@basein/runner 0.1.0 → 0.1.1

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package/README.md

@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ instead.
 
 | Variable | Effect |
 |---|---|
-| `BIR_AUTH_URL` | BaseIn auth-service. **Unset means nothing is recorded** — everything else still works. |
+| `BIR_AUTH_URL` | BaseIn auth-service — the **API** address (normally `https://api.<your-domain>`), not the docs or app website. **Unset means nothing is recorded** — everything else still works. |
 | `BIR_AUTH_DISABLE=1` | Skip authentication (local dev / CI). |
 | `BIR_CONTROL_PORT` | Preferred control-server port (default 53411). |
 | `BIR_CONTROL_URL` / `BIR_CONTROL_TOKEN` | Point a proxy at a control server directly, bypassing discovery. Injected into generated config; the only reliable channel for an SDK session. |

package/dist/auth/client.d.ts

@@ -77,6 +77,29 @@ export declare function resolveAuthUrl(opts?: AuthenticateOptions): string;
  * configure is worse than failing.
  */
 export declare function normalizeAuthUrl(baseUrl: string, fetchImpl?: typeof fetch): Promise<string>;
+/**
+ * The hint printed whenever `BIR_AUTH_URL` turns out not to be the API. Kept in
+ * one place so `bir login`, `bir doctor` and the interactive prompt agree.
+ */
+export declare const AUTH_URL_HINT: string;
+/**
+ * Is there a BaseIn service at `baseUrl`? Returns `undefined` when there is,
+ * else one line saying what answered instead.
+ *
+ * WHY THIS EXISTS. Pointing `BIR_AUTH_URL` at the *website* instead of the API
+ * (`https://example.com` is the docs, `https://api.example.com` the service) is
+ * the easiest mistake to make and the hardest to read back: the static site
+ * answers `GET /health` with 200 and a page, so nothing objects until the
+ * password has already been POSTed to it and it says `405 Method Not Allowed`
+ * — a message about HTTP verbs, for a problem about hosts. Observed on a first
+ * sign-in; the user tried the app URL next and got a redirect.
+ *
+ * So, before anyone types a password: expect the health endpoint to answer
+ * with JSON. A website answers with HTML; a wrong port answers with nothing.
+ * The check is deliberately loose about the body — deployments differ — and
+ * strict about the content type, which is what separates a service from a page.
+ */
+export declare function describeAuthService(baseUrl: string, fetchImpl?: typeof fetch): Promise<string | undefined>;
 /**
  * Authenticate and return a valid session, or `undefined` when none can be
  * obtained. Callers degrade to not-recording rather than failing the session.

package/dist/auth/client.js

@@ -159,6 +159,65 @@ export async function normalizeAuthUrl(baseUrl, fetchImpl = fetch) {
     });
     return base;
 }
+/** How long the pre-flight `/health` probe may take. It is one small GET. */
+const PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS = 5_000;
+/**
+ * The hint printed whenever `BIR_AUTH_URL` turns out not to be the API. Kept in
+ * one place so `bir login`, `bir doctor` and the interactive prompt agree.
+ */
+export const AUTH_URL_HINT = "BIR_AUTH_URL must be the BaseIn API address (for example https://api.example.com), " +
+    "not the documentation or app website. Set it, then open a fresh terminal — " +
+    "an existing one keeps the value it started with";
+function causeText(err) {
+    const cause = err?.cause;
+    return cause?.code ?? cause?.message ?? errText(err);
+}
+/**
+ * Is there a BaseIn service at `baseUrl`? Returns `undefined` when there is,
+ * else one line saying what answered instead.
+ *
+ * WHY THIS EXISTS. Pointing `BIR_AUTH_URL` at the *website* instead of the API
+ * (`https://example.com` is the docs, `https://api.example.com` the service) is
+ * the easiest mistake to make and the hardest to read back: the static site
+ * answers `GET /health` with 200 and a page, so nothing objects until the
+ * password has already been POSTed to it and it says `405 Method Not Allowed`
+ * — a message about HTTP verbs, for a problem about hosts. Observed on a first
+ * sign-in; the user tried the app URL next and got a redirect.
+ *
+ * So, before anyone types a password: expect the health endpoint to answer
+ * with JSON. A website answers with HTML; a wrong port answers with nothing.
+ * The check is deliberately loose about the body — deployments differ — and
+ * strict about the content type, which is what separates a service from a page.
+ */
+export async function describeAuthService(baseUrl, fetchImpl = fetch) {
+    const base = baseUrl.replace(/\/+$/, "");
+    if (!base)
+        return "no URL configured";
+    let res;
+    try {
+        res = await fetchImpl(`${base}/health`, {
+            method: "GET",
+            headers: { accept: "application/json" },
+            redirect: "manual",
+            signal: AbortSignal.timeout(PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS),
+        });
+    }
+    catch (err) {
+        return `unreachable (${causeText(err)})`;
+    }
+    if (res.status >= 300 && res.status < 400) {
+        return `redirects to ${res.headers.get("location") ?? "somewhere else"} — use the final address`;
+    }
+    const type = (res.headers.get("content-type") ?? "").toLowerCase();
+    if (!res.ok) {
+        return `GET /health answered HTTP ${res.status}${type.includes("html") ? " with a web page" : ""}`;
+    }
+    if (!type.includes("json")) {
+        const what = type.includes("html") ? "a web page" : type ? `'${type}'` : "no content type";
+        return `GET /health answered ${what} instead of JSON — that is a website, not the BaseIn API`;
+    }
+    return undefined;
+}
 function prompt(question) {
     const rl = createInterface({ input: process.stdin, output: process.stderr });
     return new Promise((resolve) => {
@@ -215,7 +274,13 @@ async function postJson(url, body) {
     });
     if (!res.ok) {
         const text = await res.text().catch(() => "");
-        throw new Error(`HTTP ${res.status} ${res.statusText}${text ? ` — ${text}` : ""}`);
+        const isHtml = (res.headers.get("content-type") ?? "").includes("html") || /^\s*<(!doctype|html)/i.test(text);
+        const detail = isHtml
+            ? " — the answer was a web page, not JSON: this URL is a website, not the BaseIn API"
+            : text
+                ? ` — ${text.length > 300 ? `${text.slice(0, 300)}…` : text}`
+                : "";
+        throw new Error(`HTTP ${res.status} ${res.statusText}${detail}`);
     }
     return (await res.json());
 }
@@ -264,7 +329,14 @@ export async function authenticate(opts) {
         });
         return undefined;
     }
-    process.stderr.write(`[bir] Sign in to ${authUrl}\n`);
+    // Never send a password to something that is not the service. The website
+    // answers 405 *after* the credentials have been posted to it; check first.
+    const problem = await describeAuthService(authUrl);
+    if (problem) {
+        logLine("auth.not_a_service", { url: authUrl, problem, why: AUTH_URL_HINT });
+        return undefined;
+    }
+    process.stderr.write(`[bir] Sign in to ${authUrl}  (BIR_AUTH_URL)\n`);
     const email = await prompt("Email: ");
     const password = await promptPassword("Password: ");
     if (!email || !password) {
@@ -277,7 +349,7 @@ export async function authenticate(opts) {
         return session;
     }
     catch (err) {
-        logLine("auth.login_failed", { error: errText(err) });
+        logLine("auth.login_failed", { url: `${authUrl}/auth/login`, error: errText(err) });
         return undefined;
     }
 }

package/dist/bin/bir.js

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import { isScenarioServer, isWrapped, PACKAGE_NAME, readSidecar, scenarioEntry,
 import { isRemote, resolveServers } from "../config/resolve.js";
 import { buildHooksBlock, claudeCodePaths, fileForScope, installHooks, readTextOrNull, setServerEntry, sha256, uninstallHooks, } from "../config/adapters/claude-code.js";
 import { readGenericServers, setGenericServerEntry } from "../config/adapters/generic.js";
-import { clearCredentials, authenticate, resolveAuthUrl, normalizeAuthUrl } from "../auth/client.js";
+import { AUTH_URL_HINT, authenticate, clearCredentials, describeAuthService, normalizeAuthUrl, resolveAuthUrl, } from "../auth/client.js";
 import { DEFAULT_CONTROL_PORT } from "../control/server.js";
 import { errText } from "../util/log.js";
 import { packageVersion } from "../util/version.js";
@@ -538,12 +538,31 @@ async function doctor(args) {
         notes.push("could not verify recording: no control server to ask, and BIR_AUTH_URL is " +
             "unset in this shell (which is not where the proxies read it from)");
     }
+    // WHAT *THIS* SHELL WOULD TALK TO. `bir login` and `bir scenario` run here,
+    // so this shell's BIR_AUTH_URL is evidence about them, if not about the
+    // recorder. The one mistake worth catching is a URL that is a website rather
+    // than the API: it answers `GET /health` with a page, so nothing else notices
+    // until a password has been posted to it and it says `405`.
+    const shellAuthUrl = resolveAuthUrl();
+    const shellAuthProblem = shellAuthUrl ? await describeAuthService(shellAuthUrl) : undefined;
+    if (shellAuthProblem) {
+        problems.push(`BIR_AUTH_URL in this shell (${shellAuthUrl}) is not a BaseIn service: ${shellAuthProblem}. ` +
+            `\`bir login\` and \`bir scenario\` here will fail — ${AUTH_URL_HINT}`);
+    }
     const sidecar = readSidecar();
     if (sidecar.controlPort && discovery && !discovery.url.endsWith(`:${sidecar.controlPort}`)) {
         problems.push(`hooks were installed for port ${sidecar.controlPort} but the control server is on ${discovery.url}`);
     }
     if (args.json) {
-        out(JSON.stringify({ ok: problems.length === 0, problems, notes, health, wrapped: wantWrapped }, null, 2));
+        out(JSON.stringify({
+            ok: problems.length === 0,
+            problems,
+            notes,
+            health,
+            wrapped: wantWrapped,
+            shellAuthUrl: shellAuthUrl || null,
+            shellAuthProblem: shellAuthProblem ?? null,
+        }, null, 2));
         return problems.length === 0 ? 0 : 1;
     }
     // Replay first, and loudly. It auto-approves tool calls in the session and
@@ -567,6 +586,9 @@ async function doctor(args) {
     out(`Wrapped in config : ${wantWrapped.join(", ") || "(none)"}`);
     out(`Registered proxies: ${[...registered].join(", ") || "(none)"}`);
     out(`Control server    : ${discovery?.url ?? "not running"}`);
+    out(`BaseIn (shell)    : ${shellAuthUrl
+        ? `${shellAuthUrl}${shellAuthProblem ? " — NOT a BaseIn service, see below" : " (answers /health)"}`
+        : "(BIR_AUTH_URL not set in this shell)"}`);
     out(`Recording tier    : ${discovery && health ? "bound (Tier 1)" : "standalone (Tier 2)"}`);
     out(`Recording         : ${health ? (health.recording === false ? "no — see below" : "yes") : "unknown (no control server to ask)"}`);
     if (health?.lossy)
@@ -853,10 +875,24 @@ async function main() {
         case "replay":
             return replayCommand(args);
         case "login": {
-            const session = await authenticate();
+            // Settle the URL the way every other command does, then refuse to ask for
+            // a password when what is there is not the service. "Signed in" must mean
+            // the service at BIR_AUTH_URL accepted these credentials — not that a
+            // cached token exists for some other address.
+            const configured = resolveAuthUrl();
+            const baseUrl = configured ? await normalizeAuthUrl(configured) : "";
+            if (baseUrl) {
+                const problem = await describeAuthService(baseUrl);
+                if (problem) {
+                    process.stderr.write(`[bir] ${baseUrl} is not a BaseIn service: ${problem}\n`);
+                    process.stderr.write(`[bir] ${AUTH_URL_HINT}\n`);
+                    return 1;
+                }
+            }
+            const session = await authenticate(baseUrl ? { authUrl: baseUrl } : undefined);
             if (!session)
                 return 1;
-            out(`Signed in as ${session.user.email}.`);
+            out(`Signed in to ${baseUrl} as ${session.user.email}.`);
             return 0;
         }
         case "logout":

package/docs/quickstart.md

@@ -130,6 +130,14 @@ The service address did not stick. Close the terminal, open a new one, and check
 `echo $env:BIR_AUTH_URL` (Windows) or `echo $BIR_AUTH_URL` (macOS). If it is
 empty, run the install script again with the `-AuthUrl` / `BIR_AUTH_URL` value.
 
+### "bir login says … is not a BaseIn service" (or `HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed`)
+
+`BIR_AUTH_URL` points at a website — the docs or app address — instead of the
+API. It must be the service address, normally `https://api.<your-domain>`. Fix
+the value, then **open a fresh terminal**: an existing one keeps the value it
+started with, even after the install script or a settings change updates it.
+`bir doctor` prints what the current terminal has on its `BaseIn (shell)` line.
+
 ### "bir is not recognised as a command"
 
 The install worked but your terminal has not noticed yet. **Close the terminal

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@basein/runner",
-  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "version": "0.1.1",
   "description": "A recording MCP proxy: sits between any MCP client and its MCP servers, executes each call on the client's behalf, and records the run as a reusable BaseIn scenario.",
   "type": "module",
   "license": "MIT",