feat: Add proxy_install_only config to restrict proxy to download commands (#222)

* feat: Add proxy_install_only config to restrict proxy to download commands

Introduces proxy_install_only (default: false) which, when enabled,
skips the proxy for package manager commands that do not download
packages (e.g. npm ls, pip list), avoiding unnecessary MITM overhead.

- Add ProxyInstallOnly to Config and config template
- Add IsKnownDownloadCommand / MayDownloadPackages to ParsedCommand
- Add DownloadCommands to npm and pypi PM configs covering update,
  ci, audit, dlx, exec, x, download, run and equivalents per PM
- Extract shared runner.Execute used by both proxy flow and guard
- Proxy flow short-circuits to runner.Execute for non-download commands
  when proxy_install_only=true

* refactor: Inject CommandExecutor into guard to fix dependency direction

guard depended on internal/runner, which inverted the intended layer
hierarchy. Now guard defines a CommandExecutor function type and accepts
it as a constructor argument. internal/flows (the composition root)
creates the executor closure wrapping runner.Execute and injects it,
keeping guard free of internal/ dependencies.

* refactor: Invert proxy_install_only logic to use known non-download commands

Replace the DownloadCommands allowlist (opt-in, fail-open) with a
NonDownloadCommands denylist (opt-out, fail-safe). The proxy now runs
for all commands except those explicitly known to not download packages.
Unknown or future package manager subcommands default to running with
the proxy.

Includes script runners (run, start, test, stop, restart) that can spin
up local servers — setting proxy env vars on these breaks them without
providing any security benefit. Also covers removal commands and local
operations that never contact the registry.

* fix: Support PMG_* env vars regardless of config file state

AutomaticEnv only resolves env vars for keys Viper already knows about
via AllKeys(). When a key is absent from the config file (commented out,
new key added after last setup, or no config file at all), Viper had no
knowledge of it and silently skipped the env var.

Fix by registering all Config struct fields as Viper defaults via
reflection (using mapstructure tags) before reading the config file.
This ensures PMG_* env vars work in all cases.

Precedence: cobra flags > env vars > config file > defaults.
SetDefault is used (not Set) so env vars and config file can still
override the Go defaults freely.

Tests added covering all precedence levels including the key-absent-
from-config-file case that was the original bug report.

* fix: Only check first non-flag arg against NonDownloadCommands

Scanning all args caused false proxy bypasses when package names or
script arguments matched a NonDownloadCommands entry. For example:
- npm exec test → "test" matched, proxy incorrectly skipped
- npm update config → "config" matched, proxy skipped
- npm publish --tag version → "version" matched, proxy skipped

Fix by checking only the first non-flag argument (the subcommand).
If it is not in NonDownloadCommands we break immediately, so trailing
args never influence the classification. Applied to all four parsers:
npm, pip/pip3, uv, and poetry.

Regression tests added for the false positive cases.

* refactor: Replace reflection-based Viper defaults with embedded template

Load the embedded config template as the Viper base so all keys are
registered upfront, enabling PMG_* env vars to work regardless of
whether a key exists in the user's config file.

* fix: Restore trusted_packages template entry and revert DefaultConfig change

* docs: Document environment variable overrides for config keys

* update npm test cmd

* refactor: extract shared non-download command detection helper

Replaces duplicated first-non-flag-arg detection loops in npm.go and
pypi.go (pip + poetry parsers) with a shared isFirstNonFlagArgInList
helper in packagemanager.go.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01AHaKF3vc2Haj9tK3jgUBAs

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Sahil Bansal
2026-04-17 01:13:30 +05:30
committed by GitHub
co-authored by Claude
parent 887984612c
commit 365deb1897
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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
package packagemanager
import (
"strings"
"testing"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
@@ -856,3 +857,114 @@ func TestPypiConvertWildcardConstraint(t *testing.T) {
})
}
}
func TestPypiProxyBehavior(t *testing.T) {
cases := []struct {
name string
pm func() (*pypiPackageManager, error)
command string
isKnownNonDownloadCmd bool // proxy skipped when proxy_install_only=true
isInstallationCommand bool
}{
// Commands where proxy MUST run
{
name: "poetry update — proxy runs (may download)",
pm: func() (*pypiPackageManager, error) { return NewPypiPackageManager(DefaultPoetryPackageManagerConfig()) },
command: "poetry update",
isKnownNonDownloadCmd: false,
isInstallationCommand: false,
},
{
name: "poetry add — proxy runs (installation command)",
pm: func() (*pypiPackageManager, error) { return NewPypiPackageManager(DefaultPoetryPackageManagerConfig()) },
command: "poetry add django",
isKnownNonDownloadCmd: false,
isInstallationCommand: true,
},
{
name: "uv sync — proxy runs (manifest install)",
pm: func() (*pypiPackageManager, error) { return NewPypiPackageManager(DefaultUvPackageManagerConfig()) },
command: "uv sync",
isKnownNonDownloadCmd: false,
isInstallationCommand: true,
},
{
name: "pip download — proxy runs (explicitly downloads packages)",
pm: func() (*pypiPackageManager, error) { return NewPypiPackageManager(DefaultPipPackageManagerConfig()) },
command: "pip download requests",
isKnownNonDownloadCmd: false,
isInstallationCommand: false,
},
{
name: "pip3 download — proxy runs (explicitly downloads packages)",
pm: func() (*pypiPackageManager, error) { return NewPypiPackageManager(DefaultPip3PackageManagerConfig()) },
command: "pip3 download django",
isKnownNonDownloadCmd: false,
isInstallationCommand: false,
},
{
name: "uv pip download — proxy runs (uv has complex subcommands, fail safe)",
pm: func() (*pypiPackageManager, error) { return NewPypiPackageManager(DefaultUvPackageManagerConfig()) },
command: "uv pip download requests",
isKnownNonDownloadCmd: false,
isInstallationCommand: false,
},
{
name: "uv run — proxy runs (auto-installs script dependencies)",
pm: func() (*pypiPackageManager, error) { return NewPypiPackageManager(DefaultUvPackageManagerConfig()) },
command: "uv run script.py",
isKnownNonDownloadCmd: false,
isInstallationCommand: false,
},
// Commands where proxy is safely skipped
{
name: "pip list — proxy skipped (lists installed packages)",
pm: func() (*pypiPackageManager, error) { return NewPypiPackageManager(DefaultPipPackageManagerConfig()) },
command: "pip list",
isKnownNonDownloadCmd: true,
isInstallationCommand: false,
},
{
name: "pip show — proxy skipped (shows package metadata)",
pm: func() (*pypiPackageManager, error) { return NewPypiPackageManager(DefaultPipPackageManagerConfig()) },
command: "pip show requests",
isKnownNonDownloadCmd: true,
isInstallationCommand: false,
},
{
name: "poetry show — proxy skipped (shows dependency info)",
pm: func() (*pypiPackageManager, error) { return NewPypiPackageManager(DefaultPoetryPackageManagerConfig()) },
command: "poetry show",
isKnownNonDownloadCmd: true,
isInstallationCommand: false,
},
{
name: "poetry check — proxy skipped (validates pyproject.toml)",
pm: func() (*pypiPackageManager, error) { return NewPypiPackageManager(DefaultPoetryPackageManagerConfig()) },
command: "poetry check",
isKnownNonDownloadCmd: true,
isInstallationCommand: false,
},
// Unknown commands default to proxy running (fail safe)
{
name: "unknown pip subcommand — proxy runs (fail safe)",
pm: func() (*pypiPackageManager, error) { return NewPypiPackageManager(DefaultPipPackageManagerConfig()) },
command: "pip some-future-command",
isKnownNonDownloadCmd: false,
isInstallationCommand: false,
},
}
for _, tc := range cases {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
pm, err := tc.pm()
assert.NoError(t, err)
parsed, err := pm.ParseCommand(strings.Split(tc.command, " "))
assert.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, tc.isKnownNonDownloadCmd, parsed.IsKnownNonDownloadCommand)
assert.Equal(t, tc.isInstallationCommand, parsed.IsInstallationCommand())
assert.Equal(t, !tc.isKnownNonDownloadCmd, parsed.MayDownloadPackages())
})
}
}