Self-hosted instances are now email/password only — OAuth providers
(GitHub/Google/Discord/Microsoft) activate solely when PRIMORA_MANAGED=true,
reserved for the future hosted tier.
Sign-up lifecycle: the first public sign-up becomes the instance admin; after
bootstrap, sign-up closes by default. A better-auth databaseHook gates only
/sign-up/email, so admin-created users and OAuth flows bypass it. The login
page reads GET /instance/public to hide the sign-up tab, show the bootstrap
notice, and render only the providers the instance offers.
Instance settings live in core.settings (migration 00010) and resolve
in-app > env > built-in default, cached 15s. Platform admins (better-auth
user.role) manage sign-up, mail transport, and rate limits via
GET/PUT/DELETE /instance/settings or the new Settings → Instance tab. Secret
values are AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest with PRIMORA_ENCRYPTION_KEY, never
returned by the API, and decrypted by the auth service at send time.
Auth service reads the same settings table for the sign-up gate and mail
config, so in-app changes take effect without a restart.
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