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Fourth of five stacked PRs. Targets browser-session (#1571). Review that one first. #1564 holds the earlier single-branch version of this work with its review history.

Closes WIZ-10364.

Overview of Problem

qawolf auth login has one path: paste an API key. Someone new has to find a key in the web app before the CLI is usable at all.

The QA Wolf API accepts a WorkOS access token as a bearer credential on the same Authorization header the CLI sends today, so the CLI can obtain one by browser sign-in and use it immediately. With the protocol, the client and the session store in place, this PR adds the sign-in itself.

Where to look

File Why
domains/auth/deviceLogin.ts Runs the flow to completion, supplying the clock, the socket and the cancellation check. Writes nothing to storage, so a caller that never receives success has nothing to clean up.
commands/auth/loginDevice.ts The wiring: what is shown, when the browser opens, how Ctrl-C cancels.

Overview of Changes

  • qawolf auth login asks how to sign in. Browser runs the WorkOS device authorization grant; API key is the previous flow, moved to loginApiKey.ts unchanged.
  • commands/auth/loginDevice.ts reads the deployment's client id, shows the code and both verification URLs as RFC 8628 asks, opens the browser, polls, and stores the session.
  • The changeset describes browser sign-in and the precedence of an API key over a browser session.

Testing

  • 2,254 tests pass in total. oxlint --max-warnings 0, oxfmt --check, tsc --noEmit and knip are clean.
  • deviceLogin.wireFormat.test.ts drives the whole flow against a real local HTTP server, so the JSON body, the form-encoded body and the polling loop are proven to round trip.
  • Verified end to end against production: fresh browser sign-in, whoami 200 with the user identity, and a forced renewal that rotated the refresh token and kept the session valid.

Three behaviours were found against the live API and are handled: the two endpoints take different content types, a lapsed device code answers invalid_grant rather than expired_token, and the token response carries no expires_in.

Post-Release Tasks

  • Browser sign-in stays unavailable until a deployment serves /api/v0/auth/config. The API key path is offered until then.

To Do

  • Request e2e test coverage if needed
  • Explain database migrations and whether they have been manually written or auto-generated — none
  • Add release notes in sections below if your changes are relevant to non-developers
  • Add pre/post-release tasks in sections below if needed

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Walkthrough

The CLI now supports browser-based device authentication and API-key authentication through separate login handlers. Browser login resolves deployment configuration, displays device verification instructions, polls with cancellation and backoff, stores approved tokens, and reports classified failures. API-key login preserves validation and storage behavior. The login command warns when existing credentials take precedence over browser sessions. Tests cover routing, polling, cancellation, failures, wire formats, and credential precedence.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5edf4

Browser sign-in adds a new authentication path, but its polling timeout behavior and device-flow contract coverage remain unresolved. The release documentation may also misstate which deployments support browser sign-in, so these concerns should be addressed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant handleLogin
  participant loginWithDevice
  participant deviceLogin
  participant CredentialStore
  User->>handleLogin: choose browser login
  handleLogin->>loginWithDevice: start device authentication
  loginWithDevice->>deviceLogin: request and poll authorization
  deviceLogin-->>loginWithDevice: return approved tokens
  loginWithDevice->>CredentialStore: save tokens
  loginWithDevice-->>User: report successful sign-in
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In `@src/commands/auth/loginDevice.test.ts`:
- Line 124: Update the identity fixture used by the login device test to include
the required organizations field in the user-and-organization response shape, so
identityResponse.safeParse succeeds and fetchSessionEmail does not return
identity-rejected. Leave the existing identity URL and router behavior
unchanged.

In `@src/commands/auth/loginDevice.ts`:
- Line 123: Remove the unused env property from the LoginDeviceDeps type and
from the resolved dependencies object used by loginWithDevice and signIn. Keep
the remaining dependency resolution unchanged.

In `@src/shell/workos/wireFormat.test.ts`:
- Line 3: Move the test currently associated with wireFormat to the auth domain
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  • src/commands/auth/showDeviceCode.ts
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): Promise<CommandResult> {
const platform = deps.platform ?? process.platform;
const resolved: Required<LoginDeviceDeps> = {
env: deps.env ?? process.env,

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the unused env dependency at src/commands/auth/loginDevice.ts:123. loginWithDevice and signIn never read env, so remove it from LoginDeviceDeps and resolved.

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In `@src/commands/auth/loginDevice.ts` at line 123, Remove the unused env property
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@chajac Chase J (chajac) changed the title feat(auth): sign in through WorkOS Connect with a resource-bound refresh feat(auth): add browser sign-in with the WorkOS device flow Sep 7, 2026

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In @.changeset/browser-sign-in.md:
- Line 9: Update the browser sign-in description to say it requires no local
configuration and works only with deployments that publish browser sign-in,
including the required Connect issuer, client ID, and registered /api resource;
preserve the fallback to the API key path when unavailable.

In `@src/domains/auth/deviceLogin.ts`:
- Line 72: Update the polling flow around nextPollStep and deps.sleep so the
wait duration is capped by the remaining device-code lifetime before sleeping.
Preserve the existing delay calculation while ensuring repeated unreachable
responses cannot schedule a sleep past the deadline.

In `@src/domains/auth/deviceLogin.wireFormat.test.ts`:
- Around line 41-42: Update requestDeviceAuthorization and its related unit and
wire-format tests so /user_management/authorize/device sends
application/x-www-form-urlencoded data containing client_id, matching the
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state = step.state;
await deps.sleep(step.delayMs);

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Cap the wait at the device-code deadline.

nextPollStep doubles the delay for unreachable responses but does not cap it. Production wiring uses Date.now() and a real timer, so repeated failures can schedule a 256-second sleep near a 300-second deadline and delay timeout by about 210 seconds. Limit the sleep to the remaining lifetime.

Proposed fix
-    await deps.sleep(step.delayMs);
+    await deps.sleep(
+      Math.min(
+        step.delayMs,
+        Math.max(0, step.state.deadlineMs - deps.now()),
+      ),
+    );
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await deps.sleep(step.delayMs);
await deps.sleep(
Math.min(
step.delayMs,
Math.max(0, step.state.deadlineMs - deps.now()),
),
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In `@src/domains/auth/deviceLogin.ts` at line 72, Update the polling flow around
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if (url.pathname === "/user_management/authorize/device") {
received.authorize = await request.json();

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🔎 Supported by static analysis

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rg -n -C 2 \
  'user_management/authorize/device|user_management/authenticate|oauth2/device_authorization|oauth2/token|application/json|application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  src/shell/workos src/domains/auth/deviceLogin.wireFormat.test.ts

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🌐 Web query:

site:workos.com/docs/authkit/cli-auth WorkOS CLI auth device authorization endpoint request format

💡 Result:

The WorkOS device authorization flow begins with a POST request to the /user_management/authorize/device endpoint [1]. This request must use the application/x-www-form-urlencoded content type and include the client_id as a parameter in the body [1]. The request format is as follows: Endpoint: https://api.workos.com/user_management/authorize/device Method: POST Headers: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Body: client_id=[YOUR_CLIENT_ID] Upon a successful request, the endpoint returns a JSON response containing the device_code, user_code, verification_uri (the URL where the user enters the code), verification_uri_complete (a pre-filled URL), expires_in (in seconds), and interval (the polling interval in seconds) [1]. Following this initial step, the CLI polls the token endpoint using the grant_type urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:device_code, the device_code, and the client_id to retrieve the final access token [1].

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printf '%s\n' '--- requestDeviceAuthorization.ts ---'
cat -n src/shell/workos/requestDeviceAuthorization.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- requestDeviceAuthorization.test.ts ---'
cat -n src/shell/workos/requestDeviceAuthorization.test.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- deviceLogin.wireFormat.test.ts ---'
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Use form encoding for device authorization.

The WorkOS CLI Auth contract keeps /user_management/authorize/device but requires application/x-www-form-urlencoded with client_id in the body. Update requestDeviceAuthorization.ts, its unit test, and deviceLogin.wireFormat.test.ts. The /user_management/authenticate polling flow already uses the required format.

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In `@src/domains/auth/deviceLogin.wireFormat.test.ts` around lines 41 - 42, Update
requestDeviceAuthorization and its related unit and wire-format tests so
/user_management/authorize/device sends application/x-www-form-urlencoded data
containing client_id, matching the existing /user_management/authenticate
polling format. Adjust the tests to assert the encoded body and content type.

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