fix(server): a logged-out Claude CLI no longer reports as authenticated

[yordis]

Problem

The Claude capability probe resolves even when the CLI has no credentials, and checkClaudeProviderStatus treats a completed probe as proof of sign-in. A Claude install that is logged out (the SDK reports tokenSource: "none", with no apiKeySource, email, or subscriptionType) still shows status: "ready" and auth.status: "authenticated" in Settings, then fails on the first turn.

Change

• Keep the apiKeySource field the SDK already returns, instead of discarding it.
• Add claudeAuthStatus, which reports unauthenticated only for the logged-out shape above.
• Third-party backends (Bedrock, Vertex), API-key installs, and CLIs that report no account fields at all (profile auth, older CLIs) stay authenticated.
• checkClaudeProviderStatus returns status: "error" / auth.status: "unauthenticated" with a claude auth login hint for that case, matching how the other providers report a missing login.

Scope and approval

Very small, focused fix for an obvious bug: one pure function and one early return that map a specific probe payload to the existing unauthenticated state. No UI, defaults, or workflows change. Most of the diff is tests.

Verification

• Added tests in ProviderRegistry.test.ts:
  • a logged-out CLI is reported as unauthenticated;
  • an API-key install with no token source stays authenticated;
  • Bedrock with no token source stays authenticated;
  • a CLI reporting no account fields stays authenticated.
• Before (with ClaudeProvider.ts as on main): the logged-out test fails with expected 'ready' to equal 'error'.
• After: cd apps/server && vp test run src/provider/Layers/ClaudeCapabilitiesProbe.test.ts src/provider/Layers/ProviderRegistry.test.ts passes the new and existing Claude tests. The one failure there, re-probes when settings change the codex binaryPath, also fails on unmodified main on my machine and is unrelated.
• Typecheck for apps/server is clean.
• Not checked: against a real logged-out Claude CLI. The behavior is exercised through the same mocked-SDK harness the adjacent auth-state tests use.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This is a narrow, well-tested fix to Claude provider health reporting, preserving existing behavior for API-key and third-party configurations. Because it changes production authentication-state handling, human review is required under the applicable safety criteria.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Claude capability probe now captures apiKeySource. Claude provider status uses this and other capability data to classify authentication and return an unauthenticated error when applicable.

Changes

Claude authentication status

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Capture API key source apps/server/src/provider/ClaudeProvider.ts, apps/server/src/provider/ClaudeCapabilitiesProbe.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/ProviderRegistry.test.ts	The capability data shape and SDK account payload include optional apiKeySource. Probe expectations and registry fixtures include the field.
Classify authentication and return provider status apps/server/src/provider/ClaudeProvider.ts, apps/server/src/provider/ProviderRegistry.test.ts	claudeAuthStatus checks provider and account capability fields. Provider status returns an unauthenticated error when the helper classifies the account as unauthenticated. Tests cover logged-out, API-key, third-party, and absent-account cases.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ClaudeSDKAccountPayload
  participant ClaudeCapabilitiesProbe
  participant claudeAuthStatus
  participant ClaudeProvider
  ClaudeSDKAccountPayload->>ClaudeCapabilitiesProbe: provide account fields including apiKeySource
  ClaudeCapabilitiesProbe->>claudeAuthStatus: pass collected capabilities
  claudeAuthStatus->>ClaudeProvider: return authenticated or unauthenticated

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Merge Risk

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 52184

This change makes a logged-out Claude CLI report as unauthenticated instead of ready. It adds tests for the main authentication shapes. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains in the reviewed change.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 87bdc

The change corrects a false signed-in result and restricts use when the CLI explicitly reports no credentials. It does not add credential exposure or execution privileges. Refresh and recovery behavior has not been verified end to end.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated impact is authentication/readiness state for a configured Claude instance and dependent child-task selection. The inspected change does not expand the execution adapter's authority or introduce a new credential-sharing path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The classifier trusts metadata from the configured local CLI's SDK initialization, not a credential-validation response. Missing account evidence and non-first-party backends remain authenticated as before; the new rule rejects a specific negative signal and does not strengthen those unchanged fallback cases.
• observed — The existing capability probe disables hooks, tools, and MCP configuration, does not persist a session, and aborts its subprocess during cleanup. The PR changes account-field interpretation without changing these probe authority controls.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Failed or missing capability results produce unknown authentication rather than being classified as logged out. Authentication observations use an existing five-minute capability cache, so changing local credentials does not imply immediate status convergence.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Validate authenticated-to-logged-out-to-reauthenticated transitions across cache expiry, restart, and instance replacement, including deliberately reordered refresh completion. This would establish status freshness guarantees without treating the existing lifecycle uncertainty as an introduced vulnerability.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing a logged-out Claude CLI from reporting as authenticated.
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apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeCapabilitiesProbe.test.ts (1)

99-99: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

ClaudeCapabilitiesProbe.test.ts has no positive test for apiKeySource. Its SDK fixture omits the field and the expected capabilities set it to undefined. The registry test checks authentication with a value injected directly, so it does not test the SDK projection.

Change the probe fixture to return apiKeySource: "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY" and assert that value in the returned capabilities. This will catch a projection that reads the wrong account field or returns no value; the registry test cannot catch either mistake.

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@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ClaudeCapabilitiesProbe.test.ts at line 99:
Update the SDK fixture in ClaudeCapabilitiesProbe.test.ts to return apiKeySource
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- Line 99: Update the SDK fixture in ClaudeCapabilitiesProbe.test.ts to return
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- Around line 197-199: Update the authentication check in the capability
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