Keepalive via refresh-session; GET pings measured insufficient

The endurance test refuted the sliding-window model I committed earlier.
A keepalive doing only GET /api/v3/me succeeded at t+0/30/60/90 and was
still rejected by t+120 — consistent with the session ending ~2h after
LOGIN (t+107), and inconsistent with 2h after the last request, which
would have been t+210.

This is a live-vs-source divergence, not a misreading: both the current
JwtWhitelistAdapter and the legacy Feathers ensureTokenIsWhitelisted
re-set the Valkey TTL on every authenticated request, so the source
reads as a sliding window. The instance does not behave that way.

So the keepalive now calls POST /authentication/refresh-session, the
endpoint behind the UI's "Sitzung verlängern" button, which a separate
100s test showed does hold the reported budget at 7200s. It is the only
non-GET request in the server: no body, touches only our own session,
cannot read or modify user data, and is not exposed as a tool, so no
model-driven call can ever be a POST. It logs the returned budget, which
makes a failing extension visible before the session is lost.

Whether this is sufficient is NOT established. Two mechanisms still fit:
an idle TTL that reads fail to refresh (keepalive works), or an absolute
cap/revocation anchored at login — e.g. the IDP's back-channel logout,
which clears every token for the account rather than one. Added
scripts/session-diagnose.mjs to settle it: it logs the budget every 10
min, so a decaying series indicates the former and an abrupt 401 at
7200s the latter. Docs state the open question rather than asserting a
mechanism.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -155,11 +155,12 @@ npm run probe # re-verify the API assumptions
`no-new-privileges`, running as the unprivileged `node` user. It writes
nothing to disk — downloads are streamed through memory, capped at
`MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES` (25 MiB default).
- **The Schulcloud session dies after 2 hours of inactivity**, so the server
pings `/api/v3/me` every 30 minutes to hold it open. This has a consequence
worth planning for: **downtime longer than two hours kills the token**, and
- **The Schulcloud session ends ~2 hours after login**, and API reads do not
extend it, so the server calls `refresh-session` every 30 minutes. Watch for
`keepalive: session extended, 7200s` in the logs; a falling budget is the
early warning. **Downtime longer than two hours kills the token** and
restarting does not recover it — a long power cut means pasting a fresh
`TSC_JWT_COOKIE`. The startup log says so immediately. Background in
docs/AUTH.md.
`TSC_JWT_COOKIE`. Whether the keepalive suffices at all is still being
measured; see docs/AUTH.md.
- **Monthly chore**: refresh `TSC_JWT_COOKIE` before its 30-day hard expiry.
`npm run probe` reports both clocks.