[cveld]

Problem

Entra sign-in hides the passkey option in the desktop preview browser. The request User-Agent contains an Electron/<version> token, and Entra then stops offering passkeys even though the embedded Chromium supports WebAuthn and platform authenticators (Windows Hello, and 1Password as Windows plugin passkey provider). Details and measurements are in https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/30014.

Change

BrowserSession registers a webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders listener, scoped to login.microsoftonline.com, login.microsoft.com and login.live.com, that removes the Electron/<version> token from the User-Agent request header. Nothing else changes:

• navigator.userAgent and every other site keep Electron's native User-Agent, so the Turnstile fix from https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/7110 is unaffected.
• The request headers object is copied, not mutated.
• The fix is host-scoped on purpose; a global rewrite is what https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/7110 removed.

Scope and approval

This is a behavior change, so it needs maintainer direction. https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/30014 is the bug report; it has not been triaged yet, so there is no maintainer approval to link at the time of writing. I opened this as a small, host-scoped change so the direction can be judged against concrete code, and I will rework or close it if the maintainers prefer a different approach (for example a per-profile setting, as discussed in https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/22444).

Verification

• vp test run src/preview/BrowserSession.test.ts in apps/desktop: 10 of 10 pass, including two new tests: one for the token stripping (with and without a token present) and one that the listener is registered for exactly the three Microsoft hosts, handles User-Agent and user-agent header keys, and leaves the original headers object untouched.
• vp fmt --check and vp lint on the two changed files, plus the pre-commit knip:check.
• Manual A/B test on Windows 11 in a dev build (Electron 44.10.0, same build, same account, 1Password as passkey provider), with the rewrite toggled off and on:
  • rewrite off: Entra shows no passkey option
  • rewrite on: Entra shows the passkey option and sign-in works
  • navigator.userAgent in the page was identical in both runs.

What I could not check:

• I did not capture the outgoing header on the wire; the effect is inferred from the behavior change.
• I do not know whether Electron/ is the only trigger Entra looks at, or whether the app token matters too.
• Only Windows was tested. macOS and Linux were not.

I also asked Microsoft whether this Entra behavior is intended: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/6059339/entra-sign-in-does-not-offer-passkeys-when-the-use

Closes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/30014

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Fixes #30014

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 43c458d

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The preview browser removes its Electron identifier only from requests to three Microsoft sign-in hosts so passkey options can appear. Authentication permissions and browser identity for other sites remain unchanged.

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Walkthrough

BrowserSession now applies its Electron-token-stripping User-Agent request-header rewrite to three Microsoft sign-in hosts, in addition to the two Teams hosts. The test covers the expanded host list and retains checks for header handling and input preservation.

Changes: Microsoft sign-in User-Agent adjustment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Scoped User-Agent header rewrite apps/desktop/src/preview/BrowserSession.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/BrowserSession.test.ts	The request-header hook uses patterns for both Teams hosts and three Microsoft sign-in hosts. The test checks the expanded URL filter and retains assertions for User-Agent casing, input-header preservation, and requests without a User-Agent.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#31489: Both changes add Microsoft host patterns to the request-header rewrite, which uses a shared listener.
• pingdotgg/t3code#30047: Both changes remove the Electron token for the same three Microsoft sign-in hosts while preserving the page User-Agent.
• pingdotgg/t3code#26771: Both changes use a host-scoped request-header rewrite; the PR concerns WhatsApp Web and the shared listener.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 794b1

The change scopes the header adjustment to Microsoft sign-in hosts. No merge-blocking issue is established, though completing sign-in with an enrolled passkey remains unverified.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the desktop preview browser change and the passkey sign-in outcome.
Description check		The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the change and reports specific tests and limitations. It also states that maintainer …
Linked Issues check		[#30014] BrowserSession adds the three requested Microsoft sign-in hosts to the existing onBeforeSendHeaders filter. The listener removes only the Electron/<version> token from the matching req…
Out of Scope Changes check		[#30014] The PR adds only the Microsoft sign-in hosts to the existing User-Agent filter and updates the related test and comment. The Teams patterns and rewrite were already present at the merge base.…

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The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the change and reports specific tests and limitations. It also states that maintainer approval is not yet available, so the scope-and-approval requirement remains unresolved.

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Explanation

[#30014] BrowserSession adds the three requested Microsoft sign-in hosts to the existing onBeforeSendHeaders filter. The listener removes only the Electron/<version> token from the matching request's User-Agent and copies the headers object. The test extends its URL-filter assertion to include the three hosts. This preserves the requested host-scoped behavior and leaves navigator.userAgent unchanged.

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Explanation

[#30014] The PR adds only the Microsoft sign-in hosts to the existing User-Agent filter and updates the related test and comment. The Teams patterns and rewrite were already present at the merge base. No unrelated change appears in the reviewed diff.

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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Update: merged current main

Main added a Teams onBeforeSendHeaders listener in BrowserSession.ts, which conflicted with this PR's listener. Electron keeps only one listener per session, so a second registration would silently replace the first. I merged github/main (merge commit, no rebase) and moved the three Microsoft sign-in hosts into that single listener's URL list. The rewrite is the same: only Electron/<version> is removed from the User-Agent request header. The PR's separate helper and its two tests became duplicates of main's Teams test, so I extended that test's URL assertion to cover the sign-in hosts and dropped the duplicates.

vp run check:changed passed on a Blacksmith testbox (format, lint, knip, typecheck, BrowserSession.test.ts 8/8). I did not rerun the Electron passkey check below after the merge. The hosts and the header rewrite are unchanged from what that check verified.

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Verified in a real dev environment

Verified the passkey option as-is at 4f81d7e8be6413e862aef544c5e9abed09f39440, against github/main at cefb544af3c98224874419198c0359b652ca3c94, on this Linux Boat VM using the real Electron 44.10.0 desktop app and Microsoft sign-in pages.

• Started isolated dev environments one at a time. Added real git projects through the app and completed real Codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the web UI on both revisions.
• Opened the desktop Browser panel, navigated to https://login.microsoftonline.com/, and opened "Sign-in options". Main omitted the passkey entry. The PR showed "Face, fingerprint, PIN or security key" with "Use your device to sign in with a passkey."
• Captured actual outgoing headers through CDP Network.requestWillBeSentExtraInfo: main included Electron/44.10.0; the PR removed it for all three configured Microsoft hosts. navigator.userAgent retained the native token on both revisions.
• Checked neighboring behavior: Microsoft redirects and sign-in pages load; preview back/forward restores navigation; https://httpbin.org/user-agent echoes the unchanged native Electron UA. Office.com redirects, Microsoft CDN and telemetry requests also retain it.
• Built the desktop/server runtime and ran the existing BrowserSession.test.ts through blacksmith-check: all 10 tests passed. Latest GitHub checks: 23 successful, 18 skipped, no failures or pending checks. No source changes or pushes were needed.

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Not verified

Completing sign-in with an enrolled passkey, the work-account-specific post-username screen, Windows Hello, Windows 1Password, macOS authenticators, native iOS/Android, and a full Cloudflare Turnstile challenge. This VM has no enrolled account or physical authenticator; PublicKeyCredential.isUserVerifyingPlatformAuthenticatorAvailable() returned false. The live passkey option and host-scoped request rewrite were verified without mocks, fixtures, demo data, virtual authenticators, or user-agent overrides.

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The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

the proof has no capture anyone can open:

• Passkey/security-key option suppression on base and availability on head: no enrolled Entra test account or supported passkey provider was available.
• Windows Hello and 1Password authentication: the supplied environment runs Linux rather than the reported Windows 11 configuration.
• Successful authentication with an enrolled provider was not attempted.
• No captures or driver scripts were produced or uploaded; there are no public evidence URLs.
• Origin refresh failed, so baseSha was computed from the existing local origin/main reference.

It stays open for a person to finish or close.