* autoresearch iter 23: fail-closed auth guarding for user/message_gateway
Both plugins resolve contracts.AuthService in Apply to build their route
middleware, but declared only DBService in Inject(). The kernel gates a
plugin's Apply solely on declared deps, and cmd/app.go registers user
before auth, so user mounted first, core.Inject failed, and loginMW
silently degraded to a pass-through closure — leaving /api/v1/user
change-password, profile and access-tokens unguarded. message_gateway
was saved only by its later list position.
Declare AuthService in Inject() for both, and pin the property with a
reconcile-level test that mirrors production registration order and
asserts the real auth middleware reaches the route table.
* autoresearch iter 24: make auth middleware fallbacks fail closed
user, message_gateway and admin each fell back to a c.Next() closure when
contracts.AuthService could not be resolved, so a route would be served as
if authenticated. For admin this is reachable at runtime: OnDispose calls
service.ResetServices(), which nils the global the per-request guard reads,
so requests still in flight during dispose bypass authorization entirely.
Add ginutil.AuthUnavailable() and bind every fallback to it, with a test
that drives each plugin's registered guard without an auth service present
and asserts the request is aborted rather than passed through.
* chore(autoresearch): log iter 23 (fail-open auth ordering, proven)
* autoresearch iter 24 follow-up: let staticcheck infer the auth guard type
* docs(autoresearch): log iters 24-25 and lessons 9-11 (declared-dep bug class, gate discipline)
Note: iter 20's commit also captured an in-flight edit to
docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-29-cordis-config-extension.md belonging to a
concurrent session, because it used 'git add -A'. Content is intact; later
iterations stage explicit paths only.
The committed golangci gate now reports 0 issues, so the previous
lint_issues metric was saturated and could no longer measure progress.
Measure debt against an immutable .auto/lint.ref.yaml snapshot that adds
analyzers for genuine defects (panics, error unwrapping, dead stores,
missing enum cases, method ordering, suppression hygiene) while excluding
cosmetic churn (tagliatelle, wrapcheck). Guard enforces build, vet, tests,
the Cordis architecture gate, and anti-cheat floors: the yardstick cannot
be edited, the project gate may only be strengthened, nolint directives may
only shrink, and no test may disappear.
ryan