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This PR changes apps/api, and apps/web for one follow-on fix in the devices pane.

#2012: the identity token is spent at device registration

  • The API now adds a jti to each identity token it mints. verify requires jti and exp.
  • POST /devices spends the token in the registration transaction, after the subject lock and the account lock. The spend goes into the new spent_identity_tokens table, keyed by token_id.
  • A replayed token gets 401 Identity token already used. This check runs before the identity check, so the refusal names the replay.
  • If the registration is refused (409 or another error), the transaction rolls back the spend. The token stays unspent and nothing is written.
  • Concurrency: two registrations that race for one token also race for one subject, so the subject advisory lock serializes them. The primary key is the durable backstop. The second spend waits for the first to commit, and then gets a refusal. Two registrations for the same subject with different tokens serialize on the same lock as before.
  • Each spend deletes up to 100 expired rows with FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED. A row stays for one minute after its token expires, so an instance with a slow clock still finds the row while that instance accepts the token. There is no new sweep task and no N+1 query.
  • spend runs the insert before the sweep, so a replayed token causes no sweep.
  • verify also refuses an identity token whose exp gives no valid instant. 1e999 parses to Infinity, and 1e300 is finite but outside the Date range. Both passed the expiry check of the library and gave an invalid date for the spend row. Only the holder of the signing key can mint such a token. The token gets the same refusal as a token with a bad jti: 401 at the endpoint. Unit tests cover it.
  • POST /device-approval/session does not spend the token. The web e2e flow registers with a token and then opens a relay with the same token. That flow still works, and an API integration test proves it.
  • The web session drops its identity token after a successful registration. Before this change, a member who revoked this browser and registered it again in the same sign-in got 401, and the engine reported a dead session. Now the devices pane closes the register control and tells the member to sign in again. The e2e relay step does not read the token from the web session, so it does not change.

What this PR does not fix: the first acceptance item of #2012. The API cannot refuse "a token issued for another account", because the API has no fact that links a subject to an account before the first registration. identity_subjects has no user_id (ADR 0039 D1). POST /auth/login does not carry the identity token. Any secp256k1 key can create an account. On main, a new test showed that an account with a leaked token of another subject registers with 201. The spend in this PR does not change that first claim. To fix the bind, the login must present the identity token, and the API must bind the subject to the account at the first login. That change touches the engine API client, packages/login, both hosts and the contract suite. It also changes ADR 0039 D2, so it needs an ADR first. For this reason this PR is only part of #2012.

What this PR fixes and what it does not fix

Case Result after this PR
A different account replays a token that a registration already spent Refused with 401
The same account replays a spent token Refused with 401
A token with no jti, a jti that is not a UUID, or an exp that is no valid instant Refused with 401 before any database write
A different account uses a leaked token that the member has not spent yet Not fixed: that account can claim the subject first

The single-use rule stops only the replay of a spent token. It does not stop the first claim.

#2011: identity_subjects.identifier_display is dropped

  • A migration removes the column with DROP COLUMN IF EXISTS. The entity, IdentitySubjectService.resolve and the mint path write no display form now. truncateEmail is gone.
  • blueprint/api.md "Identity and auth" now says what a subject row holds.
  • auth_methods.identifier_display is a separate question. This PR does not change it.

Migrations under two runners

Both migrations are idempotent. The table migration takes pg_advisory_xact_lock before CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS. Without the lock, two runners that start together fail on the catalog unique index (pg_type_typname_nsp_index). I reverted both migrations on a scratch database and ran migration:run twice at the same time. Both runners exited 0, and the schema was correct.

Contract surface

The request and response shapes do not change. The 401 description of POST /devices and the identityToken field description change in openapi.json. The engine API client and crates/contract send the same fields. The contract test sends not.a.token and still gets 401.

The contract suite has no case for the replay refusal. The suite cannot get a real identity token: every mint needs a verified Google, email or wallet credential, and the email code goes to the mail log, which the suite cannot read. The API integration gate is the only proof of the replay refusal.

Test plan

  • Contract suite: no replay case. api: a leaked identity token lets another account claim a member's subject first #2012 asks that the API gate and the contract suite block the merge, but the contract suite cannot mint a real identity token. Only the API integration gate blocks a regression of the replay refusal. The contract replay case is a duty of the account-bind slice, which gives the login the identity token.
  • apps/api unit suite: 483 passed. New tests: every token has its own token id, a token without jti or exp is refused, a token whose jti is not a UUID gets 401 before any spend, a token whose exp is 1e999, -1e999 or 1e300 is refused (and the same token gets 401 before any spend at registration), a replay is refused and writes nothing, a replay from another account is refused before the identity check, and the subject row holds no display key.
  • apps/api integration suite, all 19 files one by one against real Postgres: 274 passed. New tests:
    • device-approval.http.itest.ts: a replay gets 401 and writes nothing; a replay from another account gets 401; a token that a registration spent still opens a rendezvous session; a refused registration leaves the token unspent; exactly one of two simultaneous registrations spends one token; a spend reclaims a row past its grace and keeps a recent row.
    • identity.http.itest.ts: the live identity_subjects columns are exactly created_at, id, identifier_hash, kind and last_used_at.
  • apps/web suite: 854 passed. New test: after a registration and a revoke, the register control is closed and asks for a fresh sign-in.
  • The entity and migration drift check is clean on a fresh database.
  • Two concurrent migration:run runners both succeed.
  • pnpm lint, pnpm typecheck, pnpm lint:md, pnpm lint:tracker-refs and the OpenAPI freshness check pass.

Part of #2012.

Closes #2011.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Identity tokens are now single-use for device registration. Reusing a token returns an authorization error; sign in again to register another device.
    • Tokens remain available if registration is declined because the account is not eligible.
    • Identity exchanges now preserve the full email address provided by Google or email sign-in.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Invalid or expired identity tokens are rejected, and simultaneous registration attempts with the same token cannot both succeed.

Note

Spend identity tokens on device registration and drop the subject display column

  • Device registration now consumes the identity token: AccountDeviceService.register spends it inside the guarded transaction via IdentityTokenService, so replayed tokens get a 401 while refused registrations roll the spend back
  • Adds a SpentIdentityToken entity and table (UUID primary key, expiry index) plus a migration creating it, with advisory-lock serialization
  • Drops the identifier_display column from identity_subjects (with migration); subject resolution now stores only kind, identifier hash, and usage timestamps, and IdentityTokenService mint now requires a random UUID jti and finite exp
  • Web client clears the session identity token after a successful registration (useDevices.ts), so the register control requires a fresh sign-in
  • Risk: DropIdentitySubjectDisplay migration permanently removes identity_subjects.identifier_display (restorable only via the down migration); replay of a previously accepted registration token now returns 401, a breaking change for any client that reused tokens

Macroscope summarized 822ad33.

…ct display column

A device registration now spends the identity token it presents. The
token carries a jti, and the registration records it in
spent_identity_tokens on its own transaction, so a refused registration
leaves the token unspent. A replay is refused with 401. The primary key
makes two concurrent spends of one token serialize, and each spend
reclaims expired rows past a one-minute grace.

identity_subjects.identifier_display is dropped. No code read it, and it
kept a partial email or wallet address beside an unsalted hash. The mint
now writes the kind, the hash and the last-use time only.

Both migrations are idempotent. The table migration takes a transaction
advisory lock, so two runners that start together both succeed.
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Device registration now spends its identity token and rejects replay. The API validates token IDs and expiry values. Identity-subject records no longer store display identifiers. The web session drops its identity token after successful registration.

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Identity and device registration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Remove identity display storage
apps/api/src/auth/entities/identity-subject.entity.ts, apps/api/src/auth/services/identity-exchange.service.ts, apps/api/src/auth/services/identity-subject.service.ts, apps/api/src/auth/services/identity-subject.service.test.ts, apps/api/src/migrations/1790640000000-DropIdentitySubjectDisplay.ts, apps/api/src/auth/identity.http.itest.ts
Identity-subject resolution no longer accepts or stores display values. The migration drops identifier_display. Tests check stored rows and the table schema.
Add token identity and spent-token storage
apps/api/src/auth/services/identity-token.service.ts, apps/api/src/auth/services/identity-token.service.test.ts, apps/api/src/auth/entities/spent-identity-token.entity.ts, apps/api/src/migrations/1790640000001-AddSpentIdentityTokens.ts, apps/api/src/auth/auth.module.ts, apps/api/src/auth/auth.module.test.ts, apps/api/src/testing/identity-tokens.ts, apps/api/src/testing/integration-db.ts
Signed tokens receive UUID IDs. Verification returns the validated token ID and expiry. The service stores spent-token records and sweeps eligible expired rows. The API and integration database register the entity and migration.
Spend tokens during device registration
apps/api/src/device-approval/services/account-device.service.ts, apps/api/src/device-approval/services/account-device.service.test.ts, apps/api/src/device-approval/device-approval.http.itest.ts, apps/api/src/device-approval/device.controller.ts, apps/api/src/device-approval/dto/device-approval.dto.ts, apps/api/openapi.json, apps/web/src/auth/coreKit.ts, apps/web/src/hooks/useDevices.ts, apps/web/src/test/authFakes.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/DevicesPane.test.tsx, blueprint/api.md
Device registration spends the verified token inside its transaction. Tests cover replay, concurrent spending, refused registration, and spent-token cleanup. After successful registration, the web session drops the token. API descriptions and the blueprint document the behavior.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant useDevices
  participant AccountDeviceService
  participant IdentityTokenService
  participant spent_identity_tokens
  participant WebCoreKitSession
  useDevices->>AccountDeviceService: register device with identity token
  AccountDeviceService->>IdentityTokenService: verify token
  IdentityTokenService-->>AccountDeviceService: verified token ID and expiry
  AccountDeviceService->>IdentityTokenService: spend token in transaction
  IdentityTokenService->>spent_identity_tokens: insert token ID and expiry
  spent_identity_tokens-->>IdentityTokenService: insert result
  IdentityTokenService-->>AccountDeviceService: spend result
  AccountDeviceService-->>useDevices: registration result
  useDevices->>WebCoreKitSession: drop identity token after success
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The API now refuses a spent identity token. The devices pane kept the
token after a registration, so a revoke and a second registration in the
same sign-in got 401, and the engine reported a dead session. The web
session now drops the token after a successful registration, and the
pane asks the member to sign in again.

Tests: a registration then a rendezvous session with the same token, a
token id that is not a UUID gets 401 before any spend, and the pane
closes the register control after a registration.
…e token test setup

A replayed token is refused by the insert, so it no longer pays for a sweep that its transaction rolls back. The two statements are unchanged.

The test suites share one booted token service helper, and a new unit test covers a token that carries no expiry.
jose accepts an exp such as 1e999, which parses to Infinity, and 1e300,
which is finite but past the Date range. Both gave an invalid date for
the spend row. verify now refuses any exp that gives no valid instant,
with the same refusal as a bad jti, so the endpoint answers 401.

The blueprint table list in "Identity and auth" now names
spent_identity_tokens.
Sign the raw-expiry test token with jose CompactSign, share one real token service setup and one key across the two register tests, assert the refusal that each expiry value meets, and state the verify comment for every caller.
The blueprint now states what spent_identity_tokens holds and which
routes spend the identity token. The test helpers share one signing key
import and one header, which reads the key id the service exports. The
web session method is dropIdentityToken, since the API does the spend.
The expiry tests keep a past non-finite exp apart from the invalid
instants.
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🟡 Minor · Add spent_identity_tokens to the "Data model (complete)" list. · api.md:351-357

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Add spent_identity_tokens to the "Data model (complete)" list.

This PR adds spent_identity_tokens to the table list in "Identity and auth" (Line 84). The table also gets its own entry at Lines 93-96. The "Data model (complete)" section still leaves the table out. That section also says "Nothing else." As a result, the blueprint now contradicts itself about which tables the API holds.

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The "Data model (complete)" list says "Nothing else", but it did not
name the table that this change adds.
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Fixed in 822ad33: added spent_identity_tokens to the Data model (complete) list. The finding was correct. The section says "Nothing else", but its list did not name the table.

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…t bind at login (#2099)

ADR 0058: the identity token is single-use at device registration, and the account binds the identity subject at login. PR #2092 implements the single-use part: a registration spends the token by its jti in spent_identity_tokens, and a replay answers 401. The account bind at login is a later slice. The ADR amends ADR 0039 D2. The API blueprint cites ADR 0058 at the spent_identity_tokens rule.

Part of #2012.
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