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Add engine tests asserting that block and warn skill scan verdicts deny with the expected reasons while pass allows, and that a warning does not mask an independent hard denial from another check. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Add a SkillScan check carrying a host-computed pass, warn or block verdict for the exact skill bundle being executed, so hosts can gate execution on scan results rather than trusting model-supplied claims. Bump the contract version to 1.29 and cover the new wire forms with tests. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
The binding logic now classifies SkillScan checks as non-external, matching LocalDiagnostic, so they no longer mark a request as having external effects. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Extend the engine test imports to bring in SkillScanVerdict alongside ToolCall, preparing the test module for assertions that depend on skill scan verdicts. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
… test Renamed the loop binding to scan_verdict so it no longer shadows the verdict field name used when constructing the Check::SkillScan value, keeping the assertion message consistent with the new name. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Skill scan checks now carry a lowercase SHA-256 of the document and resources the host will expose, and the engine denies the call with InvalidContext when that digest is missing or malformed. This ties an approval to the exact bundle that was scanned so a warning cannot be reused against different content. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Add references to the new skill-scan specification across the module and documentation indexes. The contract introduces Check::SkillScan so the trusted host can submit a scan verdict and exact bundle digest before an installed skill runs, with Block denying content, Warn entering the host approval flow, and Pass leaving remaining policy checks authoritative. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Add a test asserting that a skill scan warning routes the request into human approval without being treated as an external effect, while a block verdict is denied outright and cannot be overridden. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
The skill scan block test now checks that begin returns a denied approval carrying the Denied lifecycle state, rather than expecting an error. This matches the engine's actual behaviour of surfacing denials as state. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
The test no longer asserts that a skill scan block verdict is denied, so its name was shortened to match what it actually covers. The removed block duplicated coverage that lives elsewhere. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Add problem statement, goals and non-goals, and acceptance criteria to the skill-scan contract so the draft status and ownership are explicit. Reformat the bundle digest test loop to satisfy rustfmt. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
The skill scan warning test now registers its scope with auto-approve enabled and a run_workflow grant, so the warning path is exercised even when the scope would otherwise skip human approval. A second call with a blocking skill scan verdict is asserted to be denied outright, confirming that a block overrides auto-approval. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Requests carrying a skill scan verdict of Block are now treated as non-original, and a Warn verdict forces human-only approval. This keeps flagged skills from being auto-approved by the native path. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Add a test asserting that run_workflow maps host skill scan verdicts to the expected policy outcomes, with Block denying on content, Warn denying as approval unavailable, and Pass allowing. The spec is clarified to state that a warning requires a fresh human decision and cannot be bypassed by auto-approve-all, grants, prior approvals, or the judge. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
…itionals Pulled the blocked skill scan predicate into a named helper and merged the matching arms in the external-effect check. Inverted the bundle hash guard in the policy engine so the success path reads first, with no change in behaviour. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
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Add a test asserting that a passing skill scan alone cannot authorize a host tool call, which must still be denied as an unsupported effect. This locks in that skill scan verdicts never substitute for an explicit effect check. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Skill scan checks were matched by the host tool call arm in the policy engine, so a request carrying only a skill scan was evaluated as a host tool invocation. The arm no longer matches skill scans, and the affected tests now pair the scan with a non-effecting host action so they still exercise the intended path. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
The skill-scan contract now states that a scan verdict is supplemental to the host-effect check and can never authorize a tool call on its own. It also documents that 1.29 is additive for older same-major hosts, which keep 1.28 behavior until their adapter sends the check, and corrects the acceptance criteria to describe a 1.29 host rejecting a 1.28 module. A test asserts that an older same-major host config is still accepted. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
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Replace the mutable default config and explicit Result return with struct update syntax so the test no longer needs to construct and mutate a binding or wrap its assertion in Ok. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
…tection Extend the mixed-request test to assert that a skill scan check alongside an acting check still counts as admission-only, while a skill scan on its own does not. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
The admission_only predicate now accepts SkillScan checks alongside host action and shell checks, and requires at least one host-tool or shell question to be present. This keeps skill scans from being rejected as non-admission checks under contract 1.20. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
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Update the doc comment on admission_only to describe host-tool checks as admission-only with an optional supplemental scan, replacing the outdated contract version reference. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
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Update the contract status from draft to accepted now that implementation is under review in TinySecurity PR #48, and link the new implementation plan alongside it. Auto-committed-on: cuttlefish Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
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🟠 Major · Evaluate malformed and Block SkillScan results before the generic scan. · engine.rs:308-323
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winEvaluate malformed and
BlockSkillScan results before the generic scan.A matching host call runs
scan_tool_definitionbeforeCheck::SkillScan. A suspicious tool definition returnsApprovalUnavailable, so it can convert aSkillScanVerdict::Blockinto a human-approval path. A non-clean scan can also replace malformed-digestInvalidContextwith a generic scan result. This violates the SkillScan contract. Preserve the existing generic-denial precedence forWarn.Suggested fix
if !matching { return Ok(self.denied(DenialReason::UnsupportedEffect)); } + for check in &request.call.checks { + if let Check::SkillScan { + verdict, + bundle_sha256, + } = check + { + if !is_sha256(bundle_sha256) { + return Ok(self.denied(DenialReason::InvalidContext)); + } + if matches!(verdict, tinysecurity_bus::SkillScanVerdict::Block) { + return Ok(self.denied(DenialReason::Content)); + } + } + } let scan = self .redactor .scan_tool_definition(&crate::ScanToolDefinitionRequest {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🟠 Major · Do not reuse an approved row for a repeated SkillScan::Warn request. · engine.rs:763-787
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winDo not reuse an approved row for a repeated
SkillScan::Warnrequest.
begin_innerreturns an exact existing row before the Warn-specifichuman_onlyandnever_reusedchecks.finish_beginrepeats the same exact-binding lookup after the new row is prepared. An existingApprovedWarn row therefore can be returned without a new human decision. Exclude only approved Warn rows from both lifecycle reuse checks. Pending Warn rows can still resume, and non-Warn reuse and Block rejection remain unchanged.Suggested fix
self.reconcile_creations(&rows)?; + let scan_warning = request.request.call.checks.iter().any(|check| { + matches!( + check, + Check::SkillScan { + verdict: tinysecurity_bus::SkillScanVerdict::Warn, + .. + } + ) + }); if let Some(row) = self - .existing_begin(®, &bound, &rows, now, deadline) + .existing_begin(®, &bound, &rows, now, deadline, scan_warning) .await? { return Ok(row); } let (reusable, human_only) = self - .begin_reuse(&request, ®, &bound, &rows, now, deadline.is_some()) + .begin_reuse( + &request, + ®, + &bound, + &rows, + now, + deadline.is_some(), + scan_warning, + ) .await?; ... let row = self - .finish_native_begin(®, row, now, deadline.is_some()) + .finish_native_begin(®, row, now, deadline.is_some(), scan_warning) .await?; ... async fn finish_native_begin( &self, reg: &ApprovalScope2, row: ApprovalRow2, now: u64, native: bool, + scan_warning: bool, ) -> Result<ApprovalRow2> { ... - let result = self.finish_begin(reg, &row, now).await?; + let result = self.finish_begin(reg, &row, now, scan_warning).await?; ... async fn existing_begin( &self, reg: &ApprovalScope2, bound: &tinysecurity_bus::ApprovalBinding2, rows: &[ApprovalRow2], now: u64, deadline: Option<u64>, + scan_warning: bool, ) -> Result<Option<ApprovalRow2>> { if let Some(row) = rows.iter().find(|r| &r.binding == bound) { + if scan_warning && row.state == ApprovalLifecycle2::Approved { + return Ok(None); + } ... async fn begin_reuse( ... now: u64, native: bool, + scan_warning: bool, ) -> Result<(Option<ApprovalRow2>, bool)> { - let scan_warning = request.request.call.checks.iter().any(|check| { - matches!( - check, - Check::SkillScan { - verdict: tinysecurity_bus::SkillScanVerdict::Warn, - .. - } - ) - }); ... async fn finish_begin( &self, reg: &ApprovalScope2, row: &ApprovalRow2, now: u64, + scan_warning: bool, ) -> Result<ApprovalRow2> { ... if let Some(current) = rows.iter().find(|current| current.binding == row.binding) { - return self.resume(reg, current, now).await; + if !(scan_warning && current.state == ApprovalLifecycle2::Approved) { + return self.resume(reg, current, now).await; + } }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🟡 Minor · Apply the normal cacheability rule to tool-denial early returns. · scoped.rs:109-117
crates/tinysecurity-policy/src/scoped.rs:109-117
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winApply the normal cacheability rule to tool-denial early returns.
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SkillScancall with a registered tool-rule denial returns before the normalall(reusable)assignment and is marked cacheable. This violates the contract thatSkillScancalls are not reusable by registered-policy caching.The fingerprint includes the verdict and digest, so this does not allow reuse across different scan verdicts or digests. It still exposes the call to caching when the contract forbids it.
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- decision.decision.cacheable = true; + decision.decision.cacheable = request.call.checks.iter().all(reusable);🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 763-787: Update the exact-binding reuse checks in existing_begin
and finish_begin so an Approved row for a SkillScan::Warn request is not reused
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Review comments at @crates/tinysecurity-policy/src/engine.rs:
- Around line 308-323: Before scan_tool_definition in the matching host-call
flow, pre-check SkillScan checks: return InvalidContext for a malformed
bundle_sha256 and Content for a Block verdict. Leave Warn on the existing
generic-scan path so its denial precedence remains unchanged.
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derive cacheability from the request’s checks using the same reusable rule as
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Summary
Adds a trusted host-derived skill scan check to the TinySecurity policy contract. The host supplies the scan verdict and SHA-256 digest of the exact skill bundle it will expose to execution.
Passcontinues to normal policy checks.Warnrequires fresh human approval and cannot be bypassed by auto-approve settings, whole-tool grants, or judge approval.Blockis a hard denial and cannot be converted into a pending approval.Host integration is tracked in tinyhumansai/openhuman#7328 and will consume this contract after it is released.
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cargo test -p tinysecurity-approval skill_scan_warning_enters_human_approvalcargo test -p tinysecurity-policy host_skill_scancargo test -p tinysecurity-bus skill_scan_has_stable_verdict_wire_formscargo test -p tinysecurity-bus contract_bump_is_additive_for_older_hosts_and_modulescargo test -p tinysecurity-module evaluate_applies_host_skill_scan_verdicts_before_run_workflowscripts/ci-cancel-aware.sh cargo test --quiet -p tinysecurity-bus -p tinysecurity-policy -p tinysecurity-approvalscripts/ci-cancel-aware.sh cargo clippy -p tinysecurity-bus -p tinysecurity-policy -p tinysecurity-approval -p tinysecurity-module --all-targets --all-features -- -D warningscargo fmt --all --checkThe broader workspace test run still has failures in audit and module tests involving restricted storage/crypto permissions; those are outside the changed crates and are not claimed as passing here.
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