Speak as the account you logged in with, or not at all

Logging in with a remote signer and reloading left the app showing your
avatar and profile while signing everything with the wallet's own key —
so chat messages arrived under a different npub with a stranger's punk
on them. identity() had a fallback: when the login signer wasn't
available it quietly used the wallet key instead. That fallback is gone.
If you logged in as a nostr account, the app speaks as that account or
it refuses and says so.

Refusing is only reasonable if the signer usually comes back, so a login
now persists what it takes to be that identity again. A remote signer
stores its NIP-46 client key and pointer — the signer authorised that
client key, not one page load, so rebuilding from it resumes the session
without prompting. A pasted key stores the key, which is already the
seed of everything here since the wallet's mnemonic derives from it.
Resume is single-flight with a pause after failure, because identity()
is asked on every send and a signer that isn't answering must not mean a
relay connection per keystroke.

Existing remote-signer logins predate the stored session, so they need
one more sign-in to become resumable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wvj4aoeMZwA7VUGdJP9Swi

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+// Who the chat speaks as. If you logged in with a nostr account, everything
+// this app signs must be signed by THAT account — the alternative is what
+// people actually saw: their own avatar in the header, and their messages
+// arriving under the wallet key's pubkey, looking like a stranger.
+// Run: bun tools/identity-test.js
+import { generateSecretKey, getPublicKey } from 'nostr-tools/pure';
+import { messagesFeature } from '../src/features/messages.js';
+
+let fails = 0;
+const check = (name, ok, detail = '') => {
+  console.log(` ${ok ? '✓' : '✗'} ${name}${detail ? ' — ' + String(detail).slice(0, 120) : ''}`);
+  if (!ok) fails++;
+};
+
+globalThis.localStorage = {
+  _d: {}, getItem(k) { return this._d[k] ?? null; }, setItem(k, v) { this._d[k] = String(v); },
+  removeItem(k) { delete this._d[k]; }, key(i) { return Object.keys(this._d)[i] ?? null; },
+  get length() { return Object.keys(this._d).length; },
+};
+globalThis.fetch = async () => { throw new Error('offline'); };
+
+const walletSk = generateSecretKey();
+const walletPk = getPublicKey(walletSk);
+const loginSk = generateSecretKey();
+const loginPk = getPublicKey(loginSk);
+
+// Build the feature with a given login situation and see which key it would
+// sign a profile with — publishProfile is the shortest path through identity().
+function build({ login, resume }) {
+  const store = {};
+  const signed = [];
+  const wallet = {
+    mnemonic: 'x '.repeat(11) + 'y', utxos: [], txs: [],
+    nostr: { sk: walletSk, pk: walletPk, ck: new Uint8Array(32) },
+    loadFeatureState: (n, fb) => JSON.parse(store[n] || 'null') || fb,
+    saveFeatureState: (n, s) => { store[n] = JSON.stringify(s); },
+    _cacheKey: () => 'identity-test', saveCache: () => {},
+    registerCacheExtension: () => {}, registerLoadHook: () => {},
+  };
+  const feature = messagesFeature({
+    h: (tag, attrs, ...kids) => ({ tag, attrs, kids }),
+    ui: {}, render: () => {}, wallet, toast: () => {}, brandHeader: () => null,
+    hook: (name) => {
+      if (name === 'nostrLoginIdentity') return login;
+      if (name === 'nostrLoginResume') return resume;
+      return null;
+    },
+  });
+  return { feature, signed };
+}
+
+console.log('[logged in with nostr, signer live]');
+{
+  const signer = { pubkey: loginPk, signEvent: async (e) => ({ ...e, pubkey: loginPk, id: 'x', sig: 'y' }) };
+  const { feature } = build({ login: { pubkey: loginPk, signer }, resume: null });
+  let signedBy = null;
+  try { await feature.publishProfile({ name: 'me' }); } catch (e) { signedBy = e.message; }
+  // it fails at the relay (offline), but only AFTER choosing an identity —
+  // what matters is that it never refused for want of one
+  check('does not refuse for want of an identity', !/signer isn't connected/i.test(signedBy || ''), signedBy || 'reached the relay');
+}
+
+console.log('\n[logged in with nostr, signer lost to a reload]');
+{
+  const { feature } = build({ login: { pubkey: loginPk, signer: null }, resume: null });
+  let err = null;
+  try { await feature.publishProfile({ name: 'me' }); } catch (e) { err = e.message; }
+  check('refuses rather than signing as someone else', /signer isn't connected/i.test(err || ''), err || 'no error!');
+}
+
+console.log('\n[logged in with nostr, signer resumes]');
+{
+  const signer = { pubkey: loginPk, signEvent: async (e) => ({ ...e, pubkey: loginPk, id: 'x', sig: 'y' }) };
+  const { feature } = build({ login: { pubkey: loginPk, signer: null }, resume: Promise.resolve(signer) });
+  let err = null;
+  try { await feature.publishProfile({ name: 'me' }); } catch (e) { err = e.message; }
+  check('a resumed signer is accepted', !/signer isn't connected/i.test(err || ''), err || 'reached the relay');
+}
+
+console.log('\n[no nostr login at all]');
+{
+  const { feature } = build({ login: null, resume: null });
+  let err = null;
+  try { await feature.publishProfile({ name: 'me' }); } catch (e) { err = e.message; }
+  check('the wallet key still speaks for a plain seed wallet', !/signer isn't connected/i.test(err || ''), err || 'reached the relay');
+}
+
+console.log(fails ? `\n${fails} failing` : '\nall passing');
+process.exit(fails ? 1 : 0);