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ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-3952/bring-limit-service-onto-the-package-golden-path

First of the stack. What the limits do is unchanged; how Ghost builds the thing that applies them is not.

Problem

The limit service was built empty and told what to limit afterwards, so every caller constructed one and loaded it on the next line, and the object was briefly invalid in between. The file where Ghost's configuration meets it went and found that configuration itself, so boot asked it to initialise and could not see what from. And because that file is JavaScript, and Ghost only typechecks TypeScript, none of that wiring was ever checked.

Underneath, the package raised two of its errors from Ghost's own error library rather than from the classes its caller supplies. That library is written for the server, and it was reaching every Admin user's browser.

Solution

The base class returns the parts of a refusal every limit shares, and the subclasses finish them into errors, so neither has to assert its way back to what the other handed it.

Ghost's service becomes TypeScript. It cannot move into the package, because it reads host settings, tolerates a misconfiguration at boot rather than refusing to start, and hands out the service that models, endpoints, validators and the importer all ask for. But boot now reads what a host's configuration means and hands it over, so the order of construction is visible where construction happens, and a test can describe a host without a configuration store behind it.

The service then takes its limits when it is built. A site with no limits is one that was built with none, rather than a service that happens to be empty, and that is what a self-hosted site has and what any site has until its host has said otherwise.

Finally the error library goes. The two guards that still reached for it cannot use the classes they were given: one complains that no error classes were supplied, and the other belongs to a function reached without a service at all. Both now raise a plain error, the way Ghost's own configuration does, for the reason its comment gives.

What changes for a reader

Ghost exposes one limit service, and it is the same object for the life of the process. Boot decides a site's limits after much of Ghost has already been built, and several services are handed their collaborator as their own module loads, before boot knows anything. Holding the answer rather than the answerer is what lets both be true, and it means callers no longer choose between a reference that might be stale and one that is not.

Asking about a limit answers plainly. Every question now returns a straight yes or no, rather than sometimes returning nothing at all and leaving each caller to decide what that meant.

One behaviour changes. Admin reloads its limits after a subscription change, and when the configuration it reloads has no limits in it, the site is now limited by nothing rather than keeping what it had. The limits a site has are the limits it was last told about.

Measured

Admin ships less: the error library is no longer in any chunk, and the bundle is smaller than it was before this work began.

How to read it

Commit by commit, each passing on its own: the refactor, the conversion, the construction, the dependency.

The tests that cover host limits now set a limit the way a host sets one, through configuration, rather than replacing the limit service with stubs and checking that Ghost called them. A stub stays true however the limits are implemented underneath, including when they are not implemented at all.

Not doing

Two services still build their collaborator as their own module loads. They should be built at boot like the others, at which point Ghost would not have to keep a single service for the life of the process at all. That is a change to those services rather than to limits, and is tracked separately.

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The limits package now exposes a shared Limits contract and constructs services from options. Unconfigured checks return false. Core boot derives limits from host settings and injects the service into dependent services. Server consumers use the exported service boundary. Admin applications and tests use the new construction and host-limit helpers. The package no longer depends on @tryghost/errors at runtime.

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Malformed host limit settings can disable configured limit enforcement, so validation should be added before merging.

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Type-Safe Boundaries ⚠️ Warning The PR introduces an unsafe configuration boundary in ghost/core/core/server/services/limits/host-settings.ts. GhostConfig.get() returns unknown, but fromHostSettings() passes `config.get('hos… Add a Zod schema for the host-settings values consumed by fromHostSettings(), including the supported limits shape, subscription presence and start, billing enabled, and billing URL. Parse the raw config.get() values before building `…
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The PR introduces an unsafe configuration boundary in ghost/core/core/server/services/limits/host-settings.ts. GhostConfig.get() returns unknown, but fromHostSettings() passes config.get('hostSettings:limits') through as LimitServiceInitOptions['limits'] and config.get('hostSettings:subscription:start') through as string without runtime validation. The new boot path calls this adapter before constructing LimitService, so malformed host configuration can enter the typed limit-service options. The billing URL has a type check, but the limits object and subscription start do not. The casts are production changes, not test-only code.

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Add a Zod schema for the host-settings values consumed by fromHostSettings(), including the supported limits shape, subscription presence and start, billing enabled, and billing URL. Parse the raw config.get() values before building LimitServiceInitOptions, and derive TypeScript types from the schema with z.infer where needed. Remove the unchecked casts. Handle schema failures according to the existing boot policy, such as converting invalid host configuration to the existing IncorrectUsageError path so Ghost falls back to an unlimited service, or explicitly rejecting startup if that is the required configuration contract.

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🟠 Major · Pass a normalized host subscription to LimitService. · apps/admin-x-framework/src/hooks/use-limiter.ts:85-96

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Pass a normalized host subscription to LimitService.

The /config/ serializer returns hostSettings without requiring a subscription. fromHostSettings also treats hostSettings:subscription as optional, so a host response can contain limits.emails.maxPeriodic without subscription data. The Admin branch checks only for limits, passes no subscription, and LimitService throws IncorrectUsageError when it constructs that periodic limit.

Normalize the host subscription at this boundary to LimitService's expected {startDate, interval} shape, then pass it in the constructor options. This is separate from validating the host limit configuration shape.

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rob-ghost force-pushed the chore/limit-service-core-typescript branch 2 times, most recently from 35404aa to 0cfed61 Compare September 16, 2026 13:27
The base class built a bag of error options while every subclass built a
finished error, both under the name generateError, so the base had to declare a
return type of either one and each subclass had to assert its way back to the
options it had just been handed. Naming the two jobs separately lets the base
return what it actually returns and the subclasses take it as read.
This file is where Ghost's own configuration meets the limit service, so unlike
the count queries it cannot move into the package: it reads host settings,
decides the help link, tolerates a misconfiguration at boot rather than refusing
to start, and hands out the service that models, endpoints, validators and the
importer all ask for. What it can do is be checked. Ghost only typechecks
TypeScript, so as JavaScript none of that wiring was seen by the compiler.

It is also no longer the thing that decides a site's limits. Boot reads what a
host's configuration means and hands it over, so the order of construction is
visible where construction happens, and a test can describe a host without a
configuration store behind it. Callers read the limits from the module where they
need them rather than taking a reference as they load, which is what lets boot
decide them afterwards.
Every caller built a service and loaded it on the next line, so the split between
constructing one and telling it what to limit bought nothing and meant the object
was briefly invalid. It takes its limits when it is built now, and a site with no
limits is its own thing rather than a service that happens to be empty, which is
what a self-hosted site has and what every site has until its host says otherwise.

Ghost reads its limits where it needs them rather than holding one, because boot
replaces the service once it knows what a site's limits are, and tests replace it
again afterwards. Anything built before that happens, which is anything
constructed as its module loads, is handed a view that reads the current service
instead of whichever one existed when it was built.
The service raises the errors its caller gives it, so that a caller recognises
what it catches, and Admin supplies its own because Ghost's error library is
written for the server. Two guards still reached for that library directly,
which put it in the browser bundle for every Admin user and made those two the
only errors a caller could not recognise.

Neither can use the errors it was given. One complains that no error classes were
supplied, and the other belongs to a function that is reached without a service
at all. Both now raise a plain error, the way Ghost's own configuration does for
the same reason, and the library is no longer a dependency of this package.
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Closing unmerged. The compliance goal this stack followed on from already shipped in #30637, and the faults fixed here could not be shown to reach production: the limits they depend on are set on none of the billing products, and one of them fixes a method with no caller in Ghost at all. That left preventive value against risk in the path that decides whether a customer can publish.

The branch stays on the remote. Findings from the production check, including the Daisy and Zuul transform chain and what was never verified, are recorded on BER-3952: https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-3952/bring-limit-service-onto-the-package-golden-path

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