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ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-3797/gate-custom-member-fields-to-the-publisher-tier-and-above

First of four. Nothing here changes how Ghost behaves; it only adds tests.

Problem

Ghost's hosted service can limit what a site is allowed to do, by supplying configuration the site reads at startup. Those limits decide whether a publisher can add another staff user, use a particular theme, send another newsletter, and so on. It is the mechanism that makes plans mean anything.

Almost none of it was tested. The tests that exist replace the limit service with stand-ins and then check that Ghost called them, which stays true no matter what the limits actually do underneath, including nothing at all. That is fine as long as the code never moves. The changes that follow move it.

Solution

Tests that configure limits the way the hosted service does, let the real code run, and check what someone using Ghost actually receives.

They cover all four kinds of limit refusing and allowing: a feature switched off, a count reached, a value that is not on a permitted list, and an allowance for a billing period, that last one driven by publishing a post to a newsletter and having the send refused. They also cover the numbers a limit puts into its message, what the browser is handed so it can grey out the same things, and the shape an integration reads when a request is refused.

Three behaviours nobody had written down are now recorded, and each leaves a site less limited than its host asked for, without saying so. A limit whose name this version of Ghost does not recognise is discarded. A limit whose name is spelled with underscores rather than capitals loads with none of its settings. And an allowance for a billing period, given no billing date to count from, is thrown away along with every limit that loads after it.

Setting a limit is now setting configuration and nothing else. The one awkward part, that limits are read once when Ghost starts and so must be re-read when a test changes them, is behind a single helper. That awkwardness is almost certainly why reaching for a stand-in became the habit.

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The change adds typed utilities to set and restore host limits during end-to-end tests. It reinitializes the limits service after configuration changes and exposes the utilities through the e2e framework. GhostConfig now accepts any hostSettings__-prefixed key. New Admin API tests cover flag, counted, allowlist, periodic, refusal, configuration, unbuildable, export-shape, unknown-limit, upload, member, and staff-limit behavior. Unit tests cover limit-service reload behavior.

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Host-limit errors retain the host-configured message in the API context field, but the new tests do not protect that contract. A future serialization regression could therefore pass this suite.

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161-162: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the configured host error text in context.

These assertions only prove that the endpoint sets a generic message. They do not prove that the configured host text is dropped. Assert that body.errors[0].context contains the configured error value in both cases. The existing refusal-shape test only covers the generated default text.

  • ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/host-limits.test.ts#L161-L162: assert that context contains Payments are available on the Creator plan and above.
  • ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/host-limits.test.ts#L191-L195: assert that context contains the configured newsletters limit text.

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In `@ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/host-limits.test.ts` around lines 161 - 162,
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Learning: When reviewing Ghost API behavior for `errors.HostLimitError`, validate the final serialized error payload that the API returns. Specifically, Ghost relocates the `HostLimitError`’s provided `message` into the serialized response’s `context`, and it replaces the serialized `message` with a generic host-limit message. Therefore, do not assume the error option fields (e.g., `message`) are returned unchanged—assert against the serialized payload shape (`context` contains the original message; `message` is the generic host-limit text) rather than the original thrown error fields.

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161-162: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the host message in context.

Lines 161-162 only check the generic message. The test passes if serialization also drops the configured host message from context. Assert that body.errors[0].context contains Payments are available on the Creator plan and above.

Proposed fix
 assert.equal(body.errors[0].message, 'Host Limit error, cannot edit setting.');
 assert.equal(/Creator plan/.test(body.errors[0].message), false);
+assert.equal(body.errors[0].context, 'Payments are available on the Creator plan and above.');

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In `@ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/host-limits.test.ts` around lines 161 - 162,
Update the host-limit assertions in the affected test to verify that
body.errors[0].context contains “Payments are available on the Creator plan and
above.”, while retaining the existing generic message and Creator-plan exclusion
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- Around line 161-162: Update the host-limit assertions in the affected test to
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Repo: TryGhost/Ghost PR: 29723
File: ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/automations/automations-repository.test.ts:2117-2117
Timestamp: 2026-08-03T21:09:05.797Z
Learning: In TypeScript test files, treat each `it(...)` or `test(...)` callback as a separate function scope. Identically named local declarations, such as `queries` or `recordQuery`, in separate test callbacks are valid and should not be reported as duplicate block-scoped declarations.

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Repo: TryGhost/Ghost PR: 29441
File: ghost/core/core/server/services/members-custom-fields/definitions-service.ts:202-219
Timestamp: 2026-07-20T10:54:38.657Z
Learning: When reviewing Ghost API behavior for `errors.HostLimitError`, validate the final serialized error payload that the API returns. Specifically, Ghost relocates the `HostLimitError`’s provided `message` into the serialized response’s `context`, and it replaces the serialized `message` with a generic host-limit message. Therefore, do not assume the error option fields (e.g., `message`) are returned unchanged—assert against the serialized payload shape (`context` contains the original message; `message` is the generic host-limit text) rather than the original thrown error fields.

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📚 Learning: 2026-08-19T13:41:39.334Z
Learnt from: PaulAdamDavis
Repo: TryGhost/Ghost PR: 30110
File: ghost/core/core/server/services/content-import/import/post-data.ts:3-3
Timestamp: 2026-08-19T13:41:39.334Z
Learning: In TypeScript files in the Ghost codebase, do not request replacing require() with native import syntax solely for consistency when the changed code follows Ghost’s established require() import pattern. Flag import changes only when they address a concrete technical issue, such as module compatibility or type-safety problems.

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called them, which stays true however the limits are implemented underneath,
including when they are not implemented at all.

These configure limits the way a host does and assert what a caller receives.
All four kinds refusing and allowing: a feature switched off, a count reached, a
value not on a list, and an allowance for a billing period. The numbers a counted
limit puts in its message. The block handed to the browser so it can gate the
same way. The shape an integration parses, which is not the shape it looks like:
the limit's own sentence arrives in the error's context while the message carries
the endpoint's generic wording.

Then the ones nobody has written down. A limit this build has never heard of is
ignored. A known limit spelled in another case loads with none of its settings. A
periodic limit with no billing period to count against is dropped entirely, so a
site that is paying for that limit is not actually held to it. Each of those
leaves a site less limited than its host asked for, silently.

The only thing stubbed is the call that would leave the process to reach Stripe.
Setting a limit is otherwise setting configuration and nothing else: the one
wrinkle, that limits are read during boot and must be re-read when a test changes
them, is now behind a single helper rather than a reason to reach for a stub. The
browser test fixture takes any host setting rather than the handful somebody
happened to need.

ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-3797
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ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/host-limits.test.ts-169-170 (1)

169-170: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the configured message in errors[0].context for both paths.

HostLimitError preserves the configured message in context; message remains endpoint-specific. Add assertions for Creator plan and the configured newsletter-limit text, and retain the generic message assertions.

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In `@ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/host-limits.test.ts` around lines 169 - 170,
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In `@ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/host-limits.test.ts`:
- Around line 169-170: Update the HostLimitError assertions in the affected
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Learnt from: troyciesco
Repo: TryGhost/Ghost PR: 29723
File: ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/automations/automations-repository.test.ts:2117-2117
Timestamp: 2026-08-03T21:09:05.797Z
Learning: In TypeScript test files, treat each `it(...)` or `test(...)` callback as a separate function scope. Identically named local declarations, such as `queries` or `recordQuery`, in separate test callbacks are valid and should not be reported as duplicate block-scoped declarations.

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Repo: TryGhost/Ghost PR: 29441
File: ghost/core/core/server/services/members-custom-fields/definitions-service.ts:202-219
Timestamp: 2026-07-20T10:54:38.657Z
Learning: When reviewing Ghost API behavior for `errors.HostLimitError`, validate the final serialized error payload that the API returns. Specifically, Ghost relocates the `HostLimitError`’s provided `message` into the serialized response’s `context`, and it replaces the serialized `message` with a generic host-limit message. Therefore, do not assume the error option fields (e.g., `message`) are returned unchanged—assert against the serialized payload shape (`context` contains the original message; `message` is the generic host-limit text) rather than the original thrown error fields.

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Repo: TryGhost/Ghost PR: 30110
File: ghost/core/core/server/services/content-import/import/post-data.ts:3-3
Timestamp: 2026-08-19T13:41:39.334Z
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96-127: LGTM!

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