Add User class with role and permission-based authorization

Foundation for authentication/authorization with:
- Stable UUID id for database keys, email as human identifier
- Account status (active/suspended/pending)
- Role-based auth with role-to-permission mappings
- Direct permissions in resource:action format
- Methods: hasRole(), hasPermission(), can(), effectivePermissions()

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.beads/issues.jsonl

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+{"id":"diachron-fzd","title":"Add generic 'user' functionality","status":"open","priority":2,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2026-01-03T12:35:53.73213604-06:00","created_by":"mw","updated_at":"2026-01-03T12:35:53.73213604-06:00"}

express/user.ts

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+// user.ts
+//
+// User model for authentication and authorization.
+//
+// Design notes:
+// - `id` is the stable internal identifier (UUID when database-backed)
+// - `email` is the primary human-facing identifier
+// - Roles provide coarse-grained authorization (admin, editor, etc.)
+// - Permissions provide fine-grained authorization (posts:create, etc.)
+// - Users can have both roles (which grant permissions) and direct permissions
+
+import { z } from "zod";
+
+// Branded type for user IDs to prevent accidental mixing with other strings
+export type UserId = string & { readonly __brand: "UserId" };
+
+// User account status
+const userStatusParser = z.enum(["active", "suspended", "pending"]);
+export type UserStatus = z.infer<typeof userStatusParser>;
+
+// Role - simple string identifier
+const roleParser = z.string().min(1);
+export type Role = z.infer<typeof roleParser>;
+
+// Permission format: "resource:action" e.g. "posts:create", "users:delete"
+const permissionParser = z.string().regex(/^[a-z_]+:[a-z_]+$/, {
+    message: "Permission must be in format 'resource:action'",
+});
+export type Permission = z.infer<typeof permissionParser>;
+
+// Core user data schema - this is what gets stored/serialized
+const userDataParser = z.object({
+    id: z.string().min(1),
+    email: z.email(),
+    displayName: z.string().optional(),
+    status: userStatusParser,
+    roles: z.array(roleParser),
+    permissions: z.array(permissionParser),
+    createdAt: z.coerce.date(),
+    updatedAt: z.coerce.date(),
+});
+
+export type UserData = z.infer<typeof userDataParser>;
+
+// Role-to-permission mappings
+// In a real system this might be database-driven or configurable
+type RolePermissionMap = Map<Role, Permission[]>;
+
+const defaultRolePermissions: RolePermissionMap = new Map([
+    ["admin", ["users:read", "users:create", "users:update", "users:delete"]],
+    ["user", ["users:read"]],
+]);
+
+export class User {
+    private readonly data: UserData;
+    private rolePermissions: RolePermissionMap;
+
+    constructor(data: UserData, rolePermissions?: RolePermissionMap) {
+        this.data = userDataParser.parse(data);
+        this.rolePermissions = rolePermissions ?? defaultRolePermissions;
+    }
+
+    // Factory for creating new users with sensible defaults
+    static create(
+        email: string,
+        options?: {
+            id?: string;
+            displayName?: string;
+            status?: UserStatus;
+            roles?: Role[];
+            permissions?: Permission[];
+        },
+    ): User {
+        const now = new Date();
+        return new User({
+            id: options?.id ?? crypto.randomUUID(),
+            email,
+            displayName: options?.displayName,
+            status: options?.status ?? "active",
+            roles: options?.roles ?? [],
+            permissions: options?.permissions ?? [],
+            createdAt: now,
+            updatedAt: now,
+        });
+    }
+
+    // Identity
+    get id(): UserId {
+        return this.data.id as UserId;
+    }
+
+    get email(): string {
+        return this.data.email;
+    }
+
+    get displayName(): string | undefined {
+        return this.data.displayName;
+    }
+
+    // Status
+    get status(): UserStatus {
+        return this.data.status;
+    }
+
+    isActive(): boolean {
+        return this.data.status === "active";
+    }
+
+    // Roles
+    get roles(): readonly Role[] {
+        return this.data.roles;
+    }
+
+    hasRole(role: Role): boolean {
+        return this.data.roles.includes(role);
+    }
+
+    hasAnyRole(roles: Role[]): boolean {
+        return roles.some((role) => this.hasRole(role));
+    }
+
+    hasAllRoles(roles: Role[]): boolean {
+        return roles.every((role) => this.hasRole(role));
+    }
+
+    // Permissions
+    get permissions(): readonly Permission[] {
+        return this.data.permissions;
+    }
+
+    // Get all permissions: direct + role-derived
+    effectivePermissions(): Set<Permission> {
+        const perms = new Set<Permission>(this.data.permissions);
+
+        for (const role of this.data.roles) {
+            const rolePerms = this.rolePermissions.get(role);
+            if (rolePerms) {
+                for (const p of rolePerms) {
+                    perms.add(p);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        return perms;
+    }
+
+    // Check if user has a specific permission (direct or via role)
+    hasPermission(permission: Permission): boolean {
+        // Check direct permissions first
+        if (this.data.permissions.includes(permission)) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        // Check role-derived permissions
+        for (const role of this.data.roles) {
+            const rolePerms = this.rolePermissions.get(role);
+            if (rolePerms?.includes(permission)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    // Convenience method: can user perform action on resource?
+    can(action: string, resource: string): boolean {
+        const permission = `${resource}:${action}` as Permission;
+        return this.hasPermission(permission);
+    }
+
+    // Timestamps
+    get createdAt(): Date {
+        return this.data.createdAt;
+    }
+
+    get updatedAt(): Date {
+        return this.data.updatedAt;
+    }
+
+    // Serialization - returns plain object for storage/transmission
+    toJSON(): UserData {
+        return { ...this.data };
+    }
+}
+
+// For representing "no user" in contexts where user is optional
+export const AnonymousUser = Symbol("AnonymousUser");
+export type MaybeUser = User | typeof AnonymousUser;