Michael Bolin ea650a91b3 auth: generalize external auth tokens for bearer-only sources (#16286)
## Summary

`ExternalAuthRefresher` was still shaped around external ChatGPT auth:
`ExternalAuthTokens` always implied ChatGPT account metadata even when a
caller only needed a bearer token.

This PR generalizes that contract so bearer-only sources are
first-class, while keeping the existing ChatGPT paths strict anywhere we
persist or rebuild ChatGPT auth state.

## Motivation

This is the first step toward #15189.

The follow-on provider-auth work needs one shared external-auth contract
that can do both of these things:

- resolve the current bearer token before a request is sent
- return a refreshed bearer token after a `401`

That should not require a second token result type just because there is
no ChatGPT account metadata attached.

## What Changed

- change `ExternalAuthTokens` to carry `access_token` plus optional
`ExternalAuthChatgptMetadata`
- add helper constructors for bearer-only tokens and ChatGPT-backed
tokens
- add `ExternalAuthRefresher::resolve()` with a default no-op
implementation so refreshers can optionally provide the current token
before a request is sent
- keep ChatGPT-only persistence strict by continuing to require ChatGPT
metadata anywhere the login layer seeds or reloads ChatGPT auth state
- update the app-server bridge to construct the new token shape for
external ChatGPT auth refreshes

## Testing

- `cargo test -p codex-login`


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