agnes-the-ai-analyst/docs/local-development.md
ZdenekSrotyr d55c8a3c33
feat(web): consolidate the personal /me/* surface — /me/activity + /me/profile (#304)
Consolidates the scattered per-analyst pages into /me/activity (usage
analytics) and /me/profile (account hub). /me/stats and /profile/sessions
301-redirect; /profile, /me/debug, /tokens are removed with every internal
link repointed. Includes an XSS fix in the /me/activity page hero, the
user_id-keyed session-lookup alignment, and the v0.54.15 release cut.

Co-developed by @ZdenekSrotyr and @cvrysanek.
2026-05-14 21:29:51 +02:00

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# Local Development
Single source of truth for working on Agnes against `localhost`. Covers the dev-mode auth bypass, mocked Google Workspace groups, what isn't mocked, and the safety rails that keep the dev shortcuts off production.
## TL;DR
```bash
make local-dev
```
Then open <http://localhost:8000>. You land on `/dashboard` already logged in as `dev@localhost` (role `admin`) and your `/me/profile` shows two mocked Workspace groups. No login screen, no `.env` file, no SMTP, no GCP project — just code.
On Windows (or anywhere GNU Make / bash aren't available), `scripts\run-local-dev.ps1` is the feature-equivalent sibling — same compose stack, same `LOCAL_DEV_GROUPS` default. Verified on Docker Desktop for Windows.
```powershell
.\scripts\run-local-dev.ps1 # up — reuses existing image (auto-builds first run)
.\scripts\run-local-dev.ps1 -Build # up --build — after pyproject.toml / Dockerfile changes
.\scripts\run-local-dev.ps1 down # stop + remove containers (data volume preserved)
.\scripts\run-local-dev.ps1 logs # tail logs
```
What `make local-dev` actually does:
- Stacks three Compose files: `docker-compose.yml` (base) + `docker-compose.dev.yml` (hot-reload + source bind mount) + `docker-compose.local-dev.yml` (LOCAL_DEV_MODE overlay).
- Seeds `LOCAL_DEV_GROUPS` with a sensible default (engineers + admins on `example.com`) so `/me/profile` is non-empty on first boot.
- Touches an empty `.env` if missing — Compose validates `env_file:` paths even for services that never start, and the local-dev overlay drops the env-file requirement for the services that do.
`make local-dev-down` stops the stack; `make local-dev-logs` tails it.
## What `LOCAL_DEV_MODE=1` actually bypasses
The local-dev overlay sets `LOCAL_DEV_MODE=1`, which flips four switches:
1. **Auth bypass.** `app/auth/dependencies.py::get_current_user` short-circuits to a seeded admin user (`dev@localhost` by default; override via `LOCAL_DEV_USER_EMAIL`) before any token check runs. Every protected route — REST and HTML — auto-authenticates.
2. **Magic-link emails skip SMTP.** When the email-link auth provider is exercised in dev, the link is logged to stderr and returned in the response body instead of sent over wire. No mail server, no inbox.
3. **Secrets self-seed.** `JWT_SECRET_KEY` and `SESSION_SECRET` auto-generate into `/data/state/` on first boot if not provided. You don't need to manage them manually.
4. **No `.env` requirement.** The overlay declares `env_file: []` on the affected services, so the project-level `.env` doesn't need to exist. Everything dev-relevant is inline in `docker-compose.local-dev.yml`.
A loud warning banner is logged at startup when `LOCAL_DEV_MODE=1`:
```
============================================================
LOCAL_DEV_MODE is ON — authentication is bypassed.
All requests auto-authenticate as: dev@localhost
LOCAL_DEV_GROUPS: mocking 2 group(s) into session: local-dev-engineers@example.com, local-dev-admins@example.com
NEVER enable this in a deployment reachable from the internet.
============================================================
```
If you don't see that banner at boot, dev mode isn't on — check `LOCAL_DEV_MODE=1` made it into the container's env.
## Mocking Google Workspace groups
`/me/profile` and any future group-aware code path read `session.google_groups`. In production that field gets populated by the OAuth callback (`app/auth/providers/google.py`) from a Cloud Identity `searchTransitiveGroups` call. In dev there's no OAuth round-trip, so the field stays empty unless we mock it.
`LOCAL_DEV_GROUPS` is a JSON array of objects matching the production shape:
```bash
export LOCAL_DEV_GROUPS='[{"id":"engineers@example.com","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"admins@example.com","name":"Admins"}]'
```
The values flow into `session.google_groups` on every dev-bypass request, so group-aware code sees something realistic. Same `{id, name}` shape the OAuth callback writes.
### How `make local-dev` seeds it
`scripts/run-local-dev.sh` sets a default if you haven't already (engineers + admins on `example.com`), so first-boot is non-empty. Three ways to control it:
```bash
make local-dev # default mock — engineers + admins
LOCAL_DEV_GROUPS='[{"id":"qa@x.com","name":"QA"}]' make local-dev # custom mock
LOCAL_DEV_GROUPS= make local-dev # empty — exercise the no-groups path
```
### Verifying the mock
Two checks:
1. **Boot banner** logs the parsed group IDs (or warns loudly if the JSON is malformed):
```
LOCAL_DEV_GROUPS: mocking 2 group(s) into session: local-dev-engineers@example.com, local-dev-admins@example.com
```
A typo (e.g. unbalanced bracket) shows up here — not silently on the first authenticated request.
2. **`/me/profile`** renders the mocked groups in a list. If you set `LOCAL_DEV_GROUPS=` (empty), you'll see *"No Google groups available"*.
### Edge case: clearing stale groups mid-session
If you previously had `LOCAL_DEV_GROUPS` set, then unset it and made a request, the dev-bypass path now writes `[]` into the session — same semantics as the production OAuth callback, which always rewrites `session.google_groups` on each login. You won't get stuck looking at stale mocked groups after toggling the env var.
## What's NOT mocked
`LOCAL_DEV_MODE` is intentionally narrow. These still need real configuration if you exercise them:
- **Cloud Identity API.** No real call ever fires in dev. `LOCAL_DEV_GROUPS` populates `session.google_groups` directly without going through `_fetch_google_groups`. To debug the actual API call, use `scripts/debug/probe_google_groups.py` against a real OAuth token.
- **Real OAuth round-trip.** Google login button is hidden / no-op in dev mode. To test the full OAuth flow, follow `docs/auth-google-oauth.md` and unset `LOCAL_DEV_MODE`.
- **Admin Workspace permissions.** The mocked groups are not authoritative — they live only in your browser session. They don't grant any real access to anything outside Agnes; they let you exercise group-aware code paths inside the app.
- **PAT (Personal Access Token) flow.** PATs work normally in dev mode; the dev bypass only short-circuits cookie/session auth. Token-bearer requests still hit the JWT validation path.
## Security model
`LOCAL_DEV_MODE=1` is a footgun by design — every protected route auto-authenticates as admin without any check. The codebase has these rails to keep it from leaking into prod:
- **`docker-compose.local-dev.yml` is a separate overlay**, never stacked into `docker-compose.prod.yml`. Production deployments never see it.
- **The startup banner is loud and unmissable** — `WARNING` level, repeated 60-character separator. Anyone reading container logs at startup will spot it immediately.
- **`is_local_dev_mode()` reads `os.environ` fresh on every call** — no startup-time cache that could be poisoned.
- **`LOCAL_DEV_GROUPS` is honored only inside the `if is_local_dev_mode():` block** in `get_current_user`. Setting it without `LOCAL_DEV_MODE=1` does nothing.
If you ever see the dev banner in a real deployment's logs, treat it as a P0 incident: the auth boundary is gone.
## Cross-links
- [`docs/auth-groups.md`](auth-groups.md) — production Google Workspace groups: GCP setup checklist, the `security` label gotcha, debugging the real Cloud Identity call.
- [`docs/auth-google-oauth.md`](auth-google-oauth.md) — full Google OAuth setup for non-dev environments (client ID, scopes, redirect URIs).
- [`docs/QUICKSTART.md`](QUICKSTART.md) — first-time setup for a real (non-dev) instance.
- [`CLAUDE.md`](../CLAUDE.md) — repo-wide engineering conventions (changelog discipline, vendor-agnostic OSS rules, project structure).