safe_chains/engine/bridge.rs
1//! Engine bridge (v1.4 §4.5; annex `…-engine` §4). Projects a resolved capability profile
2//! back to a legacy [`Verdict`] so the existing ceiling gate (`main::run_cli`) keeps working
3//! unchanged. The engine is authoritative for every command it can resolve
4//! (`resolve::resolve` → `Some`); the legacy classifier handles the rest. There is no
5//! opt-out — `cst::check::leaf_verdict` calls `engine_verdict(tokens).unwrap_or(legacy)`.
6
7use std::cell::Cell;
8
9use super::authoring::default_levels;
10use super::facet::Profile;
11use super::level::{FacetMismatch, Level};
12use super::resolve;
13use crate::parse::Token;
14use crate::verdict::{SafetyLevel, Verdict};
15
16thread_local! {
17 /// The level a `--level` threshold selected, when it is one of the UPPER band
18 /// (`local-admin`/`network-admin`/`yolo`) that has no 3-value legacy equivalent. When set,
19 /// `project` decides via `Level::admits` against THIS level instead of the lower-band
20 /// projection — the only way a profile that only an upper level admits (`git push`, `sudo`)
21 /// can be approved. `None` (the default) keeps the byte-for-byte lower-band behavior, so
22 /// `command_verdict` / `is_safe_command` and every existing test are unaffected.
23 static EVAL_LEVEL: Cell<Option<&'static Level>> = const { Cell::new(None) };
24}
25
26/// Evaluate the enclosed classification against `level` (an upper-band level). Restores the
27/// previous context on drop. Mirrors `pathctx::enter`.
28pub fn enter_eval_level(level: &'static Level) -> EvalLevelGuard {
29 EvalLevelGuard(EVAL_LEVEL.with(|c| c.replace(Some(level))))
30}
31
32pub struct EvalLevelGuard(Option<&'static Level>);
33
34impl Drop for EvalLevelGuard {
35 fn drop(&mut self) {
36 EVAL_LEVEL.with(|c| c.set(self.0));
37 }
38}
39
40/// The engine's verdict for a command whose resolver exists, or `None` if it has none
41/// (the caller keeps the legacy verdict).
42pub fn engine_verdict(tokens: &[Token]) -> Option<Verdict> {
43 resolve::resolve(tokens).map(|p| project(&p))
44}
45
46/// Project a resolved profile to a legacy [`Verdict`]: the **lowest** authored level
47/// that admits it, mapped back to its legacy [`SafetyLevel`]; `Denied` if no
48/// legacy-mapped level admits it (above the auto-approve band → worst-case, §0).
49/// `default_levels()` builds the ascending chain (paranoid ⊂ reader ⊂ editor ⊂
50/// developer), so the first match among the mapped levels is the minimum.
51pub fn project(profile: &Profile) -> Verdict {
52 if profile.capabilities.is_empty() {
53 // Fail-closed (§0): an empty profile means the resolver produced NO capability.
54 // Every level vacuously admits it (`all` of zero capabilities is true), so without
55 // this guard it would project to the lowest level (`paranoid`) — the *most*
56 // permissive, inverting the principle. A genuinely-inert command emits an explicit
57 // observe capability, never an empty profile.
58 return Verdict::Denied;
59 }
60 if let Some(level) = EVAL_LEVEL.with(Cell::get) {
61 // An upper-band `--level` is authoritative via `admits`. Pass projects to `SafeWrite`
62 // — the legacy ceiling every upper level shares — so `run_cli`'s existing `<= ceiling`
63 // gate accepts it; a profile the level does not admit is `Denied`, dominating the chain.
64 return if level.admits(profile) {
65 Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeWrite)
66 } else {
67 Verdict::Denied
68 };
69 }
70 for level in default_levels() {
71 // Only the auto-approvable band (paranoid..developer) has a 3-value legacy
72 // equivalent. The levels above it (local-admin, network-admin, yolo) have NO
73 // legacy mapping, so a profile that only THEY admit projects to Denied — never
74 // silently to SafeWrite (the old `_ => SafeWrite` catch-all would have
75 // auto-approved sudo/terraform the moment those levels were added). Selecting
76 // an upper level as a threshold is the separate harness-config change.
77 if let Some(sl) = to_legacy(&level.name)
78 && level.admits(profile)
79 {
80 return Verdict::Allowed(sl);
81 }
82 }
83 Verdict::Denied
84}
85
86/// The most permissive level in the default auto-approve band.
87fn default_band_top_level() -> Option<&'static Level> {
88 default_levels().iter().rfind(|l| to_legacy(&l.name).is_some())
89}
90
91/// The NAME of that level — what a refusal is reported against when the user has set no ceiling of
92/// their own (`developer`, today).
93///
94/// Exposed so `--explain`'s "refused by `X`" and the decision log's `level` field come from one
95/// definition. They were briefly two: the log took `SafetyLevel::to_string()` and recorded the
96/// LEGACY band name (`safe-write`) for the same run `--explain` called `developer`, which is the
97/// kind of disagreement that makes a diagnostic worse than no diagnostic.
98pub fn default_band_top_name() -> &'static str {
99 default_band_top_level().map_or("developer", |l| l.name.as_str())
100}
101
102fn to_legacy(level_name: &str) -> Option<SafetyLevel> {
103 match level_name {
104 "paranoid" => Some(SafetyLevel::Inert),
105 "reader" => Some(SafetyLevel::SafeRead),
106 "editor" | "developer" => Some(SafetyLevel::SafeWrite),
107 _ => None, // local-admin, network-admin, yolo — above the legacy 3-value ceiling
108 }
109}
110
111/// A human-readable account of what a command resolved to and, when the band rejects it, which
112/// facet said no.
113///
114/// The engine was write-only before this: `admits` answered yes/no and nothing reported the axis.
115/// Both a user asking "why was this denied" and an author debugging a resolver were left bisecting
116/// by editing facets and re-running — which is exactly how an incomplete loopback delta got
117/// mistaken for a flawed approach rather than a missing line.
118pub struct ProfileExplanation {
119 /// One entry per capability: its `because` and the facets it sets.
120 pub capabilities: Vec<(String, Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)>)>,
121 /// `(level name, why it refuses)` — absent when the band admits the profile.
122 pub blocked_by: Option<(String, FacetMismatch)>,
123}
124
125/// Resolve `tokens` and explain the result. `None` when no resolver claims the command, which is
126/// itself the answer: the engine never saw it and the legacy classifier decided.
127pub fn explain_profile(tokens: &[Token]) -> Option<ProfileExplanation> {
128 let profile = resolve::resolve(tokens)?;
129 let capabilities = profile
130 .capabilities
131 .iter()
132 .map(|c| (c.because.clone(), c.set_facets()))
133 .collect();
134
135 // Report against the MOST PERMISSIVE level in the auto-approve band. If the top of the band
136 // refuses a capability, every level below it does too, so its complaint is the binding one —
137 // a lower level's would just be the first of several walls.
138 let blocked_by = default_band_top_level()
139 .and_then(|top| {
140 profile
141 .capabilities
142 .iter()
143 .find_map(|c| top.nearest_miss(c).map(|m| (top.name.clone(), m)))
144 });
145
146 Some(ProfileExplanation { capabilities, blocked_by })
147}
148
149#[cfg(test)]
150mod tests {
151 use super::*;
152 use crate::engine::facet::*;
153
154 fn toks(parts: &[&str]) -> Vec<Token> {
155 parts.iter().map(|p| Token::from_test(p)).collect()
156 }
157
158 #[test]
159 fn project_maps_profiles_to_the_lowest_admitting_level() {
160 // echo — inert
161 let echo = Profile::of(vec![{
162 let mut c = Capability::new(Operation::Observe);
163 c.disclosure.audience = DisclosureAudience::LocalProcess;
164 c
165 }]);
166 assert_eq!(project(&echo), Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::Inert));
167
168 // cat ./notes — read-local
169 let read = Profile::of(vec![{
170 let mut c = Capability::new(Operation::Observe);
171 c.locus.local = LocalLocus::Worktree;
172 c.disclosure.audience = DisclosureAudience::LocalProcess;
173 c
174 }]);
175 assert_eq!(project(&read), Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeRead));
176
177 // cat ~/notes.txt — observe·user·no-secret is inside the reader band now
178 let home = Profile::of(vec![{
179 let mut c = Capability::new(Operation::Observe);
180 c.locus.local = LocalLocus::User;
181 c.disclosure.audience = DisclosureAudience::LocalProcess;
182 c
183 }]);
184 assert_eq!(project(&home), Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeRead));
185
186 // cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa — the SAME rung, refused on the secret claim rather than the locus.
187 // The pair is the point: one facet apart, and it is the facet that names the harm.
188 let secret = Profile::of(vec![{
189 let mut c = Capability::new(Operation::Observe);
190 c.locus.local = LocalLocus::User;
191 c.disclosure.audience = DisclosureAudience::LocalProcess;
192 c.secret.level = SecretLevel::Reads;
193 c
194 }]);
195 assert_eq!(project(&secret), Verdict::Denied);
196
197 // touch build/out — create·worktree·data → write-local → SafeWrite (the
198 // to_legacy `_ => SafeWrite` arm; no resolver emits this yet)
199 let write = Profile::of(vec![{
200 let mut c = Capability::new(Operation::Create);
201 c.locus.local = LocalLocus::Worktree;
202 c.scale = Scale::Bounded;
203 c.reversibility = Reversibility::Recoverable;
204 c.persistence.level = PersistenceLevel::Data;
205 c
206 }]);
207 assert_eq!(project(&write), Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeWrite));
208
209 // an EMPTY profile must fail closed (Denied), NOT project to inert — every level
210 // vacuously admits it, so the guard is what stops "resolved to nothing" = "safe".
211 assert_eq!(project(&Profile::of(vec![])), Verdict::Denied);
212 }
213
214 /// The fail-open this refactor had to avoid: the levels above developer (local-admin,
215 /// network-admin, yolo) have NO legacy `SafetyLevel`, so a profile only they admit must
216 /// project to `Denied` — never to `SafeWrite`. The old `_ => SafeWrite` catch-all in
217 /// `to_legacy` would have auto-approved every one of these.
218 #[test]
219 fn profiles_needing_an_upper_level_project_to_denied_not_safewrite() {
220 // sudo systemctl restart — elevated authority on machine locus (local-admin)
221 let sudo = Profile::of(vec![{
222 let mut c = Capability::new(Operation::Control);
223 c.locus.local = LocalLocus::Machine;
224 c.authority = Authority::Root;
225 c
226 }]);
227 assert_eq!(project(&sudo), Verdict::Denied, "sudo must not auto-approve");
228
229 // terraform apply — remote reach over outbound network (network-admin)
230 let remote = Profile::of(vec![{
231 let mut c = Capability::new(Operation::Mutate);
232 c.locus.remote = RemoteReach::Fixed;
233 c.network.direction = NetDirection::Outbound;
234 c
235 }]);
236 assert_eq!(project(&remote), Verdict::Denied, "remote infra must not auto-approve");
237
238 // terraform destroy — irreversible remote destroy (yolo only)
239 let catastrophe = Profile::of(vec![{
240 let mut c = Capability::new(Operation::Destroy);
241 c.locus.remote = RemoteReach::Fixed;
242 c.reversibility = Reversibility::Irreversible;
243 c
244 }]);
245 assert_eq!(project(&catastrophe), Verdict::Denied, "irreversible destroy must not auto-approve");
246 }
247
248 /// The legacy classifier's leaf verdict for `cmd` — what the engine falls back to for a
249 /// command it can't resolve, and the baseline the never-looser gates compare against.
250 fn legacy(cmd: &str) -> Verdict {
251 crate::handlers::dispatch(&toks(&cmd.split_whitespace().collect::<Vec<_>>()))
252 }
253
254 #[test]
255 fn the_engine_is_authoritative_with_legacy_fallback() {
256 // a resolved command → the engine's (finer) verdict, end to end
257 assert_eq!(
258 crate::command_verdict("cat ./notes.md"),
259 Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeRead),
260 "cat resolves → engine tightens inert to read-local",
261 );
262 // an unresolvable command → the legacy classifier still decides
263 let unresolved = resolve::UNRESOLVED_CMD.join(" ");
264 assert_eq!(
265 crate::command_verdict(&unresolved),
266 legacy(&unresolved),
267 "no resolver → legacy verdict",
268 );
269 }
270
271 #[test]
272 fn engine_verdict_is_none_for_unresearched_commands() {
273 assert!(engine_verdict(&toks(resolve::UNRESOLVED_CMD)).is_none());
274 assert_eq!(engine_verdict(&toks(&["echo", "hi"])), Some(Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::Inert)));
275 assert_eq!(
276 engine_verdict(&toks(&["cat", "./notes.md"])),
277 Some(Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeRead)),
278 );
279 assert_eq!(engine_verdict(&toks(&["cat", "~/.ssh/id_rsa"])), Some(Verdict::Denied));
280 }
281
282 /// The engine may deny what legacy allowed (intended tightening) or classify higher,
283 /// but must **never allow what legacy denied**, nor classify lower.
284 fn not_looser(legacy: Verdict, engine: Verdict) -> bool {
285 match (legacy, engine) {
286 (_, Verdict::Denied) => true,
287 (Verdict::Denied, Verdict::Allowed(_)) => false,
288 (Verdict::Allowed(l), Verdict::Allowed(e)) => e >= l,
289 }
290 }
291
292 /// The rollout safety gate on hand-picked forms — including the ones the wiring and
293 /// the review flushed (unrecognized/dangerous flags, and pattern-less grep, which
294 /// legacy denies as a usage error).
295 #[test]
296 fn the_engine_is_never_looser_than_legacy() {
297 let cases = [
298 "echo hi", "echo", "cat ./notes.md", "cat -n ./notes.md", "cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa",
299 "cat /etc/hosts", "cat a.txt b.txt", "grep foo src/main.rs", "grep -r foo src/",
300 "grep -r foo ~", "grep foo bar.txt",
301 // PCRE (-P/--perl-regexp) is benign — PCRE2 execs no code, just a regex engine
302 "grep -P foo file", "grep -oP foo file", "grep --perl-regexp foo file",
303 // unrecognized / dangerous flags must worst-case
304 "cat --unknownflag ./x", "cat -Z ./x", "grep --wat foo file",
305 // pattern-less grep (C1): legacy denies as a usage error, engine must too
306 "grep", "grep -r", "grep -i", "grep -e foo", "grep -f patterns.txt",
307 ];
308 for cmd in cases {
309 let base = legacy(cmd);
310 let t = toks(&cmd.split_whitespace().collect::<Vec<_>>());
311 let Some(engine) = engine_verdict(&t) else { continue };
312 assert!(
313 not_looser(base, engine),
314 "engine LOOSER than legacy for `{cmd}`: legacy {base}, engine {engine}",
315 );
316 }
317 }
318
319 /// The never-looser invariant above holds over the commands legacy *allowlisted*. The
320 /// `developer` level is the deliberate exception: it admits well-modeled operations the
321 /// hand-built allowlist could only DENY — e.g. deleting your own project files. This
322 /// test pins that divergence as intended, not a regression: it is exactly the kind of
323 /// finer classification the engine exists to make, now that it is authoritative.
324 #[test]
325 fn developer_intentionally_admits_worktree_destroy_that_legacy_denies() {
326 let rm = "rm -rf ./node_modules";
327 assert_eq!(legacy(rm), Verdict::Denied, "legacy allowlist denies rm deletion");
328 assert_eq!(crate::command_verdict(rm), Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeWrite), "engine (developer) admits it — intended");
329 assert!(!not_looser(Verdict::Denied, Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeWrite)), "and it IS looser than legacy, by design");
330 }
331
332 /// sed/tar keep coarse legacy HANDLERS (`coreutils::sed`/`tar`) that `handlers::dispatch`
333 /// consults before the TOML — so `legacy()` for them is that handler, which denies an in-place
334 /// edit. The behavioral engine models `sed -i` on a worktree file correctly (a SafeWrite) and is
335 /// authoritative. Pin the divergence as intended (not a regression) — the same shape as `rm`
336 /// above — because the corpus gate's sed examples deliberately avoid this looser case.
337 #[test]
338 fn engine_intentionally_admits_worktree_in_place_edit_that_legacy_sed_handler_denies() {
339 let sed = "sed -i s/a/b/ ./file.txt";
340 assert_eq!(legacy(sed), Verdict::Denied, "legacy sed handler denies in-place edit");
341 assert_eq!(crate::command_verdict(sed), Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeWrite), "engine admits worktree -i — intended");
342 assert!(!not_looser(Verdict::Denied, Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeWrite)), "and it IS looser than the legacy sed handler, by design");
343 }
344
345 /// The data-driven corpus gate (the systematic test C1 slipped past): run **every**
346 /// command's real `examples_safe`/`examples_denied` through the engine and assert,
347 /// per resolvable example, the dimensions that hold today —
348 /// 1. **never looser** than legacy (engine ≤ legacy; also subsumes "an
349 /// examples_denied that resolves stays denied", since legacy denies it),
350 /// 2. **justified** — every resolved capability cites a `because` (§5),
351 /// 3. **total** — resolution and projection never panic.
352 ///
353 /// It grows automatically as commands convert; today it exercises the resolvable
354 /// commands and skips the rest. Only bare single commands are comparable at the leaf
355 /// (chains/redirects/substitutions are the CST's job). The full per-facet completeness
356 /// dimension is the golden-profile check (`resolve::golden_profiles_cover_every_facet`)
357 /// and becomes TOML-derived when commands carry profile data (§7).
358 #[test]
359 fn the_engine_corpus_gate() {
360 let mut exercised = 0usize;
361 for (name, safe, denied) in crate::registry::corpus_examples() {
362 for ex in safe.iter().chain(denied.iter()) {
363 if ex.contains(['|', '>', '<', '&', ';', '$', '`', '(', '\n']) {
364 continue; // not a bare single command
365 }
366 let t = toks(&ex.split_whitespace().collect::<Vec<_>>());
367 let Some(profile) = crate::engine::resolve::resolve(&t) else { continue };
368 exercised += 1;
369
370 for c in &profile.capabilities {
371 assert!(!c.because.is_empty(), "unjustified capability for `{ex}` ({name})");
372 }
373
374 // A PROFILED sub's legacy kind is deny-all — a fail-closed placeholder for when the
375 // engine ABSTAINS (a global flag before the sub), NOT a real hand-built verdict. So the
376 // never-looser comparison is meaningless for it: the engine is authoritative and
377 // legitimately admits below the line (`npm ci --ignore-scripts` at developer). Its
378 // landing is pinned by the archetype tests, not here.
379 if crate::registry::sub_archetypes(&t).is_some() {
380 continue;
381 }
382 // The one deliberate refinement. An informational invocation (`rm --help`) prints
383 // usage and exits, so it is genuinely Inert, while the legacy path classified it at
384 // the command's declared WRITE level. That reads as "looser" to this ratchet
385 // because Inert is admitted by stricter user levels (a `paranoid` plan accepts it),
386 // but it is the engine being more accurate, not more permissive about effects.
387 //
388 // Deliberately narrow: long-form help/version ONLY, and no other token. The risk it
389 // would carry — an informational flag laundering a real operand — is what
390 // `an_informational_flag_is_not_a_write_but_never_launders_an_operand` exists to
391 // rule out, and it is asserted over the whole registry rather than here.
392 if t.len() >= 2
393 && t[1..].iter().all(|x| matches!(x.as_str(), "--help" | "--version"))
394 {
395 continue;
396 }
397 let engine = project(&profile);
398 let base = legacy(ex);
399 assert!(
400 not_looser(base, engine),
401 "engine LOOSER than legacy for `{ex}` ({name}): legacy {base}, engine {engine}",
402 );
403 }
404 }
405 // non-vacuity: the gate must actually resolve engine examples, or it is a green
406 // test proving nothing (the trap that hid its own emptiness). Every resolvable
407 // command must contribute at least one example.
408 assert!(exercised >= 5, "corpus gate exercised only {exercised} engine resolutions — vacuous?");
409 }
410
411 /// Per-level threshold wiring end to end: an UPPER-band `--level` classifies via `admits`,
412 /// unlocking profiles that only an upper level admits, while the lower band and the
413 /// allowlist-only fail-closed reflex are untouched.
414 #[test]
415 fn upper_band_levels_admit_via_the_engine_end_to_end() {
416 let net = crate::upper_level_by_name("network-admin").expect("network-admin exists");
417 let yolo = crate::upper_level_by_name("yolo").expect("yolo exists");
418
419 // git push origin — a network-admin op. THE payoff: denied at the default (developer)
420 // band, admitted once the threshold IS an upper level.
421 assert_eq!(crate::command_verdict("git push origin main"), Verdict::Denied, "developer denies push");
422 assert!(crate::command_verdict_at_level("git push origin main", net).is_allowed(), "network-admin admits push");
423 assert!(crate::command_verdict_at_level("git push origin main", yolo).is_allowed(), "yolo admits push");
424
425 // rm -rf / — the one thing even yolo denies (destroy·irreversible·unbounded).
426 assert_eq!(crate::command_verdict_at_level("rm -rf /", yolo), Verdict::Denied, "yolo denies rm -rf /");
427
428 // a plain read passes at every upper level (they extend reader).
429 assert!(crate::command_verdict_at_level("cat ./README.md", net).is_allowed(), "reads pass at network-admin");
430
431 // a legacy-DENIED / unmodeled command stays denied even at yolo — allowlist-only: what
432 // the engine cannot certify, no threshold can approve.
433 assert_eq!(crate::command_verdict_at_level("frobnicate --wombat", yolo), Verdict::Denied, "unmodeled denied at yolo");
434
435 // a chain is admitted only if EVERY segment is (a Denied dominates the combine).
436 assert_eq!(crate::command_verdict_at_level("git push && rm -rf /", yolo), Verdict::Denied, "one bad segment sinks the chain");
437
438 // the upper-band lookup rejects lower-band and unknown names (they keep the 3-value ceiling).
439 assert!(crate::upper_level_by_name("developer").is_none());
440 assert!(crate::upper_level_by_name("reader").is_none());
441 assert!(crate::upper_level_by_name("nonsense").is_none());
442
443 // the lower band is UNCHANGED — no eval-level context, projection still tightens cat to read.
444 assert_eq!(crate::command_verdict("cat ./README.md"), Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeRead), "lower band untouched");
445 }
446}