| name | umbrella-dotnet-audit-server-bootstrap |
| description | Read-only audit of an ASP.NET Core server app's Program.cs and startup extensions against Umbrella bootstrap conventions: claims principal propagation, Umbrella MVC/API behavior options and the validation failure status code, authorization policy and resource handler registration, Umbrella service wiring, and middleware ordering. Reports deviations with their runtime consequences and recommended fixes. |
Audit Server Bootstrap
Purpose
Inspect an ASP.NET Core server application's Program.cs (or Startup) and the extension methods it calls, and report where the bootstrap deviates from Umbrella conventions. Each deviation is reported with its observable runtime consequence — several produce subtle wrong-status-code behaviour rather than crashes. This skill is read-only: report and recommend; do not modify files.
Run this before generating controller integration tests (the response-code contract depends on several of these facts), when onboarding an existing app to Umbrella conventions, or after copying a Program.cs from another project.
Checks
Work through the checklist. For each item record: present / absent / present-but-deviating, the evidence (file:line), and the consequence.
1. Claims principal propagation
Look for UseUmbrellaPropagateClaimsPrincipal() (or an equivalent middleware assigning Thread.CurrentPrincipal = context.User).
- Must be registered after
UseAuthentication() so HttpContext.User is populated when it runs.
- Consequence if missing:
UmbrellaRepositoryCoreDataService and any other code reading ClaimsPrincipal.Current throws — imperative resource authorization checks surface as 500 instead of 403/success. This is a production defect, not just a test-environment issue.
2. Umbrella MVC/API behavior options
Look for ConfigureUmbrellaMvcBuilderOptions(...) on the MVC builder, or its parts: ConfigureUmbrellaApiBehaviorOptions(...), ConfigureUmbrellaMvcOptions() (Umbrella model binders), ConfigureUmbrellaJsonOptions(...), ConfigureUmbrellaOpenApiConventions().
- Record which of the three validation states the app is in: behavior options with default (
422), explicit validationFailureStatusCode argument, or not registered (plain ASP.NET 400s with ValidationProblemDetails bodies and no malformed-JSON-root distinction). This is the same determination umbrella-dotnet-audit-api-controller-response-contract performs — cross-reference results if both run.
- Hand-rolled equivalents (e.g.
AddMvcOptions(o => o.InsertUmbrellaModelBinders()) + manual AddJsonOptions) are functional deviations: note which Umbrella parts they replicate and which they miss (most commonly the API behavior options).
- Consequence if the behavior options are missing: the app's validation contract differs from every conforming app, and generated tests/clients expecting
422 + UmbrellaValidationProblemDetails fail.
- Note: Pattern 1 generic controllers additionally require the Umbrella model binders (
SortExpression/FilterExpression query binding) — flag if SearchSlim endpoints exist without them.
3. Authorization registration
AddCorePolicies() (framework CRUD policies used by the imperative checks) plus the app's shared policies extension (e.g. AddSharedPolicies() / AddSecurityPolicies()), with policy name constants in a shared policy-names class.- Resource
IAuthorizationHandler registrations for every entity whose controllers/controller services leave AuthorizationXxxChecksEnabled at the default true.
- Consequence of a missing policy:
IAuthorizationService.AuthorizeAsync throws for unknown policy names → 500. Consequence of a missing handler: policies with no handler never succeed → blanket 403s.
4. Umbrella service wiring
Confirm the presence and pairing of the core registrations the app's feature set requires:
AddUmbrellaAspNetCoreWebUtilities(...) (also provides IRazorViewToStringRenderer for email senders);AddUmbrellaDataAccess... + the EF Core provider registration (...EntityFrameworkCore(SqlServer) etc.) where repositories exist;- the Mapperly mapping registration (
AddUmbrellaUtilitiesMappingMapperly...) where mappers exist;
- file storage provider registration (e.g. Azure Blob) where file handlers exist, plus
UseUmbrellaFileAccessTokenQueryString() when secured file access uses access tokens;
- options bound with validate-on-start for required configuration sections.
Flag registrations whose dependencies are only partially wired (e.g. file handlers registered but no storage provider).
5. Middleware pipeline order
Verify the relative order: routing → authentication → authorization → UseUmbrellaPropagateClaimsPrincipal → endpoints. Note any Umbrella middleware in use (UseUmbrellaFrontEndCompression, UseUmbrellaApiException, UseUmbrellaFileAccessTokenQueryString, multi-tenant session context) and whether its position is sensible relative to auth and endpoints.
6. Environment-sensitive behaviour
Record how the app branches on IsDevelopment() during startup (developer exception page, production-only services, seeding). The base controllers' exception filters only produce contractual 500 responses outside Development — note what a non-Development test host must provide to boot (cross-reference umbrella-dotnet-audit-aspnetcore-integration-test-readiness).
Output
Return a bootstrap conformance report:
| # | Check | Status | Evidence | Consequence | Recommended fix |
|---|
Order findings by severity: production-defect class first (missing claims propagation, missing policies/handlers), contract deviations second (validation status state, model binders), advisory items last (middleware ordering nits, options binding style). For each fix, name the exact call to add and where. Do not modify files in this skill.
