fix(builder): unlock BYOK passkey on the click, not mid-send

[jherr]

Problem

Builder BYOK stores the AI API key encrypted in IndexedDB, with the AES key derived from a WebAuthn PRF passkey ceremony. Using a saved key needs an unlock: a navigator.credentials.get() call to decrypt it.

Safari and Dia (Chromium) only surface the passkey prompt while transient user activation is fresh (right after a click). Activation expires (~5s) and is dropped across async work. The unlock ran deep in the async send pipeline (runPrompt -> byok.prepare()), well past the activation window, so the prompt was silently suppressed — no UI, the get() never resolved, the send stalled.

Symptoms reported: "1Password isn't picking it up," repeated key prompts, and accumulating passkeys.

Diagnosis (how we confirmed it)

Live probes on tanstack.com/builder:

• 1Password and Touch ID both support PRF and return results at create(). The crypto path is fine.
• create() (save) works because it runs right after the click.
• get() (unlock) called from a fresh click -> prompt appears. Called after a 6s delay -> no prompt, never resolves. That is the exact failure.

Fix

Run the unlock in the submit click handler, before any await, while activation is fresh; bail if it stays locked. The send pipeline then finds the key already unlocked (no second ceremony).

async function submit(event: React.FormEvent) {
  event.preventDefault()
  if (selectedModel.connection === 'byok') {
    await unlockApiKey(selectedModel.provider)
    const client = byokConnection.getClient(selectedModel.provider, { allowUnlock: false })
    if (!client) return
  }
  submitInstruction(prompt, sendMode, true)
}

Companion SDK change

@tanstack/ai-client gets a defensive guard (separate PR in TanStack/ai): passkeyStorage now throws a clear, catchable error when the unlock runs without user activation, instead of hanging forever.

Test plan

• pnpm test:tsc and pnpm lint:code pass.
• Manual: in Dia/Safari with a saved passkey-encrypted BYOK key, send a message -> passkey prompt now appears and the send proceeds. Cancelling the prompt aborts the send cleanly instead of stalling.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Prevented duplicate form submissions while passkey unlocking is in progress.
  • Ensured submissions continue using the selected provider even if the selection changes during unlocking.
  • Passkey-encrypted credentials are now unlocked when submitting the form.
  • Form submission is stopped and an error is shown if unlocking fails, is canceled, or the key remains unavailable.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The builder submit handler now prevents duplicate BYOK submissions during passkey unlocking, preserves the selected provider across the asynchronous operation, and reports when the client remains unavailable.

Changes

BYOK submission flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Unlock BYOK key before dispatch src/components/builder/BuilderAssistant.client.tsx	The submit handler tracks an in-flight unlock, ignores repeated submissions, captures the provider before awaiting, and sets an error when no client is available.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 541af

The submit flow now unlocks saved BYOK passkeys during the user action, prevents duplicate unlock attempts, and reports unavailable clients. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/components/builder/BuilderAssistant.client.tsx`:
- Line 1398: Update the submission flow around unlockApiKey so an in-flight
submission is tracked while the async unlock is pending, preventing duplicate
submissions and disabling or guarding form and model-picker changes during that
window. Revalidate the selected model and submitInstruction continuation after
unlock completes so it cannot proceed with stale state.
- Line 1404: Update the no-client early-return path in the composer flow around
unlockApiKey so cancellation or unlock failures are surfaced to the user before
returning. Set the existing error state or queueAnnouncement with the failure
message when client is unavailable, while preserving the normal send behavior
when a client exists.

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[jherr]

Addressed both CodeRabbit findings in 541af78:

• Major (async unlock window): added an unlockingRef in-flight guard so a repeat submit during the pending passkey ceremony is ignored, and read provider once before the await so a mid-await model change can't retarget the unlock.
• Minor (silent abort): on the still-locked path, set error ("Could not unlock the API key. Try again.") instead of returning silently.

Kept it to the re-entrancy guard rather than fully disabling the model picker during unlock, to keep the diff minimal. test:tsc and lint:code pass.