docs(audiobookshelf): the wide listener default is a decision, not a defect

The SSO paragraph left "whether an access policy should be bound to the
audiobookshelf application" open, which invites the next agent to relitigate
it. Frank's answer of 2026-11-03: accepted on purpose — every signer becomes a
listener with all libraries and downloads, no access policy on the application,
narrowing done per account in Settings -> Users. What that makes load-bearing is
authentik's own signup flow, now named in the same paragraph as the thing that
must stay operator-only.

AGENTS.md

@@ -227,9 +227,18 @@ See `serverAppConfigs-docs/Architecture/Testing Policy.md`.
 
 ## External Exposure Policy (MANDATORY)
 
-Every Caddy-proxied service is either behind the auth chain (Anubis :8923 →
-Authentik embedded outpost) or explicitly internal-only — no public DNS name,
-no vhost. New services default to internal-only until guarded.
+Every Caddy-proxied service is in exactly one of three postures: behind the
+auth chain (Anubis :8923 → Authentik embedded outpost), **exempt by
+construction** because it authenticates itself (`auth.`, git smart-HTTP, Gitea,
+OpenWebUI, Jellyfin, Plex, Audiobookshelf, the *arr stack), or internal-only —
+no public DNS name, no vhost. New services default to internal-only until guarded.
+
+The guard chain is a **browser-only device**: Anubis demands a JavaScript
+proof-of-work and the outpost works from a session cookie, so any non-browser
+client — a native app, a podcast RSS reader, an OPDS client, `git`, a
+service-to-service call — is answered with challenge HTML where it expected
+JSON or a socket payload. A service that must serve such a client cannot sit
+behind the chain; it has to own its authentication.
 
 When guarding a new vhost — provider first, then route:
 
@@ -248,6 +257,10 @@ When guarding a new vhost — provider first, then route:
 Exempt categories (document the reason in the vhost comment): the IdP itself
 (`auth.`), git smart-HTTP endpoints, services with their own complete auth.
 
+Unguarding a vhost is the mirror image of the procedure above — the route flips
+first and the IdP rows go last — and `serverAppConfigs-docs/Infrastructure/Caddy.md`
+*Unguard a vhost* owns the steps.
+
 ## Deletion & Trash Policy (MANDATORY)
 
 Never `rm`. Move deletions into trash so they stay recoverable:

dankclaw/Caddyfile

@@ -22,13 +22,16 @@
 # CHALLENGE everyone else) → Caddy's internal listener http://:8016 (auth
 # decision; Host headers survive every hop) → authenticated traffic is
 # forwarded back to http://:8017 and routed straight to the app.
-# Apps with their own auth (Gitea, OpenWebUI, Jellyfin, *arr, Pi-hole) and the
-# Authentik IdP itself (auth.franksdank.cloud — its login flow must never sit
-# behind a challenge) are exempt by construction: their vhosts never route
-# through Anubis. ComfyUI left this exempt set on 2026-08-31 and Grafana left
-# it on 2026-09-01 (OAuth2 relying-party mode against authentik): both now sit
-# behind the guard chain; Grafana authenticates users itself via the OAuth2
-# code flow, so no identity header is forwarded to it.
+# Apps with their own auth (Gitea, OpenWebUI, Jellyfin, Plex, Audiobookshelf,
+# *arr, Pi-hole) and the Authentik IdP itself (auth.franksdank.cloud — its login
+# flow must never sit behind a challenge) are exempt by construction: their
+# vhosts never route through Anubis. The chain is browser-only by nature — a
+# native app client, a podcast RSS reader or a git client solves no JavaScript
+# proof, so anything that must serve one has to own its own authentication.
+# ComfyUI left this exempt set on 2026-08-31 and Grafana left it on 2026-09-01
+# (OAuth2 relying-party mode against authentik): both now sit behind the guard
+# chain; Grafana authenticates users itself via the OAuth2 code flow, so no
+# identity header is forwarded to it.
 # The pihole vhost keeps its basicauth edge; the hash placeholder below is
 # rendered by deploy.sh from CADDY_BASICAUTH_HASH (host .env, git-ignored) into
 # /home/dank/Containers/caddy/Caddyfile, which the container mounts.
@@ -264,6 +267,29 @@ files.franksdank.cloud {
 	}
 }
 
+# --- Audiobookshelf (exempt by construction: own auth) --------------------
+# Caddy → app: no Anubis, no outpost. The guard chain answers a native client's
+# /ping, /api/login and /socket.io/ handshake with challenge HTML, so behind it
+# the phone app parsed a non-object where the socket `init` payload belongs and
+# podcast RSS/OPDS feeds broke the same way. ABS authenticates itself (local
+# accounts plus authentik OIDC), so it joins jelly/plex/*arr outside the chain
+# (2026-11-03); the IdP rows that guarded this name — proxy provider
+# `audiobooks-proxy` and application "Audiobookshelf Guard" — are retired with
+# the change, after the route flips. Accepted exposure: /audiobookshelf/api/login
+# is internet-visible with no rate limiter on either side (this Caddy build has
+# no rate_limit module; ABS 2.37.2 ships no lockout) — the same class every other
+# own-auth vhost here lives with, so shared accounts need long unique passwords.
+# ROUTER_BASE_PATH=/audiobookshelf, so the bare root is a convenience hop onto it.
+# X-Forwarded-Proto must say https: ABS derives its OIDC origin from
+# x-forwarded-proto://Host and this hop is plain http, so without the pin its own
+# https callback is a 400 "Invalid callback URL - must be same-origin".
+audiobooks.franksdank.cloud {
+	redir / /audiobookshelf/ permanent
+	reverse_proxy 192.168.0.235:8000 {
+		header_up X-Forwarded-Proto https
+	}
+}
+
 # --- Jellyfin ---
 jelly.franksdank.cloud {
 	reverse_proxy 192.168.0.235:8096

dankclaw/pihole/addn-hosts

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 192.168.0.143 romm.franksdank.cloud
 192.168.0.143 files.franksdank.cloud
 192.168.0.143 jelly.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 audiobooks.franksdank.cloud
 192.168.0.143 radarr.franksdank.cloud
 192.168.0.143 lidarr.franksdank.cloud
 192.168.0.143 readarr.franksdank.cloud

dankserver/audiobookshelf/quadlet/audiobookshelf.container

@@ -33,9 +33,16 @@ Network=pasta
 # README is the npm package's naming and is INERT here: with ABS_PORT=8000 the
 # server listened on :80 under base path /audiobookshelf, so the unit sat
 # `active (running)` while every probe to :8000 was refused (measured 2026-11-02,
-# first deploy). ROUTER_BASE_PATH=/ is what makes the URL the plain host:port.
+# first deploy).
+# ROUTER_BASE_PATH MUST be /audiobookshelf: the SPA in /app/client/dist/index.html is
+# built with `routerBasePath:"/audiobookshelf"` baked in, so it asks for its assets under
+# that prefix no matter what the server is mounted at. With `/` the server answers the
+# page but every script request falls through to the SPA fallback and comes back as
+# text/html — Chrome refuses to execute it and the UI never leaves "Loading…"
+# (measured 2026-11-03; the API and /healthcheck were fine, which is why an API-only
+# verification missed it).
 Environment=PORT=8000
-Environment=ROUTER_BASE_PATH=/
+Environment=ROUTER_BASE_PATH=/audiobookshelf
 Environment=CONFIG_PATH=/config
 Environment=METADATA_PATH=/metadata
 Environment=TZ=America/Vancouver
@@ -45,6 +52,8 @@ Volume=/home/dank/Containers/audiobookshelf/metadata:/metadata
 Volume=/mnt/entropy/Audiobooks:/audiobooks:ro
 # The image is Alpine: it ships wget and no curl, so the health check must name
 # the binary that exists or the container is unhealthy while serving perfectly.
+# /healthcheck answers `OK` at the root AND under the base path (measured on both
+# base paths), so the probe below is correct whatever ROUTER_BASE_PATH says.
 HealthCmd=wget -q -O /dev/null http://127.0.0.1:8000/healthcheck
 HealthInterval=30s
 HealthTimeout=10s

scripts/audiobookshelf-init.sh

@@ -21,26 +21,64 @@
 # The credential is generated once into a mode-600 host file and never enters
 # the repo, the URL, or a process argument list. Same pattern as calibre-server.
 #
+# Single sign-on (authentik) is armed by the same run, and only when the credential
+# file carries ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET, so a local-only deployment is unchanged by a
+# re-run. These OIDC facts came from the same pinned image, and each one is a trap:
+#   * isOpenIDAuthSettingsValid demands issuer + authorization + token + userinfo +
+#     jwks + clientID + clientSecret + signingAlgorithm at once. Miss one and the
+#     server SILENTLY strips 'openid' from authActiveAuthMethods and falls back to
+#     ['local'] while answering 200 everywhere — so the only honest check is what
+#     /status says AFTER the write, which is what this script does.
+#   * the algorithm is HS256, not the image's RS256 default: no provider on the
+#     fleet's authentik carries a signing key, so the client secret IS the signature
+#     key (scripts/authentik-audiobookshelf-sso.sh). Left at RS256, every id_token
+#     fails verification and the failure looks like a broken IdP.
+#   * the auth block lives on PATCH /api/auth-settings. PATCH /api/settings has a
+#     20-key allowlist (PATCHABLE_SETTINGS_KEYS) with NO auth key in it, so writing
+#     the OIDC config there answers 200 and changes nothing — measured on this host
+#     2026-11-02. The keys /api/auth-settings accepts are exactly its own
+#     authenticationSettings getters; anything else is skipped with a debug line.
+#   * authOpenIDSubfolderForRedirectURLs must be sent explicitly. The 2.17.4 migration only
+#     fills it on a DB that ALREADY had OIDC on, so a database created before SSO leaves it
+#     UNDEFINED and the server builds redirect_uri
+#     "http://host/undefined/auth/openid/callback" — authentik answers the authorize request
+#     with "Redirect URI Error" (measured 2026-11-02). This script derives the value from
+#     ABS_URL's path, so it cannot drift from the unit's ROUTER_BASE_PATH.
+#   * 'local' stays in authActiveAuthMethods on purpose: if authentik is ever down,
+#     the root account must still be able to sign into its own server.
+#
 # usage: audiobookshelf-init.sh          # create what is missing, then scan
 #        ABS_SCAN=0 audiobookshelf-init.sh   # bootstrap without a scan
+#        ABS_OIDC=0 audiobookshelf-init.sh   # never touch the auth methods
 #
 # environment (defaults are the deployed shape):
-#   ABS_URL      server base URL              (http://127.0.0.1:8000)
+#   ABS_URL      server base URL INCLUDING the mounted base path
+#                (http://127.0.0.1:8000/audiobookshelf)
 #   ABS_SECRET   credential file              (/home/dank/.config/secrets/audiobookshelf)
 #   ABS_LIBRARY  library name to ensure        (Audiobooks)
 #   ABS_FOLDER   folder to bind inside the server (/audiobooks)
 #   ABS_SCAN     1 triggers a scan (default), 0 skips it
+#   ABS_OIDC     auto (default) arms SSO when the credential file has a client
+#                secret, 1 requires one, 0 leaves the auth methods alone
+#   ABS_OIDC_ISSUER   authentik issuer URL for this client
+#   ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_ID provider client id (audiobookshelf)
+#   ABS_OIDC_ALG       id_token signing algorithm the IdP actually uses (HS256)
+#   ABS_OIDC_SUBFOLDER override for the redirect-URI subfolder (default: ABS_URL's path)
 #
 # exit 0  every step is satisfied (created or already present)
 # exit 1  a step was refused or the server misbehaved (named on stderr)
 # exit 2  usage / unreadable credential file
 set -euo pipefail
 
-ABS_URL=${ABS_URL:-http://127.0.0.1:8000}
+ABS_URL=${ABS_URL:-http://127.0.0.1:8000/audiobookshelf}
 ABS_SECRET=${ABS_SECRET:-/home/dank/.config/secrets/audiobookshelf}
 ABS_LIBRARY=${ABS_LIBRARY:-Audiobooks}
 ABS_FOLDER=${ABS_FOLDER:-/audiobooks}
 ABS_SCAN=${ABS_SCAN:-1}
+ABS_OIDC=${ABS_OIDC:-auto}
+ABS_OIDC_ISSUER=${ABS_OIDC_ISSUER:-https://auth.franksdank.cloud/application/o/audiobookshelf/}
+ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_ID=${ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_ID:-audiobookshelf}
+ABS_OIDC_ALG=${ABS_OIDC_ALG:-HS256}
 
 die() { printf 'refused: %s\n' "$*" >&2; exit 1; }
 
@@ -49,6 +87,11 @@ case "$ABS_SCAN" in
     *) printf 'refused: ABS_SCAN wants 0 or 1, got %s\n' "$ABS_SCAN" >&2; exit 2 ;;
 esac
 
+case "$ABS_OIDC" in
+    auto | 0 | 1) ;;
+    *) printf 'refused: ABS_OIDC wants auto, 0 or 1, got %s\n' "$ABS_OIDC" >&2; exit 2 ;;
+esac
+
 # ---- credential -------------------------------------------------------------
 umask 077
 if [ ! -f "$ABS_SECRET" ]; then
@@ -72,8 +115,10 @@ chmod 600 "$ABS_SECRET"
 # python3 rather than curl so the password and the bearer token never appear in
 # any argv (they would be world-readable in /proc/<pid>/cmdline otherwise).
 ABS_URL="$ABS_URL" ABS_SECRET="$ABS_SECRET" ABS_LIBRARY="$ABS_LIBRARY" \
-ABS_FOLDER="$ABS_FOLDER" ABS_SCAN="$ABS_SCAN" python3 - <<'PY'
-import json, os, sys, urllib.error, urllib.request
+ABS_FOLDER="$ABS_FOLDER" ABS_SCAN="$ABS_SCAN" ABS_OIDC="$ABS_OIDC" \
+ABS_OIDC_ISSUER="$ABS_OIDC_ISSUER" ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_ID="$ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_ID" \
+ABS_OIDC_ALG="$ABS_OIDC_ALG" python3 - <<'PY'
+import json, os, sys, urllib.error, urllib.parse, urllib.request
 
 BASE = os.environ["ABS_URL"].rstrip("/")
 LIB = os.environ["ABS_LIBRARY"]
@@ -184,5 +229,83 @@ code, items = call("GET", "/api/libraries/%s/items?limit=1" % lib["id"], token=t
 if code == 200 and isinstance(items, dict):
     print("items: %s (a fresh scan raises this from 0; watch it, not /healthcheck)"
           % items.get("total"))
+
+# ---- single sign-on (authentik) --------------------------------------------------
+# The provider this points at is provisioned by scripts/authentik-audiobookshelf-sso.sh;
+# the two share exactly one value, the client secret in the credential file.
+mode = os.environ["ABS_OIDC"]
+oidc_secret = cred.get("ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET") or ""
+if mode == "0":
+    print("oidc: skipped (ABS_OIDC=0)")
+elif not oidc_secret:
+    if mode == "1":
+        sys.exit("refused: ABS_OIDC=1 but %s has no ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET — run "
+                 "scripts/authentik-audiobookshelf-sso.sh first" % os.environ["ABS_SECRET"])
+    print("oidc: not configured (no ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET in the credential file)"
+          " — local auth only")
+else:
+    client_id = os.environ["ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_ID"]
+    issuer = os.environ["ABS_OIDC_ISSUER"].rstrip("/") + "/"
+    # redirect_uri = <origin><subfolder>/auth/openid/callback, and the subfolder IS the
+    # base path the app is mounted under — taken from ABS_URL so unit and config agree.
+    subfolder = os.environ.get("ABS_OIDC_SUBFOLDER")
+    if subfolder is None:
+        subfolder = urllib.parse.urlparse(os.environ["ABS_URL"]).path.rstrip("/")
+    origin = issuer.split("/application/")[0]
+    body = {
+        "authActiveAuthMethods": ["local", "openid"],
+        "authOpenIDIssuerURL": issuer,
+        "authOpenIDAuthorizationURL": origin + "/application/o/authorize/",
+        "authOpenIDTokenURL": origin + "/application/o/token/",
+        "authOpenIDUserInfoURL": origin + "/application/o/userinfo/",
+        "authOpenIDJwksURL": issuer + "jwks/",
+        "authOpenIDLogoutURL": issuer + "end-session/",
+        "authOpenIDClientID": client_id,
+        "authOpenIDClientSecret": oidc_secret,
+        "authOpenIDTokenSigningAlgorithm": os.environ["ABS_OIDC_ALG"],
+        "authOpenIDSubfolderForRedirectURLs": subfolder,
+        "authOpenIDButtonText": "Sign in with Authentik",
+        # not auto-launch: the login page keeps offering the local form, which is the
+        # break-glass path when the IdP is unreachable.
+        "authOpenIDAutoLaunch": False,
+        # a household user's first SSO sign-in creates their account. The role comes from
+        # the abs_groups claim, which grants the listener role to every signer; only the
+        # authentik admin group escalates. Revoking a listener therefore happens HERE in
+        # ABS (disable or delete the user), never by removing an IdP group membership.
+        "authOpenIDAutoRegister": True,
+        "authOpenIDGroupClaim": "abs_groups",
+        # The app's own scheme lives HERE, never in the IdP: ABS swaps it for
+        # <base>/auth/openid/mobile-redirect before the provider sees a redirect_uri.
+        "authOpenIDMobileRedirectURIs": ["audiobookshelf://oauth"],
+    }
+    code, res = call("PATCH", "/api/auth-settings", body, token=token)
+    if code != 200:
+        sys.exit("refused: PATCH /api/auth-settings answered %s (%s)" % (code, res))
+    # Verify twice: what was stored, and what the server will honour. A config that
+    # misses any of the eight required OIDC values is accepted with 200 and then
+    # silently dropped at the next load, leaving authMethods=['local'].
+    code, stored = call("GET", "/api/auth-settings", token=token)
+    if code != 200 or not isinstance(stored, dict):
+        sys.exit("refused: GET /api/auth-settings answered %s (%s)" % (code, stored))
+    for key, want in (("authOpenIDIssuerURL", issuer),
+                      ("authOpenIDTokenSigningAlgorithm", os.environ["ABS_OIDC_ALG"]),
+                      ("authOpenIDSubfolderForRedirectURLs", subfolder),
+                      ("authOpenIDButtonText", "Sign in with Authentik")):
+        if stored.get(key) != want:
+            sys.exit("refused: stored %s=%r, expected %r" % (key, stored.get(key), want))
+    if sorted(stored.get("authActiveAuthMethods") or []) != ["local", "openid"]:
+        sys.exit("refused: stored authActiveAuthMethods=%r, expected local+openid "
+                 "('openid' is dropped when the block is incomplete)"
+                 % stored.get("authActiveAuthMethods"))
+    code, after = call("GET", "/status")
+    methods = after.get("authMethods") if isinstance(after, dict) else None
+    if not isinstance(methods, list) or "openid" not in methods:
+        sys.exit("refused: /status reports authMethods=%s after a stored config that "
+                 "looks complete — restart the service, the strategy is only armed at "
+                 "load for a config that was invalid when the server read it" % methods)
+    print("oidc: armed (issuer %s | alg %s | claim abs_groups | redirect subfolder %r | "
+          "client %s | secret %s chars | authMethods %s)"
+          % (issuer, os.environ["ABS_OIDC_ALG"], subfolder, client_id, len(oidc_secret),
+             methods))
 PY
 exit 0

scripts/authentik-audiobookshelf-sso.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,294 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# authentik-audiobookshelf-sso.sh — provision the authentik side of Audiobookshelf SSO.
+#
+# Why a script: this state lives in authentik's DATABASE, not in any repo file, and a
+# blueprint re-import or a rebuild-from-scratch reverts hand-made provider rows
+# silently. Same reasoning (and same door) as
+# authentik-set-login-session-duration.sh: ssh into Dankclaw, `ak shell` from stdin.
+# Re-run this after such a rebuild.
+#
+# The contract with Audiobookshelf, read off the pinned image (2.37.2,
+# dist-server/server/auth/OidcAuthStrategy.js + objects/settings/ServerSettings.js)
+# rather than a forum, because each of these is a dead-login trap:
+#
+#   * Two URIs per origin ABS is reached at — <base>/auth/openid/callback and
+#     <base>/auth/openid/mobile-redirect — for EVERY entry in BASES (the LAN address
+#     and the public vhost). ABS SWAPS the app's own audiobookshelf://oauth for the
+#     mobile-redirect URL before the IdP ever sees a redirect_uri, so registering the
+#     app scheme with authentik — the obvious move — is what makes phone logins fail.
+#     The app scheme belongs in ABS's authOpenIDMobileRedirectURIs list (its built-in
+#     default), not here. The mobile URI exists on every origin because the app sends
+#     the one belonging to the door it was configured with: the vhost started serving
+#     non-browser clients on 2026-11-03 (it left the guard chain), so a phone pointed
+#     at the public name sends the public mobile-redirect URI, and STRICT matching
+#     answers an unregistered one with "Redirect URI Error".
+#   * <base> CARRIES THE BASE PATH. ABS builds redirect_uri as
+#     <origin><authOpenIDSubfolderForRedirectURLs>/auth/openid/callback, and that subfolder is
+#     the ROUTER_BASE_PATH the container is mounted at — /audiobookshelf, which is also the only
+#     base path the shipped SPA can boot under. Left unset (the fresh-DB default) the URL
+#     becomes "/undefined/…"; a provider registered without the prefix mismatches the same way
+#     (measured 2026-11-02, "Redirect URI Error"). audiobookshelf-init.sh derives its copy from
+#     ABS_URL, so the two sides each move with one variable.
+#   * ABS requests the scopes "openid profile email <GroupClaim> [<PermsClaim>]": the
+#     CLAIM NAME is a scope name. So authentik needs a scope mapping whose scope_name
+#     is exactly the claim name, or the claim never arrives and the callback dies on
+#     "Group claim <name> not found in userinfo".
+#   * the claim's VALUES must be ABS role names — the callback picks the first of
+#     ['admin','user','guest'] present in the list. Group names like
+#     audiobookshelf_admins are therefore translated by the mapping, never passed
+#     through. A user in neither group gets [] and is denied (fail closed).
+#   * tokens are HS256 here: no provider on this box carries a signing_key (census
+#     2026-11-02), which makes the client secret the signature key. ABS's own default
+#     is RS256, so the ABS side MUST be set to HS256 or every id_token fails
+#     verification.
+#   * provider.authorization_flow must be non-NULL or /application/o/authorize/
+#     answers a 500 with 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'slug' (measured on
+#     grafana, same authentik build).
+#   * provider.grant_types MUST contain authorization_code. authentik 2026.8 defaults an
+#     ORM-created provider to the EMPTY list, and /application/o/authorize/ then refuses the
+#     code flow with oauthlib's generic "The request is otherwise malformed"; the only line
+#     that names the cause is the server log's 'Invalid grant_type for provider'. The
+#     redirect-URI check runs FIRST, so a provider carrying both faults shows only the URI
+#     error until the URI is fixed (measured 2026-11-02, where the login survived the URI fix
+#     and died here).
+#   * property_mappings must carry the built-in OpenID scope mappings ('openid', 'profile',
+#     'email') alongside the claim mapping. A provider holding only the claim mapping grants a
+#     token scoped shorter than the scopes ABS requests, and ABS's /userinfo call then dies
+#     'insufficient_scope (The request requires higher privileges than provided by the access
+#     token)' after authentik has already issued a good code (measured 2026-11-02).
+#
+# Idempotent: every object is created or asserted. Safe to re-run.
+#
+# usage: ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET=<secret> authentik-audiobookshelf-sso.sh
+#        (the secret is the value stored in
+#         /home/dank/.config/secrets/audiobookshelf on Dankserver — get it with
+#         ssh dankserver awk -F= '/^ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET=/{print $2}' \
+#             ~/.config/secrets/audiobookshelf)
+#
+# environment:
+#   ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET  REQUIRED. The provider's client secret.
+#   ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_ID      provider/client id           (audiobookshelf)
+#   ABS_OIDC_GROUPS_CLAIM   claim ABS reads for roles    (abs_groups)
+#   ABS_OIDC_USERNAME       authentik user made admin    (akadmin)
+#   There is deliberately NO user list. The claim grants the LISTENER role to every
+#   authentik account that signs in (2026-11-03), so onboarding a listener is exactly
+#   "create the authentik account". Before this, a household account authenticated at
+#   the IdP and was then refused by ABS for being in no group — a policy decision that
+#   read as a broken login. Revocation lives on the ABS side (disable or delete the
+#   user there): a group can no longer withhold a role the claim always sends.
+#   ABS_E2E_ADMIN           authentik user kept in the ADMIN group for the Playwright gate
+#                           (qa-e2e-admin — tests/e2e/specs/23-audiobookshelf-sso.spec.ts
+#                            signs in as this identity, so a re-run restores the fixture)
+#   ABS_BASE                ABS URL as the browser sees it, base path included
+#                           (http://192.168.0.235:8000/audiobookshelf — the LAN
+#                            origin, reached directly, which is also what the phone
+#                            app is configured with)
+#   ABS_EXTRA_BASES         space-separated additional origins, base path included
+#                           (default: https://audiobooks.franksdank.cloud/audiobookshelf
+#                            — the guarded vhost, dankclaw/Caddyfile).
+#                            ABS builds its redirect_uri from the ORIGIN of the
+#                            request, so each origin the app is served at needs its
+#                            own registered URI — an unregistered origin is a
+#                            redirect_uri_mismatch at the IdP, before any credential.
+#                            Set it empty to register the LAN origin alone.
+#   AUTHENTIK_HOST          ssh target                    (dankclaw)
+set -euo pipefail
+
+SECRET="${ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:?set ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET (see the header)}"
+[ "${#SECRET}" -ge 32 ] || { echo "refused: ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET is too short to be a secret" >&2; exit 2; }
+
+CLIENT_ID="${ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_ID:-audiobookshelf}"
+CLAIM="${ABS_OIDC_GROUPS_CLAIM:-abs_groups}"
+ADMIN_GROUP="audiobookshelf_admins"
+SSO_USER="${ABS_OIDC_USERNAME:-akadmin}"
+E2E_ADMIN="${ABS_E2E_ADMIN:-qa-e2e-admin}"
+BASE="${ABS_BASE:-http://192.168.0.235:8000/audiobookshelf}"
+EXTRA_BASES="${ABS_EXTRA_BASES:-https://audiobooks.franksdank.cloud/audiobookshelf}"
+HOST="${AUTHENTIK_HOST:-dankclaw}"
+
+# The claim expression: every signer is a listener; only the admin group escalates.
+# Stored verbatim so a later read of the provider shows exactly this policy. The default
+# lives HERE and nowhere else — ABS reads this list off the token, so an account in no
+# Audiobookshelf group still arrives with ["user"] and is auto-registered as a listener
+# instead of being refused after a successful authentication.
+read -r -d '' EXPR <<PYEXPR || true
+groups = {g.name for g in user.groups.all()}
+# Order is deliberate: an admin's claim comes out ["admin","user"], byte-identical to what
+# this mapping emitted before the default existed, because ABS's group-tag matching has never
+# been measured for order-sensitivity and the working admin login is not the place to find out.
+roles = []
+if "$ADMIN_GROUP" in groups:
+    roles.append("admin")
+roles.append("user")
+return {"$CLAIM": roles}
+PYEXPR
+
+# NOTE: the heredoc below is UNQUOTED on purpose — its body interpolates the variables
+# above. The consequence is that a backtick anywhere in that python body is a LOCAL command
+# substitution whose output is spliced into the program before it ever runs, and comments
+# are not exempt, because bash does not know what a python comment is. Write names plainly
+# in the body: measured 2026-11-03, two comments in this body had the shell run
+# audiobookshelf_users and user as commands on every execution of this script.
+ssh "$HOST" 'podman exec -i authentik-server ak shell' <<PYEOF
+from authentik.core.models import Application, Group, User
+from authentik.flows.models import Flow
+from authentik.providers.oauth2.models import (
+    ClientType, OAuth2Provider, RedirectURI, RedirectURIMatchingMode, RedirectURIType, ScopeMapping)
+
+ADMIN_GROUP = "$ADMIN_GROUP"
+CLAIM, CLIENT_ID, SECRET, BASE = "$CLAIM", "$CLIENT_ID", "$SECRET", "$BASE"
+BASES = [BASE] + """$EXTRA_BASES""".split()
+SSO_USER, E2E_ADMIN = "$SSO_USER", "$E2E_ADMIN"
+EXPR = '''$EXPR'''
+# The expression reads user.groups, NOT user.ak_groups: authentik 2026.8 logs
+# "User.ak_groups is deprecated … use User.groups" on every evaluation of the old
+# name (measured on this run), and a stored mapping that leans on a deprecated
+# accessor is a future upgrade failure sitting inside the login path.
+
+Group.objects.get_or_create(name=ADMIN_GROUP)
+admin_g = Group.objects.get(name=ADMIN_GROUP)
+# The audiobookshelf_users group is retired. Its membership used to be the only door to the
+# listener role; the claim now sends that role to every signer, so the group decides
+# nothing — and a group that decides nothing is a trap for the next reader, who will
+# assume it gates something and start adding people to it.
+for stale in Group.objects.filter(name="audiobookshelf_users"):
+    stale.delete()
+    print("group: retired audiobookshelf_users (the claim grants every signer)")
+
+# --- the claim mapping (scope_name IS the claim name ABS requests) ---------------
+mapping = ScopeMapping.objects.filter(name="audiobookshelf-groups").first()
+if mapping is None:
+    mapping = ScopeMapping.objects.create(name="audiobookshelf-groups", scope_name=CLAIM,
+                                          expression=EXPR,
+                                          description="Audiobookshelf roles: every signer is a listener, the admin group escalates")
+    print("mapping: created (scope_name %s)" % CLAIM)
+elif mapping.scope_name != CLAIM or mapping.expression != EXPR:
+    mapping.scope_name, mapping.expression = CLAIM, EXPR
+    mapping.save(update_fields=["scope_name", "expression"])
+    print("mapping: scope/expression updated (scope_name %s)" % CLAIM)
+else:
+    print("mapping: already current")
+
+# Prove the expression runs and yields an ABS role BEFORE anyone tries to log in:
+# authentik execs the expression inside a function whose context has the name "user".
+_src = "def _probe(user, request=None):\n" + "".join("    %s\n" % ln for ln in EXPR.splitlines())
+_ns = {}
+exec(_src, _ns)
+
+# --- provider --------------------------------------------------------------------
+# One callback pair per origin (LAN address and the public vhost): ABS derives the
+# browser callback from the request origin and the mobile callback from the door the
+# app was configured with, so each origin needs both or that door cannot sign in.
+uris = [RedirectURI(matching_mode=RedirectURIMatchingMode.STRICT, url="%s%s" % (b, p))
+        for b in BASES
+        for p in ("/auth/openid/callback", "/auth/openid/mobile-redirect")]
+authz_flow = Flow.objects.get(slug="default-provider-authorization-implicit-consent")
+
+# Three things beyond the name, each one a silent dead login: the grant-type list (2026.8
+# defaults it empty), the built-in OpenID scope mappings beside the claim mapping, and the
+# redirect URIs with the base path baked in.
+GRANTS = ["authorization_code", "refresh_token"]
+BUILTIN_SCOPES = ["authentik default OAuth Mapping: OpenID 'openid'",
+                  "authentik default OAuth Mapping: OpenID 'profile'",
+                  "authentik default OAuth Mapping: OpenID 'email'"]
+scoped = {m.pk: m for m in ScopeMapping.objects.filter(name__in=BUILTIN_SCOPES)}
+scoped[mapping.pk] = mapping
+_have = {m.name for m in scoped.values()}
+if len(_have) < len(BUILTIN_SCOPES):
+    print("scope mappings: NOT PROVIDED by this authentik install: %s"
+          % ", ".join(sorted(set(BUILTIN_SCOPES) - _have)))
+
+p = OAuth2Provider.objects.filter(name="audiobookshelf").first()
+if p is None:
+    p = OAuth2Provider(name="audiobookshelf", client_id=CLIENT_ID,
+                       client_type=ClientType.CONFIDENTIAL, client_secret=SECRET,
+                       authorization_flow=authz_flow, grant_types=list(GRANTS))
+    p.redirect_uris = uris
+    p.save()
+    p.property_mappings.set(list(scoped.values()))
+    print("provider: created (grant_types %s)" % GRANTS)
+else:
+    changed = []
+    if p.client_id != CLIENT_ID:
+        p.client_id = CLIENT_ID
+        changed.append("client_id")
+    if p.client_secret != SECRET:
+        p.client_secret = SECRET
+        changed.append("client_secret")
+    if p.authorization_flow_id != authz_flow.pk:
+        p.authorization_flow = authz_flow
+        changed.append("authorization_flow")
+    if list(p.grant_types) != GRANTS:
+        p.grant_types = list(GRANTS)
+        changed.append("grant_types")
+    if [(u.url, str(u.matching_mode)) for u in p.redirect_uris] != \
+       [(u.url, str(u.matching_mode)) for u in uris]:
+        p.redirect_uris = uris
+        changed.append("redirect_uris")
+    if changed:
+        p.save()
+    if sorted(m.pk for m in p.property_mappings.all()) != sorted(scoped):
+        p.property_mappings.set(list(scoped.values()))
+        changed.append("property_mappings")
+    print("provider: asserted (%s)" % (", ".join(changed) or "nothing to change"))
+
+# --- application (the launchpad entry; binds the provider) ------------------------
+app = Application.objects.filter(slug="audiobookshelf").first()
+if app is None:
+    app = Application.objects.create(name="audiobookshelf", slug="audiobookshelf",
+                                     provider=p, meta_launch_url=BASE)
+    print("application: created")
+elif app.provider_id != p.pk or app.meta_launch_url != BASE:
+    app.provider, app.meta_launch_url = p, BASE
+    app.save(update_fields=["provider", "meta_launch_url"])
+    print("application: asserted")
+else:
+    print("application: already bound")
+
+# --- membership --------------------------------------------------------------------
+root = User.objects.get(username=SSO_USER)
+root.groups.add(admin_g)
+# The deploy gate's Playwright spec signs in as this identity, so the admin fixture is
+# provisioned with the rest: a blueprint re-import that drops it fails the gate, not a phone.
+e2e = User.objects.filter(username=E2E_ADMIN).first()
+if e2e is None:
+    print("e2e fixture: authentik user %s absent — the e2e SSO spec will fail" % E2E_ADMIN)
+else:
+    e2e.groups.add(admin_g)
+    print("e2e fixture: %s in %s" % (E2E_ADMIN, ADMIN_GROUP))
+print("admin: %s in %s" % (SSO_USER, ADMIN_GROUP))
+# The default is printed at provision time, not merely asserted: an expression that regressed
+# to returning nothing for a non-member refuses every household login, and this is where a
+# re-run notices it. The population matters — authentik ships an AnonymousUser row, a
+# superuser, and ak-outpost-* service identities, and proving the default on one of those says
+# nothing about the friend who logs in. Prefer the fleet's plain-user marker group (owned by
+# serverAppConfigs-docs/Infrastructure/Authentik.md; a preference only, since that group
+# belongs to other consumers), which normally lands on qa-e2e — the identity the e2e gate
+# signs in as. is_superuser is a python property on authentik's User, not a queryable field.
+pool = User.objects.filter(is_active=True).exclude(groups__name__in=[ADMIN_GROUP])
+pool = pool.exclude(username__in=[root.username, E2E_ADMIN, "AnonymousUser"])
+pool = [u for u in pool.order_by("username")
+        if not u.is_superuser and not u.username.startswith("ak-outpost-")]
+household = [u for u in pool if any(g.name == "Non-Admin Users" for g in u.groups.all())]
+for u in (household or pool)[:3]:
+    print("default probe: %s %s -> %s" % (
+        u.username, sorted(g.name for g in u.groups.all()),
+        _ns["_probe"](user=u, request=None)))
+
+# --- verification: the claim the callback will actually receive ---------------------
+for probe in [root] + ([e2e] if e2e else []):
+    print("claim for %s -> %s" % (probe.username, _ns["_probe"](user=probe, request=None)))
+p.refresh_from_db()
+print("provider %s | client_id %s | flow %s | grants %s | uris %s" % (
+    p.name, p.client_id, p.authorization_flow.slug, list(p.grant_types),
+    [u.url for u in p.redirect_uris]))
+print("scopes: %s" % sorted(m.scopemapping.scope_name for m in p.property_mappings.all()))
+PYEOF
+
+cat <<DONE
+
+Next: arm the Audiobookshelf side (issuer, client, HS256, claim) —
+  ssh dankserver 'ABS_OIDC=1 bash /home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/audiobookshelf-init.sh'
+It reads the same secret from /home/dank/.config/secrets/audiobookshelf and verifies
+/status answers openid among its auth methods.
+DONE

scripts/authentik-proxy-provider-defaults.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Census and repair the OAuth2 defaults on every authentik PROXY provider.
+#
+# A proxy provider built by hand in `ak shell` never runs
+# ProxyProvider.set_oauth_defaults() — the REST serializer calls it, the ORM does
+# not — so the row looks perfectly configured (external_host, internal_host,
+# application bound, embedded-outpost claim present) while three OAuth facts are
+# blank. Each one kills the guarded login in a different, unrelated-looking way,
+# all BEFORE any credential is asked for:
+#
+#   * redirect_uris empty -> authentik answers its own page:
+#     "Redirect URI Error — The request fails due to a missing, invalid, or
+#     mismatching redirection URI (redirect_uri)". Measured on the Audiobookshelf
+#     guard provider, 2026-11-03.
+#   * grant_types empty -> the authorize endpoint refuses the outpost's
+#     authorization-code request with a bodiless HTTP 400 (Chromium renders
+#     "This page isn't working / HTTP ERROR 400"). Same provider, one step
+#     later, after the URIs were filled in by hand.
+#   * authorization_flow NULL -> the authorize view crashes building its flow
+#     planner: AttributeError 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'slug', HTTP
+#     500. That is what authentik-grafana-sso-fix.sh exists for.
+#
+# So: a guard that shows ANY of those three pages is not an Anubis problem and
+# not a Caddy problem — run this script before touching the route.
+#
+# Repair calls the VENDOR's own set_oauth_defaults() (grant_types = authz code +
+# client credentials + password, confidential client, the stock scope mappings,
+# redirect_uris derived from external_host by _get_callback_url) and points the
+# authorization flow at default-provider-authorization-implicit-consent, the flow
+# every working provider here uses. Providers that already match are untouched,
+# so a deliberate per-provider deviation is never silently flattened.
+#
+# This is authentik DB state. It is NOT in any deployable file: a blueprint
+# re-import, or an ak-shell re-creation of a provider, reverts these facts and
+# the symptom returns verbatim. Re-run after any such rebuild. Idempotent.
+#
+# Usage: authentik-proxy-provider-defaults.sh [--check]
+#          no argument  repair what drifts, print one line per provider
+#          --check       census only, exit 1 if anything drifts (gate use)
+#        override host: AUTHENTIK_HOST=…
+set -euo pipefail
+HOST="${AUTHENTIK_HOST:-dankclaw}"
+MODE="${1:-}"
+case "$MODE" in
+    "" | --check) : ;;
+    *) echo "usage: $(basename "$0") [--check]" >&2; exit 2 ;;
+esac
+
+ssh "$HOST" 'podman exec -i authentik-server ak shell' <<PYEOF
+from authentik.flows.models import Flow
+from authentik.providers.proxy.models import ProxyProvider, _get_callback_url
+
+CHECK = $( [ "$MODE" = "--check" ] && echo True || echo False )
+FLOW = "default-provider-authorization-implicit-consent"
+WANT_GRANTS = ["authorization_code", "client_credentials", "password"]
+
+flow = Flow.objects.filter(slug=FLOW).first()
+if not flow and not CHECK:
+    raise SystemExit("flow %s is missing; nothing was changed" % FLOW)
+
+drift = 0
+for p in ProxyProvider.objects.all().order_by("pk"):
+    want_uris = [u.url for u in _get_callback_url(p.external_host)]
+    have_uris = [u.url for u in p.redirect_uris]
+    bad = []
+    if [str(g) for g in p.grant_types] != WANT_GRANTS:
+        bad.append("grant_types=%s" % [str(g) for g in p.grant_types])
+    if have_uris != want_uris:
+        bad.append("redirect_uris=%s" % have_uris)
+    if p.authorization_flow_id is None:
+        bad.append("authorization_flow=None")
+    if not bad:
+        print("ok   %s (ext %s)" % (p.name, p.external_host))
+        continue
+    drift += 1
+    if CHECK:
+        print("DRIFT %s: %s" % (p.name, "; ".join(bad)))
+        continue
+    print("fix  %s: %s" % (p.name, "; ".join(bad)))
+    p.set_oauth_defaults()
+    if p.authorization_flow_id is None:
+        p.authorization_flow = flow
+    p.save()
+    after = ProxyProvider.objects.get(pk=p.pk)
+    print("     -> grants %s, %d redirect URIs, flow %s"
+          % ([str(g) for g in after.grant_types], len(after.redirect_uris),
+             after.authorization_flow and after.authorization_flow.slug))
+
+print("providers checked, drift: %d" % drift)
+raise SystemExit(1 if (CHECK and drift) else 0)
+PYEOF
+
+echo "Verify: walk the guarded vhost in a browser — Anubis solves, authentik"
+echo "renders its login form (no Redirect URI Error, no HTTP 400), and the"
+echo "callback lands back on the app."

scripts/deploy-remote.sh

@@ -1315,7 +1315,8 @@ deploy_audiobookshelf() {
     mkdir -p /home/dank/Containers/audiobookshelf/config \
              /home/dank/Containers/audiobookshelf/metadata
     systemctl --user restart audiobookshelf.service
-    # /healthcheck answers once the HTTP server is bound; the library scan that
+    # /healthcheck answers once the HTTP server is bound, at the root whatever
+    # ROUTER_BASE_PATH says (measured on both base paths); the library scan that
     # follows runs in the background and must not gate the deploy.
     wait_for_health audiobookshelf http://127.0.0.1:8000/healthcheck 90
     # A server with no root user and no library is "healthy" and useless, so the
@@ -1323,7 +1324,12 @@ deploy_audiobookshelf() {
     # it creates the account (credential in the mode-600 host secret file), the
     # Audiobooks library over the /audiobooks bind, and fires the scan. Every
     # step is idempotent, so a re-deploy costs one incremental scan.
-    scripts/audiobookshelf-init.sh
+    # The bootstrapper has to speak the same base path the unit mounts (the API, the
+    # login route and the OIDC redirect subfolder all hang off it), so the URL is read
+    # out of the unit file here instead of being restated in the script's default.
+    abs_base=$(awk -F= '/^Environment=ROUTER_BASE_PATH=/{print $3}' \
+        dankserver/audiobookshelf/quadlet/audiobookshelf.container)
+    ABS_URL="http://127.0.0.1:8000${abs_base}" scripts/audiobookshelf-init.sh
 }
 
 # The content server's single admin account and the desktop's basic-auth

scripts/media-shows.py

@@ -78,10 +78,16 @@ one journal is one undo:
 
     python3 scripts/media-shows.py --root /mnt/entropy/TVShows \
         --enum /tmp/tv-enum.tsv --titles /tmp/jellyfin-tv.tsv \
-        --tvdb --tmdb --out /mnt/entropy/media-tv-plan.tsv \
-        --park /mnt/entropy/media-park/TVShows
-    python3 scripts/media-apply.py apply --plan /mnt/entropy/media-tv-plan.tsv \
-        --root /mnt/entropy --journal /mnt/entropy/media-tv-relayout.jsonl
+        --tvdb --tmdb --out /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-tv-plan.tsv \
+        --park /mnt/entropy/NeedsProcessing/TVShows
+    python3 scripts/media-apply.py apply \
+        --plan /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-tv-plan.tsv \
+        --root /mnt/entropy --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-tv-relayout.jsonl
+
+Every plan, journal and log lives in /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/ — the array
+root holds libraries only. media-apply.py defaults its journal to
+<root>/media-relayout.jsonl, so pass --journal explicitly or the run puts the
+log back on the root.
 """
 import argparse
 import collections

scripts/media-tv.py

@@ -17,13 +17,20 @@ the executor's own path guard still has teeth, and give it its own journal —
 one journal is one undo, and a TV move must not be welded to a movie relayout:
 
     python3 scripts/media-tv.py --root /mnt/entropy/Movies \
-        --library /mnt/entropy/TVShows --out /mnt/entropy/media-tv-plan.tsv
-    python3 scripts/media-apply.py apply --plan /mnt/entropy/media-tv-plan.tsv \
-        --root /mnt/entropy --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout-tv.jsonl
-    python3 scripts/media-apply.py verify --plan /mnt/entropy/media-tv-plan.tsv \
-        --root /mnt/entropy --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout-tv.jsonl
+        --library /mnt/entropy/TVShows \
+        --out /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-tv-plan.tsv
+    python3 scripts/media-apply.py apply \
+        --plan /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-tv-plan.tsv \
+        --root /mnt/entropy --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout-tv.jsonl
+    python3 scripts/media-apply.py verify \
+        --plan /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-tv-plan.tsv \
+        --root /mnt/entropy --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout-tv.jsonl
     python3 scripts/media-apply.py sweep --root /mnt/entropy \
-        --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout-tv.jsonl --apply
+        --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout-tv.jsonl --apply
+
+Plans and journals live in `/mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/`, never loose on the
+array root: `media-apply.py` defaults its journal to `<root>/media-relayout.jsonl`,
+so `--journal` is always explicit here.
 
 Guards, and why each one is here:
 

scripts/media-tvdupes.py

@@ -16,14 +16,16 @@ the journal and frees no space until the hold is purged.
 
     python3 scripts/media-tvdupes.py --library /mnt/entropy/TVShows \
         --hold /mnt/entropy/.AGENTTRASH/20261102-tv-duplicates \
-        --out /mnt/entropy/tv-dupes-plan.tsv
-    python3 scripts/media-apply.py apply --plan /mnt/entropy/tv-dupes-plan.tsv \
-        --root /mnt/entropy --journal /mnt/entropy/tv-dupes.jsonl \
+        --out /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/tv-dupes-plan.tsv
+    python3 scripts/media-apply.py apply \
+        --plan /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/tv-dupes-plan.tsv \
+        --root /mnt/entropy --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/tv-dupes.jsonl \
         --metadata-view /var/lib/media-meta/view --apply
-    python3 scripts/media-apply.py verify --plan /mnt/entropy/tv-dupes-plan.tsv \
-        --root /mnt/entropy --journal /mnt/entropy/tv-dupes.jsonl
+    python3 scripts/media-apply.py verify \
+        --plan /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/tv-dupes-plan.tsv \
+        --root /mnt/entropy --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/tv-dupes.jsonl
     python3 scripts/media-apply.py sweep --root /mnt/entropy \
-        --journal /mnt/entropy/tv-dupes.jsonl --apply    # empty folders only
+        --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/tv-dupes.jsonl --apply  # empty folders only
     scripts/media-view.sh reap                           # ghost sidecars above
 
 Then both servers have to be told: the plan moves files on the raw array, and no

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Audiobookshelf.md

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 ---
 type: reference
-description: "Audiobookshelf on Dankserver: quadlet shape, the read-only array bind, state on the SSD, the API bootstrap, laws."
+description: "Audiobookshelf on Dankserver: quadlet shape, array bind, SSD state, API bootstrap, authentik SSO, public vhost, laws."
 tags:
   - dankserver
   - audiobooks
   - quadlet
-timestamp: 2026-11-02
+timestamp: 2026-11-03
 ---
 
 # Audiobookshelf
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ per-listener playback positions, and streams the audio. It is **not** a media
 server — it shares nothing with [[Plex]] or [[Jellyfin]] and owns no files on the
 array.
 
-**Host:** Dankserver — **Unit:** `audiobookshelf.service` (rootless Quadlet, user
-manager) — **Internal-only:** LAN address, no vhost, no DNS name.
+**Host:** Dankserver — **Unit:** `audiobookshelf.service` (rootless Quadlet, user manager) —
+**Doors:** LAN `http://192.168.0.235:8000/audiobookshelf` (plain HTTP, nothing in front) and public `https://audiobooks.franksdank.cloud/audiobookshelf/` — Caddy straight to the container, **exempt from the guard chain** because the app must answer non-browser clients ([[Caddy]] *Unguard a vhost*). The public name is the address every client carries: Pi-hole answers it with `192.168.0.143` on the LAN, Porkbun answers it with the WAN address outside, and Caddy serves a real certificate either way.
 
 ## Shape
 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ manager) — **Internal-only:** LAN address, no vhost, no DNS name.
 | Unit file | `dankserver/audiobookshelf/quadlet/audiobookshelf.container` (the authority for every number here) |
 | Image | `ghcr.io/advplyr/audiobookshelf` pinned by **amd64 manifest digest** — see Laws |
 | Port | `Environment=PORT=8000` + `PublishPort=8000:8000` — web UI and API on one port |
-| Base path | `Environment=ROUTER_BASE_PATH=/` — the URL is the plain `host:port`, no `/audiobookshelf` prefix |
+| Base path | `Environment=ROUTER_BASE_PATH=/audiobookshelf` — every URL below carries this prefix, and the shipped SPA cannot boot without it (Laws) |
 | Network | `pasta` (standalone; publishes nothing to other containers) |
 | Audio bind | `/mnt/entropy/Audiobooks:/audiobooks:ro` — read-only, by design |
 | State | `/home/dank/Containers/audiobookshelf/config` → `/config`, `…/metadata` → `/metadata` (both NVMe) |
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ manager) — **Internal-only:** LAN address, no vhost, no DNS name.
 | Self-healing | `Restart=always`, `RestartSec=5`, `WantedBy=default.target` |
 | Deploy | `./scripts/deploy.sh dankserver --service audiobookshelf` |
 | Handler | `deploy_audiobookshelf` in `scripts/deploy-remote.sh` |
-| Library layout | one book per folder — ABS groups by the first directory holding a media file (see Laws); every move is journalled at `/mnt/entropy/media-relayout-audiobooks.jsonl` |
+| Single sign-on | authentik provider `audiobookshelf`; the local `frank` account stays enabled as break-glass — see *Single sign-on* |
+| Library layout | one book per folder — ABS groups by the first directory holding a media file (see Laws); every move is journalled at `/mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout-audiobooks.jsonl` |
 
 ## Bootstrap
 
@@ -54,17 +55,109 @@ difference. The script is idempotent; re-running it costs one incremental scan.
 | scan | `POST /api/libraries/<id>/scan` | `scan: accepted` |
 | proof | `GET /api/libraries/<id>/items?limit=1` | `items: <total>` |
 
-Sign in at `http://192.168.0.235:8000` as `frank`; the password is
+Sign in at `http://192.168.0.235:8000/audiobookshelf` as `frank`; the password is
 `awk -F= '/^ABS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=/{print $2}' ~/.config/secrets/audiobookshelf` on
 Dankserver. Change it in **Settings → Users → frank → Password**; the secret file
 then holds a stale value and only matters again if the `config` bind is ever
 destroyed (a fresh DB makes the script create a new owner from it).
 
+That value is the live password, not a leftover: it bcrypt-matches `users.pash` in the state
+DB (2026-11-03), so `local` does open the door when authentik is down.
+
 A full scan is slow and runs in the background; watch the `items:` total climb,
 never `/healthcheck`. It also reads files that are genuinely broken and logs
 `[AudioFileScanner] Invalid data found when processing input` per file — that is
 the file, not the bind: the same line count grows while the total climbs.
 
+## Phone app
+
+The official **Audiobookshelf** app connects with Server Address
+`https://audiobooks.franksdank.cloud/audiobookshelf` — the base path belongs in the address —
+username `frank`, and the same password as the web UI, or the SSO button. One address works
+at home and away: on the LAN Pi-hole answers that name with `192.168.0.143` and Caddy dials
+the container; off-LAN the same name resolves to the WAN address and takes the same route
+(inbound 443 is forwarded at the router — fetched from a datacenter node 2026-11-03). The raw
+LAN address still answers and is the break-glass door whenever Caddy is down. `/ping`
+(`{"success":true}`) and `/healthcheck` (`OK`) answer at the ROOT whatever `ROUTER_BASE_PATH`
+says, so the app's connectivity probe works before it resolves the base path at all, and
+`download: true` on the account is what makes offline listening work.
+
+**A home device that bypasses Pi-hole cannot reach it.** The G36 does not hairpin: resolving
+the name to the WAN address from inside the LAN times out (measured 2026-11-03). Only a
+client pinned to an external resolver hits this — everything using the router's DNS gets the
+LAN answer.
+
+**The login token is at `user.token`, not top level.** `POST /login` answers
+`{ user, serverSettings, ereaderDevices, Source, userDefaultLibraryId }` and the bearer sits
+inside the user object. A client that reads `response.token` gets the empty string, sends
+`Authorization: Bearer ` with nothing after it, and every `/api/*` call then answers `401`
+as though the password were wrong.
+
+**`POST /api/login` is not a route.** Local login is `POST <base>/login`, and the `/api`
+bearer guard answers anything else with a bare `401 Unauthorized` while logging **nothing** —
+no `[LocalAuth]` line — so a wrong path is indistinguishable from a wrong password unless the
+journal is read too. Same family as the absent `/setup` route named in
+`scripts/audiobookshelf-init.sh`. To settle a suspected stale credential without signing in:
+bcrypt-compare the recorded value against `users.pash` in
+`/home/dank/Containers/audiobookshelf/config/absdatabase.sqlite`, opened read-only
+(`file:<path>?mode=ro`).
+
+## Listeners (accounts)
+
+The door is public now, so the account is the only gate between a listener and the library.
+Two ways in, both per listener:
+
+- **Local account** — **Settings → Users → Add User**: type `user`, tick only the libraries
+  they may hear, and leave `download` off unless they need offline listening. Hand them the
+  server address above and their own password.
+- **Household SSO** — create the authentik account, and that is the whole of it: the first
+  **Sign in with Authentik** auto-registers the ABS account (`authOpenIDAutoRegister`) as a
+  listener, because the claim grants that role to every signer. To shut a listener off,
+  disable or delete their user in Audiobookshelf — no IdP group membership can withhold it.
+
+What auto-registration hands out (read off the state DB, 2026-11-03): `accessAllLibraries:
+true` and `download: true` — every household signer lands on the **whole** library with
+offline downloads already on. Narrow it per account in **Settings → Users → <name>**. The DB
+is the census when no admin token is at hand; `GET /api/users` returns the *limited* shape
+(no `active`, no `librariesAccessible`), so a missing key there is not a denial, and an
+account created by SSO has `pash` NULL with its IdP link at `extraData.authOpenIDSub`.
+
+Nothing rate-limits `POST /audiobookshelf/login` — this Caddy build carries no `rate_limit`
+module and ABS 2.37.2 ships no lockout — so the form is a guessing target exactly like
+`jelly.`, `plex.` and the *arr logins already are. The mitigation is credential hygiene:
+long unique passwords per listener, never a reuse of the root password.
+
+## Single sign-on (authentik)
+
+Both doors take the household identity: the web UI puts **Sign in with Authentik** beside
+the local form, and the phone app offers SSO on its server-address screen. The local
+`frank` account stays enabled on purpose — `authActiveAuthMethods` is `local` **and**
+`openid`, and `local` is how you get in when the IdP is down.
+
+| Piece | Owner |
+|-------|-------|
+| Provider `audiobookshelf`, the admin group, the scope mapping | `scripts/authentik-audiobookshelf-sso.sh` — re-run it after an authentik rebuild, because this state lives in the IdP's database and a blueprint re-import reverts it silently |
+| Client secret | `ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET` in `~/.config/secrets/audiobookshelf` on Dankserver (mode 600; never in the repo, a URL or an argv) |
+| The ABS half: issuer, the four IdP URLs, claim, auto-register | `scripts/audiobookshelf-init.sh`, armed automatically when that secret exists in the credential file |
+| Role at first SSO sign-in | the `abs_groups` claim: every signer gets `user`; `audiobookshelf_admins` adds `admin`. Nothing in the IdP can deny the listener role — the login itself is the gate (law since 2026-11-03; the `audiobookshelf_users` group was retired, it had zero members and every household account was being refused) |
+| Admin group members | `akadmin` (the operator's own authentik admin account — sign in as it and the claim grants site admin) and `qa-e2e-admin` (the identity the deploy gate signs in as, so the script re-adds it every run; drop it and the gate fails, not a phone) |
+| Guard state of the door | none since 2026-11-03: proxy provider `audiobooks-proxy` and application "Audiobookshelf Guard" were deleted and the embedded outpost un-claimed them, because that chain answers a native client with challenge HTML ([[Caddy]] *Unguard a vhost* for the order). The SSO relying party `audiobookshelf` above is a different object and stays |
+| Redirect URIs on the RP | `<base>/auth/openid/callback` **and** `<base>/auth/openid/mobile-redirect` for **both** origins (LAN address and public name): the app sends the mobile URI belonging to the door it was configured with, and STRICT matching answers an unregistered one with "Redirect URI Error" |
+
+With `authOpenIDAutoRegister` on, a first sign-in creates the account and the claim alone
+decides its type — and the claim always carries `user`, so **the IdP is now the library gate**:
+any authentik account that can reach this application becomes a listener. That is the
+intent (the household signs in with the accounts it already has), and its breadth is
+accepted on purpose: no access policy is bound to the `audiobookshelf` application, and
+the wide auto-registered default (every library, downloads on) is **not a defect to fix** —
+Frank's call, 2026-11-03. Narrowing stays a per-account judgement in **Settings → Users**.
+The one thing still worth watching is authentik's own invitation/signup flow: it must
+remain something only Frank drives, because an account created there is a listener the
+moment it signs in. Revoking one person is a disable/delete of their ABS user; revoking
+everyone is that signup flow.
+
+Both halves — authentik's provider row and ABS's settings — are asserted end to end by the Playwright gate named in *Verification*. `23-` signs in as `qa-e2e-admin` and must land inside the app with site-admin rights; `24-` signs in as the standard identity, which is in no Audiobookshelf group, and must land as a listener. Together they pin the escalation and the default: a mapping that stops granting silently locks the household out, and a mapping that over-grants turns the household into site admins.
+
 ## Laws
 
 - **Speak the image's env names, not the README's.** The server reads `PORT`,
@@ -75,6 +168,54 @@ the file, not the bind: the same line count grows while the total climbs.
   `active (running)` while every probe of `:8000` was refused and the deploy gate
   failed at 180 s. Two seconds with the pinned digest settles it:
   `podman inspect --format '{{.Config.Env}}' <image>`.
+- **The URL carries `/audiobookshelf`, and that is not a style choice.** The SPA in
+  `/app/client/dist/index.html` is built with `routerBasePath:"/audiobookshelf"`, so it asks
+  for its assets under that prefix whatever the server is mounted at. Mounted at `/`, every
+  script request falls through to the SPA fallback, comes back `text/html`, Chrome refuses to
+  execute it, and the page never leaves "Loading…" — while `/healthcheck`, the API and the
+  phone app stay perfectly healthy, which is how this hid behind an API-only verification
+  (measured 2026-11-02). Prove a UI claim in a browser, never from `/health`.
+- **The OIDC redirect subfolder is a value you send, not a default you inherit.** The 2.17.4
+  upgrade only fills `authOpenIDSubfolderForRedirectURLs` on a database that ALREADY had OIDC
+  enabled, so a DB created before SSO leaves it unset and the server builds
+  `http://host/undefined/auth/openid/callback`. authentik answers the authorize request with
+  "Redirect URI Error" and nothing on the ABS side looks wrong (measured 2026-11-02). The
+  provider's registered URI must equal `<origin><subfolder>/auth/openid/callback`, so each
+  script derives the value from one variable of its own (`ABS_URL`, `ABS_BASE`) and
+  `tests/audiobookshelf_init.bats` pins what reaches the wire.
+- **An ORM-created provider has no grant types.** authentik 2026.8 defaults `grant_types` to
+  `[]`, and `/application/o/authorize/` then refuses the code flow with oauthlib's generic
+  "The request is otherwise malformed" — the wire names nothing, the server log line that names
+  it is `Invalid grant_type for provider`. Worse, the redirect-URI check runs *first*, so a
+  provider carrying both faults shows only "Redirect URI Error" until the URI is fixed, and the
+  second wall appears after the fix ships (measured 2026-11-02: the browser reached authentik,
+  got `code`+`state`, and ABS still bounced to `/login?error=undefined`). The script sets
+  `authorization_code` + `refresh_token`; a blueprint re-import reverts the row silently.
+- **The guarded door has to tell the truth about its scheme.** ABS validates every OIDC
+  `callback` against the origin it believes it is served from — `getRequestOrigin()` is
+  `x-forwarded-proto://Host` (`server/utils/requestUtils.js`, read in the pinned digest
+  2026-11-03) — so behind a TLS edge that reaches the container over plain http it computes
+  `http://audiobooks.franksdank.cloud` and answers its own https callback with a 400 "Invalid callback
+  URL - must be same-origin" before the IdP is ever contacted. The Caddy `:8017` route pins
+  `header_up X-Forwarded-Proto https` for exactly that reason ([[Caddy]] *Guard a new vhost*);
+  the LAN door needs nothing, because there browser and server agree on `http`.
+- **The claim mapping is not the whole `property_mappings` list.** A provider holding only the
+  custom mapping grants a token scoped shorter than the scopes ABS requests
+  (`openid profile email abs_groups`): the code is issued and exchanged normally, and ABS's
+  `/userinfo` call then dies `insufficient_scope (The request requires higher privileges than
+  provided by the access token)` — a fault that reads like an ABS bug and is an IdP row. Attach
+  the built-in OpenID `openid`/`profile`/`email` mappings beside the claim mapping, which is
+  what every working RP on this IdP carries (measured 2026-11-02).
+- **With `authOpenIDMatchExistingBy` unset, an SSO identity never lands on an existing ABS
+  account, and a name collision is a hard denial.** In that mode `findUserFromOpenIdUserInfo`
+  matches on `sub` only, so every first sign-in auto-registers a NEW user; if the IdP username
+  equals an ABS username — the local root `frank` is the one here — the create hits the unique
+  constraint and the callback dies `Unauthorized`. So "create a `frank` user in authentik" does
+  not reach the root account: either set `authOpenIDMatchExistingBy` to `username` (links the
+  IdP account to the existing one, and `setUserGroup` refuses to downgrade a root — root plus an
+  `admin` claim is allowed, root plus `user` is denied) or pick a non-colliding IdP name. Read
+  off `server/models/User.js` and `server/auth/OidcAuthStrategy.js` in the pinned digest
+  (2026-11-02).
 - **The audio bind stays `:ro`.** ABS writes nothing that belongs beside the
   audio: its library, covers, progress and sidecar metadata all land in
   `/metadata` on the SSD. A writable bind would put stray writes on the spindle
@@ -105,10 +246,17 @@ the file, not the bind: the same line count grows while the total climbs.
 - **No `systemctl --user enable`.** Generated Quadlet units cannot be enabled on
   this host; `WantedBy=default.target` in the unit file is what carries the
   service across a reboot ([[Quadlet Lifecycle]]).
-- **LAN-only until Frank says otherwise.** `0.0.0.0:8000` with no reverse proxy
-  in front. Any public vhost requires the Anubis + Authentik chain first, and the
-  outpost proxy provider has to exist before the vhost flips (external exposure
-  policy in `AGENTS.md`).
+- **One door for every client, and it sits outside the guard chain on purpose.**
+  `https://audiobooks.franksdank.cloud/audiobookshelf` is what browsers and apps use;
+  `http://192.168.0.235:8000/audiobookshelf` is the raw LAN socket that same Caddy dials,
+  so it doubles as break-glass when the proxy is down. Behind the chain (until
+  2026-11-03) the vhost answered the phone app's `/ping` and `/socket.io/` handshake with
+  Anubis' challenge HTML — Anubis demands a JavaScript proof and the outpost needs a
+  session cookie, and a native client solves neither — so the app evaluated
+  `'isInit' in e.data` on a non-object, reported "Failed to contact server", and the
+  container's request log never recorded the attempt. Podcast RSS and OPDS readers died
+  the same death. ABS's own auth is the gate, as it is for [[Plex]] and [[Jellyfin]]
+  ([[Caddy]] *Unguard a vhost*).
 - **There is no `/setup` route; the creation door is `POST /init`.** `/status`
   (no `/api` prefix) reports `isInit` = "a root user exists", `POST /init` with
   `{"newRoot":{"username","password"}}` creates it, `POST /login` returns the
@@ -188,12 +336,29 @@ the file, not the bind: the same line count grows while the total climbs.
 ## Verification
 
 `./tests/run.sh` covers this unit through `tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats`
-(boot persistence, the SSD state roots, the `:ro` array bind, the mount gate, the
-`wget` health check), `tests/audiobookshelf_init.bats` (the bootstrapper against a
-stub of the API above: create-once, idempotent re-run, no secret in a URL, refusal
-by URL when the server does not answer, and the deployer calling it only after the
-health gate) and `tests/media_overlay.bats` (only [[Plex]] and [[Jellyfin]] may
-reference the metadata view).
+(boot persistence, the SSD state roots, the `:ro` array bind, the mount gate, the `wget`
+health check, the base path the shipped SPA needs), `tests/audiobookshelf_init.bats` (the
+bootstrapper against a stub of the API above: create-once, idempotent re-run, no secret in a
+URL, refusal by URL when the server does not answer, the deployer calling it only after the
+health gate, and the SSO arm sending the mounted base path as the redirect subfolder);
+`tests/media_overlay.bats` (only [[Plex]] and [[Jellyfin]] may reference the metadata view);
+and the live Playwright gates `tests/e2e/specs/23-audiobookshelf-sso.spec.ts` and
+`tests/e2e/specs/24-audiobookshelf-sso-default-listener.spec.ts`, run by `tests/e2e/run.sh` at
+the end of every `deploy.sh`. `23-` (the `admin` project) signs in as `qa-e2e-admin` against
+`http://192.168.0.235:8000/audiobookshelf` and asserts the two things no stub can see: every
+`.js` the app loads arrives as JavaScript (a bundle built for the wrong base path arrives as
+`text/html`, which boots nothing), and `/api/me` answers 200 with `type: "admin"` — true only
+while grant types, the OpenID scope mappings and the group claim all hold together. `24-` (the
+`standard` project) signs in as `qa-e2e`, an account in no Audiobookshelf group, and must come
+back `type: "user"`: the default grant that lets the household in, so a scope-mapping
+regression surfaces as a failed sign-in in the gate instead of as a friend's complaint.
+
+The public door is pinned by the guard audit `tests/e2e/specs/14-guard.spec.ts`, which now
+carries an **exemption** assertion where it used to carry a guarded one: an anonymous raw
+client must get the app's own `{"success":true}` on `/ping`, a machine-format socket
+handshake, and the app's own `401` on `/audiobookshelf/api/libraries` — never challenge
+HTML. `tests/anubis.bats` pins the same shape in the Caddyfile: the vhost never proxies to
+`anubis:8923`, and the post-auth listener carries no `@audiobooks` route.
 
 Five book folders hold media no scanner can read, so they stay out of the library:
 three 2024 Nebula nominees in the `_unsorted` box (two `.m4b` with no `moov` atom,

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Jellyfin.md

@@ -58,12 +58,23 @@ reads — movie art has never existed beside the media on either layer.
 **Library coverage is the first thing to check when a title is missing.** The
 four libraries are `movies → /data/Movies`, `tvshows → /data/TVShows`,
 `music → /data/Music`, `boxsets → /config/data/collections`
-(`GET /Library/VirtualFolders`). `/data/media-park` is in **none** of them, so
-everything filed under it — the `_unsorted` release bundles and the `extras/`
-folders the relayout wrote there — is invisible to Jellyfin by configuration,
+(`GET /Library/VirtualFolders`). The review pile — `/data/NeedsProcessing`, the
+former `media-park`, drained into it 2026-11-02 — is in **none** of them, so
+everything filed there is invisible to Jellyfin by configuration,
 not by fault: a recursive refresh answers 204, burns CPU for minutes and
 indexes nothing, because it never looks there. Check coverage before re-scanning.
 
+**Which read proves an item is indexed: the folder view, never the recursive type
+list.** `GET /Items?IncludeItemTypes=Movie&Recursive=true` answered 2,101 items on
+2026-11-02 while `GET /Items?ParentId=<Movies ItemId>` listed 2,548 children — every
+folder on disk — and the eight folders the recursive read "lost" (three `Gundam 00
+Special Edition`, five `Sailor Moon Memorial`) each answer as `Type: Movie` through
+`SearchTerm` and sit in the folder listing. The two reads are not interchangeable, so
+the recursive list is a wrong instrument for "did the refresh index what I moved": its
+shortfall is grouping, not missing media, and acting on it starts a scan that fixes
+nothing. Verify per item — `ParentId` listing or `SearchTerm` — and use the recursive
+count only as a trend line.
+
 **Failure signature:** `System.IO.IOException: Read-only file system :
 '/data/Movies/<film>/movie.nfo'` means the container is binding the raw array
 instead of the view — always a fault on this host since the 2026-10-31 cutover.

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media Audiobook Relayout.md

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ python3 scripts/media-audiobooks.py --root /mnt/entropy/Audiobooks \
 #    library too ([[Audiobookshelf]]) — otherwise it keeps rows for folders that
 #    no longer exist.
 scripts/media-apply.py apply --plan /tmp/ab_plan.tsv --root /mnt/entropy \
-    --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout-audiobooks.jsonl --apply
+    --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout-audiobooks.jsonl --apply
 ```
 
 The group is the identity Plex asserts in its own database — **(narrator, book,
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ no chapter row names, and a loose file in a folder holding two books all park un
 that unrelated books share, or a chapter number mistagged as the artist (`0.4`).
 `Various Artists` is not a placeholder — that is a multi-cast read.
 
-The reviewed plan lives at `/mnt/entropy/media-relayout-audiobooks-plan.tsv`; it
+The reviewed plan lives at `/mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout-audiobooks-plan.tsv`; it
 applies on its own journal, behind the music writer, and then refreshes the Plex
 section. Verify it with `--db-kind plex` — Jellyfin holds no rows here, so a
 Jellyfin pass proves nothing either way.

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media Duplicate Prune.md

@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ executor's own format; it never moves anything itself.
 python3 scripts/media-tvdupes.py --library /mnt/entropy/TVShows \
     --hold /mnt/entropy/.AGENTTRASH/<date>-tv-duplicates \
     --meta /var/lib/media-meta/view/TVShows --witness witness.tsv \
-    --ids /mnt/entropy/tv-tvdb-ids.tsv \
-    --out /mnt/entropy/tv-dupes-plan.tsv --json /tmp/tv-groups.json
+    --ids /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/tv-tvdb-ids.tsv \
+    --out /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/tv-dupes-plan.tsv --json /tmp/tv-groups.json
 # then media-apply.py apply / verify / sweep / rollback, exactly as for a film prune
 ```
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ python3 scripts/media-tvdupes.py --library /mnt/entropy/TVShows \
   match, not a lookup: `BaseItems` (`Type like '%TV.Series'`) joined to
   `BaseItemProviders` where `ProviderId = 'Tvdb'`, the `/data/TVShows/` prefix
   stripped to the bare top-level folder name — 616 folders, none carrying two
-  ids, written to `/mnt/entropy/tv-tvdb-ids.tsv`. Two folders with disjoint ids
+  ids, written to `/mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/tv-tvdb-ids.tsv`. Two folders with disjoint ids
   are two shows however alike they read — *Avatar: The Last Airbender* (1999)
   beside the 2024 remake, *Millennium* (1996) beside a German thriller Jellyfin
   had also titled *Millennium* — and a pair whose identity cannot be proven is
@@ -158,12 +158,12 @@ Nothing is deleted. Every doomed copy moves into a dated hold with the same
 executor the relayout uses, so any file comes back:
 
 ```bash
-scripts/media-apply.py apply   --plan /mnt/entropy/dup-prune-similar-plan.tsv \
-    --root /mnt/entropy --journal /mnt/entropy/dup-prune-similar.jsonl          # dry
+scripts/media-apply.py apply   --plan /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/dup-prune-similar-plan.tsv \
+    --root /mnt/entropy --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/dup-prune-similar.jsonl          # dry
 scripts/media-apply.py apply   --plan … --root /mnt/entropy --journal … --apply
-scripts/media-apply.py verify  --plan … --journal /mnt/entropy/dup-prune-similar.jsonl
-scripts/media-apply.py sweep   --journal /mnt/entropy/dup-prune-similar.jsonl --root /mnt/entropy --apply
-scripts/media-apply.py rollback --journal /mnt/entropy/dup-prune-similar.jsonl --root /mnt/entropy --apply
+scripts/media-apply.py verify  --plan … --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/dup-prune-similar.jsonl
+scripts/media-apply.py sweep   --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/dup-prune-similar.jsonl --root /mnt/entropy --apply
+scripts/media-apply.py rollback --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/dup-prune-similar.jsonl --root /mnt/entropy --apply
 ```
 
 The plan rows are the tool's own format (`action src dst kind`, `mkdir` rows for

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media Music Relayout.md

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ python3 scripts/media-music.py --root /mnt/entropy/Music --enum /tmp/music_enum.
 # 4. Read the exceptions file FIRST — it is the review, not a log. Then the same
 #    executor, journal and rollback as [[Media Relayout]] shows, on its own journal.
 scripts/media-apply.py apply --plan /tmp/music_plan.tsv --root /mnt/entropy \
-    --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout-music.jsonl --apply
+    --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout-music.jsonl --apply
 ```
 
 The group is what the tags assert, not where the files sit: **(album-artist tag,

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media Relayout.md

@@ -71,12 +71,23 @@ that would be filed wrong, and the plan is not run until it is understood.
 ```bash
 scripts/media-apply.py apply    --plan /tmp/jf-plan.tsv --root /mnt/entropy/Movies   # dry, writes nothing
 scripts/media-apply.py apply    --plan /tmp/jf-plan.tsv --root /mnt/entropy/Movies --apply
-scripts/media-apply.py verify   --plan /tmp/jf-plan.tsv --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout.jsonl
-scripts/media-apply.py sweep    --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout.jsonl --root /mnt/entropy/Movies   # dry
-scripts/media-apply.py sweep    --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout.jsonl --root /mnt/entropy/Movies --apply
-scripts/media-apply.py rollback --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout.jsonl --root /mnt/entropy/Movies --apply
+scripts/media-apply.py verify   --plan /tmp/jf-plan.tsv --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout.jsonl
+scripts/media-apply.py sweep    --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout.jsonl --root /mnt/entropy/Movies   # dry
+scripts/media-apply.py sweep    --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout.jsonl --root /mnt/entropy/Movies --apply
+scripts/media-apply.py rollback --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout.jsonl --root /mnt/entropy/Movies --apply
 ```
 
+**Every campaign artifact — plan, journal, exceptions file, run log — lives in
+`/mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/`.** The array root carries libraries and nothing
+else: a root strewn with `*.jsonl` and `*-plan.tsv` gets browsed as content, and
+the dot-directory is ignored by both media servers. Relocated 2026-11-02, 48 files,
+undo with `media-apply.py rollback --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-campaign-relocate.jsonl --root /mnt/entropy --apply`.
+The holds and trash (`.AGENTTRASH`, `.HOLD-<date>-*`) stay at the root on purpose:
+the purge machinery is given those paths as `--hold`, and a hold that moves out
+from under the tool that made it is a hold nobody can find. Name `--journal`
+explicitly on every run — the tool's default is `media-relayout.jsonl` beside
+`--root`, so a bare run recreates exactly the root-level log this page forbids.
+
 An apply also leaves the release folders it emptied standing where they were —
 hundreds of them at the library root — which is what `sweep` removes, dry-run
 first, from the same journal.
@@ -110,7 +121,7 @@ a read beside a running scan can fail as "database disk image is malformed".
 `immutable` stays only the fallback for a database whose `-shm` cannot be read.
 
 ```bash
-scripts/media-verify.py --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout-music.jsonl \
+scripts/media-verify.py --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout-music.jsonl \
     --db-kind jellyfin --ignore-ext jpg,jpeg,png,log,cue,toc,nfo,txt,m3u,accurip
 ```
 
@@ -150,11 +161,11 @@ by series, and writes a plan in the executor's own format:
 
 ```bash
 scripts/media-tv.py --root /mnt/entropy/Movies --library /mnt/entropy/TVShows \
-    --out /mnt/entropy/media-tv-plan.tsv
-scripts/media-apply.py apply --plan /mnt/entropy/media-tv-plan.tsv --root /mnt/entropy
-scripts/media-apply.py apply --plan /mnt/entropy/media-tv-plan.tsv --root /mnt/entropy \
-    --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout-tv.jsonl --apply
-scripts/media-apply.py sweep --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout-tv.jsonl \
+    --out /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-tv-plan.tsv
+scripts/media-apply.py apply --plan /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-tv-plan.tsv --root /mnt/entropy
+scripts/media-apply.py apply --plan /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-tv-plan.tsv --root /mnt/entropy \
+    --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout-tv.jsonl --apply
+scripts/media-apply.py sweep --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout-tv.jsonl \
     --root /mnt/entropy --apply
 ```
 

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media TV Relayout.md

@@ -51,16 +51,16 @@ python3 scripts/media-census.py probe --root /mnt/entropy/TVShows \
 #    against scp'd TSVs — which is where the two provider secrets live.
 python3 scripts/media-shows.py --root /mnt/entropy/TVShows --enum /tmp/tv_enum.tsv \
     --titles /tmp/tv_titles.tsv --probed /tmp/tv_probed.tsv \
-    --tmdb-cache /mnt/entropy/media-tv-names.json --tmdb --tvdb \
-    --park /mnt/entropy/media-park/TVShows \
-    --out /mnt/entropy/media-relayout-shows2-plan.tsv \
-    --exceptions /mnt/entropy/media-relayout-shows2-exceptions.txt
+    --tmdb-cache /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-tv-names.json --tmdb --tvdb \
+    --park /mnt/entropy/NeedsProcessing/TVShows \
+    --out /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout-shows2-plan.tsv \
+    --exceptions /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout-shows2-exceptions.txt
 # 4. Read the exceptions file FIRST — it is the review, not a log. Same executor
 #    as above, but on this arm's OWN journal, NAMED PER PASS: the journal of an
 #    applied pass is its unwind record, so a second pass that reuses the name
 #    destroys the only map back.
-scripts/media-apply.py apply --plan /mnt/entropy/media-relayout-shows2-plan.tsv \
-    --root /mnt/entropy --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout-shows2.jsonl --apply
+scripts/media-apply.py apply --plan /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout-shows2-plan.tsv \
+    --root /mnt/entropy --journal /mnt/entropy/.media-campaign/media-relayout-shows2.jsonl --apply
 ```
 
 Evidence, strongest first — the order the planner believes things:

serverAppConfigs-docs/Infrastructure/Authentik Outpost Reference.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ description: "Outpost, proxy-provider, OAuth2, LDAP and flow configuration for t
 tags:
   - infrastructure
   - authentik
-timestamp: 2026-10-19
+timestamp: 2026-11-03
 ---
 
 # Authentik Outpost Reference
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ correctly — the outpost matches on hostname.
 
 ## Provisioning rules for proxy providers
 
-Two provisioning rules, each verified live by an outage:
+Three provisioning rules, each verified live by an outage or a dead login:
 
 1. **All three flows are required.** A ProxyProvider created via raw API/ORM
    with any of `authentication_flow`/`authorization_flow`/`invalidation_flow`
@@ -80,6 +80,16 @@ Two provisioning rules, each verified live by an outage:
    the app. No error is logged anywhere — the SSO "works" and the app never
    appears. Create the Application with `provider_id` set (the UI does this
    automatically; raw API/ORM drives must do it explicitly).
+3. **A raw ORM create skips the OAuth defaults.** The REST serializer calls
+   `ProxyProvider.set_oauth_defaults()`; `ProxyProvider.objects.create()` does not. The row
+   then looks fully configured — external_host, internal_host, application bound, outpost
+   claimed — while `redirect_uris` is empty (those URIs are *derived* from `external_host` by
+   `_get_callback_url`) and `grant_types` is `[]`. Both kill the guard before any credential,
+   in this order: authentik renders its own **"Redirect URI Error"** page, and once the URIs
+   are filled by hand the next wall is a bodiless **HTTP 400** out of `/application/o/authorize/`
+   (both measured on the Audiobookshelf guard provider, 2026-11-03). Census and repair in one idempotent pass, all
+   providers at once: `scripts/authentik-proxy-provider-defaults.sh`; `--check` prints the
+   census and exits 1 on drift, and a provider that already matches is left alone.
 
 ## OAuth2 relying-party quirks (this fork; corrected live 2026-10-20)
 

serverAppConfigs-docs/Infrastructure/Caddy.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ description: "Caddy is the single reverse proxy for both hosts."
 tags:
   - infrastructure
   - caddy
-timestamp: 2026-08-29
+timestamp: 2026-11-03
 ---
 
 # Caddy
@@ -90,7 +90,111 @@ pihole.franksdank.cloud {
 
 After rendering, the line reads `dankuser <hash>` (one complete hash) — `tests/deployment_flow.bats:96-99` pins the `dankuser` name and the single-hash form, and `tests/caddyfile.bats:75` pins the bare `dankuser REPLACE_WITH_HASH` template. Do not put a `$2a$14$` prefix in the template: it would render a double-prefixed, invalid hash (2026-08-22 incident — every basicauth vhost returned 401 for every password; `tests/caddyfile.bats:67-72` forbids the prefix). `tests/deployment_flow.bats` pins the render contract.
 
-Everything else authenticates, not basicauth. The guarded set — `www.` (homepage), `search.`, `grafana.`, `prometheus.`, `loki.`, `seerr.`, `marreta.`, `romm.`, `files.` — proxies **all** traffic to `anubis:8923`, which verifies the client and forwards it back to Caddy's internal listener `http://:8016`; Authentik's proxy-provider mode serves the login inline (this build exposes **no** `forward_auth` endpoint) and forwards authenticated traffic to `http://:8017`, where the request is routed straight to its app (`dankclaw/Caddyfile:14-24,283-423`). The exempt-by-construction set never enters that chain: `auth.` (the IdP itself), `ai.` and `gitea.` (own logins), `hermes.` and `hermesadmin.` (app-enforced passwords), `pihole.` (the basicauth edge above), and the media/*arr vhosts. Grafana left basicauth on 2026-09-01 and is an OAuth2 relying party against Authentik (`dankclaw/Caddyfile:122-132`). See [[Homepage]] and [[Authentik]].
+Everything else authenticates, not basicauth. The guarded set — `www.` (homepage), `search.`, `grafana.`, `prometheus.`, `loki.`, `seerr.`, `marreta.`, `romm.`, `files.`, `notebook.` — proxies **all** traffic to `anubis:8923`, which verifies the client and forwards it back to Caddy's internal listener `http://:8016`; Authentik's proxy-provider mode serves the login inline (this build exposes **no** `forward_auth` endpoint) and forwards authenticated traffic to `http://:8017`, where the request is routed straight to its app (`dankclaw/Caddyfile`: the header comment and the two internal listeners). The exempt-by-construction set never enters that chain: `auth.` (the IdP itself), `ai.` and `gitea.` (own logins), `hermes.` and `hermesadmin.` (app-enforced passwords), `pihole.` (the basicauth edge above), the media/*arr vhosts, and `audiobooks.` — Audiobookshelf enforces its own auth (local accounts plus authentik OIDC) and must answer native app clients, podcast RSS and OPDS, which the chain structurally cannot deliver: it answers a client that solves no JavaScript proof-of-work with challenge HTML wherever that client expects JSON or a socket payload ([[Audiobookshelf]]). Grafana left basicauth on 2026-09-01 and is an OAuth2 relying party against Authentik. See [[Homepage]] and [[Authentik]].
+
+## Guard a new vhost
+
+Order is the whole procedure: the IdP row has to exist **before** the route flips, or
+authenticated traffic reaches the outpost with no matching provider and the user gets
+authentik's error page instead of the app.
+
+1. **Provider first.** A proxy provider plus an application, claimed by the embedded
+   outpost. No blueprint owns this state — it lives only in the IdP's database, which is
+   why it is easy to forget:
+
+   ```
+   ssh dankclaw 'podman exec -i authentik-server ak shell' <<'PY'
+   from authentik.providers.proxy.models import ProxyProvider
+   from authentik.core.models import Application
+   from authentik.outposts.models import Outpost
+   NAME, EXT = "example", "https://example.franksdank.cloud/"
+   pp = ProxyProvider.objects.filter(name=f"{NAME}-proxy").first()
+   if pp is None:
+       pp = ProxyProvider.objects.create(name=f"{NAME}-proxy", external_host=EXT,
+                                         internal_host="http://caddy:8017")
+   if not Application.objects.filter(provider=pp).exists():
+       Application.objects.create(name=f"{NAME.title()} Guard", slug=f"{NAME}-guard",
+                                  provider=pp)
+   o = Outpost.objects.get(managed="goauthentik.io/outposts/embedded")
+   o.providers.add(pp)   # an unclaimed provider is invisible to the outpost
+   print(pp.name, pp.external_host, o.providers.count())
+   PY
+   ```
+
+   `external_host` is the exact vhost URL **with the trailing slash**: the embedded
+   outpost routes on the ORIGINAL `Host` header alone, so anything else matches zero
+   providers. Never print a provider's fields wholesale — a proxy provider carries a
+   client secret, and it lands in whatever transcript the command runs in.
+
+   `ProxyProvider.objects.create()` is not the API: the serializer's
+   `set_oauth_defaults()` never runs, so the row lands with `redirect_uris` and
+   `grant_types` empty, and the guard fails *before* any credential — authentik's
+   "Redirect URI Error" page, then a bodiless HTTP 400 once the URIs are filled
+   by hand. Run `scripts/authentik-proxy-provider-defaults.sh` after the snippet
+   (idempotent, covers every provider; `--check` is the census); law and failure
+   signatures in [[Authentik Outpost Reference]].
+2. **Then the route.** The public site block proxies the whole request to `anubis:8923`
+   with `header_up X-Real-Ip {remote_host}`, and the post-auth `http://:8017` listener
+   gains a `@<name> host <vhost>` handler pointing at the app — copy `romm`/`files`,
+   which are the same shape including a Dankserver LAN-port upstream.
+   An app that derives its own origin from the request needs the scheme pinned:
+   Audiobookshelf checks every OIDC callback against `x-forwarded-proto://Host`; this
+   listener is fed over plain http so Caddy's own `X-Forwarded-Proto` is `http`, and the
+   app answers a 400 "Invalid callback URL - must be same-origin" for its own https
+   callback (measured 2026-11-03, while this vhost was still guarded — it is exempt
+   now, and the same pin sits on its edge block instead).
+   The edge for a guarded name is TLS-only, so `header_up X-Forwarded-Proto
+   https` is the truthful value ([[Audiobookshelf]]).
+3. **Then the name and the audit.** A `dankclaw/pihole/addn-hosts` line (the `pihole`
+   seam fails the build if a Caddyfile vhost has no record), a Porkbun A record if the
+   name must resolve off-LAN ([[LAN-DNS]]), and the subdomain added to `GUARDED` in
+   `tests/e2e/specs/14-guard.spec.ts` with an app-specific leak marker — that spec is
+   the deploy gate's proof that the guard, not the app, answers an anonymous client.
+
+## Unguard a vhost
+
+The same three artifacts, in the opposite order. Getting it wrong takes the app
+down for browsers while looking healthy:
+
+1. **Route first.** Move the public site block off `anubis:8923` to a direct
+   `reverse_proxy` (keeping any origin-pinning `header_up` the app needs), delete
+   the `@<name>` handler from the `http://:8017` listener, and deploy. Traffic
+   stops entering the auth listener at `:8016`, so the IdP row goes unused — and
+   nothing breaks.
+2. **Then the IdP rows**, once the route is verified:
+
+   ```
+   ssh dankclaw 'podman exec -i authentik-server ak shell' <<'PY'
+   from authentik.providers.proxy.models import ProxyProvider
+   from authentik.outposts.models import Outpost
+   pp = ProxyProvider.objects.filter(name="audiobooks-proxy").first()
+   if pp:
+       o = Outpost.objects.get(managed="goauthentik.io/outposts/embedded")
+       o.providers.remove(pp)
+       app = pp.application          # the "<Name> Guard" application row
+       if app:
+           app.delete()
+       pp.delete()
+   print("providers now claimed:", Outpost.objects.get(
+       managed="goauthentik.io/outposts/embedded").providers.count())
+   PY
+   ```
+
+   Deleting the provider **before** the route flips is the wrong order: the
+   outpost then matches zero providers for a Host that still arrives, and every
+   browser gets authentik's error page instead of the app.
+3. **Then the audit lists.** Drop the subdomain from `GUARDED` in
+   `tests/e2e/specs/14-guard.spec.ts` (and its leak marker), and replace it
+   there with an exemption assertion — the deploy gate must keep proving the
+   exemption is deliberate, the way `plex` does: app bytes to an anonymous
+   client, zero challenge HTML, and the app's own `401` on an unauthenticated
+   API call rather than the gate's `200`.
+
+What the exemption costs, said plainly: the app's login endpoint becomes
+internet-visible with no rate limiter in front of it unless the edge carries one
+(this Caddy build has no `rate_limit` module) or the app ships a lockout (ABS
+2.37.2 does not). That is the same exposure `jelly.`, `plex.` and the *arr
+vhosts already live with; the mitigation is the credentials.
 
 ## Operations
 

serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ is a locator: one row, one clause, no numbers.
 
 | Page | Owns |
 |---|---|
-| [[Audiobookshelf]] | Audiobookshelf on Dankserver: quadlet shape, the read-only array bind, state on the SSD, the API bootstrap, laws. |
+| [[Audiobookshelf]] | Audiobookshelf on Dankserver: quadlet shape, array bind, SSD state, API bootstrap, authentik SSO, public vhost, laws. |
 | [[Calibre]] | Calibre is the e-book library manager that backs Calibre-Web. |
 | [[Calibre-Web]] | Calibre-Web is a web application that browses, reads, and downloads eBooks from an existing Calibre library database. |
 | [[Copyparty]] | Copyparty is a lightweight file server and media streamer that runs as a single Python binary. |

shared/homepage/services.json

@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@
     "category": "admin",
     "section": "Media Library Apps",
     "description": "Audiobook server for the entropy library: its own SQLite library, its own login, per-listener positions.",
-    "url": "http://192.168.0.235:8000",
+    "url": "http://audiobooks.franksdank.cloud/audiobookshelf/",
     "docs": "",
     "probe": "192.168.0.235:8000",
     "method": "http",

tests/anubis.bats

@@ -75,8 +75,10 @@ PY
 }
 
 @test "exempt vhosts never route through anubis (auth, plex, own-auth apps)" {
-    # The IdP login flow and git smart-HTTP clients cannot solve challenges;
-    # these vhosts bypass the chain by construction.
+    # The IdP login flow, git smart-HTTP clients, and any non-browser client (the
+    # Audiobookshelf phone app, podcast RSS readers) cannot solve a challenge, so
+    # services that enforce their own complete auth bypass the chain by
+    # construction — the gate would answer their API calls with HTML.
     local block
     block=$(awk '/^auth\.franksdank\.cloud/,/^}/' "$CADDY")
     echo "$block" | grep -q 'reverse_proxy authentik-server:9000'
@@ -84,4 +86,11 @@ PY
     block=$(awk '/^plex\.franksdank\.cloud/,/^}/' "$CADDY")
     echo "$block" | grep -q '192\.168\.0\.235:32400'
     ! echo "$block" | grep -q anubis
+    block=$(awk '/^audiobooks\.franksdank\.cloud/,/^}/' "$CADDY")
+    echo "$block" | grep -q '192\.168\.0\.235:8000'
+    ! echo "$block" | grep -q anubis
+    # The exemption is total: the post-auth listener must not still carry an
+    # audiobooks route. A leftover handle there is a second owner for one host,
+    # and its X-Forwarded-Proto pin would silently disagree with the edge.
+    ! grep -q '@audiobooks host audiobooks.franksdank.cloud' "$CADDY"
 }

tests/audiobookshelf_init.bats

@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@
 #      reported as success (a green deploy over a dead API is a lie);
 #   5. ABS_SCAN outside 0/1 is a usage error raised before anything is touched;
 #   6. the deployer runs the bootstrapper only after the health gate answered.
+#   7. the SSO arm sends the base path: ABS builds its redirect_uri as
+#      <origin><authOpenIDSubfolderForRedirectURLs>/auth/openid/callback, and the
+#      value must be the path the app is mounted under — never the literal
+#      "undefined" a fresh database leaves there.
 
 load helpers
 
@@ -29,7 +33,7 @@ import json, sys
 from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, ThreadingHTTPServer
 
 port, logf = int(sys.argv[1]), sys.argv[2]
-state = {"init": False, "user": None, "pw": None, "libs": []}
+state = {"init": False, "user": None, "pw": None, "libs": [], "oidc": None}
 
 
 def log(line):
@@ -37,6 +41,12 @@ def log(line):
         f.write(line + "\n")
 
 
+def norm(p):
+    # ABS mounts every route under ROUTER_BASE_PATH. The stub accepts the API at the
+    # root or under that prefix, so a test can still assert which one the client used.
+    return p[len("/audiobookshelf"):] if p.startswith("/audiobookshelf") else p
+
+
 class H(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
     def log_message(self, *a):
         pass
@@ -57,20 +67,24 @@ class H(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
         return self.headers.get("Authorization") == "Bearer stub-token"
 
     def do_GET(self):
-        path = self.path.split("?")[0]
+        path = norm(self.path.split("?")[0])
         log("GET %s auth=%s" % (self.path, "yes" if self.headers.get("Authorization") else "no"))
         if path == "/status":
-            return self.send(200, {"app": "audiobookshelf", "isInit": state["init"]}, True)
+            methods = ["local", "openid"] if state["oidc"] else ["local"]
+            return self.send(200, {"app": "audiobookshelf", "isInit": state["init"],
+                                   "authMethods": methods}, True)
         if not self.authed():
             return self.send(401, "Unauthorized")
         if path == "/api/libraries":
             return self.send(200, {"libraries": state["libs"]}, True)
+        if path == "/api/auth-settings":
+            return self.send(200, state["oidc"] or {}, True)
         if path.endswith("/items"):
             return self.send(200, {"total": 42, "results": []}, True)
         return self.send(404, "nope")
 
     def do_POST(self):
-        path = self.path.split("?")[0]
+        path = norm(self.path.split("?")[0])
         payload = self.body()
         log("POST %s auth=%s" % (self.path, "yes" if self.headers.get("Authorization") else "no"))
         if path == "/init":
@@ -101,6 +115,21 @@ class H(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
             return self.send(200, "OK")
         return self.send(404, "nope")
 
+    def do_PATCH(self):
+        path = norm(self.path.split("?")[0])
+        payload = self.body()
+        log("PATCH %s auth=%s" % (self.path, "yes" if self.headers.get("Authorization") else "no"))
+        if not self.authed():
+            return self.send(401, "Unauthorized")
+        if path == "/api/auth-settings":
+            # Stored and echoed verbatim: the test asserts the wire, not the stub's
+            # opinion about which keys are patchable.
+            state["oidc"] = payload
+            for k in sorted(payload):
+                log("OIDCFG %s=%r" % (k, payload[k]))
+            return self.send(200, payload, True)
+        return self.send(404, "nope")
+
 
 ThreadingHTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", port), H).serve_forever()
 PY
@@ -198,3 +227,50 @@ boot() {
         /audiobookshelf-init\.sh/        { init = NR }
         END { exit !(health && init && init > health) }'
 }
+
+@test "the SSO arm sends the base path as the redirect subfolder" {
+    # What authentik has registered must equal what ABS builds:
+    # <origin><authOpenIDSubfolderForRedirectURLs>/auth/openid/callback. A database
+    # created before SSO leaves that key unset and ABS then sends the literal
+    # "/undefined/auth/openid/callback" — measured 2026-11-02, where the live login died
+    # on authentik's "Redirect URI Error" page. So the value has to reach the wire, and
+    # it has to be the path the app is served under.
+    umask 077
+    cat > "$TMP/cred" <<'CRED'
+ABS_ADMIN_USER=frank
+ABS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=0123456789abcdef0123456789
+ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET=0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789
+CRED
+    run env ABS_URL="http://127.0.0.1:$PORT/audiobookshelf" ABS_SECRET="$TMP/cred" \
+        ABS_SCAN=0 bash "$INIT"
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    printf '%s\n' "${lines[@]}" | grep -q "^oidc: armed"
+    grep -q "^OIDCFG authOpenIDSubfolderForRedirectURLs='/audiobookshelf'$" "$TMP/requests.log"
+    # every route the bootstrapper calls rides under the same prefix it armed with
+    grep -q "^POST /audiobookshelf/init auth=no$" "$TMP/requests.log"
+    grep -q "^GET /audiobookshelf/api/auth-settings auth=yes$" "$TMP/requests.log"
+
+    # A root-mounted deployment sends the EMPTY subfolder (the value the 2.17.4 upgrade
+    # uses), not whatever the last URL happened to carry.
+    run env ABS_URL="http://127.0.0.1:$PORT" ABS_SECRET="$TMP/cred" ABS_SCAN=0 bash "$INIT"
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [ "$(grep "^OIDCFG authOpenIDSubfolderForRedirectURLs=" "$TMP/requests.log" | tail -1)" \
+        = "OIDCFG authOpenIDSubfolderForRedirectURLs=''" ]
+}
+
+@test "the app and the IdP provider script build the same redirect path" {
+    # The provider row is written by scripts/authentik-audiobookshelf-sso.sh from
+    # ABS_BASE; the app builds its redirect_uri from the base path the deployer hands
+    # audiobookshelf-init.sh, which comes from the unit. Drift between the two is a
+    # redirect_uri mismatch — the login dies at the IdP before any credential is issued.
+    unit="$REPO_ROOT/dankserver/audiobookshelf/quadlet/audiobookshelf.container"
+    mounted=$(awk -F= '/^Environment=ROUTER_BASE_PATH=/{print $3}' "$unit")
+    [ -n "$mounted" ]
+    provider=$(grep -m1 '^BASE=' "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/authentik-audiobookshelf-sso.sh" \
+        | grep -oE 'https?://[^"}]+')
+    bootstrapper=$(grep -m1 '^ABS_URL=' "$INIT" | grep -oE 'https?://[^"}]+')
+    # Origins legitimately differ (LAN address vs loopback); the PATH must not.
+    [ "${provider#http://192.168.0.235:8000}/auth/openid/callback" \
+        = "${bootstrapper#http://127.0.0.1:8000}/auth/openid/callback" ]
+    [ "${bootstrapper#http://127.0.0.1:8000}" = "$mounted" ]
+}

tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats

@@ -182,8 +182,13 @@ load helpers
     # under base path /audiobookshelf and the deploy gate timed out beside a unit
     # that was active (running). PORT and ROUTER_BASE_PATH are what the image's own
     # ENV block and the server source actually use.
+    # The base path is not a free choice either: /app/client/dist/index.html inside the
+    # pinned image carries routerBasePath:"/audiobookshelf", so a server mounted at / hands
+    # out a page whose every script request falls through to the SPA fallback and comes back
+    # text/html — the UI never leaves "Loading…" while the API stays healthy (measured
+    # 2026-11-02, which is exactly how it hid behind an API-only verification).
     unit="$REPO_ROOT/dankserver/audiobookshelf/quadlet/audiobookshelf.container"
     grep -q '^Environment=PORT=8000$' "$unit" || return 1
-    grep -q '^Environment=ROUTER_BASE_PATH=/$' "$unit" || return 1
+    grep -q '^Environment=ROUTER_BASE_PATH=/audiobookshelf$' "$unit" || return 1
     ! grep -qE '^Environment=ABS_' "$unit" || return 1
 }

tests/e2e/playwright.config.ts

@@ -35,14 +35,20 @@ export default defineConfig({
       // 2026-10-19 - the newest guarded app, in neither GUARDED list nor any
       // spec until now: the 17-hermes "uncovered vhost broke silently" class).
       // 22- joins Prometheus's app-is-really-there proof (its own API), closing
-      // the "not a login wall but maybe a 404" hole 20- closed for Grafana.
-      testMatch: /(10|12|13|16|17|18|20|21|22)-.*\.spec\.ts/,
+      // the "not a login wall but maybe a 404" hole 20- closed for Grafana. 24-
+      // joins 2026-11-03 (Audiobookshelf's DEFAULT listener grant) and belongs to
+      // this project precisely because the standard identity is in no Audiobookshelf
+      // group — the admin project could not observe the default.
+      testMatch: /(10|12|13|16|17|18|20|21|22|24)-.*\.spec\.ts/,
       use: { storageState: ".auth/qa-e2e.json" },
       dependencies: ["setup"],
     },
     {
       name: "admin",
-      testMatch: /11-.*\.spec\.ts/,
+      // 23- joins 2026-11-02 (Audiobookshelf SSO): it needs BOTH halves of the admin
+      // fixture — a live authentik session to ride the OIDC round trip, and the
+      // qa-e2e-admin group membership that grants site admin in the app.
+      testMatch: /(11|23)-.*\.spec\.ts/,
       use: { storageState: ".auth/qa-e2e-admin.json" },
       dependencies: ["setup"],
     },

tests/e2e/specs/14-guard.spec.ts

@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ import { expect, test } from "@playwright/test";
 // navigation would skip. These tests drive the browser as an UNAUTHENTICATED
 // user (the guest project has no storage state) and navigate directly to each
 // guarded vhost's root path: the guard must present authentik's flow UI in
-// place and must never leak app content. plex is the documented exemption —
-// PMS enforces its own auth — so it must be reachable unauthenticated with
-// zero challenge pages, proving the exemption is deliberate, not accidental.
+// place and must never leak app content. plex and audiobooks are the documented
+// exemptions — PMS and Audiobookshelf enforce their own auth — so they must be
+// reachable unauthenticated with zero challenge pages, proving the exemption is
+// deliberate, not accidental.
 
 const BASE = "https://www.franksdank.cloud";
 
@@ -17,7 +18,9 @@ const BASE = "https://www.franksdank.cloud";
 // added here or the guard-chain audit is incomplete.
 const GUARDED = ["www", "search", "romm", "files", "seerr", "grafana", "prometheus", "loki", "notebook"];
 
-// Markers that prove app content leaked past the guard to an anonymous user.
+// Markers that prove app content leaked past the guard to an anonymous user. Each
+// marker must be a string the APP renders that the gate itself could never print:
+// authentik's gate never renders an app's UI text, because it IS the IdP.
 const LEAK_MARKERS: Record<string, string[]> = {
   "search.franksdank.cloud": ["SearXNG preferences"],
   "romm.franksdank.cloud": ["RomM"],
@@ -98,3 +101,54 @@ test("plex is exempt from the guard chain and serves PMS content unauthenticated
   const resp = await page.request.get("https://plex.franksdank.cloud/");
   expect(resp.status(), "PMS must answer directly, not error").toBeLessThan(500);
 });
+
+// Audiobookshelf is exempt by construction (2026-11-03). The phone app is a
+// non-browser client and solves no JS proof-of-work, so behind the guard chain it
+// was answered with challenge HTML wherever the socket `init` payload belongs —
+// every remote sign-in died as a TypeError on a non-object, and the container's
+// request log never saw a byte of it. ABS enforces its own auth (local accounts
+// plus authentik OIDC), exactly like PMS above. Asserted from the CLIENT side: the
+// endpoints an app must call before it holds any credential are answered by the
+// app, and the app's own 401 — not a 200 of HTML — is what an anonymous API call gets.
+test("audiobookshelf answers an unauthenticated app client with app bytes, not gate bytes", async ({
+  request,
+}) => {
+  const ABS = "https://audiobooks.franksdank.cloud";
+
+  // The probe every Audiobookshelf client sends first. The app answers it at the
+  // ROOT whatever ROUTER_BASE_PATH says, so this is the vhost's own behaviour.
+  const ping = await request.get(`${ABS}/ping`, { timeout: 30_000 });
+  expect(ping.status(), "/ping must be answered by the app").toBe(200);
+  expect(await ping.json(), "/ping must carry the app's own payload").toEqual({ success: true });
+
+  // The socket.io handshake. Engine.IO answers this in a machine format; the gate
+  // answered it in HTML, which is the defect this exemption exists to kill.
+  const sock = await request.get(`${ABS}/audiobookshelf/socket.io/?EIO=4&transport=polling`, {
+    timeout: 30_000,
+  });
+  expect(
+    await sock.text(),
+    "the socket handshake was answered by the gate, not Engine.IO",
+  ).not.toContain("Making sure you're not a bot");
+  expect(
+    sock.headers()["content-type"] ?? "",
+    "the socket handshake must not arrive as HTML",
+  ).not.toMatch(/text\/html/);
+
+  // An API call with no credential: the app refuses it. A gate would answer 200
+  // with HTML, so the status code alone distinguishes the two owners.
+  const api = await request.get(`${ABS}/audiobookshelf/api/libraries`, { timeout: 30_000 });
+  expect(api.status(), "the app's own auth gate must own unauthenticated API calls").toBe(401);
+});
+
+test("audiobookshelf login renders the app's own sign-in to an anonymous browser", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(120_000);
+  await page.goto("https://audiobooks.franksdank.cloud/audiobookshelf/login");
+  expect(new URL(page.url()).hostname).toBe("audiobooks.franksdank.cloud");
+
+  const body = await page.locator("body").innerText();
+  expect(body, "the bot challenge still fronts this vhost").not.toContain("Making sure you're not a bot");
+  expect(await page.locator('input[name="uidField"]').count(), "the IdP gate form must not front the app").toBe(0);
+  // The app answers, and its login screen carries SSO beside the local form.
+  await expect(page.getByText("Sign in with Authentik")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 90_000 });
+});

tests/e2e/specs/23-audiobookshelf-sso.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+import { expect, test } from "@playwright/test";
+
+// Audiobookshelf: the SSO round trip must land a session with a real permission level.
+//
+// The service answers on a LAN address with no DNS name and no Caddy vhost, so it is in no
+// guarded-vhost list and no other spec ever fetched a byte of it — every deploy gate passed
+// while its login was dead. Two defect classes, both caught live on 2026-11-02:
+//
+//  1. The bundle must be BUILT for /audiobookshelf (ROUTER_BASE_PATH in the quadlet). Built
+//     for "/" the container still answers /healthcheck and still serves index.html, so the
+//     deploy health gate is green while the browser sees a blank page: every <script>
+//     resolves against the root, misses the static allowlist, and falls through to the SPA
+//     catch-all that returns index.html as text/html. Hence the MIME assertion below — the
+//     one thing that distinguishes a booted SPA from a served HTML stub.
+//  2. The authentik provider row must carry grant_types AND the built-in OpenID scope
+//     mappings (provisioned by scripts/authentik-audiobookshelf-sso.sh). A blueprint
+//     re-import reverts hand-made provider rows silently, and the wire errors are generic:
+//     oauthlib's "The request is otherwise malformed" for an empty grant list, then
+//     "insufficient_scope" from ABS's /userinfo call for a short scope. Only the level
+//     assertion below — that the abs_groups claim granted site admin — sees either.
+const HOST = "192.168.0.235:8000";
+const ABS = `http://${HOST}/audiobookshelf`;
+
+test("SSO round trip boots the SPA and grants a real Audiobookshelf session", async ({
+  page,
+}) => {
+  test.setTimeout(180_000);
+
+  const scripts: { url: string; type: string; status: number }[] = [];
+  page.on("response", (res) => {
+    const u = new URL(res.url());
+    if (u.host === HOST && u.pathname.endsWith(".js")) {
+      scripts.push({ url: u.pathname, type: res.headers()["content-type"] ?? "", status: res.status() });
+    }
+  });
+
+  await page.goto(`${ABS}/login`, { waitUntil: "domcontentloaded" });
+  const sso = page.getByText("Sign in with Authentik");
+  await expect(sso).toBeVisible();
+  await sso.click();
+
+  // The admin project's storageState carries a live authentik session, so this is a silent
+  // round trip: authorize -> code -> callback -> token. Still on /login means the IdP
+  // refused the authorize request or ABS rejected the code exchange.
+  await expect
+    .poll(() => !new URL(page.url()).pathname.endsWith("/login"), { timeout: 90_000 })
+    .toBe(true);
+
+  await expect
+    .poll(
+      async () => {
+        const u = new URL(page.url());
+        return u.host === HOST && u.pathname.startsWith("/audiobookshelf");
+      },
+      { timeout: 30_000 },
+    )
+    .toBe(true);
+
+  // Defect 1 gate: nothing the app loaded may be HTML dressed as a script. The render proof
+  // is the SSO button above — it only exists once the bundle has executed, so no DOM-shape
+  // guess is needed (the shell's own mount markup says nothing about whether it booted).
+  // Only responses that carried a body can be judged: the OIDC bounce re-validates the entry
+  // script (Cache-Control: max-age=0 + ETag) and a 304 carries no Content-Type by spec.
+  const bodies = scripts.filter((s) => s.status === 200);
+  expect(bodies.length, "the SPA loaded no JavaScript").toBeGreaterThan(2);
+  for (const s of bodies) {
+    expect(s.type, `${s.url} arrived as ${s.type}`).toContain("javascript");
+  }
+
+  // The token the app landed on is the credential its own API must accept. Give the SPA a
+  // moment to finish the exchange: the URL leaves /login the instant authentik bounces back
+  // through the callback route, which is BEFORE the app has stored what it exchanged.
+  const grabToken = () =>
+    page.evaluate(() => {
+      for (let i = 0; i < localStorage.length; i++) {
+        const v = localStorage.getItem(localStorage.key(i) as string) || "";
+        if (/^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]+\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$/.test(v)) return v;
+      }
+      const c = document.cookie.match(/(?:^|;\s*)abs_token=([^;]+)/);
+      return c ? decodeURIComponent(c[1]) : "";
+    });
+  await expect.poll(grabToken, { timeout: 60_000 }).not.toBe("");
+  const token = await grabToken();
+
+  const me = await page.request.get(`${ABS}/api/me`, {
+    headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` },
+  });
+  expect(me.status()).toBe(200);
+  const user = await me.json();
+  expect(user.username).toBe("qa-e2e-admin");
+  // Site role, derived ONLY from the abs_groups claim: it says "admin" if and only if the
+  // scope mapping reached ABS with audiobookshelf_admins in the list. A short token scope
+  // (missing OpenID mappings) never gets this far — the exchange dies before it.
+  expect(user.type).toBe("admin");
+});

tests/e2e/specs/24-audiobookshelf-sso-default-listener.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+import { expect, test } from "@playwright/test";
+
+// Audiobookshelf grants the LISTENER role to anyone the IdP lets sign in (2026-11-03).
+//
+// The role used to come from membership of `audiobookshelf_users` — a group nobody was ever
+// added to. The household accounts exist in authentik, and every one of them was denied at ABS
+// AFTER a successful authentication, which reads as a broken login rather than a policy decision.
+// The scope mapping now answers `abs_groups: ["user"]` for every signer and reserves `admin` for
+// `audiobookshelf_admins`, so the IdP is the only gate to the library and onboarding a listener
+// is exactly "create the account".
+//
+// This is the counterpart to 23-: that spec proves the admin escalation, this one proves the
+// DEFAULT grant, from an identity in neither group. Against the old mapping it is red — ABS
+// refuses the sign-in and the SPA never leaves /login.
+const HOST = "192.168.0.235:8000";
+const ABS = `http://${HOST}/audiobookshelf`;
+
+test("an SSO signer in no Audiobookshelf group lands as a listener", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(180_000);
+
+  await page.goto(`${ABS}/login`, { waitUntil: "domcontentloaded" });
+  const sso = page.getByText("Sign in with Authentik");
+  await expect(sso).toBeVisible();
+  await sso.click();
+
+  // The standard project's storageState carries a live authentik session, so the round trip is
+  // silent: authorize -> code -> callback -> token. Still being on /login means the app refused
+  // the identity (the denial this change removes) or the exchange failed.
+  await expect
+    .poll(() => !new URL(page.url()).pathname.endsWith("/login"), { timeout: 90_000 })
+    .toBe(true);
+
+  const grabToken = () =>
+    page.evaluate(() => {
+      for (let i = 0; i < localStorage.length; i++) {
+        const v = localStorage.getItem(localStorage.key(i) as string) || "";
+        if (/^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]+\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$/.test(v)) return v;
+      }
+      const c = document.cookie.match(/(?:^|;\s*)abs_token=([^;]+)/);
+      return c ? decodeURIComponent(c[1]) : "";
+    });
+  await expect.poll(grabToken, { timeout: 60_000 }).not.toBe("");
+
+  const me = await page.request.get(`${ABS}/api/me`, {
+    headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${await grabToken()}` },
+  });
+  expect(me.status()).toBe(200);
+  const user = await me.json();
+  expect(user.username).toBe("qa-e2e");
+  // The default, not a grant: the listener role for a signer in neither group. Being `user`
+  // rather than `admin` is also the proof that the default never escalates.
+  expect(user.type).toBe("user");
+});