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Problem and outcome

archon doctor verified auth presence by checking if ~/.pi/agent/auth.json or connected DB key rows existed on disk, reporting passing auth even when tokens were expired or unusable. Additionally, workflow launch lacked credential pre-flight, allowing runs to allocate worktrees and execute before failing at their first AI node.

  • Outcome: archon doctor reports fail with the provider and expiry date when credentials are unusable or expired. Workflow launches perform pre-flight verification on required providers before spawning detached processes or creating worktrees.
  • Invariant: Scoped strictly to credential stores Archon already inspects (~/.pi/agent/auth.json and database keys). Never logs or surfaces credential secret values. Unconfigured providers continue to skip, network reachability failures report distinctly without failing doctor, and pre-flight checks inspect only the providers required by the workflow.
  • Scope boundary: Does not scan external stores or third-party keychain directories. Does not modify token refresh lifecycles inside provider runners.
  • Root cause: probeAuthJsonExists used existsSync on ~/.pi/agent/auth.json without parsing contents or inspecting expires timestamps, and checkConnectedProviders only counted registered user provider keys.

Review guidance

  • Feedback requested: Correctness of credential expiry inspection and workflow provider pre-flight scoping.
  • Start here: packages/cli/src/utils/credential-validity.ts:102inspectPiAuthJson and assertWorkflowCredentialsValid define the core validity checking and launch pre-flight gate.
  • Review order:
    1. packages/cli/src/utils/credential-validity.ts: token parsing, expiration checking, provider extraction, and assertion gate.
    2. packages/cli/src/commands/doctor.ts: integration into checkPi and checkConnectedProviders.
    3. packages/cli/src/commands/workflow.ts: pre-flight invocation before detached child spawning and worktree creation.
    4. packages/cli/src/commands/doctor.test.ts & packages/cli/src/commands/workflow.test.ts: regression and isolation tests.
  • Lower-attention areas: Re-exports in packages/providers/src/index.ts and packages/providers/src/community/pi/index.ts exposing PI_OAUTH_ENV_VARS and parsePiModelRef.
  • Known risk or uncertainty: None.

Solution

  1. Added packages/cli/src/utils/credential-validity.ts with helper functions:
    • inspectPiAuthJson: parses auth.json, checks expires timestamps without network calls for OAuth tokens, falls back to pi auth check --provider <p> --json when timestamps are absent, and detects network reachability issues.
    • collectWorkflowRequiredProviders: inspects workflow nodes (including nested loop groups) to extract required provider and model references.
    • assertWorkflowCredentialsValid: verifies environment variables, auth.json, or connected DB credentials for required providers.
  2. Updated checkPi in packages/cli/src/commands/doctor.ts to inspect credentials via inspectPiAuthJson. If an expired token is detected, it fails naming the provider and expiry date. If probing encounters a network issue, it reports skip with an unreachable note instead of failing the doctor run.
  3. Updated checkConnectedProviders in packages/cli/src/commands/doctor.ts to verify encrypted OAuth payloads for expiration.
  4. Integrated assertWorkflowCredentialsValid into runWorkflowWithOwnedSource in packages/cli/src/commands/workflow.ts before worktree creation and background detachment.

Behavior change

Before After
Observable behavior archon doctor reported pass if ~/.pi/agent/auth.json was on disk, regardless of token expiration. archon doctor verifies expiration dates and fails with the provider name and formatted expiry date (e.g. anthropic credential expired 8 June 2026).
Failure behavior Workflow runs with expired credentials proceeded through worktree creation and detached spawn before failing inside agent nodes. Workflow launch immediately fails during pre-flight before creating worktrees or spawning background processes.

Architecture

flowchart LR
  CLI[archon doctor / workflow run] --> Gate[credential-validity]
  Gate --> CheckAuth[inspectPiAuthJson]
  Gate --> CheckDB[checkKeyValidity]
  CheckAuth --> Verdict{Valid / Expired / Unreachable}
  Verdict -->|Expired| Fail[Fail with provider & expiry date]
  Verdict -->|Unreachable| Skip[Skip without aborting doctor]
  Verdict -->|Valid| Pass[Proceed with run / pass check]
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Changed seams

Boundary or contract Change Evidence
packages/cli/src/commands/doctor.ts checkPi and checkConnectedProviders now inspect token validity and expiry packages/cli/src/commands/doctor.test.ts:480
packages/cli/src/commands/workflow.ts Pre-flight validation gate before worktree allocation packages/cli/src/commands/workflow.test.ts:1775
@archon/providers Export PI_OAUTH_ENV_VARS and parsePiModelRef packages/providers/src/index.ts:94

Validation

  • bun --cwd packages/cli test src/commands/doctor.test.ts — passed — proves regression detection for expired credentials and distinct unreachable handling.
  • bun --cwd packages/cli test src/commands/workflow.test.ts — passed — proves pre-flight blocks before worktree creation and respects provider isolation (bug(providers): one unrefreshable Pi credential fails sessions and catalog refreshes for every other provider #3273).
  • bun run check:cli-import-boundary — passed — proves no illegal cross-boundary imports.
  • bun run type-check — passed — 0 errors across all workspaces.
  • bun run lint — passed — 0 warnings/errors across all workspaces.
  • bun run format:check — passed — all files formatted.
  • bun run validate — passed — aggregate validation passed clean.
  • Not verified: Nothing material; test suite covers fixture expiration, presence, unneeded provider decoupling, and unreachable probes.

Delivery considerations

Concern Impact and required action Evidence
Security / permissions / data Credential tokens are never logged or echoed; only provider names, validity status, and formatted expiry dates are output. packages/cli/src/utils/credential-validity.ts:21
Compatibility / migration Fully backward compatible; unconfigured providers and alternative assistants like Claude continue to skip without error. packages/cli/src/commands/doctor.test.ts:468

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  • New Features

    • Added credential preflight checks before workflow runs, detecting missing, expired, invalid, or unverifiable credentials before execution begins.
    • Added support for validating credentials required by workflow AI nodes, including provider-specific and runner-managed credentials.
    • Expanded provider and workflow model resolution for more accurate execution checks.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved the doctor command to inspect credential contents and clearly distinguish expired, invalid, unreadable, and unreachable credentials.
    • Added clearer reconnect guidance while keeping sensitive credential data out of diagnostic results.

Verify credential validity rather than presence in doctor checks, and
pre-flight credential state before worktree creation on workflow launch.
An expired OAuth credential reports fail with the provider and expiry
date, unreachable network probes report distinctly without aborting,
and pre-flight checks are scoped strictly to the providers the run
actually needs.
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The PR adds shared workflow provider resolution, stored credential inspection, CLI credential preflight validation, and detailed archon doctor credential reporting. It also adds tests, public exports, and workflow integration for these checks.

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Credential validation flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared workflow provider resolution
packages/workflows/src/node-model-resolution.ts, packages/workflows/src/dag-executor.ts, packages/workflows/package.json
AI workflow nodes now produce deduplicated provider/model bindings. Container preflight uses the same resolution path.
Stored credential inspection
packages/core/src/db/user-provider-key-store.ts, packages/core/src/db/user-provider-key-store.test.ts, packages/core/src/index.ts, packages/core/package.json
Core inspects stored credentials as missing, valid, expired, or undetermined without returning credential contents.
Credential preflight gate
packages/cli/src/utils/credential-validity.ts, packages/cli/src/utils/credential-validity.test.ts, packages/providers/src/..., packages/cli/package.json
The CLI resolves required credentials, checks Pi auth and connected stores, rejects unusable credentials, and tests expiry, probing, redaction, and workflow coverage.
Workflow run integration
packages/cli/src/commands/workflow.ts, packages/cli/src/commands/workflow.test.ts
Workflow runs validate required credentials before detached execution and reuse shared model context resolution.
Doctor credential reporting
packages/cli/src/commands/doctor.ts, packages/cli/src/commands/doctor.test.ts
Doctor inspects Pi auth contents and connected credentials, and reports expired, invalid, unreachable, and undetermined states separately.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WorkflowRun
  participant CredentialGate
  participant WorkflowResolver
  participant PiAuthJson
  participant CoreCredentialStore
  WorkflowRun->>CredentialGate: assertWorkflowCredentialsValid
  CredentialGate->>WorkflowResolver: collectNodeModelBindings
  WorkflowResolver-->>CredentialGate: required provider bindings
  CredentialGate->>PiAuthJson: inspectPiAuthJson
  CredentialGate->>CoreCredentialStore: inspectStoredProviderCredential
  CredentialGate-->>WorkflowRun: allow run or return credential error
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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 6e7da

Workflow launches can proceed without validating the credentials actually used, including after adoption or storage failures. These fail-open paths should be corrected before merge; doctor may also report unreadable or disappeared credentials incorrectly.

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Wirasm and others added 2 commits September 10, 2026 12:12
`assistants.pi` resolves through ProviderDefaultsMap's generic index, whose
values are `unknown`, so `config.assistants.pi.model` is not a string to the
compiler. Assigning it straight to `model` failed type-check.

Narrow with a typeof guard, matching how the node and workflow models are
already narrowed two lines above.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WDeeEmfBHksoyoeCr1yDYC
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Needs fixes

The pre-flight gate this PR adds is a real hard-fail path when it fires, but it too often doesn't fire. Two independent, proven gaps compound: collectWorkflowRequiredProviders never recognizes the dominant real-world way of writing an AI node (command:-sourced agent nodes, used in 31 of the bundled .archon/workflows/**/*.yaml files, plus a gate's rework reprompt) because it duck-types against a top-level prompt/loop field that doesn't exist on the parsed DagNode shape — the prompt lives under node.source.prompt. And even for providers it does detect, assertWorkflowCredentialsValid has no "I couldn't determine this" branch: a provider with no credential anywhere never throws, and any DB lookup/decrypt failure other than one whose message happens to contain "expired" is silently swallowed. doctor.ts's new checkConnectedProviders code has the same shape of bug in a separate function. All three sites reimplement logic that already exists correctly elsewhere in the repo (resolveNodeModel/collectContainerIncompatibleProviders for node traversal, resolveOAuthCredential for decrypt-and-check-expiry with a logged guard against malformed rows) — reuse would have prevented the gaps rather than requiring them to be caught in review.

No path in the diff logs or surfaces a raw credential value — verified directly, not just absent evidence (see Validation). Expiry unit handling (seconds vs. ms) and the exactly-now boundary are correct. The new packages/providers/src/index.ts export is a clean re-export of an already-internal record and function; it does not leak provider-SDK shape into the CLI.

4 blocking · 3 non-blocking

Validation: bun --filter '*' type-check PASS (13/13 packages) · bun run lint PASS · packages/cli bun run test PASS (0 fail) · packages/providers bun run test PASS (0 fail) · CI re-running on the frozen head, not awaited per operator instruction · Windows leg previously red on an unrelated @archon/workflows test, confirmed stale-base by the operator and not re-verified here per instruction.

Findings

ID Severity Finding State
R1 Critical Pre-flight gate never checks command-sourced or gate-rework AI nodes — silent no-op on the dominant real-workflow style OPEN
R2 Critical Credential validity check fails open whenever it cannot positively confirm invalidity OPEN
R3 Important doctor's checkConnectedProviders drops the unreachable status and reports "pass" for an unverifiable credential OPEN
R5 Important Tier/alias-authored nodes resolve through the wrong fallback because config is never threaded to the gate OPEN
R6 Suggestion New 410-line credential-validity.ts has no dedicated test file; several branches are untested, which is why R1/R2/R5 shipped OPEN
R7 Suggestion No test asserts a credential value can never appear in a doctor message or thrown error OPEN
R8 Suggestion probePiCredential treats a missing pi binary as "ready" and classifies vendor errors by substring match OPEN
R1 — Pre-flight gate never checks command-sourced or gate-rework AI nodes

Impact: For any workflow whose AI work is authored with command: (the standard "reference a reusable prompt file" form) or lives inside a gate's on_reject/rework reprompt, collectWorkflowRequiredProviders returns an empty provider set. assertWorkflowCredentialsValid then hits its early return and never checks anything — the run proceeds to worktree creation and AI execution exactly as if this PR did not exist, while looking like the gate ran. This is not a corner case: 31 of the bundled .archon/workflows/**/*.yaml files use command: nodes (e.g. archon-assist.yaml, a default workflow, is a single command: node), against 44 using prompt:.

Evidence: packages/cli/src/utils/credential-validity.ts:246-253

const isAi =
  node.kind === 'loop' ||
  'prompt' in node ||
  'loop' in node ||
  (node.kind === 'agent' &&
    (typeof node.source !== 'object' ||
      (node as { source?: { kind?: string } }).source?.kind === 'inline'));

The real, parsed AgentNode always carries its prompt under a discriminated source — confirmed directly: packages/workflows/src/schemas/dag-node.ts:1792-1793 (source: { kind: 'command', ... }) vs. :1805 (source: { kind: 'inline', prompt: data.prompt.trim() }). There is no top-level node.prompt or node.loop on a loaded DagNode, so those two disjuncts never fire; only source.kind === 'inline' is live. A command-sourced agent node dispatches through the identical executeAgentNode as an inline one but is invisible here.

A near-identical, typed function that answers this exact question already exists: collectContainerIncompatibleProviders (packages/workflows/src/dag-executor.ts:11068, itself noted at :1777 as hand-mirroring resolveNodeModel's resolution). This PR reimplemented traversal with an untyped nodes?: readonly unknown[] and 'x' in node duck-typing instead of reusing it, and the two have already diverged.

Class: Invariant — every DagNode variant that invokes a provider must be captured. Enumeration ran against the full 9-member kind union (agent, exec, gate, halt, wait, loop, loop_group, workflow, compose_fan_out, dag-node.ts:966-974), cross-checked against each schema shape, then executed live:

  • Affected, proven by direct execution: agent nodes with source.kind: 'command' (repro: command-sourced node → required providers: []; inline equivalent with the same provider → required providers: ["openrouter"]); gate nodes with a decisions[].rework reprompt (repro: gate with provider:'openrouter' + a rework decision → required providers: []).
  • Examined and found clean: exec, gate without rework, halt, wait, loop (provider/model are live top-level fields, correctly read), workflow/child-run nodes, compose_fan_out.
  • Not scored (pre-existing, not introduced by this PR): loop_group's own provider/model forward to un-overridden body nodes per dag-node.ts:1038-1039, but this function's recursion falls back only to top-level workflow.providercollectContainerIncompatibleProviders appears to share this gap.

Required outcome: Replace isAi's duck-typing and the hand-rolled traversal with the repo's typed DagNode union and the existing resolveNodeModel/collectContainerIncompatibleProviders machinery (or a shared helper built on it), so a node's AI-ness and required provider are derived the same way execution already derives them, rather than a second implementation that can silently drift.

Found by: prp-core:seam-analyzer, prp-core:code-simplifier, prp-core:pr-test-analyzer; corroborated at lower confidence by prp-core:code-reviewer.

Disposition: OPEN.

R2 — Credential validity check fails open whenever it cannot positively confirm invalidity

Impact: assertWorkflowCredentialsValid's per-provider loop (packages/cli/src/utils/credential-validity.ts:330-409) only continues or throws inside explicit positive branches (env var present; a piAuth entry with status expired/invalid/valid; a DB row found with a computable expiry). There is no default branch for "I don't know." Two concrete, reachable consequences, one proven by direct execution against the real module:

  1. A required provider with no credential anywhere — no env var, no auth.json entry, no DB row — falls through every check without throwing, and the function returns normally. Reproduced by calling assertWorkflowCredentialsValid directly with a workflow requiring claude, zero env vars, a nonexistent authJsonPath, and no CLI identity: it did not throw. This is the single most common "unusable credential" case (a provider that was simply never configured), and it is exactly the case the PR's own inline comment at workflow.ts:2081-2085 says should hard-fail.
  2. The DB-credential branch's catch (credential-validity.ts:403-407) only rethrows when the caught error's message contains the substring "expired"; every other failure — getEncryptionKey() throwing on a missing/rotated TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY, or decryptToken/JSON.parse throwing on a corrupted row — is silently swallowed, and the loop moves to the next provider as if this one were fine. Reproduced with a real CLI identity and no matching DB row: same silent pass. Additionally, a DB row that decrypts cleanly but has a missing or non-numeric expires field skips the inner if entirely and falls straight to continue — treated as valid without any comparison ever happening.

Both new sites (credential-validity.ts:376-408 here, and doctor.ts:724-753, see R3) reimplement "decrypt oauth_creds_encrypted → parse expires → compare to now" instead of calling the repo's one existing, correct implementation of this exact check: packages/core/src/db/user-provider-key-store.ts (resolveOAuthCredential, ~line 216-227), whose own comment explains precisely the guard both new copies lack: "A missing or non-numeric value from a legacy/corrupt row would make that comparison silently false and serve a stale token as success, so enforce the shape here ... and treat a mismatch like decrypt failure." That function also logs (user_provider_key.oauth_decrypt_failed, user_provider_key.oauth_malformed_expires) — the two new copies log nothing on any of these paths.

Evidence: packages/cli/src/utils/credential-validity.ts:330-409 (loop with no default branch), :403-407 (message-substring-gated rethrow), packages/core/src/db/user-provider-key-store.ts:216-227 (the canonical guarded, logged implementation this PR bypassed instead of calling).

Required outcome: The per-provider loop needs an explicit "could not determine validity" outcome that is treated as invalid (throws, naming the provider and reason) rather than falls through as valid — for no-credential-found, for any DB/decrypt exception, and for a malformed/missing expires. The cleanest fix reuses getDecryptedProviderCredential/resolveOAuthCredential from user-provider-key-store.ts instead of re-deriving the decrypt-and-compare logic a second time.

Found by: prp-core:seam-analyzer (proved by direct execution), prp-core:code-reviewer, prp-core:code-simplifier, prp-core:pr-test-analyzer.

Disposition: OPEN.

R3doctor's checkConnectedProviders drops the unreachable status and reports "pass"

Impact: checkConnectedProviders's new validity loop (packages/cli/src/commands/doctor.ts:682-693) only special-cases validity.status === 'expired'. The new defaultLoadProviderDeps().checkKeyValidity (doctor.ts:724-753) explicitly returns { status: 'unreachable', reason } when decrypt or DB lookup throws (:753) — but that status is never checked by the caller; it isn't pushed into expired, isn't mentioned in the final message, and the function falls through to the unconditional return { label, status: 'pass', message: '${rows.length} connected: ...' } at :706. archon doctor reports a corrupted or unverifiable credential row as plainly "connected" — reproducing, inside the feature meant to fix it, the exact defect issue #3274 was filed over. This is scoped to checkConnectedProviders only: checkPi's own consumption of the parallel 4-member PiCredentialStatus union (doctor.ts:427-472) is exhaustive and does handle unreachable correctly (skip, named provider).

Evidence: doctor.ts:682-693 (loop only branches on 'expired'), :706 (unconditional pass), :753 (unreachable produced but never consumed). Only one test exists for this function's new wiring (doctor.test.ts ~line 1096, status: 'expired'); no test covers status: 'unreachable' here, unlike checkPi's equivalent which is tested (doctor.test.ts:526).

Required outcome: Branch on unreachable the same way checkPi does — report it distinctly (e.g. skip) rather than folding it into "connected." As with R2, this and the DB-credential branch in R2 are two fresh copies of the same decrypt-and-compare logic; a shared helper (ideally calling the canonical resolveOAuthCredential) fixes both at once.

Found by: prp-core:code-reviewer, prp-core:pr-test-analyzer.

Disposition: OPEN.

R5 — Tier/alias-authored nodes resolve through the wrong fallback because config is never threaded to the gate

Impact: assertWorkflowCredentialsValid's only call site is packages/cli/src/commands/workflow.ts:2086: await assertWorkflowCredentialsValid(workflow, { cwd });. The function reads options.config (credential-validity.ts:317) but never reads options.cwd anywhere in its body — cwd is dead, and config is always undefined in the real (non-test) path. collectWorkflowRequiredProviders's tier/alias resolution (credential-validity.ts:259-268, resolving a node's model: 'small'|'medium'|'large' or a named alias via config.tiers/config.aliases) therefore never fires. Any node authored with a tier or alias instead of a literal provider/model string falls through to parsePiModelRef('small') (fails to parse) → readPiSettingsDefaultProvider() → a bare 'pi' bucket. Net effect: the gate can check the wrong provider's credential entirely — able to both block a healthy run over an unrelated provider's expiry, and let an actually-expired credential for the real provider through unchecked. Other call sites in the same file already do await loadConfig(cwd) for exactly this purpose (workflow.ts:1874, :2928); this call site does not.

Evidence: workflow.ts:2086, credential-validity.ts:305-321 (cwd declared and passed, never read; config read but never supplied). The new tests in workflow.test.ts only use literal provider/model strings, so this gap is untested.

Required outcome: await loadConfig(cwd) before the gate call and pass { config } through, matching the pattern already used elsewhere in this file. Drop the unused cwd option or wire it in if a future use is intended.

Found by: prp-core:code-reviewer; corroborated by prp-core:code-simplifier (flagged the dead cwd option independently).

Disposition: OPEN.

R6 — New 410-line module has no dedicated test file

Impact: credential-validity.ts is only exercised indirectly through doctor.test.ts/workflow.test.ts, both of which mock or substitute the interesting internals. Notably untested: parseExpires's epoch-seconds→ms conversion and ISO-date-string branches (every fixture uses a plain ms number); the real probePiCredential shell-out and its stdout parsing / ENOENT / network-error classification (every test substitutes a mocked probeFn); collectWorkflowRequiredProviders's tier/alias resolution and readPiSettingsDefaultProvider() fallback; inspectPiAuthJson's malformed-JSON, non-object-JSON, and unrecognized-credential-type paths; and the "no credential found anywhere" and DB-exception paths behind R2. This is why R1, R2, and R5 shipped without a failing test catching them.

Evidence: find packages/cli/src/utils -iname 'credential-validity*' returns only the implementation file, no .test.ts.

Found by: prp-core:pr-test-analyzer, prp-core:seam-analyzer (process note), prp-core:code-reviewer (corroborating: "shipped unverified").

Disposition: OPEN.

R7 — No test asserts a credential value can never appear in output

Impact: Every message-construction site in credential-validity.ts and doctor.ts was traced by hand this round and none currently interpolates a raw token/key value — this is not a live bug. But it's an invariant with no regression protection: a future "helpful" error message (e.g. echoing a pi auth check stderr snippet, or a raw JSON.parse failure on auth.json content) could reintroduce a leak with nothing to catch it.

Found by: prp-core:pr-test-analyzer.

Required outcome: A negative-assertion test (e.g. feeding a fixture with recognizable secret values through checkPi, checkConnectedProviders, and assertWorkflowCredentialsValid's failure paths, then asserting the value never appears in the result) is optional but valuable given how central this invariant is to the PR's own stated purpose.

Disposition: OPEN.

R8probePiCredential treats a missing pi binary as "ready"; classifies vendor errors by substring

Impact: probePiCredential (credential-validity.ts:68-100) returns 'ready' (i.e. valid) when execFileAsync('pi', ...) fails with ENOENT — the binary isn't found — rather than an unknown/unreachable state; and separately classifies unreachable via free-text substrings (msg.includes('network'), msg.includes('fetch failed')) alongside legitimate errno tokens (ENOENT/ETIMEDOUT/ENOTFOUND/ECONNREFUSED). Blast radius is limited: this function is only reachable via doctor.ts checkPi's optional probeFn — the live workflow.ts pre-flight gate calls inspectPiAuthJson without a probeFn (credential-validity.ts:328) — so this degrades doctor's diagnostic accuracy only, not a run-blocking path.

Evidence: credential-validity.ts:68-100.

Found by: prp-core:code-reviewer.

Disposition: OPEN.

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Reviewer coverage

Scope Result
code R1 (corroborating), R2, R3, R5, R6 (corroborating), R8
seams R1, R2, R6 (process note)
simplify R1, R2, R5 (corroborating)
tests R1, R2, R3, R6, R7

Validation

Command Result Evidence
bun --filter '*' type-check PASS 13/13 packages exit 0
bun run lint PASS all lint targets ran, no errors; test-cleanup drift check passed
cd packages/cli && bun run test PASS 0 fail across all suites, exit code 0
cd packages/providers && bun run test PASS 0 fail across all suites, exit code 0
GitHub Actions CI NOT RUN re-running on the frozen head per operator instruction; not awaited or rerun
Windows leg (@archon/workflows terminal-artifact test) NOT RE-RUN operator confirmed stale-base cause and 10/10 pass on the merged tree before this review; not touched by this PR's files, not re-verified here per instruction

Wirasm and others added 2 commits September 10, 2026 14:49
The gate this PR added did not fire on the way most workflows are written, and
passed silently whenever it could not reach a verdict. Four review findings, all
the same shape: a check that reports success for the one condition it exists to
catch.

R1 — the gate never saw a `command:`-sourced node. It duck-typed against a
top-level `prompt` field that a parsed DagNode does not have (the prompt lives
under `node.source`), so 22 of the 30 parseable bundled workflows with an AI node
produced an empty provider set, `archon-assist` among them. Traversal and
provider resolution now come from `collectNodeModelBindings` in
`node-model-resolution.ts`, built on the executor's own `resolveNodeModel`.
`collectContainerIncompatibleProviders` consumes the same function, so its
hand-mirrored copy (`resolveNodeProviderForPreflight`) is gone rather than
duplicated a third time.

R2 — the gate had no "could not determine" branch. A provider with no credential
anywhere returned normally, and any DB or decrypt failure whose message did not
contain "expired" was swallowed. Every required credential now resolves to an
explicit verdict; only `usable`, and an `absent` that is logged and documented,
let a run through. The stored-credential half no longer re-derives
decrypt-and-compare: `inspectStoredProviderCredential` in
`user-provider-key-store.ts` owns it, sharing the malformed-`expires` guard with
`resolveOAuthCredential` through one extracted helper.

R3 — `doctor`'s `checkConnectedProviders` computed an unverifiable status and
never read it, reporting "connected" regardless. It now reports expired as
`fail` and unverifiable as `skip`, naming both.

R5 — the launch site passed `{ cwd }`, which the gate never read, so `config` was
always undefined and a tier- or alias-authored node resolved against the wrong
provider. Both pre-execution readers of a workflow's provider now go through one
`resolveCliModelContext`, and the title path reuses that config instead of
loading it a second time.

R7 (hardening) — a malformed `auth.json` reported the parser's message, and both
Bun's and V8's JSON errors quote the source text. That file is nothing but
credentials, so the message is now a fixed string.

R8 — `probePiCredential` treated a missing `pi` binary as a working credential
and classified vendor errors by free-text substring. It reads Pi's `--json`
verdict, including from a non-zero exit, and calls anything it cannot place
`unreachable` rather than guessing.

R6 — `credential-validity.ts` gains its dedicated test file. Every fix above was
watched failing against 2a40ed0 first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XqEroYXiJbgGesqZqyUgZ6
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Correction round — all 7 findings dispositioned

Head 6e7dab976. Still a draft. Base merged origin/dev once at a646761d4; not chased since.

Every fix below was watched failing against the reviewed head 2a40ed0ec before it was kept — by importing that commit's credential-validity.ts / doctor.ts side by side with the corrected ones and running the same assertions against both. Those scratch files are not committed.

ID Severity Disposition
R1 Critical FIXED
R2 Critical FIXED (one sub-case declined, below)
R3 Important FIXED
R5 Important FIXED
R6 Suggestion FIXED
R7 Suggestion FIXED — and it turned up a live leak
R8 Suggestion FIXED

R1 — command-sourced and gate-rework AI nodes

collectNodeModelBindings in packages/workflows/src/node-model-resolution.ts now owns node traversal and provider/model resolution, built on the executor's own resolveNodeModel. collectContainerIncompatibleProviders consumes it too, so resolveNodeProviderForPreflight — the hand-mirrored copy the review flagged as already drifted — is deleted rather than duplicated a third time. A loop_group body now resolves against the group's own provider, which is what the group forwards; resolving it against the workflow named a provider no body node runs on.

Red at 2a40ed0ec:

R1 breadth: 22 of 30 bundled AI workflows uncovered
(fail) collects the provider of a command-sourced agent node
(fail) collects the provider of a gate with a rework reprompt
(fail) blocks a command-sourced node whose credential expired

Green now, with the breadth case kept as a committed test that walks BUNDLED_WORKFLOWS and asserts no bundled workflow with an AI node yields an empty credential set.

R2 — fail closed

Every required credential resolves to exactly one verdict — usable, unusable, unverifiable, absent — and the loop has no fall-through. unusable and unverifiable both throw, naming the vendor and the reason.

Red at 2a40ed0ec, by direct execution:

HEAD: RESOLVED — the gate passed          # DB/decrypt failure, message without "expired"
CORRECTED: THREW — no openrouter credential found for this run. …
(fail) blocks when no store holds a credential at all
(fail) blocks when auth.json exists but cannot be parsed

Reuse: yes, user-provider-key-store.ts. Not getDecryptedProviderCredential though — it mints and refreshes a live bearer, which turns a pre-flight into a vendor round-trip and collapses "the network is down" into "this credential is dead", and #3274 requires those to report differently. Instead the shape guard resolveOAuthCredential documents is extracted into decryptOAuthCredentials, and a new inspectStoredProviderCredential reads it. One owner for the decrypt-and-expires guard, no network, and both new call sites (the gate and doctor) go through it. The malformed/missing-expires case the copies dropped now returns undetermined and logs, and it has a test.

Declined sub-case: "no credential found anywhere → throw", for a runner that is not pi.

Taken literally this hard-blocks every Claude Code and Codex subscription install. Those runners authenticate from their own credential stores, which #3274 explicitly puts out of scope ("Do not begin scanning other tools' credential stores"), so Archon finding nothing is the normal healthy state, not a verdict. The gate therefore splits on who will present the credential:

  • pi — absence is the verdict and throws. Pi authenticates from auth.json, the vendor env var, or a credential connected to Archon, and nowhere else.
  • any other runner — absence is allowed, logged at cli.credential_preflight_unverified with runner and vendor. Everything Archon can see still blocks: an expired connected credential for a claude node throws, and there is a test for it.

Ambient Pi vendors (amazon-bedrock, google-vertex) are exempt from the pi rule; their credentials come from a cloud chain Archon cannot read.

Two related scoping decisions in the same spirit:

  • auth.json is consulted for pi nodes only. A corrupt Pi store is not a reason to refuse a Claude Code run, and an entry there is not the credential a non-Pi runner presents.
  • A failure resolving the CLI identity (database down, unwritable store) reports "no connected credential" and logs the real cause rather than translating a database outage into "your key could not be verified". The run creates its own row seconds later and fails there naming the database. Per AGENTS.md, translate errors at the boundary that can explain them — this one cannot.

R3 — doctor's checkConnectedProviders

Rewritten onto inspectStoredProviderCredential, deleting the second decrypt-and-compare copy. Expired → fail with the date; unverifiable → skip naming the provider and reason; neither is folded into "connected".

Red at 2a40ed0ec, executed:

HEAD reported: {"status":"pass","message":"1 connected: anthropic(oauth)"}
(fail) does not report a credential it could not verify as connected

R5 — config never reached the gate

resolveCliModelContext(cwd, runConfig) is now the single resolver for both pre-execution readers of a workflow's provider — the --dry-run report and the gate — layered exactly as executeWorkflow layers them. The dead cwd option is gone.

Red at 2a40ed0ec: with the call site's real { cwd } argument, a node authored model: small resolving through a tier to pi/openrouter did not throw on an expired openrouter credential — the gate was checking a different vendor.

Two follow-on decisions:

  • --model bindings are applied to the pre-flight profile when they resolve and skipped when they do not. executeWorkflow owns validating those flags and the run row it has to fail; re-raising here turned a mistyped flag into a credential error, which broke workflowRunCommand — sparse model bindings (#2481).
  • The title-generation path now reuses the config the gate already resolved instead of loading it again. Net config loads per launch are unchanged. Side effect worth naming: a malformed .archon config now fails the launch at the gate rather than only degrading title generation. It already failed the run moments later inside executeWorkflow, so this is the same failure, earlier and clearer.

R6 — dedicated tests

packages/cli/src/utils/credential-validity.test.ts, 25 tests, registered in packages/cli/package.json as its own bun test invocation. Covers the branches the review listed as untested: parseExpires seconds/ms/ISO, malformed and non-object auth.json, the exactly-now expiry boundary, an empty API key, tier resolution with and without a profile, vendor-canonical mapping, and every verdict the gate can reach. Core's inspectStoredProviderCredential has 7 more in user-provider-key-store.test.ts.

R7 — no credential value in output

Kept as an invariant with a test, and the test found a real leak. A malformed auth.json reported (err as Error).message, and both engines quote the file:

NODE: Unexpected token 's', "sk-ant-oat"... is not valid JSON
BUN:  JSON Parse error: Unexpected identifier "sk"

doctor renders that string directly into failed to read ~/.pi/agent/auth.json: …. The message is now a fixed not valid JSON. Two negative-assertion tests feed recognizable secrets through every gate failure path and through inspectPiAuthJson, asserting the value never appears — including a 10-character prefix, since both parsers truncate rather than omit.

R8 — probePiCredential

A missing pi binary is unreachable, not ready. Classification now comes from the structured channel only: Pi's --json payload, read from stdout even on a non-zero exit. The free-text network / fetch failed matching is gone; anything the probe cannot place is an honest unreachable rather than a guess at invalid. Per AGENTS.md, a vendor rewording must not silently flip a verdict.

Untouched, as the review asked

Expiry units and the exactly-now boundary, the propagation mechanism (a real throw still hard-blocks before worktree creation, uncaught), and the packages/providers/src/index.ts re-export are unchanged.

Validation

bun run validate — pass. bun --filter '*' type-check — 13/13. bun run lint — clean. packages/cli, packages/workflows, packages/core bun run test — 0 fail. bun run check:cli-import-boundary — pass.

Test-side changes needed by the gate now actually running before the fork, each an under-specified mock made to match reality:

  • workflow.test.ts's loadConfig mocks gained assistant/assistants; no real loadConfig returns a config without them.
  • The @archon/core mock gained inspectStoredProviderCredential; unmocked it opened the real credential database.
  • finishStartupWindow's microtask budget was raised from 20. The pre-fork gates await dynamic imports, which cost more than 20 turns; the loop only has to be finite, and a spawn that never happens still fails on the assertion after it.

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In `@packages/cli/src/commands/doctor.ts`:
- Around line 710-714: Update the inspection-status handling around the expired
and undetermined branches to treat status "missing" as unverified, exclude it
from the connected count, and return skip for that row. Add a regression test
covering a credential that disappears between listing and inspection.
- Around line 431-436: Update checkPi around inspectPiAuthJson to treat an
unreadable selected auth file as a failure when the path exists but the
inspection result reports exists: false. Use authJsonPath in both the
read-failure diagnostic and the resulting status message, preventing fallback to
environment-key or no-auth branches.

In `@packages/cli/src/commands/workflow.ts`:
- Around line 2133-2137: Move the post-adoption credential validation to after
recaptureForLane has selected the final workflow. Resolve the model context
using workingCwd and the final workflow configuration, then rerun
assertWorkflowCredentialsValid before executeWorkflow begins provider execution;
add coverage for an adopted workflow that selects a different vendor.

In `@packages/cli/src/utils/credential-validity.ts`:
- Around line 94-99: Update defaultReadAuthJson and inspectPiAuthJson so missing
files remain represented as absent, while EACCES and other read or I/O failures
produce an explicit unreadable result classified as unverifiable rather than
exists: false. Ensure the inspection gate distinguishes missing credential
stores from unreadable credential stores.
- Line 459: The inspectPiAuthJson call in credential validity checking must pass
probePiCredential so expiry-less OAuth credentials are probed instead of being
accepted solely for having a non-empty access value. Configure the probe to run
only for the required Pi vendors, while preserving the existing
invalid-to-unusable and unreachable-to-unverifiable mappings.
- Around line 404-410: Update the identity-store failure catch in the credential
validity lookup to return status “undetermined” instead of “missing,” while
preserving the existing non-secret warning log. Ensure this feeds the existing
“unverifiable” handling in verdictFromStoredCredential and
assertWorkflowCredentialsValid so the workflow launch is blocked when credential
state cannot be verified.

In `@packages/core/src/db/user-provider-key-store.ts`:
- Line 219: Update inspectStoredProviderCredential and
verdictFromStoredCredential so successful decryption alone returns undetermined
for API keys, leaving usability confirmation to a provider probe. For OAuth
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Comment on lines +431 to +436
const result = await inspectPiAuthJson(authJsonPath, now, readAuth, probeCred);
if (result.error) {
return {
label,
status: 'fail',
message: `failed to read ~/.pi/agent/auth.json: ${result.error}`,

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fail when the selected auth file is unreadable.

checkPi passes doctor.ts’s readAuthJson to inspectPiAuthJson. That reader maps every read error to null, so inspectPiAuthJson can return exists: false after probeExists(authJsonPath) succeeds. checkPi then falls through to the environment-key or “no auth found” branches. Handle this result and use the selected path in both diagnostics.

Proposed fix
     const result = await inspectPiAuthJson(authJsonPath, now, readAuth, probeCred);
+    if (!result.exists) {
+      return {
+        label,
+        status: 'fail',
+        message: `failed to read ${authJsonPath}`,
+      };
+    }
     if (result.error) {
       return {
         label,
         status: 'fail',
-        message: `failed to read ~/.pi/agent/auth.json: ${result.error}`,
+        message: `failed to read ${authJsonPath}: ${result.error}`,
       };
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const result = await inspectPiAuthJson(authJsonPath, now, readAuth, probeCred);
if (result.error) {
return {
label,
status: 'fail',
message: `failed to read ~/.pi/agent/auth.json: ${result.error}`,
const result = await inspectPiAuthJson(authJsonPath, now, readAuth, probeCred);
if (!result.exists) {
return {
label,
status: 'fail',
message: `failed to read ${authJsonPath}`,
};
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label,
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message: `failed to read ${authJsonPath}: ${result.error}`,
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In `@packages/cli/src/commands/doctor.ts` around lines 431 - 436, Update checkPi
around inspectPiAuthJson to treat an unreadable selected auth file as a failure
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Comment on lines +710 to +714
if (inspection.status === 'expired') {
expired.push(`${row.provider} credential expired ${formatExpiryDate(inspection.expires)}`);
} else if (inspection.status === 'undetermined') {
unverified.push(`${row.provider} (${inspection.reason})`);
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Handle the missing inspection verdict.

StoredCredentialInspection can return status: 'missing'. The loop ignores this status and later counts the original row as connected. This occurs if the credential disappears between listUserProviderKeys and inspection.

Treat missing as unverified and return skip. Add a regression test for this verdict.

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       if (inspection.status === 'expired') {
         expired.push(`${row.provider} credential expired ${formatExpiryDate(inspection.expires)}`);
       } else if (inspection.status === 'undetermined') {
         unverified.push(`${row.provider} (${inspection.reason})`);
+      } else if (inspection.status === 'missing') {
+        unverified.push(`${row.provider} (credential no longer exists)`);
       }
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if (inspection.status === 'expired') {
expired.push(`${row.provider} credential expired ${formatExpiryDate(inspection.expires)}`);
} else if (inspection.status === 'undetermined') {
unverified.push(`${row.provider} (${inspection.reason})`);
}
if (inspection.status === 'expired') {
expired.push(`${row.provider} credential expired ${formatExpiryDate(inspection.expires)}`);
} else if (inspection.status === 'undetermined') {
unverified.push(`${row.provider} (${inspection.reason})`);
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unverified.push(`${row.provider} (credential no longer exists)`);
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Comment on lines +2133 to +2137
const runModelContext = await resolveCliModelContext(cwd, runConfig);
await assertWorkflowCredentialsValid(workflow, {
config: runModelContext.config,
aiProfile: preflightAiProfile(runModelContext.baseProfile, modelOverrides),
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate credentials after recaptureForLane selects the adopted workflow.

assertWorkflowCredentialsValid uses the parent cwd before adoption. An isolated adoption lane then re-discovers the workflow and configuration from sourceRoot, and executeWorkflow receives that final workflow and workingCwd. The recapture reruns only input and GitHub requirement gates, so an adopted workflow can select a different provider without credential validation for the graph that executes. After recapture, resolve the model context from workingCwd and rerun assertWorkflowCredentialsValid with the final workflow before provider execution. Add a test where the adopted workflow selects a different vendor.

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In `@packages/cli/src/commands/workflow.ts` around lines 2133 - 2137, Move the
post-adoption credential validation to after recaptureForLane has selected the
final workflow. Resolve the model context using workingCwd and the final
workflow configuration, then rerun assertWorkflowCredentialsValid before
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Comment on lines +94 to +99
export function defaultReadAuthJson(path: string): string | null {
try {
return readFileSync(path, 'utf8');
} catch {
return null;
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve unreadable-file failures as unverifiable.

defaultReadAuthJson returns null for EACCES, I/O errors, and missing files. inspectPiAuthJson therefore reports all these cases as exists: false.

Return an explicit read-error result for failures other than a missing file. The gate must distinguish an unreadable credential store from an absent credential store.

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In `@packages/cli/src/utils/credential-validity.ts` around lines 94 - 99, Update
defaultReadAuthJson and inspectPiAuthJson so missing files remain represented as
absent, while EACCES and other read or I/O failures produce an explicit
unreadable result classified as unverifiable rather than exists: false. Ensure
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Comment on lines +404 to +410
} catch (err) {
// The identity store failed, which says nothing about any credential — and this
// boundary cannot explain a database or module failure. Report no connected
// credential and log the real cause: the run creates its own row seconds later and
// fails there naming the database, rather than blaming the user's key.
getLog().warn({ err: err as Error, vendor }, 'cli.credential_preflight_identity_unavailable');
return { status: 'missing' };

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Return undetermined when the identity-store lookup fails. The catch currently returns missing; verdictFromStoredCredential maps that to absent, and assertWorkflowCredentialsValid allows absent for non-Pi runners. This can launch a workflow without proving the connected-credential state. Return undetermined with a non-secret reason so the existing unverifiable path blocks the launch.

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In `@packages/cli/src/utils/credential-validity.ts` around lines 404 - 410, Update
the identity-store failure catch in the credential validity lookup to return
status “undetermined” instead of “missing,” while preserving the existing
non-secret warning log. Ensure this feeds the existing “unverifiable” handling
in verdictFromStoredCredential and assertWorkflowCredentialsValid so the
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options?.authJsonPath ??
env.ARCHON_PI_AUTH_PATH ??
join(homedir(), '.pi', 'agent', 'auth.json');
const piAuth = await inspectPiAuthJson(authJsonPath, now, readFn);

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Broken Authentication

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

Probe expiry-less OAuth credentials for required Pi vendors

When auth.json contains an OAuth credential without expires, the call at line 459 omits probeFn, so any non-empty access value is marked valid. Pass probePiCredential to inspectPiAuthJson and restrict probes to the required Pi vendors. Preserve the existing mappings from invalid to unusable and unreachable to unverifiable.

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In `@packages/cli/src/utils/credential-validity.ts` at line 459, The
inspectPiAuthJson call in credential validity checking must pass
probePiCredential so expiry-less OAuth credentials are probed instead of being
accepted solely for having a non-empty access value. Configure the probe to run
only for the required Pi vendors, while preserving the existing
invalid-to-unusable and unreachable-to-unverifiable mappings.

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);
return null;
}
return { creds, expires: creds.expires as number };

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not mark locally decryptable credentials as usable.

inspectStoredProviderCredential returns valid for every decryptable API key, although decryption does not establish that the vendor still accepts the key. It also returns valid for an OAuth object that contains only a finite expires; for example, the OpenAI flow requires access, refresh, accountId, and id_token. verdictFromStoredCredential maps both results to usable, so the preflight can allow revoked API keys and incomplete OAuth rows to proceed to worktree creation and execution. Return undetermined until API-key usability is established by a provider probe, and require the provider-specific OAuth fields before returning valid.

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In `@packages/core/src/db/user-provider-key-store.ts` at line 219, Update
inspectStoredProviderCredential and verdictFromStoredCredential so successful
decryption alone returns undetermined for API keys, leaving usability
confirmation to a provider probe. For OAuth credentials, return valid only when
the provider-required fields are present, including access, refresh, accountId,
and id_token; otherwise return undetermined rather than usable.

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fix(cli): archon doctor proves a credential file exists, not that the credential works

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