webctl Auth Recipe Extraction Survey

Visualize auth flows and generate deterministic auth recipes

Upload sanitized HAR captures to generate an auth transition graph, classify flow topology, and emit executor-oriented auth-recipe JSON.

1) HAR ingestion

Upload one sanitized HAR (`.har`) exported from controlled probing runs.

2) Auth transition graph

Flow map reconstructed from captured request order.

No edges yet. Upload a HAR to build the graph.

3) Topology + generated authRecipe IR

Compiled JSON maps to deterministic execution targets and can be fed to the webctl runtime stage.

Upload a HAR to generate an auth recipe.

4) Survey findings database

AUTHSCAN

RECORD

2024 · paper

Authscan formalizes extraction of authentication protocol semantics from traces and implementation artifacts for formal security analysis.

thesis signal: Demonstrates explicit auth-structure inference can produce reusable protocol models, directly validating authRecipe IR goals.

protocol extractionsemantic inferenceauthformal verification

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Shepherd

RECORD

2022 · paper

Automates login across thousands of domains using reusable phases and verification loops from credential submission to post-login checks.

thesis signal: Provides strong evidence that production auth automation relies on staged recon+execution logic rather than one-shot prompting.

login automationcredentialsscalabilityverification

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SSO-Monitor

RECORD

2024 · paper

Systematic discovery and execution of OAuth/SAML login pathways with hybrid visual and semantic detectors.

thesis signal: Shows explicit provider discovery + callback validation is necessary for federated-auth recipes and naturally maps to webctl transitions/oracles.

federated authSSOdetection pipelinetrace validation

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HITL Operator

RECORD

2023 · repo

Reinforcement and human-in-the-loop browser automation with large LLM steering loops.

thesis signal: Useful contrast case: token-heavy runtime models, where webctl aims to reduce run-time token spend via recon-only compilers.

runtime LLMautomationbrowser agent

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AutoLoginRuntimes

RECORD

2022 · repo

Commercial browser scripting framework with runtime reasoning over DOM states and user interaction tasks.

thesis signal: Useful counterexample for zero-runtime claims: heavy runtime state modeling and retries are treated as first-class execution mechanics.

DOM scriptingruntime orchestrationbrowser

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Graphite HAR Analyzer

RECORD

2024 · repo

Browser devtools ecosystem traces and HAR emission used for request sequencing diagnostics.

thesis signal: Ties HAR-derived request topology to deterministic extraction because all transitions are ordered and inspectable from capture.

HARtracingrequest graphnetwork forensics

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