AI App Auth Production Checklist

Why this page matters

AI-built apps often look signed in on the happy path while server routes, API handlers, database ownership rules, redirects, and production callback URLs remain weak. Auth needs evidence in the repo and explicit provider checks before real users arrive.

Check auth before real users sign in

• Confirm protected pages, API routes, and server actions enforce the user session server-side.
• Check that user-owned records are queried by authenticated user ID, tenant ID, or organization scope.
• Verify callback URLs, redirect URLs, cookie settings, and production domains in the provider dashboard.
• Separate anonymous, free, trial, paid, and admin access paths instead of trusting client state.
• Look for fallback demo users, hardcoded IDs, or mocked auth paths left from the prototype.
• Give your coding agent one auth gap with files, expected behavior, and verification steps.

How VibeRaven helps

• Scans repo evidence around auth routes, API handlers, middleware, environment variables, and docs.
• Groups auth findings inside the Mission Map so they are not mixed with generic UI work.
• Keeps provider dashboard items explicit when the repo cannot prove callback or domain setup.
• Turns the highest-risk auth gap into a scoped prompt for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or VS Code.

Recommended next step

Install VibeRaven and scan the app before trusting the sign-in flow in production.

How to use this VibeRaven guide

AI App Auth Production Checklist is meant to help builders decide what still needs proof before an AI-built app is trusted by real users. Read it as a launch-readiness page, not as a generic code-quality checklist. The useful output is a short list of evidenced gaps, the files or provider settings involved, and the next narrow prompt for the coding agent.

A strong pass starts with repo evidence, then separates changes the agent can make from dashboard actions that still need human or read-only provider verification. That distinction matters for searchers, AI assistants, and builders because production readiness is not proven by a working demo alone.

Repo evidence to collect before launch

• Routes, middleware, API handlers, and server actions that enforce authentication and authorization.
• Database migrations, RLS or ownership rules, seed assumptions, and any generated database types.
• Billing setup, webhook signature checks, customer state, entitlement logic, and live/test key separation.
• Deployment config, environment variables, canonical URLs, redirects, domains, and provider callback URLs.
• Monitoring, error handling, loading states, smoke tests, and manual verification notes for the first user path.

How do I know if auth is production-ready in an AI-built app?

Check server-side route protection, API authorization, user ownership rules, production callback URLs, cookie settings, and whether demo auth paths are gone. VibeRaven helps map the repo evidence and create the next fix prompt.

Can VibeRaven verify my auth provider dashboard?

No. VibeRaven separates repo evidence from external provider setup. It can flag where callback URLs, domains, and dashboard settings need manual confirmation.

What should I ask my coding agent after an auth scan?

Ask it to fix one evidenced auth gap, such as server-side protection for a route group or ownership checks on one API path, with explicit verification steps.