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Marc-André Bombeck a8b0365ca5 fix(auth): carry a generated secret in the session cookie, not the row id
The cookie was the Session row's cuid. cuid is built for collision-
resistant identity across distributed writers, not for unguessability —
it encodes a millisecond timestamp and a process-local counter and never
touches a CSPRNG. A session cookie is a bearer credential and has to be
unguessable, so it now carries 32 random bytes and only the HMAC of that
value is stored, matching how api_tokens and refresh_tokens already hold
their secrets.

Compatibility is passive, and deliberately so. A backfill cannot help:
the cookie already sitting in a browser is the cuid, and nothing we
generate server-side can be pushed into it — backfilling would sign
everyone out at deploy. Upgrading a row in place on first use loses to
the parallel requests a single page load fires: each mints its own
secret, one write wins, and the losers cannot re-emit the winner's
secret because only a hash is stored, so the browser can end up holding
a value the row does not honour. Instead, rows minted before the column
keep a NULL token_hash and stay resolvable by id, and are denied the
sliding-expiry extension so they drain within the 30-day session
lifetime. Every login from this release forward is on a secret at once,
and an id stops authenticating the moment its row holds one.

Note for operators: API_TOKEN_HMAC_KEY now also keys session cookies, so
rotating it signs browser sessions out as well as invalidating tokens.
It is already Core-required, so no deployment gains a new prerequisite.
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docs/ — internal reference + operator playbooks

The user-facing documentation lives at https://docs.healthlog.dev — that's the canonical surface for self-hosting guides, integration walkthroughs, AI-provider setup, and the doctor-report workflow.

The files in this directory are the internal operator playbooks, audit notes, and machine-readable specs that ship alongside the source:

  • api/ — the OpenAPI 3.1 spec for the native-client subset (iOS DTO codegen target). See api/README.md for the preview commands. Also home to the MCP-server contract: api/mcp-capabilities.md (tools, resources, prompts, write model) and api/mcp-skills.md (building a connector / skill).
  • ops/ — backup / restore + encryption-key-rotation playbooks. These are the runbooks an operator reaches for during an incident.
  • self-hosting/ — horizontal-scaling notes (HEALTHLOG_PROCESS_TYPE=web|worker|all) and the deploy-pipeline recipe. Routine install steps stay on docs.healthlog.dev. Includes self-hosting/mcp.md — enabling the off-by-default MCP connector and pointing Claude.ai / ChatGPT / Claude Desktop at it, and self-hosting/sso.md — OIDC SSO login: IdP setup, the identity-pinning security model, OIDC_ONLY consequences, and the break-glass runbook.
  • migration/ — release-by-release migration notes. Read the entry for the version you're upgrading from.
  • audit/ — per-release audit summaries archived for forensic traceability.
  • apple-store-connect-checklist.md — the iOS submission gate.
  • doctor-report.md — PDF generator design notes.
  • codex-protocol-spec.md — Codex / ChatGPT OAuth protocol reverse-engineering notes.
  • ui-guidelines.md — UI / a11y house style.

If you're a self-hoster looking to spin up an instance, start at https://docs.healthlog.dev or jump to the Quick Start in the project README.