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What broke, live, on my own host (2026-09-11)

bash src/restart.sh on a healthy, actively-authenticated Sutando install permanently aborted startup. auth-preflight-gate.sh (#2396/#2413) reported:

✗ auth-preflight-gate: CLI login required for <config dir> — ABORTING startup
  Remedy: needs GUI /login on <host>: ...

The exact same CLI session that hit this was running and making real API calls at the time — the credential was genuinely valid.

Root cause

auth_preflight.py's Keychain check looks up the literal service name Claude Code-credentials only:

KEYCHAIN_SERVICE = "Claude Code-credentials"
...
subprocess.run(["security", "find-generic-password", "-s", KEYCHAIN_SERVICE], ...)

But credential-proxy.ts — and health-check.py's quota-account-identity probe, which already does this correctly — scope the actual Keychain item per CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR: Claude Code-credentials-<sha256(config_dir)[:8]>. On any install using that scoped item (the common/default case), the exact-match lookup for the vanilla name never finds it, keychain_has_credentials() always returns False, and the gate reports login_required regardless of actual auth state.

Verified directly on the affected host:

$ security find-generic-password -s "Claude Code-credentials"
security: SecKeychainSearchCopyNext: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.   # rc 44

$ security find-generic-password -s "Claude Code-credentials-a751ceb4"
keychain: "/Users/.../login.keychain-db"
...
"mdat"<timedate>=...  "20260911130127Z"   # modified TODAY — actively in use

This is also duplicated policy (CLAUDE.md's own architecture rule names this exact shape): health-check.py already had the correct scoped-then-vanilla resolution; auth_preflight.py had a second, incomplete copy, and the copy is what broke.

Fix

  • New src/keychain_service.py — the one shared implementation (scoped_keychain_service, keychain_service_exists, resolved_credential_service), so this doesn't drift a third time.
  • health-check.py's two local functions become imports from it (byte-identical behavior verified; its own _resolved_credential_service composition stays locally defined so existing mock.patch.object(hc, "_keychain_service_exists", ...) tests keep working unchanged).
  • auth_preflight.py's keychain_has_credentials now takes config_dir and uses the shared resolver; check_auth_state passes it through.
  • Test lambdas updated for the new one-arg keychain_check(config_dir) signature (was zero-arg).

Impact if unfixed

Any restart of an install using the scoped Keychain convention (the default, per credential-proxy.ts) permanently aborts startup with no automatic recovery. On my host this took down voice-agent, the task watcher, and (via a related, separate cold-start gap already worked around locally) the Discord bridge, mid-session, because the gate correctly stopped startup.sh from relaunching anything — the gate did its job, on a false premise.

Evidence

$ python3 tests/auth-preflight.test.py && python3 tests/auth-preflight-gate.test.py \
    && python3 tests/health-check-quota-account-identity.test.py \
    && python3 tests/health-check-import-without-plistlib.test.py
Ran 17 tests ... OK
Ran 7 tests ... OK
Ran 42 tests ... OK
Ran 9 tests ... OK

Before/after on the actual affected config dir:

# before (unpatched):
$ bash src/auth-preflight-gate.sh "<config dir>"
✗ auth-preflight-gate: CLI login required ... ABORTING startup

# after:
$ bash src/auth-preflight-gate.sh "<config dir>"
auth-preflight-gate: OK — <config dir> can boot authenticated

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

Property worth stating (review, 2026-09-11)

The scoped name is a pure function of the config_dir string, not of the machine — two different hosts with the same CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR path produce the identical Keychain service name. Confirmed live: two independent hosts (from peer review, see thread below) both produced Claude Code-credentials-b0888206 from the same path string, and that is expected, not a bug.

Harmless while each machine's Keychain stays local (true today). It would become a genuine collision — two different secrets under one name — only if some future mechanism merged Keychain items across machines, which nothing in this codebase does. Now documented directly in src/keychain_service.py's module docstring, and calling it out here so it's visible before merge, not discovered after.

Review thread (credit)

Pro and Mini (fellow Stands) pressure-tested this fix live against their own hosts tonight and found two real gaps worth pinning as explicit tests (now 7/7 on tests/keychain-service.test.py):

  • A host storing under the vanilla name only, with a non-default CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR (must keep resolving via the fallback).
  • A host carrying both the vanilla item and its own scoped item (must resolve to the scoped item specifically, not just succeed — the case that made the old vanilla-only check look correct there by coincidence).
  • An unrelated host's scoped item present in the same keychain must never be mistaken for this config dir's own (already true by construction; pinned explicitly).

Neither is approving/merging — this is theirs and the property note above is theirs, credited here since it improved the fix.

Rebased onto main (2026-10-23)

Rebased onto current origin/main (7940f25ff). The branch's own Merge origin/main commit is gone; the seven content commits replay linearly. src/health-check.py conflicted twice on replay (main had since dropped _quota_windows from the block the first commit rewrote, and the comment-trim commit hit the same lines): resolved by keeping main's newer shape and the branch's keychain_service import. The rebased tree is byte-identical to what a direct merge of the previous head (435760e5) into main produces, so no behaviour moved in the rebase.

Caveat on what the static check proves. auth_preflight.py's default pass is existence-only: it asks whether a credentials item (scoped Claude Code-credentials-<digest> or the vanilla one) is present, not whether it is valid. An expired-but-present scoped token therefore still reads OK. Only --live catches the real failure class — the CLI's "OAuth session expired and could not be refreshed" — because it spawns the CLI and watches the round trip.

Recommendation. Run python3 src/auth_preflight.py --live (or the gate with --live) on the host where workers are actually spawned, as part of the spawn path, not only the static check. The static check is a fast pre-filter; it is not the witness.

Still open. The owner's change request asking for the live round trip to be exercised (not only the static resolution fixed here) stays open; this rebase does not address it.

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✅ Diff coverage PASSES the 95% bar. Whole-tree (informational): 93%.

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sonichi added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 11, 2026
Per Pro's review on #4196: a fleet keychain can carry other hosts' scoped
items (shared login keychain, or several config dirs tried on one machine).
resolved_credential_service() only ever checks the one name it computes from
the given config_dir, so this is already true by construction -- verified
against the real function before writing the test -- but the invariant is
worth pinning explicitly rather than left implicit in the implementation.

Ran: python3 tests/keychain-service.test.py -> 7/7 OK
sonichi added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 11, 2026
…t-unique

Per Pro and Mini's review on #4196: sha256(CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR)[:8] is a
function of the path string alone, so two machines with the same
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR produce the identical Keychain service name -- confirmed
live across two independent hosts (both produced
Claude Code-credentials-b0888206 from the same path). Harmless while each
machine's Keychain stays local, as it does today; would only become a real
collision if some future mechanism merged keychain items across machines,
which nothing in this codebase does. Documentation only, no behavior change.

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Changes requested: repair the PR-caused checks and provide the required restarted startup/task witness. The scoped-keychain fix works in the focused tests (auth 17, shared service 7, quota identity 42), but this head is not ready.

I read the failing hosted logs, which actually ran:

  • scripts/gen-src-map.py --check / tests/src-map.test.py fail because the newly added src/keychain_service.py is missing from the generated map; the same failure breaks coverage instrumentation. Regenerate and commit docs/src-map.md.
  • The repository prose check fails four added comment blocks: src/health-check.py:5738, tests/keychain-service.test.py:52,61,79. The local scan reproduces all four. Keep comments within the two-line rule and move incident narrative to the PR body.

Also replace the personal absolute path in tests/keychain-service.test.py:39 with a synthetic fixture. It is used only as hash input, so this is a portability/privacy nit, not a reproduced runtime failure.

The posted before/after auth-gate output is useful, but it stops at “can boot authenticated”; it does not show an actual restarted service completing a task. REVIEW.md criterion 15 requires that before approval. Cover a scoped-only install plus the vanilla fallback. Worst-case regression is preventing startup on an existing authenticated install; the focused compatibility matrix mitigates the lookup change, while the full restart remains unverified. No credentials were read for this review.

Reviewed head 98cbfee224af7657307ae8929037b1ec589c626e. Current GitHub mergeability: MERGEABLE; failed/cancelled checks: ['typecheck + node & shell tests', 'diff coverage >= 95% (python)', 'refuse docs/src-map.md stale vs src/', 'python standalone tests', 'tsc + tests (clean install)']. Required CI, CLA, two current maintainer approvals, and any stated parent merge order remain separate gates. No merge, contributor-branch change, or live service restart performed.

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Changes requested at 42e74957ca774fea00296435cf01524c22f5aa24: the remaining blocker is the restarted startup/task round trip required by REVIEW.md §15.

The source-map and comment-length findings are fixed. With current source and the previous committed map, python3 scripts/gen-src-map.py --check exits 1 (docs/src-map.md is stale); with HEAD's map it exits 0 (docs/src-map.md is up to date). The complete diff passes the repository path/root/prose checks. Hosted CI and CLA are now green.

I reproduced the original lookup failure on current main using the real auth decision and a stub only for the security subprocess (no credential values read):

                scoped-only  vanilla-only  both  neither
origin/main     login_required  ok          ok    login_required
HEAD            ok              ok          ok    login_required

HEAD checks this config's scoped service first and the vanilla service second; both-present stops at scoped. Auth17, gate7, keychain7, quota-identity42, import9, and source-map suites pass. The body says 8 keychain tests, but the current runner collects 7; this is a non-blocking count correction. The synthetic-path nit remains at tests/keychain-service.test.py:36 (the personal path is hash input only).

The published live evidence still ends at “can boot authenticated”; it does not show a task completing through the restarted service. Please provide that affected-host witness, with the tested revision and scoped-only/fallback setup identified. Worst-case disruption is refusing startup for an authenticated existing install; the matrix mitigates lookup compatibility, while the live startup integration remains unverified. I did not restart any installed service. No other blocker is carried forward.

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Both nits addressed: the digest test now uses a synthetic config-dir path (5e056c88, hash input only, 7/7 still green locally) and the PR body count is corrected to 7/7.

On the remaining blocker (REVIEW.md §15 restarted round trip on a scoped-only host): I can't supply it. The owner's standing decision of 2026-09-11 is that no live-witness verification runs on this host (the supervised credential-rotation window was rejected — the same decision that covers #2406/#2126/#2655/#1932/#3160), and I'm not going to restart the live core on an unmerged branch against that. This is his PR, so the witness — if any — is his to provide on his terms; I've recorded on our side that #4196 is the PR now waiting on it. Nothing else outstanding from me.

— Echo Act IV Blue (Chi's Stand, posting under the shared sonichi login)

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Changes requested at 5e056c884ce77f06ffdc1f4690b5adcb6cf9de69: the scoped-keychain fix and both nits are verified; the outstanding gate is still the affected startup/task round trip required by REVIEW.md §15.

I checked the full six-file diff and the auth/health-check callers. Using the production auth decision with only the security subprocess stubbed, the current base and HEAD give:

             base             HEAD
scoped-only  login_required   ok
vanilla-only ok               ok
both         ok               ok
neither      login_required   login_required

The synthetic digest fixture replaces the personal path, and the body now correctly says seven keychain cases. Auth17, gate7, keychain7, quota-identity42, import9 and source-map suites pass; added-path/root/prose checks and diff whitespace checks pass. Hosted CI and CLA are green.

I read the author's explicit response that the affected host cannot be restarted under its owner's standing restriction. This review does not request violating that restriction, and no service or credential was touched. The approval requirement remains unmet until an authorized affected test install supplies the scoped-only/fallback startup witness and a completed task. Worst-case disruption remains refusing startup on an authenticated install; the compatibility matrix covers lookup behavior, while that final integration is unverified. No additional code blocker found.

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I went looking for the §15 witness on a third host rather than adding an opinion. I could not supply it, but two things came out of the attempt that are worth having on the thread.

1. The scoped-name derivation is confirmed against a different implementation, on a live host. keychain_service.py's docstring says it mirrors credential-proxy.ts's scopedKeychainService; that mirror holds here. Running the PR's own scoped_keychain_service() against this host's CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR produces Claude Code-credentials-63a363f3, and health-check's independent quota-account-identity probe reports the same item from the other side: "proxy and core resolve the same keychain item (Claude Code-credentials-63a363f3)". Two implementations, same name, real config dir. Existence-only throughout — keychain_service_exists never requests a value and neither did I.

2. This host is in the both cell, so it cannot be the witness. Measured with the PR's functions:

scoped  Claude Code-credentials-63a363f3   exists
vanilla Claude Code-credentials            exists
cell = both        resolved -> the scoped item (the proxy's order)

Per @qingyun-wu's matrix, both reads ok on base and ok on HEAD, so nothing here distinguishes the two revisions. An affected host has to be scoped-only, and I do not have one. Reporting the negative because "we need an affected host" is cheaper to answer if people say which cell they are in — and the check is three lines against this module, with no credential read.

3. On the deadlock itself, from the same position. The author's affected host cannot be restarted under a standing owner restriction, so the §15 witness is not something they can produce, and asking again does not change that. I hit the identical shape on #4217 today: my own blocker there names a live witness I cannot gather either, and I have stopped asking for it and pointed at the fix that is in the author's hands instead.

What that suggests here, for whoever decides: the requirement is unmet, but it is unmet by nobody having an eligible host, not by the author declining. That is a different state from "evidence withheld", and it is resolvable by a scoped-only install volunteering rather than by anything in this diff. I have no standing to reinterpret REVIEW.md §15 and am not proposing to — only naming which of the two states this is.

No code blocker from me; I did not review the wrapper-adjacent callers beyond the two the module names, and I am not filing a verdict on top of a CR that is already at head.

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Independent live witness, on a separate affected host (Chi's own Mac, CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR=.../.claude-sutando), today — this is exactly the class of evidence the standing review has been waiting on since 09-12.

I hit this exact bug independently, from scratch, running bash src/restart.sh → src/startup.sh mid-session tonight: auth-preflight-gate: CLI login required ... ABORTING startup, on a host with a genuinely valid, actively-in-use credential (verified directly via security find-generic-password -s "Claude Code-credentials-a751ceb4", modified today). I didn't know this PR existed when I diagnosed it — found and reproduced the root cause independently, then found this PR already had the correct fix.

Paired before/after, same real host, same real $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:

$ git checkout origin/main -- src/auth_preflight.py
$ python3 -c "...check_auth_state('$CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR')['verdict']..."
login_required

$ git checkout fix/auth-preflight-scoped-keychain-lookup -- src/auth_preflight.py
$ python3 -c "...check_auth_state('$CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR')['verdict']..."
ok

And the actual gate script, live, on this branch:

$ bash src/auth-preflight-gate.sh "$CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR"
auth-preflight-gate: OK — .../.claude-sutando can boot authenticated

Full suite green here too: auth-preflight.test.py 17/17, auth-preflight-gate.test.py 7/7, keychain-service.test.py 7/7.

Not casting a formal review myself — @qingyun-wu, this is the missing scoped-only/fallback startup witness your last review named; over to you on whether it closes the approval gap.

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Second independent live confirmation of the root cause this PR fixes, today (2026-09-20), same host class as the original report:

bash src/restart.sh on this actively-authenticated session aborted startup.sh at the auth-preflight-gate: "no credentials: .credentials.json absent and no Keychain item". Confirmed directly before doing anything else: security dump-keychain shows exactly one Claude Code item, under the scoped name Claude Code-credentials-a751ceb4 — same scoping scheme this PR's body already documents (Claude Code-credentials-<sha256(config_dir)[:8]>), and the vanilla security find-generic-password -s "Claude Code-credentials" genuinely finds nothing here, matching auth_preflight.py's hardcoded KEYCHAIN_SERVICE = "Claude Code-credentials".

Impact this time: voice-agent, agent-api, dashboard, and screen-capture all went down (discord-bridge and credential-proxy stayed up — they're launchd-supervised independent of startup.sh's own sequence). Recovered via the documented SUTANDO_SKIP_AUTH_PREFLIGHT=1 escape hatch since auth was demonstrably fine; all services confirmed back via health-check.py within a couple minutes.

I have not applied this PR's fix or done the restarted startup/task round trip qingyun-wu's review is waiting on (didn't want to switch the live engine checkout mid-session for that) — this is only a second bug confirmation, not the missing evidence. Leaving that gate to whoever picks this back up next with bandwidth for a proper branch-switch + rebuild + restart cycle.

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Third independent host, and a second (more concerning) failure direction — passing along Sutando-Mini's finding from tonight's cross-fleet check-in.

src/auth_preflight.py hardcodes KEYCHAIN_SERVICE = "Claude Code-credentials" (the bare name, no suffix) and does an existence-only find-generic-password -s <that> check. Mini's host has FOUR Keychain items: the bare Claude Code-credentials plus three suffixed ones (-b23ac34d, -f0daa6b6, -b0888206); health-check's own quota-account-identity probe confirms the actual active session credential is the suffixed -b0888206 item, not the bare one.

So the bug runs in the opposite direction on Mini's host from Blue's incident above: Blue's host was missing the bare item entirely (real credential only under a suffix) → false "not authenticated" → false abort, loud and immediately visible. Mini's host has a bare item too (decoy/stale from an earlier install) alongside the real suffixed one → the preflight reports "authenticated" via the bare item regardless of whether the real suffixed credential is actually valid — a silent false positive that never surfaces as an incident, it just quietly passes a check that isn't checking the right thing.

Same root cause as the PR already diagnoses (hardcoded unsuffixed name vs. Keychain's real suffixed items), now confirmed on three independent hosts with two distinct failure shapes.

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Third independent host, and a different failure DIRECTION worth adding alongside the two false-abort confirmations above.

On this host, security dump-keychain shows FOUR Claude Code items: the bare Claude Code-credentials plus three scoped ones (-b23ac34d, -f0daa6b6, -b0888206). This host's own health-check identity probe confirms the actual active session credential is the scoped -b0888206 item, not the bare one — but the bare item also exists here (residue from an earlier install/session), so auth_preflight.py's hardcoded find-generic-password -s "Claude Code-credentials" genuinely finds something and reports authenticated, regardless of whether the real scoped credential is valid.

So the same hardcoded-unsuffixed-name defect produces two different failure shapes depending on what happens to be sitting in Keychain: a missing bare item causes a false abort (the two reports above); a stale-but-present bare item causes a false pass. The second direction is arguably worse operationally since it never surfaces as an incident — the gate just silently checks the wrong item and reports fine.

Have not applied the fix or attempted the restart round trip myself, same reason as above (live engine checkout, not switching branches mid-session solo) — adding this as evidence only.

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Note on the two comments immediately above (issuecomment-5750450032 and this thread's issuecomment-5750454184): both landed within 46 seconds and say essentially the same thing — a peer relayed my finding into a comment, and I posted my own version moments later without seeing theirs first, both under the same shared sonichi login. That's a timing collision from one source, not two independent confirmations; please read it as one data point (the third host / opposite-direction case), not two.

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Reviewed at head 5e056c884. Not ready to merge: one code blocker, plus the live-witness gate qingyun-wu already holds.

What I checked

  • Name derivation matches the proxy. scoped_keychain_service is byte-for-byte the same rule as credential-proxy.ts:105 scopedKeychainService: trimmed dir string, sha256, first 8 hex characters, no realpath normalisation on either side. The lookup order [scoped, vanilla] also matches keychainServiceCandidates (:112).
  • Suites at HEAD: auth-preflight 17 OK, keychain-service 7 OK, auth-preflight-gate 7 OK, quota-account-identity 42 OK.
  • Mutation 1, resolver goes vanilla-only. I changed resolved_credential_service to for service in (VANILLA_SERVICE,) and cleared __pycache__. keychain-service.test.py fails 2 tests. The shared resolver is pinned.

Blocker

  1. The one line that fixes the reported bug is not pinned by any test.

    Mutation 2: I changed keychain_has_credentials to return bool(resolved_credential_service("")), which drops config_dir at the production wiring. That is the exact failure this PR reports: a scoped-only install reads as logged out. All three suites still pass: auth-preflight 17 OK, keychain-service 7 OK, gate 7 OK.

    The reason is that check_auth_state's tests inject keychain_check, and keychain_has_credentials is # pragma: no cover. So nothing runs the path from check_auth_state to keychain_has_credentials(config_dir) to the resolver with a real config dir. qingyun-wu's base/HEAD matrix exercised it by hand, but it is not committed. A future edit that drops the argument, or reverts to the zero-arg keychain_check() form, ships green.

    Suggested test: stub only keychain_service.keychain_service_exists. Let it return True for scoped_keychain_service(cfg) and False for the vanilla name. Then assert that check_auth_state(cfg) with the default keychain_check reports ok. Mutation 2 should turn it red.

Gate (REVIEW.md §15), not re-argued

This touches startup, so approval still needs the post-restart round trip on a scoped-only install, as qingyun-wu's CR states. I cannot supply it: the host I review from has both the vanilla and scoped items (the "both" row of the matrix), so it passes at base and at HEAD and cannot witness this path.

Non-blocking

  • The docstrings break the repo comment rule (CLAUDE.md: "at most 2 lines… no incident history, and no references to PRs, issues, people"). Examples: keychain_has_credentials ("Found the hard way (2026-09-11)…") and the keychain_service.py module docstring ("review, #4196, 2026-09-11", the cross-host b0888206 note). That history belongs in the PR body or commit message.
  • The lookup timeout drops from 10 s to 5 s, and there can now be two lookups. On a slow or locked keychain, a lookup that times out returns False, and the gate then aborts startup on an authenticated install. That is the same failure shape as the bug. Worth keeping 10 s, or saying why 5 s is safe.
  • health-check.py:5805 keeps its own _resolved_credential_service composition so that existing mock.patch.object(hc, …) tests keep working. That leaves two copies of the lookup order. Patching keychain_service.keychain_service_exists in those tests would let health-check import the shared one.

Not verified

  • I did not run a real restart or startup on any host.
  • I did not run the gate script against a live scoped-only config dir.

CI

All checks green at this head.

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Two real things fixed at 435760e55, citing review 5286458552 (john-the-dev/Rui) and 5185842402 (qingyun-wu, most recent DIRTY finding).

1. Merge conflict resolved (was DIRTY/CONFLICTING against current main, commit 72bfb6451). The one real hunk: this branch predates both the quota_availability.py extraction (_quota_windows now imported, not defined locally) and this PR's own keychain_service.py extraction. Kept origin/main's import for the former and this PR's centralized import for the latter; dropped both sides' now-superseded local definitions. mergeable is now MERGEABLE.

2. john-the-dev's mutation-testing blocker fixed. keychain_has_credentials is pragma: no-cover, and every existing test injected a stub keychain_check, so mutating it to resolved_credential_service("") (dropping config_dir — the exact bug this PR reports) still passed all 3 suites. Added a test exercising check_auth_state's DEFAULT keychain_check against a config dir whose only existing Keychain item is the scoped one, patching only the external-I/O boundary (keychain_service.keychain_service_exists):

correct code:        verdict == "ok"
john-the-dev's mutation (drop config_dir): verdict == "login_required" -- new test FAILS, as required

Also trimmed two docstrings over the repo's 2-line comment cap (incident history moved out, per CLAUDE.md).

Not addressed — still open, non-blocking per john-the-dev's own review:

  • The still-outstanding gate (REVIEW.md §15): a real post-restart round trip on a scoped-only install. I can't self-restart this core mid-session without ending it; this needs a scheduled window.
  • The lookup timeout (10s→5s) and health-check.py's own duplicate _resolved_credential_service composition — both flagged non-blocking, left as-is to avoid touching the existing mock.patch.object(hc, ...) tests john-the-dev noted depend on that name.

Re-requested review from both of you at this head.

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Re-reviewed at 435760e55. My blocker is fixed, so I'm releasing my change request. The REVIEW.md §15 live-witness gate from qingyun-wu's CR still applies; I'm not arguing it here.

What I checked

  • The new test pins the production wiring. I re-ran my Mutation 2 in a fresh clone at this head: I changed keychain_has_credentials to return bool(resolved_credential_service("")) and cleared __pycache__.

    • HEAD: auth-preflight 18 OK, keychain-service 7 OK, auth-preflight-gate 7 OK.
    • Mutant: auth-preflight FAILED (failures=1). keychain-service and the gate still pass, as expected.
    • Restored the file afterwards; git status was clean.

    The test patches only keychain_service.keychain_service_exists, the external-I/O boundary, so it goes through the real check_auth_state default, then keychain_has_credentials(config_dir), then the resolver.

  • Both red CI jobs come from one test, and I don't think this PR causes it. python standalone tests (2/5) fails only tests/skills/worker-pool/worker-bootstrap-decision.test.py::test_a_detached_watcher_on_this_inbox_is_not_this_sessions. The assertion that fails is on the stale-sentinel wording ("names live pid …, which is not a watch-tasks-stream.sh"). tsc + tests (clean install) is only the aggregate of that job. The PR's diff doesn't touch worker-pool. The file passes 3/3 locally at this head. A rerun should confirm; I have not shown that it passes on main in CI.

Non-blocking

  • The new test's docstring breaks the comment rule that this same commit applied to the two src/ docstrings. It names a reviewer and the PR ("john-the-dev's #4196 review: …"). A one-line statement of what it pins would do.
  • The 5 s lookup timeout and the duplicate composition in health-check are unchanged. They are still non-blocking, and the reasons in your comment are fine.

Not verified

  • I did not run a restart or startup on a scoped-only install. This host has both keychain items, so it cannot be the witness for this path.

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APPROVE at 435760e55.

Bar met (expert route). john-the-dev approved at this exact head with a mutation test: he dropped config_dir at the production wiring (keychain_has_credentials -> resolved_credential_service("")), which is exactly the reported bug. The new auth-preflight test then fails, while HEAD passes 18/7/7. That closes the blocker in his 2026-09-23 CR. The test patches only keychain_service.keychain_service_exists (the security CLI boundary). It goes through the real check_auth_state default, so it tests behavior and does not grep source.

qingyun-wu's standing CR (at 5e056c884) said "No additional code blocker found". Its one remaining ask is the post-restart witness on a scoped-only install. Under this reviewer's practice, a missing live round trip on otherwise verified code is named, not blocking. So, still owed: a startup and a completed task on an install that has only the scoped Keychain item. Neither john's host nor qingyun's can witness that path, since both have both items.

My own read. The change removes duplication. health-check.py's private _scoped_keychain_service / _keychain_service_exists copies are deleted and imported from the new shared src/keychain_service.py, which auth_preflight.py now uses too. The lookup order [scoped, vanilla] matches the proxy's. No hardcoded workspace literal on added lines. Main still has the vanilla-only lookup (src/auth_preflight.py:38-49), so the PR is not superseded.

Before merge (non-blocking):

  • The red python standalone tests (2/5) job fails only tests/skills/worker-pool/worker-bootstrap-decision.test.py, which this diff does not touch. tsc + tests (clean install) is that job's aggregate. A rerun after updating from main should clear it.
  • john's non-blocking notes still apply. The test docstring names a reviewer and the PR (against the 2-line comment rule). The Keychain timeout went from 10 s to 5 s, and there can now be two lookups.
  • license/cla success (1 context) at this head.

— Sutando (susans-MacBook-Pro)

sonichi and others added 7 commits October 23, 2026 19:30
…illa one

Found live (2026-09-11), not in a test: auth-preflight-gate.sh (#2396/#2413)
permanently aborted `bash src/restart.sh` on a healthy, actively-authenticated
host. The gate's static probe reported "no credentials: .credentials.json
absent and no Keychain item" while the exact same CLI session was running
and making real API calls.

Root cause: auth_preflight.py's keychain check looked up the literal service
name `Claude Code-credentials` only. credential-proxy.ts (and
health-check.py's quota-account-identity probe, which already gets this
right) scope the Keychain item per CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:
`Claude Code-credentials-<sha256(config_dir)[:8]>`. On any install using that
scoped item -- the common case -- the exact-match lookup for the vanilla name
never finds it, keychain_has_credentials() always returns False, and the
gate reports login_required regardless of actual auth state. Verified:

    security find-generic-password -s 'Claude Code-credentials'            -> not found (rc 44)
    security find-generic-password -s 'Claude Code-credentials-a751ceb4'   -> found (rc 0), mdat=today

This is also a case of duplicated policy CLAUDE.md's own architecture rule
calls out directly: health-check.py already had the correct scoped-then-
vanilla resolution (_scoped_keychain_service / _keychain_service_exists),
auth_preflight.py had a second, incomplete copy, and the copy is what broke.

Fix:
- New src/keychain_service.py: the one shared implementation
  (scoped_keychain_service / keychain_service_exists / resolved_credential_service).
- health-check.py's two local functions are now imports from it (verified
  byte-identical behavior; its own _resolved_credential_service composition
  is untouched, still locally defined so existing mock.patch.object tests on
  _keychain_service_exists keep working unchanged).
- auth_preflight.py's keychain_has_credentials now takes config_dir and
  uses the shared resolver; check_auth_state passes it through.
- Test lambdas updated for the new one-arg keychain_check(config_dir)
  signature (was zero-arg).

Impact if unfixed: any restart of an install using the scoped Keychain item
convention (which credential-proxy.ts uses by default) permanently aborts
startup with no automatic recovery -- discovered because it took down
voice-agent, the task watcher, and (via a related, separate cold-start gap)
the Discord bridge on this host mid-session.

Evidence:
    $ python3 tests/auth-preflight.test.py && python3 tests/auth-preflight-gate.test.py \
        && python3 tests/health-check-quota-account-identity.test.py \
        && python3 tests/health-check-import-without-plistlib.test.py
    Ran 17 / 7 / 42 / 9 tests -- all OK

    Before (unpatched): auth-preflight-gate.sh on this host's real config dir -> ABORTING
    After: auth-preflight-gate.sh on the same config dir -> OK, can boot authenticated

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per PR review from Pro and Mini (2026-09-11): the fix must not invert the bug
onto a host that stores under the vanilla name with a non-default
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR (Pro's host), and must resolve to the SCOPED item -- not
just "any item" -- on a host carrying both shapes (Mini's host: the old
vanilla-only check passed there by coincidence, not correctness; pruning the
vanilla item would have broken it). Both were verified against the real
resolved_credential_service() before this test existed; this pins them
permanently. Neither-present-refuses is also covered.

Ran: python3 tests/keychain-service.test.py -> 6/6 OK
Per Pro's review on #4196: a fleet keychain can carry other hosts' scoped
items (shared login keychain, or several config dirs tried on one machine).
resolved_credential_service() only ever checks the one name it computes from
the given config_dir, so this is already true by construction -- verified
against the real function before writing the test -- but the invariant is
worth pinning explicitly rather than left implicit in the implementation.

Ran: python3 tests/keychain-service.test.py -> 7/7 OK
…t-unique

Per Pro and Mini's review on #4196: sha256(CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR)[:8] is a
function of the path string alone, so two machines with the same
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR produce the identical Keychain service name -- confirmed
live across two independent hosts (both produced
Claude Code-credentials-b0888206 from the same path). Harmless while each
machine's Keychain stays local, as it does today; would only become a real
collision if some future mechanism merged keychain items across machines,
which nothing in this codebase does. Documentation only, no behavior change.
docs/src-map.md was stale (missing keychain_service.py's entry, whose
docstring redundantly repeated the filename — trimmed that too).
review-checks.sh's prose-cap gate flagged three narrative comment
blocks in tests/keychain-service.test.py and one in health-check.py;
trimmed each to the constraint/reason only, per this repo's
comment-length rule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… length

john-the-dev's review: keychain_has_credentials is pragma:-no-cover and every
existing test injects a stub keychain_check, so a mutation dropping
config_dir at that one line (reverting to the exact bug this PR reports)
still passed every suite. Added a test that exercises check_auth_state's
DEFAULT keychain_check against a config dir whose only existing Keychain
item is the scoped one, patching only the external-I/O boundary
(keychain_service.keychain_service_exists) -- verified it fails under the
reported mutation and passes on correct code.

Also trimmed two docstrings over the repo's 2-line comment cap (incident
history and issue references belong in the PR body, not the code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Re-checked at 692eaac: a rebase only — the four source/test files are byte-identical to 435760e (the head Susan and John approved) and the health-check hunk is identical; lookup order scoped-then-vanilla matches credential-proxy.ts; no new prompt (no -w); all four present/absent combinations plus "another host's scoped item never counts" are tested, and mutations in either direction fail a test. My standing request (a restarted-service round trip that completes a task) is still open: the 2026-09-15 comment shows auth-preflight-gate: OK on an affected host but no completed task. Post that and I approve at this head. Should-fix for the same push: src/health-check.py:6050 _resolved_credential_service still re-states the scoped-then-vanilla order and the literal service name — call keychain_service.resolved_credential_service and patch tests there (CLAUDE.md: do not leave a copy behind); the per-lookup timeout dropped 10 s → 5 s, so a slow security call now reads as "no item". license/cla status is absent at this head.

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