feat(auth): support file and environment credentials

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Summary

• Enable authenticated commands on headless hosts with XF_TOKEN or opt-in auth.storage: file / XF_AUTH_STORAGE=file; retain keychain storage by default.
• Support the full file-backed login, refresh, and logout lifecycle, with permission checks, storage validation before browser login, and credential-source diagnostics. Environment tokens remain externally managed and take precedence.
• Add regression coverage and fix configuration isolation and races exposed by repeated CLI tests.

Closes #19.

Testing

• make all — lint, full test suite, and build passed.
• go test -count=2 -shuffle=1788692204335572000 ./cmd/xf ./internal/customerapi ./internal/doctor ./internal/auth — passed.
• go test -race ./cmd/xf ./internal/auth ./internal/customerapi ./internal/doctor — passed.

Notes

• File credentials are plaintext in auth.json beside the configuration file, including custom --config paths. Login/status display the location; Unix permissions are restricted to the owner. Windows relies on directory ACLs and does not have the same atomic replacement guarantee.
• auth status --json includes stable error reasons; environment-token validity/expiry can be null when unknown. Changing persistent stores does not migrate existing credentials.

Checklist

• The change is focused and does not include unrelated work.
• Relevant automated and/or manual testing has been performed.
• Upgrade, compatibility, and performance implications have been considered.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added configurable credential storage using the system keychain or a local file.
  • Added support for XF_TOKEN environment credentials with source reporting and read-only handling.
  • Added clearer authentication status, validation, refresh, logout, and configuration guidance.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved diagnostics for missing, expired, invalid, or unavailable credentials.
  • Added recovery guidance for expired XF_TOKEN values and redacted sensitive token data.
• Documentation
  • Expanded setup, security, permissions, storage, and CI guidance.

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• .github/workflows/ci.yml
• cmd/xf/auth.go
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• internal/auth/file.go
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Walkthrough

Changes

The CLI now supports keychain, file, and XF_TOKEN credential sources. File credentials use validated permissions and atomic replacement. Authentication commands, API requests, status output, doctor checks, error handling, and documentation use the selected credential source.

Authentication storage

Authentication storage

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Storage contracts and selection internal/config/*, internal/auth/{errors.go,store.go,keychain.go}, internal/auth/*_test.go	Configuration selects keychain or file storage. Valid XF_TOKEN values take precedence. External credentials are read-only.
File credential persistence internal/auth/file.go, internal/auth/file_test.go	FileStore validates paths and permissions, loads tokens, saves them atomically, deletes them, and prepares storage before login.
CLI and API authentication flow cmd/xf/auth.go, cmd/xf/auth_storage_test.go, internal/customerapi/*, internal/cache/*	Commands and API clients use the selected store. Status reports credential sources. External tokens are introspected but not refreshed or persisted.
Diagnostics, documentation, and test isolation README.md, cmd/xf/{doctor.go,errors.go,passthrough_test.go,usage_test.go}, internal/doctor/*, .github/workflows/ci.yml	Doctor checks configured credential storage. Documentation describes storage and security behaviour. Cobra tests reset shared state and run serially where required. The lint job uses the Go version from go.mod.

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1e298

This change adds environment and file-backed authentication while retaining keychain defaults, with covered credential lifecycle and diagnostics. No merge-blocking risk remains.

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 25.45% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 55 functions across 23 files. (1 skipped:…	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 primary change: support for file and environment credentials.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description follows the repository template. It includes a focused summary, actual test commands, relevant notes, and a completed checklist. The visual evidence section is correctly omitted becaus…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The implementation satisfies issue #19. It prioritises XF_TOKEN, retains keychain storage by default, adds explicit file storage with permission checks, supports authenticated headless workflows, repo…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within scope. Documentation, regression tests, configuration-isolation fixes, race fixes, and the Go-version lint adjustment support the authentication-storage objectives or the rel…

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Docstring coverage is 25.45% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 55 functions across 23 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
In `@cmd/xf/auth.go`:
- Line 50: Update the login help text near the credential-storage description to
distinguish the two backends: keychain tokens are stored securely, while
file-store tokens are plaintext and protected only by filesystem permissions.

In `@internal/auth/keychain.go`:
- Line 100: Update LoadToken’s keyring.Get error path to pass the underlying
error to keychainUnavailable, preserving the existing nil argument in
PrepareLogin and keeping the helper’s sentinel and message behavior unchanged
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• cmd/xf/usage_test.go
• internal/auth/errors.go
• internal/auth/file.go
• internal/auth/file_test.go
• internal/auth/keychain.go
• internal/auth/keychain_test.go
• internal/auth/store.go
• internal/auth/store_test.go
• internal/cache/download.go
• internal/cache/download_ops_test.go
• internal/config/config.go
• internal/config/config_test.go
• internal/customerapi/auth_storage_test.go
• internal/customerapi/client.go
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