`get_permissions` deep-copies the default permission tree with a `json.loads(json.dumps(...))` round trip before merging group permissions into it. It runs on signin, signup, the permissions endpoint, OAuth, and the chat-completion middleware.
It now goes through `JSONCodec`, which selects orjson when `ENABLE_ORJSON` is set. The intermediate string never leaves the expression, so neither the escaping nor the separator differences between the two backends are observable; only the resulting object is used.
`default_permissions` always originates from `Config.get('user.permissions')`, a SQLAlchemy `JSON` column, so the tree is JSON-native by construction and the round trip is exact.
Note for anyone tempted to simplify this to `copy.deepcopy`: measured on the real `DEFAULT_USER_PERMISSIONS` shape over 200k iterations, `deepcopy` takes 3.51s against 1.45s for the stdlib round trip and 0.40s for orjson. The round trip is the fast option, not a workaround.
With `ENABLE_ORJSON` unset, which is the default, `JSONCodec` is stdlib `json` and this call site behaves exactly as before.
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