feat: give display devices their own paired identity
ADR 0033 gave Ekklesia a display host and ADR 0034 gave it a login page. Together, the only way to light a television in a foyer was to sign a human being into it and leave that session running on a screen anyone can walk up to: a person's credentials on a wall, a person's session as the thing signage depends on, and the display going dark when they are revoked or their session simply expires. A screen is not a person. Ekklesia now recognizes three principal classes — anonymous, authenticated human, and managed device — and a device is a first-class principal with its own credential and its own explicit permissions. It has no email, no password, and no row in the identity tables, and it satisfies the `authenticated` baseline never, so every route that settles for "somebody is signed in" stays closed to it. Device permissions live in their own table because ekklesia_core_grant.user_id is a non-null foreign key into the user table and making it polymorphic would rewrite the platform's central authorization record to serve one narrow case. That is a schema decision, not a second decision point: the evaluator gained one branch, so a device is allowed or denied by the same function, with the same deny-by-default, as anyone else — with no owner path it could reach and no baseline that stands in for a grant. The six-digit code is not the credential. It is printed across a screen in a public hallway, so it is treated as public: it identifies a request to an administrator and is worth nothing alone. Collecting the credential also requires a 256-bit claim secret held only in the requesting browser's HttpOnly cookie, and approving requires the restricted core.devices.manage permission. Without that split, reading a code off a wall would hand over the screen's identity. The permission a pairing asks for is read from the module's validated display declaration, never from the request, so a browser cannot ask to be granted core.devices.manage or another module's permission. Approval grants exactly that one permission. Credentials are stored only as SHA-256; the raw value exists in the Set-Cookie that issues it and the device's own cookie jar, and is never logged, returned in JSON, or placed in a URL. The cookie is HttpOnly, so the module display code running in that same page cannot read it. Revocation is a server-side column checked on every principal resolution, and re-pairing mints a new identity so an old credential can never come back. State transitions are conditional updates, so one code cannot be approved twice or claimed into two credentials under a race. /api/v1/principal still reports a device as anonymous: it is what the Dashboard uses to decide whether a person is signed in. Displays read their viewer from the descriptor instead, which already performed the authorization — so displays are descriptor-first while the Dashboard stays principal-first, and neither infers an identity by elimination. Proven end to end against real PostgreSQL and real HTTP: an unpaired screen shows a code, an owner approves it, the device opens the display descriptor and a realtime stream, and revocation closes both while the device still holds its cookie. An already-open SSE stream is bounded by realtime's existing five-minute reconnect rather than closed instantly, and that bound is documented rather than called immediate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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@@ -651,13 +651,46 @@ adds an optional, independently declared display role:
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The permission must be declared by that module and have an `authenticated` or `restricted` baseline;
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public/device identity remains deferred. Primary UI and display UI are independently optional, must
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The permission must be declared by that module and have an `authenticated` or `restricted` baseline. Primary UI and display UI are independently optional, must
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use paths distinct from every other entrypoint, and use the same
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`defineModuleUi({ id, version, mount })` ABI and five-member `ModuleUiHostContext` with **no mode
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flag**. The canonical builder reads fixed sources (`src/ui/index.tsx` and
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`src/display/index.tsx`) and atomically emits every declared role.
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Phase 7B pass 2 gives those screens an identity of their own
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([ADR 0036](docs/architecture/decisions/0036-managed-device-identity-and-pairing.md)), so a
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television no longer needs a person signed into it. Ekklesia now recognizes **three** principal
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classes — anonymous, authenticated human, and managed device:
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```text
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screen opens /display/announcements → no identity → shows a 6-digit code
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administrator types the code in the Dashboard, names the screen, approves
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screen collects an HttpOnly credential → display and realtime work
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administrator revokes → the screen loses access and shows a code again
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```
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**A device is not a user.** It has no email, no password, and no row in the identity tables, and it
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satisfies the `authenticated` baseline *never* — so every route that settles for "somebody is signed
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in" stays closed to a screen on a wall. Device authority runs through the same authorization
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evaluator as everyone else's, and approval grants exactly the one display permission the host derived
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from the module's own declaration. `/api/v1/principal` reports a device as anonymous on purpose: a
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device cookie cannot open the Dashboard.
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**The code is not the credential.** Six digits are printed across a television in a public hallway,
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so they are treated as public: they identify a request to an administrator and yield nothing on their
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own. Collecting the credential also requires an HttpOnly claim cookie only the requesting browser
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holds, and approving requires the restricted `core.devices.manage` permission. The credential itself
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is stored only as a SHA-256 digest, never logged, never in a URL, and never readable by the module
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display code running in that same page.
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Revocation is a server-side fact checked on every request, not a plea that a remote browser forget
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something; re-pairing creates a **new** identity so an old credential can never come back. A revoked
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screen fails its next request immediately, though an already-open realtime stream is bounded by the
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existing five-minute forced reconnect rather than closed instantly. **QR scanning, per-device content
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targeting, device groups, and mobile dashboards are deliberately deferred** — a future QR simply
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encodes the same short code, and the pairing API is not desktop-specific. Ekklesia Lite has no device
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identity at all.
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Ekklesia publishes the display bundle at
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`GET /api/v1/module-ui/<module-id>/<version>/display`, serves a stable permission-gated page at
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`/display/<module-id>`, and exposes that page's permission-gated descriptor at
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