Add the protect plugin, refusing writes to tool-owned files

Ultraworked with [Sisyphus](https://github.com/code-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent)

Co-authored-by: Sisyphus <clio-agent@sisyphuslabs.ai>
This commit is contained in:
Muhammad Zakir Ramadhan
2026-09-05 17:28:39 +07:00
co-authored by Sisyphus
parent 551e518711
commit 26d62bc926
2 changed files with 123 additions and 10 deletions
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@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
import { tool } from 'ai';
import { z } from 'zod';
import { posix } from './ignore';
import type { Plugin } from './plugins';
/**
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ const SECRET_PATHS: { re: RegExp; why: string }[] = [
{ re: /(^|[\\/])\.gnupg[\\/]/i, why: 'a GPG directory' },
];
/** Every path a write tool might carry, including a patch's markers. */
/** Every path a write tool might carry, including a patch's markers and a move's ends. */
function writtenPaths(toolName: string, input: unknown): string[] {
const o = (input ?? {}) as Record<string, unknown>;
@@ -99,9 +100,16 @@ function writtenPaths(toolName: string, input: unknown): string[] {
];
}
if (toolName === 'move_file') {
return [o['from'], o['to']].filter((p): p is string => typeof p === 'string');
}
return typeof o['path'] === 'string' ? [o['path']] : [];
}
/** Write tools a path-based guard has to cover. Missing one is a silent bypass. */
const WRITE_TOOLS = ['write_file', 'edit_file', 'multi_edit', 'apply_patch', 'move_file', 'delete_file'];
export const secretsPlugin: Plugin = {
name: 'secrets',
description: 'refuses to write credential files',
@@ -110,7 +118,7 @@ export const secretsPlugin: Plugin = {
'user which file and which key, and let them write it themselves. Do not work around the refusal by writing ' +
'the same content somewhere else.',
beforeToolCall: ({ toolName, input }) => {
if (!['write_file', 'edit_file', 'multi_edit', 'apply_patch'].includes(toolName)) return undefined;
if (!WRITE_TOOLS.includes(toolName)) return undefined;
for (const path of writtenPaths(toolName, input)) {
for (const { re, why } of SECRET_PATHS) {
@@ -123,6 +131,49 @@ export const secretsPlugin: Plugin = {
},
};
/**
* Paths a write must not touch, for reasons other than secrecy.
*
* These are not credentials, so the secrets plugin has nothing to say about them.
* They are files whose contents are owned by a tool rather than by anyone editing
* them by hand: git's own object store, a resolver's lockfile, an installed
* dependency tree, a build directory. A model editing one of these produces a
* repository that looks fine and behaves wrongly, and the failure surfaces
* somewhere else entirely.
*/
const PROTECTED_PATHS: { re: RegExp; why: string }[] = [
{ re: /(^|[\\/])\.git[\\/]/i, why: "git's own object store" },
{
re: /(^|[\\/])(bun\.lock|bun\.lockb|package-lock\.json|pnpm-lock\.yaml|yarn\.lock|Cargo\.lock|poetry\.lock|uv\.lock|composer\.lock|go\.sum|Gemfile\.lock)$/i,
why: 'a lockfile the package manager owns',
},
{ re: /(^|[\\/])node_modules[\\/]/i, why: 'an installed dependency' },
{ re: /(^|[\\/])(vendor|target[\\/]debug|target[\\/]release)[\\/]/i, why: 'a vendored or build directory' },
{ re: /(^|[\\/])(dist|build|out|\.next|\.nuxt|\.svelte-kit|coverage)[\\/]/i, why: 'generated build output' },
{ re: /(^|[\\/])\.(venv|tox|mypy_cache|pytest_cache|ruff_cache|turbo|parcel-cache)[\\/]/i, why: 'a tool cache' },
];
export const protectPlugin: Plugin = {
name: 'protect',
description: 'refuses writes to lockfiles, .git, dependencies, and build output',
appendix:
'The protect plugin refuses writes to .git, lockfiles, node_modules, vendored code, and build output. A ' +
'lockfile is regenerated by its package manager: run the install or update command through bash instead of ' +
'editing the file. Generated output is regenerated by its build. Do not route around the refusal.',
beforeToolCall: ({ toolName, input }) => {
if (!WRITE_TOOLS.includes(toolName)) return undefined;
for (const path of writtenPaths(toolName, input)) {
for (const { re, why } of PROTECTED_PATHS) {
if (re.test(posix(path))) {
return `refusing to write ${path} (${why}). Regenerate it with the tool that owns it rather than editing it.`;
}
}
}
return undefined;
},
};
const FORMATTERS: { file: string; script: string; command: string[] }[] = [
{ file: 'package.json', script: 'format', command: ['bun', 'run', 'format'] },
{ file: 'Cargo.toml', script: '', command: ['cargo', 'fmt'] },
@@ -167,15 +218,22 @@ export const formatPlugin: Plugin = {
},
};
export const BUILTIN_PLUGINS: Plugin[] = [guardPlugin, secretsPlugin, bellPlugin, timePlugin, formatPlugin];
export const BUILTIN_PLUGINS: Plugin[] = [
guardPlugin,
secretsPlugin,
protectPlugin,
bellPlugin,
timePlugin,
formatPlugin,
];
/**
* Enabled unless the config turns them off.
*
* `guard` and `secrets` are refusals, so they are on: a user who has to opt into a
* safety check does not have it. `bell` and `format` both act on their own — one
* makes noise, the other writes files — so they are opt-in.
* `guard`, `secrets`, and `protect` are refusals, so they are on: a user who has to
* opt into a safety check does not have it. `bell` and `format` both act on their
* own — one makes noise, the other writes files — so they are opt-in.
*/
export const DEFAULT_ENABLED = ['guard', 'secrets', 'time'];
export const DEFAULT_ENABLED = ['guard', 'secrets', 'protect', 'time'];
export { DESTRUCTIVE, SECRET_PATHS };
export { DESTRUCTIVE, SECRET_PATHS, PROTECTED_PATHS };
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@@ -3,14 +3,16 @@ import { mkdtempSync, rmSync } from 'node:fs';
import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
import { join } from 'node:path';
import { createHost } from '../src/plugins';
import { BUILTIN_PLUGINS, DEFAULT_ENABLED, formatPlugin, secretsPlugin } from '../src/plugins-builtin';
import { BUILTIN_PLUGINS, DEFAULT_ENABLED, formatPlugin, protectPlugin, secretsPlugin } from '../src/plugins-builtin';
const cwd = process.cwd();
const check = (toolName: string, input: unknown) => secretsPlugin.beforeToolCall!({ toolName, input, cwd });
const guarded = (toolName: string, input: unknown) => protectPlugin.beforeToolCall!({ toolName, input, cwd });
test('secrets is on by default, because an opt-in safety check is not one', () => {
expect(DEFAULT_ENABLED).toContain('secrets');
expect(DEFAULT_ENABLED).toContain('guard');
expect(DEFAULT_ENABLED).toContain('protect');
// Both of these act on their own rather than refusing, so they are opt-in.
expect(DEFAULT_ENABLED).not.toContain('bell');
expect(DEFAULT_ENABLED).not.toContain('format');
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ test('writing a registry or credential file is refused', async () => {
});
test('every write tool is covered, including apply_patch', async () => {
for (const tool of ['write_file', 'edit_file', 'multi_edit']) {
for (const tool of ['write_file', 'edit_file', 'multi_edit', 'delete_file']) {
expect(await check(tool, { path: '.env' }), tool).toContain('refusing to write');
}
@@ -50,6 +52,59 @@ test('every write tool is covered, including apply_patch', async () => {
const patch = '*** Update File: src/app.ts\n-a\n+b\n*** Add File: .env\n+SECRET=x';
expect(await check('apply_patch', { patch })).toContain('refusing to write');
expect(await check('apply_patch', { patch: '*** Move to: .env.production\n' })).toContain('refusing to write');
// A move carries two paths and neither is called `path`.
expect(await check('move_file', { from: 'src/app.ts', to: '.env' })).toContain('refusing to write');
expect(await check('move_file', { from: '.env', to: 'src/app.ts' })).toContain('refusing to write');
});
test('protect refuses git internals, lockfiles, dependencies, and build output', async () => {
for (const path of [
'.git/config',
'.git/hooks/pre-commit',
'bun.lock',
'package-lock.json',
'Cargo.lock',
'go.sum',
'node_modules/react/index.js',
'vendor/github.com/pkg/errors.go',
'dist/bundle.js',
'coverage/lcov.info',
'.next/build-manifest.json',
]) {
expect(await guarded('write_file', { path }), path).toContain('refusing to write');
}
});
test('protect covers every write tool and both ends of a move', async () => {
for (const tool of ['write_file', 'edit_file', 'multi_edit', 'delete_file']) {
expect(await guarded(tool, { path: 'bun.lock' }), tool).toContain('refusing to write');
}
expect(await guarded('apply_patch', { patch: '*** Update File: bun.lock\n-a\n+b' })).toContain('refusing to write');
expect(await guarded('move_file', { from: 'src/a.ts', to: 'node_modules/a.ts' })).toContain('refusing to write');
});
test('protect matches a Windows path separator as well', async () => {
expect(await guarded('write_file', { path: 'node_modules\\react\\index.js' })).toContain('refusing to write');
expect(await guarded('write_file', { path: '.git\\config' })).toContain('refusing to write');
});
test('protect leaves ordinary files and lookalike names alone', async () => {
for (const path of [
'src/app.ts',
'docs/dist-layout.md',
'src/gitignore-parser.ts',
'test/node_modules-resolution.test.ts',
'package.json',
'distributed/queue.ts',
]) {
expect(await guarded('write_file', { path }), path).toBeUndefined();
}
});
test('protect says what to do instead of editing the file', async () => {
expect(protectPlugin.appendix).toContain('package manager');
expect(String(await guarded('write_file', { path: 'bun.lock' }))).toContain('Regenerate it');
});
test('ordinary source files are untouched', async () => {