cast-ghl-plugin/FUTURE_DEV.md
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# Future Development Notes
This document tracks planned improvements, technical debt with business impact, and migration paths
for features currently implemented with known limitations.
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## Upgrade: Per-location Cast API keys from MongoDB → Infisical
### Current state (Option A)
Per-location Cast API keys (`cast_api_key`) and sender IDs (`sender_id`) are stored in MongoDB
alongside OAuth tokens in the `cast-ghl.oauth_tokens` collection.
**Limitation:** Secret material (Cast API keys) stored in the same database as operational data.
If MongoDB is compromised, all per-location Cast credentials are exposed. MongoDB auth and TLS
mitigate this but do not eliminate the risk.
### Target state (Option C)
Use **[Infisical](https://github.com/Infisical/infisical)** as the secrets backend for per-location
Cast API keys. Infisical is open-source, self-hostable, and provides secret versioning, audit logs,
access policies, and dynamic secrets.
### Migration plan
#### 1. Deploy Infisical (self-hosted or Infisical Cloud)
- Recommended: self-host on the same Vultr instance or a dedicated secrets VM
- Create a project: `cast-ghl-provider`
- Create an environment: `production`
- Create a machine identity (service account) for the bridge service
#### 2. Secret naming convention
Store each location's API key as a secret named:
```
CAST_API_KEY_<LOCATION_ID>
```
Example: `CAST_API_KEY_myLocationId123`
#### 3. Code changes in the bridge
- Add `INFISICAL_CLIENT_ID` and `INFISICAL_CLIENT_SECRET` env vars to config
- Add Infisical Go SDK: `github.com/infisical/go-sdk`
- Create `internal/secrets/infisical.go` — wraps the SDK with a `GetLocationAPIKey(locationID) (string, error)` method and an in-process cache (TTL ~60s to avoid hammering the API)
- In `processOutbound`: call `secrets.GetLocationAPIKey(locationID)` instead of reading from the token record
- The `cast_api_key` field in `TokenRecord` can be kept as a fallback during migration, then removed
#### 4. Admin API changes
- `PUT /api/admin/locations/{locationId}/config` should write the API key to Infisical (not MongoDB)
- `GET` endpoints should read from Infisical and mask the returned value
#### 5. Migration of existing keys
1. For each location with a `cast_api_key` in MongoDB, write it to Infisical via the admin API
2. Verify the bridge reads the key correctly from Infisical
3. Clear `cast_api_key` from MongoDB records
4. Remove the MongoDB field once fully migrated
#### 6. MongoDB security hardening (do regardless of Infisical migration)
- Ensure `MONGO_URI` uses authentication: `mongodb://user:pass@host:27017/cast-ghl?authSource=admin`
- Enable TLS: append `?tls=true&tlsCAFile=/path/to/ca.pem` to the URI
- Restrict MongoDB network access to the bridge server IP only (Vultr firewall rules)
- Enable MongoDB audit logging for the `cast-ghl` database
---
## Other Future Items
### Inbound SMS (2-way) — Cast SIM gateway webhook
- Tracked in CASA-61
- Requires Cast SIM gateway to support outbound webhooks
- Bridge handler stub already exists (`PostInboundMessage` in `internal/ghl/api.go`)
- Need to agree on Cast webhook payload format and DID → locationId mapping
### Token refresh proactive scheduling
- Currently tokens are refreshed on-demand (when expired at webhook time)
- A background goroutine that refreshes tokens 1 hour before expiry would reduce latency on the first webhook after a 24-hour token lifetime