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🔗 Linked Issue

Closes #1134


🏷️ PR Type

  • type:bug — Bug fix
  • type:feature — New feature
  • type:question — Question requiring tracked work
  • type:docs — Documentation only
  • type:refactor — Code refactoring (no behavior change)
  • type:chore — Maintenance, dependencies, tooling
  • type:breaking-change — Breaking change

📝 Summary

  • Record denied request authentication (401) and project authorization (403) in cloud_auth_audit_log with stable, distinct reason codes and safe server log lines.
  • Preserve denied audits after client cancellation by detaching request cancellation while retaining the fixed three-second insert deadline.
  • Preserve the established Bearer parser and byte-identical rejection responses, including tab-separated credentials and surplus-field rejection.

📂 Changes

File Change
internal/cloud/cloudserver/cloudserver.go Adds denied-auth and project-authorization audit vocabulary, shared bounded persistence, safe logging, cancellation independence, and compatible Bearer parsing.
internal/cloud/cloudserver/cloudserver_test.go Covers reason mapping, parser compatibility, canceled requests, 403 audit attribution, nil/failing sinks, successful requests, and timeout behavior.
cmd/engram/cloud_runtime_auth_integration_test.go Exercises unknown-token HTTP rejection through the production runtime and verifies the persisted row with a real Postgres CloudStore.
internal/cloud/auth/foundation.go Distinguishes token/principal identity mismatch from malformed stored principals.
internal/cloud/auth/foundation_test.go Covers resolver mismatch classification.
cmd/engram/cloud_runtime_auth_test.go Aligns runtime mismatch expectations with the dedicated sentinel.

🧪 Test Plan

  • Focused auth/audit regressions pass.
  • go test ./internal/cloud/... -count=1
  • go test ./internal/cloud/cloudserver -count=1
  • Real Postgres runtime regression: CLOUDSTORE_TEST_DSN=... go test -v ./cmd/engram -count=1 -run '^TestCloudRuntimePersistsUnknownTokenRequestAuthAudit$'
  • Real Postgres storage sanity check: CLOUDSTORE_TEST_DSN=... go test -v ./internal/cloud/cloudstore -count=1 -run '^TestCloudstorePrincipalHumanTokenGrantAndAuditLifecycle$'
  • go build ./...
  • gofmt and git diff --check
  • Independent verifier and four-lens native review approved the candidate.

Local note: go test ./cmd/engram -count=1 still encounters the pre-existing environment-sensitive TestCmdSyncDefaultProjectNoData expectation (default vs the configured blackie project). The identical failure reproduces from the unmodified PR HEAD archive and is unrelated to this diff.


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✅ Contributor Checklist

  • I linked an approved issue above (Closes #1134).
  • The PR has exactly one type:* label (type:bug).
  • I ran focused cloud tests and the repository build locally.
  • I exercised the real Postgres runtime boundary locally.
  • HTTP status and response-body contracts are covered.
  • Docs are not required because routes and payloads are unchanged.
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  • Every changed path complies with the Transient Artifact Policy.

Review Workload

  • Authored diff: 689 changed lines (672 additions, 17 deletions).
  • This exceeds the default 400-line review guideline. The implementation remains one root-cause cluster, but merge requires explicit maintainer acceptance of the review-size exception.

Scope

  • Includes: denied 401/403 observability, stable reason mapping, safe attribution, cancellation-resistant bounded persistence, parser compatibility, and runtime persistence evidence.
  • Excludes: asynchronous audit admission, rate limiting, aggregation, and retention policy; those require a separate operational design rather than hidden machinery in this bug fix.

💬 Notes for Reviewers

PR #1156 is no longer a required follow-up: its cancellation-hardening behavior is included here and covered by TestRequestAuthDeniedAuditPersistsAfterRequestCancellation.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Security
    • Authentication failures and project authorization denials are recorded in audit logs with categorized reasons.
    • Audit recording is best-effort, time-limited, and excludes sensitive token values while preserving expected 401 and 403 responses.
    • Bearer-token errors distinguish token/principal mismatches from other invalid credentials.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of audit-recording failures, request cancellation, and timeouts during rejected requests.
    • Successful authentication continues without generating denial audit events.

…entleman-Programming#1134)

authenticateRequest rejected failed bearer auth with a bare 401 and no
trace, so a rotated legacy token left the hub silently stale for weeks
with zero rows in cloud_auth_audit_log and no server log line.

Every failed request auth now writes one best-effort audit row via the
existing identity sink (action sync.auth, outcome denied, reason_code
mapped from the error class: missing_header, malformed_bearer,
unknown_token, token_revoked, principal_disabled,
token_principal_mismatch, pepper_missing, resolver_error, plus
authorize_error on the legacy path) and one server log line per
rejection. A failed or unavailable audit write never blocks the 401;
successful request auth stays unaudited per request.
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Authentication failures now create classified, best-effort audit events with a three-second timeout. Bearer parsing exposes sentinel errors for classification. Rejected requests retain 401 responses. Tests cover audit contents, failures, timeouts, and successful authentication.

Changes

Request authentication auditing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Authentication error contracts
internal/cloud/cloudserver/cloudserver.go
Adds audit reason constants and stable bearer parsing errors while preserving existing response messages.
Denied request audit flow
internal/cloud/cloudserver/cloudserver.go
Classifies bearer, resolver, and legacy authorization failures. Inserts denied authentication events with a bounded context and logs insertion failures without changing 401 responses.
Audit behavior regression coverage
internal/cloud/cloudserver/cloudserver_test.go
Tests timeout handling, event fields, reason mapping, insertion failures, successful authentication, legacy failures, and requests without an audit sink.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant CloudServer
  participant AdminIdentityStore
  participant Logger

  Client->>CloudServer: Request with bearer authorization
  CloudServer->>CloudServer: Parse and classify authentication result
  CloudServer->>AdminIdentityStore: Insert denied audit event with bounded context
  AdminIdentityStore-->>CloudServer: Insert result or timeout
  CloudServer->>Logger: Log denial and insertion failure when applicable
  CloudServer-->>Client: Return 401 for rejected authentication
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Suggested reviewers: gentleman-programming, alan-thegentleman

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7a0e0

The audit behavior is cancellation-safe; only a narrow empty-principal edge-case test remains missing, making this mergeable with a small follow-up.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Issue #1134 requires denied 401/403 attempts to be queryable or logged with timestamp, project, and reason data. The PR records 401 events with a reason, but recordRequestAuthDeniedAudit never sets … Include the request project in 401 audit events or the corresponding server log when it is available, and add a regression test for that attribution. Classify an empty Bearer credential as the missing-token case and verify its audit reaso…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 57.14% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 21 functions across 6 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: auditing denied cloud request authentication. It is directly related to the pull request objectives and changes.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changed authentication classification, principal-mismatch sentinel, audit persistence, bounded context handling, server logging, and regression tests support issue #1134. No unrelated product beha…
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Explanation

Issue #1134 requires denied 401/403 attempts to be queryable or logged with timestamp, project, and reason data. The PR records 401 events with a reason, but recordRequestAuthDeniedAudit never sets Project, and its server log also omits the project. The integration test sends project=audit-project and explicitly accepts an empty Project. The PR also does not return the required missing-token classification for an empty Bearer value: strings.Fields("Bearer") has one field and returns errAuthorizationNotBearer.

Resolution

Include the request project in 401 audit events or the corresponding server log when it is available, and add a regression test for that attribution. Classify an empty Bearer credential as the missing-token case and verify its audit reason and 401 body.

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/cloud/cloudserver/cloudserver_test.go`:
- Around line 1923-1924: Update the deadline assertion in the request-auth audit
insert test to compare store.deadline against
requestStarted.Add(requestAuthAuditInsertTimeout), using an appropriate
approximate-time tolerance rather than allowing a ten-second window. Preserve
validation that the deadline is not before requestStarted.

In `@internal/cloud/cloudserver/cloudserver.go`:
- Around line 392-393: Introduce a dedicated sentinel or typed error for
token/principal ID mismatches in ResolveBearerToken, while preserving
cloudauth.ErrInvalidPrincipal for malformed principal validation failures.
Update requestAuthDenyReason to map only the new mismatch error to
authAuditReasonTokenPrincipalMismatch, leaving other ErrInvalidPrincipal cases
unmapped to that reason.
- Line 418: Update the audit insert context in the auth audit persistence flow
to use context.Background() with requestAuthAuditInsertTimeout instead of
r.Context(), keeping the existing timeout and cancellation cleanup unchanged so
client disconnects do not cancel CloudStore.InsertAuthAuditEvent.
- Line 438: Update the authorization parser to detect the Bearer scheme before
trimming or splitting credentials, returning errBearerTokenRequired when the
credential is empty or whitespace. Preserve errAuthorizationNotBearer for
non-Bearer schemes, and add coverage for "Bearer " verifying the expected audit
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Comment thread internal/cloud/cloudserver/cloudserver_test.go Outdated
Comment on lines +392 to +393
case errors.Is(err, cloudauth.ErrInvalidPrincipal):
return authAuditReasonTokenPrincipalMismatch

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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rg -n -C 8 \
  'func \(.*Principal.*\) Validate|ErrInvalidPrincipal|token principal mismatch' \
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Repository: Gentleman-Programming/engram

Length of output: 18613


Use a dedicated error for token-principal mismatches.

Principal.Validate() wraps cloudauth.ErrInvalidPrincipal for missing IDs and invalid kind, role, or source. ResolveBearerToken returns these errors, but it also uses the same sentinel for token/principal ID mismatches. requestAuthDenyReason can therefore record malformed-principal failures as token_principal_mismatch. Use a separate sentinel or typed error for the ID mismatch and map only that error here.

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In `@internal/cloud/cloudserver/cloudserver.go` around lines 392 - 393, Introduce
a dedicated sentinel or typed error for token/principal ID mismatches in
ResolveBearerToken, while preserving cloudauth.ErrInvalidPrincipal for malformed
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Comment thread internal/cloud/cloudserver/cloudserver.go Outdated
Comment thread internal/cloud/cloudserver/cloudserver.go
@dnlrsls dnlrsls added bug Something isn't working type:bug Bug fix and removed bug Something isn't working labels Sep 13, 2026
- map token/principal ID mismatches to a dedicated ErrTokenPrincipalMismatch
  sentinel so malformed principals audit as resolver_error, not
  token_principal_mismatch
- return errBearerTokenRequired for Bearer scheme with empty credentials
  ("Bearer ", bare "Bearer") instead of malformed_bearer
- tighten the audit-insert deadline test band to the 3s timeout contract
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Pushed 2fcea42 addressing three of the four actionables:

  • Deadline test now pins the captured deadline to approximately requestStarted + requestAuthAuditInsertTimeout instead of any value within 10s.
  • Token/principal ID mismatches now return a dedicated cloudauth.ErrTokenPrincipalMismatch, so malformed-principal validation failures classify as resolver_error rather than token_principal_mismatch.
  • "Bearer " and bare "Bearer" (empty credentials) now return errBearerTokenRequired with audit-reason and 401-body coverage, instead of falling into malformed_bearer.

The fourth actionable (detaching audit persistence from client cancellation) is the contract of #1156, the next slice of this chain, and stays there.

Verification: gofmt and vet clean, full go test ./... green (29 packages). The fix commit also went through a four-lens native review (risk, resilience, readability, reliability) that approved it with 8 informational advisories and no corrections.

Two reviewer notes on intentional behavior changes: a tab-separated "Bearer\ttok" header is now rejected as non-Bearer (RFC 7235 allows SP only), and the 401 body for empty bearer credentials is now "unauthorized: bearer token is required" with audit reason missing_header.

Size note: the PR is now 489 changed lines (was 391) because the review fixes added 95/17. The growth is entirely review-driven; flagging it since it crosses the 400-line budget.

@dnlrsls when you review: the type:bug label is maintainer-side and the validation gate needs it. Thanks!

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Follow-ups from the native review advisories are now tracked: #1171 (bearer grammar: spaced credentials + documentation), #1172 (test hygiene: deadline band constants, classification dedupe, sentinel doc), #1173 (dedicated reason_code for empty bearer credentials). All non-blocking; none gate this PR.

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/cloud/auth/foundation_test.go`:
- Around line 187-188: Add an empty ManagedTokenRecord.PrincipalID fixture in
the ResolveBearerToken test and assert that resolving it returns
ErrTokenPrincipalMismatch, while preserving the existing assertion that
ErrInvalidPrincipal is not returned.

In `@internal/cloud/cloudserver/cloudserver.go`:
- Around line 439-443: Update the Authorization parsing near strings.Cut to use
strings.Fields, accepting exactly two fields for Bearer plus token, rejecting
surplus credentials as malformed while preserving errBearerTokenRequired for a
lone case-insensitive Bearer. In internal/cloud/cloudserver/cloudserver.go lines
439-443, apply the parsing fix; in
internal/cloud/cloudserver/cloudserver_test.go lines 2050-2051, add
surplus-credential coverage asserting malformed_bearer and the existing 401
body; and in lines 2107-2114, add direct cases for Bearer token extra rejection
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Comment on lines +187 to +188
if _, err := resolver.ResolveBearerToken(context.Background(), "mismatch-token"); !errors.Is(err, ErrTokenPrincipalMismatch) || errors.Is(err, ErrInvalidPrincipal) {
t.Fatalf("expected token/principal mismatch rejection with ErrTokenPrincipalMismatch (not ErrInvalidPrincipal), got %v", err)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Cover an empty token principal ID.

ResolveBearerToken maps an empty ManagedTokenRecord.PrincipalID to ErrTokenPrincipalMismatch, but this test only covers different nonempty IDs. Add an empty-ID fixture and assert the same sentinel.

As per path instructions, **/*_test.go: “Verify coverage of happy path, error paths, and edge cases.”

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In `@internal/cloud/auth/foundation_test.go` around lines 187 - 188, Add an empty
ManagedTokenRecord.PrincipalID fixture in the ResolveBearerToken test and assert
that resolving it returns ErrTokenPrincipalMismatch, while preserving the
existing assertion that ErrInvalidPrincipal is not returned.

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Comment thread internal/cloud/cloudserver/cloudserver.go Outdated
Detach bounded audit writes from request cancellation, preserve the existing Bearer parser contract, and record project-scope 403 denials without persisting credentials. Add a real CloudStore runtime regression for the rotated-token failure path.
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dnlrsls merged commit 6129e86 into Gentleman-Programming:main Sep 15, 2026
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