// Package authn answers one question for spec.sr.ht — "who is making this // request?" — and builds the git provenance that answers "who made this write?" // forever after. // // The design has exactly two principals that carry authority: // // - the human owner, recognised by the shared `sr.ht.unified-login.v1` // cookie carrying the instance's [sr.ht] owner-name; // - an agent, recognised by a bearer token. // // Everything else is anonymous. Single-user does not mean "no authorization"; // it relocates it onto agents, which is why Principal distinguishes those two // and nothing finer. The boundary that bounds an agent's damage is the refs rule // (agents may only write proposals/*), and that lives in gitx; nothing here // replaces it. // // # Two agent credential planes, and one surface that takes the second // // An agent is recognised by a tokens.sr.ht working token — PlaneInstance: // signed by the instance, expiring, owned by a meta.sr.ht account, and carrying // a grant set (ActionPropose, ActionRead). It is validated by sr-ht-ecore's // bearer package, and it is the credential of every surface this service has: // the REST write plane, /mcp, the machine formats of the read plane, and the // `git push` hook path. // // /query takes a second one — PlaneMeta, an ordinary meta.sr.ht personal access // token scoped by ScopeRead — and it takes it because of api.sr.ht rather than // because a second credential is desirable. The gateway forwards ONE client // Authorization header to every service a federated query touches: its // AuthMiddleware copies the client's header verbatim into the request context, // and the internal credential it can mint is used only to fetch schemas at // startup. So a federated caller arrives here holding whatever credential the // client had, and the only credential a client can hold that works across the // whole instance is a meta PAT. An endpoint that refuses one can never be // federated: adding it to the gateway would be one `api-origin=` line that // produces 401s. // // The scope of that exception is narrow and is kept narrow structurally rather // than by discipline. MetaAuth is not part of Resolver, so nothing that resolves // identity through Resolver can produce a PlaneMeta principal — graph builds the // plane itself, wired from cmd/specsrht at the single call site that may use it, // and no other surface holds one. A personal access token is therefore not a way // around the tokens.sr.ht grant an upload, an MCP tool or a push requires. // // spec used to mint its own credential as well — the agent_token row: one // instance-wide shared secret, hashed at rest, with no owner, no expiry and no // grants. That plane is gone. Issuance is centralised — tokens.sr.ht mints a // working token, meta.sr.ht mints a PAT — so each plane has one door and nothing // behind it: a credential a plane refuses is refused, rather than being offered // to a second store that might say yes. A meta PAT presented to any surface but // /query is bearer.ErrNotOurs and fails at that door, which is the same answer // one hash lookup later, said honestly. // // Both credential planes name an owner where the local secret had none. // Principal.Owner means "the human this agent acts for", which on this // single-owner instance is always [sr.ht] owner-name — a token belonging to // anybody else is refused rather than admitted as a second identity, because // every consumer of that field (the provenance committer, the refs rule's // principal kind, the coreauth AuthContext) is written for one human. That rule // is why MetaAuth is told the owner too: a PAT is the credential every account on // the instance can mint, so without it the widest possible credential would be // the one that skipped the narrowest check. // // Grants are orthogonal to the refs rule and to provenance, and replace neither. // A grant says what an instance token was minted for; the refs rule still says // where an agent may point a ref, and provenance is still mandatory on every // agent write. // // The cookie and the bearer planes are deliberately asymmetric: // // - A cookie that is missing, forged, expired or unreadable yields an // anonymous principal and never an error. Browsing must keep working. // - A bearer token that is present but unknown, revoked or corrupt is a hard // failure. An agent that presented an explicit credential must not be // silently downgraded to a reader; it would then fail confusingly at the // write instead of clearly at the door. // // Provenance is the other half. Agent identity and session ID are mandatory on // every agent write, and are recorded in the commit itself so that a plain // `git log` on any clone carries the audit trail: // // Author: claude-code/spec-writer (for bigbes) // Committer: bigbes // // Add storage model section // // X-Agent-Session: 8fb9c9a4-b078-4af1-89eb-d97c522f9921 // X-Agent-Base: 1f0c1d1a1e2b3c4d5e6f708192a3b4c5d6e7f809 // // A write missing either field is rejected rather than defaulted: a commit // stamped with a guessed session is worse than no commit, because it launders // unattributable output as attributed. // // This package owns no storage and opens no connections. The "user" row an // instance token's owner resolves to is reached through UserLookup, and the // tokens.sr.ht validator through BearerValidator. authn never imports db and // never calls core-go's auth.LookupUser itself, so the dependency arrow keeps // pointing downward and the whole package stays testable with no Postgres and no // daemon to talk to. package authn import ( "errors" "sourcecraft.dev/bigbes/sr-ht-ecore/bearer" ) // Sentinel errors. Callers compare with errors.Is. The split that matters is // permanent (the credential is bad — 401/403) versus transient (the backend // could not answer — 503); IsAuthFailure draws it. // // Everything a working token can be wrong about is spelled by sr-ht-ecore's // bearer package — ErrInvalid, ErrNotOurs, ErrRevoked — because that plane has // one issuer and one validator. The sentinels below are what this service adds // on top of that answer, and they now include the meta plane's three: its // validator's refusals are metapat's, and its prose has to name meta.sr.ht where // bearer's names tokens.sr.ht, while the status each one maps to is deliberately // identical. See ScopeRead and MetaAuth. var ( // ErrNoToken is returned when a bearer credential was expected but the // request carried no Authorization header, or one in another scheme. ErrNoToken = errors.New("no agent token presented") // ErrNoAgentPlane is returned when a bearer credential is presented to a // resolver that was built without the tokens.sr.ht plane — an instance whose // config.ini has no [tokens.sr.ht] origin. It is a wiring failure and not a // credential failure, so it is deliberately not an IsAuthFailure: telling an // agent its token is bad when the truth is that this service cannot check // any token would send it off to re-provision a perfectly good credential. ErrNoAgentPlane = errors.New("no agent credential plane is configured") // ErrNotAgent is returned when agent provenance is demanded of a principal // that is not an agent — the human push path builds no trailers. ErrNotAgent = errors.New("principal is not an agent") // ErrMissingProvenance marks an agent write that omits the agent identity, // the session ID, or the base revision. Mandatory on every agent write; the // design is explicit that these are not defaultable. ErrMissingProvenance = errors.New("missing agent provenance") // ErrInvalidProvenance marks provenance whose values are present but // unusable: control characters or angle brackets that would forge a git // signature line or inject an extra trailer, an over-long field, or a base // revision that is not a hex object name. ErrInvalidProvenance = errors.New("invalid agent provenance") // ErrMissingConfig is returned by InstanceFromConfig when the instance // config lacks a key the provenance identities are built from. It is a // startup failure, not a request failure. ErrMissingConfig = errors.New("missing instance config key") // ErrNotInstanceOwner marks a valid tokens.sr.ht working token whose owner is // somebody other than the instance owner. 403: the credential verifies and // the holder is who they say they are, there is simply nothing on this // single-owner instance to grant them. Deliberately not an IsAuthFailure — // presenting it again will not help and neither will logging in. ErrNotInstanceOwner = errors.New("token owner is not the instance owner") // ErrMissingGrant marks an instance token that authenticated fine but does // not carry the action being attempted. 403, for the reason // bearer.ErrForbidden is: what the holder needs is a wider grant, not another // login. // // It is raised by Principal.Authorize, at the layer that knows the action — // never by the resolver, which runs before the router and so knows none. ErrMissingGrant = errors.New("token does not grant this action") // ErrMissingScope marks a meta.sr.ht personal access token that authenticated // fine and was not minted to read through this service: it does not carry // ScopeRead. 403, exactly as ErrMissingGrant is and for the same reason. // // It is deliberately not ErrMissingGrant. The two name permissions in // vocabularies that do not overlap — no PAT can carry "spec:read", because // meta's personal-token page cannot spell it, and no working token can carry // "spec.sr.ht/SPECS", because ecore's grants grammar does not read that shape // — so a refusal has to name the one the caller can actually go and obtain. // A PAT holder sent looking for "spec:read" would be hunting a checkbox that // does not exist. // // Unlike ErrMissingGrant it is raised at resolution rather than at the router, // which is not an inconsistency: the plane that raises it guards /query alone, // every field of which is a read, so the action is known before the router. ErrMissingScope = errors.New("token does not carry the required OAuth scope") // ErrInvalidPersonalToken marks a personal access token this service will not // accept: the signature or the expiry did not hold, meta.sr.ht reports it // revoked, or it names an account meta will not resolve. 401 through // IsAuthFailure, beside the bearer sentinels that say the same thing about the // other plane. // // It is spec's own rather than a reuse of bearer.ErrInvalid because bearer's // sentinels are worded about tokens.sr.ht ("bearer: token was not issued by // tokens.sr.ht"), and for this plane every one of those words is wrong. The // status is what has to agree between the two planes, not the prose. ErrInvalidPersonalToken = errors.New("personal access token was refused") // ErrMetaUnavailable marks a personal access token that could not be // *checked*: the profile mirror or the revocation lookup at meta.sr.ht did not // answer. // // It is pointedly absent from IsAuthFailure, so StatusFor's fail-closed // default answers 503. "I could not decide" is not "your credential is bad", // and answering 401 to a meta.sr.ht restart would tell every federated client // on the instance to go and re-mint credentials that were never broken. // // It is not bearer.ErrUnavailable for the same reason as above, sharpened: that // sentinel says tokens.sr.ht could not be reached, and tokens.sr.ht can be // perfectly healthy while this is raised. An operator reading the wrong daemon // out of a log line goes and looks in the wrong place. ErrMetaUnavailable = errors.New("meta.sr.ht could not be reached") ) // IsAuthFailure reports whether err is a permanent credential failure — the // caller should answer 401/403 — as opposed to a transient backend failure, // which should answer 503 and be retried. Everything not in this set is // transient by definition, which is the fail-closed direction: a backend outage // never reads as a valid credential. // // bearer.ErrNotOurs joined the set when the local plane left it. A meta.sr.ht // PAT used to fall through to spec's own store, where it missed; with one door // per plane there is nothing to fall through to, and "that credential was issued // by somebody whose tokens this surface does not take" is as permanent a refusal // as a signature that does not verify. It is still the answer everywhere but // /query, which routes a PAT to MetaAuth before this plane is asked and so never // reaches it — see graph's resolveCaller. // // ErrInvalidPersonalToken is that plane's counterpart and sits here for the same // reason its siblings do: what makes the two planes consistent is that a client // gets the same status for the same kind of failure, whichever credential it // presented. bearer.ErrUnavailable and ErrMetaUnavailable are both pointedly // absent — see StatusFor, which is what surfaces should map with. func IsAuthFailure(err error) bool { return errors.Is(err, ErrNoToken) || errors.Is(err, bearer.ErrInvalid) || errors.Is(err, bearer.ErrNotOurs) || errors.Is(err, bearer.ErrRevoked) || errors.Is(err, ErrInvalidPersonalToken) }