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Stacked on #30523. Two signing keys were reloaded and re-parsed on every token they signed or verified:

  • The server's environment key pair. CloudLink called getOrCreateEnvironmentKeyPairFromSecretStore(secrets) in four places and AgentAwarenessRelay in one. Each call re-read the secret store, passed the service in as an argument, and signRelayJwt then re-parsed the PEM key.
  • The relay's cloud mint key pair. RelayTokens, HookForwarder and EnvironmentConnector re-parsed it on every token they issued or verified. That's a key parse per authenticated request on the Worker.

What changed

  • EnvironmentSigningKey (server, cloud/environmentKeys.ts):
    • It loads or creates the key pair while its layer is built. That load was already eager: AgentAwarenessRelay did it in make.
    • It parses the private key on first sign and keeps it. Corrupt key material fails Connect signing with a RelayJwtError and never blocks server startup.
    • It exposes publicKey and sign({ typ, payload }), with Signature captured inside. CloudLink and AgentAwarenessRelay no longer touch the secret store or Signature to sign.
  • CloudMintSigner (relay, auth/CloudMintSigner.ts):
    • It parses the mint key pair on first use and keeps it for the lifetime of the relay runtime layer, which is the same lifetime as every other relay service.
    • A failed parse is retried rather than cached, so a bad configured key still fails individual requests instead of Worker boot.
    • It exposes sign and verify for mint-key tokens.
  • relayJwt: signRelayJwt and verifyRelayJwt accept either a PEM string or an already-parsed Jwk key. The new importRelayPrivateKey and importRelayPublicKey do the parsing. Calls that verify against keys loaded per request, such as environment proofs checked against a link's stored keys, keep passing strings.

Tokens are unchanged: same keys, same EdDSA JWTs.

Verification

  • vp run check:changed passes.
  • Server cloud and relay tests: 228/228. Relay src: 305/305.
  • CloudLink.test mocks EnvironmentSigningKey: its secret-store mock can't create keys, and those tests never sign.

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Verdict: Approved at 6ea71c0

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Centralizes relay signing keys and reuses parsed keys while preserving existing token payloads and verification restrictions. The change introduces no apparent product-default, access-policy or key-persistence changes.

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The change adds environment and cloud-mint signing services. Cloud and relay components use these services to sign or verify JWTs. Shared JWT helpers accept PEM strings or imported EdDSA keys.

Changes: JWT signing and verification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reusable JWT key imports
packages/shared/src/relayJwt.ts, packages/shared/src/relayJwt.test.ts
Adds EdDSA PEM import helpers. Signing and verification accept PEM strings or imported keys, and the test checks rejection of an ES256 key.
Environment signing service and cloud proofs
apps/server/src/cloud/environmentKeys.ts, apps/server/src/cloud/CloudLink.ts, apps/server/src/relay/AgentAwarenessRelay.ts, apps/server/src/server.ts, apps/server/src/cloud/*test.ts, apps/server/src/relay/AgentAwarenessRelay.test.ts
Adds EnvironmentSigningKey and uses it to sign CloudLink and activity relay proofs. Runtime and test layers provide the service.
Cloud mint signing and verification
infra/relay/src/auth/CloudMintSigner.ts
Adds CloudMintSigner to lazily import and cache configured keys, then sign or verify relay JWTs.
Relay token and proof consumers
infra/relay/src/auth/RelayTokens.ts, infra/relay/src/auth/RelayTokens.test.ts, infra/relay/src/environments/EnvironmentConnector.ts, infra/relay/src/environments/EnvironmentConnector.test.ts, infra/relay/src/environments/EnvironmentLinker.test.ts, infra/relay/src/hooks/HookForwarder.ts, infra/relay/src/hooks/HookForwarder.test.ts, infra/relay/src/worker.ts
RelayTokens, EnvironmentConnector, and HookForwarder use CloudMintSigner. Test and runtime layers provide the service.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Refactor

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 9e33a

The new verification guard lacks a test for non-EdDSA keys; adding one would protect against future regressions.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 3 · Failed 1

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Title check Passed The title "refactor: hold relay signing keys in EnvironmentSigningKey and CloudMintSigner" names the two new services that carry the main change. The changeset adds these services, moves signing onto …
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The title "refactor: hold relay signing keys in EnvironmentSigningKey and CloudMintSigner" names the two new services that carry the main change. The changeset adds these services, moves signing onto them, and adds parse-on-first-use caching. The title is specific and follows conventional commit form, so it describes the primary change clearly.

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- Line 135: Update getOrCreateEnvironmentKeyPairFromSecretStore and its use in
EnvironmentKeys.layer so loading the stored key does not parse the private PEM
during server startup. Parse it lazily when a proof or signing operation needs
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The server re-read its environment key pair from the secret store on every
proof and re-parsed the PEM per signature; the relay re-parsed the cloud
mint key pair on every token it issued or verified. EnvironmentSigningKey
loads and parses the environment key once at startup. CloudMintSigner
parses the mint keys on first use and keeps them. relayJwt now also
accepts parsed keys.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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**v0.1.8-nightly.20261104.4192** · 10 changes from 1 contributor

**2 bug fixes.**

<details>
<summary>Full changelog</summary>

## What's Changed
* fix(relay): use released drizzle rc.5 and fail installs on unmet peers by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#31016
* build: typecheck with tsrs and Effect's rules through @effect/tsgo by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#31028
* refactor: replace jose with effect/jose by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#30474
* refactor: move HMAC, key, and random work to effect/crypto by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#30501
* refactor(server): sign server tokens through PayloadSigner by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#30523
* refactor: hold relay signing keys in EnvironmentSigningKey and CloudMintSigner by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#30529
* refactor(client-runtime): share DPoP proof creation across web and mobile by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#30540
* fix(client-runtime): a thread keeps syncing after a stream defect by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#31071
* test(server): AgentSessionScanner blocked-repo test no longer races the git-read timeout by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#30554
* test(web): PDF preview tests wait on pdf.js loads and stop timing out by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#31104


**Full Changelog**: pingdotgg/t3code@v0.1.8-nightly.20261104.4179...v0.1.8-nightly.20261104.4192

</details>


Upstream release: https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/releases/tag/v0.1.8-nightly.20261104.4192
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