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fix(security): give the session's tools the answers the host gate got - #8567
With the autonomy policy enabled, file tools refused every write with "[policy-blocked] … Action blocked: autonomy is read-only", even after the user or the local-operator rule approved it.
The host gate now gives the session's tools the TinySecurity answers it got, so an allowed call can act.
With the shipped default ([autonomy] enabled = false) nothing changes: both policies are unchecked.
Problem
The session's tools hold the policy built in build_session.rs:23 (tools/ops.rs:127-133). The host gate answers each call against effective_policy() instead (security_gate.rs), which is the embed agent's policy, or else the live policy installed at boot (live_policy::effective_in). These are separate from_config instances, each with its own budget_snapshot and class_gate_snapshot cells (enforcement.rs).
authorize_tool_with_facts filled the evaluated instance's cells. The tools' synchronous gates read their own cells, which stayed empty, so SecurityPolicy::can_act was false for an enabled tool policy.
Who was hit:
desktop users who enable the autonomy policy;
every embed library agent below Access::full(), because Access::apply forces enabled = true.
The same cause also made write_needs_approval always false, and refused writes from git and the file-storage tools.
Found by the TinySecurity E2E review (TS-E2E-025, row AP-42).
Solution
SecurityPolicy::adopt_answers_from(governing) (security/policy/enforcement.rs) copies governing's cached budget and class-gate answers into this instance.
When governing is unchecked, it seeds Allow, since governing allows everything.
It reads each cell before writing, so a clone that shares its cells cannot deadlock.
OpenHumanSecurityGate::share_answers calls it only when the evaluated policy is a different Arc from the constructor policy.
authorize_tool_with_facts shares at the two points where the call is allowed: the unchecked early return, and after the budget check succeeds. Deny paths are unchanged, so a refused call never unlocks the tools.
The session's tools validate paths against their own settings, so answers are shared only when SecurityPolicy::decides_tools_like agrees: the same enabled flag, tier, privacy mode, workspace_only and forbidden_paths. If the autonomy settings changed mid-conversation (config.update_autonomy_settings), the call is refused fail-closed with "[policy-blocked] The autonomy settings changed during this conversation. Start a new conversation to use the new settings." The tools never act on stale settings.
Trusted roots are not compared. The session policy adds the working folder and the projects home, so its roots legitimately differ from the live ones. A revoked root therefore takes effect from the next conversation. Per-call re-resolution of the tools' policy would close that, and is a follow-up.
Security: the tools act on exactly what the governing policy's TinySecurity answers allowed. Nothing is granted beyond that.
Shell is unaffected and needs no share:
The shell branch (authorize.rs, returns before the share) answers with check_command at the Authorize stage, which spends no budget.
At execute, ShellTool (tools/impl/system/shell.rs, run_with_security_in_context) asks TinySecurity again at the Execute stage, and the module spends from its own per-scope ledger. Nothing on that path reads can_act, gate_decision or either snapshot.
The cached answers are read only by the filesystem and network tool gates (FsGate and NetGate: file_write, apply_patch, edit_file, csv_export, git_operations, curl, http_request, pushover), all on the shared path. git_operations and write_needs_approval read the class gates, which is why both cells are copied.
Submission Checklist
Tests added or updated (happy path + at least one failure / edge case) per Testing Strategy:
agent::tinyagents::host::security_gate::tests::the_session_tools_can_act_on_what_the_live_policy_allowed is the regression test, red on main.
security::policy::…::a_policy_adopts_the_answers_another_instance_was_given covers the copy, a class kept at Block, and the clone with shared cells.
…::screen_and_policy::a_call_is_refused_when_the_autonomy_settings_changed_during_the_session is the failure path: stale settings are refused, and the tools stay unable to act.
security::policy::tests::tool_settings_match_only_when_tier_scope_forbidden_paths_and_privacy_agree: a new forbidden path or a switched policy is a change; a session's own root is not.
Diff coverage ≥ 80%: both branches of adopt_answers_from and both call sites are exercised by the tests above. CI's diff-cover decides.
N/A: behaviour fix, no feature row added, removed or renamed in docs/TEST-COVERAGE-MATRIX.md.
N/A: no matrix feature IDs affected; the review finding is listed under Related.
No new external network dependencies introduced.
N/A: no release-cut surface changes (docs/RELEASE-MANUAL-SMOKE.md).
N/A: no GitHub issue tracks this. It is TinySecurity E2E review finding TS-E2E-025.
Tests and red control
The regression test installs a disabled live policy (live_policy::install_scoped) beside an enabled session policy. It authorizes write_file through the gate, then asserts the session policy can act. On main it cannot: the gate allowed the call, but the tools would refuse it.
Red controls:
with the adopt_answers_from call removed from share_answers, the regression test fails at "the tools' policy must take the live policy's answer";
with the settings check disabled, the stale-settings test fails at "stale session settings must be refused".
See the validation table.
Both tests are behind security-module. Without it, security is disabled (security::switch), every policy is unchecked, and the bug cannot occur.
Validation (cuttlefish, CF-W1-fix-025-1, -2 on 46ea0e5 and -3 on 5d174a9)
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stale-settings test fails: "stale session settings must be refused" (-3)
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security::policy::
36 passed (-3)
34 passed
security::approval::
1 failed: the core-flow Always-allow test (TS-E2E-024, fixed separately)
the same 1
agent::tinyagents::host::security_gate::, one process
-2: 6 and 4 failed; -3: 6 failed. No test fails that does not also fail on main
-2: the same 6 failed in both runs; -3: 3 of those 6 failed
those 6 tests, each alone
all pass
all pass
The security_gate:: failures are pre-existing. Those tests share process-wide state (the screening guardrail and the live policy), and they fail only when run together in one process, on main exactly as here.
Impact
Desktop with the default config: no change.
Desktop with the autonomy policy enabled, and embed agents below Full access: approved and auto-approved file writes run again.
Changing the autonomy settings mid-conversation refuses tool calls until a new conversation starts, instead of acting on the old settings.
No migration, no wire change.
Related
TS-E2E finding: TS-E2E-025 (row AP-42): with the policy enabled, file tools refused every write as read-only.
Follow-up PR(s)/TODOs:
TS-E2E-027: the per-turn "autonomy policy DISABLED" log comes from a placeholder hosted_base (builder_build.rs) that build_session overwrites. Separate PR.
Re-resolve the tools' governing policy per call, so a revoked trusted root takes effect mid-conversation (it needs the tinyagents tool gates re-plumbed).
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N/A: pnpm --filter openhuman-app format:check, no frontend change
N/A: pnpm typecheck, no TypeScript change
Focused tests: on cuttlefish (see table)
Rust fmt/check (if changed): on cuttlefish (see table)
N/A: Tauri fmt/check, no shell change
Validation Blocked
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Behavior Changes
Intended behavior change: with the autonomy policy enabled, a tool call the host gate allowed can act.
User-visible effect: file writes no longer fail with "autonomy is read-only" after an approval.
Parity Contract
Legacy behavior preserved: the default (disabled) path, every deny path, and the shell branch.
Guard/fallback/dispatch parity checks: when the gate evaluates its own constructor policy (same Arc), nothing is copied.
Duplicate / Superseded PR Handling
Duplicate PR(s): none
Canonical PR: this
Resolution (closed/superseded/updated): N/A
Summary by CodeRabbit
Security
Tool actions are now blocked when session settings conflict with the active security policy, and the refusal indicates that settings have changed.
Permission decisions are shared only when the policies agree on tool-related settings. When they do, existing decisions are applied consistently across both policies.
The host gate answers a tool call against the live or agent policy
(effective_policy), but the session's tools hold the constructor policy,
a separate from_config instance with its own snapshot cells. With the
autonomy policy enabled, the tools' budget snapshot was never filled, so
can_act was false and every file write was refused as "autonomy is
read-only", even after an approval.
When the evaluated policy is a different instance, authorize now copies
its cached budget and class-gate answers onto the constructor policy:
after the budget check, and as allow-all when the evaluated policy is
unchecked.
Verdict: Ready for maintainer review · Priority: none Coverage: Reviewed 5 of 5 files.
Pull request purpose (title): fix(security): give…
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Pull request purpose (title): fix(security): give the session's tools the answers the host gate got. Tiny Sweeper completed its review; deterministic results follow.
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What changed
Adds `SecurityPolicy::decides_tools_like`, which compares enabled, autonomy, privacy mode, `workspace_only` and `forbidden_paths` while deliberately excluding trusted roots (the session policy adds the working folder and projects home, so roots legitimately differ). Adds `SecurityPolicy::adopt_answers_from`, which copies the governing policy's cached budget and per-class gate answers into the receiving instance, seeding Allow for Read, Write, Network, Install and Destructive when the governing policy is unchecked, and reads cells before writing so a clone sharing cells cannot deadlock. `OpenHumanSecurityGate::share_answers` now returns a bool: it returns true when the evaluated policy is the same `Arc`, warns and returns false when the settings no longer match, and otherwise adopts the answers. `authorize_tool_with_facts` calls it at the unchecked early return and after the budget check succeeds, denying with a "settings changed" policy-blocked reason in each case, so deny paths remain unchanged and the tools stay unable to act.
Features
Added — Comparison of the settings the tools act on: Decides whether a governing policy's answers may be adopted by the session policy the tools hold; a differing enabled flag, autonomy tier, privacy mode, `workspace_only` or forbidden-path set counts as a settings change, while trusted roots are intentionally ignored so a session's own working-folder root is not treated as drift. (crates/openhuman-core/src/security/policy/enforcement.rsimpl SecurityPolicy {)
Added — Policy answer adoption across instances: Lets the session policy the tools hold take the governing policy's cached budget and per-class gate decisions so its synchronous gates read the host gate's decision; an unchecked governing policy seeds Allow for all five command classes, since it allows everything. (crates/openhuman-core/src/security/policy/enforcement.rsimpl SecurityPolicy {)
Tests
integration test (behavioral regression) — Installs a disabled live policy beside an enabled session policy, authorizes `write_file` through the gate, and asserts the decision is a Deny whose reason mentions "settings changed" plus that the session policy still cannot act — pinning that a refused call hands the tools nothing.: Targets the stale-settings refusal path introduced in this change; the lane reported no reachable-input defect and no coding-rule break. No execution result is asserted here. (crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/tinyagents/host/security_gate_screen_and_policy_tests.rsasync fn prompt_screening_uses_the_bound_dispatch_configuration() {)
unit test — Copies budget and class-gate answers between distinct policy instances, checks the adopted Write decision and the fail-closed Block default for an absent class, then re-adopts from a shared clone.: Covers the adopt path and the shared-cell clone case the implementation is written to avoid deadlocking on. The tests lane reports a residual gap: the `governing.unchecked()` arm of `adopt_answers_from` — the allow-everything hand-off a disabled live policy takes — is asserted by no test in the diff. No execution result is asserted here. (crates/openhuman-core/src/security/policy/policy_tests.rsfn an_unchecked_host_action_is_classed_from_its_permission_level() {)
unit test — Asserts that default policies decide tools alike, that a newly forbidden path or a switched-off policy does not, and that a session-added trusted root still matches.: Exercises the settings comparison including its trusted-roots exclusion. No execution result is asserted here. (crates/openhuman-core/src/security/policy/policy_tests.rsfn an_unchecked_host_action_is_classed_from_its_permission_level() {)
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Conclusion: Success
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Lane summary: Reviewed 5 files; 2 findings. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `c2902b75ecf7`), so retrieved context may be out of date._
tests
Conclusion: Success
Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
Positive: Lane found no reachable-input defect in the change and reported no repository coding-rule breaks, with the new tests placed in existing sibling `*_tests.rs` files as the repository's test-file rule requires.
Lane summary: The change adds `decides_tools_like`/`adopt_answers_from` to `SecurityPolicy` and a `share_answers` hand-off in `OpenHumanSecurityGate`, and both the acceptance test for the mismatched-settings refusal and the unit tests for adoption and the settings comparison are in the diff (including the clone/deadlock case the comment claims). I found no reachable-input defect: the tests exercise the deny path, the adopt path, and the trusted-roots exclusion, and none of the repository's coding rules is broken. One coverage gap: `adopt_answers_from`'s `governing.unchecked()` arm — the allow-everything hand-off that a disabled live policy takes — is asserted by no test in the diff. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `c2902b75ecf7`), so retrieved context may be out of date._
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Lane summary: The description matches the diff: it names the two new `SecurityPolicy` methods, the two share points in `authorize_tool_with_facts`, the fail-closed stale-settings check, the tests, and the trust-root caveat, all of which are present. One thing the description never mentions: `share_answers` is also called on the `policy.unchecked()` early-return path, where it can now turn a previously-allowed call into a deny — that contradicts the PR's own claim that the disabled/off path is unchanged, so I am reporting the gap in the description. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `c2902b75ecf7`), so retrieved context may be out of date._
Tool authorization now checks whether the evaluated policy matches the session policy settings. When settings differ, authorization denies the call. When settings match, the evaluated policy’s cached answers are copied to the session policy.
Changes: Policy answer sharing
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Summary
Policy comparison and answer adoption crates/openhuman-core/src/security/policy/enforcement.rs, crates/openhuman-core/src/security/policy/policy_tests.rs
decides_tools_like compares enabled state, autonomy, privacy mode, workspace-only setting, and forbidden paths. It does not compare trusted roots. adopt_answers_from copies cached budget and class-gate decisions, with Allow decisions supplied for unchecked policies. Tests cover the comparison and adoption behavior.
Authorization with current settings crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/tinyagents/host/security_gate.rs, crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/tinyagents/host/security_gate/authorize.rs, crates/openhuman-core/src/agent/tinyagents/host/security_gate_screen_and_policy_tests.rs
Authorization shares evaluated answers when policies match and returns a “settings changed” denial when they do not. A regression test covers enabled session settings with disabled live settings and verifies that the session policy cannot act afterward.
Issue 7649: The issue describes an approval prompt followed by a session tool refusal. This change covers a policy mismatch that can cause a session tool call to be denied.
Possibly related PRs
tinyhumansai/openhuman#8538: It changes the unchecked-policy behavior used to supply Allow decisions on the unchecked authorization path.
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Review (tinyhumansai#8567): handing the live policy's cached answers to the session's
own policy let its tools act, but they still validated paths against the
settings the session was built with. After config.update_autonomy_settings
added a forbidden path or switched the policy, a write could be checked
against settings no longer in force.
The gate now shares the answers only when the governing policy sets what
the tools act on (tier, enabled, privacy, workspace_only, forbidden paths)
the same way as the session's policy; otherwise it refuses the call and asks
for a new conversation, which builds its tools from the current settings.
Test snapshot sharing with an enabled live policy.
The regression test takes the unchecked path, so removing the checked-path share_answers call would not fail it. Add a test with distinct enabled live and session policies that checks both copied snapshots after authorization. Also check that a denied call leaves the session snapshots unchanged.
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Extend the security gate tests around the `authorize_tool` flow to cover
checked-path snapshot sharing: use distinct enabled live and session policies,
authorize an allowed request, and verify both policies’ snapshots reflect the
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- Line 272: Update the authorization flow around `share_answers` so an older
detached child-run snapshot cannot overwrite newer class decisions after Git
authorization; preserve newer decisions when reconciling concurrent adoptions,
including an existing Write decision needed for Git-authorized writes.
Review comments at @crates/openhuman-core/src/security/policy/enforcement.rs:
- Around line 148-157: In the adoption flow in spend_action, handle a poisoned
governing.budget_snapshot lock as an authorization error and log the poisoned
lock instead of converting it to None and adopting an empty budget snapshot.
Preserve the existing behavior when the lock is healthy.
- Around line 135-146: The unchecked-policy fallback in `governing.unchecked()`
creates an Allow decision for `CommandClass::Network` that can persist across
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so stale unchecked decisions cannot classify network effects as Write or
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- Around line 401-430: Extend the security gate tests around the
`authorize_tool` flow to cover checked-path snapshot sharing: use distinct
enabled live and session policies, authorize an allowed request, and verify both
policies’ snapshots reflect the shared answers. Also verify a denied
authorization leaves the session snapshots unchanged, using the existing
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Summary
[autonomy] enabled = false) nothing changes: both policies are unchecked.Problem
build_session.rs:23(tools/ops.rs:127-133). The host gate answers each call againsteffective_policy()instead (security_gate.rs), which is the embed agent's policy, or else the live policy installed at boot (live_policy::effective_in). These are separatefrom_configinstances, each with its ownbudget_snapshotandclass_gate_snapshotcells (enforcement.rs).authorize_tool_with_factsfilled the evaluated instance's cells. The tools' synchronous gates read their own cells, which stayed empty, soSecurityPolicy::can_actwas false for an enabled tool policy.Access::full(), becauseAccess::applyforcesenabled = true.write_needs_approvalalways false, and refused writes from git and the file-storage tools.Solution
SecurityPolicy::adopt_answers_from(governing)(security/policy/enforcement.rs) copiesgoverning's cached budget and class-gate answers into this instance.governingis unchecked, it seeds Allow, sincegoverningallows everything.OpenHumanSecurityGate::share_answerscalls it only when the evaluated policy is a differentArcfrom the constructor policy.authorize_tool_with_factsshares at the two points where the call is allowed: the unchecked early return, and after the budget check succeeds. Deny paths are unchanged, so a refused call never unlocks the tools.SecurityPolicy::decides_tools_likeagrees: the same enabled flag, tier, privacy mode,workspace_onlyandforbidden_paths. If the autonomy settings changed mid-conversation (config.update_autonomy_settings), the call is refused fail-closed with "[policy-blocked] The autonomy settings changed during this conversation. Start a new conversation to use the new settings." The tools never act on stale settings.shellbranch (authorize.rs, returns before the share) answers withcheck_commandat the Authorize stage, which spends no budget.ShellTool(tools/impl/system/shell.rs,run_with_security_in_context) asks TinySecurity again at the Execute stage, and the module spends from its own per-scope ledger. Nothing on that path readscan_act,gate_decisionor either snapshot.FsGateandNetGate: file_write, apply_patch, edit_file, csv_export, git_operations, curl, http_request, pushover), all on the shared path.git_operationsandwrite_needs_approvalread the class gates, which is why both cells are copied.Submission Checklist
agent::tinyagents::host::security_gate::tests::the_session_tools_can_act_on_what_the_live_policy_allowedis the regression test, red on main.security::policy::…::a_policy_adopts_the_answers_another_instance_was_givencovers the copy, a class kept at Block, and the clone with shared cells.…::screen_and_policy::a_call_is_refused_when_the_autonomy_settings_changed_during_the_sessionis the failure path: stale settings are refused, and the tools stay unable to act.security::policy::tests::tool_settings_match_only_when_tier_scope_forbidden_paths_and_privacy_agree: a new forbidden path or a switched policy is a change; a session's own root is not.adopt_answers_fromand both call sites are exercised by the tests above. CI's diff-cover decides.docs/TEST-COVERAGE-MATRIX.md.docs/RELEASE-MANUAL-SMOKE.md).Tests and red control
live_policy::install_scoped) beside an enabled session policy. It authorizeswrite_filethrough the gate, then asserts the session policy can act. On main it cannot: the gate allowed the call, but the tools would refuse it.adopt_answers_fromcall removed fromshare_answers, the regression test fails at "the tools' policy must take the live policy's answer";security-module. Without it, security is disabled (security::switch), every policy is unchecked, and the bug cannot occur.Validation (cuttlefish, CF-W1-fix-025-1, -2 on 46ea0e5 and -3 on 5d174a9)
The head is 1011fc9, which is 5d174a9 plus CF's fmt hunks (whitespace only).
cargo fmt --checkpnpm rust:layoutartifacts/tiny_store_tests.rs784/750, pre-existing (fixed by #8560)cargo check --locked, core without / with security-module-D warningsagent::tinyagents::host::security_gate::tests::screen_and_policy::the_session_tools_can_act_on_what_the_live_policy_allowedsecurity::policy::tests::a_policy_adopts_the_answers_another_instance_was_given…::screen_and_policy::a_call_is_refused_when_the_autonomy_settings_changed_during_the_sessionsecurity::policy::tests::tool_settings_match_only_when_tier_scope_forbidden_paths_and_privacy_agreesecurity::policy::security::approval::agent::tinyagents::host::security_gate::, one processThe
security_gate::failures are pre-existing. Those tests share process-wide state (the screening guardrail and the live policy), and they fail only when run together in one process, on main exactly as here.Impact
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