feat: add no-auth IAM regime as a drop-in replacement for iam-svc (#933)

Adds `no-auth-svc`, a lightweight IAM service that permits all access
unconditionally — no database, no bootstrap, no signing keys.  Deploy
it in place of `iam-svc` for development, demos, and single-user
setups where authentication overhead is unwanted.

The gateway no longer hard-codes a 401 on missing credentials.
Instead it asks the IAM regime via a new `authenticate-anonymous`
operation whether token-free access is allowed.  This keeps the
gateway regime-agnostic: `iam-svc` rejects anonymous auth (preserving
existing security), while `no-auth-svc` grants it with a configurable
default user and workspace.

Includes a tech spec (docs/tech-specs/no-auth-regime.md) and tests
that pin the safety boundary — malformed tokens never fall through
to the anonymous path, and a contract test ensures the full iam-svc
always rejects `authenticate-anonymous`.
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@ -62,6 +62,22 @@ class IamClient(RequestResponse):
)
return resp.user
async def authenticate_anonymous(self, timeout=IAM_TIMEOUT):
"""Request anonymous access from the IAM regime.
Returns ``(user_id, workspace, roles)`` if the regime permits
anonymous access, or raises ``RuntimeError`` with error type
``auth-failed`` if it does not."""
resp = await self._request(
operation="authenticate-anonymous",
timeout=timeout,
)
return (
resp.resolved_user_id,
resp.resolved_workspace,
list(resp.resolved_roles),
)
async def resolve_api_key(self, api_key, timeout=IAM_TIMEOUT):
"""Resolve a plaintext API key to its identity triple.