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+# Teams unused-consent expiry sleep audit
+
+Baseline: voice call-report PR #17586 at 250fca6cff.
+Branch: codex/sleep-26-teams-consent-expiry.
+Status: audit; implementation, local acceptance, publication and remote gates pending.
+
+## Separate reasons
+
+The Teams maintenance callback in microsoft-teams/file-delivery.ts runs from
+processPublicationMaintenance and repeats a database selection every 30 seconds.
+It combines two obligations. This slice owns only unused consent expiry:
+consent_pending, awaiting_consent and upload_pending rows become expired at their
+existing expiresAt. Abandoned consent_sending/uploading/file_info_sending attempts,
+and conflict rows with a retained attempt expiry, belong to the next slice.
+Unknown outcomes without a live deadline are passive operator-review evidence;
+expiry must not convert them into retries or manufacture delivery receipts.
+
+## Owner and persistence
+
+chatTeamsFileTransfers already owns the phase, expiry, company, endpoint,
+publication, version, authority digest and encrypted private state. No schema or
+new queue table is needed. teamsFileTransferService is the only production insert
+and update owner found by the initial writer search. Its issue() insertion and
+central update() helper are the two notification boundaries. Caller-owned
+resolveInTransaction uses that helper; its signal must wait for outer commit.
+Deletion should simply remove a cached entry on the next owned deadline; it must
+not retain a perpetual scan.
+
+The existing lock order is publication -> transfer -> projection policy/source
+locks. Expiry rechecks eligibility after those locks and performs no provider
+I/O. Integrity checks and projection in the same transaction must remain intact.
+Maintenance lock waits are bounded to 250ms, with no-wait publication/transfer
+locking. A bad or locked row must not starve other companies or later rows.
+Never log private envelopes, SQL parameter errors, provider capabilities or tokens.
+
+## Intended migration
+
+- Reuse scoped deadline work, with paged startup reconstruction and transfer-ID
+  hints from committed writes. Register the worker through the Teams owner;
+  app wiring only supplies shared lifecycle and admission gates.
+- Load only the three unused phases, with ceil(expiresAt milliseconds) so a
+  PostgreSQL submillisecond expiry cannot be executed early or spin.
+- Recheck and expire one transfer through its owning protocol method, preserving
+  atomic publication projection and no-provider-I/O semantics. Result loading
+  removes settled/changed rows; failed reconstruction or expiry retains retry.
+- Keep explicit manual expireAndRecover compatibility for tests/diagnostics.
+  Production aggregate maintenance must select and execute only abandoned
+  attempts after this slice. It must not keep expiring unused consent as a hidden
+  second owner. That remaining attempt scan is intentionally still pending.
+- Preserve configured idle, completed history, unknown outcome and active-attempt
+  quiet for this worker. Real outstanding consent remains a future obligation.
+- Do not change authority-on-use checks, transport execution, Cloud wake coverage
+  or whole-instance sleep eligibility.
+
+## Verification plan
+
+Use the existing real-PostgreSQL Teams protocol fixture, and exercise real issue,
+process/consent and cancellation/resolution writers. Cover saved expiry and
+restart, first committed transfer, nested commit/rollback, no early reads,
+changed phase at claim, provider-call absence, atomic projection rollback,
+private-error redaction, lock contention/fair backlog, drain/resume, shutdown,
+and submillisecond deadlines. Existing protocol, publication and consent tests
+must continue to pass. Exercise production registration and ensure old maintenance
+cannot expire consent. Full stack checks and master reconciliation remain required.
+
+## Other outstanding gates
+
+#17586 is published, attached, and locally verified; remote CI/reviews are pending.
+#17580's company deletion policy finding and #17490's E2E cancellation failure are
+still unresolved. No original recurring-server obligation is removed from scope.