Point and shoot. SeancePage no longer redirects a stranger to /enter; it
silently provisions a wanderer (POST /auth/guest, a real account) and drops
them straight into the séance. The landing CTA goes to /seance
unconditionally. Registering is now what it should always have been: how
you *keep* a codex and unlock device pairing — not the toll to get in.
Details that matter:
- One auto-attempt only, guarded by a ref: survives StrictMode's double
effect, and a failure (rate limit, offline) doesn't retry forever.
- The loading veil covers provisioning, so there's no flash of an empty
séance while the account is created.
- If provisioning genuinely fails, it falls back to /enter rather than a
blank screen — the manual door still exists.
- A returning visitor already holds a cookie, so this never fires for them.
App.test's "sends anonymous visitors to /enter" assertion was inverted to
assert the open door instead — that test encoded the wall we just removed.
Verified live: POST /auth/guest returns wanderer-a6f1 and that cookie
authenticates on /auth/me. 366 frontend tests pass; i18n parity holds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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