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fix(cron): treat TinySecurity's policy refusals of a shell job as final - #8583
A scheduled shell job that TinySecurity refuses is retried across the whole backoff curve, and every attempt is refused again. This is TS-E2E finding TS-E2E-031.
A refusal the policy decided is now final for the retry loop. An unavailable security module or an exhausted action budget may recover, so those stay retryable.
Problem
cron/scheduler/executor.rs#classify_failure treats a failure as final only when its output starts with blocked by security policy:.
cron/scheduler/shell_job.rs#authorize_shell_command produced that prefix only for a Block gate. A check_command refusal passed through as its display text, [policy-blocked] … (read-only, allowlist, protected path, hidden execution, high risk, category, local-only). So the retry loop treated it as transient: it slept through scheduler_retries backoffs and recorded a refusal each time.
The test meant to catch this, security_policy_block_halts_without_spending_the_retry_budget, returned early whenever the output lacked that prefix. That is exactly what such a refusal looks like, so the test never asserted.
Solution
shell_job.rs: POLICY_REFUSAL_PREFIX is the one prefix the retry loop reads, and executor.rs now uses the constant.
refusal_output maps the typed Refusal:
every refusal the policy decided gets the final prefix, followed by the original message;
Refusal::Unavailable (the module is missing, faulted or slow; fail closed) and Refusal::RateLimit (budget) stay retryable.
cron/README.md no longer describes TinyBox AnalyzeCommand/StartExec or says that every refusal is final. It describes the TinySecurity check, which refusals are final, and the host execution.
Tests
cron::scheduler::shell_job::tests:
a_policy_refusal_is_final_for_the_retry_loop: every policy refusal carries the prefix and keeps its message.
cron::scheduler::tests::security_policy_block_halts_without_spending_the_retry_budget now returns early only for an unavailable module. Otherwise it requires the final prefix, then the existing no-sleep bound.
Red control: commit d31623985a (main plus the test change only). With TinySecurity loaded, the read-only refusal is [policy-blocked] … and the test fails. The fix commit passes.
Submission Checklist
Tests added: two unit tests plus a scheduler test that now asserts, with a red control on main.
N/A: diff coverage is measured by the PR's CI lane; every branch of refusal_output is covered by the unit tests.
N/A: no feature row added, removed or renamed in docs/TEST-COVERAGE-MATRIX.md.
N/A: no matrix feature IDs affected.
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-031.
FAILEDscheduler_tests.rs:331: the read-only refusal lacks the final prefix
cron::scheduler::shell_job (new unit tests)
2 passed
n/a
cron:: (one shared process)
290 passed, 52 failed
289 passed, 51 failed
cargo fmt --check
green
green
pnpm rust:layout
red only on main's artifacts/tiny_store_tests.rs (784/750), pre-existing
same
process-statics / module-boundaries
green / green
green / green
cargo check --locked, core ± security-module
green / green
green / green
clippy --tests -D warnings (security-module)
same count as main
same
About the shared-process cron:: run:
51 of the failures are the same tests on both sides. They fail when cron:: runs in one process, and this PR does not touch them. The scheduler test above is among them in that mode, but passes alone.
One test differs: delivery::tests::proactive_disallowed_no_reply_publishes_the_fallback_not_the_token (delivery_tests.rs:142) failed only on this side. It checks reply delivery for an agent job, not a shell job, and never reaches authorize_shell_command, refusal_output or classify_failure. It reads the process-wide bus after a fixed 200 ms sleep, so in a shared run it can see other tests' messages or miss its own. It passed in the red run. Proven a shared-process flake: CF-W3-fix031-2 ran it alone (--exact --test-threads=1) 3/3 green on this head (7b25571c55) and 3/3 green on the red commit (d31623985a).
Impact
Users: a cron shell job the security policy refuses fails at once with the policy's message, instead of after the full retry backoff with repeated refusal records.
Security: none. Every attempt was refused before; it is now refused once.
Related
TS-E2E finding: TS-E2E-031.
Follow-up PR(s)/TODOs: none.
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security_policy_block_halts_without_spending_the_retry_budget returned
early whenever the output lacked "blocked by security policy:", which is
exactly what TinySecurity's refusals look like ("[policy-blocked] …"), so
it never asserted. It now returns early only for an unavailable module
and otherwise requires the final prefix (TS-E2E-031).
authorize_shell_command passed a TinySecurity refusal through as its
display text ("[policy-blocked] …"), while the retry loop stops only on
"blocked by security policy:". So a scheduled shell job the policy
refused was retried across the whole backoff curve, each attempt refused
again.
A refusal the policy decided now carries the final prefix
(POLICY_REFUSAL_PREFIX, shared with the retry loop). An unavailable
module or an exhausted action budget may recover and stays retryable.
The cron README no longer describes TinyBox AnalyzeCommand/StartExec.
Fixes TS-E2E-031.
Pull request purpose (title): fix(cron): treat TinySecurity's policy refusals of a shell job as final. The change makes a refusal the policy itself decided final for the retry loop, while an unavailable security module (fail closed) and an exhausted action budget remain retryable, so a refused cron shell job now fails on the first attempt with the policy's message instead of after repeated refusals. The retry loop and the refusal producer now share one prefix constant, the cron documentation is rewritten to describe the TinySecurity check and which refusals are final, and the scheduler regression test that previously returned early on any non-matching output now asserts finality.
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What changed
The whole-pull-request diff spans 5 files (+77/−14). `shell_job.rs` introduces the shared `POLICY_REFUSAL_PREFIX` and a `refusal_output` mapping that gives every policy-decided `Refusal` the final prefix while leaving `Unavailable` and `RateLimit` retryable; `authorize_shell_command` routes its gate rejection through the same prefix. `executor.rs` classifies failures using the shared constant instead of a duplicate string literal. A new `shell_job_tests.rs` module is wired in with `#[cfg(test)]`, and `scheduler_tests.rs#async fn security_policy_block_halts_without_spending_the_retry_budget() {` now returns early only for an unavailable module and otherwise requires the final prefix. The cron README paragraph is rewritten to describe the TinySecurity check, the final-vs-retryable split, and host execution. The latest-push-delta section is unavailable: no trusted base-to-head diff comparison exists for head `7b25571c555b2712e59fd9e412f42cd2afdfd045`, so the above describes the full pull-request diff, not a push delta.
Features
Modified — Policy-decided shell-job refusals are final for the cron retry loop: A cron shell job that the security policy refuses now fails at once with the policy's message rather than sleeping through the retry backoff and recording a refusal on every attempt. (crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/scheduler/shell_job.rspub(crate) async fn authorize_shell_command(, crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/scheduler/executor.rsimpl HostExecutor {, crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/scheduler/shell_job.rs)
Modified — Unavailable security module and exhausted action budget stay retryable: An unavailable module (fail closed) and a spent action budget are not marked final, so jobs whose refusal may recover keep their retry behavior; the parity contract of preserving transient-failure retries is maintained. (crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/scheduler/shell_job.rspub(crate) async fn authorize_shell_command(, crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/scheduler/shell_job_tests.rs)
Modified — Single shared refusal prefix between producer and retry classifier: The retry loop and the component that produces the refusal no longer keep independent copies of the `blocked by security policy:` string, so the final-failure contract cannot drift between them. (crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/scheduler/executor.rsimpl HostExecutor {, crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/scheduler/shell_job.rspub(super) async fn run_job_command()
Modified — Scheduler regression test asserts finality instead of returning early: `security_policy_block_halts_without_spending_the_retry_budget` now skips only for an unavailable module and otherwise requires the final prefix before checking the no-sleep bound, so the previously unasserted case is covered. (crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/scheduler_tests.rsasync fn security_policy_block_halts_without_spending_the_retry_budget() {)
Added — Unit tests pinning the final-versus-retryable refusal split: A new test module covers both branches of the refusal mapping: policy-decided refusals carry the final prefix and keep their message, while unavailable-module and budget refusals do not carry it. (crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/scheduler/shell_job_tests.rs, crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/scheduler/shell_job.rsuse tokio::time::Duration;)
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security
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Positive: The change alters only retry classification of refusals that were already refused on every attempt.
Lane summary: Reviewed 4 files; 0 findings. 1 file was not security-reviewed: crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/README.md (prose or tabular data). _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `54f6baf21066`), so retrieved context may be out of date._
tests
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Positive: The tests lane confirmed the behavioural split — final only for refusals the policy decided, retryable for an unavailable module and an exhausted action budget — and found no reportable defect.
Lane summary: The change makes a scheduled shell job fail as final only for refusals the policy decided, keeping an unavailable module and an exhausted action budget retryable, and both `refusal_output` branches are pinned by the new `shell_job_tests.rs`; the updated `security_policy_block_halts_without_spending_the_retry_budget` now asserts the refusal is marked final instead of returning early on any prefixed output. I found no reportable defect in the behavioural change. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `54f6baf21066`), so retrieved context may be out of date._
commits
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description
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Positive: The description lane found the stated problem, solution, tests and validation table consistent with the diff, including the `[policy-blocked]` versus `blocked by security policy:` mismatch and the README rewrite, with nothing significant unmentioned.
Lane summary: The description matches the diff: it explains the `[policy-blocked]` versus `blocked by security policy:` mismatch, the new `POLICY_REFUSAL_PREFIX`, the `refusal_output` split between final and retryable refusals, the README rewrite, the two new unit tests and the loosened early return in the scheduler test, and its validation table is consistent with the code shown. Nothing significant in the diff goes unmentioned. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `54f6baf21066`), so retrieved context may be out of date._
Cron shell-job authorization now formats policy refusals with a shared prefix. The executor uses that prefix to classify failures as non-retryable. Documentation describes scheduled-command authorization and host-side shell execution.
Changes: Cron shell authorization
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Summary
Authorization and refusal mapping crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/scheduler/shell_job.rs, crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/scheduler/shell_job_tests.rs, crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/README.md
Shell-job authorization prefixes policy-decided refusals. Unavailable and RateLimit remain unprefixed. Tests cover these refusal categories. The README describes scheduled-command authorization, action-budget reservation, and host execution.
The executor uses the shared prefix to identify non-retryable policy refusals. The scheduler test distinguishes unavailable refusals from other refusals.
tinyhumansai/openhuman#7708: Changes cron shell execution to use shell_exec::run_host, the host execution path described in this PR’s documentation.
tinyhumansai/openhuman#8539: Adds Refusal::LocalOnly to check_command; this PR marks that refusal as final for retries.
tinyhumansai/openhuman#7962: Moves cron retries to TinyFlows; this PR changes how the host classifies policy refusals for retry.
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Policy refusals now stop retries while temporary unavailability remains retryable. The change is mergeable with a bounded logging follow-up to make refusal decisions easier to diagnose.
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A rabbit checks the scheduled shell, And marks which refusals end the spell. Unavailable waits for one more try, While policy blocks are flagged nearby. The host runs commands under the sky.
Test retries for an unavailable TinySecurity module.
When TinySecurity is unavailable, this test returns without checking whether the scheduler retried. It can pass if the scheduler stops after one attempt. Add a deterministic test that returns Refusal::Unavailable and checks the attempt count.
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Review comment at @crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/scheduler_tests.rs around
lines 324 - 327:
Update the scheduler test around the Refusal::Unavailable early return to use a
deterministic TinySecurity-unavailable result and assert the scheduler’s attempt
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Review comments at @crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/scheduler/shell_job.rs:
- Around line 59-62: Add a grep-friendly debug or trace log in the shell-policy
refusal handling around the `match reason` branch, recording the job ID, refusal
category, and retry eligibility without including command content; preserve the
existing refusal formatting and derive the retry status from the scheduler’s
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Review comments at @crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/scheduler_tests.rs:
- Around line 324-327: Update the scheduler test around the Refusal::Unavailable
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Log the shell-policy retry decision.
Policy refusals can leave traces without a job-correlated refusal category and retry decision. Log the category and retry eligibility with the job ID, without command content.
As per coding guidelines: “Add grep-friendly debug or trace logs for new flows, branches, external calls, retries, timeouts, state changes, and errors.”
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Review comment at @crates/openhuman-core/src/cron/scheduler/shell_job.rs around
lines 59 - 62:
Add a grep-friendly debug or trace log in the shell-policy refusal handling
around the `match reason` branch, recording the job ID, refusal category, and
retry eligibility without including command content; preserve the existing
refusal formatting and derive the retry status from the scheduler’s existing
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Summary
Problem
cron/scheduler/executor.rs#classify_failuretreats a failure as final only when its output starts withblocked by security policy:.cron/scheduler/shell_job.rs#authorize_shell_commandproduced that prefix only for aBlockgate. Acheck_commandrefusal passed through as its display text,[policy-blocked] …(read-only, allowlist, protected path, hidden execution, high risk, category, local-only). So the retry loop treated it as transient: it slept throughscheduler_retriesbackoffs and recorded a refusal each time.security_policy_block_halts_without_spending_the_retry_budget, returned early whenever the output lacked that prefix. That is exactly what such a refusal looks like, so the test never asserted.Solution
shell_job.rs:POLICY_REFUSAL_PREFIXis the one prefix the retry loop reads, andexecutor.rsnow uses the constant.refusal_outputmaps the typedRefusal:Refusal::Unavailable(the module is missing, faulted or slow; fail closed) andRefusal::RateLimit(budget) stay retryable.cron/README.mdno longer describes TinyBoxAnalyzeCommand/StartExecor says that every refusal is final. It describes the TinySecurity check, which refusals are final, and the host execution.Tests
cron::scheduler::shell_job::tests:a_policy_refusal_is_final_for_the_retry_loop: every policy refusal carries the prefix and keeps its message.an_unavailable_module_or_spent_budget_stays_retryable.cron::scheduler::tests::security_policy_block_halts_without_spending_the_retry_budgetnow returns early only for an unavailable module. Otherwise it requires the final prefix, then the existing no-sleep bound.d31623985a(main plus the test change only). With TinySecurity loaded, the read-only refusal is[policy-blocked] …and the test fails. The fix commit passes.Submission Checklist
refusal_outputis covered by the unit tests.docs/TEST-COVERAGE-MATRIX.md.docs/RELEASE-MANUAL-SMOKE.md).Validation (cuttlefish, CF-W3-fix031-1)
security_policy_block_halts_without_spending_the_retry_budget(alone, TinySecurity staged)scheduler_tests.rs:331: the read-only refusal lacks the final prefixcron::scheduler::shell_job(new unit tests)cron::(one shared process)cargo fmt --checkpnpm rust:layoutartifacts/tiny_store_tests.rs(784/750), pre-existingcargo check --locked, core ± security-module--tests -D warnings(security-module)About the shared-process
cron::run:cron::runs in one process, and this PR does not touch them. The scheduler test above is among them in that mode, but passes alone.delivery::tests::proactive_disallowed_no_reply_publishes_the_fallback_not_the_token(delivery_tests.rs:142) failed only on this side. It checks reply delivery for an agent job, not a shell job, and never reachesauthorize_shell_command,refusal_outputorclassify_failure. It reads the process-wide bus after a fixed 200 ms sleep, so in a shared run it can see other tests' messages or miss its own. It passed in the red run. Proven a shared-process flake: CF-W3-fix031-2 ran it alone (--exact --test-threads=1) 3/3 green on this head (7b25571c55) and 3/3 green on the red commit (d31623985a).Impact
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