feat(providers): add a generic OpenID Connect provider

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Summary

This PR closes #125 and introduce support for a generic OpenID Connect provider such as Keycloak, Okta, Auth0, Entra ID, Authentik, Zitadel etc.

This PR only supports OIDC for Confidential Clients with PKCE and S256 enabled as per current security best practices but possible to be widened in future.

Testing

• new tests added for introduced functionality
• manual testing with Keycloak using otari branch
• uv run pytest tests/ -v on Python 3.11, 3.12, 3.13 (Linux): 880 passed, 14 skipped (the skips are real-provider integration tests)
• Same test matrix on macOS (CI)
• New OIDC and identity-registry tests on their own (tests/providers/test_oidc.py, tests/providers/test_identity_registry.py): 95 passed
• uv run pre-commit run --all-files: merge-conflict, whitespace, EOF, ruff, ruff-format, detect-secrets, ty, uv-lock
• uv lock --check: lockfile matches pyproject.toml
• uv build: sdist and wheel build cleanly
• make test-integration with provider credentials (no existing provider modules changed; no OIDC integration test yet)

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added support for configuring OpenID Connect providers through automatic discovery, with issuer validation and PKCE enabled.
  • Added ID-token and userinfo identity handling, including validation of identity claims.
  • Added provider discovery error reporting and support for advertised userinfo and signing-key endpoints.
  • Added guidance on OIDC configuration, provider limitations and manual setup for non-OIDC providers.
• Documentation
  • Updated the provider and error reference sections.

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Walkthrough

Adds a generic OpenID Connect provider with discovery, provider configuration and identity handling. The change adds OIDC metadata fields and discovery errors, plus tests and documentation for provider setup, validation and limitations.

Changes

Generic OpenID Connect provider

Layer / File(s)	Summary
OIDC discovery and metadata src/apron_auth/models.py, src/apron_auth/errors.py, src/apron_auth/providers/oidc.py, pyproject.toml, tests/providers/test_oidc.py, README.md	Adds OIDC endpoint fields to ServerMetadata, an OidcDiscoveryError, and discovery that validates the issuer and required endpoints. Adds discovery tests and documents the discovery error.
Provider configuration and integration src/apron_auth/providers/oidc.py, src/apron_auth/providers/identity.py, tests/providers/test_identity_registry.py, tests/providers/test_oidc.py, README.md	Adds an OIDC preset with PKCE, scope and client-authentication handling, and conditional revocation support. Adds provider enumeration and tests, and documents setup and limitations.
OIDC identity handling src/apron_auth/providers/oidc.py, tests/providers/test_oidc.py	Adds ID-token claim validation and optional userinfo retrieval. Identity resolution checks subject agreement and creates issuer-namespaced profiles. Tests cover claim validation, userinfo responses and identity fields.

Suggested reviewers: peteski22

Priority: ➖ Normal

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 043e7

This adds generic OIDC login. A userinfo response that omits the subject can still supply a verified email for the logged-in user, so identity binding is weaker than the OIDC specification requires. Fix this before merging. A malformed userinfo URL from a provider also raises an unexpected error type.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 043e7

The integration checks issuer, audience and subject consistency, but permits unencrypted endpoints while relying on authenticated transport for identity authenticity. It also accepts providers whose PKCE support is unknown without an independent nonce binding. These risks depend on provider configuration and external behavior; they are not demonstrated attacks against correctly configured HTTPS providers with enforced S256.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · observed: The new discovery-to-identity path accepts HTTP token and userinfo endpoints, sending client credentials or bearer tokens without protected transport. ID-token signatures are not checked because authenticity is delegated to TLS, but this prerequisite is not enforced. Exposure requires an insecure endpoint or compromised discovery/transport path; documented operator responsibility and optional transport controls can mitigate it.
• Medium · security · inferred: Missing, empty or malformed PKCE capability metadata is accepted even though this integration relies on PKCE rather than a nonce for code/session binding. Generating S256 does not prove that the provider enforces it. If an accepted provider ignores the challenge, an injected code may lack the intended session binding; explicit advertisements excluding S256 are correctly rejected.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — An insecure credential-bearing back-channel can expose the configured client secret, authorization codes, refresh tokens or bearer tokens, and permit manipulation of identities trusted through that channel. Potential exposure includes users sharing the affected provider configuration and resources authorized by leaked tokens. Cross-tenant reach depends on shared credentials and application wiring; no deployment evidence establishes repository-wide or environment-wide exposure.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The transport attack path requires an insecure configured endpoint, control over unauthenticated discovery delivery, or a compromised outbound path. An active attacker on an HTTP token channel can alter claims while retaining expected issuer and audience values. Claim checks alone do not authenticate that response; properly authenticated HTTPS or equivalent enforced transport is the strongest countermeasure.
• inferred — Code injection remains a conditional concern for accepted providers that do not enforce PKCE. An attacker would need a usable authorization code and a way to inject it into another session's callback. A valid state value can protect callback correlation without proving that the injected code belongs to the stored verifier when the provider ignores that verifier.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Controls include exact discovery issuer matching, callback issuer validation before redemption, ID-token issuer and audience checks, and rejection of conflicting token/userinfo subjects. Transport factories separately govern discovery, token exchange and userinfo connections; supplying one does not automatically constrain the other two.
• observed — Missing or unparseable ID tokens fall back to bearer-authenticated userinfo rather than enforcing ID-token presence. The handler also ignores the passed ProviderConfig and validates against its independently captured issuer and client ID. Correct handler/config pairing and authenticated userinfo delivery therefore remain caller contracts; neither behavior alone establishes an exploitable identity substitution.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The stored-state path saves pending state before returning the authorization URL, validates callback issuer before consumption, and consumes state before token exchange. The memory store removes entries without an await point and rejects expired entries, preventing repeated or concurrent reuse within its supported single-process model. Failure or interruption after consumption requires fresh authorization instead of replaying the callback. Direct exchange leaves state handling to the caller, and distributed storage must preserve atomic consumption.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Require authenticated HTTPS for production discovery and credential-bearing endpoints, with any development exception explicit. Apply network and destination policy consistently across discovery, token exchange and userinfo rather than relying on a single transport hook.
• proposed — Treat unknown PKCE capability as requiring explicit, verified S256 support, or add a fresh per-request nonce with persisted binding and ID-token validation. A constant nonce in extra_params would not provide that guarantee.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 60.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 100 functions across 6 files. (2 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely summarises the main change: adding a generic OpenID Connect provider.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address the coding requirements in issue #125. providers.oidc adds discovery with exact issuer and endpoint checks, metadata for OIDC endpoints, PKCE with S256 enforcement, issuer respon…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within issue #125. The new dependency, public error, metadata fields, README guidance, identity-registry helper, and tests support the generic OIDC provider or document its use. The…

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Review comments at @src/apron_auth/providers/oidc.py:
- Around line 393-395: In the `identity_handler` metadata validation, raise
`ConfigurationError` when `metadata.issuer` is `None`, matching `preset` so
callers can distinguish invalid configuration from an unreachable provider.
Update the related docstring and the corresponding expectation in
`tests/providers/test_oidc.py`.
- Around line 595-603: Update the exception handling in `_fetch_userinfo` to
catch `httpx.InvalidURL` alongside the existing request and status errors,
wrapping it in `IdentityFetchError` as the current handler does.
- Around line 477-480: Update the userinfo subject check around `_claim_str` so
that, when validated ID-token claims are present and a userinfo response is
used, a missing `sub` or one that differs from `claims_subject` raises
`IdentityFetchError` before any userinfo fields are used. Add a test covering a
userinfo response without `sub` alongside an ID token.

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