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What

A failed agent connect left no trace. Every refusal branch in agentRuntimeAuth returned 401 with no log line and no counter, so nothing server-side could say whether an agent had tried and failed. This logs each refusal with its reason, and keeps a per-reason count an admin can read.

Change

• backend/services/agentAuthRefusals.ts: nine reason codes. The credential gate's fixed messages map to bounded codes.
• backend/middleware/agentRuntimeAuth.ts: all five 401 sites go through one refuse(). The status and the message text are unchanged.
• backend/routes/admin/agentAuthRefusals.ts, mounted at /api/admin/agent-auth: GET /refusals returns per-reason counts since this process started. It sits behind a rate limiter ahead of auth and adminAuth, the same shape as routes/admin/pods.ts.

Log line

One [agent-auth-refused] line per (reason, fingerprint) per 60 s, with repeatsSinceLastLog for what was suppressed. It carries reason, route pattern, method and fingerprint. The fingerprint is the first 8 hex of the token's sha256. A global budget of 100 lines per window caps a spray of distinct tokens. Counts are never rate-limited.

Route is the mount prefix plus the route pattern. It never uses originalUrl, so ids and query strings stay out.

Never logs a credential

The token text never reaches the log or the response. The tests assert its absence on every branch.

Verification

• agentRuntimeAuth.test.js: one case per refusal branch, plus the no-token-text assertion and the repeat-collapse assertion. New agentAuthRefusals.test.js covers mapping, fingerprint, route, the per-fingerprint window, the global budget and counts.
• 22/22 across the two suites. The route guard and user-shape contract suites pass.
• Full middleware and routes unit run: 213 suites pass. tasksApi.leaseState and users.social are timing-sensitive under parallel load. Both pass 40/40 when run alone, and the same timing failures reproduce on base.
• Typecheck: no errors in the touched files. The remaining errors are missing @openuidev/lang-core and implicit any in uiCardValidation.ts and agentComputerBroker.ts, present on base.

Review

Sonnet subagent review (the Opus window is closed until Nov 5): PASS, no required fixes. It checked token exposure, unchanged responses, the route field, the rate-limit ordering and the admin gate.

Known limits

• Counts are per replica, like the rate-limit watermark. A fleet total is a sum across replicas.
• The counts are per reason, not per agent. The fingerprint in the log is the per-client handle, and it can't name an agent for a token that never matched one.

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Walkthrough

Agent authentication refusals now record bounded reasons and request metadata. The middleware preserves existing 401 responses. An authenticated, rate-limited admin endpoint returns process-local refusal counts.

Changes: Agent authentication refusal observability

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Classify refusals and maintain bounded counts and logs backend/services/agentAuthRefusals.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/services/agentAuthRefusals.test.js	The service maps credential messages to refusal reasons, fingerprints tokens, derives routes, and tracks per-reason counts. It rate-limits warning logs by reason and fingerprint and applies a global log cap. Tests cover classification, logging, rate limits, and count snapshots.
Record refusals in agent authentication middleware backend/middleware/agentRuntimeAuth.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/middleware/agentRuntimeAuth.test.js	Existing 401 paths now record refusal metadata while retaining their response status and message. Tests cover refusal reasons, token-safe logs, and repeated refusals.
Expose refusal counts through the admin API backend/routes/admin/agentAuthRefusals.ts, backend/server.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/routes/admin.agentAuthRefusals.test.js	The new endpoint applies an IP-based request limit before authentication and returns refusal counts as JSON. The server mounts the router at /api/admin/agent-auth. Route tests cover authentication and returned counts.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant agentRuntimeAuth
  participant agentAuthRefusals
  participant console.warn
  agentRuntimeAuth->>agentAuthRefusals: record refusal metadata
  agentAuthRefusals->>agentAuthRefusals: increment reason count and apply logging limits
  agentAuthRefusals->>console.warn: emit structured warning

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sequenceDiagram
  participant AdminClient
  participant AgentAuthRefusalsRouter
  participant IPRateLimiter
  participant auth
  participant adminAuth
  participant agentAuthRefusals
  AdminClient->>AgentAuthRefusalsRouter: request refusal counts
  AgentAuthRefusalsRouter->>IPRateLimiter: check IP request limit
  AgentAuthRefusalsRouter->>auth: authenticate request
  auth->>adminAuth: authorize admin request
  adminAuth->>agentAuthRefusals: retrieve count snapshot
  agentAuthRefusals-->>AdminClient: return counts as JSON

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Merge Risk: Low · up to a4dd7

The endpoint’s real authorization and refused responses need integration coverage. No current authorization failure was established.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: logging and counting agentRuntimeAuth refusals by reason.
Description check		The description directly explains the refusal logging, per-reason counting, admin endpoint, rate limits, token protection, and verification for the changeset.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Review comments at @backend/__tests__/unit/middleware/agentRuntimeAuth.test.js:
- Around line 339-345: Expand the token-text absence test around
agentRuntimeAuth to exercise the token_revoked, session_expired, and
agent_not_installed refusal branches using a distinct bearer token for each.
After each refusal, verify the complete captured log contains none of that
token’s text, while preserving the existing invalid_token checks.

Review comments at @backend/routes/admin/agentAuthRefusals.ts:
- Around line 33-35: Add request-level tests for the `/refusals` route
registered in the admin agent auth refusals router, exercising requests through
its middleware: verify unauthenticated requests return 401, non-admin requests
return 403, and authorized requests return the refusal-count snapshot from
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Answers to the two CodeRabbit threads, at head 89f8b21:

• discussion_r4433833204 (agentRuntimeAuth.test.js:345), fixed: the token-text check now runs each token-bearing refusal branch (invalid_token, agent_not_installed, session_expired, token_revoked) with its own distinct token, asserts all four reasons were logged, and checks the full captured log for each token's text.
• discussion_r4433833209 (agentAuthRefusals.ts:35), fixed: new request-level suite __tests__/unit/routes/admin.agentAuthRefusals.test.js sends real requests through the router and pins 401 (no auth), 403 (non-admin), and 200 with the per-reason count snapshot.

Local: the three TASK-712 suites pass (25/25) and eslint is clean on the changed files apart from two pre-existing max-len warnings.

Not part of this PR: dailyDigestService.membership.test.js ("a scheduled run takes only the people for whom it is the hour") fails on the current date because its fixture uses a fixed 15:01Z instant and expects 08:00 in Los Angeles. On 2026-11-01 Los Angeles is already on standard time, so the local hour is 07:01. This PR does not touch the digest code (no diff against origin/main), so it fails on main too.

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Exercise the refused cases through the production guards.

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Exercise the refused cases through the production guards.

auth and adminAuth are mocked, so body assertions would only reassert the mocks. A production guard could return counts or since with a 401/403 while both tests still pass.

The refusal-case rule also applies to this read-only GET: use the real guards, seed a nonzero snapshot, and assert that the refused response omits the snapshot and leaves refusal state unchanged. Keep the mocked tests only for route-chain status behavior.

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Review comment at @backend/__tests__/unit/routes/admin.agentAuthRefusals.test.js
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Update the refused-case tests for this read-only GET to use the real auth and
adminAuth guards, seed a nonzero snapshot, and assert the refused response omits
counts and since without changing refusal state. Keep mocked-guard tests only
for route-chain status behavior.

Exercise the production guards on the new admin route.

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Exercise the production guards on the new admin route.

The Supertest requests use mocked auth and adminAuth, so they do not exercise bearer authentication or production adminAuth against a non-admin User row. Add a request-level case that uses the real guards and a MongoMemoryServer-backed user. Keep the mocked cases if they cover guard ordering.

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Review comment at @backend/__tests__/unit/routes/admin.agentAuthRefusals.test.js
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Add a Supertest case for the new admin route that uses the real auth and
adminAuth middleware with a MongoMemoryServer-backed non-admin User, verifying
production bearer authentication and authorization behavior. Retain the existing
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Superseded by #3124: the same TASK-712 change as one commit cut from main, so the secret scan no longer sees the old test fixture in this branch's history.