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Summary

The lite mobile app can't sign in on production: GitHub leaves the web view for Safari and nothing comes back. Now the app is a device, like the other apps. It opens on a native welcome screen rather than the signed-out site, signs in through the system's sign-in sheet and the existing approval page, and gets its web view's session from its key, using the endpoint from #1510. When that session ends, the app makes a new one without the person noticing.

Changes

• Welcome screen: native, so it shows with no network. It's deliberately plain for internal TestFlight.
• Sign-in: a key in the Keychain, saved only once approved, so a key there means signed in. The sheet reuses Safari's sessions, except right after signing out, so another account can sign in. devnull:// isn't declared in Info.plist, because the other apps own it: the sheet gets its own callback.
• Web session: cookies from a signed request go into the web view's store before it first loads, because Capacitor loads as soon as its view does. A new account goes to /onboarding first.
• Renewal: one at a time, with backoff, and it stops rather than loops if a new session ends right away. It runs when the site reports a signed-out page or a refused request, on a navigation to /login, and from the offline page's retry, which no longer hard-codes production.
• Ending: the site deleting the device, on sign-out or revocation, makes the next renewal fail, and the app forgets the key and everything in the web view. Only device_not_approved does this, so a wrong clock can't sign someone out.
• Bridge: only the main frame reaches plugins, and only Tabs, Session and Console. Capacitor always registers CapacitorHttp, which sends the web view's cookies and hands back response headers, so a page script could read the session cookie. No API removes it and any plugin class can be loaded by name, so the filter sits on the message handler.

Visual evidence

iPhone 17 simulator, iOS 27, light, against a local copy of the site. Locally the sheet shows the site's local sign-in rather than GitHub.

Before	Welcome	iOS prompt	Approval

New account	Signed in	Tabs

Site in maintenance, on launch	Banned account	Site unreachable	New session ended right away

Device verification

Simulator only. Also exercised:

• Relaunching reuses a live session, and a session deleted on the server renews unnoticed.
• Signing out from the site's menu and revoking the device both return to welcome.
• Cancelling the sheet and declining on the approval page return silently.
• Offline retry signs in once the site is back.
• A hostile script injected in the page, compared with and without the filters: without them it read the session cookie through CapacitorHttp, by name and by class. With them, those paths get no answer, and iframes reach no plugin, prompt or renewal.

Limitations

• Not on a physical device, not against GitHub, and nothing below iOS 27. Cookie persistence over days is untested. Nothing here has run on production.
• No automated Swift tests, and CI doesn't build the app. Not exercised: a wrong clock, 429, a 5xx during a session, dark mode.
• Signing out or being revoked within 30 seconds of a renewal shows "Couldn't reconnect" rather than the welcome screen, until Try again.
• A banned person can only sign out here, not delete their account as on the site's banned page.
• After a renewal, a page redirected for being signed out stays on where it landed, not where the person was.
• Reinstalling keeps the Keychain, so a shared phone signs back in as the previous account.
• scripts/testflight.sh hasn't run, and needs the publishing Apple account. Signing in needs its security review before reaching production, and App Review will likely ask for a second sign-in option, so this is for internal TestFlight.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added iOS sign-in and session handling, including saved device credentials and automatic session renewal.
  • Added welcome, onboarding, offline, and retry screens.
  • Offline-page retries now renew the session in the app.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of session cookies and restricted embedded-app bridge messages to supported contexts.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds device-key sign-in and web-session management to the iOS app. It adds signed API requests, native session renewal, WebView bridge filters, and sign-in and status screens.

Changes: iOS sign-in and session

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Device identity and signed API requests apps/mobile/ios/App/App/DeviceKey.swift, apps/mobile/ios/App/App/SiteAPI.swift, tests/Feature/Controllers/Api/WebSessionControllerTest.php	The app stores an Ed25519 device key and uses it to sign approval-code and web-session requests. The API test checks that the returned session cookie authenticates a later device-page request.
Sign-in flow and app screens apps/mobile/ios/App/App/AppCoordinator.swift, apps/mobile/ios/App/App/WelcomeViewController.swift, apps/mobile/ios/App/App/SceneDelegate.swift, apps/mobile/ios/App/App.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj, apps/mobile/ios/App/App/Info.plist, apps/mobile/README.md	AppCoordinator handles authorization callbacks, session setup and renewal, sign-out, and app-screen transitions. The scene starts the coordinator, the project includes the new Swift sources, and the README documents signing and sign-in behavior.
WebView session renewal and bridge apps/mobile/ios/App/App/BridgeFilters.swift, apps/mobile/ios/App/App/SessionPlugin.swift, apps/mobile/ios/App/App/MainViewController.swift, apps/mobile/www/offline.html, tests/Unit/LiteMobileAppSession.test.ts, apps/mobile/README.md	The app filters WebView bridge messages and prompts, registers a Session plugin for renewal, and uses that plugin for offline-page retry. The unit test adds checks for refusal URLs with a different scheme, port, or subdomain.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AppCoordinator
  participant SiteAPI
  participant DeviceKey
  AppCoordinator->>SiteAPI: Redeem approval code
  SiteAPI->>DeviceKey: Sign API request
  DeviceKey-->>SiteAPI: Return signature
  SiteAPI-->>AppCoordinator: Return web-session cookies

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Possibly related PRs

• dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh#1502: Adds the iOS shell and offline retry that this PR extends with device-key sign-in and session renewal.
• dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh#1339: Adds mobile authorization fields that this PR sends when requesting device approval.
• dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh#1510: Adds the web-session endpoint and renewal requests used by this PR’s native API client and Session plugin.

Suggested reviewers: simonhamp

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to cef57

The device-key sign-in flow shows no concrete merge-blocking defect in the supplied evidence. The author notes it was tested on a simulator only, so physical-device and production behavior remain unverified, as they would for any change like this.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to cef57

The new sign-in flow keeps the device key outside page scripts, limits native bridge access, and retains server-side approval and revocation checks. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Redirect handling remains an unresolved boundary question, so the change cannot be treated as risk-free.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The newly exposed native authority is renewal of the current approved device's web session, not arbitrary API signing. Hostile page code reaching Session.renew could request that fixed operation, but this interface does not expose the private key or allow selection of another account, API path, or signing payload.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — No introduced vulnerability was established. The bridge-origin candidate remains deferred because external main-frame reachability through server redirects is unresolved. Missing origin checks in the filters are observable, but they do not alone prove an attacker can cross the effective navigation boundary.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Script messages require the main frame, the expected message type, and a Tabs, Session, or Console plugin identifier. Prompts from subframes and CapacitorCookies.set are blocked; other main-frame prompts are delegated. Tabs separately restricts native navigation to validated paths on the configured origin.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Revocation enforcement remains server-owned: web requests invalidate sessions whose device no longer belongs to the session user before downstream handling. A later native device_not_approved response deletes the key, removes WebKit data and shared cookies, clears remembered cookie names, and returns to welcome. Launch's cookie-presence shortcut does not itself validate revocation.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider explicit document-origin authorization at both bridge entrypoints, with a narrowly defined exception for the bundled offline page. Validate server-redirect behavior against the pinned framework version so bridge authority does not depend solely on assumed navigation containment.

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Files selected for processing: 14

• apps/mobile/README.md
• apps/mobile/ios/App/App.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
• apps/mobile/ios/App/App/AppCoordinator.swift
• apps/mobile/ios/App/App/BridgeFilters.swift
• apps/mobile/ios/App/App/DeviceKey.swift
• apps/mobile/ios/App/App/Info.plist
• apps/mobile/ios/App/App/MainViewController.swift
• apps/mobile/ios/App/App/SceneDelegate.swift
• apps/mobile/ios/App/App/SessionPlugin.swift
• apps/mobile/ios/App/App/SiteAPI.swift
• apps/mobile/ios/App/App/WelcomeViewController.swift
• apps/mobile/www/offline.html
• tests/Feature/Controllers/Api/WebSessionControllerTest.php
• tests/Unit/LiteMobileAppSession.test.ts

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