seisin 0.2.0 → 0.3.0

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package/src/grants.js ADDED
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+ /**
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+ * What a line of policy grants on disk, as paths.
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+ *
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+ * Pulled out of srt.js, which used to hold both halves: translating a policy
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+ * into paths, and assembling the runtime's settings object out of them. The
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+ * first half has a second reader now — surface.js asks "what can ANY role
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+ * write?" to decide what the parent must not trust — and a module that needs
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+ * the answer should not have to import the settings builder to get it.
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+ *
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+ * No policy decisions live here. Every function answers "which path does this
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+ * mean", and the callers decide what to do with it.
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+ */
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+ import { join } from "node:path";
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+ import { homedir, tmpdir } from "node:os";
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+ import { realpathSync, lstatSync } from "node:fs";
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+ import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
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+
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+ /**
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+ * What every agent needs to write no matter which role it is.
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+ *
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+ * Found by running a real cell config through the sandbox: territory alone
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+ * looks correct and is unusable. An agent writes its session state under its
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+ * own config directory and its tools write scratch files to the temp dir, so a
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+ * policy of "your folders and nothing else" stops the agent before it starts.
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+ *
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+ * The list is not Claude-shaped by accident and it was Claude-shaped by
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+ * mistake: the first version named `~/.claude` and `~/.codex` and stopped
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+ * there, so the first agent that was neither — opencode, which logs to
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+ * `~/.local/share/opencode` — died on startup with `FileSystem.open`. Hence the
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+ * XDG directories, which is where a CLI that follows convention puts its state.
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+ *
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+ * `~/.config` is deliberately NOT here. That is where credentials live —
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+ * `~/.config/gh/hosts.yml` holds a GitHub token — and while reads outside the
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+ * declared key directories are open anyway, letting an agent WRITE there is a
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+ * different thing. A CLI that needs it can be granted it by name.
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+ *
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+ * These are grants, so they are listed rather than assumed: `seisin check`
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+ * prints them, and `[runtime] writes = []` turns them off for anyone who wants
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+ * to find out the hard way. Note what is NOT here — the home directory, the
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+ * shell profile, anything under the repo. Scratch space is not a back door.
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+ */
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+ /**
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+ * Where a role's home and scratch live when `[runtime] isolate = true`.
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+ *
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+ * Under the state directory but outside the repo tree the roles write, so one
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+ * role cannot reach another's. Kept out of `.seisin/` inside the repo because
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+ * that whole directory is denyWrite now.
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+ */
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+ /**
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+ * Short on purpose, and the reason is the same one spool.js already names: a
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+ * unix socket path is capped near 104 bytes on macOS and the failure when it is
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+ * too long is an unhelpful EINVAL.
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+ *
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+ * This file forgot that one layer down. The runtime creates its multiplexing
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+ * socket INSIDE the role's home — `<home>/tmp/srt-mux-<pid>-0.sock`, 25 bytes —
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+ * and the name here used to be `seisin-home-` plus 16 characters. On macOS
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+ * `tmpdir()` is 48 bytes on its own, so the total cleared 104 for **every role
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+ * name**, `qa` included: `isolate = true` did not misbehave, it failed to start.
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+ * Measured, and it is why `homeFits` below exists rather than a comment.
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+ *
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+ * Eleven bytes instead of twenty-eight leaves room for a role name up to
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+ * {@link MAX_ROLE_FOR_HOME} characters.
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+ */
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+ export function roleHomeRoot(config) {
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+ /**
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+ * A hash of the whole path, not a slice of it.
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+ *
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+ * This was `base64url(root).slice(-16)` — the TAIL of the encoded path, which
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+ * is the tail of the path itself. Two checkouts that end the same way get the
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+ * same id: `/Users/ana/dev/proyecto` and `/Users/bob/dev/proyecto` collide, and
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+ * so do `/home/a/work/api` and `/home/b/work/api`. A collision here is not a
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+ * cosmetic clash — both repos' role `dev` would share one HOME, which is the
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+ * session token of one handed to the other. Measured on three of four ordinary
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+ * pairs; shortening the slice to fit the socket limit would have made it more
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+ * likely, not less.
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+ */
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+ const id = createHash("sha256").update(config.root).digest("base64url").slice(0, 8);
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+ return join(tmpdir(), `sn-${id}`);
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+ }
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+
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+ /** What the runtime appends inside the role's home, at its longest. */
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+ const SRT_SOCKET_TAIL = "/tmp/srt-mux-999999-0.sock".length;
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+
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+ /** The platform's cap on a unix socket path. macOS is the tight one. */
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+ export const SOCKET_MAX = 104;
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+
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+ /**
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+ * Whether a role's isolated home leaves room for the runtime's socket.
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+ *
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+ * Returns the room left over, negative when it does not fit. Callers refuse
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+ * rather than let the runtime fail with EINVAL and no explanation — a boundary
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+ * that cannot start should say so in its own words.
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+ */
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+ export function homeFits(config, role) {
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+ return SOCKET_MAX - (roleHome(config, role).length + SRT_SOCKET_TAIL);
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+ }
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+
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+ export function roleHome(config, role) {
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+ return join(roleHomeRoot(config), role);
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+ }
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+
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+ /**
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+ * Where credentials live in a home directory, denied at both isolate levels.
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+ *
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+ * Denies rather than a read allowlist, and the reasoning is above: a
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+ * default-deny read set has to enumerate every library, interpreter and cache a
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+ * toolchain touches, gets one wrong, and fails as an unexplainable crash inside
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+ * the agent. Naming the places credentials actually live is narrower than the
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+ * ideal and holds up.
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+ *
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+ * `~/.config` is here whole rather than `~/.config/gh`: it is where a growing
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+ * number of CLIs keep their tokens, and listing them one by one is the
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+ * enumeration this list exists to avoid. A tool that needs a directory under it
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+ * can be granted it by name.
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+ */
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+ export const CREDENTIAL_HOMES = [
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+ // The order is not arbitrary: `check` names the first few, so the ones a
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+ // reader recognises instantly go first. Everything in the list is denied
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+ // either way.
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+ "~/.ssh", "~/.aws", "~/.npmrc", "~/.config",
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+ "~/.gnupg", "~/.kube", "~/.docker", "~/.netrc", "~/.git-credentials",
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+ ];
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+
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+ export const RUNTIME_WRITES = [
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+ "~/.claude", "~/.codex", // the CLIs that keep state under their own name
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+ "~/.local/share", "~/.local/state", // XDG data and state: where most others log
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+ "~/.cache", "$TMPDIR", "/tmp",
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+ ];
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+
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+ /**
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+ * `~` and `$TMPDIR` are the only expansions; everything else is a literal path.
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+ *
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+ * Symlinks are then resolved, and that is not a nicety. On macOS `/tmp` is a
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+ * link to `/private/tmp`, and the sandbox enforces on the destination — so a
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+ * grant written as `/tmp` grants exactly nothing, silently. Measured: with the
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+ * literal path, writing to /tmp inside the sandbox failed while the policy
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+ * looked correct on screen.
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+ */
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+ /** Is this exact path a symlink? False if it is not on disk. */
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+ export function isLink(p) {
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+ try {
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+ return lstatSync(p).isSymbolicLink();
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+ } catch {
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+ return false;
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+ }
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+ }
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+
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+ /** The path with symlinks followed, or the path itself if it is not on disk. */
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+ export function realOrSelf(p) {
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+ try {
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+ return realpathSync(p);
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+ } catch {
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+ return p;
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+ }
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+ }
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+
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+ export function expand(p) {
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+ let out = p;
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+ if (p === "$TMPDIR") out = tmpdir();
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+ else if (p === "~" || p.startsWith("~/")) out = join(homedir(), p.slice(2));
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+ try {
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+ return realpathSync(out);
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+ } catch {
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+ return out; // not on disk yet; hand the literal through rather than drop it
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+ }
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+ }
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+
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+ /**
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+ * `allowWrite` takes directories, not globs: the OS grants a subtree, it does
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+ * not pattern-match. `src/api/**` and `src/api/` mean the same thing to the
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+ * kernel, so the trailing glob is trimmed rather than passed through, where it
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+ * would be read as a literal directory named `**` and silently grant nothing.
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+ */
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+ export function toWritePath(glob, key = "writes") {
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+ if (!EXPRESSIBLE(glob)) throw new Error(unexpressible(glob, key));
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+ if (glob === "**") return ".";
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+ return glob.replace(/\/\*\*$/, "") || ".";
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+ }
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+
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+ /**
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+ * A write pattern the kernel can be given without changing its meaning.
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+ *
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+ * Exactly two shapes qualify: a literal path, and a subtree ending in `/**`.
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+ * Both map onto what allowWrite actually is — a prefix — so the policy, the
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+ * explanation and the enforcement stay the same sentence.
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+ *
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+ * Everything else is refused, and the one that made this necessary is `src/*`.
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+ * ownersOf() reads it as one level, because `*` compiles to `[^/]*`. The old
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+ * translation trimmed the `/*` and handed the kernel `src`, which is the whole
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+ * subtree. So `seisin explain` said denied and the write landed — measured, not
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+ * theorised. The document was tighter than the boundary, which is the one
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+ * direction a permission tool must never fail in.
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+ *
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+ * There is no exact translation to find later: Seatbelt and bubblewrap grant
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+ * prefixes, and "one level down" is not a prefix. Refusing is not a placeholder
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+ * here, it is the answer.
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+ */
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+ const WILD = /[*?[\]]/; // owners.js treats all four as wildcards
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+ const EXPRESSIBLE = (g) =>
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+ g === "**" || // the whole repo
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+ !WILD.test(g) || // a literal path
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+ (g.endsWith("/**") && !WILD.test(g.slice(0, -3))); // a subtree, wildcard-free above it
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+
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+ function unexpressible(glob, key = "writes") {
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+ return `${key} = "${glob}" cannot be enforced as written.\n` +
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+ ` The sandbox grants a path and everything under it — there is no way to say ` +
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+ `"one level deep".\n` +
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+ ` Use "${glob.replace(/\/\*$/, "")}/**" for the whole subtree, or name the files.\n` +
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+ ` Refusing rather than widening: the old behaviour granted the subtree while ` +
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+ `seisin reported the narrow pattern.`;
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+ }
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+
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+ /**
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+ * Every directory a role may write, absolute, as its settings will say it.
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+ *
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+ * Observe mode is not a role property — any role can be run with it — and it
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+ * grants the whole repo, so `observe: true` answers for that case.
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+ *
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+ * `.seisin/` is deliberately NOT here. It used to be, because the hook runs
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+ * inside the box and has to record what it decided — which made the log and
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+ * the queue writable by the process they are a record of. The hook now sends
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+ * its lines to the parent over a socket and the parent holds the file. See
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+ * spool.js.
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+ *
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+ * Isolated: this role's own home and scratch, and nothing shared. Otherwise:
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+ * the real ~/.claude, ~/.cache and /tmp, which every role shares — convenient,
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+ * and the reason `isolate` exists.
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+ */
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+ export function writePathsOf(config, role, { observe = false } = {}) {
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+ const abs = (p) => (p.startsWith("/") ? p : join(config.root, p));
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+ const level = config.isolate === true ? "home" : config.isolate;
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+ const home = level === "home" ? roleHome(config, role.name) : null;
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+ return [
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+ ...(observe ? [abs(".")] : role.writes.map((g) => abs(toWritePath(g)))),
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+ ...(home
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+ ? [home, join(home, ".config"), join(home, ".local"), join(home, ".cache"), join(home, "tmp")]
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+ : (config.runtimeWrites ?? RUNTIME_WRITES).map(expand)),
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+ ];
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+ }
package/src/hook.js CHANGED
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  * is a minor one here, because the enforcer is the kernel and it is not fooled.
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  * What escapes this file goes unexplained, not unblocked.
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  */
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+ import { toRepoRelative } from "./paths.js";
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  import { explain, normalize } from "./owners.js";
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  import { append, logPath } from "./log.js";
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  import { timesHit } from "./walls.js";
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  const verdicts = [];
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  for (const t of targets) {
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- const rel = t.path.startsWith(config.root + "/") ? t.path.slice(config.root.length + 1) : t.path;
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+ const rel = toRepoRelative(config, t.path);
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  const kind = kindOf(config, rel);
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  // Reading an ordinary file is never a policy question. Territory divides
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  // the refusal stops being a dead end and becomes something a person can act
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  // denial to answer. See docs/permission-requests.md.
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- if (!observe && !v.allowed)
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+ //
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+ // Except a `never_writes` refusal. That one is the policy saying no on
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+ // purpose; a request for it asks a person to undo a subtraction somebody
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+ // wrote, and approving it is how the subtraction disappears unnoticed.
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+ if (!observe && !v.allowed && !v.neverWrites && !v.gitMetadata)
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  // The action as it was RECORDED, not as the tool named it: a read of a key
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  // told "no" retries; an agent told whose it is asks, or moves on.
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- (denied.owners?.length
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+ denied.neverWrites
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+ ? `${denied.reason}. Do not ask for it: nothing was queued, because the answer is already written down.` + again
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+ : denied.gitMetadata
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+ ? `${denied.reason}. Nothing was queued.` + again
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+ : (denied.owners?.length
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  ? `${denied.target} is declared for ${denied.owners.join(", ")}, not ${role}. Ask for what you need from it rather than reading the key.`
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  : `${denied.target} belongs to ${denied.owners.join(", ")}. It is not ${role}'s to change — hand it over rather than working around it.`
package/src/inspect.js CHANGED
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  */
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  import { resolve, dirname, basename, relative, join, delimiter } from "node:path";
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  import { realpathSync, lstatSync, readdirSync, existsSync, readFileSync, statSync } from "node:fs";
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- import { ownersOf } from "./owners.js";
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+ import { ownersOf, covers, enforcedNeverWrites } from "./owners.js";
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+ import { ROLE_KEYS } from "./config.js";
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  import { entriesOf } from "./keys.js";
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  import { SHAPES } from "./scan.js";
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  import { wired } from "./commands/wire.js";
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  import { RUNTIME_WRITES, CREDENTIAL_HOMES, expand, settingsFor } from "./srt.js";
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+ import { protections, resolveExecutable } from "./surface.js";
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+ roles: roles.map((r) => ({ name: r.name, writes: r.writes, keys: r.keys, neverWrites: r.neverWrites ?? [], localBinding: r.localBinding === true, localPorts: r.localPorts ?? [], mcp: r.mcp ?? null, trustd: r.trustd === true })),
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+ /**
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+ * What the kernel will refuse a role inside its own territory, and why:
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+ * programs installed where a role writes, the hooks and settings of each
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+ * project, provider scripts and `file://` targets. Each takes something
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+ * away from a territory as written, so it is shown rather than applied
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+ * quietly. See surface.js for the family and the measurements.
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+ */
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+ protected: protections(config, roles),
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  "seeing it work. Run `seisin wire` so the hook records what it can. The ask is upstream: " +
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+ "github.com/carlostapiacl/seisin/blob/main/docs/upstream/cli-violations.md",
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+ },
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+ ...(process.platform === "linux" ? [{
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+ kind: "control-files-linux",
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+ headline: "a project's hooks and settings are protected only where they already exist",
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+ detail:
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+ "bubblewrap denies a path by mounting over it, and for a path that is not there it would " +
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+ "create it on your disk. So on Linux a role can still create a .git/hooks entry or a " +
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+ ".claude/settings.json in a project of its territory that had none. On macOS the kernel " +
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+ "refuses creating them too.",
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+ }] : []),
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+ {
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+ kind: "shared-scratch",
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+ headline: "roles share ~/.cache, ~/.local/share and the temp dir unless isolate = \"home\"",
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+ detail:
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+ "programs installed there that are on your PATH are protected, and so are Claude Code's " +
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+ "settings and plugins. Anything else a program outside the box reads from those places — a " +
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+ * for `writes` is a role with less than it thinks, and for a misspelt
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+ * `never_writes` is a role with MORE than its owner thinks — the one
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+ * direction a permission file must not fail in. Named with the nearest
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+ * known key when there is one close enough to be the intended spelling.
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+ * - a `never_writes` entry that no `writes` of the same role covers. It
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+ * subtracts from nothing, so it is either a typo in the path or a rule
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+ * that stopped applying when the territory moved. Either way it reads as
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+ * the key would turn an optional subtraction into a required migration.
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+ function roleKeyWarnings(roles, config = null) {
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+ for (const r of roles) {
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+ const enforced = new Set(enforcedNeverWrites(config, r));
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+ const skipped = (r.neverWritesDeclared ?? r.neverWrites ?? []).filter((g) => !enforced.has(g));
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+ if (skipped.length)
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+ headline: `${r.name}: never_writes ${skipped.join(" ")} — not enforced on Linux until it exists`,
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+ detail: "bubblewrap denies a path by mounting over it, and would create a missing one on the host " +
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+ "for the whole run — for a lock file, locking everyone else out, and for good if the role is " +
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+ "killed. seisin skips those, and explain says allowed for them, so the sentence matches the kernel.",
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+ headline: `${r.name}: unknown key "${k}" in [roles.${r.name}] — ignored` +
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+ detail: `Known keys: ${ROLE_KEYS.join(", ")}. ` +
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+ ? "As written this subtracts nothing: the role can still write every path it lists."
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+ : "Nothing in it takes effect."),
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+ // macOS only, and not by omission: on Linux the runtime removes the network
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+ // namespace, so every role already has a loopback of its own — it can serve
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+ // and reach its own server with or without the key, and reaches nothing on
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+ // the host either way (measured in Docker, Debian 12, bwrap 0.8.0).
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+ if (r.localBinding && process.platform === "darwin")
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+ warnings.push({
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+ kind: "local-binding-reaches-localhost",
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+ headline: `${r.name}: local_binding lets it connect to every port on localhost, not only listen`,
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+ detail: "The runtime grants bind on any interface, inbound, and outbound to localhost:*. " +
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+ "Anything listening on this machine without authentication — a local control API, a " +
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+ "database, a dev server — is within this role's reach, outside its territory.",
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+ });
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+ // Both at once is a config that says "these ports" and grants "every port".
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+ // macOS only: on Linux local_binding reaches nothing on the host, so there
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+ // local_ports is the only one of the two that does anything.
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+ if (r.localBinding && r.localPorts?.length && process.platform === "darwin")
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+ warnings.push({
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+ kind: "local-ports-moot",
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+ headline: `${r.name}: local_ports names ${r.localPorts.join(", ")}, but local_binding already opens every localhost port`,
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+ detail: "local_binding grants outbound to localhost:* in the kernel profile, so the port list " +
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+ "restricts nothing for this role. Drop local_binding if the role only needs to reach " +
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+ "those ports; keep it only if the role has to listen.",
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+ });
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+ // trustd is a macOS service; on Linux the key changes nothing.
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+ if (r.trustd && process.platform === "darwin")
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+ warnings.push({
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+ kind: "trustd-open",
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+ headline: `${r.name}: trustd = true opens com.apple.trustd.agent, a path out that the domain list does not see`,
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+ detail: "trustd verifies certificates for Go (before 1.27) and Dart on macOS, and to do it fetches, " +
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+ "outside the sandbox, the URLs a certificate carries. The runtime calls it an exfiltration vector; " +
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+ "no public demonstration exists. Go 1.27+ does not need it: seisin sets SSL_CERT_FILE.",
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+ });
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+ for (const g of r.neverWrites ?? []) {
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+ if (r.writes.some((w) => covers(w, g) || covers(w, g.replace(/\/\*\*$/, ""))))
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+ continue;
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+ warnings.push({
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+ kind: "never-writes-subtracts-nothing",
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+ headline: `${r.name}: never_writes "${g}" is not inside any of its writes`,
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+ detail: "It denies something that was already denied, so it protects nothing. " +
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+ "Check the path, or drop the entry if the territory moved.",
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+ });
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+ }
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+ }
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+ return warnings;
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+ }
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+
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+ /** The candidate within edit distance 3 of `word`, or null. */
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+ function nearest(word, candidates) {
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+ // Spellings of the same idea in another vocabulary, checked first because
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+ // letters mislead here: `no_writes` is three edits from `writes`, and
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+ // suggesting the grant for a misspelt subtraction is the worst answer.
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+ if (/deny|never|no_?write/i.test(word)) return "never_writes";
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+ let best = null, bestD = 4;
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+ for (const c of candidates) {
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+ const d = distance(word.toLowerCase(), c);
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+ if (d < bestD) { best = c; bestD = d; }
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+ }
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+ return best;
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+ }
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+
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+ function distance(a, b) {
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+ const row = Array.from({ length: b.length + 1 }, (_, i) => i);
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+ for (let i = 1; i <= a.length; i++) {
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+ let prev = row[0]; row[0] = i;
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+ for (let j = 1; j <= b.length; j++) {
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+ const cur = row[j];
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+ row[j] = Math.min(row[j] + 1, row[j - 1] + 1, prev + (a[i - 1] === b[j - 1] ? 0 : 1));
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+ prev = cur;
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+ }
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+ }
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+ return row[b.length];
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+ }
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+
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  /**
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  }
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  }
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+ warnings.push(...roleKeyWarnings(roles, config));
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+
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+ // A provider the parent could not find where no role writes. `run` refuses
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+ // it with the same sentence; here it is found before anybody runs anything.
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+ for (const [scheme, p] of Object.entries(config.keyProviders ?? {})) {
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+ const cmd = p.command?.[0];
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+ if (!cmd || cmd.includes("/")) continue;
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+ try { resolveExecutable(cmd, config); } catch (e) {
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+ if (!/a role can write/.test(e.message)) continue;
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+ warnings.push({
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+ kind: "provider-in-territory",
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+ headline: `the ${scheme}:// provider "${cmd}" is only found where a role can write`,
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+ detail: e.message.split("\n").slice(1).map((l) => l.trim()).join(" "),
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+ });
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+ }
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+ }
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+
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+ // PATH entries that are not absolute resolve against wherever the parent is
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+ // standing, which is the repo. They are ignored for every lookup seisin makes
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+ // outside the box; said here because a lookup that skips them can find a
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+ // different program than your shell does.
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+ const unanchored = (process.env.PATH ?? "").split(delimiter).filter((d) => !d || !d.startsWith("/"));
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+ if (unanchored.length)
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+ warnings.push({
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+ kind: "relative-path",
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+ headline: `PATH has ${unanchored.length} relative entr${unanchored.length === 1 ? "y" : "ies"} (${unanchored.map((d) => JSON.stringify(d)).join(", ")})`,
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+ detail: "They resolve inside the repo, where roles write, so seisin skips them when it looks for a program to run outside the box.",
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+ });
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  if (shared.length)