feat(deploy): probe a protected environment with an exchanged access token - #3959
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…token A CLI authenticated with an API key could not verify the environment it had just deployed: the access gate accepts only a user JWT, so the probe stopped at the sign-in redirect and deploy reported the URL as gated. The Cloud API now exchanges an API key for a five-minute user token that the gate accepts and the API refuses as a session (POST /auth/environment-token). Add that exchange to the deploy control plane and use it in the readiness probe when the environment is protected and the stored credential is not already a session token. The raw key is still never sent to the gate. An exchange that fails, or a minted token the gate refuses, degrades to the existing gated outcome with a warning that names the reason, because the deployment is already committed and verified. Document the exchange as the headless way to reach a protected environment, including a curl form for CI smoke tests. Fixes #3770
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughDeploy now exchanges API keys for short-lived, target-bound environment access tokens when probing protected environments. Proxy authorization validates token claims and target bindings. Readiness probes classify access failures and report access-specific warnings. Tests, fixtures, CLI help, and documentation cover the flow. ChangesProtected deployment verification
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The proxy now accepts environment-bound access tokens for protected deploy probes, but tokens missing the environment binding may still open other environments in the same project, creating a cross-environment authorization risk. Merge should wait for fail-closed validation; the new required control-plane method also needs owner awareness because it may break existing implementations at type-check time. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DeployProject
participant DeployControlPlane
participant EnvironmentTokenAPI
participant ProtectedEnvironment
DeployProject->>DeployControlPlane: Exchange API key for target-bound token
DeployControlPlane->>EnvironmentTokenAPI: POST /auth/environment-token
EnvironmentTokenAPI-->>DeployControlPlane: Return short-lived token
DeployControlPlane-->>DeployProject: Return token or classified failure
DeployProject->>ProtectedEnvironment: Probe with environmentAccessToken cookie
ProtectedEnvironment-->>DeployProject: Return served or gated response
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In `@cli/commands/deploy/command-help.ts`:
- Line 54: Correct the token-exchange wording in the deploy command help and
deployment guide: in cli/commands/deploy/command-help.ts lines 54-54, state that
the short-lived environment access token is obtained by exchanging the API key;
apply the equivalent wording in docs/guides/deploying.md lines 166-167,
referring to the user's API key.
In `@cli/shared/deployment/control-plane.ts`:
- Around line 84-88: Update the DeployControlPlane interface’s
createEnvironmentAccessToken declaration to be optional, and ensure callers
handle an absent method as an unavailable token exchange while preserving
existing implementations’ compatibility.
In `@cli/shared/deployment/deploy-project.ts`:
- Around line 1069-1070: The token-exchange catch block should not propagate
arbitrary error messages into the CLI warning. Update the catch handling near
the deployment flow to return a fixed user-safe reason for unknown failures,
while preserving an approved stable reason if one already exists; adjust the
related test to expect the fixed reason instead of raw “404 Not Found” output.
In `@docs/guides/cloud-environment-access.md`:
- Around line 47-49: Update the token exchange and probe commands to fail
closed: enable set -euo pipefail, use curl -fsS for the exchange, and validate
.access_token with jq -er '.access_token | strings | select(length > 0)'. For
the probe command, explicitly reject redirects or validate that the response has
the expected status instead of relying only on curl -f.
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…il the smoke test closed The help text and deploying guide described the exchange backwards. The CI smoke test in the access guide passed on a sign-in redirect because curl -f accepts 3xx, so require the expected status and reject the token exchange output unless it carries a token.
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Cross-repository design review — changes needed before merge
The CLI integration has a sound core: exchange at the control-plane seam, never send the raw API key to the gate, use the short-lived credential only for the protected readiness probe, and report a refused exchange as gated after the deployment is already committed.
Four changes are still needed:
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Make the control-plane interface target-specific.
createEnvironmentAccessToken(): Promise<string>has no project/environment input, so it bakes the API's scope erasure into this module. Gate access is inherently target-specific. Pass the knownprojectSlug/ environment identity through this interface so the API can authorize and mint a project-bound credential. The deploy module already has that identity at the call site. -
Do not surface arbitrary backend error text in a public warning.
resolveEnvironmentAccessstoreserror.message, and the warning interpolates it verbatim. The shared client can construct that message from server-providedmessage/detail/error/title/suggestion. Classify the failure into a bounded user-facing reason/status; retain redacted raw detail only in debug output. The earlier resolved thread still applies to the current head: #3959 (comment) -
Make the documented smoke test actually fail closed. The second curl prints
302or403and still exits 0. Capture the status, disable redirects, compare it with the expected application status, and exit non-zero on mismatch. I reproduced the current shape against a 302 endpoint: it printed302and exited 0. The resolved discussion therefore remains valid: #3959 (comment) -
Name the credential by its domain role.
sessionTokenis specifically rejected as an API session. Rename itenvironmentAccessToken(orgateAccessToken) so future callers do not accidentally treat it as a browser/API session.
Suggested tests: assert that the target project/environment is passed to the exchange adapter, server details cannot reach warnings, and the published shell contract exits non-zero for 302/403.
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Reviewed alongside veryfront/veryfront-api#4472, verified against local veryfront-code @ 68ef89fe52.
The CLI half is clean: the exchange is confined to the protected branch, isSessionCredential stays the gate on what is sent so the raw key still never reaches the access gate, and every failure mode degrades to today's gated outcome rather than failing a deploy that is already committed. The three-way EnvironmentAccess type makes the warning copy say which of the three things went wrong, which is the right level of detail for someone reading CI output. resolveEnvironmentAccess returning a reason instead of throwing is the correct shape here.
One blocker and a docs pass.
1. The cross-repo contract is verified by neither PR — P2, blocking
The whole design rests on one claim: the proxy accepts an RS256 JWT carrying tokenUse: "environment_access". Nothing in either repo tests it.
- The API tests mock
mintAuthenticatedUserTokenoutright — they prove handler control flow, not what the token looks like. deploy-project.test.tsstubsfetchand matches oncookie === "authToken=" + EXCHANGED_SESSION_TOKEN. That asserts the CLI sends what it was given. The gate is not in the loop.
So the contract holds only because extractUserIdFromToken (src/proxy/proxy-access-control.ts:104) happens to read userId and ignore everything else.
This is not theoretical. Mirroring the API's rejection at the proxy — "purpose-limited tokens do not open environments, same as the API" — is the natural next hardening PR for a proxy whose own module docs say "the proxy sits at the trust boundary". It would silently break deploy verification, with green CI in both repos, and the failure would surface as urlVerification: "gated" in someone's pipeline weeks later.
What I would want before merge:
- A test in the proxy asserting that a token carrying
tokenUse: "environment_access"is admitted bycheckProtectedProxyAccessfor a project member. - A comment at
extractUserIdFromTokenrecording thatenvironment_accesstokens are expected here and why, so the hardening PR that would break it gets a reason to stop.
2. The documented CI snippet is not fail-closed — P3
The PR comment on #3770 describes the curl form as fail-closed. The exchange half is (curl -fsS, jq -er … select(length > 0)), but the probe is not:
curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' --cookie "authToken=$TOKEN" \
<environment-url>/<route>Copy-pasted into a CI job, that prints a status and exits 0 — including on the 302 the guide explicitly warns about. "Require the status the route normally returns" is prose next to a snippet that does not. Since this is the path the guide now recommends for headless verification, the snippet should be the thing that fails, e.g. comparing %{http_code} and exiting non-zero, or curl -fsS with --max-redirs 0.
3. Five minutes is right for the probe, thin for what the docs now promote — P3
cloud-environment-access.md presents the exchange as the headless smoke-test path. A suite that runs longer than the TTL starts getting 302s mid-run, and an expired token is indistinguishable from a refused one or a broken app — all three are a redirect to sign-in. Worth one line in the guide: re-exchange per request batch, and treat a mid-run 302 as "token expired" rather than "app broken".
4. The issue asked for a CLI affordance and none was delivered — P3
#3770 is a DX report: the complaint is that veryfront help --all has no way past the gate. This ships zero CLI surface and tells users to hand-roll curl | jq against an auth endpoint. "veryfront open stays token-free by design" is a fine reason not to change open; it is not a reason against a separate veryfront env token --env production. The client, the config resolution, and createEnvironmentAccessToken() all already exist — it is a thin command over machinery this PR just built.
I would not block on it, but I would not close #3770 without it either: the deploy probe is fixed, the reported dead-end is only half fixed.
Nit
This PR says "Fixes #3770" but is inert until veryfront/veryfront-api#4472 lands. If it merges first it closes the issue while doing nothing — the exact accepted-but-does-nothing state that #3800 was filed about. Either flip it to "Related" and close on the API merge, or hold this until #4472 is in.
Verdict: blocking on 1. 2 and 3 are a docs pass and cheap. 4 is a judgement call on what "fixes #3770" means.
The API half has its own blocking finding — the minted token is bound to no project, so a project-scoped read-only CI key buys access to every protected environment its owner belongs to. Details in veryfront/veryfront-api#4472.
…force it at the gate The exchange took no target, so the API could only mint a generic user token and the gate could only check membership. A key scoped to project A could therefore open protected project B whenever its owner belonged to B. Pass the project and environment to the exchange, so the API can authorize the key for that target and mint a token bound to it. At the gate, read the verified payload into a principal: a plain user token is its user; an environment access token must carry both the gate audience and the environment_access use and name its project, and is refused with 403 for any other project or environment. Membership is still checked on the owner. Name the credential environmentAccessToken, since the API refuses it as a session. Classify exchange failures into a bounded set and name the class and HTTP status in the warning; the server's own words never reach operator output. Make the documented CI smoke test compare the status and exit non-zero.
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312-331: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd a case for a bound token when the request supplies no project ID.
checkProtectedProxyAccessdenies wheninput.projectIdisundefinedand the principal carriesenvironmentAccess. That is the fail-closed default. No test pins it, so a later refactor could invert it without failing the suite.♻️ Proposed addition
assertEquals( await checkProtectedProxyAccess({ ...base, projectId: "project-2", extractPrincipal: () => Promise.resolve(bound), }), { status: 403, message: "Access denied" }, ); + // A request that carries no project context cannot satisfy a bound token. + assertEquals( + await checkProtectedProxyAccess({ + ...base, + projectId: undefined, + extractPrincipal: () => Promise.resolve(bound), + }), + { status: 403, message: "Access denied" }, + );🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/proxy/proxy-access-control.test.ts`:
- Around line 312-331: Extend the bound-token cases for
checkProtectedProxyAccess with a request that omits projectId while the
principal has environmentAccess, and assert the fail-closed result is { status:
403, message: "Access denied" }. Keep the existing project-specific and
matching-environment assertions unchanged.
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Two small follow-ups on this branch: 1dff35a updates the protected read-back integration test to expect the new |
… document the gate A token naming a project but no environment was accepted and compared on the project alone. The minter always supplies both, but the gate is the trust boundary and must not rely on that: require environmentId on the token, compare it unconditionally, and fail closed when the proxy cannot identify the environment it resolved. Add the architecture page the update policy asks for when a public security boundary changes: who owns the exchange, what the token binds, what the gate enforces, and that the Cloud API deploys first.
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Addressed in fcc7dec (review on 1a4715b).
The manual-verification CLI surface raised on the issue is recorded as a decision and split into veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#718 so this PR stays scoped to the deploy probe. |
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Re-review at c764eb3: the scope, binding, generic-minter, and architecture findings are closed. One Standards correction remains in docs/guides/cloud-environment-access.md: “an environment access token instead: a user token for the key owner” introduces “user token” as a synonym for the purpose-bound environment access token. Please use “an environment access token for the key owner” or equivalent, keeping the defined concept name and avoiding confusion with a session token. No further Spec or security findings in this pass. Fresh evidence: 16 focused tests / 197 steps passed, relevant Deno checks passed, and current GitHub checks are green. |
The guide now consistently names the purpose-bound credential as an environment access token and avoids conflating it with a user session. Constraint: Public concept names must match across code, schemas, and guides Confidence: high Scope-risk: narrow Reversibility: clean Tested: Deno formatting; 78 guide contracts Not-tested: Live staging API-to-proxy probe
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Re-review at c312f20b5d. Verified locally: src/proxy/proxy-access-control.test.ts and the whole cli/shared/deployment/ tree pass (15 files, 119 steps), guide contracts and docs:validate pass (1390 links).
The blocker is resolved, and the fix is better than the test I asked for.
2. Cross-repo contract — resolved
I asked for a test pinning that the gate admits an environment_access token, plus a comment so the obvious hardening PR would have a reason to stop. ee65dbf599 and fcc7deced2 did that and then made the test unnecessary as a tripwire, which is the better outcome: the gate no longer tolerates the token, it understands it.
toProxyPrincipal is now itself an allowlist. A plain user token speaks for its user; anything carrying a tokenUse must be environment_access, must carry the gate audience, and must name both projectId and environmentId, or it is refused outright. So the contract is expressed in the proxy's own types rather than resting on extractUserIdFromToken happening to ignore claims it does not read — and checkProtectedProxyAccess refuses a bound token for the wrong project, the wrong environment, or a non-member owner, each with a test.
That inverts the same default I asked the API to invert, at the other end of the wire. Between the two, a purpose-limited token now has to be understood by both sides to work anywhere, which is the property worth having.
6. Docs — resolved
The snippet compares the status and exits non-zero, set -euo pipefail is there, and the redirect trap is called out. c764eb3542 covers the expiry case — "mint it immediately before the probe rather than once for a long suite" is a better instruction than the re-exchange guidance I had drafted, so I dropped mine. c312f20b5d handles the stale "user token" phrasing, so I dropped that commit too. Nothing of mine was needed here.
7. Still open, and it is a decision rather than a defect
There is still no CLI affordance. #3770 was a DX report — the complaint was that veryfront help --all has no way past the gate — and the answer is a curl | jq against an auth endpoint, which now also needs a project_reference and an environment_name in a JSON body. That is more to hand-assemble than it was when I first raised it, not less.
veryfront env token --env production is thin over machinery this PR already builds: the client, config resolution, and createEnvironmentAccessToken() all exist. I deliberately did not push one — you scoped out a new subcommand twice, explicitly, and that is a public-surface decision that is yours rather than something to slip into a review pass.
So the question to settle before this closes #3770: is the deploy probe the whole scope, with manual headless verification getting its own issue? If so I would flip "Fixes #3770" to "Related" and file the follow-up, because as it stands the PR closes an issue whose literal complaint it does not address.
Withdrawn
My "inert until the API lands" nit is now moot — veryfront/veryfront-api#4472 has the exchange and the CLI half no longer merges ahead of anything.
Verdict: no blockers from me on this PR. Only the #3770 closing question, which is yours to call.
Description
veryfront deploycan now verify a protected environment from an API-key-authenticated CLI, which is the CI case, and the proxy gate enforces that the credential it is shown was issued for that environment.Why
The access gate admits only a JWT verified against the API's JWKS. #3527 stopped deploy from failing on that but left it reporting
urlVerification: "gated": the probe proved the gate answers, never that the app serves. The Cloud API now exchanges an API key for a five-minute token bound to one environment (POST /auth/environment-token, veryfront/veryfront-api#4472).What
Proxy gate (
src/proxy/proxy-access-control.ts)toProxyPrincipalreads a verified payload into a principal. A plain user token is its user. An environment access token must carry bothaud: "environment-gate"andtokenUse: "environment_access"and name aprojectId; anything claiming only part of that is refused.checkProtectedProxyAccesstakes the environment'sprojectId(both handler call sites pass it) and answers403when a bound token names another project or environment. Membership is still checked on the owner. A key scoped to project A therefore never opens project B.CLI (
cli/shared/deployment/)DeployControlPlane.createEnvironmentAccessToken({ projectId, environmentName })posts the target; the API authorizes the key for it and mints a bound token.environmentAccessToken(named for its role; the API refuses it as a session). The raw key is still never sent to the gate.unsupported(404/405/501),refused(401/403),rate_limited(429),unreachable,unusable. Theenvironment-url-unverifiedwarning names the class and HTTP status; server-provided text never reaches it. A refused minted token degrades togatedrather than failing the committed deploy.Docs: the cloud environment access guide documents the exchange with a fail-closed CI smoke test (status compared, non-zero exit on mismatch, redirects not followed); deploy getting-started, deploying, and deploy-from-CI guides updated; deploy help updated.
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No new subcommand, no signed preview URLs, no visibility toggle.
veryfront openstays token-free by design. Debug-level output of the raw exchange error is not added: the deploy observer has no debug channel today, and adding one is out of scope.Related Issue(s)
Fixes veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#717
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src/proxy/proxy-access-control.test.ts: principal mapping (audience and use both required, project binding required); a bound token admitted only for its project and environment, refused for another project, another environment, or a non-member.cli/shared/deployment/control-plane.test.ts: the exchange postsproject_referenceandenvironment_name.cli/shared/deployment/deploy-project.test.ts: the target reaches the exchange; the minted token is the only cookie sent and the run recordsserved; an unsupported exchange and a refused exchange each degrade togatedwith a bounded message that does not contain the server's text; a refused minted token reportsgated; the existing "never sends the API key to the gate" test stays green.src/proxy/andcli/trees, cwd-sensitive CLI tests serially,deno check,deno lint,deno fmt --check,docs:validate, guide contract and content tests, API reference current (Deno 2.7.7). Pre-push hook on push.