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fix(gate): classify the scripts an agent runs, not just the command line (v0.448.7) - #840

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Problem

On globex, billing-ops wrote a Stripe teardown (card detach, subscription cancel, customer delete) into fsNNNN-execute-stripe-teardown.sh and ran CONFIRM=EXECUTE bash <file>. The gate classifies the command line only, saw bash <file>, and allowed it green. Two live customer accounts were changed with no human approval. The same php sdel.php … typed directly would have matched the tenant's guardrail.

Fix

  • New src/governance/script-bodies.ts finds the script operands a shell call executes (bash x.sh, ./x.sh, php x.php, python3 x.py, source x, bash -c "…", tracking cd). It reads them server-side, bounded, and follows nested scripts.
  • enrichArgs takes those bodies. It checks them against the workspace's custom patterns (line by line) and the unambiguous destructive ops (DROP/TRUNCATE TABLE, mkfs, dd, terraform destroy, kubectl delete, force-push). The audit row gets scriptsInspected.
  • Wired into TerminalManager.gate and policyCheck, so the preview matches the gate.

Scoping, measured on a week of real globex traffic (39.5k shell calls)

version decision flips
all built-in facts, all scripts 1,754 (every tool's rm -rf "$tmp", generic "delete/prod" words)
narrowed facts 16 (stable tools' help text, e.g. freescout-manager.php … reply denied FreeScout reads)
+ only scripts changed in this run / last 24h 5 (tenant patterns on fresh test files)

Performance: an unanchored (?=[\s\S]*…) operator pattern over a 30 KB blob cost ~0.6 s of blocked event loop per call. Script bodies are now pattern-matched line by line, so the same case takes 4 ms. A perf check in the test pins this.

Limits (documented in the module)

This is text matching, not a sandbox. download-and-run, base64 and eval still hide intent. The hard stop for money is a read-only credential. For the incident tenant, that change is pending in Stripe.

Test

scripts/script-body-gate-test.cjs (added to test:governance): parser, bounded/fresh reading, enricher facts, noise regressions, a perf guard, and end to end through TerminalManager.gate. The full test:governance suite and the web build pass.

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…ine (v0.448.7)

On globex a billing agent wrote a Stripe teardown (card detach, sub cancel,
customer delete) into a .sh file and ran `bash <file>`; the gate saw a green
shell call and two live accounts were changed with no human in the loop.

A shell call that executes a file changed during the run or in the last 24h
now has that body checked against the workspace's custom patterns (line by
line) and the unambiguous destructive ops. Scoped from a week of replayed
globex traffic: 1,754 decision flips for the broad version, 5 for this one.
Linear-time: an unanchored lookahead pattern over a 30 KB blob cost 0.6s of
blocked event loop per call.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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vikasprogrammer merged commit 4377144 into main Sep 29, 2026
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