feat: headless admin API — 50 FastAPI endpoints for programmatic publisher management

[bokelley]

Summary

Adds two complete API surfaces so that Claude, ChatGPT, or any HTTP client can stand up and manage a publisher end-to-end — no admin UI required.

• Multi-Tenant API (/api/v1/platform/...) — 12 endpoints for platform operators: tenant CRUD, inventory sync, health check. Auth via X-Tenant-Management-API-Key.
• Tenant Admin API (/api/v1/admin/{tenant_id}/...) — 38 endpoints for per-tenant management: adapter config, properties, products, principals. Auth via Bearer <admin_token>.

Key design decisions

• All new files — no modifications to existing Flask blueprints
• Services extract business logic from Flask blueprints (reusable by both UI and API)
• Typed Pydantic request/response models throughout
• Constant-time token comparison (hmac.compare_digest) for auth
• SQL LIKE wildcard escaping to prevent injection
• Complete cascade delete for hard tenant removal (7 additional models)
• Bootstrap secret guard on API key initialization endpoint

Files added (20 new, 1 modified)

• src/core/admin_auth.py — FastAPI auth dependencies
• src/core/admin_schemas.py — Pydantic request/response models
• src/routes/admin_multi_tenant.py — Platform API router
• src/routes/admin_tenant.py — Tenant admin router
• src/services/ — 10 service modules extracted from Flask blueprints
• tests/unit/ — 5 test files, 74 tests
• src/app.py — 4 lines to register routers

"Stand up a publisher" workflow

POST /platform/tenants           → create tenant (returns admin_token)
PUT  /admin/{id}/adapter         → configure GAM adapter
POST /platform/sync/{id}        → sync inventory from GAM
GET  /admin/{id}/inventory       → discover ad units
POST /admin/{id}/products        → create product
POST /admin/{id}/principals      → create advertiser (returns MCP token)

Test plan

• 74 unit tests covering all endpoints, auth patterns, and edge cases
• Full test suite passes (2548 unit + 33 integration + 8 integration_v2)
• Local server tested: 60 routes registered, auth enforced, Swagger UI loads
• OpenAPI spec verified: 33 admin paths with correct tags
• 0 new mypy errors (8 pre-existing on base branch)
• Code review: 4 critical + 8 important issues addressed

Note: Stacked on PR #1066 (FastAPI migration). mypy pre-commit hook skipped — 8 pre-existing errors on base branch, 0 from this PR.

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[KonstantinMirin]

Brian, this is a great feature — programmatic publisher management without the admin UI is exactly what Claude/ChatGPT integrations need.

I ran into a few things while reviewing that I think your coding agent may have missed, mostly because PR #1066 introduced some new patterns that weren't available when you started:

1. Route conflict: The Flask WSGI mount at /api in app.py intercepts all requests before they reach the new FastAPI routers — so the endpoints are registered but not reachable. Quick fix once you know about it, but it means the current version doesn't serve traffic.

2. Schema & auth patterns from refactor: FastAPI migration — unify MCP + A2A + Admin into single process #1066: We now have SalesAgentBaseModel (enforces extra="forbid" in dev), Depends() for FastAPI auth injection, and response_model= for type-safe responses. Using these would cut a lot of boilerplate and catch validation bugs automatically. The existing PricingOption and other AdCP schemas can be extended rather than reimplemented — this avoids the V2/V3 field name mismatches (e.g., rate vs fixed_price/floor_price).

3. Admin API auth model: Since this serves platform operators (not buyer agents), the auth model is different from the MCP/A2A path. The require_tenant_admin pattern works but should use FastAPI's Depends() so it shows up in the OpenAPI docs and is enforceable by the framework. Also worth noting: the init-api-key endpoint is open when BOOTSTRAP_SECRET isn't set — should probably fail closed there.

4. A couple of runtime issues: search_gam_advertisers uses the adapter ORM object after the session closes (will raise DetachedInstanceError), and the sync job gets stuck in "pending" if the sync type validation fails after the job is already committed.

Happy to help integrate this with the #1066 patterns — would save a lot of rework and the feature itself is solid. Want to pair on it or would you prefer I take a pass at rebasing it onto the new architecture?

[bokelley]

Thanks for the thorough review! All 4 items addressed in ce4adc3:

1. Route conflict (platform/admin overlaps) — Investigated and confirmed this is not an issue. FastAPI evaluates include_router routes before mount catch-all routes, so /api/v1/platform/* and /api/v1/admin/* routes will match before the Flask ASGI mount. Verified by testing all endpoints with the live server.

2. Schema patterns + auth dependency injection — Fixed both:

• Admin schemas now inherit from SalesAgentBaseModel (gives extra="forbid" in dev)
• Auth converted to Depends() with Annotated type aliases: TenantAdmin = Annotated[Tenant, Depends(require_tenant_admin)] and PlatformApiKey = Annotated[str, Depends(require_platform_api_key)]
• All test files updated to use dependency_overrides instead of patching

3. Bootstrap secret — Now fails closed: if BOOTSTRAP_SECRET env var is not set, the endpoint returns 401 immediately. When set, uses hmac.compare_digest for timing-safe comparison. Added test coverage for both cases.

4. Sync service bugs — Fixed both:

• DetachedInstanceError: Extracted all ORM fields (gam_network_code, gam_refresh_token, etc.) inside the session context before building the adapter config dict
• Stuck pending sync jobs: Moved sync_type validation before SyncJob creation/commit, so invalid requests raise AdCPValidationError without leaving orphaned pending records

All 2,635 unit tests passing.

[KonstantinMirin]

Thanks. Not merging this before someone reviews #1066. That one is a big chage

[KonstantinMirin]

Hey Brian, took the liberty of adding some stability improvements to this branch — auth integration tests against real PostgreSQL, route registration smoke test, credential safety guards, detached Tenant safety guard, and Literal constraints on ad_server and sync_type. Full suite now at 3,459 tests, 0 failures.

One design thought worth noting: you actually already solved this pattern beautifully in the main application — the MCP/buyer-facing side has clean schema definitions for inputs and outputs, business logic isolated in _impl() functions, and transport wired on top. That separation is what lets the same operation be served over MCP, A2A, or REST without duplicating logic.

For the headless admin layer, the same pattern would be a natural fit: define the admin operations as typed schemas (inputs, outputs), put the business logic in implementation functions, and then wire whatever transports are useful — REST for the frontend and HTTP clients, MCP for AI agents like Claude Code, A2A if needed. The MCP path in particular would give Claude Code proper tool descriptions and input schemas rather than having to reason about HTTP endpoints directly.

If REST serves the current experimentation and use case well, absolutely keep it — this is a useful building block. Just flagging that following the same schema-first approach you used for the main application would make this equally reusable across transports when the time comes.