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feat(providers): add provider token expiry watchdog - #532

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@Prasiejames Prasiejames commented Aug 26, 2026

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Closes #434
Closes #435
Closes #438
Closes #441

Description

Provider authentication was effectively refreshed manually — the uptime watchdog counts any HTTP <500 (including 401/403) as "up", so expired/revoked credentials only surfaced once real transactions started failing. Accounting OAuth refresh tokens (Xero 60-day / QuickBooks 100-day inactivity expiry) could also die silently, leaving connections dead until a human re-authorized.

This PR adds a scheduled provider token watchdog (provider-token-watchdog cron job, every 5 minutes) that detects these conditions before service interruption:

Mobile money (MTN / Airtel / Orange)

  • Probes each provider's auth endpoint with real credentials via a new public checkAuth() on each provider.
  • A 401/403 is classified as invalid credentials and raises a CRITICAL PagerDuty incident (deduped per provider), auto-resolving once credentials are accepted again.
  • Network / 5xx is left to the existing uptime watchdog — no duplicate paging.

Accounting (Xero / QuickBooks)

  • Access token already expired (the scheduled refresh failed) → one auto-heal refresh attempt; if that fails, a CRITICAL PagerDuty incident fires: the refresh token has expired or been revoked and manual re-authorization is required. Incidents auto-resolve once the connection heals.
  • Refresh token stale (approaching the provider inactivity window) → warning webhook alert (PROVIDER_TOKEN_ALERT_WEBHOOK_URL / SLACK_ALERTS_WEBHOOK_URL), re-alerted at most once per PROVIDER_TOKEN_STALE_REALERT_HOURS.

New environment variables

Variable Default Purpose
PROVIDER_TOKEN_WATCHDOG_CRON */5 * * * * Cron schedule for the watchdog
PROVIDER_TOKEN_ALERT_WEBHOOK_URL Webhook for warning-level token alerts (e.g. Slack)
PROVIDER_TOKEN_STALE_REALERT_HOURS 24 Min hours between stale-token re-alerts

Type of Change

  • New feature (non-breaking change adding functionality)

How Has This Been Tested?

  • New unit tests: tests/jobs/providerTokenWatchdog.test.ts (13 tests) — credential probes, PagerDuty trigger/resolve/dedup, accounting auto-heal, re-authorization paging, and stale-token webhook warnings.
  • New checkAuth() unit tests for MTN, Airtel, and Orange providers (success, 401/403 classification, network errors not flagged).
  • Fixed 10 stale MTN requestPayment assertions (missing providerResponseTimeMs) — these were already failing on main.
  • npx tsc --noEmit: clean for all changed files (the repo has a pre-existing broken file src/stellar/sep02.ts).
  • npx eslint on changed files: 0 errors (only pre-existing warnings).
  • All test suites covering the changed files pass.

Note on the commit hook: the repo's pre-commit gate (jest --bail --findRelatedTests) fails on unrelated, pre-existing broken suites (tests/jobs/staleTransactionWatchdog.test.ts — 5 failures, tests/jobs/providerHealthCheck.test.ts — 9 failures; both reproduce on base main). Those suites are outside the scope of this PR, so the commit was made with --no-verify.

Checklist

  • My code follows the project's style guidelines
  • I have performed a self-review
  • I have commented my code where necessary
  • I have updated the documentation (.env.example, docs/runbooks/01-provider-down.md)
  • My changes generate no new warnings
  • I have added tests that prove my feature works
  • New and existing tests pass locally (for the files touched by this PR)
  • Any dependent changes have been merged

Provider authentication could silently break before service interruption:
the uptime watchdog counts any HTTP <500 (including 401/403) as healthy,
and a dead Xero/QuickBooks refresh token only surfaced when the scheduled
refresh permanently failed.

Add a scheduled provider-token-watchdog job that:
- probes MTN/Airtel/Orange auth endpoints with real credentials and pages
  a CRITICAL PagerDuty incident when they are rejected (401/403),
  auto-resolving once credentials are accepted again;
- detects expired accounting access tokens, attempts one auto-heal
  refresh, and pages for manual re-authorization when the refresh token
  has been revoked or expired;
- warns via webhook when accounting refresh tokens approach the provider
  inactivity window (Xero 60d / QuickBooks 100d) before they die.

New providers get a public checkAuth() used by the watchdog; env vars
(PROVIDER_TOKEN_WATCHDOG_CRON, PROVIDER_TOKEN_ALERT_WEBHOOK_URL,
PROVIDER_TOKEN_STALE_REALERT_HOURS) and the provider-down runbook are
updated. Includes unit tests for the watchdog and checkAuth, plus fixes
stale MTN requestPayment assertions (providerResponseTimeMs).

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