core/tests/identity-verification-boundaries.test.ts

@@ -169,13 +169,41 @@ describe("the browser shell reaches none of it", () => {
   });
 
   it("never puts a reset token in browser storage", async () => {
-    for (const file of await readTypeScriptFiles(path.join("surfaces", "shell", "src"))) {
-      const code = withoutComments(file.text);
     // A reset token is a bearer credential for one account; the shell holds it in React state for
-      // the life of one form and nowhere else.
+    // the life of one form and nowhere else. The shell's one use of browser storage is the desktop
-      expect(code, file.path).not.toContain("localStorage");
+    // sidebar's expanded/collapsed mode (ADR 0058), so that use is pinned exactly: `localStorage` is
+    // named only by the entry point, and only to hand it to the sidebar preference, whose one write
+    // is its own fixed key and a validated mode.
+    const files = await readTypeScriptFiles(path.join("surfaces", "shell", "src"));
+    const writes: string[] = [];
+    for (const file of files) {
+      const code = withoutComments(file.text);
       expect(code, file.path).not.toContain("sessionStorage");
       expect(code, file.path).not.toContain("document.cookie");
+      writes.push(
+        ...[...code.matchAll(/\.setItem\(([^)]*)\)/gu)].map(
+          (match) => `${path.relative(repositoryRoot, file.path)}: ${match[1]}`,
+        ),
+      );
+      if (file.path.endsWith(path.join("browser", "main.tsx"))) {
+        expect(code.match(/localStorage/gu), file.path).toHaveLength(1);
+        expect(code).toMatch(
+          /createLocalSidebarPreference\(\s*\(\(\) => \{\s*try \{\s*return window\.localStorage;/u,
+        );
+      } else {
+        expect(code, file.path).not.toContain("localStorage");
+      }
+    }
+    expect(writes).toEqual([
+      `${path.join("surfaces", "shell", "src", "browser", "sidebar-preference.ts")}: SIDEBAR_PREFERENCE_KEY, mode`,
+    ]);
+    // The files that ever hold the token touch no storage API at all.
+    for (const file of files.filter((candidate) =>
+      ["auth-protocol.ts", "ResetPasswordForm.tsx", "HostApp.tsx"].some((name) =>
+        candidate.path.endsWith(name),
+      ),
+    )) {
+      expect(withoutComments(file.text), file.path).not.toMatch(/\b(?:setItem|getItem|Storage)\b/u);
     }
   });
 });

docs/development/testing.md

@@ -403,7 +403,10 @@ parser is exercised as the pure function it is, including that it names no desti
 no runtime assertion can make: that the identity feature names no SMTP detail, that no Ekklesia
 schema gained a token column and no identity code hashes or compares a token, that nothing
 interpolates a token, link, address, or body into a log line, that a device has no email, password,
-or verification concept, and that no browser source imports Better Auth or Core's mail.
+or verification concept, that no browser source imports Better Auth or Core's mail, and that the
+shell's only use of browser storage is the sidebar's expanded/collapsed mode — `localStorage` named
+only by the entry point, one write of one fixed key, and no storage API in any file that holds the
+reset token ([ADR 0058](../architecture/decisions/0058-dashboard-shell-navigation-and-lucide-icons.md)).
 
 Unit suites (`core/tests/module-storage.test.ts`, `core/tests/module-storage-lifecycle.test.ts`) use an
 injected in-memory provider and never touch the network. They prove the parts the protocol cannot:

surfaces/shell/tests/auth-recovery.test.tsx

@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 import { consumeAuthLanding, type HostAuthLanding, readAuthLanding } from "../src/auth-protocol.js";
 import { HostApp } from "../src/browser/HostApp.js";
 import { createMemoryHostHistory } from "../src/browser/host-history.js";
+import {
+  createLocalSidebarPreference,
+  SIDEBAR_PREFERENCE_KEY,
+} from "../src/browser/sidebar-preference.js";
 import type { EkklesiaHostConfig } from "../src/host-protocol.js";
 
 /**
@@ -99,6 +103,9 @@ async function render(config: EkklesiaHostConfig, authLanding?: HostAuthLanding)
       <HostApp
         config={config}
         history={createMemoryHostHistory("/")}
+        // The production store over this browser's real storage, so the assertions below cover
+        // the shell's one use of it (ADR 0058) as well.
+        sidebarPreference={createLocalSidebarPreference(window.localStorage)}
         {...(authLanding ? { authLanding } : {})}
       />,
     );
@@ -463,7 +470,11 @@ describe("reset password", () => {
 
     // A reset token is a bearer credential for one account. It lives in React state for the life of
     // the form and nowhere else.
-    expect(localStorage.length).toBe(0);
+    // The only thing this browser's storage may ever hold is the sidebar's mode (ADR 0058).
+    for (let index = 0; index < localStorage.length; index += 1) {
+      expect(localStorage.key(index)).toBe(SIDEBAR_PREFERENCE_KEY);
+    }
+    expect(JSON.stringify({ ...localStorage })).not.toContain("reset-token-abc");
     expect(sessionStorage.length).toBe(0);
     expect(text()).not.toContain("reset-token-abc");
     expect(container.innerHTML).not.toContain("reset-token-abc");