feat: derive web auth state from the engine and let an engine-less leader yield - #1342
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…ader yield The web UI's sign-in state now comes from the engine plane instead of a tab-local optimistic store, an engine-less leader tab stands down so a tab that has a session can host, and the BYO provider bearer is transferred at every hop rather than cloned. `EngineClient` publishes the account the origin's engine holds for this tab — `subscribeSession`/`signedInAccount`, `useSyncExternalStore`-shaped — set when a start resolves and cleared when the engine goes away, including a promotion that could not cold-start one. `apps/web` reads it through `useEngineAccount`; `authStore` keeps only the chrome (method, email, recovery prompts) and no longer answers whether a session exists, so the v1 two-store desync class has no second store. `/files` is gated by a `RequireAuth` element that redirects only once the tab knows it has no vault, so a Core Kit restore or a secret handoff still in flight renders on. A leader whose relay refuses a greeting because its engine holds no account releases the `cipherbox-engine` lock and re-queues behind the tabs already waiting, so the queue drains toward the tab with the keys. Only a leader with no session ever yields, so two engine-less tabs cannot pass the lock between themselves. A follower start that reached no engine now waits on this tab's own promotion instead of reporting a refusal the user cannot act on; a refusal naming another account stays final, as does a leader-path failure. `ByoIpfsConfigDescriptor.accessToken` becomes a transferable `ArrayBuffer`, `EngineFacade.saveVaultSettings` is the producer that lists it for transfer, `BroadcastTransport.command` honours the transfer list it was dropping, and `LeaderRelay` carries it on to the engine and wipes it on the routes that drop a command unserved. The worker's copy is then the terminal owner by construction rather than by a claim about its callers. Closes #914 Closes #1337 Closes #1332
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Engine session and leadership coordination
BYO credential transfer
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR changes session ownership, leadership handoff, and bearer-token transfer and wiping. Unresolved issues could redirect users during a later engine handoff, leave requests hanging after an account is forgotten, or fail to scrub some invalid bearer views, so merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance. Possibly related issues
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…fer list Folds the review gates back in. The stand-down could churn without an attacker: a tab whose sign-in gave up kept greeting every new leadership under an account it no longer held, each stood down, re-queued and was elected again, spawning a fresh engine worker per cycle. A start that gives up now stops greeting under that account. Standing down also goes through `LeaderElection.requeue`, so the lock lifecycle stays in the class that owns it and `dispose` still awaits the request it made. A start parked on an engine now resolves the moment any tab hosts its account, not only when this tab is promoted: two tabs with restored sessions and one idle leader used to leave the tab that lost the lock race waiting out the deadline and then reporting a refusal, which told the login flow to end a live Core Kit session. The deadline itself no longer covers this tab's own cold start, which is network-bound work rather than the lock hand-off it bounds — a slow start would otherwise reject while the engine came up behind it, leaving the UI signed in over an engine the login layer thought it had discarded. A resume that settles unsuccessfully now ends the "still deciding" state instead of holding the route on a spinner. `EngineTransport.command` drops its `transfer` parameter and each transport derives the list from the descriptor, so a hop cannot forget it — the miss that made the bearer a clone in the first place. The bearer is found by shape rather than by `kind`, so a version-skewed descriptor still loses its credential; buffers are branded by the `byteLength` getter rather than `instanceof`, which answers false across realms and would fail open into a clone nothing wipes; the worker scrubs on the routes that refuse before the codec runs; and the facade refuses a bearer that is not transferable rather than letting every hop copy one the worker will hard-reject. Also: reuses `wipeTransfer` and `fanOut` rather than second copies, moves the transferable-buffer custody into its own leaf module, and drops the restated comments the altitude pass flagged.
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| Filename | Overview |
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| packages/client/src/engineClient.ts | Adds engine-session publication and coordinates follower parking, leader yielding, promotion, adoption, and terminal cleanup. |
| packages/client/src/broadcastTransport.ts | Extends account-aware port adoption and clears pending brokerage state when a failed login is forgotten. |
| packages/client/src/leadership.ts | Adds lock requeue behavior so an engine-less leader can yield while preserving election disposal semantics. |
| apps/web/src/auth/useAuth.ts | Derives authentication from the engine and tracks resume completion per login-flow instance to avoid premature redirects during handoff. |
| apps/web/src/auth/RequireAuth.tsx | Gates vault routes only after the engine and Core Kit state establish that the tab is signed out. |
| packages/client/src/buffers.ts | Centralizes cross-realm buffer recognition and terminal-owner credential wiping. |
| packages/client/src/worker/protocol.ts | Derives command transfer lists from credential-bearing descriptor shape rather than transport call-site parameters. |
| packages/client/src/facade.ts | Adds vault-settings persistence and rejects non-transferable bearer storage while wiping the supplied credential range. |
Sequence Diagram
sequenceDiagram
participant UI as Web UI
participant EC as EngineClient
participant LE as LeaderElection
participant BT as BroadcastTransport
participant EH as EngineHost
UI->>EC: start(secret, account)
alt This tab hosts an engine
EC->>EH: start(secret, account)
EH-->>EC: started
else Current leader has no account
BT-->>EC: refusal with no held account
EC->>LE: requeue leadership
EC->>EC: park start awaiting an engine
LE-->>EC: promotion or adopted port
EC->>EH: start or adopt session
EH-->>EC: account established
end
EC-->>UI: publish signedInAccount
UI->>UI: render or redirect from engine session
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6-9: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winHoist the
useEngineAccount()call out of the JSX.The call is legal today: it runs unconditionally on every render of
FilesPage. However, a hook inside a JSX child expression is easy to break. Any later change that makes theAppShellchildren conditional or moves them into a render prop would violate the rules of hooks silently.Assign it to a local first.
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export function FilesPage() { + const account = useEngineAccount(); return ( <AppShell> - {useEngineAccount() !== null ? ( + {account !== null ? ( <FileBrowser /> ) : (🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@apps/web/src/auth/useAuth.ts`:
- Around line 75-88: Scope the resume-settlement state used by resuming and
isSignedOut to the current session and engine handoff identity, rather than
retaining a global resumed boolean; reset or invalidate it whenever either
dependency changes so a new flow.resume() is awaited before auth guards can
redirect. Update the relevant useAuth resume logic and add coverage replacing
the engine or session after an earlier resume has settled.
In `@packages/client/src/broadcastTransport.ts`:
- Around line 448-452: Update forgetAccount() and the associated dropPort()
handling so all in-flight entries in CorrelatedTransport.pending for the
forgotten account’s port are explicitly rejected with the retry error before or
as the port is closed. Ensure pending callbacks are removed and callers cannot
remain waiting when the closed port cannot emit portResult or portClosed.
In `@packages/client/src/engineClient.test.ts`:
- Around line 579-581: Add an explicit assertion immediately after the bounded
wait loop in the relevant test, verifying that release is defined before
invoking release(fakeLoginSecret([5])). Keep the existing loop and release
behavior unchanged so a timeout reports the missing secret request directly.
In `@packages/client/src/facade.ts`:
- Around line 209-214: Update saveVaultSettings to scrub only the invalid
accessToken view’s byte range, including views backed by SharedArrayBuffer,
instead of passing the entire backing buffer to wipeTransfer. Preserve rejection
of non-transferable tokens, and add coverage verifying unrelated bytes remain
unchanged for both ArrayBuffer- and SharedArrayBuffer-backed views.
In `@packages/client/src/testkit.ts`:
- Around line 479-484: Update the command handling flow to retain the
receiver-side result of structuredClone in a variable, then pass that cloned
command to respond instead of the detached original. Preserve the existing
no-transfer path by using the original command when no buffers are transferred,
and continue storing the transfer in commandTransfers.
In `@packages/client/test/browser/leadership.spec.ts`:
- Around line 571-572: Guard the follower lookup in the leadership test by
asserting that the expected role split includes a follower before using
roles.lastIndexOf('follower') to index tabs. Preserve lastIndexOf so the
signing-in tab remains the last follower, and make the assertion fail at role
settlement rather than allowing an undefined tab to reach start.
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In `@apps/web/src/routes/FilesPage.tsx`:
- Around line 6-9: Hoist the useEngineAccount() hook call to a local variable at
the start of FilesPage, then use that variable in the AppShell JSX condition.
Preserve the existing null-check behavior.
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…handoff Addresses the review on PR 1342: - useAuth keys resume settlement to the handoff that settled, matching the login flow's own session+facade latch, so a replaced engine re-opens the window instead of letting a guard redirect over a live login - BroadcastTransport.forgetAccount rejects in-flight work retryably; the port is closed locally, so no cb:portClosed can settle it - a refused BYO bearer is scrubbed over the view's own range, including a SharedArrayBuffer-backed one, rather than over the whole backing store - FakeEngineTransport responds over the delivered clone, not the detached sender-side descriptor - test guards: assert the secret source was asked before releasing it, and assert the leadership split before indexing the follower
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What changed
Three slices over the web client's session plane, all TypeScript.
#914 — auth state comes from the engine
EngineClientpublishes the account the origin's engine holds for this tab:subscribeSession/signedInAccount, shaped foruseSyncExternalStore. It is set when a start resolves against an engine — this tab's own, or a leader's that adopted its port — and cleared when that engine goes away, including a promotion that could not cold-start one (the failedSecretSourcere-export the issue names).apps/webreads it throughuseEngineAccount.authStorekeeps only the chrome — method, email, recovery prompts — and no longer answers whether a session exists, so there is no second store to desync from the first./filesis gated by aRequireAuthelement inApp.tsx; it redirects only once the tab knows it has no vault, so a Core Kit restore or a secret handoff still in flight renders on rather than throwing a member out of their own files. The e2e introspection hook no longer pokes the store — the started engine is the session.#1337 — an engine-less leader stands down
A leader whose relay refuses a greeting because its engine holds no account gives the
cipherbox-enginelock up throughLeaderElection.requeue, landing behind the tabs already waiting so the queue drains toward the tab that has the keys. Only a leader with no login of its own ever stands down, so two engine-less tabs cannot pass the lock between themselves — and a tab whose own sign-in gave up stops greeting under that account, so it cannot drive a leader to stand down for a session that no longer exists.A follower
startthat reached no engine waits for the next one instead of reporting a refusal the member cannot act on. It resolves the moment any tab hosts the account, not only when this tab is promoted. A refusal naming another account stays final — the #1333 semantics are extended, not redesigned — as does a leader-path failure and a closed election. The wait bounds the lock hand-off only: this tab's own cold start is network-bound work and runs outside it.#1332 — the BYO bearer moves, it is never cloned
ByoIpfsConfigDescriptor.accessTokenis now a transferableArrayBuffer, andEngineFacade.saveVaultSettingsis the missing producer. Rather than have each hop remember a transfer list — the miss that made the bearer a clone in the first place —EngineTransport.commanddrops the parameter and every transport derives it from the descriptor at its own send. The bearer is found by shape rather than bykind, so a version-skewed descriptor still loses its credential; buffers are branded by thebyteLengthgetter rather thaninstanceof, which answers false across realms and would fail open into a clone nothing wipes; the worker scrubs on the routes that refuse before the codec runs; and the facade refuses a bearer that is not transferable rather than letting every hop copy one the worker will hard-reject (AGENTS.md 8).Review gates
/simplify(four passes),/security-reviewand/crypto-privacy-reviewall ran on the diff. Everything below was found by them and is folded in:BroadcastTransport.forgetAccount; the regression test hangs indefinitely when the fix is reverted.notStarted), where the transfer had already made it the only holder.resuminghad no terminal state, so a handoff that failed for good held the route on a spinner.flow.resumenow returns the one shared attempt, so every consumer learns together when it has settled.LeaderElection(requeue), sodisposestill awaits the request it made; transferable-buffer custody moved into its own leaf module andwipeTransfer/fanOutare reused rather than re-implemented.Two residuals are filed rather than fixed here, both with a dependency edge on #1337: #1353 (a follower keeps reporting a session after the origin loses every engine — same class as the pre-#914 store, and the honest fix needs a deadline on the leaderless brokerage wait) and #1354 (a same-origin context can make an engine-less leader respawn its worker on demand — amplification inside a trust boundary that already grants the capability, and the deep fix is to stop spawning a worker for a leader that has no engine to host).
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pnpm typecheck,pnpm test(six projects: 1387 tests),pnpm lint:tracker-refs,eslint .— clean.pnpm --filter @cipherbox/client test:browser— 39 passed, including two newClient Browser Suitecases over real Web Locks,BroadcastChannelandMessagePorts: an engine-less leader standing down for a signing-in tab, and a sign-in reaching the lock past a queue of sessionless tabs. Re-run for ordering flake; stable.Verification note
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RequireAuthredirect and the sign-out path are UI-level;tests/web-e2ealready covers both throughVaultPage.coldStart(which follows the app's own redirect onto/files) andFilesPage.signOut. No bespoke harness added.Closes #914
Closes #1337
Closes #1332
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Derive web auth state from the engine and let an engine-less leader yield
authStoreto the engine viaEngineClient.subscribeSession/signedInAccount; removesisAuthenticatedfromauthStoreand adds aRequireAuthroute guard anduseEngineAccounthook that read engine state.EngineClient.yieldLeadershipso a leader with no login steps down and requeues the lock viaLeaderElection.requeue, letting a tab with a session cold-start the engine; follower starts that hit no engine now park viaawaitEngine(bounded byYIELD_TIMEOUT_MS = 5000) instead of refusing immediately.Transferable[]parameters acrossEngineTransport,LocalTransport,BroadcastTransport,CorrelatedTransport, andEngineClient.commandwith automatic transfer-list derivation fromcommandTransfer(command), moving credential-bearingArrayBuffers instead of cloning.wipeTransfer) on drop/refusal inLeaderRelayandEngineHost.command, and addsEngineFacade.saveVaultSettingswhich rejects non-transferable BYO tokens early.authStore.getState()no longer containsisAuthenticated; consumers must useuseEngineAccount/useAuthinstead.EngineTransport.commandsignature drops thetransferparameter — all callers updated.ByoIpfsConfigDescriptor.accessTokentype changes fromUint8Array | nulltoArrayBuffer | null.Macroscope summarized 98080f1.
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