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Summary

  • Add a rust-legacy adapter pinned to moq-token-cli 0.5.38 and moq-token 0.7.0, the 2026-07-22 compatibility floor.
  • Cross-verify its published JWKs and JWTs against current Rust, JavaScript, and Docker token implementations.
  • Sign subtree canaries as name/** in current CLIs and equivalent name prefixes in the legacy CLI, so compatible releases can use the shared put/get wire format.
  • Check once that the legacy CLI refuses a valid exact-pattern token, after accepting a subtree token with the same key.
  • Run the pinned compatibility cell once in Linux cargo CI and guard the intentional pin in freshness checks.

Validation

  • just check passes.
  • The legacy, Node, and Bun matrix was run across HS256, EdDSA, ES256, and RS256. Self-verification, tampered-token rejection, wrong-key rejection, and exact-pattern refusal pass.
  • Cross-version cells remain red with the current published artifacts: the legacy verifier sees no put/get grants in current tokens, and current verifiers reject legacy put/get claims.

Release gate

The cargo token CI cell is expected to turn green when moq-auth 0.1.2 and the corresponding current CLI and npm artifacts containing the compatibility fix are published.

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The token script adds support for the pinned moq-token-cli 0.5.38 implementation, including setup, key generation, signing, and verification. It checks legacy verification of subtree-pattern tokens and rejection of exact-pattern tokens. The cargo smoke workflow and token-full task include rust-legacy. The README documents the compatibility floor, and freshness.sh checks the version pin.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 85ce5

The compatibility test may report a misleading pass for exact-pattern rejection. Add the current-format subtree acceptance check before relying on that result; the supplied evidence does not independently establish a broader merge-blocking failure.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 85ce5

The new check exposes a known token-format mismatch and is expected to leave the cargo smoke job failing until compatibility is restored. That failure is visible, but a persistently failing job can make later authentication regressions harder to distinguish. No production authorization change or bypass was identified.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: The newly wired cargo smoke cell is expected to fail on the documented cross-format mismatch. Although this correctly exposes the incompatibility, a recurring known failure can obscure whether later token-security regressions introduce additional failures; the effect on merge gating is not established.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The added legacy executable is reachable through explicitly selected harness cells and the cargo CI cell, not through a changed production token-verification path. The observed outputs are temporary test artifacts and CI status; production tenant or asset exposure is not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The reported cross-format failures describe rejection of tokens across versions, not demonstrated acceptance of an attacker-controlled token or a newly introduced authorization bypass. The incompatibility being measured predates this test addition; no production exploit path is established by the changed files.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Tokens and keys supplied to the test verifiers come from the selected generator’s temporary artifacts. Positive cells require verification and canary claims; negative cells check tampering and an unrelated key. The new Cargo installation adds a published executable to the CI runner, but checkout disables persisted credentials.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The expected failing compatibility cells preserve a visible failure signal rather than silently accepting incompatible tokens. Their recurring failure nevertheless makes the cargo job’s overall status less specific as a signal for subsequent authentication regressions.
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 16.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 2 files. (3 skipped: 3… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: testing the token wire compatibility floor.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the legacy adapter, compatibility tests, pinned versions, validation results, and release gate.
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Docstring coverage is 16.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 2 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.)

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Comment thread token.sh
# every current implementation, this is intentionally pinned: moving it would
# stop testing whether new JWK/JWT formats still load in the oldest supported
# verifier. LEGACY_TOKEN_BIN can supply an already-installed command instead.
LEGACY_TOKEN_VERSION="${LEGACY_TOKEN_VERSION:-0.5.38}"

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P1 Badge Keep published MoQ packages on latest

Every rust-legacy run defaults to installing moq-token-cli 0.5.38, but this repository explicitly requires MoQ packages to remain on latest and identifies Playwright as the sole version pin. This compatibility-floor cell therefore changes the repository's testing contract and makes a historical artifact gate CI; remove the pin or obtain an explicit policy change before adding this lane.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L31-L34

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In `@token.sh`:
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Comment thread token.sh
legacy_out="$keydir/legacy.log"
current_out="$keydir/current.log"
if ! gen "$exact_gen" "$algo" "$keydir" >"$keydir.gen.log" 2>&1 ||
! sign rust-legacy "$keydir/sign.jwk" "$algo" >"$subtree" 2>"$keydir.sign.log" ||

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Require a current-format subtree token before testing exact-pattern rejection.

The subtree setup signs with rust-legacy. It proves only that the legacy verifier accepts its own format. If the legacy verifier rejects all current-format tokens, the exact-pattern check still prints PASS for a format failure rather than an exact-pattern rejection. The reported cross-format failure makes this case concrete. Sign a subtree token with exact_gen and require rust-legacy to accept it before testing the exact token.

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In `@token.sh` at line 466, Update the subtree setup around `sign rust-legacy` to
generate the subtree token with `exact_gen`, then require `rust-legacy` to
accept that token before testing exact-pattern rejection.

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The maintainer decided during the moq merged-PR audit to drop the pinned rust-legacy (moq-token-cli 0.5.38) cell and keep smoke's latest-only policy. The goal behind it, catching wire breaks against the last release, moves into moq as a nightly test: moq-dev/moq#4307 (quest/m1/wire-compat.md). Please trim this PR to what still applies without the legacy cell, or close it if nothing does.

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