## Why
An AI agent autonomously deleted a live task (FN-8609) via
`fn_task_delete`. Investigating that led to two audits, which found the
gate machinery is well-built and its *enforcement* well-tested — but the
*decision boundary* was unguarded and the tools that matter never
reached the gate at all.
The headline defect: all ~76 tools in `packages/cli/src/extension.ts`
are delivered through `hostExtensionPaths` → `DefaultResourceLoader`,
which never passes through `wrapToolsWithActionGate`. `fn_task_delete`
*was* classified as gated in `gating-classifications.ts` — that
classification was dead code. Roughly 15 destructive tools were ungated
even for an operator who had locked their policy all the way down.
Second: `POST /api/approvals/:id/decision` took the approver identity
from the request body, validated for shape only, with no check that the
decider was human or differed from the requester. Combined with a bash
tool whose command string was never inspected (only `params.cwd`), an
agent could read the daemon token from `~/.fusion/settings.json`, find
its own pending request, and approve it.
## Scope
This does **not** tighten defaults. The `unrestricted` preset is
byte-for-byte unchanged — `git diff` on `agent-permission-policy.ts` is
empty — and regression tests assert that an out-of-the-box install
behaves exactly as before. The bug was never "the default is too
permissive"; it was "strict policy doesn't enforce." This makes turning
security up actually work.
The one deliberate exception: the containment that stops an agent
escalating its *own* privileges (reading the daemon token / credentials,
calling the approvals API to self-approve) applies at every preset
including `unrestricted`. That is a privilege-escalation boundary rather
than a permission preference — if it only engaged under strict policy it
would not have prevented the incident that prompted this.
## What changed
8 bisectable commits:
- **Approval lifecycle** — self-approval blocked via server-derived
deciders; same-verdict replay 409s; decide re-reads and re-validates
inside the transaction; expiry TTLs; `markCompleted` ownership check;
session identity registry in core.
- **Engine gates enforce for real** — unclassified tools resolve to a
policy-governed category instead of hardcoded `allow`; missing-policy
fail-open closed; bash containment floor + exact-command approval
binding.
- **Dashboard decision routes** — stop trusting client-supplied actors
(decision, bypass-review, worktrunk → 403 on forged actors).
- **`fn serve` authenticated by default** — auto-mints a token following
the existing `fn dashboard` precedent; `--no-auth` opts out.
- **Sibling entry points closed** — user-sourced hard-cancel moves, ACP
execute-once approvals, plugin task-store gating.
- **pi-extension principal resolution** — the extension resolves the
acting principal and can withhold or policy-gate the previously ungated
destructive tools.
- **Root-cause bonus fix** — `findLatestByDedupeKey` was broken in
PostgreSQL backend mode (already-parsed jsonb fed through a string-only
parser), so approved-grant redemption **never matched in production**,
minting duplicate requests. This explains the live DB state of 17
approved / 0 completed. *(Also cherry-picked to `main` as `a9b30013bb`,
since it is an active production defect on its own.)*
- **Review follow-ups** (`627f1b1fa8`) — operator-configured
provisioning privilege and a configurable grant TTL; see below.
## Review follow-ups
**Provisioning privilege is operator-configured, not role-derived.**
`isCallerPrivileged` had gone from `caller.reportsTo == null` (every
top-level agent privileged — permanent escalation by creating a
manager-less agent) to `caller.role === "ceo"`, which swapped an
implicit rule for a magic string: any agent config can claim that role,
while an operator who genuinely wants a privileged agent had no
supported way to say so. Privilege now derives solely from
`agentProvisioning.trustedAgentIds` / `trustedRoles` and fails closed
when settings are unresolvable.
It is also no longer forwarded to `resolveAgentProvisioningPolicy` as
`isPrivileged`, because that flag short-circuits ahead of
`alwaysApproveDelete` — a trusted caller was bypassing delete approval
entirely. The policy applies the same trusted rules itself, in the right
order. The function now governs only the org-chart escape hatch (acting
outside your own direct reports).
**Grant TTL defaults to 1 hour and is configurable.** Approval →
redemption is not instantaneous: an operator approving from their phone,
an engine restart, a queued lane, or a task waiting on a worktree all
routinely exceeded 15 minutes, after which the grant expired and the
agent silently re-requested. One hour remains far short of the
"redeemable forever" hazard the TTL exists to bound. Override via
`FUSION_APPROVAL_GRANT_TTL_MS` or `configureApprovalRequestTtls()`;
invalid overrides are ignored rather than widening the window to
infinity or collapsing it to zero.
## Behavior changes requiring operator review before rollout
1. `fn serve` requires a bearer token by default (`--no-auth` opts out);
unauthenticated clients get 401.
2. Agents can no longer run withheld destructive tools
(`fn_task_delete`, `fn_task_bypass_review`,
mission/milestone/slice/feature/workflow deletes, `experiment_finalize`,
`skills_install`). Operators keep them via CLI/dashboard. **This is the
incident fix.**
3. Agents get provisioning privilege only when the operator lists them
in `agentProvisioning.trustedAgentIds` / `trustedRoles`; the
provisioning gate is now live in production. Previously-implicit
privilege (top-level position, or a `ceo` role) no longer grants
anything on its own.
4. Decision replay 409s (was 200); pending approvals expire after 24h,
approved grants after 1h (configurable); bash approvals bind per exact
command.
5. Forged/body actors on decision, bypass-review, worktrunk routes →
403; `archive-all-done` requires `{confirm:true}` (external scripts
affected).
6. `fn_secret_get` approvals grant exactly one reveal (previously
granted nothing and looped forever); ACP approvals are execute-once
(previously infinite reuse).
7. Bash containment denies token/credential/approvals-API commands in
all agent sessions at every preset.
## Verification
Independently re-run against the branch, not just self-reported:
- 5 typechecks (core, engine, cli, dashboard `tsconfig.json` +
`tsconfig.app.json`) — clean
- `pnpm lint` — clean
- `pnpm test:gate` — 379 passed
- `pnpm build --force` — green (a plain `pnpm build` skips packages as
unchanged and does **not** compile the branch)
- `pnpm check:changesets` — clean
- ~650 file-scoped tests including new negative-path suites for the
decision boundary, which previously had **zero** test coverage
`packages/engine/src/__tests__/plugin-runner.test.ts` fails 56/80 —
**verified pre-existing**, reproducing identically at base commit
`93a403af67` on `main`. Not in the merge gate.
### A mutation check that failed to fail
Worth recording, because it nearly shipped an untested security fix. The
first mutation check on the provisioning change reintroduced the `ceo`
hardcode and **all 17 tests still passed** — the tests asserted through
the policy path, which can no longer observe `isCallerPrivileged` at
all, precisely because `isPrivileged` is no longer forwarded there.
Org-chart cases that do exercise the function were added; the hardcode
now fails exactly 1 of 19, and restoring is green. A green mutation run
is only meaningful if the test can actually see the code under test.
## Known limitations (stated, not papered over)
- The bash containment floor is string-matching: a cost-raiser, not a
sandbox. Quoting, encoding, `$HOME`, symlinks, or an interpreter
one-liner can evade it. The durable protection is the decision route
refusing agent-originated deciders — the filter is the belt, not the
braces.
- Approval expiry is lazy (evaluated at decide/complete/redeem), not
swept, so an expired pending row stays visible in lists until touched.
- The extension's require-approval path returns a pending message but
cannot suspend a pi session mid-turn; engine-side pause hooks cover
engine lanes only.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Security**
* Hardened approval and permission gating with server-side decider
attribution, self-approval blocking, ownership checks, replay/race
protection, and status/TTL enforcement.
* Added fail-closed behavior for sensitive/unclassified tools and
sandbox provisioning approvals.
* Blocked credential/approval access via bash containment; plugin
destructive task operations now require explicit permission.
* **New Features**
* `fn serve` now defaults to bearer-token auth, with `--no-auth` as the
explicit opt-out.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved task move-source attribution (`moveSource: "user"`) and
tightened dashboard archive/bypass confirmation and operator attribution
behavior.
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## What happened
FN-8004's implementation work finished and passed review. The auto-merge
then failed with `Grok ACP turn failed: Internal error` — a ~20 second
provider blip — and the task was parked `status: "failed"` with 8 files
of complete, reviewed work stranded on its branch.
The park is the interesting part: `status: "failed"` is precisely what
tells recovery to stop. So a misclassification here isn't a missed
retry, it's **terminal**. Both recovery paths were disabled by the same
wrong verdict:
- `maybeRetryTransientMerge` (inline, 3 retries w/ backoff) — never
fired once (`mergeTransientRetryCount: 0`).
- `recoverTransientMergeFailures` (self-healing sweep, exists exactly to
rescue parked in-review tasks) — skipped it, gated on the same
classifier.
## Three defects fixed
**1. No AI-provider failure class existed.** The AI merge drives a real
LLM turn, but `classifyTransientMergeError` only modeled git/lease/spawn
faults. Adds `ai-provider-turn-failure`.
**2. ACP dropped the error detail.** `promptAcpSession` rethrew the SDK
error unchanged, discarding the JSON-RPC `code`/`data` — the only
evidence the fault was provider-side. ("Internal error" is just the
standard text for `-32603`.) It now preserves them, keeping the original
as `cause`:
```
Internal error (acp rpc code -32603, retryable)
```
Classification anchors on that envelope, **not** on the bare `"Internal
error"` — matching that unanchored would disguise genuine application
defects as retryable blips. Only provider-fault codes (`-32603`,
`-32000`..`-32003`) are retryable; caller-fault codes
(`-32600`..`-32602`) stay permanent, since retrying just repeats the
failing call.
**3. Sweep/inline asymmetry** (found while tracing; latent and
unreported). The inline gate accepted `isTransientError(msg) ||
classify(msg)`, but the sweep consulted **only** the classifier. So
`ECONNRESET` / `socket hang up` during a merge earned inline retries and
then went **invisible to the sweep** once parked — stranded forever. The
classifier now delegates to `isTransientError`, so both gates agree by
construction.
To keep that delegation from importing the detector's
`usage-limit-detector → logger` chain (the chain FN-5627 split the
classifier out to avoid, which would break
`notification-service.test.ts`'s partial `vi.mock`), the pure predicates
moved to the import-free leaf `transient-error-patterns.ts`, re-exported
from `transient-error-detector.ts`. All 13 exports preserved, verified
programmatically.
## Loosened budgets
Per request, so more self-heals. Both apply **only** to errors already
proven transient; the ceiling and
`merger:transient-failure-budget-exhausted` audit path remain.
| Budget | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| `MAX_AUTO_MERGE_TRANSIENT_RETRIES` | 3 | 5 (backoff
5s/10s/20s/40s/80s) |
| `MAX_TRANSIENT_MERGE_RECOVERIES` | 2 | 5 |
The bump broke two suites that had hardcoded the old `3`. Rather than
swap in another magic number, both now derive the cap from the constant
so future tuning doesn't re-break them.
## Verification
- `pnpm test:gate` green · `pnpm lint` clean · engine + ACP typecheck
clean · `pnpm verify:fast` PASS (5/5)
- ACP plugin 230 tests green · Grok plugin 64 green · engine
transient/merge suites 136 green
- Regression tests assert the **invariant across every surface** (per
*Fix the Invariant, Not the Repro*), not just the reported Grok string:
both ACP runtime prefixes, all retryable/non-retryable rpc codes, both
SDK error shapes, network delegation, class-ordering, and negative cases
proving bare `"Internal error"` and real defects stay permanent.
- A test caught a genuine bug in my own code mid-review (nested-shape
message shadowing), now fixed.
- `notifier.test.ts > "awaiting approval"` fails — **confirmed
pre-existing on clean main**, unrelated.
## Note
FN-8004's own branch (`fusion/fn-8004`) is still unmerged and its work
looks complete. Once this lands, its merge should be retried separately.
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Grok advertises promptCapabilities.image=false and ignores ACP image
ContentBlocks (live probe: NO_IMAGE). Path-based vision works when the
agent is given an absolute file path. Include path hints in chat prompts
from .fusion/chat-attachments and carry path on ChatImageContent for
file:// uris.
AcpRuntimeAdapter.promptWithFallback ignored options, so dashboard chat
images never became ACP ContentBlock image entries. Extract images from
prompt options and pass them through buildPromptBlocks for both acp-runtime
and the Grok vendored client.
Grok emits `_x.ai/session_notification` / `_x.ai/session/update` for
hook_execution status. The ACP SDK routes those to Client.extNotification;
without it, every successful post_tool_use hook logged -32601 Method not
found. Implement no-op extMethod/extNotification on default and bridging
handlers in acp-runtime and the Grok vendored copy.
Replace one-shot grok -p JSON with native grok agent stdio (ACP) for realtime
streaming, tool visibility, and multi-turn sessions. Vendor the ACP client
into fusion-plugin-grok-runtime, forward Fusion fn_* tools and operator MCP,
stage Fusion skills via --plugin-dir, authenticate per xAI headless docs, and
align project chat manager store resolution so Grok chat sessions can send.
