gage 0.3.5

Hand context between agents — files, prompts and decisions — with a trust boundary that survives the hop.
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//! Building and sending bundles, and working out who a reply is for.
//!
//! Separate from main.rs because `gage ui` sends too, and a second send path
//! that grew its own copy of the outbound scan would eventually be missing
//! one of its checks. There is one way out of this program.

use crate::manifest::AgentInfo;
use crate::{bundle, collect, identity, journal, manifest, routes, scrub, state, trust};
use std::path::PathBuf;

/// Look for a bundle by id in pending and accepted. Used to inherit a thread
/// when replying.
pub fn find_manifest(id: &str) -> Option<manifest::Manifest> {
    let home = identity::home();
    for stage in [routes::accepted_dir(&home), routes::pending_dir(&home)] {
        let d = stage.join(id);
        if d.is_dir()
            && let Ok(l) = bundle::load(&d)
        {
            return Some(l.manifest);
        }
    }
    None
}

/// Every manifest held locally, for thread grouping.
pub fn all_manifests() -> Vec<manifest::Manifest> {
    let home = identity::home();
    // Observation first, verdicts second. A failure is reported rather than
    // swallowed: every caller is about to show a verdict that depends on it.
    if let Err(e) = routes::observe_inbox() {
        eprintln!(
            "gage: WARNING -- inbox not recorded ({e}); verdicts below may read milder than the truth"
        );
    }
    let mut out = Vec::new();
    for stage in [
        routes::accepted_dir(&home),
        routes::pending_dir(&home),
        routes::sent_dir(&home),
    ] {
        for (_, l) in routes::list(&stage) {
            out.push(l.manifest);
        }
    }
    // The same bundle can sit in more than one stage; a thread must not count
    // it twice.
    out.sort_by(|a, b| a.id.cmp(&b.id));
    out.dedup_by(|a, b| a.id == b.id);
    out
}

/// Who a reply goes to, and what it is called.
///
/// The id a person has in front of them is a thread id or a message id, and
/// which one it is should not be their problem. The recipient is worked out
/// from the key that signed the message being answered -- not from its
/// `from.handle`, which is text the sender chose, and not from the `to` list,
/// which is also theirs.
pub struct ReplyTarget {
    pub parent: String,
    pub to: String,
    pub msg_type: String,
    pub subject: String,
}

/// Refuse an `--out` that points inside the directories this machine uses to
/// record what ARRIVED and what it sent.
///
/// Checked lexically rather than by canonicalising, because the target
/// usually does not exist yet, and `..` is resolved first so that
/// `inbox/../inbox/accepted` is the same answer as the direct path.
///
/// `why` completes the refusal, because the two callers would be forging
/// different things. `send --out` would manufacture the arrival of a bundle
/// this machine authored. `unseal --out` would manufacture the ACCEPT of one
/// somebody really did send -- milder, since the signature is genuine, but it
/// is still the gate that exists so that crossing it is an act a human
/// performed. Neither has a legitimate use now that `unseal` with no `--out`
/// receives properly.
pub fn refuse_out_in_records(
    out: &std::path::Path,
    why: &str,
) -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let home = identity::home();
    let abs = if out.is_absolute() {
        out.to_path_buf()
    } else {
        std::env::current_dir()?.join(out)
    };
    let mut norm = PathBuf::new();
    for c in abs.components() {
        match c {
            std::path::Component::ParentDir => {
                norm.pop();
            }
            std::path::Component::CurDir => {}
            other => norm.push(other),
        }
    }
    for reserved in ["inbox", "sent", "outbox"] {
        if norm.starts_with(home.join(reserved)) {
            return Err(format!(
                "--out may not write inside {}: that is where this machine records \
                 what ARRIVED and what it sent. {why}",
                home.join(reserved).display()
            )
            .into());
        }
    }
    Ok(())
}

pub fn resolve_reply(id: &str) -> Result<ReplyTarget, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let me = identity::Identity::load()?.public_b64();
    let st = state::LocalState::load();
    let ts = state::threads(all_manifests(), &st, &me);

    // A message id wins over a thread id: naming one message is the more
    // specific thing to have typed.
    let by_msg: Vec<(&state::Thread, &manifest::Manifest)> = ts
        .iter()
        .flat_map(|t| t.messages.iter().map(move |m| (t, m)))
        .filter(|(_, m)| m.id.starts_with(id))
        .collect();
    let (thread, parent) = if !by_msg.is_empty() {
        if by_msg.len() > 1 {
            // Refuse rather than pick. A prefix matching two messages that
            // silently resolved to one of them would put a reply in the wrong
            // conversation, and nothing in the output would say so.
            let ids: Vec<&str> = by_msg.iter().map(|(_, m)| m.id.as_str()).collect();
            return Err(format!(
                "{id} matches {} messages: {}. Use more characters.",
                ids.len(),
                ids.join(", ")
            )
            .into());
        }
        let (t, m) = by_msg[0];
        (t, m.clone())
    } else {
        let hits: Vec<&state::Thread> = ts.iter().filter(|t| t.id.starts_with(id)).collect();
        let t = match hits.len() {
            0 => return Err(format!("no thread or message starting with {id}").into()),
            1 => hits[0],
            _ => {
                let ids: Vec<&str> = hits.iter().map(|t| t.id.as_str()).collect();
                return Err(
                    format!("{id} matches {} threads: {}", ids.len(), ids.join(", ")).into(),
                );
            }
        };
        // More than one correspondent means naming the thread does not name a
        // recipient. This is the whole fix: with exactly one other party there
        // is no redirect to perform, verified claim or not, and with two there
        // is no way to guess which one the person meant. Picking the newest looks helpful and is how a grafted
        // bundle steals a reply: anyone who has seen one message of a
        // conversation can post into it and become "the newest message that is
        // not yours". So the ambiguity is handed back rather than guessed.
        if t.others.len() > 1 {
            let contacts = trust::Contacts::load();
            let who: Vec<String> = t
                .others
                .iter()
                .map(|k| match contacts.name_any(k) {
                    Some(n) => format!("{n} ({}…)", k.chars().take(10).collect::<String>()),
                    None => format!(
                        "an unlisted key ({}…)",
                        k.chars().take(10).collect::<String>()
                    ),
                })
                .collect();
            let newest: Vec<String> = t
                .messages
                .iter()
                .rev()
                .filter(|m| m.from.key != me)
                .take(2)
                .map(|m| format!("{} from {}", m.id, m.from.handle))
                .collect();
            return Err(format!(
                "thread {} has {} correspondents ({}), so naming the thread does not \
                 name a recipient. Reply to one MESSAGE instead:\n  {}",
                t.id,
                t.others.len(),
                who.join(", "),
                newest.join("\n  ")
            )
            .into());
        }
        // The newest message that is not yours. Replying to your own last
        // message is a follow-up, not a reply, and guessing which it was
        // would get the recipient from a message you wrote.
        let parent = t
            .messages
            .iter()
            .rev()
            .find(|m| m.from.key != me)
            .ok_or_else(|| {
                format!(
                    "every message in thread {} is your own, so there is nobody to reply \
                     to. Name a message id, or use gage send --reply-to.",
                    t.id
                )
            })?
            .clone();
        (t, parent)
    };

    // Checked for BOTH paths. The thread path looks for a message that is not
    // yours; the message path takes the id you typed, and naming your own
    // message used to fall through to the contact lookup and report "that key
    // is not on your list" -- which is true, your own key is not in your own
    // contacts, and completely misleading.
    if parent.from.key == me {
        return Err(format!(
            "{} is your own message, so there is nobody to reply to. Name the \
             message you are answering, or use gage send --reply-to.",
            parent.id
        )
        .into());
    }

    let contacts = trust::Contacts::load();
    let to = match contacts.name_for(&parent.from.key) {
        Some(n) => n.to_string(),
        None => {
            // Both refusals name the key rather than the handle, because the
            // handle is the part that cannot be trusted here.
            let short: String = parent.from.key.chars().take(16).collect();
            return Err(match contacts.retired_record(&parent.from.key) {
                Some(r) => format!(
                    "that message was signed with a key you retired on {} ({short}…). \
                     Get their current key before replying.",
                    r.retired_at
                ),
                None => format!(
                    "the key that signed that message is not on your list ({short}…). It \
                     claims the name {:?}, which proves nothing. Add them first.",
                    parent.from.handle
                ),
            }
            .into());
        }
    };

    // A reply to a question is an answer; a reply to anything else is a
    // share. Overridable, because an answer that raises a new question is a
    // real thing and only the person sending it knows which it is.
    let msg_type = if parent.msg_type.expects_reply() {
        "answer"
    } else {
        "share"
    }
    .to_string();
    let subject = if thread.subject.to_ascii_lowercase().starts_with("re:") {
        thread.subject.clone()
    } else {
        format!("re: {}", thread.subject)
    };
    Ok(ReplyTarget {
        parent: parent.id.clone(),
        to,
        msg_type,
        subject,
    })
}

/// Everything `send` does, as a function, because `reply` does all of it too.
///
/// Duplicating it would have been the obvious move and the wrong one: the
/// outbound scan, the skip reporting and the secret deny list live in here,
/// and a second send path that grew its own copy would eventually be missing
/// one of them. A reply is a send with its recipient and thread worked out.
pub struct SendArgs {
    pub to: Vec<String>,
    pub subject: String,
    pub out: Option<PathBuf>,
    pub file: Vec<PathBuf>,
    pub prompt: Vec<PathBuf>,
    pub decision: Vec<PathBuf>,
    pub memory: Vec<PathBuf>,
    pub dir: Vec<PathBuf>,
    pub allow_secrets: bool,
    pub reply_to: Option<String>,
    pub msg_type: String,
    pub allow_findings: bool,
    /// Delivery is being handled over the local network by the caller, so the
    /// "no local route, move it yourself" advice would be wrong rather than
    /// merely noisy -- it tells a person to do a step that is already done.
    pub lan: bool,
    pub agent: Option<String>,
    pub model: Option<String>,
    /// Write a `Sent` line to the journal. True for everything a person or
    /// an agent sends; false for `gage anchor send`, and only for that.
    ///
    /// The reason is specific and was found by the suite rather than
    /// reasoned out. An anchor publishes the digest of the journal's current
    /// head. Journaling the anchor's own send appends an entry, so the head
    /// moves the instant it is published, and two anchors can never name the
    /// same index again -- which is exactly how `anchor record` detects a
    /// contradiction: the same entry, published twice, with two digests. Four
    /// checks went red and none of them was a flaky test.
    ///
    /// So anchors are excluded, and the exclusion is STATED in `gage sent`
    /// rather than left as a hole where a careful reader would look. What is
    /// being given up is small and bounded: an anchor carries a digest of
    /// this machine's own journal, no user content, and goes only to a
    /// contact already on the list.
    pub record_send: bool,
}

/// Build and deliver a bundle.
///
/// Human-facing lines are pushed into `say` rather than printed. Every caller
/// prints them and still does, in the same place, so stdout is unchanged --
/// the point is that `gage mcp` can hand the same lines to an agent as data,
/// because on a stdio transport the server's own stdout IS the JSON-RPC
/// channel and printing to it would corrupt the protocol.
///
/// The sink belongs to the caller, not the return value, because the skip
/// report has to survive a later failure: "all 2 item(s) were skipped (listed
/// above)" is only true if the caller printed the list before the error. A
/// `Result` carrying the lines drops them on exactly the path that needs
/// them most.
pub fn send_bundle(
    a: SendArgs,
    say: &mut Vec<String>,
) -> Result<manifest::Manifest, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let SendArgs {
        to,
        subject,
        out,
        file,
        prompt,
        decision,
        memory,
        dir,
        allow_secrets,
        reply_to,
        msg_type: type_in,
        allow_findings,
        lan,
        agent,
        model,
        record_send,
    } = a;
    let r#type = type_in;

    let id = identity::Identity::load()?;
    let c = collect::collect(&file, &prompt, &decision, &memory, &dir, allow_secrets)?;
    // Skips are printed BEFORE the bundle is built, so a sender sees
    // what is not going out while they can still change their mind.
    if !c.skipped_secret.is_empty() {
        say.push("skipped (look like secrets, --allow-secrets to include):".to_string());
        for f in &c.skipped_secret {
            say.push(format!("  {f}"));
        }
    }
    if !c.skipped_link.is_empty() {
        say.push("skipped (symlinks -- a link's name says nothing about its target):".to_string());
        for f in &c.skipped_link {
            say.push(format!("  {f}"));
        }
    }
    if !c.skipped_big.is_empty() {
        say.push("skipped (over the per-item size limit):".to_string());
        for f in &c.skipped_big {
            say.push(format!("  {f}"));
        }
    }
    if !c.skipped_dir.is_empty() {
        let mut d = c.skipped_dir.clone();
        d.sort();
        d.dedup();
        say.push(format!("skipped build/cache dirs: {}", d.join(", ")));
    }
    let routes = routes::Routes::load();
    let skipped = c.skipped_secret.len() + c.skipped_big.len() + c.skipped_link.len();
    let specs = c.items;
    if specs.is_empty() {
        // Distinguish "you passed nothing" from "everything you passed
        // was filtered". The second read as the first, which sends you
        // looking for a flag you already used.
        if skipped > 0 {
            return Err(format!(
                "nothing left to send: all {skipped} item(s) were skipped \
                         (listed above). Rename them, pick different paths, or pass \
                         --allow-secrets if you are sure."
            )
            .into());
        }
        return Err("nothing to send: pass --file, --dir, --prompt, --decision or --memory".into());
    }
    if to.is_empty() {
        return Err("no recipient: pass --to <handle|group:name>".into());
    }
    // Outbound CONTENT scan. The filename deny list above catches
    // .env; it says nothing about an innocent notes.md that quotes a
    // customer address or still has a bearer token in it. Refuse
    // rather than warn: on an outbound path a warning arrives after
    // the bundle exists, and for a remote recipient after it has
    // gone.
    let findings = scrub::scan(&specs);
    if !findings.is_empty() {
        // The findings go in the ERROR rather than to stdout, so that
        // every caller gets them. The viewer's send button reported a
        // bare "refusing to build this bundle" with the reason
        // printed in a terminal the person was not looking at, which
        // is a refusal they cannot act on.
        let mut lines = vec![format!(
            "outbound scan found {} item(s) that should not leave:",
            findings.len()
        )];
        for f in &findings {
            lines.push(format!(
                "  {}:{}  [{}]  {}",
                f.path, f.line, f.rule, f.preview
            ));
        }
        if !allow_findings {
            // The path is COMPUTED, not written out. This line said
            // `~/.ctx/scrub.json` long after the home moved to `~/.gage`, so
            // the one piece of advice a person needed in order to act on a
            // refusal sent them to a file nothing reads.
            lines.push(format!(
                "refusing to build this bundle. Fix the files, add a rule to {}, \
                 or pass --allow-findings if they are false positives.",
                crate::scrub::policy_path().display()
            ));
            return Err(lines.join("\n").into());
        }
        for l in &lines {
            say.push(l.to_string());
        }
        say.push("  --allow-findings given: sending anyway".to_string());
    }

    let msg_type = manifest::MsgType::parse(&r#type).ok_or_else(|| {
        format!(
            "unknown --type {type_in:?}; use share, question, answer, review-request or ack",
            type_in = r#type
        )
    })?;
    // A reply inherits its parent's thread. Looked up locally rather
    // than walked at read time: over a relay you may hold only part
    // of a thread, and a chain you cannot walk is a thread you cannot
    // group. Falling back to the parent id still groups the pair.
    let thread = reply_to.as_ref().map(|rid| {
        find_manifest(rid)
            .map(|m| m.thread_id().to_string())
            .unwrap_or_else(|| rid.clone())
    });
    let ag = agent.map(|name| AgentInfo { name, model });
    // Built once into a staging dir, then delivered to each routed
    // recipient. Building per-recipient would give one payload a
    // different content id for every person who received it.
    // `--out` must not name somewhere inside this machine's own inbox.
    //
    // Found by review: `gage_send out=<home>/inbox/accepted/<anything>` wrote
    // a bundle the CALLER authored straight into the accepted inbox, where
    // every reader treats it as mail that arrived, was accepted and crossed
    // the gate. An agent could manufacture its own received context, with its
    // own signature on it, and `gage inbox --all` would list it beside real
    // arrivals. Nothing about the signature is forged; what is forged is the
    // *arrival*, which is a local fact this program is the only witness to.
    //
    // Checked lexically rather than by canonicalising, because the target
    // usually does not exist yet, and `..` is resolved first so that
    // `inbox/../inbox/accepted` is the same answer as the direct path.
    if let Some(p) = &out {
        refuse_out_in_records(
            p,
            "A bundle you built is not an arrival, and putting it there would make it \
             indistinguishable from one. Write it anywhere else and hand it over, or drop \
             --out and let gage deliver it.",
        )?;
    }
    let stage = out
        .clone()
        .unwrap_or_else(|| identity::home().join(format!("outbox/{}", std::process::id())));
    let m = bundle::create(
        &stage, &id, &subject, &to, ag, reply_to, thread, msg_type, &specs,
    )?;
    // Keep our own copy before delivering anywhere.
    let sent = routes::sent_dir(&identity::home()).join(&m.id);
    if !sent.exists() {
        if let Some(parent) = sent.parent() {
            std::fs::create_dir_all(parent)?;
        }
        routes::deliver(&stage, &sent)?;
    }
    let mut delivered = Vec::new();
    for who in &to {
        if let Some(h) = routes.home_of(who) {
            let dest = routes::pending_dir(&h).join(&m.id);
            if let Some(parent) = dest.parent() {
                std::fs::create_dir_all(parent)?;
            }
            routes::deliver(&stage, &dest)?;
            delivered.push(format!("{who} -> {}", dest.display()));
        }
    }
    // The send journal. Here rather than in each caller for the same reason
    // the outbound scan is here: a second send path that grew its own copy
    // would eventually be missing it, and a log with a hole in it is worse
    // than no log, because the hole is invisible.
    //
    // It is written AFTER delivery, so a line means the bundle was built,
    // signed and placed -- not merely attempted. The cost of that ordering is
    // the crash window: a process that dies between `deliver` and this append
    // has sent something it did not record. Recording first would invert the
    // lie rather than remove it, and claiming a send that did not happen is
    // the worse of the two for a log whose whole purpose is answering "what
    // left".
    //
    // A failure to write it does NOT fail the send. The bundle has already
    // gone; returning an error here would tell the caller it did not, which
    // is a worse record than a missing line. It is said out loud instead.
    if record_send {
        let contacts = trust::Contacts::load();
        let addressees: Vec<journal::Addressee> = to
            .iter()
            .map(|who| journal::Addressee {
                named: who.clone(),
                key: contacts.key_for_name(who),
                routed: routes.home_of(who).is_some(),
            })
            .collect();
        let manifest_bytes = std::fs::read(sent.join("manifest.json"))
            .or_else(|_| std::fs::read(stage.join("manifest.json")))
            .unwrap_or_default();
        if let Err(e) = journal::record_sent(&m, &manifest_bytes, addressees) {
            say.push(format!(
                "  warning: the bundle went but the send journal did not record it: {e}"
            ));
        }
    }
    say.push(format!(
        "bundle {} [{}] -- {} item(s), {} bytes, signed by {}",
        m.id,
        m.msg_type.label(),
        m.items.len(),
        m.total_bytes(),
        id.handle
    ));
    if m.memory_count() > 0 {
        say.push(format!(
            "  {} MEMORY item(s): these persist in whoever accepts them",
            m.memory_count()
        ));
    }
    for d in &delivered {
        say.push(format!("  delivered {d}"));
    }
    let unrouted: Vec<String> = to
        .iter()
        .filter(|w| routes.home_of(w).is_none())
        .cloned()
        .collect();
    if !unrouted.is_empty() && !lan {
        say.push(format!("  no local route for: {}", unrouted.join(", ")));
        say.push(format!(
            "  bundle is at {} -- move it yourself, or",
            stage.display()
        ));
        say.push("  gage route <handle> <their-gage-home> to deliver automatically".to_string());
    }

    Ok(m)
}