Quick Add asks Koha (C4::Auth::check_cookie_auth via a secret-guarded svc script) whether the browser's session may edit the catalogue; falls back to its own login otherwise. Cookie-authenticated writes need an X-Quickadd header; the direct port never accepts cookies. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013wi3ZSot4XbUViwRFgLpRf