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Builds on #259. Until that merges, this PR's diff also shows #259's two commits; the new work starts at 5488b3b.

With #259 the Google and GitHub buttons start working. Before an instance turns them on, there are four
problems in how a social sign-in becomes a PDS account. ePDS links a sign-in to an account by email alone
(/auth/complete calls getDidByEmail on the better-auth session's address), so each of them is an
account-takeover path rather than a cosmetic issue.

Problems

  1. email_verified is read for truthiness. better-auth 1.4.18's Google provider copies the ID token's
    email_verified into user.emailVerified unchanged, and handleOAuthUserInfo tests it with !. The
    string "false" is truthy, so it counts as verified (and "true" is stored as a string).
  2. Google is trusted for addresses it does not host. For an address that is neither Gmail nor in a
    Google Workspace organisation, email_verified: true only means Google checked it once, when the
    Google account was created; the address may have changed hands since. Google's guidance is to treat
    that as unverified
    (verify the Google ID token:
    Google is authoritative for @gmail.com, and for any address when email_verified is true and hd is
    set). Today such a sign-in is linked to, and signs into, an existing user with that address.
  3. An unverified email still gets a user, a PDS account and a session.
    • better-auth creates a user for a social sign-in whatever emailVerified says.
    • /auth/complete then signs that session into the existing PDS account for the address (it only sends
      email_verified=0 on the callback), or creates a new account with email_verified=0.
      /auth/choose-handle can also be POSTed directly to create one.
    • The unverified user stays linked to the social identity. When the address's real owner later proves
      the address (an email code, or a social sign-in the provider vouches for), better-auth marks that
      existing user verified, and from then on the social identity signs straight in as them, and an old
      session of it counts as signed in (a pre-account-takeover).
    • Account settings (requireBetterAuth) accept any better-auth session, so the same unverified session
      can manage the PDS account that owns the address.
  4. Errors end outside the flow. The buttons pass only callbackURL, so Cancel on Google's consent
    screen (error=access_denied), account_not_linked, or a provider without an email ends on better-auth's
    bare /api/auth/error page, with no way back to the client app.

Fix

  • Strict Google claim (lib/google-email-verified.ts, passed as the Google provider's
    mapProfileToUser, which better-auth spreads over its own user info). A Google sign-in is email-verified
    only when email_verified is boolean true or the exact string "true" and the address is
    @gmail.com / @googlemail.com or the token carries an hd claim. Everything else reaches better-auth
    as emailVerified: false, so it is never linked to an existing user.
  • No user for an unverified email. databaseHooks.user.create.before (refuseUnverifiedUser) refuses
    to create a user whose emailVerified is not true. Email OTP always creates verified users, so this
    only stops social sign-ins the provider did not vouch for. The redirect flow then ends on
    /auth/complete?error=email_not_verified; the ID-token flow gets a 401.
  • No account or session for an unverified email. /auth/complete refuses a session whose email is not
    verified, for new and existing accounts alike. /auth/choose-handle bounces such a session to
    /auth/complete. Account settings and GET /account/login treat it as signed out. These guards are
    defence in depth for user rows created before the hook existed. All of them use one check,
    hasVerifiedEmail() (lib/verified-email.ts): only a boolean true counts, because an earlier release
    could store Google's claim as the text 'true'/'false' (better-auth's SQLite adapter reads it back as
    a string), and a looser check in one route than another made /account and /account/login redirect to
    each other forever for such a row.
  • Links made before an address was proven are dropped. databaseHooks.user.update before/after hooks:
    when an update marks a user's email verified (an email-code sign-in, or a social sign-in the provider
    vouches for linking to the user), every social identity linked to that user is removed and its sessions
    are signed out, before the verifying sign-in creates its own session. Only a user row an earlier release
    left can be unverified, so these links came from sign-ins whose provider did not vouch for the address.
    A Gmail or Workspace identity links again by itself on its next sign-in.
  • Errors back to the login page. The page script also sends errorCallbackURL: '/auth/complete'.
    /auth/complete checks ?error= before it reads any session (so a session an earlier sign-in left in the
    browser is never resumed by a cancelled one), reduces it to cancelled / email_unverified / no_email /
    failed, and 303s to /oauth/authorize?request_uri=…&client_id=…&epds_social_error=<code>, the URL it
    already uses when it finds no session. The login page maps the code to a fixed message in the standard
    flash region; unknown values show nothing and request text is never reflected. On that return the login
    page renders itself even when the browser holds a device session: handing it to pds-core's account
    chooser would drop the message, and could auto-select the RP's hinted account for someone who had just
    chosen "Another account" (the redirect cannot carry prompt=login or epds_skip_par_hint back). The PAR
    login_hint is ignored on that return for the same reason, so the email step renders.
  • Docs. docs/configuration.md gains the redirect URIs to register
    (https://<AUTH_HOSTNAME>/api/auth/callback/google, …/callback/github), Google setup (Web application
    client; consent screen with only openid, email, profile; publishing status In production, since
    Testing limits sign-in to at most 100 listed test users), which sign-ins are trusted, and, for instances
    that had a provider configured before, a one-off cleanup (back up, preview, delete) of the rows an earlier
    release left that this release cannot handle by itself. Both .env.example files name the redirect URIs,
    and the @pending scenarios in features/social-login.feature now match the new behaviour.

pds-core is unchanged.

Tests

  • better-auth-social-sign-in.test.ts drives a real better-auth instance on in-memory SQLite with
    ePDS's provider config and databaseHooks:
    • ID-token sign-in (provider signature check stubbed): which claims give a verified user, that "false",
      false and a non-Gmail address without hd create no user, that a non-authoritative identity is not
      linked to an existing user, and that a verified Gmail identity is.
    • The redirect flow the login page uses (POST /sign-in/social, GET /callback/google, Google's token
      endpoint stubbed): Cancel lands on /auth/complete?error=access_denied; an unverified address on
      /auth/complete?error=email_not_verified with no user created; a verified Gmail address on
      /auth/complete with a session.
    • Without the mapper, 4 of the first commit's 8 cases fail.
  • create-better-auth.test.ts runs createBetterAuth() itself, as index.ts does (in-memory SQLite,
    Google's token endpoint stubbed, email codes captured from a stub EmailSender, PDS lookups mocked), so
    the production wiring is covered, not just the exported pieces. It checks that the hooks and the Google
    claim mapper are the ones passed to better-auth, that a non-authoritative Google address is refused with
    no user, and, with rows seeded as an earlier release left them, that an unverified user's Google link and
    old session go when the owner signs in by email code (the Google identity then gets
    account_not_linked), that an authoritative Google sign-in drops another provider's link and links
    itself again next time, and that a verified user's links and sessions survive an email-code sign-in.
    Removing databaseHooks from createBetterAuth fails 4 of its 6 tests, removing the update hooks 3,
    removing the mapper 3.
  • Route tests: /auth/complete?error= for each code, and that it does not read the session
    (complete-social-sign-in.test.ts; all 5 fail without the route change); /auth/complete and
    /auth/choose-handle with an unverified session (5 fail without the guards); account settings with an
    unverified session (account-session-verified.test.ts; 2 fail without), including emailVerified
    stored as the text 'true' or 'false', where both routes must agree; the login page with
    epds_social_error (login-page-social-error.test.ts), including a browser with a device session and a
    PAR hint bound to it (2 of those 3 cases fail without the change; the third is the control).
  • Unit tests for the claim rules (google-email-verified.test.ts), the shared check
    (verified-email.test.ts) and the error mapping (social-sign-in-error.test.ts).
    social-providers.test.ts now tests the exported buildSocialProviders() instead of a copy of it (as
    docs/design/testing-gaps.md suggested).
  • callback-handle-mode.test.ts's session fixture now carries emailVerified: true, as an email-OTP session
    does.
  • pnpm format:check, pnpm lint, pnpm typecheck clean. vitest run packages/auth-service: 49 files /
    632 tests. pnpm test:coverage: 89 files / 1322 tests, coverage 64.63 / 63.74 / 77.22 / 63.52; floors
    ratcheted from 61 / 60 / 74 / 60 to 64 / 63 / 77 / 63. better-auth.ts goes from 0% on main to ~76%.

Points for review

  • Unverified sessions are refused for existing accounts too, not just denied email_verified=1.
    Signing an unproven address into the account that owns it is the takeover; withholding the flag would not
    stop it. If you would rather let existing accounts in without confirming the email, it is the
    if (!sessionEmailVerified) block in complete.ts, but we would advise against it.
  • Who this turns away. A consumer Google account on a non-Google address (for example a personal domain)
    without hd cannot use Google; the page asks them to use an email code. That is Google's own guidance,
    but it is a product call for each instance.
  • GitHub keeps better-auth's behaviour: the verified flag from /user/emails for the address used. GitHub
    is not authoritative for any domain either; tightening it (or not offering it) is left for a separate
    discussion.
  • State errors (an expired or mismatched state cookie) are raised before better-auth can read the stored
    errorCallbackURL, so they still go to its default error page. Setting onAPIError.errorURL would cover
    them; left out to keep this PR to the social flow.
  • Instances that had a provider configured before this (the POST endpoint was always reachable
    directly) need a one-off cleanup after upgrading, described in docs/configuration.md: back up the
    database, preview with emailVerified IS NOT 1, then delete the sessions, all google/github account
    rows, and the users whose emailVerified IS NOT 1. The code handles an unverified user's links once its
    owner proves the address, but two kinds of row are beyond it: a social identity an earlier release linked
    to a user who is verified (for example a Google identity on a non-Gmail address), which still signs in
    as that user, and a user whose emailVerified is the text 'true'/'false', which email-otp never
    repairs, so its owner is locked out until the row goes. = 0 misses those text rows.
  • Dropping links on verification also drops the identity a verifying social sign-in has just linked
    (better-auth links before it updates the user); that sign-in still completes and the identity links again
    next time. With overrideUserInfoOnSignIn (not set by ePDS) better-auth would write emailVerified: true
    for already-verified users too, and the hook would then sign their other sessions out on every social
    sign-in.
  • The social error return ignores the PAR login_hint, so a user who started on the code step for a
    hinted address lands on the email step after a cancelled Google sign-in. The alternative is to persist
    prompt and epds_skip_par_hint on the auth_flow row (a migration) and replay them.
  • The user-facing copy (four messages in lib/social-sign-in-error.ts) is a first draft.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added Google and GitHub sign-in options. Buttons appear when a provider is configured and enabled for the client.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Social sign-in now requires a provider-verified email. Sign-ins with unverified email addresses are rejected, and users are directed to email-code sign-in with a clear message.
    • Account and handle-selection flows now require a verified email.
  • Documentation
    • Added provider setup and callback instructions, email-verification details, and guidance for cleaning up data from earlier releases.

DjimoSerodio and others added 2 commits October 15, 2026 08:35
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The login page rendered the social buttons as links to
/api/auth/sign-in/social?provider=...&callbackURL=/auth/complete. A link
click is a GET, but better-auth 1.4.18 registers /sign-in/social as
POST-only, so every click ended on a 404 and the buttons could never start
a sign-in on an instance with GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID/SECRET or
GITHUB_CLIENT_ID/SECRET set.

Render them as <button type="button" data-social-provider="google|github">
and add one click handler to the existing page script: it POSTs
{ provider, callbackURL: '/auth/complete' } to authBasePath +
'/sign-in/social' (same origin, so already inside connect-src 'self') and
follows the provider URL better-auth returns. On any failure it shows the
page's standard error flash and re-enables the button. The button stays
disabled while the POST is in flight, because a second POST would replace
the first one's OAuth state cookie, and is re-enabled when the page comes
back from the back/forward cache.

No new endpoint, configuration or dependency; /auth/complete is unchanged.

Tests: new login-page-social-buttons.test.ts runs the page's real inline
script in a node:vm context against a stand-in DOM and clicks the buttons
(all 10 cases fail against main). The documentation-style assertions in
social-providers.test.ts that still described a GET link now describe the
POST.

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A provider's button now renders only when the operator configured it and
the OAuth client lists it in epds_social_providers, the same way
epds_handle_login_url gates the ATProto/Bluesky button. Configuring Google
on a shared PDS therefore leaves the login page of every other client
unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The pull request adds opt-in Google and GitHub sign-in, checks provider email claims before accepting social users, and requires verified email for protected account and authentication routes. It also handles provider errors on the login page and documents provider setup and upgrade cleanup.

Changes: Social Sign-In and Email Verification

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Configure and start social sign-in
packages/shared/src/client-metadata.ts, packages/auth-service/src/better-auth.ts, packages/auth-service/src/routes/login-page.ts, packages/auth-service/src/__tests__/*social*, packages/auth-service/src/__tests__/__helpers__/login-page-script.ts, docs/configuration.md, docs/tutorial.md, .env.example, packages/auth-service/.env.example, .changeset/social-sign-in-buttons-post.md
Adds epds_social_providers client opt-in and provider configuration. The login page renders provider buttons that POST the provider and callback URL, then follows only validated HTTPS URLs. Adds button behavior tests and setup documentation.
Verify email and reconcile earlier identities
packages/auth-service/src/lib/google-email-verified.ts, packages/auth-service/src/better-auth.ts, packages/auth-service/src/__tests__/google-email-verified.test.ts, packages/auth-service/src/__tests__/better-auth-social-sign-in.test.ts, packages/auth-service/src/__tests__/create-better-auth.test.ts, packages/auth-service/src/__tests__/__helpers__/google-sign-in.ts, features/social-login.feature, docs/configuration.md, docs/design/testing-gaps.md, vitest.config.ts, .changeset/social-sign-in-verified-email.md
Adds Google verification and domain-authority checks. Better Auth rejects unverified user creation and removes non-credential provider accounts and sessions when an email becomes verified. Tests cover provider claims, linking, and earlier-release records; documentation describes the upgrade cleanup.
Handle errors and require verified sessions
packages/auth-service/src/lib/social-sign-in-error.ts, packages/auth-service/src/lib/verified-email.ts, packages/auth-service/src/routes/account-login.ts, packages/auth-service/src/routes/account-settings.ts, packages/auth-service/src/routes/choose-handle.ts, packages/auth-service/src/routes/complete.ts, packages/auth-service/src/routes/login-page.ts, packages/auth-service/src/__tests__/*social-error*, packages/auth-service/src/__tests__/account-session-verified.test.ts, packages/auth-service/src/__tests__/complete-social-sign-in.test.ts, packages/auth-service/src/__tests__/callback-handle-mode.test.ts, features/social-login.feature
Maps provider errors to fixed login messages and bypasses device-session reuse and PAR login hints on error returns. Account, handle-selection, and completion routes require verified email. Route and feature tests cover error redirects, cancellation, and verified-session handling.

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  participant LoginPage
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  participant Provider
  participant AuthComplete
  LoginPage->>BetterAuth: POST provider and callbackURL
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  LoginPage->>Provider: Navigate to validated authorization URL
  Provider-->>AuthComplete: Redirect with callback result
  AuthComplete->>LoginPage: Redirect with mapped error when sign-in fails
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The login page script assigned window.location to whatever URL
/sign-in/social returned. Follow it only when it is an https URL whose
origin is that provider's authorization server (accounts.google.com for
Google, github.com for GitHub); any other response shows the standard
"Could not start sign-in" error and re-enables the button.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tative

better-auth 1.4.18's Google provider copies the ID token's email_verified
claim into user.emailVerified unchanged, and handleOAuthUserInfo tests it
for truthiness when it decides whether to create a verified user or to
link the Google identity to an existing user with the same email. Two
problems follow:

- the string "false" is truthy, so a token carrying email_verified:
  "false" is treated as verified (and "true" is stored as a string);
- Google only vouches for addresses it hosts. For any other address the
  claim means "verified once, when the Google account was created", and
  Google's guidance is to treat it as unverified
  (https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web/guides/verify-google-id-token).
  Today such a sign-in links to, and so signs into, an existing user with
  that email.

Add lib/google-email-verified.ts and pass its mapper as the Google
provider's mapProfileToUser, which better-auth spreads over its own user
info. A Google sign-in now counts as email-verified only when the claim is
boolean true or the exact string "true" AND the address is Gmail
(@gmail.com / @googlemail.com) or the token carries an hd (Workspace)
claim. Everything else reaches better-auth as emailVerified: false, so it
is not linked to an existing user ("account not linked").

buildSocialProviders() is exported (as docs/design/testing-gaps.md
suggested) and social-providers.test.ts now tests it instead of a copy.
New better-auth-social-sign-in.test.ts drives a real better-auth instance
on in-memory SQLite through the ID-token sign-in path; 4 of its 8 cases
fail without the mapper.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…in page

The social buttons passed only callbackURL to better-auth, so any error in
the OAuth callback - the user pressing Cancel on Google's consent screen
(error=access_denied), better-auth refusing to link the identity to an
existing user (account_not_linked), the provider returning no email -
ended on better-auth's bare /api/auth/error page, outside the login flow,
with no way back to the client app.

- The page script now also sends errorCallbackURL: '/auth/complete'.
- /auth/complete checks ?error= right after loading the flow, before it
  reads any session (so a session an earlier sign-in left in the browser
  is never resumed by a cancelled one), reduces the code to one of
  cancelled / email_unverified / no_email / failed, and 303s to
  /oauth/authorize?request_uri=...&client_id=...&epds_social_error=<code>,
  the same login-page URL it already uses when it finds no session.
- GET /oauth/authorize maps epds_social_error to a fixed message and the
  page shows it in the standard flash region on load. Unknown values show
  nothing; request text is never reflected.
- With epds_social_error present, GET /oauth/authorize renders the login
  page even when the browser holds a device session. Handing the flow to
  pds-core's account chooser (session reuse) would drop the message, and
  could auto-select the RP's hinted account for someone who had just
  chosen "Another account" (whose prompt=login and epds_skip_par_hint the
  redirect cannot carry back). For the same reason the PAR login_hint is
  ignored on that return, so the email step renders, which is what the
  message asks for.

The mapping lives in lib/social-sign-in-error.ts. Tests: unit tests for the
mapping, route tests for /auth/complete?error= (all 5 fail without the
route change) and for the login page with epds_social_error, and the
page-script tests now pin errorCallbackURL and the on-load message. The
login page route test runs the script of the page it was served, so it
shows that each code's message reaches the flash region; for that the
node:vm page-script harness moves from login-page-social-buttons.test.ts
to __tests__/__helpers__/login-page-script.ts (with an explicit return
type, so tsc --build can emit it). With dev-id/ses-id cookies the route
test also shows the page instead of a 302 to pds-core, and the email step
when the PAR hint matches an account bound to the device; 2 of those 3
cases fail without the change (the third is the control without the
error).

State errors that better-auth raises before it can read the stored
errorCallbackURL (an expired or mismatched state cookie) still go to its
default error page; that would need onAPIError.errorURL, left out here.

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…n account

ePDS keys a sign-in to a PDS account by email alone (/auth/complete calls
getDidByEmail on the session's address), and better-auth creates a user
for a social sign-in whatever its emailVerified says. With Google's claim
now strict, that leaves three ways an address nobody proved could still
act as its owner:

1. /auth/complete signed it into the existing PDS account for that
   address (it only withheld email_verified on the callback), or created
   a new account with email_verified=0. /auth/choose-handle could be
   POSTed directly to do the latter.
2. The unverified user row better-auth created stays linked to the social
   identity. When the address's real owner later signs in with an email
   code, better-auth's email-otp marks that existing user verified, and
   from then on the social identity signs straight in as them
   (pre-account-takeover).
3. Account settings accepted any better-auth session, so the same
   unverified session could manage the PDS account that owns the address.

Fixes:

- better-auth databaseHooks.user.create.before (refuseUnverifiedUser)
  refuses to create a user whose emailVerified is not true. Email OTP
  always creates verified users, so this only stops social sign-ins the
  provider did not vouch for; the redirect flow then ends on
  /auth/complete?error=email_not_verified (mapped to the email_unverified
  message) and the ID-token flow gets a 401.
- /auth/complete refuses a session whose email is not verified, for new
  and existing accounts alike, and returns to the login page with
  epds_social_error=email_unverified. /auth/choose-handle bounces such a
  session to /auth/complete.
- requireBetterAuth (account settings) and GET /account/login treat a
  session as signed out unless its email is verified.
- All of them, and the hook, use one check, hasVerifiedEmail() in
  lib/verified-email.ts: only a boolean true counts. An earlier release
  could store Google's claim as the text 'true' or 'false', which
  better-auth's SQLite adapter reads back as a string, and the text
  'false' is truthy; with a looser check in one route and a strict one in
  another, /account and /account/login would redirect to each other
  forever for such a row.

The /auth/complete, choose-handle and account guards are defence in depth
for user rows created before the hook existed. Two kinds of row an
earlier release left are beyond them: an unverified user with a linked
social identity, which comes back to life once its owner proves the
address (the next commit removes such links at that moment), and a
social identity an earlier release linked to a user who is verified,
which better-auth signs straight in without looking at the email again.
The docs commit therefore tells operators who had GOOGLE_* or GITHUB_*
set to delete the social links and unverified users an earlier release
left.

Tests: better-auth-social-sign-in.test.ts now runs with ePDS's
databaseHooks and also drives the real redirect flow (POST
/sign-in/social, GET /callback/google with Google's token endpoint
stubbed): a cancel lands on /auth/complete?error=access_denied, an
unverified address on ?error=email_not_verified with no user created, a
verified Gmail address on /auth/complete with a session. New route tests
cover /auth/complete, choose-handle and account settings with unverified
sessions, including emailVerified stored as the text 'true' or 'false'
(they fail without the route changes), and verified-email.test.ts pins
the check itself. callback-handle-mode's session fixture now carries
emailVerified: true, as an email-OTP session does.

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The user-creation guard stops new unverified users, but an instance that
had Google or GitHub configured before it can hold unverified users an
earlier release created, each with a social identity linked. They cannot
sign in now. better-auth, however, marks such a user verified as soon as
the address's owner proves the address: email-otp's sign-in (and its
verify-email) does it for an email code, and handleOAuthUserInfo does it
when a social sign-in the provider vouches for (the owner's own Gmail
identity, say) links to the user. From then on better-auth signs the
linked identity straight in without looking at the email again, so it
signs in as the owner, and an old session of it starts counting as
signed in too.

Add databaseHooks.user.update before/after hooks: when an update marks a
user's email verified (in better-auth 1.4.18 only a user who was not
verified gets one; overrideUserInfoOnSignIn, which ePDS does not set,
would also write it for verified users), remove every social identity
linked to the user and sign out its sessions. This runs before the
sign-in that verified the address creates its own session, so that
sign-in completes as normal. A Gmail or Workspace identity links again by
itself on its next sign-in; the one a social sign-in has just linked is
dropped as well, which costs one extra link.

Still left to the operator cleanup in the docs: a social identity an
earlier release linked to a user who was already verified (this release
cannot tell it from a good link), and a user whose emailVerified an
earlier release stored as the text 'true' or 'false' (email-otp only
updates a falsy value, so that user's owner stays locked out until the
row is removed).

Tests: create-better-auth.test.ts runs createBetterAuth() itself, as
index.ts does (in-memory SQLite, Google's token endpoint stubbed, email
codes captured from a stub EmailSender, PDS lookups mocked), so it also
covers production wiring that no test reached before. It checks that the
hooks and the Google claim mapper are the ones passed to better-auth and
that a non-authoritative Google address is refused with no user, and it
drives both revival paths with rows seeded as an earlier release left
them: an unverified user with a Google link loses the link and its old
session when the owner signs in by email code, after which the Google
identity gets account_not_linked; an authoritative Google sign-in drops
a GitHub link from such a user and links itself again next time. A
verified user's links and sessions survive an email-code sign-in.
Removing databaseHooks from createBetterAuth fails 4 of its 6 tests,
removing the update hooks 3, removing the mapper 3. The Google
redirect-flow helpers move from better-auth-social-sign-in.test.ts to
__tests__/__helpers__/google-sign-in.ts so both files use them.

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docs/configuration.md's social providers section only listed the four
env vars. Add:

- that the buttons are instance-wide (every OAuth client of the ePDS);
- the redirect URIs to register, https://<AUTH_HOSTNAME>/api/auth/callback/google
  and .../callback/github, one per auth hostname;
- Google setup: a Web application OAuth client, a consent screen with only
  openid/email/profile, publishing status In production (Testing limits
  sign-in to at most 100 listed test users);
- which social sign-ins are trusted (Google: strict email_verified plus
  Gmail/Workspace; GitHub: the /user/emails verified flag, with the
  caveat that GitHub does not host addresses, so the flag can be stale)
  and what happens to the rest;
- for instances that had Google or GitHub configured before: which rows
  an earlier release left this release handles by itself (an unverified
  user's links and sessions go once its owner proves the address) and
  which still have to be removed by hand (a social identity linked to a
  verified user, which still signs in without the email being checked
  again; a user whose emailVerified was stored as text, which locks its
  owner out), a read-only query to look first, and the DELETEs. They use
  emailVerified IS NOT 1, which also catches the text 'true'/'false' an
  earlier release could store. Checked against the schema better-auth
  1.4.18 creates.

Both .env.example files now name the redirect URIs next to the variables.

features/social-login.feature (@pending) now matches: the "same email"
scenario uses a Gmail address, and new scenarios cover a Google address
Google does not host (back to the login page, asked for an email code),
a Workspace address (trusted), and Cancel at Google.

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pnpm test:coverage on this branch: statements 64.62, branches 63.59,
functions 77.22, lines 63.51 (main: 61.68 / 60.64 / 74.39 / 60.49). Raise
the floors to 64 / 63 / 77 / 63 per the ratcheting policy, and record in
testing-gaps.md that better-auth.ts is now at ~76%, with
create-better-auth.test.ts running the production instance.

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isGoogleAuthoritativeFor treated any non-empty hd as proof that Google
hosts the address, so person@example.com with hd "*" or
"attacker.example" counted as verified. hd names a hosted domain: Google
is now authoritative only for @gmail.com / @googlemail.com, or when hd
equals the address's domain (both lower-cased). Workspace secondary
domains no longer count.

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hasVerifiedEmail accepted only a boolean true, so users an earlier
release stored with Google's claim as the text 'true' failed
/auth/complete, /auth/choose-handle and /account until an operator ran
the manual SQL cleanup. Accept the exact text 'true' as well; 'false'
and every other value still count as unverified, and the hook that drops
links made before verification is unchanged.

The cleanup in docs/configuration.md no longer removes 'true' users
(NOT IN (1, 'true') instead of IS NOT 1); it is still needed for social
links on verified users and for users stored as the text 'false', which
an email code cannot mark verified.

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update: { emailVerified?: unknown },
context: DatabaseHookContext,
): Promise<void> {
if (context && hasVerifiedEmail(update)) verifyingEmail.add(context)

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/email-otp/verify-email applies for already verified users and this assumed emailVerified: true applies to only the first verification. This creates a risk of a google login and active session resulting in no session after re-verification.

This condition is only checking the new value, it looks like this change is focused on sign-in and misses the verification endpoints that gets caught up in this. Re-verification shouldn't create a replacement session.

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@DjimoSerodio since there was a provision for google and github signin the agent might have assumed it needed fixing. However we never really enabled google and github signin/oauth on dev or on production there isnt a need to fix previous social sign ins which this pr assumes.

Some notes on my agents when i asked what could be removed given this context

  • noteEmailVerification, dropLinksMadeBeforeVerification, their WeakSet/context tracking, and the user.update hooks.
  • Compatibility for historical string-valued emailVerified fields.
  • The associated legacy repair fixtures/tests, SQL cleanup instructions, and release-note claims.

Keep the forward-looking protections: strict Google email verification and domain-authority checks, refusal to create unverified users, verified-session guards, error handling, and production-wired integration tests. Normal better-auth schema migrations should remain unchanged.

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@DjimoSerodio all the tests under features/social-login.feature.ts are still marked as pending so they are never run by the e2e suite. Would be great if you could remove pending and setup e2e and check if it works. I think we could keep the e2e to just google as well.

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And Google's ID token has the "hd" claim "example.com"
Then the same PDS account is used (not a new one)

Scenario: A Google "hd" claim for another domain is not trusted

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would be greate here to add another scenario when it fails to check if the flow is recoverable via email otp login.

something like:

   Scenario: User can sign in with an email code after Google sign-in is rejected
     Given "alice@example.com" has a PDS account created via email OTP
     And Google reports a verified email of "alice@example.com"
     But Google's ID token has the "hd" claim "other.example"
     When the user signs in with Google
     Then the browser returns to the login page
     And the login page asks the user to sign in with an email code instead
     And no authenticated session is created
     When the user signs in with a code sent to "alice@example.com"
     Then the browser is redirected back to the demo client
     And the demo client is signed in to the existing PDS account

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Scenario: Same email via social login uses existing PDS account
Given "alice@example.com" has a PDS account (created via email OTP)
When "alice@example.com" signs in via Google
Given "alice@gmail.com" has a PDS account (created via email OTP)

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and another scenario for when someone created their account through social login and then logs in through email otp that they use the existing PDS account

user: { emailVerified?: unknown } | null | undefined,
): boolean {
const value = user?.emailVerified
return value === true || value === 'true'

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as mentioned in the comment since google/github sign in was never configured for certified.one or any of the tests and staging pds. we could just keep this check to user?.emailVerified === true

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@DjimoSerodio also i think we could leave out the github sign in integration or remove it completely. i dont know if the agent maybe made some code changes to accommodate for github but since its only google that we need right now we could restrict to that.

The github sign in was a remnant from the initial development of the ePDS. if you can confirm with your agent that there werent any changes in this pr specifically to accommodate for github sign in then i can just stack a pr on your branch to remove it as well. which ever works for you

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The social buttons only disabled the button that was clicked, so a click
on the other provider, an email code send, a verify or a handle hand-off
could start while the first sign-in was still in flight; a second
/sign-in/social replaces the first one's OAuth state.

One page-wide guard now covers the social buttons, sending and resending
an email code, verifying it, and the ATProto/Bluesky handle hand-off.
Each handler claims it before starting a request, releases it when the
attempt fails, and keeps it while the page navigates away. Sending a code
releases it once the code is sent, so the verify that follows can run.
The verify form's own double-submit latch is folded into it. A page
restored from the back/forward cache releases it.

The login page script harness moves to __tests__/__helpers__ so the new
guard tests and the social button tests share it.

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Also tell end users that only one sign-in runs at a time.

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# Conflicts:
#	packages/auth-service/src/__tests__/__helpers__/login-page-script.ts
#	packages/auth-service/src/__tests__/login-page-social-buttons.test.ts
Google and GitHub sign-in were never enabled on any deployment, so there
are no social links or sessions from an earlier release to repair.
Remove noteEmailVerification, dropLinksMadeBeforeVerification, their
context tracking and the user.update hooks, along with the earlier-release
fixtures and tests, the SQL clean-up section in docs/configuration.md and
the release-note text about it. The user-creation guard stays.

The update hook also fired on /email-otp/verify-email for a user who was
already verified, which signed out that user's existing (for example
Google) session. With it gone, a new test pins that re-verifying an
address keeps the session and the Google link, and that an email-code
sign-in after a Google sign-up lands on the same user.

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No release stored emailVerified as text, so hasVerifiedEmail is now
user?.emailVerified === true and the string-valued cases go from its
tests and the account route tests.

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The redirect URI table, the trust notes and the .env.example comments
added for this change now cover Google only. The GitHub provider itself
and its existing variables are unchanged.

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…d tests

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Sonar flagged 3.3% duplication on new code: complete-social-sign-in
copied the mocks and app setup of callback-handle-mode, and
login-page-social-error copied the config and server setup of
login-page-prompt-login. The /auth/complete social cases move into
callback-handle-mode, whose stand-in session now takes a user, and both
login page route tests start their app from __helpers__/login-page-app.

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The sign-in guard and social button tests rendered the page with the same
option block; it now lives next to the script harness.

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# Conflicts:
#	packages/auth-service/src/__tests__/login-page-social-buttons.test.ts
features/social-login.feature was @pending and never ran. It is now
Google-only, tagged @fake-google, and runs in the private Atmosphere
stack:

- The browser's trip to accounts.google.com is intercepted with
  page.route and redirected straight back to /api/auth/callback/google,
  with the scenario's ID token claims as the authorization code (or
  error=access_denied for a cancel).
- With EPDS_TEST_HOOKS=1 and EPDS_TEST_FAKE_GOOGLE=1, auth-service
  answers better-auth's token request with an ID token for those claims
  (lib/test-google-token.ts). It refuses to install when
  NODE_ENV=production. Everything after it, including the Google claim
  check, runs as in production.
- The demo client lists google in epds_social_providers; the stack sets
  placeholder Google credentials and E2E_FAKE_GOOGLE=1 on the runner, and
  e2e/cucumber.mjs excludes @fake-google where that flag is unset.

Scenarios: an account created with Google is the same PDS account for a
later email-code sign-in; a Google sign-in refused for hd other.example
recovers with an email code to the existing account; a cancel at Google
returns to the login page. No session is created by the refused or
cancelled sign-ins.

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This branch had ratcheted the thresholds to 65/64/77/64 with the
earlier-release repair code and its tests included. Removing that code
leaves 64.76/63.75/77.31/63.61, so the floors become 64/63/77/63, still
above main's 61/60/74/60.

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…ding without a fake Google

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