feat(01-04): CASL permission definitions and ability factory

- Install @casl/ability for role-based access control
- Create src/lib/casl/types.ts with AppAbility, AppSubjects, AppActions types
- Create src/lib/casl/permissions.ts with permission matrix for all 5 roles
- Create src/lib/casl/ability.ts with defineAbilityFor() factory function
- Support multi-role users via additive union of permissions
- Super-admin bypasses all permission checks via can("manage", "all")

package-lock.json

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
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+        "url": "https://github.com/stalniy/casl/blob/master/BACKERS.md"
+      }
+    },
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package.json

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
     "seed": "npx tsx prisma/seed.ts"
   },
   "dependencies": {
+    "@casl/ability": "^6.8.0",
     "@prisma/client": "^6.19.2",
     "bcryptjs": "^3.0.3",
     "next": "16.1.6",

src/lib/casl/ability.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+import { AbilityBuilder, PureAbility, createMongoAbility } from "@casl/ability";
+import { Role } from "@prisma/client";
+import { definePermissionsFor } from "./permissions";
+import type { AppAbility, AppActions, AppSubjects } from "./types";
+
+/**
+ * The session user shape expected by the ability factory.
+ * Matches the session.user fields set in auth-options.ts JWT/session callbacks.
+ */
+export interface AbilityUser {
+  id: string;
+  roles: Role[];
+  tenantId: string | null;
+  isSuperAdmin: boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Builds a CASL Ability instance from a session user.
+ *
+ * - Super-admins: unrestricted access to all subjects
+ * - Regular users: union of all permissions across their roles
+ *
+ * Multi-role users get the additive union: if TECHNICIAN can read JobOrders
+ * and COLLECTOR can create Payments, a user with both roles can do both.
+ *
+ * Usage:
+ *   const ability = defineAbilityFor(session.user);
+ *   ability.can("read", "Subscriber") // → boolean
+ */
+export function defineAbilityFor(user: AbilityUser): AppAbility {
+  const { can, build } = new AbilityBuilder<AppAbility>(PureAbility);
+
+  if (user.isSuperAdmin) {
+    // Super-admins bypass all permission checks
+    can("manage", "all");
+    return build();
+  }
+
+  // Merge permissions for all roles (union — additive)
+  // Each role's ability is built separately, then we extract its rules
+  for (const role of user.roles) {
+    const roleAbility = definePermissionsFor(
+      role,
+      user.id,
+      user.tenantId ?? ""
+    );
+
+    // Transfer all rules from the role-specific ability into the merged builder
+    for (const rule of roleAbility.rules) {
+      if (rule.inverted) {
+        // cannot() rules — only apply if no positive rule overrides them
+        // (CASL already handles priority, but we copy them faithfully)
+      }
+      // We rebuild using createMongoAbility to preserve condition matching
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Build a merged ability by combining all role abilities
+  return mergeAbilities(user.roles, user.id, user.tenantId ?? "");
+}
+
+/**
+ * Merges abilities from multiple roles into a single AppAbility.
+ *
+ * For multi-role users, positive (can) rules from ALL roles are combined.
+ * cannot() rules from one role are not applied when another role grants the same permission.
+ * This implements the principle of additive permissions (union).
+ */
+function mergeAbilities(
+  roles: Role[],
+  userId: string,
+  tenantId: string
+): AppAbility {
+  if (roles.length === 0) {
+    // No roles — no permissions
+    return new PureAbility<[AppActions, AppSubjects]>([]);
+  }
+
+  if (roles.length === 1) {
+    // Single role — return directly without merging overhead
+    return definePermissionsFor(roles[0], userId, tenantId);
+  }
+
+  // For multi-role users, collect all rules from all roles.
+  // CASL evaluates can() as true if ANY rule grants the permission,
+  // so additive union works naturally by merging all rules.
+  const allRules: Array<{
+    action: AppActions | AppActions[];
+    subject: AppSubjects | AppSubjects[];
+    inverted?: boolean;
+    conditions?: Record<string, unknown>;
+  }> = [];
+
+  for (const role of roles) {
+    const roleAbility = definePermissionsFor(role, userId, tenantId);
+    for (const rule of roleAbility.rules) {
+      // Only include positive (can) rules when merging multiple roles.
+      // cannot() rules from a less-privileged role should not block
+      // permissions granted by a more-privileged role.
+      if (!rule.inverted) {
+        allRules.push({
+          action: rule.action as AppActions | AppActions[],
+          subject: rule.subject as AppSubjects | AppSubjects[],
+          conditions: rule.conditions as Record<string, unknown> | undefined,
+        });
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  return new PureAbility<[AppActions, AppSubjects]>(allRules);
+}

src/lib/casl/permissions.ts

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+import { AbilityBuilder, PureAbility } from "@casl/ability";
+import { Role } from "@prisma/client";
+import type { AppAbility, AppActions, AppSubjects } from "./types";
+
+/**
+ * Permission matrix for each role.
+ *
+ * Builds and returns CASL permission rules for a given role.
+ * Rules are merged (additive union) for multi-role users.
+ *
+ * Zone/ownership filtering (e.g., Collector assigned zones) is enforced
+ * at the data layer — CASL handles the coarse-grained capability check here.
+ */
+export function definePermissionsFor(
+  role: Role,
+  userId: string,
+  tenantId: string
+): PureAbility<[AppActions, AppSubjects]> {
+  const { can, cannot, build } = new AbilityBuilder<AppAbility>(PureAbility);
+
+  switch (role) {
+    case Role.ADMIN: {
+      // Full access within tenant
+      can("manage", "all");
+      break;
+    }
+
+    case Role.OFFICE_STAFF: {
+      // Create and manage users, assign roles
+      can("manage", "User");
+      // Full subscriber management
+      can("manage", "Subscriber");
+      // Billing management
+      can("manage", "Invoice");
+      // Record payments
+      can("manage", "Payment");
+      // Ticketing
+      can("manage", "Ticket");
+      // Job order management
+      can("manage", "JobOrder");
+      // View financial reports (read-only)
+      can("read", "Report");
+      // View accounting (read-only, cannot modify Chart of Accounts)
+      can("read", "Account");
+      // Explicitly block CoA modifications
+      cannot("create", "Account");
+      cannot("update", "Account");
+      cannot("delete", "Account");
+      break;
+    }
+
+    case Role.COLLECTOR: {
+      // Can view all subscribers for context (zone filtering done at data layer)
+      can("read", "Subscriber");
+      // Can record payments (zone filtering done at data layer)
+      can("create", "Payment");
+      // View payment history
+      can("read", "Payment");
+      // Explicitly blocked from billing management
+      cannot("manage", "Invoice");
+      // No user management
+      cannot("manage", "User");
+      // No report access
+      cannot("manage", "Report");
+      break;
+    }
+
+    case Role.TECHNICIAN: {
+      // Only their assigned jobs
+      can("read", "JobOrder", { assignedToId: userId });
+      can("update", "JobOrder", { assignedToId: userId });
+      // Limited subscriber access for contact info (data layer enforces scope)
+      can("read", "Subscriber");
+      // Only inventory checked out to them
+      can("read", "Inventory", { assignedToId: userId });
+      // Explicitly blocked from billing, payments, and subscriber management
+      cannot("manage", "Invoice");
+      cannot("manage", "Payment");
+      cannot("manage", "Subscriber");
+      cannot("manage", "Report");
+      break;
+    }
+
+    case Role.CLIENT: {
+      // Only their own invoices
+      can("read", "Invoice", { subscriberId: userId });
+      // Only their own payments
+      can("read", "Payment", { subscriberId: userId });
+      // Only their own profile
+      can("read", "Subscriber", { id: userId });
+      // Submit support tickets
+      can("create", "Ticket");
+      // Only their own tickets
+      can("read", "Ticket", { submittedById: userId });
+      // Blocked from user management and reports
+      cannot("manage", "User");
+      cannot("manage", "Report");
+      break;
+    }
+
+    default: {
+      // No permissions by default — safe fallback
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return build();
+}

src/lib/casl/types.ts

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+import { PureAbility, AbilityBuilder } from "@casl/ability";
+
+/**
+ * Subjects represent the resources in the system.
+ *
+ * Note: Most subjects (Subscriber, Invoice, etc.) don't have Prisma models yet
+ * — we're defining the permission structure now so it's ready when those models
+ * are created in later phases.
+ */
+export type AppSubjects =
+  | "Tenant"
+  | "User"
+  | "Subscriber"
+  | "Invoice"
+  | "Payment"
+  | "Ticket"
+  | "JobOrder"
+  | "Inventory"
+  | "Expense"
+  | "Account"
+  | "Report"
+  | "all";
+
+/**
+ * Actions that can be performed on subjects.
+ * "manage" is a CASL shorthand that means all actions.
+ */
+export type AppActions = "create" | "read" | "update" | "delete" | "manage";
+
+/**
+ * The application's CASL ability type.
+ * Parameterized with actions and subjects.
+ */
+export type AppAbility = PureAbility<[AppActions, AppSubjects]>;
+
+/**
+ * Re-export AbilityBuilder typed for AppAbility for convenience.
+ */
+export type AppAbilityBuilder = AbilityBuilder<AppAbility>;