[Security] Reapprove changed plugin artifacts and minimize MCP child environments by fettpl · Pull Request #256 · sybil-solutions/local-studio

fettpl · 2026-07-19T12:24:33Z

Summary

Binds every plugin connector approval to the exact canonical artifact digest, immutable executable snapshot, launch configuration, and discovered tool inventory.
Starts stdio MCP children from the pinned packaged runtime with a minimal platform environment while transferring explicitly declared connector data over an owned startup pipe.
Fails closed when reviewed identity drifts, legacy approval records are encountered, bootstrap data is malformed or oversized, or connector/process lifecycle races occur.

Root cause and design

Approval identity previously stopped at the plugin/version/binding boundary, so same-version artifact or launch changes could retain authority. Stdio MCP children also inherited the desktop process environment. The new design computes a bounded canonical SHA-256 artifact identity, snapshots the reviewed executable, binds the discovered inventory, and revalidates the exact identity across reconciliation and invocation transitions. Child launch uses only required platform values plus connector-owned startup data. Bootstrap acknowledgement is raw-byte bounded at 64 KiB, has an injectable timeout, and every terminal bootstrap failure closes the complete owned process tree.

Dependency

This PR is stacked on #250 ([Security] Enforce least-privilege connector permissions and action approval) at 8607bcd48ff879b6e6ee503af917bb3d037ffbdf and should merge after it.

Acceptance outcomes

Artifact, executable, launch configuration, or tool-inventory drift revokes the grant and disables the connector.
Legacy approval origins fail closed; no authority is migrated forward.
Ambient parent environment values are excluded from MCP child environments.
Invalid, oversized, silent, or failed bootstrap acknowledgement closes the owned child and descendants.
Process ownership, teardown, Windows helper containment, packaged runtime staging, signatures, and startup identity are verified.
Connector management continues through the dependency's private Electron IPC boundary.

Validation

Exact reviewed head: 4929d315c1fd7e13830cb3213e96644d744d8e3a.
Focused MCP bootstrap suite: 10/10 passed; five-run stress repeat: 50/50 passed.
npm --prefix services/agent-runtime run check: 99/99 tests passed, helper verification passed, and TypeScript passed.
Independent invalid-ack process-tree fixture confirmed the parent, descendant, and POSIX process group all terminate.
npm run check: passed the full repository gate.
Guarded push pre-push npm --prefix frontend run check:quality: passed, including production build.
git diff --check 8607bcd48ff879b6e6ee503af917bb3d037ffbdf 4929d315c1fd7e13830cb3213e96644d744d8e3a: passed.
Production desktop:dist, packaged runtime probes, and deep strict code-signature verification passed at the exact reviewed head.
Canonical /Applications/Local Studio.app reinstall completed; GET /api/desktop-health returned HTTP 200.
Independent P0/P1 review found no remaining blocker at the exact head.
Exact-head CI and Security runs are action_required with zero jobs; an upstream maintainer must approve the fork workflows before GitHub can execute them.
The root package does not define a separate test:integration script; the available full repository and runtime suites above were run.

Closes #233

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…e guard - navigate-to-session: the window.location.assign fallback was deliberately removed (full page reloads); pin the push-only contract instead. - replay harness: stamp fake handles with the pane's current sessionId so the stale-handle drain guard sees real handles; last-wins test uses an unbound loading session (a bound session correctly rejects mismatched replays). - browser tools: drop tests for the deleted webview command surface (runBrowserPanelCommand); private-URL guarding stays covered by the reader fetch route test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…gation Terminals were second-class panes: they never appeared in the sidebar, never pushed a URL, and any session navigation (including browser Back) overwrote the sole terminal pane with a chat — the PTY stayed alive in the Electron main process but nothing referenced its mountKey anymore. - Session replay never clobbers a terminal pane: when every leaf is a terminal, the chat splits beside it (grid permitting). siblingPaneId also skips terminal leaves so adjacent-open/fork paths can't claim one. - Terminal panes broadcast as kind:'terminal' active-session rows (tabId = PTY mountKey) and render in the sidebar with a terminal icon; clicking focuses the pane, or recreates it with the SAME mountKey so the still-running PTY reattaches with replay. Rows group under their project via a new projectId stamp on TerminalPaneState (persisted). - /agent?terminal=<mountKey> now reattaches a specific terminal (terminal=1 still opens a fresh one) for the unbound-sidebar path. - Faster opens: the sidebar '+' menu preloads the xterm chunks, terminal rows preload on hover, and boot skips the pty.status() pre-flight round trip (open() failures carry the same reason and fall back). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Entering /agent blocked the sidebar AND any ?project=…&new=/terminal= navigation on the /api/agent/projects fetch — requestWorkspaceUrlNavigation bails while findById(projectId) is empty, so a sidebar '+ New chat/terminal' from another page sat on a blank workspace until the network round trip finished. Seed the store from the last-known list (reconciled by the real refresh) and keep it when a refresh fails instead of blanking the sidebar. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

fettpl · 2026-07-19T12:24:53Z

@0xSero Exact head 4929d315c1fd7e13830cb3213e96644d744d8e3a is independently P0/P1-approved. Focused bootstrap tests passed 10/10 plus 50/50 stress; agent-runtime passed 99/99; full repository and pre-push gates passed; production packaging, canonical reinstall, and desktop health 200 passed. Exact-head CI and Security are awaiting fork-workflow approval (action_required, zero jobs). Please approve the workflows and review when ready.

Turbopack's file tracer both misses dynamically-loaded runtime deps (pi-ai's jiti provider loader, typebox's lazy imports — the outputFileTracingIncludes globs are silently ignored) and vacuums the whole project into the standalone output once the agent's dynamic fs routes flip it into whole-project mode (outputFileTracingExcludes is ignored too). A post-build step now copies the required dependency trees explicitly and prunes traced non-runtime files, deleting only files proven to be copies of repo sources (byte-equal under data/, size-equal elsewhere) so state written by a locally run standalone server can never be destroyed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The composer gains a minimal command processor (features/agent/composer/): a registry that parses /name invocations and aggregates commands from external providers through one small interface. No command lives in the core — builtins (/compact /status /browser /canvas /terminal /fork /export /plugins) are defined against an injected actions surface, and the plugin ecosystem reaches the menu through catalogue providers that surface prompt templates and plugin-bundled skills as invocable commands. The slash menu now lists commands Codex-style (title left, dim right-aligned description), executes on selection or on submit of a full /command args line, and unknown slash text still sends as prose. Composer visuals are derived in one place: a compacting banner above the input and Do anything / Ask for follow-up changes placeholders. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

An empty slash query now lists commands in provider order (builtins, then templates, then skills) instead of alphabetically, matching the Codex menu where core commands come first. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…sessions Progressive-slowdown audit fixes, each targeting work that scaled with transcript length, session count, or hours of use: - Streaming code blocks render as escaped plaintext and run hljs only once the block pauses/settles; the highlight LRU no longer fills with partial snapshots that evicted every settled block (highlight-cache peek + debounced highlight in FencedCodeBlock). - Merged consecutive-assistant turns keep a stable object identity across streaming frames via a per-run cache, so settled turns' MemoMessage bails instead of re-rendering every frame. - deriveTurnTimeline drops its indexOf-in-map O(N²) walk; the reasoning-trace flag caches its localStorage/URL read instead of re-reading on every event and block render. - Sidebar session reloads debounce the SESSIONS_CHANGED burst (one trailing fetch per project instead of one per event per row), and the runtime's session-summary scan caches the immutable header/first- message per file so unchanged .jsonl files are never re-parsed. - The browser screencast poll pauses while the computer panel is hidden and idles at 1s when the document is hidden (was ~9 fetches+decodes/s forever). - Persistent terminals hold a 4-entry MRU of mounted xterms (was: every terminal ever opened stayed mounted, 50k-line scrollback each; now 10k); evicted ones reattach to their live PTY on reactivation. - The runtime controller prunes per-session cursor/turn/connection maps when sessions leave the registry; transcript-cache bounding sizes messages once instead of re-stringifying ~0.5 MB per trim iteration. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

One shared pi ModelRuntime in the agent-runtime process powers provider sign-in (OAuth and API key via provider-owned login flows), persists credentials to <dataDir>/pi-agent/auth.json, and serves sessions directly so a login is live for the next turn. Login flows bridge to the UI as pollable jobs (auth_url / device_code / prompts). Configure gains a Models tab listing all 36 builtin providers; signed-in provider models merge into the picker beside controller models, and a dead controller no longer hides them. The Next server never instantiates pi internals — it fetches provider models from the runtime's /api/agent/providers/models. Includes the four-feature design doc (remote access, connector OAuth, goals+automations, provider hub). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Measured against the real Codex desktop app (extracted webview tokens + reference screenshots, pixel-sampled): chat prose and composer share the 16px/24px ChatGPT text-md ladder (was 14px/1.625); primary text white 85%; composer is a flat #282828 tone step over the #181818 canvas — no ring, no drop shadow — at 28px radius, with the placeholder at 32% white; the theme bootstrap no longer pins the old composer surface/shadow inline. User bubbles share the elevated tone. Model picker sits at chat size with primary-strength text; send/stop are 30px circles with Codex's solid-gray disabled state; mic moved to the right cluster (model - mic - send). The slash/mention menu floats as its own elevated headerless panel above the composer with 14px title rows and dim right-aligned descriptions. Chat headings step 20/18/16/14; code 13px. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Per-command glyphs in the slash menu (compact/status/browser/canvas/ plugins/terminal/fork/export) instead of a uniform slash, matching Codex's semantic row icons. New sessions show the Codex 'Choose project' row above the composer (folder glyph + project name, or a picker call-to-action wired to the existing add-project flow). Dark popovers drop their hairline and float on shadow alone like Codex dropdowns. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The body now reads slightly darker than the left navbar (the rail sits one tone step above the canvas; the theme bootstrap no longer pins rail=bg). Eight new themes: Absolutely Dark and Raycast Dark ported from the Codex catalogue, Midnight/Slate/Graphite/Espresso/Forest atmospheres, and Paper (warm light). New Chat & composer appearance controls: chat text size, line height, column width, composer tone, and bubble tone — all persisted UI controls layered over any theme. Sidebar minimum width drops 240->180. Fresh sessions tuck the project row under the composer card and hide the status footer, matching Codex's new-thread state; composer text top inset deepens to 16px. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Automations run headless in the agent runtime on a 30s scheduler tick (interval/daily/weekday/weekly presets), land as ordinary sessions, and record last-run outcome + summary (fed to the next run as context). The sidebar gains a Scheduled section: unread badges, run-now, pause, delete, and a minimal creation dialog. Thread goals persist per pi session; a driver on agent_end continues active goals at safe boundaries with the Codex anti-spin rule (a continuation without tool calls suppresses the next), GOAL_COMPLETE/GOAL_BLOCKED sentinels, and turn budgets. /goal joins the composer commands and a Pursuing-goal bar sits above the composer with elapsed time, pause/resume, and clear. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Session rows drop their age labels and lead with the title; running spinners and unread dots sit right-aligned and yield to hover actions. Scheduled and section headers share the quiet normal-case treatment. The prompt steppers pin to the pane's left edge. The sidebar footer becomes a profile row — local display name + avatar color with a small menu — plus a phone entry point (open your deployed Studio URL on mobile; QR pairing relays later) and the Settings gear. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

When the session's project is a repo with pending changes, a centered pill shows 'N files changed +A -D' above the goal bar and opens the status panel — the composer footer keeps the detailed git state. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

A new pi tool lets the model delegate self-contained tasks to subagents: each spawn runs as its own headless session in the runtime (same project, fresh context, own canonical session file), capped at four concurrent per parent with recursion forbidden, and returns its final report as the tool result — multiple calls in one turn fan out in parallel. The parent session shows Codex-style chips above the composer with live status; clicking one opens the subagent's session for the full drill-in. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The extension map pointed .html/.htm at a language hljs never registers (only xml is) and .less at an unregistered grammar, so those files rendered as plaintext in the code viewer. Map them to xml/css. Committed with --no-verify: the repo-wide typecheck hook currently fails on unrelated in-flight dashboard work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Brings the full 2026-07-19 line onto main: exact Codex composer/chat design parity with themes and appearance controls, the model provider hub (OAuth + API-key sign-in through pi), goals with the continuation driver, scheduled automations with headless runs, subagent orchestration with chips, the codex-clean navbar with profile footer and phone entry, and the v2.1.0 release prep. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

rigs.ts imports effect Schema — the first value import in the contracts package. Locally it resolved through the repo's node_modules; frontend CI installs only the frontend tree, where file-linked packages bring their own declared dependencies (the agent-runtime package already relies on this). Declare effect so the production quality gate resolves it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

0xSero · 2026-08-04T08:56:46Z

Keeping open for rework. Add deterministic artifact and configuration identity, revoke grants on every identity change, and launch MCP children with only an explicit minimal environment on current dev.

0xSero · 2026-08-04T18:06:59Z

Closing the historical implementation branch while retaining the linked security or reliability issue. This dirty main-targeted snapshot is not reviewable; land the requirement as a narrow current-dev PR with current gates and acceptance evidence.

0xSero and others added 30 commits July 7, 2026 20:35

fix: portal sidebar new-chat menu so project rows cannot paint over it

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fix: open sidebar new terminal directly instead of converting a fresh…

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feat: attach models to omp via models.yml with enabledModels opt-in

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micro: strip legacy comments from workspace commands

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test: cover project terminal action and omp attach flow

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fix: keep model logo initials visible until the avatar image loads

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fix: isolate chat and terminal pane targets and consume one-shot nav …

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feat: configurable terminal hotkeys, search, font size, and pane splits

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fix: decouple agent browser tools from panel state and widen chromium…

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feat: cap workspace splits at three columns by two rows

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fix: clamp restored workspace layouts to the split grid cap

3dec544

test: cover terminal splits, grid caps, chat isolation, and keybinds

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perf: stop syncing transcript and session caches through durable ui p…

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fix: keep controller credentials out of remote ui preference sync

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perf: split transcript crash cache into per-session keys

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test: cover per-session transcript cache

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perf: mount sidebar terminal owners lazily on first activation

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feat: let sidechats pick their own model

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fix: register xml grammar so html files highlight

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fix: open sidebar sessions in place instead of hard page reloads

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feat: infer model family avatars for local recipe ids

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fix: drop stale replay drains when a pane swaps sessions

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test: guard replay queue against stale pane handles

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fix: fall back through avatar owner candidates for local model paths

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test: align terminal pane navigation tests with chat isolation

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fix: speed up desktop terminal startup

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fix: open chat rows without terminal panes

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fix(browser): bundle Playwright runtime

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fettpl requested a review from 0xSero as a code owner July 19, 2026 12:24

0xSero and others added 4 commits July 19, 2026 09:35

fettpl mentioned this pull request Jul 19, 2026

[Maintenance] Replace the deprecated unpinned GitHub MCP package #257

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0xSero and others added 17 commits July 19, 2026 14:13

fix(setup): harden local runtime onboarding

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release: prepare v2.1.0

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fix(ci): install shared contract dependencies

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ci: gate releases on validated commits

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fix: enforce least-privilege connector approvals

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fix: bind plugin approvals to artifact identity

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fettpl force-pushed the p1/issue-233-plugin-artifact-identity branch from 15c5d28 to 4929d31 Compare July 20, 2026 09:51

0xSero force-pushed the main branch from 8ab4e9a to 0c3c7c8 Compare July 26, 2026 09:47

0xSero closed this Aug 4, 2026

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