hayate-auth 0.2.0

Authentication for hayate as a pure fetch(Request) -> Response handler: email+password, sessions, CSRF

hayate-auth

Standards-first authentication for hayate — a mountable, better-auth-style auth handler built on the WHATWG Request/Response model.

Status: alpha (0.2.x). Email+password, sessions, CSRF, email verification, and password reset are implemented and attack-regression-tested; a generate CLI and a Cloudflare D1 adapter ship too. OAuth (PKCE) is next, gated on hayate-fetch reaching PyPI. Not yet security-audited — see SECURITY.md. The internal design memo (Japanese) lives in DESIGN.md.

import os

from hayate import Hayate
from hayate_auth import Auth
from hayate_auth.adapters.sqlite import SQLiteAdapter

adapter = SQLiteAdapter("app.db")
adapter.create_tables()

auth = Auth(secret=os.environ["AUTH_SECRET"], adapter=adapter)

app = Hayate()
auth.register(app)  # serves /api/auth/* (sign-up, sign-in, session, ...)

@app.get("/me", auth.require_session())
async def me(c):
    return c.json(c.get("user"))

The same file runs under any ASGI server and on Cloudflare Python Workers — see examples/todo.

Endpoints

Method / path (under /api/auth)	Purpose
POST /sign-up/email	Register with email + password, start a session
POST /sign-in/email	Verify credentials, start a session
GET /get-session	Current {user, session} (or nulls)
POST /sign-out	Revoke the session server-side
POST /forget-password → /reset-password	Reset flow via a one-shot hashed token
GET /verify-email	Confirm an email with a one-shot token

Email delivery is your callback (send_reset_password / send_verification_email); the core mints and verifies tokens but never builds URLs or sends mail. Generate migration DDL with python -m hayate_auth generate --dialect sqlite|postgres|d1.

Why

• Python has no equivalent of better-auth: a framework-agnostic, self-hosted, schema-owning auth library. django-allauth is Django-only; fastapi-users is in maintenance mode.
• better-auth works on every JS framework because its core is a single fetch(Request) -> Response handler. hayate is the only Python framework whose user-facing surface is WHATWG Request/Response — so that architecture finally maps 1:1 to Python.
• Zero-dependency core (its only dependency is hayate, itself zero-dependency). Databases, KDFs, and email are injected protocols.

Security posture

• Passwords: scrypt at OWASP parameters (N=2^17, r=8, p=1) on every runtime, PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 (600k) fallback; PHC-style strings make the backends mutually verifiable. Length-only policy per NIST SP 800-63B.
• Sessions: opaque 256-bit tokens, only their SHA-256 stored; __Host--prefixed HttpOnly SameSite=Lax cookies on HTTPS.
• CSRF: SameSite + Origin (RFC 6454) + Fetch Metadata — no token embedding.
• Sign-in failures are uniform in body and KDF timing (enumeration defense).
• Coverage ledger: docs/asvs.md (OWASP ASVS V6/V7, ratcheted).
• You must rate-limit /api/auth/* (hayate middleware or your infrastructure): brute-force throttling is deliberately out of core.

License

MIT