WarpEngine: let the host say who a browser is

The access policy asks who the caller is, and until now only a bearer token
could answer. That is what a desktop client carries — but a person clicking a
download link on the site carries a session instead, and the engine has no idea
what a session is. So a host that gated its catalog found its own signed-in
visitors refused at /api/download, which is a regression the shadowed route used
to hide.

c.subject_resolver is a callable taking the Rack request and returning the
host's subject: `->(request) { request.env["warden"]&.user }` for a Devise app.
Unset — every deployment today — a non-bearer request stays anonymous, exactly
as before. A resolver that raises is logged and treated as anonymous, because a
broken one turning every read into a 500 is worse than an anonymous request.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -220,6 +220,9 @@ Rails.application.config.to_prepare do
# none: /api/auth/* answers 404 and GET /api/service reports auth: null.
# c.access_token_owner_class = "User"
# c.identity_verification_url = "/devices"
#
# How to recognise a caller with a session instead of a bearer token.
# c.subject_resolver = ->(request) { request.env["warden"]&.user }
# If your app's own models reference catalog images, register them so the
# admin Images page counts them as "in use":
@@ -465,6 +468,21 @@ The flow:
4. the client's next `POST /api/auth/device/token` carries the token away. It is
handed over exactly once and never stored in the clear afterwards.
### Recognising a browser
A bearer token is what a *client* carries; a browser carries a session, and the
engine has no idea what a session is. A host that wants its signed-in visitors
recognised on these endpoints too — so that clicking a download link on the site
works the same way the client's download does — says how:
```ruby
c.subject_resolver = ->(request) { request.env["warden"]&.user }
```
Without one, a request with no bearer token is anonymous, which is what the
read-only API always did. A resolver that raises is logged and treated as
anonymous rather than taking the request down with it.
The token is a `WarpEngine::ApplicationToken` with the `catalog` scope, sent as
`Authorization: Bearer …`. `DELETE /api/auth/token` revokes it (signing out),
and the admin lists both kinds of token and the sign-ins behind them.