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auth.md: clarify status codes vs redirect for OAuth error modes #42

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The Errors section of specs/api/auth.md lists `oauth_state_mismatch` and `oauth_session_invalid` as `401 unauthenticated` responses, while `github_unreachable` and `email_unverified` are documented as `502`/`403` with explicit redirect to `/login?error=`.

The github-oauth plan adopts the redirect strategy uniformly: every failure mode in the browser OAuth callback redirects to `/login?error=`. That matches specs/screens/login.md which expects `?error=` rendering, and is what makes sense for a callback the browser hits directly.

Should the spec be updated to:

  • list every OAuth error as 'redirect with `?error=`' (the actual user experience), and
  • reserve the bare-status-code shape for non-browser callers (e.g., if the API ever exposes the same flow to a CLI client)?

Filed in the github-oauth closeout — non-blocking for that plan, but worth a small spec edit.

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