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Dragan Spiridonov 6ce50d5158 test(auth): cover browser sign-in; ADR-271/272 corrections and remediation plans
Browser sign-in was the newest security surface in this PR and had no
executable evidence behind it: browser_session.rs was 534 lines with 13 tests,
every one of which hit a private helper (sign, unsign, cookie, read_cookie,
is_live, has_scope). No test called issue, from_cookie_header, begin,
verifier_for_callback or is_configured, and no test anywhere presented a session
cookie to the gate.

+10 tests in browser_session, +6 in bearer_auth. Three mutants the adversarial
review named, each now verified dead by actually applying the mutation:

  (a) delete the `state` comparison in verifier_for_callback
      -> a_callback_whose_state_does_not_match_is_refused FAILED
      Without it the callback accepts a code from a flow the user never
      started: login CSRF, victim silently lands in the attacker's session.

  (b) `session.is_live().then_some(session)` -> `Some(session)`
      -> an_expired_session_cookie_does_not_authenticate FAILED
      -> an_expired_browser_session_is_refused FAILED
      `is_live` was already unit-tested; nothing asserted the CALLER consults
      it. Same "tested in isolation, call site untested" shape as the earlier
      refresh-never-invoked defect.

  (c) `session.has_scope(required)` -> `true`
      -> a_read_scoped_browser_session_cannot_delete_or_train FAILED
      Without it any browser session could delete models and start training.

Mutant (c) initially appeared to SURVIVE. It did not — there are two
has_scope call sites and the first substitution only hit one. Mutating the
one in `session_or_unauthorized` kills the test. That accident confirmed a
separate finding: the cookie branch inside require_bearer is unreachable when
an Authorization header is present, because the OAuth step returns on both
arms. It fails closed, so it is not a hole, but "try the next credential" is
what the code reads like. Pinned by
a_bad_bearer_beats_a_good_cookie_rather_than_falling_back.

Adds two crate-internal test seams (init_secret_for_tests, test_cookie_value).
test_cookie_value signs through the same path as `issue`, so tests presenting a
cookie exercise real verification rather than a test-only bypass.

ADR-271:
- The "browser cannot obtain an OAuth token" section asserted
  `grep -ril "oauth|cognitum|pkce" ui/` returns nothing. It now returns three
  files, invalidated by commits in this same PR. Marked superseded, original
  retained under a fold, replaced with what actually ships.
- Records the two deferred decisions with designs rather than patches: P1 the
  blocking JWKS fetch on a tokio worker (whose rate limiter is bypassed on
  exactly the stale path that matters, because fetched_at updates only on
  success — so after the TTL every request fetches, and a Pi that loses WAN
  stalls itself with no attacker present); P2 the 12-hour session from a
  15-minute token, with three costed options. Capping the session to
  sensing:read was considered and rejected: the dashboard genuinely issues
  DELETE /api/v1/models/{id}.
- P3 records that dropping `__Host-` costs origin-integrity, not just Secure —
  read_cookie takes the FIRST match and cookies are not port-scoped, so a
  same-host writer can shadow a session. Forgery was never the threat that
  prefix addresses.
- Documents redirect_uri's hardcoded default and the unconsumed CLI credential
  as known-incomplete, per decision to leave both as-is.

ADR-272: corrected a claim that would mislead users into a 401. It stated the
Python client DOES send Authorization: Bearer on the handshake; ws.py passes no
headers at all (zero occurrences of extra_headers or Authorization), so every
published client 401s once auth is enabled. Server-side decision unchanged.

Verified: sensing-server 566 + 179 + 7 + 5 + 8 + 4 + 16 pass under CI flags,
ruview-auth 61 + 25 + 2 with --all-features, auth_wiring 7.

Co-Authored-By: Ruflo & AQE
2026-07-23 12:08:13 +02:00
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Architecture Decision Records

Latest proposed decisions:

This folder contains 182 Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) that document every significant technical choice in the RuView / WiFi-DensePose project. (The index tables below list a curated subset per domain; see the directory listing for the full set.)

Why ADRs?

Building a system that turns WiFi signals into human pose estimation involves hundreds of non-obvious decisions: which signal processing algorithms to use, how to bridge ESP32 firmware to a Rust pipeline, whether to run inference on-device or on a server, how to handle multi-person separation with limited subcarriers.

ADRs capture the context, options considered, decision made, and consequences for each of these choices. They serve three purposes:

  1. Institutional memory — Six months from now, anyone (human or AI) can read why we chose IIR bandpass filters over FIR for vital sign extraction, not just see the code.

  2. AI-assisted development — When an AI agent works on this codebase, ADRs give it the constraints and rationale it needs to make changes that align with the existing architecture. Without them, AI-generated code tends to drift — reinventing patterns that already exist, contradicting earlier decisions, or optimizing for the wrong tradeoffs.

  3. Review checkpoints — Each ADR is a reviewable artifact. When a proposed change touches the architecture, the ADR forces the author to articulate tradeoffs before writing code, not after.

ADRs and Domain-Driven Design

The project uses Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to organize code into bounded contexts — each with its own language, types, and responsibilities. ADRs and DDD work together:

  • ADRs define boundaries: ADR-029 (RuvSense) established multistatic sensing as a separate bounded context from single-node CSI. ADR-042 (CHCI) defined a new aggregate root for coherent channel imaging.
  • DDD models define the language: The RuvSense domain model defines terms like "coherence gate", "dwell time", and "TDM slot" that ADRs reference precisely.
  • Together they prevent drift: An AI agent reading ADR-039 knows that edge processing tiers are configured via NVS keys, not compile-time flags — because the ADR says so. The DDD model tells it which aggregate owns that configuration.

How ADRs are structured

Each ADR follows a consistent format:

  • Context — What problem or gap prompted this decision
  • Decision — What we chose to do and how
  • Consequences — What improved, what got harder, and what risks remain
  • References — Related ADRs, papers, and code paths

Statuses: Proposed (under discussion), Accepted (approved and/or implemented), Superseded (replaced by a later ADR).


ADR Index

Hardware and firmware

ADR Title Status
ADR-012 ESP32 CSI Sensor Mesh for Distributed Sensing Accepted (partial)
ADR-018 ESP32 Development Implementation Path Proposed
ADR-028 ESP32 Capability Audit and Witness Record Accepted
ADR-029 RuvSense Multistatic Sensing Mode (TDM, channel hopping) Proposed
ADR-032 Multistatic Mesh Security Hardening Accepted
ADR-039 ESP32-S3 Edge Intelligence Pipeline (on-device vitals) Accepted (hardware-validated)
ADR-040 WASM Programmable Sensing (Tier 3) Accepted
ADR-041 WASM Module Collection (65 edge modules) Accepted (hardware-validated)
ADR-044 Provisioning Tool Enhancements Proposed
ADR-110 ESP32-C6 firmware extension — Wi-Fi 6 / 802.15.4 / TWT / LP-core Accepted, P1-P10 complete, firmware-side substrate closed at v0.7.0-esp32. Companion docs: WITNESS-LOG-110 (13 §A0.x entries · 99.56 % cross-board RX · 104.1 µs smoothed sync stdev · ≤100 µs target met), ADR-110-REVIEW-GUIDE (one-page reviewer tour), ADR-110-BRANCH-STATE (coordination map vs feat/adr-115-ha-mqtt-matter). Host decoders + tests: Python SyncPacketParser (10) + Rust wifi_densepose_hardware::SyncPacket (15), cross-language hex pin gates drift.

Signal processing and sensing

ADR Title Status
ADR-013 Feature-Level Sensing on Commodity Gear Accepted
ADR-014 SOTA Signal Processing Algorithms Accepted
ADR-021 Vital Sign Detection (breathing, heart rate) Partial
ADR-030 Persistent Field Model and Drift Detection Proposed
ADR-033 CRV Signal Line Sensing Integration Proposed
ADR-037 Multi-Person Pose Detection from Single ESP32 Proposed
ADR-042 Coherent Human Channel Imaging (beyond CSI) Proposed
ADR-134 First-Class Channel Impulse Response (CIR) Support Proposed
ADR-135 Empty-Room Baseline Calibration (per-subcarrier Welford statistics) Proposed

Machine learning and training

ADR Title Status
ADR-005 SONA Self-Learning for Pose Estimation Partial
ADR-006 GNN-Enhanced CSI Pattern Recognition Partial
ADR-015 Public Dataset Strategy (MM-Fi, Wi-Pose) Accepted
ADR-016 RuVector Training Pipeline Integration Accepted
ADR-017 RuVector Signal + MAT Integration Proposed
ADR-020 Migrate AI Inference to Rust (ONNX Runtime) Accepted
ADR-023 Trained DensePose Model with RuVector Pipeline Proposed
ADR-024 Project AETHER: Contrastive CSI Embeddings Required
ADR-027 Project MERIDIAN: Cross-Environment Generalization Proposed
ADR-149 AetherArena: public spatial-intelligence benchmark on Hugging Face Proposed
ADR-150 RF Foundation Encoder: pose-preserving, subject/room/device-invariant CSI embedding Proposed
ADR-151 Per-Room Calibration & Specialized Model Training (room-first → bank of small ruVector specialists) Proposed
ADR-152 WiFi-Pose SOTA 2026 Intake: geometry-conditioned calibration, external benchmarks, foundation-encoder recipe Proposed

Platform and UI

ADR Title Status
ADR-019 Sensing-Only UI with Gaussian Splats Accepted
ADR-022 Windows WiFi Enhanced Fidelity (multi-BSSID) Partial
ADR-025 macOS CoreWLAN WiFi Sensing Proposed
ADR-031 RuView Sensing-First RF Mode Proposed
ADR-034 Expo React Native Mobile App Accepted
ADR-035 Live Sensing UI Accuracy and Data Transparency Accepted
ADR-036 Training Pipeline UI Integration Proposed
ADR-043 Sensing Server UI API Completion (14 endpoints) Accepted
ADR-115 Home Assistant integration via MQTT auto-discovery + Matter bridge (HA-DISCO + HA-FABRIC + HA-MIND) Accepted (MQTT track) / Proposed (Matter SDK P8b)
ADR-169 adam-mode — light theme toggle for the three.js realtime demo Proposed
ADR-170 yoga-mode — yoga pose detection, classification, and scoring for the three.js realtime demo Proposed

Architecture and infrastructure

ADR Title Status
ADR-001 WiFi-Mat Disaster Detection Architecture Accepted
ADR-002 RuVector RVF Integration Strategy Superseded
ADR-003 RVF Cognitive Containers for CSI Proposed
ADR-004 HNSW Vector Search for Fingerprinting Partial
ADR-007 Post-Quantum Cryptography for Sensing Proposed
ADR-008 Distributed Consensus for Multi-AP Proposed
ADR-009 RVF WASM Runtime for Edge Deployment Proposed
ADR-010 Witness Chains for Audit Trail Integrity Proposed
ADR-011 Proof-of-Reality and Mock Elimination Proposed
ADR-026 Survivor Track Lifecycle (MAT crate) Accepted
ADR-038 Sublinear GOAP for Roadmap Optimization Proposed
ADR-095 rvCSI — Edge RF Sensing Runtime Platform Proposed
ADR-096 rvCSI — Crate Topology, the napi-c Shim, and the napi-rs Node Surface Proposed
ADR-097 Adopt rvCSI as RuView's primary CSI runtime (phased adoption) Proposed
ADR-098 Evaluate ruvnet/midstream for RuView's CSI / WebSocket / mesh pipeline Rejected
ADR-099 Adopt midstream as RuView's real-time introspection + low-latency tap Proposed
ADR-263 @ruvnet/ruview npm harness — deep review + optimization strategy Proposed
ADR-264 @ruvnet/rvagent MCP server + @ruv/ruview-cli — deep review + optimization strategy Proposed
ADR-265 RuView npm distribution strategy — CI gate, provenance, version single-sourcing, namespace Proposed

  • DDD Domain Models — Bounded context definitions, aggregate roots, and ubiquitous language
  • User Guide — Setup, API reference, and hardware instructions
  • Build Guide — Building from source