fix: change default credential store from Keyring to Auto#31
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Auto tries the system keychain first and transparently falls back to an unencrypted file when the keychain backend is unavailable. This fixes auth on headless Linux and WSL2 environments where no keychain daemon is running, without any configuration change required by the user. Keyring remains available via --credential-store keyring or config. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🤖 I have created a release *beep* *boop* --- ## [0.3.4](cli-engine-v0.3.3...cli-engine-v0.3.4) (2026-06-29) ### Bug Fixes * change default credential store from Keyring to Auto ([#31](#31)) ([ccca021](ccca021)) * step up OAuth scopes for under-scoped tokens in non-interactive sessions ([#34](#34)) ([9b82ee0](9b82ee0)) --- This PR was generated with [Release Please](https://github.com/googleapis/release-please). See [documentation](https://github.com/googleapis/release-please#release-please). Co-authored-by: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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CredentialStorefromKeyringtoAutoAutotries the system keychain first and transparently falls back to an unencrypted file when the keychain is unavailableKeyringremains available via--credential-store keyringor config fileBackground
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Autobackend was already implemented and documented as the recommended mode for WSL/headless environments (the source comments say so explicitly). The only problem was that the default wasKeyring, which hard-fails when no keychain daemon is present. This surfaces as a confusing error duringauth loginon WSL2.Autois strictly better as a default on all platforms: on macOS/Windows it uses the keychain as before; on headless Linux/WSL2 it falls back to a file rather than failing.Test plan
cargo test --features pkce-auth)default_keyring_mode_ignores_credential_filerenamed toexplicit_keyring_mode_ignores_credential_fileand updated to use--credential-store keyringexplicitly, preserving coverage of keyring-only behaviour🤖 Generated with Claude Code