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Rotating OTARI_SECRET_KEY could quietly destroy a credential someone changed while the rotation was running.

reencrypt_credentials and reencrypt_search_tools read every row holding a secret, decrypt it, and re-encrypt it — and nothing pinned the write to the value the loop had read. A PATCH committing in that window was overwritten with a re-encryption of the value it replaced. The operator sees a successful rotation, the edit is gone, and nothing anywhere says so.

Each row is now written with a conditional UPDATE matching the ciphertext that was read. Zero rows matched means someone else got there first, and that row is reported as skipped rather than clobbered.

Three things worth a reviewer's attention, because they are decisions:

  • A Core UPDATE, not a mutation on the loaded row. The WHERE is the entire point; an ORM flush carries no condition at all.
  • Skipped is reported, not retried. A rotation is hand-run with the operator watching, and a row whose value changed under them is already encrypted with the primary key by whoever wrote it. The honest answer is "these were not mine to rewrite", not a loop that races the same edit again. Folding them into reencrypted would tell the operator the rotation was complete when it was not — which matters, because the next step of the documented procedure is removing the old key.
  • Both stores change together. Three stores with two shapes is worse than three with one flawed shape; the next person copies whichever they find first.

skipped is additive on both response models with a default of 0, so an existing client is unaffected. The OpenAPI spec is regenerated in this PR.

How to test it locally

uv run pytest tests/unit/test_reencrypt_version_check.py

6 pass. The two racing cells use a second real connection to the same SQLite database in WAL mode, not a stand-in: the property under test is what the WHERE clause sees once someone else has committed, and a mock of "the row changed" would pass just as well against the bug. The competing commit is fired from inside the service's own encrypt_secret, which is exactly the window — the row has been read and decrypted, and its UPDATE has not run yet.

Each racing cell asserts both halves: the counts come back (0, 0, 1), and the value left in the database decrypts to the competing edit's plaintext rather than the rotation's. Around them: an untouched row is re-encrypted, an undecryptable row is still left alone and counted unreadable, and one cell decrypts after a successful rotation to prove the ciphertext actually changed while the plaintext did not — a re-encryption that lost the value would pass every count-only assertion.

Mutation-checked, all three caught:

mutation result
version predicate dropped from the provider store — the reported bug caught
same for the search-tool store caught
a skipped row counted as re-encrypted caught

PR Type

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Relevant issues

Addresses the re-encryption half of #1127. The transaction-ownership half is deliberately not here: whether the three services should own their commits or whether the convention should record the current shape as an intentional exception is a maintainer's call, and answering it would mean rewriting how three routes turn an IntegrityError into a 409. Happy to do that once you have decided which way it goes.

Raised in review on #1120: #1120 (comment)

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  • I have added or updated tests that cover my change (tests/unit, tests/integration).
  • I ran the Definition of Done checks locally (make lint, make typecheck, make test).
    • ruff check src/gateway tests/unit/test_reencrypt_version_check.py — clean; scripts/check_architecture.py — no violations.
    • mypy on the four changed source files — clean.
    • pytest tests/unit — 3152 passed, 29 failed, and the 29 are the same ones that fail on an untouched tree (test_router_aggregate, test_mcp_loop_responses, test_deployment_bootstrap, test_usage_cache_tokens and friends); I diffed the two failure lists and no new failure appears. Two further files (test_inline_platform_cost.py, test_s3_file_store.py) fail to collect in my environment on a pydantic InputTokensDetails field. Environmental — but I would rather show the number than claim a green run I did not get.
  • Documentation was updated where necessary — the function docstrings carry the rule and the reason; no user-facing docs change.
  • If the API contract changed, I regenerated the OpenAPI spec (uv run python scripts/generate_openapi.py) — the diff is the two skipped fields, nothing else.

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Summary

  • Prevented concurrent credential and search-tool updates from being overwritten during secret-key rotation.
  • Reported rows skipped because another update changed them.
  • Refreshed cached rows after rotation to prevent stale values.
  • Added skipped counts to both API responses and updated the OpenAPI specification.
  • Added tests for concurrent updates, successful rotation, unchanged rows, and undecryptable rows.

Technical notes

Both stores use conditional updates that match the original ciphertext. A non-matching update is skipped instead of retried or counted as re-encrypted.

`reencrypt_credentials` and `reencrypt_search_tools` read every row holding a
secret, decrypt it and re-encrypt it, and nothing pinned the write to what the
loop had seen. A PATCH committing in that window was overwritten with a
re-encryption of the value it replaced — a lost update on a credential, and a
silent one (mozilla-ai#1127).

Each row is now written with a conditional UPDATE matching the ciphertext that
was read. Zero rows matched means someone else got there first, and the row is
counted as skipped instead of clobbered. A Core UPDATE rather than a mutation
on the loaded row, because the WHERE is the entire point and an ORM flush
carries no condition at all.

Skipped is reported rather than retried, and the count is additive on both
response models. A rotation is hand-run with the operator watching, and a row
whose value changed under them is already encrypted with the primary key by
whoever wrote it — so the honest answer is "these were not mine to rewrite",
not a loop that races the same edit again. Silently folding them into
`reencrypted` would tell the operator the rotation was complete when it was
not, which matters because the next step of the documented procedure is
removing the old key.

Both stores change together. Three stores with two shapes is worse than three
with one, because the next person copies whichever they find first.

The racing cells use a second real connection to the same SQLite database in
WAL mode rather than a stand-in: the property under test is what the WHERE
clause sees once someone else has committed, and a mock of "the row changed"
would pass just as well against the bug. The competing commit is fired from
inside the service's own `encrypt_secret`, which is precisely the window — the
row has been read and decrypted, and its UPDATE has not run yet.

This is the re-encryption half of mozilla-ai#1127 only. The transaction-ownership half is
a convention-versus-code decision across all three stores and belongs to the
maintainers, not to this PR.
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The rotation routes now report skipped rows. Provider and search-tool cache refreshes reload current database values. New tests cover concurrent updates, cache refresh, plaintext preservation, and undecryptable rows.

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Credential rotation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rotation response propagation
src/gateway/api/routes/providers.py, src/gateway/api/routes/search_tools.py
Both route responses expose the skipped count and propagate the third rotation result.
Cache refresh after rotation
src/gateway/services/provider_store_service.py, src/gateway/services/search_tool_store_service.py
Both cache refresh queries use populate_existing=True to replace stale identity-map values with current database values.
Concurrent rotation tests
tests/unit/test_reencrypt_version_check.py
Tests cover provider and search-tool rotation, competing updates, cache refresh, plaintext preservation, and undecryptable rows.

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Comment thread src/gateway/services/provider_store_service.py
The rotation endpoint re-encrypts, commits and refreshes the overlay on the
same session, and the session factory sets `expire_on_commit=False`. A row the
identity map still holds is therefore handed back with the values it was loaded
with — for a row a concurrent PATCH changed, that is the credential the PATCH
replaced, coming back into the runtime cache while the database correctly keeps
the new one.

Nothing holds those rows alive that long today: the rotation's own list dies
when it returns and the identity map is weak, so the reload happens by
collection timing rather than by rule. `populate_existing` makes it a rule.

Measured directly: holding the pre-race rows across the refresh serves the old
ciphertext, releasing them serves the new one. The end-to-end cell asserts the
route's outcome and says in its docstring that it passes either way, because a
cell that reached into the rotation's locals to force the stale path would be
testing the collector, not the service.
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Ran the full make lint, not just Ruff — it chains check-architecture and check-migrations ahead of the Ruff pass, and both are clean on this branch:

uv run python scripts/check_architecture.py
✅ No architecture violations found
uv run python scripts/check_alembic_heads.py
Single head: f1c4a8e2d6b9
uv run ruff check src tests scripts
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