attach_principal_if_present runs on every request that carries a
Bearer header, including data-plane paths that may not even need
authz. Each call paid three DB round-trips on the session path
(lookup + admin_users.get + touch) plus an Argon2 verify per
prefix-colliding candidate on the API-key path. A hot user with
multiple keys serialized every request behind N×Argon2.
Add a process-shared PrincipalCache keyed on hash_token(bearer) →
(Instant, Principal), TTL 60s. resolve_principal checks the cache
first; on miss falls through to the verify_api_key / verify_session
path and writes back on success.
- Lazy GC: when the cache exceeds 1024 entries, sweep expired before
inserting (kept simple — production sees few unique hot tokens).
- Cache wired through AuthState; constructed once in picloud/src/lib.rs.
- Skip-when-route-doesn't-need-auth scaffolding is deferred to a
follow-up — it requires touching the router shape, which is more
invasive than the 60s cache alone warrants.
AUDIT.md anchor: F-P-009 (cache; skip-path deferred).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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