Count 'register' events for all accounts created

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What

register had exactly one call site — the password signup form — so the metric has never meant what its name says. It fires for password signups only.

Two routes were missing from it:

• Magic link, shipped in Lightweight Accounts P1: email capture flow for logged-out consumer actions #5101.
• Google, which has never fired it. The OAuth callback carried no analytics at all, from long before the email-capture work. This is a pre-existing hole, not a regression from that PR.

This makes register mean what it should: an account was created, by whatever route.

How

Both new paths need something the signup endpoint gets for free — a way to tell a signup from a sign-in — because unlike that endpoint they also serve returning users.

Magic link. The account exists before the link is ever opened, so the verify call now reports whether it was the one that completed the signup: first activation (check_can_activate(), read before we activate and before get_tokens_for_user stamps last_login) and this flow created the account (metadata.signup_details.method == "email_link").

That second condition is load-bearing. A password signup still waiting on its confirmation email can be activated by a link too, and it was already counted when the form was submitted — without the guard it would count twice.

Google. Nothing to compute. social_core already stamps is_new on the user its pipeline returns, decided by our own associate_by_email (False) and create_user (True) steps. The response just never carried it, so this adds one serializer field.

Naming. is_new describes the event, not the account — deliberately not something like is_lightweight, which would be permanently true for an account created by magic link and would count every later sign-in as a registration. It also matches the vocabulary already in social_pipeline.py.

Each event now carries a method property (email_link, google-oauth2, password), the password form included — otherwise the one path that was always counted would be the one you can't identify in the data.

Testing

Verified on the wire against a local capture endpoint, not by inspection:

• brand-new lightweight account → register with {"method": "email_link"}
• existing account signing in by magic link → emailLinkVerified fires, register does not

Also confirmed the double-count guard isn't vacuously tested: removing the metadata condition makes test_unconfirmed_signup_activated_by_link_is_not_new fail, restoring it makes it pass.

Backend 101 tests passing (was 98), frontend lint clean, 176 frontend tests, build green.

Notes for review

• This redefines an existing metric rather than adding one. The register count steps up when this ships and comparisons across that point are not like-for-like. Worth telling whoever reads that dashboard.
• The Google path is unverified end to end — it needs a real Google sign-in. The serializer is unit-tested, but please check on staging with a fresh Google account, including the control that signing in with an existing Google
  account fires nothing.
• window.rdt("track", "SignUp") on the signup form is left alone. Widening what counts as a conversion for ad attribution is a marketing decision, not a cleanup — happy to add it if that's wanted.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Authentication responses now indicate whether email-link or social sign-in created a new account.
  • Registration analytics now identifies password, email-link, and provider-specific social signup methods, with relevant signup context.
• Bug Fixes
  • Email-link verification now handles malformed signup metadata safely instead of failing.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for new registrations, existing sign-ins, previously unconfirmed accounts, malformed metadata, and social authentication status reporting.

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Authentication responses now report whether a request created an account. Email-link and social OAuth flows use this status for signup analytics. Password signup now reports an explicit method.

Changes

Signup attribution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Email-link status contract and verification authentication/services/email_link.py, authentication/views/email_link.py, tests/unit/test_auth/test_email_link.py	Email-link verification returns is_new, includes it in the API response, and treats malformed metadata as a non-email-link signup.
Frontend signup response and event wiring front_end/src/types/auth.ts, front_end/src/services/api/auth/auth.server.ts, front_end/src/app/(main)/accounts/actions.ts, front_end/src/app/(auth-flow)/auth/email/components/email_link_verify.tsx, front_end/src/components/auth/signup.tsx, front_end/src/utils/signup_methods.ts	Frontend actions propagate is_new. Email-link and password registration events use explicit signup methods.
Social signup status and analytics authentication/views/social.py, front_end/src/app/(main)/accounts/social/[provider]/*, tests/unit/test_auth/test_social_pipeline.py	Social authentication exposes the signup marker and sends registration analytics only for new accounts, using the provider name as the method.

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Signup analytics now attributes password, email-link, and OAuth registrations by method while avoiding registration events for returning users and password accounts activated by email links. No concrete current-head merge-blocking risk remains.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant EmailLinkVerifyComponent
  participant verifyEmailLinkAction
  participant ServerAuthApiClass
  participant email_link_verify_api_view
  participant verify_email_link_auth
  participant sendAnalyticsEvent
  EmailLinkVerifyComponent->>verifyEmailLinkAction: submit email-link token
  verifyEmailLinkAction->>ServerAuthApiClass: call verifyEmailLink
  ServerAuthApiClass->>email_link_verify_api_view: POST verification request
  email_link_verify_api_view->>verify_email_link_auth: verify token
  verify_email_link_auth-->>email_link_verify_api_view: user and is_new
  email_link_verify_api_view-->>verifyEmailLinkAction: response with is_new
  verifyEmailLinkAction-->>EmailLinkVerifyComponent: user and isNew
  EmailLinkVerifyComponent->>sendAnalyticsEvent: send register with email_link method

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SocialOAuthClient
  participant exchangeSocialOauthCode
  participant SocialCodeAuth
  participant sendAnalyticsEvent
  SocialOAuthClient->>exchangeSocialOauthCode: exchange OAuth code
  exchangeSocialOauthCode->>SocialCodeAuth: read is_new
  SocialCodeAuth-->>exchangeSocialOauthCode: return is_new
  exchangeSocialOauthCode-->>SocialOAuthClient: return isNew
  SocialOAuthClient->>sendAnalyticsEvent: send register with provider method

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A rabbit checks the signup trail,
Email links and OAuth sail.
New accounts raise a cheerful sign,
Methods mark each route in line.
Passwords hop with labels bright,
Analytics records them right.

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Add a social-auth pipeline integration test.

The current tests set user.is_new directly and do not execute the configured pipeline. social-auth-core assigns the pipeline result to user.is_new, so the current implementation propagates the marker correctly. An integration test would protect this cross-component contract from regressions.

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Inline comments:
In `@authentication/services/email_link.py`:
- Around line 57-58: Update the email-link verification logic around the
User.metadata signup-method check to validate that metadata and signup_details
are mappings before calling .get(). Treat malformed or missing values as not
matching SIGNUP_METHOD_EMAIL_LINK, and add regression coverage for non-object
metadata and signup_details.

In `@front_end/src/app/`(main)/accounts/social/[provider]/client.tsx:
- Around line 54-58: Update the registration analytics in SocialAuthClient so
the signup method reflects the actual provider: only use SIGNUP_METHOD_GOOGLE
when provider is "google-oauth2", and map the Facebook provider to its
corresponding signup method. Preserve the existing isNew and fromEmailCapture
behavior.

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In `@tests/unit/test_auth/test_social_pipeline.py`:
- Around line 124-135: Add an integration test in the social-auth pipeline test
suite that executes the configured pipeline and verifies its result is assigned
to user.is_new and exposed by SocialCodeAuth.TokenSerializer. Keep the existing
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