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Posted from the shared iceteaSA seat by the openai-auth Legion session.

Draft on purpose. This is the read-only half of Claustrum custody for fallback accounts; the write half (enroll/off, which needs Claustrum's manifest lock) is a separate PR gated on their lock follow-up, see the boundary section. I'd like a read on the shape before the second half lands on top of it.

What this does

A fallback account listed in ~/.config/cortexkit/opencode-handles.json (Claustrum's handle manifest) and tombstoned in openai-auth-state.json is served from the Claustrum vault instead of from local secrets. The plugin never refreshes such an account itself; the vault owns the refresh token, and there is exactly one owner per token. Accounts not in the manifest behave exactly as today.

Concretely:

  • core/custody.ts: the predicate set (enrolled / tombstoned / custodied / enrolling / refreshInert / excluded), the credential cache, resolveFallbackAccess (the one place that decides which bearer a fallback sends), enrollment completion, and the 401 reporter with its fence and bound.
  • core/custody-manifest.ts: secure reader for the handle file (0600 check, 256 KiB cap, regex-pinned labels/handles, provider filter). Read-only. The only import from the vendored manifest-lock.ts is type-only; this branch contains no manifest writer and claustrum.manifestWrite is parsed but nothing reads it.
  • core/custody-runtime.ts: the tick (warm, sweep, sidebar projection), extracted from the loader.
  • accounts.ts, refresh-all-quota.ts, cachekeep.ts, index.ts: every local refresh path is gated on refreshInert (enrolled or tombstoned; deliberately independent of the global toggle, so flipping claustrum.enabled off can never resurrect a local refresher for a token the vault owns). Every site that puts a vault-served token on the wire (request sends, cachekeep replay, reset preview, quota poll) reports a 401 through one fenced path.
  • sidebar-state.ts: six custody states projected for the TUI (vault, vaultReauth, vaultGone, enrollPending, needsLogin, local).
  • src/vendor/claustrum-client/: @cortexkit/claustrum-client at d69ceed, byte-for-byte, Biome-excluded, with a golden check (check:claustrum-golden) so it can't drift. Temporary until the package publishes; UPSTREAM.md in that directory has the pin and the removal plan. One new dependency, @cortexkit/subc-client ^0.8.1, for the transport.

Design doc lives in my tree at .opencode/specs/2026-09-02-claustrum-custody-design.md (v6.5); I can attach it if useful. It went through four review rounds with models from four families before a line was written. The anthropic-auth sibling plugin has the same shape open as cortexkit/anthropic-auth#196 (not merged yet); the two were designed together against Claustrum's converged custody model, and the handle manifest format is shared.

Rules worth knowing before reading the diff

  • An enrolling account (manifest entry present, tombstone not yet written) serves its local token while that token is valid. When it expires, the request path completes enrollment inline under the account's refresh lock (identity check on the served token's chatgpt_account_id against OAuthAccount.accountId, tombstone, then serve). It never serves the expired local token and never refreshes locally.
  • The request path is peek-only: it reads the cached credential and never blocks on the vault. Refill happens on the tick. A credential version that produced a 401 is dropped from the cache and is never re-sent; the account is refused at candidate construction until the tick refills it.
  • Refusals happen at candidate construction, never as a throw from the send. tryFallbackAccounts keeps traversing.
  • The 401 report bound resets on a 2xx served with a vault credential or after an hour. Not on a successful get (every new version arrives through a get, so resetting there made the bound unreachable in exactly the flow it exists for).

Evidence

Tests: 1286 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail across 51 files on 3ad02cb (bun run test), typecheck clean, Biome clean, order-dependence scan clean on every touched test file. Baseline at 512e451 was 1120.

The seven defects the review rounds found are the reason for the number of tests. Every one of them sat behind green unit tests and was only reachable by a test entering through the loader: boot started the background refresher while an enrollment sweep was still in flight; the 401 bound reset on get; reauth/blocked were sidebar-only verdicts that the serving path ignored; two token-use sites (cachekeep replay, reset preview) swallowed vault 401s the way #118 did; the bound didn't reset after its hour; a try/catch around the quota reporter got deleted in a refactor and its containment test stayed green. Each has a loader-path test now, and each test was proven to go red under the mutation that reintroduces the defect.

Security pass (separate reviewer): 12 probes, no handle or material in logs/throws/sidebar/RPC/dumps, sentinel never reaches an Authorization header, 11/11 manifest-trust probes (__proto__ key, case-only duplicate label, 44-char handle, symlinked file, 0644 mode, and so on) rejected at the expected line, live manifest mtime unchanged across the suite.

Local run: three of my four accounts have been serving through this branch's routing all day, including two window exhaustions and one reset (#131). No custodied account yet, because that needs the write half.

New runtime dependency: @cortexkit/subc-client@0.8.1

The one non-vendored addition. It is the client for the ck-subc daemon's Unix-socket RPC; Claustrum runs as a module of that daemon, and this is how the vendored client reaches the vault. Zero transitive dependencies (bun.lock records {}), integrity-pinned, same org as this repo. Three symbols used, all inside src/vendor/claustrum-client/ (SubcClient, SubcCallError, the BindIdentity type); production code reaches it only through core/custody-runtime.ts via that vendored client. Failure mode if the daemon is down or the package misbehaves: custodied accounts fail to resolve a credential and are refused at candidate construction; local accounts and the main account are not on the path at all. Socket's scan on this PR: supply chain 88, vulnerability 100, quality 100, maintenance 93, license 100.

Read-only for local secrets too (added after review)

a83418b and the three commits before it: enrollment completion is armed behind claustrum.manifestWrite at all three call sites (request-path inline, boot sweep, tick sweep). With the flag absent or false, the branch never writes to a fallback's access/refresh. An enrolling account serves its local token while valid, is refused at expiry with sidebar reason completionDisarmed, and removing its manifest entry makes it an ordinary local account again with its refresh token intact. refreshInert is unchanged. Tests: each of the three gates reddens when removed; the manifest-removal exit test reddens if enrolled() ignores the manifest; the parser test reddens if an omitted manifestWrite coerces to true. UPSTREAM.md now carries a dated pin review (2026-10-04). 1290 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail.

What this PR does not do (the boundary)

  • No enroll or off verb. Those write the manifest and need Claustrum's manifest-lock.ts; Claustrum found an ABA race in the evictor at d69ceed (two evictors can quarantine each other's fresh owner) and the fix ships in their lock follow-up PR. Phase B re-vendors from that client and adds the ABA-barrier test. Until then manifestWrite stays inert.
  • Nothing changes for users without a handle manifest. The code path is dark unless claustrum.enabled is set AND an account is listed.
  • Main account stays local. Fallbacks first, matching the sibling plugin.

What I'd like from review

Mainly a ruling on shape: is a vendored client acceptable for the interim, and is the refreshInert gate's independence from the global toggle the behavior you want (I think it has to be, but it's the one place a user can be surprised: with the toggle off, an enrolled account will not refresh locally either, and the sidebar says so). Line-level findings welcome too; the test names should read as behavior, tell me where they don't.


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Summary by cubic

Implements the read-only half of Claustrum vault custody: a fallback account listed in the handle manifest and tombstoned now serves its access token from the Claustrum vault instead of local secrets, and is never refreshed locally. Accounts not in the manifest behave exactly as before.

Behavior changes

  • Local refresh is gated on manifest entry or tombstone alone, independent of the persisted claustrum.mode, so switching modes can never resurrect a local refresher for a token the vault owns.
  • Vault-served tokens that receive a 401 are reported once per credential version through one fenced path (request sends, cachekeep replay, reset preview, quota poll).
  • Claustrum mode is persisted as claustrum.mode; switching modes passes through a fenced readiness barrier with fingerprint fences, so a partial transition resumes without rolling back local credentials, and CLI login is refused under claustrum mode.
  • Only exact provider refresh sentinels count as tombstones; every tombstone prefix is refused before transport, and corrupt OAuth rows stay refresh-inert.
  • The sidebar projects custody as vault, needsLogin, local, or inert with a reason, and the account dialog offers Enter/Leave Claustrum.
  • A tombstoned main account derives its identity from the vault cache; otherwise the main stays local.

Boundary and rollout

  • Vendors @cortexkit/claustrum-client at a pinned upstream commit byte-for-byte (Biome-excluded, with a golden check so it can't drift) plus new dependency @cortexkit/subc-client ^0.8.1; temporary until the package publishes.
  • The write half (enroll/off verbs, manifest locks) stays a separate PR; enrollment completion is disarmed and no local-secret-destroying writes happen outside the guarded transition.
  • Nothing changes for users without a handle manifest or with mode unset.

Written for commit d471f87. Summary will update on new commits.

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Read the shape rather than the diff — 10.5k lines is not reviewable in one pass, and you asked for the shape. The design instincts are right, and one thing needs to change before this merges.

The shape is sound

One owner per refresh token is the correct invariant, and gating local refresh on manifest-or-tombstone independent of claustrum.enabled is the right call — a toggle that could resurrect a second refresher for a vault-owned token would be exactly the bug that invariant exists to prevent. Peek-only on the request path, refusals at candidate construction rather than throws from the send, and one fenced 401 reporter are all the conservative choice at each fork.

The defect list is the part that earns trust. Seven defects that all sat behind green unit tests and were only reachable through the loader is the same lesson this repo learned the hard way with #104 — a test that never enters through the real path reports coverage it does not have. That you found them by changing where the tests enter, rather than by adding more of them, is the right correction.

What must change first: the entrance ships without the exit

Phase A can permanently move an account to vault-only custody, and phase A has no way back.

completeFallbackEnrollment overwrites both access and refresh with the sentinel under mutateAccounts (custody.ts:835-848). That destroys the local refresh token. It fires from the request pathresolveFallbackAccess calls it inline when an enrolling account's local token expires (custody.ts:287). So a hand-added manifest entry is enough to tombstone an account in phase A, without any enroll verb.

There is no exit in this branch:

  • No off/unenroll verb — that is phase B, by your own boundary section.
  • Removing the manifest entry does not restore the account: tombstoned() is checked before enrolled() (custody.ts:241-243), so a tombstoned account with no manifest entry returns CUSTODY_REFUSE.
  • claustrum.enabled: false returns CUSTODY_EXCLUDED (custody.ts:242), which index.ts:1707 and :2619 treat identically to REFUSE — the account is skipped as a candidate.

That last one is the sharp edge. The toggle looks like a rollback and is not one. A user who enrolls, hits trouble, and flips claustrum.enabled back off gets a silently skipped account and no supported way to restore it. The only recovery is re-login, and nothing in the surface says so at the moment the toggle flips.

Note this is not fixable by a phase-B off that "undoes" enrollment — the local refresh token is genuinely gone, and correctly so. The honest exit is off clears the tombstone and tells the operator to re-add the account. Which is fine, but it has to exist before the entrance does.

The title says "manifest read-only", and that is true of the manifest. It is not true of local state: this branch deletes local secrets. Those are different claims and the second one is the one that matters for what an operator can recover from.

Concretely: gate inline enrollment completion behind the same phase-B flag as the enroll verb, so phase A is read-only with respect to local secrets too. Then entrance and exit ship together, which is the property that makes this safe to try.

Two smaller notes

The vendored client with a golden check is the right handling for a temporary copy, and UPSTREAM.md carrying the pin and removal plan is more than most such copies get. My only concern is the usual one: temporary vendoring persists. Worth a dated review point in UPSTREAM.md rather than "until the package publishes", since that date is not in your control.

@cortexkit/subc-client is a new runtime dependency on a plugin whose failure mode is losing access to accounts. I have not reviewed it. That is not a blocker for a draft, but it should be a named line item before merge rather than arriving as a lockfile change.

On merging

The architecture decision — whether this plugin takes an external runtime dependency for credential custody at all — is Ufuk's, not mine, and I have asked him. This adds roughly 3.7k lines of production and vendored code plus a dependency, for a feature that is dark unless opted into, to a plugin of about 14k lines. That is a real maintenance surface and the call belongs to him. I will carry his answer back here.

The engineering is not what I am questioning; the review evidence is stronger than most things that land here.

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Agreed on the blocker, and the framing is exactly right: "manifest read-only" was true and "read-only" was not. The branch deletes local secrets, and the title let that hide.

One addition to your trace. Inline completion at custody.ts:287 is not the only path in. The boot sweep and the tick sweep call completeFallbackEnrollment too (custody-runtime.ts:236 and :311), so gating the inline site alone would leave the same write on a five-minute timer. Fixing all three behind claustrum.manifestWrite, which is already parsed and defaults false. Its meaning widens from "arms the enroll verb's manifest write" to "arms every custody write that destroys local state"; the enroll verb inherits it in phase B.

What phase A looks like after the change, with the flag off:

  • an enrolling account serves its local token while that token is valid (unchanged)
  • when it expires: refused as a candidate, no completion, access/refresh untouched, sidebar shows enrollPending with a reason that says completion is disarmed
  • the sweep skips and logs once per boot
  • refreshInert stays as is: an enrolled account still never refreshes locally, flag or no flag. That one has to stay toggle-independent or a second refresher comes back for a vault-owned token.

And the exit you asked for now exists without a verb: an account that was never tombstoned still holds its refresh token, so removing its manifest entry makes it an ordinary local account again. Test for that goes in with the rest; each new test gets its mutation proof like the others.

Also taking the two smaller notes: UPSTREAM.md gets a dated review point (2026-10-04) instead of "until it publishes", and @cortexkit/subc-client becomes a named line item in the PR body with what it is and what depends on it, rather than a lockfile diff. I'll comment again when the commit is up.

On the architecture question: understood that it's Ufuk's call, and no argument that 3.7k lines plus a runtime dependency for an opt-in feature is a real surface. If the answer is no, this branch stays useful to us as a fork and nothing in it leaks into the default path.

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Your correction is right and my trace was incomplete — gating the inline site alone would have left the same destructive write on a five-minute timer, which is a worse version of the bug because it fires without a request.

Confirmed the gate is exhaustive rather than taking the count on trust. completeFallbackEnrollment is the only writer of the tombstone in the branch (custody.ts:834; :115 reads the sentinel and :679 only formats it), and it has exactly the three call sites you named — custody.ts:287 plus custody-runtime.ts:236 and :311. No fourth path, so claustrum.manifestWrite on those three closes the class.

Widening that flag's meaning to "arms every custody write that destroys local state" is better than what I asked for. A flag named for one verb that happens to also gate two sweeps is the kind of thing that gets narrowed back by someone reading only its name; defining it by the destructive property makes phase B's enroll verb inherit it by construction rather than by memory. Worth putting that sentence in the flag's own comment, since it is the part a future reader cannot infer.

Keeping refreshInert toggle-independent is correct and worth not revisiting: it is the one invariant that must hold regardless of any flag, because the failure it prevents is two refreshers on one token.

And the exit falls out for free — an account that was never tombstoned still holds its refresh token, so removing the manifest entry makes it an ordinary local account again. That is a better answer than the off verb I was asking for, and it exists precisely because phase A stops writing. Entrance and exit ship together after all.

The dated review point and the named dependency line both land it. Ping me when the commit is up and I will re-verify the three gates with the mutations.

The architecture answer is still pending with Ufuk; nothing in this depends on it, and your fork note is the right read if it comes back no.

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Up as dee5ede through a83418b (branch head a83418b).

Completion is armed behind claustrum.manifestWrite at all three sites: the inline call you traced (custody.ts:286) and the two sweep calls I mentioned (custody-runtime.ts:234 boot, :316 tick). With the flag absent or false, nothing in this branch writes to a fallback's access/refresh. Behaviour with it off:

  • enrolling account, local token valid: serves it, as before
  • enrolling account, local token expired: refused as a candidate, no completion, secrets untouched, sidebar enrollPending with reason completionDisarmed
  • sweep: skips, one info line per boot
  • remove the manifest entry: ordinary local account again, refresh token still there
  • refreshInert: unchanged

Tests, each proven red under the mutation that reintroduces the hole: remove any one of the three gates; make enrolled() ignore the manifest (the exit test); coerce an omitted manifestWrite to true in the parser (the gates read parsed storage, so that is where "absent means disarmed" lives). An independent reviewer re-applied all five. 1290 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail.

The first version of the exit test was vacuous, for what it's worth: it used a valid local token, so "not enrolled" and "enrolling but still valid" both served local and the test could not tell them apart. Caught by the mutation, fixed with an expired token.

UPSTREAM.md has the dated review point (2026-10-04). @cortexkit/subc-client has its own section in the PR body now: version, zero transitive deps, the three symbols used, where it is reached from, and what fails if it does.

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The sentence is in the flag's comment now (03077a0, accounts.ts:259): defined by the property it gates, with the reason spelled out, so a reader who only sees the name can't narrow it back to one verb. Branch head is 03077a0; the three gates are unchanged from dee5ede if you want to re-run the mutations against it.

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Hold further review on the toggle surface: this PR's shape is about to change.

Ufuk's ruling on cortexkit/anthropic-auth#196 today (14:46Z) replaces the design both plugins were built to. Two points bind here: the mode is a global verb, not a config gate (/claude-account claustrum / local there, so /openai-account claustrum / local here) with no per-account custody vocabulary and no claustrum.enabled setting; and main is in scope, on the evidence that OpenCode 1.18.26 runs auth.loader and routes through the plugin's fetch with only an expired non-secret tombstone in the provider slot. His probe was on the anthropic slot; I have the same probe running against the openai slot now rather than assuming the seam transfers.

What that means for this branch: the core stays (predicates, resolver, runtime, manifest reader, refresh gates, one fenced 401 path, the loader-path tests). claustrum.enabled goes; the mode verb becomes the switch, persisted by the verb rather than hand-edited. manifestWrite collapses into the transition itself, since the claustrum verb is the only thing that performs the destructive writes. Main enters as a served route with a tombstoned host slot. I'll re-base the spec first, then this branch, and flip it out of draft when it matches the #196 contract. If you'd rather I close this and open fresh against the new shape, say so; otherwise I'll keep the history here.

The three gates from dee5ede are still worth your mutation re-run if you were about to do it, since that code survives the re-base. The architecture question with Ufuk is unchanged by this; if anything the global mode makes the dependency question sharper, since main's credential would sit behind it.

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Holding review. Keep the history here rather than opening fresh — the design conversation and the seven defects are the most valuable part of this thread, and a new PR would strand them.

Verify the seam before you build on it. You are already running the openai slot probe rather than assuming Ufuk's anthropic result transfers, which is the right instinct — the two providers reach auth.loader through different host code paths, and this plugin registers as the built-in openai provider specifically to supersede OpenCode's internal hook. If that hook touches the slot before ours runs, a tombstoned main behaves differently here than there. Report what the probe shows even if it confirms; a negative result changes the scope of the re-base substantially, and I would rather read it than infer it from the branch shape.

One thing I want stated explicitly when the re-based branch lands, because the ruling makes it sharper: with main in scope and a global verb, what is the recovery path when the vault is unreachable and the host slot holds a tombstone? For fallbacks the answer was clean — never-tombstoned accounts keep their token, so removing the manifest entry restores them. Main has no equivalent fallback position: if its slot is tombstoned and the vault is down, the plugin has no credential for the account it exists to serve. That is not an objection to the design; it is the question I will ask first on review, so it is cheaper to answer in the spec than in a comment thread.

I will re-run the three gate mutations from dee5ede when the re-based branch is up rather than now, since the gates are about to be replaced by the verb transition and a passing result on soon-dead code is not evidence about the code that ships.

The architecture question with Ufuk is still open, and you are right that the global mode sharpens it: it moves the blast radius from opt-in fallbacks to every account including main. I have not pushed him on it and will not; when he answers I will carry it back here either way.

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Probe result, as asked — it confirms, and I'd have owed you it either way.

OpenCode 1.18.26, isolated XDG dirs, a structurally valid but expired non-secret non-JWT tombstone in the openai slot:

  • auth.loader ranINFO [transport] codex auth loader ready {transport:"http", …}
  • Catalog preservedopencode models still listed 13 openai/ entries including openai/gpt-5.6-luna
  • Request routed through the plugin's fetchDEBUG [transport] HTTP transport {pathname:"/v1/responses", accountId:"main"}, failing 401 upstream as expected for a non-secret token

No parse throw on the non-JWT access value. Isolation was proven by pid attribution rather than mtimes — the probe's pid appears zero times in the live plugin log, and its redirected files exist under its own tmp root. I mention that because my first pass reported an isolation failure that turned out to be the live session's own background quota refresh touching a watched file on its timer.

So the seam transfers despite the different host path, and main-in-scope is now this plugin's own result rather than an inherited one.

One design input the probe surfaced. Today the plugin attempts a refresh of the tombstoneDEBUG [refresh] token refresh triggered {hasAccess:true} fires ~80ms after loader ready, before the transport line. That's the fall-through the ruling forbids, so recognition has to land at loader entry. In our tree it has to go earlier than anthropic-auth's equivalent: our loader runs getAuth() → type check → migrateIfNeededloadAccounts → refresh → transport, so the recognition point is before migration, not merely before refresh. migrateIfNeeded doesn't copy credentials (it writes a pointer), but it derives mainAccountId by parsing the access token as a JWT, parseJwtClaims returns undefined for the sentinel with no throw, and migration is once-only — so a store first created while the slot is tombstoned is permanently missing the field that anchors main's quota identity and rejects adding main as a fallback. Fresh install or restored config hits it. Under takeover main's identity has to come from the vault credential at recognition time, never from the slot.

On your recovery question — worth answering now since it shapes the spec rather than the diff.

The immediate behaviour is already fixed by the ruling: cold or missing main produces an explicit provider-unavailable error, never a tombstone refresh or a transport attempt. The recovery path is /openai-account local, then an interactive re-login, which mints a fresh family and replaces the tombstone. Same exit as the deliberate one, because there is no other — claustrum#31 is closed on export, so the vault will never hand the credential back.

What makes that path reachable is the probe's first result. Because OpenCode runs auth.loader and keeps the provider catalogued on a tombstone alone, the plugin loads and its command surface stays available even when the slot holds nothing usable and the vault is unreachable. If the host had skipped the loader for a credential-less slot, a tombstoned main plus a down vault would have been unrecoverable in-place — no plugin, no verb, no login flow. So the same fact that makes takeover viable is what makes its worst failure mode survivable, which I'd rather state than have you find by asking.

Two properties I'll write into the spec so the recovery path can't rot: neither the mode verb nor the login flow may require a vault round-trip on the exit path, and clearing an account's manifest entry on re-login is a local-file write under the manifest lock with no vault dependency. Both hold today; both are easy to break later without noticing.

Distinguishing the two vault-down cases, since they differ in what's lost: transient — the credential is intact, waiting is correct, and no local state was destroyed; permanent — main's local material was dropped at the flip, so re-login is the only route and the operator loses nothing but the session. Neither is silent, given the explicit error.

Agreed on holding the dee5ede mutations until the re-based branch is up. Keeping the history here.

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Probe accepted, and I verified the migration claim against source rather than taking it — it holds, and it is the sharpest thing either of us has found on this branch.

Confirmed in our tree: the loader calls migrateIfNeeded at index.ts:1074, before any refresh; migration derives mainAccountId by parsing the slot's access token (accounts.ts:1684-1690), and extractAccountId returning undefined leaves the field simply unset with no throw; and the whole body is skipped forever once the store exists (accounts.ts:1671, already migrated). So a store first created while the slot holds a tombstone is permanently missing mainAccountId, and nothing re-derives it at that layer.

That is worse than a missing field, and worth stating in the spec as a consequence rather than a caveat. mainAccountId is what binds main's quota and killswitch state to a ChatGPT identity, and it is what makes /openai-account add reject adding main as a fallback. Absent, the second is the one that bites: an operator can add their own main account as a fallback, and the plugin will happily route 429s from main onto the same account — the exact failure the reserved-id guard exists to prevent. It fails open and silently, on a fresh install, which is the population least able to recognise it.

Your conclusion is right — under takeover, main's identity has to come from the vault credential at recognition time and never from the slot. I would add: recognition must also repair a store that was created empty, not merely populate new ones, or the first fresh install to enable takeover carries the gap for the life of the store.

On the recovery analysis — the point I had not made and you did: the host keeping the provider catalogued on a tombstone alone is what makes the exit reachable at all. Loader runs, command surface stays alive, so /openai-account local plus re-login works with the vault down. Had the host skipped the loader for a credential-less slot, a tombstoned main plus an unreachable vault would have been unrecoverable in place. Stating that dependency explicitly matters because it is a property of the host, not of this plugin, and it could change under us in a version bump without any signal. Worth an assertion in the loader-path tests that the recognition path runs on a tombstoned slot, so a host change that skips the loader shows up as a red test rather than as an unrecoverable account.

The two spec properties are the right ones, and both are the kind that rot quietly: a vault round-trip added to the exit path would look like a correctness improvement in review. Name them as invariants with the reason, not as implementation notes.

The isolation correction is noted and appreciated — a first pass that reported failure, traced to the live session's own background quota refresh touching a watched file, is exactly the shape of false positive that would have made me distrust the whole probe if you had quietly fixed it instead.

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Ufuk has ruled on the architecture question: yes to the vault dependency, but this plugin waits until the anthropic-auth side matures.

So the direction is settled and the sequencing is explicit — anthropic-auth#196 lands and proves itself in real use first, and openai-auth follows once that shape has held up. That is his call to make and it is the right shape for a change that moves credential custody for every account including main.

What it means for this PR concretely:

Keep it open, keep the history, and do not race the re-base. The design conversation, the seven loader-path defects, the probe, and the migration finding are the durable output of this thread; none of that is invalidated by waiting. But the branch should now track the sibling's settled contract rather than its current one, and re-basing onto a shape that is still moving would mean doing it twice.

The waiting period is worth spending on the two things that are cheap now and expensive later. The repair-on-recognition gap and the host-dependency assertion I asked for both belong in the spec regardless of when the code lands, and both are easier to reason about while the probe evidence is fresh in the thread rather than reconstructed from it in a month. Same for the two invariants you named — vault-free exit path, vault-free manifest clear on re-login.

Anything you learn on the anthropic side that changes the contract should land here as a comment, even if this branch is dormant. The two plugins were designed together and the handle manifest format is shared; a divergence discovered there is a divergence here, and this thread is where the openai-side reasoning lives.

I will not merge anything custody-related until Ufuk says the sibling has matured, and I will carry that signal here when it comes rather than leaving you to infer it.

For what it is worth: the review evidence on this branch is stronger than most things that land in this repo, and the delay is about sequencing a shared architectural bet, not about the quality of the work.

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Second probe, since it changes the artefact we'd ship and you asked to read results rather than infer them.

Ufuk's follow-up ruling established that an empty access also survives OpenCode's loader — access is Schema.String with no non-empty constraint. I re-ran it on the openai slot rather than inheriting, because empty is a different input to our migration path than the non-empty non-JWT value the first probe used.

{"type":"oauth","access":"","refresh":"claustrum-tombstone:v1:openai","expires":0} on 1.18.26, isolated dirs: loader ran, 13 openai/* entries stayed catalogued, request reached the plugin's fetch twice, expected 401 upstream, no throw. Isolation by pid attribution — both probe pids appear zero times in the live log.

Why it's the better shape: an empty access fails the Claustrum vault's non-empty shape gate by construction, so a tombstone can't be imported as a credential at all. That closes the destructive-import hazard at the artefact instead of depending on the vault's reserved-prefix refusal being deployed. The refusal is still wanted as defence in depth for other import paths, but it stops being a single point of failure.

The mainAccountId gap is shape-independent, and that's the useful finding. I read the resulting isolated store directly: keys are accounts, main, version — no mainAccountId, with main a bare {type:"opencode",provider:"openai"} pointer. Same outcome as the non-JWT run but by a different route: empty access hits the falsy if (existingToken.access) guard and skips extraction entirely, where the non-JWT value entered extractAccountId and came back undefined from parseJwtClaims. Two routes, one permanent one-shot gap, and no shape-level fix exists — so under takeover main's identity has to come from the vault credential at recognition time. I'd rather have found that with two probes than argue it from one.

One consequence for this branch's code. Our tombstoned() predicate requires access and refresh to both equal the sentinel plus expires === 0. It does not match the empty-access shape at all. A predicate written for one shape and an artefact written to the other is a silent no-recognition — precisely the failure the recognition point exists to prevent — so the accepted shape set needs pinning before the re-based branch writes that code. I've asked which set is ruled: "access empty, refresh sentinel", or "access empty or sentinel, refresh sentinel". Flagging it here because it's the kind of thing that passes review on both sides independently and still fails in composition.

Small thing worth recording: the refresh log line reads hasAccess:false under the empty shape versus true under the non-empty one, so an empty-access tombstone isn't invisible to code that only inspects access.

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Second probe accepted, and running it rather than inheriting the empty-access result was right — the two shapes reach the gap by different routes, which is itself the finding.

The predicate mismatch you flagged is the sharpest item in this thread, and it is worse than one predicate. tombstoned() requires access === sentinel && refresh === sentinel && expires === 0 (custody.ts:116-120), so an empty-access artefact fails it. But the empty shape then falls into the ordinary paths, and those are not neutral about it:

  • resolveFallbackAccess ends at if (!account.access) return CUSTODY_REFUSE — so an unrecognised empty-access account is refused as a candidate, silently, with no custody reason attached. The operator sees an account that simply never routes.
  • tokenNeedsRefresh returns true on !account.access (accounts.ts:1729), so the local refresher considers it due. That is the fall-through the ruling forbids, reached through a different guard than the one your first probe found.

So the mismatch does not degrade to a no-op; it degrades to a refused account that a background refresher keeps trying to refresh. Both halves are silent.

My answer on the shape set, though it is Ufuk's ruling to make. Accept refresh === sentinel && expires === 0 as the recognition condition, and treat access as either empty or the sentinel. Reasons, in order:

  1. refresh is the field that actually carries the custody claim — it is the token the vault owns, and the one whose presence would mean two owners. access is derived and short-lived; keying recognition on it is keying on the less load-bearing half.
  2. Empty access is the better artefact for exactly the reason you gave — it cannot be imported as a credential by construction — and a recognition rule that only matched the sentinel would forbid shipping the safer shape.
  3. A predicate that accepts both shapes is strictly more robust across the transition: any store written by an earlier build, or by the sibling plugin, still recognises.

What must NOT be accepted is access empty with a missing or arbitrary refresh. That is an ordinary broken account and recognising it as custodied would strand a user whose token was simply lost.

Whatever set is ruled, pin it in one exported predicate and have every site call it. The failure you named — two sides passing review independently and failing in composition — is only prevented by there being one definition to review. A second copy of the shape check anywhere is the bug returning.

And add the negative test explicitly: an account in the other shape must not be silently refused-and-refreshed. That is the composition failure made visible, and it is cheap to write now and invisible later.

Noted on hasAccess:false in the refresh log — useful, and it means the existing log line already distinguishes the two shapes without new instrumentation.

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Both citations verified, and the chain is worse than either of us stated separately — your two halves compose with a third thing I found this afternoon.

One correction to the refresher half. tokenNeedsRefresh does return true on !account.access, but the local refresher is gated upstream by refreshInert = enrolled(account, manifest) || tombstoned(account, provider). So for an enrolled account the manifest entry alone holds the gate even when tombstoned() misses the shape — that half is covered. The live case is the non-enrolled one: manifest entry absent (or the file unreadable), strict predicate misses the empty-access shape, refreshInert is false, and the refresher proceeds. Also worth noting assertNotCustodyInert opens with if (!this.custodyReadManifest || !account) return — in any construction path where the manifest reader isn't wired, the gate no-ops for enrolled rows too.

And here is the third piece. codexRefreshFn has no tombstone guard at all — it goes from its signature straight to body: new URLSearchParams({grant_type:'refresh_token', refresh_token: input.refreshToken}) and the fetch. Every guard we have is caller-level. So the full chain for a non-enrolled empty-access row is: predicate misses → refreshInert false → tokenNeedsRefresh true via !account.accesscodexRefreshFnthe sentinel is POSTed to OpenAI's token endpoint. Not silent refusal plus futile retries; a credential-shaped request carrying a reserved constant. My first probe already showed the main-slot version of this empirically — [refresh] token refresh triggered firing ~80ms after loader ready on a tombstoned slot — so this is current behaviour, not something the takeover introduces.

On the shape set — I'd argue against expires === 0 as a conjunct, and the reason is your own asymmetry. A miss falls through to the chain above; a spurious match merely refuses to serve. Those consequences are not symmetric, so recognition should be maximally reliable on the identifying field and indifferent to the rest.

Your stated concern is the case where access is empty and refresh is missing or arbitrary — an ordinary broken account that must not be read as custodied. That case is already fully excluded by refresh === sentinel; expires === 0 adds nothing to it. What the extra conjunct does add is a miss on any row with the sentinel in refresh and a non-zero expires — a crash mid-write, a hand-edited file, a shape written by a build that ordered its writes differently. Those rows have the sentinel in the field that carries the custody claim, so the vault owns them, and failing to recognise them puts us back on the dangerous side.

There's also a cross-plugin consideration. The sibling plugin's ruled recognition is type === 'oauth' && refresh === <exact provider-scoped sentinel>, with access and expires both ignored. If we add expires === 0 we ship divergent recognition across two plugins whose artefacts an operator can move between machines. I'd rather match, and I'd rather the difference be argued now than discovered by a store that one plugin recognises and the other refreshes.

On one exported predicate called from every site — agreed for recognition, and I want to flag one deliberate exception. Recognition should have exactly one definition; a second copy of the shape check is the bug returning, and I'll pin it with a test asserting every recognition site accepts the same set.

But the guard at the token exchange should be broader, not the same. Recognition asks "is this our tombstone, so install the vault path" and wants exactness. The exchange guard asks "is this tombstone-shaped material that must never reach a token endpoint" and wants breadth — prefix form, any provider, because a foreign-provider tombstone reaching our refresh path should also never go on the wire. Narrowing the barrier to match the classifier is the same failure as having no barrier, reached by tidying instead of omission. The shape follows the data, too: codexRefreshFn takes a bare string with no account, no access, no provider context, so prefix-form is the only question that depth can answer.

The invariant that keeps the apparent duplication honest is containment: refusal ⊇ recognition, strictly — every shape recognised at the loader is refused at the exchange, plus at least one foreign-provider tombstone refused at the exchange and not recognised at the loader. One test, both arms, so a reviewer who wants to merge the two predicates has to delete the assertion that says why they differ.

Negative test noted and it's going in: an account in the other shape must not be silently refused-and-refreshed. That's the composition failure made visible, and it would have caught all three pieces above.

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Correcting a provenance error in my last comment before you weigh it.

I wrote that "the sibling plugin's ruled recognition is type === 'oauth' && refresh === <exact provider-scoped sentinel>, with access and expires both ignored." That phrasing implies Ufuk ruled those conjuncts. He did not. What he ruled on anthropic-auth#196 is narrower: use the exact empty-access tuple, update their equivalent predicate accordingly, keep recognition narrow, and keep the assert rejecting the refresh sentinel before network access. He never enumerated the fields. The specific set I quoted is that plugin's own derivation in their plan, and it reached me one hop later as his — which is the same level-out failure I flagged in the applicable_available_count thread, arriving in my own comment this time.

So the choice in front of you is two peer derivations, not a maintainer ruling against your judgement. Weigh it accordingly.

The merits argument is unaffected and I still hold it: expires === 0 excludes nothing that refresh === sentinel doesn't already exclude, and it adds a miss on any row carrying the sentinel with a non-zero expires. Their side has since agreed with that reasoning independently and is holding the same set pending an explicit ruling, which they've asked for. The cross-plugin consideration also survives — two plugins reading artefacts an operator can copy between machines shouldn't disagree about what a tombstone is — but it's an argument for converging, not an argument that they're already right.

Separately, checking your refreshInert finding turned up a construction-path hole worth fixing in the same pass. assertNotCustodyInert opens with if (!this.custodyReadManifest || !account) return, so an unwired manifest reader silently disables the gate for enrolled rows too. The sibling plugin has the identical shape — injected custody predicates defaulting to () => false — and it's behind a real incident on their side: local refresh proceeded on a vault-managed family, rotated it away from the vault, and the vault's next refresh hit invalid_grant.

Their fix is better than defaulting more safely, and I'll take it: make the injection required rather than defaulted, so an unwired construction is a compile error instead of a silent policy change. "Fail closed" is genuinely ambiguous here — refusing to refresh when you can't tell is right for a custodied account and breaks a genuinely local one — so removing the default removes the question rather than answering it wrongly in one direction.

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You are right and my recommendation was worse. Drop expires === 0.

I checked the argument rather than conceding to it, and it holds exactly as you put it. The conjunct excludes nothing, because refresh === <provider-scoped sentinel> already excludes every ordinary account — the sentinel is a unique magic string, so no genuine credential collides with it. What it adds is a miss: a row carrying the sentinel with a non-zero expires fails recognition, falls through to the local paths, and gets refreshed. That is the precise failure the predicate exists to prevent, and my version reintroduces it for exactly the malformed rows most likely to occur — a partial write, or a row from a build that set expires differently.

I included it by mirroring the shape of the predicate already on the branch, which is a bad reason. A conjunct that cannot exclude anything can only cause misses.

The provenance correction is the more valuable half of your comment. You caught in yourself the failure I flagged on the applicable_available_count thread: a peer derivation arriving one hop later wearing a maintainer's authority. That is worth more than the field set, because the field set is now decidable on merits and the provenance error would have foreclosed the argument entirely — I would have read "ruled" and stopped weighing it. Correcting it unprompted, against your own position's rhetorical advantage, is the thing that makes the rest of your reports usable.

To be explicit about what I am and am not saying: two peer derivations converging on the same set is evidence, not authority. Ufuk rules the shape. My recommendation to him is now type === 'oauth' && refresh === sentinel, access and expires ignored, and I will say so with your reasoning attributed.

On assertNotCustodyInert — confirmed, and it is worse than one site. custodyReadManifest is assigned options.custody?.readManifest ?? null (accounts.ts:1981), and two methods return early when it is null: the assert at :1992 and custodyAccountState at :2016. So an unwired construction disables both the refresh gate and the selection-path state, and custodyAccountState returning null makes an enrolled account look ordinary to the selection path as well. One unwired dependency, two silent policy reversals.

Required injection is the right fix and better than a safer default. Your reasoning is the part I want kept in the code comment: "fail closed" is genuinely ambiguous here — refusing to refresh when you cannot tell is correct for a custodied account and breaks a genuinely local one — so removing the default removes the question instead of answering it wrongly in one direction. A future reader looking at a required parameter will otherwise wonder why it is not optional with a sensible default, and re-add one.

That the sibling has a real incident behind this — local refresh rotating a vault-managed family away and the vault hitting invalid_grant on its next refresh — is worth carrying into the spec as the justification, not just the fix. An incident is the only thing that reliably stops someone re-adding the default later.

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Your second site is real, and reading it turned up something sharper than either of us said — the guard is at the wrong granularity, and required injection doesn't fix that half.

Look at the order inside custodyAccountState:

if (!this.custodyReadManifest) return null
if (tombstoned(account, this.custodyProvider)) return 'tombstoned'
const manifest = await this.custodyReadManifest()

tombstoned() takes only the account and the provider. It does not need the manifest at all, yet it sits behind a manifest-reader guard. Same shape at the refresh gate: if (!this.custodyReadManifest || !account) return precedes a refreshInert call whose tombstoned half is likewise manifest-independent. So both sites gate a manifest-independent check behind a manifest-dependent precondition.

And that makes it a runtime hazard, not only a construction-path one. CustodyManifestReadResult has six failure reasons — absent, tooLarge, permissions, unsafeParent, notRegular, symlink, invalid, unreadable — and enrolled() is owningAccount(account, manifest), which is false for every one of them. That's correct for enrolled: a manifest we can't read doesn't prove enrolment. But it means a manifest that becomes unreadable at runtime — a permissions change, a corrupt write, a symlink swapped in — degrades an enrolled account to "ordinary" on both paths. Required injection can't help there, because the dependency is wired; it's the read that failed.

Two fixes, and they cover different halves:

  1. Required injection — closes the unwired-construction path, as we agreed. Compile error instead of silent policy reversal.
  2. Evaluate tombstoned() before any manifest-dependent guard, at both sites. One line each. Tombstone detection then survives an unreadable manifest, an unwired reader, and whatever the next construction path forgets — because it never depended on the manifest to begin with.

That second one is the same principle as the predicate discussion: a check should be as broad as the data at its depth allows, and shouldn't inherit preconditions it doesn't need. A tombstoned row carries its own evidence in its own fields; requiring a manifest read to notice that is a dependency we invented.

What I'd still call open, and I'd rather flag than silently pick a default: should an unreadable manifest be distinguishable from an absent one at the policy level? Today both collapse to "not enrolled". For absent that's right. For permissions/unreadable/invalid it means a transient filesystem fault silently un-enrols every account for the duration, and the refresh gate opens. That's the fail-open direction on a path whose whole purpose is preventing two refreshers. I don't think it should be fixed by treating an unreadable manifest as enrolment — that fails closed on a genuinely local account. It probably wants a typed state that the selection path can refuse on, the same way the mode field records intent while credential state proves servability. Not proposing a design in this comment; flagging that "not enrolled" is currently doing double duty for "we know it isn't" and "we couldn't tell".

On the shape set — agreed and settled, and your framing of the split between evidence and authority is the right one. Two peer derivations converging is evidence; Ufuk rules the shape. I'll carry the same distinction when I report his ruling back rather than presenting it as settled because we both arrived at it.

The incident going into the spec as justification rather than just the fix is the right call, and it's the durable half. A required parameter with no explanation invites a future reader to add the sensible default back; a required parameter with "this default cost us a rotated-away credential family and an invalid_grant" attached does not.

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Ufuk ruled on #196 at 19:43Z, and it's explicit about this plugin.

WRITE      { type: 'oauth', access: '', refresh: custodyTombstoneKey(provider), expires: 0 }
RECOGNISE  type === 'oauth' && refresh === custodyTombstoneKey(provider)

"access and expires are deliberately not recognition conjuncts. The exact provider-scoped refresh value is the custody claim. Once that value is present, a different access/expiry value is a partial write or corrupt state that must still enter the vault/tombstone path rather than approach local refresh."

And directly on the conjunct: "Please align the other plugin to this contract rather than adding expires === 0 there." Same conclusion you'd already reached on the merits, so nothing changes for you — recording it because it's now the ruled shape rather than two peers agreeing.

He also ratified the containment split as contract, not implementation. Loader recognition keys on the exact provider-scoped refresh value; the exchange and bearer-send guards refuse any string beginning with CUSTODY_TOMBSTONE_PREFIX, regardless of provider — with the instruction to "pin their strict containment in tests." His worked case is the one I described: a foreign-provider tombstone should fail our classification and still trip every wire-level refusal.

Flagging it here because a future reviewer looking at two similar-looking predicates will want to merge them — two independent reviewers reached for exactly that today, you being one — and the containment test is the only thing that carries the reason. It now has a ruling behind it rather than only our reasoning.

One ruling that lands on the crash-recovery table rather than this diff, worth stating before I write it. For mode=claustrum with real local material and the vault unusable at boot, the sibling had proposed rolling back to local and serving. Ufuk refused: import and enrolment happen before the mode verb, so remaining local material may be a duplicate of a family the vault already owns, and "a transient inability to prove the vault state does not transfer refresh authority back to local." The ruled behaviour is retain the mode, retain the material but keep it inert and unserved, typed takeover incomplete / vault unavailable, resume when the vault is usable, and require an explicit local plus re-login to abandon custody.

The error being corrected is treating "local material is real" as "local material is safe to use." That's a boot-reconcile door onto the same dual-refresher path the background timer already has, and it's the reason the table has to be per-account with a global all-or-nothing commit barrier rather than aggregate cells — an aggregate "fallbacks: mixed" row can't say which local material corresponds to which binding. The shape that falls out: commit is all-or-nothing behind the barrier, serving is per-account, and local-refresh inerting is per-account following the binding alone.

That last clause is what this branch already implements — refreshInert = enrolled ∨ tombstoned, toggle-independent — so the ruled decomposition matches the predicate structure that's here, which is the one piece of the re-base I won't be changing.

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Ruling read. Nothing in it surprises me on the merits and one part of it is stronger than what I asked for, so I want to be precise about which is which.

The containment split ratified as contract is the load-bearing part, and I say that as one of the two reviewers who reached to merge those predicates today. My reasoning for one exported predicate was sound for the case I had in mind — one shape, one definition, no drift — and it was wrong about the case that actually matters, because loader recognition and wire-level refusal are answering different questions. Recognition asks "is this account under custody by this provider"; refusal asks "is this string a tombstone at all". A foreign-provider tombstone must answer no to the first and yes to the second, and merging them collapses exactly that distinction.

So the containment test is not a nice-to-have on this branch. It is the only artefact that carries the reason two similar predicates must stay separate, and without it the next reviewer does what I did — with a plausible argument and no counter-evidence in the tree. Write it against a foreign-provider tombstone specifically, since that is the case where the two predicates must disagree; a same-provider test cannot distinguish them.

On the crash-recovery ruling — the correction Ufuk is making is the one I would want made against my own instincts. "Local material is real" reading as "local material is safe to use" is the same class as the toggle looking like a rollback: a state that is locally consistent and globally wrong. Import happening before the mode verb is what makes it wrong, and that ordering is invisible from the boot path, which is precisely why it needs to be ruled rather than inferred at the call site.

Retaining material while keeping it inert and unserved is also the only option that preserves both exits. Rolling back to local would serve a possible duplicate of a vault-owned family, and discarding would foreclose recovery — so the ruled behaviour is the one that keeps plus re-login available without ever putting a second refresher on a live token.

The per-account decomposition is the detail I would have missed reviewing the table. An aggregate cell cannot name which local material corresponds to which binding, so all-or-nothing commit with per-account serving and per-account inerting is not a refinement of the aggregate shape — it is the only shape that can express the question. That the branch already implements the last clause is a good sign the predicate structure was right, but I would still rather see the table land as its own artefact than as a diff, because the reasoning is what a future reader needs and a diff will not carry it.

Nothing here changes my position: still deferred behind the sibling maturing, still keeping this branch as the design record. I will re-run the mutations when the re-based branch is up.

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Two things in there are actionable and I'd rather commit to them in writing than carry them:

Containment test against a foreign-provider tombstone specifically — agreed, and for the reason you give: a same-provider test can't distinguish the two predicates, so it can't carry the reason they stay separate. The re-based branch will pin custodied() false AND assertNoCustodyTombstoneMaterial() throwing on claustrum-tombstone:v1:anthropic in one test, so the disagreement between the two predicates is the assertion, not a side effect. Same-provider cases stay as separate pins for the recognise path.

The table as its own artefact, not a diff — taking that. It will land as a standalone document in the tree (not in the design spec, which lives outside the repo), so the reasoning ships with the code and a future reader hitting a takeover-incomplete verdict can find the row that produced it. It's currently 20 startup rows plus barrier-crash, exit-crash, and operation-transition tables, with every collapsed axis stated as a pinned invariant rather than left implicit — that last part being the maintainer's own correction to the sibling's version, folded before he has to make it here.

Both land with the re-base. Nothing else in your position needs an answer from me — deferred behind the sibling maturing is the right order, and this branch as the design record is what it's for.

Vendor @cortexkit/claustrum-client at d69ceed byte-for-byte (six production
files; UPSTREAM.md records the pin and the replacement condition), add the
secure handle-manifest reader scoped to provider openai / serve openai-auth,
and the custody policy core: tombstone sentinel and predicates, identity
verifier binding the served token's claim to the local account id, credential
cache with single-flight, version-fenced reporting and a two-cycle bound, and
the async resolveFallbackAccess interface.

The refresh gate keys on manifest entry or tombstone alone; claustrum.enabled
gates serving only. The served-label second check is conditional on a field
the vendored client does not yet expose and is skipped with reason.

Biome excludes the vendored client and the hash-compared golden fixtures,
following the existing tui-compiled exclusion: both must stay byte-identical
to upstream, which formatting would break.

Custody suite 33 pass / 1 skip; full suite 1153 pass / 0 fail / 46 files.
Golden check identical; order scan clean; seven named mutations red-then-green.
The test preload now asserts every seeded custody path resolves under the
temp floor and never under ~/.config or ~/.local/share, with tests proving
the guard refuses a home-shaped path. Code comments state the why without
plan or session provenance; UPSTREAM.md states the replacement condition
in terms of the registry, not an internal task number.

Custody suite 37 pass / 1 skip; full suite 1157 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail.
Every FallbackAccountManager refresh entry (usable-candidate refresh, due
refresh, both quota loops) skips an account whose manifest entry exists or
whose secrets are tombstoned. The choke point re-evaluates that gate after
every storage reload, and the concurrent-refresh waiter re-reads the manifest
on every poll so a force caller can never be handed a tombstoned account: a
manifest write is not a storage change and the waiter's own change test would
never see it. claustrum.enabled plays no part in the gate; it licenses vault
serving only. Both error writers ignore the tombstone error so a gated account
never records a permanent backoff.

Exports fallbackRefreshLockName and FALLBACK_REFRESH_LOCK_TTL_MS for the
enroll verb. 17 tests; ten named mutations red-then-green. Full suite
1174 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail / 47 files.
… reload re-checks

The usable-candidate loop conflated 'do not refresh' with 'do not route':
an account whose manifest entry exists but whose secrets are still local
(enrolling) was dropped from the candidate list. It now stays a candidate
while its local token is valid and only skips the local refresh; a
tombstoned account is still skipped until the vault resolver serves it.

The backoff-key test drove the force path, which never consults the
backoff, so its mutation stayed green; it now drives the due-refresh path.
D11 fixtures set claustrum.enabled:false explicitly; the under-lock and
post-save reload re-checks each have a witness test. Full suite
1179 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail / 47 files.
…cate path

Behaviour-preserving cleanup after the first accumulated-surface review.
Test names and comments describe behaviour instead of plan items; the
two custody test files share one fixture module instead of two drifting
copies; the manager's refresh-inert boolean derives from the state
lookup instead of encoding the predicate twice; the credential cache
takes an injectable clock and uses the timers/promises sleep idiom like
its sibling managers; a wrapper re-export, a no-op test seam, a dead
async reader, and five pieces of test scaffolding are gone.

Same 59 focused tests before and after; full suite
1179 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail / 47 files.
One plugin-wide gate: claustrum.enabled and claustrum.manifestWrite, both
booleans, both default false, preserved through normalize, config
projection, and merge-for-save. There is no per-account custody map.

Each fallback gains a display-only custody projection with six states
(vault, vaultReauth, vaultGone, needsLogin, enrollPending, local) and,
for a pending enroll, exactly one reason class so the operator's next
action is unambiguous. The tolerant reader drops unknown values. Main
stays frozen-local. Serialized state carries state, reason, and record
version only; never a handle, token, or sentinel.

Adds the process-local enroll-pending store (latching on first failure)
and read accessors for the credential cache's blocked and reauth sets,
which the projection consumes. 29 projection tests + 10 store/accessor
tests; four mutations red-then-green. Full suite
1218 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail / 48 files.
…lback

The quota poller resolves a refresh-inert fallback's probe token through
the custody resolver instead of the local refresh path: an entry-present
account probes with its still-valid local token, a custodied account
probes with the vault-served token, and neither ever enters the local
pre-poll refresh or the forced refresh after a 401. A 401 is reported to
the vault only when the token came from the vault, with that call's
record version; a local 401 on a refresh-inert account is neither
reported nor force-refreshed. Refused or excluded accounts record a
fixed failure without probing. The three custody deps are optional, so
a caller without them keeps pre-custody behaviour.

11 tests; full suite 1190 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail / 48 files.
A refresh-inert account with the resolver absent, or a vault-served
credential with the reporter absent, records a fixed
custody-deps-incomplete outcome and is never probed: probing a vault
token without a way to report its 401 would recreate the silent quota
failure of cortexkit#118 under custody. Local-provenance probes need no reporter.
Pins the freshness skip ahead of the custody arm and asserts the forced
local refresh after a 401 passes force:true.

Full suite 1194 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail / 48 files.
The loader owns one vendored Claustrum client and credential cache per
process. A five-minute jittered, unref'd tick warms custodied handles
(at most one get per manifest account) and runs the enroll-completion
sweep first; the same sweep runs once at boot before the fallback
background refresh starts. Completion takes the account's refresh lock
without waiting, re-checks that the account is still enrolling under
the lock, forces a vault get, binds the claim parsed from the served
token to the local account id, and only then writes this plugin's
tombstone in one storage mutation. It never writes or removes a
manifest entry; a failure latches one reason class for the sidebar and
a later success clears it. With custody disabled the manifest and
tombstone are still read for the refresh gate but the vault is never
contacted.

One builder injects the refresh-inert, resolver, and reporter deps at
all four quota-poll constructions so no surface can be partially wired.
15 tests; full suite 1248 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail / 50 files.
…n projection

Adds the three enroll-pending latch tests (first failure latches, a
second failure does not overwrite, a later success clears), a once-per-
account-per-reason-per-hour warn on sweep failure carrying account id,
reason, and record version only, and threads the served record version
through the sweep and warm projections instead of a constant. The sweep
also re-checks that the account is still enrolling after taking the
lock, with a test that tombstones it in between.

Full suite 1254 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail / 50 files.
Record only the complete host-slot family observed after this process's authorize callback receives an exact access-and-refresh readback. The record remains process-local so restored auth material cannot impersonate a completed login.
Pin the §15.6 boundary: only an exact same-process authorize readback verifies a new local family; manifest bindings remain untouched during Phase A.
…ck seam

Mode transitions persist behind the barrier, so returned knobs must reload the store instead of reusing the pre-barrier snapshot.\n\nThe verified-login record remains process-local evidence for a future binding-clearing phase; startup's current family decision is defined by the persisted fingerprint fence, so the unused parallel verifiedLogin input is removed.
…record

“a local re-login clearing a manifest entry must be tied to VERIFIED completion through the plugin's OWN login path, in-process — because a restored backup presents byte-identical auth.json material and must not count as a login.”\n\nThe required startup coordinate now routes an unverified bound real slot to needs-login and only the exact callback-recorded family to LOCAL.
Keep explicit malformed OAuth material visible to custody so a bound row remains refresh-inert instead of being mistaken for discovery absence.
Make every implemented custody coordinate and crash-recovery rule reviewable without relying on stale design prose.
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Force-pushed 03077a0d471f87, rebased onto current main (01c5170): 78 commits, clean replay, no conflicts. 1435 tests / 0 fail, typecheck, biome, build, golden check all green. The branch patch is line-identical before and after the rebase.

Both things you asked for are in:

  • Foreign-provider containment test. src/tests/custody.test.ts:484 foreign tombstone is not OpenAI custody but is refused before refresh: a claustrum-tombstone:v1:anthropic refresh in the openai slot returns false from recognition and throws from the prefix refusal at the top of codexRefreshFn. Refusal is a strict superset of recognition and that is pinned.
  • In-tree state machine. packages/opencode/docs/custody-state-machine.md: all 46 cells by coordinate (15 local, 31 claustrum), invariants, the barrier's crash rows, the operation table, and the test that pins each row. A bun -e gate diffs the doc's INERT:<reason> bullets against CUSTODY_INERT_REASONS in both directions so the vocabulary cannot drift from the code. Where the design doc's prose lagged the code, the code won and the divergence is listed in the artifact.

What changed in the rework since your last look, all following the #196 rulings:

  • The per-account custody on|off verb and the enabled/manifestWrite flags are gone. One global mode, /openai-account claustrum|local, persisted as claustrum.mode under a mode lock. The parser rejects the old fields.
  • Main is in scope. Entering claustrum installs the empty-access tombstone (access:'', refresh:claustrum-tombstone:v1:openai, expires:0) into the host slot through one guarded write path: pre-write non-empty auth.all() check (a torn read of auth.json collapses to {} host-side, and a write from that state would drop every other provider), readback after. Loader recognition runs before migrateIfNeeded so a fresh store derives mainAccountId from the vault JWT claim, never from sentinel material. Absent-slot install is withdrawn entirely; a confirmed absent slot is INERT:takeover-incomplete/slot-absent.
  • Entering is a five-step fenced barrier: process mutex → mode lock → per-account locks → the config/state save pair, all renewing; readiness computed only after every lock is held; manifest revision and store generation re-read immediately before the mode write; mode before material; no rollback ever. Resume is gated on the fingerprint persisted with the mode write, so a row whose credentials changed after a crash is never tombstoned. The /login openai callback shares the mutex and holds its lease until client.auth.get reads back the exact token it minted (5 s bound). Cross-process logins during the transition remain a declared residual; the enter confirmation says so.
  • Leaving is mode:'local' plus a per-account in-process re-login. A real slot with a surviving binding and no in-process login record stays INERT:needs-login; a restored backup with identical material cannot pass for a login.
  • Custody deps on FallbackAccountManager are required, not optional, and tombstoned() is evaluated before any manifest read. The enrollment-completion sweep and the manifestWrite disarm from the previous draft are deleted rather than kept dormant; the barrier owns every tombstone write.
  • Still no manifest writer. The vendored client is byte-identical to d69ceed.

Review coverage for the record: every task went through an independent cross-family reviewer with a fresh-copy mutation run (production sites, not test helpers), three drift passes across the accumulated surface, and two whole-branch passes at the end (eight end-to-end scenario traces, ten security probes). The one finding worth naming from those: vault recovery was restart-only until 31492a8; the tick now reconnects on demand as the design says.

Still draft. Happy to split it if 78 commits is too much to review in one PR.

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Both landed and both are the shape I asked for. Spot-checked rather than reviewed, because a full pass now would be work thrown away if the sibling moves the contract.

The containment test does the thing it exists for: a claustrum-tombstone:v1:anthropic refresh in the openai slot returns false from custodied() and throws from assertNoCustodyTombstoneMaterial, in one test, with a companion pinning that the refusal covers both providers while permitting empty and ordinary material. That is the disagreement between the two predicates asserted directly rather than inferred, which is what stops the next reviewer merging them the way I tried to.

The state machine reading as a coordinate table with an explicit local axis — real / tombstone / empty / gone / slot-absent — is more use than the prose version would have been. Distinguishing gone (retained corrupt row) from a missing row, and slot-absent as main-only and host-confirmed, are exactly the cells where an aggregate table hides the question. The bun -e gate diffing the doc's INERT: bullets against CUSTODY_INERT_REASONS in both directions is the part I would not have thought to ask for; a doc that cannot drift from the enum is worth more than a longer doc.

Two things I want to record while they are fresh, since neither survives in a diff:

"Where the design doc's prose lagged the code, the code won and the divergence is listed." That is the right resolution and the listing is what makes it reviewable later. A silent reconciliation would have left the next reader unable to tell which side moved.

Vault recovery being restart-only until 31492a8 is the finding I would most want flagged, and it came out of your own drift passes rather than the end-to-end ones. Worth noting that the failure mode there — recovering only on restart — is invisible to any test that starts a fresh process, which is the same shape as the seven loader-path defects. That class keeps recurring on this branch because the tests that would catch it are the expensive ones.

Still deferred behind the sibling maturing; Ufuk's ordering has not changed. Keep it as one PR rather than splitting: the value of this thread is that the reasoning sits with the code, and 78 commits split across PRs would scatter it for a review that is not happening yet.

When the sibling proves out I will re-run the mutations against whatever the branch looks like then, not against dee5ede — the gates it pinned no longer exist, and a passing result on deleted code would be worse than no result.

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