Builds the benchmark from .kiro/specs/valid-detection-benchmark/brief.md:
sound labels from the fix (no SZZ), app-shaped verified positives,
ordinary negatives from the same repos, whole tool on unseen repos,
standard metrics.
Spec: requirements.md, design.md, tasks.md. Reuses the existing sourcing,
fix-site labelling, negative drawing, replay, and Wilson scoring; drops
the SZZ layer.
New offline modules under benchmarks/valid/:
- catalog.py positives labelled at the fix site (never introducing/last_touch)
- verify.py one LLM call per case (vulnerable? fix addresses it? reachable
in-repo?) + human spot-check; this is the app-shaped filter.
Honors the instrument rule: bytes read per function, reject on
an empty read.
- assemble.py >=20x ordinary negatives + a frozen, deterministic manifest with
the held-out guard
- metrics.py precision (PPV), false alarms per 100 pushes, exploit-verified
rate, and the plain headline, layered on score.py
36 new offline tests, 495 regression tests green. No network, no harvest,
no model calls in tests. Group 5 (the live pilot) is not started.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Lead with the names a security engineer already knows instead of the
coined ones:
- catch rate -> recall (true-positive rate)
- false-alarm rate -> false-positive rate (still reported as false
alarms per 100 pushes)
- proved-catch / proof rate -> exploit-verified findings (a working
proof of concept)
- precision stays precision (positive predictive value)
The plain-English question for each metric stays as the explanation.
Updated the valid-benchmark brief and the roadmap. No numbers changed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Ran the humanizer rules over 79 prose files in the active specs (brief,
design, requirements, research and narrative docs). Removed em dashes,
significance inflation, forced rule-of-three, bold-label list items and
filler. Skipped tasks.md checklists and the retired specs (harnessx-*,
openrouter-sast-harness, unseen-repo-evaluation).
Every number, path, command, hash and identifier was preserved: checked
each file against HEAD for drift in numbers, inline code and code fences,
zero drift across all 79 files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
The frozen SZZ-labeled pool is not a valid benchmark. SZZ puts the vulnerability in
the wrong place about half the time, and ~76% of entries are library-internal (not
reachable in-repo), so its catch/false-alarm numbers (record 07's "3/92") are noise.
Retired as a metric and a gate across the roadmap and briefs; no pool-scored number
is quoted anywhere.
Added .kiro/specs/valid-detection-benchmark/brief.md: positives labelled from the
fix (not SZZ), kept only when app-shaped and reachable in-repo, each verified;
ordinary negatives from the same repos; unseen repos; the whole tool measured; plain
metrics (catch rate, false-alarms per 100 pushes, precision, proved-catch).
Ran a plain-English pass (the humanizer rules) on the roadmap, README, and the two
active briefs via Codex, then reviewed the diff: only these files changed, every
number/path/hash/command is unchanged, and the retired-metric decision is intact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Call-graph trace: no shipped product path or in-repo benchmark/test reached the
real single-query JoernBackend.query("taint"). The push/scan/replay path is
double-shielded -- batch fetch (run_batch) in Phase 2, and a _prefetched replay
CpgResult in Phase 3 whose run ignores the query -- so scan_region's cpg.run
("taint") never reaches JoernBackend.query. Benchmarks use the batch path; tests
use fake canned-row results. Only out-of-product ad-hoc harnesses hit it.
Regression onset 562b670 (2026-09-25).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
taint.request_params emits guards/fixedOrigin/originAnchors/quotedSanitizers/
fieldParameterSources, which taint.sc reads from per-request JSON in its BATCH
branch but does NOT declare on `@main def exec` and does NOT consume in its
single-request branch (it defaults them). The single-query path passed them as
`--param guards=...` (disposable) or named args (session), so joern errored
`Unknown arguments` and every cpg.run("taint", ...) failed -- a silent zero of
the shape AGENTS.md warns about. scan_region->taint_verdict->_usable_flows and
the pair-path verdict()/verdicts() were dead; the push/scan batch route was
unaffected (it carries the extras as JSON the script parses itself).
Fix: parse the script's `@main def exec(...)` signature once (_declared_exec_params
+ memoised _declared_params) and, in query(), filter params to the declared set
before building either route. Faithful, not lossy -- the single-request branch
could never use those 5 fields. No-op for config/dominance (their request_params
emit only declared params; verified). Only taint sheds the 5 extras.
Verified end-to-end on banks (patched backend in the replay image): single-query
path now runs; baseline 0 findings, annotated search 2 path/model_entailed
findings (prompt->write_text). Regression test asserts no undeclared param
reaches the command line and the query parses, with a fake runner (no Joern).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Same CPG, only the search changes. Baseline (shipped path spec) resolves 0
prompt->write_text flows on banks; injecting the two annotations an LLM steer
would supply (parameter_sources=True + write_text/read_text path sinks) makes the
engine resolve prompt -> path-join -> prompt_file.write_text(prompt.raw). First
measured instance of "#2 guided by #1" closing on an unseen target; fix needed
exactly the param-source + file-write-sink annotations.
Files the instrument bug the first MVP hit: single-query cpg.run("taint",
request_params(...)) is dead -- request_params emits 5 keys (guards/fixedOrigin/
originAnchors/quotedSanitizers/fieldParameterSources) absent from taint.sc's exec
signature; both single-query sub-routes reject them (silent None). Batch path
(run_batch->requestsFile JSON) unaffected; push/scan route uses batch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
All 3 hits have a runtime oracle (search FAMILY_ORACLES: injection->sql/command, ssrf for
untrusted_destination -- corrects the earlier families.toml-based 'dcmcp unprovable'). But
search/verify.verify() needs an AUTHORED runnable demo + both head/base building OFFLINE + a
sandbox differential (3/3 affected vs 0/3 safe). The scan/push path reaches only suspicion/
static_corroboration; no code path from a scan suspicion to exploit_demonstrated, no Coordinator
caller from the push flow. So proof-arm lift AT PUSH TIME = 0/3 -- proving is a per-target,
offline-build, runtime, differential operation that can't run inside a pre-push hook (prior
per-pair demos were mostly inconclusive on this wiring).
Strategic consequence: proof/BLOCK is an ASYNC lane (CI/plane/triage with authored demos), not
pre-push. Honest pre-push product = advisory-with-conditions (bet #2); proof arm = async BLOCK
lane (bet #3). Local sandbox exists (userns).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Ran ousast scan --mode deep on the 5 app-shaped + sound pool targets (the fair change-scoped
eval set from the shape classification). Detection 3/5: graphiti (hunter, Cypher injection),
mcp-remote (hunter, url-scheme injection), dcmcp (ENGINE overlay -- 'outbound.request reached
from parameter' on readFileFromUrl; parameter-as-source fired because an entry point is present).
2/5 missed: malla (DOM/template XSS) and dms (Jinja SSTI), both in families families.toml
documents as limited.
This validates the strategic pivot: the near-zero catch was substantially a TARGET MISMATCH --
on app-shaped repos the engine itself detects (0 -> 3/5). But all hits stop at suspicion/
static_corroboration; release-grade BLOCK still needs proof-arm elevation + family coverage +
the DSPy hint loop. Cost ~$0.007/repo. So bet #1 (fix eval target) is necessary and material
but not sufficient.
Next: recompute a floor on an app-shaped sound subset / real app corpus (VAmPI, NodeGoat,
DjanGoat, vibe-py); measure proof-arm suspicion->proven lift.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Named the core problem with the maintainer: the tool spots dangerous ops but cannot prove
attacker-reachability -- the trust boundary lives outside the changed library code. Chosen
strategic bet (of three): FIX THE EVALUATION TARGET FIRST.
LLM shape classification of the 49 public pool vulns ($0.033): reachability_in_repo only
24% (12/49); 76% are pure libraries. A legitimate change-scoped catch needs sound label AND
reachability in-repo -> just 5/49 (~10%): graphiti, desktopcommandermcp, malla,
document-merge-service, mcp-remote. Shape predicted the hunter outcome (graphiti app-shaped ->
caught; bedrock library -> missed). So record-07's 3/92 is scored against a ~90%-illegitimate
denominator -- the near-zero catch is largely a target mismatch.
Next: deep scan on the 5 fair targets for a per-tier catch rate; then an app-shaped eval set
from known-vulnerable apps. Artifacts: 2026-10-12-pool-p1-shape-classification/ (+ earlier
label-audit, hunter-sound-targets). Memory: evaluation-target-mismatch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
ousast scan --mode deep (DeepSeek deepseek-flash, model layer + tool_hunter, 60-call bound) on
bedrock + graphiti, the two sound pilot targets the static engine missed:
- graphiti: HIT -- falkordb_driver.py:207, tag family:cypher-injection; rationale traces
build_fulltext_query concatenating user input into a Cypher string at line 278 (inside the
labelled function, location-matches). The static engine produced zero findings here.
- bedrock: miss -- 12 suspicions on adjacent concerns (network-PUBLIC, download_file), never
named the install_packages -> pip command injection.
Cost is a non-issue: ~$0.007/repo, 64 model calls for a whole-repo deep scan. BUT everything
stopped at suspicion rung -- the proof arm did not elevate to proven; release-grade BLOCK needs
proven findings.
Direction (maintainer): prompt evolution is a core lever -- a DSPy-based loop (GEPA/MIPRO,
pluggable; evolving field) whose objective is to learn what hints/annotations steer the model
to the real sink, sourced from the framework knowledge already shipped (no new user
annotation), with LLM-proposed boundaries graduating into the facts.
Next: measure proof-arm lift on graphiti; stand up the DSPy hint loop + re-run bedrock; widen
the hunter to the 23 sound targets for a catch rate; then a change-scoped + proven run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Widened the banks label-mislocation finding across all 49 public pool vulns via DeepSeek
(advisory + head code + pool label -> sound/unsound), $0.038 total. Result: 23/49 (47%)
sound; 53% unsound (25 pre-exist in base, 16 sink outside the changed lines) -- a change-scoped
hook correctly stays quiet there. Systematic by family: injection 10/13 sound, but path 1/7,
output_encoding 1/8, config_secrets 1/4.
Implications: record-07's floor (catch 3/92) is scored against a corpus ~half unfair to a delta
hook; the honest catchable denominator is the sound subset (caveat added to record 07 NOTES).
Fair pilot re-score: only bedrock + graphiti (injection) of the 5 are sound and the engine
missed both = the real detection gaps for the LLM-guided hunter.
Also: GEPA-style reflective-retry (future spec) + GLM cyber model (future spec) noted; DeepSeek
is the working default. Artifact: benchmarks/measurements/2026-10-12-pool-p1-label-audit/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
DeepSeek deepseek-flash reachable: ~$0.0002/call, ~1.1s (sub-cent/push). The LLM gives the
correct verdict WHEN aimed at the real sink + source context: asked about the pool's
SZZ-labelled site (_load) it correctly says not-vulnerable; asked about the real sink
(from_prompt_path line 44, prompt.name request-derived) it correctly says vulnerable. So '2
guided by 1' works as a mechanism.
Two blockers, both concrete: (1) it needs the agentic search-with-proof hunter to supply
caller/source context -- single-shot on the ranker's region is insufficient; (2) the pool's
banks label is mislocated (head_lines 30/104/138-141, function _load; real sink is line 44),
so even a correct finding wouldn't score as a catch and the sink pre-exists in base -- a
change-scoped hook correctly stays quiet. Part of the pilot engine 0/5 is SZZ mislocation, not
a detection failure. GLM/abliteration fallback errors HTTP422 on the thinking param (client
fix needed; DeepSeek works).
Next: validate the 5 pilot labels (change-located & introduced?) before detection runs; then
size the agentic hunter on the sound targets; feed confirmed source shapes back as guarded facts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Verified root cause: the pilot repos are libraries whose untrusted input is public-API
parameters, not HTTP requests. Python taint sources (ruleset/semantic/python.toml) are web/CLI
only; the parameter-as-source mode (_parameters_are_input) fires only for recognised entry
points, and the pilot vuln regions are entry:false -- so their params are deliberately not
sources. Widening that statically would reintroduce the WordPress/PMPro false-SQL-injection
flood the docstring documents. So the static engine cannot safely source library APIs on its
own -- which is exactly the seam for the maintainer's '2 guided by 1' directive: the LLM
adjudicates which library parameter is a trust boundary, the taint engine traces that
source->sink as proof (not LLM say-so), and repeated source shapes graduate to guarded static
facts. First increment (pending budget): LLM-guided-source mode on the 5 pilot regions,
measuring source naming, traced finding, catch lift vs regex 1/5, and false-alarm on ordinary
changes; staged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Inspecting head.findings (not ranker evidence) overturns the previous commit's read:
the dataflow/taint tier produced ZERO findings in the vuln families (path/injection/deser)
on all 5 repos -- only config_secrets (banks 1, socketio 2; launch-editor/graphiti/bedrock 0).
The tier1/score2.0 'sink' I cited was the RANKER's static candidate, not a confirmed taint
finding. taint_evidence_not_applicable = no source->sink flow was traced (banks: sink found,
no source). So ambiguous_line_correspondence is downstream and moot -- there are no
vuln-family findings to anchor, and the region-level witness fix (Option A) is refuted before
implementation. The LLM adjudication tier was disabled (model_calls=0).
Reprioritised: #1 LLM-tier pilot L1/L2 (now primary, staged, costs money), #2 taint
source/sink coverage + region ranking, #3 change-anchoring (only after tiers yield findings).
Instrument rule: caught the ranker-vs-finding misread before building the wrong fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Five public pool repos, vuln change each, clean host, 300s. The shipped engine added NO
catches over the regex floor. 3/5 repos finished their region queue (deferred=0) and still
emitted no finding, so change-scoping is not the path to catch. The engine ranked the vuln
region in all 5 and found the right sink on 2 (score 2.0), but withholds any finding it
cannot anchor 1:1 to changed lines -- all 5 hit ambiguous_line_correspondence ->
witness_unresolved -> coverage incomplete, suppressing even the scored sinks. Confirmed not a
shallow-clone artifact (correspondence is computed from both blobs).
Reprioritised engine levers: #1 change-anchoring robustness (region-level witness fallback),
#2 family ranking/taint coverage, #3 the LLM adjudication tier (the pilot is the case for it).
Release read: the pre-push net is NOT releasable on detection yet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
On a clean host the shipped engine runs dataflow (query 0->35s, selected 0->356 regions).
The evidence/taint batch (~225s) is invariant to warm session and graph preload; importCpg
is cheap (~35s). The real barrier is taint.sc's ~160s per-batch flow work, so build+evidence
~255s of a 300s budget defers 1009/1365 regions. Lever = change-scope the family/file set the
taint batch walks, not session/preload. Corrects the prior ~200s graph-load wall diagnosis.
Next decisive experiment: engine-on unseen pilot vs record-07 regex floor (catch 3/92).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Verified on the records: the push replay arms hardcode model="disabled",
max_model_calls=0, cost_usd=0 (NO LLM) and engine_covered=0 (engine never ran,
~200s wall). So the measured catch~2.5% is the quick pattern-rule tier ALONE --
grep-with-structure. Pattern rules alone will never be enough.
Reprioritize G2 after record 07 to an efficiency barrier analysis over the two
tiers that carry detection and both sat out:
- engine (Joern dataflow): E1 split the ~150s evidence-fixed (JVM/graph-load/
census); E2 does a warm session + graph preload at build kill it (decisive);
E3 analysis per-pair; E4 build vs repo size.
- LLM adjudication: L1 model latency + calls per push; L2 recall lift over
regex+dataflow on the pool.
Deliverable: a barrier table (budget x tier combo -> fits? measured recall/FP)
for a realistic pre-push window (<=120s target, 300s hard) -> minimal releasable
config. Change-scoping branch is a late add-on (trims only the per-pair tail),
not the lever. Also fixed a stray </content> tag in the brief.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Records the full G2 engine-detection finding on main (code attempt parked on
branch engine-change-scoped-evidence-pass, unmerged). The engine arm has ~200s
intrinsic fixed overhead -- ~48s CPG build + ~150s first-query graph-load+census
(measured uncontended: build 48s, evidence 243.79s over 1015 pairs, query 0) --
so a 300s budget cannot reach the flow queries. Pair-count change-scoping trims
only the ~86s per-pair tail; the warm-session env times out at startup contended
and spares only subsequent batches. Real fix is clean-host engine work (reliable
session startup + graph preload, or census-cost reduction). Parked to finish G0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Saved-artifact run: total=291s build=52s query=0s arbitrate=238.75s, and
query_seconds_by_kind[evidence]=238.54s. The evidence-tier pass is the whole
middle; affected_context + _scope_work are 0.21s. It tiered 1015 pairs at
~235ms/pair (contended) and exhausted the budget -> selected=0, deferred=1365
all deadline_exhausted. Secondary anomaly: ~50-100x the design's assumed
2.5ms/pair -- the evidence query is pathologically slow on a cold large CPG.
Increment 2's single target is the evidence pass (scan.py:338-359). Fork
recorded: (i) scope+bound the pass change-first, (ii) two-phase neighbourhood
pass, (iii) per-pair speedup. Must preserve reach-into-unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
A first scoping attempt (restrict analyzed regions to changed files) was reverted:
it breaks a tested design invariant. The engine deliberately selects an unchanged
region's question when a changed region reaches it
(test_changed_dependency_reaches_unchanged_ranked_question;
test_change_does_not_replace_ranker_selection). _changed_files feeds _evidence_pass
only as contextFilter/contextPaths (itemise vs summarise), not to shrink the tier
population. Any scope must keep changed regions PLUS the regions they reach.
Also: increment 1 over-claimed. Increment 0 measured build=67s/query=0s but NOT
the split of the ~236s middle (evidence-tier pass vs affected_context/context
resolution vs _scope_work enumeration). Increment 2 must capture per_kind /
other_seconds / affected_context timing and cut the dominant phase while
preserving reach-into-unchanged -- instrument before fixing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
The 4095 candidates are not an in-scan artifact: push/runner.py:345 discovers
head_regions across the whole head tree, then runner.py:397 passes them wholesale
to scan_repository with change_context threaded in but unused for scoping. The
scan enumerates all regions x families (scan.py:167/364) and, with
order_by_evidence=True, evidence-tiers every pair before analysis -> the ~236s
from increment 0 -> deadline at query_seconds=0.
Fix locus (increment 2): scope the analyzed region set to context.changed_paths +
dataflow neighbourhood (regions.py:279 primitive exists; compare_targeted_base is
precedent). Keep the CPG whole-repo so taint can trace into the change from
unchanged code; only the question set is change-scoped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Timed live bedrock replay: build_seconds=66.69, query_seconds=0.0, total 303s,
4095 candidate questions all analysis_not_started=deadline_exhausted, selected=[],
regions_scanned=0. ~67s builds the CPG; ~236s enumerates/ranks/prepares 4095
repo-wide candidates for a 3-file change, then the deadline hits before any query
runs. The CPG build is not the bottleneck; the over-broad candidate set is ->
change-scoping is the confirmed lever (and compounds with the correspondence fix,
since per-candidate prep includes correspondence work).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Track the engine-detection lever found while driving G0. Live diagnosis on the
frozen pool: the engine's "no finding" on unseen changes is usually
analysis-never-runs -- it ranks repo-wide candidates and defers them all
(deadline_exhausted) before analyzing the pushed change (bedrock injection,
303s, selected=[], ranked sites unrelated to the change). Lever: seed analysis
from the change's declarations + dataflow neighbourhood (rank.py/mapping.py) so
it runs within budget.
- .kiro/specs/engine-change-scoped-analysis/brief.md: problem (measured),
hypothesis, anchors, and checkable increments (0 confirm build-vs-analysis
cost split -> 1 locate selection/budget -> 2 seed from change -> 3 soundness
+ tests -> 4 live re-test -> 5 measure delta on the engine arm).
- roadmap.md G2: active workstreams (change-scoped analysis; the done-but-
necessary-not-sufficient line-correspondence fix), for progress tracking.
Honest scope: G2, gated on the pool metric; not part of the G0 quick-rule
record-07. Coverage also needs the capability registry (Task 8.3); arm-scale
measurement needs the kube lane.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
The correspondence mapped an equal-region base<->head line pair only when the
line's content was GLOBALLY unique in the file, so common lines (`}`, blanks,
imports) tripped `ambiguous_line_correspondence` and the finding's anchor was
discarded -> the operation came back `unmapped` -> novelty `unknown` ->
`comparison_unknown` -> the engine finding was suppressed (a direct cause of
"near-blind to fixes").
Replace the global-uniqueness gate with run-aware positional anchoring: segment
the equal-region pairs into contiguous runs (strictly +1/+1, as _equal_line_pairs
emits), and map a pair when its content occupies exactly one old run and one new
run. Duplicates WITHIN a contiguous run are positionally forced and now map;
duplicates ACROSS runs split by an edit are aligned arbitrarily by git and stay
withheld + flagged (soundness preserved -- the moved-repeated-operation guard
still passes, so no false `new`/identity claims).
Tests: update test_change_context_unknown_base_binary_and_ambiguous_lines_are_
unresolved (its two in-run sinks now anchor); keep the moved-operation soundness
test; add intra-run-maps, cross-run-withheld, and distinctive-line-anchors cases.
163 push tests pass, ruff clean.
Honest scope (design.md amendment): this removes one real cause but is
necessary-not-sufficient -- live-testing a messy 14-file Java change showed
coverage stays `incomplete` due to other, dominant blockers (capability_unavailable
until Task 8.3; the engine produced no actionable defect; eligibility/projection
gaps). Engine coverage on unseen diffs needs those too, not just correspondence.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Fold the night's learnings into the roadmap, steering and the
unseen-repo-evaluation spec so the process is reproducible and the
project is "ready now":
- roadmap.md: a 2026-10-11 state table (pool p1 frozen; harvest hardened
+ bucket-first; replay-image provenance pinned; baseline-on-kube next)
and a 5-step readiness plan to record 07.
- storage-streaming.md: RustFS-over-local as the default (local disk is
the scarce resource); the implemented ousast-corpus layout; replay
outputs belong on RustFS; the AX store endpoint is operator-owned.
- design.md: an "Amendments (2026-10-11)" section (bucket-first
persistence, ~2.2% rate-bound yield, machine-label record 07, pinned
replay image provenance).
- tasks.md: a folded-in amendment block (pool p1 frozen + freeze recipe;
bucket-first; CI replay image; machine-label baseline; kube lane +
ax/store as operator-owned infra).
Facts stated are verified (measured yield, freeze digest, GHCR anon pull,
batch.py's endpoint check); infra capability/policy is left to the
operator, not assumed. The frozen pool artifacts themselves are not
committed here (a separate samples/licensing decision).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Group 3 was unimplemented, so there was no way to turn the draft into a
frozen pool. Add:
- bisect_guard.py: stages the cache draft and bisects it against the
reserved-repository guard, run as a black box
(pytest -k referenced, stdout/stderr discarded, exit code only; an exit
other than 0/1 aborts as an instrument failure). Drops guard-tripping
candidates and reports the dropped COUNT only -- never a name or URL.
Guard runner is injectable for offline tests.
- freeze.py: writes canonical pool-p1.toml (+ private counterpart,
reusing draft's public/private split and private_digest) and
freeze-p1.json (used-set digest, per-source counts, guard result,
dropped count, label-check counts, freeze digest = sha256 of the
canonical public manifest). A matching retry is a no-op; any changed
frozen artifact requires a new pool id (never an overwrite).
- protocol-p1.md: the frozen scoring/statistics protocol from design
sections 3 and 4.
Offline only; the guard subprocess is the sole subprocess and is mocked
in tests. 42 new tests pass (incl the group-1.3 guard digest check on a
fixture pool); neighbouring unseen suites green; ruff clean. New files
only -- does not touch the journal-pinned draft/extract modules, so a
running draw is unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Maintainer direction: the same agentic endpoint authors the PoC, writes a candidate
fix against the repair direction + failing PoC, and hands it to the differential
verifier, which re-runs the PoC and confirms absence. Closes the no-auto-patch gap:
the proof is the acceptance test for the fix (a wrong fix is caught), the fix stays a
developer-reviewed proposal, and the green proof is the objective signal. Specced
alongside proof authoring, after qualification.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Revise the developer guide for engineers with full backlogs and no spare schedule:
a vague warning dies in the backlog, so the value of the demonstrated proof is the
prioritization conversation -- reproducible evidence (input, behavior, the one-line
fix difference) a dev takes to a product owner or the business to win capacity,
dropped into the ticket system as a location, repair direction, and reproduction.
mcp-shift-left-agent brief: the agent's return should be ticket-ready evidence.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
docs/pre-push-for-developers.md: COBESY-structured guide for engineers who are
strong at dev but not security. Leads with the conclusion (zero-setup, no
annotations, diff-scoped, proof-backed), frames the agent-era case (a pre-push
check is how you oversee coding agents), states control (advisory vs blocking,
budget, lane, models), and is honest about limits with an explicit disproof
condition (coverage, large-repo latency, generalization being measured by G0).
.kiro/specs/mcp-shift-left-agent/: follow-up brief for an MCP agent + skills that
give devs and coding agents early shift-left feedback and a required pre-push
security step for agent oversight; builds on the existing ousast mcp server;
sequenced after the safety net is qualified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
verification-architecture.md documents the existing two-stage design: the Cairn-inspired
search (brain + model calls on the VM) and the DAST proof (gVisor AX tasks in kube-ax),
the trust boundary (secrets VM-only, cluster tasks secret-free with restricted egress),
and the three verify lanes (ax=cluster default, vm=local Bubblewrap for $0 proofs,
docker=replay). Clarifies the proof is dynamic, not abstract interpretation: AI triage
stays the static backbone, proof earns the block by execution.
proof-arm-opencode/ is a follow-up brief: drive proof-authoring with OpenCode MCP, an
abliterated/GLM proof model (DeepSeek stays the search model), DSPy-optimized from
OpenObserve traces, to beat the safety-classifier refusals and nondeterministic wiring.
Flags the trust-domain decision that must come first (A: scoped key + egress inside the
cluster; B: brain on VM, only DAST in gVisor — recommended to start). Credentials live in
.env by name only (ABLITERATION_*, OPENOBSERVE_*); no secret value is in any tracked file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Feed the milestone back into the spec and steering. HANDOFF: the open "first demonstrated"
question is RESOLVED -- xiaomusic (path, prefix-check-bypass) demonstrated on the vulnerable
side (3/3 affected, 0/3 safe) and the blind fixed-side search produced 0 false proofs; pair
total $1.22. Records the six-fix chain that enabled it (parity, verify-time-only, fair-share
budget, served-root guidance, oracle prefix-bypass coverage, control-signal feedback) plus the
keystone. tasks.md: implementation note; pilot (6.2/6.3) in progress. spec.json: pilot status.
safety-net steering: proof-based BLOCK mechanism reached first execution-backed demonstration
(feasibility-pilot scope, not release readiness; pilot exit + 73-negative qualification open;
classifier stays triage). search README: status note. Payload-free; demos/boards stay gitignored.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
20 development pairs, one per repository, 4 per language, 5 per family; identities
in a gitignored manifest, counts and digest committed. Executor smoke drives one
executor task end to end without a model and fails loudly on an unread clone.
kube-ax operator constraints as steering.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Demos are data the verifier executes (fixed build recipes, runtime+path start,
HTTP/CLI steps with captures; the canary is never referable). The agent loop with
the key never runs repository code: executor tasks without a key exchange commands
and results through presigned objects. AX capacity errors are back-pressure with at
most 2 tasks in flight; caches and builds under /workspace with a 2 GiB guard;
verifiers take one presigned archive per side. Launcher fix: private /dev in bwrap.
190 tests on the host; probe 5/5 demonstrated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Replaces the accepted key-exposure exception: the key never shares a sandbox with
repository code; executor AX tasks exchange commands and results via presigned
objects. Firecracker executors only if the pilot build-failure rate requires it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
kube-ax probe: AX tasks have no capabilities (no namespaces, no setuid), so no
in-task isolation. Demos become data the verifier executes; the explore key risk is
accepted and bounded by cap and rotation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Probe runs each oracle toy pair with a real demo and two gaming demos, records
image facts, RSS and disk, fails loudly if isolation is unavailable; dispatchable
as an AX task. Worker: reason step without tools, explore tool loop whose run tool
goes through the sandbox with a scrubbed env (model key absent), spend reserved
before each call. Host probe: 5/5 real demos demonstrated, 10/10 gaming demos
inconclusive. 89 tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Board as immutable versioned blobs (coordinator sole writer); budget reserve/settle
before model calls; per-task and run caps; coordinator loop over an injected
executor; batch.py accepts a fixed allow-list of search variables; XSS browser
oracle; ousast-search-task image (Python, Node/TypeScript, PHP, Java 17, sqlite,
bwrap, chromium) built by CI. 103 tests on the host.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The verifier, not the artefact, observes the effect: SQL, path, command and SSRF
oracles owned by the verifier (XSS needs a browser executor, else no_oracle);
artefact exit code and output ignored; immutable checkout and dependencies;
3 runs per side; one-sided build or readiness failure is inconclusive. An
isolation failure raises IsolationUnavailable instead of reading as
could_not_build (the NPROC limit now applies inside the user namespace).
35 tests, including gaming attempts and 300 host processes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Req 6.5 (maintainer decision 2026-10-05, with search-with-proof): BLOCK comes from
verified demonstrations; the engine is judged by top-K recall per push and advisory
false alarms; the pooled block gate governs only families without an oracle.
Task 17 adds the metric and re-scores existing arms at no cost.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
False alarms count every visible finding; the verifier owns per-family oracles;
inconclusive on one-sided build failure; feasibility pilot separated from a
73-negative BLOCK qualification; coverage ceilings; spend reserved before calls;
key isolated from executed code; cluster model calls supersede the pool VM-only
rule for this arm only. Requirements approval reopened.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
After reviewing Cairn: detection so far classified excerpts and hit a precision
wall; this adds directed search with an objective goal (a re-verified
demonstration), a fact/intent board, and reason/explore steps as AX Tasks on
kube-ax. Design only learns from Cairn (AGPL); no code copied.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
gVisor replays exhausted the hook's 30 s deadline in the snapshot step on a
1,725-file repository; cluster replays now use 30 s x a measured slowdown
factor, verified on a native sample. The engine runner deletes each pin's fetched
source (1.8 GB had accumulated), caps the cache at 500 MB and refuses below
1.5 GB free. Proof 4.4: two engine pins via the generic dispatcher match the VM
baseline exactly. Implemented with Codex.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Implemented with Codex; task 1.5 run by the coordinator against the real
sources (S3 memory read-only).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
