role: user

type: text

text:
<user_query>
Explain the auth middleware
</user_query>


role: assistant

text: [REDACTED]


text: The auth middleware validates JWT tokens on every request. It checks the Authorization header and verifies the token signature against the public key.


text:
<user_query>
why was it built this way
</user_query>


text: It was built this way because the team wanted stateless auth that doesn't require a session store. JWT tokens are self-contained and can be verified without a database lookup.