// What the forge's tools refuse (guard.ts; novox/hq ADR 0266): an agent reaches the forge through these tools // with a token minted for the forge's administrator, so the tools — not the forge — are what keeps it from // dropping a branch's protection, writing to main, setting the merge check's status, or merging past the // checks. Each route a review found is reproduced here against a fake forge, and each is refused with nothing // sent; the operator-approved merge of a pull request whose checks passed still goes through. import { test, after, beforeEach } from "node:test"; import assert from "node:assert/strict"; import { createServer, type IncomingMessage, type ServerResponse } from "node:http"; import { GiteaClient } from "../dist/client.js"; import { ConfiguredToken } from "../dist/token.js"; import { getGiteaTools } from "../dist/tools/index.js"; import { judgeApiCall, judgeProtectionChange, ruleCovers, routedPath } from "../dist/guard.js"; interface Sent { method: string; path: string; body: any } const state = { sent: [] as Sent[], asked: [] as string[], statuses: [] as { context: string; state: string }[], rules: [] as any[], lastCommit: "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z", }; const protectedMain = () => ({ rule_name: "main", enable_push: false, enable_status_check: true, status_check_contexts: ["mesh/merge-gate", "mesh/repo-check"], block_admin_merge_override: true }); beforeEach(() => { state.sent = []; state.asked = []; state.statuses = [{ context: "mesh/merge-gate", state: "success" }, { context: "mesh/repo-check", state: "success" }]; state.rules = [protectedMain()]; }); const json = (res: ServerResponse, status: number, body: unknown): void => { res.writeHead(status, { "Content-Type": "application/json" }); res.end(body === null ? "" : JSON.stringify(body)); }; const read = (req: IncomingMessage): Promise => new Promise((resolve) => { let text = ""; req.on("data", (c) => (text += c)); req.on("end", () => resolve(text ? JSON.parse(text) : null)); }); const server = createServer(async (req, res) => { const url = new URL(req.url ?? "/", "http://fake"); const path = url.pathname.replace(/^\/api\/v1/, ""); const method = req.method ?? "GET"; const body = await read(req); state.asked.push(`${method} ${path}${url.search}`); if (method !== "GET") state.sent.push({ method, path, body }); const repo = "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog"; if (method === "GET" && path === repo) return json(res, 200, { full_name: "novox/mesh-catalog", default_branch: "main" }); if (method === "GET" && path === `${repo}/branch_protections`) return json(res, 200, state.rules); if (method === "GET" && path === "/user") return json(res, 200, { login: "mesh-admin" }); if (method === "GET" && path === "/repos/mesh-admin/scratch/branch_protections") return json(res, 200, []); if (method === "GET" && /^\/repos\/[^/]+\/[^/]+\/commits$/.test(path)) { return json(res, 200, [{ commit: { committer: { date: state.lastCommit } } }]); } if (method === "GET" && path === `${repo}/pulls/7`) { return json(res, 200, { number: 7, title: "x", state: "open", merged: false, head: { ref: "feat/x", sha: "abc1234" }, base: { ref: "main" }, html_url: "http://fake/7" }); } if (method === "GET" && path === `${repo}/commits/abc1234/status`) { return json(res, 200, { sha: "abc1234", state: "success", statuses: state.statuses }); } if (method === "POST" && path === `${repo}/pulls/7/merge`) return json(res, 200, null); return json(res, method === "GET" ? 200 : 201, {}); }); await new Promise((r) => server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", () => r())); after(() => new Promise((r) => server.close(() => r()))); const { port } = server.address() as { port: number }; const tools = getGiteaTools(new GiteaClient(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}`, new ConfiguredToken("t"))); const tool = (name: string) => tools.find((t) => t.name === name)!; const writes = () => state.sent.map((s) => `${s.method} ${s.path}`); test("gitea_api refuses the forge's administration, a branch's protection and the merge check's status, and sends nothing", async () => { for (const [method, path, body] of [ ["PATCH", "/admin/users/agent", { admin: true }], ["DELETE", "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/branch_protections/main", undefined], ["PATCH", "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/branch_protections/main", { enable_status_check: false }], ["POST", "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/statuses/abc1234", { context: "mesh/merge-gate", state: "success" }], ["POST", "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/pulls/7/merge", { Do: "merge", force_merge: true }], ["PUT", "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/collaborators/agent", { permission: "admin" }], ["POST", "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/hooks", { type: "gitea" }], ["POST", "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/keys", { key: "ssh-ed25519 AAAA" }], ["PATCH", "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog", { default_branch: "agent" }], ["DELETE", "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog", undefined], ["POST", "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/transfer", { new_owner: "agent" }], ["POST", "/users/mesh-admin/tokens", { name: "mine", scopes: ["all"] }], ["PUT", "/orgs/novox/members/agent", undefined], ["PATCH", "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/issues/1/../../branch_protections/main", { enable_push: true }], ["PATCH", "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/issues/1/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/branch_protections/main", { enable_push: true }], ] as const) { await assert.rejects(tool("gitea_api").run({ path, method, ...(body ? { body } : {}) }), /not a write gitea_api makes|not taken|administration/, `${method} ${path}`); } await assert.rejects(tool("gitea_api").run({ path: "/admin/users" }), /administration/); assert.deepEqual(writes(), []); }); test("gitea_api refuses a file written to the default branch or one a rule guards, and writes one on a branch of its own", async () => { const put = (body: Record) => tool("gitea_api").run({ path: "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/contents/modules/sudo/module.json", method: "PUT", body }); await assert.rejects(put({ content: "e30=", sha: "x" }), /default branch/); await assert.rejects(put({ content: "e30=", sha: "x", branch: "main" }), /default branch/); state.rules.push({ rule_name: "release/*" }); await assert.rejects(put({ content: "e30=", sha: "x", branch: "release/1" }), /protection rule release\/\*/); assert.deepEqual(writes(), []); await put({ content: "e30=", sha: "x", branch: "main", new_branch: "feat/sudo-docs" }); assert.deepEqual(writes(), ["PUT /repos/novox/mesh-catalog/contents/modules/sudo/module.json"]); }); test("gitea_api still writes what an author writes", async () => { await tool("gitea_api").run({ path: "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/issues/3/comments", method: "POST", body: { body: "hi" } }); await tool("gitea_api").run({ path: "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/pulls/7/reviews", method: "POST", body: { event: "COMMENT" } }); await tool("gitea_api").run({ path: "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/branch_protections" }); assert.deepEqual(writes(), ["POST /repos/novox/mesh-catalog/issues/3/comments", "POST /repos/novox/mesh-catalog/pulls/7/reviews"]); }); test("gitea_branch_protection_set only strengthens", async () => { const set = (args: Record) => tool("gitea_branch_protection_set").run({ owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-catalog", branch: "main", ...args }); await assert.rejects(set({ status_checks: "" }), /drops the required status mesh\/merge-gate, mesh\/repo-check/); await assert.rejects(set({ status_checks: "mesh/merge-gate" }), /drops the required status mesh\/repo-check/); await assert.rejects(set({ status_checks: "mesh/merge-gate,mesh/repo-check", push: true }), /push to the branch directly/); await assert.rejects(set({ status_checks: "mesh/merge-gate,mesh/repo-check", block_admin_override: false }), /merge past a status/); assert.deepEqual(writes(), []); await set({ status_checks: "mesh/merge-gate,mesh/repo-check,mesh/delivery" }); assert.deepEqual(writes(), ["PATCH /repos/novox/mesh-catalog/branch_protections/main"]); }); test("gitea_merge_pull_request merges only a head whose required statuses all succeeded, and only that head", async () => { const merge = () => tool("gitea_merge_pull_request").run({ owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-catalog", number: 7 }); state.statuses = [{ context: "mesh/merge-gate", state: "success" }, { context: "mesh/repo-check", state: "failure" }]; await assert.rejects(merge(), /not merged: .*mesh\/repo-check \(failure\)/); state.statuses = [{ context: "mesh/merge-gate", state: "success" }]; await assert.rejects(merge(), /mesh\/repo-check \(missing\)/); await assert.rejects(tool("gitea_merge_pull_request").run({ owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-catalog", number: 7, method: "manually-merged" }), /not a merge method/); assert.deepEqual(writes(), []); // The operator said yes and the checks passed: the flow that stays. state.statuses = [{ context: "mesh/merge-gate", state: "success" }, { context: "mesh/repo-check", state: "success" }]; await merge(); const sent = state.sent.find((s) => s.path.endsWith("/pulls/7/merge"))!; assert.equal(sent.body.force_merge, false); assert.equal(sent.body.head_commit_id, "abc1234"); }); test("gitea_delete_repo deletes only the tools' own user's repository, unguarded, untouched for 30 days, named in full", async () => { const del = (owner: string, name: string, confirm: unknown) => tool("gitea_delete_repo").run({ owner, name, confirm }); await assert.rejects(del("novox", "mesh-catalog", true), /confirm must be the repository's full name/); await assert.rejects(del("novox", "mesh-catalog", "novox/mesh-catalog"), /not a repository of the tools' own user/); state.lastCommit = new Date().toISOString(); await assert.rejects(del("mesh-admin", "scratch", "mesh-admin/scratch"), /within 30 days/); assert.deepEqual(writes(), []); state.lastCommit = "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z"; await del("mesh-admin", "scratch", "mesh-admin/scratch"); assert.deepEqual(writes(), ["DELETE /repos/mesh-admin/scratch"]); }); test("gitea_api sends the path it judged, and refuses moving a pull request's base", async () => { await tool("gitea_api").run({ path: "/api/v1/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/issues/3/comments/?page=1", method: "POST", body: { body: "hi" } }); assert.deepEqual(writes(), ["POST /repos/novox/mesh-catalog/issues/3/comments"]); await assert.rejects(tool("gitea_api").run({ path: "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/pulls/7", method: "PATCH", body: { base: "unguarded" } }), /changing a pull request's base/); await tool("gitea_api").run({ path: "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/pulls/7", method: "PATCH", body: { title: "x" } }); assert.equal(writes().length, 2); }); test("gitea_merge_pull_request merges only into a branch whose protection requires the checks", async () => { state.rules = []; await assert.rejects(tool("gitea_merge_pull_request").run({ owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-catalog", number: 7 }), /no protection rule requiring the checks guards/); state.rules = [{ rule_name: "main", enable_push: false, enable_status_check: false, status_check_contexts: [] }]; await assert.rejects(tool("gitea_merge_pull_request").run({ owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-catalog", number: 7 }), /no protection rule requiring the checks guards/); assert.deepEqual(writes(), []); }); test("a rule named for a branch is not made weaker than the glob rule that guards it now", async () => { state.rules.push({ rule_name: "release/*", enable_push: false, enable_status_check: true, status_check_contexts: ["mesh/merge-gate"], block_admin_merge_override: true }); const set = (args: Record) => tool("gitea_branch_protection_set").run({ owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-catalog", branch: "release/1", ...args }); await assert.rejects(set({ status_checks: "" }), /drops the required status mesh\/merge-gate/); await assert.rejects(set({ status_checks: "mesh/merge-gate" }), /merge past a status/); assert.deepEqual(writes(), []); await set({ status_checks: "mesh/merge-gate", block_admin_override: true }); assert.deepEqual(writes(), ["POST /repos/novox/mesh-catalog/branch_protections"]); }); test("a repository owner or name is never another path", async () => { await assert.rejects(tool("gitea_update_pull_request").run({ owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-catalog/branch_protections/main?", number: 1, title: "x" }), /not a repository name/); await assert.rejects(tool("gitea_get_issue").run({ owner: "..", repo: "admin", number: 1 }), /not a repository owner/); assert.deepEqual(writes(), []); }); test("the judges, without a forge", () => { assert.equal(routedPath("/api/v1/repos/a/b/issues?x=1"), "/repos/a/b/issues"); assert.throws(() => routedPath("/repos/a/b/../c"), /dot segment/); assert.ok("allowed" in judgeApiCall("GET", "/repos/a/b/branch_protections", undefined)); assert.ok("refused" in judgeApiCall("POST", "/repos/a/b/branch_protections", {})); assert.ok("contents" in judgeApiCall("POST", "/repos/a/b/contents", { new_branch: "x" })); assert.ok(ruleCovers("release/**", "release/a/b") && ruleCovers("feat/*", "feat/a") && !ruleCovers("feat/*", "feat/a/b")); assert.equal(judgeProtectionChange(null, { statusChecks: [] }), null); assert.equal(judgeProtectionChange(protectedMain(), { statusChecks: ["mesh/repo-check", "mesh/merge-gate"] }), null); }); test("gitea_api never acts as another user: sudo, in any case, and any query key it does not send are refused", async () => { for (const path of ["/user?sudo=jschoubben", "/user?SUDO=jschoubben", "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/issues?state=open&Sudo=jschoubben", "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/issues?token=abc", "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/issues?access_token=abc"]) { await assert.rejects(tool("gitea_api").run({ path }), /query key/, path); } await assert.rejects(tool("gitea_api").run({ path: "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/issues/3/comments?sudo=jschoubben", method: "POST", body: { body: "as the operator" } }), /query key sudo/); assert.deepEqual(state.asked, []); await tool("gitea_api").run({ path: "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/issues?state=open&limit=5" }); assert.deepEqual(state.asked, ["GET /repos/novox/mesh-catalog/issues?state=open&limit=5"]); }); test("gitea_api never approves a pull request nor requests changes: those are the operator's", async () => { for (const [path, event] of [["/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/pulls/7/reviews", "APPROVE"], ["/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/pulls/7/reviews", "approve"], ["/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/pulls/7/reviews", "REQUEST_CHANGES"], ["/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/pulls/7/reviews/5", "APPROVE"]]) { await assert.rejects(tool("gitea_api").run({ path, method: "POST", body: { event, body: "lgtm" } }), /operator's at the forge/, `${path} ${event}`); } assert.deepEqual(writes(), []); await tool("gitea_api").run({ path: "/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/pulls/7/reviews", method: "POST", body: { event: "COMMENT", body: "a note" } }); assert.deepEqual(writes(), ["POST /repos/novox/mesh-catalog/pulls/7/reviews"]); }); test("no tool's caller text becomes another path or another user: `..` and `?sudo=` are refused before the forge", async () => { const repo = { owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-catalog" }; const cases: Array<[string, Record]> = [ ["gitea_delete_branch", { ...repo, branch: ".." }], ["gitea_delete_branch", { ...repo, branch: "feat/../.." }], ["gitea_delete_branch", { ...repo, branch: "x?sudo=jschoubben" }], ["gitea_delete_branch", { ...repo, branch: "%2e%2e" }], ["gitea_get_file", { ...repo, path: "../../../../version" }], ["gitea_get_file", { ...repo, path: "README.md?sudo=jschoubben" }], ["gitea_commit_status", { ...repo, sha: "abc1234?sudo=jschoubben", context: "mesh/delivery", state: "success" }], ["gitea_commit_status", { ...repo, sha: "../../../admin/users", context: "mesh/delivery", state: "success" }], ["gitea_commit_statuses", { ...repo, sha: ".." }], ["gitea_commit_statuses", { ...repo, sha: "main?sudo=jschoubben" }], ["gitea_branch_protection_set", { ...repo, branch: "..", status_checks: "mesh/merge-gate" }], ["gitea_branch_protection_set", { ...repo, branch: "main?sudo=jschoubben", status_checks: "mesh/merge-gate" }], ["gitea_contains", { ...repo, commit: "..", in: "abc1234" }], ]; for (const [name, args] of cases) { state.asked = []; await assert.rejects(tool(name).run(args), (err: unknown) => err instanceof Error, `${name} ${JSON.stringify(args)}`); // Nothing that is not a read of the repository's own rules reached the forge. assert.deepEqual(state.asked.filter((a) => !a.startsWith("GET /repos/novox/mesh-catalog/branch_protections")), [], `${name} ${JSON.stringify(args)} reached the forge`); } // What is ordinary still goes: a branch with a slash, a file in a directory. state.asked = []; await tool("gitea_delete_branch").run({ ...repo, branch: "feat/x" }); await tool("gitea_get_file").run({ ...repo, path: "modules/gitea/module.json" }).catch(() => undefined); assert.deepEqual(state.asked, ["DELETE /repos/novox/mesh-catalog/branches/feat/x", "GET /repos/novox/mesh-catalog/contents/modules/gitea/module.json"]); });