test(plugin-auth): enumerate better-auth's route table — the /auth/** wildcard becomes 55 exact rows (#3656)

The widest hole the #3642 capstone measured. That guard reports how many
SDK calls match only a `**` prefix family rather than a resolvable route,
and the answer was 60 of ~196 — 54 of them on `* /auth/**`, the largest
and most security-relevant namespace in the client. `auth.me` builds
/api/v1/auth/get-session; a prefix claim cannot tell you better-auth
still calls it that, and better-auth is a third-party dependency on its
own release cadence (this repo already chased its 1.7 column drift in
#3624 / #3647).

plugin-auth mounts it with ONE catch-all — rawApp.all(`${basePath}/*`) —
so there are no per-route registration calls to capture the way tranche 3
captured registerStorageRoutes. The seam is `auth.api`: every better-auth
endpoint carries .path and .options.method, so a live instance IS the
route table.

auth-route-ledger.ts reads it, in two halves checked differently on
purpose:

  - 55 REVIEWED ROWS — every route the SDK calls, each naming its client
    method, checked strictly against the live table. The rename detector.
  - 129-PATH MOUNTED-SURFACE INVENTORY — exact equality both ways, so a
    version bump that adds publicly-mounted auth endpoints becomes a
    reviewable CI diff.

The asymmetry is a decision: demanding a hand-written rationale for all
129 would turn every better-auth upgrade into a hundred-row review and
the ledger would rot into rubber-stamping. But the catch-all publishes
whatever upstream adds, so growth still has to be visible.

Enumeration is config-dependent (better-auth plugins are opt-in), so the
inventory is pinned at the configuration enabling every plugin the SDK
targets — the maximal surface — with the participating OS_* env vars
cleared so a developer's shell cannot produce a spurious diff.
Mutation-checked: renaming a ledgered route fails the suite naming it.

The capstone guard now includes this ledger in its union AND prefers
exact rows over wildcard families when matching — without that ordering
fix every /auth/* URL would still be absorbed by `* /auth/**` and the new
ledger would have changed nothing. Wildcard-only matches fall 60 → 3 and
the ratchet moves with them; what remains is `* /ai/**`, whose routes
service-ai builds at plugin start.

No runtime change: a ledger, a guard, and the header/audit-doc notes.

Refs #3656, #3642, #3563.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01K35y3ovfWtCkBHYFCqUfAt

Author: claude

.changeset/auth-route-ledger.md

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+---
+"@objectstack/plugin-auth": patch
+"@objectstack/client": patch
+---
+
+test(plugin-auth): enumerate better-auth's route table — the `/auth/**` wildcard becomes 55 exact rows (#3656)
+
+The widest hole the #3642 capstone measured. That guard reports how many SDK
+calls match only a `**` prefix family rather than a resolvable route, and the
+answer was 60 of ~196 — with 54 on `* /auth/**`, the largest and most
+security-relevant namespace in the client. `auth.me` builds
+`/api/v1/auth/get-session`; a prefix claim cannot tell you better-auth still
+calls it that, and better-auth is a third-party dependency on its own release
+cadence (this repo already chased its 1.7 column drift in #3624 / #3647).
+
+`plugin-auth` mounts it with a single catch-all, so there are no per-route
+registration calls to capture the way tranche 3 captured
+`registerStorageRoutes`. The seam is `auth.api`: every better-auth endpoint
+carries `.path` and `.options.method`, so a live instance is the route table.
+
+`auth-route-ledger.ts` reads it, in two halves checked differently on purpose:
+
+- **55 reviewed rows** — every route the SDK calls, each naming its client
+  method, checked strictly against the live table. This is the rename detector.
+- **129-path mounted-surface inventory** — checked for exact equality both
+  ways, so a version bump that adds publicly-mounted auth endpoints becomes a
+  reviewable CI diff. Machine-maintained rather than reviewed prose: demanding
+  a rationale for all 129 would make every better-auth upgrade a hundred-row
+  review and the ledger would rot into rubber-stamping.
+
+Enumeration is config-dependent, so the inventory is pinned at the
+configuration enabling every plugin the SDK targets — the maximal surface —
+with the participating `OS_*` env vars cleared so a developer's shell cannot
+produce a spurious diff. Mutation-checked: renaming a ledgered route fails the
+suite naming it.
+
+The capstone guard now includes this ledger in its union and prefers exact rows
+over wildcard families when matching — without that ordering fix every
+`/auth/*` URL would still have been absorbed by `* /auth/**` and the new ledger
+would have changed nothing. Wildcard-only matches fall **60 → 3**; the ratchet
+moves with them. What remains is `* /ai/**`, whose routes `service-ai` builds
+at plugin start.
+
+No runtime change: a ledger, a guard, and the header/audit-doc notes.

docs/audits/2026-07-dispatcher-client-route-coverage.md

@@ -232,10 +232,44 @@ rots silently:
   from both ends: a non-`projects` method reaching `/cloud/` fails. Tracked as
   #3655.
 - **Dynamic families.** A `**` row claims a prefix, not a resolvable route.
-  **60 of ~196 matched calls (~31%) rest on nothing stronger** — 54 of them on
+  **60 of ~196 matched calls (~31%) rested on nothing stronger** — 54 of them on
   `* /auth/**`, where the routes come from a third-party dependency on its own
   release cadence. The guard counts and ratchets this, so it can only shrink.
-  Tracked as #3656.
+  Closed to **3** by #3656, below.
+
+## 11. The auth surface, enumerated (#3656)
+
+The widest hole §10 measured. `plugin-auth` mounts better-auth with one
+catch-all — `rawApp.all(`${basePath}/*`)` — so there are no per-route
+registration calls to capture the way tranche 3 captured
+`registerStorageRoutes`. The seam is **`auth.api`**: every better-auth endpoint
+object carries `.path` and `.options.method`, so a live instance *is* the route
+table. `packages/plugins/plugin-auth/src/auth-route-ledger.ts` reads it.
+
+Two halves, checked differently on purpose:
+
+| Half | Check | Catches |
+|---|---|---|
+| `AUTH_ROUTE_LEDGER` — 55 reviewed rows, every route the SDK calls, each naming its client method | **strict**: each must exist in the live table | an upstream **rename**. `auth.me` targets `/get-session`; if better-auth renames it, 26 `auth.*` methods 404 and nothing noticed before |
+| `BETTER_AUTH_MOUNTED_SURFACE` — 129 wire paths, the whole inventory | **exact equality**, both directions | a version bump silently **adding** publicly-mounted auth endpoints |
+
+The asymmetry is deliberate: demanding a hand-written rationale for all 129
+would turn every better-auth upgrade into a hundred-row review, and the ledger
+would rot into rubber-stamping. But the catch-all publishes whatever upstream
+adds, so growth still has to be a reviewable CI diff — hence a
+machine-maintained inventory rather than reviewed prose.
+
+Enumeration is config-dependent (better-auth plugins are opt-in), so the
+inventory is pinned at the configuration enabling every plugin the SDK targets
+— the maximal surface — with the participating `OS_*` env vars cleared so a
+developer's shell cannot produce a spurious diff. Mutation-checked: renaming a
+ledgered route fails the suite naming it.
+
+Effect on §10's guard: the wildcard-only count **fell 60 → 3** (only `* /ai/**`
+remains, whose routes `service-ai buildAIRoutes()` builds at plugin start). The
+capstone also had to prefer exact rows over wildcard families when matching —
+otherwise every `/auth/*` URL would still have been absorbed by `* /auth/**`
+and the new ledger would have changed nothing.
 
 ## Follow-up slicing (proposed)
 
@@ -250,7 +284,8 @@ rots silently:
 9. **Autonomous service mounts** (§9) — done in #3636.
 10. **Cross-surface URL conformance** (§10, the reverse direction) — done in #3642.
 11. **Control-plane surface** (§10) — #3655, needs a ledger in the `cloud` repo.
-12. **Enumerate `/auth/**`** (§10) — #3656, lowers the wildcard ratchet.
+12. **Enumerate `/auth/**`** (§11) — done in #3656; wildcard ratchet 60 → 3.
+13. **Enumerate `/ai/**`** — the last dynamic family, 3 SDK methods.
 
 Each gap closed must flip its ledger row to `sdk` and lower the ratchet bound
 in the conformance test — the guard enforces both directions from PR-1 onward.

packages/client/src/client-url-conformance.test.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 /**
  * Client-URL conformance — the capstone guard (#3642).
  *
- * WHAT THE OTHER FOUR GUARDS DO NOT ASK. The dispatcher (#3563), REST (#3587)
+ * WHAT THE SERVER-SIDE GUARDS DO NOT ASK. The dispatcher (#3563), REST (#3587)
  * and service-mount (#3636) ledgers all run server → client: enumerate what a
  * surface mounts, demand a reviewed disposition, and for `sdk` rows demand the
  * named client method exists. *The method exists* is not *the method can be
@@ -21,8 +21,9 @@
  *
  * This suite closes the direction. It drives every method on a real client
  * with a recording `fetch`, then matches each captured URL against the UNION
- * of all four ledgers. A union, not an intersection: a route mounted by only
- * one surface is still legitimately reachable.
+ * of all five ledgers — dispatcher, REST, storage, i18n, auth. A union, not an
+ * intersection: a route mounted by only one surface is still legitimately
+ * reachable.
  *
  * WHY A REAL DRIVE, NOT A DECLARATION. Asserting "method X targets route Y" in
  * a table would be an assertion *about* the code that the code can drift away
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ import { ROUTE_LEDGER } from '../../runtime/src/route-ledger';
 import { REST_ROUTE_LEDGER } from '../../rest/src/rest-route-ledger';
 import { STORAGE_ROUTE_LEDGER } from '../../services/service-storage/src/storage-route-ledger';
 import { I18N_ROUTE_LEDGER } from '../../services/service-i18n/src/i18n-route-ledger';
+import { AUTH_ROUTE_LEDGER } from '../../plugins/plugin-auth/src/auth-route-ledger';
 
 const BASE = 'http://localhost:9';
 
@@ -106,7 +108,14 @@ const PATTERNS: Pattern[] = [
   ...REST_ROUTE_LEDGER.map((r) => r.route).flatMap((r) => compile(r, '', 'rest')),
   ...STORAGE_ROUTE_LEDGER.map((r) => r.route).flatMap((r) => compile(r, '', 'storage')),
   ...I18N_ROUTE_LEDGER.map((r) => r.route).flatMap((r) => compile(r, '', 'i18n')),
-];
+  ...AUTH_ROUTE_LEDGER.map((r) => r.route).flatMap((r) => compile(r, '', 'auth')),
+]
+  // Exact rows before wildcard families, so a URL that a real route covers is
+  // never CREDITED to a `**` prefix claim that happens to sit earlier in the
+  // list. Without this, adding the auth ledger would change nothing: every
+  // `/api/v1/auth/*` URL would still be absorbed by the dispatcher's
+  // `* /auth/**` row and keep counting as weak evidence.
+  .sort((a, b) => Number(a.route.includes('**')) - Number(b.route.includes('**')));
 
 function matches(verb: string, path: string): Pattern | undefined {
   return PATTERNS.find((p) => (p.verb === '*' || p.verb === verb) && p.re.test(path));
@@ -360,14 +369,17 @@ describe('client URL conformance ↔ the union of all four route ledgers (#3642)
     expect(controlPlane.length, 'the projects namespace should still be reaching the control plane').toBeGreaterThan(0);
 
     // HOW STRONG IS THIS GUARD, HONESTLY. A `**` row asserts only that a prefix
-    // family is claimed, not that the specific URL resolves — `/auth/**` alone
-    // covers 26 SDK methods. Those matches are real but weak, so the count is
-    // ratcheted: enumerating a dynamic family (or dropping one) may lower it,
-    // and nothing may raise it without a deliberate decision.
+    // family is CLAIMED, not that the specific URL resolves. That was this
+    // guard's biggest weakness at #3642: 60 of ~196 matched calls rested on
+    // nothing better, 54 of them on `* /auth/**`. #3656 enumerated better-auth's
+    // real route table, so those now match exact rows and the bound fell 60 → 3.
+    // What remains is `* /ai/**`, whose routes service-ai builds at plugin start.
+    // Ratcheted: enumerating that family lowers it; nothing raises it without a
+    // deliberate decision.
     expect(
       wildcardOnly.length,
       'methods matched only by a wildcard `**` family — weaker evidence than an exact ' +
         `route. Enumerate a dynamic family to lower this bound; do not raise it:\n${wildcardOnly.join('\n')}`,
-    ).toBeLessThanOrEqual(60);
+    ).toBeLessThanOrEqual(3);
   });
 });

packages/plugins/plugin-auth/src/auth-route-ledger.conformance.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,179 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2025 ObjectStack. Licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
+
+/**
+ * Auth route-ledger conformance (#3656) — the guard over the one surface the
+ * #3642 capstone could only cover with a wildcard.
+ *
+ * The route table here belongs to better-auth, and the plugin mounts it with a
+ * single catch-all, so there are no registration calls to capture the way
+ * tranche 3 captured `registerStorageRoutes`. The enumeration seam is
+ * `auth.api`: every better-auth endpoint carries `.path` and `.options.method`,
+ * so a live instance IS the route table. Still a real enumeration — nothing
+ * here is a list someone maintains by hand and hopes is current.
+ *
+ * Two directions, checked differently on purpose (see the ledger header):
+ *
+ *  1. STRICT — every reviewed `better-auth` row must exist upstream. This is
+ *     the rename detector: `auth.me` targets `/get-session`, and if better-auth
+ *     renames it, 26 `auth.*` SDK methods start 404-ing. Today nothing notices.
+ *  2. EXACT — the mounted-surface inventory must equal the live enumeration in
+ *     both directions. The catch-all publishes whatever upstream adds, so a
+ *     version bump that introduces endpoints has to surface as a reviewable
+ *     diff rather than as silently-exposed auth surface.
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'vitest';
+import { AuthManager } from './auth-manager';
+import { AUTH_ROUTE_LEDGER, BETTER_AUTH_MOUNTED_SURFACE } from './auth-route-ledger';
+
+const BASE_PATH = '/api/v1/auth';
+
+/**
+ * The configuration the inventory is pinned at: every better-auth plugin the
+ * SDK targets, turned on explicitly. The maximal surface, so no route the SDK
+ * can reach is missing from the enumeration.
+ */
+const LEDGERED_PLUGIN_CONFIG = {
+  organization: true,
+  twoFactor: true,
+  admin: true,
+  oidcProvider: true,
+  passkeys: true,
+  magicLink: true,
+  deviceAuthorization: true,
+};
+
+/**
+ * `buildPluginList` reads env vars that can flip plugins on top of the config
+ * above (`OS_SSO_ENABLED`, `OS_SCIM_ENABLED`, …). A developer with any of them
+ * exported would enumerate a different surface and see a spurious diff, so they
+ * are cleared for the duration of the suite.
+ */
+const ENV_KEYS = [
+  'OS_SSO_ENABLED', 'OS_SSO_DOMAIN_VERIFICATION', 'OS_SCIM_ENABLED',
+  'OS_AUTH_TWO_FACTOR', 'OS_AUTH_PASSWORD_REJECT_BREACHED',
+  'OS_OIDC_PROVIDER_ENABLED', 'OS_MCP_SERVER_ENABLED',
+];
+const savedEnv: Record<string, string | undefined> = {};
+
+let live: Set<string>;
+
+beforeAll(async () => {
+  for (const k of ENV_KEYS) { savedEnv[k] = process.env[k]; delete process.env[k]; }
+
+  const manager = new AuthManager({
+    secret: 'route-ledger-conformance-secret-32-chars',
+    baseUrl: 'http://localhost:9',
+    plugins: LEDGERED_PLUGIN_CONFIG,
+  } as never);
+  // No dataEngine: createDatabaseConfig() falls back to better-auth's in-memory
+  // adapter. Route registration does not touch the database — only request
+  // handling would — so the table enumerates identically.
+  const auth = (await manager.getAuthInstance()) as unknown as {
+    api: Record<string, { path?: string; options?: { method?: string | string[] } }>;
+  };
+
+  live = new Set<string>();
+  for (const endpoint of Object.values(auth.api ?? {})) {
+    if (typeof endpoint?.path !== 'string') continue;
+    // The OIDC/OAuth discovery documents are mounted at the app ROOT by
+    // auth-plugin.ts (RFC 8414 and OpenID Discovery both require well-known to
+    // sit on the origin), not under the auth base path.
+    const wire = endpoint.path.startsWith('/.well-known/')
+      ? endpoint.path
+      : `${BASE_PATH}${endpoint.path}`;
+    const method = endpoint.options?.method;
+    for (const verb of Array.isArray(method) ? method : [method ?? 'POST']) {
+      live.add(`${verb} ${wire}`);
+    }
+  }
+}, 60_000);
+
+afterAll(() => {
+  for (const k of ENV_KEYS) {
+    if (savedEnv[k] === undefined) delete process.env[k];
+    else process.env[k] = savedEnv[k];
+  }
+});
+
+describe('auth route ledger ↔ the live better-auth route table', () => {
+  it('enumeration produced a real table (guard the guard)', () => {
+    // An empty or tiny `auth.api` — a construction failure, a mocked module —
+    // would make every assertion below vacuously pass.
+    expect(live.size).toBeGreaterThan(100);
+  });
+
+  it('every reviewed better-auth row still exists upstream', () => {
+    const missing = AUTH_ROUTE_LEDGER
+      .filter((e) => e.source === 'better-auth')
+      .map((e) => e.route)
+      .filter((r) => !live.has(r));
+    expect(
+      missing,
+      'ledgered auth routes better-auth no longer serves — the SDK methods naming them are ' +
+        `now wire-level 404s:\n${missing.join('\n')}`,
+    ).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('the mounted-surface inventory matches what the catch-all actually publishes', () => {
+    const pinned = new Set(BETTER_AUTH_MOUNTED_SURFACE);
+    const added = [...live].filter((r) => !pinned.has(r)).sort();
+    const removed = [...pinned].filter((r) => !live.has(r)).sort();
+
+    expect(
+      added,
+      'better-auth now publishes auth endpoints the ledger does not list. These are mounted ' +
+        'PUBLICLY by the catch-all, so review them before pinning — then add them to ' +
+        `BETTER_AUTH_MOUNTED_SURFACE:\n${added.join('\n')}`,
+    ).toEqual([]);
+
+    expect(
+      removed,
+      'pinned auth endpoints better-auth no longer publishes — anything depending on them ' +
+        `is now a 404:\n${removed.join('\n')}`,
+    ).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('auth route ledger hygiene', () => {
+  it('every `sdk` entry names its client method; every non-sdk entry carries a rationale', () => {
+    const sdkWithout = AUTH_ROUTE_LEDGER.filter((e) => e.disposition === 'sdk' && !e.client).map((e) => e.route);
+    expect(sdkWithout, 'sdk-disposition entries missing a client method name').toEqual([]);
+
+    const bareNonSdk = AUTH_ROUTE_LEDGER.filter((e) => e.disposition !== 'sdk' && !e.note).map((e) => e.route);
+    expect(bareNonSdk, 'non-sdk entries must say WHY they are not SDK surface').toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('no route is ledgered twice, and every row is under the auth base path', () => {
+    const seen = new Set<string>();
+    const dupes = AUTH_ROUTE_LEDGER.map((e) => e.route).filter((r) => !seen.add(r));
+    expect(dupes, `duplicate auth-route-ledger rows: ${dupes.join(', ')}`).toEqual([]);
+
+    const stray = AUTH_ROUTE_LEDGER
+      .filter((e) => !e.route.includes(` ${BASE_PATH}/`))
+      .map((e) => e.route);
+    expect(stray, `rows outside ${BASE_PATH}: ${stray.join(', ')}`).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('the two objectstack-mounted rows are the ones auth-plugin.ts serves itself', () => {
+    // /config and /bootstrap-status are mounted on the raw app AHEAD of the
+    // catch-all, so they are absent from `auth.api` by construction. Pinned so
+    // the `source` split stays honest rather than becoming a place to park a
+    // row that failed the upstream check.
+    const own = AUTH_ROUTE_LEDGER.filter((e) => e.source === 'objectstack').map((e) => e.route).sort();
+    expect(own).toEqual([
+      'GET /api/v1/auth/bootstrap-status',
+      'GET /api/v1/auth/config',
+    ]);
+    for (const route of own) {
+      expect(live.has(route), `${route} should NOT come from better-auth`).toBe(false);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('gap and mismatch counts only shrink', () => {
+    // The surface audited clean at #3656: every SDK-reachable auth route
+    // resolves against the live better-auth table.
+    expect(AUTH_ROUTE_LEDGER.filter((e) => e.disposition === 'gap').length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(0);
+    expect(AUTH_ROUTE_LEDGER.filter((e) => e.disposition === 'mismatch').length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(0);
+  });
+});