Proposal: Canton Auth Dev Harness
Development Fund Proposal Submission
Proposal file:
/proposals/canton-auth-dev-harness.md
Summary
This proposal requests funding for Canton Auth Dev Harness, a focused open-source toolkit for local JWT/OIDC development and testing in Canton applications. It standardizes local auth setup, test-token generation, claims presets, integration examples, and CI-ready fixtures so teams do not have to rebuild the same auth scaffolding in every project.
Checklist
- Proposal file added under
/proposals/ - Milestones and funding amounts defined
- Acceptance criteria included
- Alignment with Canton priorities described
Notes for Reviewers
This proposal is intentionally narrow and scoped to avoid overlap with broader deployment, admin-console, and wallet efforts.
It focuses on one repeated workflow gap after node setup: local auth-enabled development and testing. The deliverable is a reusable harness for JWT/OIDC startup, test-token generation, claims presets, middleware examples, CI fixtures, and diagnostics for common misconfiguration cases.
The main differentiators are:
- focused on local development and integration testing, not production auth hosting
- centered on reusable token, claims, and middleware workflows rather than user-management UI
- useful across multiple Canton app teams without changing protocol behavior
- priced and scoped as a focused public-good developer tool