---
id: TST-PFM-SEC-176
title: Ensure founding staff database and service checks
kind: integration
product_area: platform
module: security
revision: 2
status: draft
source_sha:
  services-platform: ad3f6a6582843008ed0f5a17b131878d15829af1
repository: services-platform
files:
  - >-
    modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js
implements:
  - ATS-PFM-SEC-016-07
environment: local
implementation_state: implemented
latest_result: not-run
latest_run_at: null
latest_run_ref: null
conformance: not-verified
estimated_minutes: 3
isolation: Use the prepared test database and suite-owned fixture rows; retain shared seed records.
assertion_evidence:
  - provenance: test
    source: >-
      services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js#ensuring
      a founding staff member nobody has created, on two deploys
  - provenance: test
    source: >-
      services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js#answers
      the first run as created
  - provenance: test
    source: >-
      services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js#answers
      the second run as unchanged
  - provenance: test
    source: >-
      services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js#leaves
      exactly one user for the address, active, in the Rhythm customer’s console wall
  - provenance: test
    source: >-
      services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js#leaves
      exactly one assignment: Rhythm Administrator at platform scope, active
  - provenance: test
    source: >-
      services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js#records
      the canonical account in the console pool, made once with the e-mail and name
  - provenance: test
    source: >-
      services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js#writes
      the lifecycle trail once: provision, then activate
  - provenance: test
    source: >-
      services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js#writes
      the security trail once: the user activated and the role granted
  - provenance: test
    source: >-
      services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js#ensuring
      a founding staff member whose staff invitation was never accepted, on two deploys
  - provenance: test
    source: >-
      services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js#answers
      the first run as activated and the second as unchanged
  - provenance: test
    source: >-
      services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js#activates
      the invited user itself rather than making another
  - provenance: test
    source: >-
      services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js#activates
      the pending staff grant and adds no second one
  - provenance: test
    source: >-
      services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js#supersedes
      the invitation, so its link no longer works
  - provenance: test
    source: >-
      services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js#reuses
      the account the invitation made, creating none
  - provenance: test
    source: >-
      services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js#writes
      the activation to both trails once, and grants nothing it had to audit
dependency_evidence: >-
  The prepared PostgreSQL database supplies the persisted fixtures and constraints exercised here.
  The suite controls Cognito at the declared seams; those collaborators remain outside its live
  proof.
evidence:
  - >-
    services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js
  - >-
    Static review at the recorded source revision; executable results remain not-run and conformance
    remains not-verified.
binding_note: >-
  Each binding names the scenario to which this file contributes assertions. A binding is not a
  recorded pass and does not extend the file’s dependency boundary.
examiner: codex
examined_at: '2026-10-23'
final_text: OpenAI
dependency_review:
  provenance: test
  source: >-
    services-platform:modules/security/tests/integration/services/provisioning/ensure-founding-staff.integration.spec.js
  explicit_no_doubles: false
  identified_double_boundaries:
    - Cognito
---
# Ensure founding staff database and service checks

## Verification Boundary

The file exercises database or service behavior through the local integration harness. The assertion references identify the source checks for ensure founding staff.

## What This Suite Proves

The source assertions support the observations named in the bound scenarios. A scenario spanning multiple files must retain the other files’ contributions.

## What It Does Not Prove

This examination does not run the suite. Passing behavior, deployed conformance and the behavior of substituted dependencies require separate execution evidence.

## Real Dependencies and Test Doubles

The prepared PostgreSQL database supplies the persisted fixtures and constraints exercised here. The suite controls Cognito at the declared seams; those collaborators remain outside its live proof.

## Must Not Be Doubled

Keep the queried database, applicable constraints and transaction boundaries real. Provider substitutes cannot establish delivery, cloud execution or cross-service recovery.