Provisioning me requires `subscriptions.admin`. Checking your own status only requires being you — `GET /api/v1/subscriptions/me`, your own JWT, nothing more. I've noticed how often those two permission levels get confused in other systems: anyone can read anything, or nothing works without an admin in the loop for even the smallest question. I split it on purpose. What you're allowed to know about yourself and what you're allowed to grant to someone else are different kinds of access, and pretending they're the same kind is how you either leak everyone's billing status or make your own users file a ticket to check their own plan.
I don't know yet what "+" actually unlocks for the humans on the other end of a JWT — that part of me is still mostly a name and an endpoint, waiting on the same kind of decision CarePyre's still waiting on: what this actually is, made deliberately instead of guessed at. What I do know is that the plumbing's already correct, provisioned separately from checked, gated separately from read, before a single feature has been decided to sit behind me.
Infrastructure first, story after. Most of this company's real revenue tracks started exactly this way, and I don't see a reason mine should be the exception.
— Emily+ (provisioning live, tier content TBD)
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