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🔗 Linked Issue

Closes #4324 — slice 1 of 2. Slice 1 closes the reported attack path (ssh -S /tmp/... plain invocation, denied in exact/wildcard/escaped/absolute-path forms). The wrapper evasions found during review (env / exec -a, wrapper-invoked absolute paths) land as follow-up hardening in slice 2.


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  • type:bug — Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)

📝 Summary

  • Adds default deny rules for remote shell utilities (ssh, scp, sftp, rsync) to both generated permission overlays, so an agent can no longer reach remote infrastructure through unrestricted bash.
  • Denies the absolute-path and escaped invocation forms of those utilities in the overlay itself (/usr/bin/ssh *, \ssh *, …), closing the pattern-level ask bypass at the executor. Plain wrappers (timeout ssh) are already stripped before matching in Claude Code; env / exec -a wrappers and wrapper-invoked absolute paths are the follow-up slice.
  • Adds an always-on "Remote execution boundary" section to the routing guidance projected into every configured agent — including agents with no permission profile — forbidding discovery/attachment to ambient authenticated sessions and Unix domain sockets (SSH ControlMaster sockets under /tmp or ~/.ssh) without explicit user direction.
  • Together these close the reported attack path: the agent inspected the host process table, found an open ControlMaster socket, and executed commands as root on a remote production server without any permission boundary firing.

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File / Area What Changed
internal/components/permissions/inject.go Claude Code overlay: per utility (ssh/scp/sftp/rsync), deny entries for the exact form (Bash(ssh)), wildcard (Bash(ssh:*)), and absolute-path wildcards for /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /opt/homebrew/bin, /run/current-system/sw/bin (7 forms × 4 utilities). OpenCode/Kilocode overlay: matching permission.bash deny entries (exact, * wildcard, escaped \/… * form, and the same five absolute-path prefixes).
internal/components/agentguidance/routing.go New unconditional "Remote execution boundary" section in RenderRouting, delivered to every configured agent (routing is the same always-on surface the kill switch uses).
internal/components/permissions/inject_test.go New TestInjectClaudeCodeDeniesRemoteShellUtilities and TestInjectOpenCodeDeniesRemoteShellUtilities (deny entries present after Inject, coexisting with "*": "allow"; Claude case exercises merge over a pre-existing permissions block), plus the TestRemoteMatcherBoundaryFixtures alignment with #4327's ask-by-default fixtures.
internal/components/agentguidance/routing_test.go New TestRenderRoutingMakesRemoteExecutionBoundaryDiscoverable asserting the boundary fragments for every supported agent.
e2e/organicruntime/organic_runtime_test.go Extended organicRoutingGuidanceRequiredFragments with the two new routing fragments.

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Unit Tests

go test ./...

Result: 72 packages ok. One pre-existing environmental failure in internal/components/mcp (TestInjectClaudeWorkspaceIsDiscoveredByNativeClaudeMCPList, requires native claude mcp list state) — verified failing identically on main, unrelated to this change.

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go run ./internal/gofmtcheck

Result: pass.

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cd e2e && ./docker-test.sh

Result: 3/3 platforms (ubuntu, arch, fedora) PASSED — 79 passed / 0 failed per platform (Tier 1).

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N/A — permissions-overlay and guidance content change; not a review-lifecycle, gate, recovery, delivery, or benchmark change.

  • Unit tests pass (go test ./...)
  • Go format passes (go run ./internal/gofmtcheck)
  • E2E tests pass (cd e2e && ./docker-test.sh)
  • Manually tested locally

Slice re-verification (post-split): go build ./..., go test ./internal/components/permissions/... ./internal/components/agentguidance/..., and go test ./e2e/organicruntime/... all pass at the slice head (a9b83076). The full-suite and Docker-E2E runs below were executed on the pre-split head (4a531512); CI re-runs them on this branch.

New tests written first (RED confirmed: all 16 bash-map/deny assertions and routing fragments missing) and then implemented (GREEN), mirroring the existing test patterns in both packages.


Chain Context

Field Value
Chain #4324 remote-exec deny policy
Tracker PR Not needed (stacked to main, fork-based)
Position 1 of 2
Base main
Depends on None
Follow-up Slice 2: env / exec -a wrapper denies + wrapper-invoked absolute-path denies (branch fix/4324-wrapper-evasion-followup on danielgap/gentle-ai; opens after this merges — fork PRs cannot stack)
Review budget 376 / 400 changed lines
Starts at main (rebased)
Ends with Deny-by-default for exact, wildcard, escaped, and absolute-path forms of ssh/scp/sftp/rsync in both overlays + always-on remote-execution routing guidance

Chain Overview

main
 └── 📍 #4330 slice 1 — deny-by-default + absolute-path/escaped forms (this PR)
      └── slice 2 — env / exec -a wrappers + wrapper-invoked absolute paths (follow-up PR)

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  • Safety
    • Clarified that remote systems are outside authorized workspaces and that remote commands or session access require explicit user authorization.
    • Strengthened safeguards to deny SSH, SCP, SFTP, and rsync commands—including absolute-path, escaped, and shell-wrapper forms—in supported agent configurations.
  • Validation
    • Added coverage confirming remote-execution guidance appears for all supported agents and that command restrictions remain enforced across supported invocation formats.

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The change adds explicit remote execution restrictions to rendered agent guidance and denies ssh, scp, sftp, and rsync in Claude Code and OpenCode permission overlays. Tests validate guidance content and generated permission entries.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Remote execution guidance
internal/components/agentguidance/routing.go, internal/components/agentguidance/routing_test.go, e2e/organicruntime/organic_runtime_test.go
Routing guidance now defines the remote execution boundary, including SSH ControlMaster sockets and explicit authorization. Unit and end-to-end tests require these fragments for supported agents.
Remote utility permission denials
internal/components/permissions/inject.go, internal/components/permissions/inject_test.go
Claude Code and OpenCode overlays deny ssh, scp, sftp, and rsync in exact and wildcard forms. Tests verify existing allow and ask rules remain intact.

Priority: ⬆️ High

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Severity of issue fixed: High

Suggested reviewers: alan-thegentleman

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 34594

The new remote-execution restrictions remain bypassable when wrapper commands invoke absolute-path SSH-family executables, potentially allowing unauthorized use of authenticated remote sessions. Matcher and idempotence coverage should also be completed before merge.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #4324 by adding deny rules for ssh, scp, sftp, and rsync, covering documented wrapper and path forms, and by adding routing guidance that prohibits unauthorized remote execut…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The permission changes, routing guidance, and unit and E2E tests directly support the security requirements in issue #4324. No unrelated code changes are identified.
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- Around line 58-65: Update the permission deny rules in both listed ranges of
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Documenting the residual risk I verified while testing this, so it is explicit for review, plus an offer of follow-up work.

What the deny rules provably cover (verified against OpenCode's permission source: evaluate() uses findLast, the shell tool walks every command node of the parsed AST; and against Claude Code's documented permission semantics):

  • ssh/scp/sftp/rsync in exact and wildcard forms, in both runtimes.
  • Compound and nested commands: cd /tmp && ssh ..., $(ssh ...), subshells, pipes. Both runtimes split commands before matching, so any denied subcommand rejects the whole call.
  • Wrappers on Claude: timeout ssh ..., nohup ssh ..., FOO=1 ssh ..., and bare xargs ssh still match the deny because Claude strips them before matching.
  • Precedence: OpenCode's "last matching rule wins" holds here because the merged JSON is written with sorted keys (the * catch-all sorts first); Claude evaluates deny > ask > allow, and deny rules are enforced in every mode including bypassPermissions, which is exactly the mode our overlay sets.

What command-name denies cannot cover (inherent to any denylist of commands):

  1. Interpreter strings: bash -c "ssh ...", python -c, node -e. The quoted payload is not a parseable subcommand in either runtime. Denying bash -c * or python -c * would break large amounts of legitimate agent work.
  2. Absolute paths and wrapper binaries: /usr/bin/ssh ..., env ssh .... The deny list is public in this repo, so an adaptive injected payload simply picks an uncovered path; enumerating them adds review noise without stopping an attacker who can read the list.
  3. Other remote channels the issue did not name: mosh, nc, socat, docker -H ssh://....

For those, the compensating control in this PR is the always-on "Remote execution boundary" routing directive (no remote execution or ambient-socket discovery without explicit user direction), which also covers agents with no permission profile at all (Cursor, Codex, Gemini, and friends). The structural fix for points 1 and 2 lives at the sandbox/OS level or in the agent runtimes upstream, not in generated settings files.

Happy to do a small follow-up if maintainers want it (for example absolute-path deny variants for the canonical bin dirs, or extending the list to mosh). My read is the current scope matches the approved issue and the marginal coverage is not worth the false-positive friction, but it is cheap to add if you disagree.

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- Around line 77-78: Update the permission rules near the existing Bash SSH
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Rebased onto current main. The rebase surfaced a real decision this PR now forces, so I'd like a maintainer call before it goes further.

While this branch was open, #4327 and #4344 landed an ask-by-default policy for the remote shell utilities, and TestRemoteMatcherBoundaryFixtures now pins that /usr/bin/ssh example.invalid passes the matcher unintercepted. For the #4324 threat model (indirect prompt injection riding ambient SSH ControlMaster sockets), that leaves two gaps: pattern-level ask is bypassable through absolute paths and wrappers, and the #4344 remote-authorization contract is prompt-level guidance, so it competes with injected instructions in the same channel instead of enforcing at the executor.

This PR keeps deny-by-default for ssh/scp/sftp/rsync, denies the absolute-path, backslash-escape, and command/exec wrapper forms in the overlay itself, and preserves explicit personal config (an ssh*: allow in user settings still wins; the updated tests pin that). If ask-by-default is the deliberate product choice I'm happy to re-scope, but the bypass forms need enforcement somewhere either way.

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- Line 136: Update the permission matching around the SSH deny rule to enforce
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…ote shell utilities (Gentleman-Programming#4324)

Close the remaining resolution bypasses flagged by the Gentleman-Programming#4330 review: env(1)
execs the utility after optional flags and NAME=VALUE assignments, and exec -a
renames argv[0] before executing it, so both fell through the wildcard allow
as single parsed command nodes.

Both overlays now enumerate, per tool: the env exact/prefix forms (env X,
env X:*) and the internal-glob forms (env * X *, exec -a * X *) covering
env -i X and env NAME=VALUE X. Verified against OpenCode wildcard.ts (every
* compiles to .*) and Claude Code glob docs (internal wildcards supported;
bare forms kept separate per #26229).

The boundary fixtures flip with the policy: env/-i/assignment and exec -a
invocations are denied matcher inputs, while &&-chains and interpreter
programs remain out of scope. Glob entries are deliberately conservative:
benign commands like env LC_ALL=C sort ssh_keys.txt also match and are
denied — the safe side of a remote-execution boundary.
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Requesting two maintainer-applied labels on this one: size:exception and type:bug.

The PR sits at 450 changed lines (+435/−15), 50 over the cognitive budget. The overage is the last commit (345944d), which closes CodeRabbit's actionable finding on inject.go:136 (env / exec -a wrapper bypass of the SSH deny rules). Most of that commit is mechanical enumeration: 28 per-tool JSON deny entries mirrored across the Claude Code and OpenCode overlays, plus the boundary fixtures that pin them. I can't self-apply either label (label permission denied for my account), and a stacked split isn't available from this fork since the base branch would need to live in the org repo.

For review confidence: the added commit already passed the native four-lens review (risk, resilience, readability, reliability) with zero blocking findings, and CodeRabbit's re-review of the new head is green on the code itself.

If the size still feels wrong to you, happy to defer the wrapper commit into a follow-up PR after this merges instead.

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In `@internal/components/permissions/inject_test.go`:
- Around line 841-842: Add matcher-based assertions to
TestInjectClaudeCodeDeniesRemoteShellUtilities for the wrapper deny patterns
covering env -i ssh, env FOO=1 ssh, and exec -a alias ssh, while retaining the
existing serialized deny-list membership checks.

In `@internal/components/permissions/inject.go`:
- Around line 90-91: Add deny rules in both overlays for absolute-path ssh, scp,
sftp, and rsync invocations wrapped by env or exec -a, covering each
wrapper/path combination; alternatively enforce the deny after executable
resolution. Extend the relevant permission tests to verify every wrapper and
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…lities (Gentleman-Programming#4324)

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- add env/exec -a wrapper rules over every absolute install prefix for
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- matcher-based assertions for env -i / env FOO=1 / exec -a wrapper
  invocations in bare-name and absolute-path forms, with negative controls
- regression test: Inject with claudeAdapter() is idempotent (second call
  reports Changed == false, each deny rule appears exactly once)
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Withdrawing the size:exception request and going with the split I offered earlier instead, since the last two commits grew the PR to 725 lines.

I force-pushed this branch back to the first three commits: 376 changed lines now (exact/wildcard/escaped/absolute-path deny forms + routing guidance + aligned #4327 fixtures), then merged current main in so the CI bench corpus matches the workflow (the branch predated the j4435 journey, which was failing the evidence gate on a stale base; both lanes are green now). The deferred work (env / exec -a wrapper denies, wrapper-invoked absolute paths) is parked on danielgap/gentle-ai:fix/4324-wrapper-evasion-slice2 (rebased onto this branch, 359 changed lines) and I'll open it as a follow-up PR the moment this merges, since fork PRs can't stack. Chain context and scope are in the updated description.

On issue linkage: this slice closes the reported attack path (the repro is a plain ssh -S /tmp/... invocation, denied in exact, wildcard, escaped, and absolute-path forms), so Closes #4324 stays. The deferred wrapper evasions came out of review, not the original repro, and I'll file them as their own issue so the follow-up PR has a clean gate.

Two things unchanged:

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… sockets (Gentleman-Programming#4324)

Agents with unrestricted bash could discover ambient SSH ControlMaster
sockets (ps aux, /tmp) and run commands on remote infrastructure through
the user's authenticated sessions, with no permission boundary firing.

- Claude Code overlay: deny Bash(ssh|scp|sftp|rsync) in exact and :*
  prefix forms.
- OpenCode/Kilocode overlay: deny ssh/scp/sftp/rsync in exact and
  wildcard forms alongside the existing bash rules.
- Routing guidance: always-on "Remote execution boundary" section for
  every configured agent, covering agents without a permission profile
  and forbidding discovery/attachment to ambient sockets without
  explicit user direction.
…emote shell utilities (Gentleman-Programming#4324)

The bare-command deny rules from the previous commit anchor on the literal
start of the command string, so an agent could still reach remote
infrastructure by resolving the same binaries differently:

- Claude Code prefix rules never match /usr/bin/ssh, \ssh, or command ssh,
  because none of those strings start with 'ssh'.
- OpenCode matches the full source text of each parsed shell command node
  (v1.18.10 permission/index.ts + util/wildcard.ts), so those forms are
  distinct patterns there too; its matcher also normalizes backslashes to
  forward slashes, which is what the /<tool> * entries cover.

Both overlays now deny, per utility, one entry per canonical absolute install
prefix (/bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /opt/homebrew/bin,
/run/current-system/sw/bin), the root-level absolute form, and the command
and exec resolution wrappers, retaining the existing bare rules. The
enumerated prefixes cover the OpenSSH client and rsync layouts of every
supported platform; installs outside them still hit the always-on routing
guidance 'Remote execution boundary' section.
… deny-by-default policy

Rebase onto main brought in Gentleman-Programming#4327's fixtures, which pin ask-by-default
and non-interception of absolute-path invocations. This PR ships the
opposite policy for Gentleman-Programming#4324: deny by default (explicit personal config
still wins and is not silently rewritten), and deny of absolute-path,
backslash-escape, and shell resolution wrapper invocations of the
remote shell utilities. Update both fixtures to pin the intended
behavior instead of the upstream intermediate state.
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@Alan-TheGentleman @Gentleman-Programming the only failing check on this PR is Check PR Has type:* Label: it has no labels yet and I can't add them from my side. Could you add type:bug?

Everything else is green on the current head (unit, E2E suites, Darwin, CodeRabbit). Two sibling PRs carry the same one-label blocker: #4198 and #4157.

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security(permissions): agent can execute unauthorized remote commands via ambient SSH ControlMaster sockets

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