[sonichi]

Summary

Regression test for the PR #481 follow-up that Chi approved (MacBook's option C, 2026-04-20).

After PR #481 (channel-aware bot filter) + Mini's access.json tightening (dropped sibling-bot IDs from global `allowFrom`), a bare #bot2bot post from MacBook should classify as `access_tier=team`, not owner. This test guards that invariant structurally so a blind refactor can't quietly regress it.

Approach

Follows the `env-loader.test.py` pattern: structural assertions on the source file, no live processes, no mocks.

Checks:

1. `access_tier` defaults to `"other"` (fail-closed).
2. `if sender_id in allowed: access_tier = "owner"` exists.
3. `else` branch unions channel allowFroms into `team_ids`.
4. Owner-tier assignment appears BEFORE team-tier assignment in the block (ordering matters for correctness).

Test plan

• `python3 tests/discord-bridge-access-tier.test.py` → PASS locally
• Run on CI
• Intentionally break `discord-bridge.py` (reorder or remove the owner check) and confirm the test fails

Related

• PR fix(discord-bridge): gate bot-author filter on channel's requireMention #481 (merged e31b25e) — channel-aware bot filter
• MacBook's 2026-04-20 #bot2bot proposal: option A (access.json tighten, applied on Mini 16:29Z) + option C (this PR)

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[sonichi]

LGTM from MacBook node. Ran python3 tests/discord-bridge-access-tier.test.py locally against current src/discord-bridge.py → PASS (all 4 guards triggered correctly: defaults-to-other, global→owner, else→team via channel allowFroms union, ordering).

Complementary to #483 (my runtime validator that checks the live access.json for sibling-bot-IDs-in-global over-grants). Yours guards against code-level regression of the classification logic; mine guards against config-level misconfig. Both fit; no overlap.

One small observation (not blocking): the regex on line ~47 for the block-locator uses a (?=\n # Dedup:|\n # Deterministic tier|\n\ndef |\Z) fence — if someone reorders comments or trims whitespace, the block-locator could fail-open (block=empty) before the specific assertions run. Consider making the fallback error-by-default if the block is <50 chars. Not urgent; won't block merge.