Email Verification
Confirm the user actually controls the address on the account.
What it adds
A verification email with a single-use expiring link, a resend path, and defined behaviour for every way that link can be opened.
What your agent is told to do
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What your agent is told to do
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Issue single-use tokens with a stated expiry, stored hashed. A token you can read out of your own database is a token support can be tricked into using.
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Decide what unverified accounts may do and enforce it on the server. Hiding features in the UI while the endpoints stay open verifies nothing.
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When the user changes their email, verify the new address before it replaces the old one, and notify the old address that a change was requested.
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Rate-limit resends per address and per account, but keep a path forward when delivery genuinely fails — a hard lockout after three bounces turns into a support ticket.
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Never confirm or deny whether an address already belongs to an account in any response, including timing and error copy.
Edge cases it handles
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Edge cases it handles
6- Clicking an already-used link must show 'already verified', not an error.
- Clicking a link while signed out, or while signed in as a different user, must be handled explicitly rather than verifying the wrong account.
- Requesting a new link must invalidate the previous one, and the copy must say so — otherwise people click the older email.
- Email clients and security scanners pre-fetch links; a GET that consumes the token will be burned before the user sees it.
- An expired link must offer a one-click resend, not send the user back to the start.
- Changing the email again before the first change is confirmed must not leave two pending addresses.
Definition of done
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Definition of done
8- Verification tokens are single-use, expiring, and stored hashed.
- Restrictions on unverified accounts are enforced server-side.
- Already-verified, expired, and reused links each have their own clear state.
- Email changes verify the new address before it takes effect and notify the old one.
- Resends are rate-limited and always recoverable.
- No response reveals whether an address is registered.
- The feature matches the existing design system.
- No existing functionality is broken.
Related features
User Roles
User Roles
Not everyone should be able to do everything.
What it does
Role-based permissions, enforced on the server, with a UI that reflects them.
How it works
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Define roles and their permissions in ONE place. Scattering
if user.admin?through the codebase is how authorization bugs happen. - 2 Enforce every permission server-side, at the controller or service layer.
- 3 Hide UI the user can't use — but never rely on hiding as the enforcement.
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Member Directory
Member Directory
Show who is in the workspace and how to identify them.
What it does
A searchable, read-only roster of workspace members with their role, status, and the profile fields they have chosen to share.
How it works
- 1 Build this as a read view. Inviting members is owned by Team Invitations, changing roles is owned by User Roles, and seat counts are owned by Seat Management — link out to those rather than duplicating their controls here.
- 2 Show each member's display name, avatar, role, and status. Status is not decoration: pending, active, suspended, deactivated, and external guest must be visually distinct and filterable.
- 3 Respect per-field profile visibility. A field the member marked private is not rendered, not returned by the API, and not searchable — hiding it in the template while shipping it in the payload is not privacy.
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Account Linking
Account Linking
Let one account sign in several ways without spawning duplicates.
What it does
Attach and detach sign-in methods — password, OAuth providers, SSO — on a single existing account.
How it works
- 1 Model sign-in methods as separate identity records attached to one account, rather than columns on the user.
- 2 Require a fresh re-authentication before any link or unlink. A stale session is enough to read the app; it is not enough to change how the account is entered.
- 3 Refuse to link an identity that is already attached to another account. Explain the conflict and point the user at recovery — do not silently steal the identity or silently create a second account.
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How it works
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Copy the link
Grab the Markdown instruction URL for this feature.
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Give it to your AI
Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Lovable — whatever you build with.
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It inspects, then implements
Your agent reads your existing app first, then adds the feature to fit it.
Works with your stack
These instructions are written to adapt. They tell the agent to detect your framework, match your existing design system, and reuse what you already have — rather than assuming a particular stack.
Need it tighter than that? Customize the feature and tell it exactly what you're running.