fix(auth): report OAuth denial instead of an internal CLI error

[AmanVarshney01]

Reproduced with the published binary

On Linux, start prisma@8.0.0-rc.13 auth login --json with isolated credentials and send a normal OAuth access_denied response to its local callback listener. The published binary reports CLI.INTERNAL_ERROR with the callback description as its summary. No authorization code, token exchange, or real account is needed to exercise this failure path.

Fix in the owning repo

Recognize access_denied where the callback is handled and emit AUTH.LOGIN_DENIED with an actionable next step. Do not echo the untrusted callback description. No token exchange runs and no existing session is cleared. Other OAuth/SDK errors and signal cancellation remain unchanged; this is not a catch-all auth wrapper.

Verification

• Actual built binary under Linux produces AUTH.LOGIN_DENIED for the same callback that produced CLI.INTERNAL_ERROR before.
• All 61 CLI test files passed locally: 961 passed, 1 skipped.
• Repository typecheck, lint, and error-reference completeness passed.
• One focused callback regression verifies the structured error, safe browser response, and no credential mutation.
• Existing CI runs Windows and Linux tests. No new workflow or dependency.

Scope and limits

This corrects an expected sign-in refusal being reported as a programming error; it does not make denied authorization succeed. Production create-prisma auth telemetry only contains generic exit codes, so this does not prove all reported auth failures are denials. Browser/account happy-path authorization was not performed, and no credentials were changed. The separate Linux localhost IPv4/IPv6 callback mismatch observed during reproduction is not changed here because the registered redirect-host contract needs separate validation.

September 14 re-verification

Merged current main (CLI rc.15) without changing the scope of this fix. All 61 CLI test files pass: 965 passed, 2 skipped. Typecheck, lint, error-reference completeness and the formerly failing skill-packaging check pass locally. The E2E command completed with 6 tests passed and 48 credential-dependent tests skipped; that is not a fresh browser-auth happy-path verification. The callback regression still verifies an actual local HTTP denial response and unchanged credentials. CI has been rerun on the updated base.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • OAuth authorization denials during login now show a clear AUTH.LOGIN_DENIED error instead of an internal error.
  • Denied logins do not create or remove sessions.
  • Browser and pasted callback flows now terminate cleanly without reopening the paste prompt.
  • Untrusted callback details are excluded from diagnostics.
  • Retry guidance is shown only when appropriate.

• Documentation

  • Added guidance and reference documentation for OAuth login denial behavior.

Walkthrough

The CLI maps OAuth access_denied callbacks to AUTH.LOGIN_DENIED. The error includes a re-login command and excludes untrusted callback details. Browser callbacks return HTTP 400 responses without modifying token storage. Pasted callbacks terminate login without reopening the retry prompt. Tests and documentation cover the new behavior.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a37a4

The OAuth denial handling and documentation are consistent, with no remaining actionable risk identified for this change.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files. (1 skipped: 1 …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: reporting OAuth denial as an authentication error instead of an internal CLI error.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the OAuth denial bug, the fix, the safety behavior, verification, and scope limits.
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CI update: Windows and Linux CLI test jobs pass, along with lint, type checking, and error-reference completeness. Two checks are red: Skill Packaging reports the existing bundled skill stamped 8.0.0-rc.12 while the package is 8.0.0-rc.13; real-API e2e fails the init rerun expectation (synced versus up-to-date). Neither skill packaging nor init is modified by this PR. Keeping this draft and recording these separately rather than broadening the auth-denial fix.

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In `@packages/cli/src/auth/login.ts`:
- Line 338: Update tryCompletePastedCallback to re-throw CliStructuredError
instances, including AUTH.LOGIN_DENIED, instead of converting them to false;
preserve the existing false return for other callback errors so login()
propagates structured denial errors and does not continue prompting.

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