Two engine specs drafted after the pair-corpus baseline, awaiting owner approval before implementation: - corpus-seeded-mechanisms: structural shapes derived from trusted pairs, export, variant search merged with overlay flows, leave-one-out measurement, and a closed `mechanisms` lever for the improve loop. - reachability-flow-model: call graph over FunctionIR, reachability from entry points to sinks, hunter client preferring HarnessX (task 4.1b). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
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Implementation Plan
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1. Foundation: shapes and store fields
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1.1 Define structural shapes and derive them from a pair
Shapewith language, sink name, arity, source positions and kinds, closed guard kind, mechanism id;derive_shapefinds the labeled sink call site in the vulnerableFileIR, traces source positions through binds to a fact source, parameter, or container read, and classifies the guard from statements present only on the fixed side.- Shapes contain no path, line, or literal beyond identifiers.
- Observable: a Python pair (request input into
os.system, fix adds an allowlist) yields sinksystem, arity 1, source position 0, guardallowlist_test; an unlabeled sink returns None; the shape key is stable across runs. - Requirements: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
- Boundary: Shape
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1.2 Add additive mechanism fields and a corpus writer with dedupe
Mechanismgains origin, review_tier, pairs, shape, guard with defaults;append_from_pairdedupes by shape key and extends provenance; old JSONL rows load unchanged.- Observable: appending the same shape from two pairs yields one row listing both pairs; a pre-existing sandbox row loads with
origin = "sandbox". - Requirements: 1.3, 1.4
- Boundary: Store
- Depends: 1.1
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2. Core: export and search
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2.1 Export mechanisms from trusted pairs as a maintainer command
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seededandreviewed, non-known-limit, parse-ok pairs seed; the command runs offline over the vendored catalog and reports skipped pairs with reasons; extra-absent languages are skipped with a degradation. - Observable:
ousast mechanisms export --slice sastwrites corpus rows and reports the skippedtitle/advisory/known-limit pairs. - Requirements: 1.1, 1.2, 1.5, 2.5
- Boundary: Export
- Depends: 1.2
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2.2 Search a tree for variants and merge with overlay flows
- For each parsed file within the MAP budget, call sites matching a shape's sink name, arity, and source positions (fact source, parameter, container read) produce
variantfindings atsuspicionwith the mechanism id; when the overlay has a flow at the same call site, its record gainsmechanism_idand no duplicate finding is emitted. - Observable: the split-sink Python fixture yields a variant finding merged into the overlay coverage record; a constant-argument call does not match;
quickemits no variants. - Requirements: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.6
- Boundary: VariantSearch
- Depends: 2.1
- For each parsed file within the MAP budget, call sites matching a shape's sink name, arity, and source positions (fact source, parameter, container read) produce
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2.3 Make variant findings sandbox-eligible and count them in the manifest
- Variant findings enter the candidate set after overlay promotions under the existing safety check and caps; the manifest records mechanisms searched, files searched, findings, and merges.
- Observable: with the fake sandbox a variant finding runs; the manifest
variantsblock is present on standard scans and absent on quick. - Requirements: 3.4, 3.5, 6.2
- Depends: 2.2
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3. Measurement: leave-one-out
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3.1 Evaluate the corpus leave-one-out
- For each trusted pair, seed a temporary store from the others, search both excerpts, and score detection and silence with the pair rules; report per slice, profile, mechanism, and per pair which mechanism found it; write
loo.json. - Observable:
ousast pairs --slice vibe-py --loo --jsonreports recall, silence, Youden per slice/profile/mechanism andfound_byper pair; the run is offline. - Requirements: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
- Boundary: LOO
- Depends: 2.2
- For each trusted pair, seed a temporary store from the others, search both excerpts, and score detection and silence with the pair rules; report per slice, profile, mechanism, and per pair which mechanism found it; write
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3.2 Record the leave-one-out baseline
- Roadmap gains a leave-one-out table per slice next to the pair baselines; not a gate.
- Observable: roadmap table present; gates unchanged.
- Requirements: 4.4, 7.2
- Depends: 3.1
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4. Integration: improve lever
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4.1 Add the mechanisms lever with a closed validator
MechanismEditadmit/retract by record id from the exporter's candidate set; validator rejects free-form shapes and unknown guard kinds; journal records pair provenance and metrics.- Observable: a free-form edit is rejected; an admit edit of an exported record passes validation and appears in the journal.
- Requirements: 5.1, 5.2, 5.5
- Boundary: Lever
- Depends: 2.1
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4.2 Propose admissions from leave-one-out misses and retractions from leaks under the existing gate
- Admit candidates that recover a currently missed holdout pair; retract admitted records that leak on holdout fixed sides; existing accept gate and per-profile clause decide; rejection reverts the store byte for byte.
- Observable: a scripted candidate that recovers a holdout pair is accepted and persisted; one that leaks on a fixed side is rejected and the store is unchanged.
- Requirements: 5.3, 5.4
- Depends: 4.1, 3.1
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5. Integration: reports
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5.1 Show mechanism id, known fix guard, and provenance on findings
- Markdown and SARIF show mechanism summary, guard shape, and pair provenance for findings carrying a mechanism id; variant findings are labeled suspicions unless raised.
- Observable: a standard scan report on the split-sink fixture names the mechanism and its guard; SARIF properties carry the id.
- Requirements: 6.1, 6.3
- Depends: 2.2
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6. Validation
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6.1 Prove offline tests and unchanged gates
- Unit and integration tests run without network, model, or sandbox; semantic-marked tests skip without the extra; detection, map, and local pair gates unchanged; extra-free suite green.
- Observable: both pytest matrices green; gate entrypoints unchanged.
- Requirements: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
- Depends: 2.3, 3.1, 4.2, 5.1
Implementation Notes
- Seeding reads
PairCase.review_tierfrompair-corpus-honestytask 8.1; until it lands, sast and vibe-py rows default toadvisory/seededper that design and only vibe-py seeds. - Guard classification is heuristic and closed;
noneis allowed and reported, never used to demote.