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fix(desktop): preview browser passkeys unlock with Touch ID on macOS - #13857
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Chromium's Touch ID authenticator stores passkeys under a keychain access group that must be in the app's keychain-access-groups entitlement. Signed macOS packaging now derives <team>.com.t3tools.t3code.webauthn from the same team and bundle id as com.apple.application-identifier, adds it to the entitlements, and records it in the staged package.json so the app reads the exact value it was signed with. Unsigned and ad-hoc builds get neither. The current Developer ID provisioning profile already allows <team>.* in keychain-access-groups. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The desktop app never called app.configureWebAuthn, so the preview browser reported no platform authenticator and passkey sign-ins had nothing to use (pingdotgg#5665). Once the app is ready, signed macOS builds now enable Electron's Touch ID authenticator with the keychain access group embedded at packaging time. Unpackaged, ad-hoc and non-macOS builds find no group and skip the call, and Chromium separately verifies the running binary's entitlement before touching the keychain. Preview sessions also answer select-webauthn-account. Without a listener, Electron cancels any sign-in that matches more than one passkey; a native chooser now lets the user pick one, and cancelling or a failed dialog still answers the request exactly once. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ApprovabilityVerdict: Not approved Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a new Touch ID passkey capability with native account selection and changes signed macOS keychain entitlements and packaged metadata. Its authentication-sensitive, user-facing behavior and production signing impact warrant human review. You can add or adjust custom eligibility rules. Learn more. |
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe desktop app now configures WebAuthn for packaged macOS builds using a keychain access group from package metadata. Preview browser sessions prompt users to select a discoverable passkey account. The macOS build includes the group in passkey entitlements and staged package metadata. ChangesDesktop passkey support
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ElectronSession
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ElectronSession->>BrowserSession: select-webauthn-account event
BrowserSession->>ElectronDialog: show passkey account choices
ElectronDialog-->>BrowserSession: selected account or cancellation
BrowserSession->>ElectronCallback: credential ID or null
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Passkey setup is not yet clear in the user guide. This is a bounded documentation issue that can be fixed before merge or followed up without blocking the feature. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Signing and runtime configuration use the same passkey access group, and cancellation is handled in the tested cases. The signed profile’s authorization and the chooser’s behavior when a requesting page closes remain unverified. Retained concerns
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- Around line 22-24: Add a concise Passkeys section in the browser import
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| Passkeys are not imported. On macOS, the preview browser can save a new passkey for a site and | ||
| unlock it with Touch ID. It stays on this Mac, in the browser profile that created it, and does not | ||
| sync to iCloud Keychain or your other browsers. |
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Add a concise passkey section with a starting action.
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-Passkeys are not imported. On macOS, the preview browser can save a new passkey for a site and
+Passkeys are not imported. On macOS, when a site offers passkey creation, create a new passkey in
+the preview browser. The preview browser can unlock it with Touch ID. It stays on this Mac, in the
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| Passkeys are not imported. On macOS, the preview browser can save a new passkey for a site and | |
| unlock it with Touch ID. It stays on this Mac, in the browser profile that created it, and does not | |
| sync to iCloud Keychain or your other browsers. | |
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| Passkeys are not imported. On macOS, when a site offers passkey creation, create a new passkey in | |
| the preview browser. The preview browser can unlock it with Touch ID. It stays on this Mac, in the | |
| browser profile that created it, and does not | |
| sync to iCloud Keychain or your other browsers. |
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In @docs/user/browser-import.md around lines 22 - 24, Add a concise Passkeys
section in the browser import documentation with a clear starting action: when a
site offers passkey creation, create the passkey in the preview browser.
Preserve the existing details about Touch ID unlocking and local,
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Note This comment is posted by Julius' dot Closing for missing verification of the changed behavior. The PR says no real Touch ID round trip was checked and the new native account chooser has no screenshot. The mocked tests do not establish that the signed app launches and completes this flow. Please supply signed-build launch and passkey sign-in results, plus before/after UI evidence and a short recording of account selection and cancellation, then request reconsideration. |
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fix(desktop): preview browser passkeys unlock with Touch ID on macOS
Fixes #5665.
What Changed
scripts/build-desktop-artifact.ts) adds akeychain-access-groupsentitlement,<team>.com.t3tools.t3code.webauthn. It is built from the sameT3CODE_APPLE_TEAM_IDandDESKTOP_APP_IDthat already producecom.apple.application-identifier, so it matches the build's real team and bundle id. Stable, nightly and preview builds sharecom.t3tools.t3codeandvars.APPLE_TEAM_ID, so official builds getARK85ZXQ4Z.com.t3tools.t3code.webauthn. The same value goes into the staged apppackage.jsonast3codeWebAuthnKeychainAccessGroup, next tot3codeCommitHash. Unsigned and ad-hoc builds get neither.DesktopAppIdentity.configureWebAuthn, called afterwhenReady) callsapp.configureWebAuthn({ touchID: { keychainAccessGroup } })only on packaged macOS builds that carry that field. It leavespromptReasonat Electron's default, so macOS shows "T3 Code is trying to verify your identity on example.com".BrowserSession) listen forselect-webauthn-account. When a sign-in matches several discoverable passkeys, a native message box lists them (display name and user name) with a Cancel button. The request gets exactly one answer on every path: a pick, a cancel, a dialog failure or an interruption. Cancelling gives the pageNotAllowedError.docs/user/browser-import.mdexplains that passkeys aren't imported and new ones stay on this Mac, in their profile. The release checklist now names the new entitlement and the profile requirement.Why
T3 Code never calls
app.configureWebAuthn. Until it does, Electron reportsPublicKeyCredential.isUserVerifyingPlatformAuthenticatorAvailable() === falseand does not service platform-authenticator requests. Passkey sign-ins in the preview browser (Vercel in #5665, Google's "Complete sign-in using your passkey", Authentik in the comments) therefore have no authenticator to use.Skipping unsigned builds. Electron's
configureWebAuthndoes not validate the group. It only stores it (electron_api_app.cc). Two checks cover unsigned builds:configureWebAuthnwhen packaging wrote the group into both the entitlement andpackage.json. Dev, ad-hoc, Windows and Linux builds don't have the field, so the call never happens there, and there's no try/catch fallback.SecTaskCopyValueForEntitlement) before using Touch ID (touch_id_context.mm). If a copy of the app loses its entitlements, for example after an ad-hoc re-sign, the page sees "no platform authenticator" and sign-in doesn't break. I confirmed this on a stock ad-hoc Electron 44.4.2: afterconfigureWebAuthnwith this group,isUserVerifyingPlatformAuthenticatorAvailable()staysfalse, and Chromium logsTouch ID authenticator unavailable because keychain-access-group entitlement is missing or incorrect.Launch safety.
keychain-access-groupsis a restricted entitlement, and #4224 shows macOS 26 refuses to launch apps whose restricted entitlements aren't covered by the embedded profile. The shipped Nightly'sembedded.provisionprofile("T3 Code Developer ID Passkeys") already allowskeychain-access-groups: ARK85ZXQ4Z.*. This PR only asks for a group inside that wildcard and needs no profile or secret changes. Please confirm the profile inMACOS_PROVISIONING_PROFILEis that same one.Profile isolation. Electron gives each session its own metadata secret, stored in that partition's prefs. A passkey created in one T3 browser profile is invisible to the others, which matches the per-profile cookie isolation.
Why not
platformPasskeys. Electron 44.4.2 has onlytouchID.platformPasskeysandselect-webauthn-authenticatorexist only on Electronmainso far.platformPasskeysalso goes throughASAuthorizationController, which only works for relying parties listed in the app'swebcredentials:associated domains. T3 Code lists only its Clerk domain, so it could never serve arbitrary sites.select-webauthn-authenticatoronly fires when both authenticators are configured, so it isn't needed here.Why a native chooser. No renderer UI exists for preview-browser prompts, and adding one would mean a new IPC contract for a rare event.
ElectronDialog.showMessageBoxis already the app's pattern for small native prompts (the app menu uses it), and the Touch ID sheet right before it is native too. Without any listener, Electron cancels every multi-passkey sign-in. The event can also fire on other platforms when a roaming security key returns several credentials, so those users get the chooser too.Unaffected paths. T3 Connect's Clerk passkeys run in native mode through
@clerk/electron-passkeys, because the main window is served fromt3code://.configureWebAuthndoesn't change that flow (#7437, #7522). Windows already uses Windows Hello throughwebauthn.dll.Known limitations
UI Changes
This adds one native macOS alert: "Choose a passkey for example.com", with one button per account plus Cancel. It only appears when a signed build has two or more matching passkeys. I couldn't capture it without your Developer ID signing, so it has no screenshot. Please grab one during step 4 below.
Verification
Automated (local, macOS arm64):
vp test runinapps/desktop: 106 files, 1369 tests passed, 46 skippedvp test run scripts/build-desktop-artifact.test.ts: 71 passedtsc --noEmitfor@t3tools/desktopand@t3tools/scriptsvp lintandvp fmt --checkon the touched filesvp run build:desktopNew tests cover:
Not verified: a real Touch ID round trip. That needs a build signed with your Developer ID certificate and provisioning profile. The
preview:maclabel won't exercise this PR either, because that workflow packages withmain'sbuild-desktop-artifact.ts, so the entitlement andpackage.jsonfield would be missing and the app would correctly skip the call. Please use thechannel=previewrelease train, or a local--signedbuild.Manual test plan (signed build, Mac with Touch ID)
codesign -d --entitlements - --xml /Applications/<installed app>.app | plutil -p -. It should listkeychain-access-groups => [ARK85ZXQ4Z.com.t3tools.t3code.webauthn]next to the associated domain. The app must launch normally on macOS 26.x (see Nightly fails to launch on macOS 26.5.1 — RBSRequestErrorDomain Code=5 / POSIX 163 (Launchd job spawn failed) #4224).await PublicKeyCredential.isUserVerifyingPlatformAuthenticatorAvailable()should returntrue. Invp run dev:desktopit should still returnfalse, with no new errors.t3-aand approve the Touch ID prompt ("T3 Code is trying to verify your identity on webauthn.io"). Then click Authenticate, approve Touch ID, and you should be signed in.t3-aandt3-b. Click Authenticate with the username field empty. After Touch ID, the chooser should list both. Pickt3-band you should be signed in ast3-b. Repeat and press Cancel: the site should report the failure (NotAllowedError) and the page should not hang.Checklist
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