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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]>
2026-08-23 23:41:03 -05:00

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import type {
AuthorizationScope,
EkklesiaDeviceId,
EkklesiaUserId,
PermissionId,
} from "@ekklesia/contracts";
export interface ActiveGrantQuery {
readonly userId: EkklesiaUserId;
readonly permission: PermissionId;
/** Absent means an unscoped check. An unscoped grant satisfies either an unscoped or scoped
* check for the same permission; a scoped grant satisfies only the exact matching scope and
* never satisfies an unscoped check. */
readonly scope?: AuthorizationScope;
/** The instant to evaluate expiration against — injected so evaluation is deterministic and
* testable rather than reading the wall clock inside the lookup itself. */
readonly now: Date;
}
/**
* The only read dependency `createAuthorizationEvaluator` has for grant state. Narrow and
* Postgres-independent by design: a test can supply a fake implementation, and the evaluator
* itself never knows whether it is backed by `core/src/authorization/store.ts` or a test double.
*/
export interface AuthorizationGrantPort {
hasActiveGrant(query: ActiveGrantQuery): Promise<boolean>;
}
/** The only read dependency the evaluator has for platform-owner authority — deliberately a
* separate, narrower port from grants, since owner authority is not represented as a grant. */
export interface AuthorizationPlatformOwnerPort {
isPlatformOwner(userId: EkklesiaUserId): Promise<boolean>;
}
/**
* The evaluator's only read dependency for **device** authority.
*
* Separate from `AuthorizationGrantPort` because the two answer questions about different kinds of
* subject, not because devices are a special case in the decision: `authorize` consults exactly one
* of them per call, by principal kind, and neither can be reached without going through it.
*
* There is deliberately no device counterpart to `AuthorizationPlatformOwnerPort`. A device is
* never a platform owner, so there is no port that could accidentally say it was.
*/
export interface AuthorizationDevicePort {
hasActivePermission(deviceId: EkklesiaDeviceId, permission: PermissionId): Promise<boolean>;
}