Chat/memory/logs/models APIs were reachable without any auth even
though the app is deployed publicly behind Caddy HTTPS; only the
settings screen had a password. Add an optional SITE_PASSWORD-backed
session cookie gate in front of everything (settings included, on
top of its existing SETTINGS_PASSWORD), with a matching login screen
on the frontend. Stays fully backward compatible: with SITE_PASSWORD
unset the app behaves exactly as before.
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- Add a password-protected /api/settings endpoint (HTTP Basic auth,
backend/app/core/auth.py) backed by a DB-stored allowlist of
connection settings (OPENAI_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, AWS creds,
OLLAMA_API_BASE, TAVILY_API_KEY, LOCAL_KB_EMBEDDING_MODEL). Saved
values override .env and apply immediately via os.environ, so
Lightsail deployments no longer need SSH + `.env` edits to rotate
keys. Values are always returned masked to the frontend.
- Replace ModelSelector.vue's hardcoded model list with a DB-backed
/api/models CRUD API (read is public, writes reuse the settings
password) so the chat model dropdown can be edited from the GUI;
seed it once with the previous hardcoded presets on first boot.
- Fix local_knowledge.py reading LOCAL_KB_EMBEDDING_MODEL once at
import time instead of per-call, which would have silently ignored
GUI/DB overrides for the embedding model.
- Add SettingsPanel.vue (API keys + model management UI) and document
the new SETTINGS_PASSWORD env var in .env.example and the Lightsail
deploy guide.
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