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Part of tinyhumansai/openhuman#7328 (phase 4, the host's approval engine moves onto the module).

Why

OpenHuman's approval gate now runs on this module's EvaluateApproval2 lifecycle. Moving it exposed two things the module has to change before a multi-subject host can use approvals:

  1. A host that serves many subjects cannot serve the store callbacks. ApprovalStore2, AuditSink2 and ApprovalPrompt2 carry the module's sanitized subject handle (a domain-separated digest of the subject). A host that registers an unbounded set of subjects at runtime (RegisterApprovalScope2) must key its stores by that handle, but could learn it only by reproducing the module's derivation, which is internal. The registration, replacement and retirement receipts now return it (ApprovalScopeReceipt2.scope_handle).
  2. Configuring approvals broke every other permission member. requires_bound_audit() was true whenever approvals were configured, so ValidatePath, ValidateParent, CheckPath, CheckCommand, ScopedUrlGuard, ScopedEgressCheck and ConsumeEgressAuthorization all failed with required audit needs bound permission. They are separate permissions that never ask a human; only a required audit (a durable event per permission) can refuse them. A host that turns approvals on must keep validating paths and commands.

What changes

  • ApprovalScopeReceipt2 gains scope_handle: SubjectScope (contract 1.18, additive: a 1.17 host keeps working against a 1.18 module, a 1.18 host refuses a 1.17 module).
  • require_unbound_permission refuses only when the configured audit is required. The tool-permission members (Evaluate, Check and their scoped and audited forms) still cannot return Allow once approvals are configured, because a tool call must go through the durable lifecycle.
  • MODULE.md, the README and the runtime-approval-scopes spec describe both.

Tests

  • configured_approvals_keep_path_and_command_members_available loads the module through the authenticated bus with approvals configured and validates a path, a parent, a protected-path query and a command. It fails without the change (required audit needs bound permission).
  • The scope tests assert the handle in the created, replaced and retired receipts against scope_handle(subject); the bus wire tests pin the new field and the 1.18 compatibility rule.
  • The existing required-audit test (required audit must prevent unbound permission) still passes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Scope registration and replacement receipts can optionally include a sanitized subject handle for identifying the subject in host callbacks. Receipts omit the handle unless requested, and retirement receipts do not include it.
  • Compatibility
    • Updated the contract to version 1.18. Requests that omit handle reporting retain the previous receipt format.
    • Filesystem, command, and network access checks remain available when approvals are configured; required audit can still prevent them. Tool-permission checks cannot return an allow decision when approvals are configured.

…ep path and command members available

Contract 1.18. A host that serves many subjects keys its callback stores by the
sanitized handle, which it now reads from the registration receipt. Configuring
approvals no longer refuses ValidatePath, CheckPath, CheckCommand and the egress
members: only a required audit does.

Part of tinyhumansai/openhuman#7328

Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
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  • MODULE.md
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  • crates/tinysecurity-bus/src/approval_scopes_tests.rs
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Contract 1.18 adds optional sanitized subject-handle reporting to approval-scope receipts. Permission checks no longer refuse path, command, and egress members solely because approvals are configured; required audit can still cause refusal.

Changes: Runtime approval scopes

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Scope handle in approval receipts
crates/tinysecurity-bus/src/approval_scopes.rs, crates/tinysecurity-approval/src/engine.rs, crates/tinysecurity-approval/src/engine_scopes_tests.rs, crates/tinysecurity-bus/src/*, crates/tinysecurity-bus/tests/*, crates/tinysecurity-module/src/adapter_scope_tests.rs, crates/tinysecurity-module/examples/approval_scope_native_contract.rs, README.md, MODULE.md, docs/specs/runtime-approval-scopes.md
Registration and replacement requests can ask for a scope_handle in the receipt. Receipts omit it when not requested and for retirement. The contract version, wire-format tests, compatibility checks, fixtures, and documentation reflect Contract 1.18.
Permission checks with approvals configured
crates/tinysecurity-module/src/adapter.rs, crates/tinysecurity-module/src/adapter_scope_tests.rs, MODULE.md, docs/specs/runtime-approval-scopes.md
Permission checks and PolicyInfo.callbacks.audit_required now reflect whether audit is required. Tests cover path and command operations with approvals configured. Documentation states that approvals alone do not refuse path, command, or egress members.

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No actionable merge-blocking issue remains in the supplied evidence; the change is mergeable after normal checks.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 34115

Subject-handle reporting is opt-in, and tool approval enforcement remains separate from path, command and network checks. No concrete new authorization bypass was established. External host integration and mixed-version rollback behavior remain only partially verified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed gate affects path, command and egress permissions served by the configured host connection. Scope handles can cover multiple registered subjects, but the reviewed entrypoint remains behind the host-peer boundary. Exposure through an external host's public interfaces is not established by the available source.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Newly enabled scoped egress checks still enforce registered subject and transport constraints, payload privacy checks, destination and address restrictions, and generation checks before issuing authorization. The actual transport owner remains responsible for enforcing the returned sockets, deadline, TLS and redirect restrictions.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Egress consumption checks the exact request fingerprint, owner, registered policy, generation and expiration, then removes the matching authorization under a mutex. Concurrent or repeated consumption cannot reuse the removed grant. Outstanding grants are bounded and expired grants are pruned during issuance; transport failure does not restore a consumed grant.
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A rabbit reads the scope receipt,
And finds a handle, neat and sweet.
If none is asked, it stays away,
While audit rules still have their say.
Through paths and commands, checks proceed,
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- Around line 132-142: Preserve 1.17 host decoding of additive scope receipts by
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scope_handle on the negotiated host version so older hosts can decode
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  • Conclusion: Success
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  • Lane summary: The diff narrows the unbound-permission refusal and the advertised `audit_required` flag from "approvals or required audit" to "required audit" only, with an added doc comment explaining the intent and matching the spec's wording that required audit is what refuses unbound path/command/egress members. I found no attacker-controlled path, no violated AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md rule, and no concrete breaking input in this file. 1 file was not security-reviewed: docs/specs/runtime-approval-scopes.md (prose or tabular data). _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `7869234cfa27`), so retrieved context may be out of date._

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  • Lane summary: The visible delta narrows the unbound-permission gate in PolicyService to required audit alone (requiring_bound_audit → audit_required), so path, command and egress members stay available when approvals are configured without required audit, and updates the spec accordingly; the accompanying test configured_approvals_keep_path_and_command_members_available exercises exactly this predicate through the served policy with an approval engine and store present, so it would fail against the previous behaviour, and the doc's remaining claims (Evaluate/Check still refusing) are enforced by a different gate that this diff does not touch. I found no reachable misbehaviour, no regression against behaviour this change touches, and no violation of the repository rules I was given. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `7869234cfa27`), so retrieved context may be out of date._

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  • Lane summary: The adapter change separates "audit is required" from "approvals are configured" so the path, command and egress members stay usable while `Evaluate`/`Check` still deny `Allow` under approvals, and the spec text is updated to match; the behaviour is correct and covered by the added end-to-end test. The only gap is that the same refactor also flips the value of the public `PolicyInfo.callbacks.audit_required` field for hosts with approvals configured, which neither the PR description nor the docs mention. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `7869234cfa27`), so retrieved context may be out of date._
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tinysweeper found nothing blocking, but could not review everything, so this is not an approval: MODULE.md, README.md, crates/tinysecurity-approval/src/engine.rs, crates/tinysecurity-bus/src/approval_scopes.rs, crates/tinysecurity-bus/src/approval_scopes_tests.rs, crates/tinysecurity-bus/src/lib.rs, crates/tinysecurity-bus/tests/wire.rs, crates/tinysecurity-module/src/adapter.rs and 1 more.

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…asks for it

A 1.17 host decodes receipts with deny_unknown_fields, so a new always-present
field made the minor bump non-additive. The handle now travels only when the
registration sets report_handle, and never on a retirement.

Part of tinyhumansai/openhuman#7328

Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>

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tinysweeper found nothing blocking, but could not review everything, so this is not an approval: MODULE.md, crates/tinysecurity-approval/src/engine.rs, crates/tinysecurity-approval/src/engine_scopes_tests.rs, crates/tinysecurity-bus/src/approval_scopes.rs, crates/tinysecurity-bus/src/approval_scopes_tests.rs.

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…c declares 1.18

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tinysweeper found nothing blocking. Approving.

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