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fix(slack): paginate the member channel lookup; structure member-rule denials - #151

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Follow-up to #150. CodeRabbit posted two further findings after that PR was merged, so they land separately. Both were verified against the code before fixing.

lookupChannelByName ignored the member-list cursor

diagnoseChannelAccess resolved a channel name in two passes: users.conversations (member-scoped, cheap) and then a bounded workspace scan. The first pass read only page one and dropped response_metadata.next_cursor on the floor.

That is not a performance detail. users.conversations is the only source that returns im and mpim conversations — the workspace fallback queries public_channel,private_channel and cannot see them at all. So a DM or group DM past the first 200 member conversations was simply unfindable by name, in the one tool whose job is explaining why something is unfindable.

It now follows the cursor under the same DIAGNOSE_MAX_PAGES bound as the workspace scan, and returns scanBounded rather than falling through to none — reporting "no such channel" when the truth is "I stopped looking" is the failure mode this tool exists to eliminate.

Member-rule denials were unstructured

assertDmMemberAccess still threw a bare UserError for its three rules, so diagnoseChannelAccess hit its non-denial branch and printed the raw sentence instead of routing through explainDenial. The tool whose entire purpose is naming the rule and its remedy was the one place these three rules got no remedy.

They now throw SlackAccessDenied with dm-org-not-allowed / group-dm-blacklist / group-dm-org, carrying the offending team ID, so the explanation names the organisation and points at the right dashboard control:

alice (D1) — DM

Denied by: organisation of the other participant
The other participant belongs to an organisation that is not allowed: Acme Corp (T_OTHER)
Your allowed organisations: T_MINE
Fix: tick the organisation under Access Rules → Organizations in the dashboard, or remove the person from the conversation.

Message text is unchanged, so existing assertions and any caller that only prints them are unaffected. Org-name resolution now keys off orgIds being present rather than the single org-not-allowed reason, so the two new org cases get named orgs too. The remaining bare-UserError branch is genuinely for non-denial errors (a missing rules record, say) and says "Could not evaluate" rather than dressing a failure up as a rule verdict.

Verification

  • npm run typecheck clean; npm run lint at baseline (0 errors, 53 pre-existing warnings).
  • Full suite green: 2,903 tests, exit 0, on top of current main.
  • 9 new tests: member-page-two im and mpim lookups, the bounded-member-scan report, early exit on match, the workspace fallback still working, and one per member-rule denial including the raw-ID fallback when Slack will not name the org.
  • Excluded the same three pre-existing failures as fix(slack,docs): one access-rule engine, named orgs, transport-safe Docs text #150 (auth/exchangeAuthCode, auth/oauthProxy, and the uncommitted calendarEventSchemas.test.ts). pasteTokenReauth.route.test.ts timed out once under parallel CPU contention and passes 7/7 standalone and on a re-run.

Still unverified against a live Slack workspace, as with #150.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Improvements
    • Improved discovery of direct messages and group conversations across paginated results.
    • Added workspace-wide fallback when a conversation is not found in the initial search.
    • Added clearer access-denial explanations for restricted organizations, blocked members, and group conversations.
    • Access diagnostics now distinguish evaluation errors from confirmed access denials and provide more relevant organization details.

… denials

Two further CodeRabbit findings, both verified against the code first.

lookupChannelByName read only page one of users.conversations and ignored its
cursor. That is not a performance detail: users.conversations is the *only*
source that returns im and mpim conversations — the workspace fallback queries
public_channel,private_channel and cannot see them at all — so a DM or group DM
past the first 200 member conversations was simply unfindable by name. It now
follows the cursor under the same page bound as the workspace scan, and reports
a bounded member scan rather than falling through and reporting the channel as
absent, which would read as "no such channel" when it means "I stopped looking".

assertDmMemberAccess still threw a bare UserError, so diagnoseChannelAccess hit
its non-denial branch and printed the raw sentence instead of routing through
explainDenial — the one tool whose entire purpose is naming the rule and its
remedy was the one place these three rules got no remedy. They now throw
SlackAccessDenied with dm-org-not-allowed / group-dm-blacklist / group-dm-org
and carry the offending team ID, so the explanation names the organisation and
points at the right dashboard control. Message text is unchanged, so existing
assertions and any caller that only prints them are unaffected. Org-name
resolution keys off orgIds being present rather than the single org-not-allowed
reason, so the two new org cases get named orgs too.

The remaining bare-UserError branch in the tool is now genuinely for non-denial
errors only (a missing rules record, say) and says "Could not evaluate" rather
than dressing the failure up as a rule verdict.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Slack channel lookup now scans paginated member conversations, including DMs and group DMs, before workspace fallback. Slack access checks now return structured denial reasons, organization IDs, tailored explanations, and clearer evaluation errors.

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Slack access and channel discovery

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Structured denial diagnostics
src/slack-user/accessControl.ts, src/slack-user/server.ts, src/__tests__/slack-user/listChannelRows.test.ts
DM and group-DM checks now emit typed denial reasons. Diagnostics resolve organization names, provide reason-specific guidance, and distinguish evaluation errors from access denials. Tests cover these explanations.
Paginated member-channel lookup
src/slack-user/server.ts, src/__tests__/slack-user/listChannelRows.test.ts
lookupChannelByName paginates member-scoped users.conversations results, bounds member scans, stops after matches, and falls back to workspace search. Tests cover later-page discovery and scan limits.

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Channel discovery now paginates member conversations, but accounts exceeding the member scan limit can incorrectly fail to discover otherwise searchable public or private workspace channels. This should be corrected before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant lookupChannelByName
  participant SlackUsersConversations
  participant WorkspaceScan
  lookupChannelByName->>SlackUsersConversations: Request paginated member channels
  SlackUsersConversations-->>lookupChannelByName: Return DM/group-DM pages
  lookupChannelByName->>WorkspaceScan: Search workspace channels when member scan finds no match
  WorkspaceScan-->>lookupChannelByName: Return workspace pages or bounded scan status
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In `@src/slack-user/server.ts`:
- Line 993: Update the channel lookup flow around the bounded member scan and
conversationsListAll so an empty bounded member result still proceeds to the
workspace scan. Preserve the member-scan bound as uncertainty only when neither
scan finds the channel, and extend ChannelLookup to identify which scan produced
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Regression introduced by the pagination fix in this PR. Returning early when
the member scan hit its page bound skipped conversationsListAll entirely, so an
account with more than DIAGNOSE_MAX_PAGES of member conversations could no
longer discover a public or private channel it is not a member of — the exact
case the workspace fallback exists for.

The bound is now remembered rather than returned: the workspace scan always
runs, and only if neither scan finds the channel does the uncertainty surface.
ChannelLookup's scanBounded variant carries a `source`, because the caller was
reporting a member-scan limit as "the first N pages of the workspace channel
list" — naming the wrong list, which sends the user looking in the wrong place.

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