fix(sandbox): guard the Windows write-jail invariant and disclose the DenyRead trade - #886
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WalkthroughWindows sandbox execution now reports deny-read write-confinement limitations only for applicable restricted-token plans. Launch state and enforcement notices propagate through execution, MCP, tools, hooks, plugins, persistence, CLI output, ACP, and TUI rendering. ChangesSandbox enforcement and disclosure
Priority: ⬆️ High Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Severity of issue fixed: High Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Blocking hooks may duplicate security disclosures, and some MCP shutdown paths can panic. These issues should be fixed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SandboxPlan
participant Execution
participant MCPRuntime
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participant AgentAndHooks
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SandboxPlan->>Execution: provide enforcement notices and launch ownership
Execution->>MCPRuntime: report confirmed child launch
Execution->>ToolResult: return applied notices
ToolResult->>AgentAndHooks: preserve typed notices
AgentAndHooks->>CLIAndTUI: render and persist disclosures
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Full details: Linked Issues checkExplanation The pull request adds regression tests and documents the vulnerable DenyRead token shape for [ Resolution Implement the required fix for [ Full details: Out of Scope Changes checkExplanation The restricted-token tests and DenyRead diagnostics relate to [ Resolution Split unrelated disclosure, launch-tracking, MCP, CLI/TUI, persistence, and ACL-guidance changes into separate pull requests, or link issues that explicitly require them. Keep this pull request focused on the [ Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 76.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 157 functions across 54 files. (21 skipped: 21 over the file limit.)
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In `@internal/sandbox/manager.go`:
- Line 330: Update the warning construction in the request setup to append
windowsDenyReadWarnings only when request.CommandWrapped is true, while
preserving the existing Windows restricted-token checks. Add BackendPlan
regression cases covering disabled and degraded execution to verify the warning
is absent in both paths.
In `@internal/sandbox/windows_token_windows_test.go`:
- Around line 146-151: In TestNonWriteRestrictedTokenStillCarriesTheWorldSID,
replace the t.Skip call in the missing World SID branch with t.Fatalf so the
test fails when the expected token shape changes; leave the existing assertion
and diagnostic logging unchanged, and update this expectation only alongside the
`#869` implementation and replacement launch/read-denial coverage.
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@jatmn @anandh8x @gnanam1990 @kevincodex1 this one has been sitting with no reviewer requested, which is my fault rather than anyone ignoring it. Head is The only review on it is a coderabbit changes-requested against Two things worth a human eye, since neither is mechanical:
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In `@internal/sandbox/windows_command_runner_windows.go`:
- Around line 115-123: Add a regression test covering the error path where
applyWindowsACLPlan(plan) fails. Assert the returned error includes both zero
sandbox setup and the "sandbox": {"enabled": false} recovery guidance, and
assert it excludes --sandbox forbid.
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| // Both remedies below are real. An earlier version offered `--sandbox | ||
| // forbid`, which is not: SandboxPreferenceForbid is an internal engine | ||
| // state with no flag behind it, so following that advice produced an | ||
| // unknown option and left the reader stuck on a failure they had just been | ||
| // told how to clear. A recovery instruction that does not work is worse | ||
| // than none, because it costs the reader the time to discover that. | ||
| return fmt.Errorf("apply unelevated workspace ACLs: %w — the workspace may be on a filesystem the current user does not own; "+ | ||
| "run `zero sandbox setup` from an elevated (Administrator) terminal, or re-run with `--sandbox forbid` to skip OS sandboxing", err) | ||
| "run `zero sandbox setup` from an elevated (Administrator) terminal, "+ | ||
| `or turn the sandbox off in your user config with "sandbox": {"enabled": false}`, err) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Add a regression test for this failure path.
When applyWindowsACLPlan(plan) fails, assert that the returned error contains zero sandbox setup and the "sandbox": {"enabled": false} configuration guidance. Also assert that it does not contain --sandbox forbid.
Based on learnings: “Every behavior or security-boundary change requires a regression test, including failure paths.”
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In `@internal/sandbox/windows_command_runner_windows.go` around lines 115 - 123,
Add a regression test covering the error path where applyWindowsACLPlan(plan)
fails. Assert the returned error includes both zero sandbox setup and the
"sandbox": {"enabled": false} recovery guidance, and assert it excludes
--sandbox forbid.
Source: Learnings
Both unelevated ACL failures told the reader to re-run with `--sandbox forbid`. There is no such option: SandboxPreferenceForbid is an internal engine state with no flag behind it, so acting on it produced an unknown option and left them stuck on the failure they had just been told how to clear. Advice that does not work costs more than none, because finding that out takes the reader's time. Name the real way out instead, the user config key, which is honored from global config only so a cloned repo cannot set it. The elevated-setup remedy beside it was already correct and stays. Reported by jatmn against the same string on #640. It predates this branch, having arrived with the unelevated fallback tier in #427, and the copy on #886 is fixed separately in 1b304e1. Also covers the secret write with the junction regression it was owed: the caller owns the sandbox home, so they can put a reparse point where the secret directory is expected, and the pathname version followed it in an elevated process. The test asserts the refusal names the reparse point and that nothing survives on the far side, since refusing while still creating the file would leave the caller holding it.
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One extra assertion beyond the ask, because the branch turned out to be worth more than its message: the failure must not record the applied-plan marker. That marker is what makes later commands skip the re-apply, so recording it on a failure would turn a single refusal into a sandbox that quietly stops applying its ACLs at all. For the record on the original fix: |
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The latest recovery-guidance follow-up is valid: the new Windows-only test now
drives the ACL-apply failure, preserves its cause, names the two usable remedies,
and confirms that a failed apply does not write the marker. The findings below
are separate from that fix.
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[P2] Rebase this branch onto the current
mainbefore merging
internal/sandbox/manager.go:330
The branch forked atf922cb3, while the current PR base iscabfeefc;mainhas since substantially changed the sandbox implementation and tests, including the direct context around this change. The root cause is that the feature was implemented against an obsolete sandbox contract, so the current PR diff cannot establish that the warning remains correct after the upstream work. Rebase ontocabfeefc, resolve the sandbox changes against the current code rather than preserving the old hunk mechanically, and rerun the relevant Windows and cross-platform plan tests before requesting review again. -
[P2] Deliver the DenyRead warning on the command-execution path
internal/sandbox/manager.go:330
The new notice is stored only inBackendPlan.Warnings, which is rendered by manualzero sandbox policy/sandbox checkdiagnostics. Normal execution instead builds aCommandPlan; that type has no warning field, and its execution metadata forwards only backend, enforcement level, and downgrade reason. A Windows command that actually receives aDenyReadprofile therefore entersrunWindowsSandboxCommand, selects the non-WRITE_RESTRICTEDtoken, and receives no disclosure unless somebody independently runs a diagnostic command.The root cause is two separate planning representations: diagnostics carry warnings, while the execution representation drops them. Define one execution-facing notice/diagnostic contract and carry this condition from the resolved permission profile to the user-facing command path (or reject this unsafe combination). Add an end-to-end test that applies a
DenyReadrequest profile and asserts that the operator sees the disclosure when the affected command is prepared or run. -
[P2] Gate the token-trade warning on actual command wrapping
internal/sandbox/manager.go:330
windowsDenyReadWarningschecks only host OS, backend identity/native-isolation, and the profile; it never checksrequest.CommandWrapped. A native Windows backend retains those capability fields for disabled, degraded, or pass-through requests, whileBuildExecutionRequestsetsCommandWrappedfalse and no runner or restricted token executes. The plan then says the sandbox "uses the token shape" and that reads are denied even though this command is direct. This is the earlier CodeRabbit request that the recent author comment says was fixed, butcdac013only added the host-OS gate.The root cause is using static backend capability as a proxy for this request's actual enforcement state. Make the warning predicate consume the resolved execution state—at minimum
request.CommandWrapped, preferably the effective enforcement level—rather than deriving it solely fromBackend. Cover native-wrapped, disabled, degraded, and pass-through requests so a future backend-state change cannot recreate the mismatch. -
[P2] Do not skip the launch-critical token invariant
internal/sandbox/windows_token_windows_test.go:148
The non-WRITE_RESTRICTEDshape needs the World SID to opencmd.exe; removing it makes every Windows command withDenyReadfail before launch. The test callst.Skiprather than failing if that SID disappears, so Windows CI remains green for exactly that incompatible regression, while the real-runner coverage is opt-in behindZERO_SANDBOX_REAL_SMOKE.The root cause is treating any change to this security/availability invariant as an anticipated future #869 fix, even though removing the SID alone is not that fix. Make the test fail until a #869 implementation deliberately changes the token contract, then replace this assertion in the same change with direct launch and read-denial coverage for the new design. This is the other unaddressed CodeRabbit request.
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[P2] Rebase this branch onto the current
mainbefore merging
internal/sandbox/manager.go:330
The head's only merge ofmainisd065467c, while the currentorigin/mainisd66ad715(#905). Although a synthetic merge happens to be clean today, it is not a substitute for resolving the change against the actual target: it leaves the PR diff and its validation based on an older sandbox contract. This repository treats that as a hard review blocker because recently changed security-sensitive paths can otherwise be carried forward mechanically. Rebase onto the current tip, inspect the resulting sandbox diff for drift, and rerun the relevant Windows plus cross-platform plan/runner checks; request review only on that resolved head. -
[P2] Deliver the DenyRead disclosure on the execution path
internal/sandbox/manager.go:330
This appends the notice only toBackendPlan.Warnings, which is produced by manualzero sandbox policy/sandbox checkdiagnostics. The live path is different: a request-permissionfile_system.deny_readis normalized and merged into the engine policy, thenEngine.BuildCommandPlanemits aCommandPlanand the Windows runner selects the non-WRITE_RESTRICTEDtoken.CommandPlanand the prepared-command enforcement metadata carry no notices, so the affected command runs with the known loss of write confinement without the operator seeing the new disclosure; the manual diagnostics also do not contain the per-request profile.The root cause is maintaining separate diagnostic and execution planning representations without a shared user-facing diagnostic contract. Define the warning from the resolved execution request/profile, propagate it through the command/prepared-execution result to the caller that renders command status (or reject
DenyReadon this backend), and add an end-to-end regression that approves adeny_readrequest and asserts the affected Windows command exposes the notice. Keep the existing policy diagnostics as an additional view, rather than making them the only delivery mechanism. -
[P2] Make the DenyRead launch invariant fail rather than skip
internal/sandbox/windows_token_windows_test.go:148
Removing the World SID from the non-WRITE_RESTRICTEDtoken makes the restricted-SID read check rejectcmd.exeunder normal Windows DACLs, so every command withDenyReadfails before launch. The test callst.Skipfor exactly that regression, leaving Windows CI green; the real-runner coverage is opt-in and does not protect ordinary CI.The root cause is treating a future
#869redesign as though any partial change to this token shape were a valid implementation. Until that redesign lands, this SID is both security- and availability-critical and its absence must fail. Change the skip to a failure now. When#869deliberately changes the token construction, replace this assertion in the same change with tests that prove the new token can launch a normal executable, continues to deny the intended read path, and does not restore the broad write bypass.
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@jatmn head is The launch invariant now failsYou are right, and I have spent this week telling other people the same thing, so it would be poor form to argue it here. It is a I also corrected the header comment, which still said the test skips. A doc comment describing the old behaviour is how the next person concludes the skip was deliberate. Checked two things rather than assuming them. The test really does run in ordinary CI, unelevated, and passes today, so this is live coverage and not an opt-in path: And the failure branch can actually fire, which a RebaseDone, and it was worse than you saw. I had merged Worth recording, since you flagged the same thing on #866 as a rollback risk: I checked whether the stale base would actually have reverted #905, by merging into current The disclosure on the execution pathNot done, and I think you have the root cause right: there are two planning representations and only the diagnostic one carries notices. Appending to Of the two remedies you offer I would rather propagate the notice than reject That is the piece I have not built. It is also the third place this week where the fix is a missing contract between two representations rather than a patch, which is starting to look like the actual finding. |
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[P2] Deliver the DenyRead disclosure on the command-execution path
internal/sandbox/manager.go:330
Your latest comment correctly identifies that this is not implemented yet: the warning is currently attached only toBackendPlan.Warnings, which is rendered by the diagnosticzero sandbox policyandzero sandbox checkcommands. A real tool execution follows a different representation: request permissions are normalized and merged into the engine policy,Engine.BuildCommandPlanproduces aCommandPlan, andPrepareExecutionexposes only backend, enforcement level, and downgrade reason. NeitherCommandPlannorexecution.PreparedCommandcarries the warning, and the Windows runner receives only the resolvedPermissionProfile; as soon as itsDenyReadlist is non-empty, it selectswriteRestricted=falseand creates the token shape whose World SID no longer confines writes outside the workspace. Consequently, an operator can approvefile_system.deny_readfor an affected command and lose the write jail without ever seeing the warning this PR adds.The root cause is the split between the diagnostics-only
BackendPlanand the command-execution plan: both describe the same resolved sandbox decision, but only the former has a user-facing notices contract. Fix the contract rather than duplicating text at callers: derive the notice from the resolved execution request/profile, carry it throughCommandPlanandexecution.PreparedCommand(or the equivalent command-result metadata), and render it at the normal tool-execution boundary. If that cannot be made reliable for every execution caller, rejectDenyReadon this Windows backend until it can. Add an end-to-end regression that grantsfile_system.deny_read, prepares or executes a Windows command, and proves the operator receives the disclosure; retain the policy/check warning as an additional diagnostic view.
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Addressed at Where it goes
From there it travels three places:
The CoverageBoth layers, both directions. A plan resolved with DenyRead carries the notice and an ordinary Windows profile carries none; the tool metadata gains the key only when there is something to say. Falsified each half separately:
What this still is notUnchanged from what I said when I opened it: this discloses the trade, it does not close #869. The token shape is still the vulnerable one whenever DenyRead is set. If you would rather refuse DenyRead on this backend outright until the shape is fixed, I am open to that and it is a smaller change than this one, but it takes a feature away from anyone using it today, so I would want kevin's call rather than making it myself. |
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237-244: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAdd typed execution-result regression coverage.
The supplied tests verify
CommandPlan.Notesandsandbox_notices. They do not verifyexecution.Enforcement.Notices.Test populated and empty
plan.NotesthroughexecutionEnforcementor a returnedExecutionOutcome. Otherwise, a regression in this copy can remove the typed disclosure while metadata remains correct.As per coding guidelines, “Every behavior or security-boundary change needs a regression test, including the failure path.”
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- [P2] Rebase onto current
mainbefore merge
internal/sandbox/manager.go:353
This head is based ond66ad715, while livemainis now1ec7219a(five commits ahead). The three-way merge happens to be clean, but the repository requires every PR to be rebased onto the current target before review/merge so the sandbox changes and required checks are evaluated against the live contract. The root cause is branch-base drift: the PR's checked contract is no longer the contract that would be merged. Please rebase onto the current target, resolve the sandbox changes against that result rather than relying on the clean merge, and rerun the affected checks from the rebased head.
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[P1] Surface the DenyRead disclosure in the actual tool result
internal/tools/bash.go:352
sandbox_noticesis written only intoResult.Meta. Normal bash and exec-command results give the modelresult.ModelOutput(), and the TUI renders that same output/display preview; neither renders metadata. The metadata is also excluded from the durable message history. Consequently, a Windows user who configuresdeny_readcan receive the non-WRITE_RESTRICTEDtoken—the known loss of write confinement—while both the executing agent and the interactive user see only ordinary command output.The root cause is treating metadata as an operator-visible disclosure channel when the result pipeline deliberately treats it as side-band data. Define one explicit, user/model-visible enforcement-notice channel on the canonical tool result and have the TUI and transcript consume that channel. Preserve metadata if it is useful to integrations, but do not make it the only copy. Add an end-to-end regression that builds a Windows DenyRead command result and asserts the notice reaches both the model-facing result and the interactive display.
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[P1] Preserve notices through the generic execution adapter
internal/sandbox/runner.go:135
withSandboxExecutionMetadatanow adds the disclosure toCommandPlan.Notes, butEngine.PrepareExecutionconstructsexecution.Enforcementwithout copying those notes. Hooks, plugins, and MCP processes use this adapter, so their captured/typed outcomes omit the disclosure even though tool-specificexec_commandcopies it. That leaves the newEnforcement.Noticescontract true for one execution wrapper and false for the generic wrapper that other execution consumers depend on.The root cause is duplicated, hand-maintained projection from
CommandPlanintoexecution.Enforcement. Move that projection behind one shared conversion helper (or makePrepareExecutionuse the same helper asexec_command) so new enforcement fields cannot be silently omitted by a second adapter. It should defensively copy the notice slice, and regression coverage should exerciseEngine.PrepareExecutionthrough at least one runner-backed hook, plugin, or MCP path. -
[P2] Do not emit the warning when no Windows restricted token is used
internal/sandbox/runner.go:334
The warning predicate checks only host, backend, andDenyRead; it does not checkCommandWrappedor the enforcement level. Disabled sandboxing and re-entrant commands take the direct, unwrapped plan while retaining the Windows backend/profile, so this code falsely claims that reads are denied and the write jail was traded away. In those cases neither condition is true: no restricted token is created and the configured deny-read rule is not enforced.The root cause is deriving an execution-fact notice from configuration and backend capability rather than from the resolved execution state. Centralize the notice decision on the final
SandboxExecutionRequest/CommandPlanstate, requiring the native or unelevated Windows restricted-token wrapper that will actually run. Reuse that decision for both diagnostic and execution outputs, and cover disabled, degraded, and already-sandboxed/re-entrant plans as explicit silent cases alongside the intended native and unelevated cases.
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All four at The disclosure reached nobody, and you are right about whyI put it in It is a field on the canonical result now, Promoted at End-to-end through the registry, asserting both surfaces. Disabling the promotion fails all three claims: The generic adapterBoth projections go through The notice claimed a trade nobody had madeKeyed on the resolved execution state now, requiring the wrapper that will actually run. The disabled, degraded, already-wrapped, no-platform-sandbox and no-backend cases are covered as explicit silent cases. Worth saying: my own fixture from last round was one of the things that had to change. It named the backend without the fields that make a plan wrapped, so it had been asserting against a request that would never have produced a token. The new predicate failed it immediately, which is the test doing its job a round late. RebaseDone properly rather than merged. The branch carried two Rebuilt and re-ran from the rebased head. One thing I want to flag rather than bury: a full |
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In `@internal/tools/sandbox_notice_visibility_test.go`:
- Around line 53-87: Extend TestEnforcementNoticeReachesTheModelAndTheDisplay
with a failed-command case producing StatusError and testDenyReadNotice. Assert
that ModelOutput() and HumanDisplay().Summary both retain the enforcement notice
and the command error text, while preserving the existing successful-command
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| if !strings.Contains(model, "hello from the command") { | ||
| t.Errorf("the notice displaced the actual output:\n%s", model) | ||
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| if !strings.HasPrefix(strings.TrimSpace(model), testDenyReadNotice) { | ||
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Add a failed-command disclosure regression test.
TestEnforcementNoticeReachesTheModelAndTheDisplay only exercises StatusOK. Add a StatusError result with testDenyReadNotice. Assert that ModelOutput() and HumanDisplay().Summary retain the notice and the command error text.
As per coding guidelines, "**/*_test.go: Every behavior or security-boundary change needs a regression test, including the failure path."
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In `@internal/tools/sandbox_notice_visibility_test.go` around lines 53 - 87,
Extend TestEnforcementNoticeReachesTheModelAndTheDisplay with a failed-command
case producing StatusError and testDenyReadNotice. Assert that ModelOutput() and
HumanDisplay().Summary both retain the enforcement notice and the command error
text, while preserving the existing successful-command assertions.
Source: Coding guidelines
…rovenance as the gates capture_artifact rejects in RejectBeforePermission, which the registry returns straight back before any of the gates that attach provenance. Its valid-but-unavailable calls therefore reached the classifier with no denial category, no permission metadata and no refusal marker, so they were read as ordinary retriable failures: the model got the schema hint telling it to fix arguments that were already valid, and the call could consume the profile failure-streak escalation, for a tool that never executed and that no argument change can enable. PolicyRefusalToolNotEnabled existed for exactly this and I never wired it. The missing-artifact-directory and disabled-driver branches carry it now. The malformed-argument branch deliberately stays an ordinary error. That one IS fixable by trying again differently, which is what the hint is for, so marking every early rejection would trade one wrong answer for another. Both directions are covered. Checked the rest of the class rather than only the reported tool: web_fetch, browser_launch, browser_connect, browser_open, desktop_windows, desktop_snapshot and terminal_session all reject on arguments alone, which is correctly retriable. capture_artifact was the only one refusing on configuration. Also rebased onto current main rather than carrying the two merge commits, per the same requirement raised on #886.
Both unelevated ACL failures told the reader to re-run with `--sandbox forbid`. There is no such option: SandboxPreferenceForbid is an internal engine state with no flag behind it, so acting on it produced an unknown option and left them stuck on the failure they had just been told how to clear. Advice that does not work costs more than none, because finding that out takes the reader's time. Name the real way out instead, the user config key, which is honored from global config only so a cloned repo cannot set it. The elevated-setup remedy beside it was already correct and stays. Reported by jatmn against the same string on #640. It predates this branch, having arrived with the unelevated fallback tier in #427, and the copy on #886 is fixed separately in 1b304e1. Also covers the secret write with the junction regression it was owed: the caller owns the sandbox home, so they can put a reparse point where the secret directory is expected, and the pathname version followed it in an elevated process. The test asserts the refusal names the reparse point and that nothing survives on the far side, since refusing while still creating the file would leave the caller holding it.
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[P1] Emit the disclosure for the plans that actually create the restricted token
internal/sandbox/runner.go:1240
CommandWrappeddescribes the plan that this request will execute, not an outer-sandbox state:BuildExecutionRequestsets it true for native and unelevated Windows requests, andbuildPlatformCommandPlansubsequently routes those exact requests towindowsRestrictedTokenCommandPlan. The new helper interprets the same true value as “already wrapped” and returns false before addingCommandPlan.Notes. Consequently, every realfile_system.deny_readexecution receives the non-WRITE_RESTRICTEDtoken but no disclosure; the new test passes only because its synthetic request leavesCommandWrappedfalse.The root cause is that the predicate was derived from a hand-built fixture rather than the manager → platform-plan state transition. Define the predicate in terms of the resulting execution state (or use the produced plan's
Wrappedstate), and add a regression that constructs the request throughBuildExecutionRequestfor both native and unelevated Windows setups. Keep the direct, degraded, disabled, and no-platform cases silent, but assert that each plan which reaches the restricted-token runner carries the notice. -
[P1] Carry enforcement notices through plugin and hook execution results
internal/plugins/activate.go:724
The new generic adapter correctly places the disclosure inCapturedResult.Outcome.Enforcement.Notices, but its consumers discard that part of the structured outcome. This projection copies only stdout, stderr, exit status, and error intocommandOutput;pluginTool.invoketherefore returns atools.Resultwith neither notices norsandbox_notices.internal/hooks/dispatch.go:110-142performs the equivalent lossy projection. Once the wrapped-plan predicate is corrected, plugin tools and hooks will run under the non-WRITE_RESTRICTEDtoken while remaining silent about the write-jail trade.The root cause is treating the generic execution contract as transport-only rather than preserving its security-relevant enforcement metadata through the final presentation boundary. Give the shared captured-output/result projection a way to retain
Outcome.Enforcement.Notices, then have the normal result-finalization path render it. Cover a plugin tool and a hook with an execution runner returning a notice, and assert the eventual user/model-facing result contains it exactly once; that prevents future generic consumers from silently dropping the contract again.
…e Windows helper For a Windows restricted-token plan the command the runner starts is the sandbox helper, not the requested executable, so exec.Cmd.Process becomes non-nil as soon as the ordinary helper process starts. Setup-marker validation, unelevated ACL application, network-policy validation, capability and offline SID construction, restricted-token creation and CreateProcessAsUser all happen inside that helper and can each return without creating the requested process. On those paths AppliedEnforcementNotices still reported that reads were denied as requested, when the only thing that ran was the unsandboxed adapter. The fact belongs to whoever sees the transition. AdapterReport gains ChildLaunched, which the helper writes to the adapter-owned report file at the moment CreateProcessAsUser succeeds, and the runner believes over its own observation. A plan whose adapter owns the fact is marked, and silence from that adapter now means not launched rather than falling back to the wrapper's start, so a missing report cannot be read as proof that enforcement applied. The mark is per adapter, not plan.Wrapped: a bwrap plan is wrapped too and reports only denials, and treating its silence as "no child" would drop the disclosure from every successful Linux sandbox run. Direct, unwrapped commands are unchanged, since the process the runner starts is the requested one. The report file is created with O_EXCL under the per-user temp directory, so a name another local user pre-created makes the helper fail rather than supply the fact the parent reads back. The regression drives both sides: a helper that runs and never creates the child discloses nothing, an adapter that owns the fact and says nothing discloses nothing, a restricted child that starts and then exits non-zero discloses exactly once, and a direct command keeps its own observation. Ignoring the reported fact, or removing the fail-closed branch, fails it on the notice it wrongly disclosed.
…auncher The adapter-owned child-launch contract was interpreted only by Runner.ExecuteCaptured. bash, exec_command/ProcessManager and durable stdio MCP each copied a subset of the prepared state and decided launch independently, so the same false disclosure survived in every path the earlier fix did not touch: a Windows helper that starts and then fails during marker, ACL, network, SID, token or CreateProcessAsUser setup still promoted the planned DenyRead notice even though no restricted child ever existed. ResolveChildLaunched is now the single answer: the adapter's report wins in both directions, an adapter that owns the fact and stays silent means not launched, and anything else keeps the caller's own observation, which is correct for a direct command and for bwrap. The captured runner, bash, and the exec_command conversion all call it. ProcessManager carries the ownership bit into ProcessResult so the retained write_stdin shape has it too, where the helper can be returned before it has even attempted the inner launch. connectStdio keeps prepared.Report and the ownership bit and no longer publishes at cmd.Start for a wrapped plan; it publishes once the adapter confirms, on both ways the attempt can end, which is also where an attempt abandoned at the connect timeout lands. Separately, the helper no longer drops ownership of a child it created. The report file is claimed BEFORE CreateProcessAsUser, so a failure to obtain the side channel happens while there is still nothing to own, and a failure to publish afterwards terminates and reaps the child instead of returning while it runs with nobody waiting on it and the parent free to start a second one. A report that was never published is removed, so a truncated file cannot be read back as a launch. The regression drives the production conversion rather than the shared helper: asserting the launch again fails it on three property assertions naming the notice it wrongly disclosed.
…f stderr Joining the pump at stop bounded writes to the pump's lifetime but said nothing about the overlap. Headless and interactive startup keep writing plugin, trust, peer, provider, trace and validation output to the same caller-supplied writer for the whole time the pump is live, and Run accepts an arbitrary io.Writer: a plain bytes.Buffer corrupts under concurrent use, and even a concurrency-safe terminal writer interleaves logical lines. A mutex private to the pump could not fix that, because the foreground writes do not go through it. reportMCPStartupDisclosures now returns a guarded view of the caller's writer alongside stop, and both startup paths adopt it for the rest of startup, so the pump and the foreground path take the same lock. Machine-readable stdout is untouched and the stop-before-TUI boundary is unchanged. The regression is deterministic rather than hopeful: a writer that parks inside Write holds the foreground message there while the late launch resolves and the pump tries to print, and it counts concurrent entries. Removing the lock from the guarded writer fails it on that count; the test also asserts stop drains the final notice exactly once and that the foreground message is not lost.
executeToolCall inspected the beforeTool DispatchOutcome only when Blocked was true, so a hook that ran fine and produced output put it in the audit record and on no surface anyone could see. A beforeTool process that ran under the weakened DenyRead token said so to nobody; only vetoes and afterTool feedback reached the model. Its messages now ride out on the tool result, the same delivery afterTool feedback already uses, ahead of that feedback and without displacing it. Blank messages contribute nothing, so a run with no hook output stays silent rather than appending an empty header, and veto behaviour is untouched. The regression drives the real Run loop with a real hook process and asserts on what the provider received on the next turn; dropping the capture fails it on that assertion. A unit test on the joining helper passed with the capture removed, so it could not have caught this. sessionStart and sessionEnd still discard their outcomes. Routing those needs a delivery surface that does not exist in agent.Options today, and choosing one is a product decision rather than a mechanical fix, so it is raised on the PR instead of invented here.
… regression Smoke (windows-latest) failed lint on cc85f2e: SA1019, runtime.GOROOT has been deprecated since Go 1.24. The fallback was copied from an older test and was never needed here, since the test cannot run without a go binary anyway. Skipping when one is not on PATH is the honest answer.
…every exit Delivering DispatchOutcome.Messages for a successful beforeTool hook fixed the silent disclosure and overshot. hookMessage builds that slice by folding the enforcement notice together with the hook's ordinary stdout, or stderr when stdout is empty, because afterTool validators want both. So every successful hook's routine logging, large diagnostics, and whatever text the hook happened to process became a standing input channel into the next model request. main is silent for a successful hook. DispatchOutcome now carries Notices separately: only the disclosures, one entry per notice, accumulated across every hook that ran. Messages keeps its old meaning and its old consumer. The notices are also accumulated BEFORE the veto short-circuit, because they describe something that already happened. Dispatch stops at the first veto, so a hook that ran under the weakened token ahead of the vetoing one used to leave its disclosure in the audit record and nowhere else. Two exits after the hook runs now share one finalization helper with the normal tail: the veto result, and a denied, cancelled or ungrantable unsandboxed retry. The blocking hook's own notices are already inside its reason, so they are not repeated. The regression that expected `go version` stdout to reach the provider was locking in the wrong behaviour and is replaced. One hook run now emits both a notice and ordinary output, and the test asserts the notice arrives exactly once while the output stays silent, driven through Run and asserted on what the provider received. A second test covers the veto path. Falsified by delivering Messages again, by returning the veto result without the notices, and by dropping the accumulation ahead of the veto.
…ll running The Windows helper publishes childLaunched immediately after CreateProcessAsUser creates the restricted child, and only then waits for it. ProcessManager read that report exclusively in the post-Wait goroutine, so for the entire live lifetime of a retained wrapped session the report was the zero value. The first exec_command reply and every write_stdin poll resolved Launched=false and disclosed nothing, while the fact sat readable on disk. A watcher, or a retained session nobody polls to completion, would never be told the write jail had been traded away. The launch fact is a monotonic lifecycle transition, not terminal process data. managedProcess now observes it once, latches it, and hands it out on live results as well as the terminal one. markDone will not overwrite a latched launch with a terminal read, because the plan's cleanup has already removed the report file by then on some orderings. Only the positive is promoted. An absent, partial, or undecodable report, and a helper that failed before it created the child, all leave the live result exactly as before: not confirmed, nothing disclosed. Latching false or surfacing a read error from the live read would let a mid-flight poll rewrite a running command into a setup failure. Direct commands and bwrap are untouched: the read is gated on the plan being adapter-owned, so an unwrapped plan does no extra work. Regressions drive the real ProcessManager with a real child that publishes the way the helper does and then stays alive: a live start and a live poll both disclose, a helper that reported no child stays silent, and a report published mid-flight is observed on the next poll.
…hild For an adapter-owned launch, cmd.Start proves only that the sandbox helper started. It can then fail setup-marker validation, ACL application, network validation, token construction, or CreateProcessAsUser without ever creating the requested MCP server. The launch sink made that distinction; the initialize-error path did not, and carried the planned notices out unconditionally. The operator was told a server had run without write confinement when no server had run at all. The adapter-gated path was also dead on that same route. client.Close runs the plan cleanup, which deletes the report file, and it ran before publishAdapterLaunch read it, so a wrapped server that really did launch and then failed its handshake published nothing either. Two competing definitions of applied enforcement, and both were wrong in opposite directions. connectStdio now resolves the launch fact once, through execution.ResolveChildLaunched, memoized, and reads it before Close so the evidence still exists. The sink and the error carrier consume that one answer. The success path is unchanged: a completed handshake is independent proof the child existed, and gating it on a mis-written report would suppress a true disclosure. Direct stdio and bwrap are unaffected, since an unwrapped plan resolves as launched exactly as before. Regressions drive RegisterTools with no ClientFactory, so the real connectStdio runs, and with a preparer whose cleanup deletes the report the way the Windows plan does. A helper reporting no child, and one that wrote no report at all, disclose nothing while still being recorded as skipped; a helper that reports the child discloses exactly once.
… a no The cross-process launch report has three states, not two: not settled yet, settled with no child, and child created. An absent file, the empty file the adapter opens before launching, a half-written one and a decode error are all the first state. Collapsing them to "no child" is a claim about a process that may be running at that instant, and every consumer was making that collapse on its own and compensating for the timing separately, which is why fixing one presentation site kept exposing the next. Three changes, one contract. The Windows helper now creates the sandboxed child with CREATE_SUSPENDED and resumes it only after the report is published. The child inherits the MCP pipes, so created runnable it could answer initialize, emit a malformed response or close stdout before the helper was next scheduled, and a parent reading the report then saw the empty file and cached "no child" about a server already running unconfined. It also closes the second manifestation: publishing could fail AFTER a runnable child had begun making external changes, and reaping it afterwards does not undo the work it did. A suspended child has executed nothing, so every failure between creation and resume terminates a process that never ran and the missing report is then true. ChildLaunchTracker is the settlement rule, at the adapter boundary where every consumer can share it. It caches a launch and never an absence: a negative read stays provisional until the answer is terminal. Two things make it terminal. Confirm, when the consumer observed the child itself, and Settle, when the adapter process has exited. Settle runs from Cleanup, before the report file is deleted, so reading the evidence and destroying it are one step rather than a race the consumer has to win. The MCP client uses both. A successful initialize response is Confirm: the adapter speaks no MCP and the child is created suspended, so a well-formed response can only have come from the requested server. On the failing exit the decision now comes after Close instead of before it, because Close waits out the adapter and cleanup settles with the report still on disk. Asking first asked an adapter that may be between creating the child and recording it, and the connect timeout ends the attempt exactly there. The existing fixture writes the finished report during PrepareExecution, before the helper command starts, so every ordering above is over before the parent looks. The new tests drive a real helper process that publishes at a controlled point: after answering the handshake, after failing it, and not at all.
connectAndList reads client.StartupNotices() on the success path and hands the result straight to the disclosure sources, with no launch check anywhere in between. For a wrapped plan those notices were recorded because cmd.Start returned, which is the HELPER starting: the one thing the report exists because it does not prove. The answer happened to be right, since a completed handshake does imply the child ran, but by coincidence rather than by rule, while the failure path beside it was already asking the adapter. Found by falsifying: dropping the handshake confirmation left every test passing, because the success disclosure never consulted the decision at all. StartupNotices now goes through the same decision as the sink and the error, so one rule covers all three carriers. The ordering test also asserts the failure disclosure travels through the ERROR, not only the sink. Registration merges the two, so a sink-only assertion passed while the decision was taken before the adapter settled and the failure the operator reads carried nothing. ChildLaunchTracker gets its own tests, because the rule that a negative read is not remembered is invisible through the MCP paths: they each ask once, at a point where the answer is already terminal. Pinned where the rule lives instead.
The gate is redundant today: every route that reaches StartupNotices has already settled the decision positive through the handshake confirmation, so removing it left every test passing. Unfalsifiable code is a stop signal, so it is pinned directly rather than left as an unchecked claim. It stays because the redundancy is on the safe side. An edit that moves or loses the confirmation makes this return nothing rather than announce a confinement on the strength of the helper having started.
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Three positive-path tests skipped when the manager came back with an unwrapped
plan. Nothing about those fixtures is an environment prerequisite: they pin GOOS,
an available native backend, command wrapping and an explicit executable, so an
unwrapped result is not a machine that cannot run the test, it is the producer
whose disclosure they exist to check having gone away. CI would have reported all
of the deny_read disclosure coverage passing after the real route disappeared,
and the hand-built predicate tests would have stayed green with it because they
start from CommandPlan{Wrapped: true}.
They now fail through one shared assertion that names the wrapping state, the
target backend and the enforcement level.
The fixtures were also still reading the real machine in one place.
windowsSandboxInitialized stats the per-host setup marker and BuildCommandPlan
consults it, so a box where `zero sandbox setup` has run resolved these requests
at native enforcement while every CI runner got unelevated. The plan came out
wrapped either way, which is why nothing failed, but the level being asserted
against was whichever machine ran it. Both fixtures now pin it.
Reported by jatmn.
…sult A successful beforeTool hook's disclosure was folded into result.Output as hook prose. That reached the provider, which reads the output, and reached nothing else. Every interactive surface builds its enforcement furniture from the typed EnforcementNotices slice, and for an edit or a write the card renders Display.Preview instead of Output. So on exactly the results where something was written, the operator saw the diff and no disclosure at all, collapsed and expanded, and the session payload persisted that same omission for the restored card. The model was told the token had been weakened and the person was not. The notice now merges into the typed slice at one finalization point that the normal path, the hook veto and the retry denial all return through, so no return path can reopen the loss. Ordering is the hook's disclosures ahead of the tool's own, exact repeats dropped, so a surface rendering the slice shows each one once. Nothing is written into Output as well: decoration has one owner per surface, or the disclosure appears twice. ModelOutput, HumanDisplay, the card renderer and session serialization keep the ownership they already had. Hook notices are third-party text on a path that bypasses the registry's redaction boundary, so the merge scrubs them the way appendHookFeedback did while they travelled as prose, and reports it so Redacted stays accurate. The joiner that folded notices in with afterTool feedback is gone with its last caller. afterTool output was never enforcement data and still arrives as prose. Reported by jatmn.
…foreTool beforeTool was moved onto the typed EnforcementNotices slice and afterTool was left folding its notices into the prose feedback, so the same fact had two writers on the normal tool tail: the typed slice, which every surface composes through ModelOutput and HumanDisplay, and the hook feedback block appended to the body. Both carry the identical fixed deny_read string, so a hook running under the same token shape as the tool it follows made the model see the disclosure twice, and a bash or exec card show it in the amber furniture and again in the body. Neither half existed on the merge base; this branch introduced both. hookMessage now returns the hook's own stdout or stderr and nothing else. dispatchAfterTool returns its notices alongside that output, and the loop merges them into the result through the same finalization beforeTool uses, with the same order and dedupe. A veto's Reason still carries its notice inline, because that field is prose that reaches a person on its own. Ordinary afterTool validator output is untouched: a formatter diff or vet warning still arrives as feedback in the body, which is what an afterTool hook asked for. A silent hook that exists only to disclose a token trade now reaches the typed slice instead of becoming model input. The hooks tests that asserted the disclosure through hookMessage now assert it on Notices and additionally that it does NOT ride along in Messages, so the property they protected is unchanged and its carrier moved with it. Reported by jatmn.
…t resume The report is published before ResumeThread so the inherited-pipe race is closed, and that ordering stays. But a failure between the publish and the resume reaped a process that had executed nothing while leaving a report on disk saying a child launched. AppliedEnforcementNotices gates on that report and ResolveChildLaunched treats it as authoritative, so the operator would have been told a write-jail trade applied to a child that never became runnable. The comment above the publish already claimed the stronger invariant, that every failure between creation and resume leaves "no child launched" true for the parent. The code held it only for failures before the write. publishThenResume now owns the sequence: the published flag it returns is true only when the child actually resumed, so a resume failure hands the deferred close a false and the report is removed. The docstring on the terminate helper now distinguishes the pre-publish path, where nothing was written, from the post-publish pre-resume path, where the record has to be taken back. Reported by jatmn.
…ished The report is published before ResumeThread, so the fact is readable while the child has executed nothing. A live poll landing in that window latched it, and the latch outlived the file: the terminal read finds the report cleaned away and restores what was observed, so a child that never became runnable was reported as launched and its write-jail trade disclosed as if it had been made. Deleting the report on that path cannot fix it, because deletion is also what a normal cleanup does and the restore exists for exactly that. The helper now retracts with an explicit false, which is the one answer that outranks a latch, and the manager repeats the observation while the command runs instead of caching it. Silence still changes nothing, so a genuine launch still survives its own cleanup.
… written The unwind test asserted the report was removed on a resume failure, which is the contract this branch just replaced: absence is what a normal cleanup leaves too, so it does not revoke a launch a live reader already saw. It now asserts an explicit false, with a companion for the case where the retraction write itself fails and the file is discarded after all.
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Fixed in 34542486 and 78b9f44c, and rebased onto You are right that deleting the file cannot close it, and the reason is the one you gave: absence is already the normal end state, and the manager restores a latched launch precisely because a clean run leaves nothing behind. So the previous fix only helped readers whose first look came after the helper was done. The report retracts now instead of disappearing. If the retraction write itself fails, the file is discarded after all. That is where this path was before, and absence is weaker than an explicit false but still better than a report left saying true. Coverage, driven through the real
The manager-side tests live in Falsifications: caching the positive again fails the live-poll assertion; letting absence revoke fails the silence test that was already there; deleting instead of retracting fails the helper test. |
Both unelevated ACL failures told the reader to re-run with `--sandbox forbid`. There is no such option: SandboxPreferenceForbid is an internal engine state with no flag behind it, so acting on it produced an unknown option and left them stuck on the failure they had just been told how to clear. Advice that does not work costs more than none, because finding that out takes the reader's time. Name the real way out instead, the user config key, which is honored from global config only so a cloned repo cannot set it. The elevated-setup remedy beside it was already correct and stays. Reported by jatmn against the same string on #640. It predates this branch, having arrived with the unelevated fallback tier in #427, and the copy on #886 is fixed separately in 1b304e1. Also covers the secret write with the junction regression it was owed: the caller owns the sandbox home, so they can put a reparse point where the secret directory is expected, and the pathname version followed it in an elevated process. The test asserts the refusal names the reparse point and that nothing survives on the far side, since refusing while still creating the file would leave the caller holding it.
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#1006 remains open. Once it lands, complete the planned rebase and remove the obsolete deny_read warning producers and their tests before merging this PR. Keep the SID invariant guards and generic launch/typed-notice machinery.
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299-302: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueRemove the duplicate paragraph above
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In `@internal/hooks/dispatch.go`:
- Line 322: Ensure the blocking hook’s notice has a single owner by updating the
blocked return in internal/hooks/dispatch.go:322 to avoid folding result.Notices
into the reason when those notices were already appended to outcome.Notices;
retain the existing block cause behavior. Extend the assertions in
internal/hooks/enforcement_launch_state_test.go:157-170 to verify the vetoing
hook’s notice occurs only once across outcome.Reason and outcome.Notices.
In `@internal/hooks/enforcement_launch_state_test.go`:
- Around line 135-154: Update both launch-state tests, including
TestAVetoingHookThatNeverLaunchedClaimsNoEnforcement and its launched
counterpart, to assert outcome.Notices directly for the presence or absence of
launchStateNotice. Keep the existing outcome.Reason assertions only where needed
for separate behavior, and ensure the tests cover Dispatch appending
result.Notices independently of blockReason.
In `@internal/mcp/registry.go`:
- Around line 427-430: Update Runtime.Close to call StartupDisclosureStream
before accessing runtime.disclosureStream, ensuring disclosureStreamOnce
initializes and publishes the non-nil stream before Close invokes its Close
method.
In `@internal/mcp/startup_disclosure_test.go`:
- Around line 134-136: Update the pre-launch assertion in the startup disclosure
test to inspect notices via startupNoticesFromError(err), rather than searching
err.Error() for startupNotice. Preserve the check that a launch that never
occurred does not carry the enforcement-trade notice.
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In `@internal/mcp/client.go`:
- Around line 299-302: Remove the duplicate comment paragraph above the
launchedOnce declaration, preserving the existing paragraph immediately above
publishAdapterLaunch and leaving runtime behavior unchanged.
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| // while running without write confinement reported only the veto. Both fields | ||
| // reach a person, so both have to carry it. | ||
| func blockReason(result commandResult) string { | ||
| return withHookEnforcementNotices(blockCause(result), result.Notices) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
The blocking hook's own notice has no single owner. blockReason folds result.Notices into Reason, and Dispatch already appended that same hook's notices to outcome.Notices before the blocked branch. A beforeTool hook that vetoes while carrying its own notice therefore puts the disclosure on both channels, which is the duplication this change removes from hookMessage. No test separates the two channels for that hook.
internal/hooks/dispatch.go#L322-L322: pick one owner for the blocking hook's own notices. Either returnblockCause(result)and leave the notices onoutcome.Notices, or skip the per-hook append for the hook that blocks.internal/hooks/enforcement_launch_state_test.go#L157-L170: extendTestALaunchedHookCarriesTheNoticeIntoTheDispatchOutcometo assert the total occurrences acrossoutcome.Reasonandoutcome.Notices, so the vetoing-hook-with-its-own-notice case is pinned.
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In `@internal/hooks/dispatch.go` at line 322, Ensure the blocking hook’s notice
has a single owner by updating the blocked return in
internal/hooks/dispatch.go:322 to avoid folding result.Notices into the reason
when those notices were already appended to outcome.Notices; retain the existing
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| func TestAVetoingHookThatNeverLaunchedClaimsNoEnforcement(t *testing.T) { | ||
| dispatcher := NewDispatcher(DispatcherOptions{ | ||
| Config: beforeToolConfig(Definition{ID: "policy", Event: EventBeforeTool, Command: "policy-check", Enabled: true}), | ||
| Cwd: t.TempDir(), | ||
| // A missing executable rather than a prepare error: a prepare error never | ||
| // builds the PreparedCommand, so its outcome carries no planned notice and | ||
| // the assertion below would hold with the launch gate deleted. This shape | ||
| // plans the notice and then fails to launch. | ||
| Execution: execution.NewRunner(¬icePreparer{build: func() *exec.Cmd { | ||
| return exec.Command("definitely-not-a-real-binary-zzz") | ||
| }}), | ||
| }) | ||
| outcome := dispatcher.Dispatch(context.Background(), DispatchInput{Event: EventBeforeTool, ToolName: "bash"}) | ||
| if !outcome.Blocked { | ||
| t.Fatal("SETUP INVALID: a beforeTool hook that could not run must fail closed, or the veto path is not exercised") | ||
| } | ||
| if strings.Contains(outcome.Reason, launchStateNotice) { | ||
| t.Errorf("the veto reason claims an enforcement trade for a hook that never started:\n%s", outcome.Reason) | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Assert DispatchOutcome.Notices in both launch-state tests. Dispatch appends result.Notices to outcome.Notices, while blockReason also folds the notice into outcome.Reason at dispatch.go:322. When Notices becomes the single owner, update the launched and never-launched tests to check outcome.Notices; the production change alone does not provide this coverage.
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In `@internal/hooks/enforcement_launch_state_test.go` around lines 135 - 154,
Update both launch-state tests, including
TestAVetoingHookThatNeverLaunchedClaimsNoEnforcement and its launched
counterpart, to assert outcome.Notices directly for the presence or absence of
launchStateNotice. Keep the existing outcome.Reason assertions only where needed
for separate behavior, and ensure the tests cover Dispatch appending
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| // End disclosure delivery FIRST. A launch that resolves while the clients | ||
| // are being closed has no owner left to print it, and the runtime must not | ||
| // leave a subscriber holding a writer whose lifetime it does not know. | ||
| runtime.disclosureStream.Close() |
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Initialize the disclosure stream before closing it.
Runtime.Close can panic because disclosureStream remains nil until StartupDisclosureStream runs. A direct read also races with concurrent first-time stream creation. Call StartupDisclosureStream from Close so disclosureStreamOnce publishes a non-nil stream and orders the read.
♻️ Proposed fix
- runtime.disclosureStream.Close()
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| // End disclosure delivery FIRST. A launch that resolves while the clients | |
| // are being closed has no owner left to print it, and the runtime must not | |
| // leave a subscriber holding a writer whose lifetime it does not know. | |
| runtime.disclosureStream.Close() | |
| // End disclosure delivery FIRST. A launch that resolves while the clients | |
| // are being closed has no owner left to print it, and the runtime must not | |
| // leave a subscriber holding a writer whose lifetime it does not know. | |
| runtime.StartupDisclosureStream().Close() |
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In `@internal/mcp/registry.go` around lines 427 - 430, Update Runtime.Close to
call StartupDisclosureStream before accessing runtime.disclosureStream, ensuring
disclosureStreamOnce initializes and publishes the non-nil stream before Close
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| if strings.Contains(err.Error(), startupNotice) { | ||
| t.Errorf("a launch that never happened claimed an enforcement trade: %v", err) | ||
| } |
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Assert the carried notices, not the error text.
startupDisclosureError.Error() returns only e.err.Error() and omits e.notices. The existing carrier test covers a post-launch failure, but this pre-launch path still needs to inspect startupNoticesFromError(err).
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- "strings"
"testing"
...
- if strings.Contains(err.Error(), startupNotice) {
- t.Errorf("a launch that never happened claimed an enforcement trade: %v", err)
+ if carried := startupNoticesFromError(err); len(carried) != 0 {
+ t.Errorf("a launch that never happened claimed an enforcement trade: %v", carried)
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| if strings.Contains(err.Error(), startupNotice) { | |
| t.Errorf("a launch that never happened claimed an enforcement trade: %v", err) | |
| } | |
| if carried := startupNoticesFromError(err); len(carried) != 0 { | |
| t.Errorf("a launch that never happened claimed an enforcement trade: %v", carried) | |
| } |
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In `@internal/mcp/startup_disclosure_test.go` around lines 134 - 136, Update the
pre-launch assertion in the startup disclosure test to inspect notices via
startupNoticesFromError(err), rather than searching err.Error() for
startupNotice. Preserve the check that a launch that never occurred does not
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Both unelevated ACL failures told the reader to re-run with `--sandbox forbid`. There is no such option: SandboxPreferenceForbid is an internal engine state with no flag behind it, so acting on it produced an unknown option and left them stuck on the failure they had just been told how to clear. Advice that does not work costs more than none, because finding that out takes the reader's time. Name the real way out instead, the user config key, which is honored from global config only so a cloned repo cannot set it. The elevated-setup remedy beside it was already correct and stays. Reported by jatmn against the same string on #640. It predates this branch, having arrived with the unelevated fallback tier in #427, and the copy on #886 is fixed separately in 1b304e1. Also covers the secret write with the junction regression it was owed: the caller owns the sandbox home, so they can put a reparse point where the secret directory is expected, and the pathname version followed it in an elevated process. The test asserts the refusal names the reparse point and that nothing survives on the far side, since refusing while still creating the file would leave the caller holding it.
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Partial work on #869. It does not close it, and I would rather say that up front than have the checkbox suggest otherwise.
The regression risk
#865 removed the World SID from the
WRITE_RESTRICTEDtoken. That is the whole write jail: every principal carries Everyone, so while it was a restricting SID the write half of the access check passed for free on any Everyone-writable path, and confinement fell back to the user's own permissions.That fix has no CI protection. The only test covering it,
TestWindowsRestrictedTokenDeniesWritesToEveryoneWritablePaths, sits behindZERO_SANDBOX_REAL_SMOKE=1, andrg ZERO_SANDBOX_REAL_SMOKE .github/comes back empty. So anything that restored the unconditional World SID would go green. This is not hypothetical: #640's branch predates #865 and conflicts on that exact hunk.CreateRestrictedTokenworks unelevated against the caller's own token, so there was never a reason this needed the real-runner harness. Four unit tests now read the token's restricted-SID list directly:WRITE_RESTRICTEDtoken must not carry the World SIDUsers,Authenticated Users,INTERACTIVE,BATCH,Administrators,SYSTEM,SERVICE,NETWORK, or the user's own SID. Windows write jail is still bypassable on profiles that set denyRead #869 names these as the ones that would reopen the same class of bypass, and the runner's comment already states the ruleWRITE_RESTRICTEDshape still carries the World SIDThe last one documents the open gap instead of asserting the end state. It skips with a note if that stops being true, so whoever closes #869 gets told to replace it rather than finding a mystery failure.
Mutation-verified: flipping the guard back to unconditional produces
and the production file is byte-identical to
mainafterwards.The invisible trade
Setting
denyReadselects the token shape withoutWRITE_RESTRICTED, because the restricted-SID check has to cover reads for read-deny to mean anything, and that shape has to keep the World SID or the token cannot opencmd.exe. The trade is deliberate and well documented in the token source. It was just never surfaced: someone who setdenyReadto protect credentials had no way to learn they had given up write confinement to get it.The plan now carries a warning saying exactly that. Keyed off the same field the runner reads (
PermissionProfile.FileSystem.DenyRead, notpolicy.DenyRead) so the two cannot drift, and scoped to the Windows restricted-token backend with native isolation actually active. Zero never populatesdenyReadon Windows itself, so the default posture stays silent and this only reaches users who configured it.What is still open
Closing #869 needs a read-side grant that is not a universal group: AppContainer or LPAC with a capability SID, or the per-workspace principals from #808. That is a different piece of work and I have not attempted it here. #662 still must not land before it, since it would move every Windows user onto the unfixed shape.
I deliberately did not touch whether
denyReadshould be rejected outright on this tier. That is #640's call to make.Verification
go build,go vet,gofmt -lclean. Fullinternal/sandboxsuite green on real Windows, andinternal/cligreen too since it consumes the plan's warnings. Production diff is one file, +28/-1.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
apply_patchtool calls.Bug Fixes
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