Allow apps to create API keys on behalf of users

[fmhall]

Allow clients to create API keys on behalf of users. Designed for CLI apps, desktop apps, or apps that need to kick off long running jobs on the users behalf.

• Show warning to users when this scope is requested
• Handle scope in token issuance
• Determine if a fresh API key should be created each time, if they should be reused, or if old ones should be archived when a new one with the same name ("Oauth generated API key") is created

It's also interesting to note that we aren't doing any validation/handling of scopes at the moment beyond ensuring they are a string.

Longer term

We want to enable CLI apps, desktop apps, etc. to allow users to authenticate and create API keys, without having to run a callback server.

Codex and Claude both spin up a callback server, since that works with no changes to a architecture like the one in this PR.

We could use the Device Code flow (RFC-8628), but that still requires the user to input a device code.

See initial questions in this tweet

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[rsproule]

did this a while ago and stashed it for some concerns #327

[rsproule]

i can get on board with this but this is incomplete. We need:

• show a warning or something inthe AuthZ page like:
  'you are creating a long lived access token, this can be revoked in echo website'
• need to actually append this scope in that scenario
• need to be able to tell when an authz was initiated with this "api_key:create" scope. Probably an additional url param
• sdk / clients need to know how to create this url (ask for this scope)