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fix(task): gate task patch declarations against [patches] policy - #2299
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A task's patch.dir/patch.file entries were passed to the daemon ungated: the daemon holds no user policy and mounts what it is given, so a minimal.toml task could patch in any host path the [patches] rules were written to constrain. The same file's [session] patches were already gated, so the rules silently did not apply to tasks. Gate the declared paths client-side in 'min task run', both lanes: the interactive prompt and the non-interactive collect-and-refuse. Entries the policy ignores cannot be carried as resolved values - the daemon mounts the declared path itself - so the client sends the ignored raw keys on the exec channel and the daemon removes them from the task's declarations before mounting. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Review comments at @crates/boxes/src/core/compose.rs:
- Around line 1587-1608: Update the approval handling for `patch.dir` so it
records both the exact directory pattern and a recursive `/**` pattern, allowing
descendants to be approved; leave `patch.file` approvals unchanged. Update the
non-interactive refusal snippet to emit both directory patterns, using the
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- Around line 768-790: Update the `resolve_task_patches` flow to retain its
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then propagate the retained result with `?` if no paths were recorded.
- Around line 805-829: Restructure the flow around `task_env` and
`resolve_task_patches` to defer propagating either error until after
`hooks.into_final_policy()` and the existing `save_user_policy` block run.
Preserve the successful result handling by applying `patch_drop` after the
deferred result is unwrapped.
- Around line 466-490: Update cmd_task_run to resolve the daemon session home
before calling gate_task_patch_paths, then use that same home for policy
evaluation and the PatchHome::Session mapping. If the session home cannot be
resolved before gating, reject ~/ declarations rather than evaluating them
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…usal paths A rule naming a declared patch.dir now approves it whatever it holds; contained files can still deny or drop it. Without this the pasted [patches] allow snippet and the prompt's allow-always never settled a non-empty directory. The non-interactive lane reads the refused paths before propagating the gate's abort, so the allow snippet is reachable, and the interactive lane saves recorded rules before either gate's error propagates.
The daemon now mounts only the patch keys the client's [patches] verdict allows, and refuses a task that declares patches without one, so an older client or an ungated lane fails closed. min session run now gates the session project's task patches and sends the verdict over ssh. The gate refuses keys with `.` or `..` segments, and checks a declared absolute path where it resolves (deepest existing ancestor) as a tightening-only backstop. It no longer walks or resolves `~/` entries, which the daemon mounts from the session home, and a contained-file ignore no longer drops a whole directory. The non-interactive refusal names --no-input when that caused it.
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An in-box `min run <task>` reads the task from the box's own workspace minimal.toml, which anything in the box can edit, and no client checks its patches against a policy. Refuse a task that declares any patch.dir or patch.file there, naming `min task run <task>` on the host as the way to run it. A task without patches runs as before.
For a resolvable absolute task patch, the path it resolves to on this machine now has to be allowed as well as the declared string, so a symlink cannot carry an allowed path onto a target no rule allows. Before, the resolved form could only add a deny or an ignore. When an entry is undecided, the hook is asked about each form the policy cannot decide, so "allow always" and the non-interactive [patches] allow snippet record the resolved path too and a UseRule answer settles the entry. `~/` entries are still matched as declared.
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- Around line 1577-1591: Update resolve_existing_prefix to detect symlinks with
symlink_metadata when canonicalization fails, follow them with read_link, and
resolve relative targets against the link’s parent. Bound symlink traversal and
return a hard failure for unexpected metadata or read-link errors so
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verdict binds each approved patch declaration’s key, file-or-directory kind, and
mode (or a digest of the complete entry), and reject declarations that differ
when the daemon applies the verdict. Add tests covering an approved read-only
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The deny probe over a declared patch directory treated a contained symlink to a directory as one entry, so a deny on a file reached through it was not enforced although the mount keeps the link and exposes the file. The walk now descends such a link at its canonical target, checking each file in its mount form and its on-disk form, and skips canonical directories it has already walked so a link cycle ends the walk. The entry cap stays. A declared path that is a dangling symlink resolved to itself, so only the declared form was checked, while a read-write file mapping writes through the link and creates its target. The resolution now follows a dangling link by hand, relative targets against the link's parent, for at most 40 hops. A link it cannot follow denies the entry.
The verdict named allowed patches by key alone. The daemon reads the task from the session workspace, which can differ from the minimal.toml the client checked, so a key allowed as a read-only file could mount read-write, or as a directory that never met the client's deny walk. Each allowed entry now carries its kind and mode, and the daemon refuses a declaration whose kind or mode differs from the one the client checked.
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🟡 Minor · Use the effective task environment for session patch expansion. · task.rs:574-634
crates/minimal/src/task.rs:574-634
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUse the effective task environment for session patch expansion.
gate_session_task_patchespasses an emptyTaskEnv. For example, a task withenv_vars.ROOT = "/opt"and a patch at/opt/toolcannot match[patches] allow = ["$ROOT/**"]: expansion returnsUndefinedVarbefore the patch receives an allow, ignore, or deny decision.min session runthen stops before sending the verdict, although the policy matches the declared patch after expansion.Pass the effective task values to this session gate without changing the daemon-side environment behavior. The correction belongs in
gate_session_task_patches, not in verdict encoding or daemon mismatch handling.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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The daemon answers an echo task from its declaration only when the session workspace minimal.toml declares it as one. A stack-provided echo task, or one whose workspace copy differs, reaches the mount path, where the empty verdict the client sent was refused as if min were too old. Drop the client's echo exemption: a task with no patches still gets an empty verdict and no prompt.
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With a [patches] deny set, check_task_patch_dir now refuses a declared directory whose walk stops early instead of falling back to the directory's own decision: more than TASK_PATCH_DIR_WALK_LIMIT entries, or a directory in the tree that cannot be read for any reason other than NotFound. The refusal travels as ComposeError::TaskPatchUnchecked with a TaskPatchWalkGap reason, and min names it. With no deny rule nothing is walked. The limit rises from 10,000 to 100,000.
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When the deny walk's read of the declared directory fails with ENOTDIR, the refusal now says the entry is a file and points at patch.file, through a new TaskPatchWalkGap::NotADirectory. A subdirectory that turns into a file mid-walk still reports Unreadable.
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On this branch the task patch gate refuses each bypass from the review, and each refusal has a regression test. Item 1: a symlink in a directory that cannot be searched is denied, not matched as declared. Item 2: a relative key such as Notes from the agent: Item 5: 'Allow always' already escapes, through literal_policy_pattern in append_patch_pattern (crates/minimal/src/prompt.rs). Only refused_patches_snippet did not, and that function is now fixed. Item 3: TaskPatchEntry has a new read_only field. The subtree check reads only the literal prefix of each deny pattern, so it can refuse a directory that a precise glob intersection would allow. This error is on the fail-closed side. For example, a |
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The daemon now runs the ~/ containment check before each spawn, since every spawn follows the links again and an earlier invocation can change them. The refusal names the first path on the key that cannot be resolved or that leaves the home, with separate texts for each, and the unreadable-home text names a next step. The check is still not race-free; the docs say so. A read-write patch directory refused by a deny rule with no fixed prefix, such as **/*.pem, now says the rule can match inside any directory and asks for "ro" only, and the policy docs say the same. Adds tests for a ~/ key through a link loop, a home that is itself a symlink, and deny_reaches_any_dir.
The patch.dir walk skipped any canonical directory it had already walked, so files reached through a second symlink to it never met a deny naming that alias. Track the canonical ancestors per branch instead: an alias is walked and checked again, a link back to an ancestor still ends the branch, and the entry limit bounds the repeats.
Stale: left on an older head. Its findings are fixed or ruled at 9d38f6f, and ARCH passed that head.
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The gate conforms to the design. The policy stays on the client, the daemon fails closed, and an in-box run refuses a patched task. One residual has no owner. The ~/ home-escape check in refuse_escaping_home_patches is by path name, so a box can swap a link between the check and the mount. Principle 7 and TB2 (lines 333, 1704) require that the box cannot widen its file access. File an issue for the descriptor-based fix and link it in the doc comment and the PR body (C1).
Ruled at 0f7a023 against gominimal/arch@109541a48c31 by claude-opus-5-5.
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The branch now contains origin/main as a merge commit with git's default subject, and it has no conflict markers. min session run still gates the task's declared patches through [patches] and sends the verdict on the exec channel. It now calls main's renamed box_via_ssh family. Notes from the agent: The conflict in crates/minimal/src/cmd/session.rs was main's rename of session_via_ssh to box_via_ssh against this branch's switch to session_via_ssh_with_env. I kept the branch side, so the patch verdict still goes out. I did not rename session_via_ssh_with_env, because AGENTS.md keeps a rename out of a merge. A later pull request can name it box_via_ssh_with_env. In attach.rs I fixed one doc link that pointed at the removed session_via_ssh. I did not run just ci or --workspace builds. Thread C1: no change in this round. Filing the openat2 RESOLVE_BENEATH issue needs GitHub access, which this run does not have. A person must file it and add its URL to the exec.rs comment and the PR body. |
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patch.dir/patch.filedeclarations were passed to the daemon ungated: the daemon holds no user policy and mounts what it is given, so aminimal.tomltask could patch in any host path that[patches]rules were written to constrain. The same file's[session]patches were already gated, so the rules silently did not apply to tasks.The fix mirrors the client-side variable gating already on this path:
min task runandmin session rundrive the declared patch paths through[patches](deny before any prompt; interactive prompt on a terminal, collect-and-refuse otherwise) and carry a verdict to the daemon on the exec channel: the raw declared keys allowed, each with the kind (dir/file) and mode it was checked as, and the keys dropped. The daemon removes the dropped keys, mounts only allowed declarations, and refuses the task when it declares patches with no verdict, declares a key the verdict does not name, or declares an allowed key with a different kind or mode (the daemon reads the task from the session workspace, which can differ from what the client checked). Patch keys are never interpolated, so a raw declared key is the exact identifier the daemon must match.boxes: newgate_task_patch_paths, the declared-path sibling ofgate_names. The declared string decides (it is what the daemon is handed). Keys with./..segments are refused. A declared absolute path is also checked where it resolves on this machine (deepest existing ancestor canonicalized, missing tail re-joined), and that resolved form must pass the allow step as well as escape a deny; a directory is also probed for contained files adenynames, descending a contained symlink to a directory at its canonical target (visited canonical dirs end a link cycle; the 10,000-entry cap stays). A dangling symlink is followed by hand (relative targets against its parent, at most 40 hops), since a read-write file mapping writes through it and creates the target; a link that cannot be followed denies the entry. Both only tighten, so a symlink (including a symlinked parent of acreate_if_missingpath) cannot carry a path past a deny on its target or onto a target no rule allows: withallow = ["/tmp/**"]and/tmp/link -> /etc,patch.dir."/tmp/link"is undecided, not allowed. The hook is asked about each undecided form, so "allow always" and the non-interactive[patches] allowsnippet record the resolved path too and settle the entry. A contained-fileignoredoes not drop the directory.~/entries are matched as declared and neither resolved nor walked, since the daemon mounts~/from the session home.minimal:resolve_task_patchesgates bothcmd_task_runlanes beforeensure_daemon, andgate_session_task_patchesgatesmin session runagainst the session project'sminimal.toml. The non-interactive refusal prints the[patches] allowsnippet and names--no-inputwhen that caused it; the interactive lane saves recorded rules before propagating a refusal.minimald-rpc/minimal-client/minimald: theMINIMAL_TASK_PATCH_VERDICTcarrier ({allow: [{path, is_file, read_only}], drop}, bounded at 64 KiB), always sent by a task run, sent bymin session runover sshSendEnv, and applied daemon-side byapply_patch_verdict, which fails closed. In-boxmin run(the session's own channel, where no client checks policy and the task comes from the box-editable workspaceminimal.toml) refuses any task that declares patches: "this task declares patches; run it from the host withmin task run <task>so your patch policy can approve them". A task without patches runs as before.[patches]task-patch semantics indocs/reference/user-policy.md, cross-linked from thepatchessection ofdocs/reference/tasks.md.Residual limitations (deliberate)
min runcannot run a task that declares patches at all; it is refused and pointed atmin task runon the host./tmp->/private/tmp) needs the resolved form allowed too; the prompt and the snippet name it.minagainst this daemon can no longer run a task that declares patches; it is told to upgrade.Summary by CodeRabbit
[patches]policy beforemin task runormin session run.The daemon refuses a
~/patch key that leads out of the session's home through a symbolic link. It checks when the task starts and again before each command it spawns, because the mount follows the links again at each spawn and an earlier command can change them. The check is not race-free: it resolves paths by name (canonicalize and a prefix comparison), so a link swapped between the check and the mount is not caught. A check that holds file descriptors (openat2 with RESOLVE_BENEATH) is still to come.