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drafts: true📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesThe authentication flow now detects Flow-host cookies and uses a narrow browser DOM probe when Labs returns Migrated Flow session verification
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant LoginFlow
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LoginFlow->>LabsOracle: Evaluate session
LabsOracle-->>LoginFlow: Return GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLY or VERIFICATION_ERROR
LoginFlow->>CookieJar: Check flow.google.com session cookie
LoginFlow->>FlowBrowser: Render Flow host when the cookie gate passes
FlowBrowser-->>LoginFlow: Return sign-out and sign-in anchors
LoginFlow->>AccountState: Record authenticated status without email
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/gflow:predict on #791 required a probe that is both server-attested (so it sees revocation) and reachable without a second browser launch. Measured whether such a signal still exists. It does not. Two arms — real cookie jar vs no cookies — against four probes: - GET flow.google.com/ and /tools/flow: 200/200, same final URL, identical marker sets, 39 B and 47 B apart. Nonce noise. - POST batchexecute?rpcids=jwpduf with a valid session and no `at`: 401, and the anonymous arm also 401, two bytes apart. `at` is required for reads, it is no longer obtainable browserlessly, and the 401 reports the missing token rather than the session state. - SNlM0e and every XSRF-shaped token: absent in both arms. - No email, no GAIA-shaped id anywhere on the migrated host. user_email must be None on that arm, as the predict verdict anticipated. The only probe that separates the arms is labs.google/fx/api/auth/session — the oracle we already have, and the one that is dead for the #791 cohort. The spike's own first verdict function read "oracle found" off that row; it now scopes Q2/Q3 to the migrated host, which is the same defect as #743. Consequence: the predict verdict's conditions (a) and (b) cannot both hold today. That is a maintainer decision and it gates Phase 3. Refs #791
Adds the Q4 arm the predict verdict listed as "what may still work
(unverified)", and settles it.
authenticated signout_link=1 signin_cta=0 custom_elements=10
anonymous signout_link=0 signin_cta=1 custom_elements=19
Two independent Tier-1 anchors, both pointing the same way. The rendered DOM
is server-attested: the app renders a sign-out link only when the server
answered the bootstrap as an authenticated session, so it sees revocation —
which cookie presence never can.
The contrast with the body sweep is the point. `signin_cta` is in the raw
HTML of BOTH arms and in the rendered DOM of only the anonymous one. Angular
ships one shell to everybody and decides after it boots, so any oracle that
greps the response body is reading the shell rather than the session. That is
why every browserless instrument came back flat.
Consequence for the design: predict condition (a) survives, (b) does not.
The supported shape is cookie-gate -> browser probe, with the probe running
only when the outcome is in {GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLY, VERIFICATION_ERROR} AND
flow.google.com cookies are present. Ordinary verification still pays
nothing.
Refs #791
Login verified against exactly one oracle, labs.google/fx/api/auth/session.
For accounts Google moved to flow.google.com whose labs session is no longer
minted, that endpoint answers 200 {} forever, so a perfectly usable Flow
workspace reported GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLY and gflow refused every command. A
total lockout, not a degraded feature.
When labs declines AND the profile carries a flow.google.com app-session
cookie, gflow now confirms the session against the host that actually serves
the app. The cookie only GATES that check; it never decides one. A cookie on
disk outlives a password change or a "sign out of all devices", so treating
its presence as proof would report a dead session as live.
The check costs a browser because nothing cheaper exists. Measured with an
anonymous control (spike 2026-09-16-migrated-session-oracle-needs-a-browser):
GET / and /tools/flow 200/200, 39 and 47 byte deltas
batchexecute read, no `at` 401 WITH a valid session, 401 anonymous
SNlM0e / any XSRF token absent in both arms
rendered signout / signin_cta 1/0 authenticated, 0/1 anonymous
The sign-in link is in the raw HTML of BOTH arms and in the rendered DOM of
only one, because Angular ships a single shell and decides after it boots.
Any body-scraping oracle reads the shell, not the session.
Design notes:
- `flow_host_session` rides on ChromeCookieSnapshot, derived from the jar both
readers already hold, and threads through the pure evaluate_session_response
as `migrated_probe_warranted` so both oracle call sites gate identically
without duplicating the rule. `--browser internal` is covered too.
- The trigger includes VERIFICATION_ERROR, not just GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLY —
otherwise the fallback switches itself off on the day labs dies, which is
the scenario it exists for.
- verify_flow_session probes in the context it already holds; only the httpx
fast path launches anything, and only on the narrow path.
- A probe failure keeps the labs outcome. Letting it reach the outer handler
would turn an accurate GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLY into VERIFICATION_ERROR, whose
remediation says "check network connectivity" (#795 precedent).
- A session verified this way carries NO email: that host discloses none in
either arm. `.gflow_account` is skipped and the assert requiring one is
gone, rather than inventing an address.
- Gated on the existing GFLOW_CLI_FLOW_HOST kill switch. No new env var.
Verified:
- tests/auth/test_migrated_session_oracle.py — 25 passed
- tests/auth + tests/api + tests/mcp — 2064 passed, 3 skipped
- pytest -m e2e tests/e2e/test_migrated_session_oracle_bdd.py — 4 passed,
44.85s, live flow.google.com, $0
- pytest -m e2e tests/e2e/test_auth_verification_e2e.py — 4 passed, 17.02s
(the regression proof: a migrated-but-labs-alive profile is unchanged)
- ruff, ruff format, doc links, repo hygiene, website mirror + PII
NOT verified here: the rescue itself — labs dead, probe succeeds, login
completes. Every account on this machine is migrated with labs still alive,
which is a cohort Google has not put us in. Named external blocker, so this
is Refs and not Closes, with the reporter as verifier.
Refs #791
… settle signal Applies the PR #835 council review (8 dimensions, consensus YELLOW, no RED). D3 security — the Q4 control was CONFOUNDED. Its anonymous arm used a cold throwaway profile while the authenticated arm was warm, so 'the server said anonymous' and 'nothing was cached to serve' were indistinguishable, and the case that matters — warm profile, dead session — had never been rendered. Measured it: a copy of the real profile with only its cookie jar deleted, and Cache / Code Cache / Service Worker left intact, renders the ANONYMOUS page (signout 0, signin 1, routed to /about with the landing components), the same with service workers allowed and blocked. A warm cache does not mask a dead session. Ships service_workers='block' anyway — free, and it retires a class of doubt. Probe now validates its own GFLOW_CLI_HOME boundary. D10 auth — HIGH, confirmed against the source: .gflow_account is not written for this cohort, and the account chooser does NOT degrade, it raises exit 38. A comment of mine claimed otherwise; that was false and is corrected. Both affected sites (api/client.py chooser, cli.py --account) now name the cause instead of sending the user round a loop. Added the marker gate every sibling reader already applies, so a markerless profile is refused rather than opened by bundled Chromium. Carried the measured G12 stealth set onto the first headless page.goto gflow points at the live Flow origin. D6 live-verify — the anonymous e2e arm passed on 0/0, i.e. on a page that never loaded. Now asserts the anonymous anchor is POSITIVELY present. Replaced networkidle with a wait on either anchor: ui_automation.py already carries 'Do NOT use networkidle — PWAs re-render incrementally and networkidle is flaky', and a held-open long-poll would have made every probe pay the timeout. D14 YAGNI — dropped the channel param (0 of 5 callers passed it), reused the provisional result instead of a second identical pure call, removed a no-op call and a false comment from the e2e helper. D9 docs — the cited byte counts came from a run this spike's own artifact overwrote. Re-quoted from the artifact: 27 B and 45 B, and batchexecute is 401 at 137 B in BOTH arms, byte-identical rather than 'two bytes apart'. Corrected the call-site count and cross-referenced the credits section. D5 memory — retracted a recommendation that is now false, marked the rendered-DOM instrument verified, and wrote the two facts this session paid for: pytest-bdd discards async steps, and a fixed basetemp makes concurrent pytest runs look like real failures. D1 correctness — moved the marker read inside the fail-closed try, so an OSError cannot escape past verify_flow_profile's handler. 28 unit tests pass. Refs #791
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Do not claim that the end-to-end rescue is confirmed.
The PR objectives state that the Labs-unavailable rescue scenario was not verified because no local account matched that cohort. Replace this claim with the pending-cohort status used in KNOWN_ISSUES.md.
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Mark failed Q2 and Q4 arms as UNMEASURED.
_probe and _batchexecute return only error and detail on failure. Q2 compares their missing fields as None, so an asymmetric failure can enter SERVER_ATTESTED_ORACLE_FOUND. A failed rendered_dom arm is truthy, so Q4 can enter a definitive result instead of UNMEASURED.
Check each required node for error before the Q2 and Q4 comparisons. Set the affected verdict to UNMEASURED when either arm is incomplete. This fixes the spike's developer evidence classification, not production authentication behavior.
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Require the anonymous sign-in anchor.
evaluate_migrated_dom returns False for signout_link=0 and signin_cta=0, so a page with neither anchor passes both anonymous assertions. Add And the sign-in call to action is present.
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…work (#791) The e2e went red and the reason invalidates this PR's central claim. At ~00:05 profile_ffroliva rendered signout_link=1 at /. At ~01:05 the same profile rendered signout_link=0, signin_cta=1 at /about — cookies still on disk, labs still returning a 691-byte authenticated session with an email. denon82 and promo-denon82 render the same. Headed and headless, stealth on and off: identical in all four arms, so it is neither bot detection nor headless. It is the /about redirect: known, account-scoped, and ALREADY MEASURED in this repo as #756 and docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-11-about-redirect-is-decided- client-side.md, which I did not read before designing around it. That spike settles the mechanism — the hop is client-side 192 ms after the app's own first navigation, the failing arm's ONLY request to flow.google.com is the document (zero batchexecute, zero of anything else), and `gflow project list` returns 50 projects on the redirecting account. The backend grants access while the frontend declines to open it. So the rendered DOM cannot attest to the session. The app decides what to render without consulting the server about auth. signout_link == 0 means "this account is in the /about state", NOT "this session is dead". A probe reading it would report an authenticated user as logged out whenever their account is in that state — locking them out of gflow exactly as #791 does. The remedy reintroduces the disease. It does not ship. What survives: Q1/Q2/Q2b are plain HTTP measurements and stand — no browserless oracle, batchexecute 401 with a valid session, SNlM0e gone, no identity on the host. Q4 stands as a correlation on one account for one hour. Q4's MECHANISM and Q5's "proof" are retracted; a cookie-less copy rendering anonymous is equally explained by the client deciding anonymous. Method note, because it is the transferable part: rung 1 of the spike ladder is "read an existing capture — free". Two spikes named about-redirect were in that directory. I wrote a new probe instead, measured a real correlation, and asserted a mechanism the data never showed. Eight council dimensions did not catch it. The e2e did, by going red on a live account whose state moved. Refs #791, #756
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⛔ STOP — I am converting this to draft. The central claim is refuted.The e2e went red, and the reason invalidates the design rather than the test. What happened
Cookies still on disk ( Why it is not a dead sessionIt is the
ConsequenceThe rendered DOM cannot attest to the session. The app decides what to render without consulting the server about auth. A probe reading it would report an authenticated user as logged out whenever their account is in that state. That locks them out of gflow exactly as #791 does. The remedy reintroduces the disease. What survives
Method noteRung 1 of the spike ladder is "read an existing capture — free". Two spikes named Where a replacement should startAny candidate must be checked against an account in the Not closing this and not deleting the branch: the HTTP findings, the cookie gate, the fail-closed plumbing and the council fixes are all worth keeping for whoever picks it up. Refs #791, #756. |
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Re-reading the retraction: the stated reason does not hold, but a different one mightRead at
That is not what this implementation does. The oracle is structurally incapable of downgrading a verdict:
So in the The The reason that may actually block itThe hazard runs the other way, and the code's own docstring gestures at it ("revoked session read as live — the one failure this oracle…"): If the app decides what to render client-side, without consulting the server — which is exactly what That is the failure mode #791's own design notes warned about, and it is the one the I have not measured this — it is an inference from the client-side-rendering mechanism, not an observation, and I am labelling it as such rather than grading it "likely" and moving on. What would settle it: take a profile with Suggested dispositionNot close, and not merge as-is. Three separable pieces:
Also worth carrying forward: the retraction's own method note — "rung 1 of the spike ladder is read an existing capture — free" — is the transferable lesson here, and it is a better one than the verdict it was attached to. |
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Three surfaces stop lying to you, and the last unshipped distribution channel starts publishing itself. - An account with no Flow access is told so, via its own exit 39, instead of being shown a selector-drift error and invited to file a bug (ffroliva#833). - The containerised sign-in works on Windows and no longer points at a service that does not exist; the image pins its own version (ffroliva#830). - An MCP agent's `project_name` is finally consumed — the worker had been reading a key nothing ever wrote (ffroliva#628). - The Official MCP Registry publishes itself on release via OIDC (ffroliva#829), and mcpservers.org approved the listing (ffroliva#834). Version bumped in all six sites the hygiene gate checks: pyproject.toml, src/gflow_cli/__init__.py, .codex-plugin/plugin.json, plugins/gflow/.claude-plugin/plugin.json, server.json (x2) and uv.lock. Note for the next cut: skills/release/SKILL.md step 6 lists only the first three plus the plugin manifest — server.json and uv.lock are not in it, and only the hygiene gate caught them. That list wants fixing separately. Live verification: docs/LIVE_VERIFICATION_v0.76.0.md. $0, reads only. The decisive arm is ffroliva#833's NEGATIVE control, run first-hand rather than relayed — `flow-pinhole-unavailable-screen` is 0 on both ffroliva and denon82 while `aisandbox-root` is 1, so the guard does not fire on accounts that have Flow access and the zero is a real absence rather than a page that never booted. Both accounts were in the /about state, which is where a presence/absence signal would have been mimicked, and this one was not. Recorded as NOT verified, with reasons: the Docker sign-in needs a WSL-integrated Docker host; the MCP Registry publish cannot be observed until this tag reaches main, since both triggers resolve the workflow from the default branch. ffroliva#791 is NOT in this release. A fix passed eight council dimensions and was then withdrawn: it read the rendered DOM and claimed the signal was server-attested, which ffroliva#756 refutes — the /about hop is decided client-side with zero requests to Flow, and the backend grants access while the frontend declines to open it. The probe would have reported authenticated users as logged out. PR ffroliva#835 stays a draft. Gates at this tree: ruff, ruff format, repo hygiene, doc links, website PII, website mirror, council memory, release artifacts, uv lock --check — all pass. Wheel builds as 0.76.0: 138 entries, zero ZIP duplicates, console script present.
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The council reasons about the diff. A measurement that refutes the diff's premise does not appear in the diff, so no dimension can find it by reading well. Adds a pre-dispatch sweep of docs/superpowers/spikes/ keyed on the surface terms the diff mentions, and hands the matches to the dimensions that own that surface as required reading. Written from PR ffroliva#835, which added a migrated-host auth oracle reading the rendered DOM and claimed the signal was server-attested. Eight dimensions passed it — D1, D3, D6 and D10 all read the auth path closely and none objected to the premise. The refutation was five days old and already in this repository: 2026-09-11-about-redirect-is-decided-client-side.md measured that the /about hop is decided client-side with ZERO requests to Flow, and states outright that "the backend grants access while the frontend declines to open it". That one sentence invalidates the oracle. The e2e caught it instead, by going red on a live account whose state moved mid-session. That is a routing failure rather than a reviewer failure, and routing is fixable. § 2 already does memory traversal by touched path; this is the same mechanism pointed at spikes. Selectivity is the trick and it is measurable, so the filter is measured rather than asserted. Against the 37-spike corpus: `flow.google.com` hits 23 — a topic, useless as a lead — while `/about` hits 9, including all three about-redirect spikes. Terms matching more than a third of the corpus are dropped. Verified by running the documented sweep against ffroliva#835 itself: it surfaces 2026-09-11-about-redirect-is-decided-client-side.md, the exact spike that refuted the PR, in a 16-file list short enough to read. Refs ffroliva#791, ffroliva#756
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…d unbreak the suite Maintainer takeover of ai4U23's ffroliva#793. The core idea was right and is kept; every finding below came from actually running it, which nothing had done — the fork CI gate held every workflow at action_required, and held runs are hidden from the checks list, so this PR displayed green while nothing had executed. VERIFIED WORKING, AND KEPT The fallback itself is sound. Swept all 10 local profiles: 5 reproduce ffroliva#791, and exactly one carries both required cookies. On that one the probe returns AUTHENTICATED with the correct email, 3/3. The four refusals are the fail-closed path behaving correctly. This oracle is stronger than ffroliva#835's: it makes a real authenticated request, so a revoked session cannot fake it, which is precisely the property ffroliva#835 could not prove and was retracted over. FIXED — the address must not be the decision `re.search(r"[\w.+-]+@[\w-]*\.?gmail\.com", body)` gated authentication on an @gmail.com address. Measured: dev@axelate.io, user@mycompany.com and even user@googlemail.com all fail to match — so ffroliva#791 stayed open for every Google Workspace account, silently, with no signal the fallback had declined. Widening that regex alone would have been worse: any address on a signed-out page would then read as proof of a session. So the DECISION moved to where the request landed. A revoked session is redirected off myaccount to sign-in, which is server-attested in a way page content is not; the address is now only a display label, and a missing one no longer costs the user their login. FIXED — a banned selector that could never match for most of the world `button:has-text('Add to prompt')`, with the comment admitting "in en". AGENTS.md forbids text-label selectors in transports outright. On any non-English Flow UI it never matches, the picker stays open, and the user gets the exact UiSelectorDriftError this PR exists to fix. Replaced with `flow-add-menu-detail-pane button` — the structural anchor a spike had already measured on 2026-09-05, eleven days before this PR was written. FIXED — a broad except hiding two separate guards `except Exception: pass` around the confirm swallowed an AttributeError on its very first line (the test fake has no wait_for_timeout), so the confirm block had never executed under test — not once. It also swallowed the fixture's own "composer used an unmodelled selector" assertion. Two independent safety nets, both neutered by one bare except. Narrowed to PlaywrightTimeoutError, which is what surfaced the AttributeError at all. FIXED — 5 broken tests, and a fixture that did not model reality The run-unique upload copy is a good change: it stops the name search binding a look-alike from an earlier run and putting a stale media id in the submit body, spending credits on the wrong asset. But the fake's picker served a static list and never listed what was uploaded, so every attach test failed for a reason unrelated to the code. The fake now lists uploads by file name, as Flow does, and models BOTH picker cohorts — auto-close and confirm-required — so the new confirm path is exercised rather than assumed. 17 attach tests pass. "picks the first option when names repeat" is replaced rather than repaired: run-unique naming makes its premise unreachable for our own uploads, so it now pins the stronger guarantee — pre-existing look-alikes do not match. FIXED — a 15 s budget that a real run exceeded Raised to 30 s. Not a precaution: a live run took 18.3 s and would have timed out and silently declined. The probe answers in 2.4-7.2 s idle, but browser contention during the profile sweep blew the old ceiling outright. ADDED — 5 tests for the 82 previously-uncovered auth lines Each verified to FAIL against the regression it pins: the gmail-only regex, a dropped landing-URL check, and making the address the decision again. Gates on this branch: ruff clean, format clean, pyright 0 errors, tests/auth/ + tests/api/transports/ 1152 passed 1 skipped (was 5 failed). Refs ffroliva#793, ffroliva#791
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Superseded by #793, which shipped in v0.77.0 — that PR fixes verification for accounts Flow serves from flow.google.com, and the released binary was verified against a Workspace account. Closing this retracted draft; the remaining half of the story (the sign-in window not closing for those same accounts) is #849, fixed in #851. |
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Summary
Accounts Google moved to
flow.google.comwhose labs session is no longer minted could not sign in at all. Verification used exactly one oracle —labs.google/fx/api/auth/session— which answers200 {}forever for them, so a perfectly usable Flow workspace reported "Signed in to Google, but not to the Flow app" and gflow refused every command. A total lockout, not a degraded feature.When labs declines and the profile carries a
flow.google.comapp-session cookie, gflow now confirms the session against the host that actually serves the app.The cookie only gates that check; it never decides one. A cookie on disk outlives a password change or a "sign out of all devices", so treating its presence as proof would report a dead session as live — the exact failure
/gflow:predictcalled out.Why it costs a browser — measured, with an anonymous control
The predict verdict asked for a probe that is both server-attested and needs no browser. I measured whether that exists. It does not:
GET flow.google.com/GET /tools/flowbatchexecute?rpcids=jwpduf, noatSNlM0e/ any XSRF tokensignout_link/signin_ctaThe batchexecute row is the sharp one: carrying a valid session and no
attoken it returns 401, and so does the anonymous arm, two bytes apart.atis required for reads and is no longer obtainable without a browser, so the 401 reports the missing token rather than the session state.And the trap this closes: the sign-in link is in the raw HTML of both arms, and in the rendered DOM of only the anonymous one. Angular ships one shell to everybody and decides after it boots, so any oracle that greps the response body reads the shell, not the session. That is why every browserless instrument came back flat — and why
#793's body-scraping approach could not have worked.Evidence:
docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-16-migrated-session-oracle-needs-a-browser.md, reproducible viascripts/dev/spike_migrated_session_oracle.py.Design
flow_host_sessionrides on the existingChromeCookieSnapshot, derived from the jar both readers already hold, and threads through the pureevaluate_session_responseasmigrated_probe_warranted— so both oracle call sites gate identically without duplicating the rule.--browser internalis covered too, which fix: migrated-host auth verification + i2v picker confirm + run-unique upload #793 left broken.VERIFICATION_ERROR, not justGOOGLE_SESSION_ONLY. Otherwise the fallback switches itself off on the day labs actually dies, which is the scenario it exists for.verify_flow_sessionprobes in the context it already holds; only the httpx fast path launches anything, and only on the narrow path. Ordinary verification still launches nothing.GOOGLE_SESSION_ONLYintoVERIFICATION_ERROR, whose remediation says "check network connectivity" — the credits: labs-gated on migrated accounts, and the error blames SAPISID for a host it never contacted #795 pattern..gflow_accountis skipped and theassertrequiring one is gone, rather than inventing an address.profile_storeand the account chooser already have no-marker paths.GFLOW_CLI_FLOW_HOSTkill switch. No new env var.Test plan
tests/auth/test_migrated_session_oracle.py— 25 passed (gate, trigger set, pure DOM reading with both ambiguous cases failing closed, kill switch, and the wiring)tests/auth+tests/api+tests/mcp— 2064 passed, 3 skippedpytest -m e2e tests/e2e/test_migrated_session_oracle_bdd.py— 4 passed in 44.85s, live flow.google.com, $0pytest -m e2e tests/e2e/test_auth_verification_e2e.py— 4 passed in 17.02s, the regression proof predict named: a migrated-but-labs-alive profile is unchangedOne note on the e2e run: an earlier pass errored on
test_e2e_verify_flow_profile_authenticatedwithFileExistsErrorontmp/pytest. That was two pytest processes colliding in one worktree, not a regression — re-run alone it passes, which is what the 17.02s figure above is.Not verified here
The rescue itself — labs dead, probe succeeds, login completes. Every account on this machine is migrated with labs still alive, so we are not in the reporter's cohort. That is a named external blocker under the Iron Law, so this is
Refs #791, notCloses, with @ai4U23 / @Cstanish127 as verifiers.On #793
@ai4U23 filed the first fix and found the mechanism. The measurement above moved the design away from their patch — a body scrape for a
gmail.com-only email regex cannot work now that the body carries no identity in either arm, and their fallback also left--browser internalunfixed. Credit for the diagnosis is theirs; #793 should close in favour of this once they have had a chance to look.Refs #791
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