test(deploy): add a real login smoke test, not just a health check

Found on the actual first deployment: /api/v1/healthz proves the process is
up, but says nothing about whether login actually works, because the
session cookie is set with Secure in production. Test through a plain-HTTP
address (an IP, a bare port, skipping the reverse proxy) and /auth/login
still returns 200 with a valid body — the cookie is just silently dropped by
the client, so the very next request looks unauthenticated. From a browser
this looks exactly like "I logged in and it bounced me straight back to the
login screen," with no error anywhere to point at.

scripts/smoke-test.sh does the real round trip a browser does: login,
confirm a session cookie was actually stored (not just sent), then an
authenticated follow-up request confirming it succeeds and returns the
right account. Verified it actually catches what it's meant to catch before
committing: ran it against a throwaway account over plain HTTP against a
production-mode container and got the expected FAIL with a diagnostic
pointing at the Secure-cookie mismatch, then confirmed PASS once the
container's VELODROME_ENVIRONMENT was (inadvertently, in this case)
development instead.

Documented in deploy/README.md as the real post-deploy check, replacing
"hit /healthz and eyeball it" for anything involving auth.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01R2ZKeWkZV7ehf7fivrAkkG

deploy/README.md

@@ -78,6 +78,30 @@ Nothing enforces the admin role yet — no admin-only endpoint exists — so tod
 invited account only in the role recorded on it. Invite management in a later phase is what starts
 reading it.
 
+## Verify login actually works, not just that the API responds
+
+`GET /api/v1/healthz` proves the process is up. It does **not** prove a real login works, because
+the session cookie is set with `Secure` in production (`apps/api/velodrome/api/v1/auth.py`) —
+browsers silently refuse to store a `Secure` cookie unless the request was actually served over
+HTTPS. Test through a plain-HTTP address (an IP, a bare port, skipping the reverse proxy) and
+`/auth/login` still returns 200 with a valid response body; the cookie is just quietly dropped, so
+the very next request looks unauthenticated. From a browser this looks exactly like "I logged in
+and it bounced me straight back to the login screen," with nothing that looks like an error. This
+happened on the very first real deployment.
+
+`scripts/smoke-test.sh` exists so this is caught by running a command, not by refreshing a browser
+tab:
+
+```sh
+scripts/smoke-test.sh https://bike.bbergle.com you@example.com yourpassword
+```
+
+It logs in, confirms a session cookie was actually stored (not just sent), then makes an
+authenticated follow-up request and confirms it succeeds and returns the right account. Run it
+after every real deploy, against the actual public URL your users will use — testing against a
+plain-HTTP IP will (correctly) tell you nothing about whether login works for anyone using the real
+domain.
+
 ## Environment variables
 
 All read by `apps/api/velodrome/config.py` (prefix `VELODROME_`) — the app and Alembic both read

scripts/smoke-test.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Post-deploy smoke test: proves a login -> authenticated request round trip actually works
+# against a REAL deployed instance, over the network, the way a browser sees it.
+#
+# Exists because pytest (real SQLite, no mocks — see CLAUDE.md) proves the API logic is
+# correct in isolation, but can't catch topology-specific failures. Concretely: a session
+# cookie is set with `Secure` in production (velodrome/api/v1/auth.py), which browsers
+# silently refuse to store unless the request was actually served over HTTPS. Hit the app via
+# a plain-HTTP address (an IP, a port, skipping the reverse proxy) and `/auth/login` still
+# returns 200 with valid credentials, and the cookie header is still sent — it's just quietly
+# dropped, so the very next request looks unauthenticated. From a browser this looks exactly
+# like "I logged in and it bounced me straight back to the login screen," with no error
+# anywhere. Caught for real the first time this got deployed; this script exists so it's
+# caught by running a command, not by refreshing a browser tab.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   scripts/smoke-test.sh <base_url> <email> <password>
+#   scripts/smoke-test.sh https://bike.bbergle.com you@example.com yourpassword
+#
+# Doesn't create the account — bootstrap one first with
+# `docker exec -it velodrome velodrome create-admin --email you@example.com`, then reuse
+# those credentials here (or keep a small dedicated account around just for this).
+set -euo pipefail
+
+BASE_URL="${1:?usage: smoke-test.sh <base_url> <email> <password>}"
+EMAIL="${2:?usage: smoke-test.sh <base_url> <email> <password>}"
+PASSWORD="${3:?usage: smoke-test.sh <base_url> <email> <password>}"
+BASE_URL="${BASE_URL%/}"
+
+COOKIEJAR="$(mktemp)"
+LOGIN_BODY="$(mktemp)"
+ME_BODY="$(mktemp)"
+trap 'rm -f "$COOKIEJAR" "$LOGIN_BODY" "$ME_BODY"' EXIT
+
+echo "-> logging in as $EMAIL at $BASE_URL"
+LOGIN_STATUS=$(curl -s -o "$LOGIN_BODY" -w '%{http_code}' \
+  -c "$COOKIEJAR" \
+  -X POST "$BASE_URL/api/v1/auth/login" \
+  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+  -d "{\"email\":\"$EMAIL\",\"password\":\"$PASSWORD\"}")
+
+if [ "$LOGIN_STATUS" != "200" ]; then
+  echo "FAIL: login returned $LOGIN_STATUS, expected 200"
+  cat "$LOGIN_BODY"
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "   login: 200 OK"
+
+if ! grep -q "_session" "$COOKIEJAR" 2>/dev/null; then
+  echo "FAIL: login succeeded but no session cookie was actually stored by the client."
+  echo "      Almost certainly a Secure-cookie-over-HTTP mismatch — see the comment at the"
+  echo "      top of this script. Are you testing via HTTPS through the real reverse proxy,"
+  echo "      or a plain-HTTP address (an IP, a bare port)?"
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "   session cookie: stored"
+
+echo "-> confirming the session actually authenticates a follow-up request"
+ME_STATUS=$(curl -s -o "$ME_BODY" -w '%{http_code}' -b "$COOKIEJAR" "$BASE_URL/api/v1/auth/me")
+
+if [ "$ME_STATUS" != "200" ]; then
+  echo "FAIL: /auth/me returned $ME_STATUS after a successful login — the session isn't"
+  echo "      persisting. This is exactly the 'logs in, bounces back to the login screen'"
+  echo "      symptom a browser would show."
+  cat "$ME_BODY"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+ME_EMAIL=$(python3 -c "import json,sys; print(json.load(open(sys.argv[1]))['email'])" "$ME_BODY" 2>/dev/null || echo "?")
+
+if [ "$ME_EMAIL" != "$EMAIL" ]; then
+  echo "FAIL: /auth/me returned a different account ($ME_EMAIL) than the one that logged in ($EMAIL)."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "   /auth/me: 200 OK, confirmed as $ME_EMAIL"
+echo "PASS: login -> authenticated request round trip works end to end at $BASE_URL"