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Adds ENABLE_USER_DISCOVERY (default false) for private instances. When enabled, the expense participant picker shows an “Other users” section containing users without shared expenses and hidden friends, including those removed after settling their balances. Deleted accounts and the current user are excluded, and the balance dashboard's friends list remains unchanged.

Discovery returns only id, name, and image; email addresses, banking identifiers, hidden-friend lists, and other private fields are excluded by an explicit Prisma select. Participant and payer types accept this minimal identity.

The flag is enforced on the authenticated API and documented in .env.example and the configuration guide. The picker supports filtering, selection, loading errors, and retry for discovered users.

Implements the proposal in #590.

Validation:

• All 520 unit/component tests passed.
• All 4 discovery integration tests passed against a separate disposable local database, including a settled hidden friend, strangers, deleted users, disabled discovery, authentication, and an exact response assertion that excludes private fields.
• TypeScript, changed-file formatting, and targeted lint passed.
• Full-project lint terminated abnormally, likely due to memory exhaustion.

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Summary

• New Features
  • When enabled, user discovery adds an “Other users” section to the expense participant picker, including hidden friends and people without shared expenses. The current user and deleted accounts are excluded.
  • Search for and select discovered users to add them to an expense. Discovery does not add users to the balance dashboard.
• Configuration
  • User discovery is off by default. It is intended for private instances where users may discover one another.

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Walkthrough

Adds an opt-in setting and protected query for discoverable users. The expense participant picker can search and select eligible users in a separate section. The change also narrows participant data to the fields used by expense flows.

Changes: Expense participant user discovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Discovery setting and query .env.example, docs/CONFIGURATION.md, src/env.ts, src/server/api/routers/user.ts, src/tests/integration/userDiscovery.integration.test.ts	Adds ENABLE_USER_DISCOVERY, which defaults to false. When enabled, the protected query excludes the current user, existing balance-view friends, and deleted users. Integration tests cover the disabled and enabled results, returned identity fields, and unauthenticated requests.
Participant picker integration src/store/addStore.ts, src/components/AddExpense/SelectUserOrGroup.tsx, src/components/AddExpense/UserInput.tsx, src/pages/balances/[friendId].tsx, public/locales/en/common.json, src/tests/addMembers.test.tsx	Defines Participant with a narrower set of user fields and uses it for expense participant state and selection. Adds a searchable “Other users” section and includes discovery query status in loading, error, retry, and empty-state handling. Tests cover filtering and selection.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SelectUserOrGroup
  participant getDiscoverableUsers
  participant BalanceView
  participant UserQuery
  SelectUserOrGroup->>getDiscoverableUsers: request discoverable users
  getDiscoverableUsers->>BalanceView: read caller's friend IDs
  getDiscoverableUsers->>UserQuery: select eligible user identities
  getDiscoverableUsers-->>SelectUserOrGroup: return user results

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Possibly related PRs

• oss-apps/split-pro#756: Updates the same picker’s empty-state logic, which this change also adjusts for discovery results.
• oss-apps/split-pro#787: Adds the deletedAt field used to exclude deleted users from discovery and in participant objects.
• oss-apps/split-pro#793: Changes balance-view friend visibility, which this query uses to identify existing friends.

Suggested reviewers: tomunger, kmkoushik

Merge Risk: Low · up to 1b009

A small edge case can make some eligible users undiscoverable in the expense picker; fix the fallback label before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: optional user discovery in the expense picker.
Description check		The description provides a clear summary, implementation details, linked proposal, and validation results. It does not include the template headings for Demo or Checklist, and it does not provide a cl…
Linked Issues check		Linked issue #593 requests an admin flag that makes users on the instance discoverable, so users can add or remove friends without knowing exact usernames or emails. The issue has no further acceptanc…
Out of Scope Changes check		All changed areas support the discovery feature or its privacy constraints: - src/env.ts, .env.example, docs/CONFIGURATION.md: define and document ENABLE_USER_DISCOVERY. - `public/locales/en/…

Full details: Description check

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The description provides a clear summary, implementation details, linked proposal, and validation results. It does not include the template headings for Demo or Checklist, and it does not provide a closing issue keyword, but the main review information is complete and on topic.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Linked issue #593 requests an admin flag that makes users on the instance discoverable, so users can add or remove friends without knowing exact usernames or emails. The issue has no further acceptance criteria. The PR covers this requirement in the expense participant picker:

• Flag: ENABLE_USER_DISCOVERY is defined in src/env.ts with default false. The operator controls it at the instance level. It is not a per-user setting. The issue does not name a specific admin UI, so the environment variable is a reasonable reading of "admin-controlled".
• Server query: getDiscoverableUsers in src/server/api/routers/user.ts returns [] when the flag is off. When the flag is on, it returns non-deleted users, excluding the current user and users already in the balance-view friends list. Hidden friends are not in the exclusion set, so they remain discoverable. The Prisma select returns only id, name, and image.
• Client: SelectUserOrGroup.tsx loads the query, shows a separate "Other users" section, supports search filtering and selection, and includes discovery in load error handling, retry, and the empty-state check.
• Tests: the PR reports integration tests for disabled discovery, hidden friends, strangers, deleted users, and authentication. The component test covers section display, filtering, and selection.

The PR does not add a separate friends-list or add/remove-friend screen. Selecting a discovered user in an expense adds that user to the expense participants, which is the existing friend-creation path in this app. This reading is an interpretation of the issue's broad wording. Removal of friends is not addressed by new code, but the issue does not specify a removal UI.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

All changed areas support the discovery feature or its privacy constraints:

• src/env.ts, .env.example, docs/CONFIGURATION.md: define and document ENABLE_USER_DISCOVERY.
• public/locales/en/common.json: adds the actors.other_users label used by the new section.
• src/server/api/routers/user.ts: adds the discovery query.
• src/components/AddExpense/SelectUserOrGroup.tsx: renders discovered users in the picker.
• src/store/addStore.ts: narrows Participant to id, name, image, optional email and deletedAt, and optional amount. The PR description states that participant and payer types accept this minimal identity, so discovered users fit the same type.
• src/components/AddExpense/UserInput.tsx and src/pages/balances/[friendId].tsx: remove private fields from temporary participant objects. These edits follow from the narrower Participant type and keep private fields out of the picker data path.
• src/tests/addMembers.test.tsx and src/tests/integration/userDiscovery.integration.test.ts: test the new behavior.

The balance dashboard friends list is not changed, as the PR description states. No change was found that is unrelated to discovery.

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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 1 functions across 7 files.

Resolution

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Review comments at @src/server/api/routers/user.ts:
- Line 90: Update the getDiscoverableUsers query to select only the picker’s
required user fields—id, name, and image—instead of returning every scalar
field; adjust the picker’s participant type to match if needed.
- Around line 91-93: Update the user discovery query’s `where` filter to exclude
invitation-created placeholder users, returning only users with a verified email
or at least one linked OAuth account. Preserve the existing deleted-user and
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