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Kgothatso Ngako
d957ee8de5 feat(identity): a seed's key is a credential, and the seed is the wallet attached to it
Phase 1 of docs/multiple-profiles.md. No library change: the file format, the
encrypted writer and the manager all exist, and the app already wrote the
credentials file from the seed writer -- to delete a public entry a seed
superseded. This changes what it writes there, and what the listing believes.

Until now a seed's nostr key was never in nostr-credentials.dat. It was
derived from the words at listing, to know which npub to show, and from the
running node at activation, to know which key to sign with -- so a seed-backed
profile existed only as a derivation, and the app had to start a Lightning node
to find out who it was. Both sign-in plans made "one key, one file" an
invariant, and it was the wrong one: it said a wallet is a profile. Now the
credentials file is the list of profiles and a seed is a wallet attached to the
entry its key derives.

writeMnemonic writes two things, credential first: a Secret for the derived key
under its x-only pubkey, replacing a public entry where there is one, and then
the seed. Credential first because a crash between the two leaves a bare-key
profile the phrase completes, which is a valid thing to hold and says the model
out loud -- the profile exists, then a wallet is attached to it. The one
refusal it drops is the phrase of a key held as a bare secret, SeedAlreadyExists
under the nsec plan: the device did not have that wallet, so this is the
profile acquiring the wallet that derives it. The entry stays a secret for the
same key, the id becomes the wallet's, and the bare key's preference files go
with the old id -- the profile's preferences are the wallet's now, fresh, which
is right since there is a new secret to back up. The same seed twice is still
refused, by wallet id, and is the only way a profile with a wallet attached is
offered its phrase again.

SeedCredentials.reconcile is the repair for every seed already on a device,
beside migrateFromNostrKeys in listIdentities and shaped like it: a named,
idempotent write, one file write for however many seeds are missing, nothing at
all on a device with none or one already repaired. A failed write is a result,
not a throw, and carries the map that was read: the listing goes on with it and
merge derives the key of a seed that has no credential, so a seed this could
not repair is still listed. A failed write must never hide a wallet. The plan
had the repair running before the credentials file was read; it runs after,
and hands the listing what it returns, so the file is decrypted once -- the
doc now says so.

StoredIdentity.merge inverts: the credentials are the list, and each seed is
attached to the Secret its key derives -- listed once, as Mnemonic under the
wallet's id, carrying the credential's key -- where before the seeds were the
list and a secret for a seed's key was listed twice under two ids. Mnemonic
gains privateKey. A Public for a seed's key is skipped with a log line, since
the next repair upgrades it; a seed with no credential is listed by derivation,
with a log line. IdentityKind.Mnemonic's doc changes to what the kind now
means: the name records the attachment, not the source.

setActiveWallet takes the StoredIdentity.Mnemonic and builds the identity from
the credential's key, with the node's derivation as a cross-check -- a check(),
because a node disagreeing with the credentials file is the one corruption
worth refusing to run under, and it cannot fail for a file the repair wrote.
The node still starts for a profile with a wallet attached: not for the key any
more, but for what startNewBusiness does besides -- metadata, preferences,
last-used build, and on Android the channel watcher a restored Phoenix phrase
may need. Making it lazy is now one branch and is named as its own decision.

forgetNostrCredential refuses a second thing: a key a seed derives. The seed
would derive it again and the next repair would write it back, so a forget
that succeeded would undo itself. NotACredential becomes WalletAttached in the
writer's result and ForgetIdentity's outcome, since that is now the only reason
a signing profile cannot be forgotten -- a key not in the file at all can, since
the repair, only be a seed's key the repair could not write.

The two sign-in docs' tables each gain a row pointing here for the invariant
this supersedes.

Tests: SeedCredentialsJvmTest against a device from before -- seed.dat written
directly, no credentials -- writes exactly what is missing in one write; a
device already repaired is not written to again, checked by the file's bytes
since a rewrite would carry a fresh iv; a public entry for a seed's key is
upgraded; bare keys are untouched; and a write that fails, with the key store
locked, is reported with the map that was read and the wallet is still listed.
IdentityWriterJvmTest drives the callback-shaped seed writer through a
CompletableDeferred on a real Main dispatcher, since it reports after a real
one-second delay: a phrase writes both files, its nsec and npub are then
duplicates and its forget is WalletAttached; the same phrase twice is refused;
the phrase of a bare key attaches, under the wallet's id, with the bare key's
preferences gone; the phrase of a key held read-only attaches and the entry
becomes a secret. StoredIdentityJvmTest lists a secret-plus-seed once with the
credential's key, a seed without a credential by derivation, and a public entry
for a seed's key as the wallet only. Not under test: the activation's
cross-check, because a PhoenixBusiness cannot be built without a node.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pulled-From: curated/curated@3008137e3f
2026-09-13 15:46:53 +02:00
Kgothatso Ngako
89e364c1bd chore(library): base the credentials branch on the library's master
The Phase 2 library commit was made on a branch cut from 59c11ed -- the
nsec key-store commit, which is what the app's curated branch pins -- but
that commit is not the library's default branch's tip: master is at
e51e3ae, the merge of PR #1 that brought 59c11ed in. The two trees are
identical, so the rebase is content-free; what changes is that
claude/nostr-credentials is now one commit ahead of master rather than a
sibling of its tip, and the app's pointer follows it to 84cc44c.

The plan said the nsec library commit "sits on a remote branch called
detached", which was true of where it was found and false of where it is:
it reached master through the PR. What is still true, and still the
rollout's one hard step, is that it is untagged -- the library has no tags
at all -- and JitPack consumers resolve by tag. The two sentences that said
otherwise are corrected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pulled-From: curated/curated@00c36ec509
2026-09-13 12:03:15 +02:00
Kgothatso Ngako
042c5db5f4 docs: record what the npub sign-in plan built, and the twelve places it chose differently
Phase 8 of docs/npub-sign-in.md is the rollout, which is process rather than
code; what is left to write down is what the seven phases before it turned
out to be. The header moves from "Not built" to "Built", with the table the
other phased plans keep: what the plan said against what the implementation
did, twelve rows, each a decision worth reading before touching the code
it describes -- the startup branch one phase early because the sealed type
asked for it, the migration's three outcomes, the DAO guard that was
belt-and-braces on paper and load-bearing for two phases, a null identity
answering "can sign" with true because nobody is not read-only, and a
round trip run against a real database with a contrast case so that
"nothing was signed" is known to be a claim the harness can refute.

One finding that belongs to no phase is recorded with it: a compose test
looking for a floating action button's label has to search the unmerged
tree, or its "does not exist" is vacuously true. And the one rollout fact
that is not process: the library commit is on claude/nostr-credentials at
01962f3, bumped in by Phase 2, and like the nsec plan's before it has to
be pushed and tagged before any of this leaves the machine.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pulled-From: curated/curated@f866b9d17b
2026-09-13 12:03:15 +02:00
Kgothatso Ngako
10df01f4b7 docs(npub): one credentials file, not two, and the write that makes the upgrade atomic
The plan's first design kept public keys in a plaintext file beside
nostr-keys.dat, app-side, so that nothing touched the library. Review asked
why the key file was not simply made a credentials file with a read-only
kind, and the answer is that it should be. The upgrade -- pasting the nsec
of a key held read-only -- was the one operation spanning both files, so it
was two writes with a crash window between them and a "secret wins" rule in
merge to repair it; with one file keyed by pubkey it is a single write that
replaces {type: public} with {type: secret}. Forget collapses to one path
with it. And the advantage that paid for the two-file design was worth less
than it looked: the library commit that introduced nostr-keys.dat is
untagged, so a credentials format rides the tag that work already owes.

Phase 2 is rewritten for nostr-credentials.dat: a typed entry per pubkey in
the same envelope, renamed rather than versioned in place because an older
build's listIdentities returns on SerializationError before it publishes
anything and would list no wallets at all; a migration that reads the v1
file once and deletes it, since a frozen copy would resurrect a forgotten
key on a downgrade; and the one upgrade that still spans two files -- a
recovery phrase over a public credential -- with its order stated. The
header, Phases 3, 6, 7 and 8, the estimate and the appendix follow, where
the two-file design now sits as the rejected alternative with the reason.

One overclaim of the revision's own is corrected in it: the library does not
use a class discriminator anywhere -- its cloud payloads pick a variant by a
version field -- so the plan says the discriminator is chosen here, not
inherited.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pulled-From: curated/curated@dc8a1091d3
2026-09-13 12:03:15 +02:00
Kgothatso Ngako
69050bb743 docs: plan npub sign-in, starting from what a read-only identity is for
The nsec plan's out-of-scope note said a read-only mode is a product, not a
branch. This plan takes that at its word: what a public key can see here is
thin -- a profile card, its follows as search results, no feed, no rooms,
since every room is MLS or a gift wrap to the key that was not pasted -- so
the first section decides what such an identity is for before anything is
designed. It is a preview: the app as your own profile, before you paste a
secret into it. That one word settles the Messages tab (an empty state that
offers the upgrade), pasting the nsec of a read-only key (an upgrade in
place under the same id, not "already on this device"), sign out (real for
this kind only), and not-found (try again or a different key, never set one
up).

Eight phases: a nullable key on Identity, with the note that the compiler
will be silent about it; a plaintext list beside the two key files, app-side
through the public getDatadir and AtomicFileWrite so nothing needs a JitPack
tag; the third startup branch, a read-only KeyPair built in one place, and
only the two pumps that read; the sign-in screen, where hex stays a secret
because an x coordinate is almost always also a valid scalar; a LocalCanSign
capability and an inventory of every write entrance one tap from the three
tabs; two exits; two round trips; rollout.

Two traps found on the way are recorded where they bite: quartz's
KeyPair(privKey = null) generates a fresh key rather than meaning "no key",
and decryptGiftWrapSeal forwards exactly that; and signInToProfile plants a
second kind 0 on a second call, which nothing reached until the upgrade
path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pulled-From: curated/curated@78807fe956
2026-09-13 12:03:15 +02:00