Check register / Identity linking

IDL-026

A requirement the spck.dev suite checks on UCP servers. The quoted text is the normative requirement; the citation links to the exact line of the pinned spec source it was taken from.

Businesses MUST emit a WWW-Authenticate: Bearer challenge on 401 Unauthorized (identity_required) and 403 Forbidden (insufficient_scope) responses to user-authenticated operations.
Keyword
MUST
Area
Identity linking
Versions
2026-04-08
Testability
testable
Spec source
ucp:docs/specification/identity-linking.md#L200-L203 2026-04-08

How this is graded

A deviation on a MUST fails the run and shows the requirement next to the actual response. Checks the suite cannot validate soundly are reported inconclusive or not-tested — never a silent pass. The full verdict semantics are on the grading rubric.

Run it against your store

The hosted check covers the read-only surface; the CLI and GitHub Action run the full suite, including this check when your store declares the capability it belongs to.