Take a module's own secret through a hidden prompt on the operator's desk, so a bot token never passes through an agent's session (hq ADR 0259 §10)

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jochen
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package main
import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"fmt"
"strings"
"time"
"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/secrets"
)
// A module's own secret given at the operator's desk (novox/hq ADR 0259 §10).
//
// **The value never passes through whoever asked for it.** An agent, or the operator at the mesh MCP
// server, calls `give` with the machine, the module, the secret's name and the desk — never a value. The
// controller makes a sealing keypair for this one call, asks the desk's `node-launcher.secret` to prompt the
// operator without showing what is typed, and is answered with what was typed **sealed to that key**: no
// plaintext on the bus, in a runtime's log or in any call's record. It opens it here, seals it to the
// module's machine exactly as `secret accept` does, and forgets it. What it answers says only that the
// value was taken, or why not.
//
// **What remains** (ADR 0234's accepted residual risk): on an X11 desk any program of the operator's
// account can read the keys as they are typed. And a program that calls the desk's prompt itself, with a
// key of its own, is answered with what the operator typed into a prompt they did not ask for — as it could
// draw a window of its own. The prompt says who asks and for what, so the operator types only into a
// prompt they started.
// deskPromptWithin is how long the prompt waits for the operator: below the runtime's thirty seconds for
// one call, as the launcher's menu is.
const deskPromptWithin = 25
// deskGive is the desk path, its four reaches given so a test needs no store and no bus.
type deskGive struct {
// declares refuses a module or a secret the mesh would refuse, before anybody is asked to type.
declares func(module, name string) error
// ask asks one machine's node-launcher.secret and answers its result, or the holder's refusal.
ask func(machine string, args map[string]any) (json.RawMessage, error)
// accept seals the value as `secret accept` does, and says whether it lives until the module's start.
accept func(value string) (untilStart bool, err error)
// record writes the act in the hand-act log.
record func(link.HandAct) error
}
// errNothingGiven is a prompt dismissed, or not answered in time: nothing changes.
var errNothingGiven = errors.New("nothing was given")
// give asks the desk for the value and seals it; it answers the words said to the caller.
func (d deskGive) give(node, module, name, desk string) (string, error) {
for what, v := range map[string]string{"the machine": node, "the module": module, "the secret": name, "the desk": desk} {
if strings.TrimSpace(v) == "" {
return "", fmt.Errorf("%s is not named", what)
}
}
if err := d.declares(module, name); err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("nobody was asked to type anything: %w", err)
}
public, private, err := secrets.Keypair()
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("no key could be made to take the value: %w", err)
}
raw, err := d.ask(desk, map[string]any{
"prompt": name + " for " + module,
"message": fmt.Sprintf("The mesh asks for %s, the own secret of %s on %s. What you type is not shown, "+
"and is sealed before it leaves this machine. Type it only if you asked for this.", name, module, node),
"seal_to": public,
"timeout_seconds": deskPromptWithin,
})
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("the desk on %s could not be asked: %w", desk, err)
}
var answer struct {
Sealed string `json:"sealed"`
Cancelled bool `json:"cancelled"`
TimedOut bool `json:"timed_out"`
}
if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &answer); err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("the desk on %s answered something that is not the prompt's answer", desk)
}
switch {
case answer.TimedOut:
return "", fmt.Errorf("%w: the prompt on %s was not answered within %d seconds", errNothingGiven, desk, deskPromptWithin)
case answer.Cancelled:
return "", fmt.Errorf("%w: the prompt on %s was dismissed", errNothingGiven, desk)
case answer.Sealed == "":
return "", fmt.Errorf("the desk on %s answered no sealed value", desk)
}
opened, err := secrets.Open(private, answer.Sealed)
if err != nil {
// Never the value, never what failed to open: only that it was not sealed to this call.
return "", fmt.Errorf("the desk on %s answered a value not sealed to this call; nothing was taken", desk)
}
value := asSupplied(string(opened))
for i := range opened {
opened[i] = 0
}
if strings.TrimSpace(value) == "" {
return "", fmt.Errorf("%w: the prompt on %s was answered empty", errNothingGiven, desk)
}
untilStart, err := d.accept(value)
value = ""
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
act := link.HandAct{Verb: "secret accept", Args: []string{node, module, name, "--at-desk", desk},
Why: fmt.Sprintf("the operator gave %s for %s on %s at the desk on %s", name, module, node, desk),
Cause: "given-at-the-desk"}
recorded := ""
if err := d.record(act); err != nil {
recorded = fmt.Sprintf("\n this act could NOT be recorded in the hand-act log, and is done anyway: %v", err)
}
words := fmt.Sprintf("%s on %s now holds %q, given at the desk on %s and sealed to %s; the mesh cannot read it "+
"back.\n run `push %s` to send it", module, node, name, desk, node, node)
if untilStart {
words += fmt.Sprintf("\n it lives until %s next starts well under the mesh, and is then replaced with a value "+
"the mesh makes (ADR 0228)", module)
}
return words + recorded, nil
}
// giveAtDesk is `secret accept <node> <module> <name> --at-desk <machine>`: the desk path, on this
// controller's stores and bus.
func giveAtDesk(ctx context.Context, node, module, name, desk string) error {
open, err := openStores(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer open.Close()
d := deskGive{
declares: func(module, name string) error { return open.inventory.DeclaresOwnSecret(ctx, module, name) },
ask: func(machine string, args map[string]any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
var result json.RawMessage
err := onTheBus(func(conn *nats.Conn) error {
answer, err := link.AskSeatTool(ctx, conn, "node-launcher", "secret", machine, args,
time.Duration(deskPromptWithin+5)*time.Second)
if err != nil {
return err
}
if answer.Error != "" {
return errors.New(answer.Error)
}
result = answer.Result
return nil
})
return result, err
},
accept: func(value string) (bool, error) {
return open.inventory.AcceptGivenSecret(ctx, node, module, name, value)
},
record: func(act link.HandAct) error {
return onTheBus(func(conn *nats.Conn) error {
_, err := link.RecordHandAct(ctx, conn, act)
return err
})
},
}
words, err := d.give(node, module, name, desk)
if err != nil {
return err
}
fmt.Println(words)
return nil
}