refactor(auth): centralize the internal-tool pseudo-username into a constant (#4333)

The in-process tool loopback stamps current_user = "internal-tool" and
require_admin grants admin to that sentinel; it is also a reserved username.
That security-sensitive string was hand-typed in ~7 places (stamp, admin gate,
RESERVED_USERNAMES, and standalone admin-equivalent checks in note/research/
shell/task routes), where a typo silently breaks an auth gate.

Add INTERNAL_TOOL_USER in core/middleware.py next to INTERNAL_TOOL_TOKEN/
INTERNAL_TOOL_HEADER and use it at every such site. A typo is now an
ImportError, not a silent mismatch. auth.py importing middleware is acyclic
(middleware imports no app modules). Behaviour is unchanged.

The multi-sentinel sets bundling internal-tool with api/demo/system
(assistant_routes, task_scheduler, research_routes) are a separate reserved-set
dedup, left for a follow-up.

Closes #4332
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Kenny Van de Maele
2026-06-16 13:13:00 +02:00
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@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
from core.atomic_io import atomic_write_json as _atomic_write_json # noqa: E402
from core.middleware import INTERNAL_TOOL_USER # noqa: E402
DEFAULT_PRIVILEGES = {
"can_use_agent": True,
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ TOKEN_TTL = 60 * 60 * 24 * 7 # 7 days
# of those names would be denied an assistant and inconsistently owner-scoped.
# Refuse to create or rename into any of them so the sentinels can't be
# impersonated. (Keep this in sync with that synthetic-owner set.)
RESERVED_USERNAMES = frozenset({"internal-tool", "api", "demo", "system"})
RESERVED_USERNAMES = frozenset({INTERNAL_TOOL_USER, "api", "demo", "system"})
def normalize_known_username(users: Dict[str, Any], username: str | None) -> Optional[str]: