A person sent to sign in by an app comes back to the app, whether they sign i… #12177

A person sent to sign in by an app now sees which app is asking, keeps the authorize request through sign-up, and finishes on the consent page for that app. The browser walk is written but did not run here, because Chromium won't start in this sandbox.

Tests I ran pass, including the new ones: signin-asking.test.ts and the public-app case in apps-preview-token.test.ts. tsc and gate.ts are clean. design-lint reports one off-scale font size in src/web/studio/cards.ts, a file I didn't change. The OAuth, sign-in and sign-up suites pass except oauth-connect-browser.test.ts, which fails only because Chromium won't start here. I did not run the full suite; the forge's check does that on push.

What changed

• A (who is asking): src/web/pages/asking.ts is new. When next is a valid, registered /oauth/authorize request, the sign-in and sign-up pages say "<client name> (<host>) wants you to sign in". An unregistered or invalid client is never named. Sign-up through such a request shows that line instead of the "help build / get your own forge" copy.
• B (next survives sign-up): "Need an account? Sign up" and "Have an account? Sign in" now carry next. The password and passkey sign-up paths already honoured next; only the link dropped it. A new account lands back on the authorize request, with one consent.
• C (consent names the app): The sign-in consent heading and body now use the registered client name, with the host beside it, and the page <title> is "Sign in to <name>" or "Connect <name>". I changed one assertion in oauth-page-shape.test.ts because it expected the old host-only wording.
• D (bearer on a public app): On a public app, a forge token of someone who can write to the repository is now admitted. The app sees the signed identity as admin for a read-write token, or as user and GET/HEAD-only for a read-only one. Any other token there (a reader's, a run's, a proposal's, a made-up one) is ignored as before. I did not apply the 30-per-minute failed-token limit to public apps, since an app's own API tokens would otherwise trip it.

Not done

• The browser walk (stranger → app → Sign up → Create account → back on the app's consent) is the last test in signin-asking.test.ts. It is skipped without a working Chromium, so it needs one run on the forge's check to confirm. An HTTP-level test covers the same path here: authorize → sign-in page → sign-up with next → 303 to the authorize request.
• The invite token is not carried through the sign-in ⇄ sign-up links, as before.
• I did not change the forge's home or first screen for someone arriving from an app. They now go straight from sign-up to the app's consent page, so the home is no longer their first screen.

To try: open an app's /oauth/authorize?… link signed out, press "Need an account? Sign up", create the account, and you land on "Sign in to <app>".

The check failed on three gate rules. I fixed the first and answered the other two with commit-message lines, and the local gate now passes. I pushed, but I haven't seen the forge's re-run.

• Real timer: I removed the Bun.sleep(500) from test/signin-asking.test.ts. The browser test's remaining assertions don't need it. That test is still skipped here, since Chromium won't start in this sandbox.
• "Both doors" and "pipeline first": these fire because the pull adds src/web/pages/asking.ts. I didn't add a terminal screen, a how-to or a pipeline change. The commit message carries a No door: line and a Direction: line instead. The No door: line says the change is page text only. The Direction: line says the issue's point is customers lost at sign-up.

The bun test run on signin-asking.test.ts passes, with the browser walk skipped, and bun scripts/gate.ts is clean.

If you would rather have a real how-to or a pipeline change than those two lines, say so and I'll add them.

A person an app sends to sign in now sees who is asking, keeps the authorize request through sign-up, and lands back on the consent for that app. A writer's forge token on a public app now reaches the app as that person's signed admin identity.

Of the 48 failures in the check log, only the browser test is mine, and I changed only that test. I could not run it here: the sandbox skips it, though /usr/bin/chromium exists. So the new wait is unverified, and the failure was a guess from the log.

What changed

• Sign-in and sign-up pages: when next is an OAuth authorize request from a registered client, the page says "<app> (<host>) wants you to sign in". The link between sign-in and sign-up carries next along (src/web/pages/asking.ts, site.ts). An unregistered client is never named.
• Consent page: it names the registered client, not just the host (oauth.ts).
• Public apps: a writer's forge token reaches the app as that person's signed admin identity, or read-only for an ro token (src/apps/proxy.ts). Any other bearer is left to the app.

The failing browser test: "in a browser: stranger, sign in page, Sign up, Create account, back on the consent for the same app". The account exists a moment before the redirect back to the consent is requested, and the test stopped at the account. It now waits 1.5 s after the account exists, so the redirect is seen. I ran this test, oauth-page-shape and apps-preview-token locally (the browser step skipped); the other two passed. bun scripts/gate.ts, tsc and the design lint show nothing from my change.

The other 47 failures are not from this pull, and I left them alone. main has not moved since this branch was cut (cc205a800). The ones I reproduced locally fail on files I did not touch:

• src/crew/week_burn.ts is imported by nothing.
• The cookie-site count is off for src/spawn/origin_broker.ts and src/web/pages/home_flow.ts.
• The header comments over 160 columns are in other files.
• docs/design/audit has one entry fewer than there are pages.
• src/web/studio/cards.ts:1216 has an off-scale font size.

I did not reproduce the remaining failures, such as the 390 px page tests, the budgets and the OpenAPI rows. The audit test's last commit says a pull is not red for main's red. The forge's check may therefore still show these as failing until main is fixed.

To try it, open an app's authorize link signed out, press Sign up, create an account, and you land on the consent naming the app.

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Parked by the crew: the check stayed red through 2 automatic tries

I merged main into the branch and pushed it. The only conflict was in src/web/pages/site.ts.

• Conflict: the sign-in and sign-up links on the form. This branch built them from a local nextQuery string. main now builds them with withReturn("/signup", next) and withReturn("/signin", next). I kept main's withReturn and deleted nextQuery, which nothing used any more. The "who asks" notice and the keep-the-request-through-sign-up behaviour are unchanged.
• Tests: I ran 7 test files and they passed (43 pass, 1 skipped, 0 fail). They were signin-asking, forge-signin-signup, forge-signin, header-signup, linked-signin, signin-alias and consent-origin. bun x tsc --noEmit printed nothing. I didn't run scripts/gate.ts.
• What I didn't run: scripts/fast.ts said the diff reaches 2,239 test files, which is too many to run here. I stopped that run and picked the sign-in, sign-up and consent tests by hand. The forge's check runs the full suite on this push.

I fixed all four failures and pushed. The four test files that cover them pass here (26 pass, 0 fail), and bun x tsc --noEmit and bun scripts/gate.ts are clean.

• Slow browser test (test/signin-asking.test.ts): it waited a fixed 1.5 s after the account was created. It now stops as soon as the second /oauth/authorize request is seen. To allow that, done in test/helpers/chrome.ts is now passed the list of requested URLs.
• week_reading unread table: my merge of main had dropped it from scripts/unread-tables-allow.json. I restored the file from origin/main.
• Crew-key link test (test/first-ask-new-app.test.ts): the code now links to /feed#crew-key-note, as an earlier commit on this branch intended. The test still expected /#crew-key-note, so I corrected the test.
• Retry-after walk (test/retry-after.test.ts): the 503 in src/http/api/user.ts copies its body and headers from a tryAgain result, so it does carry Retry-After. I named it in the test's exemption list with that reason.

I did not run the browser test's timing against the forge's 2 s budget in this sandbox. The forge's check will show whether it now fits.

This pull now does one thing: the sign-in and sign-up pages say which app sent a person there and keep the request, so a new account lands on the app's authorize request. The tests I ran pass (test/signin-asking.test.ts and test/oauth-page-shape.test.ts), and tsc, scripts/gate.ts and design-lint are clean. I did not run the full suite; the forge's check does.

What changed, against the review:

• Unverified name (1, and the oauth.ts and site.ts comments): I reverted src/web/pages/oauth.ts to main, so the consent page, its title and its test are as they were and lead with the host.

- The sign-in and sign-up pages now lead with the return host: "gretchy.store wants you to sign in." - The registered name appears afterwards, in small muted text: "It calls itself “Gretchy Store”; the forge has not checked that." - The test asserts the name is never bold.

• Scope (2): I dropped the writer-bearer path in src/apps/proxy.ts and its tests. It was never needed for the sign-in fix. I also removed the retry-after exemption, the /feed crew-key test edit and the week_reading allow-list change, all restored to main's versions. The only test-helper change kept is done in test/helpers/chrome.ts receiving the list of requested URLs, which the browser test needs to stop at the redirect instead of a fixed wait.
• Sign-up copy (the site.ts comment): the "You can read everything public…" line on the sign-up page is shown again, as on main. I removed the test assertion that it was absent.
• Docs and terminal (3): I added docs/features/signin-asking.md. It says the redirect is a browser exchange with no terminal form. A person reaches the same account in the terminal by adding an SSH key under Settings → Keys.
• Says the app once (4): the pages name the host once.
• Title (5): the long title ternary is gone with the oauth.ts revert.

What I chose not to do: I did not split the writer-bearer path into its own pull. It needs its own issue, a failed-token limit and a read-only-token test first. I also made no pipeline-item changes (6). This pull is now about 150 lines of source and tests plus one doc.

To try it, open an app's /oauth/authorize?... link signed out. You land on /signin?next=… with the host named. Press Sign up, create an account, and you arrive at the consent page for the same app.

This pull fixes the failed check: a comment line in test/signin-asking.test.ts was 106 columns long, and I rewrapped it. Nothing else changed from the previous push, so the pull still does what the earlier description says.

bun scripts/gate.ts passes now. The gate only saw the fix after I committed it. test/signin-asking.test.ts passes, with 3 passing and 1 skipped. The skip is expected: it needs a browser (Chromium), which this sandbox may not have. I did not run tsc or the other suites, since only a comment changed. The forge runs the full check on this push.