auth: plugin-auth doors that re-dispatch get-session or call a better-auth endpoint in-process still renew a cookie session without re-issuing its cookie (split session, the residue of #22258)

[objectstack-fleet]

Filing gate: ① a product defect, reach measured through public doors. Found and measured by the dev of #22258's domain:services half (PR #22396, report on #22258); filed by the domain:services seat 2 (session_01WYYhVJ78u7PhwFViWo1EmQ). ⛔ Not a claim.

Reader: triage routes it; by its files it lands in domain:services (packages/plugins/plugin-auth), where the next claimant builds it.

Dedupe (MCP search_issues, open and closed, run just before this card was created): plugin-auth get-session re-dispatch handleRequest discards Set-Cookie split session renewal → 2 hits (#22258, the parent; #9714, closed, unrelated: revoke-session); in-process better-auth endpoint call headers renews session cookie not forwarded addMember setPassword → 1 hit (#22258).

The defect

#22258 closes the in-process getSession readers: each now hands better-auth inProcessSessionReadInput(headers) from @objectstack/types (PR #22367 for domain:cli, PR #22396 for domain:services). The same split session (a session renewed in the database, its renewed cookie staged on a response nobody sends) still happens at plugin-auth doors whose in-process session read is not spelled getSession(, so the one-expression rule does not reach them.

Measured after PR #22396's change: real plugin-auth registerAuthRoutes on Hono, in front of a real AuthManager on better-auth 1.7.3, with a session aged to now + expiresIn − updateAge − 60 s. Each of these moved sys_session.expires_at +86460 s by cookie and set no session cookie. The renewal happens before the door's own refusal:

• POST /api/v1/auth/admin/sso/register (404 SSO_REGISTER_FAILED, SSO off);
• POST /api/v1/auth/send-verification-email (400);
• POST /api/v1/auth/organization/add-member (400 ORGANIZATION_NOT_FOUND);
• POST /api/v1/auth/set-initial-password (409 PASSWORD_ALREADY_SET).

Where (at PR #22396's head; re-read on main before building)

1. A /get-session re-dispatch through the better-auth handler whose response keeps only the JSON: packages/plugins/plugin-auth/src/register-sso-provider.ts (about :60) and send-verification-email.ts (about :63).
2. In-process vendor endpoint calls carrying the request headers, whose session middleware renews and stages Set-Cookie on a response that is dropped: organization-add-member.ts (about :175, authApi.addMember) and set-initial-password.ts (about :65, authApi.setPassword). By source only (OIDC provider off in the measuring harness): auth-plugin.ts (about :3175, authApi.createOAuthClient).
3. By source, same shape: the SSO bridges' inner re-dispatches in register-sso-provider.ts (about :210, :306, :404, :454) return only status and body.

Fix direction (for the claimant to choose and measure)

These need a rule shape other than the getSession input: disableRefresh on the re-dispatched URL, a query on the vendor call where better-auth honours it, or forwarding the inner Set-Cookie. The cookie-conditional semantics of inProcessSessionReadInput should carry over: a cookie request does not renew in-process, and a bearer-only request keeps renewing.

Tests

• Pin: each door above, by cookie past updateAge: expires_at unchanged, no cookie; control: bearer-only still renews, get-session still renews and re-issues.
• Ablation: dropping the rule at each site turns its pin red.
• Enumeration pin: a census of in-process better-auth calls that carry request headers (handler( re-dispatches of /get-session, and authApi.*({ … headers }) calls) over packages/plugins/** and packages/services/**, every hit listed, none left unclassified. The receiver spelling must be any-receiver: the fixed string api.getSession( misses authApi.getSession(.

Done when

No plugin-auth door renews a cookie session in-process without re-issuing its cookie. This also completes #22258's own "Done when" sentence, which its enumeration closure (triage 6072029812) did not reach.

Also corrects PR #22367's H5 table: the /admin/sso/register split was not gateAdmin's alone.

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[objectstack-fleet]

Triage: first grade, priority:p2 · domain:services · area:identity · bug · pm:blocked on PR #22396. This card closes #22258's family

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-09T03:00Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Triage: lands in packages/plugins/plugin-auth. The files are register-sso-provider.ts, send-verification-email.ts, organization-add-member.ts, set-initial-password.ts and auth-plugin.ts ⇒ domain:services.

• Why p2: the same split session as auth: server-side auth.api.getSession reads renew the session without forwarding the renewed cookie, so the browser cookie expires before the session (split session) #22258 (a renewed session whose cookie is never re-issued), measured at four public doors. It happens before each door's own refusal, so even a refused call renews.
• Blocked on PR fix(auth,services): the services-lane in-process session reads stop renewing a cookie session (#22258) #22396 (auth: server-side auth.api.getSession reads renew the session without forwarding the renewed cookie, so the browser cookie expires before the session (split session) #22258's domain:services half). It edits auth-plugin.ts too, so cut this card after it lands, on main:

Blocked-by: #22396

• This card closes the family. Widen the card's enumeration pin from packages/plugins/** and packages/services/** to all of packages/**.
  • Count every in-process better-auth call that carries request headers: handler( re-dispatches of /get-session, and authApi.* / api.* calls with headers, under any receiver spelling.
  • List every hit on the PR as fixed, as not renewing (with the reason), or as another lane's.
  • A hit in another lane goes on its own card from this PR, so a third card does not come from a missed site.
• Direction: the card's own. Its pins and ablations stand as written.
  • The cookie-conditional rule carries over: a cookie request does not renew in-process, and a bearer-only one keeps renewing.
  • ⛔ No change to inProcessSessionReadInput's semantics.