fix(land): drop the webhook subscription the harness arms on every PR - #490
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CLOUD-518 Every PR this repo opens is auto-subscribed to webhook wakes, against AGENTS.md's own ban — and the envelopes render to the human as raw XML
Why AGENTS.md forbids PR-webhook babysitting twice — Two halves, measured 2026-08-13. 1. The subscription arms itself. The remote-execution harness prompt carries a standing instruction — "After creating a PR in a session, immediately call 2. The envelopes render to the human as raw XML. Reported by the repo owner mid-session: pages of
Hooks were suspected and are excluded, tested rather than argued. Exactly four Why it is worth a row rather than a shrug. The rendering half is Anthropic's and cannot be fixed here. The subscription half is ours and is a live contract violation: every PR this repo opens starts a webhook stream that AGENTS.md says must not exist, and the only remedy today is an agent remembering to call Refinement — Ready
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Not in this issueWhether webhook-driven work is ever right. AGENTS.md says no for this repo and that is not relitigated here; this only closes the gap between the rule and its enforcement. |
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds fail-open MCP subscription removal to the landing task. It derives the repository from ChangesPR subscription cleanup
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The task can currently trust a later temporary configuration and send session-specific request headers to its declared URL, creating a concrete security risk, while also rejecting valid no-space SSE responses. Merge should wait for trusted endpoint validation and the parser fix. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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LandingTask->>Git: Read remote.origin.url
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LandingTask->>MCPTool: Send unsubscribe_pr_activity JSON-RPC request
MCPTool-->>LandingTask: Return JSON or SSE response
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In `@mise-tasks/land`:
- Around line 279-293: The landing flow must use one trusted MCP configuration
path supplied by the harness instead of discovering an arbitrary lexically later
file in /tmp; reject missing or ambiguous configuration, and validate the
selected endpoint as HTTPS with the exact /v2/ccr-sessions/ prefix and expected
authority before posting. Update the SSE response parser to accept both data:
and data: framing, and add coverage for a no-space data: frame.
Apply the same fix in `@mise-tasks/land` around lines 317 - 318.
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| for candidate in "${LAND_MCP_CONFIG_DIR:-/tmp}"/mcp-config-cse_*.json; do | ||
| [ -f "$candidate" ] || continue | ||
| cfg="$candidate" | ||
| done | ||
| [ -n "$cfg" ] || return 0 | ||
| # Chosen by the tool the entry DECLARES, over the public endpoint shape. A | ||
| # config that names no such tool is a session with no subscription surface, | ||
| # which is the same nothing-to-drop as no config at all. | ||
| fields=$(jq -r '(.mcpServers // {}) | to_entries | ||
| | map(select((.value.type // "") == "http")) | ||
| | map(select((.value.url // "") | contains("/ccr-sessions/"))) | ||
| | map(select([.value.tools[]?.name] | index("unsubscribe_pr_activity"))) | ||
| | (.[0].value // empty) | ||
| | [.url, (.headers["X-Session-UUID"] // ""), (.headers["X-MCP-Server-ID"] // "")] | ||
| | @tsv' "$cfg" 2>/dev/null) || return 0 |
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names = [
"/tmp/mcp-config-cse_fixture.json",
"/tmp/mcp-config-cse_attacker.json",
]
print("glob-selected candidate:", sorted(names)[-1])
configs = {
"trusted": {
"mcpServers": {
"toolbox": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.anthropic.com/v2/ccr-sessions/cse_fixture/mcp",
"headers": {"X-Session-UUID": "cse_fixture", "X-MCP-Server-ID": "toolbox-server"},
"tools": [{"name": "unsubscribe_pr_activity"}],
}
}
},
"attacker": {
"mcpServers": {
"fake": {
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"url": "https://attacker.example/ccr-sessions/fake/mcp",
"headers": {"X-Session-UUID": "attacker", "X-MCP-Server-ID": "fake-server"},
"tools": [{"name": "unsubscribe_pr_activity"}],
}
}
},
}
for label, cfg in configs.items():
selected = [
entry["value"]
for entry in cfg["mcpServers"].items()
if entry[1].get("type", "") == "http"
and "/ccr-sessions/" in entry[1].get("url", "")
and any(t.get("name") == "unsubscribe_pr_activity" for t in entry[1].get("tools", []))
]
url = selected[0]["url"] if selected else ""
parsed = urlparse(url)
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strict_guard = (
parsed.scheme == "https"
and parsed.netloc == "api.anthropic.com"
and parsed.path.startswith("/v2/ccr-sessions/")
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Restrict the MCP configuration and endpoint.
A local process can add a lexically later mcp-config-cse_*.json file in /tmp. The task then sends its POST to the file's URL. Pass one trusted configuration path from the harness, reject ambiguous discovery, and require the expected HTTPS authority with the strict /v2/ccr-sessions/ prefix.
Parse valid SSE fields such as data:{...}. The current parser only accepts data: and reports valid no-space frames as failures. Add a no-space data: fixture.
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In `@mise-tasks/land` around lines 279 - 293, The landing flow must use one
trusted MCP configuration path supplied by the harness instead of discovering an
arbitrary lexically later file in /tmp; reject missing or ambiguous
configuration, and validate the selected endpoint as HTTPS with the exact
/v2/ccr-sessions/ prefix and expected authority before posting. Update the SSE
response parser to accept both data: and data: framing, and add coverage for a
no-space data: frame.
Apply the same fix in `@mise-tasks/land` around lines 317 - 318.
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AGENTS.md bans PR-webhook babysitting twice over — this loop runs on "no timeout, no cap, never the PR webhook", and no heartbeat may babysit a PR — and the harness arms a subscription on every PR this repo opens anyway: #397, #402 and #489, three occurrences in five days, two of them with no `subscribe_pr_activity` call behind them. So a `permissions.deny` row on the tool closes only the path nobody used, and the remedy until now was an agent remembering, which is prose and therefore feedforward only — the half-change non-negotiable rule 2 refuses. THE ACTOR DESIGN DOES NOT WORK, and this is not it. `land` making the call itself looks reachable: the tool is on the session's toolbox MCP server, an http endpoint under /v2/ccr-sessions/ carrying no bearer token, so a JSON-RPC tools/call looks like a plain POST. Measured 2026-08-18, that POST is answered 401 at both the toolbox and the github endpoint, with the injected config's own header values, and identically when forced through $HTTPS_PROXY: no_proxy carries anthropic.com, so requests to that host bypass the agent proxy and nothing injects a credential; the two headers are routing, not authorization. A first cut of this change shipped that POST behind a fail-open anyway. It removed zero subscriptions while its suite stayed green against a stubbed curl — a mechanism that reads as coverage and is not, which is CLOUD-418's defect rebuilt by hand. Filed as CLOUD-673. So this is `claim-check`'s inversion, the same one `issue-search-check` uses: the agent can do what the task cannot. The session's own tool call succeeds — that is how all three occurrences were remedied — so the agent unsubscribes, `pr-unsubscribed record <pr>` records that it happened for THIS pull request in THIS session from the tool's own answer, and `land` refuses to spend a runner until the record exists. The rule becomes an exit code without pretending to an effect nothing here can produce. Placement and posture: * The check is the FIRST thing `land` does, before the singleton and the lease, so a refusal costs no CI at all and the fix is one tool call away. * Off harness there is no injected config, therefore no session, therefore no subscription — `pr-unsubscribed` passes silently. That fail-open is what makes it safe on the critical path; a gate that cannot look must never become a gate that blocks everything. * Keyed by (session, PR), because a subscription belongs to that pair. A receipt from a previous container attests to nothing about this one, and #489's answer cannot satisfy #490 — the honest error this is built for, since the harness pins a session to one branch name for a whole engagement. * Pointer-only on stdout and in the receipt: the PR, the session and a digest of the answer. Never the answer, which is a message about a webhook stream. The honest limit, stated in the gate's own header: this proves the call was MADE for this PR, not that GitHub's subscription state is empty. Only the API answers that and reaching it is CLOUD-673. The claim receipt has the identical property, accepted there deliberately — the threat model is honest error, not fabrication. Ten rows in tests/pr-unsubscribed.bats cover both verbs: the refusal, the recorded drop, an answer naming the wrong PR, a receipt from another PR and from another session, empty stdin as could-not-look rather than a refusal, off-harness silence, pointer-only output, and bad arguments. Three rows in tests/land.bats cover the landing: the stop spends nothing (no ready, no push, no comment, no verify), the check names the PR being landed, and a passing gate leaves a lap unchanged. Four `#MUTANT` declarations, and the stopping-condition census moves 27 -> 28 — it caught the new stop the moment it was added, which is what it is for. Refs: CLOUD-518
AGENTS.md bans PR-webhook babysitting twice over — this loop runs on "no timeout, no cap, never the PR webhook", and no heartbeat may babysit a PR — and the harness arms a subscription on every PR this repo opens anyway: #397, #402 and #489, three occurrences in five days, two of them with no `subscribe_pr_activity` call behind them. So a `permissions.deny` row on the tool closes only the path nobody used, and the remedy until now was an agent remembering, which is prose and therefore feedforward only — the half-change non-negotiable rule 2 refuses. THE ACTOR DESIGN DOES NOT WORK, and this is not it. `land` making the call itself looks reachable: the tool is on the session's toolbox MCP server, an http endpoint under /v2/ccr-sessions/ carrying no bearer token, so a JSON-RPC tools/call looks like a plain POST. Measured 2026-08-18, that POST is answered 401 at both the toolbox and the github endpoint, with the injected config's own header values, and identically when forced through $HTTPS_PROXY: no_proxy carries anthropic.com, so requests to that host bypass the agent proxy and nothing injects a credential; the two headers are routing, not authorization. A first cut of this change shipped that POST behind a fail-open anyway. It removed zero subscriptions while its suite stayed green against a stubbed curl — a mechanism that reads as coverage and is not, which is CLOUD-418's defect rebuilt by hand. Filed as CLOUD-673. So this is `claim-check`'s inversion, the same one `issue-search-check` uses: the agent can do what the task cannot. The session's own tool call succeeds — that is how all three occurrences were remedied — so the agent unsubscribes, `pr-unsubscribed record <pr>` records that it happened for THIS pull request in THIS session from the tool's own answer, and `land` refuses to spend a runner until the record exists. The rule becomes an exit code without pretending to an effect nothing here can produce. Placement and posture: * The check is the FIRST thing `land` does, before the singleton and the lease, so a refusal costs no CI at all and the fix is one tool call away. * Off harness there is no injected config, therefore no session, therefore no subscription — `pr-unsubscribed` passes silently. That fail-open is what makes it safe on the critical path; a gate that cannot look must never become a gate that blocks everything. * Keyed by (session, PR), because a subscription belongs to that pair. A receipt from a previous container attests to nothing about this one, and #489's answer cannot satisfy #490 — the honest error this is built for, since the harness pins a session to one branch name for a whole engagement. * Pointer-only on stdout and in the receipt: the PR, the session and a digest of the answer. Never the answer, which is a message about a webhook stream. The honest limit, stated in the gate's own header: this proves the call was MADE for this PR, not that GitHub's subscription state is empty. Only the API answers that and reaching it is CLOUD-673. The claim receipt has the identical property, accepted there deliberately — the threat model is honest error, not fabrication. Ten rows in tests/pr-unsubscribed.bats cover both verbs: the refusal, the recorded drop, an answer naming the wrong PR, a receipt from another PR and from another session, empty stdin as could-not-look rather than a refusal, off-harness silence, pointer-only output, and bad arguments. Three rows in tests/land.bats cover the landing: the stop spends nothing (no ready, no push, no comment, no verify), the check names the PR being landed, and a passing gate leaves a lap unchanged. Four `#MUTANT` declarations, and the stopping-condition census moves 27 -> 28 — it caught the new stop the moment it was added, which is what it is for. Refs: CLOUD-518
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Why
AGENTS.md bans PR-webhook babysitting twice over —
landruns on "no timeout, nocap, never the PR webhook", and no heartbeat may babysit a PR — and the
harness arms a subscription on every PR this repo opens anyway: #397, #402,
#489, three occurrences in five days, two with no
subscribe_pr_activitycallbehind them. A
permissions.denyrow on the tool therefore closes only the pathnobody used, and the remedy until now was an agent remembering: prose, therefore
feedforward only, therefore the half-change non-negotiable rule 2 refuses.
What the stream costs, measured on #489: ~two dozen wakes in 13 minutes carrying
one CI verdict, because a review bot re-delivers its whole walkthrough comment
on every edit.
The obvious design does not work, and this is not it
landmaking the call itself looks reachable:unsubscribe_pr_activityis a toolon the session's toolbox MCP server, an
httpendpoint under/v2/ccr-sessions/carrying no bearer token, so a JSON-RPC
tools/calllooks like a plain POST.It is answered
401 authentication required— at the toolbox endpoint and thegithubone, with the injected config's own header values, and identically whenforced through
$HTTPS_PROXY.no_proxycarriesanthropic.com, so requests tothat host bypass the agent proxy entirely and nothing injects a credential; the two
headers are routing identifiers, not authorization.
An earlier revision of this branch shipped that POST anyway, behind a fail-open.
It removed exactly zero subscriptions while its ten tests stayed green against a
stubbed
curl— a mechanism that reads as coverage and is not, which isCLOUD-418's defect rebuilt by hand. It was reverted rather than landed, and the
reachability question is filed as CLOUD-673.
What this branch does instead
claim-check's inversion, the patternissue-search-checkalready uses: theagent can do what the task cannot. The session's own tool call succeeds — that is
how all three occurrences were remedied by hand — so:
unsubscribe_pr_activity;mise run pr-unsubscribed record <pr>records that it happened, from the tool'sown answer, bound to this PR in this session;
landrefuses to spend a runner until that record exists.The rule becomes an exit code without pretending to an effect nothing here can
produce.
Placement and posture
landdoes — before the singleton and the lease— so a refusal costs no CI at all and the fix is one tool call away.
subscription, nothing to drop (a local clone, a CI runner). That fail-open is what
makes it safe on the critical path — a gate that cannot look must never become a
gate that blocks everything.
receipt from a previous container attests to nothing about this one, and fix: undo a misdiagnosed connector rename, and gate the two session defects it exposed #489's
answer cannot satisfy fix(land): drop the webhook subscription the harness arms on every PR #490 — the honest error this is built for, since the harness
pins a session to one branch name for a whole engagement.
answer. Never the answer, which is a message about a webhook stream.
The honest limit, stated in the gate's own header: this proves the call was
made for this PR, not that GitHub's subscription state is empty. Only the API
answers that, and reaching it is CLOUD-673. The claim receipt has the identical
property, accepted there deliberately — the threat model is honest error, not
fabrication.
Exercised for real on this pull request
Not only against stubs. On this branch, in this session, against the real injected
config:
It caught a live one. That answer was
Unsubscribed from activity, notNo active subscription found: a subscription really was armed on #490 and really wasremoved. An earlier probe of #490 while it was still a draft answered
No active subscription found, which narrows the issue's model — the arming follows theready transition, not PR creation — and is why the check belongs on the landing
path, where the ready happens.
What this does NOT close, measured on this PR's own landing
The arming recurs, and a pre-lap receipt does not cover it. Observed here, in
order:
unsubscribe_pr_activity(#490)while the PR was a draft answeredNo active subscription found;landthen readied #490 — its ownpull_requestevent — andthe same call immediately afterwards answered
Unsubscribed from activity.So the receipt this gate mints is stale the moment
landreadies, and the windowthe issue actually measured on #489 (~two dozen wakes in 13 minutes carrying one CI
verdict) is the ready → merge window. This branch does not close that window. It
closes the earlier one, and it converts the ban from prose into an exit code that
costs no CI when it refuses.
Tightening the receipt cannot fix it either: any enforcement of "no live
subscription while CI runs" needs a drop after
land's own ready,landcannotperform one (CLOUD-673: 401), and every receipt-side variant is an agent round-trip
that shortens the window rather than closing it — wakes still arrive between the
ready and the agent's next turn. A mandatory extra stop on every landing is a call
for the maintainer, not something to ship on spec, so it is recorded on CLOUD-673
with the evidence rather than implemented here. CLOUD-673 is what closes it
properly: with a credential a task can present,
landdrops the subscription in thesame breath as the ready.
Tests
tests/pr-unsubscribed.bats— 10 rows: the refusal; the recorded drop; an answernaming the wrong PR; a receipt from another PR and from another session; empty
stdin as could-not-look rather than a refusal; off-harness silence in both verbs;
pointer-only output (nothing echoes the answer, receipt included); bad arguments.
tests/land.bats— 3 rows: the stop spends nothing (no ready, no push, nocomment, not even a verify), the check names the PR being landed, and a passing
gate leaves a lap otherwise unchanged.
#MUTANTdeclarations, each verified to redden its named case, and thestopping-condition census moves 27 → 28.
Two defects the gates caught in this change's own construction, both recorded
beside the code rather than only here: the refusal row originally hung under
its mutation instead of failing (
landran on into amain-watchthat neveranswers — wedged 100 minutes inside
mise run mutant), and three declarations weretruncated because their sed scripts contained
||while the grammar splits rows on|.Not in this PR
The rendering half of the issue — wake envelopes displaying to the human as raw
XML — is upstream's defect, traced in the issue to two transposed provenance
fields, and is not fixable here.
Closes CLOUD-518