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fix(auth): stop auth login reporting success while Flow routes to /about (#902) - #904

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Closes #902

What

gflow auth login reported [OK] Flow session verified on an account where Google is waiting for the owner to "Confirm it's you". In that state the cookies stay valid, so the session probe answered in 0.4 s. Chrome closed before Flow's client-side hop to flow.google.com/about could land, and every command afterwards still exited 31.

Fix (root: the shared login poll, poll_session_until_authenticated)

  • Before the wait ends (either stop signal), a flow.google.com landing is watched for up to 3 s for flow_landing_kind(url) == "public". The hop was measured at about 340 ms, so this allows roughly 10x that. Labs-served logins are not watched and close as fast as before.
  • On /about: Chrome stays open, the event auth_login_identity_recheck_pending is logged, and the user is told to press the page's main button and finish Google's check. Once the page reaches the app, the login succeeds as before.
  • Closing the window or running out of time while on /about raises the new IdentityRecheckPendingError. It subclasses AuthLoginTimeoutError, so it exits 12 with no new exit code. It raises whatever raise_on_close is set to, because the fallback oracle would read the same healthy cookies.
  • RealChromeStrategy.login lets it through: the auth login: the browser never closes on a migrated account — the auto-close oracle is the labs endpoint that never answers #849 "ask the disk" rescue is skipped for this error, since that rescue is exactly how the false [OK] would come back. _await_flow_session no longer rewrites it into the generic timeout.
  • The banner gains one line, so the subprocess fallback path (which cannot observe the page) also tells the user about the check.

Predict mitigations (CAUTION verdict)

  1. Check sits in the shared poll: done. It covers both strategies.
  2. Close or timeout while pending raises: done, pinned at the poll level and through login().
  3. Subprocess fallback: banner line only. Still uncovered: that path has no page to observe.
  4. fix(auth): recover from /about landing via Create button and parse batchexecute RPC error envelopes #881's /about remediation now becomes correct (gflow auth login will stop on the check). I left _common.py alone to avoid colliding with fix(auth): recover from /about landing via Create button and parse batchexecute RPC error envelopes #881. The fix(auth): recover from /about landing via Create button and parse batchexecute RPC error envelopes #881 text still needs to change.
  5. E2E: see below.

Deviation from the predict: it recommended request listeners attached before goto. I used a URL watch window instead, because the URL keeps the evidence once the hop has landed, so a listener would only save latency. The upgrade path is noted in a ponytail: comment.

Tests

  • Offline: 6 new tests. Mutation-checked: with the watch disabled, the 4 behavioural tests fail. tests/auth + errors + mcp + docs gate: 491 passed. ruff, format and pyright: 0 errors. All repo hygiene, doc-link, PII, website-mirror and council-memory gates are green.
  • E2E (tests/e2e/test_login_identity_recheck_e2e.py, e2e_auth, $0), real headed Chrome:
    • Healthy arm: ffroliva 1/1 passed. denon82 passed in 3 of the last 3 runs (8.8 s, 17 s, 16 s). One earlier denon82 run failed after holding Chrome open until the timeout, and its log was not captured, so its cause is unexplained. It did not recur in 3 reruns.
    • /about arm (GFLOW_CLI_E2E_ABOUT_PROFILE): named external blocker. No profile here is in the re-check state. denon82 was cleared by hand on 2026-09-23, ci-probe loads the app (3/3 logins succeeded, consistent with the 2026-09-11 A/B), and pr389fresh2 is signed out (GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLY). The failing state cannot be manufactured. The test is ready for the next account that lands on /about.

Not in scope

gflow auth status and gflow doctor still report healthy on this state. Both rely on cookies and the server, and fixing them needs a browser launch. That is a sibling issue.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Google sign-ins that require a “Confirm it’s you” check now keep the browser open so you can complete the check and return to Flow.
    • If you close the browser or the login times out before the check is complete, login reports that confirmation is still pending (exit code 12) instead of reporting success.
    • Logins served through Labs continue to close the browser as before.

…about (#902)

A pending Google "Confirm it's you" leaves the cookies valid, so the session
probe answered in 0.4 s and the login closed Chrome before Flow's client-side
hop to flow.google.com/about landed, then printed [OK] on a broken account.

The shared login poll now watches a flow.google.com landing for up to 3 s
before ending the wait. On /about it keeps Chrome open and tells the user to
finish Google's check; closing or timing out there raises the new
IdentityRecheckPendingError (exit 12), and RealChromeStrategy no longer lets
the #849 on-disk check overrule it (that check reads the same healthy cookies).
Labs-served logins are not watched and close as before.
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Login polling now detects when Flow lands on /about while Google identity confirmation is pending. The browser remains open for the user to complete the check. Closing the browser or reaching the polling deadline raises IdentityRecheckPendingError.

Changes

Google identity recheck

Layer / File(s) Summary
Detect the pending identity check
src/gflow_cli/errors.py, src/gflow_cli/auth/internal_chromium.py, tests/auth/strategies/test_strategies.py
Adds IdentityRecheckPendingError and detects Flow’s public landing during session polling. If the user completes the check and returns to the app, polling can succeed. Closing the browser or timing out while the check is pending raises the new error. Labs-served logins do not use the additional wait.
Propagate and verify the login outcome
src/gflow_cli/auth/real_chrome.py, tests/auth/test_real_chrome.py, tests/e2e/test_login_identity_recheck_e2e.py, CHANGELOG.md, KNOWN_ISSUES.md, docs/DEBUGGING.md, website/docs/*
Real Chrome login preserves the new error and displays instructions for the public page. Tests check pending and healthy profiles, including whether on-disk verification occurs. The changelog and debugging and known-issue documentation describe the behavior and recovery steps.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RealChromeStrategy
  participant poll_session_until_authenticated
  participant FlowPublicPage
  participant User
  RealChromeStrategy->>poll_session_until_authenticated: Poll Flow session
  poll_session_until_authenticated->>FlowPublicPage: Check public landing
  FlowPublicPage-->>poll_session_until_authenticated: Report /about landing
  poll_session_until_authenticated->>User: Prompt to complete identity check
  User->>FlowPublicPage: Complete Google check
  FlowPublicPage-->>poll_session_until_authenticated: Return to Flow app
  poll_session_until_authenticated-->>RealChromeStrategy: Continue authenticated session
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Suggested reviewers: kittinan, stgmt

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ea091

This change keeps Chrome open when Flow routes to /about for Google's "Confirm it's you" check. However, once the user moves on to Google's password or confirmation page, login can still report success and close the browser before the check finishes. That is the failure this change sets out to fix. Before merging, require the page to return to the Flow app before accepting a pending check as complete.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR addresses #902. poll_session_until_authenticated checks the settled flow.google.com/about landing after a successful session probe. It sets a pending-recheck state instead of declaring succ…
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- Line 193: Update the AUTHENTICATED and migrated_stop success paths so that,
when recheck_pending is true, they report success only after a settled Flow app
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"Keep the window open: gflow closes it once the Flow app loads.",
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recheck_pending = True
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Require an app landing before accepting a pending recheck as complete.

If the user leaves /about for Google's password challenge during page.request.get, _landed_on_public_page returns false while the session response can still be AUTHENTICATED. This branch then reports success and closes Chrome before the check finishes. The migrated_stop branch has the same failure. Once recheck_pending is true, require a settled Flow app landing before either success branch. Update test_completing_the_recheck_ends_in_success to assert that its page reaches self.APP; it currently passes while the page is still on Google's host.

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In `@src/gflow_cli/auth/internal_chromium.py` at line 193, Update the
AUTHENTICATED and migrated_stop success paths so that, when recheck_pending is
true, they report success only after a settled Flow app landing is confirmed
with _landed_on_public_page; otherwise keep the recheck pending. Update
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ziyedbe pushed a commit to ziyedbe/gflow-cli-fork that referenced this pull request Oct 24, 2026
…iva#881)

Exit 31 on a flow.google.com/about redirect said only to open the project
in a browser. The 2026-09-23 spike measured the cause on the account that
reproduces it: a pending Google 'Confirm it's you' with healthy cookies,
which 'gflow auth login' now waits on (ffroliva#902/ffroliva#904). The hint says so,
without claiming it is the only cause. USAGE's exit-31 row follows.
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