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 set, `project` decides via `Level::admits`
18 /// against THIS level instead of walking the band for the lowest level that admits — which is
19 /// the only way a profile that just one level admits (`git push`, `sudo`) can be approved, and
20 /// the only way a level whose rule the 3-value projection cannot express (`editor`: no
21 /// destroy, no sibling write) can be enforced.
22 ///
23 /// Every named level sets it now. It was upper-band-only while `project` stamped a pass as
24 /// `SafeWrite`, which a lower ceiling then refused; see the note there.
25 ///
26 /// `None` (the default — no `--level` given) keeps the byte-for-byte default-band behavior, so
27 /// `command_verdict` / `is_safe_command` and every existing test are unaffected.
28 static EVAL_LEVEL: Cell<Option<&'static Level>> = const { Cell::new(None) };
29}
30
31/// Evaluate the enclosed classification against `level` (an upper-band level). Restores the
32/// previous context on drop. Mirrors `pathctx::enter`.
33pub fn enter_eval_level(level: &'static Level) -> EvalLevelGuard {
34 EvalLevelGuard(EVAL_LEVEL.with(|c| c.replace(Some(level))))
35}
36
37pub struct EvalLevelGuard(Option<&'static Level>);
38
39impl Drop for EvalLevelGuard {
40 fn drop(&mut self) {
41 EVAL_LEVEL.with(|c| c.set(self.0));
42 }
43}
44
45/// The engine's verdict for a command whose resolver exists, or `None` if it has none
46/// (the caller keeps the legacy verdict).
47pub fn engine_verdict(tokens: &[Token]) -> Option<Verdict> {
48 resolve::resolve(tokens).map(|p| project(&p))
49}
50
51/// Project a resolved profile to a legacy [`Verdict`]: the **lowest** authored level
52/// that admits it, mapped back to its legacy [`SafetyLevel`]; `Denied` if no
53/// legacy-mapped level admits it (above the auto-approve band → worst-case, §0).
54/// `default_levels()` builds the ascending chain (paranoid ⊂ reader ⊂ editor ⊂
55/// developer), so the first match among the mapped levels is the minimum.
56pub fn project(profile: &Profile) -> Verdict {
57 if profile.capabilities.is_empty() {
58 // Fail-closed (§0): an empty profile means the resolver produced NO capability.
59 // Every level vacuously admits it (`all` of zero capabilities is true), so without
60 // this guard it would project to the lowest level (`paranoid`) — the *most*
61 // permissive, inverting the principle. A genuinely-inert command emits an explicit
62 // observe capability, never an empty profile.
63 return Verdict::Denied;
64 }
65 if let Some(level) = EVAL_LEVEL.with(Cell::get) {
66 // A selected `--level` is authoritative via `admits`: a profile it does not admit is
67 // `Denied`, dominating the chain.
68 if !level.admits(profile) {
69 return Verdict::Denied;
70 }
71 // A pass projects to the band the PROFILE earns — not a fixed `SafeWrite`.
72 //
73 // It was fixed, and correctly so for every level this path originally served: the upper
74 // band and `editor` all carry a `SafeWrite` ceiling, so `run_cli`'s `<= ceiling` gate
75 // accepted the stamp. It silently breaks any level whose ceiling is LOWER. At `reader`
76 // (SafeRead) or `paranoid` (Inert) the gate then refused the very profile the level had
77 // just admitted — `cat ./notes.txt` denied at `--level reader`.
78 //
79 // That is why `level_ceiling` handed an engine level to `editor` and the upper band only:
80 // giving one to reader/paranoid would have denied their whole band. The workaround became
81 // the cause of the `level_monotonic` failure — `editor` classified by `admits` while its
82 // neighbours classified by projection, so two mechanisms sat adjacent in one ordered
83 // ladder with nothing making them agree.
84 //
85 // `unwrap_or(SafeWrite)` keeps the upper band byte-identical: those levels have no legacy
86 // equivalent, so `to_legacy` yields `None` for them and they keep the shared ceiling.
87 return Verdict::Allowed(to_legacy(&level.name).unwrap_or(SafetyLevel::SafeWrite));
88 }
89 for level in default_levels() {
90 // Only the auto-approvable band (paranoid..developer) has a 3-value legacy
91 // equivalent. The levels above it (local-admin, network-admin, yolo) have NO
92 // legacy mapping, so a profile that only THEY admit projects to Denied — never
93 // silently to SafeWrite (the old `_ => SafeWrite` catch-all would have
94 // auto-approved sudo/terraform the moment those levels were added). Selecting
95 // an upper level as a threshold is the separate harness-config change.
96 if let Some(sl) = to_legacy(&level.name)
97 && level.admits(profile)
98 {
99 return Verdict::Allowed(sl);
100 }
101 }
102 Verdict::Denied
103}
104
105/// The most permissive level in the default auto-approve band.
106fn default_band_top_level() -> Option<&'static Level> {
107 default_levels().iter().rfind(|l| to_legacy(&l.name).is_some())
108}
109
110/// The NAME of that level — what a refusal is reported against when the user has set no ceiling of
111/// their own (`developer`, today).
112///
113/// Exposed so `--explain`'s "refused by `X`" and the decision log's `level` field come from one
114/// definition. They were briefly two: the log took `SafetyLevel::to_string()` and recorded the
115/// LEGACY band name (`safe-write`) for the same run `--explain` called `developer`, which is the
116/// kind of disagreement that makes a diagnostic worse than no diagnostic.
117pub fn default_band_top_name() -> &'static str {
118 default_band_top_level().map_or("developer", |l| l.name.as_str())
119}
120
121fn to_legacy(level_name: &str) -> Option<SafetyLevel> {
122 match level_name {
123 "paranoid" => Some(SafetyLevel::Inert),
124 "reader" => Some(SafetyLevel::SafeRead),
125 "editor" | "developer" => Some(SafetyLevel::SafeWrite),
126 _ => None, // local-admin, network-admin, yolo — above the legacy 3-value ceiling
127 }
128}
129
130/// A human-readable account of what a command resolved to and, when the band rejects it, which
131/// facet said no.
132///
133/// The engine was write-only before this: `admits` answered yes/no and nothing reported the axis.
134/// Both a user asking "why was this denied" and an author debugging a resolver were left bisecting
135/// by editing facets and re-running — which is exactly how an incomplete loopback delta got
136/// mistaken for a flawed approach rather than a missing line.
137pub struct ProfileExplanation {
138 /// One entry per capability: its `because` and the facets it sets.
139 pub capabilities: Vec<(String, Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)>)>,
140 /// `(level name, why it refuses)` — absent when the band admits the profile.
141 pub blocked_by: Option<(String, FacetMismatch)>,
142}
143
144/// Resolve `tokens` and explain the result. `None` when no resolver claims the command, which is
145/// itself the answer: the engine never saw it and the legacy classifier decided.
146pub fn explain_profile(tokens: &[Token]) -> Option<ProfileExplanation> {
147 let profile = resolve::resolve(tokens)?;
148 let capabilities = profile
149 .capabilities
150 .iter()
151 .map(|c| (c.because.clone(), c.set_facets()))
152 .collect();
153
154 // Report against the MOST PERMISSIVE level in the auto-approve band. If the top of the band
155 // refuses a capability, every level below it does too, so its complaint is the binding one —
156 // a lower level's would just be the first of several walls.
157 let blocked_by = default_band_top_level()
158 .and_then(|top| {
159 profile
160 .capabilities
161 .iter()
162 .find_map(|c| top.nearest_miss(c).map(|m| (top.name.clone(), m)))
163 });
164
165 Some(ProfileExplanation { capabilities, blocked_by })
166}
167
168#[cfg(test)]
169mod tests {
170 use super::*;
171 use crate::engine::facet::*;
172
173 fn toks(parts: &[&str]) -> Vec<Token> {
174 parts.iter().map(|p| Token::from_test(p)).collect()
175 }
176
177 #[test]
178 fn project_maps_profiles_to_the_lowest_admitting_level() {
179 // echo — inert
180 let echo = Profile::of(vec![{
181 let mut c = Capability::new(Operation::Observe);
182 c.disclosure.audience = DisclosureAudience::LocalProcess;
183 c
184 }]);
185 assert_eq!(project(&echo), Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::Inert));
186
187 // cat ./notes — read-local
188 let read = Profile::of(vec![{
189 let mut c = Capability::new(Operation::Observe);
190 c.locus.local = LocalLocus::Worktree;
191 c.disclosure.audience = DisclosureAudience::LocalProcess;
192 c
193 }]);
194 assert_eq!(project(&read), Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeRead));
195
196 // cat ~/notes.txt — observe·user·no-secret is inside the reader band now
197 let home = Profile::of(vec![{
198 let mut c = Capability::new(Operation::Observe);
199 c.locus.local = LocalLocus::User;
200 c.disclosure.audience = DisclosureAudience::LocalProcess;
201 c
202 }]);
203 assert_eq!(project(&home), Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeRead));
204
205 // cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa — the SAME rung, refused on the secret claim rather than the locus.
206 // The pair is the point: one facet apart, and it is the facet that names the harm.
207 let secret = Profile::of(vec![{
208 let mut c = Capability::new(Operation::Observe);
209 c.locus.local = LocalLocus::User;
210 c.disclosure.audience = DisclosureAudience::LocalProcess;
211 c.secret.level = SecretLevel::Reads;
212 c
213 }]);
214 assert_eq!(project(&secret), Verdict::Denied);
215
216 // touch build/out — create·worktree·data → write-local → SafeWrite (the
217 // to_legacy `_ => SafeWrite` arm; no resolver emits this yet)
218 let write = Profile::of(vec![{
219 let mut c = Capability::new(Operation::Create);
220 c.locus.local = LocalLocus::Worktree;
221 c.scale = Scale::Bounded;
222 c.reversibility = Reversibility::Recoverable;
223 c.persistence.level = PersistenceLevel::Data;
224 c
225 }]);
226 assert_eq!(project(&write), Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeWrite));
227
228 // an EMPTY profile must fail closed (Denied), NOT project to inert — every level
229 // vacuously admits it, so the guard is what stops "resolved to nothing" = "safe".
230 assert_eq!(project(&Profile::of(vec![])), Verdict::Denied);
231 }
232
233 /// The fail-open this refactor had to avoid: the levels above developer (local-admin,
234 /// network-admin, yolo) have NO legacy `SafetyLevel`, so a profile only they admit must
235 /// project to `Denied` — never to `SafeWrite`. The old `_ => SafeWrite` catch-all in
236 /// `to_legacy` would have auto-approved every one of these.
237 #[test]
238 fn profiles_needing_an_upper_level_project_to_denied_not_safewrite() {
239 // sudo systemctl restart — elevated authority on machine locus (local-admin)
240 let sudo = Profile::of(vec![{
241 let mut c = Capability::new(Operation::Control);
242 c.locus.local = LocalLocus::Machine;
243 c.authority = Authority::Root;
244 c
245 }]);
246 assert_eq!(project(&sudo), Verdict::Denied, "sudo must not auto-approve");
247
248 // terraform apply — remote reach over outbound network (network-admin)
249 let remote = Profile::of(vec![{
250 let mut c = Capability::new(Operation::Mutate);
251 c.locus.remote = RemoteReach::Fixed;
252 c.network.direction = NetDirection::Outbound;
253 c
254 }]);
255 assert_eq!(project(&remote), Verdict::Denied, "remote infra must not auto-approve");
256
257 // terraform destroy — irreversible remote destroy (yolo only)
258 let catastrophe = Profile::of(vec![{
259 let mut c = Capability::new(Operation::Destroy);
260 c.locus.remote = RemoteReach::Fixed;
261 c.reversibility = Reversibility::Irreversible;
262 c
263 }]);
264 assert_eq!(project(&catastrophe), Verdict::Denied, "irreversible destroy must not auto-approve");
265 }
266
267 /// The legacy classifier's leaf verdict for `cmd` — what the engine falls back to for a
268 /// command it can't resolve, and the baseline the never-looser gates compare against.
269 fn legacy(cmd: &str) -> Verdict {
270 crate::handlers::dispatch(&toks(&cmd.split_whitespace().collect::<Vec<_>>()))
271 }
272
273 #[test]
274 fn the_engine_is_authoritative_with_legacy_fallback() {
275 // a resolved command → the engine's (finer) verdict, end to end
276 assert_eq!(
277 crate::command_verdict("cat ./notes.md"),
278 Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeRead),
279 "cat resolves → engine tightens inert to read-local",
280 );
281 // an unresolvable command → the legacy classifier still decides
282 let unresolved = resolve::UNRESOLVED_CMD.join(" ");
283 assert_eq!(
284 crate::command_verdict(&unresolved),
285 legacy(&unresolved),
286 "no resolver → legacy verdict",
287 );
288 }
289
290 #[test]
291 fn engine_verdict_is_none_for_unresearched_commands() {
292 assert!(engine_verdict(&toks(resolve::UNRESOLVED_CMD)).is_none());
293 assert_eq!(engine_verdict(&toks(&["echo", "hi"])), Some(Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::Inert)));
294 assert_eq!(
295 engine_verdict(&toks(&["cat", "./notes.md"])),
296 Some(Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeRead)),
297 );
298 assert_eq!(engine_verdict(&toks(&["cat", "~/.ssh/id_rsa"])), Some(Verdict::Denied));
299 }
300
301 /// The engine may deny what legacy allowed (intended tightening) or classify higher,
302 /// but must **never allow what legacy denied**, nor classify lower.
303 fn not_looser(legacy: Verdict, engine: Verdict) -> bool {
304 match (legacy, engine) {
305 (_, Verdict::Denied) => true,
306 (Verdict::Denied, Verdict::Allowed(_)) => false,
307 (Verdict::Allowed(l), Verdict::Allowed(e)) => e >= l,
308 }
309 }
310
311 /// The rollout safety gate on hand-picked forms — including the ones the wiring and
312 /// the review flushed (unrecognized/dangerous flags, and pattern-less grep, which
313 /// legacy denies as a usage error).
314 #[test]
315 fn the_engine_is_never_looser_than_legacy() {
316 let cases = [
317 "echo hi", "echo", "cat ./notes.md", "cat -n ./notes.md", "cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa",
318 "cat /etc/hosts", "cat a.txt b.txt", "grep foo src/main.rs", "grep -r foo src/",
319 "grep -r foo ~", "grep foo bar.txt",
320 // PCRE (-P/--perl-regexp) is benign — PCRE2 execs no code, just a regex engine
321 "grep -P foo file", "grep -oP foo file", "grep --perl-regexp foo file",
322 // unrecognized / dangerous flags must worst-case
323 "cat --unknownflag ./x", "cat -Z ./x", "grep --wat foo file",
324 // pattern-less grep (C1): legacy denies as a usage error, engine must too
325 "grep", "grep -r", "grep -i", "grep -e foo", "grep -f patterns.txt",
326 ];
327 for cmd in cases {
328 let base = legacy(cmd);
329 let t = toks(&cmd.split_whitespace().collect::<Vec<_>>());
330 let Some(engine) = engine_verdict(&t) else { continue };
331 assert!(
332 not_looser(base, engine),
333 "engine LOOSER than legacy for `{cmd}`: legacy {base}, engine {engine}",
334 );
335 }
336 }
337
338 /// The never-looser invariant above holds over the commands legacy *allowlisted*. The
339 /// `developer` level is the deliberate exception: it admits well-modeled operations the
340 /// hand-built allowlist could only DENY — e.g. deleting your own project files. This
341 /// test pins that divergence as intended, not a regression: it is exactly the kind of
342 /// finer classification the engine exists to make, now that it is authoritative.
343 #[test]
344 fn developer_intentionally_admits_worktree_destroy_that_legacy_denies() {
345 let rm = "rm -rf ./node_modules";
346 assert_eq!(legacy(rm), Verdict::Denied, "legacy allowlist denies rm deletion");
347 assert_eq!(crate::command_verdict(rm), Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeWrite), "engine (developer) admits it — intended");
348 assert!(!not_looser(Verdict::Denied, Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeWrite)), "and it IS looser than legacy, by design");
349 }
350
351 /// sed/tar keep coarse legacy HANDLERS (`coreutils::sed`/`tar`) that `handlers::dispatch`
352 /// consults before the TOML — so `legacy()` for them is that handler, which denies an in-place
353 /// edit. The behavioral engine models `sed -i` on a worktree file correctly (a SafeWrite) and is
354 /// authoritative. Pin the divergence as intended (not a regression) — the same shape as `rm`
355 /// above — because the corpus gate's sed examples deliberately avoid this looser case.
356 #[test]
357 fn engine_intentionally_admits_worktree_in_place_edit_that_legacy_sed_handler_denies() {
358 let sed = "sed -i s/a/b/ ./file.txt";
359 assert_eq!(legacy(sed), Verdict::Denied, "legacy sed handler denies in-place edit");
360 assert_eq!(crate::command_verdict(sed), Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeWrite), "engine admits worktree -i — intended");
361 assert!(!not_looser(Verdict::Denied, Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeWrite)), "and it IS looser than the legacy sed handler, by design");
362 }
363
364 /// The data-driven corpus gate (the systematic test C1 slipped past): run **every**
365 /// command's real `examples_safe`/`examples_denied` through the engine and assert,
366 /// per resolvable example, the dimensions that hold today —
367 /// 1. **never looser** than legacy (engine ≤ legacy; also subsumes "an
368 /// examples_denied that resolves stays denied", since legacy denies it),
369 /// 2. **justified** — every resolved capability cites a `because` (§5),
370 /// 3. **total** — resolution and projection never panic.
371 ///
372 /// It grows automatically as commands convert; today it exercises the resolvable
373 /// commands and skips the rest. Only bare single commands are comparable at the leaf
374 /// (chains/redirects/substitutions are the CST's job). The full per-facet completeness
375 /// dimension is the golden-profile check (`resolve::golden_profiles_cover_every_facet`)
376 /// and becomes TOML-derived when commands carry profile data (§7).
377 #[test]
378 fn the_engine_corpus_gate() {
379 let mut exercised = 0usize;
380 for (name, safe, denied) in crate::registry::corpus_examples() {
381 for ex in safe.iter().chain(denied.iter()) {
382 if ex.contains(['|', '>', '<', '&', ';', '$', '`', '(', '\n']) {
383 continue; // not a bare single command
384 }
385 let t = toks(&ex.split_whitespace().collect::<Vec<_>>());
386 let Some(profile) = crate::engine::resolve::resolve(&t) else { continue };
387 exercised += 1;
388
389 for c in &profile.capabilities {
390 assert!(!c.because.is_empty(), "unjustified capability for `{ex}` ({name})");
391 }
392
393 // A PROFILED sub's legacy kind is deny-all — a fail-closed placeholder for when the
394 // engine ABSTAINS (a global flag before the sub), NOT a real hand-built verdict. So the
395 // never-looser comparison is meaningless for it: the engine is authoritative and
396 // legitimately admits below the line (`npm ci --ignore-scripts` at developer). Its
397 // landing is pinned by the archetype tests, not here.
398 if crate::registry::sub_archetypes(&t).is_some() {
399 continue;
400 }
401 // The one deliberate refinement. An informational invocation (`rm --help`) prints
402 // usage and exits, so it is genuinely Inert, while the legacy path classified it at
403 // the command's declared WRITE level. That reads as "looser" to this ratchet
404 // because Inert is admitted by stricter user levels (a `paranoid` plan accepts it),
405 // but it is the engine being more accurate, not more permissive about effects.
406 //
407 // Deliberately narrow: long-form help/version ONLY, and no other token. The risk it
408 // would carry — an informational flag laundering a real operand — is what
409 // `an_informational_flag_is_not_a_write_but_never_launders_an_operand` exists to
410 // rule out, and it is asserted over the whole registry rather than here.
411 if t.len() >= 2
412 && t[1..].iter().all(|x| matches!(x.as_str(), "--help" | "--version"))
413 {
414 continue;
415 }
416 let engine = project(&profile);
417 let base = legacy(ex);
418 assert!(
419 not_looser(base, engine),
420 "engine LOOSER than legacy for `{ex}` ({name}): legacy {base}, engine {engine}",
421 );
422 }
423 }
424 // non-vacuity: the gate must actually resolve engine examples, or it is a green
425 // test proving nothing (the trap that hid its own emptiness). Every resolvable
426 // command must contribute at least one example.
427 assert!(exercised >= 5, "corpus gate exercised only {exercised} engine resolutions — vacuous?");
428 }
429
430 /// Per-level threshold wiring end to end: an UPPER-band `--level` classifies via `admits`,
431 /// unlocking profiles that only an upper level admits, while the lower band and the
432 /// allowlist-only fail-closed reflex are untouched.
433 #[test]
434 fn upper_band_levels_admit_via_the_engine_end_to_end() {
435 let net = crate::upper_level_by_name("network-admin").expect("network-admin exists");
436 let yolo = crate::upper_level_by_name("yolo").expect("yolo exists");
437
438 // git push origin — a network-admin op. THE payoff: denied at the default (developer)
439 // band, admitted once the threshold IS an upper level.
440 assert_eq!(crate::command_verdict("git push origin main"), Verdict::Denied, "developer denies push");
441 assert!(crate::command_verdict_at_level("git push origin main", net).is_allowed(), "network-admin admits push");
442 assert!(crate::command_verdict_at_level("git push origin main", yolo).is_allowed(), "yolo admits push");
443
444 // rm -rf / — the one thing even yolo denies (destroy·irreversible·unbounded).
445 assert_eq!(crate::command_verdict_at_level("rm -rf /", yolo), Verdict::Denied, "yolo denies rm -rf /");
446
447 // a plain read passes at every upper level (they extend reader).
448 assert!(crate::command_verdict_at_level("cat ./README.md", net).is_allowed(), "reads pass at network-admin");
449
450 // a legacy-DENIED / unmodeled command stays denied even at yolo — allowlist-only: what
451 // the engine cannot certify, no threshold can approve.
452 assert_eq!(crate::command_verdict_at_level("frobnicate --wombat", yolo), Verdict::Denied, "unmodeled denied at yolo");
453
454 // a chain is admitted only if EVERY segment is (a Denied dominates the combine).
455 assert_eq!(crate::command_verdict_at_level("git push && rm -rf /", yolo), Verdict::Denied, "one bad segment sinks the chain");
456
457 // the upper-band lookup rejects lower-band and unknown names (they keep the 3-value ceiling).
458 assert!(crate::upper_level_by_name("developer").is_none());
459 assert!(crate::upper_level_by_name("reader").is_none());
460 assert!(crate::upper_level_by_name("nonsense").is_none());
461
462 // the lower band is UNCHANGED — no eval-level context, projection still tightens cat to read.
463 assert_eq!(crate::command_verdict("cat ./README.md"), Verdict::Allowed(SafetyLevel::SafeRead), "lower band untouched");
464 }
465}