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SECURITY.md

Security Policy

ghost is a privacy tool. Its core promise is that your prompts, names, and secrets never reach the relay or the TEE enclave in the clear, and that responses are verified before a token is emitted. A bug that breaks that promise is the most serious kind of bug here.

Reporting a vulnerability

Please report privately, not in a public issue:

  • Open a private security advisory via the repository's Security tab (GitHub: Security → Report a vulnerability), or
  • Contact the OpenGradient maintainers directly.

Include what you found, how to reproduce it, and the impact. We aim to acknowledge quickly.

What we treat as P0

  • Any PII or secret leak to og-veil, the chat-api relay, or the enclave -- e.g. a request field that is not scrubbed, a placeholder that is de-anonymized into an egress tool, or the inference route being repointed away from the local scrubber.
  • A response accepted without verification (the verify-before-emit guarantee bypassed).

Scope

This repo owns the local harness: the PII/secret scrubber (privacy/), the install + service wiring, and the engine fork. The OHTTP/HPKE/TEE protocol and response verification live in og-veil; report issues in that layer there. The underlying agent engine is Hermes Agent.

Before you commit

The scrubber's own test suite guards against leak regressions (pytest tests/, including the golden leak canary). Run it before sending a change that touches privacy/.

There aren't any published security advisories