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Item 2: identity and the receipt across a hop
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Merge branch 'main' into v0.10/2-identity-and-receipt
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions .github/workflows/ci.yml
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Expand Up @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ jobs:
set -eu
echo "authority: $AUTHORITY ($AUTHORITY_NA not applicable)"
echo "templates: $TEMPLATES ($TEMPLATES_NA not applicable)"
test "$AUTHORITY" = "verified 23/23"
test "$AUTHORITY" = "verified 24/24"
# G13 is N/A on SQLite, the action's default store: SQLite has no clock of its own
# to diverge from; G15 is N/A because neither document declares `max_attempts`.
# G16 is graded on both: verify brings its own precondition provider (SPEC-v0.7 §8.9).
Expand All @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ jobs:
# binds one, so its count is unchanged and its passing total moved 19 to 20 instead.
test "$AUTHORITY_NA" = "2"
test "$TEMPLATES" = "verified 11/11"
test "$TEMPLATES_NA" = "14"
test "$TEMPLATES_NA" = "15"
test -s verify-badge.json
test -s verify-report.json
test -s verify-report.xml
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20 changes: 17 additions & 3 deletions src/ctrlrun/acs.py
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Expand Up @@ -203,6 +203,16 @@ def _on_request(
payload = _mapping(params.get("payload"), "params.payload")
action = self._action(params, payload, headers)
effect_key = self._effect_key(action)
# SPEC-v0.10 §3.1.2 — the hop and the task the caller referenced, from the metadata bag
# this hook already reads. **Lookup keys, not assertions**: the principal is still the
# `IdentityProvider`'s and `params.metadata.agent_id` is still ignored (§8.4), and a hop
# addressed to somebody else matches nothing. Non-strings are dropped rather than
# coerced, so a malformed bag references no hop rather than failing the call.
metadata = _mapping(params.get("metadata"), "params.metadata")
hop = metadata.get("hop")
task = metadata.get("task")
hop = hop if isinstance(hop, str) else None
task = task if isinstance(task, str) else None

# SPEC-v0.2 §6.10's rule, in ACS's shape: a client comes back by re-sending the
# identical call, and the newest granted, unexpired approval for this action's hash
Expand All @@ -214,7 +224,7 @@ def _on_request(
# in the spec so this item could not miss it.
granted = (
self._control.store.find_granted_approval(action.action_hash)
if self._control.evaluate(action).decision.value == "approve"
if self._control.evaluate(action, task=task, hop=hop).decision.value == "approve"
else None
)

Expand All @@ -228,9 +238,13 @@ def suspend_holding_the_reservation() -> Any:
try:
if granted is not None:
with with_approval(granted.approval_id):
self._control.execute(action, suspend_holding_the_reservation, effect_key)
self._control.execute(
action, suspend_holding_the_reservation, effect_key, task=task, hop=hop
)
else:
self._control.execute(action, suspend_holding_the_reservation, effect_key)
self._control.execute(
action, suspend_holding_the_reservation, effect_key, task=task, hop=hop
)
except Suspended:
return _final(rpc_id, request_id, ALLOW)
except IdentityError as refused:
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135 changes: 121 additions & 14 deletions src/ctrlrun/control.py
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Expand Up @@ -200,6 +200,39 @@
DEFAULT_STATE_FILENAME: Final = "state.db"


@dataclass
class _Bound:
"""The task and hop a suspended leg was running under (SPEC-v0.10 §3.4.2).

`recorded` is the discriminator and it is **key presence**, not value: an event this build
wrote always carries both keys, so `recorded` is `True` even when both values are `None`, and
an event 0.9.0 wrote carries `{}` and leaves it `False`. That is what tells "the caller named
no task" from "this leg predates the fields", and conflating them denies every action in
flight across the upgrade.
"""

task: str | None = None
hop: str | None = None
recorded: bool = False


def _started_data() -> dict[str, Any]:
"""What `EXECUTION_STARTED` carries so a resumed leg can be decided (SPEC-v0.10 §3.4.2).

`v0.9 §6.3.2` named this change and the milestone that would want it: recovering the first
leg's task means stamping it here so `_resumed_context` can read it back. v0.10 wants it for
the hop too, since a hop crossing a boundary is exactly what a continuation must still be
bound by.

**Both keys are always present, and `None` is a value.** §3.4.2's discriminator is the presence
of the KEY, never the value: a 0.10 build running with a hop and no task writes
`{"hop": "dlg_…", "task": None}`, and a reader keying on the value would conclude "0.9.0 wrote
this" and drop a hop that is right there in the event. An event 0.9.0 wrote carries `{}`, which
is the only shape meaning "this predates the fields".
"""
return {"task": _TASK.get(None), "hop": _HOP.get(None)}


def _utc_now() -> datetime:
return datetime.now(UTC)

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1510,7 +1543,9 @@ def execute(
compared=compared,
)
raise
self._append(EventType.EXECUTION_STARTED, action, {}, effect_key, approval=approval)
self._append(
EventType.EXECUTION_STARTED, action, _started_data(), effect_key, approval=approval
)
return self._outcome(
action,
evaluation,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1586,7 +1621,9 @@ def _observed(
)
observation.block(_blocked_by(refused))
held_key = None
self._append(EventType.EXECUTION_STARTED, action, {}, effect_key, approval=approval)
self._append(
EventType.EXECUTION_STARTED, action, _started_data(), effect_key, approval=approval
)
return self._outcome(
action,
evaluation,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1844,7 +1881,9 @@ def resume(self, continuation: str, executor: Callable[[], Any]) -> Receipt:
self._report_clock_skew()
held = self._store.take_continuation(continuation)
action = held.action
started_at, approval, compared = self._resumed_context(action, held.record.created_at)
started_at, approval, compared, bound = self._resumed_context(
action, held.record.created_at
)
# SPEC-v0.9 §10.1, read from the **ledger** rather than from the contextvar. §8.3 makes
# this the only receipt an MCP multi round-trip or ACS action ever gets, so it has to
# report what the action spent, and the two ways to get that wrong are both live: a
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1881,7 +1920,17 @@ def resume(self, continuation: str, executor: Callable[[], Any]) -> Receipt:
# SPEC-v0.3 §5.6.1 gives authority the same treatment, and for a sharper reason: this
# is the *only* receipt an MCP multi round-trip or ACS action ever gets (§8.3), so a
# receipt reporting a bare policy reason would be the whole evidence for that action.
result = self._authority_result(action, evaluate_task=False)
# SPEC-v0.10 §3.4.2 — evaluated on **both** dimensions where this build suspended the
# action, because the event carries them. `evaluate_task=False` survives for exactly two
# cases now: a lease extension, which genuinely has no task, and a leg **0.9.0**
# suspended, whose `EXECUTION_STARTED` carries `{}` and for which evaluating the task
# would deny every in-flight action across the upgrade (`v0.9 §6.4`).
result = self._authority_result(
action,
task=bound.task,
evaluate_task=bound.recorded,
hop=bound.hop,
)
if result is None:
evaluation = self._policy.evaluate(action)
elif result.passed:
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1944,7 +1993,7 @@ def resume(self, continuation: str, executor: Callable[[], Any]) -> Receipt:

def _resumed_context(
self, action: Action, fallback: datetime
) -> tuple[datetime, Approval | None, _Compared]:
) -> tuple[datetime, Approval | None, _Compared, _Bound]:
"""Recover the original attempt's evidence, including after a process restart.

EXECUTION_STARTED durably binds the consumed approval to this action ID. Looking
Expand All @@ -1961,6 +2010,11 @@ def _resumed_context(
started = fallback
approval_id = None
compared = _Compared()
# SPEC-v0.10 §3.4.2 — the task and the hop the first leg held, read back rather than
# inferred. `v0.9 §6.3.2` skipped the task dimension entirely on this path because the
# rehydrated action carries none; with the event carrying it there is nothing left to
# skip, except on a leg 0.9.0 suspended.
bound = _Bound()
for event in self._store.events():
if event.action_id != action.action_id:
continue
Expand All @@ -1972,6 +2026,17 @@ def _resumed_context(
elif event.type is EventType.EXECUTION_STARTED:
started = proposed
approval_id = event.approval_id
# **Key presence, never the value** (§3.4.2). A 0.10 build running with a hop and
# no task writes `{"hop": "dlg_…", "task": None}`; keying on the value would read
# that as 0.9.0's `{}` and drop a hop the event is carrying.
if "task" in event.data or "hop" in event.data:
task = event.data.get("task")
hop = event.data.get("hop")
bound = _Bound(
task=task if isinstance(task, str) else None,
hop=hop if isinstance(hop, str) else None,
recorded=True,
)
record = None if approval_id is None else self._store.get_approval(approval_id)
approval = None if record is None else record.as_approval()
if compared.at_request is None and record is not None:
Expand All @@ -1984,7 +2049,7 @@ def _resumed_context(
# ever gets** (`SPEC-mcp-operator.md` §8.3), so without this the approvers reach the
# evidence on every action except the ones that get exactly one receipt.
compared.approvers = record.approvers
return started, approval, compared
return started, approval, compared, bound

def _outcome(
self,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4187,7 +4252,14 @@ def _opener_for(self, envelope_id: str, envelope: BreakGlassEnvelope | None) ->
)
return opener

def hop(self, parent_id: str, grant: Grant, *, by: Principal) -> Delegation:
def hop(
self,
parent_id: str,
grant: Grant,
*,
by: Principal,
action_id: str | None = None,
) -> Delegation:
"""Hand part of this authority to another agent (SPEC-v0.10 §2.2).

A hop **is** a delegation: same record, same `contained_dimension`, same chain walk, same
Expand All @@ -4203,8 +4275,20 @@ def hop(self, parent_id: str, grant: Grant, *, by: Principal) -> Delegation:
Every §5.3 check of `v0.3` applies unchanged, including rule 0's refusal of an expired
credential: a hop is the most durable thing a principal can create across a boundary, so
it is the last place a stale one should still work.

**`action_id` links a relay's created hop to the action that created it** (§3.4.4).
`DELEGATION_CREATED` is action-less by construction, which is true of `ctrlrun delegate`
from a shell and false of a hop created mid-action; without the link a relay's created hop
is related to its action by a timestamp alone.

**Explicit, and deliberately not ambient.** No context variable holds the current action,
and one read inside the executor would be `<unset>` on a worker thread, which is an
ordinary shape for an agent fanning out. `transport.py` documents that hazard for its own
register and is explicit that there it fails *safe*; here it would fail in the evidence
direction, silently. A caller that knows its action id says so; one that does not gets an
event carrying `None`, exactly as today, and §8 records the limit.
"""
return self._delegate(parent_id, grant, by=by, via="hop")
return self._delegate(parent_id, grant, by=by, via="hop", action_id=action_id)

def revoke(self, delegation_id: str, *, by: str | None = None) -> None:
"""Revoke one delegation (SPEC-v0.3 §5.7).
Expand All @@ -4230,7 +4314,13 @@ def revoke(self, delegation_id: str, *, by: str | None = None) -> None:
)

def _delegate(
self, parent_id: str, grant: Grant, *, by: Principal, via: CreatedVia
self,
parent_id: str,
grant: Grant,
*,
by: Principal,
via: CreatedVia,
action_id: str | None = None,
) -> Delegation:
"""The one implementation behind `Control.delegate` and `ctrlrun delegate`.

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4271,6 +4361,10 @@ def _delegate(
"created_by_user": by.user,
"created_via": via,
},
# SPEC-v0.10 §3.4.4 — the action that created this hop, where the caller named one.
# `None` keeps the event exactly as `v0.3 §7` has it, which is what `ctrlrun delegate`
# from a shell produces and what every pre-v0.10 reader expects.
action_id=action_id,
)
return delegation

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4374,16 +4468,25 @@ def _warn_clock_skew(self, kind: str, detail: str, *, ignored: bool = True) -> N
detail,
)

def _append_delegation(self, type_: EventType, data: Mapping[str, Any]) -> None:
"""Append one of §7's three action-less events and fan it out.
def _append_delegation(
self, type_: EventType, data: Mapping[str, Any], *, action_id: str | None = None
) -> None:
"""Append one of §7's three delegation events and fan it out.

`action_id` is `None` by default: these are about an authority record, created and
revoked outside any action's life.

**SPEC-v0.10 §3.4.4 amends that for one case.** A hop created *inside* a running action
is not outside any action's life, and a relay's created hop is otherwise linked to the
action that created it by nothing but a timestamp. `Control.hop(action_id=...)` supplies
it; every other caller, and every hop created from a shell, keeps `None`.

`action_id` is `None`: these are about an authority record, created and revoked outside
any action's life. `Control` appends them and calls every sink, for `v0.2 §4.1`'s
`Control` appends them and calls every sink, for `v0.2 §4.1`'s
reason — the highest-privilege operations in the release must not be the only ones
missing from the export path.
"""
stored = self._store.append_event(
Event(type=type_, action_id=None, ts=self._clock(), data=data)
Event(type=type_, action_id=action_id, ts=self._clock(), data=data)
)
self._fan_out("on_event", stored, str(stored.type))

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4441,6 +4544,10 @@ def _record(
# path, and so one nobody would notice breaking.
authority_grant_id=_AUTHORITY_GRANT_ID.get(None),
task=_TASK.get(None),
# SPEC-v0.10 §3.4 — the hop this action ran under, and never the one it created:
# `_HOP` is set by `_authority_result` from the hop the decision was made against.
# §3.4.4's relay writes its created hop to `DELEGATION_CREATED`, not here.
hop=_HOP.get(None),
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reset _HOP at the start of execute()

_authority_result() sets _HOP, but no cleanup resets it. context() resets only _CONTEXT. Therefore, after an action runs under hop X, a later action in the same context that reaches an early denial before _authority_result() can call _record() with the stale hop X. The denial receipt then contains incorrect hop metadata.

        _AUTHORITY_GRANT_ID.set(None)
        _AUTHORITY_RESULT.set(None)
        _TASK.set(None)
        _HOP.set(None)
        _SCOPE_HASH.set(None)
        _BUDGET_CHARGES.set(())
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In `@src/ctrlrun/control.py` around lines 4547 - 4550, Reset the _HOP context
variable at the start of execute(), alongside the existing _AUTHORITY_GRANT_ID,
_AUTHORITY_RESULT, _TASK, _SCOPE_HASH, and _BUDGET_CHARGES resets, so early
denials cannot reuse hop metadata from a previous action.

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scope_hash=_SCOPE_HASH.get(None),
budget_charges=_BUDGET_CHARGES.get(()),
receipt_id=new_receipt_id(),
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20 changes: 20 additions & 0 deletions src/ctrlrun/gateway/mcp.py
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Expand Up @@ -75,6 +75,15 @@ class ParsedRequest:
is_response: bool = False
tool_name: str | None = None
arguments: Mapping[str, Any] = field(default_factory=dict)
#: SPEC-v0.10 §3.1.2 — the hop and the task the caller referenced, read out of
#: `params.metadata`, which is the field MCP already carries for caller-supplied metadata.
#:
#: **These are lookup keys, not assertions**, and that is the whole of why reading them off
#: the payload is safe where `v0.3 §8.4` refuses to read a principal off it. The principal is
#: still the `IdentityProvider`'s; a hop addressed to somebody else matches nothing (§3.1.1),
#: and a hop id naming nothing is `authority_hop`. Neither value widens anything on its own.
hop: str | None = None
task: str | None = None

@property
def is_legacy(self) -> bool:
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -137,6 +146,15 @@ def parse_request(
arguments = params.get("arguments")
arguments = dict(arguments) if isinstance(arguments, Mapping) else {}

# SPEC-v0.10 §3.1.2. Non-string values are dropped rather than coerced or refused: a caller
# that sends `{"hop": 7}` has referenced no hop, and the action is then decided exactly as one
# presenting none. Refusing here would make a malformed metadata bag a transport error for an
# action that may not need a hop at all.
metadata = params.get("metadata")
metadata = metadata if isinstance(metadata, Mapping) else {}
hop = metadata.get("hop")
task = metadata.get("task")

mismatch = _validate_headers(headers, revision, method, tool_name, arguments)
if mismatch is not None:
return mismatch
Expand All @@ -148,6 +166,8 @@ def parse_request(
intercept=intercept,
tool_name=tool_name if isinstance(tool_name, str) else None,
arguments=arguments,
hop=hop if isinstance(hop, str) else None,
task=task if isinstance(task, str) else None,
)


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