uid, uname, role);
+
+  // Job function follows the same permission as everything else on the row. Note a
+  // super user cannot edit their OWN row: the server refuses account changes to any
+  // admin or super-user account, including the caller's.
+  const projRoleCell = can
+    ? projRoleSelect(uid, uname, u.project_role || '')
+    : projRoleReadonly(u, can, why);
+
+  const actions = [];
+  if(can && !me) actions.push('<button class="mini" onclick="resetPw(\''+uid+'\',\''+uname+'\')">Reset password</button>');
+  if(can && !me) actions.push('<button class="mini" onclick="toggleActive(\''+uid+'\','+(!u.is_active)+')">'+
+    (u.is_active?'Disable':'Enable')+'</button>');
+  if(can && !me) actions.push('<button class="mini danger" onclick="deleteUser(\''+uid+'\',\''+uname+'\')">Delete</button>');
+  if(me) actions.push('<button class="mini" disabled title="Use the Password link in the top bar to change your own">—</button>');
+  if(!can && !me) actions.push('<span class="note" style="margin:0" title="'+uesc(why)+'">read-only</span>');
+
+  return '<tr'+(can||me ? '' : ' class="is-locked"')+'>'+
+    '<td><strong>'+uesc(u.username)+'</strong>'+(me?'<span class="me-tag">you</span>':'')+'</td>'+
+    '<td>'+uesc(u.full_name||'')+'</td>'+
+    // The address is truncated with the full value on the title: a long one used to
+    // wrap mid-word and push the whole row onto three lines.
+    '<td class="ell" title="'+uesc(u.email||'')+'"><span>'+uesc(u.email||'')+'</span></td>'+
+    '<td>'+roleCell+'</td>'+
+    '<td>'+projRoleCell+'</td>'+
+    '<td><div class="cellactions">'+projAccessCell(u)+'</div></td>'+
+    '<td><span class="tag '+(u.is_active?'on':'off')+'">'+(u.is_active?'active':'disabled')+'</span></td>'+
+    '<td style="white-space:nowrap;color:var(--muted)">'+fmt(u.last_login_at)+'</td>'+
+    '<td><div class="cellactions">'+actions.join('')+'</div></td>'+
+  '</tr>';
+}
+
+// Only the roles the server said this caller may grant are offered. The account's
+// CURRENT role is always included even when it isn't grantable, or the dropdown would
+// silently misreport a Project Admin as a Project User the moment it renders.
+function roleSelect(uid, uname, role){
+  const grantable = (_scope && _scope.grantable_roles) || [];
+  const opts = PERM_ROLES.filter(r => grantable.indexOf(r) >= 0 || r === role);
+  return '<select class="role-select'+(role==='admin'?' is-admin':'')+
+    '" title="Change what this account may do" onchange="changeRole(\''+uid+'\',this.value,\''+uname+'\')">'+
+    opts.map(r => '<option value="'+r+'"'+(role===r?' selected':'')+
+      (grantable.indexOf(r) < 0 ? ' disabled' : '')+'>'+uesc(PERM_LABELS[r])+'</option>').join('')+
+    '</select>';
+}
+
+function projRoleSelect(uid, uname, pr){
+  const list = (_scope && _scope.project_roles) || PROJECT_ROLES;
+  return '<select class="role-select" title="Job function on the project" '+
+    'onchange="changeProjectRole(\''+uid+'\',this.value,\''+uname+'\')">'+
+    '<option value=""'+(pr?'':' selected')+'>— none —</option>'+
+    list.map(r => '<option value="'+uesc(r)+'"'+(pr===r?' selected':'')+'>'+uesc(r)+'</option>').join('')+
+    // Keep a title that isn't on the list (set via the API or an older record).
+    (pr && list.indexOf(pr) < 0 ? '<option value="'+uesc(pr)+'" selected>'+uesc(pr)+'</option>' : '')+
+  '</select>';
+}
+function projRoleReadonly(u, can, why){
+  return '<span'+(can?'':' title="'+uesc(why)+'"')+'>'+uesc(u.project_role || '—')+'</span>';
+}
+
+// Per-user project access gets its own column: buried among the action buttons, it
+// was exactly where you'd fail to find "which projects can this person see, and what
+// may they do there".
+function projAccessCell(u){
+  if(normRole(u.role) === 'admin'){
+    return '<span class="tag admin" title="Admins can access every project">all projects</span>';
+  }
+  const n = u.project_count;
+  const label = (n === undefined || n === null) ? 'Projects…'
+              : (n === 0 ? 'No projects yet' : n+' project'+(n===1?'':'s'));
+  if(!u.manageable){
+    return '<span class="note" style="margin:0" title="'+uesc(u.manage_blocked_reason||'')+'">'+uesc(label)+'</span>';
+  }
+  return '<button class="mini'+(n === 0 ? ' danger' : '')+
+    '" onclick="manageProjects(\''+jsq(u.id)+'\',\''+jsq(u.username)+'\')"'+
+    ' title="Choose which projects this user can access, and their role on each">'+
+    uesc(label)+'</button>';
+}
+
+// ── row actions ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Each one reloads on failure so a control can never sit there showing a value the
+// server refused.
+async function resetPw(id, username){
+  const pw = prompt('New password for "'+username+'" (min 12 characters):');
+  if(pw === null) return;
+  const { status, json } = await api('POST','/api/auth/users/'+id+'/password',{new_password:pw});
+  if(status === 200) alert('Password reset for '+username+'. Their existing sessions are signed out.');
+  else alert('Could not reset the password: '+apiError(status, json));
+}
+
+async function toggleActive(id, makeActive){
+  const { status, json } = await api('POST','/api/auth/users/'+id+'/active',{is_active:makeActive});
+  if(status === 200) loadUsers();
+  else { alert('Could not change that account: '+apiError(status, json)); loadUsers(); }
+}
+
+async function changeRole(id, role, username){
+  const { status, json } = await api('POST','/api/auth/users/'+id+'/role',{role});
+  if(status !== 200) alert('Could not change permissions for '+username+': '+apiError(status, json));
+  loadUsers();
+}
+
+async function changeProjectRole(id, project_role, username){
+  const { status, json } = await api('POST','/api/auth/users/'+id+'/project-role',{project_role});
+  if(status !== 200) alert('Could not set the project role for '+username+': '+apiError(status, json));
+  loadUsers();
+}
+
+async function deleteUser(id, username){
+  if(!confirm('Delete user "'+username+'"?\n\nTheir account and every project assignment go with it. '+
+    'This cannot be undone — disable the account instead if you only want to block sign-in.')) return;
+  const { status, json } = await api('DELETE','/api/auth/users/'+id);
+  if(status === 200) loadUsers();
+  else alert('Could not delete '+username+': '+apiError(status, json));
+}
+
+// ── create ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+function renderCreateForm(){
+  const card = document.getElementById('create-card');
+  if(!card) return;
+  if(!manages()){ card.style.display = 'none'; return; }
+  card.style.display = '';
+
+  const grantable = _scope.grantable_roles || [];
+  const roleSel = document.getElementById('nu-role');
+  roleSel.innerHTML = PERM_ROLES.filter(r => grantable.indexOf(r) >= 0)
+    .map(r => '<option value="'+r+'"'+(r==='project_user'?' selected':'')+'>'+uesc(PERM_LABELS[r])+'</option>').join('');
+
+  const prSel = document.getElementById('nu-project-role');
+  prSel.innerHTML = '<option value="">Project role…</option>'+
+    (_scope.project_roles||PROJECT_ROLES).map(r => '<option value="'+uesc(r)+'">'+uesc(r)+'</option>').join('');
+
+  // The project picker is REQUIRED for a super user and optional for an admin —
+  // because a super user's authority over an account comes from the projects it is
+  // on, so an account created with none is one they instantly cannot manage. The
+  // server refuses that; the form says so up front rather than after a failed save.
+  const admin = _scope.scope === 'all';
+  const projects = _scope.managed_projects || [];
+  document.getElementById('create-sub').innerHTML = admin
+    ? 'Creates a login account. Assign projects here or later from <strong>Project access</strong> in the table above.'
+    : 'Creates a login account on your project'+(projects.length===1?'':'s')+
+      '. You administer users per project, so a new account has to start on at least one of them.';
+  document.getElementById('nu-projects-label').innerHTML = admin
+    ? 'Projects (optional — you can assign them later)'
+    : 'Projects <strong>*</strong> — pick at least one';
+  const live = projects.filter(p => !p.archived);
+  const list = document.getElementById('nu-project-list');
+  if(!projects.length){
+    list.innerHTML = '<div class="note" style="padding:var(--s2)">You don’t administer any project yet.</div>';
+  } else {
+    // Archived projects are omitted, not disabled: staffing a frozen job is never
+    // what you mean when creating an account, and an admin can still assign one
+    // afterwards from the project-access dialog.
+    list.innerHTML = (live.length ? live : []).map(p =>
+      '<div class="pickrow"><label><input type="checkbox" value="'+uesc(p.id)+'"'+
+      (live.length === 1 ? ' checked' : '')+'>'+
+      '<span><strong>'+uesc(p.name||'(unnamed)')+'</strong>'+
+      (p.number ? ' <span style="color:var(--muted)">'+uesc(p.number)+'</span>' : '')+'</span></label></div>').join('')
+      || '<div class="note" style="padding:var(--s2)">Every project you administer is archived.</div>';
+  }
+}
+
+async function createUser(){
+  const msg = document.getElementById('users-create-msg');
+  const val = id => (document.getElementById(id)||{}).value || '';
+  const username = val('nu-username').trim();
+  const password = val('nu-password');
+  const project_ids = [...document.querySelectorAll('#nu-project-list input[type=checkbox]:checked')]
+    .map(c => c.value);
+  const say = (color, text) => { msg.style.color = color; msg.textContent = text; };
+  if(!username){ say('var(--red)','Username is required.'); return; }
+  if(password.length < 12){ say('var(--red)','Password must be at least 12 characters.'); return; }
+  if(_scope.scope !== 'all' && !project_ids.length){
+    say('var(--red)','Pick at least one project — you administer users per project.'); return;
+  }
+  say('var(--muted)','Creating…');
+  const { status, json } = await api('POST','/api/auth/users',{
+    username, password, project_ids,
+    full_name: val('nu-fullname').trim(), email: val('nu-email').trim(),
+    role: val('nu-role'), project_role: val('nu-project-role'),
+  });
+  if(status === 200){
+    say('var(--green)','✅ Created '+username+'.');
+    ['nu-username','nu-fullname','nu-email','nu-password'].forEach(id => document.getElementById(id).value = '');
+    loadUsers();
+  } else {
+    say('var(--red)','❌ '+apiError(status, json, 'Could not create the account'));
+  }
+}
+
+// ── project access dialog ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// For an admin this is the whole of a person's access. For a super user it is their
+// slice of it: the server returns only the projects they administer and says how many
+// more the person is on, and a save leaves those others untouched.
+async function manageProjects(id, username){
+  const { status, json } = await api('GET','/api/auth/users/'+id+'/projects');
+  if(status !== 200 || !json){ alert('Could not load projects: '+apiError(status, json)); return; }
+  openProjectModal(id, username, json);
+}
+function closeProjectModal(){ const m = document.getElementById('proj-modal'); if(m) m.remove(); }
+
+// A project's role dropdown only matters while that project is ticked.
+function projRowToggled(cb){
+  const row = cb.closest('.pickrow');
+  const sel = row && row.querySelector('select');
+  if(sel) sel.disabled = !cb.checked;
+}
+
+function openProjectModal(userId, username, data){
+  closeProjectModal();
+  const projects = (data.projects||[]).slice()
+    // Live jobs first — an archived one is still listed (an existing assignment has
+    // to stay removable) but it is finished work, so it doesn't belong at the top of
+    // a list you're using to staff someone.
+    .sort((a,b) => (a.archived?1:0) - (b.archived?1:0));
+  const assigned = new Set(data.assigned||[]);
+  const roles = data.roles || {};
+  const userObj = data.user || {};
+  const isAdmin = normRole(userObj.role) === 'admin';
+  const acctRole = normRole(userObj.role);
+  const grantable = data.grantable_project_roles || PROJECT_SCOPED_ROLES;
+
+  const items = projects.length ? projects.map(p => {
+    const on = assigned.has(p.id);
+    const cur = roles[p.id] || '';
+    const opts = ['<option value=""'+(cur===''?' selected':'')+'>Same as account ('+
+      uesc(PERM_LABELS[acctRole]||acctRole)+')</option>']
+      .concat(PROJECT_SCOPED_ROLES.filter(r => grantable.indexOf(r) >= 0 || r === cur).map(r =>
+        '<option value="'+r+'"'+(cur===r?' selected':'')+(grantable.indexOf(r)<0?' disabled':'')+'>'+
+        uesc(PERM_LABELS[r])+' here</option>'));
+    return '<div class="pickrow">'+
+      '<label><input type="checkbox" value="'+uesc(p.id)+'"'+(on?' checked':'')+(isAdmin?' disabled':'')+
+        ' onchange="projRowToggled(this)">'+
+        '<span><strong>'+uesc(p.name||'(unnamed)')+'</strong>'+
+        (p.number?' <span style="color:var(--muted)">'+uesc(p.number)+'</span>':'')+
+        (p.archived?' <span class="tag archived" title="Archived — read-only until an admin unarchives it">archived</span>':'')+
+      '</span></label>'+
+      '<select class="role-select" data-role-for="'+uesc(p.id)+'"'+(isAdmin||!on?' disabled':'')+'>'+
+        opts.join('')+'</select>'+
+    '</div>';
+  }).join('') : '<div class="note">No projects to choose from.</div>';
+
+  const others = data.other_projects || 0;
+  const intro = isAdmin
+    ? '<div class="banner" style="margin:0 0 10px">This user is an <strong>Administrator</strong> and can '+
+      'access every project regardless of assignment.</div>'
+    : '<div class="note" style="margin:0 0 10px">Tick the projects this user may access, and set their role '+
+      'on each. <strong>Project Admin</strong> can delete work packages, change a completed SOP and delete '+
+      'that project; <strong>Project Super User</strong> can also manage that project’s user accounts; '+
+      '<strong>Project User</strong> can do neither. Leave it on <em>Same as account</em> to use their '+
+      'Permissions setting.</div>'+
+      (others ? '<div class="banner warn" style="margin:0 0 10px">Also on '+others+' project'+
+        (others===1?'':'s')+' you don’t administer. Those stay exactly as they are — saving here only '+
+        'changes the projects listed below.</div>' : '');
+
+  const modal = document.createElement('div');
+  modal.id = 'proj-modal';
+  modal.className = 'modal-ov';
+  modal.innerHTML =
+    '<div class="modal-box">'+
+      '<div class="modal-head">Project access &amp; permissions — '+uesc(username)+'</div>'+
+      '<div class="modal-body">'+intro+'<div id="proj-list">'+items+'</div></div>'+
+      '<div class="modal-foot">'+
+        '<button onclick="closeProjectModal()">Cancel</button>'+
+        (isAdmin ? '' : '<button class="primary" id="proj-save">Save</button>')+
+      '</div>'+
+    '</div>';
+  modal.addEventListener('click', e => { if(e.target === modal) closeProjectModal(); });
+  document.body.appendChild(modal);
+
+  const saveBtn = document.getElementById('proj-save');
+  if(saveBtn) saveBtn.onclick = async () => {
+    const ids = [...modal.querySelectorAll('#proj-list input[type=checkbox]:checked')].map(c => c.value);
+    const roleMap = {};
+    ids.forEach(pid => {
+      const sel = modal.querySelector('#proj-list select[data-role-for="'+pid+'"]');
+      if(sel && sel.value) roleMap[pid] = sel.value;
+    });
+    const { status, json } = await api('PUT','/api/auth/users/'+userId+'/projects',
+      { project_ids: ids, roles: roleMap });
+    if(status === 200){ closeProjectModal(); loadUsers(); }
+    else alert('Save failed: '+apiError(status, json));
+  };
+}
+
+document.addEventListener('keydown', e => { if(e.key === 'Escape') closeProjectModal(); });
+
+// ── start ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// auth-guard.js requires a login and publishes window.WP_USER (firing
+// 'wp-auth-ready'). Unlike the Admin Console there is no role gate here: everyone
+// signed in gets a directory, and what they can DO comes from the scope call.
+let _booted = false;
+function start(){
+  if(_booted || !window.WP_USER) return;
+  _booted = true;
+  boot();
+}
+document.addEventListener('wp-auth-ready', start);
+start();

html/work-package-suite-app.js

@@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ function renderCustomConstraints(){
       <strong>${escAttr(c.name)}</strong>
       <span style="display:flex; align-items:center; gap:0.75rem;">
         ${criticalToggle(c.name, true, !!c.critical)}
-      <button onclick="removeCustomConstraint('${c.name.replace(/'/g,"\\'")}')" title="Remove" style="background:var(--danger); color:#fff; border:none; border-radius:4px; width:28px; height:28px; cursor:pointer; font-weight:600;">✕</button>
+      <button onclick="removeCustomConstraint('${escHandlerArg(c.name)}')" title="Remove" style="background:var(--danger); color:#fff; border:none; border-radius:4px; width:28px; height:28px; cursor:pointer; font-weight:600;">✕</button>
       </span>
     </div>`).join('') : `<div style="font-size:12px; color:var(--text-dim);">No custom constraints added yet.</div>`;
 }
@@ -1111,6 +1111,13 @@ const DEFAULT_SOURCES = [
 // SharePoint "Copy Link" URLs contain & (and labels/notes may contain & " < >),
 // so attribute values must be escaped or a re-render corrupts the field.
 function escAttr(v){ return String(v==null?'':v).replace(/&/g,'&amp;').replace(/</g,'&lt;').replace(/>/g,'&gt;').replace(/"/g,'&quot;'); }
+// A value bound into an inline handler — onclick="fn('…')" — needs BOTH escapes, in
+// this order: backslash, then quote (for the JS string literal), then escAttr (for
+// the attribute carrying it). Quote-escaping alone breaks on a value containing a
+// backslash — the backslash escapes the backslash, the quote closes the literal, and
+// the rest runs as code. Constraint names travel with the SOP to everyone on the
+// project, so they are not this browser's own input.
+function escHandlerArg(v){ return escAttr(String(v==null?'':v).replace(/\\/g,'\\\\').replace(/'/g,"\\'")); }
 function renderSources(){
   const container = document.getElementById('sources-list');
   if(!state.sources.length) state.sources = DEFAULT_SOURCES.map(s=>({label:s.label, system:'', notes:'', link:'', ph:s.ph, preset:true}));

html/wp-chrome.css

@@ -35,6 +35,32 @@
   --wpc-accent: #78a9ff;
 }
 
+/* ── archived-project banner ──────────────────────────────────────────────── */
+/* Inserted by wp-chrome.js as the top bar's next sibling, so it sits directly
+   under the bar in normal flow and can never overlap it or eat its height (the
+   bar is sticky; this strip scrolls away under it). `flex: 0 0 auto` is for the
+   suite page, whose shell is a flex column — without it the strip would squash.
+   Amber tokens are the suite's warning set, same as the sync badge. */
+.wpc-archived {
+  flex: 0 0 auto;
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: flex-start;
+  gap: 8px;
+  padding: 9px 16px;
+  background: #fdf6dd;
+  color: #8e6a00;
+  border-bottom: 1px solid #f1c21b;
+  border-radius: 0;
+  font-family: 'IBM Plex Sans', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, sans-serif;
+  font-size: 13.5px;
+  line-height: 1.35;
+}
+.wpc-archived-ico { flex: 0 0 auto; font-size: 14px; }
+.wpc-archived-text { min-width: 0; }   /* wraps instead of forcing a scrollbar */
+@media (max-width: 620px) {
+  .wpc-archived { padding: 8px 12px; font-size: 13px; }
+}
+
 /* ── project switcher ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
 .wpc-proj { position: relative; flex: 0 0 auto; }
 .wpc-proj-btn {

html/wp-chrome.js

@@ -167,6 +167,58 @@
       .catch(function () {});
   }
 
+  // ── archived-project banner ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  // An archived project is still readable and still deep-linkable (?project=<id>),
+  // but every write now 409s. With nothing on the page to say so, that reads as a
+  // silent failure — so the bar, the one thing every page has, carries the warning.
+  //
+  // The state comes from GET /api/projects/<id>, never from "it's missing from the
+  // switcher": absence also means "you have no access to it", which is a different
+  // message. Fails closed and silent — an error means no banner, not a broken page.
+  function activeProjectId() {
+    try {
+      var q = new URLSearchParams(location.search).get('project');
+      if (q) return q;
+      return (window.ProjectData && ProjectData.getActiveId && ProjectData.getActiveId()) || '';
+    } catch (e) { return ''; }
+  }
+
+  function buildArchivedBanner() {
+    var bar = el('div', 'wpc-archived');
+    bar.setAttribute('role', 'status');
+    bar.innerHTML =
+      '<span class="wpc-archived-ico" aria-hidden="true">⚠</span>' +
+      '<span class="wpc-archived-text"><strong>Archived project — read-only.</strong> ' +
+      'Unarchive it from the Admin Console to make changes.</span>';
+    return bar;
+  }
+
+  function checkArchived(host) {
+    var id = activeProjectId();
+    if (!id || !host || !host.parentNode) return;
+    var pinned = false;
+    try { pinned = !!new URLSearchParams(location.search).get('project'); } catch (e) {}
+    fetch('/api/projects/' + encodeURIComponent(id), { headers: { Accept: 'application/json' } })
+      .then(function (r) { return r.ok ? r.json() : null; })
+      .then(function (p) {
+        if (!p || !p.archived) return;
+        // The home page reconciles the stored active project against the (now
+        // archive-filtered) list while this request is in flight, and drops it. If
+        // that happened, the id we asked about is nobody's context any more —
+        // banner-ing it would contradict the picker one line below. A ?project=
+        // deep link is pinned to this page and can't be cleared out from under us.
+        if (!pinned && window.ProjectData && ProjectData.getActiveId &&
+            ProjectData.getActiveId() !== id) return;
+        // Also on the document element, so the two big apps can gate their own UI
+        // from CSS or a boot check without a second round trip. The server stays
+        // the real gate; this is only there so the UI can agree with it.
+        try { document.documentElement.setAttribute('data-wp-archived', '1'); } catch (e) {}
+        if (document.querySelector('.wpc-archived')) return;
+        host.parentNode.insertBefore(buildArchivedBanner(), host.nextSibling);
+      })
+      .catch(function () {});
+  }
+
   // ── global search ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   function buildSearch() {
     var wrap = el('div', 'wpc-search');
@@ -325,6 +377,7 @@
     if (m.before) m.host.insertBefore(chrome, m.before);
     else m.host.appendChild(chrome);
     loadProjects(switcher);
+    checkArchived(m.host);
     window.wpChromeRefresh = function () { switcher.wpcRefresh(); };
   }
 

html/wp-sidenav.css

@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+/* Global app navigation drawer (see wp-sidenav.js).
+
+   An off-canvas panel rather than a pinned rail, at every width: the field view is a
+   centred 760px column read on a phone or a tablet in a glove, and a permanent
+   sidebar would either squeeze that column or hide on the one device that matters.
+   Overlay behaves identically everywhere, which is also one less layout to test.
+
+   Colours come from the dark app bar it hangs off (#161616 / Carbon Gray 100), not
+   from theme-light.css, so the drawer reads as an extension of the bar. */
+
+.wp-navbtn{
+  flex: 0 0 auto; display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;
+  width: 40px; height: 40px; margin-right: 4px; padding: 0;
+  background: none; border: none; border-radius: 0; cursor: pointer;
+  color: #f4f4f4; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1;
+}
+.wp-navbtn:hover{ background: #353535; }
+.wp-navbtn:focus-visible{ outline: 2px solid #ffffff; outline-offset: -2px; }
+/* A light bar (the SOP suite / creator headers) needs the opposite ink. */
+.wp-navbtn[data-bar="light"]{ color: #161616; }
+.wp-navbtn[data-bar="light"]:hover{ background: #e8e8e8; }
+
+.wp-navscrim{
+  position: fixed; inset: 0; z-index: 10010;
+  background: rgba(22,22,22,.55);
+  opacity: 0; transition: opacity .18s ease;
+}
+.wp-navscrim.is-open{ opacity: 1; }
+.wp-navscrim[hidden]{ display: none; }
+
+.wp-sidenav{
+  position: fixed; top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; z-index: 10011;
+  width: min(284px, 84vw);
+  display: flex; flex-direction: column;
+  background: #161616; color: #f4f4f4;
+  font-family: 'IBM Plex Sans', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, sans-serif;
+  transform: translateX(-100%); transition: transform .2s ease;
+  box-shadow: 2px 0 16px rgba(0,0,0,.4);
+  overflow: hidden;
+}
+.wp-sidenav.is-open{ transform: translateX(0); }
+/* Respect a reduced-motion preference: the drawer still opens, it just doesn't slide. */
+@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce){
+  .wp-sidenav, .wp-navscrim{ transition: none; }
+}
+
+.wp-sidenav-head{
+  display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 10px;
+  padding: 12px 14px; border-bottom: 1px solid #393939; flex: 0 0 auto;
+}
+.wp-sidenav-head .wp-logo-chip{ flex: 0 0 auto; }
+.wp-sidenav-title{ font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.25; }
+.wp-sidenav-title span{ display: block; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 400; color: #a8a8a8; }
+.wp-sidenav-close{
+  margin-left: auto; width: 32px; height: 32px; padding: 0; flex: 0 0 auto;
+  background: none; border: none; border-radius: 0; color: #c6c6c6;
+  font-size: 18px; line-height: 1; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;
+}
+.wp-sidenav-close:hover{ background: #353535; color: #fff; }
+
+.wp-sidenav-body{ flex: 1 1 auto; overflow-y: auto; padding: 6px 0 18px; }
+.wp-sidenav-sect{
+  padding: 14px 16px 4px; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 600;
+  letter-spacing: .06em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8d8d8d;
+}
+.wp-sidenav-link{
+  display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 12px; width: 100%;
+  /* 44px minimum: this is tapped with a work glove on. */
+  min-height: 44px; padding: 10px 16px;
+  background: none; border: none; border-left: 3px solid transparent; border-radius: 0;
+  color: #f4f4f4; font: inherit; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;
+  cursor: pointer;
+}
+.wp-sidenav-link:hover{ background: #353535; }
+.wp-sidenav-link:focus-visible{ outline: 2px solid #ffffff; outline-offset: -2px; }
+.wp-sidenav-link.is-current{ background: #262626; border-left-color: #0f62fe; font-weight: 600; }
+.wp-sidenav-ico{
+  flex: 0 0 20px; width: 20px; text-align: center; font-size: 15px; color: #c6c6c6;
+}
+.wp-sidenav-link.is-current .wp-sidenav-ico{ color: #78a9ff; }
+.wp-sidenav-label{ flex: 1 1 auto; min-width: 0; }
+.wp-sidenav-label small{ display: block; font-size: 11.5px; font-weight: 400; color: #a8a8a8; }
+
+.wp-sidenav-foot{
+  flex: 0 0 auto; border-top: 1px solid #393939; padding: 8px 0;
+}
+.wp-sidenav-who{
+  padding: 6px 16px 8px; font-size: 12px; color: #a8a8a8;
+}
+.wp-sidenav-who strong{ display: block; color: #f4f4f4; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; }

html/wp-sidenav.js

@@ -0,0 +1,221 @@
+/* Global app navigation drawer for the Work Package Suite.
+
+   The suite grew page by page and the only way between them was the browser's back
+   button or the home page. This is the one place that lists everywhere you can go —
+   a ☰ button in the app bar opening an off-canvas drawer.
+
+   ROLE GATING: the drawer only offers what the signed-in account can actually reach.
+   The Admin Console is admins-only, so it appears for admins only; the User Directory
+   is readable by everyone (that's the point of a directory), so it always appears.
+   Every destination re-checks server-side — this is navigation, not a permission.
+
+   PROJECT CONTEXT: links that open a project-scoped page carry the active ?project=
+   so the drawer doesn't silently drop the job you were looking at.
+
+   Add it to a page with:
+       <link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-sidenav.css">
+       <script src="wp-sidenav.js"></script>
+   after auth-guard.js. It mounts itself into whichever top bar the page has, and
+   skips iframes (the embedded WP creator lives inside a page that already has one). */
+(function () {
+  'use strict';
+
+  var inIframe = (function () { try { return window.top !== window.self; } catch (e) { return true; } })();
+  if (inIframe) return;
+
+  // ── the map ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  // `match` is what marks a link current; `project` means "carry ?project=".
+  // `show` is an optional gate, evaluated once the user is known.
+  var LINKS = [
+    { section: 'Work' },
+    { href: 'index.html', match: /(^|\/)(index\.html)?$/, icon: '⌂', label: 'Home',
+      sub: 'Projects & what\'s next' },
+    { href: 'work-package-suite.html?tab=sop', match: /work-package-suite\.html/, icon: '⚙',
+      label: 'SOP Configuration', sub: 'The project baseline', project: true, tab: 'sop' },
+    { href: 'work-package-suite.html?tab=wp', match: null, icon: '▤',
+      label: 'Work Package Creator', sub: 'Build and edit IWPs', project: true, tab: 'wp' },
+    { href: 'work-package-suite.html?tab=dashboard', match: null, icon: '▦',
+      label: 'Dashboard', sub: 'Status & release gates', project: true, tab: 'dashboard' },
+    { href: 'field.html', match: /(^|\/)field\.html$/, icon: '⚒', label: 'Field View',
+      sub: 'Update packages on site', project: true },
+    { section: 'People' },
+    { href: 'users.html', match: /(^|\/)users\.html$/, icon: '☺', label: 'User Directory',
+      sub: 'Who\'s on the project' },
+    { href: 'admin.html', match: /(^|\/)admin\.html$/, icon: '⚡', label: 'Admin Console',
+      sub: 'Settings & diagnostics',
+      show: function () { return typeof window.wpIsAdmin === 'function' && window.wpIsAdmin(); } },
+  ];
+
+  function esc(v) {
+    return String(v == null ? '' : v)
+      .replace(/&/g, '&amp;').replace(/</g, '&lt;').replace(/>/g, '&gt;')
+      .replace(/"/g, '&quot;').replace(/'/g, '&#39;');
+  }
+  function isDark(node) {
+    try {
+      var m = (getComputedStyle(node).backgroundColor || '').match(/(\d+),\s*(\d+),\s*(\d+)/);
+      if (!m) return true;
+      return (0.299 * +m[1] + 0.587 * +m[2] + 0.114 * +m[3]) < 140;
+    } catch (e) { return true; }
+  }
+
+  function activeProjectId() {
+    try {
+      var q = new URLSearchParams(location.search).get('project');
+      if (q) return q;
+      return (window.ProjectData && ProjectData.getActiveId && ProjectData.getActiveId()) || '';
+    } catch (e) { return ''; }
+  }
+
+  // The suite page reads ?tab= and ?project=; keeping the current project on the link
+  // is the difference between "open the dashboard" and "open the dashboard, then pick
+  // the job again".
+  function hrefFor(item) {
+    if (!item.project) return item.href;
+    var pid = activeProjectId();
+    if (!pid) return item.href;
+    var sep = item.href.indexOf('?') >= 0 ? '&' : '?';
+    return item.href + sep + 'project=' + encodeURIComponent(pid);
+  }
+
+  // Current-page marking. The three suite tabs share one file, so they're told apart
+  // by ?tab= (defaulting to sop, which is what work-package-suite.html itself does).
+  function isCurrent(item) {
+    var path = location.pathname;
+    if (item.tab) {
+      if (!/work-package-suite\.html$/.test(path)) return false;
+      var tab = '';
+      try { tab = new URLSearchParams(location.search).get('tab') || 'sop'; } catch (e) { tab = 'sop'; }
+      return tab === item.tab;
+    }
+    return !!(item.match && item.match.test(path));
+  }
+
+  // ── build ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  var drawer, scrim, btn, lastFocus = null;
+
+  function buildDrawer(user) {
+    scrim = document.createElement('div');
+    scrim.className = 'wp-navscrim';
+    scrim.hidden = true;
+    scrim.addEventListener('click', close);
+
+    drawer = document.createElement('nav');
+    drawer.className = 'wp-sidenav';
+    drawer.id = 'wp-sidenav';
+    drawer.setAttribute('aria-label', 'Suite navigation');
+    drawer.setAttribute('aria-hidden', 'true');
+
+    var rows = '';
+    LINKS.forEach(function (item) {
+      if (item.section) { rows += '<div class="wp-sidenav-sect">' + esc(item.section) + '</div>'; return; }
+      if (item.show && !item.show()) return;
+      rows += '<a class="wp-sidenav-link' + (isCurrent(item) ? ' is-current' : '') + '" href="' +
+        esc(hrefFor(item)) + '"' + (isCurrent(item) ? ' aria-current="page"' : '') + '>' +
+        '<span class="wp-sidenav-ico" aria-hidden="true">' + esc(item.icon) + '</span>' +
+        '<span class="wp-sidenav-label">' + esc(item.label) +
+          (item.sub ? '<small>' + esc(item.sub) + '</small>' : '') + '</span></a>';
+    });
+
+    var who = user ? (user.full_name || user.username || '') : '';
+    drawer.innerHTML =
+      '<div class="wp-sidenav-head">' +
+        '<span class="wp-logo-chip"><img src="prime-controls-logo.jpg" alt="Prime Controls"></span>' +
+        '<span class="wp-sidenav-title">Work Package Suite<span>Prime Controls</span></span>' +
+        '<button type="button" class="wp-sidenav-close" title="Close" aria-label="Close navigation">✕</button>' +
+      '</div>' +
+      '<div class="wp-sidenav-body">' + rows + '</div>' +
+      '<div class="wp-sidenav-foot">' +
+        (who ? '<div class="wp-sidenav-who">Signed in as<strong>' + esc(who) + '</strong></div>' : '') +
+        '<button type="button" class="wp-sidenav-link" id="wp-sidenav-signout">' +
+          '<span class="wp-sidenav-ico" aria-hidden="true">⏻</span>' +
+          '<span class="wp-sidenav-label">Sign out</span></button>' +
+      '</div>';
+
+    drawer.querySelector('.wp-sidenav-close').addEventListener('click', close);
+    drawer.querySelector('#wp-sidenav-signout').addEventListener('click', function () {
+      if (typeof window.wpLogout === 'function') window.wpLogout();
+    });
+    document.body.appendChild(scrim);
+    document.body.appendChild(drawer);
+  }
+
+  function focusables() {
+    return drawer ? drawer.querySelectorAll('a[href], button:not([disabled])') : [];
+  }
+
+  function open() {
+    if (!drawer) return;
+    lastFocus = document.activeElement;
+    scrim.hidden = false;
+    // Two frames: the element has to be laid out un-transitioned before the class
+    // that animates it lands, or it simply appears.
+    requestAnimationFrame(function () {
+      scrim.classList.add('is-open');
+      drawer.classList.add('is-open');
+    });
+    drawer.setAttribute('aria-hidden', 'false');
+    btn.setAttribute('aria-expanded', 'true');
+    var f = focusables();
+    if (f.length) f[0].focus();
+  }
+
+  function close() {
+    if (!drawer) return;
+    drawer.classList.remove('is-open');
+    scrim.classList.remove('is-open');
+    drawer.setAttribute('aria-hidden', 'true');
+    btn.setAttribute('aria-expanded', 'false');
+    // Keep the scrim in the tree until the slide-out finishes, or the panel snaps.
+    setTimeout(function () { if (!drawer.classList.contains('is-open')) scrim.hidden = true; }, 220);
+    if (lastFocus && lastFocus.focus) lastFocus.focus();
+  }
+
+  function isOpen() { return !!(drawer && drawer.classList.contains('is-open')); }
+
+  // Escape closes; Tab cycles inside the drawer while it's open, so focus can't walk
+  // off into the page behind the scrim.
+  document.addEventListener('keydown', function (e) {
+    if (!isOpen()) return;
+    if (e.key === 'Escape') { e.preventDefault(); close(); return; }
+    if (e.key !== 'Tab') return;
+    var f = focusables();
+    if (!f.length) return;
+    var first = f[0], last = f[f.length - 1];
+    if (e.shiftKey && document.activeElement === first) { e.preventDefault(); last.focus(); }
+    else if (!e.shiftKey && document.activeElement === last) { e.preventDefault(); first.focus(); }
+  });
+
+  // ── mount ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  // The button goes at the START of the bar, before the brand: that is where a menu
+  // affordance is looked for, and it keeps clear of the project switcher and search
+  // that wp-chrome.js inserts into the middle of the same bar.
+  function mount() {
+    if (document.getElementById('wp-sidenav')) return;
+    var host = document.querySelector('.wp-appbar') || document.querySelector('.header');
+    if (!host) return;
+
+    btn = document.createElement('button');
+    btn.type = 'button';
+    btn.className = 'wp-navbtn';
+    btn.id = 'wp-navbtn';
+    btn.title = 'Menu';
+    btn.setAttribute('aria-label', 'Open navigation');
+    btn.setAttribute('aria-haspopup', 'true');
+    btn.setAttribute('aria-expanded', 'false');
+    btn.setAttribute('aria-controls', 'wp-sidenav');
+    if (!isDark(host)) btn.setAttribute('data-bar', 'light');
+    btn.innerHTML = '<svg viewBox="0 0 20 20" width="20" height="20" aria-hidden="true">' +
+      '<path d="M3 5.5h14M3 10h14M3 14.5h14" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" ' +
+      'stroke-width="1.6" stroke-linecap="round"/></svg>';
+    btn.addEventListener('click', function () { if (isOpen()) close(); else open(); });
+
+    host.insertBefore(btn, host.firstChild);
+    buildDrawer(window.WP_USER);
+  }
+
+  // Wait for the auth guard: the gated links depend on the signed-in role, and an
+  // unauthenticated page is about to redirect anyway.
+  if (window.WP_USER) mount();
+  else document.addEventListener('wp-auth-ready', mount);
+})();

scripts/backup-cron.sh

@@ -1,9 +1,27 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# Entry point for the `backup` sidecar container. Runs db-backup.sh on a fixed
+# Entry point for the `backup` sidecar container's periodic loop. Runs
-# interval (default: daily). Kept deliberately simple — a sleep loop instead of a
+# db-backup.sh on a fixed interval (default: daily) -- a sleep loop instead of
-# cron daemon — so it works in a bare postgres:16-alpine image.
+# a cron daemon, kept deliberately simple so it works in a bare
+# postgres:16-alpine image.
+#
+# Resolves db-backup.sh the same way entrypoint.sh resolves this file: prefer
+# the live bind-mounted copy at /scripts (so edits don't need a rebuild), fall
+# back to the copy baked into the image at build time if the mount is
+# missing, empty, or stale. Resolving fresh on every loop iteration also means
+# that if the mount comes back healthy later (e.g. someone fixes the host
+# directory) this container picks it up on the very next run, with no
+# restart needed.
 set -eu
 
+resolve() {
+  # $1 = script filename, e.g. db-backup.sh
+  if [ -f "/scripts/$1" ]; then
+    echo "/scripts/$1"
+  else
+    echo "/app/scripts-default/$1"
+  fi
+}
+
 INTERVAL="${BACKUP_INTERVAL_SECONDS:-86400}"   # 86400 = once a day
 echo "[backup] sidecar started; interval=${INTERVAL}s, keep=${BACKUP_KEEP:-14}, dir=${BACKUP_DIR:-/backups}"
 
@@ -11,6 +29,7 @@ echo "[backup] sidecar started; interval=${INTERVAL}s, keep=${BACKUP_KEEP:-14},
 # immediate restore point instead of waiting a whole interval.
 sleep 20
 while true; do
-  sh /scripts/db-backup.sh || echo "[backup] run failed; will retry next interval" >&2
+  DB_BACKUP="$(resolve db-backup.sh)"
+  sh "$DB_BACKUP" || echo "[backup] run failed; will retry next interval" >&2
   sleep "$INTERVAL"
 done

scripts/backup.Dockerfile

@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 # Backup sidecar image: Postgres client tools (pg_dump/psql) + openssl for
-# at-rest encryption of dumps. The scripts themselves are bind-mounted at runtime
+# at-rest encryption of dumps.
-# (see the `backup` service in docker-compose.yml), so they're not COPYed here.
+#
+# The scripts are bind-mounted live at runtime (see the `backup` service in
+# docker-compose.yml) so they can be edited without a rebuild -- but they're
+# ALSO baked in here as a fallback default under /app/scripts-default/.
+# entrypoint.sh prefers the live mount and only falls back to this baked-in
+# copy if the mount is missing, empty, or stale. That fallback is what keeps
+# a broken bind mount from crash-looping the container into an unreachable
+# state (see entrypoint.sh for the full story).
 FROM postgres:16-alpine
 RUN apk add --no-cache openssl
+
+COPY scripts/backup-cron.sh scripts/db-backup.sh scripts/db-restore.sh /app/scripts-default/
+COPY scripts/entrypoint.sh /app/entrypoint.sh
+RUN chmod +x /app/entrypoint.sh /app/scripts-default/*.sh
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/app/entrypoint.sh"]
+CMD []

scripts/entrypoint.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Entrypoint for the `backup` sidecar. Prefers the live, bind-mounted copy of
+# backup-cron.sh at /scripts (so it can be edited without a rebuild), and
+# falls back to the copy baked into this image at build time if that bind
+# mount is missing, empty, or stale.
+#
+# Why this exists: the previous entrypoint ran `/bin/sh /scripts/backup-cron.sh`
+# directly. If that file wasn't there -- e.g. because the host directory
+# backing the ./scripts bind mount hadn't been populated by whatever deploy
+# process manages this stack -- the container failed instantly, and
+# `restart: unless-stopped` retried in a tight crash loop forever: fast enough
+# that the container was never "running" long enough for `docker exec` or
+# Portainer's console to attach. That made the failure itself undiagnosable
+# from inside the container -- you could only ever see it in the logs, and
+# only by getting lucky with timing. This wrapper guarantees something always
+# runs, and that the container always stays reachable, even in the worst case.
+set -u
+
+LIVE="/scripts/backup-cron.sh"
+FALLBACK="/app/scripts-default/backup-cron.sh"
+
+if [ -f "$LIVE" ]; then
+  echo "[entrypoint] using live scripts from /scripts (bind mount present)"
+  exec /bin/sh "$LIVE"
+fi
+
+echo "[entrypoint] WARNING: $LIVE not found." >&2
+echo "[entrypoint] The ./scripts bind mount is missing, empty, or stale on the host." >&2
+echo "[entrypoint] Check the directory backing that mount (see docker-compose.yml)." >&2
+
+if [ -f "$FALLBACK" ]; then
+  echo "[entrypoint] Falling back to the scripts baked into this image at build time." >&2
+  echo "[entrypoint] Backups will still run, on whatever version was current when this" >&2
+  echo "[entrypoint] image was last built -- not any newer live edits to ./scripts." >&2
+  exec /bin/sh "$FALLBACK"
+fi
+
+echo "[entrypoint] FATAL: no backup-cron.sh in the bind mount or the image." >&2
+echo "[entrypoint] Staying up (idle) instead of crash-looping, so this container" >&2
+echo "[entrypoint] can still be reached via 'docker exec' / the Portainer console." >&2
+while true; do
+  sleep 3600
+done

server/alembic/versions/a7c31f9e5b02_project_archive_and_auto_add_members.py

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+"""project archive + default members on new projects
+
+Two changes that ship together:
+  • projects.archived_at — an archived project disappears from every picker,
+    switcher and search and is frozen read-only. Mirrors work_packages.archived_at
+    (47bbe76aa749): NULL means "live", which is what every existing row gets, so
+    nothing changes for current data.
+  • users.auto_add_projects / users.auto_add_role — a PM or QA lead who belongs on
+    every job is added to each new project automatically. auto_add_role shares
+    project_members.role's value space ('' = inherit the account's own role).
+
+Revision ID: a7c31f9e5b02
+Revises: d15b8c4ef207
+Create Date: 2026-08-05 10:12:47.503914
+"""
+from alembic import op
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+
+
+# revision identifiers, used by Alembic.
+revision = 'a7c31f9e5b02'
+down_revision = 'd15b8c4ef207'
+branch_labels = None
+depends_on = None
+
+
+def upgrade() -> None:
+    op.add_column('projects', sa.Column('archived_at', sa.DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=True))
+    op.create_index(op.f('ix_projects_archived_at'), 'projects', ['archived_at'], unique=False)
+    # These two are NOT NULL and land on a table that already has rows, so
+    # server_default is what backfills them (nobody is auto-added until an admin
+    # turns it on). The defaults are deliberately LEFT IN PLACE afterwards, as every
+    # other migration here does (18373f14809e, b41c7ae90d52, c93f2b1d7e04,
+    # d15b8c4ef207): dropping one needs ALTER COLUMN, which SQLite only fakes via a
+    # batch_alter_table table rebuild, and dev runs on SQLite (wpsuite.db). The ORM
+    # supplies both values on every INSERT, so the leftover default is only ever
+    # read by hand-written SQL — and there it is the answer we'd want anyway.
+    op.add_column('users', sa.Column('auto_add_projects', sa.Boolean(),
+                                     nullable=False, server_default=sa.false()))
+    op.add_column('users', sa.Column('auto_add_role', sa.String(length=20),
+                                     nullable=False, server_default=''))
+
+
+def downgrade() -> None:
+    op.drop_column('users', 'auto_add_role')
+    op.drop_column('users', 'auto_add_projects')
+    op.drop_index(op.f('ix_projects_archived_at'), table_name='projects')
+    op.drop_column('projects', 'archived_at')

server/app.py

@@ -163,13 +163,50 @@ def require_project_admin(db: Session, user: "models.User", project_id: Optional
     project, and editing a SOP that has already been completed. Requires project
     access AND Project Admin *on that project*."""
     require_project_access(db, user, project_id)
-    if effective_role(db, user, project_id) not in (auth.ROLE_ADMIN, auth.ROLE_PROJECT_ADMIN):
+    if effective_role(db, user, project_id) not in (
+        auth.ROLE_ADMIN, auth.ROLE_PROJECT_SUPER, auth.ROLE_PROJECT_ADMIN,
+    ):
         raise HTTPException(
             status_code=403,
             detail=f"{what} requires the Project Admin role on this project",
         )
 
 
+def require_project_writable(db: Session, user_or_none, project_id: Optional[str],
+                             what: str = "This change") -> None:
+    """An archived project is frozen: everything on it stays readable, nothing on it
+    may be written. Every mutating path that lands on a project goes through here —
+    saving a SOP or a package, issuing, status changes, deletes, comments.
+
+    It is 409 and not 403 on purpose. Nobody lacks a permission here: the state of
+    the project is the objection, and even an admin gets refused until they unarchive
+    it — hence the caller identity is accepted for symmetry with the other guards but
+    deliberately unused. 409 also matters offline: the browser outbox in
+    html/project-data.js retires any 4xx op instead of retrying it forever, so an edit
+    queued before the archive dies quietly rather than looping against a frozen job."""
+    if not project_id:
+        return
+    proj = db.get(models.Project, project_id)
+    if proj is None:
+        # The project this write targets is gone — usually an outbox op queued before
+        # someone deleted the job. Refusing here is what keeps it a clean 409 instead
+        # of a foreign-key violation surfacing as a 500: the row could never be
+        # inserted anyway now that both engines enforce their FKs (see db.py). 409
+        # also matters because project-data.js retires a 4xx op and would retry a 5xx
+        # forever, so this is the difference between one quiet failure and a loop.
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=409,
+            detail=f"{what} — this project no longer exists. It was deleted, so there is "
+                   f"nothing to save it against.",
+        )
+    if proj.archived_at is not None:
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=409,
+            detail=(f"{what} — this project is archived (read-only). An administrator "
+                    f"can unarchive it from the admin console."),
+        )
+
+
 def scope_to_access(stmt, column, db: Session, user: "models.User"):
     """Restrict a SELECT to the user's accessible projects (no-op for admins)."""
     ids = accessible_project_ids(db, user)
@@ -178,16 +215,207 @@ def scope_to_access(stmt, column, db: Session, user: "models.User"):
     return stmt.where(column.in_(ids))
 
 
-def grant_project_access(db: Session, user_id: str, project_id: str) -> None:
+def grant_project_access(db: Session, user_id: str, project_id: str, role: str = "") -> bool:
-    """Add a (user, project) membership if it isn't already there."""
+    """Add a (user, project) membership if it isn't already there, carrying an
+    optional per-project role override ('' = inherit the account's own). Returns True
+    only when a row was actually added, so a caller can report what it did. Does NOT
+    commit — the caller owns the transaction."""
     exists = db.scalar(
         select(models.ProjectMember.id).where(
             (models.ProjectMember.user_id == user_id)
             & (models.ProjectMember.project_id == project_id)
         )
     )
-    if not exists:
+    if exists:
-        db.add(models.ProjectMember(id=gen_id("pm"), user_id=user_id, project_id=project_id))
+        return False
+    db.add(models.ProjectMember(id=gen_id("pm"), user_id=user_id, project_id=project_id, role=role))
+    return True
+
+
+def add_default_members(db: Session, project_id: str, actor) -> list[str]:
+    """Put the standing default members onto a brand-new project.
+
+    Some people belong on every job the moment it exists — the PM who runs them all,
+    the QC lead — and flagging their account (users.auto_add_projects) is how an admin
+    says that once instead of remembering it at every project creation. App admins are
+    skipped because they already reach every project, an inactive account is not
+    revived by a new job, and an existing membership is never duplicated or
+    overwritten. Returns the usernames added; does NOT commit, matching
+    grant_project_access."""
+    rows = db.scalars(
+        select(models.User).where(
+            (models.User.auto_add_projects.is_(True)) & (models.User.is_active.is_(True))
+        ).order_by(models.User.username)
+    ).all()
+    added = []
+    for u in rows:
+        if auth.is_admin(u):
+            continue
+        if grant_project_access(db, u.id, project_id, (u.auto_add_role or "").strip()):
+            added.append(u.username)
+    if added:
+        # One line for the batch, not one per person — this is a single automatic act.
+        log_event(db, actor, "project_access_granted", "project", project_id,
+                  project_id=project_id, summary=f"{len(added)} default member(s) added",
+                  detail={"users": added, "reason": "auto_add_projects"})
+    return added
+
+
+# ── User-administration scope ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# User administration used to be one thing: an app admin did all of it. It is now
+# two, because a project admin has to be able to staff their own job without an app
+# admin on the phone. An app admin still manages every account; a PROJECT SUPER USER
+# manages the accounts on the projects they hold that role on.
+#
+# Three questions, deliberately separate, because they have different answers:
+#   managed_project_ids   which projects do I administer the users of?
+#   visible_user_ids      whose entry may I SEE in the directory?
+#   manage_user_problem   may I change this account?  (much narrower than seeing it)
+def managed_project_ids(db: Session, caller: "models.User") -> Optional[set[str]]:
+    """Projects where `caller` may administer user accounts. None means every project
+    (an app admin). Read per-membership so the per-project override decides: a super
+    user demoted to plain member on one job does not administer its users, and an
+    ordinary account made super user on one job does administer that one."""
+    if auth.is_admin(caller):
+        return None
+    rows = db.scalars(
+        select(models.ProjectMember).where(models.ProjectMember.user_id == caller.id)
+    ).all()
+    account_role = auth.normalize_role(caller.role)
+    out = set()
+    for r in rows:
+        role = auth.normalize_role(r.role) if (r.role or "").strip() else account_role
+        if role == auth.ROLE_PROJECT_SUPER:
+            out.add(r.project_id)
+    return out
+
+
+def is_user_manager(db: Session, user: "models.User") -> bool:
+    """May this account administer users at all? THE one definition — derived from the
+    managed set, never from the account role alone, because the super-user role can be
+    held on a single project (ProjectMember.role) by an otherwise ordinary account.
+
+    Falls out of it that a super user with no project memberships manages nobody,
+    which is right: the authority comes from the jobs, not the job title."""
+    managed = managed_project_ids(db, user)
+    return managed is None or bool(managed)
+
+
+def require_user_manager(user: "models.User" = Depends(auth.get_current_user),
+                         db: Session = Depends(get_db)) -> "models.User":
+    """First gate on the user-administration routes: does this caller administer the
+    users of ANY project? Which accounts they may then touch is a second, narrower
+    check per target — require_manage_user."""
+    if not is_user_manager(db, user):
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=403,
+            detail="Managing user accounts requires the Administrator role, or Project "
+                   "Super User on a project",
+        )
+    return user
+
+
+def member_project_ids(db: Session, user_id: str) -> set[str]:
+    """Every project this user has a membership row for (no admin shortcut — this is
+    the raw set, which is exactly what the scope checks need to reason about)."""
+    return set(db.scalars(
+        select(models.ProjectMember.project_id).where(models.ProjectMember.user_id == user_id)
+    ).all())
+
+
+def visible_user_ids(db: Session, caller: "models.User") -> Optional[set[str]]:
+    """Whose directory entry `caller` may read. None means everyone (an app admin).
+
+    Anyone signed in may look up the people they actually work with — their own
+    projects' members — plus the app admins, who are on every project implicitly and
+    are who you go to when something needs unblocking. Nobody else: the directory
+    must not become a company-wide address book for a single-project subcontractor."""
+    if auth.is_admin(caller):
+        return None
+    ids = {caller.id}
+    mine = accessible_project_ids(db, caller) or set()
+    if mine:
+        ids |= set(db.scalars(
+            select(models.ProjectMember.user_id).where(models.ProjectMember.project_id.in_(mine))
+        ).all())
+    ids |= set(db.scalars(
+        select(models.User.id).where(models.User.role == auth.ROLE_ADMIN)
+    ).all())
+    return ids
+
+
+def manage_user_problem(db: Session, caller: "models.User", target: "models.User",
+                        cache: Optional[dict] = None) -> Optional[str]:
+    """None if `caller` may make ACCOUNT-level changes to `target` (password, name,
+    permissions role, enable/disable, delete); otherwise the reason they may not, in
+    words the console can show verbatim.
+
+    An app admin may always. A super user may only when the account sits ENTIRELY
+    inside the projects they administer, and is not itself an admin or super user.
+    Both limits matter:
+      • Exclusive scope, because these changes are global. Resetting a password or
+        disabling an account reaches every project that person is on, so a super user
+        must not be able to reach into a job they don't run by way of a shared member.
+      • No admin/super targets, because otherwise the role could be used to take over
+        a peer's account and inherit their scope.
+    Project-scoped changes (adding someone to MY project, their role THERE) are not
+    account-level and are checked against `managed_project_ids` instead.
+
+    `cache` lets a caller judging a whole page of users hand in the two lookups this
+    needs ('managed', and 'members' as {user_id: {project_id}}) so the verdict for
+    thirty rows costs two queries instead of sixty. The rule itself lives only here."""
+    if auth.is_admin(caller):
+        return None
+    cache = cache if cache is not None else {}
+    managed = cache.get("managed")
+    if managed is None:
+        managed = cache["managed"] = managed_project_ids(db, caller) or set()
+    if not managed:
+        return ("You don't administer the users of any project — that needs the Project "
+                "Super User role on the project")
+    if auth.normalize_role(target.role) in (auth.ROLE_ADMIN, auth.ROLE_PROJECT_SUPER):
+        return "Only an application administrator can change an Administrator or Project Super User account"
+    members = cache.get("members")
+    theirs = members.get(target.id, set()) if members is not None else member_project_ids(db, target.id)
+    if not theirs:
+        return ("This account isn't on any project, so only an application administrator "
+                "can change it")
+    outside = theirs - managed
+    if outside:
+        return (f"{target.username} is also on {len(outside)} project(s) you don't administer — "
+                "account changes there have to come from an application administrator. "
+                "You can still change their access and role on your own projects.")
+    return None
+
+
+def require_manage_user(db: Session, caller: "models.User", target: "models.User") -> None:
+    problem = manage_user_problem(db, caller, target)
+    if problem:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=403, detail=problem)
+
+
+def require_see_user(db: Session, caller: "models.User", target: "models.User") -> None:
+    """404, not 403: whether an account exists outside your projects is itself not
+    yours to learn, and a 403 would confirm the username."""
+    visible = visible_user_ids(db, caller)
+    if visible is not None and target.id not in visible:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="User not found")
+
+
+def grantable_roles(caller: "models.User") -> tuple:
+    """Permissions roles `caller` may hand out. A super user may staff their job with
+    project admins and project users — never another admin or super user, which is the
+    line that keeps the role from being a route to app-wide control."""
+    if auth.is_admin(caller):
+        return auth.ROLES
+    return (auth.ROLE_PROJECT_ADMIN, auth.ROLE_PROJECT_USER)
+
+
+def load_target_user(db: Session, user_id: str) -> "models.User":
+    u = db.get(models.User, user_id)
+    if not u:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="User not found")
+    return u
 
 
 # ── Audit trail ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -335,6 +563,10 @@ class NewUserIn(BaseModel):
     email: str = ""
     role: str = auth.ROLE_PROJECT_USER   # permissions role — see auth.ROLES
     project_role: str = ""               # job function on the project (no permissions)
+    # Projects to put the new account on straight away. Optional for an app admin
+    # (who can assign later); REQUIRED for a super user, whose authority over an
+    # account comes from the projects it is on — see create_user.
+    project_ids: list[str] = Field(default_factory=list)
 
 
 class ProjectRoleIn(BaseModel):
@@ -381,6 +613,13 @@ class ProjectAssignIn(BaseModel):
     roles: dict[str, str] = Field(default_factory=dict)
 
 
+class AutoAddIn(BaseModel):
+    auto_add: bool
+    # Role to give this user on the projects they're auto-added to; '' inherits the
+    # account's own role, same value space as ProjectMember.role.
+    role: str = ""
+
+
 LOGIN_MAX_ATTEMPTS = int(os.getenv("AUTH_MAX_ATTEMPTS", "5"))
 LOGIN_LOCKOUT_MINUTES = int(os.getenv("AUTH_LOCKOUT_MINUTES", "15"))
 
@@ -539,8 +778,11 @@ def reset_password(body: ResetPasswordIn, db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
 
 @app.get("/api/auth/me")
 def whoami(user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user)):
-    """Who is logged in. The frontend guard calls this on every page load."""
+    """Who is logged in. The frontend guard calls this on every page load.
-    return {"user": user.to_dict()}
+
+    `role` is normalized here so no page has to know that a pre-roles account stores
+    'user' where it now means 'project_user'."""
+    return {"user": {**user.to_dict(), "role": auth.normalize_role(user.role)}}
 
 
 # ── Display preferences (self-service) ─────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -603,22 +845,122 @@ def change_password(body: PasswordChangeIn, request: Request, response: Response
     return {"ok": True}
 
 
-# ── User administration (admin only) ────────────────────────────────────────────
+# ── User administration ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Two kinds of caller reach these routes: an app admin, who manages every account,
+# and a Project Super User, who manages the accounts on the projects they administer.
+# Every route therefore asks TWO questions — does this role carry user administration
+# (require_user_manager), and may it touch THIS account (require_manage_user) —
+# and the read route asks a third, wider one (visible_user_ids) because looking a
+# colleague up is not the same as being able to change them.
+def directory_entry(db: Session, u: "models.User", caller: "models.User",
+                    counts: Optional[dict] = None, cache: Optional[dict] = None) -> dict:
+    """One row of the user directory, cut to what `caller` is entitled to see.
+
+    A manager gets the administrative record (last login, the auto-add flags, and a
+    `manageable` verdict with the reason when it's no). Everyone else gets the contact
+    card only — a project user has no business reading their colleagues' login history
+    out of a page whose job is "who is on this project and how do I reach them"."""
+    if not is_user_manager(db, caller):
+        return {
+            "id": u.id, "username": u.username, "full_name": u.full_name, "email": u.email,
+            "role": auth.normalize_role(u.role), "project_role": u.project_role or "",
+            "is_active": u.is_active, "manageable": False,
+        }
+    problem = manage_user_problem(db, caller, u, cache)
+    n = None if counts is None else counts.get(u.id, 0)
+    return {
+        **u.to_dict(),
+        "role": auth.normalize_role(u.role),
+        "manageable": problem is None,
+        "manage_blocked_reason": problem or "",
+        "project_count": n,
+    }
+
+
 @app.get("/api/auth/users")
-def list_users(_admin: models.User = Depends(auth.require_admin), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+def list_users(user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
-    rows = db.scalars(select(models.User).order_by(models.User.username)).all()
+    """The user directory, scoped to the caller. An app admin sees every account; a
-    return [u.to_dict() for u in rows]
+    project member sees the people on their own projects (plus the app admins)."""
+    visible = visible_user_ids(db, user)
+    stmt = select(models.User).order_by(models.User.username)
+    if visible is not None:
+        stmt = stmt.where(models.User.id.in_(visible))
+    rows = db.scalars(stmt).all()
+    # One pass over the membership table serves both the project-access count and the
+    # per-row "may I manage this account" verdict. The old console fetched the counts
+    # with one HTTP request per user.
+    counts, cache = None, None
+    if is_user_manager(db, user):
+        members: dict[str, set] = {}
+        for uid, pid in db.execute(
+            select(models.ProjectMember.user_id, models.ProjectMember.project_id)
+        ).all():
+            members.setdefault(uid, set()).add(pid)
+        counts = {uid: len(pids) for uid, pids in members.items()}
+        cache = {"members": members}
+    return [directory_entry(db, u, user, counts, cache) for u in rows]
+
+
+@app.get("/api/auth/user-scope")
+def user_scope(user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+    """What the signed-in account may do on the user directory page, so the page can
+    render the right controls instead of guessing at the rules and drawing buttons
+    that 403. Advisory only — every route re-checks server-side."""
+    managed = managed_project_ids(db, user)
+    if managed is None:
+        rows = db.scalars(select(models.Project).order_by(models.Project.name)).all()
+    else:
+        rows = db.scalars(
+            select(models.Project).where(models.Project.id.in_(managed)).order_by(models.Project.name)
+        ).all() if managed else []
+    manager = managed is None or bool(managed)
+    return {
+        "can_manage_users": manager,
+        "scope": "all" if managed is None else "projects",
+        "role": auth.normalize_role(user.role),
+        "grantable_roles": list(grantable_roles(user)) if manager else [],
+        "grantable_project_roles": list(
+            auth.PROJECT_SCOPED_ROLES if auth.is_admin(user)
+            else (auth.ROLE_PROJECT_ADMIN, auth.ROLE_PROJECT_USER)
+        ) if manager else [],
+        "role_labels": auth.ROLE_LABELS,
+        "project_roles": list(auth.PROJECT_ROLES),
+        "managed_projects": [{"id": p.id, "name": p.name, "number": p.number,
+                              "archived": p.archived_at is not None} for p in rows],
+    }
 
 
 @app.post("/api/auth/users")
-def create_user(body: NewUserIn, _admin: models.User = Depends(auth.require_admin), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+def create_user(body: NewUserIn, actor: models.User = Depends(require_user_manager), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
     problem = auth.password_problem(body.password, body.username, body.email)
     if problem:
         raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail=problem)
-    if body.role not in auth.ROLES:
+    allowed = grantable_roles(actor)
-        raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail=f"role must be one of {', '.join(auth.ROLES)}")
+    if body.role not in allowed:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail=f"role must be one of {', '.join(allowed)}")
     if auth.find_user(db, body.username):
         raise HTTPException(status_code=409, detail="A user with that username already exists")
+    managed = managed_project_ids(db, actor)
+    requested = [p for p in dict.fromkeys(body.project_ids) if p]
+    for pid in requested:
+        check_id(pid)
+    if managed is not None:
+        # A super user's authority over an account is derived from the projects that
+        # account is on. Creating one with no project — or on a job they don't run —
+        # would either produce an account they instantly cannot manage, or reach into
+        # someone else's job. Both are refused rather than silently narrowed.
+        if not requested:
+            raise HTTPException(
+                status_code=400,
+                detail="Choose at least one project for the new account — you administer users per project",
+            )
+        outside = [p for p in requested if p not in managed]
+        if outside:
+            raise HTTPException(status_code=403, detail="You don't administer the users of one of those projects")
+    valid = set(db.scalars(select(models.Project.id).where(models.Project.id.in_(requested))).all()) if requested else set()
+    missing = [p for p in requested if p not in valid]
+    if missing:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="One of those projects no longer exists")
     u = models.User(
         id=gen_id("user"),
         username=body.username.strip(),
@@ -629,54 +971,75 @@ def create_user(body: NewUserIn, _admin: models.User = Depends(auth.require_admi
         project_role=body.project_role.strip()[:120],
     )
     db.add(u)
-    log_event(db, _admin, "user_created", "user", u.id, summary=u.username,
+    # Flush the account before adding memberships that point at it. The ORM decides
-              detail={"role": u.role, "project_role": u.project_role})
+    # flush order from relationship() declarations, and models.py deliberately has
+    # none (plain columns + ForeignKey), so it will happily emit the project_members
+    # INSERT before the users one — which the database then rejects. Without this the
+    # whole call fails with a foreign-key violation on any engine that actually
+    # enforces them, which is every engine we run: Postgres always, and SQLite since
+    # db.py started setting `PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON`.
+    db.flush()
+    log_event(db, actor, "user_created", "user", u.id, summary=u.username,
+              detail={"role": u.role, "project_role": u.project_role,
+                      "projects": len(valid)})
+    for pid in requested:
+        if pid in valid:
+            grant_project_access(db, u.id, pid)
+    if valid:
+        log_event(db, actor, "project_access_changed", "user", u.id, summary=u.username,
+                  detail={"projects": len(valid), "reason": "created_with_access"})
     db.commit()
     db.refresh(u)
-    return u.to_dict()
+    return directory_entry(db, u, actor)
 
 
 @app.post("/api/auth/users/{user_id}/password")
-def admin_reset_password(user_id: str, body: AdminPasswordIn, _admin: models.User = Depends(auth.require_admin), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+def admin_reset_password(user_id: str, body: AdminPasswordIn, actor: models.User = Depends(require_user_manager), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
-    u = db.get(models.User, user_id)
+    u = load_target_user(db, user_id)
-    if not u:
+    require_see_user(db, actor, u)
-        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="User not found")
+    require_manage_user(db, actor, u)
     problem = auth.password_problem(body.new_password, u.username, u.email)
     if problem:
         raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail=problem)
     u.password_hash = auth.hash_password(body.new_password)
     u.token_version = (u.token_version or 0) + 1   # revoke the user's existing sessions
+    # An administrative password reset was the one user-account change that left no
+    # trace; it is the most impersonation-adjacent thing on this page, so it logs.
+    log_event(db, actor, "password_reset", "user", u.id, summary=u.username,
+              detail={"by": "administrator"})
     db.commit()
     return {"ok": True}
 
 
 @app.post("/api/auth/users/{user_id}/active")
-def set_user_active(user_id: str, body: ActiveIn, admin: models.User = Depends(auth.require_admin), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+def set_user_active(user_id: str, body: ActiveIn, actor: models.User = Depends(require_user_manager), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
-    u = db.get(models.User, user_id)
+    u = load_target_user(db, user_id)
-    if not u:
+    require_see_user(db, actor, u)
-        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="User not found")
+    require_manage_user(db, actor, u)
-    if u.id == admin.id and not body.is_active:
+    if u.id == actor.id and not body.is_active:
         raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="You cannot disable your own account")
     u.is_active = body.is_active
-    log_event(db, admin, "user_enabled" if body.is_active else "user_disabled", "user", u.id,
+    log_event(db, actor, "user_enabled" if body.is_active else "user_disabled", "user", u.id,
               summary=u.username, detail={"is_active": bool(body.is_active)})
     db.commit()
-    return u.to_dict()
+    return directory_entry(db, u, actor)
 
 
 @app.post("/api/auth/users/{user_id}/role")
-def set_user_role(user_id: str, body: RoleIn, admin: models.User = Depends(auth.require_admin), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+def set_user_role(user_id: str, body: RoleIn, actor: models.User = Depends(require_user_manager), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
-    """Change a user's PERMISSIONS role (admin / project_admin / project_user).
+    """Change a user's PERMISSIONS role. Their job function on the project is separate
-    Their job function on the project is separate — see set_user_project_role.
+    — see set_user_project_role.
 
-    Guards: you can't change your own role (avoids self-lockout), and the last
+    Guards: you can't change your own role (avoids self-lockout), the last remaining
-    remaining admin can't be demoted (keeps the app manageable)."""
+    admin can't be demoted (keeps the app manageable), and a super user may only hand
-    if body.role not in auth.ROLES:
+    out the roles in `grantable_roles` — never admin or another super user."""
-        raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail=f"role must be one of {', '.join(auth.ROLES)}")
+    allowed = grantable_roles(actor)
-    u = db.get(models.User, user_id)
+    if body.role not in allowed:
-    if not u:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail=f"role must be one of {', '.join(allowed)}")
-        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="User not found")
+    u = load_target_user(db, user_id)
-    if u.id == admin.id:
+    require_see_user(db, actor, u)
+    require_manage_user(db, actor, u)
+    if u.id == actor.id:
         raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="You cannot change your own role")
     if auth.is_admin(u) and body.role != auth.ROLE_ADMIN:
         other_admins = db.scalars(
@@ -690,78 +1053,161 @@ def set_user_role(user_id: str, body: RoleIn, admin: models.User = Depends(auth.
             raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="Can't remove the last admin account")
     old_role = u.role
     u.role = body.role
-    log_event(db, admin, "role_changed", "user", u.id, summary=u.username,
+    detail = {"from": old_role, "to": body.role}
-              detail={"from": old_role, "to": body.role})
+    # Promoting someone to admin retires their default-member flag: an admin already
+    # reaches every project, so the flag would do nothing except sit there invisibly
+    # (the console shows admins no controls) and come back to life the day they are
+    # demoted. Same reasoning as clearing the role in set_user_auto_add.
+    if body.role == auth.ROLE_ADMIN and (u.auto_add_projects or u.auto_add_role):
+        u.auto_add_projects = False
+        u.auto_add_role = ""
+        detail["auto_add_cleared"] = True
+    log_event(db, actor, "role_changed", "user", u.id, summary=u.username, detail=detail)
     db.commit()
     db.refresh(u)
-    return u.to_dict()
+    return directory_entry(db, u, actor)
 
 
 @app.post("/api/auth/users/{user_id}/project-role")
-def set_user_project_role(user_id: str, body: ProjectRoleIn, admin: models.User = Depends(auth.require_admin), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+def set_user_project_role(user_id: str, body: ProjectRoleIn, actor: models.User = Depends(require_user_manager), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
     """Set a user's job function on the project (Project Manager, Superintendent,
     …). Purely descriptive — it grants nothing. This is what the SOP team pickers
     and notification routing read, so it's worth keeping accurate."""
+    u = load_target_user(db, user_id)
+    require_see_user(db, actor, u)
+    require_manage_user(db, actor, u)
+    old = u.project_role or ""
+    u.project_role = (body.project_role or "").strip()[:120]
+    log_event(db, actor, "project_role_changed", "user", u.id, summary=u.username,
+              detail={"from": old, "to": u.project_role})
+    db.commit()
+    db.refresh(u)
+    return directory_entry(db, u, actor)
+
+
+@app.post("/api/auth/users/{user_id}/auto-add")
+def set_user_auto_add(user_id: str, body: AutoAddIn, admin: models.User = Depends(auth.require_admin), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+    """Flag a user as a default member of every project created from here on, with
+    an optional role on those projects. It only touches NEW projects — existing
+    assignments stay under the admin's hand (see set_user_projects), because
+    back-filling everyone onto historical jobs is never what this flag means.
+
+    App-admin only, unlike the rest of user administration: this is a standing rule
+    about every project that will ever exist, including the ones a super user has no
+    part in."""
+    allowed = ("",) + auth.PROJECT_SCOPED_ROLES
+    role = (body.role or "").strip()
+    if role not in allowed:
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=400,
+            detail=f"role must be '' (inherit) or one of {', '.join(auth.PROJECT_SCOPED_ROLES)}",
+        )
     u = db.get(models.User, user_id)
     if not u:
         raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="User not found")
-    old = u.project_role or ""
+    u.auto_add_projects = bool(body.auto_add)
-    u.project_role = (body.project_role or "").strip()[:120]
+    # A role left behind on a switched-off flag is a trap: it would quietly take
-    log_event(db, admin, "project_role_changed", "user", u.id, summary=u.username,
+    # effect the day someone switches the flag back on.
-              detail={"from": old, "to": u.project_role})
+    u.auto_add_role = role if u.auto_add_projects else ""
+    log_event(db, admin, "auto_add_changed", "user", u.id, summary=u.username,
+              detail={"auto_add": bool(u.auto_add_projects), "role": u.auto_add_role})
     db.commit()
     db.refresh(u)
     return u.to_dict()
 
 
 @app.delete("/api/auth/users/{user_id}")
-def delete_user(user_id: str, admin: models.User = Depends(auth.require_admin), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+def delete_user(user_id: str, actor: models.User = Depends(require_user_manager), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
-    u = db.get(models.User, user_id)
+    u = load_target_user(db, user_id)
-    if not u:
+    require_see_user(db, actor, u)
-        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="User not found")
+    require_manage_user(db, actor, u)
-    if u.id == admin.id:
+    if u.id == actor.id:
         raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="You cannot delete your own account")
-    log_event(db, admin, "user_deleted", "user", u.id, summary=u.username, detail={"role": u.role})
+    log_event(db, actor, "user_deleted", "user", u.id, summary=u.username, detail={"role": u.role})
     db.delete(u)
     db.commit()
     return {"deleted": user_id}
 
 
 @app.get("/api/auth/users/{user_id}/projects")
-def get_user_projects(user_id: str, _admin: models.User = Depends(auth.require_admin), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+def get_user_projects(user_id: str, actor: models.User = Depends(require_user_manager), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
-    """Which projects a user is assigned to, plus the full project list for the
+    """Which projects a user is assigned to, plus the project list to choose from.
-    assignment UI. (Admins implicitly access every project regardless.)"""
+    (Admins implicitly access every project regardless of what's ticked here.)
-    u = db.get(models.User, user_id)
+
-    if not u:
+    A super user is shown ONLY the projects they administer, and `other_projects` says
-        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="User not found")
+    how many more the person is on — enough for the dialog to be honest that it is
+    editing a slice of this account's access, without naming jobs that aren't theirs."""
+    u = load_target_user(db, user_id)
+    require_see_user(db, actor, u)
+    require_manage_user(db, actor, u)
     rows = db.scalars(select(models.ProjectMember).where(models.ProjectMember.user_id == user_id)).all()
+    managed = managed_project_ids(db, actor)
+    if managed is None:
         projects = db.scalars(select(models.Project).order_by(models.Project.name)).all()
+        in_scope = rows
+    else:
+        projects = db.scalars(
+            select(models.Project).where(models.Project.id.in_(managed)).order_by(models.Project.name)
+        ).all() if managed else []
+        in_scope = [r for r in rows if r.project_id in managed]
     return {
-        "user": u.to_dict(),
+        "user": directory_entry(db, u, actor),
-        "assigned": [r.project_id for r in rows],
+        "assigned": [r.project_id for r in in_scope],
         # Per-project role overrides, keyed by project id ('' = inherit the account's).
-        "roles": {r.project_id: (r.role or "") for r in rows},
+        "roles": {r.project_id: (r.role or "") for r in in_scope},
-        "projects": [{"id": p.id, "name": p.name, "number": p.number} for p in projects],
+        # Archived projects stay on this list on purpose — an existing assignment has
+        # to remain visible and removable — but they're flagged so the dialog can say
+        # so, rather than offering a finished job as though it were live work.
+        "projects": [{"id": p.id, "name": p.name, "number": p.number,
+                      "archived": p.archived_at is not None} for p in projects],
+        "other_projects": len(rows) - len(in_scope),
+        "grantable_project_roles": list(
+            auth.PROJECT_SCOPED_ROLES if auth.is_admin(actor)
+            else (auth.ROLE_PROJECT_ADMIN, auth.ROLE_PROJECT_USER)
+        ),
     }
 
 
 @app.put("/api/auth/users/{user_id}/projects")
-def set_user_projects(user_id: str, body: ProjectAssignIn, _admin: models.User = Depends(auth.require_admin), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+def set_user_projects(user_id: str, body: ProjectAssignIn, actor: models.User = Depends(require_user_manager), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
-    """Replace a user's project assignments with the given set."""
+    """Replace a user's project assignments with the given set.
-    u = db.get(models.User, user_id)
+
-    if not u:
+    For an app admin the given set IS the whole answer. For a super user it replaces
-        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="User not found")
+    only their own slice: memberships on projects they don't administer are left
-    valid = set(db.scalars(select(models.Project.id).where(models.Project.id.in_(body.project_ids))).all()) if body.project_ids else set()
+    exactly as they were, because a payload that simply omits them would otherwise cut
-    # Only the two project-scoped roles make sense here: app admin is global, and
+    someone off from a job the caller can't even see."""
-    # anything unrecognised falls back to inheriting the account's own role.
+    u = load_target_user(db, user_id)
-    allowed = (auth.ROLE_PROJECT_ADMIN, auth.ROLE_PROJECT_USER)
+    require_see_user(db, actor, u)
+    require_manage_user(db, actor, u)
+    requested = [p for p in dict.fromkeys(body.project_ids) if p]
+    for pid in requested:
+        check_id(pid)
+    managed = managed_project_ids(db, actor)
+    if managed is not None:
+        outside = [p for p in requested if p not in managed]
+        if outside:
+            raise HTTPException(status_code=403, detail="You don't administer the users of one of those projects")
+    valid = set(db.scalars(select(models.Project.id).where(models.Project.id.in_(requested))).all()) if requested else set()
+    # A super user may hand out the project-scoped roles below their own; only an app
+    # admin can make someone a super user on a project. Anything unrecognised falls
+    # back to inheriting the account's own role.
+    allowed = auth.PROJECT_SCOPED_ROLES if auth.is_admin(actor) else (auth.ROLE_PROJECT_ADMIN, auth.ROLE_PROJECT_USER)
     roles = {pid: r for pid, r in (body.roles or {}).items() if r in allowed}
-    db.execute(delete(models.ProjectMember).where(models.ProjectMember.user_id == user_id))
+    # Rebuild only the rows this caller owns. Scoping the DELETE is the whole of the
+    # "leave other jobs alone" guarantee — get it wrong and a super user's save
+    # silently revokes access everywhere else.
+    doomed = delete(models.ProjectMember).where(models.ProjectMember.user_id == user_id)
+    if managed is not None:
+        # in_() on an empty set is a valid always-false predicate, so a caller who
+        # administers nothing deletes nothing (require_manage_user already refused them).
+        doomed = doomed.where(models.ProjectMember.project_id.in_(managed))
+    db.execute(doomed)
     for pid in valid:
         db.add(models.ProjectMember(id=gen_id("pm"), user_id=user_id, project_id=pid,
                                     role=roles.get(pid, "")))
-    log_event(db, _admin, "project_access_changed", "user", u.id, summary=u.username,
+    log_event(db, actor, "project_access_changed", "user", u.id, summary=u.username,
               detail={"projects": len(valid),
+                      "scope": "all" if managed is None else "managed",
                       "overrides": {p: r for p, r in roles.items() if p in valid}})
     db.commit()
     return {"assigned": sorted(valid), "roles": {p: roles.get(p, "") for p in sorted(valid)}}
@@ -775,6 +1221,7 @@ def upsert_project(body: ProjectIn, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current
     is_new = proj is None
     if not is_new:
         require_project_access(db, user, proj.id)
+        require_project_writable(db, user, proj.id, "Editing a project")
     if proj is None:
         proj = models.Project(id=body.id or gen_id("proj"))
         db.add(proj)
@@ -789,18 +1236,36 @@ def upsert_project(body: ProjectIn, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current
     log_event(db, user, "created" if is_new else "updated", "project", proj.id,
               project_id=proj.id, summary=(proj.name or proj.number or proj.id))
     db.commit()
-    # A project created by a non-admin auto-grants its creator access.
+    # A project created by a non-admin auto-grants its creator access. If that
+    # creator is ALSO a standing default member, this is the row that sticks —
+    # add_default_members below never overwrites an existing membership — so it has
+    # to carry the role they'd have been given, or someone whose flag says
+    # "Project Admin on every job" would silently land as a plain member on the one
+    # job they started themselves.
     if is_new and not auth.is_admin(user):
-        grant_project_access(db, user.id, proj.id)
+        creator_role = (user.auto_add_role or "").strip() if user.auto_add_projects else ""
+        grant_project_access(db, user.id, proj.id, creator_role)
+        db.commit()
+    # …and anyone flagged as a default member joins at creation time too.
+    if is_new:
+        add_default_members(db, proj.id, user)
         db.commit()
     db.refresh(proj)
     return proj.to_dict()
 
 
 @app.get("/api/projects")
-def list_projects(user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+def list_projects(
-    stmt = scope_to_access(select(models.Project), models.Project.id, db, user).order_by(models.Project.updated_at.desc())
+    archived: str = Query("exclude", description="exclude (default) | only | all"),
-    rows = db.scalars(stmt).all()
+    user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user),
+    db: Session = Depends(get_db),
+):
+    stmt = scope_to_access(select(models.Project), models.Project.id, db, user)
+    if archived == "only":
+        stmt = stmt.where(models.Project.archived_at.is_not(None))
+    elif archived != "all":
+        stmt = stmt.where(models.Project.archived_at.is_(None))   # default: hide archived
+    rows = db.scalars(stmt.order_by(models.Project.updated_at.desc())).all()
     return [p.summary() for p in rows]
 
 
@@ -827,14 +1292,46 @@ def delete_project(project_id: str, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current
     return {"deleted": project_id}
 
 
+@app.post("/api/projects/{project_id}/archive")
+def archive_project(project_id: str, body: ArchiveIn, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+    """Archive (or unarchive) a whole project — it drops out of every picker,
+    switcher and search, and freezes read-only, without losing a thing. This is how
+    a finished job gets out of everyone's way while staying on the record; delete is
+    still there for a job that should never have existed."""
+    proj = db.get(models.Project, project_id)
+    if not proj:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Project not found")
+    # Takes the whole job out of circulation for everyone on it, so it sits at the
+    # same bar as deleting it. Note the deliberate absence of require_project_writable
+    # — unarchiving is the one write an archived project must still accept.
+    require_project_admin(db, user, proj.id, "Archiving a project")
+    was_archived = proj.archived_at is not None
+    if body.archived and not was_archived:
+        proj.archived_at = models.utcnow()
+        log_event(db, user, "archived", "project", proj.id, project_id=proj.id,
+                  summary=(proj.name or proj.number or proj.id))
+    elif not body.archived and was_archived:
+        proj.archived_at = None
+        log_event(db, user, "unarchived", "project", proj.id, project_id=proj.id,
+                  summary=(proj.name or proj.number or proj.id))
+    db.commit()
+    db.refresh(proj)
+    return proj.to_dict()
+
+
 # ── SOPs ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 @app.post("/api/sops")
 def upsert_sop(body: SopIn, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
     check_id(body.id)
     require_project_access(db, user, body.project_id)
+    # Both ends are checked: the project the SOP is being written INTO here, and the
+    # one it currently sits on below — so an archived job can be neither edited nor
+    # used as a source to move a SOP out of.
+    require_project_writable(db, user, body.project_id, "Saving a SOP")
     sop = db.get(models.Sop, body.id) if body.id else None
     if sop is not None:
         require_project_access(db, user, sop.project_id)
+        require_project_writable(db, user, sop.project_id, "Saving a SOP")
         # The SOP is the project's baseline: once it's been completed, changing it
         # is a Project Admin action. Authoring and revising a draft is open to any
         # project member, including marking it complete the first time.
@@ -899,6 +1396,7 @@ def delete_sop(sop_id: str, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user),
     if not sop:
         raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="SOP not found")
     require_project_admin(db, user, sop.project_id, "Deleting a SOP")
+    require_project_writable(db, user, sop.project_id, "Deleting a SOP")
     log_event(db, user, "deleted", "sop", sop.id, project_id=sop.project_id,
               summary=(sop.name or sop.number or sop.id))
     db.delete(sop)
@@ -1090,9 +1588,12 @@ def upsert_wp(body: WpIn, background_tasks: BackgroundTasks, user: models.User =
     check_id(body.parent_id)
     check_id(body.assignee_id)
     require_project_access(db, user, body.project_id)
+    # Destination and origin both have to be live — see upsert_sop.
+    require_project_writable(db, user, body.project_id, "Saving a work package")
     wp = db.get(models.WorkPackage, body.id) if body.id else None
     if wp is not None:
         require_project_access(db, user, wp.project_id)
+        require_project_writable(db, user, wp.project_id, "Saving a work package")
     is_new = wp is None
     old_status = None if is_new else wp.status
     old_assignee = None if is_new else wp.assignee_id
@@ -1276,6 +1777,7 @@ def delete_wp(wp_id: str, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user), db
     # Deleting a work package is irreversible — Project Admin only. A project_user
     # who wants one out of the way can archive it instead (reversible).
     require_project_admin(db, user, wp.project_id, "Deleting a work package")
+    require_project_writable(db, user, wp.project_id, "Deleting a work package")
     log_event(db, user, "deleted", "wp", wp.id, project_id=wp.project_id,
               summary=(wp.number or wp.subject or wp.id))
     db.delete(wp)
@@ -1291,6 +1793,7 @@ def issue_wp(wp_id: str, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user), db:
     if not wp:
         raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Work Package not found")
     require_project_access(db, user, wp.project_id)
+    require_project_writable(db, user, wp.project_id, "Issuing a work package")
     enforce_release_gates(db, wp.id, wp.data, "Issued", wp.status)
     wp.status = "Issued"
     wp.issued_at = models.utcnow()
@@ -1307,6 +1810,7 @@ def set_wp_status(wp_id: str, body: StatusIn, user: models.User = Depends(auth.g
     if not wp:
         raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Work Package not found")
     require_project_access(db, user, wp.project_id)
+    require_project_writable(db, user, wp.project_id, "Changing a work package's status")
     old_status = wp.status
     # Same gates as /issue — this route must not be a way around them.
     enforce_release_gates(db, wp.id, wp.data, body.status, old_status)
@@ -1329,6 +1833,9 @@ def archive_wp(wp_id: str, body: ArchiveIn, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get
     if not wp:
         raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Work Package not found")
     require_project_access(db, user, wp.project_id)
+    # An archived project is frozen whole: its packages keep the archive state they
+    # had, and tidying inside it waits until the job is unarchived.
+    require_project_writable(db, user, wp.project_id, "Archiving a work package")
     was_archived = wp.archived_at is not None
     if body.archived and not was_archived:
         wp.archived_at = models.utcnow()
@@ -1399,12 +1906,23 @@ def global_search(
     pat = _like_term(term)
     esc = "\\"
 
+    # An archived project is meant to be gone from view, and search is the one place
+    # it would otherwise come back — as the project itself, or as one of its packages
+    # or SOPs. So the archived ids are read once here and filtered out of all three
+    # result sets. Rows with no project at all (orphan/legacy, admin-only) survive
+    # explicitly: SQL's NOT IN drops NULLs, and they aren't on an archived job.
+    archived_pids = set(db.scalars(
+        select(models.Project.id).where(models.Project.archived_at.is_not(None))
+    ).all())
+
     proj_stmt = select(models.Project).where(
         func.lower(models.Project.name).like(pat, escape=esc)
         | func.lower(models.Project.number).like(pat, escape=esc)
         | func.lower(models.Project.client).like(pat, escape=esc)
         | func.lower(models.Project.site).like(pat, escape=esc)
     )
+    if archived_pids:
+        proj_stmt = proj_stmt.where(models.Project.id.not_in(archived_pids))
     proj_stmt = scope_to_access(proj_stmt, models.Project.id, db, user)
     projects = db.scalars(proj_stmt.order_by(models.Project.updated_at.desc()).limit(limit)).all()
 
@@ -1417,6 +1935,11 @@ def global_search(
             | func.lower(models.WorkPackage.status).like(pat, escape=esc)
         )
     )
+    if archived_pids:
+        wp_stmt = wp_stmt.where(
+            models.WorkPackage.project_id.is_(None)
+            | models.WorkPackage.project_id.not_in(archived_pids)
+        )
     wp_stmt = scope_to_access(wp_stmt, models.WorkPackage.project_id, db, user)
     wps = db.scalars(wp_stmt.order_by(models.WorkPackage.updated_at.desc()).limit(limit)).all()
 
@@ -1424,6 +1947,10 @@ def global_search(
         func.lower(models.Sop.name).like(pat, escape=esc)
         | func.lower(models.Sop.number).like(pat, escape=esc)
     )
+    if archived_pids:
+        sop_stmt = sop_stmt.where(
+            models.Sop.project_id.is_(None) | models.Sop.project_id.not_in(archived_pids)
+        )
     sop_stmt = scope_to_access(sop_stmt, models.Sop.project_id, db, user)
     sops = db.scalars(sop_stmt.order_by(models.Sop.updated_at.desc()).limit(limit)).all()
 
@@ -1535,17 +2062,28 @@ def project_members(project_id: str, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_curren
 # ── Comments / feedback ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 def _save_comment(body: CommentIn, db: Session, user: "models.User") -> dict:
     # A comment tied to a WP/SOP requires access to that resource's project, so
-    # a user can't write into another project's review thread.
+    # a user can't write into another project's review thread. A review thread on an
+    # archived project is frozen with the rest of it; general app feedback isn't tied
+    # to a project at all and keeps working regardless.
+    #
+    # Both ids are checked independently — NOT if/elif. The row stores whichever ids
+    # the payload carried, so a body naming a WP you may touch AND a SOP you may not
+    # would, under an elif, be authorised on the WP alone and still land in the other
+    # project's SOP thread.
+    check_id(body.wp_id)
+    check_id(body.sop_id)
     if body.wp_id:
         wp = db.get(models.WorkPackage, body.wp_id)
         if not wp:
             raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Work Package not found")
         require_project_access(db, user, wp.project_id)
-    elif body.sop_id:
+        require_project_writable(db, user, wp.project_id, "Commenting on a work package")
+    if body.sop_id:
         sop = db.get(models.Sop, body.sop_id)
         if not sop:
             raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="SOP not found")
         require_project_access(db, user, sop.project_id)
+        require_project_writable(db, user, sop.project_id, "Commenting on a SOP")
     extra = body.model_extra or {}
     c = models.Comment(
         id=gen_id("c"),

server/auth.py

@@ -20,11 +20,21 @@ Permissions roles (`User.role`) — distinct from a person's job function on the
 project, which lives in `User.project_role` and grants nothing:
   • admin          application administrator: user administration, app settings,
                    and implicit access to every project.
+  • project_super_user
+                   everything a project_admin may do, plus USER ADMINISTRATION
+                   scoped to the projects they hold the role on: they create and
+                   manage the accounts on their own jobs without an app admin
+                   having to do it for them. They cannot reach app settings, and
+                   they cannot create or alter an admin / super-user account.
   • project_admin  within their assigned projects: may delete work packages,
                    modify a SOP after it has been completed, and delete projects.
   • project_user   normal member: creates and edits work packages, authors a SOP
                    up to completion. May NOT delete WPs or change a completed SOP.
 
+The user-administration SCOPE of a super user is worked out in server/app.py
+(`managed_project_ids`, `manage_user_problem`), because it depends on project
+membership rows — this module only decides which roles carry the power at all.
+
 Password reset: a short-lived signed token (see `create_reset_token`) is emailed
 to the account's address. It is single-use by construction — it embeds the user's
 `token_version`, which is bumped when the password changes, so a used or
@@ -56,14 +66,21 @@ RESET_MINUTES = int(os.getenv("AUTH_RESET_MINUTES", "60"))
 
 # ── permissions roles ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 ROLE_ADMIN = "admin"
+ROLE_PROJECT_SUPER = "project_super_user"
 ROLE_PROJECT_ADMIN = "project_admin"
 ROLE_PROJECT_USER = "project_user"
-ROLES = (ROLE_ADMIN, ROLE_PROJECT_ADMIN, ROLE_PROJECT_USER)
+# Ordered most- to least-privileged; the console renders dropdowns in this order.
+ROLES = (ROLE_ADMIN, ROLE_PROJECT_SUPER, ROLE_PROJECT_ADMIN, ROLE_PROJECT_USER)
 ROLE_LABELS = {
     ROLE_ADMIN: "Administrator",
+    ROLE_PROJECT_SUPER: "Project Super User",
     ROLE_PROJECT_ADMIN: "Project Admin",
     ROLE_PROJECT_USER: "Project User",
 }
+# Roles that may be held ON A SINGLE PROJECT via ProjectMember.role, so someone can
+# run the users on one job and be an ordinary member of the next. '' means "inherit
+# the account's own role" and is always allowed alongside these.
+PROJECT_SCOPED_ROLES = (ROLE_PROJECT_SUPER, ROLE_PROJECT_ADMIN, ROLE_PROJECT_USER)
 # Job functions offered in the admin console. Free text underneath, so a project
 # can use a title that isn't on this list.
 PROJECT_ROLES = (
@@ -90,9 +107,19 @@ def is_admin(user: "models.User") -> bool:
 
 
 def is_project_admin(user: "models.User") -> bool:
-    """True for app admins and project admins — the two roles allowed to delete
+    """True for the roles allowed to delete work packages and change a completed
-    work packages and change a completed SOP."""
+    SOP. A super user is a project admin with user administration on top, so it is
-    return normalize_role(user.role) in (ROLE_ADMIN, ROLE_PROJECT_ADMIN)
+    included here — never enumerate the two roles by hand."""
+    return normalize_role(user.role) in (ROLE_ADMIN, ROLE_PROJECT_SUPER, ROLE_PROJECT_ADMIN)
+
+
+
+# NOTE: "may this account administer users?" is deliberately NOT answered here. The
+# super-user role can be held per project (ProjectMember.role), so the question needs
+# membership rows to answer and lives in app.py — `is_user_manager` /
+# `require_user_manager` / `managed_project_ids`. An account-role-only version of the
+# same question used to exist here and silently disagreed with the scoped one, which
+# locked per-project super users out of the routes they were entitled to.
 
 # Password policy (shared by the API and the CLI).
 MIN_PASSWORD_LEN = int(os.getenv("AUTH_MIN_PASSWORD_LEN", "12"))
@@ -297,6 +324,8 @@ def require_admin(user: "models.User" = Depends(get_current_user)) -> "models.Us
     return user
 
 
+
+
 # ── account helpers (shared by routes and the CLI) ──────────────────────────────
 def find_user(db: Session, username: str) -> Optional["models.User"]:
     """Look up by username, case-insensitively (also matches on email)."""

server/db.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Connection precedence:
 The schema is identical either way (SQLAlchemy handles dialect differences).
 """
 import os
-from sqlalchemy import create_engine, URL
+from sqlalchemy import create_engine, event, URL
 from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker, DeclarativeBase
 
 # Load a local .env if present (dev convenience).
@@ -46,6 +46,25 @@ _is_sqlite = isinstance(DATABASE_URL, str) and DATABASE_URL.startswith("sqlite")
 connect_args = {"check_same_thread": False} if _is_sqlite else {}
 
 engine = create_engine(DATABASE_URL, connect_args=connect_args, pool_pre_ping=True, future=True)
+
+if _is_sqlite:
+    # SQLite ships with foreign keys DISABLED and the pragma is per-connection, so
+    # without this every `ondelete="CASCADE"` in models.py is silently a no-op on a
+    # dev database while working correctly on Postgres. That divergence is worse than
+    # it sounds: deleting a project left its SOPs, work packages and membership rows
+    # behind as orphans pointing at an id that no longer exists, and deleting a user
+    # left their project_members rows — and the smoke test's cascade assertion failed
+    # on dev while passing in production, which is the exact failure that makes a
+    # smoke test worth ignoring.
+    #
+    # Registered on the engine, not a session, because the pragma has to be set on
+    # each new DBAPI connection as the pool creates it.
+    @event.listens_for(engine, "connect")
+    def _sqlite_enforce_foreign_keys(dbapi_connection, _record):
+        cur = dbapi_connection.cursor()
+        cur.execute("PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON")
+        cur.close()
+
 SessionLocal = sessionmaker(bind=engine, autoflush=False, autocommit=False, future=True)
 
 

server/manage_users.py

@@ -45,8 +45,12 @@ def _prompt_password(provided: str | None, username: str = "") -> str:
 
 def cmd_create(args, role: str | None = None) -> None:
     role = role or args.role
-    if role not in ("admin", "user"):
+    # 'user' is the pre-roles spelling of 'project_user' and is still accepted so the
-        sys.exit("role must be 'admin' or 'user'")
+    # documented one-liners keep working; anything else has to be a current role.
+    if role == "user":
+        role = auth.ROLE_PROJECT_USER
+    if role not in auth.ROLES:
+        sys.exit(f"role must be one of {', '.join(auth.ROLES)}")
     pw = _prompt_password(getattr(args, "password", None), args.username)
     with SessionLocal() as db:
         if auth.find_user(db, args.username):
@@ -70,9 +74,10 @@ def cmd_list(args) -> None:
         if not rows:
             print("No users yet. Create one with: create-admin <username>")
             return
-        print(f"{'USERNAME':<24}{'ROLE':<8}{'ACTIVE':<8}{'NAME'}")
+        print(f"{'USERNAME':<24}{'ROLE':<20}{'ACTIVE':<8}{'NAME'}")
         for u in rows:
-            print(f"{u.username:<24}{u.role:<8}{('yes' if u.is_active else 'no'):<8}{u.full_name}")
+            print(f"{u.username:<24}{auth.normalize_role(u.role):<20}"
+                  f"{('yes' if u.is_active else 'no'):<8}{u.full_name}")
 
 
 def cmd_reset_password(args) -> None:
@@ -113,7 +118,8 @@ def main() -> None:
 
     add_create("create-admin", "create an admin account")
     c = add_create("create", "create an account")
-    c.add_argument("--role", choices=["admin", "user"], default="user")
+    c.add_argument("--role", choices=list(auth.ROLES) + ["user"], default=auth.ROLE_PROJECT_USER,
+                   help="permissions role ('user' is the legacy name for project_user)")
 
     sub.add_parser("list", help="list all accounts")
 

server/models.py

@@ -9,6 +9,21 @@ The full client document for a SOP or WP is kept verbatim in a JSON `data`
 column, with the most-queried fields promoted to real columns for listing and
 filtering. IDs are short strings (client- or server-generated) so the browser
 can upsert without round-tripping a sequence.
+
+NO relationship() DECLARATIONS, ON PURPOSE — and one consequence to know about.
+Every link here is a plain column plus a ForeignKey; nothing is navigable as
+`project.work_packages`. Queries are explicit selects, which suits an API that
+mostly reads one scoped list at a time and never wants a lazy load firing inside
+a response.
+
+The consequence: SQLAlchemy's unit of work derives FLUSH ORDER from relationships,
+not from ForeignKey metadata. With none declared it has no dependency edge to
+follow, so if you add a parent and its child in the SAME flush it may emit the
+child's INSERT first and the database will reject it. Both engines enforce foreign
+keys (Postgres always; SQLite since db.py sets `PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON`), so this
+is a real error, not a dev-only quirk. Call `db.flush()` after adding the parent —
+see `create_user` in app.py, which creates an account and its ProjectMember rows
+together.
 """
 from datetime import datetime, timezone
 from typing import Optional
@@ -33,6 +48,11 @@ class Project(Base):
     division: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(200), default="")
     site: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(300), default="")
     sample: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False)
+    # Archived projects are hidden from every picker, switcher and search but kept
+    # for the record — a finished job still has to be readable years later. Unlike
+    # an archived work package they are also FROZEN read-only: the API refuses any
+    # write to the project or to anything under it until an admin unarchives it.
+    archived_at: Mapped[Optional[datetime]] = mapped_column(DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=True, index=True)
     data: Mapped[dict] = mapped_column(JSON, default=dict)
     created_by: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(200), default="")
     created_at: Mapped[datetime] = mapped_column(DateTime(timezone=True), default=utcnow)
@@ -42,7 +62,9 @@ class Project(Base):
         return {
             "id": self.id, "name": self.name, "number": self.number,
             "client": self.client, "division": self.division, "site": self.site,
-            "sample": self.sample, "created_by": self.created_by,
+            "sample": self.sample,
+            "archived_at": _iso(self.archived_at), "archived": self.archived_at is not None,
+            "created_by": self.created_by,
             "created_at": _iso(self.created_at), "updated_at": _iso(self.updated_at),
         }
 
@@ -125,7 +147,8 @@ class User(Base):
 
     Two independent notions of "role", deliberately separate:
       • role          the PERMISSIONS role — what the account may do in the app.
-                      'admin' | 'project_admin' | 'project_user' (see auth.ROLES).
+                      'admin' | 'project_super_user' | 'project_admin' |
+                      'project_user' (see auth.ROLES).
       • project_role  the person's JOB FUNCTION on the project (Project Manager,
                       Superintendent, QA/QC, …). Carries no permissions; it's what
                       the SOP team pickers and notification routing read.
@@ -140,6 +163,13 @@ class User(Base):
     role: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(20), default="project_user")  # permissions role
     # Job function on the project — free text, offered from a suggested list.
     project_role: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(120), default="")
+    # A PM or QA lead who belongs on every job shouldn't have to be ticked into each
+    # new project by hand, so flagged accounts get a ProjectMember row the moment a
+    # project is created. `auto_add_role` is the role they land with and shares
+    # ProjectMember.role's value space: '' = inherit the account's own role,
+    # otherwise 'project_admin' | 'project_user'.
+    auto_add_projects: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False)
+    auto_add_role: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(20), default="")
     # Display preferences. Empty means "fall back to the app default, then to the
     # browser". A stored value follows the person between devices, which matters on
     # shared field tablets where the browser locale isn't theirs.
@@ -162,6 +192,8 @@ class User(Base):
             "id": self.id, "username": self.username, "email": self.email,
             "full_name": self.full_name, "role": self.role,
             "project_role": self.project_role or "", "is_active": self.is_active,
+            "auto_add_projects": bool(self.auto_add_projects),
+            "auto_add_role": self.auto_add_role or "",
             "locale": self.locale or "", "timezone": self.timezone or "",
             "created_at": _iso(self.created_at), "last_login_at": _iso(self.last_login_at),
         }
@@ -173,8 +205,11 @@ class ProjectMember(Base):
     entirely). One row per (user, project) pair.
 
     `role` is the permissions role ON THIS PROJECT: someone can be Project Admin on
-    one job and a normal Project User on another. Empty means "inherit the account's
+    one job and a normal Project User on another, or a Project Super User (who
-    own role" (User.role), which is how every existing row behaves."""
+    administers that job's user accounts) on one job only. Empty means "inherit the
+    account's own role" (User.role), which is how every existing row behaves.
+    Values: '' | 'project_super_user' | 'project_admin' | 'project_user'
+    (auth.PROJECT_SCOPED_ROLES) — never 'admin', which is app-wide by definition."""
     __tablename__ = "project_members"
     __table_args__ = (UniqueConstraint("user_id", "project_id", name="uq_project_member"),)
 

server/seed_demo.py

@@ -79,8 +79,11 @@ def main():
     if st != 200:
         print(f"ABORT: /api/health returned {st}"); return 1
 
-    # --clean: remove any prior demo projects (cascade removes their SOP + WPs)
+    # --clean: remove any prior demo projects (cascade removes their SOP + WPs).
-    st, projects = call("GET", "/api/projects")
+    # archived=all because /api/projects hides archived projects by default — an
+    # archived DEMO project is still a DEMO project, and --clean has to find it.
+    # (Deleting one is still allowed; only writes to its contents are frozen.)
+    st, projects = call("GET", "/api/projects?archived=all")
     demos = [p for p in (projects or []) if str(p.get("number", "")).startswith("DEMO-")]
     if args.clean:
         for p in demos:

server/smoketest.py

@@ -5,6 +5,24 @@ Exercises the real HTTP endpoints the way the front end does, proving that
 NGINX → FastAPI → PostgreSQL all work and that the Python logic (the AWP
 release gate, metrics, cascade delete) behaves. Stdlib only — no pip, no jq.
 
+AUTHENTICATION
+  Every /api/ route except /api/health requires a session (auth_gate in
+  server/app.py), so the script signs in first and keeps the session cookie for
+  the rest of the run. Credentials come from the environment by preference, so a
+  password never has to appear in a command line or shell history:
+
+      export WP_SMOKE_USER=smoketest
+      export WP_SMOKE_PASSWORD='…'
+      python3 server/smoketest.py https://wp-suite.company.local
+
+  …or pass --user / --password explicitly.
+
+  Use an ADMIN account. The script creates a project and deletes it again at the
+  end, and deleting one takes Project Admin on that project (require_project_admin);
+  a plain project_user can create a project but not clean it up. The script checks
+  the signed-in role up front and warns if it is too low, rather than letting you
+  discover it in the cleanup step.
+
 USAGE
   # Against the deployed site (through the NGINX proxy):
   python3 server/smoketest.py https://wp-suite.company.local
@@ -13,16 +31,24 @@ USAGE
   python3 server/smoketest.py https://wp-suite.company.local --insecure
 
   # From inside the api container (hits FastAPI directly):
-  docker compose exec api python /app/server/smoketest.py http://localhost:8000
+  docker compose exec -e WP_SMOKE_USER -e WP_SMOKE_PASSWORD api \
+      python /app/server/smoketest.py http://localhost:8000
 
   # Leave the demo project in the database so you can open it in the UI:
   python3 server/smoketest.py https://wp-suite.company.local --keep
 
 The base URL is the SITE root (no /api). Default: http://localhost:8000
-Exit code 0 = all checks passed, 1 = one or more failed.
+
+Exit codes: 0 = all checks passed · 1 = one or more checks failed · 2 = the run
+could not start (unreachable host, missing or rejected credentials). 2 is kept
+distinct on purpose: "I could not test this" is not the same answer as "this is
+broken", and conflating them is what made an unauthenticated version of this
+script report a wall of failures against a perfectly healthy stack.
 """
 import argparse
+import http.cookiejar
 import json
+import os
 import ssl
 import sys
 import urllib.error
@@ -40,6 +66,18 @@ def check(name, cond, detail=""):
 
 BASE = ""
 CTX = None
+# One opener for the whole run, carrying the cookie jar that holds the session
+# issued by /api/auth/login. urlopen() has no cookie support, which is why the
+# session used to be dropped on the floor and every data route answered 401.
+OPENER = None
+
+
+def build_opener(ctx=None):
+    handlers = [urllib.request.HTTPCookieProcessor(http.cookiejar.CookieJar())]
+    if ctx is not None:
+        handlers.append(urllib.request.HTTPSHandler(context=ctx))
+    return urllib.request.build_opener(*handlers)
+
 
 def call(method, path, body=None):
     """Returns (status_code, parsed_body). Never raises on HTTP status."""
@@ -50,7 +88,7 @@ def call(method, path, body=None):
         headers={"Content-Type": "application/json", "Accept": "application/json"},
     )
     try:
-        with urllib.request.urlopen(req, context=CTX, timeout=20) as r:
+        with OPENER.open(req, timeout=20) as r:
             raw = r.read().decode(); status = r.status
     except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
         raw = e.read().decode(); status = e.code
@@ -61,33 +99,95 @@ def call(method, path, body=None):
     return status, parsed
 
 
+def abort(msg, hint=""):
+    """Could not run — distinct from 'ran and found problems'. See exit codes above."""
+    print(_c("\nABORT", "31") + "  " + msg)
+    if hint:
+        print(hint)
+    print()
+    return 2
+
+
 def main():
-    global BASE, CTX
+    global BASE, CTX, OPENER
     ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Work Package Suite API smoke test")
     ap.add_argument("base_url", nargs="?", default="http://localhost:8000",
                     help="Site root, no /api (default: http://localhost:8000)")
     ap.add_argument("--insecure", action="store_true", help="skip TLS verification")
     ap.add_argument("--keep", action="store_true", help="keep the demo project (don't delete)")
+    ap.add_argument("--user", default=os.getenv("WP_SMOKE_USER", ""),
+                    help="account to sign in as (default: $WP_SMOKE_USER). Use an admin account.")
+    ap.add_argument("--password", default=os.getenv("WP_SMOKE_PASSWORD", ""),
+                    help="its password (default: $WP_SMOKE_PASSWORD — preferred, "
+                         "so it stays out of shell history)")
     args = ap.parse_args()
     BASE = args.base_url.rstrip("/")
     if args.insecure:
         CTX = ssl.create_default_context(); CTX.check_hostname = False; CTX.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE
+    OPENER = build_opener(CTX)
 
     print(f"\nWork Package Suite — API smoke test\nTarget: {BASE}\n")
 
+    # Refuse to start without credentials rather than running headlong into 401s.
+    if not args.user or not args.password:
+        missing = " and ".join(
+            n for n, v in (("WP_SMOKE_USER", args.user), ("WP_SMOKE_PASSWORD", args.password)) if not v)
+        return abort(
+            f"no credentials — {missing} not set.",
+            "  Every /api/ route except /api/health needs a session, so there is nothing\n"
+            "  meaningful to test without one. Set them and re-run:\n\n"
+            "      export WP_SMOKE_USER=<admin-account>\n"
+            "      export WP_SMOKE_PASSWORD='…'\n\n"
+            "  Or pass --user/--password. Use an admin account: the run creates a project\n"
+            "  and deletes it again, and the delete needs Project Admin on it.")
+
     project_id = None
+    # Guards the sign-out in `finally`. Without it an ABORT on a rejected login still
+    # ran the logout checks, which "passed" — a session that never existed is trivially
+    # refused after logout — and printed PASS lines underneath an abort message.
+    logged_in = False
     try:
-        # 1) Health — API is up and reachable through the proxy.
+        # 1) Health — API is up and reachable through the proxy. Exempt from auth,
+        # so this also isolates "host unreachable" from "credentials rejected".
         try:
             st, body = call("GET", "/api/health")
         except urllib.error.URLError as e:
-            print(_c("\nABORT", "31") + f"  cannot reach {BASE}/api/health — {e}\n"
+            return abort(f"cannot reach {BASE}/api/health — {e}",
-                  "  Is the stack up (docker compose ps) and the URL correct?\n")
+                         "  Is the stack up (docker compose ps) and the URL correct?")
-            return 1
         check("health endpoint returns ok", st == 200 and isinstance(body, dict) and body.get("ok") is True,
               f"status={st} body={body}")
 
-        # 2) Create a project (writes to the projects table).
+        # 2) Sign in. The cookie the response sets is held by OPENER's jar and rides
+        # every request after this one.
+        st, body = call("POST", "/api/auth/login",
+                        {"username": args.user, "password": args.password})
+        if st != 200:
+            detail = body.get("detail") if isinstance(body, dict) else body
+            hint = ("  The account may be locked: the API locks an account for a while after\n"
+                    "  a few consecutive failures (AUTH_MAX_ATTEMPTS / AUTH_LOCKOUT_MINUTES),\n"
+                    "  so re-running with the wrong password makes this worse, not better.\n"
+                    "  Check the password, then wait out the lockout window."
+                    if st in (401, 403, 423, 429) else
+                    "  Unexpected status from the login endpoint — check the API logs.")
+            return abort(f"could not sign in as '{args.user}' (HTTP {st}): {detail}", hint)
+        logged_in = True
+        check("login issues a session", st == 200)
+
+        # 3) Prove the session actually travels — this is the check whose absence let
+        # an unauthenticated version of this script look like a broken stack.
+        st, me = call("GET", "/api/auth/me")
+        who = (me or {}).get("user", {}) if isinstance(me, dict) else {}
+        check("session is accepted on an authenticated route",
+              st == 200 and who.get("username", "").lower() == args.user.lower(),
+              f"status={st} body={me}")
+        role = who.get("role", "?")
+        print(f"  ..... signed in as {who.get('username', args.user)} (role: {role})")
+        if role not in ("admin", "project_super_user", "project_admin"):
+            print(_c("  NOTE", "33") + f"  '{role}' cannot archive or delete a project, so the "
+                  "archive checks and the\n         cleanup step will fail and a stray test project "
+                  "will be left behind.\n         Re-run with an admin account for a clean pass.")
+
+        # 4) Create a project (writes to the projects table).
         st, proj = call("POST", "/api/projects", {
             "name": "ZZ Smoke Test Project", "number": "SMOKE-001",
             "client": "Internal QA", "division": "Controls", "site": "Test Host",
@@ -96,14 +196,14 @@ def main():
         project_id = proj.get("id") if isinstance(proj, dict) else None
         check("create project", st == 200 and bool(project_id), f"status={st}")
 
-        # 3) Read it back + confirm it's in the list (SQL round-trip).
+        # 5) Read it back + confirm it's in the list (SQL round-trip).
         st, got = call("GET", f"/api/projects/{project_id}")
         check("fetch project by id", st == 200 and got.get("number") == "SMOKE-001", f"status={st}")
         st, lst = call("GET", "/api/projects")
         check("project appears in list", st == 200 and any(p.get("id") == project_id for p in lst),
               f"status={st} count={len(lst) if isinstance(lst, list) else '?'}")
 
-        # 4) Create a SOP linked to the project.
+        # 6) Create a SOP linked to the project.
         st, sop = call("POST", "/api/sops", {
             "project_id": project_id, "name": "ZZ Smoke SOP", "number": "SMOKE-001",
             "complete": True, "created_by": "smoketest",
@@ -116,7 +216,7 @@ def main():
         st, latest = call("GET", f"/api/sops/latest?project_id={project_id}")
         check("latest SOP for project resolves", st == 200 and latest.get("id") == sop_id, f"status={st}")
 
-        # 5) Create a Work Package with one OPEN constraint (not release-ready).
+        # 7) Create a Work Package with one OPEN constraint (not release-ready).
         st, wp = call("POST", "/api/wps", {
             "project_id": project_id, "sop_id": sop_id,
             "number": "WP01-SMOKE", "subject": "Smoke test package", "type": "Conduit Install",
@@ -128,11 +228,11 @@ def main():
         wp_id = wp.get("id") if isinstance(wp, dict) else None
         check("create work package", st == 200 and bool(wp_id), f"status={st}")
 
-        # 6) The AWP release gate: issuing with an open constraint must be REFUSED (409).
+        # 8) The AWP release gate: issuing with an open constraint must be REFUSED (409).
         st, refused = call("POST", f"/api/wps/{wp_id}/issue")
         check("issue is blocked while a constraint is open (409)", st == 409, f"status={st} body={refused}")
 
-        # 7) Clear the constraint (upsert), then issue must SUCCEED (200, status Issued).
+        # 9) Clear the constraint (upsert), then issue must SUCCEED (200, status Issued).
         call("POST", "/api/wps", {
             "id": wp_id, "project_id": project_id, "sop_id": sop_id,
             "number": "WP01-SMOKE", "subject": "Smoke test package", "type": "Conduit Install",
@@ -146,16 +246,16 @@ def main():
               f"status={st}")
         check("issued_at timestamp is set", isinstance(issued, dict) and bool(issued.get("issued_at")))
 
-        # 8) Status transition endpoint.
+        # 10) Status transition endpoint.
         st, prog = call("POST", f"/api/wps/{wp_id}/status", {"status": "In Progress"})
         check("status transition endpoint", st == 200 and prog.get("status") == "In Progress", f"status={st}")
 
-        # 9) Metrics aggregate for the project (Python aggregation over SQL rows).
+        # 11) Metrics aggregate for the project (Python aggregation over SQL rows).
         st, m = call("GET", f"/api/wps/metrics?project_id={project_id}")
         check("metrics endpoint aggregates", st == 200 and isinstance(m, dict) and m.get("total", 0) >= 1,
               f"status={st} metrics={m}")
 
-        # 10) Comment / feedback write + read.
+        # 12) Comment / feedback write + read.
         st, c = call("POST", "/api/feedback", {
             "type": "wp_review_comment", "name": "smoketest", "wp_id": wp_id,
             "text": "SMOKE TEST comment — safe to delete", "page": "/smoketest"})
@@ -164,12 +264,36 @@ def main():
         check("comment is queryable", st == 200 and any("SMOKE TEST" in (x.get("text") or "") for x in comments),
               f"status={st}")
 
-        # 11) WPs filter by project.
+        # 13) WPs filter by project.
         st, wps = call("GET", f"/api/wps?project_id={project_id}")
         check("list WPs by project", st == 200 and any(w.get("id") == wp_id for w in wps), f"status={st}")
 
+        # 14) Archiving a project: it leaves the default list, stays reachable with
+        # archived=all, and freezes read-only — then unarchiving restores all three.
+        # The freeze is the whole point of the feature, so it is asserted, not assumed.
+        st, arch = call("POST", f"/api/projects/{project_id}/archive", {"archived": True})
+        check("archive project", st == 200 and arch.get("archived") is True, f"status={st}")
+        st, lst = call("GET", "/api/projects")
+        check("archived project drops out of the default list",
+              st == 200 and not any(p.get("id") == project_id for p in lst), f"status={st}")
+        st, lst = call("GET", "/api/projects?archived=all")
+        check("archived project is still there with archived=all",
+              st == 200 and any(p.get("id") == project_id for p in lst), f"status={st}")
+        st, refused = call("POST", "/api/wps", {
+            "id": wp_id, "project_id": project_id, "sop_id": sop_id,
+            "number": "WP01-SMOKE", "subject": "edited while archived", "type": "Conduit Install",
+            "status": "Scheduled", "data": {"disciplines": ["Electrical"], "hours": "40"}})
+        check("writing to an archived project is refused (409)", st == 409, f"status={st} body={refused}")
+        st, unarch = call("POST", f"/api/projects/{project_id}/archive", {"archived": False})
+        check("unarchive project", st == 200 and unarch.get("archived") is False, f"status={st}")
+        st, _ = call("POST", "/api/wps", {
+            "id": wp_id, "project_id": project_id, "sop_id": sop_id,
+            "number": "WP01-SMOKE", "subject": "Smoke test package", "type": "Conduit Install",
+            "status": "In Progress", "data": {"disciplines": ["Electrical"], "hours": "40"}})
+        check("writing succeeds again once unarchived", st == 200, f"status={st}")
+
     finally:
-        # 12) Cleanup — deleting the project cascades to its SOPs and WPs (FK ON DELETE CASCADE).
+        # 15) Cleanup — deleting the project cascades to its SOPs and WPs (FK ON DELETE CASCADE).
         if project_id and not args.keep:
             st, _ = call("DELETE", f"/api/projects/{project_id}")
             check("delete project (cascades SOP + WPs)", st == 200, f"status={st}")
@@ -179,6 +303,15 @@ def main():
         elif project_id and args.keep:
             print(f"\n  --keep: left demo project {project_id} ('ZZ Smoke Test Project') in the database.")
 
+        # 16) Sign out. Exercises the logout endpoint, and means a run does not end
+        # holding a live session — which matters when this is run from a shared
+        # jump host or a CI worker. Only if we got one: see `logged_in`.
+        if logged_in:
+            st, _ = call("POST", "/api/auth/logout")
+            check("logout clears the session", st == 200, f"status={st}")
+            st, _ = call("GET", "/api/auth/me")
+            check("session is refused after logout (401)", st == 401, f"status={st}")
+
     # ── summary ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
     total = len(_PASS) + len(_FAIL)
     print(f"\n{'-'*52}\n{len(_PASS)}/{total} checks passed.")

tests/browser_check.py

@@ -0,0 +1,456 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Front-end check for the Work Package Suite — runs the pages in a real browser.
+
+server/smoketest.py proves the API works. This proves the PAGES work: that they
+boot without a JavaScript error, that the role-dependent renderings are what they
+should be, and that the layout rules the console pages depend on are in effect.
+Those are the things no amount of static analysis can settle, and the reason this
+exists is that they went unverified once — see the git history for KNOWN-ISSUES 3.
+
+Self-contained by default: it creates a throwaway SQLite database, seeds a fixture
+(two projects, one admin, one Project Super User, one plain member, an account
+spanning both jobs), starts its own uvicorn, drives headless Edge or Chrome over
+the DevTools Protocol, and tears all of it down. Your real database is never
+touched. Stdlib only — no pip, matching server/smoketest.py.
+
+    python tests/browser_check.py                 # everything, self-contained
+    python tests/browser_check.py --keep-server   # leave the server up to poke at
+    WP_BROWSER=/path/to/chrome python tests/browser_check.py
+
+Sessions are established by minting a token with the app's own auth.create_token()
+and setting it as the wp_session cookie — the same cookie the server would issue,
+without scripting the login form.
+
+Exit codes: 0 all checks passed · 1 one or more failed · 2 could not run (no
+browser found, or the server would not start). 2 is distinct on purpose: "I could
+not test this" is not the same answer as "this is broken".
+"""
+import argparse
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import tempfile
+import time
+import urllib.error
+import urllib.request
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+
+import cdp                                                    # noqa: E402
+
+PW = "CorrectHorseBattery9"
+_PASS, _FAIL = [], []
+
+
+def _c(s, code):
+    return f"\033[{code}m{s}\033[0m" if sys.stdout.isatty() else s
+
+
+def chk(name, cond, extra=""):
+    if cond:
+        _PASS.append(name)
+        print("  " + _c("PASS", "32") + "  " + name)
+    else:
+        _FAIL.append(name)
+        print("  " + _c("FAIL", "31") + "  " + name + (f"   {extra}" if extra else ""))
+    return bool(cond)
+
+
+def abort(msg, hint=""):
+    print(_c("\nABORT", "31") + "  " + msg)
+    if hint:
+        print(hint)
+    print()
+    return 2
+
+
+# ── fixture ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+def seed(db_path):
+    """Build the throwaway database. Returns {username: session token}.
+
+    The shape matters, in two ways:
+      • `mix` belongs to BOTH projects while `sue` administers only Job A, which is
+        what makes an out-of-scope, read-only row appear in the directory — the case
+        the role exists to get right.
+      • `bob` is on Job B alone, so he is invisible to `sue` entirely. Without
+        someone in that position the admin and the super user would see the same
+        number of rows and the scoping assertion would prove nothing."""
+    os.environ["DATABASE_URL"] = "sqlite:///" + db_path.replace("\\", "/")
+    os.environ.setdefault("AUTH_SECRET_KEY", "browser-check-secret-not-for-production")
+    from server.db import SessionLocal, Base, engine
+    from server import models, auth
+    Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine)
+
+    with SessionLocal() as db:
+        def mk(username, role):
+            db.add(models.User(id="user_" + username, username=username,
+                               email=f"{username}@example.test", full_name=username.title(),
+                               password_hash=auth.hash_password(PW), role=role))
+
+        mk("root", auth.ROLE_ADMIN)
+        mk("sue", auth.ROLE_PROJECT_SUPER)      # super user on Job A
+        mk("pat", auth.ROLE_PROJECT_USER)       # Job A only
+        mk("mix", auth.ROLE_PROJECT_USER)       # both jobs -> read-only to sue
+        mk("bob", auth.ROLE_PROJECT_USER)       # Job B only -> invisible to sue
+        mk("sam", auth.ROLE_PROJECT_SUPER)      # peer super user
+        mk("legacy", "user")                    # pre-roles spelling
+        db.add(models.Project(id="projA", name="Job A", number="A-1", client="Internal QA"))
+        db.add(models.Project(id="projB", name="Job B", number="B-1", client="Internal QA"))
+        # Parents before children: no relationship() means the ORM has no flush
+        # order to follow, and foreign keys are enforced. See models.py.
+        db.flush()
+        for i, (uid, pid, role) in enumerate([
+            ("user_sue", "projA", ""), ("user_pat", "projA", ""), ("user_mix", "projA", ""),
+            ("user_mix", "projB", ""), ("user_bob", "projB", ""),
+            ("user_sam", "projA", ""), ("user_legacy", "projA", ""),
+        ]):
+            db.add(models.ProjectMember(id=f"pm{i}", user_id=uid, project_id=pid, role=role))
+        # Job A gets a complete SOP and two packages. Without a SOP the field view's
+        # GET /api/sops/latest correctly answers 404 ("No SOP found") and the browser
+        # logs it as an error — a false alarm in a page-boot check.
+        db.add(models.Sop(id="sopA", project_id="projA", name="Job A SOP", number="A-1",
+                          complete=True,
+                          data={"governance": {"disciplines": ["Mechanical", "Electrical"]}}))
+        db.flush()
+        for wid, num, subj, status in (("wpA1", "WP01-COND", "1P horn/strobe conduit", "Issued"),
+                                       ("wpA2", "WP02-WIRE", "1P wire pull", "In Progress")):
+            db.add(models.WorkPackage(
+                id=wid, project_id="projA", sop_id="sopA", number=num, subject=subj,
+                status=status, type="Conduit Install",
+                data={"disciplines": ["Electrical"], "hours": "40",
+                      "constraints": [{"name": "Materials", "status": "cleared", "comment": ""}]}))
+        db.commit()
+        return {u.username: auth.create_token(u)
+                for u in db.query(models.User).all()}
+
+
+def start_server(port, db_path):
+    env = dict(os.environ)
+    env["DATABASE_URL"] = "sqlite:///" + db_path.replace("\\", "/")
+    env.setdefault("AUTH_SECRET_KEY", "browser-check-secret-not-for-production")
+    proc = subprocess.Popen(
+        [sys.executable, "-m", "uvicorn", "server.app:app", "--host", "127.0.0.1",
+         "--port", str(port), "--log-level", "warning"],
+        env=env, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
+        cwd=os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
+    for _ in range(160):
+        try:
+            with urllib.request.urlopen(f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}/api/health", timeout=1):
+                return proc
+        except Exception:
+            if proc.poll() is not None:
+                return None
+            time.sleep(0.25)
+    proc.kill()
+    return None
+
+
+# ── the checks ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+USERS_READY = "!!document.querySelector('#users-table table, #users-table .note:not(:empty)')"
+
+
+def run(page, base, tok):
+    def visit(user, path, wait_for=None):
+        page.clear_cookies()
+        page.set_cookie("wp_session", tok[user])
+        return page.goto(base + path, wait_for=wait_for)
+
+    # ── users.html as an administrator ────────────────────────────────────────
+    print("\nUser Directory — as an administrator")
+    visit("root", "/users.html", USERS_READY)
+    chk("page boots with no JavaScript errors", not page.js_errors(), page.js_errors())
+    chk("auth resolved to the admin account", page.eval("(window.WP_USER||{}).role") == "admin")
+    chk("the directory is visible",
+        page.eval("getComputedStyle(document.getElementById('users-main')).display") != "none")
+    chk("manager table renders 9 columns",
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#users-table thead th').length") == 9,
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#users-table thead th').length"))
+    chk("an admin sees every account in the fixture (7)",
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#users-table tbody tr').length") == 7,
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#users-table tbody tr').length"))
+    chk("rows are one line tall (the regression the runbook warns about)",
+        page.eval("(()=>{const r=document.querySelector('#users-table tbody tr');"
+                  "return r ? r.getBoundingClientRect().height : 999})()") < 44,
+        page.eval("(()=>{const r=document.querySelector('#users-table tbody tr');"
+                  "return r ? Math.round(r.getBoundingClientRect().height) : -1})()"))
+    chk("the table does not overflow its card",
+        page.eval("(()=>{const t=document.querySelector('#users-table');"
+                  "return t.scrollWidth <= t.clientWidth + 1})()"))
+    chk("the page never scrolls sideways",
+        page.eval("document.documentElement.scrollWidth <= window.innerWidth + 1"))
+    chk("create form is offered",
+        page.eval("getComputedStyle(document.getElementById('create-card')).display") != "none")
+    chk("an admin may grant all four roles",
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#nu-role option').length") == 4,
+        page.eval("[...document.querySelectorAll('#nu-role option')].map(o=>o.value)"))
+    chk("job-function list is populated",
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#nu-project-role option').length") == 15)
+    chk("scope banner names the Administrator role",
+        "Administrator" in (page.eval("document.getElementById('scope-banner').textContent") or ""))
+    chk("permissions dropdowns render per row",
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#users-table tbody select.role-select').length") >= 8)
+
+    # Your own row: permissions locked so you cannot demote yourself, job function
+    # still editable. Asserted on the two cells, not "no select in the row".
+    ROW = ("const r=[...document.querySelectorAll('#users-table tbody tr')]"
+           ".find(r=>r.querySelector('.me-tag'));")
+    def own(q):
+        return "(()=>{" + ROW + "if(!r)return false;const c=r.cells[3];return " + q + "})()"
+    chk("your own permissions cell is locked, not a dropdown",
+        page.eval(own("!c.querySelector('select') && !!c.querySelector('.tag')")))
+    chk("...and wears the Administrator pill", page.eval(own("!!c.querySelector('.tag.admin')")))
+    chk("...while your job function stays editable",
+        page.eval("(()=>{" + ROW + "return !!r && !!r.cells[4].querySelector('select')})()"))
+
+    page.eval("[...document.querySelectorAll('#users-table tbody button')]"
+              ".find(b=>/project/i.test(b.textContent)).click()")
+    time.sleep(0.9)
+    page.ws.drain(0.5)
+    chk("project-access dialog opens", page.eval("!!document.getElementById('proj-modal')"))
+    chk("...and lists projects to tick",
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#proj-list input[type=checkbox]').length") >= 1)
+    page.key("Escape")
+    chk("...and Escape closes it", page.eval("!document.getElementById('proj-modal')"))
+
+    # ── users.html as a Project Super User ────────────────────────────────────
+    print("\nUser Directory — as a Project Super User (Job A only)")
+    visit("sue", "/users.html", USERS_READY)
+    chk("page boots with no JavaScript errors", not page.js_errors(), page.js_errors())
+    banner = page.eval("document.getElementById('scope-banner').textContent") or ""
+    chk("scope banner names the Project Super User role", "Project Super User" in banner, banner[:120])
+    chk("...and names the project they administer", "Job A" in banner, banner[:120])
+    # 6 of the 7: everyone on Job A, plus the admin (who reaches every project), but
+    # not `bob`, who is on Job B alone.
+    chk("only in-scope accounts are listed (6 of 7)",
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#users-table tbody tr').length") == 6,
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#users-table tbody tr').length"))
+    chk("...and an account on a job they cannot see is absent entirely",
+        page.eval("!/\\bbob\\b/.test(document.getElementById('users-table').textContent)"))
+    chk("accounts on other jobs are read-only",
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#users-table tbody tr.is-locked').length") >= 1)
+    chk("...and the reason is readable on hover",
+        page.eval("[...document.querySelectorAll('#users-table tbody tr.is-locked [title]')]"
+                  ".some(el=>/administer/i.test(el.title))"))
+    chk("a peer super user shows its own colour-coded pill",
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#users-table tbody .tag.super').length") >= 1)
+    chk("a super user may grant only the two roles below their own",
+        page.eval("[...document.querySelectorAll('#nu-role option')].map(o=>o.value).join(',')")
+        == "project_admin,project_user",
+        page.eval("[...document.querySelectorAll('#nu-role option')].map(o=>o.value)"))
+    chk("create form demands a project",
+        "*" in (page.eval("document.getElementById('nu-projects-label').textContent") or ""))
+    chk("their single project is pre-ticked",
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#nu-project-list input:checked').length") == 1)
+
+    # ── users.html as an ordinary member ──────────────────────────────────────
+    print("\nUser Directory — as an ordinary Project User")
+    visit("pat", "/users.html", USERS_READY)
+    chk("page boots with no JavaScript errors", not page.js_errors(), page.js_errors())
+    chk("read-only directory renders 6 columns",
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#users-table thead th').length") == 6,
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#users-table thead th').length"))
+    chk("no create form",
+        page.eval("getComputedStyle(document.getElementById('create-card')).display") == "none")
+    chk("no action controls anywhere in the table",
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#users-table tbody button, "
+                  "#users-table tbody select').length") == 0)
+    chk("no scope banner claiming rights",
+        (page.eval("document.getElementById('scope-banner').textContent") or "").strip() == "")
+    chk("colleagues' emails are reachable as mailto links",
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#users-table tbody a[href^=mailto]').length") >= 1)
+
+    # ── field.html and the navigation drawer ──────────────────────────────────
+    print("\nField view — navigation drawer")
+    visit("pat", "/field.html", "!!document.getElementById('wp-navbtn')")
+    chk("page boots with no JavaScript errors", not page.js_errors(), page.js_errors())
+    chk("hamburger is mounted in the app bar",
+        page.eval("!!document.querySelector('.wp-appbar #wp-navbtn')"))
+    chk("drawer starts hidden from assistive tech",
+        page.eval("document.getElementById('wp-sidenav').getAttribute('aria-hidden')") == "true")
+    chk("drawer is off-screen when closed",
+        page.eval("document.getElementById('wp-sidenav').getBoundingClientRect().right") <= 1,
+        page.eval("Math.round(document.getElementById('wp-sidenav').getBoundingClientRect().right)"))
+    page.click("#wp-navbtn")
+    chk("clicking it opens the drawer",
+        page.eval("document.getElementById('wp-sidenav').classList.contains('is-open')"))
+    chk("...fully on-screen",
+        page.eval("document.getElementById('wp-sidenav').getBoundingClientRect().left") >= -1)
+    chk("...with the scrim shown", page.eval("!document.querySelector('.wp-navscrim').hidden"))
+    chk("...and aria-expanded flipped",
+        page.eval("document.getElementById('wp-navbtn').getAttribute('aria-expanded')") == "true")
+    chk("Field View is marked as the current page",
+        (page.eval("(document.querySelector('.wp-sidenav-link.is-current .wp-sidenav-label')||{})"
+                   ".textContent") or "").startswith("Field View"))
+    chk("...and exposed to assistive tech as such",
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('.wp-sidenav-link[aria-current=page]').length") == 1)
+    chk("Admin Console is hidden from a non-admin",
+        page.eval("![...document.querySelectorAll('.wp-sidenav-link')]"
+                  ".some(a=>/Admin Console/.test(a.textContent))"))
+    chk("User Directory is offered to everyone",
+        page.eval("[...document.querySelectorAll('.wp-sidenav-link')]"
+                  ".some(a=>/User Directory/.test(a.textContent))"))
+    chk("tap targets are at least 44px tall",
+        page.eval("[...document.querySelectorAll('.wp-sidenav-link')]"
+                  ".every(a=>a.getBoundingClientRect().height >= 44)"))
+    chk("focus moved into the drawer",
+        page.eval("document.getElementById('wp-sidenav').contains(document.activeElement)"))
+    page.key("Escape")
+    chk("Escape closes it",
+        not page.eval("document.getElementById('wp-sidenav').classList.contains('is-open')"))
+    page.click("#wp-navbtn")
+    page.click(".wp-navscrim")
+    chk("clicking the scrim closes it",
+        not page.eval("document.getElementById('wp-sidenav').classList.contains('is-open')"))
+
+    visit("pat", "/field.html?project=projA", "!!document.getElementById('wp-sidenav')")
+    chk("the drawer carries the active project on project-scoped links",
+        page.eval("(()=>{const l=[...document.querySelectorAll('.wp-sidenav-link')]"
+                  ".filter(a=>/work-package-suite|field\\.html/.test(a.getAttribute('href')||''));"
+                  "return l.length>0 && l.every(a=>/project=projA/.test(a.getAttribute('href')))})()"))
+    chk("...and leaves non-project pages alone",
+        page.eval("!/project=/.test(document.querySelector"
+                  "('.wp-sidenav-link[href^=\"users.html\"]').getAttribute('href'))"))
+    chk("the field view lists the project's work packages",
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#wp-list .wp-card').length") == 2,
+        page.eval("document.querySelectorAll('#wp-list .wp-card').length"))
+    chk("the drawer sits above the app bar",
+        page.eval("(()=>{const z=n=>+getComputedStyle(n).zIndex||0;"
+                  "return z(document.getElementById('wp-sidenav')) > "
+                  "z(document.querySelector('.wp-appbar'))})()"))
+
+    visit("root", "/field.html", "!!document.getElementById('wp-sidenav')")
+    chk("Admin Console appears for an admin",
+        page.eval("[...document.querySelectorAll('.wp-sidenav-link')]"
+                  ".some(a=>/Admin Console/.test(a.textContent))"))
+
+    # ── admin.html: the console.css extraction ────────────────────────────────
+    # console.css was lifted out of admin.html's inline <style> to be shared with
+    # the directory. A rule lost in that move shows up here, not on the new page.
+    print("\nAdmin Console — shared console.css still in effect")
+    visit("root", "/admin.html",
+          "!!document.querySelector('#projects-table table, #projects-table .note')")
+    chk("page boots with no JavaScript errors", not page.js_errors(), page.js_errors())
+    chk("console is revealed for an admin",
+        page.eval("getComputedStyle(document.getElementById('admin-main')).display") != "none")
+    chk("console.css is loaded",
+        page.eval("[...document.styleSheets].some(s=>(s.href||'').endsWith('console.css'))"))
+    chk("shared tokens resolve (--ctl)",
+        (page.eval("getComputedStyle(document.documentElement).getPropertyValue('--ctl')")
+         or "").strip() == "32px")
+    chk("cards keep their white surface and hairline border",
+        page.eval("(()=>{const c=getComputedStyle(document.querySelector('.card'));"
+                  "return c.backgroundColor==='rgb(255, 255, 255)' && c.borderTopWidth==='1px'})()"))
+    chk("card headings keep the uppercase accent treatment",
+        page.eval("(()=>{const h=getComputedStyle(document.querySelector('.card h2'));"
+                  "return h.textTransform==='uppercase' && h.color==='rgb(15, 98, 254)'})()"))
+    chk("dense tables keep their sticky header and 13px body",
+        page.eval("(()=>{const t=document.querySelector('#projects-table table');if(!t)return false;"
+                  "return getComputedStyle(t.querySelector('th')).position==='sticky' && "
+                  "getComputedStyle(t).fontSize==='13px'})()"))
+    chk("project rows are one line tall",
+        page.eval("(()=>{const r=document.querySelector('#projects-table tbody tr');"
+                  "return r ? r.getBoundingClientRect().height : 999})()") < 44)
+    chk("buttons keep the square Carbon shape",
+        page.eval("getComputedStyle(document.querySelector('.card button')).borderRadius") == "0px")
+    chk("user administration is gone from the console",
+        page.eval("!document.getElementById('users-table')"))
+    chk("...replaced by a link to the directory",
+        page.eval("!!document.querySelector('a[href=\"users.html\"]')"))
+    chk("the page never scrolls sideways",
+        page.eval("document.documentElement.scrollWidth <= window.innerWidth + 1"))
+
+    visit("pat", "/admin.html", "true")
+    time.sleep(0.6)
+    chk("a non-admin sees the Admins-only notice",
+        page.eval("getComputedStyle(document.getElementById('admin-denied')).display") != "none")
+    chk("...and none of the console",
+        page.eval("getComputedStyle(document.getElementById('admin-main')).display") == "none")
+
+
+def main():
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Work Package Suite front-end browser check")
+    ap.add_argument("--base-url", help="test an already-running server instead of starting one")
+    ap.add_argument("--keep-server", action="store_true",
+                    help="leave the throwaway server and database up afterwards")
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    exe = cdp.find_browser()
+    if not exe:
+        return abort("no headless-capable browser found.",
+                     "  Install Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome, or point WP_BROWSER at one.\n"
+                     "  Nothing was tested — this is not a failure of the app.")
+    print(f"\nWork Package Suite — front-end browser check\nBrowser: {exe}")
+
+    tmpdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="wpsuite-browser-check-")
+    db_path = os.path.join(tmpdir, "check.db")
+    server = None
+    try:
+        tok = seed(db_path)
+        if args.base_url:
+            base = args.base_url.rstrip("/")
+        else:
+            port = cdp.free_port()
+            base = f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}"
+            server = start_server(port, db_path)
+            if server is None:
+                return abort("the test server would not start.",
+                             "  Try: python -m uvicorn server.app:app --port 8000\n"
+                             "  and re-run with --base-url http://127.0.0.1:8000")
+        print(f"Target:  {base}")
+
+        browser = cdp.Browser(exe)
+        page = browser.page()
+        try:
+            run(page, base, tok)
+        finally:
+            page.close()
+            browser.close()
+    except RuntimeError as e:
+        return abort(str(e))
+    finally:
+        if args.keep_server:
+            print(f"\n  --keep-server: still up at {base}, database at {db_path}")
+            print("  Sign in as root / " + PW)
+        else:
+            if server:
+                # Wait for it to actually exit before deleting the database out from
+                # under it: on Windows the open SQLite file blocks the rmtree, and
+                # ignore_errors=True means that failure is silent — which is how six
+                # abandoned temp directories accumulated the first time round.
+                server.kill()
+                try:
+                    server.wait(timeout=10)
+                except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
+                    pass
+            # seed() built an engine in THIS process too, and its pool holds the
+            # SQLite file open until disposed — the second reason a temp directory
+            # survived a run that reported success.
+            try:
+                from server.db import engine
+                engine.dispose()
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+            import shutil
+            for _ in range(10):
+                shutil.rmtree(tmpdir, ignore_errors=True)
+                if not os.path.exists(tmpdir):
+                    break
+                time.sleep(0.3)
+            if os.path.exists(tmpdir):
+                print(f"  note: could not remove {tmpdir} — delete it by hand")
+
+    total = len(_PASS) + len(_FAIL)
+    print(f"\n{'-' * 54}\n{len(_PASS)}/{total} checks passed.")
+    if _FAIL:
+        print(_c(f"FAILED ({len(_FAIL)}):", "31"))
+        for f in _FAIL:
+            print("  - " + f)
+        print("\nResult: " + _c("FAIL", "31") + "\n")
+        return 1
+    print("\nResult: " + _c("ALL PASS — the pages boot and render as intended.", "32") + "\n")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())

tests/cdp.py

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+"""Minimal Chrome DevTools Protocol client. Stdlib only — no pip, no Selenium.
+
+Enough CDP to load a page in a headless browser as a signed-in user, capture any
+JavaScript that failed, and interrogate the rendered DOM. Same no-dependency rule
+as server/smoketest.py, for the same reason: these tools have to run on a plain
+Python install on whatever machine is to hand.
+
+The WebSocket bits are hand-rolled because there is no stdlib ws client and
+http.client cannot upgrade: handshake, masked client frames out, unmasked in.
+
+Used by tests/browser_check.py. Nothing in the app imports this.
+"""
+import base64
+import json
+import os
+import shutil
+import socket
+import struct
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import tempfile
+import time
+import urllib.request
+
+# Where to find a headless-capable browser. Edge ships with Windows, so it is
+# first; Chrome is accepted too. WP_BROWSER overrides everything.
+_CANDIDATES = [
+    r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe",
+    r"C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe",
+    r"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe",
+    r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe",
+    "/usr/bin/microsoft-edge",
+    "/usr/bin/google-chrome",
+    "/usr/bin/chromium",
+    "/Applications/Microsoft Edge.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Edge",
+    "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome",
+]
+
+
+def find_browser():
+    """Path to a usable browser, or None. Check this before running: a missing
+    browser is 'could not run', not 'the app is broken'."""
+    env = os.getenv("WP_BROWSER")
+    if env:
+        return env if os.path.exists(env) else None
+    for p in _CANDIDATES:
+        if os.path.exists(p):
+            return p
+    for name in ("msedge", "google-chrome", "chromium", "chrome"):
+        found = shutil.which(name)
+        if found:
+            return found
+    return None
+
+
+def free_port():
+    with socket.socket() as s:
+        s.bind(("127.0.0.1", 0))
+        return s.getsockname()[1]
+
+
+class WS:
+    """One WebSocket connection, speaking CDP's request/response + event mix."""
+
+    def __init__(self, url, timeout=25):
+        assert url.startswith("ws://"), url
+        hostport, _, path = url[5:].partition("/")
+        host, _, port = hostport.partition(":")
+        self.sock = socket.create_connection((host, int(port or 80)), timeout=timeout)
+        self.sock.settimeout(timeout)
+        key = base64.b64encode(os.urandom(16)).decode()
+        self.sock.sendall((
+            f"GET /{path} HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: {hostport}\r\nUpgrade: websocket\r\n"
+            f"Connection: Upgrade\r\nSec-WebSocket-Key: {key}\r\n"
+            f"Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13\r\n\r\n").encode())
+        buf = b""
+        while b"\r\n\r\n" not in buf:
+            chunk = self.sock.recv(4096)
+            if not chunk:
+                raise EOFError("handshake closed")
+            buf += chunk
+        head, _, rest = buf.partition(b"\r\n\r\n")
+        if b" 101 " not in head.split(b"\r\n")[0]:
+            raise RuntimeError("upgrade refused: " + head.decode(errors="replace")[:200])
+        self.buf = rest
+        self._id = 0
+        self.events = []
+
+    def _send_frame(self, payload: bytes):
+        mask = os.urandom(4)
+        n = len(payload)
+        h = bytearray([0x81])
+        if n < 126:
+            h.append(0x80 | n)
+        elif n < 1 << 16:
+            h.append(0x80 | 126); h += struct.pack(">H", n)
+        else:
+            h.append(0x80 | 127); h += struct.pack(">Q", n)
+        h += mask
+        self.sock.sendall(bytes(h) + bytes(b ^ mask[i % 4] for i, b in enumerate(payload)))
+
+    def _read(self, n):
+        while len(self.buf) < n:
+            chunk = self.sock.recv(65536)
+            if not chunk:
+                raise EOFError("socket closed")
+            self.buf += chunk
+        out, self.buf = self.buf[:n], self.buf[n:]
+        return out
+
+    def _recv_frame(self):
+        while True:
+            h = self._read(2)
+            op, ln = h[0] & 0x0F, h[1] & 0x7F
+            if ln == 126:
+                ln = struct.unpack(">H", self._read(2))[0]
+            elif ln == 127:
+                ln = struct.unpack(">Q", self._read(8))[0]
+            data = self._read(ln)
+            if op == 1:
+                return json.loads(data.decode())
+            if op == 8:
+                raise EOFError("browser closed the connection")
+            if op == 9:
+                self._send_frame(b"")           # ping -> pong
+
+    def call(self, method, params=None, timeout=25):
+        self._id += 1
+        mine = self._id
+        self._send_frame(json.dumps({"id": mine, "method": method,
+                                     "params": params or {}}).encode())
+        deadline = time.time() + timeout
+        while time.time() < deadline:
+            msg = self._recv_frame()
+            if msg.get("id") == mine:
+                if "error" in msg:
+                    raise RuntimeError(f"{method}: {msg['error']}")
+                return msg.get("result", {})
+            if "method" in msg:
+                self.events.append(msg)
+        raise TimeoutError(method)
+
+    def drain(self, seconds=0.4):
+        """Collect pending events without blocking on a reply."""
+        end = time.time() + seconds
+        self.sock.settimeout(0.15)
+        try:
+            while time.time() < end:
+                try:
+                    msg = self._recv_frame()
+                except (socket.timeout, TimeoutError):
+                    break
+                if "method" in msg:
+                    self.events.append(msg)
+        finally:
+            self.sock.settimeout(25)
+
+    def close(self):
+        try:
+            self.sock.close()
+        except OSError:
+            pass
+
+
+class Browser:
+    """A headless browser process and its debugging port.
+
+    Owns teardown, which is the fiddly part: a browser spawns a tree of renderer
+    and GPU processes, and killing the process we launched leaves the rest behind
+    (one careless run left 98 strays). So we kill the tree AND sweep anything still
+    holding our unique profile directory — matching on that path, never on the
+    process name, so a real browser the user has open is never touched.
+    """
+
+    # Launching is occasionally flaky: the process we start can hand off to another
+    # instance and exit rc=0 without ever binding the port, especially if a previous
+    # run left processes behind. Retrying with a fresh profile and port clears it.
+    ATTEMPTS = 3
+
+    def __init__(self, exe=None, port=None):
+        self.exe = exe or find_browser()
+        if not self.exe:
+            raise RuntimeError("no headless-capable browser found (set WP_BROWSER)")
+        last = ""
+        for attempt in range(1, self.ATTEMPTS + 1):
+            self.port = port if (port and attempt == 1) else free_port()
+            self.profile = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="wpsuite-cdp-")
+            self.proc = subprocess.Popen(
+                [self.exe, "--headless=new", f"--remote-debugging-port={self.port}",
+                 f"--user-data-dir={self.profile}", "--remote-allow-origins=*",
+                 "--no-first-run", "--no-default-browser-check", "--disable-gpu",
+                 "--disable-extensions", "--disable-sync",
+                 "--window-size=1400,1000", "about:blank"],
+                stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
+            for _ in range(160):
+                try:
+                    with urllib.request.urlopen(
+                            f"http://127.0.0.1:{self.port}/json/version", timeout=1) as r:
+                        json.load(r)
+                    return
+                except Exception:
+                    if self.proc.poll() is not None:
+                        last = f"exited rc={self.proc.returncode} without binding the port"
+                        break
+                    time.sleep(0.25)
+            else:
+                last = "never bound the debugging port"
+            self.close()
+            time.sleep(1.5)          # let the old tree finish dying
+        raise RuntimeError(f"browser would not start after {self.ATTEMPTS} attempts ({last})")
+
+    def page(self):
+        return Page(self.port)
+
+    def close(self):
+        pid = self.proc.pid
+        try:
+            self.proc.kill()
+        except OSError:
+            pass
+        if sys.platform == "win32":
+            subprocess.run(["taskkill", "/PID", str(pid), "/T", "/F"],
+                           stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
+            # Sweep any orphan that still has our profile open. Scoped to the temp
+            # profile path, so it cannot match a browser window the user opened.
+            leaf = os.path.basename(self.profile)
+            subprocess.run(
+                ["powershell", "-NoProfile", "-Command",
+                 "Get-CimInstance Win32_Process | Where-Object { $_.CommandLine -like "
+                 f"'*{leaf}*' }} | ForEach-Object {{ try {{ Stop-Process -Id "
+                 "$_.ProcessId -Force -ErrorAction Stop } catch {} }"],
+                stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
+        shutil.rmtree(self.profile, ignore_errors=True)
+
+
+class Page:
+    """One headless tab, with JS-error capture and a DOM query helper."""
+
+    def __init__(self, port):
+        self.ws = WS(self._page_ws(port))
+        for domain in ("Page.enable", "Runtime.enable", "Log.enable", "Network.enable"):
+            self.ws.call(domain)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _page_ws(port):
+        for _ in range(40):
+            with urllib.request.urlopen(f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}/json/list", timeout=2) as r:
+                for t in json.load(r):
+                    if t.get("type") == "page" and t.get("webSocketDebuggerUrl"):
+                        return t["webSocketDebuggerUrl"]
+            time.sleep(0.25)
+        raise RuntimeError("no page target")
+
+    def set_cookie(self, name, value, domain="127.0.0.1", path="/"):
+        self.ws.call("Network.setCookie", {"name": name, "value": value,
+                                          "domain": domain, "path": path})
+
+    def clear_cookies(self):
+        self.ws.call("Network.clearBrowserCookies")
+
+    def goto(self, url, wait_for=None, timeout=20):
+        """Navigate, then poll `wait_for` (a JS expression) until it is truthy.
+        The pages fetch their own data after load, so waiting on the load event
+        alone races the thing under test."""
+        self.ws.events.clear()
+        self.ws.call("Page.navigate", {"url": url})
+        deadline = time.time() + timeout
+        while time.time() < deadline:
+            self.ws.drain(0.25)
+            if any(e["method"] == "Page.loadEventFired" for e in self.ws.events):
+                break
+        if wait_for:
+            while time.time() < deadline:
+                try:
+                    if self.eval(wait_for) is True:
+                        break
+                except Exception:
+                    pass
+                self.ws.drain(0.2)
+        self.ws.drain(0.4)
+        return self
+
+    def eval(self, expr):
+        r = self.ws.call("Runtime.evaluate", {
+            "expression": expr, "returnByValue": True, "awaitPromise": True})
+        if "exceptionDetails" in r:
+            raise RuntimeError("JS threw: " + json.dumps(r["exceptionDetails"])[:300])
+        return r.get("result", {}).get("value")
+
+    def click(self, selector, settle=0.5):
+        self.eval(f"document.querySelector({selector!r}).click()")
+        time.sleep(settle)
+        self.ws.drain(0.2)
+
+    def key(self, name, settle=0.4):
+        self.eval(f"document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent('keydown',{{key:{name!r}}}))")
+        time.sleep(settle)
+
+    def js_errors(self):
+        """Everything that means 'this page did not boot cleanly': uncaught
+        exceptions, console.error calls, and browser-logged errors.
+
+        Icon and manifest probes are ignored — they are not code faults. The URL is
+        kept in the message because a bare '404 (Not Found)' is undiagnosable, and
+        some log entries arrive with no url field at all."""
+        out = []
+        for e in self.ws.events:
+            m, p = e["method"], e.get("params", {})
+            if m == "Runtime.exceptionThrown":
+                d = p.get("exceptionDetails", {})
+                txt = d.get("exception", {}).get("description") or d.get("text", "")
+                out.append("uncaught: " + str(txt).split("\n")[0])
+            elif m == "Runtime.consoleAPICalled" and p.get("type") == "error":
+                bits = " ".join(str(a.get("value", a.get("description", "")))
+                                for a in p.get("args", []))
+                out.append("console.error: " + bits[:200])
+            elif m == "Log.entryAdded":
+                entry = p.get("entry", {})
+                if entry.get("level") != "error":
+                    continue
+                url, text = entry.get("url", "") or "", str(entry.get("text", ""))
+                if any(s in url or s in text
+                       for s in ("favicon", "manifest.webmanifest", "icon-")):
+                    continue
+                out.append(f"log: {text[:160]}" + (f"  [{url}]" if url else "  [no url]"))
+        return out
+
+    def close(self):
+        self.ws.close()