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D062 — Relayer trust to live pipe server identity - #104

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Purpose

  • replaces descriptor/ACL provenance as server-authentication authority
  • binds CLI success to the live named-pipe server process SID plus possession of an ephemeral Ed25519 private key

Protected invariant

CLI EXIT 0 => APPLIED was produced by a live runtime process running under the trusted operator SID and holding the ephemeral private key bound to the attested session.

Design

  • descriptor v4 is only {version, pipeName, token}
  • descriptor and ACL state are rendezvous/availability only
  • native pipe attestor resolves live server process identity
  • PID-reuse guard via process creation time
  • session key must equal attested key
  • server result authenticated with Ed25519
  • no server-side HMAC-result fallback
  • token retained only for client-to-server authorization

Validation

  • independent validator: PASS_D062_RELAYER_INDEPENDENT_VALIDATION
  • focused relayer/attack tests: 25/25
  • owner-helper/native Windows tests: 22/22
  • control regression ring: 400 passed / 1 skipped
  • full stable suite: 2296 passed / 1 skipped
  • typecheck PASS
  • lint PASS
  • build PASS
  • git diff --check PASS

Exact candidate

  • commit 5e13b0c16c5295453d927d1b67a600408dda0bec
  • patch SHA-256 53c92db5f32c5dae667dcf505db02b4b807685025b986a274f6d5c42b477e2dc
  • patch bytes 175749
  • files 22

Known baseline

  • the local Vitest onTaskUpdate reporter-RPC error is a separate, pre-existing baseline family, independent of this candidate: it originates in the four hostile-Object.prototype.toJSON suites (tests/cockpit/autoflow-provenance, tests/cockpit/evidence-freshness-projection, tests/cockpit/read-model-invariants, tests/domain/workflow-read-state), each byte-identical to parent b33a698
  • it did not occur at all during this validation (the full stable-shape suite exited 0), and it did not reproduce on demand in this session, so its presence is recorded here as candidate-independent by construction rather than by a fresh reproduction
  • authoritative parent GitHub CI is green (verify and windows-owner-helper both success at b33a698)
  • no repair to that separate baseline family is included here

Authority

  • no Git/GitHub/provider/repository mutation authority added
  • no generic WorkflowEvent submission
  • no generic apply(event)
  • no CLOSE_REQUESTED production source

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Security Enhancements

    • Strengthened control-channel authentication with runtime-bound cryptographic signatures.
    • Added live pipe-server identity attestation to prevent impersonation, replay, and runtime-mismatch attacks.
    • Security checks now fail closed when identity, attestation, message format, or signatures cannot be verified.
  • Compatibility

    • Updated control descriptors and protocol messaging to the latest supported versions.
    • Added validation for the Windows pipe-attestation component and its trusted build provenance.
  • Reliability

    • Expanded coverage for malformed, tampered, replayed, and unauthorized control sessions.

DDR-D062-B. A descriptor is a rendezvous hint, not a credential for the
server direction: a file is copyable, so ACL or pathname inspection can
never decide whether given bytes are a genuine runtime's or a replay of
bytes copied earlier.

Descriptor v4 carries exactly {version, pipeName, token} and no verify
key; one that carries a key is rejected outright rather than partially
trusted. A third build-provenanced, hash-gated, read-only native
artifact asks the KERNEL which process serves a candidate pipe, pins it
against PID reuse by its exact creation time, reads its TokenUser SID,
and relays one bounded hello read from the SAME pipe handle. The CLI
requires that SID to equal the trusted operator SID the anchor gate
already resolved, and requires the command session's own hello to
announce the very same verify key.

Server results are Ed25519 signatures under that attested key over a
transcript binding runtime id, pipe name, key, both nonces, and the
exact command and result bytes. computeServerMac is deleted, so no code
can fall back to authenticating a result with a copyable bearer secret;
the token is retained as the client-to-server authorizer only. The
signing key is ephemeral and never serialized, so a squatter holding a
byte-perfect descriptor copy can neither pass attestation nor sign.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The control path now attests the live pipe, binds the session to an ephemeral Ed25519 key, uses protocol version 2, and verifies signed results. Descriptors use version 4, and the Windows attestor is build-provenanced and tested.

Changes

Control authentication

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pipe attestation and descriptor identity
src/control/control-store.ts, tools/control-owner/agentbridge-win-pipe-attest.c
Descriptors now use version 4. Anchor verification returns the operator SID. Live pipe evidence includes the serving process SID and hello body, with fail-closed parsing and process identity checks.
Attestor build and provenance
tools/control-owner/*
The pipe attestor has dedicated source identity, provenance, build, provisioning, and compiler-probe support.
Protocol v2 and asymmetric authentication
src/control/control-auth.ts, src/control/control-channel.ts
The hello carries a 32-byte verifyKey. Client transcripts bind runtime identity. Server results use Ed25519 signatures instead of server MACs.
Runtime key wiring and attested CLI flow
src/control/control-runtime.ts, src/control/cli.ts
Each runtime creates an ephemeral keypair. The CLI attests the pipe before sending commands and verifies the attested key and signed result.
Protocol, attestation, and lifecycle validation
tests/control/*, docs/architecture/*
Tests and architecture checks cover protocol parsing, identity binding, attestation failures, rogue servers, descriptor versioning, native artifact provenance, and Windows lifecycle behavior.

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Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant PipeAttestor
  participant Runtime
  participant ControlChannel
  CLI->>PipeAttestor: attest discovered pipe
  PipeAttestor->>Runtime: read server identity and hello
  PipeAttestor-->>CLI: attested SID and hello body
  CLI->>ControlChannel: send identity-bound command MAC
  ControlChannel-->>CLI: signed result
  CLI->>CLI: verify result with attested verifyKey
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e2ee4

The attested control channel remains fail-closed without exposing the CLI token through the read-only pipe connection, and provisioning errors identify the affected artifact. No actionable merge risk remains.

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155-158: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use an artifact-neutral build failure message.

firstInvalidPair() checks all three artifacts, and build.mjs builds all three. The preceding note names the first invalid pair, but the catch block still reports only an owner-helper failure. This can misdirect operators when the descriptor creator or pipe attestor triggers provisioning.

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-      'ensure-helper: FAILED to build the owner helper. The D062 control channel ' +
-        'requires it. Ensure MSVC + the Windows SDK are installed, then re-run.\n',
+      'ensure-helper: FAILED to build the native control artifacts. The D062 control ' +
+        'channel requires all three artifacts. Ensure MSVC + the Windows SDK are installed, then re-run.\n',
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In `@tools/control-owner/ensure-helper.mjs` around lines 155 - 158, Update the
build failure message in the catch block around firstInvalidPair() and build.mjs
so it refers to the required D062 control-channel artifacts or helper
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In `@tools/control-owner/agentbridge-win-pipe-attest.c`:
- Line 294: Update the CreateFileW call used to connect to the candidate
named-pipe server so its dwFlagsAndAttributes includes SECURITY_SQOS_PRESENT |
SECURITY_IDENTIFICATION, preventing server impersonation while retaining client
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In `@tools/control-owner/ensure-helper.mjs`:
- Around line 155-158: Update the build failure message in the catch block
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The D3 architecture document is the only place the D062 control-channel
contract is stated, and it drifted: the protocol commit changed the
descriptor version, the native artifact set, and the authentication
primitives while touching no document. The contract therefore described
descriptor v2, two native artifacts, and mutual-HMAC server
authentication that no longer exists.

Bring the document to the implementation: descriptor v4 carrying no
verify key and why a copyable file can never be one; the third
build-provenanced artifact and its provenance module; live pipe
attestation with kernel-reported server identity, creation-time pinning
against PID reuse, the operator-SID equality check, and the key binding
that ties the command session to the attested runtime; and the two
directions authenticated by different primitives -- a token-keyed
client MAC for the command, an Ed25519 signature under the attested
ephemeral key for the result, with no server-side HMAC to fall back to.

Add a deterministic guard so the next drift fails instead of going
unnoticed. Its expectations are implementation-derived, never a
document snapshot: the descriptor version is read from the factory that
mints descriptors and the artifact set from the basename exports that
provisioning itself is built from, so a fourth artifact or a version
bump trips it automatically. Prose, rationale, and ordering stay free;
only the machine-checkable constants and the absence of the retired
primitive name are bound. Documentation and test only.

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The contract listed a failed result-signature check alongside the
pre-send checks and claimed all of them fail closed before the command
is sent. That is false for the signature: the runtime signs only after
dispatch has returned, so a lost, malformed, or unverifiable result
carries no information about whether OPEN_HUMAN_GATE was applied.

Split the two classes. Pre-send failures guarantee no mutation. Post-
dispatch result-authentication failures do not; the CLI fails
authentication and never reports APPLIED, and re-running is the correct
recovery because the command is idempotent (Decision 062 section 15).
Documentation only.
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