[seyhunak]

Summary

CodeSafetyTransform in coding_env searches for its dangerous patterns with no boundaries, so ordinary code gets the -1.0 safety penalty when a longer name contains a pattern: ast.literal_eval(s), urllib.request.urlopen(u), import osmnx and model.eval() all match. This gives each pattern its own boundary, as proposed in #1581 (comment), and keeps every dangerous call flagged today flagged, with one exception noted below.

Fixes #1581

Type of Change

• Bug fix
• New feature
• Breaking change
• Documentation
• New environment
• Refactoring

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• I have checked .claude/docs/INVARIANTS.md and no invariants are violated
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RFC Status

• Not required (bug fix, docs, minor refactoring)
• RFC exists: #___
• RFC needed (will create before merge)

Details

pattern	was	now	why
import os	import\s+os	\bimport\s+os\b	skips import osmnx, import os_helpers; import os.path and import os, sys still match
import subprocess	import\s+subprocess	\bimport\s+subprocess\b	same
eval / exec	eval\( / exec\(	(?<![\w.])eval\( / (?<![\w.])exec\(	skips literal_eval( and method calls such as model.eval() and df.eval(...)
open	open\(	\bopen\(	skips urlopen(; open(, io.open(, os.open( still match
popen	(matched by open\()	\bpopen\(, \bPopen\(	keeps os.popen( and subprocess.Popen( flagged now that \bopen\( skips them

The one call flagged on main and not here is builtins.eval(...), the cost of skipping .eval( method calls. A regex check can be bypassed anyway (getattr(builtins, "ev" + "al")), so this seemed the right trade-off for a reward signal. If reviewers prefer, \beval\( keeps builtins.eval( flagged and keeps model.eval() as a false positive.

The Julia copy of this pattern was fixed the same way in #1572.

Test Plan

New TestCodeSafetyTransform in tests/envs/test_python_codeact_rewards.py calls the transform directly on a CodeObservation:

• test_names_containing_a_pattern_are_not_penalized: ast.literal_eval, urlopen, import osmnx, import os_helpers, model.eval(), df.eval(...) keep reward 0.0 with no safety_violation.
• test_dangerous_code_is_penalized: import os, import os.path, import os, sys, import subprocess, eval(, exec(, __import__(, open(, io.open(, os.open(, os.popen(, subprocess.Popen( still get -1.0.

Importing coding_env.server pulls in smolagents, so these tests live in the module that already skips without it (my issue comment said otherwise, sorry).

PYTHONPATH=src:envs uv run --with smolagents pytest tests/envs/test_python_codeact_rewards.py tests/envs/test_coding_codeact_env.py tests/envs/test_python_codeact_reset.py

• main with only the new tests: the 6 false-positive cases fail, the 12 dangerous-call cases pass.
• this branch: all 59 tests in the three files pass, and the existing reward cases are unchanged.

bash .claude/hooks/lint.sh is clean.

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[zuraiz-anjum]

Thanks for taking this on. I ran the old and new pattern lists side by side over a set of calls. The false positives from #1581 all clear and nothing new gets flagged.

Three calls that are flagged on main stop being flagged here, on top of the builtins.eval(...) one in the description:

code	main	this branch
asyncio.create_subprocess_exec("ls")	exec\(	not flagged
builtins.exec("x=1")	exec\(	not flagged
os.fdopen(fd, "w")	open\(	not flagged

The first is the one I'd keep. It starts a process, which is the same reason you kept popen( and Popen(, and the lookbehind drops it because of the _ in front of exec(. An explicit r"\bcreate_subprocess_exec\(" entry brings it back, with one more case in test_dangerous_code_is_penalized.

builtins.exec( is the same trade-off as builtins.eval(, so it only needs a word in the description. os.fdopen( wraps a descriptor that is already open, so I'm fine letting it go. \bfdopen\( would keep today's behaviour if the maintainers want that.

The rest looks right to me.