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….com The auto-close detector watches the labs.google session endpoint, and for a migrated account labs hands off without ever minting a session — so the one oracle it had could not answer. The window stayed open for the full 600 s while the banner promised gflow would close it, and the timeout then propagated past `_verify_and_record`, so a sign-in that had completed perfectly was discarded unread and the user got exit 12 for a login that worked. Two changes, and neither moves the authentication decision into a cookie. Stop signal: when the labs oracle answers GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLY and the jar carries both halves of a migrated session, stop waiting. That ends a wait which had no other way to end; `verify_flow_profile` still asks a server about what landed on disk and is still the only thing that can call a login successful. Gated on `raise_on_close=False`, which already means "this caller owns that fallback oracle" — `--browser internal` has none and keeps waiting as before. Reached only past `_is_safe_to_probe_session`, so a user on Google's password screen never gets there and their window is never closed out from under them. Timeout: read the profile before failing. A sign-in the detector missed is reported as the success it is; otherwise the timeout's own wording stands, because it is the message that explains the wait. This reverses a contract the suite pinned as "verification must not run on timeout" — that described the control flow rather than requiring it, and #849 is what it cost. The poll now returns the status that ended the wait rather than a bare email: a session can be proven without a label, and `str | None` made "no email" and "window closed" indistinguishable, so the caller skipped both the notice and the cookie-flush wait for a login that had just succeeded. Closes #849
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
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participant ProfileVerifier
User->>Browser: Complete Google sign-in
Browser->>SessionPoller: Provide Flow session or migrated cookies
SessionPoller->>ProfileVerifier: Verify persisted profile
ProfileVerifier-->>SessionPoller: Return authenticated or missing session
SessionPoller-->>User: Complete login or report timeout
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In `@docs/AUTHENTICATION.md`:
- Around line 231-235: Update the timeout-verification documentation in both
authentication copies to scope the guarantee to the owned-browser path: state
that an owned-browser timeout verifies the persisted profile before failing,
while the subprocess fallback may exit on AuthLoginTimeoutError before
_verify_and_record runs. Remove the claim that verification occurs on every
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In `@src/gflow_cli/auth/real_chrome.py`:
- Line 392: Update _await_flow_session so it prints the green “Signed in.”
message only for FlowSessionOutcome.AUTHENTICATED; use a neutral close message
for GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLY. Add a regression test covering the GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLY
path and verifying it is not reported as completed sign-in.
In `@src/gflow_cli/auth/verification.py`:
- Around line 364-365: Update the domain checks in has_migrated_app_session to
normalize any leading dot and require exact matches for google.com and
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| **A timeout is not a verdict either.** If neither signal fires, gflow closes the window and | ||
| *still* reads the profile before failing — "gflow verifies what's on disk either way" is the | ||
| promise the sign-in banner makes, and it now holds on every path. A sign-in that completed | ||
| while the detector was blind is reported as the success it is; one that really did not | ||
| happen keeps the timeout's own wording, which is the message that explains the wait. |
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Limit the timeout-verification claim to the owned-browser path in both documentation copies.
When the subprocess fallback remains open until _await_chrome_close times out, that function raises AuthLoginTimeoutError. login catches this exception only around _login_owned_browser, so the fallback exits before _verify_and_record reads the persisted profile.
State that the owned-browser timeout path verifies the persisted profile before failing in both docs/AUTHENTICATION.md and website/docs/AUTHENTICATION.md. Do not claim that this guarantee holds on every path.
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In `@docs/AUTHENTICATION.md` around lines 231 - 235, Update the
timeout-verification documentation in both authentication copies to scope the
guarantee to the owned-browser path: state that an owned-browser timeout
verifies the persisted profile before failing, while the subprocess fallback may
exit on AuthLoginTimeoutError before _verify_and_record runs. Remove the claim
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| raise _login_timeout_error(self._timeout_seconds) from None | ||
| if email is None: | ||
| if session is None: |
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Do not report GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLY as a completed sign-in.
_await_flow_session prints the green Signed in. message for every non-None session outcome, including GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLY. login then calls _verify_and_record; if verification raises AuthMissingError, the error occurs after the success message.
Use a neutral close message for GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLY, or print Signed in. only for FlowSessionOutcome.AUTHENTICATED. Add a regression test for this path.
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In `@src/gflow_cli/auth/real_chrome.py` at line 392, Update _await_flow_session so
it prints the green “Signed in.” message only for
FlowSessionOutcome.AUTHENTICATED; use a neutral close message for
GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLY. Add a regression test covering the GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLY path
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| has_sso = any(n == "SAPISID" and "google.com" in d for n, d in names) | ||
| has_flow_osid = any(n in ("__Secure-OSID", "OSID") and "flow.google.com" in d for n, d in names) |
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Require exact cookie domains before stopping the poll.
The owned-browser path passes the unfiltered result of await ctx.cookies() to has_migrated_app_session. Cookies with SAPISID on google.com.example and OSID on flow.google.com.example can coexist in the persistent browser context. The substring checks accept both cookies, set the migrated-session signal, and stop polling before sign-in completes. Later profile verification prevents an authentication bypass, but it does not prevent the premature browser close.
Normalize the leading dot and compare the complete domain. Add a test that rejects lookalike domains.
Proposed fix
- names = {(c.get("name"), c.get("domain", "")) for c in cookies}
- has_sso = any(n == "SAPISID" and "google.com" in d for n, d in names)
- has_flow_osid = any(n in ("__Secure-OSID", "OSID") and "flow.google.com" in d for n, d in names)
+ names = {
+ (name, domain.removeprefix(".").lower())
+ for cookie in cookies
+ if isinstance(name := cookie.get("name"), str)
+ and isinstance(domain := cookie.get("domain"), str)
+ }
+ has_sso = ("SAPISID", "google.com") in names
+ has_flow_osid = any(
+ (name, "flow.google.com") in names
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In `@src/gflow_cli/auth/verification.py` around lines 364 - 365, Update the domain
checks in has_migrated_app_session to normalize any leading dot and require
exact matches for google.com and flow.google.com, rejecting lookalike domains
such as google.com.example and flow.google.com.example. Add a test covering
these lookalike domains while preserving acceptance of the intended cookie
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# Conflicts: # CHANGELOG.md
Summary
gflow auth login --browser chromenever closed the window for an account Google serves fromflow.google.com. The auto-close detector watches thelabs.googlesession endpoint, and for a migrated account labs hands off without ever minting a session — so the one oracle it had could not answer.The bug is worse than the window staying open.
login()never caughtAuthLoginTimeoutError, so the raise from_await_flow_sessionwent straight past_verify_and_record: a sign-in that had completed perfectly was discarded unread and the user got exit 12 for a login that worked. v0.77.0 fixed verification for these accounts, which made the outcome correct only for users who closed the window themselves.The fix — two changes, neither of which moves the auth decision into a cookie
A stop signal. When the labs oracle answers
GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLYand the jar carries both halves of a migrated session (the.google.comSSO cookie and theflow.google.comapp-session cookie), stop waiting. This ends a wait that had no other way to end;verify_flow_profilestill asks a server about what landed on disk and is still the only thing that can call a login successful.Two gates keep it honest:
raise_on_close=False, which already means "this caller owns that fallback oracle".--browser internalhas none, so it keeps waiting exactly as before — a stop-without-proof would hand it an unverified profile and call the login a success._is_safe_to_probe_session, so a user still on Google's password screen never reaches it and their window is never closed out from under them — even with stale cookies from a previous session in the jar.A timeout that reads the disk before failing. The banner already promises "gflow verifies what's on disk either way"; that was false on exactly the path a migrated account takes every time. A sign-in the detector missed is now reported as the success it is; otherwise the timeout's own wording stands, because it is the message that explains the wait the user just sat through.
The poll returns the status that ended the wait rather than a bare email: a session can be proven without a label, and
str | Nonemade "no email" and "window closed" indistinguishable — the caller read the first as the second and skipped both the "Signed in" notice and the cookie-flush wait for a login that had just succeeded.This reverses a contract the suite pinned
test_timeout_with_window_open_raisespatchedverify_flow_profilewithAssertionError("verification must not run on timeout"). That described the control flow rather than requiring it, and #849 is what it cost. The test is rewritten to pin the new contract with the reason, and a sibling test pins that a genuinely-unverified timeout still raisesAuthLoginTimeoutErrorwith the original wording. Flagging it explicitly rather than letting a deliberate reversal look like a fixed test.Council
/gflow:predictreturned 3 GO / 2 CAUTION. The Devil's Advocate found a smaller fix than the one proposed — reuse the cookie pair the verifier already checks, instead of running themyaccount.google.comprobe inside the live login context — and it dodges both CAUTIONs:Its harder claim — that the timeout never reaches
_verify_and_record— I verified against the code before acting on it.Verification
480 passedon the offline auth/login/mcp slice, including 4 new tests for the stop signal (fires; SSO cookie alone does not; a caller without a fallback oracle keeps waiting; a signed-out window is never closed early).4 passedon the live zero-credite2e_authsuite against a real profile — this coversverify_flow_profileand so thehas_migrated_app_sessionpredicate extracted from_verify_migrated_host_fallback.ruff check,ruff format --check,pyright src(0 errors) all green.Named blocker, per the Iron Law: the auto-close path itself cannot be exercised by an automated e2e test — it requires a human completing an interactive Google sign-in on an account whose migrated session has expired. Every profile on this machine is already authenticated, so there is no signed-out migrated account here to drive. The stop signal's inputs (the cookie pair, the
GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLYanswer, the host gate) are covered offline, and the verifier half is covered live; the human-in-the-loop leg is not, and this is that leg being named rather than recorded as done.MCP parity
auth loginhas no MCP twin and is exempt intests/mcp/test_cli_parity.pyas "interactive session management — needs a human browser login flow". This change alters when Chrome closes and which signal ends the wait, not whether the flow could be driven without a human, so the exemption reason is unchanged. No MCP tool ordocs/MCP.mdclaim is made false by it.Closes #849
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