Bundle 1 / Phase 3 (primitive ship): the load-bearing RBAC middleware factory plus its dependencies. Handler conversion sweep (5 admin files: bulk_revocation.go, admin_crl_cache.go, admin_scep_intune.go, admin_est.go, intermediate_ca.go) + m008_admin_gate_test.go registry update is Phase 3.5 follow-on; this commit ships the primitive so 3.5 is mechanical.
New context keys (internal/auth/context.go): ActorIDKey, ActorTypeKey, TenantIDKey alongside the legacy UserKey + AdminKey. New helpers GetActorID / GetActorType / GetTenantID with safe fallbacks (UserKey for actor id, ActorTypeAPIKey for missing type, DefaultTenantID for missing tenant). Constants DemoAnonActorID + ActorTypeAPIKey + ActorTypeAnonymous mirror internal/domain/auth without an import cycle.
RequirePermission factory (internal/auth/require_permission.go): wraps a handler and gates it behind a named permission. 401 when no actor, 403 when actor lacks permission, 500 on repository error. Skips the gate entirely for protocol endpoints (ACME / SCEP / EST / OCSP / CRL) per the audit's Category F do-not-gate allowlist. PermissionChecker is an interface so internal/auth doesn't depend on internal/service/auth (cmd/server wires the concrete Authorizer at startup). HasPermission is the imperative variant for handlers that branch behaviour rather than 403'ing. ScopeFunc closure extracts the scope type + id from the request for per-resource gating.
Protocol-endpoint allowlist (internal/auth/protocol_endpoints.go): IsProtocolEndpoint matches /acme, /scep, /.well-known/est, /.well-known/pki/ocsp, /.well-known/pki/crl prefixes. Adding a new protocol endpoint MUST update this list and add a parallel test.
Demo-mode synthetic admin (internal/auth/middleware.go::NewDemoModeAuth): when CERTCTL_AUTH_TYPE=none is configured, this middleware injects ActorID=actor-demo-anon, ActorType=Anonymous, TenantID=t-default, plus the legacy UserKey + AdminKey for back-compat with existing handlers. The synthetic actor's admin-role grant is seeded by migration 000029 so RequirePermission resolves through the JOIN like any other actor. cmd/server startup wires this middleware only when none-mode is configured.
API-key middleware extension: NewAuthWithNamedKeys now populates the new keys (ActorIDKey, ActorTypeKey=APIKey, TenantIDKey=t-default) alongside UserKey + AdminKey on every successful Bearer match. Existing handlers continue to read UserKey / IsAdmin until the Phase 3.5 sweep converts them to RequirePermission.
Test coverage: TestRequirePermission_NoActorReturns401, TestRequirePermission_GrantedActorReaches200, TestRequirePermission_DeniedActorReturns403, TestRequirePermission_CheckerErrorReturns500, TestRequirePermission_ProtocolEndpointBypassesGate (covers all 5 prefixes), TestRequirePermission_ScopeFnExtractsResourceID, TestIsProtocolEndpoint_PrefixesOnly, TestNewDemoModeAuth_InjectsSyntheticActor, TestNewAuthWithNamedKeys_PopulatesPhase3ContextKeys. fakeChecker pins the contract without a database.
Phase 3.5 follow-on (NOT in this commit): convert each of the 5 admin handlers from auth.IsAdmin checks to auth.RequirePermission middleware in router.go; update internal/api/handler/m008_admin_gate_test.go to track auth.RequirePermission call sites instead of (or alongside) auth.IsAdmin; pick the right permission per handler (cert.revoke for bulk_revocation, etc.). Each handler conversion needs the 3-test triplet (_NonAdmin_Returns403 / _AdminExplicitFalse_Returns403 / _AdminPermitted_ForwardsActor) per M-008.
Branch: dev/auth-bundle-1. Phase 2 was prior commit (service layer). Phase 3.5 (handler conversion) + Phase 4 (HTTP API) on the next session.
Bundle 1 / Phase 0: pure refactor splitting auth surface out of internal/api/middleware so Bundle 2 (OIDC + sessions) and the broader RBAC primitive (roles, permissions, scoped grants) have a clean home.
Moved to internal/auth/: NamedAPIKey, HashAPIKey, AuthConfig, NewAuthWithNamedKeys, NewAuth, UserKey, AdminKey, GetUser, IsAdmin. Added testfixtures.go (WithActor / WithAdmin / WithActorAdmin) so handler tests don't construct context manually.
Stayed in internal/api/middleware/: RequestID, Logging, NewLogging, Recovery, RateLimitConfig, NewRateLimiter (now imports auth.GetUser for per-user keying per audit Category C), CORSConfig, NewCORS, ContentType, CORS, GetRequestID, responseWriter, Chain, audit middleware (now imports auth.GetUser).
Updated 22 caller files across cmd/, internal/api/handler/, internal/api/middleware/, internal/mcp/. Existing m008_admin_gate_test.go now scans for auth.IsAdmin( substring; Phase 3 will further evolve to track auth.RequirePermission. Behavior unchanged: all handler / middleware / service / connector / cmd / mcp tests pass with no test-logic edits, only import-path renames.
Phase 0 exit criteria: internal/auth/ exists with 6 files; middleware.go went 575 -> 422 lines (auth-related ~150 lines moved out); grep -rE 'middleware\.(GetUser|IsAdmin|UserKey|AdminKey|NamedAPIKey|HashAPIKey|NewAuth)' returns 0 hits; context.WithValue(.*middleware.UserKey/AdminKey) returns 0 hits; go vet ./... clean; go test -short ./... green across all packages tested.
Branch: dev/auth-bundle-1. Per cowork/auth-bundle-1-prompt.md, do not merge to master without (1) make verify green, (2) >= 2 external testers confirm, (3) >= 90% coverage on internal/auth/ in .github/coverage-thresholds.yml.
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