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John O'Keefe 8fbacd9f46 feat(devices): pairing codes replace the registration broadcast
A pending device registration used to be announced to EVERY account's
Devices page, and whoever clicked Approve first bound the device — and
its freshly minted sync token — to their account. Worse, the pending
card displayed the registration UUID, which is also the bearer
credential on the unauthenticated /api/devices/register/status poll
channel: any family user who could see the list already held everything
needed to take the device. On a family server that is a
wrong-account-binding bug (accidental or deliberate); this commit
removes the class of problem rather than patching the race.

The new model is the Netflix/YouTube TV device flow: the registering
device displays a 6-digit pairing code, and the only person who can
read it — whoever holds the device — types it into THEIR account on the
Devices page. Possession of the device screen becomes the credential;
nothing is broadcast; the reject-on-someone-else's-behalf hole dies
with the list.

Server changes:
- POST /api/devices/register now mints pairing_code (crypto/rand,
  rejection-sampled for uniformity, collision-checked against live
  registrations) and retires prior unclaimed registrations with the
  same device_identifier, so re-registering leaves exactly one live
  attempt.
- POST /api/devices/claim (JWT) binds the registration behind a code to
  the caller's account, reusing the rotate-or-create approval logic
  factored out of ApproveDevice (shared bindRegistrationToUser helper;
  the Android self-approval route keeps working unchanged).
- POST /api/devices/claim/lookup (JWT) returns the confirm-card data
  without binding. Lookup and claim share a per-account budget (12
  attempts/min, DeviceRateLimiter gained a claim case) — the 1M-code
  space over a 5-minute TTL makes guessing infeasible without it.
- POST /api/devices/register/cancel lets the registering device end its
  own attempt (registration UUID bearer, idempotent, never touches a
  claimed registration).
- ListPendingRegistrations / GetPendingRegistrationsData are
  deprecated-by-emptiness: unclaimed registrations return to nobody.
- RejectDevice and its route are deleted — the broadcast list was its
  only consumer, and there is nothing left for anyone to reject.

Additive-only for pinned surfaces: the register response gains
pairing_code (Android DTO untouched), the four KOReader sync surfaces
and approve keep byte-identical shapes. contract_pins.md changelog
records the widening and the reject removal. Docs, schema registry, and
bruno mirrors move together per the drift gate; bruno_gen.go now keeps
hand-authored bruno/podcasts/ (API docs never existed for them, so the
next -update run would have swept them — latent landmine, defused).

Unit tests: code shape, live-collision avoidance, typed-code
normalization, and the resolve scopes (live/expired/claimed/miss).
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---
method: POST
path: /api/devices/register
auth: none
area: devices
---
<!-- source: internal/handlers/devices.go:123 DeviceHandler.InitiateRegistration -->
# Register Device
Register a new device for sync.
**Endpoint**: `POST /api/devices/register`
**Auth**: Not required (device registration flow)
**Content-Type**: `application/json`
## Request Body
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| ----------------- | ------ | -------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| device_name | string | Yes | Device name |
| device_type | string | Yes | Device type: kobo, koreader, web, mobile |
| device_identifier | string | Yes | Hardware-specific ID |
### Example Request
```json example-request
{
"device_name": "My Kobo Clara",
"device_type": "kobo",
"device_identifier": "hardware-specific-id"
}
```
## Response (201 Created)
```json example-response
{
"device_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
"registration_id": "registration-uuid",
"auth_url": "https://bookhoard.com/devices/approve/abc123",
"qr_code": "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KG...",
"pairing_code": "583912",
"expires_in": 300,
"poll_interval": 3,
"setup_instructions": {
"koreader": "Calibre URL: https://bookhoard.com/api/sync/koreader"
}
}
```
`pairing_code` is the claim credential: the registering device displays it, and the
only person who can pair the device is whoever reads it (they type it into the
Devices page of THEIR account — `POST /api/devices/claim`). Unclaimed registrations
appear in no account's pending list, so there is no first-approver race.
Registrations expire after 5 minutes; re-registering the same `device_identifier`
retires the earlier attempt. Poll `POST /api/devices/register/status` at
`poll_interval` seconds until `status` is `approved`, at which point the response
includes the device's `auth_token`, `device_id`, and `sync_endpoints`.
## Error Responses
| Code | Description |
| ---- | ------------------------- |
| 400 | Invalid device data |
| 409 | Device already registered |