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 Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SandboxPlan
participant Execution
participant MCPRuntime
participant ToolResult
participant AgentAndHooks
participant CLIAndTUI
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
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. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2 | ❌ 3❌ Failed checks (3 warnings)
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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.) ✨ Finishing Touches 💡 1📝 Generate docstrings 💡
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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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| t.Errorf("the model-facing result does not carry the disclosure, so the agent proceeds unaware:\n%s", model) | ||
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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.
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…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.
…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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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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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
block cause behavior. Extend the assertions in
internal/hooks/enforcement_launch_state_test.go:157-170 to verify the vetoing
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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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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.
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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
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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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- if strings.Contains(err.Error(), startupNotice) {
- t.Errorf("a launch that never happened claimed an enforcement trade: %v", err)
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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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Two things landed here, both following from #1006 merging overnight. Merged main in at 9e09d0a, no conflicts. Then dropped the Windows denyRead trade notice at 23d0932. Main now refuses any denyRead profile before setup or token creation on both restricted-token tiers, so there is no run left for the notice to describe, and keeping it meant a plan could carry a note saying reads are denied and writes unconfined while the runner refused to start that plan at all. Gone with it: the host indirection, the diagnostic half in the execution request warnings, the plan-notes append in the command-plan funnel, the two predicates that only served it, and the three test files that pinned the producer. Net 152 lines of production code removed. #869 is closed as of this morning on the strength of the #1006 gate. One consequence for you to rule on rather than me, since it is the contract you approved: CommandPlan.Notes now has no producer in the tree. I kept the channel from plan notes into Enforcement.Notices, because hooks, plugins and MCP read that field and a typed path with no payload today is cheaper than a second migration when the next fixed sentence appears. The end-to-end pin that reached it through the real producer is replaced by a fixture-plan test, and deleting the one line in EnforcementFor fails exactly that test and nothing else, which I checked. If you would rather the channel go too, that is a small follow-up and I am happy either way. sandbox, agent, cli, tools, hooks, mcp and execution packages green here; linux and darwin cross-builds pass. The push will have dismissed your approval at f984082 @jatmn. @gnanam1990 yours is on 496f633. |
…d is refused Since #1006 a Windows profile with denyRead is rejected before setup or token creation on both restricted-token tiers, so there is no run left for the notice to describe. Keeping it meant a plan could carry a note saying reads are denied and writes unconfined while the runner refused to start that plan at all: two statements about one fact, disagreeing. Removed: windowsDenyReadWarnings and its host indirection, denyReadDiagnosticWarnings and the append into the execution request warnings, the plan-notes append in the command-plan funnel, and the two predicates that only served it (windowsRestrictedTokenWillRun, willBuildWindowsRestrictedToken). The three test files that pinned the producer go with it. CommandPlan.Notes now has no producer in the tree. The channel from plan notes into Enforcement.Notices stays, since it is what hooks, plugins and MCP read, and the end-to-end pin that reached it through the real producer is replaced by a fixture-plan test so deleting that one line still fails somewhere. The comment in loop.go that justified skipping the rebudget on the strength of that one producer now says so. Closes the last part of #869, which #1006 settled by refusal.
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Approve at eb3bbb2f12aef4bc2c787ab9b29a3e4c82ee195b, incorporating current main 6937a309cf00825572210a7610a1f3ea8b74c2f9. No evidence-backed defects found in the reviewed scope.
My previous requested changes at 496f633a are closed on the current code path:
- Launch evidence is published independently from connection/list completion. The MCP sink and typed disclosure stream preserve an observed launch through timeout, initialization failure, and late completion; the CLI owns serialized output and joins its pump before returning or handing over the terminal.
ChildLaunchTrackerdistinguishes unknown, settled-no-child, and launched states; report evidence is settled before cleanup. Applied notices are derived from the launched outcome, rather than inferred from a terminal error kind or a planned wrapper.- Tool/agent projections carry undecorated output alongside typed notices. ACP, live/restored TUI cards, persisted results, hooks, and headless exec consume the appropriate composed view. Hook-veto presentation excludes notices already carried in the veto reason.
- Current-user SID lookup now fails the security test on lookup error/empty identity. Diagnostic byte/token counts use the composed model payload.
- The planned #1006 follow-up is complete: this head removes the obsolete denyRead trade-warning producers/tests after main's denyRead refusal, while preserving SID invariants and generic launch/notice machinery.
Validation on macOS: focused race-enabled launch/notice/disclosure/enforcement tests passed across execution, MCP, hooks, plugins, agent, CLI, tools, TUI, and ACP; relevant package vet and diff hygiene passed. Windows sandbox tests compiled. Native Windows execution was not performed locally.
One initially failing existing tools test was checkout-location dependent: it failed identically on current main with the checkout under /private/tmp, which the sandbox treats as a temp root. Moving the review checkout outside the temp root made the same test group pass without source edits. It is not a PR regression.
No dependency or new third-party integration was introduced. The author branch and source files were unchanged by this review. Please also refresh the PR description's old promise of a denyRead warning: the final implementation correctly refuses that configuration now. This is documentation alignment, not a request to restore the removed warning.
…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.
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@jatmn your review at Your step 3 is "the helper terminates/reaps the suspended child and removes the report". That path retracts rather than removes, and it already did at the exact commit you reviewed. That is what breaks your step 4. I also looked for the removal path your step 3 needs and do not think one exists. Publish and resume are both inside Where I can see something real is narrower than either of us wrote: a result collected inside the window between the publish and the resume reports a launch, and if the resume then fails, that already-returned result stays wrong no matter what the file says afterwards. No retraction can reach a value that has been handed out. If that is what you were pointing at, say so and I will take it; if you are seeing the deletion path and I am reading the wrong callsite, tell me which one and I will look again. The only real commit since your review is Head is |
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I found one cancellation issue that needs to be addressed before merge. The details below describe the failure, its root cause, and the acceptance criteria for addressing it together.
Merge readiness
- At reviewed head
eb3bbb2f, the branch is two commits behind the checkedmain(c1937dfa). Refresh it before merge. GitHub reported no conflicts and green checks at review time. The repository requires three approving reviews; one current approval was recorded.
Findings
[P2] Ensure cancellation cannot orphan the newly suspended child
internal/sandbox/windows_process_windows.go:76
Adding CREATE_SUSPENDED introduces a child-lifetime state that the helper’s ordinary error cleanup does not fully cover. Windows sandboxed hooks and plugin commands can leave a permanently suspended child behind and wait indefinitely when their context is cancelled during creation-to-resume.
Reachable failure sequence
- A hook or plugin command runs through
Runner.ExecuteCapturedandEngine.CommandContext. The hook dispatcher and plugin execution wrapper both supply timeout contexts.Engine.CommandContextuses the defaultexec.CommandContextcancellation, which kills the helper process, and does not setWaitDelay. - The helper successfully calls
CreateProcessAsUserwithCREATE_SUSPENDED. The child exists and inherits stdin/stdout/stderr handles, but its primary thread cannot execute yet. - Before the helper calls
ResumeThread, the timeout expires or the caller cancels the context. The helper is forcibly terminated. It cannot runterminateSuspendedWindowsChild, deferred cleanup, or the resume operation. - The suspended child survives with its inherited output handles. Windows does not terminate children merely because their parent exits, and a thread created suspended requires resumption before it can execute. See Microsoft’s process termination and suspended-thread contracts.
Runner.ExecuteCapturedsupplied output buffers, so Go’s command runner is copying from pipes. Although the helper has exited, the surviving child prevents EOF. With noWaitDelaybound,Command.Run()can remain blocked indefinitely. The hook/plugin wrappers synchronously await that call, so their timeout handling cannot finish either.
This requires cancellation in the new creation-to-resume window; it is not a claim that every Windows cancellation hangs. A short command that would otherwise exit immediately is sufficient, because the suspended child never gets to execute it.
Why this belongs to this PR
Root-only cancellation and the unbounded captured pipe drain predate this change. Both the merge base (6937a309) and checked main (c1937dfa) create the child runnable, allowing a short command to finish independently after helper termination. Head eb3bbb2f adds the suspended state. This is therefore a PR-worsened lifecycle defect: the new state makes that older cleanup weakness permanently retain even an otherwise short-lived child.
The ordinary publish/resume error branches handle errors returned while the helper is alive. Forced termination bypasses those branches entirely. This finding does not depend on a notice payload being produced.
Root cause and required outcome
The helper is both the cancellable process and the only component currently responsible for resuming or terminating the new suspended child. Once the helper dies, that responsibility has no surviving enforcement mechanism. Please make ownership of the suspended child reliable across helper cancellation, including the interval immediately after successful child creation.
The fix should satisfy both outcomes: cancellation completes the captured call, and the newly suspended child is terminated without leaving an orphan. Adding only a pipe-wait timeout could release the caller while retaining the orphan; adding more deferred cleanup inside the helper cannot cover forced helper termination. Likewise, any ownership arrangement established after creation must account for cancellation before that arrangement is established. Choose the Windows mechanism that fits the existing launcher; the requirement is the lifetime guarantee rather than a particular API or process-framework redesign.
Keep report publication before child I/O, normal successful resume, existing sandbox restrictions, and denyRead refusal intact. Resuming before publication would sacrifice the ordering this PR intentionally establishes. The requested change is confined to making that suspended launch transition safe when its owner is cancelled.
Regression coverage and completion criteria
Please exercise the production cancellation wiring with a deterministic Windows test, rather than relying on repeated attempts to hit a small timing window:
- Hold the helper after successful child creation and before resume. Cancel through the captured hook/plugin execution path. Assert that the call returns within a bounded interval and that the actual child process has terminated. Verify both parent cancellation and deadline expiry, using shared test coverage where the wiring is the same.
- Ensure the test covers the earliest child-created interval, including any ownership-establishment step added by the fix. Give the test independent cleanup so a failing assertion cannot itself leave a suspended process behind.
- Retain successful-launch coverage demonstrating publication before child execution, successful resume, and normal output/exit handling. Retain the publish/resume failure tests as coverage of the separate ordinary error paths.
The failure sequence is supported by the code and documented Windows semantics, but I have not reproduced the complete sequence on native Windows. A Linux surrogate confirmed only the captured runner’s wait for EOF while a surviving child holds the output pipes. Native Windows coverage is needed to validate the chosen fix across the actual process and handle behavior.
Guidance for completing this change
The key distinction here is between a helper returning an error and the helper disappearing before it can return. Testing the first path does not establish cleanup for the second. Treat child creation, publication, resume, and cancellation as one lifetime contract: at each transition, identify what guarantees child cleanup if the helper is killed at that point.
Please address ownership, caller completion, and the corresponding regression together. That closes the root cause of this finding rather than patching only its visible hang. The acceptance criteria above define the requested follow-up; they do not require expanding the notice infrastructure or changing the intended sandbox policy.
…d helper Creating the child suspended is what makes the launch report trustworthy: the fact is published before the child can execute, so an absent report means nothing ran. It also creates a state the helper's ordinary unwind does not cover. Between CreateProcessAsUser and ResumeThread the child exists, holds the inherited stdin/stdout/stderr handles, and can run nothing. Hook and plugin commands reach the helper through Engine.CommandContext, which uses the default exec.CommandContext cancellation, so a timeout or a cancel kills the helper outright. It never reaches terminateSuspendedWindowsChild, its defers, or the resume. Windows does not terminate a child because its parent died, so the suspended process survives holding the pipe write ends and a parent still reading them waits on a process that will never write and never exit. The helper now joins a job object with JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE before any child can exist, so every child created afterwards inherits membership at creation and there is no window where one is alive and unowned. Terminating the helper closes the last handle and the kernel does the killing, which is the only mechanism that survives the helper being killed rather than unwound. A failure to create the job is not fatal: it costs the guarantee, not the sandbox. Deliberately not fixed with exec.Cmd.WaitDelay in the parent. That releases the caller while the orphan keeps running and keeps the pipes, trading a visible hang for an invisible leak; it is a reasonable backstop, not the fix. The regression drives the real kernel: join the job, create a suspended child, close the last handle the way a terminated helper would, and require the child to be gone. With a plain job instead, the child outlives it. Reported by @jatmn.
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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
Tests