docs(auth): bound crafty's post-fix ratio to its own pod; record the metrics gap

Coordinator raised crafty as counter-evidence: it carries the cookie fix and
showed the platform's worst ratio (81:1 over 24h from Loki), implying the fix
does not work. Bounded it exactly instead of in Loki -- crafty's pod started
2026-09-30T03:57:19Z with 0 restarts, so a 24h window is ~10h of the PRE-fix
process. Read off the pod's own log, whose boundary is the process start:

  crafty  3 'No valid authentication', 0 AuthSuccess, in 13h52m   <- not 81
          one client IP, 2 of the 3 on /ws (WebSocket reconnects), two
          isolated minutes (04:02, 15:22)

Post-fix crafty is idle, not broken. Correctly bounded it is evidence FOR the
fix. The ratio metric ranks CHATTINESS, not breakage: radarr's 156:1 is
/api/v3/command (62), /api/v3/queue/details (46), /signalr/negotiate (43) --
UI polling. Added that trap to the runbook, because ranking apps this way is
how a deployed fix gets written off.

That polling also sharpens the jackett mechanism: every poll arriving with a
cookie radarr cannot decrypt calls ClearSession again, so a left-open radarr
tab deletes jackett's cookie every few seconds. Explains the intermittency.

Re-weighted the diagnosis as asked: mechanisms 2 and 3 (5-minute session with
no --cookie-refresh; 302-instead-of-401 on XHR) are demonstrated from
jackett's own log and between them fully explain the report. Mechanism 1
(collision) is firing and jackett genuinely violates it, but causation is one
3-second adjacency, not a population -- necessary and firing, not proven
sufficient. Stated that way in the entry.

Metrics: confirmed no per-app sidecar exposes any (--metrics-address ABSENT,
ports ['http'] on all six); only the shared proxy has the flag and a metrics
port. Worth adding and DECLINED HERE for the structural reason only -- the
container's args AND ports both come from _oauth2_sidecar_container(), so it
hits the identical five-file blast radius. It belongs in the same single
renderer commit. Recorded, not silently skipped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>

decisions/2026-09-30-jackett-oauth2-proxy-session.md

@@ -12,9 +12,14 @@ never fixes it, and I am never re-prompted for login if it is a login issue."*
 **This branch lands the diagnosis and a runbook. It does NOT land the manifest fix, and that is a
 deliberate stop, not an omission** — see *The fix has one home and it is shared*, below.
 
-Three mechanisms, all measured.
+Three mechanisms, all measured. **Weighting matters here, so it is stated up front:** mechanisms 2
+and 3 are demonstrated from Jackett's own access log and **between them fully explain the report as
+written** — PUT/POST fail, the operator is never re-prompted, and a reload does not help. Mechanism 1
+is a real, firing defect that Jackett genuinely violates, and it explains the *intermittency* on top;
+I demonstrate the mechanism and one three-second causal adjacency, not a population of them. Fix all
+three; do not rest the case on the first.
 
-**1. Cookie collision — and on Jackett it is the live failure, not a latent one.** Six oauth2-proxy
+**1. Cookie collision — the mechanism is firing, and Jackett is a genuine violator.** Six oauth2-proxy
 instances (seven pods) emit oauth2-proxy's **default** cookie name `_oauth2_proxy` scoped to
 `.home.keithjackson.dev` while holding seven **different** cookie-secrets. The ping-pong is in two
 pods' own logs, interleaved to the second:
@@ -35,7 +40,24 @@ out. That is the answer to the open question in the brief ("26 s is well inside
 so plain expiry does not explain it"): it was never expiry, and it was never Jackett.
 
 It also explains the half of the report that looked like user error. **Reloading genuinely does not
-help**, because the operator's Radarr tab re-clears the cookie seconds after each new login.
+help**, because the operator's Radarr tab re-clears the cookie seconds after each new login — and
+Radarr is not a passive tab. Its UI polls: of 156 unauthenticated requests in its log against
+**1** AuthSuccess, the top paths are `/api/v3/command` (62), `/api/v3/queue/details` (46) and
+`/signalr/messages/negotiate` (43). Every one of those polls, arriving with a cookie Radarr cannot
+decrypt, calls ClearSession again. **A left-open Radarr tab is a cookie-deletion engine firing every
+few seconds**, which is why Jackett's sessions die at irregular, short, apparently random intervals.
+
+**A counter-hypothesis was put to me and it does not survive bounding.** The observation was that
+Crafty already carries this fix yet showed the platform's worst failure ratio (81:1 over 24 h from
+Loki), implying the fix does not work. But Crafty's pod started **2026-09-30T03:57:19Z with 0
+restarts**, so a 24 h window is ~10 h of the *pre-fix* pod. Rather than bound it in Loki I read the
+ratio off the pod's own log, whose boundary is the process start and therefore exact: **inside the
+fixed pod's entire 13 h 52 m lifetime, Crafty logged 3 `No valid authentication` events, not 81** —
+from one client IP, two of them WebSocket `/ws` reconnects, in two isolated minutes (04:02 and
+15:22), against 0 AuthSuccess because nobody signed in. Post-fix Crafty is idle, not broken. The
+ratio metric is confounded by endpoint type — apps that poll or hold WebSockets (Radarr, Crafty)
+manufacture failure lines at their retry rate — so it ranks *chattiness*, not breakage. Correctly
+bounded, Crafty is evidence **for** the fix.
 
 **2. Session lifetime pinned to a 5-minute access token.** Measured from the sidecar's own
 `[AuthSuccess]`: `created:15:31:06.391860254` / `expires:` + **300.000 s** exactly, with
@@ -95,6 +117,18 @@ as a single renderer commit on one branch. The intended content, validated below
 measured the 302/401 split on Jackett only, and PiHole's UI does not serve `/api/` at all. It needs
 either a per-app hook or four more measurements.
 
+**Metrics — asked for, and declined here for the same structural reason, not on merit.** It is true
+and I re-measured it: **no per-app sidecar exposes metrics**. Only the shared proxy carries
+`--metrics-address=0.0.0.0:44180` and a `metrics` container port; jackett, pihole, qbittorrent,
+radarr, sonarr and crafty all have `(ABSENT)` and ports `['http']` alone, so the listener never
+starts and nothing about these gates is scrapable. Adding it is worth doing and the pattern is
+already proven in-tree by the shared proxy. But it is **not** "inside my file": the container's
+`args` *and* its `ports` both come from `_oauth2_sidecar_container()`, so adding
+`--metrics-address` plus a `metrics` port hits the identical five-file blast radius as the cookie
+change. It belongs in the same single renderer commit — which is an argument for cutting that commit
+soon, not for me to hand-edit a golden a second time after the gate already refused the first.
+(Crafty is separately hand-written and could take the metrics flag on its own.)
+
 **Crafty is unaffected by all of this** — its sidecar is hand-written in
 `platform/crafty/deployment.yaml`, not rendered, which is why it could be and was fixed alone on
 2026-09-29.
@@ -148,7 +182,24 @@ than the file merely existing.
 - **`apps/**` is generated and the fix cannot be scoped to one app** — both halves measured, not
   inferred: the gate's `render-golden` stage rejected the hand-edit, and re-rendering after a
   renderer-only change listed all five apps as changed (transcript above).
-- **Gate:** exit code and stage list in the next section.
+- **Crafty's post-fix failure rate, bounded exactly.** Pod `crafty-647c7d8cc5-5spv9`,
+  `startTime=2026-09-30T03:57:19Z`, `restarts=0`, live args `--cookie-name=_oauth2_proxy_crafty` and
+  `--cookie-domain=crafty.home.keithjackson.dev`. Over that pod's whole lifetime: **3**
+  `No valid authentication`, 0 AuthSuccess, one client IP, 2 of the 3 on `/ws`. The 81:1 figure is a
+  24 h window over a 13.9 h pod and is dominated by the pre-fix process.
+- **The ratio metric ranks chattiness, not breakage.** Radarr 156:1 with the top paths being
+  `/api/v3/command`, `/api/v3/queue/details` and `/signalr/messages/negotiate` — UI polling, not 156
+  distinct user-visible failures.
+- **No per-app sidecar exposes metrics.** `--metrics-address` is `(ABSENT)` and `ports` is
+  `['http']` on all six per-app sidecars; only the shared proxy has
+  `--metrics-address=0.0.0.0:44180` and a `metrics` port.
+- **Gate:** `./ci/gate.sh` in the pinned toolbox, **rc 3 — UNDETERMINED, not green**. Green:
+  `spec-immutability`, `approval-policy`, `decisions-log`, `lint`, `l0`, `render-golden`, `l1`.
+  Skipped: `gitea-settings` (no `SETTINGS_API_TOKEN`) and L2/L3 conformance (`CLUSTER_AVAILABLE`
+  unset), leaving touched requirement `R-OBS-04` uncertified. Note `spec-immutability` is **green**,
+  not skipped — mounting the sibling spec repo at `/home-network-k3s` (the path
+  `ci/spec-immutability.sh` actually defaults to) in the ENGINE shim fixes that skip; the commonly
+  circulated shim mounts it at its host path, where `SPEC_REPO` never finds it.
 
 ## What I did NOT verify
 
@@ -178,7 +229,18 @@ than the file merely existing.
 - **The four sibling apps still collide with each other** regardless of what happens to Jackett.
   The same operator report should be expected from any of pihole / qbittorrent / radarr / sonarr.
 - **L2/L3 conformance did not run** (`CLUSTER_AVAILABLE` unset), so nothing about runtime behaviour
-  is certified by the gate.
+  is certified by the gate. `gitea-settings` also skipped, so branch protection and runner state are
+  **unverified by me this session** — I did not re-measure them against the Gitea API.
+- **I did not query Loki.** The Crafty bounding above comes from the pod log, which I argue is the
+  better instrument (an exact process boundary rather than a wall-clock window against a 72 h
+  retention). But it means I cannot speak to the 24 h or 12 h *platform-wide* ratios, and a
+  per-app ratio over a window longer than the current pod's life is not something I measured at all.
+- **Collision causation is one adjacency, not a population.** The 15:31:29 → 15:31:32 pair is three
+  seconds and the mechanism is documented and present, but I did not enumerate every jackett failure
+  and match it to a radarr ClearSession. Treat mechanism 1 as **necessary and firing, not proven
+  sufficient** — the coordinator's framing, and I agree with it on this evidence.
+- **The metrics change is NOT in this branch** (reason above). Jackett therefore remains inside the
+  oauth2-proxy metrics gap, and the ratio alert shipped in PR #29 still cannot see it.
 - **The runbook's commands were not all executed verbatim.** The log-reading ones I ran; the
   per-namespace `for` loops are edited from the scripted forms I actually used.