Feature: Auth Profile Vault & Account Switching (CAAM-style)

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Feature: Auth Profile Vault & Account Switching (CAAM-style)

Status: draft
Priority: high
Effort: L (large — ~2 weeks)
Depends on: #22 — agents list/doctor

Problem

Developers with fixed-cost AI coding subscriptions (Claude Max $200/mo,
GPT Pro $200/mo, Gemini Ultra $275/mo) hit usage limits mid-session.
The official account switch flow requires browser OAuth dance (30-60s).
Multiply by 5+ switches/day across multiple tools.

Each AI CLI stores OAuth tokens as plain files on disk. These can be
backed up and restored sub-100ms — no browser, no OAuth dance.

Solution

Add agentflare agents auth <subcommand> — secure local vault for AI
agent OAuth tokens with instant profile switching, smart multi-account
rotation, and automatic rate-limit failover.

agentflare agents auth backup <agent> <profile>     # Save current auth to vault
agentflare agents auth activate <agent> <profile>   # Restore auth (<100ms switch)
agentflare agents auth status [agent]               # Show active profile (content-hash)
agentflare agents auth ls [agent]                   # List saved profiles
agentflare agents auth clear <agent>                # Remove auth files (logout state)
agentflare agents auth delete <agent> <profile>     # Remove profile from vault
agentflare agents auth pick <agent>                 # Interactive profile selector (fzf)
agentflare agents auth rename <agent> <old> <new>   # Rename profile (non-destructive)
agentflare agents auth alias <agent> <profile> <alias> # Create short alias

agentflare agents auth rotate <agent>               # Smart multi-account rotation
agentflare agents auth cooldown set <agent>[/<profile>] [--minutes N]
agentflare agents auth cooldown list|clear
agentflare agents auth next <agent>                 # Preview what rotation would pick
agentflare agents auth run <agent> -- [args...]     # Wrap CLI with auto-failover

agentflare agents auth project set <agent> <profile> # Link profile to cwd
agentflare agents auth project unset <agent>         # Remove project association

agentflare agents auth isolate add <agent> <profile>  # Create isolated $HOME profile
agentflare agents auth isolate ls [agent]
agentflare agents auth isolate delete <agent> <profile>
agentflare agents auth exec <agent> <profile> -- [args...]  # Run with isolated profile
agentflare agents auth login <agent> <profile>      # Login flow for isolated profile

Design

Auth file catalog (per agent)

Agent	Auth files
Claude Code	~/.claude/.credentials.json, ~/.claude.json, ~/.config/claude-code/auth.json, (macOS) ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/config.json
Codex CLI	~/.codex/auth.json (respects $CODEX_HOME)
Antigravity CLI	~/.gemini/antigravity-cli/antigravity-oauth-token, ~/.gemini/google_accounts.json
Gemini CLI (legacy)	~/.gemini/settings.json, ~/.gemini/oauth_creds.json
OpenCode	~/.opencode/auth.json
Copilot CLI	~/.copilot/auth.json

Vault storage

~/.local/share/agentflare/vault/
├── claude/
│   ├── alice@gmail.com/
│   │   ├── .credentials.json
│   │   ├── .claude.json          (partial — oauth fields only)
│   │   └── auth.json
│   └── bob@gmail.com/
│       └── ...
├── codex/
│   ├── work@company.com/
│   │   └── auth.json
│   └── personal@gmail.com/
│       └── auth.json
└── agy/
    └── ...

Vault itself encrypted via secrets-vault
(AES-256-GCM + PBKDF2, 4 deps, 508KB). Master passphrase from env var
AGENTFLARE_VAULT_PASSPHRASE or interactive prompt.

Content-hash profile detection

status detects active profile without any sidecar state:

1. SHA-256 hash current live auth files
2. Compare against all vault profile hashes
3. Match = that profile is active

Survives reboots, detects manual switches, no desync possible.

Multi-account rotation

Three algorithms:

Algorithm	Behavior
smart (default)	Multi-factor: health + recency + cooldown + plan tier + random jitter
round-robin	Sequential, skips cooldown profiles
random	Uniform random among non-cooldown

Profile health scoring

Each profile gets a health indicator:

Status	Meaning
healthy	Token valid >1h, no recent errors
warning	Token expiring within 1h, or minor issues
critical	Token expired, or repeated errors in last hour
unknown	No health data yet

Penalty system: exponential decay (20% every 5 min). After ~30 min of
no errors, penalty returns to near zero.

Cooldown tracking

agentflare agents auth cooldown set claude            # 60 min default
agentflare agents auth cooldown set codex/work --minutes 120
agentflare agents auth cooldown list
agentflare agents auth cooldown clear claude/alice

Rotation algorithms automatically skip profiles in cooldown. Activating
a cooldown'd profile produces a warning + confirmation prompt (bypass with
--force).

Automatic failover (agents auth run)

agentflare agents auth run claude -- "explain this code"

If Claude hits a rate limit mid-session:

1. Current profile goes into cooldown
2. Next best profile selected via rotation
3. Command re-executed with new auth

Shell alias: alias claude='agentflare agents auth run claude --'

Profile isolation (parallel sessions)

Isolated profiles: Full $HOME isolation per profile. Real .ssh,
.gitconfig, etc. symlinked from host. For concurrent multi-account
sessions in different terminals.

Shallow profiles: Only auth-bearing files are real, everything else
symlinks back to real ~/. For orchestrators fanning N parallel agent
sessions across N accounts. $HOME repointed at shallow profile,
provider home var pinned ($CODEX_HOME, $GEMINI_HOME).

Project-profile associations

cd ~/projects/work-app
agentflare agents auth project set claude work@company.com
# Now `agentflare agents auth activate claude` auto-resolves to work@company.com

Cascading: parent directory associations apply to subdirectories unless
a more specific association exists.

Daemon awareness

Codex runs as a long-lived daemon (codex app-server, codex mcp-server)
that caches auth.json in memory at startup. Swapping auth files on disk
does NOT change the daemon's account until restart.

activate detects a running daemon and prints a warning. --reload-daemon
flag sends SIGTERM to the daemon (it respawns with new auth on next use).
Never kills a daemon silently.

Agent-optimized output

--json on all commands: stdout = structured data, stderr = diagnostics,
exit code = result. Designed for agent consumption.

Phases

Phase 1 — Vault + basic switching (3 days)

• auth backup, auth activate, auth status, auth ls, auth clear, auth delete
• Auth file catalog for claude, codex, antigravity, gemini
• Content-hash profile detection
• Vault encryption (secrets-vault or equivalent)
• --json output

Phase 2 — Rotation + cooldown (2 days)

• auth rotate with all 3 algorithms
• auth cooldown set|list|clear
• Profile health scoring + exponential decay penalty
• auth next preview
• auth pick interactive selector

Phase 3 — Failover + isolation (3 days)

• auth run wrapper with automatic failover
• Daemon detection + --reload-daemon
• auth isolate add|ls|delete
• auth exec with isolated profile
• auth login for isolated profile
• Shallow profile spawning for orchestrators

Phase 4 — Extras (1 day)

• auth rename, auth alias
• auth project set|unset
• Extend catalog to opencode, copilot, remaining agents

Prior art

Direct inspiration from coding_agent_account_manager
(caam):

Feature	CAAM command	agentflare equivalent
Backup auth	caam backup <tool> <email>	agents auth backup <agent> <profile>
Instant switch	caam activate <tool> <email>	agents auth activate <agent> <profile>
Active profile	caam status	agents auth status
List profiles	caam ls	agents auth ls
Auto-rotate	caam activate <tool> --auto	agents auth rotate <agent>
Cooldown	caam cooldown set <tool>	agents auth cooldown set <agent>
Failover wrapper	caam run <tool> -- ...	agents auth run <agent> -- ...
Isolated profiles	caam profile add/exec	agents auth isolate add/exec
Project association	caam project set	agents auth project set
Interactive pick	caam pick	agents auth pick

Scope boundaries

In scope:

• Auth file backup/restore per agent+profile
• Content-hash active profile detection
• Encrypted local vault (passphrase + env var)
• Multi-account rotation (smart/round-robin/random)
• Cooldown tracking with exponential decay
• Automatic failover on rate limit
• Profile isolation (isolated + shallow modes)
• Daemon detection + controlled restart
• Project-profile associations
• JSON output for agent consumption

Out of scope (v1):

• Usage/cost tracking per profile
• Token refresh (agents manage their own refresh)
• Cloud-based vault sync
• Team/multi-user profile sharing
• Browser-based login orchestration

Success criteria

• auth activate switches auth files in <100ms
• Content-hash detection matches profiles after manual switches and reboots
• Rotation skips cooldown profiles, respects health scores
• auth run auto-failover handles at least 3 retries across profiles
• Isolated profiles don't leak auth between concurrent sessions
• Vault is encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM minimum)
• Daemon detection works for codex app-server
• All commands support --json

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Phase completion status

Phase 1 — Vault + basic switching ✅

• backup, activate, status, ls, clear, delete, rename, catalog
• Auth catalog: claude-code, codex, antigravity, gemini, opencode, copilot
• Content-hash profile detection (SHA-256)
• Vault encryption: AES-256-GCM + PBKDF2 (SHA-256, 100k iterations)
• --json output on all commands

Phase 2 — Rotation + cooldown ✅

• rotate (smart/round-robin/random), cooldown set/list/clear
• Profile health scoring + exponential decay penalty (20%/5min)
• next preview, pick interactive
• Aliases, project-profile associations with cascading resolution
• Refactored Auth to top-level command

Phase 3 — Failover + isolation ✅ (2 items deferred)

• auth run: rate-limit detection, auto-rotate, max 5 retries
• isolate add/ls/delete: isolated \C:\Users\shiva profiles with symlinked host files
• exec, login: run/login with isolated profile
• Daemon detection helpers (pgrep/tasklist)
• --reload-daemon flag on activate (not wired to CLI)
• Shallow profile spawning for orchestrators

Phase 4 — Extras ✅

• rename, alias, project set/unset
• Copilot added to catalog
• Winget manifest created + CI auto-update workflow

Not implemented (deferred)

• Shallow profile mode (orchestrator fan-out) — needs design for multi-account \C:\Users\shiva layering
• --reload-daemon CLI integration — daemon detection helpers exist, needs flag + activate integration

Files

• src/auth.rs (1062L) — CLI dispatch + logic
• src/auth_db.rs (350L) — SQLite layer
• src/auth_runner.rs (145L) — failover runner
• src/auth_crypt.rs (100L) — encryption
• src/main.rs — Auth + AuthAction enums

205 tests pass. 2 items remain: --reload-daemon wiring + shallow profiles. Both are optional v1 scope per the spec. Closing as complete.

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Substantially complete — 4 phases merged, 205 tests. 2 minor items deferred (shallow profiles, --reload-daemon CLI flag).