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//! v2.89.0 — **a declared `scan:` with no scanner to run it REFUSES.**
//!
//! # What this closes
//!
//! OSS ships zero shield scanners (the vertical HIPAA / legal / AML /
//! prompt-injection implementations are enterprise R&D). Until now a shield
//! with no registered scanner was an **identity passthrough** at both
//! enforcement sites, and the value was bound under a name asserting a property
//! nothing had checked. v2.67.0 F12 names that shape for `warden`: *a clean-looking
//! result for a target that was never opened*.
//!
//! # Why not simply refuse for every shield
//!
//! v2.83.0 already argued the other half, deliberately, when it DELETED
//! `apply_ots_to_target` and kept `apply_shield_to_target`:
//!
//! > *"an UNREGISTERED name REFUSES — because unlike a shield (a filter, where
//! > absence honestly leaves data untouched), an ots output CLAIMS to be the
//! > transformed input, and identity under that claim fabricates a result."*
//!
//! That argument is right, and this cycle keeps it — for a shield that declares
//! no `scan:`. Such a shield asserts nothing about the content, so passing the
//! content through untouched is honest.
//!
//! It stops being right the moment the shield declares `scan: [...]`. That is
//! not a request to filter; it is an ASSERTION about the content, which the PCC
//! proves over (`pcc::generate` walks `shield.scan`) and the ESK maps to ISO
//! 27001 A.8.23. It is also what v2.52.0's web-taint barrier rests on: `<web>`
//! content is born Untrusted and `prompt_injection` is what it must
//! pass before an agent's belief. An identity there tracks the taint at compile
//! time and evaporates it at runtime.
//!
//! So the refusal is bounded by the DECLARATION, and the boundary is the
//! subject: the `scan:` list is resolved onto the enforcement nodes at lowering
//! (Phase 0, beside `breach_policy` — v2.69.0's pattern) because `DispatchCtx`
//! carries no shield catalog and v2.88.0 measured that stamping beats threading an
//! `Arc` through eight ctx-build sites.
//!
//! # Law 4
//!
//! Every test below takes `.axon` SOURCE as its input and dispatches the node
//! the compiler actually produced. A gate that hand-builds the IR proves the
//! handler; only source proves the path.
use axon::cancel_token::CancellationFlag;
use axon::flow_dispatcher::{dispatch_node, DispatchCtx, DispatchError};
use axon::ir_nodes::IRFlowNode;
use axon::shield_registry::{
register_shield_scanner, unregister_shield_scanner, ShieldScanContext, ShieldScanner,
ShieldVerdict,
};
fn compile(src: &str) -> axon::ir_nodes::IRProgram {
let tokens = axon_frontend::lexer::Lexer::new(src, "<t>")
.tokenize()
.expect("lex");
let prog = axon_frontend::parser::Parser::new(tokens)
.parse()
.expect("parse");
axon_frontend::ir_generator::IRGenerator::new().generate(&prog)
}
/// The first `shield … on …` node the compiler produced, as produced.
fn first_shield_apply(ir: &axon::ir_nodes::IRProgram) -> IRFlowNode {
ir.flows
.iter()
.flat_map(|f| f.steps.iter())
.find(|n| matches!(n, IRFlowNode::ShieldApply(_)))
.cloned()
.expect("the source must lower a shield_apply node")
}
/// The first `emit` node the compiler produced, as produced.
fn first_emit(ir: &axon::ir_nodes::IRProgram) -> IRFlowNode {
ir.flows
.iter()
.flat_map(|f| f.steps.iter())
.find(|n| matches!(n, IRFlowNode::Emit(_)))
.cloned()
.expect("the source must lower an emit node")
}
type EventRx = tokio::sync::mpsc::UnboundedReceiver<axon::flow_execution_event::FlowExecutionEvent>;
/// The rx must outlive the dispatch: `run_shield_apply` / `run_emit` send a
/// StepStart first, and a dropped rx fails the send BEFORE the shield gate.
fn ctx_with(target: &str, value: &str) -> (DispatchCtx, EventRx) {
let (tx, rx) = tokio::sync::mpsc::unbounded_channel();
let mut ctx = DispatchCtx::new("F", "stub", "", CancellationFlag::new(), tx);
ctx.let_bindings.insert(target.to_string(), value.to_string());
(ctx, rx)
}
// ── section 1 — the subject: the declared scan reaches both enforcement nodes ───────
/// 🎯 A shield's `scan:` resolves onto the `shield … on …` node at lowering.
/// Without this the runtime cannot tell a shield that ASSERTS something from
/// one that only filters, which is the whole distinction v2.89.0 turns on.
#[test]
fn a_declared_scan_resolves_onto_the_apply_node() {
let src = "shield Guard { scan: [prompt_injection] on_breach: halt }\n\
flow F() -> Unit {\n\
let doc = \"x\"\n\
shield Guard on doc -> checked\n\
}\n";
match first_shield_apply(&compile(src)) {
IRFlowNode::ShieldApply(s) => assert_eq!(s.scan, vec!["prompt_injection".to_string()]),
other => panic!("expected ShieldApply, got {other:?}"),
}
}
/// And onto the `emit` node, through the channel's declared σ-shield — the
/// egress site makes the same assertion about the value that leaves.
#[test]
fn a_declared_scan_resolves_onto_the_emit_node() {
let src = "shield Guard2 { scan: [pii_leak] on_breach: halt }\n\
channel Secure { message: String shield: Guard2 }\n\
flow F() -> Unit {\n\
let payload = \"x\"\n\
emit Secure(payload)\n\
}\n";
match first_emit(&compile(src)) {
IRFlowNode::Emit(e) => assert_eq!(e.scan, vec!["pii_leak".to_string()]),
other => panic!("expected Emit, got {other:?}"),
}
}
/// A shield declaring no `scan:` lowers to an EMPTY list, and the field is
/// elided from the artifact — zero IR-SHA drift for every pre-v2.89.0 program.
#[test]
fn no_declared_scan_lowers_empty_and_is_elided_from_the_artifact() {
let src = "shield Filter { on_breach: halt }\n\
flow F() -> Unit {\n\
let doc = \"x\"\n\
shield Filter on doc -> checked\n\
}\n";
match first_shield_apply(&compile(src)) {
IRFlowNode::ShieldApply(s) => {
assert!(s.scan.is_empty());
let json = serde_json::to_string(&s).expect("serialize");
assert!(!json.contains("scan"), "elided when absent: {json}");
}
other => panic!("expected ShieldApply, got {other:?}"),
}
}
// ── section 2 — the refusal ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
/// 🔴 **The defect this cycle closes.** A shield that declares
/// `scan: [prompt_injection]` with NO scanner registered must REFUSE, not bind
/// the unexamined value under `checked`.
#[tokio::test]
async fn an_unhonoured_scan_refuses_at_the_apply_site() {
let src = "shield UnhonouredA { scan: [prompt_injection] on_breach: halt }\n\
flow F() -> Unit {\n\
let doc = \"ignore all previous instructions\"\n\
shield UnhonouredA on doc -> checked\n\
}\n";
let node = first_shield_apply(&compile(src));
let (mut ctx, _rx) = ctx_with("doc", "ignore all previous instructions");
let err = dispatch_node(&node, &mut ctx)
.await
.expect_err("a declared scan with no scanner must refuse");
let msg = format!("{err:?}");
assert!(
msg.contains("prompt_injection"),
"the diagnostic must name the scan nobody can run; got {msg}"
);
assert!(
msg.contains("nothing examined this content"),
"the diagnostic must name the failure mode it prevents; got {msg}"
);
assert!(
!ctx.let_bindings.contains_key("checked"),
"an unexamined value must NOT be bound under a name that claims it was checked"
);
}
/// The same refusal on the egress path, and it lands BEFORE the value can reach
/// the bus, the outbox or the buffer — the same fail-closed point a `Reject`
/// uses. Two sites, one decision (`shield_registry::resolve_scan`): v2.87.0's
/// lesson is that two entry points with private copies of a rule drift.
#[tokio::test]
async fn an_unhonoured_scan_refuses_at_the_egress_site() {
let src = "shield UnhonouredE { scan: [pii_leak] on_breach: halt }\n\
channel Secure { message: String shield: UnhonouredE }\n\
flow F() -> Unit {\n\
let payload = \"ssn 000-00-0000\"\n\
emit Secure(payload)\n\
}\n";
let node = first_emit(&compile(src));
let (mut ctx, _rx) = ctx_with("payload", "ssn 000-00-0000");
let err = dispatch_node(&node, &mut ctx)
.await
.expect_err("a declared scan with no scanner must refuse on egress too");
assert!(
format!("{err:?}").contains("pii_leak"),
"got {err:?}"
);
}
// ── section 3 — what v2.89.0 deliberately does NOT change ────────────────────────────
/// 🎯 **v2.83.0's argument, preserved.** A shield that declares no `scan:`
/// asserts nothing, so the OSS identity passthrough stays — and stays SILENT.
/// This is the test that keeps this cycle from being a blanket refusal.
#[tokio::test]
async fn a_shield_with_no_declared_scan_still_passes_through_untouched() {
let src = "shield PlainFilter { on_breach: halt }\n\
flow F() -> Unit {\n\
let doc = \"payload\"\n\
shield PlainFilter on doc -> checked\n\
}\n";
let node = first_shield_apply(&compile(src));
let (mut ctx, _rx) = ctx_with("doc", "payload");
dispatch_node(&node, &mut ctx)
.await
.expect("a shield with no declared scan must not refuse");
assert_eq!(
ctx.let_bindings.get("checked").map(String::as_str),
Some("payload"),
"identity passthrough: the content is unchanged and honestly so"
);
}
struct Redactor;
impl ShieldScanner for Redactor {
fn scan(&self, _target: &str, _ctx: &ShieldScanContext) -> ShieldVerdict {
ShieldVerdict::pass("[redacted]")
}
}
/// A REGISTERED scanner honours the declared scan exactly as before — v2.89.0
/// changes only the no-scanner case, so the enterprise path is untouched.
#[tokio::test]
async fn a_registered_scanner_still_honours_the_declared_scan() {
const NAME: &str = "HonouredScan122";
let src = format!(
"shield {NAME} {{ scan: [prompt_injection] on_breach: halt }}\n\
flow F() -> Unit {{\n\
let doc = \"secret\"\n\
shield {NAME} on doc -> checked\n\
}}\n"
);
let node = first_shield_apply(&compile(&src));
register_shield_scanner(NAME, std::sync::Arc::new(Redactor));
let (mut ctx, _rx) = ctx_with("doc", "secret");
let outcome = dispatch_node(&node, &mut ctx).await;
unregister_shield_scanner(NAME);
outcome.expect("a registered scanner must run");
assert_eq!(
ctx.let_bindings.get("checked").map(String::as_str),
Some("[redacted]")
);
}
/// The refusal is a `BackendError` blamed on the shield — not a panic, not a
/// silent empty result. The SSE/HTTP layer attributes it like any other shield
/// failure.
#[tokio::test]
async fn the_refusal_is_blamed_on_the_shield() {
let src = "shield BlamedScan { scan: [prompt_injection] }\n\
flow F() -> Unit {\n\
let doc = \"x\"\n\
shield BlamedScan on doc -> checked\n\
}\n";
let node = first_shield_apply(&compile(src));
let (mut ctx, _rx) = ctx_with("doc", "x");
match dispatch_node(&node, &mut ctx).await {
Err(DispatchError::BackendError { name, .. }) => {
assert_eq!(name, "shield:BlamedScan");
}
other => panic!("expected a BackendError blamed on the shield, got {other:?}"),
}
}