BEFORE YOU GO LIVE
DOCTRINE No. 01Authentication

The auth is always broken — you won't know until it's a lawsuit

Vibe-coded apps share one flaw: authentication that looks right and functions right, but whose security model is Swiss cheese. The developer never sees it, because they only ever tested with one account.

One user logs in — works fine. Ten users — still fine. A thousand concurrent users, and suddenly session tokens are colliding, JWTs aren't expiring, and user A is staring at user B's dashboard. That's not a bug, it's a lawsuit. You can recover from a slow app. You cannot recover from a data breach — so auth gets fixed before anything else ships.

The good news: you don't need a security team. You need three checks you run every time.

Two checks from this doctrine

Real value, not a teaser — two of the 4 checks in full. The rest are in the one-pager.

Never roll your own auth.No matter how smart the model is, it cannot build a secure authentication system from scratch. Plug in a battle-tested provider — Clerk, Supabase Auth, or Auth0 — that millions of users hammer every day. Your custom solution is battle-tested by you and your demo account.
Run the logout test.Log in, copy the URL, log out, then paste the URL back. If the page still loads, you don't have auth — you have a door with no lock. Expired sessions have to actually expire.
The full Doctrine No. 01: Broken Auth one-pager has all 4 checks — 2 more beyond the two above — laid out as a branded, printable page you can run down before you ship. Get it for $5 →
Auth is not a feature. It's the foundation. Get it right before anything else, because one breach erases everything else you've built.
The full one-pager

Doctrine No. 01: Broken Auth

All 4 checks on one branded, printable page — the run-it-yourself list for authentication before you go live. Instant PDF download, yours to keep.

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