fix(sandbox): say when a session's sandbox enforcement is degraded - #1082
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Only `zero doctor` and `zero sandbox policy` reported a degraded sandbox, so a TUI session or a `zero exec` run went ahead with the native sandbox effectively off and nobody saw it. Both now say so once, before the first prompt or tool call, naming the downgrade reason: exec on stderr next to the grant migration notice, the TUI as a system notice when it opens. The line comes from the session's own engine through Backend.BuildPlan, the plan `zero sandbox policy` prints, so the notice and the command that explains it cannot describe two different sandboxes. Only the degraded level speaks: a disabled sandbox is the user's choice, and the unelevated Windows tier still enforces the write jail. Exec tests that expect a quiet stderr now compare against the notice this host prints under the default policy, since they run on the host's own backend and a Linux runner without the helper is degraded while macOS and Windows are not. Fixes #1041
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. 2 included reviews remain after this review. Your included PR review attempts over the past 7 days set your current allowance at 5 reviews per hour. WalkthroughThe sandbox engine provides notices for degraded enforcement and sandbox nesting. The CLI writes nonempty notices to stderr or passes them to the TUI as startup notices. The TUI displays them as system rows, including after a new session starts. CLI startup also uses a fetch-setting-aware background refresh entry point for the models.dev cache. ChangesDegraded Sandbox Notices
Models.dev Refresh Startup
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Exec as exec command
participant Engine as sandbox engine
participant Stderr as stderr
participant App as interactive startup
participant TUI as TUI model
Exec->>Engine: request degraded notice
Engine-->>Exec: return notice text
Exec->>Stderr: write notice when nonempty
App->>Engine: request degraded notice
Engine-->>App: return notice text
App->>TUI: pass StartupNotices
TUI->>TUI: append nonblank system notices
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With ZERO_SANDBOXED and ZERO_SANDBOX_BACKEND set, BuildCommandPlan passes every command through unwrapped on the word of an outer sandbox nothing verifies (#727). The notice came from Backend.BuildPlan, which does not model that path, so a native backend reported full enforcement and a session started with the markers ran every command unwrapped in silence. The engine's notice now mirrors the runner and names the markers and the unverified outer sandbox. A disabled sandbox still says nothing. hostSandboxNotice builds its expectation through the engine too, and the tests that pin the notice clear the markers so a suite run inside a Zero sandbox does not change their answer.
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🟡 Minor · Reapply startup notices when resuming a session. · model.go:1098-1101
internal/tui/model.go:1098-1101
🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReapply startup notices when resuming a session.
StartupNoticescontain session facts that the user must see before the first prompt.DegradedNoticedescribes the sandbox enforcement state for that session. However,handleResumeCommandreplacesm.transcriptafternewModelinserts the notice. Direct/resumeand picker selection both reach this function, so the warning can disappear before the resumed session’s next prompt.Retain the notices on the model and reapply them when rebuilding the resumed transcript.
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type model struct { ctx context.Context cwd string appVersion string + startupNotices []string userCommands []usercommands.Command // file-sourced /commands (.zero/commands) loadSkills func() []skills.Skill // lazy installed-skills loader for /skills + /<skill-name> @@ m := model{ ctx: ctx, cwd: cwd, appVersion: strings.TrimSpace(options.Version), + startupNotices: options.StartupNotices, swarmDoneAt: map[string]time.Time{}, userCommands: loadedUserCommands,rows := initialTranscript() + for _, notice := range m.startupNotices { + if strings.TrimSpace(notice) != "" { + rows = appendRow(rows, rowSystem, notice) + } + } rows = appendRow(rows, rowSystem, m.formatResumeSummary(*session, len(events)))🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 95-104: Update BuildCommandPlan to emit the degraded-enforcement
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- Around line 1098-1101: Retain StartupNotices on the model when newModel
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/resume rebuilds the transcript from an empty one, so the startup notices went with the old transcript and the session it switched to ran under a degraded sandbox without a word. The model keeps the notices and puts them back first, before the resume summary. Rewind and compaction stay in the same session and keep the notice in the scrollback above their divider. Also pins why the notice can be decided once, at startup: grants made during a session only open the network or add allow and deny paths, never the mode, and every mode but disabled already needs the platform sandbox, so no grant reaches a degraded command plan the startup notice missed, and a deny path the backend cannot enforce is refused instead.
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/new cleared the transcript and added only its own note, so the new session started under a degraded sandbox without a word, the same gap /resume had. It now puts the notices back first, the way /resume does. /clear stays in the same session and, like rewind and compaction, keeps the notice in the scrollback above its divider.
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I found one issue to address before this is ready.
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The captured target main and merge base are both 99721c762f37; the PR head is b07a5491d6b4. GitHub reports the branch mergeable without conflicts. All captured CI jobs pass; the PR is blocked by review state, not a failing check. Issue #1041 is approved, and the author is a collaborator. The earlier CodeRabbit requests about nested-sandbox wording, grant profiles, /resume, and /new are reflected in the current head.
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🟡 P2 — Keep the new notice tests out of real user stores
📍 Where: internal/cli/sandbox_degraded_notice_test.go:54–79 (runExecWithSandbox) and :129–180 (TestTUILaunchCarriesTheDegradedNotice).
💥 What fails: The new exec tests use a temporary workspace but leave the sandbox grant store at its production default. runExec calls ConsumeMigrationNotice, which reads the developer's sandbox-grants.json and can migrate and rewrite it when an older schema or pending notice exists. A contained probe with an invalid grants file made the new exec test fail at this read. Both the exec helper and TUI launch test start an asynchronous models.dev refresh without isolating or disabling its cache. When the default cache is stale, that worker can fetch from the network and replace the developer's os.UserCacheDir()/zero/modelsdev.json; it can outlive the test's environment cleanup.
🔎 Root cause: These two test entries omit the repository's existing isolateCLIUserState(t) setup. A temporary cwd in runExecWithSandbox and setCLIUserConfigRoot(t) in the TUI test leave other production user-state paths active when runWithDeps fills omitted dependencies.
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“Tests must not read or write the developer's real config, cache, or state directories.” —
AGENTS.md, Hermetic tests.
🏷️ Attribution: PR-introduced. These test entry points do not exist at merge base 99721c762f37 or the captured live target. The current head adds calls to the unchanged default grant-store and models-cache paths.
📌 In this PR:
runExecWithSandbox— temp cwd, but defaultnewSandboxStoreand models cache; all three new exec notice tests use this helper.TestTUILaunchCarriesTheDegradedNotice— temp config root, but default models cache; its background refresh is not joined before test cleanup.
🔒 Unchanged on main: GrantStore, RefreshModelsDevCache, and other tests that use those facilities are existing production and baseline code. They do not need redesign for this fix.
🔧 Required correction: Apply the existing isolateCLIUserState(t) setup before both new runWithDeps entry points, so grant resolution and the models cache use test-owned state and the refresh is disabled. Keep the asynchronous refresh from observing restored user environment after test cleanup.
🛠️ Author fix: Use the existing user-state isolation helper for both in-diff test entries in one pass, and contain the refresh lifetime. Changing only the exec helper leaves the TUI refresh, and changing only the TUI test leaves the exec tests' default grant store. Keep the correction test-scoped; do not rebuild the store or model registry.
🚫 Out of scope: Changing normal CLI cache refresh behavior, grant-store schema, or unrelated baseline tests.
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The degradation visibility is done right: zero exec prints one stderr line before any tool runs in every output mode (stdout stays pure JSON), the TUI shows it as a system notice at session open and re-shows it on /new and /resume, and the notice is built from the session's own engine through Backend.BuildPlan, so the notice and zero sandbox policy cannot diverge. Only the degraded level speaks (disabled stays the user's choice) and the nested-sandbox markers now being named as an unverified outer sandbox closes an honest gap. The test set (pinned-backend exec, JSON purity, resume and new repetition, engine-notice equals policy-plan, the claimed mutation kills) is strong.
One blocker before merge: the new exec and TUI tests use the production grant store and the models-dev cache, which violates the AGENTS.md hermetic-tests rule - they need isolateCLIUserState(t) (this is jatmn's open review note, and it is correct). With that fixed this is merge-ready.
…ned off The TUI and exec each started a goroutine that called RefreshModelsDevCache, which reads ZERO_DISABLE_MODELS_FETCH and the cache path when it runs. A test that turned the fetch off through t.Setenv could finish and have the setting restored before that goroutine ran, and the refresh would then fetch into the developer's real cache. StartModelsDevRefresh reads the setting before starting anything, so with the fetch off no refresh exists to outlive the test.
… state runExecWithSandbox and the TUI launch test left the sandbox grant store and the models.dev cache at their defaults, so they read the developer's sandbox-grants.json and could migrate it, and could refresh the real models cache. Both now run under isolateCLIUserState, and both join TestCLILaunchHelpersLeaveUserStateAlone so the isolation is pinned for each of them.
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🟠 Major · Abort when the degraded notice cannot be written. · exec.go:352-353
internal/cli/exec.go:352-353
🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winAbort when the degraded notice cannot be written.
If
fmt.Fprintln(stderr, ...)returns an error, returnexitCrashbeforeagent.Run. Otherwise,zero execcan run tools with degraded sandbox enforcement and no delivered warning.🐛 Suggested fix
if notice := sandboxEngine.DegradedNotice(); notice != "" { - _, _ = fmt.Fprintln(stderr, "[zero] "+notice) + if _, err := fmt.Fprintln(stderr, "[zero] "+notice); err != nil { + return exitCrash + } }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🟡 Minor · Write the notice only when an exec session will start. · exec.go:352-353
internal/cli/exec.go:352-353
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winWrite the notice only when an exec session will start.
If
zero exec --list-toolsruns with a degraded backend, this line prints a sandbox warning even though the command only lists tools. Invalid prompts and missing providers can also receive the warning before validation stops the run. Move the notice after session preflight and other early-return checks, while keeping it before tool execution.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 352-353: Move the `sandboxEngine.DegradedNotice()` output in the
exec flow until after session preflight and all early-return checks, but keep it
before tool execution. Emit the notice only when an exec session will actually
start, not for `--list-tools`, invalid prompts, or missing providers.
- Around line 352-353: Update the degraded-notice handling in the exec flow: if
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@jatmn thanks, both halves were real. Fixed in
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The notice goes out before any tool runs, and before MCP servers and plugins start through the same sandbox, but a failed write to stderr was ignored, so the run went ahead with reduced isolation and no warning delivered. It now stops with exitCrash, the way the image and reasoning-effort notices in the same function already do.
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Fixes #1041
What
A TUI session and a
zero execrun now say once, before anything runs, that sandbox enforcement is degraded and why:Before this, only
zero doctorandzero sandbox policyreported it, so a session could run many tool calls with the native sandbox effectively off and nobody saw it. That's the part of #1041 that #946 (self-exec for the Linux helper) doesn't cover.How
Engine.DegradedNoticebuilds the line from the session's own engine throughBackend.BuildPlan, which is the planzero sandbox policyprints. So the notice and the command it points to can't describe two different sandboxes.BackendPlan.DegradedNoticeonly speaks at thedegradedlevel: a disabled sandbox is the user's own choice, and the unelevated Windows tier still enforces the write jail and describes what it lacks inzero sandbox policy.One path the plan does not model: with
ZERO_SANDBOXEDandZERO_SANDBOX_BACKENDset, the runner passes every command through unwrapped on the word of an outer sandbox nothing verifies (#727, mitigated by #744 with an approval floor). The engine mirrors the runner there and says so, naming both variables. A disabled sandbox says nothing in either case.The TUI gets the text through a new
Options.StartupNotices, decided by the CLI from the engine its commands run through. The model only shows what it's given, so building a model in a test never adds a row by itself.One test change worth a look
Fourteen existing exec tests asserted an empty stderr. They run on the host's own sandbox backend, and a Linux runner without the helper (every CI runner, since CI doesn't build it) is degraded where macOS and Windows are not. So on Linux they now see the notice. They compare against
hostSandboxNotice(t)instead of"": the line this host prints under the default policy, fromsandbox.SelectBackend, the same selection exec makes. None of them fails on my Windows box either way, so I found them by forcing the notice on at every level and running the whole suite. With that forced, all fourteen failed with "expected empty stderr" before the change. After it, the only failures are the test that guards against that very forcing, and one config test that reads my shell's environment (#1072 fixes that one).Verification
New tests:
internal/sandbox: only the degraded level speaks, the reason keeps a single period, and the engine's notice equals the policy command's plan (and is empty when the sandbox is turned off). A backend whose plan is fully native stays quiet until the nesting markers are set.internal/cli: exec prints exactly the notice on a pinned degraded backend, keeps it off stdout in JSON mode, and says nothing when the sandbox is turned off. The TUI launch carries it inStartupNotices, and doesn't when the sandbox is off.internal/tui: startup notices become system rows, in order, with blank entries skipped.Nine mutations, each caught by the test named for it: exec never printing, the TUI launch passing nothing, the model ignoring the option, blank notices shown, the unelevated tier speaking too, the engine ignoring its own policy, a doubled period, the nesting-marker branch removed, and the disabled check dropped so a turned-off sandbox speaks under the markers.
go vet ./...(plus linux and darwin for the changed packages), gofmt,go run ./cmd/zero-release buildandsmoke, govulncheck, and golangci-lint on the changed packages (no new findings), on windows/amd64.go test ./...is 86 packages clean with one failure,TestResolveReportsExplicitMaxTurns, which reads my shell's environment and fails the same way on main (#1072).Summary by CodeRabbit