feat: give display devices their own paired identity
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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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There are no signed **write** URLs: uploads go through a module route, where the module can validate
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## Display device pairing and management
Host-owned, and reachable by no module
([ADR 0036](../architecture/decisions/0036-managed-device-identity-and-pairing.md)). Two sibling
prefixes: `/api/v1/device-pairing` and `/api/v1/devices`.
**The screen's side** (no identity required; authority is the HttpOnly claim cookie the first call
sets, never the code):
| route | purpose |
| --- | --- |
| `POST /api/v1/device-pairing/requests` | Body `{moduleId}`. Returns `{code, expiresAt, pollIntervalMs}` and sets `ekklesia_device_pairing`. The permission is read from that module's validated display declaration — a request cannot name one. |
| `POST /api/v1/device-pairing/claims` | Polls. Returns `{status}`; on `paired` it sets `ekklesia_device_session` and clears the pairing cookie. |
**The administrator's side** (requires the restricted `core.devices.manage` and an exact trusted
`Origin`):
| route | purpose |
| --- | --- |
| `POST /api/v1/device-pairing/lookups` | Body `{code}`. Shows the module and permission a screen is asking for, before approving. |
| `POST /api/v1/device-pairing/approvals` | Body `{code, deviceName}`. The administrator names the screen; the screen never names itself. |
| `GET /api/v1/devices` | Paired devices: name, permissions, created, last seen, revoked. Never a credential. |
| `POST /api/v1/devices/:deviceId/revoke` | `204`. Server-side revocation, checked on every principal resolution. |
The pairing code travels in request **bodies**, never a path or query, so it does not land in access
logs, browser history, or a `Referer`. Expired, consumed, mistyped, and never-existed codes all
answer the same way.
`/api/v1/principal` deliberately reports a device as `anonymous`: it answers a question about
*people*, and the Dashboard depends on that. A display reads its viewer from the display descriptor
instead, which now carries `viewer: {kind: "authenticated", userId} | {kind: "device", deviceId}`.
**Cookies.** `ekklesia_device_session` is `HttpOnly`, `SameSite=Strict`, host-only, `Path=/`, and
`Secure` when the identity base URL is https. Deployment note: because it is host-only and
`SameSite=Strict`, a display must be served from the same origin as the API — which the platform's
own `/display/<module-id>` route is.
## Module HTTP routes
An installed module's routes (declared via `http.route(...)` in its `register` hook — see