fix(hub): MHP binds its audience, and the hub knows its own name

Federation has never worked between two hubs, and the tests said so without
anyone reading it that way.

`federation.py` did `from meshbay_hub.auth import _hub_id, _hub_sk_pem` at
import — which is before `load_hub_keypair` runs. So it held the key as
`None` and the identity as the module default: `_issue_mhp_token` could only
raise, and `/mhp/info`, the directory export and every token announced this
instance as `meshbay.org` whatever it was configured as. Read through
accessors now, at call time.

And `_verify_mhp_token` named no audience while `_issue_mhp_token` sets one.
PyJWT refuses a token carrying `aud` when decode is given none, so every
token this hub issues was rejected by every hub running this code. Naming the
audience fixes that and makes the binding real: a token minted for one peer
is refused by another, which is what stops a captured request being replayed
at a third hub. The comment claiming audience binding was unavailable because
"the sending side is unbuilt" was describing a function four lines below it.

Both were already written down. `test_federation.py` built envelopes by hand
without an `aud`; `test_public_groups_toggle.py` signed its own token with a
comment saying `_issue_mhp_token` "binds `_hub_sk_pem` at import time, before
the lifespan loads it, so it cannot be used from a test", and another saying
PyJWT rejects a token carrying `aud` when decode is given none. Both
observations were exactly right, and both were treated as facts to route
around. When a test has to work around the code to run, the thing it worked
around is the finding. Those helpers now go through the real issuer, and two
tests pin the identity and the audience refusal.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T4YmK41VsEURWFdop4EEeT

2 files changed, 72 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_federation.py b/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_federation.py
index 6035b0c..54f86a7 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_federation.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_federation.py
@@ -48,10 +48,23 @@ class Peer:
             serialization.Encoding.PEM, serialization.PrivateFormat.PKCS8,
             serialization.NoEncryption())
 
-    def envelope(self, jti: str | None = None) -> str:
+    def envelope(self, jti: str | None = None, audience: str | None = None) -> str:
+        """The shape `federation._issue_mhp_token` actually emits.
+
+        This used to omit `aud`, and so tested a token production never sends:
+        the verifier names an audience, and PyJWT refuses a token carrying
+        `aud` when the caller names none — which meant MHP could not complete
+        one authenticated request between two real hubs while this file stayed
+        green. A fixture narrower than the real thing tests the fixture.
+        """
+        # Read from the module rather than written down here: the receiving
+        # hub's id is what `aud` has to carry, and a copy of it in a test is a
+        # second place for it to drift from.
+        from meshbay_hub.auth import _hub_id
+
         now = int(time.time())
         return jwt.encode(
-            {"iss": self.hub_id, "sub": self.hub_id,
+            {"iss": self.hub_id, "sub": self.hub_id, "aud": audience or _hub_id,
              "jti": jti or str(uuid.uuid4()), "iat": now, "exp": now + 300},
             self._sk_pem(), algorithm="EdDSA")
 
@@ -177,3 +190,50 @@ async def test_federation_cannot_revoke_a_user(client):
     r = await client.post("/mhp/revoke", headers=peer.header(),
                           json={"token": peer.revocation("user", "some-user-id")})
     assert r.status_code == 202 and r.json()["pruned"] == 0
+
+
+# ── The hub's own identity, and the audience it binds ────────────────────────
+#
+# MHP could not complete one authenticated request between two real hubs, and
+# nothing said so: `_issue_mhp_token` sets `aud`, `_verify_mhp_token` named no
+# audience, and PyJWT refuses a token carrying `aud` when the caller names
+# none. This file stayed green because its envelopes were built by hand
+# without one — a fixture narrower than what production emits tests the
+# fixture. Underneath that, `federation.py` bound `_hub_id` and `_hub_sk_pem`
+# at import, which is *before* `load_hub_keypair` runs: it signed with `None`
+# and called itself `meshbay.org` whatever the instance was named.
+
+
+def test_the_hub_issues_tokens_under_its_configured_identity(app):
+    """Driven through the real issuer, which is the half no test called."""
+    from meshbay_hub.api.federation import _issue_mhp_token
+    from meshbay_hub.auth import hub_id
+
+    assert hub_id() == "test-hub", "the fixture hub is not configured"
+
+    token = jwt.decode(_issue_mhp_token("peer-hub"),
+                       options={"verify_signature": False})
+    assert token["iss"] == "test-hub", (
+        "the hub announced an identity that is not its own")
+    assert token["aud"] == "peer-hub"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_a_token_for_another_hub_is_refused(client):
+    """What the audience binding is for: a token captured here must not be
+    replayable at a peer, and one minted for a peer must not work here."""
+    admin = await _admin(client)
+    peer = Peer("peer-elsewhere.test")
+    await _register_peer(client, admin, peer)
+
+    r = await client.post(
+        "/mhp/directory",
+        headers={"Authorization":
+                 f"Bearer {peer.envelope(audience='some-other-hub.test')}"},
+        json={"hub_id": peer.hub_id, "groups": []})
+    assert r.status_code == 401, r.text
+
+    r = await client.post(
+        "/mhp/directory", headers=peer.header(),
+        json={"hub_id": peer.hub_id, "groups": []})
+    assert r.status_code == 202, r.text
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_public_groups_toggle.py b/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_public_groups_toggle.py
index 0d36b99..e52fa85 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_public_groups_toggle.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_public_groups_toggle.py
@@ -212,24 +212,19 @@ async def test_disabled_hands_a_non_member_no_node(client, db_session):
 
 
 def _mhp_token(hub_id):
-    """A peer-hub JWT, signed with the running hub's own key.
+    """A peer-hub JWT — from the hub's own issuer, which is the point.
 
-    `federation._issue_mhp_token` binds `_hub_sk_pem` at import time, before the
-    lifespan loads it, so it cannot be used from a test. This signs directly.
+    This used to sign by hand, and its two comments recorded, accurately, the
+    reasons it had to: `_issue_mhp_token` bound `_hub_sk_pem` at import, before
+    the lifespan loads it, so it signed with `None`; and it sets an `aud` that
+    the verifier named no audience for, which PyJWT refuses outright. Both were
+    written down here as facts to route around rather than as the defects they
+    were — between them MHP could not complete one authenticated request
+    between two real hubs. Fixed at the source, so this can call it.
     """
-    import time
-    import uuid
+    from meshbay_hub.api.federation import _issue_mhp_token
 
-    import jwt
-    from meshbay_hub import auth as hub_auth
-
-    now = int(time.time())
-    # No `aud`: export_directory verifies without an expected audience, and PyJWT
-    # rejects a token that carries `aud` when decode() is given none.
-    return jwt.encode(
-        {"iss": hub_id, "sub": hub_id,
-         "jti": str(uuid.uuid4()), "iat": now, "exp": now + 300},
-        hub_auth._hub_sk_pem, algorithm="EdDSA")
+    return _issue_mhp_token(hub_id)
 
 
 @pytest.mark.asyncio