feat: add JWT authentication and gate the quiz flow

[krishhimself]

Summary

JWT auth across backend and frontend, following the existing layering: primitives in
core/, a repository that is the only thing touching the users collection, a
service holding the logic, and a thin endpoint module that only maps outcomes to
status codes.

Why this matters beyond "add login"

user_id previously arrived in the body of /quiz/generate, so any caller could
attribute an attempt to anyone. It is now removed from QuizGenerateRequest entirely
and taken from the token subject.

test_generate_attributes_the_quiz_to_the_token_not_the_body sends
user_id: "somebody-else" in the body with a token for real-user, and asserts the
service receives real-user.

Scope note: all three quiz routes are gated, not just submit

The spec asked for submit. But user_id only ever arrived on generate, so gating
submit alone would have left the forgeable attribution in place. All of
/generate, /submit, /followup now require a token.

Live verification

Against the real backend and real Atlas, spending zero Gemini quota — step 8 uses
a nonexistent quiz, so a 404 proves auth passed without generating anything:

1. register            -> 201  token issued
2. register duplicate  -> 409  "That email is already registered."
3. login (UPPERCASE)   -> 200  token issued          <- email folding works
4. login wrong pw      -> 401  "Incorrect email or password."
5. login unknown email -> 401  "Incorrect email or password."   <- identical to #4
6. submit NO token     -> 401
7. submit BAD token    -> 401
8. submit GOOD token   -> 404  <- gate passed a valid token through

Stored document:

fields          : ['_id', 'created_at', 'email', 'hashed_password', 'role']
hash prefix     : $2b$12$  (bcrypt)
plaintext absent: True

Test user deleted afterward.

Security choices

• Login cannot enumerate accounts. Unknown email and wrong password return
  byte-identical 401s; a test asserts the responses are indistinguishable.
• Passwords over 72 bytes are rejected, not truncated. bcrypt silently ignores
  everything past that boundary — a password whose tail never mattered is worse than
  a rejected one.
• A corrupt stored hash is a failed login, not a 500, so a bad row cannot be used
  to probe the endpoint.
• alg: none is rejected, along with expired, tampered, and foreign-secret tokens.

Dependency problem worth reviewing

passlib[bcrypt] as specified does not work on current versions. passlib 1.7.4
(last released 2020) probes bcrypt.__about__, removed in 4.1; against bcrypt 5.x
its backend self-test fails outright with password cannot be longer than 72 bytes,
breaking hashing entirely rather than degrading.

Kept passlib as specified, pinned bcrypt<5, verified on 4.3.0. Its
trapped-exception traceback is silenced so it stops printing on every boot.

The cost is a pinned crypto dependency behind an unmaintained wrapper. Dropping
passlib for bcrypt directly, or pwdlib (its maintained successor), is contained to
core/security.py.

Frontend

Token lives in shared/api/token.js, not the auth feature — the request client needs
it, and importing a feature from shared would invert the layering. The client
attaches the header automatically so no feature has to remember, and clears the token
on any 401 so the UI cannot insist it is logged in while every call fails. QuizPage
hands control back to App on a 401 rather than showing an error the user cannot act
on.

Two gaps left open, deliberately

Email uniqueness is racy. register_user does a read-before-write, so concurrent
signups with the same address can both succeed. models/user.py carries the fix:

db.users.create_index("email", unique=True)

Creating indexes is a migration concern rather than something to bury in a service call.

No ownership check on quiz attempts. A logged-in user can submit against any
quiz_id they know. Auth establishes who you are; it does not yet enforce that the
quiz is yours. Given the anonymous-first profiles on the roadmap, that model is a
decision rather than an oversight — but it is a real IDOR today.

Verification

93 tests pass (83 backend, 10 frontend), vite build clean. 32 new backend tests
across test_security.py and test_auth_api.py.

Pre-existing quiz API tests now run through an authenticated client; rejection of
missing and bad tokens is covered separately in test_auth_api.py.

Not verified: the interactive browser flow — the Chrome extension would not
connect. The login and register forms have never been submitted in a browser.

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