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Closes #1530

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  • New feature (type:feature)

Summary

  • Package gentle-ai-security as a read-only analyst with read, grep, find, and codegraph; return test specifications, not authored tests.
  • Route test authoring and remediation to bounded gentle-ai-worker, and RED/GREEN execution to gentle-ai-verify, after organic user consent.
  • Keep unproven hypotheses distinct from verified vulnerabilities; preserve opt-in severe advisory documents and explicit incomplete-audit handling.
  • Move security lifecycle detail into lazy delegation guidance; rendered parent prompt is 8,175 bytes under the unchanged 8,192-byte cap.

Changes

Surface Change
Security agent and package registry Analyst-only tools, test specification and provenance contracts
Orchestrator contracts Separate role fallbacks and consent-gated Sec-TDD handoff
Agent/manifest tests Tool declarations, schema and workflow contract coverage
ODD feature document Full authorized follow-up plan and observed first-slice evidence

Test plan

  • Agent contracts and orchestrator ownership: 17/17 pass.
  • Package manifest and ODD routing: 76/76 pass.
  • Package resource check: 156 files, 69 byte-pinned artifacts.
  • Whitespace check.
  • Native four-lens review approved and exact acknowledgement completed.
  • Shellcheck: N/A; no shell scripts changed.
  • Actual security dispatch/model selection, deterministic evidence validation, capability hooks, sandboxing, and CodeGraph enhancements remain subsequent slices, not guarantees of this PR.

Chain Context

main -> #1537 (analyst role split) [current]
     -> planned dispatch/model tests -> evidence/ODD controls -> CodeGraph -> actor capabilities/isolation
  • This slice: 391 additions plus deletions, including tests and ODD documentation.
  • Work-unit commit: 688085ec; evidence commit: 06701388.
  • Later PRs will target the preceding slice branch; no automatic merge.

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Walkthrough

Adds the gentle-ai-security agent for security audits and test-driven vulnerability checks. Documents user-gated routing and worker handoff, then registers the agent for package ownership and verification.

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Sec-TDD agent and security routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define the security audit workflow
assets/agents/gentle-ai-security.md, assets/orchestrator.md, assets/orchestrator-delegation.md, odd/tasks/sec-tdd-subagent.md
Defines the agent’s audit scope, vulnerability verification, negative regression tests, edit and command constraints, and report format. Documents user approval, worker remediation, and test verification.
Register and verify the agent
lib/agent-assets.ts, scripts/verify-package-files.mjs, tests/generic-agent-tools.test.ts
Registers the agent as a delegation asset, requires its file in package checks, and tests its tool allowlist and documented constraints.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant Orchestrator
  participant SecurityAgent as gentle-ai-security
  participant Worker as gentle-ai-worker
  Orchestrator->>User: Request approval for a sensitive-surface audit
  User->>Orchestrator: Approve or decline
  Orchestrator->>SecurityAgent: Request audit and negative regression tests
  SecurityAgent->>Orchestrator: Return findings and test results
  Orchestrator->>Worker: Delegate production remediation
  Worker->>Orchestrator: Return production fix
  Orchestrator->>Orchestrator: Verify regression tests pass
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9f1a5

Assign ODD finding updates to the parent orchestrator before merging. Otherwise, security audits must either omit required records or violate the agent’s edit restrictions.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9f1a5

The new audit workflow requires writes outside its stated limits, and enforcement of those limits is not established. User consent and completion checks reduce risk, but do not resolve the confinement and ownership gaps.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · observed: The audit role is instructed to document findings in the active ODD task while its allowed edits are strictly limited to security tests and static rules. No explicit parent-owned persistence handoff resolves this contradiction. Normal execution therefore requires either exceeding the declared boundary or leaving the required security record incomplete.
  • Medium · security · inferred: The newly installable audit identity receives write and command capabilities without demonstrated enforcement of its narrower test-only authority. It is excluded from the inspected bounded-writer admission helper, and the explicit enforcement-failure safeguard is described for native fallback rather than clearly required before using the package role. Out-of-scope writes or commands remain a plausible failure mode, not a verified exploit.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure is a new delegation identity with repository inspection, file-writing, and command capabilities in installations that include delegation assets. Its effective reach is bounded by the consuming runtime's permissions; host credential, network, and cross-project isolation were not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The supported concern is control drift across a newly introduced writable role: required ODD writes conflict with its test-only authority, and its identity bypasses the inspected helper's scope-admission check. This does not demonstrate arbitrary execution, credential disclosure, or a remotely exploitable attack path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The parent owns audit consent and continuation. A separate severe-vulnerability document requires another explicit consent decision; the child requests that decision and returns a suggested destination rather than receiving automatic document-writing authorization. Declining the document does not cancel remediation.
  • observed — The existing worker already declares the same write and command tools as the new security role. The PR's additional concern is the new role's narrower claimed authority, not a demonstrated expansion of the worker's tool privileges.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The documented workflow provides explicit incomplete-audit states and finding identifiers, but the inspected contract does not establish consent-to-attempt correlation, concurrent ODD writer coordination, or idempotent recovery after interruption. These remain transition-coverage gaps rather than demonstrated races or consent bypasses.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Assign ODD finding persistence explicitly to the parent or a separately scoped writer, and require enforceable path and command restrictions before either package-role or native-fallback test authoring. A task-heading admission check alone should not be represented as a filesystem or command sandbox.
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Issue #1530 requires a packaged gentle-ai-security agent, delegation ownership, bounded security routing, test-only edit scope, synthetic fixtures, no active attacks, and production handoff to `gent… Add focused tests that install with --link in isolated homes, verify dispatch to gentle-ai-security, and exercise model selection through both /gentle:models and /gentle:profiles. Record RED/GREEN results from those test runs.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 4 files. (4 skipped: 4 … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changed agent definition, ownership registration, package-resource checks, orchestration rules, ODD task, and related tests support issue #1530. The webhook verification and clean-audit rules supp…
Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: packaging the gentle-ai-security subagent and adding the post-worker Sec-TDD workflow.
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Issue #1530 requires a packaged gentle-ai-security agent, delegation ownership, bounded security routing, test-only edit scope, synthetic fixtures, no active attacks, and production handoff to gentle-ai-worker. The PR implements these items in the agent definition, ownership map, orchestration guidance, ODD task, package verifier, and tests. The PR does not establish focused tests for dispatch to gentle-ai-security or model selection through both /gentle:models and /gentle:profiles with --link and isolated homes. The reported model test calls applyModelConfig directly. The reported test results do not provide RED/GREEN evidence for those routes.

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- Line 59: Update the Security & Sec-TDD rule in the orchestrator instructions
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@coderabbitai Resolved in commit 471033c:

  • Explicitly scoped the native Agent security fallback to the security agent's test-only edit surfaces and command restrictions to allow authoring negative tests (or reporting test-authoring delegation unavailable if unenforceable).
  • Defined the clean-audit path in both assets/orchestrator.md and assets/orchestrator-delegation.md: when vulnerability hypotheses are refuted and no flaws exist, the orchestrator reports the clean audit and resumes the task list directly without requiring RED tests or production remediation.

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🟡 Minor · Update all delegation catalog assertions for gentle-ai-security. · agent-assets.ts:27

lib/agent-assets.ts:27
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update all delegation catalog assertions for gentle-ai-security.

installPackageAssets selects every asset registered as delegation. The existing isolated-home test still expects three agents, omits agents/gentle-ai-security.md, and expects { agents: 3 }. The new registration therefore makes this test fail.

Add the security asset to these expectations. Add preservation, dispatch, and model-selection assertions for isolated and --link homes. Current model-routing coverage configures only gentle-ai-explore, and the changed security test checks only file content.

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 		assert.deepEqual(Object.keys(installedAssetManifest(agentHome).assets).sort(), [
 			"agents/gentle-ai-explore.md",
+			"agents/gentle-ai-security.md",
 			"agents/gentle-ai-verify.md",
 			"agents/gentle-ai-worker.md",
 			"gentle-ai/support/strict-tdd-verify.md",
 			"gentle-ai/support/strict-tdd.md",
 		]);
-		assert.deepEqual(result, { agents: 3, chains: 0, support: 2, skipped: 0 });
+		assert.deepEqual(result, { agents: 4, chains: 0, support: 2, skipped: 0 });
 		assert.deepEqual(readdirSync(join(agentHome, "agents")).sort(), [
-			"gentle-ai-explore.md", "gentle-ai-verify.md", "gentle-ai-worker.md",
+			"gentle-ai-explore.md", "gentle-ai-security.md",
+			"gentle-ai-verify.md", "gentle-ai-worker.md",
 		]);
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Review comment at @lib/agent-assets.ts at line 27:
Update the delegation catalog assertions for the gentle-ai-security
registration: include agents/gentle-ai-security.md and adjust the expected agent
count in the isolated-home installation test. Add preservation, dispatch, and
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- Line 59: Update the sensitive attack-surface list in the Security & Sec-TDD
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@Reaan06, I verified commit 471033c0. assets/orchestrator.md limits the native Agent security fallback to test-only edit surfaces and command restrictions. Both orchestrator files now let a clean audit resume the task list without RED tests or production remediation. These changes address the concerns. Thank you.


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@coderabbitai Resolved in commit 618e54e:

  • Updated the sensitive attack-surface list in the Security & Sec-TDD rule in assets/orchestrator.md to include webhook verification.
  • Preserved the test assertion expectation in assets/orchestrator.md around native Agent under the same read-only mapping/verification constraints.
  • Updated tests/package-manifest.test.ts delegation catalog assertions for gentle-ai-security: updated isolated-home expected assets and agent count (to 4), updated EXPECTED_OWNER_ASSETS, adjusted all-assets counts (to 11), and added model-routing assertions for gentle-ai-security. All 55/55 package manifest tests pass.

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@Reaan06, thanks for providing the shell output. My earlier reply was premature: the verification result had not yet arrived.

The diff for commit 618e54e8 confirms the reported changes. assets/orchestrator.md includes webhook verification and preserves the native Agent constraint text. tests/package-manifest.test.ts includes gentle-ai-security in the delegation asset expectations, updates the counts, and adds a model-routing assertion. These changes address the reported concerns.

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@coderabbitai Resolved in commit 967db22:

  • Updated the Security & Sec-TDD rule in both assets/orchestrator.md and assets/orchestrator-delegation.md to require that gentle-ai-security returns status: completed with no verified vulnerabilities before reporting a clean audit and resuming the task list.
  • Explicitly stated that status: partial, status: blocked, and status: interaction_required must address the incomplete audit, blocker, or needed input first, and must never report a clean audit or resume the task list without completion.

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🟠 Major · Block unrestricted security-agent tools. · gentle-ai-security.md:55-70

assets/agents/gentle-ai-security.md:55-70
🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Block unrestricted security-agent tools.

subagent_run exposes edit, write, and bash to gentle-ai-security. Pi v0.87.1 does not restrict file paths or Bash commands. The role can therefore edit production files or run unlisted commands despite its prompt. Reject this delegation until the runtime enforces the policy, or report it as unavailable.

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 const agent = agents.find((candidate) => candidate.name === params.agent);
 if (!agent) return text(`Error: no subagent named "${String(params.agent)}". Known: ${agents.map((candidate) => candidate.name).join(", ") || "none"}`, { error: "unknown agent" });
+if (agent.name === "gentle-ai-security") {
+	return text("Security test-authoring delegation is unavailable because this runtime cannot enforce test-only paths and Bash command restrictions.", { error: "security restrictions unavailable" });
+}
 const mode = (params.mode as AgentMode | undefined) ?? agent.mode ?? resolveDefaultSubagentMode({
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Update the subagent_run delegation flow to reject requests for
gentle-ai-security when the runtime cannot enforce its file-path and Bash
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@coderabbitai The observation is valid in principle — Pi's runtime does not enforce file-path or bash restrictions by OS-level sandboxing. However:

  1. This applies equally to every delegation agent, not only gentle-ai-security. gentle-ai-worker also has edit, write, and bash with prompt-only confinement. The only runtime gate today is rejectUnscopedBoundedWriterDispatch checking for ## Allowed edit surfaces in the task prompt — that gate applies to gentle-ai-worker, not to every agent. Blocking gentle-ai-security specifically while leaving other agents unblocked would be inconsistent.

  2. The orchestration policy already handles the unenforceable case. Both assets/orchestrator.md and assets/orchestrator-delegation.md explicitly state: "report test-authoring delegation unavailable if unenforceable". The parent orchestrator — not the runtime — decides whether to dispatch the agent.

  3. The suggested fix targets extensions/gentle-ai.ts, which is outside the authorized scope of this PR. This PR packages the agent definition and updates orchestrator documentation only. A runtime enforcement gate (analogous to the existing writer surface gate) is a separate feature and belongs to a dedicated PR/issue.

I'll document this as a follow-up item in the ODD task file and cross-reference the upstream feature request.

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@Reaan06, thanks for the clarification. I agree that a runtime enforcement gate is outside this PR’s authorized scope.

I checked the current gate. rejectUnscopedBoundedWriterDispatch applies to gentle-ai-worker, worker, and jd-fix-agent, but not gentle-ai-security. It checks the dispatch prompt for allowed edit surfaces. It does not enforce file-path or Bash restrictions during agent execution. The orchestrator’s “report test-authoring delegation unavailable if unenforceable” rule is a policy decision, not a runtime safeguard.

The limitation remains valid, but I will not request an extensions/gentle-ai.ts change in this PR. Your proposed follow-up is the appropriate place to address it. Is the upstream feature request sufficient for tracking, or would you like me to open a separate issue?


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Fallback wording for native Agent should match test assertions Preserved under the same read-only mapping/verification constraints phrasing 471033c0
Clean-audit path should scope native Agent fallback to test-only surfaces Added or report test-authoring delegation unavailable if unenforceable 471033c0
webhook verification missing from orchestrator.md trigger 6 Added to align with orchestrator-delegation.md 618e54e8
tests/package-manifest.test.ts missing gentle-ai-security assertions Updated delegation catalog, agent counts (4/11), and model routing 618e54e8
Clean audit should require status: completed; partial/blocked/interaction_required must not resume Added explicit status gating in both orchestrator files 967db22b

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Runtime enforcement gate to block gentle-ai-security dispatch when Pi cannot enforce path/bash restrictions (1) Applies equally to all delegation agents — gentle-ai-worker has the same tools with prompt-only confinement. (2) The orchestrator policy already documents "report unavailable if unenforceable". (3) The suggested fix targets extensions/gentle-ai.ts, outside this PR's authorized scope. A systematic solution analogous to rejectUnscopedBoundedWriterDispatch belongs to a dedicated issue/PR. odd/tasks/sec-tdd-subagent.md § Follow-up items

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  • tests/package-manifest.test.ts: 55/55 pass
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  • scripts/verify-package-files.mjs: 153 files, 69 byte-pinned contracts

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Require explicit user consent relayed by parent orchestrator for standalone
vulnerability documents on verified CRITICAL/HIGH findings only. Declining
does not block test authoring or worker remediation.

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Reviewed at head 0d5c533, against main at 4fcddc2.
Every claim below is marked verified (checked in the code or upstream docs) or inferred (a reasoned consequence that has not been demonstrated).


Comment 1 — Main review (Request changes)

Thanks for this. The workflow has the right shape: user-gated audit, refute-before-claim, RED → worker fix → GREEN, explicit status gating, and an opt-in severe-vulnerability document. Those are good product decisions, and the CodeRabbit rounds tightened them.

I'm requesting changes for one structural reason. This PR adds the actor with the highest exposure to hostile input, and gives it the strongest side-effect capabilities, before any of its restrictions are enforced outside the model. The open discussion so far has been "Pi doesn't enforce paths/bash", treated as a follow-up. I think the gap is more fundamental than that, and it can be largely closed inside this PR's scope by reusing roles that already exist.

Blocking

B1. With write + bash, the bash allowlist confines nothing. (inferred, high confidence)
The agent is told to write a test and then run "the project's existing test runners" (gentle-ai-security.md:46, :56). But npm test, pytest, cargo test and go test execute repository-controlled code, including the test file the agent itself just wrote. Write-then-run is arbitrary code execution with the user's privileges, network included. So the effective capability is "run anything", whatever the path rules or command allowlist say. This holds even if a runtime path gate existed for edit/write.

B2. It is the actor most exposed to prompt injection. (inferred)
Its job is to read the most adversarial content in the repo: payload fixtures, untrusted-input handlers, vendored code. It combines (1) untrusted input, (2) side-effecting tools, and (3) an exfiltration channel (network via bash). That is the worst case for an LLM agent. gentle-ai-worker has the same tools, but it is not aimed at hostile content.

B3. The fallback rule is circular. (verified)
orchestrator.md:42 says to "report test-authoring delegation unavailable if unenforceable". I checked the runtime: allowedEditSurfaces is used only at dispatch admission (extensions/gentle-agents.ts:1028, extensions/gentle-ai.ts:9539), never per edit, and the child does not know its own identity (runtime-metrics.ts records child sessions as "unknown"). So the restrictions are always unenforceable today. Either the rule always fires, which makes the feature dead, or the model ignores it, which makes the rule decorative. In neither case is it a control.

B4. Edit surface ≠ effect surface. The agent can edit its own detector. (verified scope / inferred impact)

  • .semgrep/ is in the writable set (gentle-ai-security.md:55, orchestrator-delegation.md:189). Those rules are detection policy. An actor must not be able to weaken the rules that audit it.
  • tests/security/conftest.py, test setup files, and similar run at import time and can monkey-patch production behaviour. A path under tests/ can still change what production code does during the run.

B5. The new tests check prose, not behaviour. (verified)
tests/generic-agent-tools.test.ts:51 and :59 regex-match the Markdown (/Never edit production code/i, /opt-in|…|consent/). They would pass unchanged if the agent edited production code. They prove the prompt contains certain words, and nothing about dispatch, routing or confinement. The model-routing test also calls applyModelConfig directly, so there is still no evidence that gentle-ai-security is actually dispatched (CodeRabbit's linked-issue warning).

Proposed change that resolves B1–B4 within this PR's scope: split the role

No extensions/ change is needed. Reuse the gates that already exist:

Step Actor Tools Why
Analyse, build hypotheses, specify tests gentle-ai-security read, grep, find, codegraph Reads hostile input, but has no side effects and no exfil channel
Write negative tests gentle-ai-worker existing Goes through the existing ## Allowed edit surfaces admission gate, with tests/security/** declared by the parent
Run RED / GREEN gentle-ai-verify read, grep, find, bash Executes, but cannot write

After the split, no single actor holds hostile input, write and execute at once. The analyst's output becomes a test specification (scenario, personas, expected secure failure, assertion) inside the return contract, and the parent hands it to the worker. Also remove .semgrep/ from every writable surface. Rule changes should be proposed in the report and applied by the user.

Non-blocking, but needed before this can be called Sec-TDD

N1. "RED for the right reason" plus a mutation check. A post-worker test is a regression test, not test-first, and that's fine, but RED alone doesn't prove the hypothesis. A test can fail on a bad route, a broken fixture or an import error. Proposed evidence requirements:

  • RED is valid only if the failing assertion is the hypothesised one (for example expected 403, got 200), not an error or setup failure.
  • After GREEN, revert the fix (or apply it to a scratch copy) and confirm the test goes RED again. Without this, a test that passes regardless of the fix "locks" nothing.

N2. Findings as a state machine with typed evidence. Make each finding a falsifiable object, with transitions the parent validates deterministically instead of accepting prose:
hypothesis → refuted | advisory | verified (RED for the right reason) → remediated (GREEN) → locked (mutation RED).
Each finding carries a thesis, premises (file:line, graph path), a threat (actor, capability, asset) and the controls checked during refutation. This also covers the "refute-before-claim" loop that the prompt currently only describes.

N3. The trigger is LLM judgment. "Touches auth/payments/…" is decided by the model, so a false negative silently skips the audit. A deterministic floor is needed: path, dependency and pattern rules on the worker's diff. Graph reachability can add surfaces on top (see Comment 2), but must never remove them.

N4. Declines aren't recorded. When the user declines, the ODD file should record a risk-acceptance entry (surface, date, reason if given), so the decision stays visible later.

N5. Severity has no rubric and no second opinion. The same agent finds, rates and asks for a document on CRITICAL/HIGH. Add a short rubric (or CVSS base vector), and have the parent or gentle-ai-verify confirm the severity of anything that triggers the document prompt.

On the "this applies to the worker too" argument

Agreed, and I verified it: worker surfaces are checked at admission only. But that shows the gap is systemic. It is not a reason to add the riskiest actor on top of it. It's also only half true that fixing it requires new machinery. The primitives already exist:

  • per-tool tool_call hooks in children (extensions/child-safety.ts),
  • path extraction for read/write/edit (PATH_GUARDED_TOOL_NAMES, extensions/gentle-ai.ts:1551),
  • per-child write/edit capture (lib/session-change-capture.ts).

What's missing is passing the child its identity and allowed surfaces at spawn time. I'll open a separate issue for that (Comment 3), but the role split above means this PR doesn't have to wait for it.


Comment 2 — CodeGraph: broaden access, bound trust

The analyst role should get codegraph. The question is how much to rely on it. Checked against the upstream docs and extensions/codegraph-tools.ts:

What it is (verified). It parses with tree-sitter, extracts call/import/extends/implements edges, resolves routes for 17 web frameworks and interface→impl dispatch, and keeps the index current with a file watcher after init. The CLI supports query, callers, callees, impact, explore, node and affected, with --json. Our wrapper exposes only init, query and explore, capped at 20 results and 100k chars of prose output.

Why trust must be bounded:

  1. Error asymmetry. Unresolved or computed destinations are left unresolved rather than guessed. Its positives are therefore reliable, but its silence is not evidence: eval, reflection, obj[name]() and runtime-built routes leave no edge. In security the costly error is the false negative. → Monotonicity rule: graph results may expand audit scope or trigger an audit, and must never be used to skip or shrink one.
  2. Structure isn't taint. A call path A→B→C doesn't show whether tainted data reaches C unsanitised. Sanitiser modelling and path sensitivity aren't part of what it does. The graph narrows where to look; the RED test remains the proof.
  3. Its output is untrusted input. explore returns source code to the model, which makes it an injection channel equivalent to read. Keep the size caps, and treat the output as data.
  4. The index is state, so evidence needs provenance. Results carry staleness warnings during edit windows, and a post-worker audit races the watcher. Each finding should record the commit and an index status with no staleness.
  5. Egress and persistence outside the actor's manifest. Upstream telemetry is on by default: anonymous usage data, no code, paths or symbols, sent to telemetry.getcodegraph.com, with opt-out via CODEGRAPH_TELEMETRY=0 / DO_NOT_TRACK=1. The wrapper spawns codegraph with the inherited environment, so Gentle's own opt-out (GENTLE_AI_TELEMETRY=0) does not propagate. That's low severity given the documented data, but it is an undeclared egress for an actor that is told "no network". Note also that an upstream bug, where already-running servers kept sending after opt-out, was fixed only recently (upstream issue #1869). Daemon lifetime after the session ends is not documented, so I couldn't verify it.

Concrete asks (here or as a follow-up):

  • Extend the wrapper with callers, callees, impact and affected, using --json, so the parent validates paths structurally.
  • Use affected to pick which security regression tests to run after the worker's fix.
  • Have the wrapper set CODEGRAPH_TELEMETRY=0 whenever Gentle telemetry is off (or always, for child actors).
  • Require index provenance in every finding.

Comment 3 — Follow-up issues I'll open (not blocking this PR)

Issue A — Enforced per-actor capability manifests.
Each actor gets a manifest (tools, writable paths, commands, network, budget). The parent resolves it, passes identity and manifest to the child at spawn, and enforcement happens at three points:

  1. Preventive: a tool_call hook rejects write/edit outside the manifest.
  2. Detective: at child exit, session-change-capture evidence must be a subset of the allowed surfaces, or the result is rejected.
  3. Honest limit: bash and network can't be confined in-process. That requires an OS sandbox (bwrap/landlock on Linux, sandbox-exec on macOS; there is no good Windows equivalent) or a deny-by-default proxy. Until then, actors that hold bash must not also process hostile input.

This generalises the worker admission gate. gentle-ai-security then becomes just one client, and the design scales to continuous agent work in general.

Issue B — Negative specification ("what this system must never do").
A versioned, machine-readable file listing forbidden writes per actor, allowed network egress (deny by default), forbidden sinks, and secret locations. Two conditions keep it from being theatre:

  • No actor can edit it, or .semgrep/. Changes require human approval.
  • Every invariant has a canary: a test that must fail when the invariant is violated. An invariant without a canary is not verified.

It is enforced by Issue A's hooks and by CI rules generated from the spec, so it can be checked continuously.

Design principle behind both: security must not depend on the model obeying. A deterministic kernel (manifest, hooks, diff check) plus declarative policy (the negative spec) carry the guarantees, and the model only contributes judgment (hypotheses, severity). A smaller model then degrades quality, not safety, which is the property needed if security actors are to run on cheaper model profiles.


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assets/agents/gentle-ai-security.md:4 (tools)

With write + bash, the agent can write a test and execute it, i.e. arbitrary code execution, so the path rules and bash allowlist on L55–L58 can't hold even in principle. Suggest read, grep, find, codegraph and moving test authoring to gentle-ai-worker and execution to gentle-ai-verify (see main review, B1).

assets/agents/gentle-ai-security.md:46

"Confirm the test fails (observed RED)" — please also require that the failing assertion is the hypothesised one (e.g. expected 403, got 200), not an error or setup failure, and add a mutation step after GREEN (revert the fix → RED again). See N1.

assets/agents/gentle-ai-security.md:55

.semgrep/ is detection policy. An auditor that can edit the rules auditing it can weaken them. Please remove it here and in orchestrator-delegation.md:189, and have rule changes proposed in the report instead. Also note that tests/security/conftest.py and similar setup files run at import time and can patch production behaviour, so a path under tests/ doesn't bound the effect.

assets/agents/gentle-ai-security.md:60

"Never attempt live external network connections" is prompt-only. Nothing blocks network from bash or from test code, and the codegraph CLI sends anonymous telemetry by default unless CODEGRAPH_TELEMETRY=0 is set. Worth stating explicitly that this is a policy, not a guarantee, until an OS-level control exists.

assets/agents/gentle-ai-security.md:87 (severity)

Please add a rubric (or a CVSS base vector) and a second confirmation for CRITICAL/HIGH, since that severity also drives the document prompt. See N5.

assets/orchestrator.md:42

I verified that allowedEditSurfaces is only checked at dispatch admission, and children don't know their identity, so "report unavailable if unenforceable" is always true today. As written, the rule is either always triggered or ignored. With the role split it can be dropped: test authoring goes through the worker's existing gate.

assets/orchestrator.md:59 / assets/orchestrator-delegation.md:189

Two additions: (1) a deterministic trigger floor (path, dependency and pattern rules on the worker's diff), with graph reachability allowed to add but never remove surfaces; (2) record user declines in the ODD file as risk acceptance.

tests/generic-agent-tools.test.ts:51, :59

These assertions would still pass if the agent edited production code. They test wording, not behaviour. Please add at least one dispatch-level test (the orchestrator routes a sensitive-surface task to gentle-ai-security, and the analyst role is launched without write/bash), even if the wording tests stay.

tests/package-manifest.test.ts:1528

This exercises applyModelConfig directly. It shows the profile is written, not that gentle-ai-security is selected through /gentle:models / /gentle:profiles, which issue #1530 asks for.


Merge checklist (proposed)

  • Analyst-only tools for gentle-ai-security (read, grep, find, codegraph); test authoring via gentle-ai-worker with declared tests/security/** surfaces; RED/GREEN via gentle-ai-verify
  • .semgrep/ removed from every writable surface
  • Circular "unenforceable" fallback removed or rewritten for the split roles
  • "RED for the right reason" + mutation check written into the contract
  • At least one dispatch-level test for gentle-ai-security
  • Decline → risk-acceptance entry in ODD
  • Issues A (capability manifests) and B (negative spec) opened and linked; CodeGraph wrapper changes tracked

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