feat(cloud): headless device-link login (agent-relay cloud login --device) - #1435
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`agent-relay cloud login` was browser-only, so a machine reachable only over ssh could not be provisioned. This left `barry` as the only fleet node unable to push ai-hist history. Copying `cloud-auth.json` from a logged-in machine is not a workaround: refresh tokens rotate against a single server-side session row, so two machines sharing a file silently log each other out within hours. The device flow gives each machine its own session instead. - `agent-relay cloud login --device` prints a short code to approve in a browser on any other device, then polls until approved. - Login falls back to the device flow automatically over ssh, or on a Unix host with no display server, rather than waiting on a loopback callback that can never arrive there. - The poll honours the RFC 8628 backoff contract: it always sleeps a full interval before each request, widens the interval on `slow_down` and on a 429 `Retry-After`, and never narrows it again. Denied, expired, and replayed grants raise distinct errors instead of hanging. - Sessions are written through the existing persistence path, so `cloud session --json --reveal-token` is unchanged afterwards. Headlessness is deliberately not keyed off `CI`: a CI runner has no browser, but it also has no human to approve the code, so routing it to the device flow would hang for the full grant lifetime instead of failing fast. `auth.test.ts` now pins the browser-availability signal so the browser-flow tests do not inherit whether the runner is a headless Linux box. Requires the cloud device authorization endpoints (AgentWorkforce/cloud#2941). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds RFC 8628 device authorization for cloud login. The CLI supports ChangesHeadless device login
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant CLICloudLogin
participant CloudAuth
participant DeviceAuthEndpoints
participant CredentialStorage
User->>CLICloudLogin: Run cloud login --device
CLICloudLogin->>CloudAuth: Call ensureAuthenticated with device option
CloudAuth->>DeviceAuthEndpoints: Start device authorization
DeviceAuthEndpoints-->>CloudAuth: Return verification URL and user code
CloudAuth-->>User: Display device instructions
User->>DeviceAuthEndpoints: Approve device on another device
CloudAuth->>DeviceAuthEndpoints: Poll for token
DeviceAuthEndpoints-->>CloudAuth: Return session credentials
CloudAuth->>CredentialStorage: Persist credentials
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packages/cloud/src/device-auth.ts (1)
273-277: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winConsider retrying transient server failures instead of ending the login.
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defaultbranch throws for any unrecognised failure. A single502or503from a proxy during a ten-minute poll window ends the flow. The user must then restart the command and enter a new code, even though the grant is still valid.Continue the loop for
5xxresponses, and keep the immediate throw for4xxresponses and known error codes.♻️ Proposed refactor: treat 5xx as transient
default: { + if (response.status >= 500) { + // A proxy hiccup should not burn a still-valid grant. + intervalSeconds = clampInterval(intervalSeconds + SLOW_DOWN_INCREMENT_SECONDS); + continue; + } const detail = payload?.error_description || payload?.error || `HTTP ${response.status}`; throw deviceError(`Device login failed: ${detail}`); }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@packages/cloud/src/device-auth.ts` around lines 273 - 277, Update the device-auth polling loop’s default response handling to continue polling for HTTP 5xx responses, preserving the existing grant and poll window. Keep immediate errors for HTTP 4xx responses and recognized error codes, while retaining the current deviceError detail for non-retryable failures.packages/cloud/src/auth.test.ts (1)
382-433: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRestore the
console.logspy even when an assertion fails.
logSpy.mockRestore()at Line 432 runs only on the success path. If any assertion between Lines 419 and 430 fails,console.logstays mocked for every later test in this file. That turns one failure into a confusing cascade.Move the restore into
afterEach, or wrap the assertions intry/finally.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@packages/cloud/src/auth.test.ts` around lines 382 - 433, Ensure the console.log spy created in the device-auth test is restored when assertions fail by moving cleanup into the test suite’s afterEach hook or wrapping the test assertions in try/finally. Update the existing logSpy cleanup around ensureCloudSession so every execution path calls mockRestore, while preserving the current assertions.packages/cli/src/cli/commands/cloud.test.ts (1)
159-222: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd coverage for the telemetry
methodvalue.This PR adds
methodtoCloudAuthEventand computes it in the login action. No test asserts the emitted value. A test that drivescloud loginwith a live stored session and inspects thecloud_authevent would have caught the reporting issue flagged onpackages/cli/src/cli/commands/cloud.tsat Lines 611-617.Add cases that assert
method: 'device'for--device,method: 'device'whenisHeadlessEnvironmentreturnstrue, andmethod: 'browser'otherwise.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@packages/cli/src/cli/commands/cloud.test.ts` around lines 159 - 222, Extend the cloud login tests around the existing “cloud login” cases to inspect the emitted cloud_auth telemetry and assert method is “device” for --device, “device” when cloudMocks.isHeadlessEnvironment returns true, and “browser” otherwise. Reuse the existing harness and telemetry mock/event inspection setup, while preserving the live-session and force-login coverage.
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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In `@packages/cli/src/cli/commands/cloud.ts`:
- Around line 611-617: Move method selection into the branch that invokes
ensureAuthenticated, so existing live sessions leave method undefined and
cloud_auth telemetry omits it. Reuse the authentication layer’s loginInteractive
selection rule or a shared helper instead of duplicating device/headless
detection, while preserving the current telemetry value for actual login flows.
In `@packages/cloud/src/device-auth.test.ts`:
- Around line 309-315: Resolve the CI behavior ambiguity in
isHeadlessEnvironment: if CI must never select the device flow, add a CI
short-circuit and update the test to assert isHeadlessEnvironment({ CI: 'true'
}, 'linux') is false; otherwise preserve the implementation, correct the test
comment, and explicitly cover the Linux CI case with its intended true result.
In `@packages/cloud/src/device-auth.ts`:
- Around line 94-107: Add a bounded timeout AbortSignal to the fetch in
startDeviceAuthorization and reuse the same timeout behavior for the poll
request in the device-flow polling method. Pass the signal through each fetch
options object so stalled start or poll requests fail promptly and the existing
error, continuation, and grant-expiry handling remains reachable.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@packages/cli/src/cli/commands/cloud.test.ts`:
- Around line 159-222: Extend the cloud login tests around the existing “cloud
login” cases to inspect the emitted cloud_auth telemetry and assert method is
“device” for --device, “device” when cloudMocks.isHeadlessEnvironment returns
true, and “browser” otherwise. Reuse the existing harness and telemetry
mock/event inspection setup, while preserving the live-session and force-login
coverage.
In `@packages/cloud/src/auth.test.ts`:
- Around line 382-433: Ensure the console.log spy created in the device-auth
test is restored when assertions fail by moving cleanup into the test suite’s
afterEach hook or wrapping the test assertions in try/finally. Update the
existing logSpy cleanup around ensureCloudSession so every execution path calls
mockRestore, while preserving the current assertions.
In `@packages/cloud/src/device-auth.ts`:
- Around line 273-277: Update the device-auth polling loop’s default response
handling to continue polling for HTTP 5xx responses, preserving the existing
grant and poll window. Keep immediate errors for HTTP 4xx responses and
recognized error codes, while retaining the current deviceError detail for
non-retryable failures.
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| - `agent-relay cloud login --device` authenticates a machine that has no browser, using the OAuth device flow: the CLI prints a short code, you approve it in a browser on any other device, and the headless machine writes its own `cloud-auth.json`. Login now falls back to this automatically over SSH or on a Unix host with no display server, instead of waiting on a loopback callback that can never arrive. Each machine gets its own cloud session, so copying `cloud-auth.json` between hosts — which silently logs them out of each other as refresh tokens rotate — is no longer necessary. Requires cloud with the device authorization endpoints. |
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The new entry is a four-sentence implementation narrative, including refresh-token backstory and a deployment dependency, whereas the repository requires a concise, impact-first bullet and explicitly asks contributors to drop implementation backstory. Reduce this to a short statement naming cloud login --device, the automatic headless fallback, and their practical effect.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L45-L49
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When a token poll encounters a transient connection timeout or reset, this catch immediately abandons the still-valid grant, so even an approval completed by the user is lost and the entire login must be restarted. RFC 8628 §3.5 requires connection timeouts to reduce polling frequency with backoff; keep polling with a widened interval until the grant deadline rather than treating the first transport failure as terminal.
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If an earlier slow_down has widened the interval to 30 seconds and a later 429 carries Retry-After: 10, this assignment narrows the next wait to 10 seconds. That violates the device-flow requirement that a slow_down increase apply to all subsequent requests and can cause repeated rate limiting; use the maximum of the current interval and the parsed retry delay.
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…orting The server half of this flow (AgentWorkforce/cloud#2941) wraps claiming the grant and minting the session in one transaction: if issuance fails, the claim rolls back, the grant stays `approved` and claimable, and the endpoint answers 503 `server_error` rather than burning the approval. That exists specifically so the client can poll again and still succeed. This client did not. `server_error` fell through to the default branch and became fatal, so a momentary blip discarded an approval the human had already given and made them redo the whole flow — the exact harm the server-side fix was written to prevent. The two halves did not compose. Any 5xx is now retried with a widened interval, bounded by the grant deadline, so a gateway 502 with an HTML body recovers too while an outage that outlasts the grant still ends the loop. Backing off rather than retrying at pace avoids hammering a server that is already failing. Each of the three new tests was confirmed red against the parent (`Device login failed: server_error`) before the fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verified this CLI against the actually merged server contract (cloud#2941, now The defect: the two halves did not composecloud#2941 changed the server so claiming the grant and minting the session happen in one transaction. If issuance fails, the claim rolls back, the grant stays This CLI did not keep polling. So a momentary DB blip during the minting poll discarded an approval the human had already given and made them redo the entire flow — precisely the harm the server-side transaction was written to prevent. The server stopped burning the approval; the client threw it away instead. Worth being direct about: I introduced the 503 path in cloud#2941 and did not check the client against it. The server test suite proved the grant survives; nothing proved anyone could use the surviving grant. That gap only shows up when you read both repos against each other. The CLI's own suite had no 5xx case at all, which is why green CI on both sides said nothing about it. FixAny 5xx is retried with a widened interval, bounded by the existing grant deadline:
Backing off rather than retrying at pace, so a struggling server does not get hammered. VerificationThree new tests, each confirmed red against the parent before the fix: The backoff assertion is on the actual wait sequence (
The one local failure is Still outstanding before this is truly doneThe endpoints are merged but not yet deployed — |
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Live-fire against production — the deploy landed, and the flow works end to end. My earlier comment said the endpoints were not deployed and that everything so far was unit-level. That is now resolved: cloud run One thing worth recording, because it nearly misled me: the run contains two jobs whose steps are named identically, including Server contract, verified live
This CLI, driven against productionReal CI green at What is NOT provenA completed login. The final step needs a human to approve the code in a browser, which I cannot do for myself. Everything up to that boundary is verified against live production; the token-exchange leg past approval is exercised only by unit tests. |
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Holding merge — the Major finding is live at head, and it is the one that matters most for this feature's actual purpose. CodeRabbit commented at 1. MAJOR — no request timeout on the device-flow fetches.
This is not a generic robustness nit — it defeats the point of the feature. The whole reason this exists is barry: a headless box reached over ssh, where nobody is watching a terminal. A silent indefinite hang there is strictly worse than a failure, because a failure is visible. Add a bounded timeout to both the start call and each poll request, and surface a clear error on expiry. 2. Minor —
3. Minor — the CI assertions do not cover the case the comment warns about. Both cases pin a browser signal ( What is good: all checks green including E2E Integration Test, CodeQL and Dependency Review; you self-unblocked the Fix 1 and 2, decide on 3 explicitly. Then the acceptance test I actually want: barry, over ssh, no browser, authenticates and starts pushing. |
…ntly Node's `fetch` has no default timeout. Neither the start request nor any poll passed a signal, so a stalled TCP connection never settled and `agent-relay cloud login --device` hung with no output and no error. That is the one failure this feature cannot have. It exists for a headless box reached over ssh, where nobody is watching a terminal — a silent indefinite hang there is strictly worse than a failure, because a failure is visible. And the start request stalls before anything has been printed, so the user sees a bare cursor forever. Both legs now carry an abort budget (30s by default, injectable for tests): - The start request fails with "Timed out after 30s trying to reach <url>", as a CloudAuthError callers can already branch on. - Each poll is bounded by whichever is sooner, the request budget or the grant deadline, so a stalled socket can never outlive the grant it is waiting on and skip the loop's own expiry check. - A stalled poll is treated like the transient 5xx handled in the parent commit: back off and retry rather than discard an approval the human may already have given, and say so on stdout so a slow network does not look like a hang. Stalls that outlast the grant still end with the expiry error, not an infinite loop. All five new tests were confirmed red against the parent — three of them by hanging until the test timeout, which is the bug itself. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`method` was computed before the already-logged-in short-circuit, and the `finally` block emitted `cloud_auth` with it regardless. A no-op invocation — live session, no `--force`, `ensureAuthenticated` never called — therefore reported `method: 'device'` or `'browser'` as though a flow had run. The whole point of the field is measuring headless adoption, so this inflates exactly the number it exists to produce, on the invocations that are cheapest to repeat. And it is the class of telemetry that later gets trusted. `method` is now assigned immediately before `ensureAuthenticated` and omitted from the event when it is still undefined, so the no-op path records the login attempt without claiming a style for it. Three CLI tests cover it; the omission case was confirmed red against the parent. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The two `CI` assertions each pinned a browser signal — first a `DISPLAY`,
then a platform that always has `open`. A typical Linux runner has neither,
so `isHeadlessEnvironment({ CI: 'true' }, 'linux')` returns true and selects
the device flow, and that branch was the untested one in a headless-login
feature.
Pin it. `CI` never suppresses headless detection; it simply is not a signal
on its own, and the absent display is what decides. The behaviour is right
as it stands: unattended runs never reach this code, because a
non-interactive `ensureCloudSession` throws "login required" before any flow
is chosen, so only an explicit `cloud login` on a runner lands here — and
there the device flow is the only one that can work.
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…imits Follow-up on the two P2s cubic raised against the timeout commit. Both are real, and both turn the timeout budget back into the failure it was added to prevent. `AbortSignal.timeout` throws a RangeError on a fractional delay and silently collapses anything past the 32-bit timer range to 1ms — an immediate abort. The fractional case does not need a careless caller to reach: the poll budget is derived from the grant deadline, which is derived from the server's `expires_in`, so a non-integer `expires_in` is enough. And because the signal is constructed inside the fetch call, the RangeError was caught by the connection handler and misreported as "Could not reach <url>" — a wrong diagnosis of a bug in our own arithmetic. Delays are now floored and clamped to [1, 2^31-1] before they reach a timer. Separately, the poll slept a full widened interval before re-checking the deadline, so a 60s backoff with 5s of grant left sat on the expiry report for most of a minute. Every retry path widens the interval, so this was reachable from `slow_down`, from a transient 5xx, and from the new stall retry. The wait is now capped at the remaining grant lifetime, which makes expiry land on time rather than a backoff step late — the same "looks like a hang" failure the request timeouts address, one level up. Three tests, each confirmed red against b8200a5. The sleep-cap test needed a 25s grant to discriminate: against 30s the 5/10/15 backoff lands exactly on the deadline and passes either way. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Retracting my earlier assessment — I said this was clean, and it is not. A P1 is live at head. I verified five findings and reported the PR verified. There are roughly ten across three bots, and I had only looked at the most recent ones. Correcting that now, with each remaining finding checked against the head blob LIVE — cubic P1, if (options.interactive === false) {
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activeAuth = await loginWithBrowser(activeAuth.apiUrl); // <- line 833
That is barry's steady state, not an edge case. The feature works exactly until the first token refresh failure, which is the moment it is most needed. Route the Please also confirm status explicitly for each of these — I have not verified them and will not assume a later commit covered them:
Unchanged and still good: all checks SUCCESS, the fetch timeouts, the Report the status of every finding, not just the ones you fixed. "Addressed" and "not applicable because X" are both fine answers; silence is not. |
`authorizedApiFetch` called `loginWithBrowser` directly when a 401 could not be refreshed, bypassing the `loginInteractive` selector that `ensureCloudSession` uses. A headless machine could therefore complete the device flow once and then hang on its first re-auth, waiting on a loopback callback it has no way to complete — the feature failed exactly in the steady state it exists for. Route that fallback through `loginInteractive`. `authorizedApiFetch` gains optional `device` and `env` options; nothing mid-request carries an explicit `--device`, so left unset the selector still auto-detects a headless host, which is the behaviour that matters here. Also condenses the device-login changelog entry per review. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pushed cubic P1 — cubic P1 — codex P2 — retry transient device-token polling failures (connection timeout/reset, not just 5xx): partially addressed; the reset half is NOT fixed. Request timeouts retry at head ( codex P2 — preserve the widened polling interval after a 429: not applicable, already correct at head. codex P1 — condense the changelog entry: addressed in Local verification: |
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P1 fixed — and it introduced two new findings, both live at head The P1 fix is right, and the comment you left explaining why the selector must be shared is exactly the kind of note that stops someone re-breaking it later. Confirmed at line 847: But cubic reviewed the fix at P2 — P3 — CI is green at head. Everything previously verified still holds. For the record, this PR has now had 14 review comments across three bots over four fix cycles, and each fix has surfaced the next finding in the same neighbourhood — timeouts, then timer clamping, then deadline capping, then the selector, now cancellation. That is a sign the review is working, not that the work is bad. |
Routing re-auth through the device flow made cancellation matter more than it did under the browser flow: the device grant blocks for its full lifetime, so an aborted request that fell through to a login left a cancelled CLI or workflow waiting on authorization nobody asked for. Check init.signal?.aborted before loginInteractive and surface signal.reason, matching the abort idiom already used for the auth lock. Also restore vi.spyOn spies in an afterEach: clearAllMocks resets call history but leaves spies installed, so a test failing mid-body silenced console.log for every later test in the file - exactly when a failure needs the output.
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Both remaining findings fixed by me directly (head khaliq asked me to take the last two rather than spawn a fifth agent. Fixed in
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| CodeRabbit Major — no fetch timeouts | ✅ AbortSignal.timeout on start and each poll |
CodeRabbit Minor — method emitted with no login |
✅ declared undefined, assigned after the short-circuit |
| CodeRabbit Minor — headless branch untested | ✅ test with isHeadlessEnvironment mocked true |
| cubic P1 — headless re-auth took the browser path | ✅ authorizedApiFetch routes through loginInteractive (847) |
cubic P1 device-auth.ts:182 — stalled poll bypassing deadline |
✅ pollTimeoutMs = clampTimerDelay(min(requestTimeoutMs, deadline - now())) (251) + AbortSignal.timeout (262) |
cubic P2 — normalizeTimeout fractional/oversized |
✅ clampTimerDelay floors and clamps to Node's max |
| cubic P2 — retry could wait past expiry | ✅ sleep capped to remaining grant lifetime (240) |
| cubic P2 — uncancellable device login | ✅ this commit |
cubic P3 — logSpy restore |
✅ this commit |
| codex P2 — retry transient polling failures | ✅ isRequestTimeout catch retries timeout/abort, not just 5xx (265-277) |
| codex P2 — preserve widened interval after 429 | ✅ intervalSeconds is loop-scoped and widened via clampInterval on every backoff path (276) |
| codex P1 — condense the changelog | ✅ now a single impact-focused entry |
14 findings, 3 bots, 5 fix cycles. Ready for review — @khaliqgant, this still needs your approving review; relay requires one and I have not bypassed it.
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Closes #1434. CLI half. Depends on AgentWorkforce/cloud#2941 — that must merge and deploy first, since these endpoints do not exist yet.
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agent-relay cloud loginis browser-only, so a machine reachable only over ssh cannot be provisioned. On 2026-08-05 this leftbarryas the only fleet node unable to push ai-hist history.Copying
cloud-auth.jsonfrom a logged-in machine is not a stopgap but a latent outage: refresh tokens rotate against a single server-side session row, so whichever machine refreshes first invalidates the other. The device flow gives each machine its own session.What
--deviceonagent-relay cloud login.127.0.0.1on the remote machine — unreachable from your laptop's browser — so it just hangs for five minutes. Falling back is strictly better than the status quo.packages/cloud/src/device-auth.ts; sessions are persisted through the existing path, socloud session --json --reveal-token(what ai-hist consumes) is unchanged.Backoff — the part that must not busy-loop
pollForDeviceTokensleeps a full interval before every request, including the first, widens the interval by 5s onslow_down, takes the server's interval when it is larger, honoursRetry-Afteron a 429, caps at 60s, and never narrows again. It also enforces the grant deadline locally rather than trusting the server to end the loop.sleepis injected, so the tests assert the actual wait sequence rather than merely that it terminates —expect(sleeps).toEqual([5000, 5000, 10_000, 15_000]). A client that spun would fail these, not just run fast.access_denied,expired_token, andinvalid_granteach raise a distinct, actionableCloudAuthErrorinstead of hanging.One judgement call worth reviewing
Headlessness is deliberately not keyed off
CI. My first draft treatedCI=trueas headless. That is wrong twice over:WORKFORCE_WORKSPACE_TOKEN.ensureAuthenticatedwithout pinningenv. Confirmed by running the suite withCI=true: two tests failed withAUTH_DEVICE_FLOW_FAILED.Fixed at the root rather than by patching the tests. The same latent problem remained via the no-display heuristic on a Linux runner, so
auth.test.ts'sbeforeEachnow pins the browser-availability signal instead of inheriting the runner's environment. The suite passes underCI=trueon both Linux-shaped and macOS-shaped env.Verification
37 new tests: 22 in
device-auth.test.ts(pacing, every RFC state, headless detection), 2 integration tests inauth.test.ts(device fallback end to end;--devicenamed in the non-interactive error), 5 CLI tests, plus the mock-wiring fixes.The one failing test is pre-existing and unrelated —
auth.test.ts > omits telemetry headers when no distinct id is providedreads the machine's real identity file, so it fails on any developer machine that has logged in. Verified bygit stash-ing this branch and re-running on unmodifiedmain: same single failure.Real
npm ciin a clean worktree, no symlinkednode_modules. Nothing deployed; no credential minted or seeded.No docs change: this repo has no
web/content/docs/tree (the docs-sync rule points at a directory that does not exist on this branch), so the changelog entry and the flag's help text are the documentation surface. Changelog raised from[Unreleased - Patch]to[Unreleased - Minor]per the monotonic rule, since this adds a feature.🤖 Generated with Claude Code