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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 hostSettings, decides the help link, swallows a misconfiguration at boot rather than refusing to start, and hands out the singleton every model and endpoint asks for. What it can do is be checked. Ghost only typechecks TypeScript, so as JavaScript none of that wiring was seen by the compiler, and neither was the limit name that the route guard takes. Ghost does not permit TypeScript syntax that cannot be erased, so the service cannot keep exporting itself as the module. It now exports itself by default, which is how every other converted service here is consumed, and the callers that want the service rather than its two helpers read it from there.
WalkthroughThe core limits service now provides a typed wrapper, host-settings initialization, and default and named exports. Core consumers and tests now use the default export. The base Suggested reviewers: Priority: ⬇️ Low Change: Refactor Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Malformed host limit settings can silently leave a site without configured limits. Validate this boundary before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Full details: Type-Safe BoundariesExplanation The PR introduces an unvalidated configuration boundary. Resolution Add a Zod schema for the raw host-limit configuration at
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The service decided its own limits: it reached for the host settings, worked out the help link, and took the database from a module it required itself. Boot asked it to initialise and could not see what from. Boot now reads what a host's configuration means for limits 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 standing behind it. Being handed its configuration means the service can be built once, complete, rather than built empty and filled in afterwards. Callers take their reference when their module first loads, though, so replacing an exported service would leave everything loaded before boot asking the one it replaced, and a site would quietly stop being limited. They now hold a wrapper that defers to whichever service the site has, which answers as an unlimited site does until boot decides otherwise, and is what a self-hosted site keeps for the life of the process.
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Validate host settings before type assertions.
config.get() reads unvalidated configuration data. The assertions at lines 17 and 19 pass that data to LimitService.loadLimits as trusted values. Invalid values can bypass limit setup or trigger IncorrectUsageError, which the wrapper intentionally converts into an unlimited service. Validate the limits and subscription settings with Zod before constructing LimitServiceInitOptions, and derive the type with z.infer.
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In `@ghost/core/core/server/services/limits/host-config.ts` at line 17, Validate
the values returned by config.get for hostSettings:limits and subscription
settings with Zod before constructing LimitServiceInitOptions, replacing the
current type assertions with schema parsing and deriving the validated type via
z.infer. Update the host configuration setup around LimitService.loadLimits so
invalid data is rejected rather than passed through as trusted values.
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ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-3952/bring-limit-service-onto-the-package-golden-path
First of three. Nothing here changes what anything does. It exists so that the two that follow can be checked by the compiler rather than by eye.
Problem
Converting the limit service to TypeScript left one job half done. The package is typed, but the file where Ghost's own configuration meets it is not, and that file is where limits are actually loaded and where the route guard takes a limit name. Ghost only typechecks TypeScript, so none of that wiring was seen by the compiler.
Inside the package, the base class built a bag of error options while every subclass built a finished error, both under one name. The base therefore had to promise either one, and each subclass had to assert its way back to the options it had just been handed.
Solution
Name those two jobs separately, so the base returns what it actually returns and the subclasses take it as read.
Then convert the service itself. Unlike the counting 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 instance that models, endpoints, validators and the importer all ask for. What it can do is be checked.
Ghost does not permit TypeScript syntax that cannot be erased, so the service cannot go on exporting itself as the module. It now exports itself by default, which is how every other converted service here is consumed, and the callers that want the service rather than its two helpers read it from there. The two that only use those helpers are untouched.
How to read it
The second commit is wide but shallow: almost every file in it is a single line, changing where the service is read from. The ones worth attention are the service itself, and any caller that reaches the service by a route other than a direct property access.
Risk
The callers are JavaScript, so the compiler cannot confirm they were all found. They were found by running the tests instead: Ghost's unit suite passes other than failures that are present on main and have nothing to do with limits, and the suites that exercise the service directly all pass.