fix(security): deliver the hook secret to hooks + isolate its rate-limit bucket

Review fixes for COD-54:

- Generated hook curl commands now present X-Codeman-Hook-Secret, read from
  the secret file AT EXECUTION TIME via $CODEMAN_HOOK_SECRET_FILE (exported
  into every managed session's env by tmux buildEnvExports / the direct-PTY
  env builders). Without this, every local hook 401'd the moment a managed
  tunnel came up — the enforcement existed but nothing presented the secret.
  Path-not-value keeps the secret off command lines and out of config files,
  and running sessions pick up a newly generated secret with no respawn;
  server.start() ensures the file exists up front.

- Hook-secret failures now count into a DEDICATED per-IP bucket
  (hookSecretFailures) instead of the shared authFailures map. Legacy
  (pre-secret) hook configs fire constantly from 127.0.0.1; counting their
  401s against the shared bucket would 429 every cookie-less loopback
  request — locking out the Basic-Auth login path (and, through a tunnel,
  every client, since tunneled traffic also arrives as 127.0.0.1).

- docs/security-architecture.md: secret-gated hook exemption, dedicated
  bucket, COD-55 refusal, and the residual caveat for EXTERNAL loopback
  proxies (user-run cloudflared / tailscale serve), which the
  managed-tunnel probe cannot see.

- test/cod54-hook-event-auth.test.ts: +3 tests — login path unaffected
  after hook-bucket exhaustion; generated hooks reference the header +
  $CODEMAN_HOOK_SECRET_FILE without embedding the value; env builders
  export the path only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -124,7 +124,11 @@ loopback bind matters. The auth pipeline (`src/web/middleware/auth.ts`,
`onRequest` hook) runs in this order:
1. **Localhost‑only exemptions** (always first): `POST /api/hook-event` and the QR
`/q/` short‑code path are exempt when `req.ip` is loopback (see §3).
`/q/` short‑code path are exempt when `req.ip` is loopback (see §3). While the
**managed tunnel is running**, the hook‑event exemption additionally requires
the per‑instance `X-Codeman-Hook-Secret` header (COD‑54); failed presentations
are rate‑limited in a **dedicated bucket** (separate from Basic‑Auth failures)
so misfiring hooks can never lock out the login path.
2. **Session cookie** check — a valid `codeman_session` cookie short‑circuits to
allow.
3. **HTTP Basic** check — correct credentials short‑circuit to allow and clear
@@ -165,17 +169,29 @@ protection is unchanged.
with `req.ip = 127.0.0.1`**. The localhost‑only exemptions then treat those
requests as local:
- `POST /api/hook-event` — auth‑exempt for loopback. Bounded impact: it is
- `POST /api/hook-event` — auth‑exempt for loopback **only while no managed tunnel
is running**. When Codeman's own tunnel is up, the exemption requires the
per‑instance shared secret (`X-Codeman-Hook-Secret`, 256‑bit hex in
`~/.codeman/hook-secret`, mode 0600, COD‑54). Local hook commands read the
secret file at execution time (`$CODEMAN_HOOK_SECRET_FILE`, exported into every
managed session), so they keep working — tunneled internet traffic can't know
it. Even without the secret the impact is bounded: the route is
`HookEventSchema`‑validated and requires a valid in‑memory `sessionId`; it can
drive respawn signals, SSE broadcasts, push notifications, and transcript
watching — **not** arbitrary terminal input or file reads. It is a
session‑disruption / notification‑spoofing surface, not RCE.
watching — **not** arbitrary terminal input or file reads. ⚠️ The gate keys off
the **managed** tunnel — an externally run loopback proxy (your own
`cloudflared`, `tailscale serve`) is invisible to it, so the plain loopback
exemption still applies there (prefer `tailscale serve`, which authenticates at
the tailnet layer). Hook configs regenerated since COD‑54 always present the
header, so a future release can require the secret unconditionally.
- QR `/q/` — still protected by its own short‑code brute‑force limiter
(10 failures / 60s against a 62⁶ space).
**Mitigation:** set `CODEMAN_PASSWORD` whenever a loopback‑connecting tunnel is
up (it does not gate the hook‑event exemption, but it gates everything else and
is the documented practice). Prefer `tailscale serve` (below), which authenticates
up — it gates everything except the (secret‑gated) hook exemption and is the
documented practice; since COD‑55 enabling the managed tunnel **refuses** to start
without it unless `CODEMAN_ALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_NETWORK=1` explicitly
acknowledges the exposure. Prefer `tailscale serve` (below), which authenticates
at the tailnet layer so untrusted clients never reach the loopback port at all.
### Host‑header & Origin allowlist (DNS‑rebinding & CSRF defense)