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Add API for updating token API keys

This PR adds a new PATCH endpoint for updating token API keys. The endpoint allows updating:

  1. Token scopes (either via scope or scopes field)
  2. Token allow list (resource restrictions)
  3. Token lifetime (expiration)

The implementation includes:

  • New UpdateTokenRequest type in the SDK
  • New patchToken handler in the API
  • Helper functions for normalizing token scopes and allow lists
  • Database query for updating token authorization parameters
  • Tests for token updates and validation

This enables users to modify existing API tokens without having to create new ones, which is particularly useful for adjusting permissions or extending token lifetimes.

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require.NotEmpty(t, resp.Key)
}

func TestTokenCreationAllowsElevatedScopes(t *testing.T) {
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Do these scoped API keys allow creating other API keys? If so, do these API keys inherit the original scope?

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Scoped API keys allow the creation of other API keys. The newly created keys do not inherit the original key's scope.

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Isn't that basically privilege escalation?

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It depends on one's perspective.

Not inheriting the original scopes allows an admin to use that API key to provision just-in-time API keys for specific use cases and revoke them later. If we enforced inheritance, the issuing API key would need all the permissions required for those actions, which could introduce the risk of creating an overly broad API key.

AWS IAM addresses this with Service Control Policies (SCPs)—which act as organization-wide upper limits—and permission boundaries, which serve as per-identity upper limits. These need to be explicitly applied to prevent this kind of privilege escalation.

For Coder, this could or should be considered as a later addition. Also, once we have the OAuth client credentials flow in place, we can advise users and admins to use that instead.

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// Valid typed allow list should succeed.
resp, err := client.CreateToken(ctx, codersdk.Me, codersdk.CreateTokenRequest{
Scopes: []codersdk.APIKeyScope{codersdk.APIKeyScopeWorkspaceRead},
AllowList: []codersdk.APIAllowListTarget{codersdk.AllowResourceTarget(codersdk.ResourceWorkspace, uuid.New())},
})
require.NoError(t, err)
require.NotEmpty(t, resp.Key)
}
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Are wildcard resource targets allowed here?

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They are supported.

@ThomasK33 ThomasK33 force-pushed the thomask33/09-25-resource_scoped_api_keys_in_codersdk branch from 4fbe05f to e1c95e4 Compare September 29, 2025 08:25
mafredri and others added 25 commits October 23, 2025 20:10
This PR uses the same sha256 hashing technique as we use for APIKeys. So
now all randomly generated secrets will be hashed with sha256 for
consistency.

This is a breaking change for the oauth tokens. Since oauth is only
allowed for dev builds and experimental, this is ok.
Closes coder/internal#921

The flake in the linked issue was caused by the startup script taking longer than 1 second in CI. The existing conditional, that the startup script duration was under a second, was incorrect; the correct conditional is that the metric exists with the `success` label set to `true`.
Second flake for this test today 😮‍💨.

Flake seen here, though I couldn't replicate this locally, some CI
exclusive networking issue.

https://github.com/coder/coder/actions/runs/18770305895/job/53553517887?pr=20448
```
    agent_test.go:3619: 
        	Error Trace:	/home/runner/work/coder/coder/agent/agent_test.go:3619
        	Error:      	Received unexpected error:
        	            	expected 1, got 0.000000:
        	            	    github.com/coder/coder/v2/agent_test.TestAgent_Metrics_SSH.func7
        	            	        /home/runner/work/coder/coder/agent/agent_test.go:3557
        	Test:       	TestAgent_Metrics_SSH
        	Messages:   	check fn for coderd_agentstats_currently_reachable_peers failed
```
This value is incremented by a successful ping to the peer from the
agent, which is dependent on all the networking code, which I think is
definitely out of scope of this test for agent metrics. So, we'll just
assert that the metrics exist with the correct labels (`derp`, `p2p`)
Pipes through the Task's ID and prompt into the provisioner. This is
required to support the new `coder_ai_task.prompt` field and modified
`coder_ai_task.id` field.
…20336)

As we're moving away from the SidebarAppID nomenclature, this PR
introduces a new `TaskAppID` field to `codersdk.WorkspaceBuild` and
deprecates the `AITaskSidebarAppID` field. They both contain the same
value.
…20384)

Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot]
Co-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: M Atif Ali <atif@coder.com>
Co-authored-by: Ethan Dickson <ethan@coder.com>
Add API key allow list to the SDK

This PR adds an allow list to API keys in the SDK. The allow list is a list of targets that the API key is allowed to access. If the allow list is empty, a default allow list with a single entry that allows access to all resources is created.

The changes include:

- Adding a default allow list when generating an API key if none is provided
- Adding allow list to the API key response in the SDK
- Converting database allow list entries to SDK format in the API response
- Adding tests to verify the default allow list behavior



Fixes #19854
Updates the UI to use the new API endpoints for tasks and use its new
data model.

Disclaimer: Since the base data model for tasks changed, we had to do a
quite large refactor and I'm sorry for that 🙏, but you'll notice most of
the changes are to adjust the types.

Closes coder/internal#976

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Co-authored-by: Bruno Quaresma <bruno_nonato_quaresma@hotmail.com>
Relates to coder/internal#1093

This is the first of N pull requests to allow coder script ordering.
It introduces what is for now dead code, but paves the way for various
interfaces that allow coder scripts and other processes to depend on one
another via CLI commands and terraform configurations.

The next step is to add reactivity to the graph, such that changes in
the status of one vertex will propagate and allow other vertices to
change their own statuses.

Concurrency and stress testing yield the following:

CPU Profile:
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Mem Profile:
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/>

Predictably, lock contention and memory allocation are the largest
components of this system under stress. Nothing seems untoward.
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## Description

This PR introduces an optimization to automatically cancel pending
prebuild-related jobs from non-active template versions in the
reconciliation loop.

## Problem

Currently, when a template is configured with more prebuild instances
than available provisioners, the provisioner queue can become flooded
with pending prebuild jobs. This issue is worsened when
provisioning/deprovisioning operations take a long time.

When the prebuild reconciliation loop generates jobs faster than
provisioners can process them, pending jobs accumulate in the queue.
Since prebuilt workspaces should always run the latest active template
version, pending prebuild jobs from non-active versions become obsolete
once a new version is promoted.

## Solution

The reconciliation loop cancels pending prebuild-related jobs from
non-active template versions that match the following criteria:

* Build number: 1 (initial build created by the reconciliation loop)
* Job status: `pending`
* Not yet picked up by a provisioner (`worker_id` is `NULL`)
* Owned by the prebuilds system user
* Workspace transition: `start`

This prevents the queue from being cluttered with stale prebuild jobs
that would provision workspaces on an outdated template version that
would consequently need to be deprovisioned.

## Changes

* Added new SQL query `CountPendingNonActivePrebuilds` to identify
presets with pending jobs from non-active versions
* Added new SQL query `UpdatePrebuildProvisionerJobWithCancel` to cancel
jobs for a specific preset
* New reconciliation action type `ActionTypeCancelPending` handles the
cancellation logic
* Cancellation is non-blocking: failures to cancel prebuild jobs are
logged as errors and don't prevent other reconciliation actions

## Follow-up PR

Canceling pending prebuild jobs leaves workspaces in a Canceled state.
While no Terraform resources need to be destroyed (since jobs were
canceled before provisioning started), these database records should
still be cleaned up. This will be addressed in a follow-up PR.

Closes: #20242
Suggesting some improvements for claude code and tasks usage. See
comments inline.

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Co-authored-by: Dean Sheather <dean@deansheather.com>
This commit adds comprehensive support for token scoping and 
allow-listing in the CLI token management commands:

- Add --scope flag to create scoped tokens with specific 
  permissions
- Add --allow flag to create tokens restricted to specific 
  resources
- Display scopes and allow-list in token list/view commands
- Add tokens view subcommand for detailed token inspection
- Update help text and documentation with scoping examples
- Add comprehensive test coverage for new functionality
Ensure composite scopes retain required defaults when merging API keys.
Add MergeDefaultsForMissingTypes to union composite defaults safely.
Cover API key scope expansion and allow list merging with unit tests.
Expose SafeAllowList in Subject logging and register user:read scope.
Implements RFC-compliant PATCH /users/{user}/keys/tokens/{keyname}
endpoint enabling updates to API key authorization parameters
including scopes, allow lists, and expiration times.

Key changes:
- Add patchToken handler with comprehensive validation
- Extract scope and allow list normalization into reusable functions  
- Implement authorization checks preventing non-owners from minting
  elevated scopes with wildcard allow lists
- Add UpdateAPIKeyAuthorization database query with audit support
- Generate OpenAPI documentation and TypeScript client types

The endpoint supports partial updates with proper authorization
context validation and maintains backward compatibility with
existing token creation patterns.
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API: token create/list/update with scopes[] and allow_list[]

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