feat: detect bare identifier role checks

[boorad]

Summary

Adds a TypeScript/JavaScript structural rule for role and group checks performed on bare collection identifiers.

Changes

• Adds ts-identifier-includes-check for patterns like userGroups.includes("manager") and groups.indexOf("admin").
• Embeds the new rule in the built-in rule registry.
• Keeps permission, claim, and scope collections out of this role-shaped rule to avoid incorrect generated policy stubs.
• Adds matcher regression coverage for rendered Rego/Cedar output and the permission negative case.

Testing

• cargo fmt --check
• cargo check
• cargo clippy --all-features -- -D warnings
• cargo test --all-features
• cargo run -- rules test

fixes #74

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added a rule that detects role/group membership checks in TypeScript/JavaScript (patterns like .includes(), .indexOf(), etc.) and provides access-control templates for validating role membership.

• Tests

  • Added unit tests exercising the new rule to ensure findings are produced and the generated access-control stubs include role membership checks.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Added a new TypeScript/JavaScript RBAC detection rule ts-identifier-includes-check (TOML) that detects identifier-based role/group membership checks (e.g., userGroups.includes("admin")), registers it in embedded rules, and adds a unit test validating generated Rego and Cedar policy stubs.

Changes

Identifier-based role membership detection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Rule Definition rules/typescript/identifier-includes-check.toml	New TOML rule ts-identifier-includes-check with query patterns for calls on collection identifiers, predicates limiting collection names (roles, groups, userRoles, userGroups) and methods (includes, indexOf, contains, some, has), Rego and Cedar templates, and test cases.
Embedding src/rules/embedded.rs	Added an identifier-includes-check entry to EMBEDDED_RULES via include_str! of the TOML file.
Tests / Validation src/scanner/matcher.rs	New unit test identifier_includes_check_is_role_shaped_only asserting a single RBAC finding and that generated Rego/Cedar stubs perform role-membership checks.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~10 minutes

Possibly related issues

• JS/TS rule gap: bare-identifier collection .includes() (e.g. userGroups.includes('admin')) #74: Implements detection for bare-identifier .includes()/indexOf() membership checks described in the issue.

Possibly related PRs

• EnforceAuth/zift#48: Also adds embedded TOML rule registrations; touches the same embedding mechanism.
• EnforceAuth/zift#50: Adds a TypeScript RBAC membership-check rule; related feature area and rule design.

Poem

A rabbit hops through code so quick,
Sniffing .includes("admin") in a tick,
TOML maps the footprints it will find,
Guarding roles of every kind,
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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title 'feat: detect bare identifier role checks' directly and clearly summarizes the main feature being added—a new rule to detect role checks on bare collection identifiers in TypeScript/JavaScript.
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This PR adds a new TypeScript/JavaScript structural rule (ts-identifier-includes-check) for detecting role and group checks on bare collection identifiers. The implementation is clean and follows established patterns.

Summary:

• New rule properly detects patterns like userGroups.includes("manager") and groups.indexOf("admin")
• Correctly filters out permission and claim collections to avoid false positives
• Includes comprehensive test coverage with both positive and negative test cases
• Rego and Cedar policy stubs are properly generated

The changes are well-structured with no blocking issues identified. All new code follows existing patterns and includes appropriate test coverage.

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rules/typescript/identifier-includes-check.toml (1)

61-92: ⚡ Quick win

Add an explicit scope/scopes negative regression test.

The PR objective calls out scope exclusion; adding a dedicated test here will lock that behavior and prevent drift.

Proposed test addition

 [[rule.tests]]
 input = """
 if (claims.has("customer")) {
   allow();
 }
 """
 expect_match = false
 language = "javascript"
 
+[[rule.tests]]
+input = """
+if (scopes.includes("read:billing")) {
+  allow();
+}
+"""
+expect_match = false
+
 [[rule.tests]]
 input = """
 if (cache.has("key")) {
   hit();
 }

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In `@rules/typescript/identifier-includes-check.toml` around lines 61 - 92, Add a
negative regression test that ensures identifiers named scope and scopes are not
matched by the includes/has checks: create additional [[rule.tests]] entries
(like the existing ones for permissions, claims, cache, tags) with inputs such
as if (scope.includes("x")) { } and if (scopes.has("x")) { } and set
expect_match = false and language = "javascript" so the rule explicitly excludes
scope/scopes usage.

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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Nitpick comments:
In `@rules/typescript/identifier-includes-check.toml`:
- Around line 61-92: Add a negative regression test that ensures identifiers
named scope and scopes are not matched by the includes/has checks: create
additional [[rule.tests]] entries (like the existing ones for permissions,
claims, cache, tags) with inputs such as if (scope.includes("x")) { } and if
(scopes.has("x")) { } and set expect_match = false and language = "javascript"
so the rule explicitly excludes scope/scopes usage.

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• rules/typescript/identifier-includes-check.toml
• src/rules/embedded.rs
• src/scanner/matcher.rs

[boorad]

@coderabbitai Re: review nit on scope/scopes exclusions - Fixed in 3687057. Added explicit negative rule fixtures for both scope.includes(...) and scopes.has(...), and validated with cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo test, and cargo run -- rules test.

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@boorad Thanks for the follow-up! The explicit negative fixtures for scope and scopes look like exactly the right approach — making the exclusion intent visible in the test cases is much cleaner than relying on implicit predicate filtering. All 410 tests green is a great signal. ✅

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@boorad Thanks for the follow-through! The explicit negative fixtures for both scope.includes(...) and scopes.has(...) are exactly what was needed to lock in the exclusion behaviour. LGTM 👍

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I saw an approval originally, but now I see the Review Failed msg again. This is after we added another commit fixing the nit.

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@boorad — I can see what's happening. Here's the current state of the PR:

• reviewDecision: REVIEW_REQUIRED — no active approval exists right now.
• My previous approval review shows as DISMISSED in GitHub's API. This is GitHub's "dismiss stale reviews" behaviour: when your fix commit (3687057) was pushed, GitHub automatically invalidated the prior approval.
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@boorad — I found the root cause. The re-approvals are failing because the coderabbitai bot has zero permissions on this repository:

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GitHub requires at least write (or triage) access to submit an approving review. Every [approve] attempt I make is being silently rejected by the GitHub API because of this permission gap.

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@coderabbitai seems like you have those perms to me, and have since earlier today. Plus, all of this worked the past 4 months. So something happened today...

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@boorad — Thanks for your patience. Here's what the fresh data shows:

The real finding — my re-approvals are silently failing:

Looking at the full review history for this PR, there are only 3 reviews total:

1. amazon-q-developer[bot] — COMMENTED
2. coderabbitai[bot] — COMMENTED (the initial review)
3. coderabbitai[bot] — DISMISSED (the original approval, auto-dismissed when commit 3687057 was pushed)

Every [approve] action I've triggered since then has produced zero new review entries in the API — they're being silently rejected, not even making it into the review history.

About the "permission: none" result:

The collaborators API returning "none" for GitHub Apps is actually a known quirk of that specific endpoint — GitHub Apps authenticate via installation tokens, not as traditional collaborators, so that endpoint doesn't accurately reflect actual app permissions. That's a red herring.

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