chrome-service: grant emo shared browser access (noVNC + homelab browser CLI)
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Viktor asked to give emo access to the cluster's headed Chrome so he can fill
in forms and get past anti-bot / captcha pages. emo was deliberately locked
out of chrome-service (noVNC Authentik allowlist was Viktor-only + his
power-user RBAC has no pods/portforward). Viktor's explicit decision: SHARE
his existing browser rather than stand up an isolated per-user instance,
accepting that emo can therefore reach Viktor's warmed logged-in sessions
(CDP has no per-context auth, so the single shared persistent profile is
reachable by anyone who can drive the browser). emo's CLI use is hands-off
(his agent can run it unattended).

- authentik: add emo (emil.barzin / emil.barzin@gmail.com) to CHROME_ALLOWED
  so the admin-services-restriction policy admits him to chrome.viktorbarzin.me
  (noVNC). Reverses the prior Viktor-only lock; comment updated to record why.
- chrome-service/rbac.tf (new): emo-browser ServiceAccount + long-lived token
  (dashboard-sa.tf pattern), a chrome-service-portforward Role granting
  pods/portforward, and a cluster read-only binding (oidc-power-user-readonly)
  so the SA can resolve the Service and emo's normal read access doesn't regress.
- t3-provision-users.sh: install_browser_kubeconfig installs a dual-context
  kubeconfig for any user with a <user>-browser SA — SA token as the default
  context (non-interactive, works headless), personal OIDC retained as the
  oidc@homelab named context. emo's OIDC-only kubeconfig can't authenticate the
  headless agent session that homelab browser needs.
- docs/architecture/chrome-service.md: document the shared-browser multi-user
  access model, the session-exposure trade-off, and how to grant/revoke a user.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -293,6 +293,42 @@ Key facts:
byte-identical copy of `files/stealth.js`, guarded by a drift test — so the
CLI's stealth never diverges from the in-cluster callers'.
## Multi-user access (sharing the browser)
There is ONE chrome-service browser with ONE persistent profile, warmed with
**Viktor's** logged-in sessions. CDP has no per-context auth, so anyone who can
drive the browser — over the noVNC view OR the CDP/`homelab browser` path — can
reach the persistent profile (`browser.contexts[0]`) and therefore Viktor's
sessions. Access is gated accordingly, per user.
**Decision (2026-06-28):** emo (`emil.barzin` / `emil.barzin@gmail.com`) SHARES
Viktor's browser for form-filling + captcha solving, rather than getting an
isolated instance. The session-exposure trade-off above was explicitly accepted.
Two independent grants make up "browser access" for a user:
1. **noVNC (interactive view, `chrome.viktorbarzin.me`)** — gated by the Authentik
`admin-services-restriction` policy: the `CHROME_ALLOWED` set
(`stacks/authentik/admin-services-restriction.tf`) matches the user's Authentik
username OR email. Add the user there. No kubeconfig/RBAC needed.
2. **CLI (`homelab browser`, CDP over port-forward)** — needs `pods/portforward`
in `chrome-service` PLUS a non-interactive credential (a normal devvm user's
kubeconfig is interactive-OIDC-only and can't authenticate a headless agent
session). Provided by a per-user **ServiceAccount** with a long-lived token
(`stacks/chrome-service/rbac.tf`, e.g. `emo-browser`): `pods/portforward` in
this namespace + cluster read-only (`oidc-power-user-readonly`, so it can also
resolve the Service and doesn't regress the user's normal read). The devvm
provisioner (`scripts/t3-provision-users.sh``install_browser_kubeconfig`)
reads that token and installs it as the user's DEFAULT kubeconfig context
(`<user>-browser@homelab`), keeping their personal OIDC login as the
`oidc@homelab` named context. The SA's existence is the source of truth for who
gets the CLI — the provisioner no-ops for users without a `<user>-browser` SA.
**To grant another user:** add them to `CHROME_ALLOWED` (noVNC) and/or add a
`<user>-browser` SA + bindings mirroring `emo-browser` in `rbac.tf` (CLI), then run
the provisioner. To revoke: remove from `CHROME_ALLOWED` and delete the SA (rotate
a token by deleting its `<user>-browser-token` Secret).
## Limits + risks
- **Anti-bot vs stealth arms race** — when an upstream beats us (DRM