docs(audit): exact-code exhibit for Copilot token laundering

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otherwise doesn't do this.
**Status: REMOVED.** JSON-only now.
### 1.5 Copilot auth plugin: token handling + request sniffing (DELETED)
Before removal, the GitHub Copilot integration:
- used an OAuth *refresh token* directly as the API bearer token,
- stripped inbound `authorization`/`x-api-key` headers and replaced them,
- JSON-parsed every outgoing request body to guess "is this vision? is this an
agent?" in order to set policy headers (`x-initiator`,
`Copilot-Vision-Request`) that GitHub's gate required.
This was reverse-engineered policy evasion, ~5,400 lines, self-described in
its README as "temporary… avoid making edits."
**Status: DELETED entirely**, including the vendored AI-SDK fork behind it.
### 1.5 Copilot auth plugin: token laundering + request sniffing (DELETED)
The GitHub Copilot integration routed every inference request through a custom
fetch override (retrieved here from git history, `copilot.ts` auth loader):
```ts
const headers: Record<string, string> = {
"x-initiator": isAgent ? "agent" : "user",
...(init?.headers),
"User-Agent": `opencode/${InstallationVersion}`,
Authorization: `Bearer ${info.refresh}`, // GitHub OAuth refresh token
"Openai-Intent": "conversation-edits",
}
if (isVision) headers["Copilot-Vision-Request"] = "true"
delete headers["x-api-key"]
delete headers["authorization"]
return fetch(request, { ...init, headers })
```
**Token laundering, precisely:** three operations on every request.
1. *Re-credentialing* — the long-lived GitHub **OAuth refresh token** from
plaintext `auth.json` was presented as the Bearer session credential for
Copilot's inference endpoints. Your GitHub identity became the API key.
2. *Stripping prior credentials* — inbound `x-api-key` / lowercase
`authorization` headers were deleted so only the laundered token rode the
wire (case-sensitivity quirk spared the one they had just set).
3. *Impersonation of sanctioned-client behavior*`x-initiator`,
`Openai-Intent`, and `Copilot-Vision-Request` are GitHub policy-gate
headers. Unofficial clients are rejected without them; values were
fabricated by JSON-parsing every request body across three API formats to
guess "vision?" and "agent?".
**What it accomplished:** converted one OAuth device-flow consent into
standing access to Copilot's paid model APIs from an unsanctioned client,
with per-request header fabrication sufficient to pass GitHub's gate — while
avoiding any implementation of short-lived token exchange/rotation.
**Why dangerous:** long-lived credential transmitted on every call (one
logged/proxied request captures a token with a huge blast-radius window);
plaintext storage at rest; blind stripping destroyed corporate proxy auth
headers; ToS exposure borne unknowingly by users.
~5,400 lines total including the vendored AI-SDK fork behind it,
self-described in its README as "temporary… avoid making edits."
**Status: DELETED entirely.**
### 1.6 Hardcoded OAuth client IDs in source (LOW)
Device-flow client IDs for xai, DigitalOcean, Snowflake, Codex (and formerly