feat(cli): device-code flow is now the default for ctx7 login#2720
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The localhost-callback path is gone. Every install — laptop, SSH, Codespace, Docker, CI — goes through the same boxed prompt and verification page. Three reasons to make this the default: - The localhost flow was broken anywhere the browser couldn't reach 127.0.0.1:52417 (SSH, Docker, Codespaces). Auto-detection via SSH_CONNECTION / $DISPLAY was a half-fix that depended on env vars users don't always set. - Device flow works everywhere, has no random port-binding behavior, and still ends in the same long-lived ctx7sk- API key. - One UX path is simpler to support than two. Drops the --device flag (it was the opt-in for what's now the default). Older CLI versions (<= 0.5.0) continue to work against the unchanged auth endpoints, so pinned installs are unaffected. The legacy localhost machinery in utils/auth.ts is left in place for now — nothing imports it from commands/auth.ts anymore, and a follow-up can delete it once we're confident no rollback is needed.
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Summary
After shipping 0.5.0 we realized the auto-detection heuristic (`SSH_CONNECTION` / `$DISPLAY`) was the wrong call — local users on macOS / Linux still saw the broken localhost-callback flow because the heuristic didn't fire for them. The right answer is to make device flow the only flow.
Changeset is `patch` — no API surface change for users, just a UX flip.
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