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trent87
0d73798beb
feature(skills): keep allowed-tools as compatibility metadata (#6935)
* refactor(skills): keep allowed-tools as compatibility metadata

* docs(skills): align current guides with agent tool authority

* test(skills): simplify authority regressions and sync Korean docs
2026-10-20 19:34:28 +08:00
hataa
3e5bd081db
feat(authz): construction-enforced async decision batches (ActivationDecisions) (#6508)
* feat(authz): construction-enforced async decision batches (ActivationDecisions)

The follow-up promised in the #4541 review threads. Four review rounds
traced four instances of one failure family: an async execution path
whose decision-map miss silently fell back to the synchronous
authorize() from a worker thread — the wrong API for loop-affine
providers, and under fail_closed:false a provider error there flips a
denial into an allow. The carrier was a plain dict|None held together by
caller discipline.

ActivationDecisions (deerflow/authz/activation_decisions.py) makes the
contract construction-enforced:
- a covered name returns the batched decision (unchanged semantics);
- a MISS resolves per the configured provider-error policy (fail-closed
  denies, fail-open allows) with a loud WARNING — a miss is a
  prepass/consumer divergence, a construction bug, not a policy
  question — and never touches a provider;
- None remains the sync-chain signal (synchronous authorize() is correct
  there);
- an empty candidate set still yields an empty BATCH, not None, so an
  unexpected consumer name fails per policy instead of silently taking
  the sync path;
- get_or_none lets publishers distinguish 'uncovered' from False;
- fail_closed travels with the batch from the resolved authorization
  context.

Both middlewares (_activation_allowed in SkillActivationMiddleware and
SkillToolPolicyMiddleware) migrate to the type; their collectors return
batches; the render-decision publisher adapts. Tests 65->70+5: type unit
tests (covered/miss both directions with loud-log assertions/
get_or_none/container), middleware-level miss semantics (fail-open
allows with provider.sync_calls == [], production-default fail-closed
denies, None sync chain still synchronous), and mutation M18 (restoring
the miss's sync fallback) verified red. 252 tests green on the affected
surface.

* docs(authz): sync every decision-batch contract description to the new miss semantics

Review round 1 on #6508 — all documentation-level: the docstrings still
described the miss-as-synchronous-fallback contract this PR removes.

- _activation_allowed (both middlewares): a covered name returns the
  batched decision; a miss resolves per the carried provider-error policy
  with a WARNING and never touches a provider; None (sync chain /
  disabled) is the only synchronous case.
- _collect_activation_decisions / _resolve_policy_registry /
  _active_skills_for_paths: the reason not to diverge is now a
  policy-resolved miss (denied under the production fail-closed default;
  allowed without any provider consult under fail-open; logged loudly),
  not a silent sync fallback.
- The two _REGISTRY_LOAD_FAILED sentinel comments, same rewording.
- Drop unused tmp_path/monkeypatch fixtures from the two new miss tests.

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Co-authored-by: Willem Jiang <willem.jiang@gmail.com>
2026-10-09 16:09:17 +08:00
Zeren Wang
d3e8e78f3f
feat(authz): middleware-declared tool path Layer 1 now covers tools declared by middlewares (#6105)
* feat(authz): extension tool authorization PR2 — middleware-declared tool path

Layer 1 now covers tools declared by middlewares, which LangChain merges
into the bound tool set after the host's explicit-list filter:

- new agents/middlewares/tool_declarations.py: record the ordinary pass's
  verdict, collect declarations from the built stack, decide only the
  delta seeded by the first pass (a name denied for this build stays
  denied), narrow the stack build-locally on independent state-preserving
  copies (direct __dict__ write, refused up front for tools data
  descriptors, never mutating caller-owned instances), and verify the
  exact bound stack after the final normalization copy.
- IsolatedMiddleware ships a state-preserving __copy__ so narrowing
  survives full/delta normalization and copies of copies.
- TodoMiddleware degrades when write_todos is denied: no system-prompt
  injection, no completion/context-loss reminders, no jump_to.
- Layer 2 forwards host-resolved tool provenance into AuthzRequest.context
  and binds the infrastructure exemption to the concrete host-created
  tool object instead of a name set (tool=None goes to the provider).
- Wired into all four assembly paths (lead x2, native subagent with the
  decision offloaded via asyncio.to_thread, DeerFlowClient).

Tests: new test_middleware_declared_tools.py (35) and
test_layer2_tool_provenance.py (7); blocking-IO anchor pinning the
subagent offload (teeth verified red->green); placement-guarantee and
enforcement suites extended; executor test doubles converted for the
async _create_agent. Behavior change called out in CHANGELOG: with
authorization enabled and a tools policy that excludes write_todos,
plan-mode builds no longer bind it (built-in RBAC default unchanged).

* fix(authz): close residual gaps from review — narrow non-collectable declarations, dedupe candidates, warn on skipped pass

- apply_declared_tool_view now removes non-BaseTool declarations from the
  bound view when authorization is enabled (they would otherwise bind via
  LangChain's create_tool auto-conversion with no provider decision);
  verify_declared_tool_view fails loudly if one survives normalization
- decide_declared_tools dedupes never-submitted names so the provider sees
  each candidate once
- subagent executor logs a warning when the provider is set but the seeded
  Layer-1 state is missing, instead of skipping the declaration pass silently
- docs: middleware-declared tools must be BaseTool instances with usable names

* fix(authz): fail loudly on non-list/tuple middleware tools declarations

_iter_declared warned and returned () for a 'tools' attribute that is not
a list/tuple, but LangChain's factory iterates the attribute as-is — so a
set/generator/dict_values declaration bound with no Layer-1 decision.
Raise DeclaredToolViewError instead, matching the module's fail-loud
standard for every other un-narrowable shape. Disabled path remains a
strict no-op. Docs updated to match.
2026-10-01 18:26:58 +08:00
hataa
1cd3eb742b
feat(authz): enforce skill authorization at assembly and slash-activation (#4063 Phase 3) (#4541)
* feat(authz): enforce skill authorization at assembly and slash-activation (#4063 Phase 3)

Phase 3 / Skills — the second of three resource-type PRs (Models, Skills,
Sandbox). The RBAC provider already maps "skill" → config key "skills"
(rbac.py _RESOURCE_POLICY_KEYS), so no schema change is needed.

Layer 1 (assembly-time, mirrors Phase 1B):
- filter_available_skills_by_authorization() in skill_filter.py filters the
  skill-name allowlist (set[str] | None) by the provider's "skill" policy.
  In lead agent, runs after _available_skill_names() so the catalog
  (describe_skill) and SkillActivationMiddleware share one filtered set.
  In subagent executor _load_skills(), filters config.skills before disk load.
- filter_resources_by_authorization() in enforcement.py — generic version of
  filter_tools_by_authorization for any resource with a name attribute.

Layer 2 (slash-activation):
- No new middleware code needed. SkillActivationMiddleware._resolve_activation
  already checks "reference.name not in self._available_skills". Since Layer 1
  filters the allowlist, denied skills cannot be slash-activated.

authorization.enabled: false is a complete no-op. available_skills=None (no
agent allowlist) + enabled: resolves all skill names from config and filters.
12 new tests + 243 existing authz/skills tests pass.

* test(subagents): wait on the chained future instead of polling done() in caller-loop teardown test

* feat(authz): enforce action-scoped skill:activate at runtime and reuse the catalog loader for filter candidates

* feat(authz): arm skill:activate on the subagent chain, unify the client skill-surface user, and record the Layer 2 reversal in the design notes

* chore(authz): align the subagent filter's fallback user with the chain's bucket convention

* feat(authz): gate autonomous skill loading on skill:activate, close the bootstrap assembly leak, and reuse one provider per subagent assembly

Review round 4 (willem-bd, CHANGES_REQUESTED):

- [P1] Autonomous load path: describe_skill filters its match set on the
  action-scoped skill:activate decision (all-denied is indistinguishable
  from "no match"), and ToolErrorHandlingMiddleware stamps skill_context
  entries only when the action allows it — a denied SKILL.md read gets a
  skill_context_denied marker instead, so durable context, allowed-tools
  policy, and autonomous secret bindings never activate a denied skill.
  File visibility itself stays Layer 1 (sandbox-projection semantics).
- [P1] Bootstrap assembly: build_middlewares/apply_prompt_template now
  receive the authorization-filtered set instead of the raw
  _BOOTSTRAP_SKILL_NAMES, and an empty skill_names index is preserved
  when deferred discovery is on rather than round-tripping through None
  into the legacy full-metadata prompt that re-advertises a denied
  skill (deferred-off keeps the legacy rendering; the filtered empty
  allowlist blanks it on denial).
- [P2] SubagentExecutor resolves ResolvedSkillAuthorization once per
  assembly (_resolve_skill_authorization, memoized per executor) and
  shares it across the Layer 1 filter (authorization=), the activation
  middleware, and both new gates — uncached provider factories can no
  longer hand the layers different instances/policy snapshots.

All gates share one helper (skill_filter.skill_activation_allowed) so
slash, describe, and skill-file-load cannot drift; provider errors keep
the configured fail-closed/fail-open policy. skill_authorization is
threaded through _build_runtime_middlewares into both runtime builders.

Tests: describe gating (deny/fail-closed/fail-open/disabled), read
stamping (denied marker vs entry) + extract_skills skip without warning,
bootstrap three-way param (allow/deny x deferred on/off), lead + subagent
chain wiring for the stamp gate, and the distinct-instance provider
factory repro. Each fix is mutation-verified (reverting it fails its
test). Full A/B suite run: no new failures vs HEAD.

* feat(authz): re-authorize persisted skill_context before reuse and route async paths through aauthorize

Review round 5 (willem-bd):

- [P1] Persisted entries: skill_context survives across runs, so both
  consumers now re-check the action-scoped skill:activate decision before
  reuse. SkillToolPolicyMiddleware._active_skills_for_paths skips a
  denied skill (same skip as a disabled/unallowlisted one; all-denied
  keeps the existing fail-closed-to-builtins semantics) and
  _in_context_secret_sources binds no secrets for a denied entry.
  skill_authorization is threaded into SkillToolPolicyMiddleware on both
  chains.
- [P2] Async provider API: skill_activation_allowed_async mirrors the sync
  helper through await provider.aauthorize() (same pattern as
  authorize_sandbox_execution_async). Async hooks precompute an
  activation_decisions map on the event loop (slash target + persisted
  entry names, one batch of awaits) and hand it to the worker-thread
  handler, which consults the map instead of the sync API:
  SkillActivationMiddleware.awrap_model_call (activation + secret
  binding), ToolErrorHandlingMiddleware.awrap_tool_call (_amaybe_stamp
  awaits the decision before stamping), and SkillToolPolicyMiddleware's
  awrap_model_call/awrap_tool_call (entry names + slash source name).
  describe_skill becomes a StructuredTool with both a sync function
  (invoke -> authorize) and a coroutine (ainvoke -> aauthorize), so async
  agent execution never routes a loop-affine provider through the sync
  API while sync callers keep their semantics.

Tests: allow-read-then-deny-next-run regressions for secret binding and
allowed-tools (partial deny does not poison, all-denied fails closed to
builtins), and an _AsyncOnlyProvider (sync authorize always fails,
aauthorize works) driving four async-path assertions (activation, stamp
allow/deny, describe, tool policy). All six fixes are mutation-verified;
full A/B suite run against HEAD shows no new failures.

* fix(authz): authorize skill activation by declared Skill.name, not directory basename

ShenAC-SAC's P2: bundled skills may declare a name that differs from their
directory (skills/public/vercel-deploy-claimable declares name: vercel-deploy),
but the runtime gates derived authorization targets from the container path.

- New deerflow/skills/container_registry.py: build_container_path_registry()
  + canonical_skill_name() — the one path-to-Skill.name resolution shared by
  the activation, tool-policy, and read-stamping middlewares.
- ToolErrorHandlingMiddleware resolves the read path through the (user-scoped,
  via new user_id kwarg threaded from both runtime builders) registry before
  the skill:activate decision, sync and async (registry lookup in a worker
  thread, aauthorize() on the loop). RBAC allow by the declared name now
  activates; allow by the directory name does not.
- SkillToolPolicyMiddleware async hooks canonicalize the policy paths first
  (three-phase: thread registry -> loop aauthorize -> thread filter reusing
  the registry; the cached per-model-step decision still short-circuits),
  so the decision map is keyed by the names _active_skills_for_paths checks —
  no more map miss falling back to the sync provider API from the thread.
  _entry_names removed: persisted entry["name"] is path-derived by
  construction; entries are resolved by path instead.
- SkillActivationMiddleware collects slash names (already canonical) plus
  persisted entry *paths*, canonicalized off-loop via
  _canonical_names_for_paths().

Regressions (test_skills_authorization.py 45->50): sync stamp target, RBAC
allow declared-name/deny directory-name both directions, async stamp via
_AsyncOnlyProvider, composed async slash -> tool-policy keeps the skill's
tools with zero sync fallback, persisted-entry secret binding survives the
name mismatch. All three mutations (stamp target, policy map key, entry
canonicalization) fail their tests.

* fix(authz): close the sync-fallback class on skill activation paths

willem-bd's two P2s on the canonical-name fix, plus a fourth instance of
the same class found while sweeping the membership:

- SkillToolPolicyMiddleware: a transient prepass registry failure is now
  preserved (_REGISTRY_LOAD_FAILED marker) — the worker-side filter applies
  its own fail-closed treatment instead of silently retrying storage,
  which recovered skills absent from the decision map and fell back to
  the synchronous provider API from the thread (fail-open retaining a
  denied skill's allowed-tools).
- SkillActivationMiddleware: an empty entry-path list no longer pays a
  full skill-tree scan on ordinary authorization-enabled async model
  steps (previously a passive path with zero registry I/O).
- 4th instance (reproduced with the PR fixtures, then fixed): the entry
  prepass failure on the secret-binding path let the consumer-side
  _load_skill_registry_by_path silently recover and resolve entry names
  outside the decision map — the same sync fallback, fail-open binding
  the aauthorize-denied skill's declared secret. The fix goes one step
  further than failure propagation: the prepass hands down the registry
  *snapshot* the decision map was keyed by, and entry sources resolve
  against that snapshot, so a map miss is impossible by construction
  (this also closes the narrower window where both loads succeed but
  disagree because storage changed mid-step). The slash source is
  deliberately unaffected: it does not consult the decision map
  (validated once at activation) and keeps its fresh per-call load.
- Class membership swept: skill_activation_allowed() sync call sites are
  exactly four (stamping sync path and describe's sync implementation are
  legitimately sync); the only two async-reachable fallback points (the
  _activation_allowed helpers) are both construction-guarded now.
  Structural hardening (typed async-batch decision object where a map
  miss is fail-closed by construction) recorded in the plan notes as a
  follow-up, anchored at those two helpers.
- _RegistryArg type alias replaces the degenerate dict|object|None union
  in the policy middleware signatures.

Tests (test_skills_authorization.py 50->54): transient prepass failure ->
builtins-only with exactly one storage attempt and zero provider calls;
ordinary async step -> zero registry scans; two-call scenario -> entry
binding zeroed while the slash binding survives; entries resolve against
the prepass snapshot under a mid-step rename. Mutations verified red:
marker reverted to None, over-broad slash kill, snapshot bypass.

* fix(authz): correct secret-binding reference points and gate the rendered skill reminder

Review round 9 (willem-bd) plus construction-audit follow-ups on the same
class — every async divergence between two loads of the same data now has
an explicit, pinned reference point:

- Slash secret source resolves from a FRESH post-activation registry: the
  prepass snapshot is taken before the aauthorize awaits, so binding the
  slash source from it would activate NEW_KEY content while injecting
  OLD_KEY when a skill's declared secrets change in that window. The
  'one scan per step' bonus that motivated sharing the snapshot is
  withdrawn — consistency wins. The two secret sources resolve
  independently: a transient fresh-load failure zeroes only the slash
  binding; entries keep binding from their own snapshot.
- Same-skill dominance: when a skill is both the slash source (fresh) and
  a persisted entry (snapshot), only the activation-era declaration binds
  — unioning both eras injected a secret the skill no longer declares.
  Aligns with the tool-policy rule (slash activation dominates for the
  run); different-skill entries still stack additively.
- The rendered 'Active skills' reminder (DurableContextMiddleware) no
  longer advertises skills the provider denies — surface consistency with
  describe_skill. Publication/consumption split: the activation
  middleware publishes per-step path-keyed skill:activate decisions into
  the run context (async: reused from the prepass snapshot, zero extra
  I/O; sync: one scan + authorize() only when entries exist — passive
  steps stay scan-free), the renderer consumes them and filters its
  render copy (state untouched; unpublished = permissive, matching the
  other run-context carriers). New carrier key listed in
  REDACTED_CONTEXT_KEYS with a redaction regression.
- Wiring regressions on both chains for everything added above (user_id
  to the stamp gate, skill_authorization + token pairing + activation-
  before-durable ordering to the durable renderer): each mutation
  verified red (M4-M13 across this change set).
- Tests 54->65: slash post-activation lookup, source independence,
  dominance, sync-chain sync-API path, render filter (async/sync/
  disabled with load-count assertions), chain wiring x2, redaction
  listing. Plan notes record rounds 9-2..6 including the reference-point
  post-mortem and the audit axes exhausted.

* fix(authz): anchor same-skill dominance on the slash identity, not binding results

Review round 10 (willem-bd) plus a self-audit extension the new checklist
items caught in the first fix itself:

- R10 (P2): the same-skill exclusion was derived from successfully BOUND
  slash sources. When the prepass snapshots required-secrets [OLD_KEY]
  and the operator strips the declaration during the await window, the
  slash source binds nothing (required_secrets gate) — the exclusion set
  stayed empty and the stale entry view kept injecting OLD_KEY for a
  skill that now declares no secrets. The exclusion now derives from the
  AUTHENTICATED slash activation identity (run-context source path,
  owner-token checked): the identity's declared name resolves from the
  fresh registry first, then the entry snapshot, and joins the exclusion
  set regardless of binding success.
- Self-audit (value->gate->downstream on the fix itself): the declared
  name can also change mid-run (same path, foo->bar). A name-anchored
  exclusion then holds only the new name while the snapshot entry
  resolves the same path to the old one — both eras bound again. The
  PATH is the stable identity shared by the activation and every earlier
  read: entries at the slash identity's path are now excluded before
  registry resolution (exclude_paths), independent of what either
  version calls the skill; the name-based set remains for cross-path
  same-name shadowing.

Tests 65->67: no-secrets-era dominance (ACTIVE secrets None under the
OLD_KEY-to-empty interleaving), path-anchored dominance across a mid-run
rename (only the activation-era key binds). Mutations verified red:
identity-derived exclusion disabled (M14), path exclusion disabled
(M16).

* test(authz): pass explicit config to lead middleware wiring test

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Co-authored-by: Willem Jiang <willem.jiang@gmail.com>
2026-09-30 19:45:07 +08:00