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feat: unify person identity for pull requests and issues - #67
Unifies the person identity paths instead of adding a new adapter for each command.
gcb pr create --as-user now forwards to the flag-only lifecycle, so the obvious spelling works; pr create without --as-user stays the catalogued app action.
Bare --as-user now also works for pr --reply-to, --edit and --comment, using the authorized person/userTokens token through the broker; a plain reply still uses the app by default.
Bare gcb issue create --as-user now uses the broker's authorized person through the action path; --as-user <login> still uses the host opener.
Adds identity to action requests; the broker only accepts it for catalog actions that declare the narrower appUser (issue creation today), while hostUser remains the opener permission. pr:close/pr:edit as the person are refused. The provider reuses the same personal-token renewal for actions and pull requests. Installation tokens are still revoked; personal tokens are not.
README, usage and changesets updated.
corepack yarn check: 433 pass.
Discussion creation remains in #64; this PR covers the pull-request/issue/reply half of the identity model without inventing a second provider path.
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New Features
Added support for creating issues as the authorized user with bare --as-user, including issue body content from a file.
Expanded bare --as-user support for pull-request creation, replies, review-comment edits, comments, and review-thread resolution.
Pull-request and issue creation can still use a named account through the host opener.
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Clarified which actions support each --as-user option and how user-token permissions affect them.
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The client and broker now support explicit app or user identity for selected actions. Bare --as-user routes issue creation and supported pull-request actions through the broker. Named-login creation continues to use the host opener. Refresh-token requests now have a 30-second deadline.
Changes: User identity action routing
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Identity contract and broker validation packages/core/src/actions.ts, packages/core/src/types.ts, packages/host/src/broker.ts, test/unit/broker.test.ts
Action requests can specify app or user. The broker rejects unsupported user actions and records the selected identity. issue:create supports user identity.
Provider token selection and action execution packages/host/src/providers/github-app.ts, test/unit/github-app.test.ts
The provider selects a personal token or an installation token according to the requested identity and action. It reuses and renews personal tokens, and revokes only installation tokens minted for the action.
Bare --as-user routes issue creation and supported pull-request actions through the broker. Issue body-file contents are forwarded as the body. Named-login creation continues to use the host opener. The documentation and changesets describe these routes.
code-vaults/git-credential-broker#55 — Adds identity selection for pull-request requests; this PR extends the identity model to action requests and additional pull-request operations.
code-vaults/git-credential-broker#51 — Adds named-login issue creation through the host opener; this PR keeps that route and adds bare-flag broker routing.
The identity-routing and refresh-deadline changes are mergeable after normal checks. Stronger timeout and reply-default tests are recommended; the missing-person-token fallback for direct resolve requests is pre-existing.
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Reviewed at 8fc8b6a. corepack yarn check: 402/402 pass. I also drove the built client against a stub broker and a fake opener.json: pr create --as-user arrives as {op:'pull-request', action:'open', identity:'user'}, pr create --as-user=octocat writes an opener request with account:'octocat', pr create with no --as-user still sends {op:'action', ghAction:'pr:create'}, the bare/login conflict still refuses, and thread resolution still defaults to the user identity. The fix does what the changeset says.
Blocking — the guard's two halves are not pinned by a test.
The new branch carries two behaviours beyond "accept the bare flag", and both survive deletion with the whole suite green:
Delete the second half of the condition (if (sub === 'create')): 402/402 still pass. That mutation silently reroutes the documented pr create action (README.md:726, and the changeset's own second clause) to the flag-only lifecycle, which is exactly what this && exists to prevent.
Drop || argument.startsWith('--as-user='): 402/402 still pass, so pr create --as-user=alice would quietly revert to the gcb gh pr create hint instead of reaching the opener — the spelling the commit message and changeset explicitly claim.
The positive case added at test/unit/pr-identity.test.ts:110 does have teeth (it fails on the base commit with 1 !== 0), but it only covers one of the three spellings/routes. One more test — or that one parameterised — covers both:
pr create --as-user=alice … must not print use gcb pr --as-user; with no opener it should fail with no host opener is watching, i.e. the opener route rather than the catalog. (Writing a fake opener.json and setting GCB_OPENER_TIMEOUT_MS also lets you assert account: 'alice' in the request file, if you want the value pinned rather than the route.)
pr create --body b … with the stub broker must arrive as ghAction: 'pr:create'. Give that stub exitCode: 0, since runGh returns 1 when the response has no exitCode.
Non-blocking
gcb pr -as-user is accepted (parseArgs normalises a single-dash long flag), but gcb pr create -as-user falls through to the catalog and gets the hint, because this check matches only the double-dash spelling. It is the same shape as the review --id check just above, so treat it as an existing convention rather than something this PR must change.
The reworded hint reads well, but it is only reachable once a socket is resolved: runGh fails with no broker socket is configured before the --as-user loop. Pre-existing ordering, noted only so it is not mistaken for a regression.
@i1stG Addressed in 36f260c after rebasing onto origin/main (165a95d). Added two tests: pr create --as-user=alice takes the opener route and fails with "no host opener is watching"; pr create without --as-user sends ghAction: pr:create to the stub broker. Mutation-checked both halves: removing sub === "create" or the startsWith("--as-user=") branch now fails a test. 418 pass; PR body updated.
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Approved at 36f260c (rebased onto 165a95d; the diff against main is still the same four files).
Both requests are addressed, and the new tests have teeth — I re-ran the two mutations:
if (sub === 'create'): now fails keeps pr create without as-user on the catalog (the request arrives as pull-request instead of ghAction: 'pr:create').
dropping || argument.startsWith('--as-user='): now fails routes pr create --as-user=login to the opener (the hint from runGh replaces no host opener is watching).
corepack yarn check: 418/418 at this head; the pr-identity file ran 8/8 clean in isolation. Re-ran the stub-broker probes at the rebased head: pr create --as-user → {op:'pull-request', action:'open', identity:'user'}, pr create (no flag) → {op:'action', ghAction:'pr:create'}, and both forms still behave as before.
The two non-blocking notes from the previous round are unchanged by design and need no action here: the single-dash spelling (pr -as-user vs pr create -as-user) matches the existing review --id convention, and the reworded hint is only reachable once a socket resolves — pre-existing ordering in runGh.
@i1stG Pushed 719b9f8 after the approval: unified the remaining person paths rather than adding a reply-only exception. Bare --as-user now works for pr --reply-to and issue create (broker authorized person/userTokens); login still uses the host opener; action requests carry identity and only hostUser actions accept it. Provider token renewal is shared by actions and pull requests. 422 pass. Discussion creation is the remaining #64 piece and is explicitly out of this PR. Please re-review the delta.
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Reviewed at 719b9f8. corepack yarn check: 422/422 pass, and pr-identity/issue-command/github-app ran 5/5 clean in isolation. The identity plumbing itself is sound: the broker validates it, gates it on hostUser, the provider reuses the one renewal lock, and a personal action token is neither minted nor revoked. Two of the new paths do not behave as the changesets and README describe, though.
Blocking — a plain --reply-to now requires the person, but the flag is supposed to be the opt-in.
packages/client/src/commands/pr.ts:198 adds reply to the expression that defaults identity:
So gcb pr --number 7 --reply-to 123 --body x (no --as-user) now sends identity: 'user'. Measured:
the client request carries {action:'reply', identity:'user'};
at the provider, identity: 'user' with no user.refresh/userTokens throws ProviderConfigError: no authorized user token for this request, while identity: 'app' and identity: undefined proceed on the installation token.
That is a regression from 36f260c (where reply sent identity: 'app' and worked), and it contradicts all three descriptions: the changeset says bare --as-user is what makes a reply the person's ("instead of the app"), the PR body says "Bare --as-user now also works for pr --reply-to", and README.md:372 says "add bare --as-user to attribute it to the broker's authorized person". On a deployment with a person configured it also silently authors replies as that person, which makes them uneditable by gcb pr --edit (still app-only). Drop reply back off the default, keep the provider's identity === 'user' reply support, and add the missing test: a plain --reply-to must send identity: 'app'. Removing || action === 'reply' today leaves the suite 422/422 green, so the default is unpinned.
Blocking — the documented issue create --as-user example fails on --body-file.
README.md:433 shows the new broker-person form with --body-file. The bare branch at packages/client/src/commands/issue.ts:63 forwards argv (minus --as-user) to runGh, and the catalogued issue:create has no --body-file flag:
--body and --label work. Translate --body-file/--body-file=<path> into --body before dispatching (the same readFileSync + fail the opener path already does), and cover it with a test, since this is the example the README advertises.
Blocking — the two new broker guards are untested.
Deleting both the invalid-identity check (broker.ts:279-282) and the spec.hostUser check (broker.ts:299-301) leaves 422/422 green. These are the gates that keep a crafted op:'action' request from naming an unusable identity or asking a read-only action to run as the person, so they deserve a broker.test.ts case each: pr:view with identity: 'user' → action does not support the user identity, and identity: 'robot' → bad action identity.
Docs this change makes untrue
AGENTS.md:237-239 still says the user token "is used for exactly the two things an installation token cannot do — authoring a pull request as a person, and resolving a review thread". Replies (and bare issue create --as-user) are now a third use, and a reply is not something an installation token cannot do — it is preferred for attribution, which is a different reason worth stating.
AGENTS.md:254-256 says "pr --as-user and issue create --as-user are create-only … every other action goes through the installation token". Bare issue create --as-user goes through the person action token, and pr --as-user --reply-to writes as the person.
README.md:376 still says "the comments this command posts are the app's, so --edit changes those rather than a person's"; a reply made with bare --as-user is no longer the app's.
packages/client/src/commands/issue.ts:31: "--repo Recorded for the request; the checkout decides the repository" is true only for the opener; on the broker path (now also bare --as-user) --repo selects it.
Minor
gh.ts:208 still advises use gcb issue create --as-user <login>, although bare is now valid; the pr message beside it was updated for exactly this last round.
The action audit record does not carry identity, while the pull-request record does (broker.ts:520 vs the action record). A person-authored issue create is indistinguishable from an app one in the log; one spread of the same field fixes that.
runAction and pullRequest now each implement the personal ?? userTokens[owner] precedence slightly differently (empty-string sentinel vs undefined). Given the PR is about unifying this, a single personTokenFor(owner) helper would keep the precedence in one place.
Worth confirming as intent: identity: 'user' is now accepted for every hostUser action, so a crafted socket request can run pr:close, pr:edit, pr:comment, pr:review or pr:create as the person even though only issue creation and reply are advertised. The gate matches the field's documented meaning, so this may well be deliberate — just flagging the widening.
@i1stG Addressed in 95dcac9: a plain --reply-to sends identity app again (new test), issue create --as-user translates --body-file into the catalog --body (test covers it), and broker.test pins the bad-identity and non-hostUser guards. Also added action audit identity, pulled the person-token precedence into personTokenFor, and corrected the AGENTS/README/gh-hint text. I also extended bare --as-user to --edit and --comment, which is why the head is 428 pass. Intentional widening: identity user is accepted for every hostUser action; the catalog field means it may act as a person. Discussion creation is still #64. repo fork cannot use the app installation token; bare --as-user uses the OAuth user token, login uses the opener.
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Reviewed at 95dcac9. corepack yarn check: 428/428 pass. The three fixes are real and I confirmed each test has teeth by breaking the code again:
plain --reply-to → identity: 'app' (re-adding reply to the default fails keeps a plain reply on the app identity);
issue create --as-user --body-file now sends the file's text as values.body (removing the translation fails the issue test); =/-body-file spellings, a path with a space, a body containing \n---\n--not-a-flag, and file-over-inline precedence all work;
the broker's bad-identity and hostUser guards are covered (removing either fails refuses an unusable action identity / refuses the user identity …), the audit carries identity (removing it fails the audit test), and personTokenFor is shared by fork/action/pull-request.
One thing still needs a decision before merge.
Blocking — the hostUser gate lets the container edit/close a pull request as the person, which AGENTS.md:259-261 says it cannot.
broker.ts:299 gates the user identity on spec.hostUser, and that field is true for pr:create, pr:edit, pr:comment, pr:close, pr:review and issue:create. Driving createRequestHandler with identity: 'user' and a recording provider:
issue:create ALLOWED as user
pr:create ALLOWED as user
pr:edit ALLOWED as user
pr:comment refused: pr:comment needs --body (allowed with a body)
pr:close ALLOWED as user
pr:review ALLOWED as user
pr:view refused: that action cannot run as a person
runAction needs no installation for the user identity, so this is also true on a repository the app was never installed on — exactly the fork-to-upstream case. The new AGENTS paragraph says the opposite:
On a repository the app is not installed on, a pull request can be opened and its review comments replied to, edited or resolved with bare --as-user, but the pull request itself cannot be edited, closed or merged, and neither the container nor the host opener has a route to its metadata.
The container can speak the socket protocol directly, so a client-side refusal is not a boundary; hostUser was documented as "whether the host broker may run this as a person", and the app broker reusing it widens the authorized token to actions the changesets and PR body do not advertise. Either:
narrow the gate with a field that means "the app broker may run this as the person" (set on issue:create, and pr:create if you want it there) and keep hostUser for the opener, plus a test that pr:close/pr:edit are refused; or
keep the widening, say so in the changeset and in AGENTS (the sentence above needs to go), and add a test that records the allowance deliberately.
The existing broker test only proves pr:view is refused, which both policies satisfy.
Minor — the changeset under-reports --as-user for --edit and --comment.
.changeset/pr-reply-user.md still says only "Allow bare --as-user with --reply-to", while pr.ts now also allows edit and comment (and the tests cover them). Extend that changeset (or add one) so the release notes mention the two new capabilities.
Everything else from the previous round is addressed: the gh issue create --as-user hint, the README/AGENTS wording about app-vs-person comments, the --repo help, and the audit field.
@i1stG Chose the narrow policy in 4f138c5: added appUser to the catalog, true only for issue:create; hostUser stays the opener permission. A socket request for pr:close/pr:edit with identity user is now refused, with a dedicated test. Updated the edit/comment changeset and the PR body. 429 pass (one full run had the pre-existing issue-opener timing flake; isolated and rerun are green).
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Approved at 4f138c5. corepack yarn check: 429/429 pass.
The new gate is exactly the narrow one I asked for, and it is pinned in both directions — I mutation-tested it:
removing appUser: true from issue:create fails passes and audits the user identity for issue creation;
putting the gate back on hostUser fails refuses the user identity for a hostUser action the app broker does not allow.
Driving the handler with identity: 'user' now gives: issue:create allowed, and pr:create, pr:edit, pr:comment (with a body), pr:close, pr:review, pr:view all refused with cannot run as a person. So AGENTS.md:259-261 ("the pull request itself cannot be edited, closed or merged") is true again, and the authorized token's reachable surface is the one the changesets describe.
The reply default and the --body-file translation from the previous round are still in place and still covered; the changeset now names --edit and --comment as well.
One stale sentence outside the code: the PR description still says "the broker only accepts it for catalog actions that declare hostUser" — it is appUser now. Worth fixing so the next reader of the PR is not looking for the wrong field.
Bound the token refresh request with an abort signal.
refreshUserToken sends its request with no deadline. If GitHub accepts the connection and never answers, renewingPersonToken never settles. Every later personalToken() call then waits on that promise. Add signal: AbortSignal.timeout(...) to the request init in refreshUserToken. A timed-out refresh then rejects and clears the lock.
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Review comment at @packages/host/src/providers/github-app.ts around lines 526 -
533:
Update the request init in refreshUserToken to include a bounded AbortSignal
timeout so stalled refresh requests reject and the renewingPersonToken lock can
settle and be released; preserve the existing retry behavior.
Assert that plain pr create does not send the user identity.
Assert that plain pr create does not send the user identity.
The test checks only ghAction for this route. A change that sends identity: 'user' from this route would still pass. The route currently omits identity, and the broker treats an omitted value as 'app'. Assert that the field is absent or 'app', and reject 'user'.
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Review comment at @test/unit/pr-identity.test.ts around lines 184 - 185:
Update the plain `pr create` test to verify the request does not use user
identity: after checking `seen['ghAction']`, assert that `seen['identity']` is
absent or `'app'`. Keep the assertion scoped to this route.
Assert the forwarded title in the bare --as-user test.
Assert the forwarded title in the bare --as-user test.
The bare --as-user test checks identity, ghAction, and values.body. It does not check values.title. The bare --as-user branch in packages/client/src/commands/issue.ts rewrites argv, so an unintended change to the --title value on this branch would not fail this test.
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assert.equal((seen['values'] as Record<string, unknown>)['body'], 'from a file\n');
+ assert.equal((seen['values'] as Record<string, unknown>)['title'], 't');
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Review comment at @test/unit/issue-command.test.ts around lines 233 - 235:
Add an assertion in the bare --as-user test to verify that values.title remains
't' after argv rewriting. Locate the test by its existing identity, ghAction,
and values.body assertions; leave the other checks unchanged.
Assert that the user reply test mints no installation token.
Assert that the user reply test mints no installation token.
The reply test checks only the reply request. A change that mints an installation token before the reply would still pass, because the stub serves /access_tokens and the reply keeps the person token. The sibling test runs an action with the authorized user token already asserts that no installation token is minted for a person. Add the same check to the reply test.
Suggested test assertion
const request = stub.calls.find((call) => call.url.endsWith('/comments/123/replies'));
+ assert.equal(+ stub.calls.some((call) => call.url.includes('/access_tokens')),+ false,+ 'no installation token is minted for a person',+ );
assert.equal(request?.authorization, 'Bearer person-token');
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Review comment at @test/unit/github-app.test.ts around lines 1113 - 1115:
Update the user reply test to assert that no request to an `/access_tokens`
endpoint occurs, matching the existing check in `runs an action with the
authorized user token`; preserve the current reply authorization and method
assertions.
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Approved at 63f96dc. corepack yarn check: 431/431 pass; the four touched test files ran 5/5 clean in isolation. CodeRabbit's findings at 4f138c5 are all marked addressed here, and I checked the two that overlapped with mine (-as-user in the pr create dispatch, and the plain issue create --body-file route) by probe, not just by reading.
I mutation-tested the new work, and each test has teeth:
removing the signal fails keeps the new refresh token…; I also confirmed the deadline reaches the real transport, not just the injected stub: a local request that never answers aborts in ~84 ms with both fetcherFor(undefined) (global fetch) and fetcherFor(null) (node-fetch-native agent). AbortSignal.timeout is unref'd, so it does not hold the process open, and the Node floor here is 24.
reverting personalForThis to the old reply/edit/comment-defaults-to-person form fails keeps an omitted identity on the app for comment and edit;
removing the plain-route body-file translation fails translates body-file without as-user;
dropping the single-dash spellings from the dispatch fails routes pr create as-user=login spellings to the opener.
Behaviour at this head: pr --reply-to stays identity: 'app'; issue create --body-file sends the file text as the app and with bare --as-user as the person; pr create -as-user opens through the lifecycle and -as-user=alice reaches the opener; gcb gh pr view --as-user now names the lifecycle commands.
Two non-blocking cleanups, both cosmetic:
the comment above personalForThis (github-app.ts:809-813) still says "The two actions a person may perform are decided first … Everything else still acts as the app, and only ever could", which the new expression no longer means — identity: 'user' now selects the person for reply/edit/comment too;
FetchInitLike does not declare signal, so the refresh deadline is threaded as an implicit extra property. Adding readonly signal?: AbortSignal there (or having Fetcher reuse it) would make the contract explicit rather than relying on every FetchLike spreading init.
Also worth a line in .changeset/issue-user-identity.md that issue create --body-file now works on the plain app route too, since that is a user-visible fix in this commit.
@i1stG Addressed the cosmetics: the personalForThis comment now describes explicit reply/edit/comment identity, FetchInitLike declares signal, and the issue changeset mentions --body-file on the plain app route. 431 pass; head updated.
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Approved at f0ea1b8. corepack yarn check: 431/431 pass.
All three notes from the last round are addressed, and nothing else changed:
the comment above personalForThis now says exactly what the expression does — explicit identity: 'user', with open/resolve defaulting to the person and reply/edit/comment staying on the app otherwise;
FetchInitLike declares signal?: AbortSignal, so the refresh deadline is part of the FetchLike contract instead of an implicit extra property (the Fetcher type and the real transport already agree on it);
the issue-user-identity changeset records that --body-file now works on the plain app route as well.
The diff is docs plus one optional type field, with no behavioural change; the previous round's mutation checks and transport probe still apply at this head.
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When resolve has omitted identity and no person token, selection falls through to minting an instal…
817-819: Minor · Potential issue · Low value
When resolve has omitted identity and no person token, selection falls through to minting an installation token, despite the stated requirement that resolution needs a person.
The broker attempts resolution with a credential that GitHub may refuse, yielding an API failure instead of rejecting the missing person identity before the request.
This can occur when: A direct pull-request broker request omits identity while resolving a thread, and no authorized or owner-specific person token is configured.
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Review comment at @packages/host/src/providers/github-app.ts around lines 817 -
819:
Update the credential-selection flow around `personalForThis` and
`personTokenFor` so a `resolve` request without an explicit user identity is
rejected when no authorized or owner-specific person token is available. Do not
fall through to minting an installation token for this case; preserve the
existing token-selection behavior for other actions.
Assert the 30-second refresh deadline in a dedicated test.
Assert the 30-second refresh deadline in a dedicated test.
The refresh test checks only that signal is an AbortSignal. A signal with no deadline, or with a different timeout, passes that check, so a change to the 30-second value would not fail the suite. The assertion message also says the refresh "has a deadline," which the check does not establish.
Record the arguments passed to AbortSignal.timeout instead. The mock calls through to the real method, so no real time passes.
Suggested test change
assert.match(calls[0]?.body ?? '', /refresh_token=r1/);
- assert.ok(calls[0]?.signal instanceof AbortSignal, 'the refresh has a deadline');
});
++ it('gives the refresh a 30-second deadline', async (t) => {+ const timeout = t.mock.method(AbortSignal, 'timeout');+ const { fetcher } = stubFetch([{ body: '{"access_token":"t2"}' }]);++ await refreshUserToken('id', 'r1', fetcher);++ assert.deepEqual(timeout.mock.calls.map((call) => call.arguments), [[30_000]]);+ });
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Review comment at @test/unit/device-flow.test.ts at line 186:
Update the refresh test around refreshUserToken to verify the deadline value,
not merely that the signal is an AbortSignal. Add a dedicated test that records
calls to AbortSignal.timeout and asserts the refresh uses 30,000 milliseconds,
while allowing the real timeout method to run.
Cover the omitted-identity reply default in the provider test.
Cover the omitted-identity reply default in the provider test.
The omitted-identity test covers edit and comment. It does not cover reply. The provider documents that reply uses the app unless identity is 'user'. The only reply test passes identity: 'user'. A change that sends omitted-identity replies with the person token would not fail any test.
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Review comment at @test/unit/github-app.test.ts around lines 1144 - 1147:
Extend the omitted-identity provider test to call pullRequest with action reply
and assert that the reply request uses the app token. Locate the test via its
existing edit and comment calls; preserve those assertions and verify the reply
endpoint’s authorization without passing an identity.
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@coderabbitai Fixed in 41a41ce: resolve now requires a person token even when identity is omitted (no installation-token fallback), with a test; the refresh test now mocks AbortSignal.timeout and asserts exactly 30_000ms. 433 pass. The findings had no inline threads, so replying here.
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Approved at 41a41ce. corepack yarn check: 433/433 pass; device-flow and github-app ran 6/6 clean in isolation.
The resolve fix is right: personRequired now covers action === 'resolve' regardless of the identity field, so a resolve with no person token fails before any installation token is minted, instead of minting one and reaching a mutation GitHub refuses. Mutation-tested both additions:
removing the personRequired guard fails refuses a resolve with no person token instead of minting an installation token (and the older identity test);
changing the deadline to 60 s fails gives the refresh a 30-second deadline.
The tests pin the behaviour rather than the implementation: the resolve test asserts no /access_tokens call happened, and the deadline test mocks AbortSignal.timeout and checks the argument is 30_000. The existing "resolve with a token per owner" case still passes, so the owner-token route is unaffected.
One observation, non-blocking because no supported client sends it: a crafted pull-request request with identity: 'app' and action: 'resolve' now throws no authorized user token for resolving this thread even when one is configured, because personalForThis does not fetch it for the app identity. Refusing rather than silently overriding the requested identity is defensible; if you want the message to be exact for that case, it would need to say that resolve has no app route.
The rest of the head is unchanged from f0ea1b8, which I already checked; nothing else in this commit needs a second look.
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Unifies the person identity paths instead of adding a new adapter for each command.
gcb pr create --as-usernow forwards to the flag-only lifecycle, so the obvious spelling works;pr createwithout--as-userstays the catalogued app action.--as-usernow also works forpr --reply-to,--editand--comment, using the authorized person/userTokens token through the broker; a plain reply still uses the app by default.gcb issue create --as-usernow uses the broker's authorized person through the action path;--as-user <login>still uses the host opener.identityto action requests; the broker only accepts it for catalog actions that declare the narrowerappUser(issue creation today), whilehostUserremains the opener permission.pr:close/pr:editas the person are refused. The provider reuses the same personal-token renewal for actions and pull requests. Installation tokens are still revoked; personal tokens are not.corepack yarn check: 433 pass.Discussion creation remains in #64; this PR covers the pull-request/issue/reply half of the identity model without inventing a second provider path.
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New Features
--as-user, including issue body content from a file.--as-usersupport for pull-request creation, replies, review-comment edits, comments, and review-thread resolution.Documentation
--as-useroption and how user-token permissions affect them.