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Closes #75

Problem

UTM parameters are dropped by the time someone signs up, so we can't tell which campaign brought a user in.

The reason is the sign up path. A visitor lands on something like /?utm_source=twitter, clicks "Sign up" (a plain link to /login), then goes through GitHub/Google OAuth or the email magic link. When NextAuth finally fires createUser, the query string is long gone, and the event only gets { user } anyway, so there's nothing to read the UTMs from.

What this changes

The UTMs have to survive that trip, so they're kept in a cookie and read on the server when the user is created:

• Capture (src/lib/utm.ts, _app.tsx): on page load and on client-side navigation, if the URL has any utm_* params they're written to a first-party abby_utm cookie (30 days, SameSite=Lax, Secure on https). Lax matters here because the cookie has to be sent when GitHub/Google redirect back to our callback. Visits without UTMs leave the cookie alone, so newer UTMs win and plain visits don't wipe them (last-touch attribution). If the encoded cookie would be too big for the browser (only possible with very long non-ASCII values), it isn't written and the old one is removed, so the signup isn't attributed to an older campaign.
• Save ([...nextauth].ts): createUser has no access to the request, so the handler extends that event per request. It writes the UTMs to the user first and then runs the existing logic (default project and LogSnag), so a failure there can't skip the UTMs. That keeps authOptions unchanged for getServerSession.
• Schema: five nullable columns on User (utmSource, utmMedium, utmCampaign, utmTerm, utmContent) plus the migration. I went with plain columns over a JSON blob so they're easy to filter and group on, like the other metadata fields on the user.

Some guards, since the cookie is user controlled:

• The cookie is validated with zod. Unknown keys are stripped, so only the five UTM fields can ever be written to the user row, and anything malformed is ignored.
• Values are trimmed and capped at 191 chars to fit VARCHAR(191).
• Saving the UTMs is wrapped in a try/catch. If it fails, the user still gets signed up.

I also added a short section to TRACKING.md about the cookie, since that file lists what we track, and a line next to the privacy note in the README that points to it.

How I tested it

• Unit tests for parsing, cookie writing, truncation, cookie size and tampered cookies (src/lib/utm.test.ts, 12 tests).
• End to end against a real MySQL with the dev server and the email provider (magic link caught by a local SMTP sink):
  • landing on / with all five UTMs, going to /login, signing up: all five end up on the user, and the default project is still created
  • signing up without UTMs: columns stay NULL, sign up works as before
  • malformed cookie: sign up works, nothing saved
  • cookie with extra keys (email, hasCompletedOnboarding): only utmSource is written, nothing else on the user changes
  • with the server-side change reverted, the same run fails on the "UTMs saved" check, so the test does catch a regression
• prisma migrate deploy from scratch applies cleanly, and the generated SQL comes from prisma migrate diff.
• tsc and vitest show the same pre-existing errors/failures before and after this change, and biome ci passes on the changed files.

Notes

• I couldn't run GitHub/Google OAuth locally without app credentials. That flow comes back to the same callback as a top-level GET redirect, which is the case SameSite=Lax covers.
• If someone opens the magic link in a different browser than the one they landed in (say, on their phone), the cookie isn't there and no UTMs get saved. That seemed acceptable rather than threading UTMs through callbackUrl.
• abby_utm is a marketing cookie and the site has no consent banner (the Abby A/B test cookies on the landing page are in the same situation). Depending on how you handle consent, you might want it behind consent. Happy to adjust the README line or the cookie however you prefer.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Visits with supported campaign-tracking parameters are remembered in a first-party cookie for up to 30 days.
  • When a visitor signs up, available campaign details are saved with their account. The cookie is not sent to third parties.
• Documentation
  • Added information about how campaign details are stored and associated with signups, including cookie duration and first-party handling.

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Walkthrough

The web app captures supported UTM parameters in a first-party cookie for 30 days. During signup, it parses the cookie and saves valid values to five nullable fields on the user record.

Changes

UTM Attribution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Capture and retain UTM parameters apps/web/src/lib/utm.ts, apps/web/src/pages/_app.tsx, apps/web/src/lib/utm.test.ts, TRACKING.md, README.md	The app extracts and validates supported UTM query values, stores them in the abby_utm cookie, and runs capture when the route changes. Tests cover extraction, cookie storage, replacement, and parsing. The README and tracking documentation describe UTM storage and signup association.
Save UTM parameters during signup apps/web/prisma/schema.prisma, apps/web/prisma/migrations/20261029062000_add_utm_params_to_user/migration.sql, apps/web/src/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].ts	The user model and migration add five nullable UTM fields. The signup handler parses the request cookie and updates the new user when valid values exist. Update errors are logged and swallowed.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MyApp
  participant rememberUtmParams
  participant abby_utm_cookie
  participant NextAuth_handler
  participant User_table
  MyApp->>rememberUtmParams: current query string
  rememberUtmParams->>abby_utm_cookie: store encoded UTM values
  NextAuth_handler->>abby_utm_cookie: read request cookie
  NextAuth_handler->>User_table: save parsed values for new user

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Suggested reviewers: cstrnt

Merge Risk: Low · up to 3e1f4

The README's privacy statement no longer matches the new UTM attribution cookie and the data saved on signup. Qualify that sentence with a one-line wording change. No functional problem was found, so this is low risk to merge.

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Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 50.00% 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. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: saving UTM parameters when a user signs up.
Linked Issues check		Issue #75 requires UTM parameters to be stored in the users table when a user signs up. The PR captures the five supported parameters in abby_utm, validates the cookie, and saves the values during…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes support issue #75. The cookie utility and _app.tsx preserve UTM parameters until signup. The auth route saves the parameters. The schema and migration provide database storage. Tests and…

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Explanation

Issue #75 requires UTM parameters to be stored in the users table when a user signs up. The PR captures the five supported parameters in abby_utm, validates the cookie, and saves the values during NextAuth createUser. The Prisma schema and migration add five nullable User columns. Tests cover extraction, cookie handling, invalid input, and signup behavior.

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Explanation

The changes support issue #75. The cookie utility and _app.tsx preserve UTM parameters until signup. The auth route saves the parameters. The schema and migration provide database storage. Tests and tracking documentation verify and document the feature. No unrelated product change is evident.

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Review comments at @apps/web/src/lib/utm.ts:
- Around line 48-62: Update rememberUtmParams to enforce a browser-safe size
limit on the fully percent-encoded cookie value before assigning
document.cookie. Fit or truncate the UTM values so the complete cookie
assignment stays within the per-cookie limit, while preserving the existing
cookie attributes and behavior for values that already fit.

Review comments at @apps/web/src/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].ts:
- Around line 125-135: Update the createUser handler to catch failures from
authOptions.events?.createUser?.(message) locally, then continue to save
attribution with saveUtmParams. Preserve the existing event call and UTM cookie
handling.

Review comments at @TRACKING.md:
- Around line 20-23: Update the README’s privacy claim to accurately state that
UTM campaign parameters are stored in the first-party abby_utm cookie for 30
days and associated with a user’s account upon signup; remove or qualify the
statements that Abby uses no marketing cookies and tracks no personalized user
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Update the public privacy claim.

This change stores campaign attribution in a cookie and associates it with a user. The README still says Abby uses no marketing cookies and tracks no personalized user data. Update that claim so users receive an accurate description of the new behavior. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the README’s privacy claim to accurately state that UTM campaign
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associated with a user’s account upon signup; remove or qualify the statements
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Added a line next to the privacy note in the README that points to TRACKING.md (3e1f497).

@cstrnt one thing worth flagging: abby_utm is a marketing cookie and tryabby.com has no consent banner. Depending on how you handle consent there (the Abby A/B test cookies on the landing page are in the same situation), you might want this behind consent. Happy to change the README wording, put the cookie behind consent, or drop the README line, whatever you prefer.

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Qualify the privacy claim for the new UTM attribution.

The sentence before the new line says Abby "won't track any personalized user data and uses no marketing cookies." That claim no longer holds for tryabby.com signups. The new abby_utm cookie stores campaign attribution, and the UTM values are saved on the user record. The new line 10 describes this behavior, but it does not qualify line 9.

📝 Suggested fix

-Abby focuses on privacy. This means it won't track any personalized user data and uses no marketing cookies.
+Abby focuses on privacy. This means it won't track any personalized user data and uses no marketing cookies, except for the UTM attribution on tryabby.com signups described below.

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Review comment at @README.md at line 10:
Qualify the privacy claim in the README sentence stating that Abby uses no
marketing cookies: clarify that tryabby.com signups use the abby_utm cookie and
store UTM attribution, while preserving the rest of the claim.

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