## Summary This change adds websocket authentication at the app-server transport boundary and enforces it before JSON-RPC `initialize`, so authenticated deployments reject unauthenticated clients during the websocket handshake rather than after a connection has already been admitted. During rollout, websocket auth is opt-in for non-loopback listeners so we do not break existing remote clients. If `--ws-auth ...` is configured, the server enforces auth during websocket upgrade. If auth is not configured, non-loopback listeners still start, but app-server logs a warning and the startup banner calls out that auth should be configured before real remote use. The server supports two auth modes: a file-backed capability token, and a standard HMAC-signed JWT/JWS bearer token verified with the `jsonwebtoken` crate, with optional issuer, audience, and clock-skew validation. Capability tokens are normalized, hashed, and compared in constant time. Short shared secrets for signed bearer tokens are rejected at startup. Requests carrying an `Origin` header are rejected with `403` by transport middleware, and authenticated clients present credentials as `Authorization: Bearer <token>` during websocket upgrade. ## Validation - `cargo test -p codex-app-server transport::auth` - `cargo test -p codex-cli app_server_` - `cargo clippy -p codex-app-server --all-targets -- -D warnings` - `just bazel-lock-check` Note: in the broad `cargo test -p codex-app-server connection_handling_websocket` run, the touched websocket auth cases passed, but unrelated Unix shutdown tests failed with a timeout in this environment. --------- Co-authored-by: Eric Traut <etraut@openai.com>
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