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Security + moderation controls (reports, bans, upload gating).
Working on moderation or abuse controls
Reviewing upload restrictions
Troubleshooting hidden/removed skills

Security + Moderation

Roles + permissions

  • user: upload skills/souls (subject to GitHub age gate), report skills/comments.
  • moderator: hide/restore skills, view hidden skills, unhide, soft-delete, ban users (except admins).
  • admin: all moderator actions + hard delete skills, change owners, change roles.

Reporting + auto-hide

  • Reports are unique per user + target (skill/comment).
  • Report reason required (trimmed, max 500 chars). Abuse of reporting may result in account bans.
  • Per-user cap: 20 active reports.
    • Active skill report = skill exists, not soft-deleted, not moderationStatus = removed, and the owner is not banned.
    • Active comment report = comment exists, not soft-deleted, parent skill still active, and the comment author is not banned/deactivated.
  • Auto-hide: when unique reports exceed 3 (4th report):
    • skill report flow:
      • soft-delete skill (softDeletedAt)
      • set moderationStatus = hidden
      • set moderationReason = auto.reports
      • set embeddings visibility deleted
      • audit log entry: skill.auto_hide
    • comment report flow:
      • soft-delete comment (softDeletedAt)
      • decrement comment stat via uncomment stat event
      • audit log entry: comment.auto_hide
  • Public queries hide non-active moderation statuses; staff can still access via staff-only queries and unhide/restore/delete/ban.
  • Skills directory supports an optional "Hide suspicious" filter to exclude active-but-flagged (flagged.suspicious) entries from browse/search results.

Skill moderation pipeline

  • New skill publishes now persist a deterministic static scan result on the version.
  • Skill moderation state stores a structured snapshot:
    • moderationVerdict: clean | suspicious | malicious
    • moderationReasonCodes[]: canonical machine-readable reasons
    • moderationEvidence[]: capped file/line evidence for static findings
    • moderationSummary, engine version, evaluation timestamp, source version id
  • Structured moderation is rebuilt from current signals instead of appending stale scanner codes.
  • Legacy moderation flags remain in sync for existing public visibility and suspicious-skill filtering.

AI comment scam backfill

  • Moderators/admins can run a comment backfill scanner to classify scam comments with OpenAI.
  • Scanner stores per-comment moderation metadata:
    • scamScanVerdict: not_scam | likely_scam | certain_scam
    • scamScanConfidence: low | medium | high
    • explanation/evidence/model/check timestamp fields on comments.
  • Auto-ban trigger is intentionally strict:
    • only certain_scam with high confidence can trigger account ban.
    • moderator/admin accounts are never auto-banned by this pipeline.
  • Ban reason is bounded to 500 chars and includes concise evidence + comment/skill IDs.
  • CLI run examples:
    • one-shot: npx convex run commentModeration:backfillCommentScamModeration '{"batchSize":25,"maxBatches":20}'
    • background chain: npx convex run commentModeration:scheduleCommentScamModeration '{"batchSize":25}'

Bans

  • Banning a user:
    • hard-deletes all owned skills
    • soft-deletes all authored skill comments + soul comments
    • revokes API tokens
    • sets deletedAt on the user
  • Admins can manually unban (deletedAt + banReason cleared); revoked API tokens stay revoked and should be recreated by the user.
  • Optional ban reason is stored in users.banReason and audit logs.
  • Moderators cannot ban admins; nobody can ban themselves.
  • Report counters effectively reset because deleted/banned skills are no longer considered active in the per-user report cap.

User account deletion

  • User-initiated deletion is irreversible.
  • Deletion flow:
    • sets deactivatedAt + purgedAt
    • revokes API tokens
    • clears profile/contact fields
    • clears telemetry
  • Deleted accounts cannot be restored by logging in again.
  • Published skills remain public.

Upload gate (GitHub account age)

  • Skill + soul publish actions require GitHub account age ≥ 14 days.
  • Skill + soul comment creation also requires GitHub account age ≥ 14 days.
  • Lookup uses GitHub created_at fetched by the immutable GitHub numeric ID (providerAccountId) and caches on the user:
    • githubCreatedAt (source of truth)
  • Gate applies to web uploads, CLI publish, GitHub import, and comments.
  • If GitHub responds 403 or 429, publish fails with:
    • GitHub API rate limit exceeded — please try again in a few minutes
  • To reduce rate-limit failures, set GITHUB_TOKEN in Convex env for authenticated GitHub API requests.

Empty-skill cleanup (backfill)

  • Cleanup uses quality heuristics plus trust tier to identify very thin/templated skills.
  • Word counting is language-aware (Intl.Segmenter with fallback), reducing false positives for non-space-separated languages.

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