@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+---
+'@objectstack/plugin-auth': patch
+'@objectstack/plugin-hono-server': patch
+---
+
+Clause-②: no
+
+perf(plugin-auth, plugin-hono-server): an authenticated request reads 8 rows in 4 round trips before its handler, down from 11 in 7, and `/auth/me/*` resolves the caller's grants once
+
+Measured on a real engine (SQLite through `@objectstack/driver-sql`), for a signed-in user whose session has an active organization:
+
+| before the handler | before | after |
+|:--|:--|:--|
+| REST and dispatcher doors (`resolveAuthzContext` with the in-process session read) | 11 reads, 7 round trips | 8 reads, 4 round trips |
+| `GET /auth/me/permissions`, `/auth/me/localization`, `/me/apps` | 17 reads, 9 round trips | 8 reads, 4 round trips |
+| `GET /api/v1/auth/get-session` | 11 reads, 7 round trips | 10 reads, 6 round trips when it reads the signing key; 8 in 4 while the key is held |
+
+- **An in-process session read no longer signs a JWT.** better-auth runs `/get-session`'s after-hooks for a server-side `auth.api.getSession(...)` call too, so every door that asked "who is calling" had the jwt plugin read the signing key (two `sys_jwks` round trips) and sign a `set-auth-jwt` header the caller then discarded. The hook now runs only when the call answers an HTTP request. `GET /api/v1/auth/get-session` still carries `set-auth-jwt`, signed exactly as before. A server-side caller that wants the header dispatches the request through `AuthManager.handleRequest`.
+- **The session token is not read back after the session was found by it.** `sys_session.token` is withheld from ordinary reads and recovered for better-auth through a privileged read. better-auth finds the session by its token, so that read had nothing to add. It was a second round trip between the session row and the user row on every session read. A read keyed on any other column still recovers the token.
+- **`/auth/me/*` and `/me/apps` resolve the grants once.** These routes resolved the caller's grants twice per request: once inside the session read (for the payload's `positions[]`) and once more for their own context. They now resolve through `resolveAuthzContext`, whose request-scoped memo serves the second resolution from the first while no write has landed in between. The memo ends with the request. The routes still admit a session only, and the session's active organization stands as before.
+- **An unreadable authorization store is an outage on `/auth/me/*` and `/me/apps`, not a signed-out caller.** Because these routes now authorize through `resolveAuthzContext`, they follow the rule every transport through it follows: a permission-store read that fails answers `503` with the code `SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE` (on `HonoHttpServer`'s error seam) instead of `{ authenticated: false }` or `{ apps: [] }`, which a client cannot tell from an anonymous caller. A store whose tables were never created is not an outage: those routes answer the signed-in caller with no grants, as before.
+- **The signing key is held across requests, under two bounds.** The keyring the jwt plugin signs with is kept after a read. Any write to `sys_jwks` that passes this process's engine drops it at once, and it is never kept longer than 30 seconds, which bounds a write this process cannot see (another node minting a key). An engine without a middleware seam keeps nothing. On a host without Ed25519 the keyring is still filtered to keys the host can use.
+
+Unchanged: the session and user every door resolves, every grant, the `/get-session` body and its renewal, every option and environment variable, and the exports. No new configuration key. The one answer that changes is the outage answer above.
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ const TRANSPORT_LEDGER: Record<string, 'guarded' | 'propagates'> = {
   'packages/services/service-settings/src/settings-service-plugin.ts': 'guarded',
   'packages/services/service-storage/src/storage-service-plugin.ts': 'guarded',
   'packages/plugins/plugin-sharing/src/sharing-plugin.ts': 'guarded',
+  'packages/plugins/plugin-hono-server/src/current-user-endpoints.ts': 'guarded',
   'packages/cloud-connection/src/marketplace-install-local-plugin.ts': 'guarded',
   'packages/cloud-connection/src/cloud-connection-plugin.ts': 'guarded',
 };
 
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ import {
   protectGetSessionJwtHook,
   resolveJwtSigningAlgorithm,
 } from './jwt-key-algorithm.js';
+import { createSigningKeyReader } from './signing-key-read-cache.js';
 
 /**
  * Detect WebContainer (StackBlitz) environment.
@@ -3012,13 +3013,20 @@ export class AuthManager {
    * 2. **Existing EdDSA keys.** `resolveSigningKey` falls back to *any* stored
    *    key when none matches the configured algorithm, so a deployment that
    *    already minted an EdDSA key would still die in `importJWK` after the
-   *    fallback. On a host without Ed25519 we install better-auth's
-   *    `adapter.getJwks` keyring seam so unusable keys are not offered at all
-   *    and a fresh ES256 key is minted instead. Rows are hidden, never
-   *    deleted — moving back to a host with Ed25519 restores them.
+   *    fallback. On a host without Ed25519 the `adapter.getJwks` keyring seam
+   *    hides unusable keys, so they are not offered at all and a fresh ES256
+   *    key is minted instead. Rows are hidden, never deleted — moving back to
+   *    a host with Ed25519 restores them.
+   *
+   * The same seam carries the signing-key read cache on every host (#24061,
+   * `signing-key-read-cache.ts`): the keyring is held across requests only
+   * until a `sys_jwks` write passes the engine or its TTL lapses.
    *
    * Belt-and-braces, on every host: a signing failure degrades the
-   * `set-auth-jwt` header instead of 500ing `/get-session`.
+   * `set-auth-jwt` header instead of 500ing `/get-session`, and the header is
+   * signed only for an HTTP `/get-session` — an in-process `auth.api.getSession`
+   * read discards it, so it no longer pays the key read and the signature
+   * (#24061; see `protectGetSessionJwtHook`).
    */
   private async buildJwtPlugin(jwt: (options: any) => any): Promise<any> {
     if (!this.ed25519ProbeResult) this.ed25519ProbeResult = probeEd25519Support();
@@ -3042,12 +3050,20 @@ export class AuthManager {
     const jwtPlugin = jwt({
       schema: buildJwtPluginSchema(),
       jwks: { keyPairConfig },
-      // The keyring override is installed ONLY on a host that needs it, so a
-      // normal deployment runs better-auth's stock read path with no
-      // ObjectStack code in it and nothing to regress.
-      ...(ed25519Supported
-        ? {}
-        : { adapter: { getJwks: createHostUsableJwksReader() } }),
+      // [#24061] The keyring read goes through `createSigningKeyReader` on
+      // every host: it holds the rows across requests only while no
+      // `sys_jwks` write has passed this engine's middleware since they were
+      // read, and never past `SIGNING_KEY_CACHE_TTL_MS` — both halves of the
+      // cross-request caching rule (see `signing-key-read-cache.ts`). A miss
+      // reads exactly what it read before: better-auth's stock read, or, on a
+      // host without Ed25519, the host-usable keyring that hides keys this
+      // host cannot import (#3585).
+      adapter: {
+        getJwks: createSigningKeyReader({
+          engine: this.config.dataEngine,
+          read: ed25519Supported ? undefined : createHostUsableJwksReader(),
+        }),
+      },
     });
 
     const protectedHook = protectGetSessionJwtHook(jwtPlugin, (error) =>
@@ -3059,7 +3075,8 @@ export class AuthManager {
       console.error(
         '[AuthManager] Could not attach the JWT signing guard to better-auth\'s /get-session hook ' +
           '(its `hooks.after` shape changed). A JWT signing failure will now 500 every /get-session ' +
-          'instead of degrading to a missing set-auth-jwt header. Re-check ' +
+          'instead of degrading to a missing set-auth-jwt header, and every in-process session read ' +
+          'signs a JWT it discards (two sys_jwks reads per authenticated request). Re-check ' +
           'the better-auth version in better-auth-schema-parity.test.ts.',
       );
     }