The internal-API rule only fired when the FIRST shell token was an HTTP
CLI (curl/wget/http/https/httpie). smoke-17 showed an agent reach the
orchestrator with hand-forged X-Agent-ID/X-Agent-Role headers via:
python3 << 'EOF'
import httpx
httpx.post("http://roboco-orchestrator:8000/api/v2/flow/developer/i_will_work_on",
headers={"X-Agent-ID": "<self>", "X-Agent-Role": "developer"})
EOF
The binary is python3 (slips the CLI check) and it imports httpx, not
roboco.* (slips the #164 import check). Only minimax's wrong endpoint
path prevented a real gateway bypass under a forged identity.
Add a language-agnostic rule: deny when the command pairs an HTTP-client
token (httpx/requests/urllib/aiohttp/http.client/net::http/fetch(/
node-fetch/axios/...) with a forbidden internal host, consistent with
the curl/wget sibling (inspects full $low incl. heredoc body). External
HTTP (pypi/docs/github) has no internal host so it still passes. The
stale "interpreter one-liners — out of scope" KNOWN GAP comment is
corrected; the variable-expansion gap remains documented.
11 new tests incl. the exact smoke-17 heredoc, requests/urllib/aiohttp/
node-fetch/Net::HTTP variants, and allow-cases (external host, client
import w/o host, pytest runner). make quality green.
The git network/auth deny rule matched its regex against the whole
command string, so heredoc bodies and echo/printf arguments that merely
documented git verbs (a README, a notes file) were treated as git
invocations and denied. This wedged smoke-13's dev: after wiping the
README via an Edit/Write fallback it could not restore it because every
`cat > README.md << EOF ... git commit ... EOF` was blocked.
The git-ops check now runs against a skeleton of the command with
heredoc bodies and echo/printf literal args stripped (both are data the
shell writes, never executed). Quoted args to a shell interpreter
(`bash -c "... && git fetch"`) ARE executed, are not echo/printf/heredoc
bodies, and so survive untouched — the hook's core purpose is preserved.
A sentinel prefix distinguishes a legitimately-empty skeleton from a
python failure (fail closed on failure). All other rules, including the
#164 import-bypass rule, still inspect the full command.
Smoke-12: be-dev-1 (minimax-m2.7) bypassed the entire MCP boundary by
running `uv run python3 -c "import os;
os.environ['ROBOCO_AGENT_ID']='...'; from roboco.mcp.flow_server
import open_pr; open_pr(...)"` from the Bash tool. This voided the
per-role tool manifest (role-scoping is meaningless if the agent can
import any server module in-process), forged agent identity via an
env-var rewrite, and ran choreographer code outside the gateway's
tracing + auth.
bash-guard-hook.sh now adds two deny rules:
1. Any python/uv/poetry/pipenv/pdm/hatch invocation that imports or
`-m`-runs roboco.* internals (mcp/services/runtime/foundation/
api/enforcement). The whole command string — heredoc body
included — is matched, so quoting/heredoc forms are covered.
2. Any assignment or export of ROBOCO_AGENT_ID (identity forgery).
Reading roboco source for context (cat/grep) is still allowed — the
block is on *executing* internals, not viewing them. Normal python
one-liners without roboco imports still pass.
19 bash-guard tests pass (10 prior + 9 new). Note: takes effect on
agent-image rebuild (hook ships in the agent container).
Smoke run 3 showed the bash-guard hook emitting 8+ lines on every
blocked shell-git op — enumerating every alternative MCP verb across
roboco-flow / roboco-do / roboco-git-readonly. That's repeated token
spend on every refused retry; the LLM doesn't need the full alt-list
inline, it has the role prompt + the MCP tool schema for that.
Trimmed to 2 lines: denial reason + a one-line pointer to the role's
State→Verb table. Test asserts <= 3 echo lines in any denial block.
Spec ref: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-12-post-smoke-3-fixes-design.md
section B5.
Previous regex used a greedy [^|]* and required at least one / before
the host, so 'curl roboco-orchestrator:8000/api' (no scheme, no slash)
slipped through. Split into two simpler checks: (a) line starts with
curl/wget/http/https/httpie, AND (b) line contains a forbidden host.
Probe-verified: scheme-ful, scheme-less, and protocol-relative forms
all denied; external URLs still allowed; GitHub-specific deny still
fires first.
Prompts told agents internal API calls were denied; the guard only
denied GitHub. Combined with task 4 (X-Agent-Role enforcement) this
closes the manifest-bypass loophole.
Renn F