fix: harden auth and MCP request handling

[jfrench9]

Summary

Hardening from the September app-tier review, covering auth and MCP request handling.

• Token-redemption auth flows (password reset, email verification) follow the same session requirements as sign-in.
• Credential-management routes (recovery-code regeneration, passkey re-auth and removal, password change) require an interactive session.
• User-supplied fields are escaped in transactional email templates.
• The circuit breaker keeps state only for circuits that have failed, and caller-supplied query timeouts are clamped.
• The read-query guards apply on every MCP execution strategy.
• Auth-cache encryption stays consistent across processes.

Compatibility

PUT /v1/user/password no longer accepts X-API-Key; it takes a sign-in session. No frontend, SDK facade or integration-template path uses a key there, so this is generated-tier surface and rides a client minor.

Tests

• Each change has a regression test.
• One workflow test now signs in instead of using an API key for password change.
• just test-all passes.

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Review

Solid, well-scoped hardening PR — each change is narrow, has a regression test, and the reasoning is documented in code comments. A few notes below; nothing blocking.

Auth session gating (password_reset.py, email_verification.py, mfa.py, passkeys.py, user/password.py)

• may_issue_session_without_login (robosystems/routers/auth/utils.py:81-96) correctly denies auto-login when the user has a passkey enrolled or is subject to forced MFA enrollment, and require_jwt_user (robosystems/middleware/auth/dependencies.py:301-310) cleanly rejects API-key callers on credential-management routes. Good coverage in tests/routers/auth/test_credential_routes_require_session.py.

Circuit breaker (robosystems/middleware/robustness/circuit_breaker.py)

• Switching self.circuits from defaultdict(CircuitState) to a plain dict that only stores failed circuits closes a real memory-growth vector (an attacker/caller supplying arbitrary operation names could previously grow the map unbounded just by calling check_circuit/record_success). The .get(...)/.setdefault(...)/.pop(...) swaps preserve existing behavior correctly, and get_circuit_status still returns a sane default for a never-seen circuit.
• Minor behavior change worth flagging (not a bug, just a semantics shift): record_success now fully forgets a circuit that never failed, so get_circuit_status/get_all_circuit_status won't report a last_success_time for operations that always succeed. If any monitoring/dashboard relies on last_success_time being populated for healthy circuits, that signal is now gone (it never populates until the circuit's first failure+recovery). Looks intentional given the updated tests, just calling it out.

MCP request handling (handlers.py, streaming.py, client.py)

• Good catch bringing assert_read_only_cypher + prepare_read_query (LIMIT injection) into execute_query_streaming, so the streaming strategy can no longer bypass the read-only/complexity guard that the direct tool path enforces. stream_cypher_query's anext(stream, None) wrapper to surface a pre-guard ValueError/GraphQueryComplexityError as a proper SSE error event (rather than an unhandled exception) is a nice touch.
• Timeout clamp in call_tool (handlers.py:320-325) correctly rejects bool (since bool is an int subclass) and clamps into [10, 300], addressing the previous gap where a caller could pass 0 or a negative timeout.

Auth cache (robosystems/middleware/auth/cache.py)

• The periodic re-derivation of the encryption key (KEY_GENERATION_RECHECK_SECONDS = 60) so multiple processes converge on a rotated key is a reasonable fix for the "one process rotates, others keep the stale key" class of bug. _derive_encryption_key swallows Redis errors internally and always returns a key, so a failed recheck won't get stuck (it isn't skipped for the next 60s window on error).
• Now evicting cache entries that fail to decrypt during invalidate_user_data (previously just continued, silently leaving a possibly-stale entry keyed to the target user) is a good fail-closed tightening — well explained in the inline comments.

Email escaping (robosystems/operations/aws/ses.py)

• send_org_invitation_email now escapes inviter_name/org_name — correct, since that's genuine cross-user injection (one user's chosen name is rendered in another user's inbox).
• Note this doesn't close every gap: _verification_template, _password_reset_template, _welcome_template, and _capacity_warning_template (ses.py lines ~189, ~225, ~333, ~445) still interpolate user_name into HTML unescaped, unlike _passkey_enrolled_template/_email_changed_template which already escape it. Since user_name in those four is always the same user's own display name shown back to themselves, this is lower severity than the invitation case (no cross-user vector), but it's inconsistent with the PR's stated "user-supplied fields are escaped in transactional email templates," and a user who sets an HTML-y display name would still get raw markup in their own verification/reset/welcome emails. Worth a fast follow if not in scope here. Fix this →

Compatibility note: the PUT /v1/user/password breaking change (API key no longer accepted) is correctly called out in the PR description and covered by the updated test_api_workflows.py workflow test.

I did not run just test-all or the linter in this environment — no execution tooling was available to me here, so this review is based on static reading of the diff only.