feat(invites): wire EmailService.send_account_invite_email into create handler

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

backend/app/api/endpoints/accounts.py

@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ async def create_invite(
     db: Annotated[AsyncSession, Depends(get_db)],
     current_user: Annotated[User, Depends(require_account_owner)]
 ):
-    """Create an invite to join this account (owner only)."""
+    """Create an invite to join this account (owner only). Sends invite email."""
     code = secrets.token_urlsafe(16)
 
     expires_at = None
@@ -276,6 +276,24 @@ async def create_invite(
         expires_at=expires_at,
     )
     db.add(invite)
+    await db.flush()
+
+    # Lookup account name for email
+    account_result = await db.execute(
+        select(Account).where(Account.id == current_user.account_id)
+    )
+    account = account_result.scalar_one()
+
+    # Send invite email — non-blocking on failure (function returns False on error)
+    email_sent = await EmailService.send_account_invite_email(
+        to_email=invite.email,
+        code=code,
+        account_name=account.name,
+        role=invite.role,
+    )
+    if email_sent:
+        invite.email_sent_at = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+
     await db.commit()
     await db.refresh(invite)
     return invite

backend/tests/test_account_invite_extensions.py

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+import pytest
+from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, patch
+from sqlalchemy import select
+from app.models.account_invite import AccountInvite
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_create_invite_sends_email_and_stamps_email_sent_at(
+    client, test_db, test_user, auth_headers
+):
+    """Regression: today's create_invite does NOT send email. After this task, it MUST."""
+    with patch(
+        "app.core.email.EmailService.send_account_invite_email",
+        new_callable=AsyncMock, return_value=True,
+    ) as mock_send:
+        response = await client.post(
+            "/api/v1/accounts/me/invites",
+            json={"email": "teammate@example.com", "role": "engineer"},
+            headers=auth_headers,
+        )
+    assert response.status_code == 201, response.json()
+    mock_send.assert_called_once()
+    kwargs = mock_send.call_args.kwargs
+    assert kwargs["to_email"] == "teammate@example.com"
+    assert kwargs["role"] == "engineer"
+    assert kwargs["code"]
+
+    invite = (await test_db.execute(
+        select(AccountInvite).where(AccountInvite.email == "teammate@example.com")
+    )).scalar_one()
+    assert invite.email_sent_at is not None
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_create_invite_email_failure_still_creates_row(
+    client, test_db, test_user, auth_headers
+):
+    """When EmailService returns False, the invite row is still created but
+    email_sent_at remains NULL."""
+    with patch(
+        "app.core.email.EmailService.send_account_invite_email",
+        new_callable=AsyncMock, return_value=False,
+    ):
+        response = await client.post(
+            "/api/v1/accounts/me/invites",
+            json={"email": "fail-mail@example.com", "role": "engineer"},
+            headers=auth_headers,
+        )
+    assert response.status_code == 201
+
+    invite = (await test_db.execute(
+        select(AccountInvite).where(AccountInvite.email == "fail-mail@example.com")
+    )).scalar_one()
+    assert invite.email_sent_at is None