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Now the single consolidated PR for this repo (git skill: one branch named ai, one PR).

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The bypass, for reviewers

check_is_alpha_numeric, validate_safe_filename and check_is_not_empty_and_only_one_line read the caller's variable with ${!name}, but bash scoping is dynamic, so their own locals shadowed a caller variable of the same name. Measured before the fix:

varname='../../../etc/passwd'; validate_safe_filename varname            -> rc 0 (accepted)
varname='!@#';                 check_is_alpha_numeric varname            -> rc 0 (accepted)
varname=$'multi\nline';        check_is_not_empty_and_only_one_line varname -> rc 0 (accepted)

Locals are now prefixed. Regression tests are in string_bsh_tests, and were verified to FAIL against the pre-fix code rather than pass vacuously.

One resolution to review

The merge of the wayland branch conflicted in use_sudo.sh. Resolved to master's sudo_error_exit_if_unavailable (which gained an optional graphical mode in fe11d7b) rather than the branch's older auto-detecting variant, which also calls generic_gui_message.py -- a path that does not exist here, unlike the non-.py helper master calls. The branch's approach to "visible sudo error" is therefore superseded, not merged. Worth a second opinion if that was not intended.

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Gate green against master. strings.bsh self-tests pass; sanitize_string 24 tests with black/pylint/mypy clean.

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  • New Features

    • Added a utility to identify whether OpenGL rendering is hardware-accelerated, software-based, or unknown.
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    • Improved download interruption handling, size-limit enforcement, progress reporting, and exit-status accuracy.
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    • Standardized locale behavior across system utilities for more consistent results.
    • Added required tools for automated diagnostics and testing.

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The pull request adds software-rendering detection, reworks curl download monitoring and exit handling, adds fuzz CI coverage and runtime packages, and applies locale, formatting, path, and Git error-handling updates to shell utilities.

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curl Progress Lifecycle and Validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Source-safe execution and process control
usr/libexec/helper-scripts/curl-prgrs
The helper separates strict execution from sourcing, adds test seams, publishes curl process IDs, and centralizes status-based shutdown handling.
Download size and progress validation
usr/libexec/helper-scripts/curl-prgrs
Progress percentages and download sizes use shared validation helpers, phase-specific ceilings, final checks, and configurable polling.
Two-phase download orchestration
usr/libexec/helper-scripts/curl-prgrs
Header and body downloads use separate paths. Oversized content lengths are rejected, status is reset between phases, and strict initialization runs only on direct execution.

Software Rendering Detection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Renderer detection pipeline
usr/bin/detect-software-rendering
The new utility checks GPU nodes and overrides, probes eglinfo, classifies renderer names, and returns distinct results for software, accelerated, and unknown rendering.

Fuzz Test Workflow and Packages

Layer / File(s) Summary
Fuzz workflow and runtime environment
.github/workflows/dist-ai-fuzz.yml, .github/dm-consumer.yml
CI adds a reusable fuzz workflow and installs curl, ncurses-bin, and python3-z3 with documented runtime requirements.

Shell Portability and Review-Driver Hardening

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Review-driver output and error handling
usr/libexec/helper-scripts/git-review-driver.sh
The review driver uses explicit output formats, preserves symlink messages, protects Git path arguments, and terminates on unexpected stat failures.
Locale and helper path normalization
usr/libexec/helper-scripts/onion-time-pre-script, usr/bin/leaktest, usr/bin/lsmod-deterministic, usr/sbin/anondate*
Scripts standardize locale handling. anondate-set now supports an overridable helper path, and anondate uses explicit grep options.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3cc4b

The PR changes renderer detection and shared shell-script behavior, but mixed renderer output can produce an incorrect hardware/software decision and sourcing a script can overwrite the caller’s error-handling traps; related termination paths also have cleanup and exit-status inconsistencies. These bounded correctness and operational issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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usr/libexec/helper-scripts/strings.bsh (2)

383-397: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Verify the entropy source choice for a hard-fail path.

head --bytes on a tr -dc-filtered /dev/random stream now hard-fails on a short read. On modern Linux /dev/random no longer blocks indefinitely after initialization, so this is fine at runtime, but very early boot (pre-seed) can still block, which turns a helper used for secrets into a hang rather than the loud failure the comment promises. Consider /dev/urandom (identical quality post-init) or documenting the boot-time expectation.

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In `@usr/libexec/helper-scripts/strings.bsh` around lines 383 - 397, Update the
entropy source used by random_alpha_numeric from /dev/random to /dev/urandom so
the hard-fail short-read behavior cannot become an early-boot hang, while
preserving the existing length validation and error handling.

82-127: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Line 125 is a no-op; drop it or make it conditional.

printf ... >/dev/null computes a message and discards it. If it is meant as a debug hook, gate it on a verbosity variable; otherwise remove it.

♻️ Proposed cleanup
-  printf '%s\n' "$0: INFO: Target file '${target_file}' file_contents: '${file_contents}'" >/dev/null
   printf '%s\n' "${file_contents}"
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In `@usr/libexec/helper-scripts/strings.bsh` around lines 82 - 127, Remove the
unconditional informational printf that writes to /dev/null at the end of the
validation flow. If this message is required as a debug hook, make it
conditional on the script’s existing verbosity mechanism; otherwise leave the
final output as the file_contents printf.
usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/tests/sanitize_echo.py (1)

138-154: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a stdin-path case.

Every case passes operands, so the documented "read from standard input" branch (sanitize_echo.py lines 94-98, including its reconfigure call) is entirely uncovered. A single test feeding stdin would pin the behavior most likely to break.

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In `@usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/tests/sanitize_echo.py` around
lines 138 - 154, Extend test_bad_max_length_is_rejected with a case that
supplies invalid --max-length input while reading from standard input instead of
passing an operand. Feed representative stdin data and assert the same empty
stdout, help stderr, and exit code 1, covering the sanitize_echo.py stdin branch
and its reconfigure call.
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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/consumer-claude-code.yml:
- Line 65: Update the job-level condition for the Claude comment workflow to
require both an `@claude` mention and the GitHub pull-request discriminator on
issue_comment events. Preserve the existing comment-body check while adding
github.event.issue.pull_request so ordinary issue comments cannot trigger the PR
workflow.
- Around line 55-56: Update the concurrency group expression in the workflow to
include a distinct segment based on whether github.event.comment.body contains
“@claude”, so ordinary comments cannot cancel an active human `@claude` review
while preserving cancel-in-progress behavior for matching requests.

In `@usr/libexec/helper-scripts/strings.bsh`:
- Around line 247-253: Update the diagnostic flow around the od/head pipeline so
the human-readable sanitize-echo reason is emitted first and the hex dump
remains the final value detail. Prevent SIGPIPE or pipefail from propagating to
the caller when truncating output at STRINGS_BSH_REPORT_MAX, while preserving
the existing byte-oriented, capped hex representation.
- Around line 211-216: Add an argument-presence guard at the start of
validate_safe_filename before expanding "$1", matching the sibling validators’
behavior: emit the established missing-name error and return 1 when no variable
name is supplied, while preserving the existing validation flow for provided
arguments.

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In `@usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/tests/sanitize_echo.py`:
- Around line 138-154: Extend test_bad_max_length_is_rejected with a case that
supplies invalid --max-length input while reading from standard input instead of
passing an operand. Feed representative stdin data and assert the same empty
stdout, help stderr, and exit code 1, covering the sanitize_echo.py stdin branch
and its reconfigure call.

In `@usr/libexec/helper-scripts/strings.bsh`:
- Around line 383-397: Update the entropy source used by random_alpha_numeric
from /dev/random to /dev/urandom so the hard-fail short-read behavior cannot
become an early-boot hang, while preserving the existing length validation and
error handling.
- Around line 82-127: Remove the unconditional informational printf that writes
to /dev/null at the end of the validation flow. If this message is required as a
debug hook, make it conditional on the script’s existing verbosity mechanism;
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CodeQL on PR #78: 1 high (py/tarslip) + 1 note (py/unused-import), both in
this file, which arrived via the merge of #69.

extractall(filter="data") is safe, but the 'except TypeError' fallback for
interpreters predating that argument extracted with NO validation at all, so
a member named '../x' or an absolute path escaped the temporary directory.
The fallback now validates every member: the resolved path must stay inside
the destination, and a link member is refused outright -- an OVA is a flat
archive of .ovf/.vmdk/.mf files, so a link is never legitimate.

Verified each hostile member type is refused ('../escaped.txt', '/abs.txt',
and a symlink to /etc/passwd) and that a benign archive still yields its
members.

Also drops the unused 'sys' import.

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Three of four taken.

validate_safe_filename now rejects a missing argument, like its two siblings.
It expanded "$1" unguarded, so a no-argument call aborted the caller with
'$1: unbound variable' under nounset instead of returning 1. Reproduced.

The hex dump moves AFTER the human-readable reason. It was printed first,
which contradicts the reason-FIRST/value-LAST contract documented at the top
of the file and buried the explanation under hex digits.

consumer-claude-code.yml:
- the concurrency group gains an '@claude' term. Concurrency is evaluated
  BEFORE the job-level 'if:', so an unrelated comment on the same PR joined
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- the job now requires a pull-request context. 'issue_comment' fires for
  ISSUES too, and an issue carries no PR for the reviewer to check out.
  Written as an alternation because github.event.issue.pull_request is absent
  for pull_request_review_comment, which is always a PR.

NOT taken: the SIGPIPE half of the od|head finding. Not reproducible -- with a
200 KB value the pipeline still reports PIPESTATUS=(0 0) under pipefail,
because GNU head --bytes drains its input rather than closing the pipe early.
The ordering half of that same finding is fixed above.

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Both CodeQL alerts are fixed.

py/tarslip (high) -- extractall(filter="data") was safe, but the except TypeError fallback for interpreters predating that argument extracted with no validation at all. Fixed in f5dc251.

A deeper instance of the same class, which CodeQL did not flag, was found by another reviewer and fixed in cc09c0d: member_names kept the RAW names and they were later joined with the workdir to read each member back. os.path.join discards the base when the second component is absolute, so a member named /etc/shadow made repack() read the host file and bake it into the output OVA. Names are now validated once where they are collected, covering every later use.

Verified refused: /etc/shadow, ../../../etc/shadow, a/../../b, '', and link members. Verified still accepted: machine.ovf, disk1.vmdk, sub/dir/file.mf.

py/unused-import -- the unused sys import is removed.

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In `@usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/sanitize_string.py`:
- Around line 60-87: Update sanitize_stdin_loop to create and retain one
incremental markup parser for the loop, feeding each newly read untrusted_line
to it instead of repeatedly passing the entire pending_string to
markup_incomplete. Preserve the existing pending-buffer cap, sanitized output,
and remaining-count behavior, while allowing the parser’s internal state to
track incomplete constructs across lines.

In `@usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/tests/sanitize_string.py`:
- Around line 131-155: The _run_stdin helper currently patches only sys.stdout
with a buffer, so the closed_stdout stderr scenario is not exercised. Update the
relevant test setup to patch sys.stderr with a working file-like object such as
io.StringIO(), and avoid replacing sys.stdout with the broken closed_stdout
MagicMock; preserve stdout capture for normal output assertions.

In `@usr/libexec/helper-scripts/vbox-ova-reproducible-normalize`:
- Around line 252-275: The repack function must reject any OVA member whose size
exceeds the USTAR limit before writing it, while retaining tarfile.USTAR_FORMAT.
Validate each member using the metadata from tar.gettarinfo (or an equivalent
size check), raise a clear error identifying the oversized member and limit, and
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usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/tests/sanitize_string.py:223-242
to observe probe activity and assert probes remain throttled while the construct
is open, deriving payload sizes from STDIN_PROBE_INTERVAL_CHARS rather than
relying only on final output. Update the sibling test in
usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sanitize_string/tests/sanitize_string.py:244-261
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Stacked an unrelated commit onto this branch, per the one-ai-branch-per-repo convention: dc73dc42 "onion-time-pre-script: rate limit anondate-set requests".

Context: sys-whonix burns ~60% CPU with no network (https://forums.whonix.org/t/sys-whonix-has-extreme-cpu-usage-before-an-internet-connection/23450 , QubesOS/qubes-issues#11013). anondate_use created /run/sdwdate/request_anondate-set on every call; sdwdate's preparation loop calls the script roughly once per second while Tor is unreachable, and the inotify watcher consuming that file has no limit of its own, so every call became a full anondate-set run. Requests are now suppressed when the previous one is under 60s old.

Also adds onion-time-pre-script-testscript (11 assertions, wired into ./run-tests) and installs safe-rm in the lint container, which the shell tests need.

This is only one amplifier. The root cause is sdwdate's preparation() backoff being reset whenever onion-time-pre-script output changes, which Tor's incrementing COUNT= guarantees; that fix belongs in the sdwdate repo and is not in this PR.

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Stacked an unrelated CI fix onto this branch (one ai branch, one PR per repo): 4b42aa36 -- CI: repoint step-summary-emit at dist-ai.

developer-meta-files commit ffe593e3 (2026-07-29) deleted ci/step-summary-emit.sh; the helper now ships as a binary in dist-ai at usr/bin/step-summary-emit. local-python-checks.yml and local-python-fuzz.yml still checked out developer-meta-files into .dmf and called ./.dmf/ci/step-summary-emit.sh, which no longer exists -- not found, exit 127. That was failing 5 jobs on master: lint on debian:stable / debian:testing / debian:unstable / ubuntu:rolling, plus the fuzz summary step.

The other master failure here, dist-ai-tests (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sanitize_string.sanitize_echo'), is a separate problem and is NOT addressed by this commit.

Same stale path fixed in pyte (#6) and sdwdate (#4).

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The step-summary-emit fix from this branch was cherry-picked directly to master as cbb1074b, so it lands ahead of the rest of this PR. 4b42aa36 here and cbb1074b on master are the same change under different SHAs; expect this PR to no-op on those two files at merge time.

The fix is confirmed working: on this branch the lint jobs no longer die at exit 127. They now run through to the test suite and fail on a separate, pre-existing bug -- AssertionError: 16777216 != -1 in tests/stdisplay.py::TestGetSgrSupport::test_dumb_terminal_disables_everything, on debian:stable, debian:testing and ubuntu:rolling. That is NOT addressed here.

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Some notes on the more major I made when merging this:

  • markup_incomplete has been completely removed. It is impossible to implement without using private data structures internal to Python, which is a security hazard as private data structures could change meaning without notice (even a security update in Debian's Python could change the meaning of an internal structure dramatically, this sort of thing has happened to the kernel before). sanitize-string simply sanitizes line-by-line now when acting as a stream sanitizer, meaning that if the input consists of HTML with newlines in the middle of tags, the HTML will be sanitized, but the contents of those tags will still appear. This is not a security risk, although it may impair usability and readability.
    • If this proves to be unacceptable, there are other solutions. One option would be to simply fill a buffer until it reaches a tipping point, then sanitize everything in it in one fell swoop, to minimize the number of "weird" tags that appear in the output. A timeout could be used so that if the thing providing us data hangs awaiting some action on the consumer side, its output is eventually flushed to the consumer rather than hanging indefinitely. If the unreliability of this is unacceptable, we could also reimplement markup_incomplete manually (without using HTMLParser) but this could be tricky.
    • Note that an argument such as "rawdata has been around for a long time, it probably isn't going anywhere" is not an acceptable justification for bringing the original implementation back. Just because something hasn't changed meaning yet doesn't mean it won't. In practice, the kernel has changed internal APIs that were not meaningfully changed in a very long time, that suddenly were changed in a stable release that was then integrated into Debian. There is no reason this couldn't happen with Python at any arbitrary point in the future.
  • Rather than doing away with the old blocking way of handling stdin in sanitize-string, it is now an opt-out default. Existing tools that expect sanitize-string to block until all stdin has been written will continue working, tools that want real-time sanitization and can live with neutralized HTML output that would have otherwise been hidden can enable this with a --no-block option.
  • sanitize-echo has been rewritten into a wrapper around sanitize-string.
  • sanitize-string no longer pipes output to /dev/null when its downstream closes, but instead it immediately exits. With the previous behavior, something like command-that-generates-output-forever | sanitize-string --no-block -- nolimit | grep -m1 -- 'something' would leave the output generator and sanitize-string running forever, whereas now they will both terminate. The new behavior mirrors coreutils (cat /dev/zero | tee /dev/null | head -c1 exits when head exits).
  • The new stdin drivers for stcat / stcatn / stsponge / sttee have been removed without replacement. The AI either didn't know about stdisplay.tests.TestSTBase's _test_util() function and the closed-stdin tests in the run-tests Bash script, or came to the mistaken conclusion that these tests were broken (which would result in test failures if this was the case, but it isn't the case, at least on Debian Trixie). If the existing mechanism breaks in the future, the correct response is to fix it, not to write a new parallel implementation. Similar removal was done from unicode-show's tests.
  • The tests were generally overhauled to get rid of useless functionality, avoid lazy tests (i.e. checking if a certain character was absent from an output string rather than creating an expected output string and comparing against it), adhere to the existing coding style, and put tests where they actually belong.

This has now been merged into my arraybolt3/trixie branch and fixed up.

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Resolved the TODO/FIXME markers left in the trixie rework

Each TODO/FIXME introduced by this rework was implemented and the marker removed. Summary of the dispositions:

vbox-ova-reproducible-normalize

  • FIXME "regenerate the namespace randomly on a trusted machine": replaced the well-known published DCE/Microsoft example GUID with a freshly generated random uuid.uuid4() value, so the derived UUIDs cannot be precomputed from a public constant plus a guessed salt.
  • FIXME/TODO "encoding is not necessarily latin-1" (VMDK descriptor, .mf manifest, OVF): kept latin-1 deliberately, now documented -- it is used as a lossless 1:1 byte<->codepoint codec, not a claim about the real text encoding. Read and write both use latin-1 and only ASCII tokens are rewritten, so every other byte round-trips verbatim; this guarantees byte- and length-preserving normalization and never raises UnicodeDecodeError. Switching to UTF-8 would gain nothing (edits are ASCII-only) and could abort the build on a non-UTF-8 byte, especially in the sector-padded VMDK descriptor region.
  • FIXME "fields may have spaces in front": the CID rewrite now preserves leading indentation.
  • FIXME "'match' is a keyword": renamed the variable to line_match.
  • TODO "read SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH from the environment": --source-date-epoch is now optional and falls back to the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH env var; an explicit flag still wins.
  • TODO "coreutils checksum faster?": kept hashlib (OpenSSL-backed, streamed) -- a per-member subprocess plus output parsing and a PATH dependency buys no meaningful speedup.

onion-time-pre-script

  • TODO "can anondate-set set the clock backwards?": confirmed it is forward-only by design (it refuses to set an earlier time, exiting 3), so it cannot cause the negative stamp age this branch guards. Corrected the comment (sdwdate and manual/NTP/VM-snapshot changes still can) and kept the guard.

git-review-driver.sh

  • FIXME "should we error out if git diff fails?": yes -- an rc > 1 from git diff --no-index --stat on two materialized blobs is a real error, so it now fails loud instead of warning and pressing on.

tor_bootstrap_check.bsh

  • TODO "move the privleap config into this package": kept it in systemcheck and recorded where it lives instead -- relocating security-sensitive authorization config across packages is risk for no functional gain.

Test edge cases (strip_markup, sanitize_string)

  • TODO "add more/better test cases": added malicious cases (entity-smuggled brackets, attribute-bearing tags, spec-compliant non-tags, raw ANSI escapes, Unicode bidi overrides) with golden outputs verified against the real sanitizers.

Two additional correctness bugs surfaced by review in the reworked sanitize_string.py were also fixed (zero-limit --newline handling; a BrokenPipeError shutdown-flush traceback), each with a regression test.

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Heads-up on a regression this branch now fixes, because it is currently breaking another repo's CI.

read_integer_file on this fork's master reads its state file through stcat -- "${target_file}". stcat takes every argument as a path, so it tries to read a file literally named -- and dies with FileNotFoundError. read_integer_file then reports

ERROR: Cannot stcat target file '<path>'!

for a file it has just confirmed exists and is readable.

Upstream Kicksecure/helper-scripts master does not have the separator; it was introduced here.

Impact: org-ai-assisted/tb-updater's e2e job clones helper-scripts from --branch=master, so four of its self-test scenarios fail on this - scenario_second_run_cache_hit_tb, scenario_cross_context_fallback, scenario_downgrade_attack_warning, scenario_second_run_mullvad_cache_hit, all of them the ones that read a cached signature timestamp back. That job stays red until this lands on master.

Fixed in 31ff576 on this branch, with usr/share/helper-scripts/tests/test_read_integer_file.sh as the regression test - it asserts the INSTALLED library and was canaried in both directions. pre-push-static now denylists stcat -- under R-062, and the style guide records stcat as a verified rejecter, so it cannot come back silently.

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claude added 2 commits August 22, 2026 22:55
Header-phase curl_prgrs_content_length is expected_header_size (an estimate);
enforce_final_size ran it as a hard ceiling, failing a legitimate large-header
response (long redirects, big Set-Cookie) of 8001..32000 bytes with 114. Enforce
only maximum_http_header_size there; the body phase keeps the advertised length.
- Match software markers (llvmpipe/swrast/"Software Renderer"/"Basic Render
  Driver") before the vendor list, and vendor tokens whole-word: else "Apple
  Software Renderer", WARP D3D12 and "ATI" inside "NATIVE" read as accelerated.
- LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE is Mesa-only; do not short-circuit to software when an
  NVIDIA node is present (NVIDIA ignores it) -- probe the real renderer instead.
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usr/libexec/helper-scripts/curl-prgrs (1)

122-135: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the temporary directory before exit 57.

initialize_variables creates temporary_directory with mktemp --directory at Line 103. main calls check_variables before traps_enable, so no EXIT trap is registered yet. If CURL_OUT_FILE or CURL_PRGRS_MAX_FILE_SIZE_BYTES is empty, the script exits 57 and leaves the directory in place. The is_whole_number calls at Lines 132-134 leak the same way under errexit.

The trap-ordering rationale in main stays valid. Only the cleanup on the validation-failure path is missing.

🧹 Proposed fix to release the temporary directory on validation failure
 check_variables() {
+  ## Traps are not registered yet, so clean up the temp dir created by
+  ## initialize_variables before any early exit.
+  # shellcheck disable=SC2317
+  check_variables_cleanup() {
+    if [ "${temp_dir_auto_generated}" = "true" ]; then
+      safe-rm -r -f -- "${temporary_directory}"
+    fi
+  }
+  trap check_variables_cleanup RETURN
   if [ "${CURL_OUT_FILE}" = "" ]; then
     stecho "${BASH_SOURCE[0]} ERROR: Variable CURL_OUT_FILE is empty." >&4
     exit 57
   fi
   if [ "${CURL_PRGRS_MAX_FILE_SIZE_BYTES}" = "" ]; then
     stecho "${BASH_SOURCE[0]} ERROR: Variable CURL_PRGRS_MAX_FILE_SIZE_BYTES is empty." >&4
     exit 57
   fi
 
   is_whole_number "${CURL_PRGRS_MAX_FILE_SIZE_BYTES}"
   is_whole_number "${expected_header_size}"
   is_whole_number "${maximum_http_header_size}"
+  trap - RETURN
 }

A simpler alternative is to validate CURL_OUT_FILE and CURL_PRGRS_MAX_FILE_SIZE_BYTES before initialize_variables creates the temporary directory.

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In `@usr/libexec/helper-scripts/curl-prgrs` around lines 122 - 135, Update
check_variables to remove temporary_directory before every validation failure
exit, including empty CURL_OUT_FILE or CURL_PRGRS_MAX_FILE_SIZE_BYTES and
failures from the is_whole_number checks. Preserve the existing exit status 57
and main trap ordering; do not move initialization unless necessary.
usr/libexec/helper-scripts/onion-time-pre-script (1)

40-40: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Scope both traps to direct execution.

When sourced, the script replaces the caller's ERR and EXIT traps. Move both trap declarations inside the if was_executed "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" branch.

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In `@usr/libexec/helper-scripts/onion-time-pre-script` at line 40, Move the ERR
and EXIT trap declarations into the direct-execution branch guarded by
was_executed "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}". Ensure sourcing the script leaves the caller’s
existing traps unchanged while direct execution retains both traps.
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Inline comments:
In `@usr/bin/detect-software-rendering`:
- Around line 107-108: Update the renderer detection flow around renderer_line
to select a single documented EGL platform record, or apply an explicit
aggregation rule that prevents an unrelated llvmpipe record from overriding
hardware-renderer detection. Preserve the intended classification behavior and
add a regression test covering mixed hardware and llvmpipe output.

In `@usr/libexec/helper-scripts/curl-prgrs`:
- Around line 163-195: Update the final status-selection logic around status,
signal, and exit_code so an otherwise-unclassified SIGTERM returns 143,
including when the status file is absent or contains 0. Preserve explicit
non-zero curl_exit status values and the existing generic fallbacks for other
termination cases.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@usr/libexec/helper-scripts/curl-prgrs`:
- Around line 122-135: Update check_variables to remove temporary_directory
before every validation failure exit, including empty CURL_OUT_FILE or
CURL_PRGRS_MAX_FILE_SIZE_BYTES and failures from the is_whole_number checks.
Preserve the existing exit status 57 and main trap ordering; do not move
initialization unless necessary.

In `@usr/libexec/helper-scripts/onion-time-pre-script`:
- Line 40: Move the ERR and EXIT trap declarations into the direct-execution
branch guarded by was_executed "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}". Ensure sourcing the script
leaves the caller’s existing traps unchanged while direct execution retains both
traps.
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Comment thread usr/bin/detect-software-rendering Outdated
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eglinfo -B prints a renderer line per platform; one falling back to llvmpipe
must not mask another reporting the GPU. Classify each line (software marker
wins over a vendor substring within a line) and let hardware win across them.
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claude added 3 commits August 23, 2026 00:24
LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE is a deliberate user/admin directive (nothing in the OS
sets it); honor the intent regardless of driver -- report software without
probing. Matches the consumer (forces software QML) and is crash-safe.
Pull the header-vs-body content-length ceiling selection out of curl_download
into content_length_ceiling_for_phase, so it is source-able and formally
verifiable (dist-ai T4). Behavior-preserving.
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