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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change adds sandbox partitions as disposable Ubuntu ARM64 workloads on enrolled workers. It adds persistent lifecycle state, hardened Nomad jobs, host isolation, scoped authorization, reclamation, APIs, CLI commands, dashboard controls, tests, and operator documentation. ChangesSandbox Partitions
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds opt-in sandbox hosting and host-level isolation controls, but the isolation script can bypass its control-plane refusal when a marker file is missing, potentially changing production firewall or network state on the wrong host. This issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge; token cleanup and verification/documentation follow-ups also remain. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Operator
participant Dashboard
participant AgentAPI
participant SandboxStore
participant Nomad
Operator->>Dashboard: create sandbox
Dashboard->>AgentAPI: authenticated creation request
AgentAPI->>SandboxStore: validate and persist sandbox
AgentAPI->>Nomad: submit hardened sandbox job
Nomad-->>AgentAPI: running allocation
AgentAPI-->>Dashboard: sandbox status and one-time scoped token
Dashboard->>AgentAPI: execute command with scoped token
AgentAPI->>Nomad: run bounded argv
Nomad-->>Dashboard: execution result
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Adds a third capacity shape beside managed apps and project reservations: a disposable Ubuntu ARM64 container an LLM or automation agent can drive through a scoped session token, without SSH, a Nomad token, or any ability to change the rest of the pool. The feature is inert until an operator opts in. Sandbox state lives in its own store file, so config.yaml, managed apps, node state, and deploy tokens are untouched. The background reaper makes no Nomad calls while no sandbox exists, and the agent advertises a sandboxPartitionsV1 capability so the dashboard and agent can roll out in either order. Isolation is layered, and every layer is enforced by the agent rather than requested by the caller: - placement pinned to an enrolled worker and linux/arm64; control-plane nodes refused at enrollment, creation, and render time - per-node budget for concurrency, CPU, and memory; creation refused on frozen, draining, and reserved nodes and above 85% node memory or disk - Nomad priority below every managed app; drain reclaims sandboxes first - unprivileged container: cap_drop ALL, no-new-privileges, pids and ulimits, private IPC, no workload identity, no host path, no Docker socket - size-capped tmpfs work areas, plus reclamation of all sandboxes on a node crossing 92% disk or 96% memory, because Nomad does not hard-cap ephemeral disk - loopback-only networking by default; opt-in egress requires a reversible host bundle that denies the WireGuard overlay, private address space, cloud metadata, and scheduler ports - session token scoped to one sandbox, stored only as a SHA-256 digest, valid only for status, exec, logs, and destroy on that sandbox - sandbox jobs are named poolctl-sbx-*, stop paths refuse every other name, and app names may not claim that prefix Includes the hosted dashboard surface, poolctl sandbox commands, docs, and tests covering the authorization, budget, expiry, and blast-radius boundaries.
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Sandbox token authorization currently doesn’t enforce ExpiresAt at authorization time (can remain valid past expiry until reaped), which violates the documented security contract.
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Pull request overview
This PR introduces Sandbox Partitions as a new, intentionally low-privilege capacity shape: disposable Ubuntu ARM64 containers that can be driven via a scoped session token, with enforced placement (worker-only), budgeting, TTL, and a host-side optional egress isolation bundle.
Changes:
- Adds a sandbox store (
sandboxes.json) plus enrollment, budget enforcement, TTL/expiry tracking, and token-digest authorization. - Extends the Oracle agent API with sandbox CRUD/exec/logs/extend endpoints, background reaping/pressure culling, and drain-time sandbox reclamation.
- Updates the dashboard, CLI, and documentation to expose and describe sandbox partitions and the isolation/enrollment flow.
File summaries
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| README.md | Documents sandbox CLI entry points and the high-level sandbox concept. |
| public/llms.txt | Adds sandbox partition contract link and guidance for agents. |
| public/index.html | Adds dashboard UI + JS wiring for listing/creating/executing/destroying sandboxes. |
| internal/pool/store.go | Prevents managed apps from claiming the reserved poolctl-sbx- prefix. |
| internal/pool/sandbox.go | Implements sandbox host enrollment, sandbox records, budgets, TTL, and token-digest auth. |
| internal/pool/sandbox_test.go | Adds unit tests covering sandbox store behavior and guardrails. |
| internal/pool/sandbox_render.go | Renders hardened, unroutable Nomad sandbox jobs (strict/workspace + none/egress). |
| internal/pool/sandbox_isolation.go | Renders reversible host isolation bundle (Docker bridge + firewall chain). |
| internal/cli/cli.go | Adds poolctl sandbox subcommands for listing and rendering previews/isolation. |
| internal/agent/server.go | Wires sandbox endpoints + capabilities and starts background sandbox reaper. |
| internal/agent/sandbox.go | Implements sandbox API handlers, exec/logs/destroy, enrollment actions, and pressure logic. |
| internal/agent/sandbox_test.go | Adds agent-side tests for auth scoping, lifecycle, drain reclamation, and pressure culling. |
| docs/security.md | Documents the sandbox threat model and enforced controls. |
| docs/operator-faq.md | Adds operator FAQ entries explaining sandbox partitions. |
| docs/llm-sandbox.md | Adds the full sandbox contract, operational flow, and verification steps. |
| docs/llm-operator-guide.md | Adds sandbox guidance to operator/LLM credential boundary rules. |
| docs/architecture.md | Adds sandbox partitions to the architecture overview and capacity shapes. |
| docs/agent-runbook.md | Adds runbook steps for enabling and operating sandbox partitions. |
| AGENTS.md | Adds repository-level guardrails for sandbox partition safety. |
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internal/agent/sandbox.go:60
defaultSandboxPolicystill references the misspelledsandboxExecDefaultTimeut; after introducingsandboxExecDefaultTimeout, this should use the correctly spelled constant for consistency.
CullMemory: sandboxCullMemoryPercent,
CullDisk: sandboxCullDiskPercent,
ExecTimeout: sandboxExecDefaultTimeut,
ExecMaxTimeout: sandboxExecMaxTimeout,
ExecMaxOutput: sandboxExecMaxOutput,
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| // AuthorizeSandboxToken reports whether a bearer credential is the session | ||
| // token of exactly this sandbox, and whether that sandbox is still live. A | ||
| // token for another sandbox never authorizes this one. | ||
| func (s Store) AuthorizeSandboxToken(id, plaintext string) (bool, error) { | ||
| mu := s.sandboxMutex() | ||
| mu.Lock() | ||
| defer mu.Unlock() | ||
| if id == "" || plaintext == "" { | ||
| return false, nil | ||
| } | ||
| file, err := s.loadSandboxFile() | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return false, err | ||
| } | ||
| digest := deployTokenDigest(plaintext) | ||
| authorized := false | ||
| for _, record := range file.Sandboxes { | ||
| idMatches := subtle.ConstantTimeCompare([]byte(record.ID), []byte(id)) == 1 | ||
| digestMatches := subtle.ConstantTimeCompare([]byte(record.TokenDigest), []byte(digest)) == 1 | ||
| if idMatches && digestMatches && record.Active() { | ||
| authorized = true | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
| return authorized, nil | ||
| } |
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Valid, and the most important finding here — fixed in 3cf238e.
AuthorizeSandboxToken trusted the stored status, so a token stayed valid past ExpiresAt for up to a reap interval (longer if the reaper was wedged), which contradicted the documented contract. Authorization now evaluates the deadline directly via a clock-explicit authorizeSandboxTokenAt, so expiry is enforced independently of whether the reaper has run.
TestSandboxTokenStopsAuthorizingAtExpiryBeforeTheReaperRuns asserts the token is refused one second past ExpiresAt while the record still reads starting.
| sandboxExecMaxOutput = 64 << 10 | ||
| sandboxExecDefaultTimeut = 60 * time.Second | ||
| sandboxExecMaxTimeout = 120 * time.Second |
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Fixed in 3cf238e — renamed to sandboxExecDefaultTimeout.
No alias kept: the constant is unexported with a single use site, so there is nothing external to preserve.
| - The container itself exits at its deadline, and the agent reaper purges | ||
| expired jobs on a 30-second interval. | ||
| - **Extend** is operator-only and can never push a sandbox past 4 hours from | ||
| creation. |
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Good catch, and this was a functional gap rather than a docs gap. Fixed in 3cf238e.
The container held the sandbox TTL as its own sleep deadline, so extending the record left a live entry in front of a container that had already exited — Extend produced a sandbox that looked alive and was not.
The container now sleeps to the absolute four-hour lifetime ceiling, and the TTL is enforced by the agent in two independent places: the reaper purges at ExpiresAt, and token authorization refuses past it. Extend therefore moves a deadline that is actually the one in force.
The tradeoff is deliberate and now documented: with the agent stopped, a sandbox can outlive its TTL up to that ceiling instead of self-terminating at the TTL. Nothing outlives the ceiling. The sleep is a fail-safe for a dead agent, not the TTL mechanism.
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In `@docs/llm-sandbox.md`:
- Around line 233-240: Complete the worker verification sequence after enabling
the sandbox host by adding or linking to existing runbook commands that verify
SSH login, passwordless sudo, and Nomad registration, while retaining the
current WireGuard, production agent health, and both public smoke checks before
egress enrollment.
- Around line 174-176: Update the HTTP status documentation in the section
describing sandbox token authorization: limit 401 to failed authorization, and
document that internal/agent/sandbox.go returns 404 for missing or unknown
sandbox paths and 405 for unsupported methods.
- Around line 97-101: After the existing --apply command, add a
sandbox-isolation.sh --verify command before enrollment in both procedures:
docs/llm-sandbox.md lines 97-101 and docs/agent-runbook.md lines 418-423. No
other changes are needed.
In `@internal/agent/sandbox.go`:
- Around line 365-372: Handle the error returned by the deferred os.RemoveAll
call in the sandbox rendering flow, anchored at the tmpDir cleanup after
MkdirTemp and WriteRendered. Preserve the existing cleanup behavior while
ensuring the removal error is checked in a way that satisfies errcheck.
In `@internal/pool/sandbox_isolation.go`:
- Around line 96-104: Update refuse_control_plane so it calls die whenever
either control-plane indicator, /etc/traefik/traefik.yml or /etc/nomad.d/tls, is
present, without checking /var/lib/poolctl/control-plane.ready. Preserve the
existing refusal message and worker-only sandbox behavior.
In `@public/index.html`:
- Around line 2745-2747: Update the sandboxTokenDialog close handling so
sandboxTokenSecret.value is cleared whenever the dialog closes, including close,
done, and cancel flows. Ensure the plaintext token is removed from the DOM
before or as part of closing the dialog.
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AGENTS.mdREADME.mddocs/agent-runbook.mddocs/architecture.mddocs/llm-operator-guide.mddocs/llm-sandbox.mddocs/operator-faq.mddocs/security.mdinternal/agent/sandbox.gointernal/agent/sandbox_test.gointernal/agent/server.gointernal/cli/cli.gointernal/pool/sandbox.gointernal/pool/sandbox_isolation.gointernal/pool/sandbox_render.gointernal/pool/sandbox_test.gointernal/pool/store.gopublic/index.htmlpublic/llms.txt
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Enforce sandbox expiry at authorization time. AuthorizeSandboxToken trusted the stored status, so a session token stayed valid past ExpiresAt until the reaper happened to run. It now evaluates the deadline directly, which is what the documented contract always claimed. Refuse the control plane on any single indicator. The isolation script only refused when a control-plane artifact and the readiness marker were both present, so a control plane whose marker was never written, or was removed, could have had the sandbox network and firewall rules installed on it. Make Extend real. The container held the sandbox TTL as its own sleep deadline, so extending the record left a live entry in front of a container that had already exited. The container now sleeps to the absolute four-hour ceiling as a fail-safe for a stopped agent, and the TTL is enforced by the reaper and by token authorization. Documented the tradeoff: with the agent down, a sandbox can outlive its TTL up to that ceiling, and nothing outlives the ceiling. Clear the issued sandbox token from the DOM when its dialog closes, matching how the deploy-token dialog already behaves. Docs: run an independent --verify after --apply, verify SSH, passwordless sudo, WireGuard, and Nomad registration as the runbook requires for infrastructure changes, and describe the real HTTP statuses instead of implying every non-token operation returns 401. Also fixes a constant name typo. New tests cover expiry-time authorization and the control-plane guard.
Review findings addressed — 3cf238eNine findings across both reviewers. Eight applied, one declined with a reason. Security-relevant, both validSandbox tokens outlived their sandbox ( The isolation script's control-plane guard was a conjunction ( Functional gapExtend was half-broken. The container held the sandbox TTL as its own Deliberate tradeoff, documented: with the agent stopped, a sandbox can outlive its TTL up to the ceiling instead of self-terminating at the TTL. Nothing outlives the ceiling. The alternative — dropping Extend and keeping the tighter self-termination — is a one-line change if that is preferred. Also fixed
DeclinedThe New tests
Still not applied to the live pool: no agent binary installed, no isolation script run, no Nomad job submitted. |
What this adds
A sandbox partition: a disposable Ubuntu ARM64 container an LLM or automation agent can drive through a scoped session token — no SSH, no Nomad token, no ability to touch anything else in the pool.
It is a third capacity shape, deliberately the weakest one:
Full contract:
docs/llm-sandbox.md.Why the existing pool is not at risk
It is inert until an operator opts in. Sandbox hosting is off by default and enabled per worker. Sandbox state lives in its own store file (
sandboxes.json), soconfig.yaml, managed apps, node state, and deploy tokens are never rewritten by this feature. The background reaper makes zero Nomad calls while no sandbox exists.It rolls out in either order. The agent advertises a
sandboxPartitionsV1capability. New dashboard + old agent shows "agent upgrade required" with controls disabled; new agent + old dashboard ignores the extra JSON. No existing endpoint changed shape.It cannot delay production. Sandbox launches deliberately do not take the application deploy mutex, and sandbox jobs render at a Nomad priority below every managed app.
How a sandboxed agent is stopped from breaking out
Every layer is enforced by the agent from a validated struct. The caller never supplies HCL, so it cannot request privilege, host paths, networking, or routing.
${node.unique.name}pinned to the enrolled worker +arm64+linux; control-plane refused at enrollment, creation, and renderprivileged = false,cap_drop = ["ALL"],no-new-privileges,pids_limit,ulimit,init, private IPC/workspace+/tmp; read-only rootfs in the strict profileephemeral_disk, so the agent reclaims all sandboxes on a node crossing 92% disk / 96% memory. Sandboxes are disposable; managed apps are not.network_mode = "none"by default. Opt-in egress uses a dedicated bridge with ICC disabled, public resolvers, and aDOCKER-USERchain dropping the WireGuard overlay, RFC1918/CGNAT, cloud metadata, multicast, Nomad ports, and SSH — plus anINPUTrule blocking the bridge from the host itself.identity { env = false file = false }— nothing inside can authenticate as the allocation. No Vault, Consul, or registry credentials.sleepfail-safe at the hard 4h ceiling; extension is operator-onlypoolctl-sbx-*; stop/purge refuses every other name, and app names may not claim that prefixThe
workspaceprofile restores only the capability subset apt/dpkg needs (chown,dac_override,fowner,fsetid,kill,setgid,setuid,setfcap).SYS_ADMIN,NET_ADMIN,NET_RAW,SYS_PTRACE,SYS_MODULE,MKNODand friends stay dropped in both profiles.A sandbox token returns
401on/status, app registration, node actions, deploy-token minting, sandbox listing, its own extension, and any other sandbox ID. Exec is passed to Nomad as an argument vector — the host never runs a shell — and argv whose first element looks like a CLI flag is rejected.Host isolation bundle
poolctl sandbox render-isolationrenders a reviewable, idempotent, reversible script (--verify/--apply/--remove). It creates one Docker network and one firewall chain, tags every rule with apoolctl-sandboxcomment, refuses to run on the control plane, and touches nothing else — not WireGuard, Nomad, Traefik, sshd, or existing UFW rules. Egress-capable enrollment is refused unless the operator enrolled the node for it.Surfaces
POST|GET /sandboxes,GET|DELETE /sandboxes/{id},POST /sandboxes/{id}/exec,GET /sandboxes/{id}/logs,POST /sandboxes/{id}/extend, plussandbox-host-enroll/sandbox-host-removeactions.poolctl sandbox list | render <node> | render-isolation.Testing
go test ./...andgo test -race ./...pass. New tests cover the hardened render (asserting no Traefik tags, no service block, no host network, no volumes, nocap_addin strict), control-plane refusal, budget and concurrency limits, unavailable-node refusal, egress requiring enrollment, digest-only token storage, cross-sandbox token rejection, operator-surface rejection, the argv guard, prefix-guarded destroy, expiry reaping, budget release after a failed start, disk-pressure reclamation, and drain-time reclamation.Not yet run against the live pool. Nothing here was applied to Oracle: no agent binary was installed, no isolation script was run, and no Nomad job was submitted.
docs/llm-sandbox.mdhas the enablement and verification order, including proving from inside a throwaway sandbox that the Nomad API and instance metadata are unreachable.Known limits, stated plainly
--verifystep.sleepis the absolute 4h ceiling, not the TTL. With the agent stopped, a sandbox can outlive its TTL up to that ceiling; nothing outlives the ceiling.Summary by CodeRabbit
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