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gflow credits list used to renew a stale profile's session as a side effect of its browser fallback. #802 rightly stopped re-asking aisandbox-pa with the same Bearer, and that took away the only automatic renewal. This PR brings it back as an opt-in, modelled on gflow-api credits --refresh.

  • gflow credits user|list --refresh: when a profile's fast path raises an expired-session error (AuthExpiredError, including AisandboxAuthError), it is renewed headlessly and asked again. Other profiles are untouched. If the renewal fails (revoked session, Flow's /about page, or a browser that cannot start), the fast path's diagnosis is kept. A profile in use is recorded as ProfileLockedError. The default without --refresh is unchanged (fix(795): stop re-deriving a credits auth verdict through a browser #802).
  • MCP twin: gflow_get_credits(refresh=true). The option-level parity gate passes.
  • gflow auth renew [--profile | --all] [--json] (auth/renew.py) does the renewal. renew_profile returns RenewResult(verdict, landing, labs_stale). A profile counts as renewed only if the verifier says authenticated, Flow did not hold it at /about, and labs' session is no longer stale. The verifier alone reports /about accounts as fine. Other per-profile rows: launch_error, in_use, engine_downgrade, public_landing, labs_stale. JSON is emitted on every --json path. It is exempt from MCP parity with a recorded reason: agents reach it through gflow_get_credits(refresh=true).
  • The credits 401 hint now points to --refresh / gflow auth renew instead of "check your balance in Flow".

Root cause of the renewal gap (spike)

Loading FLOW_URL alone does not fix the credits path. It 308s to flow.google.com, so labs' NextAuth never runs. A stale labs session answers 200 with an expired token plus error: ACCESS_TOKEN_REFRESH_NEEDED. About 2.5 s after load, the labs page's own JS signs in again silently (signin/google → OAuth 302 → callback/google). Renewal now loads labs.google/fx/ and polls the session until that error clears, bounded at about 20 s. Evidence: docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-10-14-labs-nextauth-silent-refresh.md.

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USAGE, USER_GUIDE, AUTHENTICATION (auth renew, § Refresh / expiry, headless sign-in note), MCP.md, KNOWN_ISSUES (session-expiry entry), E2E_TESTING (env vars and file map), CHANGELOG, AGENTS.md command surface, the gflow-cli skill (both copies) and skillopt/tasks.json. The website/docs/ mirrors are regenerated.

Verification

  • /gflow:check: hygiene, doc links, PII, website mirror, council memory, ruff, format and pyright are all green. 5009 passed, 92.64% coverage. Duplication proxy 10/10.
  • E2E test_auth_renew_e2e.py: 3 passed, 1 skipped.
    • Passed: live profile renewed and still readable; in-use profile skipped with exit 0; /about profile not reported renewed (exit 1).
    • Skipped: stale → renewed, because no stale-but-recoverable profile exists right now.
  • E2E test_credits_refresh_e2e.py:
    • Both doors (MCP and CLI) passed at 0c370f6e against two genuinely stale profiles.
    • At dbad8eb4: 2 skipped, because those profiles are still fresh from that run.
  • E2E regression (test_credits_e2e.py, test_credits_mcp_e2e.py): 4 passed, 2 skipped (skipped because the profile isn't in the cohort they target).
  • Live:
    • credits list --refresh went from 3 → 7 of 10 profiles readable (510 → 939 credits). The renewal before the labs poll fixed 0 of 8.
    • On an /about profile, the verifier said authenticated but renewal saw landing=public, labs_stale=True. auth renew exits 1, and credits --refresh keeps the 401 diagnosis (exit 3).
    • gflow-api's --refresh also fails on that profile (control). It needs gflow auth login plus "Confirm it's you" (KNOWN_ISSUES /about).
  • Named blocker: the stale → renewed runs at dbad8eb4 are waiting for a renewed labs token to lapse (about 24 h, the first around 18:05Z on 2026-10-15). They will be re-run and the summary line posted.

Test plan

  • Offline suite + gates
  • pytest -m e2e tests/e2e/test_auth_renew_e2e.py (3 passed, 1 skipped)
  • pytest -m e2e tests/e2e/test_credits_refresh_e2e.py (2 passed at 0c370f6e)
  • Re-run the stale → renewed e2e at dbad8eb4 once a labs token lapses
  • SonarCloud gate (maintainer, fork PR)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added gflow auth renew to refresh saved sessions without interactive sign-in. Renew one profile or use --all; results are available in text or JSON.
    • Added optional --refresh to gflow credits user and gflow credits list, plus refresh=true for credit retrieval. Expired sessions are renewed before retrying; without the option, credit checks remain read-only.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified that revoked sessions, public /about pages, and accounts without a Labs token may still require login or another recovery path.
    • Documented that renewal cannot complete human-required checks, such as CAPTCHA or device verification.

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📝 Walkthrough

The change adds gflow auth renew for saved sessions and an opt-in refresh path for credit inspection. Refresh renews a profile after an expired-session error and retries the balance request under defined renewal outcomes. The CLI and MCP tool expose the option.

Changes: Session Renewal and Credit Refresh

Layer / File(s) Summary
Profile renewal flow
src/gflow_cli/auth/renew.py, src/gflow_cli/cli.py, tests/auth/test_renew.py, tests/cli/test_auth_renew.py, tests/e2e/test_auth_renew_e2e.py, docs/AUTHENTICATION.md, website/docs/AUTHENTICATION.md
Adds headless browser renewal, Labs session polling, profile verification, and the gflow auth renew command. Tests cover browser behavior, command results, profile locking, stale sessions, and public-page outcomes.
Credit inspection refresh
src/gflow_cli/services/credits.py, src/gflow_cli/cli_credits.py, src/gflow_cli/mcp/tools.py, src/gflow_cli/api/credits.py, tests/services/test_credits.py, tests/cli/test_cli_credits.py, tests/mcp/test_credits_tool.py, tests/e2e/test_credits_refresh_e2e.py
Adds opt-in renewal after expired-session errors for CLI and MCP credit inspection. The service retries only under eligible renewal outcomes and preserves the original diagnosis when renewal does not qualify.
Renewal guidance and diagnostics
scripts/dev/spike_labs_nextauth_refresh.py, docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-10-14-labs-nextauth-silent-refresh.md, docs/USAGE.md, docs/MCP.md, docs/USER_GUIDE.md, KNOWN_ISSUES.md, website/docs/*, plugins/gflow/skills/gflow-cli/SKILL.md, skills/gflow-cli/SKILL.md
Documents renewal behavior and limitations, updates session-recovery guidance, and adds a diagnostic browser probe and session observations.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CreditsCommand
  participant CreditsInspection
  participant renew_profile
  participant CreditsAPI
  CreditsCommand->>CreditsInspection: inspect credits with refresh enabled
  CreditsInspection->>CreditsAPI: fetch balance
  CreditsAPI-->>CreditsInspection: expired-session error
  CreditsInspection->>renew_profile: renew expired profile
  renew_profile-->>CreditsInspection: renewal result
  CreditsInspection->>CreditsAPI: retry eligible request
  CreditsAPI-->>CreditsInspection: balance result
  CreditsInspection-->>CreditsCommand: return credit result
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Renewal can report success without a Labs token, and a failed credits retry can obscure the original recovery guidance. Resolve these issues before merging.

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🟡 Minor · Update the skill failure-mode table: it says gflow auth renew does not exist. · SKILL.md:282

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the skill failure-mode table: it says gflow auth renew does not exist. The command list now documents gflow auth renew. The ## Known agent failure modes table still tells agents that the command does not exist and that they should run gflow auth login.

  • plugins/gflow/skills/gflow-cli/SKILL.md#L282-L282: replace the row so that it points to gflow auth renew for stale sessions and keeps gflow auth login for revoked sessions, then bump skillopt_epoch.
  • skills/gflow-cli/SKILL.md#L59-L65: apply the same row change to the mirrored failure-mode table, then bump skillopt_epoch.

As per path instructions: "Add the mistake to the ## Known agent failure modes table" and "Bump skillopt_epoch in the frontmatter".

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Update the Known agent failure modes table in
plugins/gflow/skills/gflow-cli/SKILL.md at lines 282–282 and
skills/gflow-cli/SKILL.md at lines 59–65 so stale sessions point to gflow auth
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- Around line 107-117: Handle PlaywrightError from launch_persistent_context in
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ctx = await pw.chromium.launch_persistent_context(
user_data_dir=str(profile_dir),
channel=channel,
headless=True,
ignore_default_args=["--enable-automation", "--no-sandbox"],
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Catch browser launch failures so renew_profile follows its own contract.

launch_persistent_context runs outside every PlaywrightError handler. Launch can fail in several ways:

  • Google Chrome is missing for a chrome marker.
  • A leaked Chrome holds the profile SingletonLock (#293).
  • The bundled browser is not installed.

In each case renew_profile raises a raw playwright.Error. gflow auth renew --all catches only ProfileLockedError and ProfileEngineDowngradeError (src/gflow_cli/cli.py Line 451-457). As a result, one bad profile stops the loop. No JSON is printed, and the remaining profiles are not renewed. In credits list --refresh, the row shows Unexpected Error instead of the original AuthExpiredError diagnosis.

Fix: if the launch fails, log the error and fall through to verify_flow_profile. This matches the docstring rule that the oracle verdict is the answer.

Proposed fix
-            ctx = await pw.chromium.launch_persistent_context(
-                user_data_dir=str(profile_dir),
-                ...
-            )
+            try:
+                ctx = await pw.chromium.launch_persistent_context(
+                    user_data_dir=str(profile_dir),
+                    ...
+                )
+            except PlaywrightError as exc:
+                logger.warning("auth_renew_launch_error", source=source, error=type(exc).__name__)
+                ctx = None
+            if ctx is not None:
+                try:
+                    ...
+                finally:
+                    await ctx.close()
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Council review — 🔴 RED (reviewed at 0c370f6e)

Thanks @ziyedbe — the renewal mechanism itself is solid. Polling the labs session until ACCESS_TOKEN_REFRESH_NEEDED clears, rather than sleeping a fixed time, is the right contract, and the spike backs it with measurements. No tokens or URLs are logged, and it reuses the existing lease, engine guard and verifier. The blockers are mostly in the code and docs around the renewal, plus one unhandled exception.

Dimension Verdict
D0 CI gates (ruff/format/links/hygiene/website mirror/council memory/pyright) 🟢
D1 Correctness 🟡
D2 Quality / D12 BDD stubs / D13 scripts 🟢
D3 Security / D10 Auth 🟡
D4 Tests (55 offline pass, ~97% on new code) 🟡
D5 Memory / known issues 🟡
D6 Live / UI 🟡
D9 Docs drift 🟡
D14 YAGNI 🟢
D8 CLI UX / D15 CLI↔MCP↔skill parity 🔴
SonarCloud ⚪ skipped (fork PR) — needs a maintainer check before merge

Must-fix

  1. The agent skill says the new command doesn't exist. skills/gflow-cli/SKILL.md:15 and :282 (and the identical plugins/gflow/skills/gflow-cli/SKILL.md) still say gflow auth renew "does not exist", while :59 now documents it. scripts/dev/skillopt/tasks.json:44,48,200,204 lists gflow auth renew under must_not_include and says it doesn't exist, so the benchmark now penalises the correct answer.
  2. A browser launch failure is unhandled. src/gflow_cli/auth/renew.py:107: launch_persistent_context sits outside every try (CodeRabbit flagged this too). When the user's own Chrome holds the profile, or the channel isn't installed:
    • auth renew --all exits with a traceback, drops the rows already collected and emits no JSON.
    • Under credits user --refresh, the original AuthExpiredError is lost and the user gets UnexpectedError.
    • Suggested fix: catch it per profile and record a launch_error row. In services/credits.py::_fetch, wrap renew_profile and raise expired from exc. That makes "a failed renewal keeps the fast path's diagnosis" true on every path, not only when renewal returns non-AUTHENTICATED.
  3. auth renew reports success on /about profiles. renew.py:160 returns verify_flow_profile(...), and per KNOWN_ISSUES.md:17 that check reports the session as fine on an /about account. The landing=public and stale=True that renewal observes are logged and then discarded. So the 3 of 10 profiles that did not recover in your live run get "session renewed and verified" and exit 0. Suggested fix: surface landing and the final labs stale state from renew_profile, report not-renewed when either is bad, and link the KNOWN_ISSUES /about entry. Note that auth login alone does not clear that state either (spike 2026-09-23 / auth login declares success on valid cookies and cannot clear Google's pending identity re-check (/about) #902): it needs the "Confirm it's you" step.
  4. One false sentence and one outdated hint.
    • docs/USAGE.md:148 (and its mirror) says --refresh "cannot help where Flow serves flow.google.com … that host mints no labs token". Your own spike shows all 8 profiles 308 to flow.google.com and 7 of 10 recovered. Please scope it to the actual failure (no labs token issued). AGENTS.md § Host-Membership Discipline covers this wording.
    • src/gflow_cli/api/credits.py:109-117: the 401 remediation still says "gflow credits has no equivalent there yet — check your balance in Flow". AisandboxAuthError is the exact error --refresh now catches, so the hint should point to --refresh / gflow auth renew.
  5. Expiry docs that contradict the feature.
    • KNOWN_ISSUES.md:743-754 still says "Why we don't auto-refresh" and lists gflow auth refresh as a roadmap "candidate".
    • docs/AUTHENTICATION.md:431-447 § Refresh / expiry (the anchor KNOWN_ISSUES links to) still says only "re-running auth login refreshes the cookies".
    • docs/MCP.md:423, the 401 row, still says "credits cannot work".
    • Please update these, plus their website/docs/ mirrors.
  6. E2E gaps.
    • gflow auth renew has no e2e test. tests/e2e/test_credits_refresh_e2e.py only drives renewal through credits --refresh. The auth_renew leaf (profile selection, JSON rows, exit codes, in-use skip) is offline-only. It costs $0, and you already have stale profiles.
    • Please paste the redacted pytest summary line (N passed) for the e2e runs. The staleness guard can skip a door, so "passes" and "skipped" need to be distinguishable.
    • GFLOW_CLI_E2E_STALE_PROFILES (and the fact that GFLOW_CLI_E2E_PROFILE must also be set) is documented only inside the test. Please add it to docs/E2E_TESTING.md.

Nice-to-have

  • Headless sign-in risk. Renewal runs Google's OAuth hop in a headless browser, which still announces itself as HeadlessChrome (only navigator.webdriver is hidden). Generation launches headed by default, so this is the first headless Google sign-in. A one-line note in AUTHENTICATION.md / KNOWN_ISSUES would cover it, especially since gflow_get_credits(refresh=true) lets an agent trigger it on every profile.
  • MCP description. src/gflow_cli/mcp/tools.py:1283 still says "This is read-only". With refresh=true it rewrites the profile's cookies. Something like "spends no credits; refresh=true renews the saved session" would be accurate.
  • "Twin" wording. docs/MCP.md calls refresh the twin of gflow auth renew, but it only covers the expired-on-read case. The parity exemption in test_cli_parity.py already says this honestly, so MCP.md should match.
  • --json contract. auth renew --json prints Rich text on the zero-profiles path and on the --profile + --all conflict.
  • Poll timeout. Each poll request in _await_labs_refresh reuses the 15 s settle timeout, so the worst case is about 35 s, not the documented 20 s.
  • AGENTS.md:50. The command-surface line still reads "gflow credits (user/list — read-only Veo balance)" and doesn't mention auth renew.
  • Spike script guard. scripts/dev/spike_labs_nextauth_refresh.py takes the lease but skips ensure_profile_engine_compatible (the auth: refuse to open a persisted profile with an older Chromium than last wrote it #477 downgrade guard).
  • Missing unit tests: launch raising, a non-JSON session body (renew.py:59-60), --all with zero profiles, the engine_downgrade row.

Confirmed good

  • Retry is bounded to exactly one, and only for profiles whose fast path raised AuthExpiredError. The default without --refresh is byte-for-byte the fix(795): stop re-deriving a credits auth verdict through a browser #802 behaviour.
  • MCP refresh is passed through on both branches. _profile_lock is an asyncio.Lock, so it doesn't collide with the file lease.
  • The staleness guard in the e2e is real: it requires AuthExpiredError before renewal and asserts exactly one renewal.
  • No secrets or PII in the diff. The spike script prints key names and booleans only.
  • Every BDD and CLI fake mirrors the new refresh kwarg.

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Follow-up: spiking the council's runtime claims (at 0c370f6e)

Three must-fix items in the review above predicted runtime behaviour from reading the code, and none of them had been run. I have now run them on four throwaway profiles with the PR head checked out, writing down what each result would mean before running it. Cost: $0, navigation and session reads only. Two of the three do not hold up. Corrections:

# Claim Result What was run
2 A browser launch failure is unhandled CONFIRMED for auth renew With plain Chrome holding the profile, gflow auth renew --profile <p> --json printed a traceback through cli.py:450 → renew.py:107, exited 1, and wrote nothing to stdout.
2b A renewal that raises loses the original diagnosis under credits --refresh Unmeasured The same setup with credits user --refresh did end in UnexpectedError, but it raised earlier, in the cookie-decrypt browser fallback (services/credits.py:51, already on develop), before renewal ran. The code still looks like this would happen, but it has not been observed.
3 auth renew reports success on /about profiles REFUTED, withdrawn 3 profiles logged auth_renew_landed landing=public. auth renew returned google_session_only or no_session and exited 1. None reported authenticated.
4a The USAGE.md:148 sentence is false REFUTED as "false", now a wording nit On our 4 flow.google.com accounts, --refresh recovered 0 of 4. After the labs poll, all four still read the labs.google session returned no access token: the poll came back clean (stale: False), but no token was issued. So on our accounts the sentence describes what happens. Your 7 of 10 were in a different state on the same host: a token that existed but had expired. Please scope the sentence to the no-token case rather than to the host. That is the host-membership wording rule, not a factual error.

One more claim, previously a nice-to-have, is now CONFIRMED: on a no-token account, --refresh launches Chrome and still fails (4 of 4, roughly 20 s each). The docs should set that expectation.

Not measured: whether headless renewal can push a profile into Google's "Confirm it's you" state. One profile reported no_session after renewal, but I did not record its state before renewal, so this run cannot tell whether renewal caused it.

Remaining must-fix: 1 (skill and benchmark say auth renew doesn't exist), 2 (launch failure in auth renew), 4b (401 remediation hint), 5 (expiry docs), 6 (e2e for auth renew + pasted e2e result + env var doc). The verdict stays RED on items 1 and 2.

We are adding this step to the council permanently: #983 makes the review spike its own runtime claims before posting them.

ziyedbe added a commit to ziyedbe/gflow-cli-fork that referenced this pull request Oct 15, 2026
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Must-fix items from the review at 0c370f6:

1. skills/gflow-cli (+ plugin copy) and skillopt tasks.json no longer say
   `gflow auth renew` does not exist; auth-004/error-002 now expect it, with
   `auth login` as partial credit for the revoked case.
2. A browser that cannot launch is a per-profile `launch_error` row in
   `auth renew` (no traceback, no lost rows), and under `credits --refresh`
   re-raises the fast path's diagnosis `from` the launch error.
3. `renew_profile` returns RenewResult (verdict + Flow landing + final labs
   staleness). An /about landing or a still-stale labs session is NOT renewed,
   whatever the verifier says: `auth renew` reports public_landing/labs_stale,
   exits 1 and points at login + "Confirm it's you"; `credits --refresh` keeps
   its diagnosis. Live on an /about profile: exit 1 / exit 3 as designed.
4. USAGE no longer ties --refresh's limits to host membership; the credits 401
   hint points at --refresh / `gflow auth renew` instead of "check Flow".
5. KNOWN_ISSUES session-expiry entry, AUTHENTICATION § Refresh / expiry and the
   MCP.md 401 row describe renewal; mirrors regenerated.
6. tests/e2e/test_auth_renew_e2e.py covers the leaf (live profile, in-use skip,
   stale profile, /about honesty); E2E_TESTING documents the env vars.

Nice-to-haves: MCP description no longer says read-only; MCP.md "twin"
wording matches the parity exemption; --json on every auth renew path; the
labs poll caps each request at the remaining budget; AGENTS.md surface line;
spike script runs the ffroliva#477 guard; headless sign-in note; unit tests for
launch failure, non-JSON body, zero profiles, engine_downgrade.
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Thanks for the thorough review. Everything is addressed in dbad8eb4.

Must-fix

  1. Skill and benchmark. skills/gflow-cli/SKILL.md and the plugin copy no longer say auth renew doesn't exist. Line 15 and the table row now say: auth renew for an expired session, auth login for a revoked one. In skillopt/tasks.json, auth-004 and error-002 now expect gflow auth renew, with auth login as partial credit, and renew is out of must_not_include.
  2. Launch failure. auth renew records a failed browser start as a per-profile launch_error row: no traceback, and the rows already collected are kept. services/credits.py::_fetch re-raises the fast path's error from the launch error. ProfileLockedError and ProfileEngineDowngradeError still propagate as themselves. Unit tests cover both.
  3. /about profiles reported as renewed. renew_profile now returns RenewResult(verdict, landing, labs_stale). renewed requires an AUTHENTICATED verdict, landing != "public", and labs not still stale. auth renew reports public_landing / labs_stale, exits 1, and points to auth login plus the "Confirm it's you" step via the KNOWN_ISSUES /about entry. Live on an /about profile: the verifier said authenticated, renewal saw landing=public, labs_stale=True, so auth renew exited 1 and credits user --refresh kept the 401 diagnosis (exit 3).
  4. Wording. The USAGE note and the --refresh paragraph are now scoped to the observed failures: no labs token issued, and the /about page. Neither is tied to the host, and the note cites 7 of 10 flow.google.com profiles recovering. The 401 hint in api/credits.py now points to --refresh / gflow auth renew and still never says auth login (the test pins both).
  5. Expiry docs. The KNOWN_ISSUES session-expiry entry now has "stale → renew" and "revoked → login" workarounds, and its "why we don't auto-refresh" paragraph and roadmap line are replaced. AUTHENTICATION § Refresh / expiry covers the same two cases. The MCP.md 401 row now says this is usually fixable with refresh=true. All mirrors are regenerated.
  6. E2E. New tests/e2e/test_auth_renew_e2e.py, plus the env vars and file-map entries in docs/E2E_TESTING.md. Redacted summary lines:
tests/e2e/test_auth_renew_e2e.py
  test_auth_renew_verifies_a_live_profile_and_leaves_it_readable  PASSED
  test_auth_renew_skips_a_profile_another_holder_is_using         PASSED
  test_auth_renew_turns_a_stale_profile_readable                  SKIPPED  (profile not stale — labs token has not lapsed yet)
  test_auth_renew_does_not_claim_an_about_profile_renewed         PASSED
  3 passed, 1 skipped

tests/e2e/test_credits_refresh_e2e.py + test_credits_e2e.py + test_credits_mcp_e2e.py (after this commit)
  test_mcp_get_credits_refresh_renews_a_stale_profile   SKIPPED  (profile not stale)
  test_cli_credits_user_refresh_renews_a_stale_profile  SKIPPED  (profile not stale)
  4 passed, 4 skipped (the other 2 skips are cohort skips: labs, #795 branch not exercised)

tests/e2e/test_credits_refresh_e2e.py at 0c370f6e (before the profiles were consumed)
  2 passed

Named blocker for the skipped stale→renewed runs: every recoverable stale profile here was renewed last night, and a renewed labs token lasts about 24 h. The earliest one lapses around 18:05Z today. Until then no stale-but-recoverable profile exists to run against. The /about and in-use branches don't depend on this and ran live. I'll re-run the three skipped tests once a token lapses and post the summary line.

Nice-to-haves (all done)

  • Headless sign-in note in AUTHENTICATION.md § Refresh / expiry, including the agent-triggered refresh=true case.
  • The MCP description no longer says "read-only", and refresh=true is described as rewriting the profile's cookies. The MCP.md "twin" wording now matches the parity exemption.
  • auth renew --json emits JSON on the zero-profiles and --profile + --all paths.
  • Each poll request is capped at the remaining budget (floor 1 s), so the worst case is about 21 s.
  • The AGENTS.md:50 surface line covers auth renew and credits --refresh.
  • The spike script runs ensure_profile_engine_compatible inside the lease.
  • New unit tests: launch raising (renew, CLI and credits), non-JSON / non-dict session body, --all with zero profiles, the engine_downgrade row, and /about / stale-labs rows.

Gates: hygiene, doc links, PII, website mirror, council memory, ruff, format and pyright are green. 5009 passed, 92.64% coverage, duplication proxy 10/10. SonarCloud is still pending your maintainer check (fork PR).

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Council re-review at dbad8eb4 — 🟡 YELLOW (was 🔴 RED)

Thanks @ziyedbe. That was a thorough turnaround: all six earlier must-fix items are fixed in code, and the gates are green. I re-ran D0 (ruff, format, links, hygiene, website mirror, PII, council memory, plugin skills, pyright) at this SHA, plus check_fork_pr_ci, and every required workflow ran. This is the first review run under the council's new Spike gate (#983): each claim below about live behaviour was either run or is explicitly labelled unmeasured.

Your runtime claims, reproduced on our throwaway profiles ($0)

Claim Result
/about profile: auth renew does not report it renewed, exits 1 CONFIRMED (2 profiles, landing=public, exit 1, no traceback)
credits user --refresh on /about keeps the original diagnosis CONFIRMED (exit 3, original AisandboxAuthError, credits.refresh_failed landing=public)
Profile held by a foreign Chrome gives a launch_error row, no traceback CONFIRMED (JSON row with an actionable hint, exit 1)
--profile + --all --json gives JSON CONFIRMED (exit 2)
Stale → renewed with the fix code Unmeasured. Your named blocker (tokens lapse around 18:05Z) is valid. The 0c370f6e pass predates RenewResult.renewed, so the new gate has not yet run on a real stale profile. Please post the three skipped tests' summary line when you can.

Must-fix (6)

  1. An unknown labs state counts as "fresh". src/gflow_cli/auth/renew.py _await_labs_refresh.
    • A non-200 or non-JSON session reply returns stale=False. A failed labs goto leaves labs_stale=None, and renewed accepts that because it only rejects True.
    • Either way, auth renew prints "renewed and verified" with exit 0 although labs was never seen to refresh. That is the same false-renewed class as the old must-fix 3.
    • CONFIRMED (ran), by calling _await_labs_refresh with a fake page: HTTP 500, HTTP 401 and a 200 non-JSON body all returned labs_stale = False.
    • Fix: return None when the status is not 200 or the body is unparseable, and require labs_stale is False for renewed.
  2. The labs_stale row prints the /about message. src/gflow_cli/cli.py:512-518. "Flow is holding this account at its public page" is false when landing was not public, and tests/cli/test_auth_renew.py:146 pins the wrong text. Each result needs its own message.
  3. Two host-membership claims survive.
    • docs/MCP.md:98 (and its mirror) still says "Not available where Flow serves flow.google.com: that host's session mints no labs.google API token".
    • The no-token hint at src/gflow_cli/api/credits.py:80 still says "On accounts Google serves from flow.google.com this is expected".
    • Both contradict your corrected USAGE.md and MCP.md:423 wording. Scope them to "an account whose labs session issues no token". The rest of that hint is right: our 4 no-token profiles stay no-token after renewal.
  4. The 401 hint loops, and names the CLI flag over MCP. api/credits.py:111-117 says "Re-run with --refresh".
    • After --refresh has already renewed and the retry still 401s, _fetch re-raises with that same hint. Use a different hint on the post-refresh path.
    • Over MCP the flag is refresh=true, so name both.
  5. scripts/dev/skillopt/tasks.json auth-004 now expects the wrong answer. "No session for profile default" is printed only when the profile directory is missing (_cli_helpers.py:475-479). auth renew reports no_session for that case and cannot fix it, so gflow auth login is still the right answer.
    • Either restore must_include: ["gflow auth login"], or change the message to an AuthExpiredError one.
    • error-002 is fine as it is.
  6. The CHANGELOG has nothing on the fix-commit behaviour. [Unreleased] is missing the public_landing / labs_stale / launch_error rows, JSON on the edge paths, and the new 401 hint.

Also: tests/e2e/test_auth_renew_e2e.py:116 asserts only result != "authenticated", which a launch_error or verification_error row would also pass. Assert result in ("public_landing", "labs_stale"), unless the verifier legitimately rejects first: on our /about profiles it returned google_session_only. In that case assert "not renewed" explicitly.

Nice-to-have

  • One owner for the "renewed" rule. It is written twice, as RenewResult.renewed and as the if/elif in cli.py:478-488. A RenewResult.result property would give the row strings a single owner.
  • /about guidance when the verifier rejects first. On our /about profiles the row was google_session_only with hint: null, so the user gets no guidance. When landing == "public", attach the KNOWN_ISSUES /about hint whatever the verdict.
  • No-token profiles report "renewed". Spike result: on gflowclireview, auth renew reports authenticated, exit 0, and credits user still fails with "no access token". The session claim is true, but a line saying credits may still be unavailable (credits: labs-gated on migrated accounts, and the error blames SAPISID for a host it never contacted #795) would stop users from reading it as "credits fixed".
  • Catch breadth differs. The CLI catches only PlaywrightError; the service catches all of Exception (which relabels real bugs as "expired"). Pick one contract.
  • _refuse returns a JSON object while success returns an array.
  • The poll-budget cap has no test, and labs_stale=None → renewed has no test.
  • docs/INDEX.md:162 (401 answer) should mention --refresh / auth renew.

Confirmed good

  • Lease, then the engine guard, then launch, in that order.
  • ProfileLockedError and ProfileEngineDowngradeError keep their types.
  • raise expired from exc keeps the cause.
  • Logs carry only type names and labels, never URLs or tokens.
  • The KNOWN_ISSUES /about anchor resolves.
  • The headless sign-in caveat is in AUTHENTICATION.md.
  • The MCP description no longer claims "read-only".
  • Both SKILL.md copies are byte-identical.
  • Coverage: renew.py 100%; 97 offline tests pass.

To reach GREEN: fix must-fix 1–6, post the stale→renewed e2e summary after 18:05Z, and pass the SonarCloud maintainer check (skipped on fork PRs).

Update: to keep this moving, I am pushing fixes for must-fix 1–6 and the e2e assertion onto this branch now. Please still post the stale→renewed e2e summary after 18:05Z, and run it against the new head.

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Re-review of ffroliva#982 at dbad8eb:

- A labs session reply that is not a 200 JSON object, or a failed labs
  request, now leaves labs_stale=None and the renewal is reported
  `labs_unverified`, not renewed. Before, a 500, a 401 or an HTML body
  read as "fresh" and `auth renew` printed "renewed and verified".
- RenewResult.result owns the row value, and `renewed` derives from it, so
  `auth renew` and `credits --refresh` cannot disagree. A public landing
  now wins over the verdict: on /about profiles the verifier answered
  google_session_only (measured 2026-10-15) and the row carried no /about
  guidance.
- labs_stale / labs_unverified rows get their own message instead of the
  /about one.
- Hints: the no-token hint states renewal does not change it, and drops
  the host-predicts-it claim; the 401 hint names refresh=true for MCP and
  no longer loops after a renewal that did not take. Same for docs/MCP.md.
- skillopt auth-004: "No session for profile" means the profile dir is
  missing; renew cannot fix that, login can.
- CHANGELOG covers the row values and the hint change.
- e2e: the /about test asserts `public_landing`; the live-profile test
  skips when the profile reads no balance before renewal (ffroliva#795).

Signed-off-by: Flavio Oliva <ffroliva@gmail.com>
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Pushed fe8f5a78 onto this branch, covering must-fix 1–6 and the e2e assertion from the re-review:

  • Unknown is not fresh. A labs reply that is not a 200 JSON object, or a failed labs request, now gives labs_stale=None and a labs_unverified row, not "renewed". This is covered by a parametrized unit test (500, 401, HTML, [], request error).
  • RenewResult.result owns the row value, and renewed is derived from it, so auth renew and credits --refresh can no longer disagree. A public landing now wins over the verdict, so /about profiles where the verifier says google_session_only also get the /about guidance.
  • labs_stale and labs_unverified have their own message. The hint, MCP.md, skillopt auth-004 and CHANGELOG fixes are as listed in the review.

Verification

  • /gflow:check gates are green, and the full offline suite passes: 5012 passed.
  • E2E, tests/e2e/test_auth_renew_e2e.py at fe8f5a78, run on our throwaway profiles:
    test_auth_renew_skips_a_profile_another_holder_is_using          PASSED
    test_auth_renew_does_not_claim_an_about_profile_renewed          PASSED   (now asserts public_landing)
    test_auth_renew_verifies_a_live_profile_and_leaves_it_readable   SKIPPED  (profile reads no balance before renewal, #795)
    test_auth_renew_turns_a_stale_profile_readable                   SKIPPED  (no stale profile)
    2 passed, 2 skipped
    
    The live-profile test used to fail on our no-token profile. It failed at the final credits read, after the renew assertions had passed. It now skips when there is no balance to compare before and after.

Still owed: your stale→renewed e2e summary after 18:05Z, run against fe8f5a78. None of our profiles reads a balance, so we can't run it here. After that, the SonarCloud maintainer check.

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Do not classify a tokenless Labs session as fresh.

A Labs response of HTTP 200 {} has no session, but _session_stale returns False. If the migrated-host verifier authenticates that profile and Flow did not land on /about, RenewResult.result becomes authenticated. gflow auth renew then reports success without a Labs token, and credits --refresh retries a request that cannot use one. Require evidence of a usable access_token before returning False; keep the token value out of logs. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Preserve the first diagnosis when an unverified renewal cannot recover credits.

If Labs cannot be verified, this branch retries _fetch_once. If that read fails with a different authentication error, the new error replaces expired and can replace its remediation hint. Keep the successful retry, but restore expired when the retry cannot establish a usable session. AisandboxAuthError is an AuthExpiredError, so a second authentication failure reaches this path. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Pushed 9073ad7e, which answers an adversarial review of my own fe8f5a78 (a fix gets less scrutiny than the original, so it got its own review):

  • e2e guard: the live-profile test skipped on any AuthExpiredError, so an expired token would have skipped the case renewal exists for. It now skips only when labs issues no token at all (credits: labs-gated on migrated accounts, and the error blames SAPISID for a host it never contacted #795).
  • /about re-labelling now applies only to the verdicts we measured on /about (authenticated, google_session_only). no_session and verification_error are reported as themselves.
  • credits --refresh still re-asks on labs_unverified. The re-ask is one HTTP call that checks itself. auth renew still won't claim success in that case.
  • AUTHENTICATION.md now notes that a network blocking labs.google makes auth renew exit 1.

Verification at 9073ad7e:

  • Gates are green and 85 affected tests pass.
  • E2E: 2 passed, 2 skipped (the in-use profile is skipped, and /about gives public_landing). Both skips are named: the profile has no token, and no stale profile is available.
  • SonarCloud passed. I checked it as maintainer through a temporary internal mirror (ci: SonarCloud mirror of fork PR #982 (do not merge) #985, now closed), because fork PRs get no SONAR_TOKEN.

One thing left before merge: @ziyedbe, please run the stale→renewed e2e after a token lapses (~18:05Z) against 9073ad7e and post the summary line. That run needs GFLOW_CLI_E2E_STALE_PROFILES, plus GFLOW_CLI_E2E_PROFILE set to a profile that reads a balance.

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@ziyedbe — this is ready to ship on our side. Two things from you:

  1. DCO sign-off. Your two commits (0c370f6e, dbad8eb4) have no Signed-off-by: line. Please either:
    • reply here: "I certify the Developer Certificate of Origin (https://developercertificate.org) for commits 0c370f6 and dbad8eb", or
    • add the sign-off yourself with git rebase --signoff origin/develop and force-push. If you do this, keep my two commits on top as they are.
  2. Stale→renewed e2e against the head, once a token lapses (~18:05Z): just paste the summary line.

We merge as soon as #1 is in. If #2 comes in after the merge, we'll accept it then.

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Stale→renewed e2e at 9073ad7e, run 2026-10-15 19:14Z after the labs tokens lapsed:

tests/e2e/test_auth_renew_e2e.py + tests/e2e/test_credits_refresh_e2e.py
  test_auth_renew_verifies_a_live_profile_and_leaves_it_readable   PASSED
  test_auth_renew_skips_a_profile_another_holder_is_using          PASSED
  test_auth_renew_turns_a_stale_profile_readable                   PASSED
  test_auth_renew_does_not_claim_an_about_profile_renewed          PASSED
  test_mcp_get_credits_refresh_renews_a_stale_profile              PASSED
  test_cli_credits_user_refresh_renews_a_stale_profile             PASSED
  6 passed in 97.33s

All three stale tests confirmed their profile was stale before renewing, then read a balance afterwards (MCP door, CLI door, and auth renew). The live-profile test ran on a profile that reads a balance, so it was not skipped.

ziyedbe and others added 4 commits October 15, 2026 21:20
…h renew

`gflow credits list` used to renew a stale profile's session as a side effect
of its browser fallback. ffroliva#802 rightly stopped re-asking aisandbox-pa with the
same Bearer, and with it went the only automatic renewal. `--refresh` brings
it back as an opt-in on `credits user` and `credits list` (MCP twin:
`gflow_get_credits(refresh=true)`): a profile whose fast path raises an
expired-session error is renewed headlessly and asked again; others are
untouched, and a failed renewal keeps the fast path's diagnosis.

The renewal is the new `gflow auth renew` (`auth/renew.py`). Measured live,
loading FLOW_URL alone does not fix the credits path: it 308s to
flow.google.com, so labs' NextAuth never runs. A stale labs session answers
200 with an expired token and ACCESS_TOKEN_REFRESH_NEEDED; the labs page's
own JS re-signs in silently ~2.5 s after load. Renewal now loads
labs.google/fx/ and polls the session until that error clears (bounded 20 s).
Spike: docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-10-14-labs-nextauth-silent-refresh.md.

Live: `credits list --refresh` 3 -> 7 of 10 profiles readable (510 -> 939
credits). The 3 left land on Flow's public page (the open /about entry);
gflow-api's --refresh fails on them too. New e2e
tests/e2e/test_credits_refresh_e2e.py passes on both doors against two
genuinely stale profiles.

Signed-off-by: ziyedbe <ziyedbecha@hotmail.fr>
…s, launch errors, docs

Must-fix items from the review at 0c370f6:

1. skills/gflow-cli (+ plugin copy) and skillopt tasks.json no longer say
   `gflow auth renew` does not exist; auth-004/error-002 now expect it, with
   `auth login` as partial credit for the revoked case.
2. A browser that cannot launch is a per-profile `launch_error` row in
   `auth renew` (no traceback, no lost rows), and under `credits --refresh`
   re-raises the fast path's diagnosis `from` the launch error.
3. `renew_profile` returns RenewResult (verdict + Flow landing + final labs
   staleness). An /about landing or a still-stale labs session is NOT renewed,
   whatever the verifier says: `auth renew` reports public_landing/labs_stale,
   exits 1 and points at login + "Confirm it's you"; `credits --refresh` keeps
   its diagnosis. Live on an /about profile: exit 1 / exit 3 as designed.
4. USAGE no longer ties --refresh's limits to host membership; the credits 401
   hint points at --refresh / `gflow auth renew` instead of "check Flow".
5. KNOWN_ISSUES session-expiry entry, AUTHENTICATION § Refresh / expiry and the
   MCP.md 401 row describe renewal; mirrors regenerated.
6. tests/e2e/test_auth_renew_e2e.py covers the leaf (live profile, in-use skip,
   stale profile, /about honesty); E2E_TESTING documents the env vars.

Nice-to-haves: MCP description no longer says read-only; MCP.md "twin"
wording matches the parity exemption; --json on every auth renew path; the
labs poll caps each request at the remaining budget; AGENTS.md surface line;
spike script runs the ffroliva#477 guard; headless sign-in note; unit tests for
launch failure, non-JSON body, zero profiles, engine_downgrade.

Signed-off-by: ziyedbe <ziyedbecha@hotmail.fr>
…ewResult

Re-review of ffroliva#982 at dbad8eb:

- A labs session reply that is not a 200 JSON object, or a failed labs
  request, now leaves labs_stale=None and the renewal is reported
  `labs_unverified`, not renewed. Before, a 500, a 401 or an HTML body
  read as "fresh" and `auth renew` printed "renewed and verified".
- RenewResult.result owns the row value, and `renewed` derives from it, so
  `auth renew` and `credits --refresh` cannot disagree. A public landing
  now wins over the verdict: on /about profiles the verifier answered
  google_session_only (measured 2026-10-15) and the row carried no /about
  guidance.
- labs_stale / labs_unverified rows get their own message instead of the
  /about one.
- Hints: the no-token hint states renewal does not change it, and drops
  the host-predicts-it claim; the 401 hint names refresh=true for MCP and
  no longer loops after a renewal that did not take. Same for docs/MCP.md.
- skillopt auth-004: "No session for profile" means the profile dir is
  missing; renew cannot fix that, login can.
- CHANGELOG covers the row values and the hint change.
- e2e: the /about test asserts `public_landing`; the live-profile test
  skips when the profile reads no balance before renewal (ffroliva#795).

Signed-off-by: Flavio Oliva <ffroliva@gmail.com>
…re-ask

Adversarial review of fe8f5a7:

- e2e: the live-profile guard skipped on any AuthExpiredError, so an expired
  token (the case renewal exists for) would have skipped the test. It now
  skips only when labs issues no token at all (ffroliva#795).
- A public landing re-labels only the verdicts measured on /about
  (authenticated, google_session_only); no_session / verification_error
  are reported as themselves instead of a guessed "confirm it's you".
- credits --refresh still re-asks on labs_unverified: it is one HTTP call
  that checks itself, and the Flow visit may have rotated what it needs.
  auth renew keeps refusing to claim success there.
- AUTHENTICATION.md: a network that blocks labs.google makes auth renew
  exit 1 (labs_unverified) even when the Flow session verifies.

Signed-off-by: Flavio Oliva <ffroliva@gmail.com>
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ziyedbe commented Oct 15, 2026

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Rebased for DCO only: added Signed-off-by: to my two commits (now c4ff51dd, 40999108); your two commits are replayed unchanged with your sign-offs. New head f6e1aaa6, and git diff 9073ad7e f6e1aaa6 is empty, so the tree is byte-identical to the one the e2e run above was taken on.

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Merged as 560fa8d — thank you @ziyedbe! The DCO rebase was clean (I confirmed git diff 9073ad7e f6e1aaa6 is empty), and the stale→renewed e2e on the real lapse is exactly the evidence this needed. Much appreciated.

sesal78 pushed a commit to sesal78/gflow-cli that referenced this pull request Oct 18, 2026
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pr-council-review gains a Spike gate (§ 5 step 5b). Any must-fix that
predicts what Flow, Google, or a command on a real profile will do, and
that was inferred from reading code, goes through the spike skill before
the report is posted: pre-register the reading, take the cheapest $0
rung, and label the finding CONFIRMED, REFUTED, or PLAUSIBLE — unmeasured.
An unmeasured runtime claim alone cannot make the verdict RED.

Reviewer agents now tag each must-fix `evidence: read | ran | spiked` so
the synthesizer can find the guesses. Autonomous mode labels every such
finding PLAUSIBLE. The spike skill lists the council as a consumer.

Written from the PR ffroliva#982 review, which posted three runtime claims as
must-fix without running any of them.
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